Chapter 175: Farewell to Old Man
On the second day of the enthronement ceremony, Mu Zhiyuan wrote a letter to tell the old man to return to his hometown, which caused an uproar in the whole dynasty.
In the blink of an eye, Situ Jing has worked hard to make the country prosperous, and the whole country has developed rapidly in stability, and the people have enough food and clothing. He scattered the entire Siyun Pavilion all over the country, firstly to monitor whether there was corruption among local officials for him, and secondly, to find Mu Yunqi for him.
But three years have passed, and there is still not a word from her, only that the six schools and medical halls in the Western Regions are blooming everywhere, the cultivation of herbs in Ula has been harvested, and Nancheng is already a thriving scene, Situ Jing looked at Situ Minchang's report and knew that Mu Yunqi was active in that area, but she could always easily avoid Siyun Pavilion's secret agents, maybe she was too familiar with Si Yun Pavilion's style, too familiar with his style.
Looking at the changes in the six divisions of the Western Regions, Situ Jing asked Mu Yunqi in his heart, "How many more things do you have to do before you are willing to come back." ”
Just as Situ Jing was reviewing the folds in the imperial garden, the military department sent an obituary, the king of Xifan, and the Xifan outside Huicheng made a big move.
Situ Jing thought that in the past few years, whenever he proposed to attack Huarong and Xifan, there would always be people who jumped out to oppose it, and the one with the most appearances was Xiao Shuyuan, who had just taken over as the head of the household department.
Situ Jin knew that he was picked up by Mu Yunqi, in the past few years, the court has changed blood, the old minister should retire, most of the seats have been occupied by young people, several of these people are the people who sent Mu Yunqi back then, Situ Jing also did this so that Mu Yunqi can come back as soon as possible.
After the court meeting, Situ Jing called Xiao Shuyuan to the imperial study.
"Why do you always stop me from attacking the Six Divisions of the Western Regions?"
Xiao Shuyuan hurriedly knelt down and said: "The minister has no intention of disobedience, Weichen once talked to Lord Yun about the six departments of the Western Regions, and the test question of the scientific examination at that time was not exactly this question, Lord Yun said that he had read the minister's test paper and agreed with the minister's idea. ”
Only then did Situ Jing soften his tone and ask, "How did you answer, what did she say?" ”
"The minister's answer at that time was that the people of the six states of the Western Regions were influenced by different cultures, and it might not be easy to rule by forcibly occupying them, and now the inhabitants of various countries live and work in peace and contentment, and the gains of reckless war may outweigh the losses."
"Oh? What you say makes a lot of sense, so what did she say. ”
"Lord Yun said at the time that the six departments of the Western Regions have their own characteristics, and their own political concepts have their own merits, and it is better to learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses than to forcibly assimilate, and it is better to communicate with each other than to use force."
"But now that the Western soldiers are pressing, what do you explain?"
"King Zephani, the prince of Zephan is afraid that I will take advantage of the situation to take some precautions, and the king of Zephan is newly dead, and I am afraid that he has no heart to invade other countries."
"How dare you be so sure." Situ Jing heard a different taste, and said in a displeased tone.
Xiao Shuyuan hurriedly explained: "Wechen didn't dare to deceive, and there was also a private message from the eldest sister who entered Beijing with the obituary, which was written like this in her private letter to Neiko, so that Wechen must persuade His Majesty not to do anything." ”
"Private message? Why did she write a private letter to Mu Yunxuan, but she ......, "Situ Jing can't go on, why don't you write to him directly."
"Weichen thinks it's more convenient for sisters to talk to each other."
"Do they correspond regularly? Where is Mu Yunqi now? Situ Jing's voice became louder and louder, but Xiao Shuyuan only replied with two words, and the place was unusually clear, "Xifan".
Situ Jing couldn't wait to rush to Xifan to arrest people back, but he couldn't leave, although Situ Xi could supervise the country, but he couldn't use an excuse to arrest his daughter-in-law to prevaricate the ministers, and even the excuse of sending troops was refuted by the kneeling people below, how could he not be angry.
Situ Jing then sent a secret order to Situ Minchang, asking him to mourn as a messenger, and by the way, he arrested Mu Yunqi for him.
Situ Minchang received the holy decree for a while, he has cast a net of heaven and earth for so many years and has not caught anyone, he can bring people back with a trip to the West? Why didn't he believe in it?
Situ Minchang slapped the letter on the table, holding his head and thinking about it, his head hurt. At this time, Hua Feng walked up to him, looked at the letter and said, "Lord Wang, why don't you go with you?" ”
Situ Minchang looked up at him, what can this hairy boy do? But then he thought about it, it was better to have more heads than to break his head, so he agreed to go to Xifan together.
Two days after the credentials were handed over, the other party sent a reply letter agreeing to the two of them crossing the border to offer condolences.
The two of them learned the funeral etiquette of the West in advance, for fear that they would make a mess if they didn't bring it back.
When the two of them arrived at the Xifan Palace, they saw Mu Yunqi kneeling in plain clothes and guarding the spirit, Situ Minchang thought to himself, this girl is easy to see, but difficult to take away.
After the two of them finished saluting in front of the spirit, Prince Xifan arranged for Mu Yunqi to entertain the two guests, after all, they were the ministers of Tianfu, and Mu Yunqi was more familiar with them.
Mu Yunqi led the two people to the post house, and at this time, a maid walked towards Mu Yunqi with a little girl who was more than two years old. When she got to the front, the maid hugged the child and bent down and said, "County Lord, Your Highness woke up and couldn't see you crying, so the slave and maid brought it to you." ”
Situ Minchang and Hua Feng looked at each other as soon as they saw this little girl, Mu Yunqi hugged the child and smiled: "Don't guess, this is my third child with Situ Jing called Situ Yuanqi, looking at this pair of pointed ears, it is exactly the same as her eldest brother." ”
At this time, Situ Jing stepped into the Guijun Pavilion in Confucian costume, and the old bustard didn't dare to come forward to greet him when he saw that he was like an emperor. Situ Jing walked straight to the Warm Pavilion, and Wei Chi Zhan, who rarely appeared in the Guijun Pavilion, saw him come in and hurriedly got up and knelt down and kowtowed: "Minister Chi Zhan see Your Majesty." ”
Situ Jing patted him on the shoulder and said, "Get up, the Famous Sword Villa is a good sword for my dynasty, and you don't have to make this great gift in the future." ”
Wei Chi Zhan hurriedly thanked him, and then invited Situ Jing to his seat, and he stood aside respectfully and waited for Situ Jing's questioning.
Situ Jing took a sip of tea and asked, "Guijun Pavilion hasn't been able to catch her for so many years, has it?" ”
"Guijun Pavilion has always been the only one who came, but she couldn't find her."
Situ Jing took a fan and knocked on the palm of his hand and said: "It seems that she knows our way too well, we can't catch her, do you know which gangs in the rivers and lakes are more powerful in finding people." ”
Yu Chi Zhan arched his hand and said: "Weichen, a master on the rivers and lakes, has also asked for it, and there are people who have seen them, but they all brought back words and said, 'It's almost there'." ”
"What do you mean when it's almost there? Coming back soon? ”
"That's what I mean."
"Do you know what Mu Yunqi has done all these years?"
"Wechen knows something, it is said that she came to Ulla first, and she destroyed the talisman of the 40,000 army, and told those people that she would no longer be a soldier, and that she could live and work here in peace and contentment, marry and have children. Those people are very happy, it is said that those people used to be concocted with poison bodies, after returning to the body condition, some people can't survive and die, Hua Shen Doctor and his apprentice with the doctor you sent to finally found a way to cure the disease and save people through years of exploration, now they are all in good health, a few still stay with Master Hua as his apprentice, the whole Ula is now a black miasma, it is already a full treasure trove of medicine. ”
At this time, Mu Yunqi was taking Situ Minchang and Hua Feng to simply eat and talk in the post house.
Situ Minchang asked her about her current situation over the years, and Mu Yunqi said: "I went to Ula when I came out of the capital, where there are my 40,000 troops, my master and senior brother, and there was a place where I and Situ Jing joined forces to fight, and I went there without worrying." When I got there, when I saw that the barren land and the huge corpse pit were no longer there, and the gray sky had returned to its azure blue, I understood what King Ulla wanted Situ to do. ”
Mu Yunqi patted the sleeping child in his arms and said: "When a country is difficult to return, and the people of Ula are no longer able to return to heaven, then the way King Ulla can think of is to destroy and rebuild, such a bloody method he entrusted to Situ Jing, so when I walked into Ulla, I saw one huge corpse pit after another. The garrison in my hands is the army selected by the king of Ula, these people were trained and educated by the king of Ula himself, and their nature is different from that of the people, but he did not calculate that Harigu would interfere with it and poison this group of soldiers, and finally Harigu killed the entire royal city and took this army away. Fortunately, these people came into my hands, and when they first arrived in Ulla, they were tormented without the antidote to Harigu. Later, I found Harigu in Hwaseong, she had started a new life with her daughter and Hamuri, Harigu stopped making drugs, began to practice medicine, opened a medical center, I helped them expand the medical center to recruit many children who like to study medicine, and train more doctors who can cure diseases and save people while practicing medicine. Harigu gave me a way to detoxify, and my master and brother were able to rescue these soldiers, and now most of them are married and have children, which is also due to Situ Jing, he once selected a group of marriageable women to go to Ula, most of these women stayed to marry these soldiers, so now the whole Ula is developing steadily, it is said that many medicinal herb merchants in Huarong also enter Ula to purchase and sell medicinal materials, with these merchants, Ulla's medicinal materials can soon be sent to many places. ”
"Princess Ula is in Huacheng, which is guarded by General Shi Yunanshi, which means that you have stayed in Huacheng for a long time, and His Majesty will ask about your whereabouts every year when the six city guards of the Western Regions enter Beijing over the years, why didn't General Shi say it."
"General Shi can't find me, I heard that he went to the hospital a few times, but unfortunately I'm not there, I've been wandering around Ula and the Six Divisions of the Western Regions in the past few years, they can't catch my shadow, in fact, I spend the most time in Nancheng, the current generals of Nancheng are recommended by me, do you think they will betray me?"
Hua Feng scratched his head and said, "Also, we have been in the Western Regions all these years, but we didn't know that you were also here." When will you go back, Your Majesty has been looking for you so hard in the past few years, now the situation in the court has changed, and most of those stubborn old ministers have left the court, no one will make a fuss about the previous things anymore, and what you have done here over the years, everyone knows that the changes in the six departments of the Western Regions are seen by the entire Tianfu people, although I don't know what you did, but as long as someone is willing to say it, no one will not believe it. ”
Mu Yunqi smiled and said, "It's almost there." ”