Chapter Seventy-Three: The Tang Dynasty's Precursor

In the Tang Dynasty, Li Xuan, the emperor, was a puppet, and Bai Yunqi, who stood on Li Xuan's side, that is, Li Xuan's uncle, was also a vain general.

Some time ago, when he went to Jiguan Mountain to meet the Ming army, in order to control the real power, Li Xuan not only increased the training of his own guards, but also gave Bai Yunqi the title of commander of the rear army of the Tang Standing Army, and asked him to form the rear army of the Tang Standing Army.

It's a pity that the bandits in Huangzhushan basically joined the left and right armies, and the temporarily mobilized young men were also incorporated into the front army under the command of Butcher Chen.

Bai Yunqi picked and chose among the remaining people in Huangzhu Mountain, but he didn't find a few suitable ones, and in the end he only selected six or seven crooked melons and cracked dates to enter the rear army.

This time, so many Ming prisoners were captured, and these Ming prisoners were all young and strong, Li Xuan and Bai Yunqi paid attention to these prisoners.

Even if only a small number of Ming prisoners are willing to surrender and join the Standing Army of the Tang Dynasty, then there will be at least more than ten people, and the rear army of the Standing Army under Bai Yunqi will be able to have the size of twenty or thirty people.

What's more, Bai Yunqi and Li Xuan planned to try to persuade these captives slowly and strive to recover them all.

In this way, the soldiers under Bai Yunqi can exceed fifty people, which is enough to stand side by side with Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren.

This plan was decided by Li Xuan and Bai Yunqi after discussing it for a long time.

And today there is no Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren here, even Butcher Chen and Wang Danxu are not there, and Bai Yunqi is the only one left among the generals of the Tang Dynasty.

As for Liu Bagou and Wang Wenhua, they are all civil officials, and they don't care about these in the first place, so naturally no one opposes Bai Yunqi's plan to take the opportunity of watching the prisoners and slowly recover these prisoners.

After deciding this matter, Li Xuan's mood was much better, and after dealing with a few trivial things, today's court meeting was over.

After the court meeting, Li Xuan returned to the backyard and looked at Dong Yunyun.

Dong Yunyun's health has not been very good these days, before the Ming army attacked a few days ago, Li Xuan took her to enjoy the early winter night, but after that night, she was infected with a cold.

Although it wasn't too serious, and there was no fever or cough or anything, it was weak and wanted to sleep all day.

If her physical fitness is stronger, it is estimated that she will be able to get better in a day or two, but her body and bones are weak, just like Lin Daiyu in the dream of Red Mansions.

Seeing Dong Yunyun lying on the bed, looking tired and speaking much quieter, Li Xuan sighed in his heart, then stepped forward and sat on the edge of her bed, and took a bowl of porridge from Zhu'er's hand.

While stirring the porridge to make the porridge cool faster, he said: "I just heard Zhu'er say, you haven't eaten for a day today, this is not good, your health is not good, it will be good if you don't eat again!" ”

Although Dong Yunyun was weak and drowsy, she was very awake, squinted at Li Xuan, and then said in a voice as thin as a mosquito: "The concubine is not hungry, and she has no appetite, so she can't eat!" ”

Li Xuan listened and glanced at her, and then put a spoon of porridge and sent it to her mouth: "If you don't want to eat, you have to eat, otherwise the nutrition is insufficient, and the body's immunity will be even worse!" ”

Although I didn't know what Li Xuan meant by immunity, the spoon in Li Xuan's hand had already reached his mouth at this time, and although he still didn't have much appetite, he still opened his mouth obediently.

After swallowing a mouthful of porridge, before she had time to catch her breath, Li Xuan handed the spoon to her mouth again, so she opened her mouth and swallowed it again.

And then again......

At this time, Dong Yunyun glanced at Li Xuan, and then turned her face slightly sideways!

Li Xuan saw her tilt her head, and thought it was the porridge that was scalding, and immediately said, "Is it a little hot?" ”

Dong Yunyun said weakly: "You slow down!" ”

Hearing this, Li Xuancai smiled slightly: "Well, okay, then take your time!" ”

slowed down, the porridge continued to eat, Dong Yunyun would occasionally raise her head to look at Li Xuan, and then quickly lowered her head.

It's just that it's not the first time to be fed porridge by him, and she won't be as blushing as she was at the beginning, and now she is used to and enjoying Li Xuan's thoughtful service.

Zhu'er outside glanced inside at this time, and then muttered in her heart: "I still have a bad appetite, isn't this a very cheerful meal?" ”

She felt that her young lady had fallen in the past few days, and she said that she had no appetite all day long, and she didn't eat it, and she didn't eat it when she fed her, but when Li Xuan came to feed her, she was very happy.

Didn't you just want Li Xuan to feed her, this little bit of caution can be seen clearly!

But then again, Zhu'er is still quite envious of her own young lady, who can have a man feed the porridge himself, and she does so for several days in a row.

In these years, the status of women is very low, even if everyone is beautiful, Zhu'er has also seen the Dong family's wife and young grandmother when they are sick, although the old man and the eldest young master will go to visit one or two, but at most they will greet one or two, and they will never do such a thing as holding a bowl and feeding their wives in person.

As for Li Xuan, his attitude towards Dong Yunyun is actually similar to pursuing his girlfriend in his previous life, how did he pursue his girlfriend in his previous life, and now he treats Dong Yunyun like this!

And Li Xuan's attitude still has a great psychological impact on Dong Yunyun Zaicheng.

A woman, especially a lady who stays in the boudoir all the year round, even if they talk about things like four from five virtues, but in their hearts they still yearn for the story of 'talented and beautiful women'.

Having a beautiful fantasy about love is not the patent of those girls in later generations, and the ladies of ancient times also longed for these.

If it weren't for Li Xuan's attitude, how could Dong Yunyun have changed so much during this time, how could she obediently let Li Xuan feed her porridge, don't take the scissors and say: 'Don't come here, I'll stab you when you come!' It's okay.

After eating a bowl of lean porridge, Dong Yunyun's spirit seemed to be better, and seeing her like this, Li Xuan was relieved, turned his head and said to Zhu'er: "Take good care of your young lady, I will come back in the evening!" ”

Zhu'er nodded and hummed.

After coming out of Dong Yunyun, Li Xuan ran to his mother, Madame Bai, and had lunch with the Empress Dowager of the Tang Dynasty and her sister Princess Huichen.

This light meal was very enjoyable, because there was a big mouthful of meat next to Huichen, who was eating very happily, and her appetite would be much better just by watching her eat.

After eating, after waiting for the old mother who was waiting next to her to take Huichen down, Li Xuan talked to Mrs. Bai about today's court discussion, mainly about Bai Yunqi's control of the captives.

After hearing what Li Xuan said, Madam Bai said: "Well, you did a good job this time, when your uncle recovers those captives, then you won't be afraid that Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren will mess around!" ”

Although Madame Bai was not directly involved in this matter, Li Xuan also knew that there must still be Madame Bai's instructions behind this matter.

If nothing else, it's because Bai Yunqi's crop boss can't think of this kind of conspiracy plan for power and profit at all.

Only Madame Bai, a landlord who is unwilling to let her son be a puppet and wants to make her son's life better, will plan these things.

And Bai Yunqi is the one who helps her carry out these plans!

It's just that recovering the captives and integrating them into the rear army of the standing army is just wishful thinking on the part of Li Xuan, Madame Bai, and Bai Yunqi for the time being, and it is still unknown how many of those Ming army captives are willing to submit to the Tang Dynasty.

Now Bai Yunqi is also ushering in the first peak challenge in his life, using various methods to 'persuade' those captives to join his standing army and the forerunner of the Tang Emperor Li Xuan.