Xie Qian wanted to scold Xie Hengnu, but felt that the reason was too pale, so he had to sigh in the end, acquiescing that Xie Hengnu's choice was actually correct, but hating the king did not meet when he was not married!

Xie Qian said: "Shen Xi is a married man after all, you have to persuade Jun'er more, you can't let her be obsessed, let alone insult her...... I'm not going to let that kid come to my house again. Besides, after all, it's not the mountains and the sea that swear to marry you, and after a while, the girl will forget about it. ”

Mrs. Xu nodded and said, "What the master said is that the little girl is not sensible, as long as she educates her well, there will be no big problem." ”

Xie Qian originally wanted his wife to call his little granddaughter over and teach her as an elder, but in the end he chose to stop, the affairs of the court had already annoyed him, and when he returned home, he wanted to relax, and it was not a good idea to make the relationship too stiff for the little granddaughter.

A teenage girl will not be too paranoid, as long as she is persuaded well, she can always "turn back". He is a dignified bachelor, and all the talents in the world are among the choices, not to mention anything else, there are a few good young people among the current science and technology scholars, and if not, there are many young and promising prisoners in the Guozi Prison, many of whom are still the children and grandchildren of important members of the court, and it is impossible to hang themselves on a rope!

Mrs. Xu returned to the backyard, Xie Qian finished dinner, and was thinking about whether to find a book to pass the time or go to the backyard to spend the night with the concubine Jin Anren, when she saw the servant hurriedly walk into the study and said nervously: "Master, master, someone from the palace, let you enter the palace quickly." ”

"In the palace?"

Xie Qian looked at the sky, although it was not too late to go up at this time, but the days are short and the nights are long in winter, and the palace should be closed at this time, what is the emperor's urgency?

Xie Qian came to the door of the house, and it was the eunuch on duty in the Qianqing Palace who came to pass the message, and when he saw Xie Qian, he hurriedly came up and saluted respectfully. Xie Qian asked while getting into the sedan chair, "Who else is summoned at the same time?" ”

"Back to the Xie Pavilion Department, there are still Liu Pavilion and Li Pavilion, as for the other small ones, I don't know." The eunuch replied.

Xie Qian thought to himself, since the emperor didn't summon him to enter the palace alone, something big must have happened.

Xie Qian hurriedly asked the sedan chair man to speed up his pace, and when he waited outside Dong'an Gate, he knew that Liu Jian and Li Dongyang had already entered the palace, and even the British Duke Zhang Mao had entered earlier, but he ran into Ma Wensheng, who had just fallen off the sedan chair. Ma Wensheng greeted Xie Qian, and then said, "If the expectation is not bad, it should be that the war in Northern Xinjiang has changed." ”

Xie Qian glanced at Ma Wensheng and nodded in agreement. The people summoned this time, only Ma Wensheng, the official of the six departments, and no other important ministers, all of whom secretly participated in the speech and asked Emperor Hongzhi to send Liu Daxia to the trilateral suppression, and took the initiative to attack and give the Tatars a little "lesson".

Because the border war was unknown, Ma Wensheng and Xie Qian did not discuss much on the road, and hurried to the Qianqing Palace, at which time Emperor Hongzhi had been waiting for a long time.

"Scholar Xie and Ma Shangshu are coming, this is the battle report that Beiguan just delivered!"

Zhu Youji's tone was restless, mixed with a touch of coldness and annoyance, Xie Qian felt that something was wrong...... In the past, Emperor Hongzhi basically called him "Mr. Xie" or "Xie Aiqing", and at the worst of all, he was also called "Xie Qing's family", but this time he directly called him "Xie Daxue", without the slightest respect.

Originally, this was just a serious title, but it was like scolding in Xie Qian's ears.

Ma Wensheng didn't like Xie Qian so much to figure out his intentions, he took the battle report first, and after reading the emergency document sent by the border gate, Ma Wensheng's face sank.

Zhu Youzhu said coldly: "Gao Shilang escorted the grain and grass to Yulin, encountered the Tatars in the Hequ area, the soldiers were defeated and died, Liu Shangshu led the troops outside the situation is unknown, the main Tatar force has rapidly advanced to the hinterland of my Beiguan, Datong Mansion, Taiyuan Mansion and Xuanfu are in an emergency at the same time, if Liu Shangshu can not withdraw the troops as soon as possible, I am afraid that it will ......"

Everyone present gasped.

Liu Daxia led the attack, which seemed reasonable...... The Tatars live in pursuit of water and grass, and the various tribes are scattered in various parts of the grassland, and it is inconvenient to communicate with each other, and it is also difficult to transfer and migrate in the winter.

But who knows, the Tatars do not rest in winter, and even gather tens of thousands of troops to raid the border, which happened to collide with Liu Daxia's troops.

In addition to the large-scale drought that caused the death of a large area of pasture on the grassland, due to the influence of the Xiaoice period, this year's blizzard is also earlier than in previous years, and the temperature in the north and south of Hangai Mountain is more than ten or twenty degrees colder than usual, and a large number of cattle and sheep are frozen to death.

It's not that the Tatars don't say that they have nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty, they have to come out to loot when it's cold, but if they don't rob, they may not be able to survive this winter.

The rise and fall of any country and power basically has a cycle, and this cycle is generally considered to be sixty or seventy years, which is four generations according to the fertility status of ancient people.

The wind and rain on the grassland are smooth and peaceful, and when the population comes up, the pasture is not enough to distribute, and various problems will appear one after another...... Of course, there is also a way to transfer this internal crisis to foreign wars.

As a result, the Ming frontier suffered.

Liu Jian said: "The Tatar barbarians have not violated the border for many years, and even sent envoys to the court to pay tribute in the first year. ”

This question is not something that the people present can explain, Xie Qian is also at a loss for this, what he is thinking about at this moment is, if this kid Shen Xi is here, will he give a satisfactory answer?

Ma Wensheng cautiously submitted: "It is advisable to inform Liu Shangshu to withdraw his troops as soon as possible, and turn the offensive into defense to prevent greater disasters." ”

What Ma Wensheng said was basically recognized by Zhu Youji.

Now the problem is not that Gaoming City is dead, nor how much food has been lost, but now that the Ming Dynasty has changed the strategic policy that it could not hold on to, and transferred the elite soldiers in the pass to take the initiative to attack, which is okay if it is replaced by another time, but now the Tatars have gathered tens of thousands of troops, and the supply of soldiers and horses is roughly equivalent when the Ming army can not win in the field, let alone the situation that this supply and soldiers are inferior to the opponent?

If Liu Daxia is defeated, then Yansui Town will face the dilemma of empty troops, and once Yansui is not guaranteed, Datong Mansion will also be in danger. If these two barriers were lost, the Tatars might be like the Warats before them, breaking through the Great Wall Pass and driving straight in, and then the capital would be in danger, and the city would once again face the tragic situation of being besieged after the Tumu Fort.

What Ma Wensheng said makes sense, but it is difficult to implement it.

At present, it is not known whether Liu Daxia is aware of the crisis, whether he can withdraw his troops in time is a problem, and it is obviously unrealistic to rely on the notice of the imperial court.

Now Xuanfu and Datong generation have been blocked by the main force of the Tatar cavalry, Xuanfu Town, Datong Town and Taiyuan Town issued an urgent document to the imperial court at the same time, as for Yansui further west, it is temporarily in the vacuum area of news, the imperial court does not know what happened there, what news the imperial court has, can only make a detour to Zhending, enter Guguan, take Shouyang, Yangqu, and then go south to Fenzhou, Yongning Prefecture, cross the Yellow River from Wubao, go to Suidezhou, Mizhi to Yansui Town. When the news arrived, the daylilies were cold.

After Zhang Mao raised the question, Li Dongyang said with some annoyance: "Even if there is a delay, we must spread the news to the front line as soon as possible, and we can't sit still!" ”

This was too direct, Zhu Youji's expression was cold, but he also knew that Li Dongyang had a straight temper, so he said such an unpleasant sentence.

If you don't do anything, isn't it really "sitting still"?

After that, the monarch and the ministers got together to discuss for more than an hour, and the military discussion was over.

The attendees are all close ministers of Emperor Hongzhi, and this initiative is caused by their joint advances, and now there is a mistake, and everyone's responsibility is not small, and no one wants to speak at this time, and they are all thinking about what the most serious consequences will be.

Only Xie Qian's mind was deserting, he was not thinking about Liu Daxia, nor the situation in the frontier, but about Shen Xi.

"That kid went to the border pass, and there was not a word about him in the newspaper, and even the artillery he escorted seemed to be gone, this kid wouldn't have been kidnapped by the Tatars on the road and turned back to be a Tatar courtier, right?"

If you think about it carefully, it's really possible, "The stinky boy doesn't have many principles for doing things on weekdays, hee-hee-ha, don't even have the least dignity...... If you really take refuge in the Tatars, they will do everything possible to get you back and dismantle you! ”

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There was a change in the border town, and then martial law was declared in the capital to prevent the Tatars from taking advantage of the situation and threatening the stability of the capital.

If the Tatar cavalry suddenly appeared around the capital and the capital was not yet under martial law, it was likely that the fast horses would take the opportunity to rush into the city, and the consequences would be unpredictable.

In this era of closed information, many things need to be prepared in advance, and unreliable intelligence systems cannot be expected.

At this time, the Shen family in the capital, Xie Yun'er had just received a letter from Tingzhou Mansion, knowing that the in-laws and the Lu family were coming from Tingzhou to the capital.

Shen Xi had said before that the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce was suppressed by the local government, and the Chamber of Commerce suffered heavy losses, and he expressed concern to his family.

"In a few days, my father and mother will go to the capital, and the big shopkeeper and Xi'er will also come to Beijing." Xie Yun'er got the good news and told Lin Dai as soon as possible.

But Lin Dai was not as happy as Xie Yun'er, she looked at Xie Yun'er's already bulging belly, not to mention how aggrieved she was on her little face.

You want to see your father, because you already have the flesh and blood of the Shen family, but I, not only am I a concubine, but I don't even have an egg, my mother will definitely count me down, embarrass me, and even arrange me to do this and that.

Zhou's daughter-in-law has now become a mother-in-law for many years, and with the two daughters-in-law Xie Yuner and Lin Dai, she naturally wants to enjoy the treatment of her mother-in-law.

But the two daughters-in-law are happy and sad, Lin Dai looks at Zhou's family, just like Zhou's old lady at the beginning, the first thing she thinks about is not what family affection is, but how to live her own good life. It's a pity that Lin Dai is a concubine after all, she doesn't have the confidence to split the family, not to mention, the Zhou family herself has not officially separated from the old lady until now, what qualifications does she have as a junior?

"Xianggong has been gone for a while, saying that he can come back at the beginning of the lunar month, and the time when his mother arrives in the capital is about the same, if Xianggong is a few days late, we will have to do it for Xianggong." Xie Yun'er said, glancing at Lin Dai, "Dai'er, are you listening to me?" ”

"Hmm."

Speaking of Shen Xi, Lin Dai's spirit was a little more concentrated, and she hoped that Shen Xi would come back sooner than ever. With Shen Xi here, she can feel at ease, after all, Shen Xi loves her and will not watch her being bullied. Lin Dai thought for a while and said to Xie Yun'er: "In the past few days, I have always had nightmares, as if ...... Something happened to the master. ”

"It's because you think about it day and night, and you feel at ease on weekdays, so naturally you won't have those dreams." When Xie Yun'er said this, she was also a little worried in her heart, "I'm afraid of the Tatars...... Phew, don't talk about this, Xianggong just went to deliver artillery, and it won't take many days to go back and forth, and you don't have to go to the front to fight the Tatars, you can put your heart back in your stomach. ”

When Lin Dai returned to the room, a melancholy appeared on Xie Yun'er's face.

"Originally, I thought I was the only one who had nightmares all the time, but it turned out that Dale was just like me." Xie Yun'er muttered to herself, "Is this because once you have it, you are afraid of losing it?" If he is really gone, how will we live in the future? ”

Looking at the sky in the northwest, Xie Yun'er was a little stunned, then came to her senses and snorted herself, "No, no, look at what I'm thinking?" Jiren has his own natural appearance, and Xianggong will be fine! ”

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PS: The first update has arrived!

I really want to puff myself up, get up after seven o'clock in the morning to code words, and it turns out that it doesn't take until twelve o'clock to code a chapter, what a thing! I don't believe it, I can't even update five chapters today......

Burn, small universe, erupt, Sao Nian! (To be continued.) )