"Don't go." Chen Dujing stopped his son who was about to leave, and said lightly: "You are a man, you will be in charge of the family in the future, don't learn from women, full of scumbag and scum, your little sister, are you still afraid that no one will pass the word?" ”

Chen Zhengzhi is planning to meet his little sister, share his joy, and make fun of him at the same time.

After the matter of drying salt was confirmed, the Chen family had no objection to Chen Dujing's decision, and after Chen Dujing strengthened his authority, he was also considering supporting his son.

Now Chen Dujing is in his early fifties, full of black hair, Chen Zhengzhi is less than thirty, and gradually stabilized, after more than ten years, Chen Dujing and the older generation can abdicate and make way for Xian, and gradually hand over family affairs and external affairs to the next generation.

Of course, Chen Zhengzhi is also very clear in his heart, the most important thing is that he and Xu Zixian have a very deep friendship, and they have established friendship with each other when they were in Nan'an Town, and they also get along well with the high-ranking officials and generals of Nan'an Hou Mansion.

He is also a disciple of the great Confucian Wu Shizhong, but he can't learn the scriptures at the level of Chen Zhengzhi, and it is also a shame for the ancestors of the Marquis of Changwen...... You must know that the first generation of Changwen Marquis is also Yunwen Yunwu, Wu can lead the army, and it is enough to praise him in literary affairs, and he is a famous Confucian minister on Fujian Road at that time, otherwise the name of the house will not be given as "Changwen".

Chen Zhengzhi just followed Wu Shi Middle School to paint, which can be regarded as unsatisfactory, and he can be regarded as a disciple of Confucianism.

There are some relationships, Chen Dujing is now supporting his son, and the clansmen will not have any gossip to talk about.

In the end, it is the future patriarch, the next generation of Changwen Hou, even if he intervenes in major events in advance and involves some money and food authority, it is a matter of course.

"Children listen to adults." Chen Zhengzhi smiled slightly and sat down at his father's lower place.

Being able to sit here is the first time for Chen Zhengzhi, and he should feel very accomplished.

This is an exquisite study room connected by two small rooms, one bright and one dark. The outside Mingwen is arranged with tables, chairs, screens, tables, bonsai and vases of flowers, mainly for daily rest, and occasionally used to receive close friends who know each other. Now, the housekeeper Chen Bao led the guests into one of the rooms.

The guests soon appeared.

Walking in front is Chen Duzhu. He is short and stocky, with a square face, a big mouth, small eyes, and light eyebrows, and he always puts on a happy look. In the eyes of ordinary people, he has a straightforward temperament and has no city, and only a few people such as Chen Dujing know that this person is actually deep in wisdom, shrewd and capable, and does not reveal it.

Walking behind is Chen Dujing's brother-in-law Lin Yangxian. Because he was a close and frequent guest, Chen Dujing was not polite, and he waved each other, and then sat down as the host. The old servant Chen Sheng brought the tea, Chen Dujing knew that Chen Duzhu was very picky in tasting tea, and asked if it was "hairy tip", so he waved his hand and ordered to change the "mustard chips" for three times and one pound.

The two servants withdrew. At the banquet, the three people drank tea, each ate one or two snacks, and the two relatives invited Chen Zhengzhi to the table, Chen Zhengzhi smiled and thanked the elders for their kindness, and only sat down and waited for them to speak.

The two people in front of them are all important roles in doing foreign affairs for the Chen family, making friends with powerful people abroad, running the dock, and discussing business, and they must not be neglected.

Chen Dujing knew that Chen Duzhu, the younger brother, had just returned from the Northland, and it was not appropriate for his family to talk in private, so he immediately said: "Brother Zhu, what is there worth talking about in the Northland recently, especially in Yanjing?" ”

Chen Duzhu's mouth was stuffed with orange cakes. He nodded his head, blinked, easily swallowed the cake, took another sip of tea, and then said: "It's not a big thing, but it can also be appalling - I heard when I was in Beijing last year, last year's Mengdong Festival Taimiao, the ministers first went to the palace gate to wait, when the temple door was not opened, suddenly heard a strange sound inside, everyone was shocked to ask, only to see the palace door opened, more than ten dragon robe emperor great husbands, slowly walked out from the inside, blink of an eye; Then he looked at the door of the temple, and it was closed again. At that time, everyone who saw it was shocked and did not dare to speak. When the emperor arrived, when he saluted, suddenly a strange wind rolled up in the hall, and all the lights and candles were extinguished.

accompanied the sacrificial ministers, all of whom lost their color and prostrate; The emperor also became ill because of this, his lower body was soft and numb, and he could not stand, and he was cured after more than ten days of treatment. As for the last year, Han Zhong reappeared, on the day of the temple sacrifice, but the weather was fine, and there was no vision, and he was very happy when he smelled the dragon's face, and sighed to the left and right: "Mr. Han is a blessed person after all!" ”

After Chen Duzhu finished speaking, he took a sip of tea, and put half a piece of honey cake in his mouth to chew, his face was still happy.

He deliberately did not add annotations, knowing that Chen Dujing must have understood what he meant.

Even Chen Zhengzhi sneered slightly, and the matter of the Taimiao Celebration was also heard of in Fuzhou, and it was widely spread.

Emperor-like figures dressed in crowns came out of the Taimiao, and everyone said that Yanjing had vented the anger of the Great Wei Dynasty, and the Son of Heaven felt worried because of this rumor.

In fact, this was a rumor deliberately created at that time, in order to make Han Zhong retire and be responsible for the affairs of the Taimiao.

Later, when the political tide rose, Han Zhong reverted, and of course Mr. Han was a blessed person after all.

The Son of Heaven is really shameless.

Of course, Chen Duzhu didn't want to talk about this matter, and said at the moment: "From Beijing to Shandong, Henan, Hedong Zhulu, everywhere I see, where I pass through the prefectures and counties, there are people escorting grain and grass everywhere. ”

"Does this mean that prices in the north are skyrocketing?"

"Yes, yes." Chen Duzhu said with certainty: "Now all affairs in the north are based on the Northern Expedition, if the local states and counties cannot support enough grain and grass, not only the Son of Heaven will not let him go, but the two governments will not let him go." Therefore, there is not only the oppression of the yellow list in the local area, but also the white list. In a county, at least 10,000 stone of grain, hundreds of thousands of bundles of grass, thousands of mules and horses, and thousands of people must be supplied. Coupled with cured meat, vegetables, salt, sugar, medicinal herbs, gauze and other things, it is simply a sea of people, cars and horses and pedestrians. Moreover, most of the pedestrians carried bows and arrows, weapons, it is said that the decision of the two governments, in addition to the 300,000 forbidden army and 200,000 Xiang troops, there were still millions of people, and the people also had to participate in covering the grain road, building castles, and covering the rear of the army. This battle can not be rash, slowly attack Yingzhou, steady and steady, step by step. ”

Chen Dujing glanced at Chen Zhengzhi and said, "This situation reminds me of Du Gongbu's poems." ”

Chen Zhengzhi understood, got up and chanted: "The chariot, the horse Xiaoxiao, and the pedestrian's bow and arrow are all at the waist."

The grandmother and wife sent each other off, and the dust did not see the Xianyang Bridge.

The clothes stopped crying, and the crying went straight to the sky.

Passers-by on the side of the road asked pedestrians, but pedestrians were frequent.

Or from the fifteenth Beifang River, it will go to the forty west camps.

When I went, I was wrapping my head, and when I returned, my head was white.

The side court bled into the sea, and Emperor Wu was unaware of it. ”

Lin Yangxian beat his waist and sighed: "Everyone likes Li Taibai, who is majestic and heroic, strange and magnificent, and is the first poet through the ages." But I still like the Du Gong Department more, sad and impassioned, caring for the Tang Dynasty, but always forgetting the people. The poems of the three farewells are still suffocating to read. ”

"The situation of the three farewells has reappeared on that day." Chen Dujing didn't have to hide anything in front of his henchmen, and said at the moment: "The Northern Expedition is a large-scale expedition, and the money should be tens of millions, and the treasury can't support it." In order to be afraid that they would run out of money in the middle of the fight, the two governments have entrusted all the money, food, and personnel to the local government. Of course, the local government is urging the people to do so, and the corrupt officials and officials have to increase the weight layer by layer, because the people are not living well. I have the last ten days of Tang Bao, Huaxian, Zheng County, Shangqiu, Guide, there have been popular uprisings, the local prefecture and county sent the former officials of the Yaqian to take the same Xiang army to suppress, the result was defeated by the thieves, it is said that more than 10,000 people gathered together and went to the area of Shaanzhou. ”

"It would be terrible if you got together with the Northwest Bandits."

"No, no!" Chen Dujing made a powerful gesture and said: "Now I am not afraid that they will go to the northwest, but I am afraid that the northwest thieves will go to Henan." The Forbidden Army in the North, most of them assembled in the Northern Expedition, only the Beijing Division still has a small number of Beijing battalion soldiers, in addition to the east of the Qinfeng River in order to defend against the North and the West Qiang, there are more than 100,000 forbidden troops deployed. In addition, Guanzhong is empty, Henan, Shandong, are all extremely empty, if two thieves gather in one place, disturb Shandong, Henan and Hebei Zhulu, then it will be a big deal. ”

If Xu Zi is here first, I would also like to praise the old man for being a civil official leader who has been sitting on Fujian Road for many years, and his knowledge is really extraordinary.

In fact, that's how it got messed up.

Originally, there were 600,000 forbidden troops in the Great Wei Dynasty, more than 100,000 in the Beijing Division, and the towns along the northern defense line of the Beijing Division were also heavily defended, plus Hedong and Northern Shaanxi, adding up to about 400,000 forbidden troops and 560,000 Xiang troops, plus regimental training archery societies in various places, there were more than one million people, and there were also more than 100,000 forbidden troops stationed in Henan, Hebei, Shandong, and Zhulu, plus tens of thousands of forbidden troops in Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangzhou, Yunnan and Guizhou, constituting a complete system of Great Wei defense.

It can also be seen from this system that the defense center of the Great Wei Dynasty is completely in the north, and a few decades ago, there were more than 100,000 forbidden troops in the south, as well as more than 10,000 sailors, but at present, the threat of Donghu is too great, and the center of gravity of the forbidden army's defense is already in the north, especially in the northeast.

In this Northern Expedition, not only the forbidden army in the northeast and the Beijing division was mobilized, but the forbidden army in the hinterland was almost completely requisitioned.

There is no way to do this, the 300,000 forbidden troops dispatched by the Northern Expedition will leave a large area of empty space, and the forbidden army from the inner town must be dispatched to fill in the gaps.

As for the inner towns, especially Chang'an, Tongguan, Luoyang, Kaifeng, Jinan, Guide, and Huai'an, this large area has almost become a hollow place.

If it is a peaceful year, it doesn't matter, and there will be about two or three hundred thousand troops left, and the daily garrison is enough.

But now is obviously not a peaceful year, the thieves in northern Shaanxi and northern Jin have already shown signs of activities in Guanzhong, if the Tongguan in Shaanzhou is broken, or the thieves cross the river from Pusaka, east of the river and south of the river, I am afraid that it will immediately become the world of thieves.

The evolution in Xu Zixian's memory is like this.

In the past two to three years, due to the loss of a large number of elite forbidden troops, these armies have been trained for many years, adapted to the equipment and armor, after long-term training and actual combat experience, thousands of forbidden troops fought tens of thousands of thieves as if they were playing, and these elites were consumed in the Northern Expedition, and then the box army and the thieves fought, on the one hand, the thieves who survived, and on the other hand, the box army lacked motivation and ability, and the victory or defeat can be imagined.

The thieves grew rapidly in the years when the forbidden army recovered, growing to more than one million people, and later in the field the forbidden army was not the opponent of the thieves, at the last moment, the living force of the forbidden army was torn apart by the thieves and Donghu in turn, constantly losing blood, and finally fell to the ground with Great Wei.

Of course, the thieves are no match for the Donghu people at all.

The forbidden army at its peak was fully armed, everyone wore armor, from pure cotton armor to inlaid with triple iron leaves, to the half-body chain mail inlaid with iron rings, to the pure iron armor with full body protection, from the long sword, horizontal knife, barrier knife, long knife, as well as spears and foot bows, plus small bow bows, divine arm bows, waist crossbows, kick crossbows, bed crossbows, eight-bull crossbows, the forbidden army with so many armor and sophisticated weapons, the war against the Donghu people was also more defeated and less victorious, not to mention those peasant armies who only took advantage of the weakness of the Great Wei to rise up.

If they are given a longer period of time, those rogues will have a solid base, build more armor and weapons, choose any generals, and gain more elite soldiers and strong generals in the war until they drive the Donghu people out.

But they rose too fast, a few years to a million scale, before the encounter with the Donghu people did not fight a decent hard battle at all, once they encountered the Donghu people, in the face of thousands of horses composed of heavy cavalry assault, the thieves directly crossed.

They are not forbidden troops, even when Beilu and Donghu are the strongest, when they encounter the Great Wei forbidden army that has already formed a formation in the field, most of the choices are to avoid fighting without fighting.

Formation without fighting is a basic principle after the cavalry gathers the infantry.

Roundabouts, harassment, cutting off the rear grain routes, and constantly pulling until the army collapsed and was chaotic, and that was the time to impact the harvest.

But the thieves couldn't even stop the first wave of frontal assault, and when the Donghu cavalry appeared, they would collapse at the first moment.

The mountains are all over the wilderness, the armor is lost, the army is defeated, and the corpses are all over the field.

Chen Dujing's judgment is unusually accurate, his heart is empty, there are thieves inside, and the current situation is already quite dangerous.