(The previous time has been slightly modified)

On the 22nd day of the first lunar month, Yunxi in Guangzhou also learned about Hu Jichen's capture.

Yun Xi was having dinner with Xiyi and Li Sha'er when he saw this recital, and suddenly the eunuch who was guarding the outer study came to report that there was a six-hundred-mile urgent recital from Annan Yi'an City, and asked him to read it.

Yun Xi opened the recital, and when he saw the first sentence, his heart shook, and he laughed and said: "Haha, Hu Jichen has been captured alive, and the war is about to be understood." ”

Wang Xi, who was standing aside, immediately knelt down and said, "Congratulations to Your Majesty." All the subordinates also knelt down and said, "Congratulations to Your Majesty." Li Sha'er and Xi Yi also stood up to congratulate him.

"Get up. Since it's congratulating me, why kneel. Yun Xi smiled and said: "Pass the order, order the chef in the dining room to cook more good dishes, and all the subordinates in the palace will add a dish today." ”

"Slaves and slaves, thank Your Majesty for your grace." Wang Xi knelt down again and said.

"Get up." Yun Xi laughed again.

When Wang Xi retreated and ordered this, Yun Xi also sat down to eat again, and Li Sha'er suddenly asked, "Husband, will you go to Annan?" ”

"The husband does plan to go to Annan," Yunxi said: "First, look at the customs of Annan, what are the similarities and differences with the Central Plains; On both sides, I had promised the soldiers to hold a celebration banquet to celebrate their achievements, and I didn't break my promise, but I wanted to review the troops who had made great achievements, not just individuals, and it was too expensive to call them all to Guangzhou, so I had to go to Annam. ”

"Then, husband, the concubine also wants to go to Annan with me." Li Shaer said.

"What, do you still have acquaintances in Annan?" Yun Xi smiled.

"Naturally, there are no acquaintances." Li Sha'er immediately defended: "But the concubine also told Your Majesty that the concubine came to Annan with her brother when she was young, and she went to the port outside Nanding City and the port outside Yi'an City, and I remember that there are a few restaurants where the dishes are delicious, and there are several local specialties with fruit and vegetable flavors that are different from other places, so I want to go to Annam." As she spoke, she had a look of nostalgia on her face.

Yun Xi felt that she should be a little nostalgic, and wanted to see the place where she stayed when she was a child, after all, she probably wouldn't have the next chance to go to Annan, so she didn't refuse, and said, "In that case, I'll take you there." ”

"Husband, the concubines are also going." Xiyi also said when she heard that he was going to take Li Sha'er with her.

"Then go for all." Yoon-hee agreed.

"Husband is the best." Xiyi said happily. Yun Xi laughed and teased her a few words, causing her to blush and put down the dishes and chopsticks and go back.

Yun Xi had already finished eating at this time, put the chopsticks on the side of the bowl, gave a few words to Li Sha'er, got up and went to the outer study, and said to the little eunuch beside him: "You go to Song Liang and ask him to send someone to call Yang Ren, the political envoy of Guangdong, Li Decheng, the chief prosecutor of the Guangzhou Police Department, Qian Minglin, the chief of the Guangzhou Police Department, Liu Chonglou, the prefect of Guangzhou, and Xu Boyuan, the general judge of the Guangzhou government, and let them go to the outer study. ”

He immediately said to another eunuch: "You go and call Chen Ji and Hu Yan to the outer study." ”

The two little eunuchs immediately received the decree and ran quickly to deliver the decree, Yun Xi stood in place, thought about something again, and got up and went to the outer study.

When he got there, Chen Ji and the two of them had already arrived. Their residence was originally very close to the outer study, and when they heard the little eunuch's order, they walked over quickly, so they were still in front of Yunxi.

When they saw Yun Xi, they hurriedly saluted, and after they finished, Chen Ji immediately asked: "Your Majesty, today is the twenty-second day of the first month, and the eighth day of the next month is this year's examination. ”

Chen Ji is very concerned about this matter. Although he was not born in the imperial examination, he was also very concerned about the matter of being loyal to the monarch, so he reminded Yunxi.

"I have sent someone to the capital and ordered that this year's examination be postponed for a month." There is no need for him to remind him, Yun Xi himself remembers this matter. With such an important matter as the meeting test and the temple test, he will not fake it to others.

After saying this, Yun Xi immediately said to them: "The excerpt that has just come from Annam, Hu Jichen has been captured alive, and the battle to conquer Annam is about to end. I decided to go to Annam to hold a celebration banquet to celebrate the meritorious soldiers. ”

"Hu Jichen was captured alive? That's great. He was captured alive, and the Annan soldiers who were still resisting would inevitably be shaken, and most would surrender, and the battle would be over. The imperial court did not have to spend money on the military. Chen Ji immediately said happily.

But in fact, the military salary cost of this expedition to Annam was far lower than the previous expeditions to Fanguo. Yoon-hee thought to herself. This year, because of the establishment of the army merchants, the army has spent a lot less, and many things have been sold to them, although it still can't make up for the expenses, but it is also much less.

Later, Yun Xi instructed them to refer to the practice of previous years to see how this celebration banquet was arranged, and draw up a list of arrangements; At the same time, Zhang Wen and others drafted how to award the meritorious soldiers.

After ordering these things, Yang Ren and the others had already arrived at the palace, and after Yun Xi finished saluting them, he said, "It just so happens that I am about to talk about things related to you." ”

"Although I have decided to go to Annan to hold a celebration banquet to celebrate the achievements of the soldiers, there is still one thing in this city of Guangzhou, and I will go to Annan after this matter is concluded."

"Yang Aiqing, Qian Aiqing, I ordered to spread the news of the witch Gu case and the Samarkand spy case in the city before, but can it be spread according to my instructions?"

"Your Majesty, since the ninth day of the first lunar month, the minister has ordered people to spread the news of these two cases in the city of Guangzhou, because this matter involves a very mysterious witch Gu, so the people are very interested, and every day they have leisure to talk with familiar or unfamiliar people in the tea house and other places. Of course, the people did not slander the king, and the ministers did not report to your majesty immediately. ”

"It's okay, that's fine." Yun Xi said: "I originally wanted to interrogate these two cases at the end of the month, but I never expected that Hu Jichen would be captured so easily, and the time for interrogating the case could only be advanced. ”

"You pass it on, and on the twenty-fifth day after three days, it will still be in the place where the case of Cai Sheng and the mutilation case is interrogated, and the interrogation of the witch case and the Samarkand spy case will be held in the same set of procedures. The two cases were heard together because they were interrelated. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Yang Ren and other local officials in Guangzhou immediately bowed down and agreed.

"Hu Yan, aren't there a few envoys from Fanguo who have come to pay tribute who already want to say goodbye and leave? You tell them that there will be a public trial in three days, and that they will not leave and that they will all be heard on the spot. Yun Xi commanded again.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Hu Yan agreed.

Yun Xi also carefully instructed Xu Boyuan, who tried the case, and Qian Minglin, who was the prosecutor, to pay attention to the words of other big families in Guangzhou in the confessions of the criminals, and to take advantage of the three days before the case was questioned to dig up carefully. The two of them agreed one by one.

After the matter was completely ordered, Yunxi told them to step down. After they left the outer study, he raised his head and looked at the mountains and forests not far away, and said to himself: "In this way, even if we can't solve all the problems in Guangdong in one fell swoop, we can always solve some of them." ”