Yun Xi laughed again, and Yun Xi smiled unkindly.

was smiling, Yun Wei's concubine Ma Hanyu came over and saw them smiling so happily, especially Yun Wei, who was usually very serious, laughed so much that his shoulders were moving, and he also smiled: "I've seen the official family." How to smile so happily? ”

"Oh, it's about Yun Zhi's embarrassment when she was a child." Yun Xi was about to speak, but Yun Zhi grabbed his arm and didn't let him speak, Yun Xi thought about it and felt that Ma Hanyu and Yun Zhi were not familiar with each other, so he stopped.

Ma Hanyu didn't mean to listen, and said to Yun Xi: "Official, it's noon now, when will the concubine set the meal?" One of the guards of the official family just reported that His Royal Highness had just entered Beijing. ”

"Uncle Twenty has also returned to Beijing?" Yun Xi said happily: "He has finally arrived in the capital, and I am waiting for him." ”

Then he instructed the little eunuch beside him: "You go to Li Bo and ask him to send someone to the British King's Mansion to announce that His Royal Highness the King Ying is coming to the Wu Palace." ”

The little eunuch agreed and was ordered to retreat.

He turned around and said to Ma Hanyu again: "Second sister-in-law, I have to postpone the meal a little, I have something to tell the twentieth uncle, and I will eat after the twentieth uncle comes." ”

"The official family has something to do, so why can't we eat later." Before Ma Hanyu could speak, Yun Wei spoke. Ma Hanyu saw Yun Wei speak, acquiesced in his words and stopped speaking, and bowed again.

Yunxi shook his head slightly. He doesn't agree with the way Yun Wei gets along with his wife, which is the most vivid embodiment of his wife as a husband. couldn't help but say: "Second brother, the so-called male protagonist outside the female protagonist, the affairs in the house should be arranged by the second sister-in-law." ”

"What did the official say just now? Entertaining guests is also a foreign matter, and it is up to me to make the decisions. Yun Wei said.

Yun Xi saw that he didn't understand his euphemistic advice, so he could only keep silent. It is difficult for a Qing official to interrupt family affairs, and he can't say it deeply.

After a while, Yun Xi glanced at it and saw that it was past noon, and was thinking about why Zhu Song hadn't come over yet, when he heard a voice from outside: "I've seen His Royal Highness." "Nieces and daughters-in-law don't have to be polite."

When Yun Xi heard this, he knew that it was King Zhu Song who had come to King Wu's mansion, got up and walked towards the door, and happened to meet him in front of the door.

When Zhu Song saw Yun Xi, he hurriedly bowed and saluted, Yun Xi immediately helped him up and smiled at him: "Uncle Twenty, you can be regarded as coming to the capital, it is already the ninth day of the first month." ”

"Official, I don't want to come here so late. But that tribe was very fierce, and because of this, he had defeated my soldiers three times in a row, and there were many Jurchen tribes who had enmity with that tribe who fought with me, and they knew that even if they surrendered, they would have no health, and they were very stubborn in their resistance, and they sent people to attack our army in the mountains and forests day and night, and they had to drop hundreds of corpses every day! ”

"I led the soldiers to cut down trees while attacking, and finally cut down all the trees near the tribe, and surrounded them by taking advantage of the cold weather in winter to freeze the old and young and difficult to survive in the wild, and then broke the tribe, but then cleared for several days before killing all those who dared to resist."

"At this time, it was already the twenty-third day of the lunar month, and I held a celebration banquet in the evening to reward all the meritorious ministers, and after discussing with Zhang Shu on the second day, I handed over the follow-up resettlement matters and the whole army to him, and I hurried to the capital until today's entry into Beijing." Zhu Song hurriedly explained.

"That tribe is so fierce? What do you plan to do with the captive population after consulting with Zhang Shu? Yunxi asked.

"All the adult men, Zhang Shu wanted to keep them as coolies, but I was afraid that they would riot, so I killed them all."

"The adult women were brought back to be wives to the soldiers, and a few were rewarded to the Jurchen tribes who fought with our army. There are more men and fewer women in the border areas, and because they often have to fight with the barbarians, everyone is reluctant to marry their daughters to soldiers, so there are many soldiers in their twenties who do not have wives, and they have to save a large amount of dowry to marry a wife. ”

"Now the dowry they save can be saved to subsidize the family." Yun Xi interjected and laughed.

Zhu Song also smiled, and then said: "As for the children, the mother is still in the hands of the mother to raise, and the mother who died was given to all the generals as small servants, and the government also kept a lot as slaves. I also accepted a few girls to be maids in the future and handed them over to the female officials of the palace for training. ”

Yun Xi was about to speak, when he suddenly heard Yun Xi say: "Twenty uncle, it's okay for women to be given to soldiers as wives, isn't it too much to put all men to death?" There are also children, why don't you educate them into the people of the Ming Dynasty? ”

As a person who admired the Confucian school of the Song Dynasty, Yun Wei advocated convincing people with virtue and educating barbarians.

Zhu Song's smile remained the same, but his words were not very good: "Yun Wei, even if it is Confucius, the original words are to repay virtue with virtue and repay grievances with straightforwardness." This tribe was very fierce in its war with our army, and all the men in the south of the city had fought with our army, and it was not only reasonable but also in accordance with the military law of the country to kill them. ”

"What about the little ones?"

"This kind of barbarian tribe, when the whole clan fights, regardless of men, women and children, go into battle, even children help to transport things, and take advantage of our army's inattention to attack and kill soldiers, and my uncle did not execute them all, which is already magnanimous." While speaking, Zhu Song remembered the soldiers who were killed by the children's sneak attack when he pacified several tribes before, and his tone couldn't help but become more severe.

"Even so, not all children have fought against the army, and they should be identified and singled out to educate the people if they have never fought with a soldier." Yun Wei said again.

"What you say is not unreasonable, but how can you tell the difference? The people in their tribe are all related to each other, and if they let them say it themselves, it is estimated that everyone will be said to be like a white lotus, as if the children who fought with our soldiers are ghosts. Since there is no way to identify, they can only be treated as slaves without discrimination. Zhu Song was very tired of Yun Wen's argument, but he also had to answer.

Yun Xi wanted to say more, but Yun Xi interjected: "Second brother, the border land is different from the mainland, and some things are not what you imagined. ”

"But it's not like Uncle Twenty." Yun Wei said.

Yun Xi thought about it and felt that it was impossible to convince Yun Xi if he was reasonable, so he said: "Second brother, the so-called seeing is believing, hearing is false, second brother might as well go to the border this year to take a look and know what the situation in the border area is." ”

"Okay." Yun Wei himself also wants to know whether the truths he understands are right or wrong.

After agreeing on this, everyone was also hungry, and went to the side hall to eat together, and greeted a few children. Min'er was having fun and didn't want to go to dinner, but everyone didn't dare to be disobedient, and she was not interested alone, so she could only eat with an unhappy look.

Yun Xi didn't care about Min'er's expression, or didn't care. While eating, he talked to Zhu Song, talking about some light topics, Yun Wei and Yun Zhi also interjected from time to time, and the atmosphere changed from the dull just now to a very active one.

However, Ma Hanyu never spoke. First, Yun Wei's rules are very big, she is not allowed to talk at will, and secondly, they talked about a lot of things in the palace together when they were young, and she didn't know, let alone talk nonsense, so she could only be silent.

After a while, she finished eating, got up and said: "The official family, the twenty uncles, the husband, and the concubine have run out of food, and they are all fighting now, and the concubine takes them to the back pavilion to play, and the province disturbs you to talk." ”

"Go ahead, take care of Wen Kui a little more. I remember that he was very polite when he was in Hangzhou, why is it like this now. Yun Wei frowned and whispered to Ma Hanyu. She said yes and stepped back with the children.

Yun Xi saw that the time was almost up, and drank another glass of wine with Zhu Song, turning the topic to national affairs; After talking about national affairs for a while, he suddenly said: "Uncle Twenty, do you know that Samarkand in the northwest will send troops to the east to conquer the Ming Dynasty next year?" ”

"Is there such a thing?" Zhu Song was surprised. After he left Siping, he hurried all the way to the capital, and although he lived at the post station along the way, he only slept well, so he didn't know what happened during this time.

"On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, I received an urgent report from the northwest that Samarkand intends to conquer the Ming Dynasty in the east." Yun Xi said.