Pei Fuzhong is quite busy these days, and in three days it will be Pei Jun's fifty-fifth birthday, generally speaking, every five and ten birthdays are big birthdays, and the last fifty-year-old birthday Pei Jun went to Ye County to spend and accept the congratulations of the clansmen, but this year's situation is grim, Pei Jun sent a message early, don't do this year's birthday.

However, the sons refused to agree, even if they didn't go to Yejun for a big birthday, it was necessary for their families to get together and hold a simple birthday banquet for their father.

From early in the morning, Pei's mansion began to get busy, lighting up and cleaning the mansion, a delivery carriage crowded the side door of Pei's mansion, some were sent fresh fruits and vegetables, mountain delicacies and the like from the grange near Chang'an, and some were famous wines sent by famous stores in Chang'an, and they were busy until nearly dusk, and there were more than a dozen carriages parked outside the side door.

At this moment, a carriage guarded by hundreds of knights galloped towards the gate from afar, and a butler standing at the door with a lamp recognized the carriage and rushed into the house to report it.

Pei Jun locked himself in the study after returning from the court room in the afternoon, and like Cui Yuan, he was worried about the situation in Shu County, and the heinous violence after Zhu entered Chengdu made him extremely indignant, and among the hundreds of large families that were destroyed, one was the maiden family of his second wife Han, and none of the nearly 300 members of the family survived.

This massacre undoubtedly exposed Zhu's beastly nature, and in the future, his good deeds such as opening warehouses and releasing grain and appeasing the people's hearts could no longer hide the disasters that this person would bring to Datang in the future. On the principled issue of right and wrong related to the life and death of the Tang Dynasty, Pei Jun and Cui Yuan have the same opinion, although Zhu later played the political slogan of the Qing monarch and returning the government to the emperor, which seems to implicitly coincide with Pei Jun's idea of weakening the family's government, but Pei Jun does not buy it, the Tao is different, and he does not conspire with it.

However, the chaos in Shu made Pei Jun have to admire his son-in-law's foresight, and the last time he saw it in Jincheng County. Zhang Huan told him that there would be chaos in Shuzhong, and his opportunity was waiting, and it turned out that his judgment was completely correct.

Pei Jun smiled self-deprecatingly, this son-in-law has even more to do to himself than several sons.

At this time, the anxious voice of the housekeeper came from outside the house, "Master." Cui Xiangguo came, and the eldest prince had welcomed him to the living room to wait. ”

Pei Jun was stunned, and then he smiled slightly. Cui Yuan must have brought what he wanted.

"Please Cui Xiangguo wait, I'll change my clothes."

In the guest hall, Pei Mingkai was chatting with Cui Yuan respectfully, this father's birthday was Pei Mingkai's best host, he called several younger brothers who were officials in Beijing and announced to them the idea of celebrating his father's birthday. Since the return of Kaneshiro-gun. He had obviously felt his father's indifference to him, and he used to ask him to inform his uncles about his father's birthday every year, but this year, his father asked his second brother Pei Mingyao to go, which made Pei Mingkai's heart feel a little uneasy. Cui Yuan drank tea while carefully looking at the layout of the living room, a big longevity character has been placed on the table, every corner has been wiped clean, he came in all the way, only to see that the inside and outside of the house are all lights into color. Lin Lei was a beaming scene, but Cui Yuan knew that this was Pei Jun's fifty-fifth birthday, but he was so simple, why was this?

"Virtuous nephew, it's not the old man who said you. Is your father's fifty-fifth birthday so simple? Pass it out. You brothers are going to have a reputation for being unfilial! Cui Yuan's tone looked very sad, but his eyes were extremely keen. Pei Mingkai's every subtle expression couldn't escape his eyes.

Pei Mingkai sighed, "Shibo doesn't know, Shuzhong is in chaos, my father is worried, how can he still have the heart to celebrate his birthday, so he has already said hello, this fifty-fifth birthday will not be done, and now this time I simply congratulate the birthday or a few of our brothers insist on it, just a family gathering." ”

"I see!" Cui Yuan nodded slightly, he was secretly proud in his heart, it seemed that Pei Jun was also very concerned about Zhu's rebellion, if this was the case, things would be much easier, he raised his head and smiled, "The old man originally wanted to come to the door to pay homage to his birthday, but now I can only give a birthday gift." ”

At this time, there was a sound of brisk footsteps outside the hall, and Pei Jun, who was wearing a wide Zen robe, appeared at the door, "Pei is not considerate, so Cui Xiang has been waiting for a long time!" ”

"I came uninvited, and I should be the one who should apologize." Cui Yuan stood up and walked up quickly, and said with a smile: "I heard that it will be the birthday of the virtuous brother in three days, this is your mistake, and you didn't tell the foolish brother." ”

A trace of surprise flashed in Pei Jun's eyes, he quickly glanced at Pei Mingkai, and when he saw that he had already retreated, he laughed and said, "I'm only fifty-five years old and about to die, isn't it too early, I think I'm still very young!" So I did away with it. ”

"Brother Xian should be young, but I am old."

"That's because Brother Cui is worried too much about the world, and there are some things that should be done by juniors."

"That's what Brother Xian said!"

The two of them walked while talking, and then came to Pei Jun's study, sat down and sat down, and the two pretty maids served tea to the two of them, Cui Yuan picked up the tea, took a sip lightly, and sighed slightly: "I really don't hide it from Brother Xian, I came for the rebellion of Shu Jun Zhu, this incident makes me uneasy!" ”

Pei Jun also took a sip of the teacup, but smiled without saying a word, waiting for Cui Yuan to continue to say, Cui Yuan knew what he meant, so he closed the lid of the cup in his hand and said solemnly: "What kind of person is Zhu, what will be the consequences if you tolerate adultery, I don't say, Pei Xiangguo should also be very clear, so I will immediately send troops to destroy him and not give him any chance." ”

"I don't know how Brother Cui wants to use the soldiers?" Pei Jun still asked quietly.

Cui Yuan stood up, walked a few steps in the room with his hands in his hand, and suddenly turned around and said: "I have thought about this matter carefully, there are no remaining soldiers in the imperial court, so I can only send troops from the three major families of Cui, Pei and Wei, I can adjust 80,000 in Hedong and Guanzhong, and Pei Xiangguo and Wei Shangshu will each send 60,000 troops, and Wang Shangshu will send 20,000 troops from Shannan, as for the other families who do not send troops, they will contribute money and grain to fund the military, so decided, does Pei Xiangguo agree?" ”

Pei Jun lowered his head and pondered, and after a long time, he said lightly: "It's best to convene the cabinet to discuss this matter, and everyone must agree." I heard that Wei Ge will arrive in Chang'an tomorrow afternoon, so it is better to set the time early the day after tomorrow, and then let the main officials of various ministries, temples, and prisons participate, what does Cui Xiangguo think? ”

Cui Yuan didn't speak, he kept looking up at the roof, and after a while, he closed his eyes slightly and said: "I still have something to tell Pei Xiang today, someone impeached Cui Qinggong for gambling and lending in Chang'an, and misconducted." Therefore, I have decided not to consider his entry into the cabinet, and then according to Pei Xiangguo's proposal, Li Mian will be brought into the cabinet by Jiannan Jiedu. ”

This is what Pei Jun was waiting for. He nodded slowly, "Then the cabinet meeting the day after tomorrow, we will discuss how to mobilize money, food and war materials, and send troops to Jiannan as soon as possible." ”

Chunlei Hall in Wuwei County, this is the girls' school founded by Cui Ning, with more and more students, the original two school buildings are too small. Zhang Huan funded and expanded the school building. Now there are more than 30 brightly lit rooms, as well as places for teachers and students to stay, Cui Ning asked Zhang Huan to go to Jincheng County to hire more than a dozen knowledgeable female gentlemen to teach.

Then the newly founded Wuwei Military Academy was inscribed by Xin Yunjing, the name of the school: Chunlei Hall.

Since Zhang Huan took charge of Hexi, he first founded 50 schools, which were taught by scholars who came to serve the country from the west, and issued a strict order that all boys over the age of six in Wuwei County must be enrolled in school to read and write, and children of both Han and other ethnic groups must be enrolled in school. Especially for party members, all children who are enrolled in school are exempt from slavery, and all children are exempt from fees, and are provided with room and board by the school, and all parents who refuse to send their children to school. Once found. He was punished with a hundred rods and sent to the quicksand river to serve hard labor for half a year. Those who refuse to make corrections will not be official slaves.

Under the land decree of leniency and severity, Wuwei County set off a wave of sending children to study, under this upsurge, some enlightened parents also sent girls to study in the local girls' school founded by Cui Ning, and in just half a year, Cui Ning's girls' school increased from twenty or thirty to two hundred and seventy people, and she simply officially established schoolchildren to accept girls to study.

Cui Ning has been busy for the past two months, she has to register schoolchildren, divide Mr., and supervise the construction of houses, buy paper and pencils, everything has to be done by herself, gradually, everyone in Wuwei County knows that there is a very beautiful female gentleman in Chunlei Hall, but no one knows that this female gentleman is actually the dignified Qinghe County Lord, the only female daughter of the right minister of the Tang Dynasty

Early in the morning, more than a dozen young female gentlemen began to arrange the newly completed school, most of them are very young, full of vitality, the Tang Dynasty is an era of publicity, ordinary women are also men show their heads, they are actively engaged in various social activities, riding horses and archery, chanting poems, and even women riding donkeys for polo matches, even in remote border states and counties like Wuwei, women can be seen riding horses everywhere on the streets.

The arrival of this group of beautiful and youthful female gentlemen made the Chunlei Hall full of vitality, a large group of children also ran back and forth, full of laughter and laughter, Cui Ning was installing curtains with several female gentlemen, and suddenly saw Pei Ying with a big belly, walking slowly with both hands on her waist, a maid behind her carefully supported her, Cui Ning hurriedly handed the curtains in her hand to others, and stepped forward to complain to her: "Didn't the midwife say that you were going to give birth in two days?" What do you do without running lying down? ”

Pei Ying greeted a few female gentlemen with a smile, and then found a circle chair and sat down with a smile: "It's too boring to lie on the bed all day, I heard your laughter and laughter from afar, so I came to talk to you." ”

As she spoke, she looked up at the school, and saw that the school was fresh and elegant, so she nodded and said to Cui Ning: "When I was a child, you said that you wanted to be a female gentleman who taught when you grew up, and we laughed at you at the time, saying that you must be the first to marry, but I didn't expect you to really be a female gentleman, and you are still in Wuwei." ”

"What about you?" Cui Ning pursed his lips and smiled: "You said that you want to go to the Western Regions to fight like a man, but you came to Hexi, but you became two people." ”

Pei Ying gently stroked her stomach and said with a smile: "When the mother's war fails, let the child in the belly achieve it!" ”

At this time, the curtain had been hung, Pei Ying suddenly saw that the corner of the curtain didn't seem to be sewn well, and there were some raw edges, so she stood up with difficulty, reached out and pulled it, and at this moment, several girls hiding behind the curtain suddenly jumped out, caught off guard, and hit Pei Ying's stomach right away.

Seeing that Pei Ying was about to fall, Cui Ning was quick to hold her, turned around and reprimanded a few naughty children: "Sit on my seat for me, and each person will be punished for writing a hundred words." ”

Seeing that they seemed to be in trouble, several children lowered their heads and sneaked away, Cui Ning suddenly felt Pei Ying grab her hand violently, and hurriedly looked at her, only to see that her face was pale, beads of sweat the size of beans flowed down her forehead, her teeth were clenched and her lips were biting, and she couldn't say a word.

Cui Ning was taken aback, "What's wrong with you?" ”

"Help me go back, this little wrongdoer is coming out!"

"I see, hold back!" Cui Ning held Pei Ying tightly and walked cautiously out the door, and she hurriedly said to the little maid who was at a loss: "Don't be in a daze!" Go and call the midwife. ”

The little maid turned around and ran away in a panic, and as soon as Cui Ning helped Pei Ying to the door, Pei Ying was already in pain and almost fainted.

"Everyone, come and help!" Cui Ning saw that she couldn't go anymore, so she called for a few female gentlemen to help, and everyone stepped forward together and carried Pei Ying back to the mansion with the bed.

At this time, several midwives arrived, and everyone quickly began to prepare hot water and other necessary products for production. Pei Ying was already in turmoil and sweating profusely, she grabbed Cui Ning's hand and gasped briefly: "Cui Ning, don't go away, accompany me!" ”

"I'm not going to go away, I'm right next to you, don't worry!" Cui Ning gently patted Pei Ying's hand to comfort her, and looked back anxiously, why didn't Huan Lang come back!