In the middle of winter, in the back hall of the distant Shizhu Tusi official office, Qin Liangyu and several nephews Qin Gongming and Qin Yongming were listening to Ma Xiangling reading Ma Xianglin and Qin Yiming's letters.

The children of the seven thousand stone pillars participated in the war in Liaodong, and of course the fathers and elders in their hometown were worried, and Qin Liangyu was naturally no exception.

Besides, there is still the shadow of the bloody battle of the Hunhe River lingering. Qin Liangyu is a female general with actual combat experience, she naturally knows the combat effectiveness of Jiannu, and every time there is a letter from Liaodong, she asks Ma Xiangling to read it carefully as soon as possible.

In the past, the distant Liaodong and Sichuan had to use official posts to communicate, and it was probably unrealistic for ordinary people to mail letters. Thanks to the Huang family's river-sea combined transportation and the "Huaxia Post Office", ordinary soldiers could send letters to their relatives for ten yuan, and even mail money orders to their wives and children.

Between the 7,000 white-pole soldiers fighting in Liaodong, the "Huaxia Post Office" specially launched an express mail, and there were new-style sentinel boats for special mail, so that the letters could be sent to Shizhu in Sichuan in less than 20 days, and it was enough to reply to the letters down the river in 11 or 2 days.

After listening to her daughter's letter, Qin Liangyu knew that the Ming army was still only in the stage of confrontation with Jiannu, and the Ming army was only a few cheaper under the command of Nanguo Gong.

Qin Liangyu said: "It's really not easy to use public soldiers in the southern country! Jiannu began to suffer losses as soon as he went into battle, and Lord Huang was able to send someone to fly into Jinzhou City to deliver the news, which is incredible! ”

Qin Gongming's face was full of yearning: "My brother's letter doesn't tell me how to fly into Jinzhou City, I really want to see such a magical thing with my own eyes!" ”

Ma Xiangling said with a blushing face: "Mother, it's a pity that you didn't fight side by side with Nanguo Gong, he is really a fake "God of War", he can think of any unexpected ideas, and he can definitely be considered a last resort to fight, and he can achieve great results every time with limited casualties among soldiers." “

Qin Liangyu looked at his daughter with a smile and said, "So you took it upon yourself to send a thousand stone pillar disciples to Lord Huang?" ”

Ma Xiangling said coquettishly: "Mother, the Duke of Nanguo didn't treat our family badly, don't you look at the four steel cannons we brought back, aren't you too happy to close your mouth." ”

In order to thank the Qin brothers for leaving 1,000 white-pole soldiers, Huang Sheng sent them four six-pounder field smoothbore guns and 300 smoothbore guns, and also sent more than 20 instructors to Shizhu to help train firearms troops.

Qin Liangyu admitted: "Those four cannons are really good things, the key is that a few people can disassemble and drive them with a wheelbarrow, with this big killing weapon, in the future, when attacking the cottage where the rebels are entrenched, how much less will my Shizhu disciples sacrifice!" ”

Ma Xiangling said: "Nanguo Gong said to our family, how good those muskets are, they can be fired directly without igniting the rope, those Huang family teachers who come to Shizhu not only have the ability to take a shelf, our white pole soldiers like the people sent by the Huang family ......." ”

Qin Liangyu found that her daughter was always absent-minded when she came home this time, often talked about Huang Sheng, and praised her mouth and closed her mouth, and she realized it in her heart.

It's just a pity that this Lord Huang Sheng is already a very popular minister, and the beautiful wife and concubine in the family can be said to be hugging left and right, and his daughter is probably destined to be delusional.

Qin Liangyu looked at his daughter, sighed in his heart, and said, "Xiangling, my mother has never forced you to marry, but you will soon be twenty years old, and you have to make up your own mind!" Some things are often ethereal, and you can't look at them! ”

Ma Xiangling's face was flushed, she lowered her head for a long time, and suddenly said firmly: "Mother, my daughter wants to take the people of my headquarters to Liaodong to follow her brother to participate in the war, please forgive me." ”

Qin Gongming and Qin Yongming were very happy to fight with Huang Sheng last time, and when they saw their cousin begging each other, the two immediately asked to go to Liaodong to follow their father and brother to fight.

Qin Liangyu has a lot of money in the past two years, which is entirely due to the cooperation with the Huang family to do business, Liaodong has her own children and nephews who are about to fight Jiannu, and she is actually very worried.

She thought about it and decided to send her daughter and two nephews with 500 people to escort the goods of the old and old labor troops in her hometown.

Looking at Ma Xiangling's excited appearance, Qin Liangyu couldn't help but fantasize that Huang Sheng, the Duke of Nanguo, would enter the title of county king as soon as possible, and she had already seen that her daughter had a secret affection for that "God of War".

It's just that how can the daughter of the dignified stone pillar Tusi be a concubine, even if she marries Nanguo Gong as a concubine, but if you have the identity of a side princess, you can consider it.

Qin Liangyu actually admired Huang Sheng quite a lot, if this world-famous strange man could become her son-in-law, of course, it would be a good thing, she decided to ignore her daughter, everything depends on the will of God.

The British Mansion of Jingshi is very lively, and Wu Xiang, Zhu Dacheng and other nobles are looking for fun here.

After three rounds of drinking, Wu Xiang proposed: "A few little grandfathers, little marquis, this lord wants to take everyone to Liaodong a year ago, I don't know if you have the courage?" ”

Zhu Dacheng glanced at Wu Xiang and said: "Uncle has been fighting with Jiannu for several years in Liaodong, our brothers have heard of it, but our brothers are not good-looking, we have all been to Liaodong twice, and each time we have made meritorious contributions." If you go, you can just go to Jiannu, how can you still get my Ming 'God of War'? ”

Wu Xiang said: "The life in Beijing is as light as water, Benjue is ready to go out of the customs to play, let's call on the nobles to donate generously, prepare some labor and military materials to be sent to Shanhaiguan before the end of the year, presumably the Son of Heaven will be very happy, and the military and people of Beizhili will definitely give a thumbs up." ”

Zhang Zhiji said: "Good idea, the silver doesn't cost a few, and a good reputation will make a lot of money, it's feasible!" It's a pity that I can't go, and now I have an official position and I can't help myself! I can only watch you go to Liaodong to mix up the military exploits! ”

Zhu Dacheng put down his wine glass and said: "Go, of course you have to go, don't drink a few brothers, let's separate and inform each to prepare, how about making the city full of wind and rain again when we set off?" ”

A group of gentlemen came to the spirit, and they acted separately to donate money and materials with great efficiency.

Because this time their strength is completely different, with the merchant general Wu Xiang, there are rules and regulations for all affairs and money and grain scheduling, which shows that Wu Xiang is very bad at fighting, and it is more than enough to be a general who manages logistics.

The news that Xungui had gathered more than 1,000 carriages to prepare to go out of the customs to comfort the soldiers reached the Forbidden City, and the Chongzhen Emperor Longyan Dayue issued a high-profile decree to encourage many nobles who gave money and food, and he also called on all the officials to help pay their salaries.

It's a pity that the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs was very stingy and had little effect, and the household department did not receive much donation of silver taels.

However, there are two donations that can catch the eye, one is that Lan Shangyi actively responded to the emperor's call to donate 50,000 Huaxia Tongbao silver coins in the name of the crew, and the other is that North Korean Xinhaijun entrusted the "Huaxia Daqian Village" to donate 80,000 silver coins.

Emperor Chongzhen saw that the civil and military generals refused to give up their wealth one by one, and the North Korean Shinhaejun and a crew did not hesitate to donate generously, and he couldn't help but be discouraged and disappointed by the civil and military ministers.

Zhu Youzhen thought carefully about Liaodong when there was no Huang Sheng, and the civil and military generals of the imperial court avoided it, and now the Jiannu soldiers were under the city of Jinzhou, and a group of nobles actually ran to Zhongming Fort to work for the army with their own money.

Chongzhen shook his head and sighed, people are really not comparable! His heart is also chaotic at this time, Huang Sheng's image always lingers in his heart, he knows that Huang Sheng is a capable minister and a doer, but how can he allow others to snore next to the couch?