In early autumn and August, it is the season when the grass grows and the warbler flies.

A grand safari was underway, and all kinds of ministers and ministers, civil and military officials, as well as their subordinates, cabinets, and domestic servants gathered under colorful banners.

Their eyes and movements followed closely to a bright yellow stun, which represented the regent who held the supreme power and actually performed the duties of the Son of Heaven.

All kinds of eagles and dogs, including birds and animals, even cheetahs and lynxes, which can only rely on Fanbang to pay tribute, also appeared in the hunting honor guard, these fierce and sharp-eyed felines, squatting on the leather cushion behind the saddle, collars carved by colorful silk and gold and silver threads, firmly held in the hands of those Wufang children, impatiently let out all kinds of roars and whirring.

Although the war in the south was in full swing, and the large army of the Southern Dynasty entered Huai, and pointed to the hinterland of the Central Plains where the two rivers were located, it was not at all the same as the interest of these dignitaries, or at least on the surface.

After all, over the years, no matter how many people starved to death in Loduri, it would not really affect the enjoyment and extravagance of their daily lives as the upper echelons of society.

As the core of the safari team, it is obviously a brand-new zuò, and the particularly dazzling golden chariot, the Xuanmu Erqi pulling the cart, and the fake Huang Yue and Miyaya are all showing off some kind of accompli

The Regent's Mansion that had just added the Nine Xili was one step closer to the possibility of reaching the top, which was undoubtedly a joyful thing for those Zhang clan relatives, as well as their henchmen and cronies and various forces that depended on them.

And the sudden Northern Expedition from the Southern Dynasty undoubtedly indirectly promoted a certain determination of the regent.

To tell the truth, since his grandparents, the Southern Dynasty has hung the slogan of the Northern Expedition on his lips, shouting it from time to time, it has been shouted for decades, I don't know how many times it has been shouted, and all kinds of big and small actions are continuous, so once this Northern Expedition finally becomes a fact, it will inevitably make most people in the Northern Dynasty in a hurry.

As the department in charge of military intelligence and the Investigation Department, the first reaction was to find a way to verify the truth of this news, instead of sending someone to find out the scale of the enemy's situation, and then found that most of the secret trenches and eyeliners that had been planted in the Southern Dynasties for many years were unusable or had been lost for a long time.

Therefore, the aggressiveness of the Southern Dynasty's large-scale march of troops was the so-called "time is not waiting for me" for this regent, who had easily reached the top of his power and was in his twilight years recently.

And this large-scale safari can also be seen as a test and bottom of the hearts of the people and the army, a certain precursor.

It's just that among the safari brigade, there are also some few who are obviously deliberately isolated and neglected, and they can only fall far away at the end of the team, looking at the figure with some envy or mixed feelings.

These people are mainly wealthy businessmen and tycoons who spent money to buy corresponding positions, or under the offensive of the Southern Dynasty, they gave up their territory and military and civilians, and took their cronies and net worth to go to Luodu to live in the place where they lived.

This time, I spent a lot of money to get a qualification to accompany me, just to be able to have a chance to show my face in front of that big mansion.

It's just that their rough or uneasy or eager mood didn't last long, and then an internal official who rode over to announce the order suddenly made their mood fall to the bottom.

Recruit on the spot, lose money and donate to the country?

The crowd suddenly stirred up and made all kinds of noises, only to find that they had been surrounded by the hordes of armor and cavalry who were responsible for guarding the hunt.

I have to write down the amount of persuasion (threat) according to the character and rank, under the persuasion (threat) of the corresponding middle official, you can fold chestnuts or replace silk, and those who are not enough can come to collect them, as long as they participate in the hunting, regardless of the lord and slave, everyone has a share in donating to help the country.

As this decision spread, there was a sudden upheaval and a flood of sorrow all over the country.

"Is the treasury already so depleted?"

In Wenchen's sequence, Yang Si, the secretary of the military department who was riding on horseback, glanced at Si Nongqing Guo Huai, but the other party gave him a helpless expression.

"Who's bad idea is this, isn't this for the sake of immediate profits, and to compromise the hope of the king and the prestige of the court......

"It is said that Ouchi's usage has been reduced again and again......"

"Except for the guard of honor in the vestibule and the great hall of manna...... Most of the personnel of the later dynasty were laid off."

"The supply of several highnesses began to replace fresh fish with salted salt, and live sheep with wind chicken......"

"It is said that someone in the province of Miyauchi is dying of starvation again......"

All kinds of news came back in bits and pieces. The leader of the Imperial Dao faction couldn't help but sigh and gave up his plan to admonish.

Although the Grand Regent can get rid of all the opponents, it is no wonder that he cannot conjure up the money and food to keep the treasury running under natural and man-made disasters.

The drought in the Central Plains in early spring still has the effect of thousands of miles of red land up and down the two rivers: there is almost no harvest in the south of the Yellow River, and the north of the Yellow River is not much better.

However, Hedong Province and Shandong Province, which were relatively limited, were threatened by the troops of the Southern Dynasties.

However, as long as the offensive of the southern soldiers can be delayed until the winter that they are not used to, it means that all kinds of offensive and defensive victories will be transposed.

Fortunately, most of Andong's negotiations and withdrawal have been completed, and as the representative of the military department he sent, he has also made important achievements in diplomatic and intelligence spying, and has just knocked out a large amount of money and grain from the hands of those unwilling princes in Andong Prefecture as an appropriation fee, and more than half of it has been delivered.

According to the deployment of the Generalissimo's Office, one of them will enter the towns along the Saiyan to prepare the borders, the other will enrich the coastal states, and the southern Korea, which has the advantage of the waterproof division, will be attacked by sea from the sea, and the rest will be stationed near the Dujian Road as a mobile and backup.

The towns of Xuzhou and Zhiyang north of the Yellow River have successively crossed the river to the south, and the military service masters who have been supplemented on the spot along the way have been recruited to middle-aged men and even young men.

Not far from Yang Si, Luo Du stayed behind, Wei Weiqing, and Zhang Dekun, the privy governor and mausoleum waiter, were also sneering at the bleak scene of chickens flying and dogs jumping into the clouds.

Although the "fish intestine plan" that he personally deployed failed because he was nowhere to be found, he made a lot of gains in the so-called lost eastern fence of the Sangyu harvest in the incidental investigation of the Jianghuai towns south of the Yellow River, and also buried a lot of hidden piles and eyeliners.

Therefore, the general trend of the Southern and Northern Expeditions is together, and now he is already one of the secret intelligence sources of the Great Mansion in front of the army, and at the same time presides over some armed forces acting in secret. Although there has been no change in the ministry, the resources and trust at my disposal have risen much higher than in the past.

Sometimes, he even feels that that target is really his lucky star, as long as it involves him, he can pull out a lot of people and things.

Suddenly, there was a commotion in the crowd, and those riders in purple clothes scattered one after another, but they were driven and outflanked by the patrolling escort cavalry.

"Go and see what's going on......"

Zhang Dekun ordered.

"Bingjun Hou"

It wasn't long before someone came back to report it

"It was a suspicious person who suddenly rushed past the guards and tried to get close to the ...... of the driver."

"But I've been killed on the spot left and right, and now I'm ...... on the way to Dasuo."

In the northeast of Mapo, in the station of Mapo City,

Su Changsheng, a former junior who came from the first supplement, slowly told me about what had happened to him over the years.

After escaping from Qizhou that year, I walked on the front foot for less than two days, and there was a big rope in the city, and then there was a civil strife, and the chaos spread to other places outside the city, and even the people who hid and recuperated with him couldn't stay, so they had to flee in advance.

Then in the crowd of refugees, he took a different path from mine, and therefore failed to get the marks and hints I had left, and then I squatted down with my head in my hands, and he staggered away by land.

Then he met an acquaintance in Jeju, who was also a lost man who had escaped from Nadu, who seemed to have some influence in the local area, and expressed his willingness to help him, and expressed his intention to solicit, but he refused because he had something to do.

Then the "acquaintance" suddenly changed his face, put him under house arrest and prepared to interrogate him, but he didn't want to let him escape except for the accident, but he didn't think that this was just the beginning of his nightmare journey, because he found that he seemed to be being targeted.

For this reason, he abandoned the original route I had designed to go south, and turned west to flee in order to avoid recourse.

He hid all the way, escaped Yanzhou, Caozhou, Songzhou, and Chenzhou, and met Li Beiyu, Yang Liu, and other old acquaintances who changed their names and surnames and were active in the local area.

For this same year, their respective attitudes are also different, some deliberately avoid suspicion and keep their distance, and those who threaten afterwards, some pretend not to know on the surface, and secretly give gifts to send them away, and even more famous people who are kind and hospitable, but find someone who plans to keep him silent forever.

The so-called friendship of the same year and the experience of living and dying together, once painstakingly swore and promised, after these people gained fame and fortune, it became a flash.

But this time, he didn't dare to trust anyone, and he didn't have time to stay long, as soon as something was wrong, he followed the corresponding means I taught, got out and left, and finally arrived in Yuzhou, ready to cross the Huaishui from Xinxi County, but was caught again, and was tortured and questioned.

However, these vicious unknown people let him escape again, and with the help of well-wishers, they not only took him in for treatment, but also got on a merchant ship bound for the lower reaches of Huaishui.

Then he got off the boat in Shouchun and continued south to Luzhou and Shuzhou, but found that there was a war going on along the north coast of the river, so he had to turn to Hezhou and Chuzhou, intending to cross the river from Wushan County, and then those who had captured him suddenly appeared.

Frightened, he had to give up his plan to cross the river by boat, and pretended to be a craftsman to turn eastward, and followed the displaced people all the way to Yangzhou, intending to go to Jiangnan by crossing the river pontoon bridge from Yangzizhou to Jingkou, but those people caught him again in Jiangdu County as if they had expected it a long time ago.

Then after seeing the kind shipowner and his daughter who had helped him, he suddenly realized that this was just a bigger lie and a bubble, and he could not escape the pursuit of those people along the way.

It's just that when those people found out that he really had no more use value, they re-arrested him, and after he was tortured and dying, he was thrown into a prison in Xuzhou to die

Fortunately, he knew some words, and in order to cover his identity, he learned some handicrafts, and he persevered in the prison to reflect his value, and did not become a pile of dry bones, and then he didn't know how long he was idle, until the southern army broke through the city and entered the whole city, opened the prison and vacated the people, and he was able to see the light of day again.

Then I found that I had no long things, and I was caught back on the street by mistake, as a husband before the army, and then I met Liu Yanqing, and I was able to get out by shouting out my name with the intention of what to happen.

Although Mu Long hinted that he had to guard against the possibility of bribing and betraying as a torturer of the Northern Dynasty, I still decided to arrange an unimportant position for him in the army, so that the familiar Wuping could watch him.

No matter what others think, no matter what he thinks, this is what I owe him what I deserve.

"Then you can stay in the army and recuperate, and I will leave you a place in the office......"

I explained to him slowly.

"The Enlightenment Will ......"

Suddenly, I heard a report outside the door, interrupting my considerations.

"Deputy Xinjun sent a letter to warn the Malay, asking for reinforcements ......"