Chapter 188: Night Trial (Part II)

"No need!"

Wu Jin was a little tired and said: "This is a military drill, it's inconvenient to bring your family, so you don't need to bring it." ”

"It's better to bring it!"

Su Han insisted: "You are on a boat, and it is not an official battle, didn't you tell me last time that as long as it is not an official battle, you can bring your family?" Take Arrow with you, and I'll be a little relieved. ”

Wu Jin still refused to agree, "This is the first time I have commanded an army to sail, so I brought a maid, so what do others think of me?" Although it was a drill, I should have self-restraint, or not bring it well, and besides, Aro is also seasick, and I am not sure who will take care of whom. ”

Su Han saw that Wu Jin was unwilling, and Ah Luo was indeed seasick, so he gave up this idea.

A wave of sleepiness hit, and Wu Jin yawned, "Sleep!" I'm so sleepy. ”

Su Han was preoccupied, she always wanted to find an opportunity to turn the topic around what she wanted to ask, she saw that her husband was about to fall asleep, so she finally couldn't help asking: "Husband, I have something to ask you." ”

"What's the matter?" Wu Jin agreed in a daze, he had already fallen asleep with one foot.

Su Han turned around, gently pinched Wu Jin's ear and asked, "You say, will you bring the pearls of Ryukyu Island home?" ”

Wu Jin was suddenly woken up, and he was stunned for a moment, "What pearl?" ”

With a twist of thought, he reacted a little, "You mean..... Chen Ying? ”

"Fulang, is there anyone else besides Chen Ying?" Su Han asked with a smile.

Wu Jin was silent, in fact, he also wanted to find an opportunity to tell his wife about Yu Hailan, but he couldn't open his mouth, in just a few months, he had three wives and concubines, which made him feel that this kind of thing was difficult to talk about, but at this time, since Su Han had already mentioned it, he decided to tell her.

"Nine days, there's something I haven't told you."

"What's the matter?"

Su Han was a little enlightened, her husband was going to give her the matter of her sister, she didn't expect him to take the initiative to explain, and the anger in her heart disappeared by two points, after all, taking the initiative to explain shows that her husband still takes her to heart, which is very important, this is the least respect for her.

Wu Jin was silent for a moment, and said slowly: "I used to wear a jade acacia bean, you have seen it, do you remember?" ”

"I remember, wasn't that what Chen Ying sent you?"

"Nope! Not her. ”

Wu Jin suddenly felt a little sad in his heart, "That's what my senior sister sent me." ”

Su Han felt the sadness in her husband's heart, and a trace of tenderness surged in her heart, gently stroked his face, and said softly: "Husband, tell me, okay?" ”

Wu Jin hugged his wife, and told his wife everything that happened between him and Yu Hailan, speaking of his poisoning, it was Yu Hailan who rescued him from the water and escaped the search of the embroidered guard, Su Han also became nervous, and grabbed her husband's arm tightly, after Wu Jin finished speaking, he finally sighed and said: "At that time, I didn't know if I could marry you, so I made a promise to her, saying that I would definitely give her an explanation in the future, I thought that my senior sister would forget me after returning to the island, but I didn't expect that the last time I went to Weiyang County, I met Heimi, and my senior sister asked him to transfer a gold box to me, Right in my study, I've been waiting for an opportunity to show you sometime. ”

After listening to her husband's words, Su Han's last trace of dissatisfaction disappeared, and she was a little embarrassed in her heart, her husband actually confessed to her about the gold box, she thought too much, and even thought that her husband was raising other housewives and raising illegitimate children outside, which made her secretly ashamed.

She put her arms around her husband's neck and said emotionally: "Husband, I know that you are the heir of the king and the grandson of the emperor, and you will not only guard the second wife and one concubine, I also have a heart, but you must promise me that you can't raise other housewives outside, and you can't have illegitimate children, otherwise I really can't accept it, you promise me, okay?" ”

Wu Jin was moved in his heart, he held his wife tightly in his arms, and whispered in her ear: "I am a good person, you treat me like this, I will not be sorry for you, I swear to you that I will never raise illegitimate children, and I will not have any other women except for my senior sister." ”

"What about Chen Ying? Don't you care about her? ”

Wu Jin was silent for a moment and said, "Now my relationship with the Chen family is very complicated, let's talk about this matter later!" ”

At this time, Wu Jin felt that he was exhausted, and he slowly closed his eyes, "Sleep!" I can't do it anymore. ”

He soon fell into a deep sleep, but Su Han tossed and turned, unable to sleep.

....... Five days passed in a flash, this morning, the military and civilian wharf of Jiangning Mansion colorful flags flying, gongs and drums shook the sky, 1,500 warships stopped on the river, mighty, magnificent, stretching for dozens of miles, this is the warship ready to go to sea for exercises, at this time, the warships transferred from the other five naval military offices and Jingzhou are all concentrated in Jiangning Fu, there are more than 3,000 warships.

This time only half of them went to sea, 30,000 sailors and more than 50,000 boatmen, the boatmen are not in the establishment of the navy, and they are not considered the army, it is an incognito force, so how many boatmen are configured on each ship must be submitted to the Ministry of War for the record, if you add the newly recruited 80,000 reserve troops and 60,000 boatmen, plus 50,000 regular troops, the Chuzhou Navy Army actually controls 190,000 people, and these are all personnel who have filed with the Ministry of War, as well as a large number of dock workers and their families, these cannot be counted.

Wu Jin's Jumbo warship was moored on the dock, this was the flagship of the entire fleet, and all the fleets were centered on it, while the other three Jumbo ships did not go to sea this time, and they had to transport goods for Feng Wu's business.

Wu Jin stood on the side of the ship, silently watching the dock workers who were carrying the house like an ant colony, but a thought jumped out of his heart, there were hundreds of thousands of dock workers in the major ports of Chuzhou, could they be armed?

He turned around and asked Zhou Xin, who was on the same boat as him, "Zhou Changshi, these dock workers ....."

Zhou Xin understood what he meant, and when he saw that he was thirsty to this extent, he couldn't help laughing, "Your Highness, these dock workers are actually not loose, they have their own gangs, and as far as I know, there are two major gangs in Chuzhou, one is the Jiangbei Gang, and the other is the Jiangnan Gang, Zhang Rong has a lot of dealings with them, and after His Highness comes back, he will not let him introduce the leaders of these two gangs." ”

The old Jiang Yan of the Inner Guard Pavilion also smiled on the side: "Don't worry, the five thousand plum blossom guards are all elite people carefully selected by me for you, you can use them as the backbone to expand the army, with me in the imperial court, I will firmly cover it for you." ”

Wu Jin nodded, he is just a preliminary idea now, and he will think about it slowly after coming back, he is confident that Chuzhou is the most densely populated area in the Daning Dynasty, with five million households and nearly 30 million people, accounting for thirty percent of the country, only he has sufficient financial and material resources, and it should be easy to recruit hundreds of thousands of troops.

At this moment, a huge bell rang from the dock, 'Boom! Knock-'

It was time to go, all the troops and supplies had been on board, and Wu Jin gave the order: "Go!" ”

The big ship pulled up the sails, the west wind blew strongly, the sails puffed up, and slowly set sail, the family members who came to see off the family rushed up like a tide, everyone waved their hands and said goodbye to their families, and the wives and concubines of Wu Jin also came to see him off in a carriage, Wu Jin looked at the carriage under the big boat, smiled and waved to them.

The mighty fleet sailed on the river, gradually moving farther and farther, forming a large group of small black dots heading eastward.

......... Just when the Chuzhou naval fleet in the south sailed to the sea, Yongjing, which was located in Guanzhong, was shrouded in heavy snow, and this year the whole north was cold, and the heavy snow had fallen for three days and three nights, and the fields, rivers, woods, and roads were covered with white snow, and it was extremely difficult to walk.

Yongjing is the former Chang'an, but the former Chang'an in Wuzhou after the capital of Luoyang gradually decayed, a large number of people migrated, the city has also collapsed and annihilated in the years, the current Yongjing is three hundred years ago by the Daning Dynasty rebuilt and set the capital in, after two hundred and sixty years of glory, forty years ago the capital moved eastward again, after forty years, the current Yongjing is like a middle-aged woman who has passed half a hundred, the have gone, exhausted, lost the former prosperity.

However, in recent years, because the imperial city of Luojing is too crowded, the call to move the capital back to Yongjing has been rising, represented by Uncle Shen, the ministers have asked to move the capital back to Yongjing, and now it is just a determination of the emperor.

With the strengthening of the expectation of moving the capital, many prophets have purchased land and houses in Yongjing, and the price of houses in Yongjing has begun to rise gradually, and many high-ranking officials have their own mansions in Yongjing.

Twenty days ago, the Winter Dynasty contingent escorted by hundreds of thousands of troops marched into Guanzhong, including thousands of palace maids and eunuchs, civil and military officials, clan nobles, and so on, and the carriage procession alone to transport supplies stretched for dozens of miles.

The Winter Dynasty is a traditional system of the Daning Dynasty, that is, to return to Yongjing in winter, from November of that year to March of the following year, a total of four to five months, the emperor mainly stayed in the Huaqing Palace, and the hundred officials were in the Yongjing Daming Palace.

At this time, the power of the imperial court moved west to Yongjing, no longer Luoyang, but this tradition of the Winter Dynasty was also intermittent, once interrupted for twenty years, until five years ago to resume again, and this year the emperor Huangfu Xuande was particularly enthusiastic, from the end of October to prepare for the Winter Dynasty, this is because of the advice given to him by the imperial doctor, the hot springs of the Huaqing Palace are good for the recovery of his legs.

It is now December, and it is also the coldest time of the year, and the imperial court has already been running smoothly, but due to the heavy snowfall and difficult roads, the transmission of the documents of the imperial court has become a big problem.

On this day, there were a few small black dots on the snow outside the city, the speed was very slow, it was a trek, the soldiers in the city knew at a glance that this was the person who came to deliver the letter, the three horsemen arrived at the Mingde Gate with difficulty, and the soldiers guarding the city asked them with a smile, "Where did you come from?" ”

"We came from Chuzhou, but we were tortured so badly that we traveled for a month."

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(To be continued)