Recently, Mrs. Sun's heart has been very uncomfortable, and some rumors that have gradually spread in Zhu's mansion have inevitably reached her ears. The dignified daughter of the superintendent army actually had feelings for the chief soldier of Dengzhou, and everyone knew about it. Especially not long ago, a township party of Sun Chuanting, who was doing business in Dengzhou, specially sent a female dependent to visit Mrs. Sun, and even mentioned this matter during the chat, and swore that he would take care of everything, saying that if Mrs. Sun and the Lord of the Army were interested in becoming a jade at this time, their husband and wife could naturally mention the matter to the Lord of the General Army.

At that time, Mrs. Sun's face changed, and she ordered the expulsion of the guest and drove the wife of the township party out.

Although the Sun family of Daizhou, Shanxi Province is not a wealthy family that is famous in the world, it can also be called a scholarly family in the land of the Three Jin Dynasty, and it is a famous family for generations. Now that there is such a thing for her daughter's marriage, it is no wonder that Mrs. Sun can't hold her face.

As soon as the wife of the township party was driven away, Mrs. Sun angrily sent someone to find Sun Ruoxuan, who was wandering around the market.

"Good things you did!" Mrs. Sun has a calm face, and it is rare to be unapologetic to her daughter. "The old man asks you, is the rumor that is spreading now true? Are you really moved by that Zhu Ping'an? ”

Sun Ruoxuan stood in front of her mother, without the slightest hesitation and evasion, and after listening to her mother's responsibility, she immediately nodded, "This matter is true, my daughter does belong to Zhu Ping'an." ”

Mrs. Sun didn't expect her daughter to answer so straightforwardly. I was stunned for a while, and I couldn't even remember what to ask next.

"When there was still a Jingshi in Daizhou's hometown, so many children of wealthy families and nobles came to ask for marriage. You don't even have one who looks at each other, and now you actually fall in love with that martial artist! ”

"Mother's words are wrong, isn't my father a military attaché?" Sun Ruoxuan did not flinch.

Mrs. Sun trembled angrily, "Evil barrier, although your father is a governor of the army, he is from a two-rank jinshi and has received the emperor's grace. entrusted to the important affairs of the military state, how can Zhu Ping'an be compared with your father. He was just a slave. Although he is in a high position now, his family background is the best choice. ”

Sun Ruoxuan suddenly burst into tears at this time. "My parents took great care of me when I was young. Teaching me with a famous teacher is to show me my talent, and I must give priority to my talent when choosing a husband in the future. But why can't the mother see it? When his father was hesitant that day, it was Zhu Ping'an who woke up the dreamer, and then his father had room for development. Our family came to Dengzhou, and we can see it clearly, even in the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, there may not be the prosperity and wealth of Dengzhou. ”

Sun Ruoxuan hesitated, knelt down in front of her mother, and lowered her voice, "My daughter is well-read. Although it is not a brilliant talent, it has a clear view of the general trend of today's world. The troubled times are approaching, and the strong are respected. My father is loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but my grandson's family has to think about how to persevere in this troubled time, and even use the glorious lintel in the troubled times. Parents want their daughters to learn Chinese from a young age, but the father can't listen to what her daughter is saying now. The young man Toshihiko that his mother just said a lot, and his daughter asked boldly. Which of them can have Zhu Ping'an's talent and power? ”

Sun Ruoxuan's eloquent conversation was different from her usual conversation, which surprised Mrs. Sun. This daughter. Sun Chuanting and himself always thought that she was a weak girl, but they didn't expect that there was such insight hidden in their chests. It is true that whenever Sun Chuanting hesitates when he encounters a problem, Sun Ruoxuan always wants to help him, but Sun Chuanting thinks that the woman's knowledge is not worth sharing, so he doesn't really listen to it. But I didn't expect that the original intention was to let my daughter understand the scriptures and meanings, increase her knowledge, and find a talented husband in the future, so that the two can have more common topics and promote the integration of each other's feelings.

But he didn't expect his daughter to be such an inconspicuous genius, far surpassing his father and brother, and being able to see so far.

Sun Ruoxuan's words silenced Mrs. Sun, and only then did she sigh for a long time, "I knew this was the case, why bother in the first place." It can be seen that women are talented, which may not be a good thing for themselves! Your insights and ideas are reasonable, but the mistake is that you are just a woman, and some things are not something you can change! ”

"Why?" Sun Ruoxuan bit her lip tightly, her eyes were firmly fixed on her mother, and there were faint blood marks on her red lips.

"First, Zhu Ping'an was born as a domestic slave, even if there is no reason for this, your father will not agree to marry a martial artist, not to mention, he has already married a wife, and now he wants to have children. Second, what you say is too alarmist, do you think your father will believe your speculations? ”

"Mother!"

"Needless to say, now that the plague in Jingshi has already subsided, and the old body has gradually recovered, staying in Dengzhou is not a long-term solution, so we will return to Jingshi one day, and also cut off these inexplicable thoughts of yours."

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Zhu Ping'an didn't notice these changes around him. These days, all kinds of news have spread like snowflakes to the Yamen of Penglai Dusi. Without exception, it is revealed that the disaster will be severe tomorrow, not to mention the north, and even the south of the Yangtze River has begun to suffer from the impact of drought, and in the Wujiang and Songjiang areas, there has been no rain for a long time, and locusts cover the sky and the sun, and although the government has made every effort to organize people to hunt and kill, the effect is minimal, and the locust plague and drought are getting worse day by day.

Thieves swarmed everywhere, starvation spread everywhere, and the people began to feed on bark and grass roots, and although porridge factories were set up in various places, it was a drop in the bucket in the face of tens of millions of hungry people.

The imperial court appointed Ding Qirui as the governor of the five provinces, and the governors of Shaanxi, Henan, Sichuan, and Huguang Zhujun, which seemed to be infinitely beautiful, but Ding Qirui was a complete scholar and didn't know how to do it. led more than 10,000 patchwork troops from the Jingying camp to Jingzhou from Chengtianfu, but the governor of Huguang and other officials along the way avoided it, lest Ding Qirui, like Yang Sichang, raise troops to collect grain again and poison the place. Although poor Ding Qirui was a governor, he fell into the dilemma of having no food and no boats, so he had to lead his soldiers and horses to go through the barren mountains and mountains, and he fed on war horses without food and grass. Let Li Zicheng lead a large army to besiege Kaifeng, and Zhang Xianzhong besieged Macheng.

In this case, the hungry people of Xuzhou, under the leadership of Li Qingshan and Fang Tongyin, gathered a crowd to rebel, blocking the passage of grain, and the court was shaken.

The cabinet immediately ordered Gao Guangdou, the governor of Fengyang, the governor of Huaiyang, and Lu Zhenfei, the governor of Caoyun, to quell the rebellion and open up the Caoyun grain route. Now the situation in the north is all maintained by Caoyun, and if Caoyun is cut off, then Jingshi will not be able to hold out for long.

However, counterinsurgency cannot be done within a month or two, so Lu Zhenfei can only turn to Zhu Ping'an for help, asking him to escort the Denglai Navy Division and transport 10,000 quintals of grain to Beijing by sea to solve the dilemma.

In this regard, of course, Zhu Ping'an is the only one who is responsible, only Denglai is left in the northern border of the Ming Dynasty, and the current grain channel is cut off, and only the sea route is safe, not to mention that this is still the plea of the teacher Lu Zhenfei. Therefore, as soon as he received Lu Zhenfei's letter, Zhu Ping'an began to prepare.

Because it was to escort the grain into Beijing, Zhu Ping'an sent the ships of the Denglai Navy Division to protect 100 wide-bottomed ships to Jianghuai to transport grain, and then went all the way north to Tianjin Wei, and sent them to Beijing through Tianjin Wei.

But Wang Pin also put forward one thing, that is, now the land route is not safe, and the 500,000 taels of gold and silver sent to Beijing according to the plan are still stranded in Dengzhou. Zhu Ping'an also agreed.

Lu Zhenfei's proposal to transport grain into Beijing by sea was, of course, to inform the imperial court, so it didn't take long for the imperial court's edict to come to Dengzhou, ordering Zhu Ping'an to personally lead troops to escort the grain and the tax and silver of the city shipping department into Beijing. As for the purpose of entering Beijing, although it was not explained in the edict, Zhu Ping'an and a group of civil and military personnel guessed the intention.

Although Chongzhen did not plan to mobilize the people of Dengzhou to conquer the Liukou, the current shape is really a little difficult to control. Hong Chengchou's more than 100,000 horses are still hoarded outside the pass, and the elite in the pass is no longer able to deal with Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's rogue army, and therefore, the cabinet may have the plan to mobilize Shandong soldiers and horses to participate in the conquest of the rogues, according to the news passed back by Wang Chengen, the emperor seems to be a little moved, but Wang Chengen has repeatedly pointed out that even if the emperor agrees to the Shandong army and horses to participate in the battle, don't move out all your old bottoms, just send some soldiers and horses to participate in the war, there is no need to go all out.

Because of the current situation, discerning people can see at a glance that the north of the Ming Dynasty is already difficult to return.

Therefore, Zhu Ping'an planned to enter Beijing with 3,000 foot soldiers to guard the grain and tax silver, and after that, if the imperial court wanted to mobilize Shandong soldiers and horses to help the war, it could order some of the guards and horses in Shandong to go out of the province to participate in the war.

As soon as the news of entering Beijing was confirmed, Mrs. Sun found Zhu Ping'an as soon as possible, and now that the land route is cut off, if you want to return to Beijing, you can only rely on the sea route, and Mrs. Sun also wants to take this opportunity to return to Beijing together. I heard that King Mafu reported that Mrs. Sun's diagnosis and treatment had also been completed, and now she relied on medicinal herbs to slowly recuperate. So, Zhu Ping'an agreed, and specially allocated a ship for the use of the Sun family, of course, these things cannot be made public, otherwise, the officials and imperial historians of the Beijing division may have to fire again.

Sun Ruoxuan's departure also relieved Zhu Ping'an's back house. Mu Yuling was kind-hearted and did not tell Zhu Ping'an what had happened in the past few days, but Yin Shigang and Cao Wuxian were really sweating, especially after Yin Shigang learned of Zhu Ping'an's clan identity, he treated the safety of Mu Yuling's mother and son as the top priority of the current military intelligence department.

Zhu Ping'an is also very worried about his wife, do the math, in four months, that is, in October, Mu Yuling will give birth, in this era, a woman's birth is like breaking through a ghost gate. And when it was time to give birth, Zhu Ping'an would probably not be able to return to Dengzhou, so he was naturally relieved. Fortunately, Mrs. Zhang, her righteous daughter Sun Youniang, and Yin Shigang's wife Cao Shi all stayed in the mansion, responsible for taking care of Mu Yuling day and night, and the military intelligence department and the left and right thousand households also dispatched a large number of people to defend the Zhu Mansion, which finally made Zhu Ping'an feel a little at ease. (To be continued) R655