That night, Bai Minghe spent the night in the Qinghe room, not to chat, because according to the rules of the White Mansion, this night belonged to Qinghe.

But at night, the white crane that had just fallen asleep was awakened by the sound of cannons.

Continuous, dense artillery fire, which was the place of battle. Bai Minghe was about to get up as soon as he propped up his body, but was held down by Qinghe: "When you have the status of a husband, you still have to care about those little things." ”

"A trifle?" Bai Minghe asked.

Qinghe said: "When the girl washed the young master's feet, Hua Mei didn't come over!" ”

Hua Mei came here at night, and sat there with Qinghe and chatted for a while, and Bai Minghe only thought that the two girls were talking something private, but it sounded like something was said.

"Hua Mei said that the sailor of Qinzhou Wei moved, and took 3,000 people from the Guangxi Metropolitan Division to start a hundred miles south of Siming Mansion. It is estimated that this will be on the shore, and the small city of a hundred miles west of Siming Mansion may have been taken, and General Jialan can mobilize 300,000 soldiers, 100,000 Miao soldiers, 50,000 strong soldiers, known as 830,000 troops, to go 500 miles south. ”

"I don't know how to count!" Bai Ming Crane said that this does not add up to the wrong number.

And it is impossible to have 300,000 soldiers, because there are 100,000 elites, which will be transferred to the southwest, and there will be a big war over there.

"It's just a small war, Hua Mei said you don't have to worry about it, husband." Qinghe's words were not true, and Bai Minghe could feel that he was getting farther and farther away from the position where the cannon was fired.

Shira-naka Crane is not worried about losing the battle, and with a military force no less than the First World War, he will fight Annam, which is not even equipped with an iron sword, and the only pressure is the jungle, not the town. And the battle in the jungle was called capture, and it was all handed over to the Jurchen tribe and the Japanese people, and what was captured was their spoils.

I was woken up and couldn't sleep.

Bai Minghe walked to the table and wrote down some official business to be handled tomorrow.

The first of these is the strategic plan of the Ezo people of Hokkaido. Wenhuadian has not yet given a reply.

Qinghe hugged the white crane behind his back: "It's useless for the husband to write this, Ezo's strategy will definitely be determined according to the results of the Battle of Annam." ”

"Why?" Bai Minghe asked rhetorically.

"In the records of the Wenhua Palace, Ezo also belongs to the Japanese people, and since it is not a place recognized by the Japanese people, then it is a Japanese barbarian. It can be used as a strategic place in the North Sea, and the husband is becoming more and more kind. If you don't want to stick to the blood, can you not stick it? There is a slow indoctrination, that is, the concubines are not stable, and it is impossible for the strategic place to be handed over to outsiders, so the forcible occupation of the harbor is the minimum requirement. ”

Qinghe used to be afraid of the white-named crane, and he was also afraid of seeing blood.

But now even Qinghe thinks that he should see blood and should be killed. Shira-naka didn't know whether to be happy or scared. Originally, I was always afraid that the Chinese would lose their backbone. Now the bones are hard, and the fists are harder.

Qinzhou Wei Port, which was originally the place where the white crane started.

When the white crane arrived, men, women and children were greeted by the roadside, and the pearl pond was still nominally the private property of the white crane, but because the pearl was a special treasure, the treasury had to keep a record, and then folded it into silver and returned to the white crane. But that's it. No one has ever said that this pearl pond does not belong to the white crane.

This time the troops were sent to Annam. There is only one reason why Sun Yuanjun and others want to come with them.

Hepu Zhuchi.

Compared with before, the lives of the pearl people can be said to be the difference between heaven and earth, and when they saw the white crane getting off the boat, I don't know how many people fainted from crying.

"Fathers and elders......" Bai Minghe didn't even have a chance to speak, and the voices of the people of Hepu rose higher and higher.

Can't speak. Just kept waving his hand, and when he came out of the dock, Bai Minghe's carriage was almost half an hour, and it only walked a hundred meters, and the soldiers here did not drive the people away. Just ask the official who can get such love from the people, I am afraid that he can laugh when he is happy at night.

And the imperial court will also give enough rewards.

Three hours, less than three miles, if Cheng Kai comes to relieve the siege, I am afraid that it will not be able to enter the city after dark.

"Lord Bai has won the hearts of the people, and the people of Hepu remember the adults every day." Cheng Kai's words are not compliments, but real truths, because the people of Hepu have not even been able to guarantee their lives, and now their families are rich, so they will naturally remember the good of the white crane, and it was the white crane that made Hepu change.

Compared with making the whole of Guangdong rich, the white crane in the eyes of the people of Hepu is the life-saving benefactor.

Talk about official business, talk about official business! Bai Minghe stopped Cheng Kai from continuing to talk about topics such as the gratitude of the people of Hepu: "Lord Cheng, aren't you going to change places to become officials?" ”

"I had a holy order, but I was suppressed by my father. Hou Wansui thought that the lower officials had done a good job here, and they were specially promoted to one rank, combining Qinzhou and Hepu into one, and they were the state officials of the sixth grade. This time, there was also a decree coming down, and after beating Annan, it was given to a prefect, the prefect of Annan. The location is Hue Province, and half of Da Nang is included in it. ”

When it comes to official business, Cheng Kai doesn't talk about those gossips. "What advice does Lord Bai have?"

"What do I have to advise, I'm a man who is about to become a leader, I have nothing to advise. used to say that I was ruthless, but now the old people in Wenhua Hall who are full of poetry and books, they are much more ruthless than me. If we want to reduce the whole of Annan to slavery, all the indoctrination and coercion I talked about before will be rejected. The current policy towards Annan is to become a slave and slowly accept indoctrination as a slave. ”

Bai Minghe smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Cheng Kai disagreed with this statement: "Lord Bai, what you said is not right. ”

"What's wrong?"

"Let's talk about Zhishi first, you can't be Zhishi, my lord. That's what my father said. Then talk about slaves, the lower officials have learned about the slaves in Europe, and think that unlike our Chinese slaves, our slaves have private property, but they can't betray their masters. And the slaves in Europe had nothing, they were shaped like pigs and sheep. "Cheng Kai really knows a lot, and even understands the European system.

Cheng Kai said: "This is the difference between an educated barbarian and a barbarian who has not read. ”

"Ha, haha!" Shira-Natsuru laughed heartily.

"My lord, you will definitely say that you have also read books in Europe, but the lower officials know that the Pope is a divine stick, and in the hearts of the lower officials, it is the same as the White Lotus Sect Master." Speaking of this, Cheng Kai's words changed: "Being a slave to us is much happier than being a commoner with the Pope." ”

Bai Minghe waved his hand and motioned to Cheng Kai not to say: "That's it, I'll protect you as an angel who is released, there is a military administration in the port of Ceuta, but there will also be people, whether you say it is the prefect or the political envoy, the civil rule there will be handed over to you." ”

"It's okay, Xia Guan is also interested in going over. In the past few days, please deal with the matter of Annan first, after this matter is over, the lower official has something to tell you. ”

"Can you say no now?" Bai Minghe said in his heart, you are making me think about it, how uncomfortable it is.

Cheng Kai thought for a while and replied: "It's a private matter, it's also a public matter, it's an adult's family matter, and it's also a state affair." Your Excellency, you have a big trouble, but also a big good thing. And this matter, the queens of the two palaces have already acquiesced, and Mrs. Zun also knows a thing or two, but Long Live and the Emperor Taishang don't know yet. ”

Bai Minghe's heart was pinched at once, and with Cheng Kai's words, it felt like a big thing.

"You better sue me, or I won't be able to sleep tonight."

"Two people, one thing. One is the princess of Chongqing, and the other is the younger brother Bai Minglu! ”

"Stop ......" Bai Minghe stopped Cheng Kai again, and shook his head vigorously: "That's it, the war in Annan is important." My family stays here, I can go to Zhuchi, whatever I want. Don't let them know about this matter, I traveled overnight and rushed to camp twenty miles north of Siming Mansion before dawn. Help me get the word out! ”

Cheng Kai nodded, and he was not surprised at all by Bai Minghe's reaction.

He didn't say hello to Sun Yuanjun at all, but just sent someone to inform him, and Bai Minghe ran away.

This time it's not hiding, but it's really upset.

"Say? What was the reaction? After sending off the white crane, a person appeared next to Cheng Kai. Cheng Kai bowed sideways: "Having said that, the lower officials don't know what Lord Bai will think about this matter, but according to what the lower officials think in their hearts, there is no solution to this matter." ”

Standing next to Cheng Kai is Cheng Jing, as Cheng Kai's father, but their father and son have never really admitted this identity in front of outsiders, even if this relationship is no longer a secret to the upper nobles, but Cheng Jing still adheres to his principles, which also makes Cheng Kai always call himself a subordinate official.

"It's trouble to say it's troublesome, but in the case of Shira-nakatsuru, it's unknown!"

Cheng Jing used the word unknown.

Bai Minglu is the younger brother of Bai Minghe's half-father, and Huaiyu is the half-sister of Emperor Zhu Qizhen and Emperor Zhu Qiyu. Therefore, the generation of the white crane is the same generation as the Ming Emperor, and he is commensurate with brothers.

And what about the other one in this incident.

Princess Chongqing is the daughter of Emperor Zhu Qizhen and the niece of Huaiyu. It's a mess of generations.

What can Bai Minglu do, he is just a small people in front of the royal family, no matter how backbone he is, no matter how much he is a master, there is no way to give Chongqing a promise and a guarantee. There are countless reasons, and just one or two are enough. For example, Chongqing is a princess, a real princess. And his elder brother, Bai Minghe, is the real powerful minister of China.

Generations are an unbridgeable chasm.

The only frustration is that neither of them knows who the other person is beforehand. In the eyes of Chongqing, Bai Minglu is a heroic, young and promising, and has outstanding ability, because he works in the Wenhua Palace, so he often goes in and out of the periphery of the Forbidden Palace. As for her, as a princess to be married, she entered the palace to study and listen to lectures in three days, greet Queen Wang, and so on.

"If you want to talk about this matter, the fault is still Bai Minghe, he sent all the palace maids, so the princess of Chongqing did not have so many people around her, only followed by two maids. And there are often daughters of noble families in the palace who enter the palace to listen to school, and no one can hang a sign on their face, saying that I am a princess! Cheng Jing's words are a joke, but they are also true.

"What does the palace mean?"

"In the palace, I don't want Bai Minglu to marry the daughters of those powerful families!" (To be continued......)

PS: Watching others have a holiday, the writer has no holiday.