Chapter 344: Heng Ye Si
It's not that he can't make up his mind, but he has his own ideas but has a disagreement with his father, and the crown prince quarrels with the old emperor for the first time. And the reason for the quarrel is the perception of Jiang Long. The old emperor was bent on getting rid of Jingfu and Jianglong, but the prince who had a bad feeling towards Jianglong because he didn't like Jingxian's practices in the past now values Jianglong very much.
The reason is very simple, when Jiang Long was sent to Zhizhou, he killed the corrupt officials without mercy, and directly deterred those local officials, the most ferocious place in Daqi was Zhizhou, and from time to time some people pulled the flag to rebel, but under Jiang Long's strong anti-corruption, the people had food to eat, and they actually settled down.
This made the crown prince, who recently issued an order and also killed countless officials, greatly change his opinion of Jiang Long.
The prince asked why he had to kill Jiang Long, but the old emperor was silent and did not explain.
Without a suitable reason, the prince naturally didn't want to see Jiang Long, who had recently leveled Zhizhou for himself and made a big deal.
But the old emperor is already determined to start. I wonder how many days Jiang Long will live?
"You can also ask ......" Seeing that the prince was frowning, the princess continued.
The crown prince nodded, "Tomorrow morning, Lone will discuss with Master Chang." ”
The crown princess is the granddaughter of Changqing, the official book, and now the Chang family is considered a relative of the emperor, and she is really on the same front as the prince.
Chang Qian returned to the capital from Lingtong County and became a laughing stock for a while. However, this young man, who was proud of his talents in the past, has changed a lot from the past, and has become much more mature and stable. In the past, he was at odds with several brothers in the lineage, but now he also knows that he takes the initiative to ask for peace every day, and in front of outsiders, he will always step back a little behind the brothers in the lineage.
As a result, the relationship between the brothers eased considerably.
This change was reflected in Changqing's eyes, which made Changqing very happy and felt that Chang Qian had made great progress.
Originally, Chang Qing did not have the idea of abolishing his heirs and letting Chang Qian inherit the Chang family's family business, and the Chang family was not up to him alone, and it was impossible for him to do things according to his preferences. Chang Qian is excellent, wouldn't it be better to let him set up another one?
When the drought broke out in the north, Chang Qian received a new envoy, and he was also busy.
On this day, Chang Qing frowned and came back from the East Palace and found Chang Qian to ask about Jiang Long. Chang Qian said his opinion on Jiang Long in detail, and Chang Qing gradually felt a little taste, could it be that Jingfu has another huge power in secret?
Otherwise, without strong backdrop support, how could Jianglong do many great things?
At this time, Chang Qing even wondered if digging rivers to reclaim fertile land was also a trick from behind Jiang Long.
If this is the case, then the old emperor must be hiding a lot of things. After thinking about it for a long time, Chang Qing had a rough guess, and left home in a hurry to see the prince in the East Palace. After listening to Changqing's words, the prince also felt that it made sense.
"Even if you want to kill Jiang Long, why can't you wait?" The prince is still unwilling, after more than a year of training, the prince is no longer the benevolent and humble young man, "Lone originally planned to send Jiang Long to Bingzhou, but there has been a lot of trouble in Bingzhou recently." ”
"The emperor must have the emperor's consideration." Chang Qing said respectfully: "And the more Jiang Long does, the higher his prestige will be, and the people in the north will regard Jiang Long as the real Qing official master, which indirectly makes Jiang Long buy people's hearts." ”
The prince nodded.
"Your Highness, the second prince has been very dishonest recently." Chang Qing abruptly changed the subject.
The crown prince immediately frowned, "He has always been dishonest. ”
"But ......"
"Say no more!" The prince waved his hand to interrupt, "Let's talk about business." ”
Chang Qing sighed in his heart, although the prince is much more mature, he is still too tender, and the matter related to the second prince is not the right thing? Now the north of Daqi is in chaos, the hearts of the people in the capital are fluctuating, and some people are ambitious.
It is precisely to get out of the outside that you must first be in peace!
It's just that every time a few princes are mentioned, the crown prince will wave his hand to interrupt.
It is precisely because the prince hesitated for a while and did not attack several princes that several princes could not win over officials, and some officials did not immediately choose the camp because the prince was not decisive enough, and these forces should have been the prince's.
All forty men in black remained on the hillside.
When Jiang Long and the others left, there were forty more good horses beside them.
"These people are holding standard equipment!" All the way, Fan Ren said. He knew many of the army's * generals, who were brothers, and were familiar with the weapons, armor, and bows and arrows of the border army.
Jiang Long nodded slightly, thinking to himself, who sent these people?
A few days later, the news that Jiang Long was safe and sound returned to the capital, and the old emperor lifted the medicine bowl. The old emperor didn't expect Jiang Long to be so fateful. Forty elites were dispatched, but they couldn't kill him. At the same time, I also thought that what this Jiang Long had hidden before was really deep.
Then he sent someone to keep an eye on Jingfu, and if there was anything abnormal, report it immediately.
Although he said this, the old emperor no longer valued the Jingfu in Ningyuan County, because there were only two women in it, and in this era, women had a low status, and men could have three wives and six concubines, and they could not threaten men with women.
This made the old emperor regret it, he really shouldn't have been fascinated by the ghost and sent Jiang Long to the frontier.
What also annoyed the old emperor was that the Dingsheng newspaper had been printing where there were rebellions, and where the allocated grain was embezzled by officials, so that the people starved to death. He hadn't made up his mind to shut down Dingsheng Newspaper, but he didn't want all the other newspapers to publish the same news a few days later.
The law is not to blame, the old emperor blows his beard and glares, but he is helpless.
After entering August, Jiang Long took Tudu and others back to Lingtong County, and the problem of Zhizhou was serious, although there were certain results after a short period of governance, but the food was insufficient, and the gods had no choice. It will be even more powerful when there is a man-made counter-attack again.
The harvest season is in mid-August.
Seeing so many potatoes and sweet potatoes dug up in the field, the people of Lingtong County and the new refugees are relieved. Jiang Long also put his heart back in his stomach. If there is no bumper harvest of potatoes and sweet potatoes, then Lingtong County will also have to mess up.
In September, something big happened again.
There's chaos in the South!
Several large rebel teams emerged, and it was not until mid-September that Jiang Long figured out the reason.
The imperial court has been transferring grain from the south, spending gold and silver to buy it, raising taxes, and using various means. However, some officials have seized the opportunity to make a lot of money, and the people in the south are living in poverty. Until they were forced to live no longer, naturally some people climbed high and shouted the flag to rebel.
When the old emperor and the crown prince heard this, they panicked.
Now that the north has not been pacified, and the south is making trouble again, how is this good?
Unlike the disturbances in the north, there are rebellions in the south, which will cause a lot of farmland to be barren and uncultivated, which is a great bad thing for Daqi, who is short of food, so it must be pacified quickly. But the south is mountainous and forested, and in some places there is a strong miasma, and even the locals cannot easily get into danger, let alone the troops sent?
So several rebel groups went deep into the mountains, and the army stayed in the mountains, and when the army left, they ran out again to make trouble.
The generals and the emperor who had to be responsible for encirclement and suppression were all headaches.
As we enter October, the temperature drops sharply.
Jiang Long was relieved, because the alien race still did not wave his army to attack this year. To his surprise, on the 6th of October, the black-clothed guard sent two people that he couldn't expect. Mrs. Jing and Lin Ya, both of them were covered in dust.
"Grandma!" Jiang Long knelt down and made a big salute.
Mrs. Jing picked up Jiang Long with her own hands, and looked carefully at Jiang Long's resolute and healthy face, "I always heard that you are very different from the past, and the old body has never believed it, until now where I am now, I found that the grandson of the old body has really grown up." ”
The grandfather and grandson talked for a while, and Lin Yacai stepped forward to bow down, "The concubine has seen the princess." ”
"No need to be polite." Jiang Long took Lin Ya's little hand and got up, and there was a burst of silkiness at the beginning of his hand, "It's hard to travel so far." ”
"It's not hard to come to see Xianggong, no matter how far away." Lin Ya was shy.
Thinking of Jiang Long doing so many things for her, Lin Ya already has a deep affection for Jiang Long, and the two have always exchanged letters.
That night, Jiang Long ordered the kitchen to hold a banquet for Mrs. Jing and Lin Ya. Delis changed into a beautiful and luxurious dress and also came to join in the fun. Seeing that Dai Lisi threw flattering eyes at Jiang Long from time to time, Lin Ya was a little surprised.
With a roll of his eyes, he suddenly took out a letter and handed it to Jiang Long, "This is the letter that Mrs. Diexiang asked the government to help forward to you." ”
Jiang Long stretched out his hand to take it, and when he saw that the three people at the table were looking at him, he opened it in public, there was no letterhead, only a silky handkerchief, there were no words on the handkerchief, and there were no embroidered birds, fish and insects. Jiang Long held it in his hand and looked at it for a long time, and suddenly a smile appeared on his face.
"What does it mean that woman sent you a handkerchief?" Delith was curious.
Lin Ya blurted out: "It's a token of love." ”
Jiang Long heard the resentment in Lin Ya's tone, and blushed a little, which was almost what it meant.
Mrs. Jing also looked interesting and asked, "Just talk about it." ”
"Yes." Jiang Long opened his mouth to tell a story to explain.
Husband and wife, the husband has to go to another place because of business, and the wife is left at home. After a long time, the wife misses her husband very much, and she will write to her husband every once in a while, shushing the cold and asking for warmth, and confiding in her lovesickness. Once my wife sent another letter, but there was no stationery, only a silk handkerchief.
The husband held it in his hand and watched, that is, "If you don't write love words or poems, you can send Supa to your heart." I know that I have taken it upside down, and the horizontal and vertical lines are also vertical, who knows such a thing. ”
After listening to Jiang Long, the three of them suddenly understood.
"Then Mrs. Diexiang is also quite smart." Lin Ya gritted her teeth and said.
Delis nodded in agreement, "It's a bit of wit. ”
"I'm just afraid that it will be difficult to meet again in the future." Old Madam Jing sighed, and then the tone of the conversation changed, "Jiang Long, Ya'er has been through the door for many years, you will have sex with her tonight." ”
"Yes."
"That's right, it's better to hold your grandson as soon as possible."