Zheng Miao heard Qiu Yizhi's promise, and her mood suddenly became happy, and she said: "Brother Xian, don't go alone, these village warriors under your command will be my escort, and go south with you, so that our brothers can rest assured." ”

Qiu Yizhi was stunned when he heard this, and said, "Didn't the third brother bring the Royal Forest Army over?" What do you want me to do with these ragtags? ”

Zheng Miao said with a serious face: "It's not to follow behind, it's to act as the Chinese army and be my personal guard!" ”

Qiu Yizhi was puzzled: "The Royal Forest Army is the foundation of the old Youyan Dao, with strong combat effectiveness and loyalty. Don't blame the little brother for being unreasonable, why does the third brother bother to do this? ”

But I heard Zheng Miao say hatefully: "What a foundation of the old Youyan Dao, I think there is only one foundation left now." Let's listen to the foolish brother and the virtuous brother talk slowly......"

I saw Zheng Miao pacing around the pavilion twice, and then said: "In fact, after the rebellion was successful, the soldiers and horses of the old Youyan Dao began to retire gradually. These horses are all veterans who have made great contributions, and they can't be soldiers in the capital for a long time. Therefore, most of those who are literate and hyphenated have been sealed with official positions, and the rest who cannot be promoted are also given silver taels and land to Youyan. ”

"Doesn't that mean that except for a few officers and backbones, the current forbidden army is no longer the old Youyan army of the past?" Qiu Yizhi asked tentatively.

Zheng Miao nodded helplessly: "This is also a matter of no choice." Originally, Youyan Dao had 200,000 soldiers, and the financial resources of Youyan were enough to support it, but now the emperor is no longer the king of Youyan back then, and he must consider the affairs of the whole country as a whole, and now more than seventy percent of the annual income of the imperial court is still stretched thin to raise soldiers, how can he raise this elite again? ”

But I heard Lin Shuhan interject: "The emperor's difficulty is here." If you want to reorganize the army, you have to cut redundant troops, you have to spend money, you have to save money, and if you want to save money, you have to take back the governance of Lingnan Province, but if you want to subdue the Lingnan prince, you have to raise troops. In this way, you are actually in a dead end. ”

Zheng Miao praised: "Mr. is really talented, this is also what my father and master mean when they are discussing, only among the three problems of army formation, wealth accumulation, and withdrawal of feudal domains, take the lead in solving one problem, and the other two problems can be solved." After much deliberation, it seems that only the issue of withdrawing the feudal domain is slightly less involved, and it seems that we can still find a way to solve it......"

Qiu Yi listened and thought: The prince of Lingnan has been in business for decades, and there are countless elite soldiers and generals under him, and he has always been opposed, I am afraid that he is always ready to deal with the court, and it is very difficult to dismiss him without going through a life-and-death battle.

However, in the face of the two things of restoring the new policy and reorganizing the national strength, the removal of the feudal domain is the simplest one, which shows what a great cause Zheng Rong, the nine-fold emperor has to do.

Thinking of this, Qiu Yizhi suddenly felt excited, and his body involuntarily stood up, and said to Zheng Miao: "Such a big event, I am exhausted and broken, and I have to help the third brother to handle it for the emperor!" He had a serious expression on his face as he spoke.

His move actually startled Zheng Miao, who was still talking, and smiled awkwardly: "Brother Xian, what's wrong?" ”

Qiu Yizhi said: "The younger brother just promised the third brother to go to Lingnan Road, more out of the consideration of your brotherhood. However, it now seems that the matter of withdrawing the feudal domain has become a top priority related to the well-being of the people of the country. If the younger brother refuses to resign, wouldn't he be worthy of the teacher's earnest teaching for more than ten years? ”

Lin Shuhan on the side smiled and said: "Students have also grown up reading sage books since childhood. Although the student has no ability, he is willing to go south with His Royal Highness with Lord Qiu to meet the king of Lingnan. ”

Zheng Miao was overjoyed when she heard this, and immediately got up and patted Lin Shuhan on the shoulder: "Mr. Lin can have such an idea, which is to set an example for all the people who read the world." It's a pity that Mr. has no intention of pursuing a career ...... In this way, I will first salute Mr. for the people of the world! With that, Zheng Miao got up solemnly and bowed to Uncle Lin.

Lin Shuhan hurriedly got up and saluted back, but said: "Lin Mou's bad temper, it is useless to talk to me about the righteousness of the world, Lin Mou is just heartfelt, and he is impressed by His Highness's character, so he wants to help His Highness do something." ”

Zheng Miao heard Lin Shuhan put himself in front of the "great righteousness of the world", and couldn't help but be a little frightened, and was about to be humble, but heard Lin Shuhan say: "Your Royal Highness, don't be too humble. On top of the dinner, Lin's inner son, Wu Ruofei, His Royal Highness has seen it, I don't know what to say? ”

Zheng Miao was a little surprised when she heard this: "How can Mrs. Zun be praised and degraded by me as an outsider?" ”

Lin Shuhan waved his hand indifferently: "Your Highness, it's okay to say it." ”

Zheng Miao thought about it carefully and said: "The appearance is extraordinary, as if a fairy in the sky came into the world, but unfortunately it has been in the dust for a long time, and it is inevitable that it will be a little cheesy." ”

"That's it!" Lin Shuhan praised, "There are only two kinds of faces for ordinary people to see if they are not. One is to think about it, to be frivolous and cowering, and to take it for oneself and then hurry up; The other is an old pedant and a family Taoist, who denounces him as a red face and a curse, but in his heart he doesn't know what kind of male thief and female prostitute he is......"

Qiu Yizhi and Zheng Miao heard Lin Shuhan say this, but they thought it was quite true in their hearts - both of them were extremely well-faced, and they didn't know how many they had seen the three sects and nine streams, and they were exactly the same as Lin Shuhan's description.

But I heard Lin Shuhan continue: "However, in front of Ruofei, he can rely on a single conscience and deal with it with a normal heart, Lin Mou has only seen two people in his life, one is the seven-grade small county order of Shanyin County, and the other person-" He deliberately dragged out his tone, "The other person is You, the Third Highness!" ”

Zheng Miao's face turned red and said, "When I first met Miss Wu, I only thought that there would be such a transcendent woman in this world, but I didn't have any other thoughts in my heart. How dare you be praised like this by Mr. Lin? ”

Lin Shuhan shook his head again: "Lin is never wrong to look at people, so don't be humble anymore with the Third Highness." can have such a sincere heart, Lin will also treat each other with a sincere heart...... It's just that although Lin intends to go to Lingnan, I wonder if His Royal Highness is willing to take me with him? ”

Of course, this was what Zheng Miao couldn't ask for, and quickly agreed: "Yes, yes, of course I'm willing." Then please ask Mr. Lin to teach me a lot along the way. ”

In this way, everyone has decided to plan, and lived in the "Dust Palace" for one more day, Qiu Yizhi asked Zhao Chengxiao to order all the soldiers and horses, and brought the baggage of the army, protecting the three highnesses Zheng Miao, first went all the way to Jinling to pick up the accompanying honor guard, and then set off from Jinling to Lingnan Road.

All provinces in the Han Dynasty are dominated by Han people, and even the Youyan Road on the far north border is always under great pressure from the northern nomads, but the province is still dominated by Han people. Lingnan Road is a place where Han and Yi live together, and the Yi people mostly live in the deep mountains and old forests, and because they do not understand the language of the Han people, it is very difficult for the imperial court to be restrained.

The important thing is that these Yi people lack education, and the people have different customs, and many of them are cunning, greedy, and ignorant tribes, when the court in the Central Plains is in decline, they often listen to the instigation of Annam, Siam, and Burma to rebel, often endangering one side, and even eroding several ways.

Therefore, when Xianzong changed the law, he thought that he could change the land and return to the stream, and gather the Tusi leaders of several large tribes in Lingnan Province to the capital or other places to raise them, and then the imperial court sent officials to restrain and manage them, so as to eliminate future troubles.

However, this matter was so complicated that even Emperor Xianzong, who was as authoritarian as Emperor Xianzong, only discussed it with a few close ministers, and did not actually implement it. As a result, Lingnan Dao still rebelled every year, and the imperial court still sent troops to suppress it every year.

Until the reign of Mu Zong, because the emperor Zheng Yong liked Taoism and slacked government affairs, and he thought that Zheng Gui, the fourth brother of the emperor who was in charge of the army, was too much of an eyesore in the capital, so he sent him far away to Lingnan Dao, thinking that he would be entangled in these miscellaneous matters of Lingnan Dao, so he had no intention of making trouble.

Who knew that Zheng Gui, who was named the king of Lingnan, was very capable, as soon as he entered Lingnan, he immediately put down several rebellions with both grace and power, subdued several leading Tusi, and several times Chen Bing frontier subdued Annam, Siam and other countries, and since then there has never been any major rebellion in Lingnan Province.

Despite this, the power of the Han court, including the Lingnan Palace, was still unable to penetrate deep into Lingnan Province, except for the coastal Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Chaozhou, Guangzhou, Huizhou, Leizhou and other places, the rest of the places were always under the control of the barbarians. Therefore, the Lingnan royal palace has always borne the responsibility of subduing Lingnan and the surrounding countries, which can only make it bigger and bigger, and it has gradually become a big trend.

The honor guard of Zheng Miao, the capital of Jiangnan Province, set off from Jinling City, the capital of Jiangnan Province, and went south along the East China Sea.

As soon as they entered Lingnan, the official road under the feet of the group became very tortuous and cramped, and some of the paths over the mountains and mountains were only enough for three people to walk side by side, and Zheng Miao's imperial chariot had to be extremely careful to pass. Zheng Miao's guard of honor on such a path naturally couldn't be opened, so he simply folded it up and put it on top of the accompanying car, only telling his subordinates to wait carefully to catch the car, and then rode forward slowly under the escort of the army.

After walking like this for two or three days, Qiu Yizhi suddenly heard the scout sent by Zhao Chengxiao to explore the road come back and report: "My lord, there is a flat road around a mountain in front, and there is a big city, and there seems to be someone waiting at the gate of the city. ”

Qiu Yizhi nodded, asked the scout to go back to rest, weighed and calculated, walked to Zheng Miao's side, and said: "Fuzhou City should be ahead, it is reported that there is a special person waiting for you, it seems that the whereabouts of us are already in the hands of others." ”

Zheng Miao smiled and said: "This is the plan of the Lingnan prince to knock the mountain and shake the tiger, it's not a big deal." We can't show our timidity, as soon as we arrive at the spacious road, we must set up the honor guard of the prince of Qincha, so that they can see the majesty of the Han court! ”

Qiu Yizhi nodded when he heard this, and then instructed Zhao Chengxiao, who was following closely behind: "Brother Zhao, did you hear everything?" Tell the brothers to all cheer up, don't let people look down on you! ”

As soon as the army became an army, it successively confronted the ferocious Japanese thieves and the high-rollers with outstanding martial arts, and after appeasement of these two scourges, they often participated in the official army's anti-bandit operations in Jiangnan Province, and it was already a strong force that had experienced a hundred battles.

Zhao Chengxiao, the direct commander of this strong army, listened to Qiu Yizhi's instructions, so he simply did the trick to the fullest, ordered his soldiers and horses to take off their dusty old robes, and put on the new military uniforms that were made before going south, and took out all the elite weapons such as giant shields, crossbows, spears, and swords, held them in his hands, lined up in formation, chanted slogans, and marched forward.