Chapter 45 (1st Update)
Since Su Ziqi received the letter written to him by Yun Chi and Hua Yan together in Lin'an, he hadn't even been in Lin'an during the Mid-Autumn Festival, so he said goodbye to the elders of the Hua family and left Lin'an Beishan for the Northland.
Huayan's great-grandmother liked Su Ziqi very much, and she was very reluctant to let him go, so she took his hand and kept saying, "What's so urgent?" Didn't you say you were going to live at home for a year? Why is it only a few days to leave? Even if you have to leave, you should spend the Mid-Autumn Festival at home. ”
Su Zi said with a gentle smile, "There is a very urgent matter, I can't do it, my grandmother forgives me, and when it's done, I'll come back." ”
The great-grandmother complained to him, "Your body and bones are not well, what can't others do?" Do you have to? In my opinion, even if you kid has to be strong, my grandmother is old, and she can see that in this world, there is nothing that no one can't do. ”
Su Ziqi smiled, "I promised my great-grandmother that I would come back when I got things done." ”
The great-grandmother was still not very happy, "You have thin bones, how can you be tired?" The little girl also told me before leaving, let the family take a good look at your health, she has only been gone for a few days, you are about to leave, and the great grandmother is old, and she can't stop you......"
Su Ziqi smiled helplessly, seeing that his grandmother didn't let him go, he could only confess Hua Yan, and said with a smile, "It's Hua Yan who wrote the letter, there is a matter, she and I will do it." ”
"Huh?" The great grandmother looked at Su Ziqi, obviously unconvinced, "Don't fool me." ”
Su Zi shook his head, "Don't dare to fool the great grandmother, it's true." ”
The great-grandmother frowned, "This stinky girl, if you don't do anything by yourself, you have to be pulled along." It's all about the Mid-Autumn Festival, and she doesn't spend the Mid-Autumn Festival at home, and she wants to get you away. ”
Huayan's mother took over with a smile, "Grandmother, don't stop it, there must be something very important, otherwise the little girl wouldn't have sent a letter, it was indeed her letter." ”
Huayan's father also advised, "Young people have young people's affairs, grandmother likes to behead her son, and he also said that he will come back when he finishes his work, so don't be reluctant." ”
The rest of the elders also nodded in unison, and one of them also persuaded him.
Su Ziqi sat on the side, watching the elders of the Hua family help him persuade his great-grandmother, everyone was in harmony, talking and laughing, which made the great-grandmother relieved, and his heart was full of warmth.
In Wuwei Houfu, since he was a child, he didn't experience the warmth of the family, when his mother was alive, he also had a lot of vindictiveness with the side concubines and concubines in the Hou Mansion, his face and heart were not in harmony, and his mother was gone, he had experienced too many things, although he did not stand on his own, but he also separated a wall from the Hou Mansion and lived an independent life.
Came to the Hua family, he really saw the Hua family, this family has thousands of people in the side branches, lived for so many days, never seen the open and secret fights and never saw the discord between brothers and sisters, everyone is harmonious, the family is lively and happy days, every day there are laughter in the house, and he has to laugh several times a day.
He knew in his heart that if it weren't for the affairs of the Northland, Yun Chi really couldn't find a candidate, and he wouldn't write to let him go. If it weren't for the fact that she couldn't find someone, Hua Yan wouldn't agree to let him go, after all, she cared more about him than anyone else.
He was indeed the most suitable person to go to the Northlands, and the sooner he set off, the better.
The great-grandmother let go of the hand holding Su Zi and said to him repeatedly, "But if you come back after you finish the matter, you can't break your word and get fat, but the great-grandmother is waiting for you at home." ”
Su Zi smiled, "If it weren't for the urgency, I wouldn't be willing to leave, grandmother don't worry, I'll come back immediately after finishing the matter." ”
Only then did the great-grandmother let him go, and at the same time instructed, "When you go out, you must bring more people to protect you." The words fell, and said to Huayan's father, "You send a message to Zhuo'er and ask him to send more people to follow him." ”
Huayan's father nodded, "Okay, I'll send him a message." ”
Su Zi wanted to say that Hua Zhuo had already arranged it for him, and as soon as the letter came to Lin'an, he sent it to Hua Zhuo first, and then sent him here, not only his secret guards followed, Hua Zhuo specially dispatched some of the Hua family's secret guards and gave him a token, which could be used at any time to dispatch all the Hua family's dark lines in the north. But looking at the solemn appearance of his great-grandmother, he smiled and stopped.
The Hua family treats her, from top to bottom, as if he were his own person, which is his blessing.
Su Zi Chop set off on the same day, the Thirteen Star Soul Ming protected Su Zi Chop, and a secret guard of the Hua family secretly protected Su Zi Chop and quietly left Lin'an.
The road from Lin'an to Mobei was very smooth, and Su Ziqi quietly entered the boundary of the north under the dark line of Lin'an Huajia along the way.
After entering the Northland, he learned that the Northland was more than ten times more severe than what Yun Chi and Hua Yan said in their letters. In particular, after the incident, officials in the north not only did not take effective rescue measures, but instead avoided the severity and said that only a few floods had occurred in the north, and the disaster was very minor.
The Heilong River burst its embankment, Fengcheng was flooded, and seeing that the cities below Fengcheng were also going to be submerged, they artificially blew up the fish mound, which would not be flooded for a hundred years, and diverted the water to the fish mound, resulting in the flooding of Yuqiu County, the destruction of thousands of acres of fertile land, and the death of thousands of people.
The people were displaced, the imperial court only set up a few porridge shacks, only once a day, the people did not have enough to eat, and under hunger, the people scattered out of the north to go to relatives. At this time, the government sent troops to intercept it, and even if they were alive or dead, they would leave the displaced people in the north, and set up a refugee camp, and they were all trapped in the refugee camp.
It is said that the number of people in the camp who starved to death for days was unknown, and when they died, they were thrown into mass graves.
If this continues, sooner or later a great plague will break out in the Northlands. But the officialdom in the north didn't know whether they were not afraid or how, they were in the same spirit, they wanted to hide it, and vowed to cover it tightly.
After Su Zi stepped into the Northland and knew this, he was furious, and he almost couldn't help but rush out to show the token that Yunchi gave him, and kill the officials in the Northland officialdom who were not in charge of the name and only knew the greed and did not know the suffering of the people, but he still endured it to death.
He can't go his own way, he has to wait for Hua Yan to join him in the north, there is such a big mess in the north, the imperial court is not at all, and he is confused to only a few places have suffered a slight disaster, Yun Chi only received a secret report, it is conceivable how deep-rooted the protection of the officials in the north is.
The water in the north is deep, he is not afraid to step out, but he has to take care of the plan behind Yun Chi and Hua Yan, what they want is to clear the north, and from then on, the officialdom of the north will be upright, and the people of the north will live and work in peace and contentment, so in this situation, he has to wait for Hua Yan to come and discuss together.
So, he secretly investigated thoroughly and chose an inconspicuous place, the upper reaches of the Heilong River.
On this day, he received a letter from Hua Yan, and when he learned that she was about to step into the territory of the Northland, and the letter mentioned that the Northland army might be involved, he also narrowed his eyes.
After the establishment of the Taizu Dynasty, the division of troops was implemented, and the Jingguo Mansion, the Anyang Palace, and the Wuwei Marquis Mansion each had 50,000 troops in the east, west, south and north, and together they were 200,000. At the beginning, Taizu trusted the three mansions, but he was also afraid that after the three mansions took over the military power, they would support the army and become a rebellious minister and thief, so at the same time, in order to prevent the three mansions, he dispersed the 200,000 troops in the hands of the three mansions.
I have to say that Taizu is a genius person, his division of troops has made Nanchu peaceful for 400 years, the soldiers of the three provinces supervise each other and contain each other, and the triangular relationship has never been chaotic.
The emperor controlled 500,000 troops, the nearest southwest soldier and horse battalion in the capital controlled 200,000, and the southwest border controlled 300,000. Subordinate to the emperor himself in charge of the tiger talisman. 200,000 was for the stability of the imperial city, and 300,000 was for preventing rebellion among the vassal states in the southwest.
Now that four hundred years have passed, he never thought that the officialdom of the Northland and the army of the Northland would be involved, and after reading Huayan's letter, he also felt that it was possible.
He was born with a cold illness in his mother's womb, since he was a child, he was weak and often sick, so he never thought of going to the army to experience, five years ago, his mother died without warning in the East Palace, he was under her upbringing, Xi Wen and Wu, is the son of Wen Runduanfang, she planned to let him enter the court to help Yun Chi, and did not plan to let him leave Beijing to go to the four realms, later, his mother died in the East Palace, his father married Liu Fuxiang, his body was a repeated cold disease, he could not leave the capital, naturally, did not touch the military power under the control of Wuwei Houfu.
Over the years, he really didn't know what the military power under the command of the Marquis of Wuwei was like.
He has always felt that his life is short, and he will die sooner or later, so he didn't plan to ask for his father's things and his title, and he lived one day at a time, but he didn't think about it, and when he met Hua Yan, she gave him confidence and renewed his life.