Chapter 558: Bad News
The new year is coming soon.
On Chinese New Year's Eve this year, Shen Ning spent it in the Stone Heart Hall in Hanoi Road. Although he left Lingnan Road, there was not much New Year's atmosphere in Shixin Hall, but this year, Shen Ning was still very happy.
spent the New Year together in Shixintang, as well as many of her close relatives. Husband Ying Nantu, father Shen Zejing, uncle Ying Nantu, uncle Shen Zesi......
In fact, it is not much different from celebrating the New Year in Lingnan Road. Between the pine winds and the heavy snow, Ying Nantu and the Shen family were drunk, and when they woke up, it was the new year.
In the new year, the name of the new emperor was changed to the first year of the new emperor. After two years of changing the yuan, the people of Dayong are more or less indifferent to the change of the yuan, and the remote places don't even know that Dayong has changed the yuan again, and now the emperor is a new emperor who is more than a year old.
Here in Hanoi, the various regions are divided by powerful and powerful, and each force has established itself as the king, and it does not recognize the new yuan of Dayong at all, but has a variety of names. Some call it "the first year of Emperor Pang", and some call it "The first year of Emperor Zhan", these Yuan names made everyone in the Shen family dumbfounded.
In accordance with the agreement of Yu Zhengdao and Shen Huashan, the Shen family resolutely implemented the policy of "delaying the king", so that the Shen family also followed the various ways and took this year as the first year of the new emperor.
As for the name of the new emperor, it is really hard to say how long it will last, it is better to be like Jingxing New Year, it only lasted for a short year, which is funny. - Shen Zesi thought unkindly, he didn't have a good impression of the Dayong royal family at all.
After the Battle of Huifeng Mountain, 200,000 militiamen scattered into the Pang, Zhan, and Huang families, but they still formed a certain force. Although they were no match for the Shen family's Praetorian Guards, they were superior to the fact that they were scattered and occupied favorable terrain in various places, and it was difficult for the Janissaries to clear Hanoi for a while.
Coupled with the fact that there were still many small forces in the way, the pacification of the Janissaries in Hanoi Province was not very smooth, and the process was quite slow.
Slowly, but always improving. Under the guidance of Yu Zhengdao and Shen Ning's strategy of "concentrating forces and breaking through each other", the situation in Hanoi Province gradually improved.
It's the time of the silkworms in April. The Shen family's progress in Hanoi Province has made a breakthrough. It was the Pang family in Zhengyang, which was destroyed by the Praetorian Guard.
Shi Guang has placed a lot of people in the Pang family over the years, and he is most familiar with the Pang family's troops, personnel, etc. The Janissaries also provided the most newspaper support.
It was a matter of course that the Praetorian Guards were the first to destroy the Pang family. With the help of the Praetorian Guards, Shi Guang and Shi Hu, with Shi Xintang's brothers, rushed into the Pang family's ancestral house.
For Shi Guang and Shi Hu, the hatred that has lasted for more than ten years has finally come to an end, the Shi family's great revenge has been avenged, and Shi Guang and Shi Hu can also restore the glory of the family in the past;
For the Shen family, destroying the Pang family was the first step in pacifying Hanoi Province. After the Pang family was destroyed, the forces that had gathered around the Pang family also dispersed in a hurry. For the guards of the Pang family and the people of Zhengyang. The Shen family adopted a preferential policy.
Just like what Shen Huashan did in the Zhengzhou area, the most important thing is to rebuild order after quelling the chaos. With the efforts of Yu Zhengdao and Shen Ning, there were new county commanders, assassins and other officials in the Zhengyang area, and the officialdom system in the Zhengyang area was re-established, and the lives of the people began to become orderly.
This new county magistrate, assassin and other officials. Of course, it is someone who believes in the Shen family. After so many things, Shi Guang and the personnel of Shi Xintang no longer did the robbery and robbery, but became the military attaché appointed by the Shen family.
Just as Shen Ning promised at the beginning, Shi Guang relied on his own ability to achieve the position of the lieutenant of Zhengyang Zhichong Mansion, the five hundred brothers of Shixintang. Naturally, he became the government soldier of Zhengyang Zhichong Mansion.
The transformation from a bandit to a government soldier made the five hundred people in Shixintang excited, and some even cried with joy. They never thought that after falling into the grass, they would one day become regular soldiers. This is not only a change of identity, but also a spiritual sublimation - they are for the people. It's no longer a scourge, it's a guardian.
Who would want to be a thief? Who doesn't want to be a presence that the people respect and get close to?
Through the turmoil in Hanoi Province and the turmoil of the Shen Family's Praetorian Guard, the bandits in Shixintang completed their identity and spiritual transformation.
In fact. Such a change is not only for the bandits of Shixintang, but also for more ordinary people and petty officials in Hanoi Province to complete the most important change in their lives in such turmoil.
There are many long-term patriarchs of small families, and in such turmoil, they have seen the fortune of the Shen family, the rolling torrent of the world, and the opportunity for the rise of the family.
These small family patriarchs seized this opportunity. They did their best to get closer to the Shen family, to facilitate the Shen family's presence in Hanoi, and to try their best to send the children of the family to the Shen family and to the generals of the Praetorian Guard.
A large number of families in the Dafeng Dynasty, which lasted for hundreds of years, rose at this time. God knows, in the last years of Dayong, there were only a dozen or twenty people in these small families?
Time, potential, and life.
The times create heroes, and what the current situation creates more often is the luck of a family. If you grasp it well, it has laid the foundation for the future generations of the family, and the family's fortune is thriving, which is not a difficult thing.
The situation here in Zhengyang, Shen Zejing is very satisfied. When he left Lingnan Province with the Praetorian Guards, he wanted to quell the turmoil in Dayong Province. The current situation here in Zhengyang is just in line with Shen Zejing's expectations, and it also makes him full of confidence in the road he will take in the future.
Zhengyang is just the beginning, proving that the path taken by the Shen family is correct. In the future, Hanoi Province, Guannai Province, Longyou Province and other places, of course, can also refer to the model of Zhengyang to reorganize the officialdom and people's livelihood order.
As long as everything is in order, peace and prosperity are not far away.
Although Anping here in Hanoi Province is only in the small corner of Zhengyang, although the Zhan family and the Huang family are still desperately resisting, Shen Zejing's face began to relax.
He even thought that during the Dragon Boat Festival, he could take time to return to Lingnan Road to visit his father, wife and children.
The same is true for Shen Ning, Ying Nantu, Yu Zhengdao and others. What could be more joyful than a palpable hope?
However, an urgent letter from Lingnan Road directly crushed the relaxation and joy of Shen Zejing and others into ashes!
What this urgent letter said, in the eyes of Shen Zejing, Shen Ning and others, was a big bad news, and the sudden appearance made them feel heartbroken.
Grandfather is seriously ill, please father return quickly!
This urgent letter was sent to Shen Zejing by Shen Yuxian, and what was written on it was this sentence.
Seriously ill, return quickly...... Shen Zejing stared at that sentence, a little dazed in his heart. Sick? What is the meaning? Quick return? Why the urgency?
He could hardly accept this sentence and refused to know what it meant. In just a moment, he struck a stirring spirit and came to his senses.
"Peng Jin, retreat and stay in charge of the overall situation of Hanoi Road, then Si and Ning'er, we will return to Lingnan quickly!"
Shen Zejing immediately ordered and made such an arrangement. His chest heaved violently, and his face looked unusually ugly with worry.
Shen Huashan's body has improved a lot under Sun Boyang's conditioning; Moreover, the Shen family has gradually opened up the situation, and the situation in Hanoi Province has also begun to calm down, and Shen Huashan has less time to bother and work hard, and his illness has always been very stable.
Therefore, after the battle of Huifeng Mountain, Shen Zejing, Shen Ning and others did not rush back to Lingnan Dao, but continued to stay in Hanoi Dao and do what the Shen family originally wanted to do.
In the past few months, the letter from Lingnan Dao also said that Shen Huashan's health was fine, so that Shen Zejing and others could rest assured, why did they have a letter that was seriously ill all of a sudden?
Shen Ning only felt that her body was light and fluttering, if it weren't for Ying Nantu by her side, she would not be able to stand.
How so? Grandfather is seriously ill, and let them return quickly, does that mean grandfather...... Shen Ning didn't dare to think about it, and a mist quickly rose in his eyes.
Before his cousin Shen Yule left Hanoi Dao, he clearly told the Shen family's auspicious hexagram, how could his grandfather be seriously ill?!
How could the eldest brother send a letter at such a critical time?!
"Okay, let's stay in Hanoi Road. Father-in-law, don't worry! The Tiger Army will escort everyone back. The matter has not yet been detailed, so please don't be anxious about it. ”
Ying Nantu saw Shen Zejing's panicked appearance, and he didn't care about his identity, so he reminded him. The current Shen family is all like this, and he is really afraid that they will be in a hurry.
Yes, you can't rush, you can't rush. Shen Zejing kept telling himself in his heart, but his hands and feet were constantly trembling, and he had to help Shen Zesi to sit down steadily.
As soon as Shen Zejing gave the order, the Tiger Ben Army and the Praetorian Guard Army immediately moved. In just a quarter of an hour, Shen Zejing, Shen Ning and others were already able to come out.
The time was so urgent, they didn't want to delay any longer, and they didn't even pack their clothes much, so they hurried to Lingnan Road.
Along the way, Shen Zejing and the others almost used the fastest speed they could to rush to Lingnan Road. There were already several military horses that were tired and died halfway, but Shen Zejing was still not fast enough.
Faster, faster. Shen Zejing kept saying in his heart.
His face was solemn at this time, but his heart was like the fear of childhood. He was afraid, he was afraid that it would be too late, he was afraid that Shen Huashan couldn't wait, if there was no big tree like his father, what would happen to the Shen family.
All kinds of worries made Shen Zejing's horsewhip waving all the time. Fortunately, in April, the weather was neither cold nor hot, and there was no obstacle for them to make the way.
Under such extreme speed, Shen Zejing, Shen Zesi and Shen Ning returned to Lingnan Road in just four days.
The few military horses they were riding had just stopped in the courtyard by the Qujiang River, and they foamed at the mouth and fell; Shen Ning was almost dizzy, but he couldn't hold back.
When the porter saw Shen Zejing and the others, he had already opened the door. Shen Zejing staggered and rushed inside, Shen Zesi and Shen Ning followed closely behind.
The courtyard by the Qujiang River is quiet!
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One more! There are two more shifts today. Thank you to sunfloer889, Ai Yanji, and Fallen Fat Pill for their tips! Thank you ^Zining^, a, Fallen Fat Pill, Cool Snake, Miss Tang's pink! Thank you!
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