Chen Xi and Xu Xing sat in the hall, and people kept coming back and forth to ask for instructions, and even when the two of them had lunch, they were not idle.

Two hours later, the sun shadow was already a little skewed, and Qian Hao came out of the inner palace slowly.

"The lord of the country has packed his bags?" Chen Xi asked with a smile.

"Yes, yes." Qian Hao's expression was still very dazed, as if half of the three souls and seven spirits had been taken away.

"Then load it on the ship!" Chen Xi waved his hand at the soldiers, "If I find out that anyone has reached out into the cage of the lord of the country, the military law will deal with it!" ”

The soldiers responded in unison, and the two of them carried a cage from the palace to the docks. Because of the abundance of manpower, the work of a cup of tea was emptied.

"You just packed up all this stuff and came out?" Chen Xi was a little surprised.

"Well, well," Qian Hao replied sneeringly, "how can I still be as extravagant in the future as when I was in Jiangnan...... It's better to be thrifty, it's better to save ......"

Xu Xing smiled and said to Chen Xi: "I told you, this is a person who can't figure it out, and I can't see through the current situation at all." You, you have wasted all your kindness, and you have thrown your flattery to the blind! ”

Chen Xi looked at Qian Hao like a frightened quail, standing on the hall with his neck bent, shook his head helplessly, and said, "I just want to have a clear conscience." ”

As the two were talking, a soldier rushed in outside to report: "General Qiyu, General Wu Yueshang Cao Jiang hanged himself at home!" ”

Chen Xi frowned when he heard this, and asked, "What about the rest of his family?" Why did you hang yourself all of a sudden? But someone went to his house to look for trouble? ”

His wife and daughter also hanged themselves in their own rooms, and the son and daughter-in-law seemed to have been hanging from the beams of the house for a relatively short time, and now they have been rescued. The subordinates just asked, and no one of ours went to Cao's house to make trouble, General Cao hanged himself, and he should be ......"

The words "martyrdom" were swallowed back by the soldiers.

"Take 1,000 taels of silver to Cao's house and ask his family to do a good job of General Cao's funeral." Chen Xi waved his hand and let the soldiers go down.

There was a high and low sobbing sound from the hall. Chen Xi looked at Qian Hao, who was hanging his head and wiping away his tears, and said angrily: "What's the matter, sad?" ”

Qian Hao hurriedly wiped his face with his sleeve, hunched his waist and replied, "Don't dare to ......"

"This wretch, how could General Cao meet such a master as you!" Xu Xing looked at Qian Hao, who could only cry, and said very contemptuously.

"It's me, ah no, I mistook Cao Qing!" Qian Hao finally couldn't hold it back anymore and began to cry.

"Alright, alright!" Xu Xing said impatiently, "I just remembered it now, who are you crying for?" ”

Xu Xing has acted above board all his life, and he is the most bold and loyal. Although Cao Jiang's insistence on Jinling City brought him a lot of trouble, he admired such a hero from the bottom of his heart who had faith in his chest and knew that he could not do it. Now that Cao Jiang is martyred for Wu Yue, almost the whole family has been buried in Wu Yue's small court, but Qian Hao, as the lord of the country, only knows how to stand here hunched over, pulling his sleeves to wipe his tears and snot.

Chen Xi said with a smile: "The same rice raises a hundred kinds of people, there will be no shortage of people like him in the world, why should Uncle be so angry." ”

Xu Xing glanced at Qian Hao, who had turned from crying to sobbing softly, and said disdainfully: "If my son had grown up to be so virtuous, he would have been kicked to death by me!" ”

"The great achievements of the world have been obtained, and sure enough, even the always reserved Dingguo Gong has been publicized a little!" Chen Ting's loud mockery came from the door of the hall.

Xu Xing glanced at Chen Xi and said in a low voice: "This is coming, you deal with it carefully, and be careful to leave the handle in his hand." ”

Chen Xi smiled at him: "Uncle, don't be impatient. ”

In a moment, Chen Ting had already walked to the center of the hall, and said angrily: "Chen Xi, what do you mean by this arrangement? I have worked hard to escort grain, grass and military salaries from the capital, but you want to attack the city on the eve of my arrival in Jinling, and deliberately tell me to run for nothing, right? ”

Chen Xi sat on the chair for a long time, looked at Chen Ting condescendingly and said: "Although you and I are both princes, I am the commander of this southern expedition, you are just an escort envoy, where did you learn the rules when you see the boss not saluting and not reporting the errand itinerary?" ”

"Chen Xi, you don't give me this set!" Chen Ting was so angry that the green tendons on his forehead burst out, "How can you be allowed to play with power tricks here in a military matter?" If you can't see me get military merits, why don't you show the emperor early? Do you know how much effort the emperor and the Anguo Mansion spent in order to raise these 300,000 loads of grain and grass? If you can capture Jinling City so calmly, why don't you start early? Your hundreds of thousands of soldiers are on the front line, and the blood and sweat of the people are all eaten and drunk, have you ever thought about this! ”

Chen Xi looked at Chen Ting playfully, I haven't seen him for more than half a year, this guy has grown a lot, and he can say everything to the point, could it be that the Deng family spent a lot of effort to invite a few good staff members for him?

"I will explain these things to the emperor, and I don't need to explain anything to you." Chen Xi said lightly, "It's you, obviously you have arrived in Yangzhou yesterday afternoon, why didn't you come by boat overnight?" Otherwise, you wouldn't have missed such a great achievement! At the end of the words, there was a bit of banter, and the little abacus in Chen Ting's heart was broken.

"Yesterday when I went to Yangzhou, there was a leak in the cabin. For the sake of insurance, I ordered someone to dock in Yangzhou to repair the leaky ship, is this also wrong? "That's true, but there was one ship that leaked, and the gap was only the size of two palms, and it could be filled without stopping the ship.

"I'll send someone to inquire about this." Chen Xi did not entangle with Chen Ting more, but talked about another matter, "The emperor said in the decree to me last time that if the grain and grass you escorted are not used, or there is still a lot left, it will be stored in the official warehouses on both sides of the canal, handed over to the local government for regular sale, and the silver taels will be collected and collected into the state treasury. ”

Chen Ting was a little panicked when he heard this, and before leaving, An Guogong specially told him that if there was still a surplus of food, he would send it to the Deng family's local shop and hand it over to the shopkeeper for sale. He thought that all the food was from the Deng family, and the emperor should be embarrassed to take care of such trivial things as how much he used and how much was left, so he patted his chest and agreed.

"I'm afraid that's not right, right?" Chen Ting thought about the wording for a while, and said stubbornly, "The emperor has every opportunity, where would he take care of such trivial matters, don't you fake the holy decree and want to swallow it privately, right?" For most of the past six months, you have led people to beat Jiangnan all over the country, who knows how many of your own people you have stuffed into the official mansion? These 300,000 quintals of grain, according to the current market price, are worth 178,000 taels of silver. Chen Xi, even if you have a big appetite and eat so much at once, you are not afraid of being strangled to death? ”