The prince was stunned.

"As the prince of a country, and with the protection of the queen mother, even if Quzhou fails, he will be fined a few silver at most, and he will just think about it behind closed doors!" The emperor stood up, looked at his successor and said solemnly: "You remember, as the king of a country, if you want to move, you must leave no room for it, if you can't do this, you must learn to turn a blind eye, only if you give him enough space for development can there be a reason to eradicate him!" ”

"Thank you for your father's teachings, and my sons and daughters will obey the holy decree!" The prince hurriedly knelt down and saluted.

"Get up!" The emperor sighed, "The ministers are in charge, the treasury is empty, this throne is not so easy to do!" ”

The prince didn't understand what the emperor meant for a while, so he didn't dare to speak, and only listened quietly.

"Do you know where Captain Sun and the others have gone?" The emperor asked suddenly.

The prince was stunned for a moment before he said: "A few days ago, Fuxi sent a message saying that because he spared the road in Quzhou, it is estimated that he will have to arrive in the capital half a month late. ”

The emperor was silent for a long time and suddenly said: "I can't imagine that my people from Beipeng Guanlu Beipeng can't go, it's really ironic!" After a pause, he said, "Send someone to meet them!" ”

"Yes." The crown prince thought for a while and asked, "Is my father worried that someone will still attack the chief of the Sun guard?" ”

"Don't be careful!"

In this way, Hua Ronghua deliberately let the garrison camp to besiege the government not only implicated the prince of the court, but also made the Jiangnan officialdom unstable. Han Jin, the prefect of Quzhou, committed suicide before the arrival of the Qin messenger sent by the imperial court to check the taxes, and later the Qin Cha found a large amount of dirty silver and bribe account books in his palace, according to the account books, from the prefect down, as many as half of the officials involved in Quzhou were involved, and the large and small yamen were paralyzed for a while because of the arrest of officials.

The other state capitals in the south of the Yangtze River were afraid, and those who were timid handed over the greedy silver taels according to the holy decree, and then wrote a plea of guilt, although they were reprimanded, but the official position was saved. The bold ones have also restrained a lot, lest they be targeted. Jiangnan's inventory lasted two months, and a total of more than 9.3 million taels of dirty silver were recovered.

Everyone from all sides hated Hua Ronghua, who caused this, half to death, but she seemed to have disappeared, there was no news at all, and even the emperor's punishment for her was publicized through a proclamation.

North, Golden Ancient City.

Gongxi Chu was bandaged with bloodstains, and Mo Yan suddenly came to him and said, "Lord, master, Yuan, Yuan Shuai is looking for you!" ”

"What is he looking for me for? If he writes an excerpt asking for merit, he can't write it himself. Gongxi Chu's voice was hoarse when he spoke, obviously he hadn't rested seriously for a long time.

"No, I don't know, okay, it seems to be in a hurry." Mo Yan was also very distressed about the master who hadn't closed his eyes much for a few days and nights, but Vice General Xu had a very serious expression when he asked him to speak, and he didn't know what was going on.

"Got it." Gong Xichu pinched his eyebrows, and when his shoulders were bandaged, he didn't care about his beard and ran directly to the handsome tent.

"Achu is here? Can you still let a stray arrow hurt? It's really going back more and more. Yuan Shuai couldn't help but complain when he saw his bandaged shoulders.

"I didn't close my eyes for three days in a row, and I was a little slippery for a while." Gong Xichu sat directly on the chair next to him, took the remaining half bowl of tea on the table, and just about to drink it, he splashed it on the ground, poured a cup of tea again, and poured it directly into his stomach, so that he could sober up, "What is the master looking for me?" If it's a matter of merit, you just have to watch and do it. ”

"It's not a credit request." Yuan Shuai looked at him and sighed, "Something happened to your family." ”

"My home?" Gongxi Chu poured the tea with his hand, "What's going on in my family?" ”

Yuan Shuai took out a painted letter and handed it over, "This is a letter from the capital, it is estimated that it should be the same thing." That woman of yours actually lied to the battalion to besiege the yamen, I heard that there are no fewer dead, and many people in the court say that she is going to rebel! ”

"Rebellion?" Gongxi stood up suddenly, "How is it possible?" As he spoke, he directly tore open the letter in his hand and looked at it with a white face.

"I've got a letter from home." Yuan Shuai said on the side: "It seems that your woman took people to return to the capital from Jiangnan, but when passing through Quzhou, the prefect of Quzhou saw that the money was intended, and your woman let the Imperial Forest Army take the silver and secretly left, and he transferred the soldiers of the garrison camp to directly surround the prefect's office, some people said that there was a conflict at that time, and some people said that the people who died were not because of the conflict with the people who garrisoned the camp. It is precisely because of this incident that someone in the court wrote that she was a rebel and asked the emperor to punish her severely. ”

Yuan Shuai saw that Gongxi Chu read the letter more and more his face became embarrassed and comforted: "Don't worry, it is said that the prince and Yong'an Bo were both speaking for her at that time, and the emperor only reprimanded her in the end and removed her deputy deacon of the Fan Affairs Hall, and the six grades of Yulu were also stopped, and the other charges were not said, it should be nothing." ”

"Humph!" Gong Xichu also happened to finish reading the letter at this time, and directly grabbed one of the pieces of paper into a ball and threw it away.

"Ah, this is your grandmother's letter, isn't it?" Vice General Xu was puzzled, went over and picked up the letter paper and looked at it, and was stunned for a moment after reading it, "This, how can it be ......" How can it be a letter of resignation?

"Grandmother said that Fahrenheit was not satisfied with the room and the chicken, and sooner or later it would cause a real disaster for the uncle, so I took her off as soon as possible." Gong Xichu said expressionlessly.

Yuan Shuai looked at Gong Xichu's stiff expression and asked, "You don't want to rest?" ”

"I'm ......" Gong Xichu was stunned, in fact, what he thought in his heart was not whether he wanted to, but felt very ashamed. Hua Ronghua was not a rebel, and he was not even convicted by the emperor, but his father was in a hurry to directly clear up his relationship with her in front of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, and even his grandmother, who had always been very fond of him, actually let herself stamp and seal this written letter of resignation.

Yuan Shuai glanced at his apprentice, "Your woman, it's your business to rest, but I have to tell you something." Quzhou has always been controlled by King Han, your woman inadvertently cut off his financial route this time, I am afraid that King Han has long been regarded as a thorn in the side of your uncle, if you don't want to be angered by King Han, you may be able to divorce your woman! ”

Gongxi Chu's eyes widened, "Who does the master think of me?" Am I the kind of person who is afraid of things? ”

"It's not that I'm afraid, the key is King Han, King Han has real power, and the Queen Mother supports him, isn't it easy for him to find trouble with your little uncle's mansion?" Yuan Shuai persuaded bitterly: "If you feel sorry for that Hua's family, you can compensate her more, even if it is not for the sake of Bofu, you have to think about your two sons!" ”

Speaking of his son, Gong Xichu's heart couldn't help but soften.

At this time, Mo Yan came in from outside and handed a letter to his master, "Mo An is here." ”

Vice General Xu's eyes lit up, "Did he write your two children's growth diaries again?" "Since three years ago, Mo An would write a diary of his child's growth, record all the interesting things that happened around his child every day, and finally save up and send it to the army every two or three months. Looking at those children's words, not to mention Gong Xichu, a father who has never seen a child, even these veterans who have been away from home for a long time and have been on the battlefield like it very much.

Moan? Gong Xichu frowned, he didn't think that Mo An would write any growth diary at this time, and the thickness of this envelope was different from usual. I took the envelope and opened it to look at it, and the more I looked at it, the more difficult it was to calm down.

Yuan Shuai and Vice General Xu looked at Gong Xichu's face blue for a while and white for a while, and they were very curious about what Mo An had written.

After reading the letter, Gong Xichu stood in place for a long time, and just when Yuan Shuai thought that he was stimulated by something and was about to wake him up, he only heard his apprentice suddenly speak.

"Master, I'll write the excerpt about my contribution to the enemy this time."

"Oh." Yuan Shuai didn't care, "It's okay for you to write it yourself, but how do you want to write it?" Don't write too much and it will become pride! ”

"No!" Gong Xichu tugged at the corners of his mouth, "I'm just asking for Mrs. Hua's name for my wife!" ”

"Huh?"

"What?"

Yuan Shuai and Vice General Xu were both stunned, and they persuaded him to write a letter of resignation just now, why did they want to ask for a seal for Na Hua after reading Mo An's letter?

took Mo An's letter from Gongxi Chu's hand and looked at it from the beginning, the two looked at each other, their eyes were full of surprise, and after a while, Vice General Xu spoke: "I didn't expect that half of this Hua's lie to transfer troops is for the sake of two children!" ”

Yuan Shuai also sighed and said: "Don't say that she is a woman, even a few men dare to do this!" ”

"It's not, if you can't get the hat of rebellion, I'm afraid that she will not die well, and it's no wonder that Achu suddenly decided to ask for a seal for her! When the mother dares to risk killing the head for the sake of the child, he is really greedy for life and afraid of death Fahrenheit, I am afraid that the two children will despise him in the future! ”

"However, this Fahrenheit is really a character, and her hand can stir up Jiangnan a lot!" Yuan Shuai smiled, "If she is a man, she will definitely be a good military advisor on the battlefield!" ”

Vice General Xu also smiled and agreed.

In this way, Gongxi Chu's excerpt came to the capital with other excerpts, but the strange thing is that the other emperors who asked for merit were all approved one by one, and only Gongxi Chu's was heard from nothing.

"Wait a little longer, maybe your wife has made too much trouble, and the emperor has to wait for things to fade before he can issue an edict to canonize." Yuan Shuai persuaded: "What's more, the emperor just withdrew your wife's six-grade edict in front of him, and he canonized the five-grade edict in a blink of an eye, so he can't say anything." ”

However, I waited for a year. The border pass was originally victorious in the battle also frequently lost, Beijie changed the main general after it seems to have regained the initiative, always able to escape in the encirclement and suppression of the Beipeng army, and led the elite cavalry to attack the Beipeng villages and towns, for a time Beipeng's losses gradually increased, and the villages and towns near the ancient city of Jin were moved to the border pass.

On this day, Yuan Shuai and others formulated a strategy to lure the enemy deep into the encirclement and annihilate him. planned to send a general to pretend to fight with the enemy general, and finally feigned defeat to lead the enemy to chase in the future and was finally surrounded and annihilated by the Beipeng army, and this general who lured the enemy deep finally selected Gongxi Chu.