"Mother, His Royal Highness the Night King has sent someone to deliver the letter again. This is the fifth letter, you, aren't you really going to talk to him? ”

In the Changle Palace, Xue Xue spread out the account book in his hand and asked Xiao Xiruo in a low voice.

Since that day, all the sixteen people led by her have been secretive about the Night King. If it weren't for the frequent delivery of letters these days, she wouldn't dare to speak freely.

Raising his hand to open Yun Mengtian's accounts for the past month, Xiao Xiruo was silent for a moment before saying:

"The day after tomorrow, King Qi's wedding banquet will invite the ministers, and it will be the same when you see you at the banquet."

Since Xi Yang's secret letter was sent, Feng Yehan has sent letters to her many times.

At first, he just said that the situation in the Ming Dynasty was chaotic, and told her that Feng Wuyan was difficult to protect herself, and asked her to minimize contact with the other party, so as not to make people feel that the Xiao family and the emperor were private.

Then I didn't know where I learned the news that Feng Wuyan entered and left Changle Palace day by day, and even often stayed in the palace, and the letter directly changed from a mention to an appointment.

In Xiao Xiruo's memory, Feng Yehan didn't have any eyeliner in the palace except for Xi Yang.

So she didn't have to think about it to know that this matter must be behind the Empress Dowager Hua.

After Xiao Xiruo's words, the snow didn't dare to persuade anything, but Bai Zhi, who came back from the Heart Cultivation Palace, walked into the hall quickly, and her face was indescribably solemn.

Early this morning, the military department handed over the excerpt of the northern cool and the spring cold.

The excerpt is written by Xiao Guogong himself, which states that this year's winter wheat is ten fields and nine empty, and the grain that should have been replenished in the granary at the beginning of May is now all damaged in the ground.

The weather in Beiliang is bad, and it is not easy to reclaim the military cantonment. In the past few years, there was not much war, and Beiliang was barely self-sufficient. Since the end of last year, the Beiyi barbarians have frequently violated the border.

Since the beginning of spring, the barbarian offensive has weakened slightly, and it has changed from frontal assault to flank harassment, although it will not cause much loss to the Beiliang Iron Cavalry, but it has made the two commanders of the Xiao family have to defend.

Judging by Xiao Jing's experience, the border will not be peaceful this year, and there will be a battle in Beiliang and Beiyi.

And the meaning of his letter is very simple, the Beiliang granary will be sold out at the end of April, and the imperial court must transfer grain for disaster relief, and the military grain must be replenished by the end of April.

It can be said that this excerpt is clearly written enough.

However, it was such a reasonable and well-founded excerpt that even made the border crisis clear, but it was questioned by most officials in the DPRK and China, who bluntly said that it was necessary to send a prison guard to verify it with the imperial history first.

"Verify? How do I verify? Beiliang and the capital are thousands of miles away, even if we wait for a fast horse, it will take more than half a month. It's been a month since this time, and you have to count the time when those overseers and imperial histories are powerful......"

Xue Xue slapped the table angrily, feeling that the group of people facing up was simply unreasonable.

It would take them a month to go back and forth, not to mention those pampered and weak courtiers?

According to what these people used to do, by the time they came back to transfer grain after verifying everything, Beiliang's granary might have been exhausted.

"The emperor said that they were actually dragging it out, until Xiao Guogong and them compromised......"

Bai Zhi stood in front of the table, and her face was also very ugly.

However, Wen Susu carried the medicine box unhurriedly, and sat next to Xiao Xiruo like a needle of the sea god.

Because she knew what Bai Zhi was going to say next, it was the most annoying.

Sure enough, as soon as Bai Zhi said a word, Xue Xue and the others were about to jump up.

"Add a general's tent? The capital sent five generals to Beiliang to lead the troops? And you want to give a part of the Beiliang Iron Cavalry to their commanders? ”

"How is this possible? We have so many generals in Beiliang, and the imperial court has not been rewarded according to the system, why do you still accept these nominal flowers? ”

"Five? Don't stuff one family, everyone wants to share the power of our grandfather and the marquis! ”

"Our Beiliang Iron is brave and brave, so we don't want to be ruled by these flies and dogs!"

……

Xue Xue and the others gritted their teeth, and protested regardless of the rules at that time.

And when Bai Zhi said that the officials of the DPRK and China demanded that the dispatch of the prison army be doubled, and that every general in Beiliang should have it by his side, and that these prison soldiers must also be able to speak, Xue Xue and the others couldn't even protest.

These demands are unreasonable.

The imperial court not only wanted to divide the power of Beiliang, but also wanted to put layers of chains on Beiliang.

Xu is that these people themselves know their shamelessness, so they didn't mention it before, and waited until the north is cool and the spring is cold and the food is about to run out.

This is not a negotiation, but a threat.

Obviously, the Xiao family had already given in last year and gave their most precious Miss Yan.

But in the eyes of the people in the DPRK and China, concession means one more concession.

"Mother, are you alright......"

Bai Zhi looked at Xiao Xiruo with some concern, not only her, but also Wen Susu and Xue Xue and others.

Because compared to the indignation of others, this one is too calm.

Obviously, she is the eldest lady of the Xiao family, and she is the person who should be most angry with the scum in the court.

Just to prevent her from being in a hurry, Wen Susu even held the life-saving pill in her hand.

But the fact is that Xiao Xiruo took a sip of tea unhurriedly, and said in a very ordinary tone:

"It's fine. Their vile and indecent brazenness, did you only know about it today? ”

Snowfall: "......"

Angelica Bai: "......"

Not really.

But you're still angry, right?

"Don't worry, it's strange that my father and brother will agree to such a demanding request."

After flipping through two more pages of his accounts, Xiao Xi Ruoxin said that if the Xiao family agreed, I am afraid that I would not be surnamed Xiao.

It is only the father and son who are sad to marry their daughters, and they can accept new generals and supervisors, which is equivalent to directly dividing the power of Beiliang.

There are one and two, and the harsh environment of Beiliang is probably going to be cold for five out of ten years.

Han took a step back, and in a few years, the Xiao family's iron horse was probably the family's iron horse.

It's not that the Xiao family must hold this power, but that such a court makes them have to hold it.

After all, letting such a group of fancy nobles control the border army is equivalent to sending Dayan to Beiyi's mouth.

But driven by countless interests, many people just don't understand this truth.

In the original book, in the face of such an unreasonable request, the father and son of the Xiao family directly went to Beiliang to verify the situation, but in fact, the imperial history and the supervising army were beaten to death, and refused the "help" of the imperial court with practical actions.

Only then did the Xiao family sell their property and raise the army alone with the strength of the whole territory.

Then Xiao Jing said that Beiyi really took the opportunity to go south, and at the end of May, the army pressed the border, which frightened the imperial court to urgently adjust food and was afraid that the Xiao family would give up to meet the attack.

However, that border battle is not the main line of the book, and another major event happened in the book at the same time.

So she only knew that the Xiao family's father and son defeated Beiyi at an absolute disadvantage, and the iron cavalry under her command was also greatly injured.

As for whether the dog court later gave a reward or compensation, she does not know.

And what about the male protagonist sealing the night cold?

He was bent on Yan Moqing, how could the Xiao family seem to have nothing to do with him......

Maybe the author didn't write it.

In short, Xiao Xiruo didn't count on him.