July 20, Bac Giang Province, Yingyuan County.

Yingyuan County is located in the hinterland of Bac Giang Province, one of the nine rich counties of Bac Giang Province, and it is also a necessary place connecting Ningkou County and Yanbei Pass, the hub of Beijiang Province.

The Cui clan, one of the five major clans of Bac Giang Province, is located on the boundary of Yingyuan County.

Yingyuan Cui is a thousand-year-old family, more than 300,000 people, all over Yingyuan County, and in addition to the Daqin Dynasty, the family of famous generals and high-ranking officials, all over the generations, endless, once one of the thirteen major families in the world, Xuanhe boundless high-ranking nobles.

It's just that in its early years, it belonged to the Ning Kingdom, and then it has always been only attached to the King of Ning, even if the Great Qin Kingdom has passed for hundreds of years, it has not really been involved in the Great Qin Dynasty.

As far as the whole world is concerned, the Yingyuan Cui clan, which was once one of the thirteen major families, has long since declined and is no longer in the past.

But in Bac Giang Province, the Yingyuan Choi clan is still second to none.

For the central part of Beijing, the upper echelons of the government and the county yamen, and the important positions of high-ranking officials, Yingyuan Cui's family has indeed not intervened now, but in most of the Beijiang Prefecture, there are some children of the Cui family in each county or a disciple of the disciples, and they firmly occupy a corner of the lower-level official positions.

It may seem inconspicuous on its own, but the information that these people can grasp and understand, as well as the energy they can exert can be brought together, is extremely large and efficient.

And they just don't have real power and real positions in the upper echelons, and there is still one duke, two princes and seven sons in one of the doors, and the titles have been inherited to this day and have never been severed.

Although this duke is not a national duke, but a county duke, he is also from the second rank, and he has also personally obtained the hereditary right to replace the emperor of Daqin Taizu.

Compared to the beginning, it is indeed in decline, but it is not really upside down.

And Qin Yu's grandmother, the mother of the current Marquis of Wuyang, was born in the Yingyuan Cui family, and is now the aunt of the head of the Yingyuan Cui family.

The two families have been ministers of King Ning for hundreds of years, and their friendship is not shallow, coupled with occasional marriages, they are often in-laws, and the relationship is also closer.

After leaving Yanbei Pass this time, Qin Yu asked his master to bring him to the Cui clan land, wanting to live for a while.

First, it is his own injury, which is really unable to withstand the fatigue of long-distance carriages and horses, and needs to recuperate, and secondly, he also has a request for Yingyuan Cui's family, and wants to use the power of Cui's to find the whereabouts of the legal army elite cavalry that crossed the city and plundered the border.

It had been more than twenty days since they left Yanbei Pass, but after a few days, the whereabouts of the thousands of elite cavalry of the law army had disappeared cleanly.

There was no attack on the city, no looting of food, no plundering of the people, and after the entire border pass, compared with the previous battles between the two armies, there was an eerily calm and tranquil.

Although it is a good thing, it has given the people more time to harvest food, and it does not delay their daily lives, so they don't have to worry too much, and there are many tragic cases of family destruction and death.

But this disappearing elite horse is even more stunning.

After all, there is only a thousand days to be a thief, and there is no reason to prevent thieves for a thousand days.

The enemy is dark and I am clear, and I don't know where the enemy's elite and strong army goes, which always makes people sleepless at night.

It's just a pity that even though Yan Xia has already entangled many large and small dark path forces in the north through Qingxiao Pavilion and cast a net to find it, he still found nothing.

"Jingming, what you say, my uncle will definitely order someone to investigate carefully, and you should be patient and wait."

Yingyuan Cui clan is located, in the south of Yingyuan County seventy miles outside the city, next to a stretch of hill and built, outside the mountain left and right fertile fields are innumerable, the manor near the mountain is not worse than the ordinary county seat, but there is no city wall to build.

The patches of scattered houses and pavilions, looking at the past, not only do not appear cluttered, but have a sense of complementing each other, showing the pastoral elegance.

A big road in the middle is separated from the official road, and the archway is layered all the way, and it is extremely magnificent.

It's just that Qin Yu now, with a pale face, has a lot of embarrassment, and is blocked outside the first archway by Cui Ji'an, the head of the Yingyuan Cui family.

His words were affectionate, his face was loving, and he promised to do it for you without saying a word about what he requested.

But, no matter what, I just won't let you in.

Not to mention world friends and in-laws, even ordinary casual friendships can't do things, but right now, it is really real and extremely uncourteous, and it has appeared on Qin Yu.

"Alas. Don't complain that your uncle won't let you in and turn you away. It's just that Wuyanghou is still in Beijing, if you are in my house these days, I'm afraid that Wuyanghou's life is in danger. ”

There were no outsiders on the left and right, and Cui Ji'an then whispered to Qin Yu to explain the reason.

But Qin Yu not only didn't realize it, but looked over more and more confused.

Cui Ji'an didn't explain again, but asked rhetorically, "Jingming, the Marquis of Wuyang, and now he is considered a king, or an emperor?" ”

When Qin Yu heard this, he sighed lightly, and didn't say anything more, just a week, and walked towards the carriage reflexively.

Then I saw the carriage go back to the north and drive towards Yingyuan County.

"Big brother, is this really necessary?"

After Qin Yu left, Cui Ji'an's fourth brother, Cui Fei took a step forward and asked a little unpleasantly.

Cui Ji'an glared at the past, "It's quite a big person, it's not as sensible as a child as Jingming." Whether they want to be or not, it is an indisputable fact that the Marquis of Wuyang has moved to Beijing, and it is very closely involved with us, even if they have mutual in-laws, they will also fall into slander and attack. Especially what we will do, it will be for the one who is in the present, the sharp thorn in his eye, at this time, how can we show any closeness to him again. ”

After saying that, Cui Ji'an's eyes were also a little unbearable to look at the northbound carriage.

They will not be like many people, hostile and disdainful of the move of the Marquis of Wuyang to Beijing.

At the beginning, when the will of Jingzhong came down, when the palace did not really tear its face with the court, it was impossible not to put it on anyone's head.

They were just lucky, their families were huge, and they couldn't easily move away from the roots, so they weren't affected.

said that he was from the king or from the emperor, but in fact, he was just reminding Qin Yu of the current situation of the Marquis of Wuyang.

Emperor Taihe left his father and let his son go, and his original intention was not good.

After all, today's Marquis of Wuyang is still in the prime of life, and he is a veteran of the battlefield, if he is really released back to the Zhenbei Army, the role is far from being comparable to that of a fledgling Qin Yu.

But Emperor Taihe still did this, leaving the Marquis of Wuyang and his wife and the prince of the Marquis of Wuyang all in the capital, and only released Qin Yu, the second son, and threw them in the Zhenbei Army.

Qin Yu's situation is far more than whether he can integrate into the Zhenbei Army.

The choice of position is not so easy to make, and the middle way is not so easy.

Qin Yu was already in a dilemma, so don't make peace with them anymore.

"Let's go, I'm back." After saying that, Cui Ji'an didn't look at it anymore and stayed more, and returned in a sedan chair.

only left a sentence for Cui Fei, "What Jing Ming said, you gather it as soon as possible and send him the information we know." There are some things we can't do, and it's too late to do them again, so let's leave them to him, and if you get it right, it can be regarded as a qualification. ”

"Got it, I'll do it." Cui Fei nodded and responded happily.

It was night, and in the Cui family's land, many people were busy and didn't have any leisure.

Cui Fei also took a few of his own children to write a book together, and personally collected the news of what Qin Yu invited in detail, little by little.

Early the next morning, Qin Yu, who was staying in an inn in Yingyuan County, received a letter from a servant of the Cui family, and he was full of money.

After opening it, looking at it in detail, Qin Yu's already pale face became more and more ugly.

"Brother Yu, what's wrong with you?"

Qin Yu's fiancée, Meng Ling, got up early in the morning as usual and planned to change his dressing, but as soon as she entered the door, she saw Qin Yu's expression and couldn't help but be concerned.

As he spoke, he looked at Qin Yu's hand.

Although the two are not married, they are also very affectionate, and Qin Yu has never hidden anything from her, so she didn't think too much about it.

But this time, Qin Yu directly buckled the letter with his backhand and didn't show it to her.

This Miss Meng in his family is not a good-tempered master, and in front of him, she has so much tenderness now.

If she really knew the contents of the letter, she would definitely not hold back at all.

Of course, he didn't have to look in the mirror to know how ugly his face was at the moment, and it was impossible for him to say that he was fine.

Just shook his head, "Ling'er, don't ask me now, I'll tell you in a few days." ”

Meng Ling frowned, but she didn't have a seizure, nodded after a while, and didn't ask any more questions.

Without saying a word, Meng Ling changed Qin Yu's injury medicine, and the two settled the house money, got into a carriage, and quickly drove away from Yingyuan County and headed southeast.

At noon on the same day, Zijin, the prince of King Ning, led more than 10,000 elite horsemen, Pegasus rushed to the boundary of Yingyuan County, and came to the Cui clan at night.

Zijin and his entourage were not turned away, but were personally welcomed into the main hall by Cui Ji'an, and the guards and soldiers of the palace also had to be hospitable, where they were a little tired and washed away.

Needless to say, the guests and hosts enjoyed the night.

The next day, Zijin and his entourage continued to gallop north.

It's just that what Zijin didn't know was that just after they left, the Yingyuan Cui clan also gathered 50,000 young people from the family, all wearing armor and knives, and then headed north.

Ten days later, King Ning's third brother, his son, led an army of 50,000 troops to Yingyuan County and stopped near the Cui clan.

When he left the next day, he brought more than 5,000 chariots and horses, and the grain produced by the Fancui clan was brought with him and escorted north.

At the same time, another 30,000 Yingyuan young men responded to Cui's call and reorganized into an army and merged into the army of Ning Wangfu.

A similar scene also happened in Fuyuan County, Bac Giang Prefecture, where the Wanglin clan of Fuyuan County also gathered 30,000 young people, prepared into an army, and went to Beiguan.

All kinds of news were also summarized by Xingtai and quickly transmitted to Beijing.

At this moment, Qin Yu also rushed to the territory of Bac Ninh Mansion and came to the location of Xingtai.