After returning to the harem from the previous dynasty, Zhao Duanzheng hesitated for a while when he was about to return to his Funing Palace, but suddenly stopped Cao Shuang.

"Cao Banban!"

Cao Shuang turned around in surprise, but after hearing his own emperor sigh, he suddenly said:

"I'm not going back to Funing Palace, I'm going to Kunning Palace today."

The look of surprise in Cao Shuang's eyes was even worse!

Kunning Palace?

Where's the Queen's Mother?

How long has it been since the emperor went to Kunning Palace, why did he suddenly remember to go to Kunning Palace today?

Doubts are doubts, but he still immediately commanded the imperial palace to turn around and go towards Kunning Palace.

"Where is the prince now?"

"The latest news is in Nanyang City, and it shouldn't be long before I can return to the capital."

"Cao Banban."

"Emperor?"

"You say...... Shouldn't I call Ming'er back?

Now that the Huns have arrived, Uncle Wang has disappeared, and most of the forbidden troops in my hands have not returned, I always have a bad feeling in my heart. ”

"Don't worry about the emperor, you are the true dragon son of heaven, with the blessing of your ancestors and God, whether it is you, the prince or our Great Song Dynasty, you will be safe."

"Hopefully......"

"Alas......"

The sound gradually disappeared into the deep palace.

A sigh lingered for a long time.

……

Nanyang City.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, news has come from the capital that the Ding family has defected!"

"What? The Ding family defected?! ”

When Zhao Ming learned the shocking news, the whole person was also taken aback.

The Ding family, relying on the military power in their hands, has been one of the confidants of their Zhao and Song royal families since the beginning of their father's accession to the throne.

After all these years, my father was weakened again and again, and finally took advantage of the Xiongnu to enter the customs last year, and solved the tiger hunting army that the Ding family's biggest reliance and spent countless time, energy and money to build.

Having come to this point, if the Ding family knows each other, they should be honest and low-key, maybe their father can leave them a way to live.

Why did you suddenly defect again?

This is really something that Zhao Ming didn't expect.

Li Wen immediately explained: "Today, the imperial court received an urgent report from the frontier, and the Huns broke through the Liaoyun Pass and entered the pass with the internal traitors, and also took down the Xining Mansion, and the prefect of Xining Prefecture, Ma Denghe, was cut off by the Huns, and the headless corpse was hung on the head of the city of Xining Prefecture.

Now the Xiongnu are raiding all the way to Bianjing, and it is said that the road is like a bamboo, and each city has an internal response to help them open the city gate so that they can easily break the city.

The prime minister and the emperor unanimously guessed that the Xiongnu should be the Ding family, so they called someone to pass it on, and then found that the Ding family had already been empty.

In this way, the Ding family confirmed the fact that the Xiongnu were in response.

His Majesty was furious, first reprimanded the incompetence of the Imperial City Division under Gonggong Cao, and then asked the imperial court to issue a wanted warrant for everyone in the Ding family!

The descendants of the Ding family, one thousand taels, and one thousand taels next to the Ding family!

Now it's spread all over the world!

Your Highness, according to this, the Huns are probably not far behind us, so let's hurry up and leave for Beijing!

Otherwise, if you are intercepted by the Huns, the slaves and maids will be fine, if you fall into the hands of the Huns, it will really be a great disaster for my Great Song Dynasty! ”

After explaining the general situation, Li Wen immediately dissuaded Zhao Ming from leaving for Beijing as soon as possible.

After Zhao Ming heard this, he was first angry because of the Ding family's behavior, but then frowned and asked:

"The Huns have entered the customs, is it possible that the three cities of Yunzhou have fallen?"

Li Wen hurriedly shook his head and explained: "There shouldn't be, otherwise the Xiongnu wouldn't have come to the territory of the Great Song Dynasty so soon."

However, as for the specific situation, the specific situation is not known because the connection between the inside and outside of the customs has been severed. ”

Zhao Ming sighed when he heard this, but he also knew that the top priority now was to return to Beijing quickly, although he was worried, he could only immediately tell Li Wen to pack his things.

After briefly replenishing the supplies, the group set off overnight on the way back to Beijing.

……

Sunan County.

The commander of the Dragon Guard Army, who was originally full of confidence and set foot in southern Jiangsu to prepare to quell the rebellion, made Ji Wenchong's mood extremely bad now.

Originally, he was already very unhappy when he received an order to come to southern Jiangsu to suppress the rebellious people, but they were the Dragon Guard!

One of the four forbidden armies of His Majesty!

When did the suppression of the rebellious people need to be done by their Dragon Guards?

However, the incompetence of the local garrison force made the imperial court have no choice but to send them over.

Originally, he thought that this was a simple thing, with the elite of the Dragon Guard, just a few chaotic people.

He was confident that even if it was hundreds of thousands of people, he would be able to defeat them with just a few rounds of charge with his 10,000 cavalry.

To put it bluntly, these rioters are just a group of rabble, how strong can they be?

Hurry up and finish work and go back to Beijing.

However, it wasn't until he led his troops to southern Jiangsu that he realized that he was naïve after all.

can force the people to rebel to such an extent, and the landlords and gentry here are a bunch of worms!

Originally, they were urgently transferred, and the food they carried was not much, according to the imperial court's meaning, and the local departments along the way were responsible for supplying their military rations.

After entering southern Jiangsu, let the county guard of southern Jiangsu be responsible for supplying food.

At first, everything was just right, until they entered southern Jiangsu, but suddenly there was a problem with military rations.

First, the county guard of southern Jiangsu used various reasons to default on military rations, and then the county guard actually asked them to ask the nearby landlords and gentry to collect grain on the spot.

That's it, as long as there is military rations.

However, when they arrived at the houses of the landlords, the landlords began to cry one by one!

One by one, the glamorous landlords and gentry of the past did not know where to find clothes full of patches and torn holes everywhere to wear on their bodies, and they all said that their families had no food at all.

How could Ji Wenchong believe their nonsense, anyway, with the endorsement of the county guard's mansion, he directly let his subordinates rush in, but when he entered the mansion, the courtyard was full of patched maids and subordinates.

This really shocked the Dragon Guards.

But then the Dragon Guard quickly recovered, ignoring these fake and outrageous maids and subordinates.

Who is so poor that their clothes are patched and can still feed so many people!

The Dragon Guards took it upon themselves to begin to search around the mansion.

However, what puzzled them was. Even if they turned the whole house upside down, they didn't find a single piece of food!

Obviously, the gentry received the news early and hid all the grain.

As a result, the Dragon Guard could only return in vain in the end.

When Ji Wenchong angrily found Juniper, the county guard of Sunan County, the words of this Sunan County Keeper made Ji Wenchong feel that he knew the world for the first time!

Facing Ji Wenchong, who came angrily, Juniper still kept a smile on his face.

When Ji Wenchong angrily slapped his table and asked for food, he unhurriedly rushed a cup of tea to Ji Wen and handed it over, and said at the same time:

"Commander Ji, dissipate your anger! Let off steam! Come, have a cup of tea first! ”

Ji Wenchong slapped the table again and said angrily: "Du County Shou, the general is not joking with you, according to the will of the imperial court, all the grain and grass during the period when my Dragon Guard Army enters southern Jiangsu to suppress the rebellion should be provided by the Southern Jiangsu County Guard!"

No delay for a day!

However, Du Junshou has repeatedly played the general, could it be that he has taken the will of the imperial court as bullshit?

If this is the case, then Ji can only report this matter to the Son of Heaven! ”

Facing the angry Ji Wenchong, Juniper was still unhurried, and said with a smile after listening to his words:

"General Ji don't be in a hurry, how could Du not take the will of the court into account?

There will be food! ”

"Where is the grain? You tell Ben! Ji Wenchong asked with a sneer.

Juniper smiled slightly:

"It's not a problem to find grain, the main question is, General Ji, how much silver are you going to take here to buy this batch of grain?

If there is no silver, there may be no food. ”

"What? Ben wanted you to provide military rations according to the will of the imperial court, but you actually asked Ben to buy food for silver?!

Juniper! Dujun Shou! Are you demented?!

How embarrassed you are to say that! ”

Ji Wenchong was stunned, he never expected Juniper to have this kind of operation.

Actually let him spend money to buy military rations!

This southern county has been corrupted to this extent?

When did my officials in the Great Song Dynasty become like this?

……

(End of chapter)