There is no longer a large-scale robbery and encirclement on the road, and people like the previous big stall head are a minority after all, and now they are at the peak of Daqi, and the factory guards will not pull their crotches to the point of being included.

The wind and the sun are warm, and the time passes through Yedian Mountain Village. The road is straight Shaping, and the night is spent at the post pavilion inn.

The third day of the second month of the seventh year of the Heavenly Sage.

Jia Hui and his entourage, who were in a hurry, finally entered the range of Dugi Province.

Luoyang City is right in front of you.

Strange flowers bloom in the forest, and the young willows dance with golden silk on the ground.

Spring is in full swing, and everyone's mood is very good.

"Mother, what is Luoyang like?"

The weather is not so cold anymore, and it is a sunny day, so the door curtains and curtains of the carriage are also tied there, and it is Lin Daiyu, who is full of curiosity about the world, who also poked her little head out of the window, and felt strange when she saw anything she had never seen, "wow" non-stop.

The pedestrians on the road also looked at this little girl with a kind face.

"Well, my mother grew up in Beiping, and my mother has never been to Luoyang" Jia Min carefully thought about the memories of the first 20 years, but it was not related to Luoyang, and she was a little lost for a while.

"Luoyang, that's different from the prosperity of Jiangnan." Jia Hui turned her head and said to Daiyu with a smile.

"What's the difference?" Daiyu suddenly became interested.

"You can only know, not speak, and when you enter the city, you will know without me telling you."

Jia Hui didn't know how to explain to him for a while, so he made a superior demeanor.

"Cut, if my brother doesn't know, just say I don't know, can my sister still laugh at you?" Daiyu rolled her eyes at Jia Hui.

Talking and laughing, we arrived outside the Yongtong Gate in the east of Luoyang City.

In fact, except for Jia Hui and a few people who had to stay in Jiangnan because of a large number of affairs, the rest of the counterinsurgency-related personnel had already come to Luoyang to receive rewards during the last great court in Layue last year, and hundreds of officials had already come out to greet them.

didn't send many people to greet Jia Hui.

However, this kind of thing has been customized before, so Jia Hui didn't say anything.

In the final analysis, the rebellion was small in scale, and it also affected several provinces on the south bank of the Yangtze River and northern Zhejiang.

It's really not worthy of being greeted twice by a hundred officials.

However, there is a precedent for this situation, that is, to send people from two yamen and a capital governor's mansion to greet them, so that there are both civil and military.

It not only gives the coach face, but also does not make a fuss and look too grand and overstep the etiquette.

The military attache who came to greet him must be the Governor's Mansion of the Left Army, and most of his own governors did not come to Beijing to greet him, because he thought that life was too dull and wanted to offend the Governor of the Metropolitan to find excitement?

The civilian officials came to two ministries - the military department and the household department.

The military department is here to greet the titular big Sima of their own family, and the household department is to greet the God of Wealth for everyone.

"Come, give me all the tooth flags!" When the pro-soldier Hu Jiu saw that there was still five miles away from Yongtong Gate, he hurriedly shouted to the back.

Of course, the soldiers in the back also saw that they had been standing outside the gate for a long time, and they all played out the "Jia" tooth flag they were carrying and the winged vermilion bird battle flag given by the emperor.

The six signs were also held aloft by several pro-soldiers at the same time

"Shangzhu State", "Governor of Qincha Jiangsu and Zhejiang", "Governor of the Left Army",

"General Sima", "Doctor Guanglu", "Duke of Dunhuang County"!

The emphasis is on a huge momentum!

The people who had been surrounding on both sides of the road for a long time to watch the excitement and had been whispering were suddenly suppressed by the murderous aura of the pro-soldiers, and they were silent in an instant.

The three teams hurriedly stepped forward.

"Xiaguan and others will meet Da Sima!"

"The last general will wait to meet the Grand Governor!"

The soldiers surrounded Jia Hui and lined up in two columns behind him.

"Hahaha, don't be polite, please get up!" Jia Hui also laughed a few times, dismounted and walked towards the ranks of civil officials, and helped up Xia Tong, the head of the household who bowed down.

"Oh, how can Hunhe De bother Da Si Nong to come to greet him in person?"

As for the other two groups of people, the military department is a nominal subordinate, and the military department secretary has not come. The Left Army Governor's Mansion was his de facto subordinate.

The two groups of people did not come to greet Xia Shangshu in person, neither in terms of identity nor age, and Jia Hui didn't have to think about who he wanted to help.

Xia Tong let Jia Hui help him up, and looked at Jia Hui with a smile as if he was looking at a big golden pig.

"Don't get in the way, don't get in the way, it's hard for Da Sima to fight for the country, and the old man in public and private is going to come to welcome Da Sima in person."

Public or private?

Ah, yes, four hundred million taels of silver!

Although the 400 million taels are to be divided into a part of the two saints, but looking at Lao Xia's smiling appearance, you can know that the household department must have divided the bulk this time.

Confessed to Xia Tong, and briefly greeted the officials of the military department and his own governor's mansion, and then prepared to end the process.

Naturally, the civil officials of the two yamen took several large carriages that they had found early and returned to the yamen together, and the military attaches of the Dadu Governor's Mansion also left Yongtongmen on horseback.

"Hehe, Da Sima, the old man has something to tell you, can you give me a face and come and sit in the old man's carriage?"

"It's as good as it gets."

Jia Hui naturally did not refuse.

However, he didn't get in the car first, Jia Hui walked to the carriage of Jia Min and his party, and after explaining a few words to Jia Min, he asked them to go home first, and then got into Xia Tong's carriage.

"Hehe, Da Sima drinks tea."

The scholar in the carriage had already prepared hot tea, and when he saw his master and a heroic man getting into the carriage, he immediately calmly poured two cups of tea, handed them to the two of them, and went out of the carriage and sat with the groom.

"The old man has nothing to do with Da Sima, I just want to thank Da Sima for being able to scavenge so much silver." Xia Tong, who had known Jia Hui in advance, decided to speak quickly and directly.

"What do you mean by looting? It's all some silver that has no one to inherit and is accepted as state-owned."

Jia Hui and Xia Tong smiled.

"However, the old man really wants to thank Da Sima. In recent years, the Donghu Kingdom in the southwest has been a time when its soldiers have become strong and strong. Conquering Siam in the east and Banggara (Bengal) in the west, the expansion was great, and from the first two years onwards, he began to focus on the 800 Dadian Xuanwei Division of our dynasty

You also know that Grandpa Yunyu Yun has been going to Yunnan to prepare for war since last year, and there are also signs of the transfer of the army on the Donghu side, but he just stopped there and did not move, after all, it is the boundary of the Donghu country, and I can't say anything in the court."

Jia Hui nodded.

The foreign policy of the Holy Lords today is to pick up the international credibility and prestige that the Emperor has lost, so that he really cannot start a war

If the emperor is in power, he will still have to confront in Yunnan and wait for Donghu to act first? When the Donghu army pulled out the camp and rushed to the border, the Daqi army crossed the border first!

"Yun Dadu supervised the Guangxi army and the mountain guards of Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places, and many Tusi soldiers and horses, a total of 160,000 troops gathered in Yunnan to confront Donghu.

It really shocked them, but you also know the consumption of 160,000 troops, and it is also a trouble to transfer food over there. The local Han people in Yunnan only moved there nearly a hundred years ago, and most of them were military households, and the young and strong people were all called to the front line, and they had no intention of farming.

It is no problem to allocate grain from the surrounding provinces for four or five months, but now that the confrontation has been going on for nearly two years, I don't know when the confrontation will end! In addition, the continuous transfer of armament over there is another large expense

The food and salaries of all the armies and the nine sides of the country must also be paid, and the gallop road that has been built since the time of Taizong through Wujing and the first auxiliary of the provinces is also almost completed, which is also where money must be spent

It is important to protect the family and defend the country, but we must not abandon the domestic people's livelihood because of the war? Natural disasters such as floods and droughts occur almost every year, and the Yellow River has also suffered a lot more floods in the past two years.

Although I have a lot of income, I can't afford to spend so much."

Xia Tong's face was bitter.

"So, Da Sima, the 400 million taels of silver you brought are simply a long drought and a rainstorm," Xia Tong said a series of bad things that made him lose interest in himself, and he didn't want to speak.

"That's really troublesome." Jia Hui didn't have much to say.

The method of the emperor's time is indeed to save money and be effective, but now is not the emperor's era after all, and the current saint has clearly issued an edict to regain the international reputation and prestige of Daqi, which is indeed a lot more timid in comparison

"One more thing, Da Sima also heard that my household department raised money to cast a statue for you, right?" Xia Tong suddenly straightened up and looked at Jia Hui with a narrow expression.

"Naturally I've heard of it, some. Panicked. "This is still alive and has been molded, and the thought of someone kneeling in front of his statue with a fanatical face and saying something strange about bless me with a fortune or something like that, Jia Hui's goosebumps are about to fall.

"Well, the old man stopped it, Da Sima won't be unhappy, right?"

"No, if Tobe really casts my image, I'll knock on the door and smash it."

。。。。。。

Talking and laughing, the carriage drove outside the West Garden.

At this time, the emperor must have handed in his homework in Xiyuan, and he didn't need to go to the palace for an extra trip.

After eight months, standing in front of the gate of Xiyuan again, Jia Hui couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"Oh, grandpa, you're here!"

A shrill voice came from the palace gate, and Jia Hui looked at it fixedly.

Dai Quan.

"Haha, Dai Gong, I haven't seen you for eight months, and my spirit is still the same!" Jia Hui also laughed and won, as if nothing had happened to the head of the East Factory.

"Hehehehehe. General, the two emperors are waiting for you in Yeonkowon, please? Dai Quan walked over with a smile and grabbed Jia Hui's arm, Jia Hui understood, and without any more greetings, he took off his waist knife and followed Dai Quan into the palace gate.

"General, the incident a few days ago, it was all the monkey cubs under his hands who were ignorant and greedy. Bear with me! "Dai Quan didn't talk nonsense, he didn't know Jia Hui's temperament since he grew up playing Jia Hui's stick? He really can't hear polite words sometimes.

Without waiting for Jia Hui to reply, he beckoned to a few little eunuchs waiting aside.

The little eunuchs arched their hands and walked over with a few boxes on the side.

"General, they've already received family law, you see."

The little eunuchs followed by the little eunuchs helped open the lid of the wooden box, and Jia Hui looked over

The heads of three decaying maggots were stamping the sky in a dead eye.

A rotten stench poured out in an instant, so smoke that Jia Hui covered his mouth and almost vomited.

"Gross! Dai Gong, why don't you put some lime on it and marinate it for embalming? Jia Hui, who was smoked by the stench of decay, looked at Dai Quan with some resentment

"Gross! I thought it was still cool now, so I didn't let the little ones wipe it... Besides, don't you want the general to look more carefully" Dai Quan didn't expect that this weather would make his head rot to such an extent, and he was also smoked to death.

"Get it down and clean it up!" Dai Quan waved his hand at the little eunuchs who were so smoked that they wanted to vomit but didn't dare to vomit, and the few little eunuchs covered the box as if they had been pardoned, and fled as if they were going somewhere.

"I'm killed by the smoke" Jia Hui and Dai Quan breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, suddenly glanced at each other, and laughed at the same time.

"Dai Gong, I went to Jiangnan this time to bring you a gift"

"Oh, it's amazing that the general even brought a gift to our family, I'm really flattered."

The two of them walked back to Enko-in.

"Look at what you said, you have also looked at me since I was a child. Ah no, it's the elders who played the board from childhood to adulthood."

"Oh, the general doesn't dare to be an elder."

"Hey! What are these words? I remember clearly, back then, I fought with the fourth elder of the loyal and prudent old county king's family. In a group fight, the fourth child was accidentally beaten to death by the sixth grandson of the loyal old prince's family on the back of the head with a stick...

The dogs. The bastard thing is still pushing this on me in front of the emperor, if you didn't come out to testify to me, I guess it would have been gone a long time ago, how can I still have my Jia Hui's current creation? You are good to me, that is in my heart! ”

Jia Hui looked at Dai Quan sincerely, and kept patting his right hand towards his heart.

"The Great General."

Dai Quan was so moved that he couldn't help but wipe his eyes with his sleeve.

"Dai Gongke still remembers the white jade Guanyin that suddenly appeared on the rivers and lakes nine years ago?"

"White Jade Guanyin? It seems that I have heard the children under my hand mention it, saying that it is carved by the Dharma monk himself."

"Exactly, who would have thought that this white jade Guanyin would be in the hands of an unknown small grain merchant? It's a pity that the little salt merchant was wiped out by his own deception and evil slaves, it must be a blessing, this treasure is really a person of virtue to hold."

"Yes, this treasure is also lucky, how can a blessed person be able to suppress it?"

"Exactly! I feel that Dai Gong you are the only virtuous person in ten thousand, the white jade Guanyin is now in my personal soldiers, my personal soldiers are blessed, how can it be suppressed by this Bodhidharma monk personally carved into the white jade Guanyin? It is necessary for a virtuous person like you to save him from fire and water! ”

"No, no, no, in terms of virtue, who can compare to the two emperors? Compared to the two emperors, what is my mere body of torture? ”

"Eh, Dai Gong is in charge of going home, the two saints, I have also prepared a lot of good things. The things of atmospheric luck are waiting for the two emperors to suppress it! ”

(End of chapter)