Chapter 8 The Matter of Transporting Grain is Important
On this day, the Huaxia Kingdom, the Hanyang Dynasty.
Jingshi, the Forbidden City.
Emperor Zhu Yijun was worried in the imperial study, the whole person was in the imperial study, walking over to the east and west, and he was simply swaying in his heart.
At this time, in the imperial study, the ministers standing next to the desk were Hua Yiming, the old man of Yipinge, Chen Yunan, a scholar of the cabinet, and Yang Xiguang, the general manager of the East Factory.
Suddenly, Gonggong Yuan of the West Factory hurriedly came to the imperial study.
"Report, Emperor Qiqi, 100,000 people at the border pass are in a hurry, and the soldiers and horses of the Manchurian Heavenly Kingdom have gathered about 200,000 and are ready to come in the direction of Shengjing."
Yuan Gonggong's words were anxious.
However, at this moment, Zhu Yijun is thinking about the issue of food.
"Your Majesty, hurry up and send troops, if you don't send troops, those Manchurian Tartars will really be killed in the territory of Huaxia."
Chen Yunan, a cabinet scholar on the side, said bitterly to Emperor Zhu Yijun.
"In the past ten years, I once drove a personal expedition, attacked Mobei in the north, and fought the Tatars and the Mengyuan tribes that fled in a hurry, but now a fishing and hunting savage with white mountains and black waters has become a big trouble for me, which is really ridiculous."
Emperor Zhu Yijun frowned, looking helpless, picked up a bowl of tea casually, and took a sip slowly.
At this time, Gonggong Yuan's heart was suddenly shocked, and he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, why don't you let me be the supervisor of this expedition."
"Gonggong Yuan, what do you mean by this?" Father-in-law Yang Xiguang looked at Father-in-law Yuan with disdain, and suddenly said a little arrogantly.
"Father-in-law Yang Xiguang of the East Factory, don't you know what the emperor's purpose was in setting up my West Factory? It is to prevent the people of your East Factory from doing anything wrong, the people you don't dare to kill in the East Factory, we will kill in the West Factory, and we will not dare to take care of the things in the East Factory, we will take care of the West Factory, first cut and then play, and the imperial power will be licensed! I did this, all for the emperor's sake! Although Yuan Gonggong's words were yin and yang, they revealed a sense of heroism and domineering.
"Since you want to apply for the position of superintendent in the first place, then I have to make it clear to you in advance, there is no permission from the emperor. You are not qualified to be the overseer of this campaign. ”
Father-in-law Yang Xiguang said as he spoke, and his tone became more and more provocative to father-in-law Yuan.
"You, slut Yang!"
"Inu Yuan!"
Just when Gonggong Yuan and Gonggong Yang Xiguang were scolding.
Emperor Zhu Yijun shouted: "Enough, you two rude yin and yang people, you are actually shouting in the imperial study, what kind of system!"
When Hua Yiming on the side heard this, he hurriedly stepped forward and came to Emperor Zhu Yijun's side, and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, according to the minister's opinion, the duty of supervising the army is to transport our army's grain and grass from the rear to the front line on a large scale, so as to ensure that the food and clothing problems of the front-line soldiers can be solved. However, Wei Chen listened to the opinion of a recent imperial businessman. That is, please allow the people of the Shendu area to transport these grains and grass, and at the same time, allow the people of these poor families to buy and sell the goods of their own family business along the way. ”
"Hua Aiqing, your idea is good, but do you know what it means for you to do this? This means that I want to abolish the ancestral system and allow the poor people in the border areas to go to the border areas to buy and sell and do business, which will definitely increase the risk of life for those people along the way. ”
"If you go back to the emperor, the minister still has something to make clear, this kind of thinking is not the meaning of Weichen, but an imperial businessman, that is, the old man Sun of the Sun family's mansion, Sun Shutong. It was he who came up with the idea. ”
"Oh? What do you mean by that? ”
"Your Majesty, first, let those poor people in the guards around the Shendu transport grain, which can greatly save the cost of our army transporting grain and grass. Second, it is also to let those poor people barely embark on a way to start a business and get rich to make a living. ”
"Well, Hua Aiqing is also reasonable! Although the ancestral system cannot be abolished, I still decided to let Gonggong Yuan be in charge of the grain transportation task this time, but as for those who transport grain and grass, according to Hua Aiqing's words, they will be handed over to those poor people. And the matter of supervising the battle on the front line, I have made up my mind, so I will hand it over to Yang Gonggong of Dongchang. ”
Suddenly, Yang Xiguang's father-in-law and Yuan's father-in-law heard this, and the two hurriedly knelt down.
"Slave thank you lord Longen, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"
Father-in-law Yang Xiguang and father-in-law Yuan said in unison, yin and yang.
At this time, on the other hand, in the Longxiao forbidden military camp.
Yin Xiaoshuai was eating flax cakes and drinking Erguotou.
General Pan Gangfeng came to Yin Xiaoshuai's camp with a Shang Fang sword in hand.
"Yin Daxia, you are in our military camp now, are you living an okay life?"
"General Pan, thanks to the general's love, I will be very comfortable in the next life."
"Yin Daxia, in a few days, our army will be transferred and assembled in the border area, are you willing to participate in our military operation?"
"General, you are my benefactor, and it was your kindness to promote me at the beginning, of course I am willing to follow the general, and I will follow wherever I go!"
"Good job, Yin Daxia!"
Pan Gangfeng patted Yin Xiaoshuai's shoulder, with a relieved smile on his face.
At this time, in Shendu, the Sun family's mansion.
Sun Wenju was sitting on a chair and said sluggishly: "Dad, the child is not filial, and he actually threw all his money to those Manchurian Tatars."
"Wu'er doesn't have to be sad, the top priority is to gather the people to help the emperor transport grain and grass."
Father Sun Shutong was amiable and comforted his son Sun Wenju and said.
At this time, Sun Wenju's sister, Sun Xiangyu, sat on the side and was suddenly worried.
That's right, in fact, the idea of letting the people transport grain was not thought up by his father Sun Shutong, but by a poor man named Wang Guiqing.
It's just that that night, Wang Guiqing made a bet with several of his brothers, saying that if he could ask Sun Xiangyu, the eldest lady of the Sun family, out, if Sun Xiangyu appeared, those Wang Guiqing's brothers would be willing to gamble and lose and pay Wang Guiqing 50 yuan.
Unexpectedly, that night, Wang Guiqing really met Miss Sun Xiangyu.
Wang Guiqing took the initiative to propose this ghost idea, but at first Sun Xiangyu still disliked this Wang Guiqing's idea.
But today, his father Sun Shutong told Wang Guiqing's idea to the elder Hua Yiming, and Hua Yiming played it to the emperor again, and it was approved by the emperor.
However, good things don't go out, and bad things spread thousands of miles.
Sun Xiangyu was falsely rumored by neighbors because she had a private relationship with Wang Guiqing behind her back, and the more she talked about it, the more outrageous it became, Sun Xiangyu was said to be a woman who did not abide by women's morals.
In addition, Sun Xiangyu has never bound her feet since she was a child, so she has been a big-footed woman running around since she was a child.
Because she was a big-footed woman, and the scandal of having a private meeting with the untouchable Wang Guiqing spread, Sun Xiangyu was squeezed out by the eldest son of the Chen family again, and the marriage contract was canceled by the eldest son of the Chen family, and Sun Xiangyu's reputation in the Shendu area plummeted from then on.
And Sun Xiangyu's elder brother, Sun Wenju, in order to take revenge on Wang Guiqing, who was a scoundrel in his eyes, made things difficult for Wang Guiqing everywhere, asking Wang Guiqing to return all the 100 taels of silver he owed in the first five years to the Sun family.
Wang Guiqing couldn't afford to pay it back for a while, so his brother-in-law Mr. Du had to sell the land, and then Wang Guiqing had to join the team of grain transporters in order to repay the debts, and actively participated in the task of transporting grain and grass for the front line, so as to earn some funds to repay his arrears to Sun Wenju's son.