The Pei family's follow-up lasted for a long time. Pei Dao was indeed unwilling to accept it and rebelled in Hedong. The Gu family, who was on the front line, received an order to suppress it.

Hedong is adjacent to Bingzhou. As soon as Pei Ji died, Gu Jun had already secretly dispatched troops to stare at Hedong. Now, with His Majesty's order, Bingzhou sent troops very quickly.

Even so, this battle was not easy to fight. The Pei family operated in Hedong for several generations, and the number of subordinates far exceeded that of the court. There were 50,000 or 60,000, and they were well trained because the Pei family had trades with the Hu people all year round, and the cavalry equipped with better mounts than those of the court.

Bingzhou was originally under the rule of King Zhao, and the Pei family took advantage of a lot of loopholes and emptied a lot of their assets. Later, Gu Jun and his son took over, which was better, but the lost vitality could not be made up in one or two years.

Fortunately, the weapons reserves of Yuzhou were abundant, with projectiles, flying rockets, and wooden people, live horses, and thunder cannons charging into battle. It was not until the New Year that Hedong was completely captured.

The number of private soldiers in the Pei family is shocking. Only one Pei family is like this. What about the other gentry?

Even Gu Qingyi didn't think much about it, but she was afraid that Song Fengyu would also be suspicious and examined it. He would have to fight the Pei family one by one.

That is impossible.

Therefore, the shock of this military exercise has become the top priority. This time, the hot weapons are constantly mentioned in the memorial sent by Bingzhou. This time, these gentry have heard of these things, but listening to Gu Jun and his son taking down Hedong in just two months, they were shocked.

In Song Fengyu's opinion, it took two months to fight the Pei family, which was really time-consuming and laborious!

In the eyes of the aristocratic family, Hedong has accumulated strong troops and horses for generations, but it was overthrown by the Gu family’s father and son in two months!

So, the projectiles that came out of the Yuzhou area, the Divine Rockets and the wooden live horse and sky thunder cannon are so powerful?

This military exercise seemed to have become the most important thing at once.

Gu Qingyi was also very busy because military exercises, especially thermal weapons drills, are very important because the radiation area is a bit large.

Moreover, in order to strengthen the prestige of the royal family and improve the status of the royal family in the hearts of the people, Song Fengyu decided to allow the people to watch this military exercise.

So this military exercise place is particularly important. Gu Qingyi looked at Song Fengyu holding the map around Huikang for several days and finally decided to the foot of Yushan Mountain in the north of the city.

Yushan is a good name because the mountain is full of trees. Even in winter, there are also pine and cypresses lush green. The mountain is not complicated, and the foot of the mountain is a wide land with flat land, which is indeed a good place.

Gu Qingyi took the place circled by Song Fengyu and thought about how to arrange the venue. Since there are people and gentry going to watch, he had to plan the viewing area.

The gentry and the people still have to be separated. This is an imperial society after all, and the rankings of the gentry must be classified according to family background, status, and official positions...

In order to be a good wife for Song Fengyu, Gu Qingyi had to take on this part of the matter. Qu Jian and Yuan Di were both busy with military exercises. Gu Qingyi needed a helper here, and Yuan Shuo and Zheng Huan could not pull away. Xi Qiao... The Xi family's position has been shaking. Although Gu Qingyi has a good impression of Xi Qiao, he doesn't want to use him very much.

After thinking about it, there was only one Zhong Zhan. Zhong Zhan followed Yuan Shuo for a while and his whole body changed a lot compared to before. It was not an exaggeration to be reborn.

Moreover, she is Li Chaying's husband. She has such a relationship, and she is willing to endure hardships and is still a child of aristocratic family. She belongs to Yuan Shuo's young people between the imperial power and the aristocratic family's position, and is a completely candidate to fight for.

So Gu Qingyi and Song Fengyu asked for the order to call Zhong Zhan to run for her.

Zhong Zhan:...

Zhong Zhan has been depressed for a long time since he was hit last time, and his conscience has tormented in the hot pot.

He was unwilling to believe that he was a child of an unscrupulous family who ate the blood of the people, and his undestroyed conscience made him feel that he had to do something.

Fortunately, the marriage made him busy for a while and diverted his attention. Now that the queen is asking him to do things, he is still a little reluctant.

But after a few days, it became completely different. Every day, I ran very fast and my family couldn't even see his shadow.

Li Chaying, who just got married, couldn't see her husband:...

Should she cry or laugh?

Zhong Zhan was first exposed to military exercises. He had never heard of it before. He didn't care about it at first, but as the queen continued to assign tasks to him... he found that this matter was quite hard and interesting.

Especially when the venue layout costs money, the Queen gave him a difficult task to raise funds.

It was the first time he heard that the Queen had called it the gathering of the power of everyone to contribute to the Great Jin military exercises and went to the prosperous era.

It sounds really exciting, but when I really do it, I know how difficult it is. Is it easy to take out money from a family that is more stingy than an iron cock?

Of course it is not easy.

Zhong Zhan finally waited until Yuan Shuo was a little empty, and carried a pot of wine to block people from complaining.

Unexpectedly, not only did Yuan Shuo block it, but also a gift from Zheng Huan.

Zheng Huan and Zhong Zhan have an average relationship. The two have different ideas and often can't pee in the same pot. It would be strange if the relationship is good.

Originally, Zheng Huan was going to leave, but when he looked at Zhong Zhan's face, he didn't watch the bastard, and there was a lot of fun, and there was a nail under his feet. Not only did he not leave, he could not sit down but could not move.

Zhong Zhan:...

Yuan Shuo was most troubled when he was in the middle. He pulled Zhong Zhan down and slapped himself in his heart. He was also a famous and elegant young man from Huikang. Why has he now become a slutty and peaceful man?

"Daojian, I heard that you are very busy recently. Why do you have time to come to me today?" Yuan Shuo asked with an official smile.

Zhong Zhan swallowed the complaints all over his mouth. The joke, can he be embarrassed in front of Zheng Huan?

That is absolutely not possible.

No matter how hard or difficult it is, Zheng Huan cannot be laughed at!

"I have been busy all these days. Today I have some time, so I will see you." Zhong Zhan replied with a decent smile and said.

Zheng Huan didn't believe a single word. Mei Feng raised her up slightly and said inadvertently, "Now our little brother Zhong is really amazing. He has become a success after getting married."

Is this human word?

Zhong Zhan's face suddenly changed. He looked at Zhong Zhan angrily, sneered, resisted the desire to lift the table, took a deep breath, and then said, "I can't compare to Mr. Xinling. I knew I had hugged the Gu family's thighs a few years ago."

Yuan Shuo:...

If I had known that he would not go home today, and he would just find a place to stay for a night, which would be better than now.

The two of them sarcastically sarcastically for a long time, one of them was more poisonous than the other. Yuan Shuo actively mediated from the beginning, and then gave up completely. After the two of them had enough scolded, he raised his eyelids and looked at the two and said, "Aren't you both doing things for the emperor and the empress now? So, what's the difference between swearing and swearing yourself?"

Zheng Huan:...

Zhong Zhan:...

After cursing for a long time, I realized that this was right. They both have the same position now.

The silence was filled with a mysterious embarrassment.

Yuan Shuo felt comfortable and said with a smile: "You two have never dealt with each other since childhood. In the past, they had different positions and different ideas, so why are you now? Speaking of which, Yuanzhou made great contributions to the Taixue incident this time, Dao Jian ran around and worked hard for Doufang, and now he worked hard for military exercises. Everyone's ultimate goal is the same, so why bother quarreling again?"

Speaking of military exercises, everyone looked serious, and Zheng Huan was also very curious. He no longer had the interest in quarrel and lowered his head to drink.

Zhong Zhan did come to ask Yuan Shuo for advice today. Although he didn't like Zheng Huan, he thought that the two of them had the same position now. This man had some skills and might be able to give him an idea, so he simply said the matter without thinking much.

Zhong Zhan said while dipping wine with his hands and drawing general graphics on the table. He had too much budget and too little income, so how to raise funds.

Military exercises are about to be on the first day of the New Year, and it hasn't been long since now.

Although Zheng Huan didn't like Zhong Zhan, he heard that he was very considerate and organized about this matter, and he knew that he was doing things seriously, not pretending to be a fancy person, and his face was better.

But this matter is indeed not easy, because Zhong Zhan’s funding gap is too big.

Yuan Shuo first said, "The Ministry of Revenue gave me that little money?"

Zhong Zhan nodded mutely, "The Ministry of Revenue has no money, at the beginning..." He sighed when he said this. Although he didn't say anything, everyone knew that when the Xinle King was in power, the national treasury was almost the same.

In those years, Yuan Shuo and Zheng Huan followed the emperor and empress in Yuzhou to do business, but Zhong Zhan has been in Huikang. Although he was not the one who hollowed out the national treasury, he watched coldly and did nothing.

Although he was not in charge of his position at that time, he was really watching coldly.

When talking about this paragraph, Zhong Zhan really regrets it now.

The cold-eyed viewing made him politely today and beg for money. All the hardships he suffered today were the water he had in his mind at that time.

Seeing Zhong Zhan’s heartbroken and regretful look, Zheng Huan’s anger broke out in half and said, “You didn’t think so at the beginning. I would like to advise you, why are you scolding me?”

Zhong Zhan wiped his face and bowed, "I know, I was wrong, Brother Yuanzhou, can we not blame us now?"

Zheng Huan:...

You admit your mistake so happily, you scolded me before?

Only when you are angry will you admit your mistake after being scolded?

This dog guy pissed him to death.

Fortunately, Zhong Zhan finally admitted his mistake, and Zheng Huan was not petty. He snorted and accepted it, saying, "This matter is not impossible. For your sincere request, I will give you some advice."

Zhong Zhan was overjoyed, and he immediately said seriously: "Thank you, Brother Yuanzhou."

Yuan Shuo:...

He is a background board today.

Zheng Huan has been working with Empress Gu for the longest time and learned a profound truth from her: Don’t be dull and be unconventional in your work.

"Did the Empress tell me how to arrange the seats for the military exercise?" Zheng Huan looked at Zhong Zhan and asked, "I think the several areas you have planned should be prepared."

Zhong Zhan nodded, "Because the people come to watch this military exercise, the seats are very nervous. Even if we are not assigned many places to each family, we are not given many places. It is because of this that I have a headache. No one can be offended. If you arrange it properly, everyone will be happy. The important thing is that you have to have money to do it."

Not only do it, but also do it well, and it cannot look shabby and damage the royal dignity.

Yuan Shuo also frowned a little. This matter is difficult to do, and there are not many places. He also needs to leave some space for the people. High platforms should be built for viewing places, otherwise, if you watch them on the flat ground, what will the people in the back row see?

Is the back of the head of the person in front?

Zhong Zhan simply drew the mobile high platform that the Queen said was detachable and repetitive. "This kind of high platform is made of wood, just like the steps up the mountain. People sitting behind are naturally ignorant because of their high position. But one thing is that because they are all made of thick wood, they must be disassembled and reused, so the cost is high."

This kind of high platform is different from the simple and simple steps of later generations, which can only allow one person to sit. Gu Qingyi knew that these gentry like luxury and enjoyment, so she asked them to make those narrow small steps. Isn’t this waiting for them to lift the table?

Therefore, each floor of this step-style viewing platform is a wide and comfortable independent area, with several tables, screens, cushions, incense burners, and sitting comfortably to watch the military exercises.
To be continued...