Xu Huai was about to go out and said to Hu Yu, who was frowning in front of the corridor: "Young lady is pregnant, so it is indeed not suitable to take a long-distance carriage. You can ask your servants to prepare a walking carriage to go to Caizhou..."
"Pu chariot?" Hu Yu asked hesitantly.
A walking chariot is also a sedan chair.
Taking a sedan chair to Caizhou is comfortable for the person sitting on it, but what about the person carrying it?
Four to five hundred miles away, the post road is full of ice and snow, and it may take two days to reach Caizhou. A soft bridge plus a pregnant woman weighing almost two hundred pounds, there are a few strong men who can afford to live like this.
Hard?
Hu Yu looked at the servants in the courtyard in embarrassment.
Hu Kai was a minister, but unlike Cai Qingyin who raised private soldiers, there were no large estates in the capital, and unlike Zhu Hang who liked to raise hundreds of soldiers in his house to fill the scene, he needed a powerful force like Lu Wenhu to suppress the situation.
Hu's house also uses some servants and maids, but they are mainly responsible for taking care of daily life and doing chores. None of them are brave and strong.
Xu Huai took over the matter and said: "Second Young Master, go ahead and prepare. We soldiers, who have no other abilities, will take turns carrying a chariot and rush to Caizhou. This will not delay Duke Hu's schedule."
"Then thank you Junhou for your help!" Hu Yu may not realize how serious the situation is, but he rarely disobeys his father Hu Kai's words. Of course he is happy to see Xu Huai helping him solve the problem.
However, Xu Huai was not the only one who took Hu Kai, Hu Yu and his son's careful consideration into account. After a while, a young general in his early twenties came over with a strong cavalry group.
Yang Lin's army consists of 2,500 horsemen. It's ice and snow. Even if everyone rides a horse, the speed of a large-scale march cannot be too fast - in this ice and snow, traveling a hundred miles a day is considered fast. Therefore, Yang Lin will be there
After receiving the transfer order, he directly led his troops out of the capital and rushed to Caizhou.
Yang Lin was worried that the Hu Mansion had limited manpower, so he asked his son Yang Qiye to lead a team of troops to wait for call, and at the same time protect Hu Kai, Hu Yu and his son on their way to Caizhou.
Xu Huai also had to admit that Yang Lin's consideration was thorough - although he expected that the Red Husband cavalry would penetrate the Hehuai area on a large scale in ten days, it did not mean that the Red Husband's small-scale scout troops would not
It will penetrate in advance.
Hu Kai was not traveling with Yang Lin's troops, so he had to compress his time as much as possible so that he could stay in Bianliang for more time and rush to Caizhou earlier. Surrounded by a small group of guards, it was best for Hu Kai to travel alone.
The fastest, but his personal safety needs to be treated with caution.
Of course, Hu Kai transferred Yang Lin's troops to Caizhou to use them as personal soldiers.
Seeing that Yang Lin was very familiar with the situation in Hu Mansion, and his son Yang Qiye was also familiar with Hu Yu, Xu Huai knew Hu Kai and Yang Lin had contacts in Beijing. Therefore, he would not follow up on these trivial matters.
Yang Lin competes for credit.
After a while, a healthy servant rushed to Hu's house out of breath. He came in and reported to Hu Yu the whereabouts of Hu Kai at this time, and then asked: "Second Young Master, is Xu Huaike, the tenth general of the Tianxiong Army, here?"
Xu Huaishi had just had a quick meeting with Hu Kai in the General Hall of the Infantry Guards. He had not yet had a chance to meet the guards beside Hu Kai. At this time, he stood up and asked:
"I am Xu Huai. I wonder why Mr. Hu is summoned?"
The old servant said: "The master guessed that you should be here, so he sent me back to rush you to the Privy Council to receive the transfer order!"
Taiyuan was besieged, and the Hedong Metropolitan Deployment Department existed in name only. The mobilization of the remnants of the Tianxiong Army fell under the direct jurisdiction of the Privy Council. In theory, it required the Privy Council's transfer order to go all the way through the city and to Caizhou.
As for the Gyeonggi garrison, some soldiers and horses will gradually leave the capital with the defense envoys from various towns in the past two days, and the Privy Council will also need to issue transfer orders.
Xu Huai also needed a transfer order before he could justifiably lead the soldiers of Tongbai Mountain to station in Huaiyuan.
Since Hu Kai was summoned, and Yang Qiye, the son of Yang Lin, was here to help Hu Mansion, Xu Huai immediately stopped delaying and rode with Wang Ju and Xu Xin'an to follow the old servant to the Privy Council.
As one of the two palaces, the Privy Council is located directly south of the palace and on the east side of Royal Street.
The Imperial Street in Bianliang City is two hundred steps wide, with long corridors on both sides, and is divided into four lanes with red and black forks (juma). Normally, people and ordinary officials are allowed to pass on both sides, and the Royal Street in the center is
Officials and citizens are strictly prohibited from intruding at will.
Tonight was special. When the patrolmen on duty on the imperial street heard that the old servant of the Hu family said that Xu Huai and the others were rushing to the Privy Council to receive transfer orders, they allowed them to ride their horses directly on the imperial road and arrived at the Privy Council a short while later.
The Privy Council was brightly lit at this time. Xu Huai, Wang Ju, and Xu Xin'an walked into the courtyard of the Privy Council Office. They saw that the place was also busy with traffic, and people came and went from time to time.
Xu Huai and the others did not look at Hu Kai, but they saw Yang Lin and Zhu Zhi standing in the corner waiting.
"Yang Junhou, are you here too?" Xu Huai walked over and greeted Yang Lin.
"Marquis Xu Jun, General Wang, you are here too!" Yang Lin returned the salute.
"What's the situation here?" Xu Huai looked at Zhu Zhi and asked.
"The officials have issued an edict to the King of Qin. The Privy Council has to issue all the transfer orders overnight. It also needs to send people to carry the transfer orders and rush to various places with the edict messengers in the palace to spread the edict to mobilize troops and the King of Qin." Zhu Zhi explained the interior of the Privy Council in front of him.
In the chaos and busyness, he said, "But this time King Qin's troops did not directly enter Bianliang, but directly gathered in the four towns and accepted the jurisdiction of the defense envoys of the four towns such as Hu Gong. Therefore, many transfer orders not only required the deputy defense envoys of the four towns such as Hu Gong
To sign the lottery, Hu Gong and others are required to select smart and capable military officials to follow the edicts and rush to various places to urge the dispatch of troops - there is a lot of busyness here!"
Then Zhu Zhi pulled Xu Huai aside and whispered: "That boy Ge Yu was following Duke Lu in the government hall. He just met me. His eyes looked like he wanted to eat someone..."
"Oh! Let's leave him alone, how can he really eat you?"
Xu Huai curled his lips and smiled, not surprised by such a thing.
The Ge family was originally close to Zhao Guan, the Duke of Lu State. Even if Ge Boyi reduced his position to serve as a civilian, Ge Yu and others would not be able to join the army as generals or enter official careers for the time being. However, this did not prevent them from being private members of the Duke of Lu State and Zhao Guan.
Watch the people walking around you.
Since the founding of the Dai Viet Dynasty, the succession of the throne has been relatively orderly. A very important point is that the restrictions on the princes are very strict - the Duke's Palace and the Prince's Palace use a few limited officials, mainly to take care of the prince's daily life, or eunuchs.
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Zhao Guan had the opportunity to leave the town at this time, but the actual manpower available was very limited.
Not to mention Ge Yu, if Ge Boyi could wipe his face, he would most likely serve as a staff member and follow Duke Zhao Guan of Lu to Weizhou to take charge.
Although after the Tianxiong army was defeated, Yue Hailou wanted to assassinate Ge Boyi while he was on his way to Yanmen to plead guilty, and then put the blame on Xu Huai, Ge Boyi, and Ge Yu had the deepest hatred for Yue Hailou, but obviously not because of Xu Huai.
Huai took action to expose Yue Hailou and was grateful for saving them.
These narrow-minded villains will only remember the fact that Shuozhou was deprived of military power.
However, Xu Huai couldn't take care of so much at this time, and he didn't think that Ge Boyi, Ge Yu and his son would be his opponents at this time; any big trouble in the future would also be caused by Lu Guogong.
Could it be that since the Ge family and his son stopped talking, the Duke of Lu had a good impression of them?
Soon Hu Kai came out in person, led Xu Huai, Yang Lin, and Zhu Zhi into the side hall, and formally received the edict and transferred the order from the edict messenger and the head of the Privy Council.
"As long as Qi Ye stays with me for the time being, you will set off immediately - especially Xu Huai. Huaiyuan County will be transferred to Caizhou. Negotiations still need to be made with Tangzhou and Biyang County. In addition, rural soldiers will be recruited for training. Time
It is extremely urgent and cannot be delayed..." After the procedural matters were completed, Hu Kai urged Xu Huai and Yang Lin to leave as soon as possible.
"good."
Xu Huai readily agreed, although he didn't think he needed to fight for two or three days.
In the past two years, although Xu Huai was not in Tongbai Mountain, Zhufengtang's power in Huaiyuan has been developing steadily.
More importantly, the bandit rebellion in Tongbai Mountain has to a considerable extent broken down the most stubborn clan barriers. At the same time, Xu Wujiang, Xu Wuliang and others were stationed in Huaiyuan. Su Laochang, Xu Wukun and others also led the women and children of the Hu tribe earlier, and Wu
The imperial troops and the labor camp were withdrawn to Huaiyuan.
There was absolutely no obstacle to their recruitment of 2,500 rural soldiers in Tongbai Mountain. The old soldiers from the labor camp were officially incorporated into the army, and the number of soldiers was enough.
Xu Huai has 2,500 rural soldiers and 2,500 regular soldiers under his command. At the same time, he is acting under the imperial edict. He wants to see who in Tangzhou and Biyang County will stand up and build a house for Huaiyuan.
The county was transferred to Caizhou to set up obstacles.
In the final analysis, Zhufengtang emerged from the Tongbai Mountain banditry and experienced two northern expeditions against Yan. It has already reserved a group of capable and energetic manpower that can be used like arms and fingers to inspect all the Huaiyuan County offices.
The structure of the company is organized, unlike when Hu Kai came to Caizhou, he had to accept it and rely on the original local power to carry out the work...
