"Come down, don't wait around, don't cry, or make me angry, so I'll chop you all into pieces and make soup! I'll temporarily stay with Mr. Wang for the next few days. Mr. Wang, what do you want Miss Xuan to do?
You all just listen to me!"
Xu Huai shouted to all five women to dismount and asked them to help move the swords, guns, crossbows, quivers and the pair of armors in the carriage into the next yard.
He, Xu Xin'an, Xu Wukun, and Han Qi disguised themselves and sneaked into the vicinity of Hutou Village to spy on the bandits. Of course, they would not bring the armor with them, but Xu Wujiang and Xu Wuliang heard that they had sneaked into Huaiyuan Town again this morning, and they were afraid that they were going to do it again.
What the heck, why did you bring this pair of armor to Xu Huai?
"How can you be so rude?" Wang Xuan cast Xu Huai an angry look with her bright eyes, pulled him aside, and comforted Tian Yanyan and the fifth daughter, "Xu Huai is scaring you, don't be afraid of him, he won't take advantage of you."
How are you doing - you stay here for now, and after a while, I will ask him to let you go."
Wang Xuan doesn't like Liu Qiong'er because Liu Qiong'er has a sense of arrogance in her actions. She can also feel that Liu Qiong'er doesn't take her seriously. Liu Qiong'er's background is only a secondary factor.
Although the five Tian Yanyan girls were also from Yuehong Mansion, seeing how frightened they were, Wang Xuan immediately felt that they were not annoying at all, and even felt that they were pitiable.
Women are just so weird.
Although Wang Xuan said this, the five girls Tian Yanyan were afraid of ghosts and stayed away from Xu Huai.
They also looked at Wang Xuan with strange eyes. This girl was so beautiful, but she was mentally ill. Otherwise, how could they think that the embryonic killing was just to scare them?
"You guys can stay in the two wing rooms here for now."
Wang Zhen pointed to the two wing rooms on the east side and asked the five girls to stay temporarily.
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The courtyard on Wang Zhen's side has only three main rooms and four wing rooms. Normally, when Wang Zhen, Wang Xuan's grandson and grandson, Lu Xiong and wet nurse Zhai live there, they can only free up two wing rooms for the five daughters to live in.
Fortunately, the yard where Xu Wujiang and Xu Huai lived next door was still empty. They had hurriedly escaped from the military camp, and the pots, pans, bedding, gauze and other daily necessities were still there. Xu Huai and Yin Peng happened to live in it.
Yin Peng unloaded the cart into the yard next door and led the three good horses to the stable in the backyard to tie them up.
There is no bean grass to feed the horses here, but fortunately, when they returned to the military camp, Jin Longquan said that the inspection department would bear the food and horse feed here. Yin Peng told Xu Huai and went to inspect first.
Si went to get horse materials.
Xu Huai changed out of his bloody clothes, walked to Wang Zhen's courtyard, stuffed the blood clothes into the arms of Tian Yanyan who was talking to Wang Zhen in front of the corridor, and asked her to take them for washing.
Tian Yanyan was trained by Yuehong Mansion to be Liu Qiong'er's successor. Although she had served girls in Yuehong Mansion when she was young, in recent years she has mainly studied piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and her delicate fingers have never been touched by Yang Chun Shui.
The seven-year-old girl held up a pile of bloody clothes and wanted to faint from the smell of blood.
Xu Huai sat under the shade of the locust tree in the yard and told the king about the bloodbath of Zhongjiazhuang yesterday by the bandit army and the panic in the market today. Lao Yatan and other stubborn bandits had heard about it and took action. Lu Xiong knew: "Zheng Huai's bloodbath"
Zhongjiazhuang is destined to turn things upside down in Tongbai Mountain and cause a bloody storm. Deng Gui has no other way to go except guarding the Huaiyuan military stronghold, and we are the only straw he can hold on to! However,
I still have some doubts in my heart, and I would like to ask Mr. Wang to clarify my doubts."
"Say." Wang Zhen said as he sat on an old tree stump.
"Although Cai Ting is suspected of raising bandits, and Zheng Hui adheres to his nature, it can be considered as a reason, but Zheng Hui is not Cai Ting after all. Without Cai Ting's support, he should not dare to act so wantonly. There is no explanation for this.
"Xu Huai said, "There must be a more convincing reason, that is, the old soldier of the Jingsheng Army was named Cai Qing. He is very worried about Huai. Cai Qing served as the judge and governor of the Jingsheng Army back then. Is there any story that the outside world knows?
Don’t know?”
Wang Zhen closed his eyes, sighed slightly, and said:
"In the ninth year of Tianbing, the Khitan people launched a border provocation in Yunzhong, and 20,000 border troops and people were massacred. The imperial court dispatched Wang Xiaocheng and led the Jingsheng Army to rush to the aid of Yunzhong. They quickly recovered Yunzhong and also recaptured Shuo from the Khitan people.
, Wei and other places. In the later dynasty, peace was negotiated with the Khitan, and the officials promised that the Khitan people could restore their old boundaries, and ordered Wang Xiaocheng to lead his troops to withdraw from Shuo, Wei and other places. However, Wang Xiaocheng refused to obey the order because Shuo, Wei and other places were his homeland.
, Cai Qing held a secret edict to kill Wang Xiaocheng instead, and led the Jingsheng Army to withdraw from Shuo Wei. Your father Xu Wuxuan was the commander of Wang Xiaocheng's personal soldiers. There were also many members of the Xu family who were Wang Xiaocheng's personal soldiers at that time.
He was cleared out of the Jingsheng Army after that..."
"Wang Xiaocheng refused to obey the decree, and the officials wanted to kill Wang Xiaocheng. Cai Zheng only acted according to the secret edict. What was he afraid of?" Xu Huai asked.
"The problem is the issuance of this secret edict," Wang Zhen said. "In the ninth year of Tianbing, I was serving in Yuezhou. I felt that there was something fishy about this matter, but I didn't know the details. It wasn't until the change of Yuan Dynasty to Tianxuan that I returned to Bianjing to serve as the official.
After consulting many regulations during the Tianbing period, I found out that Cai Zheng did not have a so-called secret edict at that time, but that he had first faked the edict to kill Wang Xiaocheng. After the fact, it was Wang Yongqi and others who wrote to the officials, thinking that Cai Zheng
It was an extraordinary act to defy the imperial edict to kill Wang Xiaocheng, so in subsequent official letters, the existence of this secret edict was acquiesced, confirming that Wang Xiaocheng was guilty of resisting the imperial edict and should be executed. Lu Xiong escorted me on the Tongbai Mountain Road to avoid the assassin.
, you, Xu Wujiang and others are involved again. Cai Qing has a guilty conscience and may have thought that I would use this secret to seduce Wang Xiaocheng’s old subordinates..."
"Commander Wang refused to obey the order at that time. He was just doing the 'general' thing. He should not be punished for his crime. Cai Qing pretended to order the king's army to be killed, but he still held grudges for more than ten years." Lu Xiong sighed, "The rest of the Jingsheng Army
They are just soldiers, but they are the personal soldiers recruited by Wang Shuai when he went out to Tangzhou, which makes him worry the most."
The generals and soldiers of the Grand Viet Imperial Army do not belong to each other, but the civil and military forces are in control of each other.
Wang Xiaocheng was transferred from Tangzhou to command the Jingsheng Army in the fourth year of Tianbing's reign. Wang Zhen had already served as a judge in the Jingsheng Army even before Wang Xiaocheng. The original military leaders of the Jingsheng Army, including
None of them, including Lu Xiong, had any special connection with Wang Xiaocheng. They just accepted Tianbing's rule four years later.
But it was Wang Xiaocheng who went out to Tangzhou to suppress the Tongbaishan bandits and captured hundreds of bandits. As well as the confidants Wang Xiaocheng had trained for many years before serving in the army, some of the soldiers from the Wang family, these generals had feelings for Wang Xiaocheng.
deepest.
It was these people that Cai Zheng feared the most.
"What's this called?" Xu Huai asked with a sad smile.
Xu Huaitai wanted to ask Wang Zhendang about the situation of the Khitans in the west and north. He wanted to know whether these two barbarian enemies posed any big threat to Vietnam, or what they were doing secretly, which the DPRK and China had not yet done.
Alarmed enough, Deng Gui opened the courtyard door and peeked in.
Seeing Xu Huai, Wang Zhen, and Lu Xiong sitting in the courtyard, Deng Guicai pretended to knock lightly on the wood door.
"Mr. Deng, why are you here?" Wang Zhen nodded slightly in front of Deng Gui to show his courtesy.
Deng Gui took a long breath, calmed his mind, and walked in with Jin Longquan and Tang Tiande behind him.
Even though he still didn't know who the Yaksha Fox was hiding behind the scenes to protect Wang Zhen and what he looked like, one thing was certain. Since this man had sent in a brave general like Xu Huai, he was in no hurry.
Making excuses to take Wang Cun out shows that he will not sit back and watch the Huaiyuan military stronghold fall.
In addition to Xu Huai, Lu Xiong and others in the Huaiyuan military camp, Deng Gui suspected that people like Xu Wujiang and even the entire Xu family were secretly controlled by this person.
In other words, the situation seems to be bad, but Huaiyuan Military Village and Yuhuangling Mountain are both inside and outside each other, so they have no chance.
Although the current dynasty valued civility over military affairs and used civility to control military affairs, it was generally tolerant of civil and military generals.
As long as Deng Gui is not stupid enough to commit the crime of treason, no matter how great and heavy the blame for many previous incidents, including the assassination of Guo Caoling, is settled, the most he can do is to reduce his position to serve the people, or even
It will not affect the career prospects of my children and nephews.
Therefore, no matter what, he will guard the Huaiyuan military camp; he will not break the casserole and ask about the arrangements at Xie Mashan - there is no need, so why should he be suspected of colluding with the bandits.
"The bandit army looted Yushan Post in the afternoon. Two old soldiers had just escaped to the Huaiyuan military camp to report that there were more than two hundred bandits occupying Yushan Post to recruit troops. From what they said, the bandits looked like they were Shixizhuang thieves.
Gao Xiangzhong's department. From then on, Xunyuan still wanted to communicate with the prefectures and counties, so he could only borrow a road from Xinyang to cross the Huai River, and this trip would take six to seven hundred miles back and forth. Even if Chen Zhizhou and Cheng Zhixian had any instructions
Even Huaiyuan and Huaiyuan were unable to implement the order in time, so everything had to be obeyed!" Deng Gui bowed to Wang Zhen, and after getting Wang Zhen's approval, he sat aside and told Wang Zhen the latest situation. Lu Xiong knew that,
"I am a lowly official with a humble background. I have never experienced such a severe banditry. I am at a loss as to what to do and my mind is in a hurry. I would like to ask the king to give me some advice..."
With the fall of Yushan Station, and the thieves such as Laoya Tan also becoming restless in the east, the Huaiyuan Inspection Department's contact with the outside world has actually been cut off.
According to the system, in the past, all matters that needed to be decided by the prefecture and county road bureaus could be decided by Deng Gui at this time.
As a demoted minister, Wang Zhen stayed in Tangzhou and was not allowed to interfere with state and county affairs. However, in such an urgent situation, Deng Gui consulted Wang Zhen on all matters and even asked Wang Zhen, who was a demoted minister but had great reputation, to stand in front of him.
It is in line with Dai Viet etiquette to come out and temporarily preside over all matters.
Of course, Wang Zhen was also being cunning in doing so.
In other words, Xu Wujiang and others would become a serious problem for the imperial court in the future. All he did today was to follow the etiquette and discuss matters with the king to defend the stronghold. He had absolutely no intention of colluding with the fleeing bandits. All the relationships were
You can blame it on Wang Zhen.
Of course, the big one has to take the blame.
Of course Wang Zhen could see through Deng Gui's scheming, so he stood up with his arms folded, stood under the locust tree, and stared at the blue sky of the distant mountains:
Under normal circumstances, he did not want to taint his reputation and had resolutely refused to escape to Yuhuangling before. However, whether he could hold the Huaiyuan military stronghold was related to the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Tongbai Mountain, and even the lives of tens of thousands of people outside Tongbai Mountain.
Whether several prefectures and counties will be affected by banditry, there are certain things that he has to shoulder the responsibility for...
