At the beginning of winter, Lin Jinxiao received the first letter from Chu Nanzhi.
In total, it had been nearly two months since their mother and son left him. He missed them so much that he had to put all his thoughts on governing the prefecture and county.
Brothers Tang Ru and Tang Li were retreating steadily, almost wiping out all the elite members of the Tang family under their command.
Lin Jinxiao has arranged everything according to the previous arrangements. Zhang Yu is holding on to Haining County. He Ying and Zheng Huan have also taken over the 30,000 infantrymen in Changning County, and have done a relatively safe job of pacifying the county.
Since Xu Jinzhou took office as the inspector of Funing County, he has been very effective. He dismissed corrupt officials and punished the gentry, which greatly boosted the people's morale. He figured it was time to go on a personal expedition.
Early that morning, Lin Jinxiao ordered Li Ce to start reorganizing the army, and asked Sun Wucai to issue continuous announcements to spread disaster relief matters from various counties to the whole state. With these exciting reports, if he could fight again and severely defeat the rebels,
With the combination of military vigor, military power and appeasement, he did not believe that the rebels would continue to carry on if they were isolated and helpless.
After making preparations, he shut himself up in his study and quietly read Chu Nanzhi's letter. When he saw the final signature, he couldn't help but froze: "It was late at night, and I saw that the Begonia flowers were still awake."
This girl, where can I see crabapple flowers in the twelfth lunar month of winter?
After all, I have been in the palace.
While thinking hard, he replied to the letter. When he was about to finish writing the letter, he suddenly realized that his wife has always been eccentric, and he was afraid that these words were meant to be love words.
When signing the note, I also added a sentence: Until next spring, when the flowers bloom, my husband will be by your side.
Looking at the four words "spring is warm and flowers are blooming", he now only hopes to stabilize the situation in Ningzhou as soon as possible.
After folding the letter and letting the carrier pigeon fly, he heard Hai Da'a's voice ringing outside the study: "Your Highness, Jiangnan Inspector and Jiangnan Remainer, Shangshu ordered Lord Ji to come to the house to ask for an audience."
"Ji Huaishu?"
Lin Jinxiao felt happy and quickly went over to open the door.
He had already received the news that Ji Huaishu had been ordered to come to quell the rebellion and provide disaster relief for him. This made him even more powerful.
When they arrived at the main hall, they saw Ji Huaishu greeting him with a smile. After bowing and bowing, he said happily: "This time, under the orders of our ancestors and your majesty, I have come to reward my meritorious service and help your highness put down the rebellion. If your highness has any instructions, I will
You can give your orders."
Just as Lin Jinxiao was about to reply, he heard a loud noise outside the palace: "Brother Wang, why did you let He Ying and Zheng Huan stand still? My husband and Tang Li were trapped in Tanning Gucheng, isolated and helpless. Do you want to die?"
save?"
Ji Huaishu heard the voice of Princess Lin Jinqian and turned around. He saw Lin Jinqian leading Tang Yuanxi in angrily. He couldn't help but choked and said: "Failed again? In this case, the Tang family's tribe plus the Changning County's
There are nearly 100,000 defenders. If this continues, how many men of our empire’s army will be able to be sent into battle to defeat them?”
"What does Ji Shangshu mean by this?"
Lin Jinqian curled her lips in dissatisfaction: "My husband has been loyal to the court and almost died. It's not because he is greedy for life and afraid of death. It's just because the thieves have a strong army."
"Really."
Lin Jinxiao sneered coldly: "Do you remember that Your Highness the Princess once boasted that she was just a refugee? Why are you so afraid now?"
Before Lin Jinqian could reply, Ji Huaishu took out the imperial edict from his arms and read it loudly and solemnly:
"Princess Qian listened to the order, but Tang Ru, the chief governor, formed a secret alliance with his party members and acted arbitrarily and authoritarianally, which caused popular resentment. He made reckless advances and lost troops and generals. She was stripped of the position of chief governor and demoted to stay in Pingning Prefecture and served as a servant in the state capital. Princess Qian disturbed the morale of the army.
He is good at meddling in military affairs, so his salary was suspended for half a year, and he stayed in the government to think about his mistakes, and was no longer allowed to interfere in the affairs of the state government."
"What. Strip away the position of Grand Governor?"
Lin Jinqian's legs suddenly went weak.
Without military power, how could Tang Ru control Pingning Prefecture?
"What, the princess has questions?"
Ji Huaishu asked coldly.
"Is this what the emperor meant?"
Lin Jinqian asked unwillingly.
"Who does Her Highness the Princess wish to mean?"
"I"
Lin Jinqian hesitated and was speechless.
"Please respect yourself, princess."
Ji Huaishu handed the imperial edict to her, and Lin Jinqian slumped on the ground frustrated, and then she faintly felt that she had harmed the consort.
Tang Yuanxi didn't care whether her brother could be a governor, the only thing she prayed for was to see him come back alive.
Since marrying into the palace, she had put in almost all the effort, learning to cook and serve others, and asking people about Lin Jinxiao's preferences, but she couldn't please him at all.
Even in the past two months, he had not even stepped through the door of the Changliu Hospital.
Although I was extremely sad in my heart, I still had the guts to kneel down and pray: "Please, for the sake of my humble appearance, Your Highness can immediately send troops to rescue my brother."
“Thin noodles?”
Lin Jinxiao smiled sarcastically: "From the moment you stepped into my palace, I never thought you were a thin-faced person."
After saying this, he led Ji Huaishu away.
After all, he was the son of a great general, and he could not just watch him die in his own fiefdom. This would actually fulfill his reputation of loyalty.
Watching Lin Jinxiao leave, Tang Yuanxi felt extremely humiliated and the defenses in her heart were breaking down little by little. The beautiful vision she had previously cherished also collapsed, and she began to cry hoarsely.
"Yuanxi don't cry."
Lin Jinqian became unusually calm at this time: "Since he doesn't look down on you and me, the two of us, sister-in-law, will do something spectacular, and we can always make a comeback."
Gaosheng Restaurant has been open for nearly two months, and all the recipes available are handed down from the Qi family. Previously, many diners came here because of her reputation as a princess, but over time, the number of diners has decreased. On the contrary, the Yuanlai Restaurant opposite has become more and more prosperous.
, even the semicolon business is booming.
She began to realize that there was a problem with the recipe.
"The jealous woman said before she left that her two sisters are in charge of the restaurant's menu. Let's go find those two country girls. Even if your brother can't become the governor, we two sisters can earn more money.
, I can still return to Beijing in glory in the future."
Having made up her mind, Lin Jinqian took Tang Yuanxi and ran to the restaurant quickly.
When we arrived at Qinghefang, it was lunch time. Because the garden in the square was completely open to the public, there were so many people coming and going inside, which made people envious.
Lin Jinqian found Chu Nanxiang's figure in the crowd and walked straight up. Just as he was about to talk, he was stopped by Yin Liuxuan.
"Your Highness the Princess is very happy. Why do you want to come to Qinghefang with Princess Yuanxi today?"
Yin Liuxuan asked warily.
"Ahem, Sister-in-law Wang has entered Beijing. I, thinking of sisterhood, came to visit her sisters."
Lin Jinqian didn't take Yin Liuxuan seriously at all, and faced Chu Nanxiang with a smile: "Nanxiang, I have set up a banquet at Gaosheng Restaurant, would you like to go and chat with me?"
Seeing that Yin Liuxuan still wanted to stop her, and that her brother-in-law wanted to conquer Changning County in person, Chu Nanxiang immediately thought of what his eldest sister had said before leaving, pushed Yin Liuxuan behind him, and replied earnestly: "Princess invites you, how dare you not recognize me?"
Please lift me up and ask the princess to lead the way."
"Axiang, I'll go with you."
As soon as Yin Liuxuan finished speaking, Chu Nanxiang shook his head decisively: "No, just wait for me to come back at Qinghefang."
After that, I followed my sister-in-law to the Gaosheng Restaurant opposite.