Qiu Ju looked at Hui'er and said: "Hui'er is so good, I will definitely find a husband better than Qiao Mu in the future."
Hui'er smiled and said, "Then I'll borrow Sister Qiu Ju's good words."
Qiu Ju found someone to carry the betrothal gift into the small warehouse.
Shen Wan drew up a dowry list and gave money to Butler Yun to help prepare it. She also asked him to choose a large house with three entrances in a better area of the city.
Qiu Ju was about to get married, Hui'er injured her hand, and there was no one to use the courtyard, so Shen Wan asked Qiu Ju and Hui'er to pick two smart and responsible maids to enter Qiushi courtyard.
On the dragon chair in the Jinluan Palace, Xuanyuan Yu frowned and dropped the book handed over from the North on the imperial desk.
"The damn barbarians from the Northern Territory have frequently harassed my northern border since the year, burned, killed, and robbed my northern people. They have suffered greatly. They are really abominable."
Song Heng frowned, hesitated for a while, stood up and said with cupped hands: "Your Majesty, according to the habits of barbarians in the past, we in the Dongchen Kingdom have to be on guard, so we have to make preparations in advance."
In the past, the barbarians in the Northern Territory frequently harassed them before invading the border.
Then when the border soldiers were accustomed to it and did not take the harassment seriously, they gathered their troops and invaded in a large scale.
Shangshu of Hubu stroked his beard and said: "General, what do you mean, the Northern Territory is going to enter our Dongchen Kingdom again and start a war with our Dongchen Kingdom?"
Song Heng looked at the Secretary of the Ministry of Finance and said: "It's possible."
The Secretary of the Household Department said: "The general may have been overly worried. Six years ago, the emperor defeated the Northern Territory and retreated to their capital, Yanzhou.
Now, how dare they come back and offend us Dongchen again!"
The Minister of Hubu would say this, firstly, because he felt that Song Heng was worrying too much, and secondly, if the emperor really listened to him and made preparations earlier, it would be their Hubu who would be busy.
After all, their household department is in charge of money and food.
They have to allocate the money to purchase weapons and prepare the food and supplies.
If they are prepared but do not fight, their work will be in vain.
"I feel that what Master Shangshu said is absolutely correct. The general must be overly worried and overly nervous."
"Back then, the King of the Northern Territory was beaten to a pulp by the Emperor. Now he is probably still afraid of the remaining power that the Emperor left in the Northern Territory!"
The civil servants all agreed with the Minister of Hubu, saying that Song Heng was overly worried.
Xuanyuan Liuyun frowned, stood up, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the Northern Territory has always been eyeing our Dongchen Kingdom, coveting our Dongchen Kingdom's fertile land and rich products.
I think the general is right, we have to defend the Northern Territory and should make preparations in advance."
Shen Ming also stood up and said: "I think the general and the young prince are right. Even if there is no war, it is still good to prepare for a rainy day."
The Minister of Hubu glared at Shen Ming dissatisfiedly. This Shen Ming was from his Hubu, but he went against him. Isn't this a slap in the face of a high-ranking person like him?
Several generals also stood up and said, "Your Majesty, you must guard against your wild ambitions in the Northern Territory!"
"What if we made preparations but the Northern Territory didn't invade?"
"There are already signs in the Northern Territory. If we don't prepare early, what will happen if the Northern Territory invades?
We will be very passive."
"That is, only by preparing early can we deal with it calmly."
"Do you know how much material and financial resources it takes to prepare food and grass supplies?"
“Do you understand what it means to take precautions before they happen?”
"You, the household department, are just afraid of trouble. We all risk our lives on the battlefield."
The military generals quarreled with the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Works and some civil servants, and for a while the court was as noisy as a vegetable market.
"Snapped."
Xuanyuan Yu slapped the imperial case hard, and the entire Jinluan Palace was silent. The civil servants and generals who were noisy just now were as quiet as chickens.
He said loudly: "I think the general is right. We have to guard against the ambitions of wolves in the Northern Territory. We should indeed make preparations in advance.
The Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Industry, I order you three to cooperate and prepare grain, grass, supplies, and weapons as soon as possible."
"The humble minister obeys the decree."
The three ministers came out and obeyed the order.