After the relationship between the Liang family and Huaidong improved, when the old city of Chongzhou was being rebuilt, Lin Fu specially allocated a sum of money to repair the old residence of the Prince of Hailing. This house in the northwest corner of the old city of Chongzhou looked a bit like a palace.
In the early morning, just as Yuan Yan asked her maid to accompany her out, she heard the "ta-ta-ta-ta" sound of horse hooves on the street stones. She looked up and saw a long cavalry team coming from the east gate.
Yuan Yan didn't know the news that Lin Fu had returned to Chongzhou. She asked the palace chief Shi Gaoqiang and the chamberlain Zuo Guitang who were waiting in front of the steps, and found out that Lin Fu had been back to Chongzhou for two days and had made an appointment to come over to visit the Queen Mother and Hailing today.
The king greets you.
After not seeing each other for another year, Yuan Yan knew that she should avoid it, but her heart was beating like a deer, and she stood under the eaves with a red face and refused to leave...
"Is Princess Yuan Yan going out?" Lin Fu got off his horse and asked with a smile when he saw Yuan Yan and two maids standing in front of the eaves.
Yuan Yan rolled her eyes and replied slyly: "I just came back and was about to enter the mansion. I saw the majestic horse team. It turned out to be Duke Pengcheng!"
Gao Qiang and Zuo Guitang were unable to expose Princess Yuan Yan's lie, so they told Lin Fu that the Queen Mother and Prince Hailing were waiting for each other in Dongyuan, and they walked inside with Lin Fu and Yuan Yan in their arms.
Even in Huaidong, only a few dozen people understood the crisis caused by Xie Chaozhong's expedition. The Hailing Palace was separated from Jiangning itself by one layer, and they could not yet feel the urgency of the situation after August.
Xie Chaozhong led his troops out of Yuling Pass, coordinated with Huaidong and Jiangzhou, and launched a three-line attack on the Zhejiang and Fujian armies. On the surface, this strategy was not inappropriate regardless of Jiangning's money and food supply capacity and the complex terrain of western Zhejiang.
It seems to be very clever.
Even though Xie Chaozhong led the troops to the expedition, Chen Xiyan, Zuo Chengmu, Lin Xuwen and others had a fierce argument with Yu Xinyuan, Wang Tian, Wang Xueshan and others in the temple. To outsiders, this was more like a party struggle and a dispute between factions within the Wu Party.
Strife - Empress Dowager Liang, who had been immersed in power struggles for half her life, could not see the dangers inherent in Xie Chaozhong's expedition. What she saw was the overt and covert struggle among many factions surrounding Xie Chaozhong's expedition.
When the court was not in the mood to kneel down, Lin Fu went to the palace, bowed to the Queen Mother and Hailing Prince Yuan Jianhai, sat down and said, "Lin Fu, a humble minister, was supervising the war in Xuzhou, and his troops were ruthless and failed to fully take care of the Queen Mother and Prince Yuan Jianhai's daily life. It's really
I have to go to eastern Zhejiang to supervise the war the next day. I came here to ask you, what orders do the Queen Mother and the Prince have? I will follow them all in Chongzhou?"
"Lin Qing is interested. There is nothing wrong with the Ai family living in Chongzhou..." The Queen Mother could not see clearly and could only vaguely see the shadow of Lin Fu sitting in front of her. She tremblingly reached out to pull the man standing next to her.
Miao Shuo said, "Mr. Pengcheng has recently added Linzi. The Ai family has nothing to offer. We have prepared a small gadget as a gift. Please give it to Gong Pengcheng..."
Miao Shuo brought the lacquer plate up and uncovered the silk cloth, revealing a crystal clear jade cicada. Lin Fu thanked him: "Thank you, the Queen Mother, for the reward..."
Prince Yuan Jianhai of Hailing was much more embarrassed, so he gave a silver lock with a long life as a congratulatory gift, and asked a silversmith to make it with the extra silver allocated by Huaidong to the Prince of Hailing's palace.
Yuan Jianhai escaped from the rebel army and went south, from Qingzhou to Chongzhou. Even if he had any property with him, most of it was exploited by the palace chief Shi Gaoqiang and other officials.
If the relationship between the Liang family and Huaidong hadn't improved, and Huaidong hadn't allocated extra money to improve life in the palace, Yuan Jianhai might not even be able to afford silk clothes.
"Lin Fu is about to go to eastern Zhejiang to supervise the war. Is there anything the prince wants to warn Lin Fu before leaving?" Lin Fu asked.
Yuan Jianhai was stunned for a moment. He originally thought that Lin Fu came over just to say a routine greeting, but he didn't expect that he would ask about the war on the southern front!
When Queen Mother Liang heard this, her wrinkled hands trembled and she stopped there in a daze.
"Lin Qing is a good soldier, the best in the world. If I want to warn Lin Qing, I am afraid that the world will laugh out loud. When it comes to using soldiers, I still want to ask Lin Qing for advice." Yuan Jianhai said with a smile.
, he didn’t understand why Lin Fu asked such an abrupt question, so he just responded perfunctorily.
After the city of Jinan was broken, Yuan Jianhai's fate was rough, and he actually experienced many more disasters than Emperor Yongxing. After Yuan Jianhai was moved to Hailing, he was actually under house arrest, spending time with his aunt Liang every day.
After getting along with each other, they are no longer the domineering and domineering descendants of the clan, and the city is deep.
"Your Majesty, you are so polite. Lin Fu's ability as a three-legged cat is all due to luck," Lin Fu said, "I won't use it to show off."
"Is Lin Qing worried about Xie Chaozhong leading the army?" the Queen Mother asked from the side.
"It's true." Lin Fu said calmly.
"Together we are strong, and when we are divided we are weak..." Seeing that his aunt was still bringing the topic to this topic, Yuan Jianhai thought that she might have an ulterior motive to say something that Lin Fu would like to hear.
In this matter, Lin Xuwen held a firm opposition attitude on behalf of Huaidong, and Yuan Jianhai knew it well - in Yuan Jianhai's view, the reason why Emperor Yongxing was determined to let Xie Chaozhong lead the army was because he urgently felt that Huaidong
threats.
Of course, there were some words that he would not say directly to Lin Fu. Yuan Jianhai just chose some big words and turned them into words that should be understood by Lin Fu.
After chatting here and there for more than half an hour, Lin Fu said goodbye and left. Before leaving, he said: "Recently, there have been frequent outings in Chongzhou at night. In order to consider the safety of the palace, I specially asked the military commander to send more people to take charge of the peripheral defense of the palace.
, please don’t think it’s weird, Queen Mother, Your Majesty…”
Hearing this, Yuan Jianhai was startled again. Although Chongzhou was under the rule of Lin Fu, although it was not possible to pick up things on the road, the public security was far better than elsewhere. Even Yuan Yan often walked to the market with her maid.
Where could Xiao Xiao frequently appear? Yuan Jianhai subconsciously thought that Lin Fu wanted to strengthen surveillance on the palace.
After Lin Fu left, he sent Chang Shi Gaoqiang away. Yuan Jianhai complained: "We think we haven't done enough as prisoners, so the palace has sent more people..."
"Lin Fu's greetings today are really unusual!" Queen Mother Liang's brows had been furrowed since Lin Fu left, and she asked Miao Shuo beside her, "Did Mr. Peng Cheng look at Jian Hai just now?
"
"Indeed, for a while." Miao Shuo replied. After asking the Queen Mother such a question, an idea popped into his mind: Huaidong was established as King Ning, so naturally it was possible to establish King Lu instead, but this idea was too scary and told him not to
Dare to speak out.
"It shouldn't be like this!" Queen Mother Liang shook her head and muttered to herself, but something was a little strange, which made her unable to get rid of her doubts.
"Jian Hai, how do you feel about Xie Chaozhong leading the army?" Queen Mother Liang asked King Hailing again.
"Huaidong took bandit girls as concubines and captured all the Huaiyang army. His power was overwhelming the world. Yuan Jianwu was eager to establish an imperial army. It was reasonable, but in the end he was too impatient." Ning
After the Lu War, Yuan Jianhai was always under house arrest and had no good impression of Emperor Yongxing.
"Well, that's the reason. Chen Xiyan is at least an old minister he can rely on. Wang Xueshan and his ilk are originally people who tend to be popular. If they didn't succumb to Gu Wuchen back then, how can they be relied on now?" Queen Mother Liang said,
"National affairs are important and require long-term planning. Don't rush. Let Yue Lengqiu gain a foothold in Jiangzhou first. After the She family is destroyed and Jiangxi is recovered, Yue Lengqiu will be summoned to the court as prime minister to drive all the troops in Huaidong.
If the horse goes to the northern line to fight with the Yanlu, the power will be slowly regained. If you are too eager, neither Yue Lengqiu nor Dong Yuan can stand firm to compete with Huaidong, and you will force Huaidong to jump over the wall. This is really not the case of the Yuan family.
What a blessing!"
"What the Queen Mother said is true. It's a pity that Yuan Jianwu couldn't hear these painstaking words!" Yuan Jianhai said through gritted teeth.
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After leaving Prince Hailing's Mansion, Lin Fu rode back to the new city listlessly on horseback.
Visiting the Empress Dowager Liang and Prince Hailing was also a test; strengthening the defense of Prince Hailing's Palace, and placing Qin Chengzu directly responsible for supervising Hailing Palace after Lin Fu left for Chongzhou was also preparing for the worst.
Lin Fu did not expect Yuan Jianhai to be grateful to him. He only needed Yuan Jianhai to know how to tolerate it. Even if he had to act in a play in the future, he would have to cooperate with Yuan Jianhai to perform it.
"Maybe we should attack Dongyang County from Shengzhou!" Lin Fu said to Zhou Pu beside him.
"Hitting Jin'an Prefecture has the advantages of attacking Jin'an Prefecture, and attacking Dongyang County has the advantages of attacking Dongyang County," Zhou Pu said. "If you have a headache, I think drawing lots will work."
"Your idea is really bad," Lin Fu laughed and said, "But if you really want to make this decision, Guan Bao Shewenzhuang will not be able to guess our background! War is no different from a mystery. But so
If we go for a fight, we can only have a 50% chance of colliding. This estimate is too low and cannot be accepted..."
"Compared with having a headache, I have to stop drinking when I go to eastern Zhejiang," Zhou Pu said. "I have a headache. I'll go to someone's house for a drink later!"
"You, after all, it's better to find a mother-in-law to cook wine and have fun for you," Lin Fu said, "Look at me, I will have four children in a blink of an eye, and the house will be very lively. I just hate being together less and being apart more, Xin'er
, Mr. Zheng, I am a stranger to you, please quickly find a mother-in-law to have children with, and we can still be in-laws in the future..."
"Well, this matter is much more troublesome than drinking." Zhou Pu chuckled. He once had two sons, but they both died when they were young and could not survive. When he was a horse thief in Huaishan, his mother-in-law also died early. Zhou Pu
From then on, one person stole freely and did not remarry.
Although Zhou Pu is the same generation as Qin Chengzu and Fu Qinghe, he is the youngest among his peers. He was very brave when he was young. He went to war with his father and brother when he was twelve years old. Until this year,
He is not yet forty years old.
At that time, Zhou Pu and others were ambushed by Chen Hansan, and at one time there were only about forty brothers left. However, the family was well hidden and they were not hunted down by the government. Afterwards, they all moved to Changshan Island. Over the years, they have long been freed from their status as rogues.
They all settled in Chongzhou, and even Fu Qinghe also moved his people to Chongzhou.
Both of Qin Chengzu's two sons died in the war, but they were still accompanied by their old wives and adopted nephews to continue the family line. Only Zhou Pu was still alone.
Seeing Zhou Pu's excuse for drinking, Lin Fu laughed. Rather than worrying about the war and the bizarre power struggle, he still cared about this kind of thing to make people feel relaxed. Lin Fu said with a smile: "But whether you like it or not, I will wait for you."
After this battle is over, I have designated you to find a wife, and now I will ask Li Shuyi to build you a house next to Beiyuan, and our two families will live next to each other..."
Zhou Pu serves as a dormitory guard, so he naturally lives next to Lin Fu so that he can deal with various emergencies at any time. Now he does not have a fixed residence in Chongzhou. When he is on duty, he hangs out with the generals and schoolboys below.
Zhou Pu laughed and said: "Speaking of mother-in-law, Princess Yuan Yan just told lies with a straight face. She was clearly about to go out. When she looked at you, she turned around and walked in with you. Why didn't you poke me?
she?"
"...Alas!" Lin Fu shook his head and sighed, and said softly, "Who told her to be born in the emperor's family!" He thought to himself that Yuan Yan was already seventeen this year, and it was rare for a seventeen-year-old clan girl to remain unmarried, so Yuan Yan was not treated well.
Seeing that it was related to the Empress Dowager Liang, not to mention that Emperor Yongxing didn't want to think of this group of people in Hailing Mansion. Furthermore, which of the powerful families in Jiangning City was willing to marry Yuan Yan?
The image of the innocent and lovely girl back then overlapped with the image he saw today, and Lin Fu thought to himself: Maybe the Hailing Palace has always been like this, and Yuan Yan will live more comfortably, right? But these words cannot be asked to her face to face.
Thinking of this, Lin Fu became uninterested and said to Zhou Pu: "Okay, I am going to eastern Zhejiang tomorrow. I will set up a banquet in the house tonight and invite you to come and drink. This will save you the headache of which restaurant to go to."