The Spring Festival in the sixth year of Xiaode's reign was like a roller coaster for Suiyuan Deputy Commander Kobdo, causing his life path to fall from the peak to the valley.
Before the people from the General Fu Military Mansion could react, Jin Yiwei had already knocked open their door and rushed in.
At this time, all the soldiers in the mansion were injured and were unable to fight anymore. Within half an hour, they were all bandaging their wounds, recuperating their wounds, decoction them, and lying on the bed wailing.
Wail in bed.
Therefore, the imperial guards found Khovd without any hindrance.
Zhang Shiqiang stepped out from the crowd and said to Kobdo: "Kobdo, as the deputy commander-in-chief, you are the leading figure in Guihua City. Lin Zhaolin Dutang, the commander of our Jinyi Guards, arrived in Guihua City today.
You can go to Jinyiwei Qianhu's office immediately to meet you, please invite me now!"
"What? It's Jin Yiweidutang who is here!" Kobdo was immediately shocked.
Zhang Shiqiang sneered: "My capital hall not only invited you, but also invited the Commander-in-Chief and the Governor. What's the matter, the Deputy Commander-in-Chief doesn't want to go?" Zhang Shiqiang sneered.
The situation was stronger than his own, and his property and life had already fallen into their hands. What else could Kobedo say, so he had no choice but to follow Zhang Shiqiang.
On the evening of the second day of the Lunar New Year, Lin Zhao sent out an invitation to Suiyuan Town's chief soldier, the eunuch in charge of the army, and the governor. Accompanying him was the gray-faced deputy chief soldier Kobdo.
In other border towns, these three people would be like gods, but here they were suppressed by the Ke family. Naturally, these three people had to bow their heads in front of Lin Zhao and call themselves lower officials.
Lin Zhao came here with an imperial edict. The imperial edict made it clear that Lin Zhao controlled Suiyuan and others. This position actually temporarily gave Lin Zhao the power of governor of Saibei. Naturally, those three people were nothing.
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It is really not a glorious thing for the civil and military officials sent by the imperial court to be oppressed like this by foreign tyrants. Governor Chen Yunzai could still use the excuse that he was a civil servant and was not familiar with martial arts. However, the commander-in-chief Zhao Hui was so ashamed that his own soldiers were beaten.
I lost my face for half a year, and now I have to rely on the imperial envoy to get it back.
Lin Zhao had nothing to criticize. He just took over the command of the two forces of the General Guards and the Governor's Model Soldiers. The two forces totaled nearly 3,000 people, including the garrison, which was also under the control of the Governor.
The team has the strength of almost four thousand people, even though they are all a group of weaklings.
As for the servants of Khovd, the deputy commander-in-chief, they were all tied up and driven out of the city because they were suspected of fighting in Guihua City and disrupting the security of the city. They were used as coolies to build water conservancy projects.
As for Khovd himself, he has no evil deeds. Please help him dance to entertain him at the banquet tonight.
So under the watchful eyes of the governor, the commander-in-chief, the military eunuchs, and dozens of officials from the naturalized city, Kobdo sang Chahar songs loudly in the hall and danced the Chahar dance crazily.
He lasted for three hours and finally collapsed from exhaustion.
There were officials who were proficient in music present, and after a rough calculation, Kobdo sang a total of fifty-eight folk songs and performed one hundred folk dances. He was worthy of being a grassland nation, and he was indeed good at singing and dancing.
Khovd almost died from exhaustion. After returning, he fell seriously ill and stayed in bed for three months.
Three months later, all the senior generals he had promoted were transferred to join his servants. Most of them were seriously injured during the construction of water conservancy facilities outside Guihua City.
Later, due to various reasons, Khovd's official position as Deputy Commander-in-Chief was demoted to garrison duty, and then to captaincy, and then disappeared without a trace.
That night, Lin Zhao took over the command of the garrison in Guihua City. That night, the military leaders of these forces came to see him, and several of Lin Zhao's leaders began to go over to accept the command.
Guihua City is not big, and the activities of high-level figures such as the commander-in-chief, the governor, and the eunuchs who supervise the army cannot be hidden from others. Lin Zhao did not intend to let them hide it, he just did not express it himself.
The news spread quickly that night, saying that Lin Zhao, the commander of Jinyi Guards, had arrived in Guihua City, and that the elite group that won the victory on the street was Lin Zhao's personal army.
Immediately afterwards, more exciting news came. General Chahar, who had always been domineering, and Suiyuan Deputy Commander-in-Chief Kobdo sang and danced in the Jinyiwei Qianhu Station, showing that he could sing and dance, and everyone was shocked.
After the shock, people with a little political insight also realized that the vague ambition of the Ke family was probably gone and disappeared.
Not to mention that the Ke family's servants are all tied up to do coolies, even if all his servants are healthy, I am afraid that their military morale will be weakened after hearing that Cobb is good at singing and dancing.
Khovd is in his thirties, and he is very brave. Even if he can sing a few songs and dance a few dances, he is still the behavior of a Chahar hero. There are many such heroes at the Naadam Grassland Conference!
But Kobdo was the deputy commander-in-chief of Suiyuan, with thousands of warriors under his command. In front of the nobles, during the banquet, and under the threat of swords and guns, he sang and danced endlessly there without caring about the face of the deputy commander-in-chief.
I lost all my face.
Such incompetent cowards will definitely have no future if they follow him.
As the saying goes, it is better to lead a horse for a good man than to be a master for a bad man.
After this incident, Khovd's reputation and prestige were shattered to the ground, and no good man would follow him anymore.
He will also become the laughing stock of Guihua City and Chahar.
Even if he still holds the position of Deputy Commander-in-Chief, he is destined to become a zombie without power.
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It is still Zijin Street and Xue Mansion in Chang'an City.
Xue Pan was not at home, and I don’t know who he went to drink with.
Aunt Xue went to Rongguo Mansion in the afternoon of the first day of the Lunar New Year and fell ill after returning.
Although it was just a cold, Xue Baochai did not dare to neglect, and quickly found a doctor to prescribe medicine, and personally served her mother to drink it.
At this time, while she was serving, she couldn't help but mutter: "It's true, Mom, what a weather it is, I went out to pay New Year's greetings over there, and I'm wearing so little, you even refused to add more clothes."
Hearing this, Aunt Xue sighed: "The weather has been warm these days, so I am too lazy to add another pair. Besides, what good clothes can I wear at my age? On the contrary, you, being so quiet all day long, are the best."
How much of the color can fall into the eyes?"
"What did mom say!"
Xue Baochai said angrily: "I only want to protect myself from the cold. I must not wear it to show anyone!"
As he said this, he couldn't help but feel a little suspicious.
After returning from Mrs. Wang's place yesterday, my mother had some thoughts, and she even got an inexplicable fever at night.
There is still something fishy about such an inexplicable illness.
"Mother."
Holding Aunt Xue's wrist, she said seriously: "Are you hiding something? Did your aunt say something to you? Is it related to Brother Bao?"
He asked three questions in a row, and the more he asked, the more detailed he became. It turned out that Xue Baochai was thoughtful, as meticulous as his hair, and had a blue heart.
Aunt Xue looked at her daughter and sighed slightly.
"Your aunt only wants Baoyu to marry a noble daughter-in-law who can match his uncle's status. However, she is greedy for our family's money. She also wants to use Baoyu to tie up your marriage. What's the short term? One or two years, long term
Then three to five years’.”
At the end of the sentence, a sneer appeared at the corner of her mouth: "This is easy to say, but you are already seventeen during the Chinese New Year, so how can you delay it?" But she didn't let go, how could I beg the old lady and your uncle to help you?
Let them propose marriage to the Lin family master? You must know that your uncle has served as the governor of nine provinces and is out patrolling the border. He basically has no chance to talk to the Lin family master."
"Mom!" Baochai's face suddenly turned red.
She originally thought that Mrs. Wang wanted him to marry Baoyu, and her mother was worried, but she didn't know that her mother didn't like Brother Bao at all, and at the same time she saw through Mrs. Wang's intentions.
Although she was able to discuss the future of her daughter's family with her mother, she was still young, so how could she talk to her mother so deeply?
But having said that, in this era, it is difficult for a daughter’s family to marry a man they want.