Soldiers and horses were galloping in the remote Hebei Province. When they saw the fierce banner of the Crow Army with the word Wu, the checkpoints along the way allowed them to drive straight into the city.
Some gate guards also asked out of curiosity: "Who is here? Didn't Governor Wu go to Yunzhou?"
One of the guards made a familiar gesture and said, "Of course he is the governor's son!"
"Ah!" Liang Zhen stood in the corridor and laughed at the people who came in. "Let me see if you have grown taller?"
The armored young general strode forward and knelt down on one knee, "I've seen Grandpa Liang!"
Liang Zhen stepped forward and pulled him up, patted him and looked at him: "He has grown taller, but he is still delicate." He then asked, "I heard Ah Xiao said that you cried in the military camp when you were a child. Do you still cry now?
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Wu Mao smiled: "Axiao himself cried, and he said to others, grandpa, of course we won't cry now, it's too late to laugh!"
Liang Zhen patted him on the shoulder: "That's right! What could be happier than being a soldier!"
Holding hands and leading him inside, the generals waiting in the room greeted him and praised him one after another, "Master Mao is becoming more and more heroic", "I heard that Master Mao has just wiped out several bandits and bandits" and "Master Mao is also very good at running the city."
"Master Hat has built a military camp and is recruiting troops, right?"
Hearing this, Liang Zhen was very proud: "We are young but we have real abilities!" He did not forget to despise someone's son by the way: "What does that little governor have? It used to be that I was relying on me, but now I am relying on the emperor. He will only be domineering. Li Fengan's
Sooner or later, the family fortune will be ruined by him!"
The generals in the room all praised Old Governor Liang for his sharp eyesight.
"Speaking of discerning eyes, you have to say that I am a matchmaker for crows..." Liang Zhen said excitedly, "His daughter-in-law has been granted the title of Mrs. Chu. There are few in the whole of Daxia who can..."
Wu Mao interrupted: "Grandpa Liang, my adoptive mother is no longer Mrs. Chu."
Liang Zhen was stunned. Although the others were happy to interrupt this topic, Mrs. Chu was closely related to them. She was no longer Mrs. Chu. What did that mean? She looked nervous and worried...
Mrs. Chu's reputation was not very good, and the civil servants in the imperial court did not like military commanders at all...
"Don't worry." Wu Mao smiled slightly, "My adoptive father just sent me the news that my adoptive mother was awarded the title of First Marquis for her meritorious service."
Marquis?!
The room was quiet for a while, then suddenly exploded.
"Really made a prince!"
"How many years has it been since Daxia had no generals become marquises?"
"That's because Daxia has always been peaceful and prosperous."
"However, the wife of Chu State was granted the title of Marquis. What about Governor Wu?"
Hearing this, Liang Zhen clapped his hands and cheered: "Husband and wife are one! It doesn't matter who you are or who can be ennobled! From now on, they will be princes!"
He laughed as he spoke and wiped away tears.
"I never dreamed that I would see this day!"
The generals hurriedly congratulated in unison, Wu Mao stood aside with a smile and said nothing more. Wu Ya'er's instructions to him were to tell everyone only that the wife of Chu State was granted the title of Marquis. As for why she was granted the title of Marquis, there was no need to elaborate. Everyone just said
You would think it was because of your great achievement in killing Ankang Mountain.
"There is no need to tell everyone about His Majesty's death and the death of Third Prince Cui Zheng."
"The court will let you know in the future."
Wu Mao meditated on Wu Ya'er's letter, and Liang Zhen made a decision.
"I want to congratulate you on such a happy event!" He ordered, "Go and reward the three armies!"
Wu Mao smiled: "Grandpa Liang is rich now."
Liang Zhen took off the knife from his waist and threw it to him: "You have money! Look at this precious knife of mine, I gave it to you!"
The martial artist took the hat and held it high: "My dear, thank you grandpa!"
The generals also laughed and said, "We are rich." "Don't look at how badly our place has been ravaged by the rebels." "But the more suffering the place, the more vitality it has. What do those businessmen say?" "No matter what they say, anyway, now.
There’s everything for sale and everything for purchase!”
Hearing what everyone said, Wu Mao said: "It's so good, then I'll go shopping too."
Wu Mao now not only leads troops but also governs the city. It is also necessary to inspect the local markets, so a general accompanied him out. Others also went to prepare rewards for the three armies. Even if Liang Zhen said it was exaggerated and could not be done, let the three armies join forces.
A meal of meat is still okay.
The room became quiet, Liang Zhen sat on the chair and had a good time from time to time. His old wife walked in and said with a sad face: "What's so happy about!"
"What do you know!" Liang Zhen stroked his gray beard, "Who would have thought that the longer you live, the happier you will be!"
The old wife laughed and said: "You are happy that the world is in chaos. If you say this, the court will immediately behead you, a general!"
Liang Zhen snorted: "It's not because I'm happy, I'm saying that doing things is getting more and more comfortable. Sure enough, if you live long enough, you can wait for good days..."
Having fun talking about this.
"Li Fengan died early, not as good as me..."
Laughing again.
"Even if he is not dead, he is definitely not as good as me now. Look at my sons and daughters-in-law and my grandchildren... and look at his sons and daughters. He will be angry to death even if he is alive!"
The old wife was too lazy to pay attention to him and asked: "We have finished eating the rice again. You were defrauded by a sinister businessman to buy a knife with your money. Are your family hungry?"
Liang Zhen fumbled in his waist and took out a handful of money: "Take it to buy rice! Now here is no worse than the capital, you can get whatever you want!"
The old wife took the money and said: "No matter what! You have to buy me the house in Beijing! We are still waiting to go back!"
Seeing his old wife walking out, Liang Zhen shouted in a high-pitched voice, "What a big deal!"
Seeing that his old wife came in to scold him without turning around, Liang Zhensong leaned back on the chair and muttered: "You don't even have a title, and you are still so vicious..."
He touched his beard, feeling a little worried for Wu Ya'er.
His wife was granted the title of Marquis! What is the title of Marquis? It is an important minister who can go to court and make a fool of himself with a single word in front of the emperor.
How will Wu Yaer live at home in the future?
Then I thought about a woman being granted the title of Marquis, the first of its kind in history! This female Marquis had to call him "Sir", and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to recognize her as a foster father...
Liang Zhen was having fun again.
He really said a good kiss to Wu Yaer!
Liang Zhen was cheerful at home, and Wu Mao was smiling slightly while walking on the street. This remote place that had been ravaged by rebels for many years was full of life in the cold air of late autumn.
People were coming and going in the market, and the shops were bustling with shouts and hawking everywhere. People took out the originally worthless fur products and exchanged them for necessary items for food, clothing, housing and transportation. Merchants loaded the fur products into trucks and transported them to the south of the hinterland of the Central Plains.
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"Go and have a look, Lian's Trading Company has a new silk flower."
"It's said to be Mrs. Chu's favorite."
Several young women passed by laughing on the street, and Wu Mao couldn't help but follow them when he heard them.
"Lian Shang?" he said, "Lian Gongzi's trading company is here too?"
The attendant smiled and said: "There is no place they can't reach."
Lowered his voice again.
"They are so arrogant under the banner of the Madam. Now that the Madam has been granted the title of Marquis, why don't they have to carry the banner of the Madam every day?"
Wu Mao smiled, of course he didn't care if his adoptive mother didn't care, and he led his men to ride the horse over.
There were many people crowded into Lian's Trading Company, but there was nothing the women wanted.
"Mrs. Chu's silk flowers? No, no!"
"Why not? Miss Chen just bought it!"
"It's impossible, it's impossible. We don't have silk flowers here, let alone things used by Mrs. Chu."
The women were noisy, but the man insisted that there were no silk flowers.
Boxes of silk flowers were sealed up in the backyard, and Lian Xiaoqiang shook her head in distress.
"Are these all burned?" he asked through the open window next to him, "It's all money."
Even Xiaojun sat by the window and wrote a letter without raising his head: "No, buy it somewhere else. Just don't say it is for Mrs. Chu."
Lian Xiaoqiang breathed a sigh of relief, stood by the window and asked, "What's going on? Why don't you use it? Mrs. Chu has been granted the title of Marquis, so she will be more useful in the future!"
Lian Xiaojun raised his head: "Wrong, it can't be used now or in the future, otherwise it will be a big trouble."
Hand the stack of written letters to Lian Xiaoqiang.
"Not only the goods, but also everything we do in the future, don't mention her. Orders are sent everywhere, and our company has nothing to do with her."
Lian Xiaoqiang took the letter hesitantly and turned it in through the window.
"Of course, I think Mrs. Chu is scary," he said, "but wealth comes from danger, so you have to use her when it's time. Don't you want to cooperate with her in the future?"
Lian Xiaojun said: "If we cooperate with her, we must stay alive first. If we use her name now, we will run into trouble."
Lian Xiaoqiang was puzzled: "Why? She has become a marquis. Isn't she more powerful than before?"
Why do we have to draw a clear line instead?
Lian Xiaojun said: "Because we are going to do world business with her."
I don’t understand, even Xiaoqiang doesn’t understand. Didn’t I say to do this a long time ago?
Lian Xiaojun didn't explain to him anymore and said: "Also, you can go home."
The puzzled Lian Xiaoqiang was immediately shocked: "I don't understand, but I know how to do things, so why don't you drive me back?"
Lian Xiaojun laughed.
"I'm driving you back just to do something." He said, "When you go back, pick out girls from the clan who are of the same age as Mingyu and send them to the capital."
These words sounded a bit familiar. Even Xiaoqiang felt as if she had said it before and stared: "What are you doing?"
Lian Xiaojun said: "Let's get married!"
Sure enough! Lian Xiaoqiang jumped up: "I said before that you still didn't agree, why do you suddenly do this again?"
Also, we are obviously talking about the wife of Chu State becoming a marquis, why are we talking about Li Mingyu again?
Lian Xiaojun smiled slightly. It didn't matter whether he could do the business of marrying a Jiedushi family, but he had to do it with the future emperor's family.
"Go." He didn't say anything more to him. Shi Shiran took a step forward, then stopped and looked back, "Also, we should also choose some beautiful young people."
Even Xiaoqiang was dumbfounded. Young man, you want it?