While they were smiling, Yunwen's concubine Ma Hanyu came over and saw that they were laughing so happily. Especially Yunwen, who was usually very serious, laughed so much that his shoulders were moving. He also laughed and said: "I have seen officials. How can they laugh?
Do you have to be so happy?"
"Oh, we are talking about the embarrassing things that happened when Yun Zhi was a child." Yun Zhi was about to say it when Yun Zhi grabbed his arm and stopped him from talking. After thinking about it, Yun Zhi thought that Ma Hanyu and Yun Zhi were not familiar with each other either.
Stopped.
Ma Hanyu had no intention of listening and said to Yunxi: "Guan family, it is already noon. May I ask when the meal will be served? A guard of the official family just sent someone to inform that His Royal Highness the King of England has just arrived in Beijing.
"
"Uncle Twenty has returned to the capital too?" Yunxi said happily: "He finally arrived in the capital, and I will be waiting for him."
Then he told the young eunuch beside him: "Go to Li Bo and ask him to send someone to Prince Ying's Palace to announce that His Royal Highness King Ying has come to Prince Wu's Palace."
The young eunuch agreed and took the order to retreat.
He turned around and said to Ma Hanyu: "Second sister-in-law, the meal time has to be postponed a little longer. I have something to talk to Uncle Twenty, and I will not eat until Uncle Twenty comes."
"The officials have business, so why don't we have dinner later?" Before Ma Hanyu could speak, Yun Wen spoke up. Seeing Yun Wen's words, Ma Hanyu acquiesced to his words and stopped speaking, bowed again and bowed out.
Down.
Yunxi shook his head slightly. He didn't agree with the way Yunwen got along with his wife. This was the most vivid manifestation of the wife's role as the husband. He couldn't help but said: "Second brother, the so-called male is responsible for the outside and the female is responsible for the inside.
It's better to leave it to my second sister-in-law to arrange the matter."
"Is the official talking about what happened just now? Entertaining guests is also a foreign matter, and it is up to me to make the decision." Yun Wen said.
Seeing that he didn't understand his tactful advice, Yunxi could only keep silent. It was difficult for an upright official to deal with household matters, so he couldn't say anything in depth.
After a while, Yunxi took a look and saw that it was already past noon. As he was thinking about why Zhu Song hadn't come over yet, he heard a voice coming from outside: "I have met His Royal Highness." "My nephew-in-law, you don't need to be polite."
."
When Yunxi heard this, he knew that King Zhu Song of England had come to Prince Wu's Mansion. He got up and walked to the door, and happened to meet him in front of the door.
When Zhu Song saw Yunxi, he hurriedly bowed and saluted. Yunxi immediately helped him up and smiled at him: "Uncle Twenty, it's already the ninth day of the Lunar New Year for you to come to the capital."
"Guan, I don't want to come here so late. But that tribe is very fierce, and because they defeated my soldiers three times in a row before, and there are many Jurchen tribes who follow me in the war who have enmity with that tribe, I know that even if I surrender
They have absolutely no physiology, so they resist very tenaciously. They send people to harass our army in the mountains and forests day and night, leaving hundreds of corpses every day!"
"I led the soldiers to attack and cut down trees. Finally, I cut down all the trees near the tribe. I also surrounded them because the cold weather in winter made it difficult for the young and old to survive in the wild. Only then did I break up the tribe. But then there was another
It took several days of suppression to kill all those who dared to resist."
"It was already the twenty-third of the twelfth lunar month. In the evening, I held a celebration banquet to reward all the meritorious officials. The next day, after discussing with Zhang Shu, I handed over to him how to deal with the follow-up resettlement matters and the entire army.
He came to the capital in a hurry and entered the capital today." Zhu Song explained hurriedly.
"That tribe is so fierce? What do you plan to do with the captive population after discussing with Zhang Shu?" Yunxi asked.
"Zhang Shu originally wanted to keep all the adult men as coolies, but I was worried that they would riot, so I killed them all."
"All the adult women were brought back to be wives of the soldiers, and some were given as rewards to the Jurchen tribes who followed our army in the war. There were already more men than women in the border areas, and because they often had to fight with barbarians, no one was willing to give them to them.
Daughters marry soldiers, so there are many soldiers in their twenties who don’t have wives yet, and they have to save up a large sum of money to marry a wife."
"Now the betrothal gifts they saved can be saved to support their family." Yunxi interjected and said with a smile.
Zhu Song also smiled apologetically, and then said: "As for the children, those who are still alive will continue to be raised by their mothers. Those whose mothers are dead will be distributed to all the generals as servants. The government also kept many as slaves. I also took in a few girls.
The child will be a maid in the future and will be trained by the palace's female officials."
Yunxi was about to speak when he suddenly heard Yunwen say: "Uncle Twenty, women are just given to the soldiers as wives. Isn't it too much to execute all the men? There are also children, why not educate them into the Ming Dynasty?"
Common people?”
As a person who admired the Confucian school of the Song Dynasty, Yun Wen advocated persuading people with virtue and educating barbarians.
Zhu Song's smile remained unchanged, but his words were not very pleasant: "Yunwen, even Confucius' original words were to repay kindness with kindness, and to repay evil with kindness. This tribe was very fierce when fighting with our army. Anyone who catches our soldiers will be killed.
Moreover, all the men in the south of the city have fought with our army, and killing them is not only reasonable but also complies with the national and military laws."
"What about the kid?"
"For this kind of barbarian tribe, during the war, the whole tribe, men, women, old and young, all went into battle. Even the children helped carry things. They attacked and killed the soldiers when our army was not paying attention. My uncle did not execute them all. It was already magnanimous." He said as he said.
, Zhu Song thought of the soldiers who were killed by children in a sneak attack when he was pacifying several tribes, and his tone couldn't help but become more severe.
"Even so, not all children have fought with the army. They should be identified and those who have never fought with soldiers should be singled out and educated as common people." Yun Wen said again.
"What you said is not unreasonable, but how to identify it? Everyone in their tribe is related to each other. If they were to say it themselves, they would probably call everyone a white lotus, as if the children who fought against our soldiers were all
They are like ghosts. Since there is no way to identify them, we can only treat them all equally and treat them as slaves." Zhu Song was tired of Yun Wen's argument, but he had to answer.
Yunwen wanted to say more, but Yunxi interrupted: "Second brother, the border areas are different from the mainland. Some things are not what you imagine."
"But it's not like Uncle Twenty's treatment." Yun Wen said.
Yunxi thought for a while and felt that it was impossible to convince Yunwen with his own reasoning, so he said: "Second brother, as the saying goes, seeing is believing and hearing is false. Second brother, why don't you go to the border areas this year to take a look and know the border areas?"
What is the situation?"
"Okay." Yunwen himself also wanted to know whether the principles he understood were right or wrong.
After discussing the matter, everyone was also hungry, so they went to the side hall to have a meal together and greeted some children. Min'er was having a good time and did not want to go to eat, but no one dared to be disobedient. She was not interested in being alone, so she could only
He went to eat with an unhappy look on his face.
Yunxi didn't pay attention to Min'er's expression, or couldn't care less. While eating, he talked to Zhu Song, talking about some light topics. Yunwen and Yunzhi also interrupted from time to time, and the atmosphere changed from the dull one just now.
Very active.
However, Ma Hanyu never spoke. Firstly, Yunwen had very strict rules and she was not allowed to speak at will. Secondly, they talked about many things that happened in the palace together when they were children. She didn't know about it, and she didn't dare to talk nonsense, so she just
I can remain silent.
Not long after she finished her meal, she stood up and said: "Guan family, twenty uncle, husband, I have finished eating. Seeing that the children have already eaten, they are all starting to play, so I took them to the back pavilion to play.
, I won’t bother you talking.”
"Go ahead and take care of Wen Kui. I remember he was very polite when he was in Hangzhou. Why is he like this now?" Yunwen frowned and whispered to Ma Hanyu. She agreed and took the children with her.
Back off.
Yunxi looked at it and it was almost time. He drank another glass of wine with Zhu Song and turned the topic to national affairs. After talking about national affairs for a while, he suddenly said: "Uncle Twenty, do you know that the country of Samarkand in the northwest will send troops to the east next year?"
Conquer the Ming Dynasty?"
"Is this happening?" Zhu Song was surprised. After leaving Siping, he rushed all the way to the capital. Although he stopped at a post station along the way, he only slept, so he had no idea what happened during this period.
"On the twenty-third of the twelfth lunar month, I received an urgent message from the northwest that the Samarkand Kingdom intends to conquer the Ming Dynasty eastward." Yunxi said.
