Fenghou

"what story?"

"It's a story about the Cui family in Qinghe. Wan Yanchang took a fancy to Cui Jianghao, the former minister of rites of the imperial court, and asked him to be his staff member, but the Cui family knew that once he became Wan Yanchang's staff member, his reputation and career would be ruined. In order to keep Cui Jianghao Because of his reputation, the patriarch Cui Yuan asked his younger brother Cui Jiu to be Wan Yanchang's staff, and Cui Jianghao was just his nephew."

Speaking of this, Chao Qing said with a smile: "The story is over, the old man can figure it out by himself! I will leave first."

Chao Qing bid farewell and left, Lu Qingshan fell into deep thought.

Of course Lu Qingshan understands the story of King Yong, and he uses the Cui family's affairs to warn him that the interests of the family should be the most important thing, and don't just consider the interests of his own children and grandchildren. In order to preserve the family's reputation, Cui Yuan did not hesitate to sacrifice the reputation of his brothers .

Promoting Lu Wei and Lu Gang means promoting the Lu family, but I am still worried because I am not my grandson. Compared with my elder brother, I think about the interests of the family. I am not qualified as the head of the patriarch!

In fact, it's not that Lu Qingshan doesn't understand these principles, it's just because of his personality. He is the second son, and he doesn't get the special care from his parents for the eldest son, and he doesn't get the special love from his parents for the youngest son. Competitive personality, compared to elder brother Lu Yihao's indifferent handling of things, Lu Qingshan is more competitive, and the older he gets, the more obvious his personality is.

Today, he fell ill because of the matter of his nephews and grandchildren, which is a typical manifestation of his strong character, and no one dared to persuade him.

Today, Chen Qing arranged for Chao Qing to remind him by telling a story that the interests of the family must be the most important thing in order for the family to last long. Only thinking about his own interests will damage the interests of the family sooner or later.

Lu Qingshan finally realized that he shouldered the important task of revitalizing the Lu family.

The first thousand and 350 chapters four Beixun

The carriage walked slowly on the street. There was thick snow on the street. Thousands of soldiers were struggling to shovel the snow. On both sides of the road were children jumping and jumping, making snowmen, playing snowball fights, and laughing.

At this moment, a snowball 'suddenly' flew towards the window of Chen Qing's car, but before he got close to the window, his guards had quick eyes and hands, and with a wave of their spear, the snowball was smashed into pieces in the air.

A group of children were so frightened that they turned around and ran, blinking and running away without a trace.

Chen Qing shook his head with a smile, wondering if his child was also playing snowball fights at home!

Back in the official room, Chen Qing sat by the brazier and warmed himself up. Wei Ji reported at the door: "Your Highness, Minister Lu Wei has been waiting for a long time to see you!"

Chen Qing nodded, "Let him in!"

Lu Wei walked in quickly and saluted, "See Your Highness!"

Seeing his serious expression, Chen Qing asked, "What happened?"

"The county government sent people to look for me just now. Their people collected a body that froze to death last night outside the city. They found a letter on him, which was a letter I wrote to my brother Lu Fan."

Chen Qing was taken aback, "Is that corpse Lu Hang?"

"should be!"

"How did he freeze to death?"

"I heard from the county government that the body was found at the door of a brothel. They checked it and found that there was no external injury, but it was frozen to death."

Chen Qing nodded, "Go and deal with it! Find him a cemetery and bury him, and don't pursue any responsibility. This is his fate."

Lu Wei sighed and turned to leave.

Chen Qing asked, "How did his mother arrange it?"

"His elder brother Lu Fan takes care of him!"

"Send three thousand coins to his mother, which is regarded as his father's funeral money, and I will pay for it!"

Lu Wei shook his head and said: "Your Highness does not need to spend money, my grandfather has a family property of a thousand mu of land in his hometown, and the third grandmother's maintenance money will be paid from it."

"I see, you go deal with it!"

Lu Wei turned around and hurried away.

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In the afternoon, two men with a height of nearly two meters appeared outside Yongwang's mansion. The soldiers on duty stopped them and did not allow them to approach.

The big man bowed and said: "I am Yin Balu, a Mughal merchant, and this is my brother Yin Erhan. We have brought the information that His Royal Highness King Yong wants. He has already met us twice!"

The general on duty recognized them and said, "Wait a moment, let us report."

The general ran in, and after a while, Chao Qing came out and said, "You two, please come in, Your Highness has summoned you!"

After the soldiers searched the two of them strictly, they were allowed to enter the official office and went all the way to Chen Qing's official room.

The two came in and knelt down to salute, "See His Royal Highness King Yong!"

Chen Qing smiled slightly: "Long time no see you, when did you come to Jingzhao?"

"Reporting to Your Highness, we just arrived yesterday!"

"How's the business?" Chen Qing asked again with a smile.

"Thanks to Your Highness, we are doing business for ourselves now."

These two people had been officials and merchants of the Mughal tribe, and all the money they earned was used to buy weapons for the Mughal tribe to fight against the Kingdom of Jin, but they did not expect to start their own business.

"What's going on, doesn't your Khan trust you?"

Yin Baru said dejectedly: "The Tata Department and the Kelei Department joined forces with Marshal Wanyan Wushu of the Kingdom of Jin to attack the Mughal Department. The old Khan was shot by an arrow and unfortunately passed away. And the Kelei tribe was divided, and the remaining tribes were divided into more than a dozen small tribes, and they were spared surrendering to the Kingdom of Jin. The two of us brothers have no allegiance, so we can only do business by ourselves."

Chen Qing nodded. The other party didn't say it clearly, but the implication was that the Mughal tribe would also join in the harassment of the border of the Yong Kingdom. This was within his expectation, not surprising.

"Just now the guard said, you have important information, what is it?"

"Reporting to Your Highness, it's about the Hetao area!"

The Hetao area is Fengzhou. The top of the bend of the Yellow River was originally under the jurisdiction of Lingxia Road, but since last autumn it has been invaded by grassland nomadic tribes. The nomadic cavalry used it as a base, seriously threatening the safety of Lingzhou.

Chen Qing also knew some news about Fengzhou, but he wanted to know more, so he asked, "Tell me about your news!"

"Reporting to Your Highness, we just collected a batch of medicinal materials from Fengzhou and went south. We encountered a large number of cavalry, tens of thousands of people, from all tribes, and even a small number of Jurchen cavalry. Not long after we went south, it began to snow in the north. Now, these troops should still be in Toyosu, and they may take action next spring."

This information is indeed very important. Chen Qing knew that Fengzhou had [-] long-term troops, [-] Kelie cavalry and [-] Tata cavalry. What Yin Balu saw should be an increase in troops.

"I see, thank you two for your information!"

Chen Qing asked Chao Qing to send them out, and wrote a note to let the government houses and shops buy their goods. The two brothers thanked each other and left.

Chen Qing came to the sand table in the staff room. This is the sand table in Lingxia Road and Yinshan area in the north. It was completed two years ago. He put the sand table here, which means that he will use troops against Fengzhou.

The Kingdom of Jin has withdrawn from Hebei, but still occupies the Yanshan Mansion. The Kingdom of Jin also needs time to adjust. In order to prevent itself from attacking Yanshan Road, they used the strategy of encircling Wei and saving Zhao, and mobilized nomadic cavalry to attack Lingxia Road. Now the Kingdom of Jin has completed its confrontation With the integration of the various tribes in the grassland, there will be no resistance within the grassland, so a large-scale attack on Lingzhou next spring will be inevitable.

The information from Brother Yinbalu also confirmed his guess. In the spring of next year, the nomadic cavalry will attack Lingzhou on a large scale and plunder the wealth of the population.

It has to be said that Jin Guo's move was very effective, disrupting Chen Qing's plan to attack Yanshan Mansion in the spring of next year.

But Chen Qing would not allow the nomadic cavalry to occupy Fengzhou for a long time. He would send troops anyway to take back the lost Hetao.

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Early the next morning, Chen Qing came to the Bashang barracks and summoned Yang Zaixing and other important generals. The generals surrounded Chen Qing and came to the school grounds to inspect the training of the soldiers.

The shouting and killing on the school grounds shook the sky, and the drums sounded like thunder, 'Boom!Boom!Boom! 'The two armies are fighting fiercely. They hold epees weighing more than ten kilograms. They can't kill each other, but it doesn't matter. The rule is that the battle will last for two hours, and the team with the least fatigue will win.

Yang Zaixing said: "This year's training is still based on actual combat training, mainly training infantry and cavalry coordination, as well as joint operations of multiple arms, including joint operations of crossbowmen, throwers, firearms soldiers and chariots, and heavy armored troops. , I have trained for a whole year, and the results are outstanding, but I also suffered heavy accidental injuries during the training, resulting in the unfortunate death of more than [-] brothers, and all of them are paid according to the death compensation in combat."

"Which part of the soldier's training is the most casualty?"

"It's mainly firearms training and siege training. We used wooden barrels of fire and mines in actual combat, requiring soldiers to learn to dodge, but more than [-] soldiers were killed, and another [-] soldiers fell to their deaths during training to climb the city. "

Chen Qing nodded and said to the generals: "I told everyone before that we will go north to Lingzhou in the spring of next year to fight against the grassland nomadic army. There is still one month before our army will go north. I hope you will do well." Three things, first, maintain high morale; second, try to give the soldiers a holiday and let them go home to visit; third, strengthen training for cavalry."

The first thousand 350 chapters and five troops

In the blink of an eye, it was the new year again, and after three years in Shaoding, Chen Qing tried his best to spend time with his family. By mid-January, Zhao Yingluo and Yu Ying were diagnosed with a happy pulse at the same time, and they were pregnant almost at the same time. Entering the fertility season, even Princess Lu Xiu felt that she might be pregnant, but Chen Qing was about to leave before the pregnancy was confirmed.

In the afternoon, the family sent Chen Qing to the gate of the house. Today happened to be the Shangyuan Festival. Last night, Chen Qing had a reunion dinner with his family, so he had no chance to accompany his family when visiting the lanterns.

Chen Qing hugged his two daughters and said with a smile: "You can go to see the lanterns with your mother and sit in the cart. It's safe and lively. If you want to buy something small, please ask the big sisters of the guards to help you buy it. Dad promises to bring it in autumn. You go to the sea."

Originally, the two little ladies were unhappy with their mouths pouted, but when they heard that they were looking at the sea, their eyes lit up, and they stretched out their little fingers at the same time, "I want to pull the hook!"

Chen Qing laughed, "Daddy's arms are holding you, hook your ears!"

The two little ladies hooked their little fingers on the left and right ears of their father, and then burst into laughter.

Chen Qing put down his daughter, and bid farewell to his wife, concubine and other children. Having more children is also a kind of happiness trouble, and every child has to say goodbye.

Lu Xiu smiled and said, "Let Daddy go! Don't waste time."

The eldest son Chen Ji clasped his fists and said, "Papa, take care!"

Chen Qing patted his head and said with a smile: "Remember the mission Daddy gave you, planting two lands!"

"My child remembers it, but I haven't forgotten it!"

Only then did Chen Qing get on his horse and waved to his family, "Take care, I'm leaving!"

Everyone also waved goodbye to Chen Qing, and Chen Qing speeded up his horse, and gradually went away under the guard of hundreds of personal soldiers.

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That night, Chen Qing set off with an army of 12. Three days ago, Liu Qiong set off with an army of [-].

In fact, Lingzhou did not lack food and supplies. Chen Qing had been preparing for the war since last autumn. In four months, nearly [-] camels made three trips and delivered a large amount of food and supplies.

The [-] troops took the Jingyuan Road, and after arriving in Ningzhou, they continued northward along the Maling River Valley, and finally crossed Hengshan around the state and entered Lingxia Road.

As night falls, [-] troops are marching in the dark with [-] camels on horses. Tonight is the night of Shangyuan. There is a full moon in the sky. With a kind of solemn and stirring without hesitation, he marched to the far north.

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Under the same cold full moon, Jingzhao City is a world of colorful lanterns. Every household has to hang lanterns. The East Street, West Street and Zhuque Street are all a sea of ​​colorful lights. The colorful lights are exquisite and dazzling. .

The streets are even more crowded with people. Every family comes out to look at the lanterns. Hundreds of thousands of people are crowded on three streets that are tens of miles long. The small stalls and vendors doing business are even more busy. Selling snacks, selling all kinds of toys, it can be said that everything is there.

Ordinary people walk shopping with their wives and children. There are also large carts driving slowly among the crowd. This is the family members of a big family watching the lights. There are patrol soldiers to maintain order. There are almost no villains, but there are many disciples. Taking advantage of the crowd, take advantage of the young woman.

Therefore, the female relatives of officials and rich families would not show their faces, but sat high in the carriage to watch the lights, which was even better. They were not afraid of being blocked by other people's heads.

Among these carriages, there is a very large carriage, which looks very ordinary in appearance, without any inlays of gold and jade, and covered with a layer of black cowhide, but this carriage is the only anti-arrow carriage in the whole world. The car wall is made of wood and covered with a special oilcloth. This kind of oil cloth has been repeatedly soaked in oil and dried seven times. It will not be pierced by a sword or cut by a knife. It will be covered with a thick layer of cowhide. No shot can penetrate it, stronger than iron armor.

Chen Qing's wife and children sat in the large carriage. Last year, they also came out to watch the lanterns in the carriage. Inside the carriage, within a hundred paces, there were guards and secret guards, and there were eight guards on horseback guarding the left and right. There were also four female guards, sitting with their family.

"Ah! That's a deer lamp, so beautiful!" Bing'er saw a few lamps tied up in the shape of a deer, and immediately clapped her hands with joy.

"Brother, what kind of lamp is that?"

The two little ladies held brother Chen Ji's arm from left to right, and asked, pointing to a big lamp.

Chen Ji glanced at the lamp, and said old-fashionedly: "That's the kun fish lamp, the largest fish in the world. "There is a fish in the north, and its name is kun. The kun is so big, I don't know how many thousands of miles it is!" It is this kind of fish. , Daddy called it a whale."

"We go to sea in autumn, can we see this kind of whale?"

"It might work!"

Chen Ji thought for a while and said, "Daddy said they would jump up to welcome us."

"I really want to go to sea quickly!" Bing'er sighed softly.

Not long after, the female guard bought them more than a dozen lanterns, as well as snacks such as candied haws and fried sugar rolls.

"We're going on a revolving door!"

The two little ladies like the revolving lantern the most, it will turn in the wind, and there are stories painted inside, or Monkey King making troubles in the Heavenly Palace, or Nezha making troubles in the sea, etc., which are very popular among children.

Chen Ji also wanted a revolving lantern, but there were only two lanterns, so he gave them to his two younger sisters and picked a lotus lantern himself.

Lu Xiu saw it, and whispered to the guard soldiers outside. After a while, the guard soldiers handed in a revolving lantern, which was the story of Wukong's quest for treasure in the East China Sea.

"Ji'er, here it is!"

Lu Xiu handed the lantern to her son, and Chen Ji happily took the lantern, saying in a low voice, "Thank you mother!"

"Silly boy, what are you thanking?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Lu Xiu suddenly covered her mouth, feeling sick in her chest.

"Mom, what's wrong with you?" Chen Ji asked worriedly seeing his mother was not feeling well.

Zhao Qiaoyun also whispered: "Sister, do you have it too?"

Lu Xiu nodded, "Probably so!"

Lu Xiu forced a smile on her face, and said to her son Chen Ji: "I'm afraid Mother will give birth to a younger brother for you again!"

After the carriage passed through East Street, they went back by another road. They had watched the lights for an hour and a half, and the bell rang in the distance. The ladies fell asleep in the arms of their respective mothers, and there were three pregnant women in the carriage, all of whom were very tired.

Although the Lantern Festival had just reached its climax, the whole family couldn't hold on and went back to rest.

The lights were bright, the crowd was like a sea, and there were laughter and laughter everywhere, but the carriage disappeared at the end of the long street under the guard of fifty cavalry.

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