A Timely Wife

After feeding Chengdong the medicine, Li Ruosong brought a bowl of honey water for Chengdong to drink. After drinking the honey water, Chengdong felt a lot more comfortable in his mouth. Said: "This time, the emperor has granted a one-day parade in the capital city and a three-day parade in Qingjiang Mansion. After attending the Luming Banquet tomorrow, we will leave for Qingjiang Mansion."

"So fast? Are we going to come back after the street tour?" Cheng Dong asked.

"That depends on how the emperor arranges the official position after the Luming Banquet. If it is released, I will take the post directly from Qingjiang Mansion. If it stays in the capital, then we will definitely come back." Li Ruosong tilted his head and thought for a while, Continue to ask: "Do you want to go back to the capital or go to another place?"

"Of course it's outside, and it's best to go to the southeast to find a place to stay." Chengdong thought for a while before answering.

"Well, your thoughts are similar to Prince Zhong's." Li Ruosong smiled and straightened Cheng Dong's sideburns.

"Lord Prince Zhong? When did he talk to you about this?" Cheng Dong was a little surprised. It couldn't be the two of them talking in public, otherwise Li Ruosong would be riding through the streets all day today. How could he have time to talk to Prince Zhong? Discuss these things.

"Lord Zhong secretly slipped it to me, take a look." Li Ruosong said while handing a piece of paper to Cheng Dong.

Chengdong took the paper and looked at it. There were only a few words on it, experience in the Ministry of War, Jinghaiwei.After reading it, Cheng Dong asked, "The experience of the Ministry of War? Jing Haiwei? What do you mean?"

"This should be the official position that Lord Zhong and the others are planning to arrange for me. Jinghaiwei is where I will take up the post." Li Ruosong explained.

Chengdong suddenly remembered the adults who called them to the Chuhuai River a few days ago, one of them was the Minister of the Ministry of War, "What is the situation of Jinghaiwei? Where is the specific position? What is the official title of the Ministry of War experience? Officer? What are the main responsibilities?

Do you have real power? "

Facing a series of questions raised by Chengdong, Li Ruosong did not fool him with a sentence that you don't understand, but replied very seriously: "The experience of the Ministry of War is from the rank of the sixth rank. Although we work in the Ministry of War, we The Ministry of War of the Great Chu is all civilians, and the generals do not serve in the Ministry of War. The experience of the Ministry of War is mainly responsible for patrolling various guards, which can be regarded as a position with real power. The experience of the Ministry of War can directly take over the command of the guard, and the experience of the general and the lower generals of the Ministry of War can be the command right in wartime."

Chengdong pondered for a while when he heard the words, and said, "This is a bit similar to the inspection team of our Disciplinary Committee. The official rank is not high, but the power is quite large. It seems that Jinghaiwei should be a relatively important position, which is the so-called military strategist. Otherwise, Prince Zhong would not have arranged you there."

"It can also be said that Jinghaiwei is in charge of the defense of Ninghai Mansion. The current commander is the Wan family. I guess this position may not be available, but it is not necessarily true. Since Prince Zhong can give me such a message, I'm afraid it's already settled, it looks like we have to pay a visit to Prince Zhong before we leave Beijing." Li Ruosong said.

"People from the Wan family? Over there is the territory of the Wan family? If it is the territory of the Wan family, we will not have a good life in the future. If it is just to be on guard against us, I don't care, but if you make fun of the war, how many lives will matter?" Not enough for him to die." Cheng Dong said calmly, but full of killing intent.

"Fulang, let me tell you about Jinghaiwei first, so you can help out with suggestions. Great Chu has been a state for more than a hundred years. Jinghaiwei was established during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of Chu. Ninghai Prefecture is mountainous and the transportation is inconvenient. , the news is relatively closed, but the silk produced in that place is very good, and the tea is also of excellent quality. The trade is still very developed, but the life of the local people has always been very difficult, especially the coastal villages and even towns, which are very unstable.

There are two reasons for this. One is that the local taxes are very high. In addition to the taxes to be paid to the imperial court, taxes must also be paid to the local government. That is to say, the local people have two taxes, and both taxes are It is very heavy, so although the local people earn more silver taels, they can pay more taxes to the yamen servants.

Another reason is pirates. Most of these pirates come from an island country that is only a seven-day journey away from Ninghai Prefecture. Li Island is about [-] nautical miles away from Dachu. The two countries have been fighting for more than [-] years because they want to compete for land and population.

Many people in Li Island couldn't survive, so they started to be pirates and robbed the passing ships. Many of the ships were merchant ships from our Dachu or merchant ships from other countries. There were many people, but the force value was almost zero. Not a brave pirate.

Because of this, the ships passing by gave up the channel with better sea conditions near Li Island, and re-selected a channel close to Dachu. It was stable for a while, and no pirates were encountered again. The pirates of Li Island Seeing that the business of robbing was slowly becoming difficult, they sent people to investigate and found that the shipping lanes of these merchant ships had changed, so they chased these merchant ships and deviated in the direction of Dachu. , The pirates of the Li country began to land on the coast of Dachu, and then began to loot the towns along the coast of Dachu.

At the beginning, the pirates in the Li Kingdom were a little scared, and ran away after robbing, not daring to hurt people's lives, but later they found that even though they robbed these common people, the local officials didn't care much, so they began to act boldly. It took only five or six years for the property to rob women, and then to burn, kill and loot.

There is one prefect in Ninghai Mansion who is ready to crack down on these pirates, but unfortunately, these pirates are already very rampant, relying on the looted property over the years to get a batch of very good equipment, ordinary government servants can't beat these pirates at all At that time, Jinghaiwei had not yet been established, and the common people along the coast were miserable. When Chu Gaozong succeeded to the throne, he was only 17 years old, and he was very concerned about the situation along the coast. In order to combat pirates, Jinghaiwei was specially established.

At the beginning of the establishment of Jinghaiwei, a lot of things were done in combating pirates, and the pirates did restrain themselves, but Chu Gaozong died suddenly after only seven years in office, and when Chu Gaozong passed away, he did not leave The sons and heirs did not make an oral order to pass the position. For this matter, the clan's mansion and the courtiers fought for six or seven years. If the prime minister at that time was not able to suppress the situation, Great Chu would have been destroyed long ago.

It was hard to get a new king, and he was short-lived. He disappeared after only two months, and died before the country's title could be changed. Fortunately, he already had an eldest son. Fan, when the courtiers were still rejoicing about this incident, the emperor passed away in his prime and left no heirs, but the emperor left an oral order, which was passed on to his uncle, namely Emperor Chucheng. Father, Emperor Chu De, was already past his age when he succeeded to the throne.

Emperor Chu De is undoubtedly a wise emperor. After succeeding to the throne, the first thing he did was to rectify the imperial court, and then he lightly paid for the livelihood of the people. After that, he rectified the military affairs and reorganized the eight guards of Dachu. , but Emperor Chu De's health has been poor. After finishing the rectification of the guards, Emperor Chu Cheng, who was only nine years old, passed away.

It can be said that Great Chu has been in a state of instability since the beginning of Chu Gaozong. In just a few decades, five or six emperors have been changed. Prime Minister Zhou of the Grand Master, during the eight years that Prime Minister Zhou taught the little emperor, the officials in Dachu were clear and the people lived in prosperity. relatively stable.

Emperor Chu Cheng was in charge at the age of 16, and was in power at the age of 17. It took only ten years to resist all opinions and only favor Concubine Wan Gui. Later, Emperor Chu Cheng became obsessed with the way of immortality. However, the concubine was obedient and obedient. In the following ten years, the Wan family began to rise, and gradually developed to the point where one person was under one person and over ten thousand people.

And because of these reasons, Jinghaiwei, which had begun to change during the period when Prime Minister Zhou assisted the government, became disarmed again. After the Wanjia took office as the prefect of Ninghai Prefecture, Jinghaiwei had become useless.

Li Ruosong was able to know so many things, so naturally he was not the one who found out, but Prince Zhong told him specifically that the little eunuch who served Li Ruosong to change his clothes was a person of Prince Zhong. Li Ruosong's ability to recognize people is relatively strong, but after this person left, when he tried to find this person again, he found that he seemed to be unable to remember what this person looked like. , It was also at this time that Li Ruosong began to admire Prince Zhong. Every step that Prince Zhong took would not leave any big excuses. If he wanted to tell the Wan family what the little eunuch told him, Li Ruosong would Even the witness who testified could not be found. At that time, even if the Wan family wanted to use him, they would not dare to use him.

After hearing what Li Ruosong said to him, Chengdong lowered his head and pondered for a long time, then said, "Ruosong, do you have a map of Dachu?"

Li Ruosong shook his head, and replied: "No, there is only one copy of Dachu's map in the imperial palace, and no other places. There are maps in some places, but they are not comprehensive."

Chengdong sighed, and said: "We still have to do this in the future, otherwise, after a long time, we will not even know which places belong to Dachu. Speaking of which, we don't even have a map. The generals on your side How do you dispatch troops? It can’t be the time to ask for reinforcements, and the reinforcements who have supported in the past have to ask for directions along the way, right?”

After saying this, Cheng Dong made up the picture, thinking that the picture was so beautiful that he couldn't even imagine it.