Better to live forever [Rebirth]

After the Zhenbei Hou Mansion learned of the news of Zhu Dingbei's disappearance in the sea, it was believed that it was a false alarm within a short while.

Even so, the old Hou Ye felt his heart pounding, and said to the housekeeper Zhu San in fear: "I shouldn't listen to him, how can I go out without taking anyone with me?" He thought about this time. We must send some people there for the grandson's self-defense, no matter how bad things really happen, they won't let them shut their eyes and listen to it.

Zhu San said helplessly: "Master Hou, there is someone to take care of Lord Hou of Changxin, don't worry. Besides, the subordinates think that Master Hou also has his own people with him, which is enough."

Although the old Hou Ye was relieved after hearing this, he was still furious: Little bastard, in the past two years, he has cultivated a lot of his own manpower, even the old man has been left behind!

Not long after, a young servant came to report that the eldest son of Qin Tong's family and the eleventh son of Jia's family had come, and the old Hou Ye had a smile on his face, and went to meet these juniors.Before Zhu Dingbei left, he asked them to come to the mansion to visit the elders frequently and take care of him. These children kept in mind to come and walk from time to time, which made the old wife no longer feel lonely.

The two brothers from the Lou family also came here together, but a few days ago, the two children secretly boarded a boat and went south without telling them, so they don't know what is going on now.

At this time, Zhu Dingbei still didn't know that he had repeatedly ordered Lou Ankang and Lou Anning not to go south alone. At this time, he was reading in Ning Heng's study room, and when he heard that the people who came to discuss matters with Ning Heng withdrew one after another. After Ning Heng's bedroom, he put down the book in his hand and went to the bedroom.When he came in, he couldn't see Uncle Ning who was guarding Ning Heng, so Zhu Dingbei asked.

Ning Heng: "Lanzhou Mu has come to the mansion, and Uncle Ning has something to do with him, so let's go and have a look."

When Zhu Dingbei heard that it was Guangzhou State Shepherd Blue Deer, he couldn't help but chuckled, "Are you here so soon?"

The errand he was talking about was actually the group of bandits that the Ning family went to Shangzhou Mufu with great fanfare to ask him to organize a sea attack on the Ning family's caravan.It was originally a non-existent thing, and I don't know what this Lanzhou pastor will use to make a difference.

"He's just doing the best he can."

Ning Heng poured him a cup of hot tea - he was well aware of Zhu Dingbei's habits, if no one reminded him, he would not think of eating and drinking after reading a day.

Zhu Dingbei thinks about it too.

It was a fruitless investigation, so Lanzhou Mu would give the Ning family an account as long as he did what he could.

Thinking of the turmoil in Guangzhou's Linhai these days, Zhu Dingbei gloated at the pirates who were suppressed without any sympathy.Merchant ships in the south come and go frequently, and there are regular soldiers at the docks of the outposts on the sea. Compared with the north, pirates are not as rampant.

However, in recent years, Pingzhou Prefecture has received the help of the Siren Clan. Those pirates in the North Sea were forced to have no way out, so many people fled to the south one after another to find another livelihood. Therefore, there are more pirates in the South Sea generation than in previous years. More than doubled.

Because of the "serious injury" of the Patriarch of the Ning family, allowing the government to have a chance with these pirates is considered a benefit to the common people.

Zhu Dingbei and Ning Heng talked for a while, and Uncle Ning came back with a letter in his hand.

That was not a common letter from Ning Heng and the others. The seal of the official residence on it was the seal of the station along the road, indicating that this letter was sent from Luojing to Ningfu in Guangzhou by the hand of the station along the road in Dajing.

Zhu Dingbei opened the letter and saw Lou Anning's handwriting, his eyebrows jumped, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly after reading the letter.

He handed the letter to Ning Heng, and said, "If Lou Da indulges that bastard Lou Er like this, he will suffer a lot sooner or later."

After Ning Heng had seen it, he was not as worried as he was. He just told Uncle Ning to let the fleet of merchants along the way pay attention and take care of them as much as possible. Once they arrived at the boundary of Guangzhou Mansion, they immediately took the brothers to Ning Mansion.Uncle Ning responded and went out to notify the clansmen, but Zhu Dingbei shook the envelope in his hand with a headache, and said: "That kid in Lou Er is still so worrying."

Among these few people, if you want to say that the willful Lou Er is not number one, but if you want to say that you are stubborn and don't listen to persuasion, the famous Lou Er Young Master will do his part.

And he always has a way to make his "soft-eared" brother bow his head and listen to him, and do his best for him. In the past two years, he has become more and more lawless.

Seeing that he had endless troubles with those people, Ning Heng always felt a little uncomfortable.

In these years, whether it was Qin Xi who did not change his ambition to join the army after learning art from a teacher, or Jia Shishi who was lighting a lamp to prepare for the autumn national examination three years later, or Lou Da who worked hard on his family business and ruined his younger brother, and the last People can rest assured that there are always some "magic weapons" on the second floor, and Master Zhu Xiaohou will take care of them personally.

Only himself, he rarely took the initiative to care.

Ning Heng slandered a few words, but he had to be content with the status quo: instead of causing him trouble and making him troublesome, it would make him feel more at ease to be his backing and wait for him to look back.

So he said in an old-fashioned way: "Ankang has a sense of propriety."

Zhu Dingbei didn't take it seriously: "The two little bastards have traveled a long way since they were young to Huguo Temple. They haven't done a boat a few times. I—"

Ning Heng couldn't bear it anymore, he lowered his eyes and said casually: "They are not children anymore, Changsheng."

Zhu Dingbei, who was interrupted, said: "Why are you not a child? Hey, Ah Heng, you arranged two good hands who often travel between the north and the south to follow them, so that you don't even know their whereabouts. It's really worrying."

Ning Heng let out a "huh".

Uncle Ning, who listened to a few words outside the door after finishing the work, couldn't help laughing. Seeing that his master had reached the limit of a certain kind of patience, he couldn't help but help: "Master, little master, just now my subordinates learned from Lanzhou Mu that , The Guangzhou Marine Division will transfer a group of people from Pingzhou Prefecture, and they will arrive in two days."

Pingzhou?

Zhu Dingbei's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "Do you know who it is?"

Uncle Ning glanced at the head of the family whose expression had become very gentle, and said with a smile: "It's the second young master of Dong's family in Luojing. I heard that Mr. Qian, who had borrowed from the young master's mansion for several months, was also among them."

"Fantastic!"

Zhu Dingbei clapped his hands together, and then looked at Ning Heng: "When they arrive, how about we invite them to meet at Ning's house?"

If it wasn't for the head of the Ning family who was still "bedridden" recuperating from his injuries, he would also like to go to the naval division camp to meet Dong Minghe and Qian Hui who had been away for many years.Although I have maintained correspondence with each other over the years, it seems that I have not seen them for many years.

Seeing that he didn't let go of his happiness, Ning Heng gave Uncle Ning a wink, and the latter hurriedly said, "Young Master, I'll make arrangements now." Then he left cheerfully.

Zhu Dingbei really did as Ning Heng wished and stopped worrying endlessly about the Lou family brothers.

He threw a piece of pastry into his mouth, squeezed another piece and stuffed it into Ning Heng's mouth, and said with a smile: "Brother Qian Hui has made a lot of achievements in Pingzhou in the past few years, not to mention senior brother Minghe. General Pin Zhonglang sat for two years, and the other remained motionless for four years under General Zhonglang of the third rank. Nowadays, there is no major war in Pingzhou, and it is not easy to make military achievements. It's a nest, this level can't be raised by one level."

After three months at sea, Zhu Dingbei and Ning Heng were busy planning things on Zhuya Island.

In addition to the news about Xianbei Mansion and Liangzhou that he paid attention to, other news such as Young Master Dong's was ignored a lot, so I only learned about the transfer of the two of them today.

Ning Heng: "Your Majesty ordered the Ministry of War to revise the deployment policy. Except for the border five continents and Jiaozhou, the garrisons in the other states will change their defenses every five years and change their generals. It must have been decided and implemented a month ago."

Zhu Dingbei understood.

After the defense of Xianbei Mansion was stabilized, the original Dajing border stele in the four prefectures from Yongzhou to Pingzhou in the north of Dajing was also removed, and became Dajing Neizhou, no longer performing important frontier duties.

Now that the government orders are in line, the chief general changes his station every five years, and the supervising army changes every three years, which can to a certain extent disperse military power in the hands of the generals and allow the emperor to better control it.

"It's good that way, so as not to raise these moths and waste the big Yasukuni treasury in vain."

For this innovation, Zhu Dingbei agreed with both hands.

Speaking of this, Zhu Dingbei immediately thought of another thing: "Is there any progress in the war in Ningzhou?"

Before they set off, there was a sudden battle in Ningzhou Prefecture. The Panyue Shan Kingdom in the southwest and the barbarians attacked Ningzhou. The Ningzhou garrison fought fiercely. The situation remained stalemate until they entered the sea.This is a situation that the Qiang people can only maintain by watching the changes. Once Ningzhou is defeated, the Qiang people will reap the benefits of the fisherman and push the war to an irreversible point.

Ning Heng didn't answer but talked about the harem: "The concubine Shu in the palace has been ill for two months. The eldest prince can't bear the worry of his mother and concubine, and has already asked His Majesty to go to Ningzhou to crusade against the barbarians in the southwest."

"The crusade?"

Zhu Dingbei threw away the cake in his hand, and looked at Ning Heng with interest.

Ning Heng wiped the crumbs from the corner of his mouth with his hand, nodded and said: "Two months ago, a group of bandits from the southwest barbarians entered the main house of the Ruan family, slaughtered and looted wantonly inside. Several members of the Ruan family guarding the main house The clan elders were martyred, and the main house was set on fire. Although a few people escaped by chance, the ancestral hall was not saved and was burned down."

Zhu Dingbei was shocked.

It is already intolerable for the heirs of a man to have rampant bandits entering the main house, let alone setting fire to the ancestral halls where people worshiped their ancestors!

Dajing valued filial piety, as well as clan relatives.

Although the tablets enshrined in the ancestral hall are dead objects, they are the key to maintaining the clan.This kind of behavior is like digging up someone's ancestral grave and cutting off the bloodline of a person's descendants. No wonder the eldest prince, who has always been gentle and friendly, will invite him to the battlefield this time.

Zhu Dingbei didn't ask the eldest prince whether he had His Majesty's permission. With Emperor Zhenyuan's heart, he would never magnify the prince's going to Ningzhou - Ningzhou is where the concubine Shu's mother's family is located, and it is also an important frontier fortress. The emperor would not Letting his son take risks will also not make his mother's relatives arrogance.

The emperor still hasn't established a heir apparent, and the rivalry between the grown-up princes has intensified in the past two years. Among them, the eldest prince Rui Wang and the fourth prince Lin Wang are the most popular.

The emperor was in his prime, and he could allow his sons to jump around under his nose, but he would never let any of them jump out of his palm.

What he was concerned about was that the Ruan family's main house was broken into by barbarian bandits.

"Who led the way? The Qiang people, Panyue, the Shan royal family, or... Ningzhou?"