Chiwuxing

Chapter [-] - There are many bases in the surrounding suburbs, and the princes break the axe, and the enemies and lords in all directions are admonishing

A gust of wind wrapped around the fluff, Fu Chen stood facing the wind, his throat tightened suddenly, a mouthful of fishy sweetness gushed out, he frowned and tilted his head, and said:

"How to say?"

"Yiwei, who was sent by the barbarian army to surrender, pretended to be a barbarian soldier, and then the Yan army deliberately blocked the pass and guarded the camp." The Hu man who spoke was thin and young, "but I heard that in the Yan army Secretly dispatched a detachment to attack the barbarian army many times, and that side also blindly used the surrendered Yan army to resist...you, what's wrong with you?"

Fu Chen waved his hands, turned his head, and looked normal.Hearing what he said, he immediately understood the barbarian's dubious thoughts, and said with a sneer, "They are the ones under their own hands who can't stand up to them, and they are using the surrendered army to make up for it...Then what are the actions of the Hulan troops?"

The Hu man looked a little uncomfortable, and said: "They... the main team usually detours to Yannan, and the rest are all injured and seriously injured in the previous battle, and they are all raised by the generals behind them. on."

Fu Chen was in deep thought here, but he came up again and said, "...do you have an idea?"

Fu Chen narrowed his eyes and asked again: "Can the corpses of those Yan people disguised as barbarians still be found?"

"This... I see that the area around has been cleaned up, and there are no corpses except for the blood on the ground."

Already thinking about it, Fu Chen quickly stood up and said, "Count the number of people! Change the route!"

The rest of the Hu soldiers around got the news and got up from the mountains and fields, shook off the dust from their skirts, raised their knives and waited for orders.

The young barbarian hurriedly followed, and said beside him: "Shall we travel at night?"

"There is no need to wait any longer," Fu Chen said firmly, "If this is what Yan Jun wants to fight, then we can't wait for their two armies to take the lead in fighting...Boa, what you just said is correct, right?"

Bois immediately said: "No, we lay down outside the trench for two days to check the veracity of the barbarian's words. There is nothing wrong with it."

The Hu people gathered next to him also confirmed what he said was true, Fu Chen said: "The barbarian army is huddled in the city camp, now I don't have to wait for the barbarian to mobilize troops at the same time, and go directly to fight with the Yan army. First force him to send troops."

"...It's just that the barbarians are acting on hearing the news, but they can't hide our identity." Hu Ren said beside him.

"Didn't all the rebels from the Hulan tribe go to Yannan, and the rest of the disease may not be seen in the barbarian camp at this time," Fu Chen said, "If the Yan soldiers shouted, they would kill them. It is the Hu Qiang rebels. It is impossible for them to know every single one of them.”

Bowa worried: "We have about 1 people, can we resist their tens of thousands of horses?"

"The less you have, the less risk of exposure. It's not good if there are too many people," Fu Chen considered, "Bowa, the matter is very important. You have to go to Yannan Qianchuan to report a letter in person and tell the wolf masters that once the barbarians When crossing south and attacking the city, the cities and counties in southern Guizhou will inevitably mobilize troops to help the west. At this time, they will immediately send troops to the south and pull down the cities of Qianchuan and Sichuan. Also, if the Jiangdong army goes south to support at that time, there is no need to fight head-on. To the general of the army—"

Bois took a bronze medal, like a military order.

"Another name of 'Fu Chen'," Fu Chen urged, "Have you written it down?"

"Remember it," Bois nodded, and couldn't help feeling frustrated, "Why do I always have this kind of mission of sending messages... I also want to go to battle to kill the enemy."

The barbarian next to him mocked and said, "I'd better practice your body for a few more years before we talk about it. If you come out for a trip, your mother will be afraid that you will be hindered..."

"You are of the right size, and no one will trouble you if you pretend to be a Yan people," Fu Chen said, "Don't cross south until you reach the east of Zishui, and don't go into cities and counties occupied by barbarians. Autumn Night Villa Outside the city of Jiangzhou, the gatekeepers are all from Yan, so please come forward and report my name first, so there should be no conflict."

Bowa agreed, without delay, he got on his horse and rushed to the road.According to Fu Chen's instructions, the rest of the people came out from the self-excavated mountain garrison, and the people and horses full of slopes and valleys set out in a mighty manner.

Three days later, the barbarian army was not overwhelmed with disturbance, and they had to bear their temper. The Yan army suddenly ushered in an unexpected visitor, and attacked Weizhou with a force like a broken bamboo. When the news came, the soldiers and horses did not stop, and they went straight to attack again.Obviously not for Zhancheng, but for the attack from the north.

After the scouts learned that the bottom of the hand would be dozens of miles away to resist, Tang Lan almost expected Fu Xuan's secret joy in the camp.After such a long period of rectification, it will be a shame to wait until this time.

The people below couldn't help cursing after hearing the news: "After a long time, this shrunken turtle is as invisible as a turtle, or should I wait for barbarians to make them swords and guns? Tsk tsk, this barbarian is quite stingy..."

At that time, a general next to him said: "If you don't know, you would think that each of their barbarians is so precious in their bodies and bones, and they don't want to shed a little blood. I'm afraid they were afraid of being beaten a few years ago, so they don't dare at this time." Here we come. Take the Yan soldiers first and then use the Hu people, so it's possible that Fu Xuan wants to show how much he has the hearts of the world's soldiers at this time."

"You don't need to talk too much this time," Tang Lan sneered, "If Fu Xuan wants to waste his time again, I won't allow him to pretend to be in the camp anymore."

All the soldiers will see him stand up and walk to the center of the tent, the crows are green, the clothes are dark and the air is cold.

"Several of you, together lead 3 horses to defend against the barbarians in Guanbei," Tang Lan said, "The rest of you, join me in attacking the barbarian camp."

Some generals were surprised when they heard this: "Is there no need to send people here to guard the gate?"

"There is no need to keep soldiers," Tang Lan said with a firm expression, "If you win, you will directly occupy the barbarian camp. If you don't catch them, then let them pass through our corpses and go south."

After finishing speaking, Tang Lan lifted the curtain and left, leaving only the people inside the tent with different expressions and terrified hearts.

In the next few days, the people of the cities in the northwestern border valley dragged their families along and fled if they could.Even if he hid in a small town in Zaoxian County, hundreds of miles away, he was worried every day that the war would continue, and at any time an army would suddenly come and kill him from behind.

Human life is worthless, and it is obtained from this.

Xu was trusted by the imperial court, and the previous trial order to recruit refugees to serve as soldiers was temporarily suspended, and instead opened the granary and treasury to help the people in the south.At the same time, he collected surplus food, money and property from the rich families in various cities in the country. Prime Minister Ni Cong set an example with tattoos and asked himself to suspend his salary.Furthermore, the former great merchants in Beijing, the Yuan family, etc. gathered to respond, and the rest of the cities and counties also expressed their opinions due to the supervision of local officials.

Qiuming Villa sits on the fertile soil of the fertile river, so naturally it will not be ignored by the county magistrate.

Jin Duo waving his folding fan lightly under the pavilion, listening to the waiter's side-by-side conversation.The heat was dissipated by boxes of ice cubes in the corner, and even the fan in his hand was just an empty and elegant decoration, and the coolness was all caused by the constant fanning by the waiters behind.

"If they want to ask for food, give them a little alms," Jin Duo said with a fake smile, "Anyway, what they are thinking about is not just a day or two, and the country is in crisis, so we can't give them an excuse to find our fault Come."

"Then you say how much is too much?" The waiter lowered his voice, "...Didn't those brothers in the Houzhuang camp still point to this?"

"How much more do you want me to pay? The meaning is, do they really not know where I came from or pretend they don't know?" Jin Duo snorted softly, "I don't believe them if a skinny camel is bigger than a horse." Do you really dare to detain my Zhuangzi because of the lack of food I give?"

The waiter repeatedly said yes, and said: "But Ni Xiang has already paid for it, if I really want to take you... I'm afraid it's really hard to fool."

"Ni Congwen?" Jin Duo sneered, "When will that old fox of his be willing to suffer by himself? At the beginning, all the Qianjian copper mines he collected were lucrative and fat, and now he is acting as a minister... Ten years of salary, but He really knows how to put on airs! I think he just didn’t dare to report the exact number, but at this moment he is still reluctant to really bleed, and even lured others to send money to him, tsk tsk.”

"Then here we are..."

"Just a hundred stones."

The waiter hesitated: "If they ask..."

"Don't worry, you do this," Jin Duo said with a faint smile, "When you go to pay the grain, you first bring 100 taels of silver, and hand it to the county magistrate in Jiangzhou, and tell him that this hundred taels is the five-year price of our villa. The yield per mu should be considered as a statement for him, and then he will know how to say it when he reports it."

"...Can this work?" The waiter hesitated, "They also know the number of acres of our land here, and the number is far behind if you carefully calculate it."

"That's why I asked you to hand over the money to the county magistrate. This kind of errand pays for rice and grain, and he can't get any benefit from it. This is not an opportunity for him to make money. How can he not?" Jin Duo said with his right hand. Lifting the handle of the fan and pointing at him, he said, "It's much more economical to bribe a small official than to pay the silver according to the order. You can see that the 100 taels is just the price of more than one mu of grain, but if you make up the one hundred shi for the public How many acres of grain will it cost? How much is the account, but it is clear."

The waiter recognized this, but said: "If everyone does this, and finally report to the imperial court, wouldn't it be obvious that they are short of money?"

"So what?" Jin Duo knew that this servant was not the servant he brought from the imperial capital back then, so he didn't know the inside story, so he patiently talked to him, "You think Ni Congwen and the group of people do it. I don’t know what the outcome will be when this happened? On the contrary, if everyone is like this, no one will pursue it anymore. Pretending to be clear and pretending to be confused, Ni Congwen wants to win the hearts of the people more than anyone else, and he is very familiar with this trick. Very sophisticated..."

"The little one has been taught..."

Jin Duo stared at the lake and water in summer, and sighed a little: "For such a thousand-holed people, unless they hit their very roots, they are just like those centipedes that never die. To take the opportunity to bite someone back..."

More than half a month later, the two armies of Yan and Man started to fight, and they were at a stalemate.After a long battle, the two armies were exhausted and difficult to advance. Immediately after hearing the news, it was reported that Hu Jun on the North Road had killed [-] Yan troops, and they were approaching Huangling Pass.In contrast, the Hu army in Nandu retreated steadily due to long-term battles and insufficient reserve food and grass.Seeing that the northern city had fallen, the melee was not over, and food and military equipment could not be replenished as needed, the leader of the Hu army ordered to withdraw his troops and return north to the camp again.As a result, all the Yan troops guarding the Huangling Pass were surrounded on three sides, with many fortifications in the surrounding suburbs, making it difficult for them to move forward.

When Fenying heard the news, he wanted to dispatch the newly recruited soldiers and guards to help.

On this day, a woman hurriedly came outside the gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion. She didn't stop walking, and the drowsy guards were all shaken by the flying skirt.

"Yo...Miss?" Before he could stop him and salute, he saw Ni Chengxin rushing straight through the door.The old guard of the Prime Minister's Mansion for many years knew that Jin Zhi of the Prime Minister's Mansion had a turbulent temperament in the past, so he didn't dare to delay the matter, so he let him enter the gate.

Ni Chengxin came to the study room with ease, and the porter who was guarding outside was also surprised when she saw her coming, so he hurriedly stepped forward to salute, but seeing her without looking sideways, he went straight to the door.

"...Miss, the Prime Minister is still discussing military affairs, so it's inconvenient to see you at this time." The porter stopped.

"Military affairs?" Ni Chengxin raised his eyebrows, forced a sneer, and said, "It's just right, what I want to talk to him about is also military affairs."

After saying that, he wanted to go forward, but the concierge was helpless and hurriedly begged for mercy: "Miss, please be lenient, let me spare this servant, don't teach this servant to make things difficult..."

Ni Chengxin didn't care about other things, and wanted to force his way in again, but he heard an order from inside the study: "Come in when you come."

Ni Congwen spoke in person, and the porter bowed to open the door for him as if he was about to receive an amnesty.

The woman paused at the door for a moment, pursed her lips and lifted the hem of her skirt, and entered across the threshold.

The eyes of more than ten people in the room gathered together, Ni Chengxin raised his eyes lightly and made a slight salute:

"Greetings to father and brother."

Except for the Ni family and his son, here are all the courtiers and guests of the prime minister's mansion. Although they are not considered outsiders, it is somewhat out of courtesy for the family members to meet each other.Therefore, most of the people in the venue were embarrassed and avoided watching, sitting silently at a loss.

Ni Chengzhi felt that Ni Congwen was secretly angry, so he took the initiative to say: "Little sister, please get up... If you have something, why don't you sit down and talk about it first."

The person at the end of the seat got up and wanted to give up his seat, but Ni Chengxin stopped him motionlessly: "All the adults here are talking about business, so the little girl won't sit down."

Ni Congwen snorted coldly, still suppressing his displeasure: "You also know that what we are talking about here is serious business, why are you still making noise at the door? How decent!"

"Father is talking about military affairs here, and what my daughter wants to ask about here is also military affairs."

Ni Chengxin straightened his waist, the summer clothes were so cool, and the lake blue veil concealed his muscles. The young subordinate officer on the side looked straight at him in private, until Ni Chengzhi coughed lightly and gave him a warning look, and then hurriedly looked away.

"what do you wish to ask?"

"The Hu army in Yanluo Mountain was defeated and fled back to Yanbei. Why didn't they send troops to take advantage of the victory and pursue them?"

"The officers and men of Yiwei Battalion are exhausted, and most of them have suffered heavy battle injuries."

"It doesn't make sense," Ni Chengxin said aggressively, "Even if the injury is not at this moment, why don't you wait for the attacking enemy to fall, and then come back to recover and heal the wound safely."

"Why don't you talk too much about the reason why poor bandits don't chase after you? How do you know that they didn't deliberately lead troops to the northern border, and negotiated with the barbarian army in advance to lead the enemy in?"

"Well, my daughter will ask again," Ni Chengxin continued, "Now that I know that the Hu army is defeated and there is no other plan, why didn't I send troops to the north to help? My father was just worried about the guards in the Yiwei camp. The red armor army was in Huangzhou After months of exhausting fighting, why don't you show any mercy at this time? Could it be that the more you are on your own, the more harshly your father will treat you?"

"How do you know that I didn't send troops to help?" Ni Congwen said seriously, "When the country is in crisis, can I still make fun of the safety of the country?"

"The militia recruited from the peasants marched loosely, but it would take a lot of time just to get together and raise troops together," Ni Chengxin also had a stern look on his face, without giving in. What? Tang Lan is in the middle army, facing the enemy on three sides, my daughter asks you, should I save or not?"

Most of the staff here have heard that the lady in the inner court of the Prime Minister's Mansion was savage since she was a child and had no knowledge of poetry and etiquette, but today they learned that she has such eloquence, and they couldn't help being amazed.Ni Congwen was embarrassed, and turned to the rest of the people: "I just discussed the matter, have you all written it down?"

The rest of the people knew that this was the intention of driving people away, so they responded repeatedly.

"As for the memorial, I would like to invite you to write as you see fit, and hand it over to the official for retrial after the book is finished," Ni Congwen said, "I will stop here for today, please feel free to do so."

A group of people bid farewell to go out, one person behind still couldn't help but glance at the young lady, and met her troubled eyes at this moment.Ni Chengxin sneered coldly: "Look again, and I'll dig out your eyeballs!"

That person ran away, Ni Congwen scolded her from the seat: "Chengxin, come here!"

"I'm already a married woman, she's noisy and vulgar, what does she look like?"

Ni Chengxin went up to find a seat and sat down, and said slowly: "My daughter knows better than my father that she is a no-salt and no-art girl who came out of the court and was born with the help of her relatives and husband-in-law, so I don't want my son to be born... To bear the pain of losing a parent."

Both the father and son were taken aback when they heard the words, Ni Congwen looked at her waist and abdomen in surprise, the just-cai woman kept putting her hands together in front of her, not paying attention to the changes in her figure.

Ni Chengxin looked at him coldly, and said sarcastically, "It was diagnosed by the imperial physician in the palace... A daughter is no better than a father, and she never lies about matters of human life."

Ni Congwen turned his face slowly, and said again: "Didn't you go to the palace to accompany your aunt, why should your inner court women worry about things outside the palace?"

"The military affairs are related to my daughter's family members, why can't they interfere? The novel is a family matter, and it is a national problem in general. Now you are accusing me of worrying about business?"

"... Where did you hear the news?"

Ni Chengxin's face also became gloomy: "His Royal Highness is speaking, and I just listened to it by chance."

She turned and said: "Just now you talked with them about military affairs, but what did you get? What is the memorial about?"

"...What's the matter? Is it possible to report to your wife and family one by one about the administrative affairs that my father is in charge of?" After closing the door, Ni Congwen was not polite to her.

"If you don't tell me, I will go to the palace to ask the prince again in the future."

"Prince, prince, at this time you are thinking of his favor. If you had promised him to come to ask for marriage, you would still be fooling around here because of a nobody!"

The woman's eyebrows twitched, and she seemed to be angry, completely disregarding etiquette, and stared at him like she was when she was a child: "...Yes, that's right, he is indeed just an unknown person, the point in his hand now Things are all given to him by you, and they are not worth mentioning. He knows this, and so do I. Even with myself, you promised him..."

Ni Congwen said in a deep voice: "... At the beginning, you said you liked Wu people, and as a father, you would follow your wishes. There are so many officers and captains of the right age in the army, and the kid surnamed Tang was not picked by yourself. If it weren't for you With this relationship, do you think it will be his turn to do such a good thing? Now if you go back on your word...I can tell you that there is no way back."

Ni Chengxin pursed her lips and remained silent.

Ni Congwen looked at her stubborn expression, then squinted and added: "If you really took this marriage as a joke at the beginning, or did it purely out of anger for the past, then you should accept it now. The matter is over, don't expect As a father, you can do anything corrupt and commonplace for you, and then you will lose the face of the entire Prime Minister's family."

"Isn't he just a nobody in your eyes?" Ni Chengxin said hoarsely, "...I'm not as good as him?"

"...Of course that's not the intention," Ni Congwen got up, walked to the chair beside her, and slowly sat down, "What do I want my son to be a father?"

"Since you still value him a little bit, why do you allow him to fall into the army and refuse to save him?"

"Will I die without saving?" Ni Congwen sighed softly, "It's because he is incompetent and ignorant of the current situation, and now he has fallen to the point where he is surrounded by all sides. My father has already sent troops to help him, so what happens after that is up to him .Public is public, private is private, the community is important, don't expect me to cover and condone it."

Ni Chengxin sneered in his heart, and bent his lips weakly: "Okay... I understand."

Ni Chengzhi stood on the sidelines for a while, then stepped forward and said, "Little sister, you have misunderstood my father. When discussing military affairs in the room just now, he talked about the matter of reinforcements and rescues. It's just that the previous relocation of the capital has just stopped, and the local soldiers will be slightly transferred. , so I dare not send all the good guards to the war-affected area at this time. The barbarian army used similar tactics in the past to attack the west, so it is still necessary to strengthen the military equipment of each city, so as not to prevent anything from happening in this important town in Yannan trouble."

"It's my daughter who made a reckless move, so she apologized to her father." Ni Chengxin got up and made a false salute.

Ni Chengzhi stretched out his hand to mix it, his father calmed down his anger, and changed his words: "Okay, there is nothing to say about this... Your house is empty, and there is turmoil outside, I will deliver a letter to the imperial concubine." , these two days, you can move back to the palace to raise your baby in peace, just to be with your aunt. You don’t have to worry about outside things.”

Ni Chengxin knew that he had no other choice but to agree, so he said goodbye in a hurry.

Ni Chengzhi sent him to the door, sent two maids to escort him to the carriage, exhorted and comforted him a few words, and then returned to the room, saying anxiously: "Father, are you not angry with my little sister?"

Ni Congwen tilted his head, and said: "Your sister's temperament is something you have always imagined since you were a child, and you are used to it differently from others. What is there to learn from her."

Ni Chengzhi said: "I see that the little girl really intends to take advantage of the opportunity, and now I regret it and want to ask you to settle the matter."

"It's okay to let her do whatever she wants?" Ni Congwen said in a deep voice, "Tang Lan's news is blocked. I really don't know what he is planning. Is it possible that he really wants to go head-to-head? Is it possible to co-author with my daughter? After staying for a long time, have you also acquired the habit of being disobedient?"

Ni Chengzhi speculated: "Could it be that you were blocked and intercepted when you reported the letter with the eagle bird? Why don't you send someone to go there in person?"

"That's all we have to do," Ni Congwen said, "By the way, pass on the news that your sister is happy, so that he won't have any rebellious thoughts at this time."

Ni Chengzhi didn't take it seriously, and said: "Tang Lan has been working by your side for many years, and now he has both wealth and beauty, all of which are the grace given by you personally. I thought he didn't dare to do that ungrateful thing, and judging by his past words and deeds, he was also very ignorant. It is very obedient to what you say."

"I hope so," Ni Congwen said, "but there are exceptions to everything, especially when it comes to fame and fortune. He was born in poverty, and now he has everything, so it is inevitable that he will be arrogant and domineering."

"You are not a person who is used to betting all your treasures on one person. I think that if Tang Lan is really so stupid, he should just take the opportunity to find out what kind of person he is. In the overall situation, he may not be able to disturb much." Ni Chengzhi said.

"Although I have a complete plan, if it is not really an emergency, I don't want to add side effects," Ni Congwen said, "especially when it comes to such important matters. The price of testing a person like this is too high, even if I can afford it. I don’t want to see it either. What’s more, I have identified my own pearl, and if he really wants to make up his own mind, I don’t care about your sister, I will teach him that there is no place for burial.”

"Looking at it this way, it's a pain for my little sister. It would be better to find a young eunuch with a clean family background back then, and not suffer from this fear all the time like now." Ni Chengzhi sighed.

"Your sister chose the right and left," Ni Congwen said, "I didn't want her to pick someone under her command, it was just a good luck marriage, among those people, since she happened to like a good-looking one, and I just knew the details, Assuming this kid is lucky, I pushed him accordingly. I see that if Tang Lan doesn't become my son-in-law, it won't hinder him from doing things now, but now I'm afraid that he will interfere with family affairs and have other motives."

Ni Chengzhi comforted him and said: "Father, don't worry, since Tang Lan has entered the high school of the Prime Minister's family, he should be considered a family. It doesn't matter what his background is, with you, he can't be short of him. If he is smart, even more You should understand this."

"Okay, I'll just wait and see how he will solve this crisis this time," Ni Congwen said, "If he can come back and give me a satisfactory explanation, counting his knowledge of the situation, what should be his. If he is trapped in a cocoon He ended up with no end, even if he brought it on himself, I was confused and misread the wrong person back then."