The eldest son of the red mansion

Chapter 734 Breaking the Covenant
What Xue Baochai is thinking now is to take advantage of the fact that he is in charge of Fengyin and still has a certain right to speak in the harem, and try his best to strive for greater advantages for his son.

But if Jia Hui doesn't live up to it, even if she has all kinds of abilities, I'm afraid she can't change Jia Ke's mind.

So now Xue Baochai feels that Jia Hui can no longer be let go.

After Xue Baoqin listened to Xue Baochai's explanation, she finally understood the current situation. It seems that a new round of seizing the heir apparent is about to start again.

On the surface, Xue Baoqin persuaded Xue Baochai not to worry, but to guide her slowly.

But Xue Baoqin also has other thoughts in her heart now. In Xue Baoqin's mind, she is the most favored by Jia Ke now, and her son is also very loved by Jia Ke. Every time Jia Ke comes to Xue Baoqin, he will hug the little Jia Long made out with each other for a long time.

Since other people's sons are expected to inherit the throne, why not her Xue Baoqin's son?

There is another person who is concerned about this matter, and that is the Empress Dowager Zhou in the Compassionate Ning Palace.

It should be said that the Empress Dowager Zhou is now preoccupied with wanting Jia Mao, who grew up beside her, to inherit Jia Ke's lineage.

So the Empress Dowager Zhou can't say that she doesn't like the other princes in the palace, but the five fingers are not the same length.

So the Queen Mother Zhou was very dissatisfied when Jia Zhi went to the Hall of Mental Cultivation and asked Jia Ke to go to the army for training.

But Jia Zhi is also his grandson, and the Empress Dowager Zhou can't treat him differently, so he can only work harder and recommend Jia Hui desperately in front of Jia Ke.

And the undercurrent in the palace was raging, and Jia Ke soon discovered it.

After Jia Ke understood the truth of the matter, she wanted to laugh a little. She was only [-] years old, and with martial arts skills, she had a long life.

Unexpectedly, this is the case, and the princes and grandchildren below have already begun to think about who will be the emperor.

To say that Jia Ke is still generous, if you change your mind, you will wonder whether these people are all looking forward to my death.

Jia Ke didn't establish a prince back then, because he was still young, and he didn't know how many years he would live in the future. Maybe these princes couldn't survive him.Unexpectedly, the tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop.

However, Jia Ke did not interfere with the struggle of these princes below, he also wanted to see which of these princes had the real ability.Although these older princes may not be able to inherit the throne in the end, Jia Ke also needs to carefully observe their dispositions, and he can put them in a useful position in the future, so that they don't know every day like the previous princes. Eating, drinking and having fun has become a useless person.

However, Jia Ke didn't pay much attention to these things, and after understanding the situation, he left them behind.

Now the most important thing in Jia Ke's mind is to conquer the Tatars in the north and completely solve their threat to the Central Plains.

Over the past few years, with more and more information about the Tatars, Jia Ke has also discovered that the strength of the Tatars has begun to recover rapidly.

After all, the Tatars have the support of the 36 countries in the Western Regions, and they are a nation on horseback, good at plundering. In the past few years, they have ceased fighting with the Central Plains, and the rear has been secured, which naturally gives them the opportunity to plunder elsewhere.

So the Tatars have once again regained the prestige of hundreds of thousands of armored and powerful in dozens of countries.

And because of the recovery of strength, Arslen Khan began to move around the Central Plains again.

For example, Jia Ke had just received a memorial. There was a tribe of Tatars. Thousands of people went straight to Shaanxi Town, plundered a large number of ordinary people, and then returned to the north.

After Jia Ke got the news, instead of being angry, his face was full of joy.

It’s really hard to find a place to go through the iron shoes, and it doesn’t take much effort to get it. Since the relationship between the Tatars and the Central Plains has been pretty good in recent years, although Jia Ke was thinking of finding an excuse to be sent to the Northern Expedition, he has been unable to start. Now the Tatars The man handed the handle of the knife to Jia Ke himself.

After Jia Ke received the memorial, he immediately ordered the border gate to stop all exchanges with the Tatars, and ordered all hands at the border gate to strengthen their vigilance. Once the Tatars invaded, they must give him a head-on blow.

At the same time, Jia Ke began to speed up the firearms equipment of the three major camps. Jia Ke's hope was to turn all the three major camps into firearms storage troops within half a year.

Due to Jia Ke's order, the firearms factory near the capital began to produce at full capacity. It can be said that people stopped machines and kept busy. This kind of non-stop busy work has greatly increased the output of firearms. The task of battalion equipment.

Let's talk about Arslen Khan on the grassland. Over the years, it can be said that the scenery has been infinite. The 36 countries in the Western Regions have been completely stabilized, and he once again pushed westward to destroy [-] countries.

Now the Tatars can be said to be the overlord in Central Asia, and even the powerful black-clothed food has begun to retreat continuously in order to temporarily avoid the Tatars.

So Arslen Khan began to swell a little, and he once again set his sights on the south.

This time sending a small tribe to attack the border was Arslen Khan's test of Jia Ke.He wanted to see the bottom line of the Jia Kerong people.

Unexpectedly, Jia Ke didn't have any doubts at all, and immediately closed the exchange market to prepare for war.

After Arslen Khan got the news, he didn't have any fear. Over the years, he not only restored the number of his own cavalry, but also obtained a lot of knowledge and craftsmen from the West.

Due to the efforts of these Western craftsmen, the armor equipment rate of the Dada people has increased significantly, and the bows and arrows in the hands of the Tatars have also begun to become sharper.

Arslen Khan thought that if he faced Jia Ke this time, he would have an absolute advantage over the elite soldiers under Jia Ke's command.

Therefore, after receiving the news that the Dayan Dynasty had closed the trade market, Shang Arslen Khan declared all agreements with the Dayan Dynasty to be null and void on the grounds that the Dayan Dynasty had violated its promise.Then he ordered the tribes under his command to harass the border of the Central Plains.

Fortunately, Jia Ke had already ordered the generals on the nine sides to strictly defend, so that the Tatars had no chance.

The Tatars also wanted to fight to the death to build the city, but now that the Central Plains Dynasty has strong financial resources, Jia Ke repaired all the nine walls of the city.

Now the walls on the nine sides are much higher and thicker than before, which makes it impossible for these harassing Tatar tribes to attack.

In the end, these people could only plunder around Nine Sides before leaving with satisfaction.

Although the large-scale raids by the Tatars did not achieve major results this time, because the economy of the Central Plains Dynasty is now more prosperous, even near the Nine Sides, the population is much larger than before, so they still achieved great gains. .

After Jia Ke got the news, she didn't get angry immediately, but began to send imperial edicts to the firearms factories, urging them to produce more guns and artillery as soon as possible.

And Arslen Khan sent spies to inquire about the Central Plains after this harassment, and found that Jia Ke turned a blind eye to the matter.

This made Arslen Khan feel uneasy. Jia Ke is powerful. He, a Tatar Khan, has been taught before. He is so tough that Jia Ke can endure such grievances, unless he has some serious problems. A conspiracy is plotting.

Although Arslen Khan was frightened, he didn't have any timidity. He also knew that the Central Plains had become more and more prosperous in the past few years. If he allowed Jia Ke to rest for a few years, he would not have to fight, and the soldiers under his command would be able to use money alone. Buy them all.

Arslen Khan is now preparing for the next life-and-death battle.

Under the urging of Jia Ke, the firearms factory began to make muskets and cannons day and night.

Soon, the three major camps in the capital and the Fenwu Battalion were all equipped. If these 20 Musketeers were put out, Jia Ke thought they would be invincible.

Jia Ke didn't plan to do it himself this time, because now the capital couldn't do without him as the emperor.

Therefore, Jia Ke appointed Liaodong Jiedu envoy Feng Mo as the marshal of the right, and commanded 5 cavalry battalion musketeers and [-] Liaodong army, plus [-] cavalry each from Zhenghuang Banner and Zhenglan Banner, and set off from Liaodong Town to conquer the Tatars. .

Huang Baifeng, the Jiedu envoy of Xuanfu Town, was appointed as the Marshal of the Left Road, commanding 5 Musketeers in the Fenwu Camp, [-] soldiers in Xuanfu Town, plus [-] cavalry in Zhenglan Banner and Zhenghong Banner. The town set out north to conquer the Tartars.

Jia Ke asked the two armies to divide and advance straight, and then gather in Arslen Khan's king's tent.

After Jia Ke issued the order, the Fenwu Camp and the Xiaoqi Camp set up their camps and headed all the way to Liaodong Town and Xuanfu Town.

Jia Ke's order to the two of them was not to occupy much land, but to kill and injure the vital forces of the enemy army on a large scale.

Jia Ke's meaning is very obvious, that is, to drive out the Tatars.

At the same time, Jia Ke also promised the soldiers of the Eight Banners that all the captives would be allocated to the soldiers of the Eight Banners this time when they went north.

And Jia Ke knew how powerful the Tatar Meng He was. In order to eliminate this hidden danger for the two armies, he sent spies to the grassland before the two armies went out to preach the wisdom of Meng He and Arslen Khan. of incompetence.

Arslen Khan is an unworldly British lord, so he naturally understood this little trick, so he didn't take any action against Meng He.

However, the generals under Arslen Khan's personal guards and the leaders of the tribe who were close to him began to distance themselves from Meng He.

And Meng He is not a fool. After the rumors spread, he knew that the spies sent by Jia Ke were spreading the rumors.

Therefore, Meng He didn't dare to be negligent. With only a dozen bodyguards with him, he rushed back from Beihai to the location of Arslen Khan's tent.

Arslen Khan and Meng He had a very happy conversation that night. When Meng He left, Arslen Khan went to see them off in person, and the monarch and his ministers parted with tears.

Arslen Khan and Meng He's manipulation managed to suppress the rumors.

As a result, Arslen Khan had just stabilized, when news came that Meng He was attacked on the way back.

Arslen Khan was furious after receiving the news. He thought it was the work of Jia Ke's spies again.

But when he sent someone to investigate, the corpses of the people who attacked Meng He would be found, but when he came back to check, he immediately had his hands and feet cold.

It turned out that the corpses of these people were all Tatar warriors, and many of them even had the emblem of an eagle tattooed on their bodies.

(End of this chapter)