lady, please calm down

"One~two~three, wooden man!"

"Auntie, if you move, you lose!"

"No, my aunt obviously didn't move!"

"Mom, don't be ridiculous, you obviously moved, Mian'er, you saw it too, right?"

"Yeah, my aunt is cheating. Sister Rao, Mian'er saw it!"

"Yeah! You little sisters teamed up to bully me, right?"

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, it’s late afternoon.
In the garden of the palace's back house, Yu Nong led the family's female doll to play the game of wooden figures.

Since the eleventh day of the first lunar month, Ran'er and Mian'er have moved into Wangxiang Garden, and the previously peaceful palace has been turned upside down.

Every day from dawn to midnight, the chirping sounds of the little girls never stop.

When they are having fun, they will giggle non-stop. Occasionally they will quarrel over trivial matters, and they will get into a fight over each other's waists.

The one who loses the argument will cry for a while; the one who wins the argument will get two slaps on the buttocks from Yunong.

Even when it came to her eldest daughter Ran'er, Yu Nong never showed any mercy.

However, her way of treating everyone equally, regardless of whether they are descendants or concubines, is the favorite of the little ones.

However, at this time, Yu Nong, the referee, seemed to have a disagreement with Jixiao because of the issue of winning or losing the game.

The three sisters, Rao'er, Ran'er and Mian'er, stood in a row, with their bellies pouted and their heads raised, their hands on their waists and they began to argue with Yunong.

Yunong fought one against three, not losing the slightest bit. He also pinched his waist and retorted one by one!

No wonder the prince's daughter always likes to pinch her waist and belly when they quarrel. It turns out they learned this from Yu Nong.

"My aunt is an adult, don't be ashamed, just be a little bit"

"Hey Ran'er, my aunt won't let you stay in Wangxiangyuan tonight!"

"Don't be afraid Ran'er, let's stay at Hanchundang tonight!"

"Chen Rao! Okay, you can help others bully my mother!"

As Aunt Yunong, it is not appropriate to reprimand her legitimate daughter or keep saying that her daughter helps 'other people' bully her mother.

If he were in another house, he would probably be severely punished by his wife.

But Jia Rou, who was sitting not far away, looked around and saw that everything in the garden was as usual. Not only was everything in the Hanchun Hall where the princess lived was peaceful.

Cai Hua and A Yu, who were sitting in the warm winter sun playing chess, didn't even look at Yu Nong. They seemed to have become accustomed to it.

Although this is a bit disrespectful, it is really relaxing.

The second floor of Hanchun Hall.

Chen Chu was reading a piece of information from Xiao Xin outside the customs. Hearing the noise outside the window, he couldn't help but look sideways.

After the New Year, as the weather gets warmer and warmer, the deciduous trees in the garden have sprouted new green shoots.

Yunong and several little girls are each wearing brightly colored clothes, like flowers and butterflies passing through, making people smile knowingly.

While he was distracted, Mao'er walked into the study with a cup of stew in his hands. Seeing the official looking out the window, he couldn't help laughing and said: "But the official is being disturbed to deal with official business? Do you want me to go down and drive them to the front?" "

Chen Chu turned around and said with a smile: "No, no, no noisy at all."

Mao'er probably guessed that the official would answer like this, so he stopped trying to persuade him. Isn't the reason why the palace has such a relaxed atmosphere the result of his deliberate connivance.

"How much stew did you cook today?"

When Chen Chu saw Mao'er put down the soup cup, he asked with a smile. Mao'er turned around and waved his hand. After Han Lu left the study, he pursed his lips and said with a smile: "Today I stewed Yuanbei, Ginseng and Deer Antler Soup. I specially asked Taoist Priest Wugen for a meal." Make up the prescription."

"If you apply it again, the nosebleed will be repaired."

Chen Chu pulled the cat to sit on his lap and said with a smile, since there was no one around, the cat didn't need to pretend to be dignified, so it snuggled into the official's arms, winked mischievously, and replied: "I was there back then. When we were on the mountain, Aunt Yang would often say: Men are like cattle. They are used to plow the fields, and they also need to be given good food to eat. Otherwise, if they are used up, we women will still suffer, hehehehe."

It's been a long time since Mao'er smiled so mischievously. Aunt Yang said this to Aunt Yao back then. The latter was a negative example. She only let Uncle Yao plow the fields, but didn't know how to do anything for Uncle Yao. The use of good ingredients eventually led to Uncle Yao becoming weak in middle age.

At the same time, he also said this as an official with a background. Since he left for Nanjing Road in the Kingdom of Jin last year, none of the sisters in the family have tasted meat for more than half a year.

Now that the situation has been settled and the officials have returned home, Mao'er, who has a son and a daughter, has taken a high stance and lets the sisters plow the fields for now.

Today, the Lantern Festival, both public and private officials should come to Hanchundang.

Mao'er was worried that the official would be exhausted from working hard for days, so he had to watch the official eat a cup of warm and tonic food every day for the past few days.

On a winter afternoon, the daylight is lazy and the study is quiet, but downstairs there is the silvery laughter of the Chen family's children.

The years are peaceful and peaceful.

The atmosphere was very good at the moment, and Mao'er planned to take this opportunity to talk to the officials about something. Of course, Caihua didn't hide what happened in the Kingdom of Jin last year.

For example, the woman in Nanjing City of the Kingdom of Jin who had sex with the officials for a few nights, or the twin girls who were brought back by Cai Hua and presented to them by the officials of the Kingdom of Jin, and are now temporarily placed next to the great-grandmother.

"Officer."

"Ok?"

Mao'er had just finished organizing his words, but was interrupted by the sound of footsteps rushing upstairs. Then, he heard Han Lu outside the door saying: "My lord and princess, the second man in front of me handed over an urgent letter, saying that it was from the command post of Jinyi Suohe." ”

Urgent delivery and Hebei, if these two conditions are added together, something will definitely happen.

Mao'er quickly got up from the official's arms, walked to the door of the room, opened it, took the letter from Han Lu and gave it to Chen Chu.

Even though he was a little curious about what was going on, Mao'er, who had always followed the rule of not getting involved in politics in the back house, still took a few steps away when Chen Chu opened the letter.

'. Late at night on the 12th, our army Jiang Shu all cooperated with Zhou Guo Zhongwu General Zhang Duofu's troops to capture Dayi County, 70 miles west of Jiangdu. After the war, our army handed over 114 injured soldiers from Zhou Guo's Lin'an Dynasty. Zhang Duofu's rear army, in the early morning of the 13th, Zhang Duofu's general Li Fengsun killed all the wounded soldiers in Lin'an.

"Bang~"

Chen Chu, who rarely got angry these days, stood up suddenly and slapped the table with his hand, causing the lid of the soup cup to jingle.

Mao'er seemed to be startled and stood there blankly. Only then did Chen Chu realize that he was at home and not in a military camp.

Suppressing the anger in his heart, Chen Chu forced a smile towards Mao'er and said, "Madam, don't be surprised."

"Officer, something big happened?" Mao'er asked nervously.

"Well, there's something going on in Yangzhou Mansion. I need to go there immediately."

After Chen Chu said this, Mao'er's little face suddenly showed a look of disappointment. Even she, who always asked her to be a good wife, couldn't help but use the name of her child to persuade her to stay, "Official, you agreed. Ji'er, Rao'er and the others, let's take them to watch the lanterns and light the fireworks tonight."

Chen Chu was silent for a few moments, then bowed to Mao'er and said guiltily: "Tonight, madam, can you help me apologize to the children?"

In the afternoon of that day, Chen Chu left Cai.

After crossing the Huaihe River the next day, we headed straight to Yangzhou City in the southeast.

Yangzhou is located on the north bank of the Yangtze River, at the intersection of the Yangtze River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. It has been one of the nine states in the world since ancient times, and is also known as the famous capital of Huaizuo.

It is one of the most prosperous cities in the world today except Lin'an and Tokyo.

Since the Emperor's visit to Anfeng at the end of last year, half of the Xiang army in Huainan has been placed under the command of Zhang Duofu, the former commander of the Huai River Army of the Zhou Dynasty and the current Zhongwu General.

Similarly, he also took the task of conquering Yangzhou.

As the only two armies of the Anfeng Dynasty adapted from the old Zhou armies in Huainan, Zhang Duofu was placed high hopes by the Supreme Emperor. Before the expedition, Zhang Duofu was even received alone by Chai Ji for encouragement.

This is a great honor for Zhang Duofu, who was just a candidate in the famous camp a few years ago.

He did have the intention to make great achievements.

But, it backfired.
During the twelfth lunar month of last year, among the troops borrowed from Huaibei by the Anfeng Dynasty, whether it was Jiang Huaixiong on the west route who captured Huang, Qi, and Shu in the 20th day, or Peng Er on the middle route who captured Lu, Chu, and three states in succession, They are all going great. At the end of the twelfth lunar month, after Peng Er's men captured Hezhou Liyang, the entire army faced off with the Zhou army in Lin'an on the south bank along the river.

Zhang Duofu led more than 13,000 Zhou troops and 3,000 Huaibei naval forces to continue eastward to Yangzhou.

Perhaps because the battle with Peng Er went too smoothly, Zhang Duofu originally did not take Yangzhou, which had only 5,000 troops, into his eyes.

But after entering the boundary of Yangzhou, he received a blow.

Dayi County, just west of Yangzhou, blocked him in the city for more than ten days.

Finally, Jiang Shuquan, who was originally tasked with blocking the Yangtze River waterway, came to support 500 Huaibei troops before finally defeating Dayi County.

Before the war, although the King of Jin had strict orders not to plunder, rape, humiliate, or kill prisoners, the Zhou troops under Zhang Duofu had their own mountains and did not fully obey his orders. The brothers would fight to the death to conquer a city. If they refused, They make some extra money, but it's hard to convince the public.

As a result, Zhang Duofu turned a blind eye to many violations of military discipline that occurred in Dayi County.

With deliberate connivance, military discipline became increasingly chaotic.

It was not until the eleventh day of the first lunar month that Li Fengsun, the rear army officer who was responsible for taking care of the wounded soldiers of the defeated army, did not get a good job in the city. In order to remove these burdens and facilitate the robbery of the light army, he privately sent over two hundred Zhou troops who had laid down their weapons and surrendered. More than a hundred wounded were buried alive
Zhang Duofu couldn't help but feel a little uneasy when he heard about this.

When Jiang Shuquan heard about it, he was even more angry and cursed, and said directly to Zhang Duofu: "General Zhang is the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Expedition, and this matter cannot be separated! If you want to save one or two, quickly restrain the soldiers below and stop disturbing the people and detaining and killing them." The main culprit, Li Fengsun, is the right one!”

Zhang Duofu still had some luck and did not accept the suggestion to detain Li Fengsun.

However, he issued several military orders in succession, ordering his subordinates not to rob or kill anyone.

However, once military discipline is broken, it cannot be stopped by just a few military orders.
In panic, on the 18th, the King of Jin suddenly led Huaibei's elite troops to Dayi County.

On that day, Jiao Tu led one battalion of the Guards Regiment to take over the defense of Dayi County.

In the afternoon, the King of Jin ordered Zhang Duofu to summon the entire army to the school grounds in the city for review.

It was a good idea to suddenly review the entire army, which was a bit unusual. However, the reason why many Zhou troops were willing to gather obediently was because the Huaibei army that had blocked the four gates was not easy to mess with.

Unlike the Huainan Zhou Army, which had been in peace for a long time, the Huaibei Army had gradually grown stronger due to the tempering of iron and blood since its founding.

In addition, the 1st and 2nd Guards Regiments that came with King Jin this time were the absolute main force in the Battle of Tokyo last year.

The First Guards Regiment used infantry to carry the Jin Kingdom's Iron Futu, and the Second Guards Regiment dared to charge the Xixia Iron Kites. The iron-blooded and powerful temperament could not be concealed from the inside out.

Some Zhou troops did not even dare to look at Huaibei troops.

After Zhou Jun gathered at the school ground, Chen Chu, who was sitting on the reviewing stand, said nothing nonsense and directly asked his eldest son to lead the people to the front one by one according to the list provided by He Bei.

During this eastern expedition to Yangzhou, He Bei led dozens of people to accompany the army to record events. Zhou Jun had no idea what these guys who were usually taciturn and cold-faced were doing.

Not long after, more than a hundred people were gathered under the reviewing stage, nearly half of whom were Li Fengsun's subordinates.

As the culprit, Li Fengsun was naturally involved.

At first, Li Feng and Sun Shang knelt in front of the stage cooperatively. He thought that since ancient times, regardless of officials or thieves, any army that broke through the city had to allow the soldiers to get some extra money and kill the prisoners themselves. This King of Jin might be If you want to be known as "benevolent and righteous", you will slap yourself with a few military sticks to show off.

Until the big black man reported to the King of Jin: "All the people on the list are here."

The King of Jin waved his hand from top to bottom, and a junior high school student next to him immediately stepped forward and loudly said: "This Eastern Expedition, the Supreme Emperor and the King of Jin have already spoken in advance, and military discipline must not be violated. However, after breaking through Dayi County, there are still soldiers He violated military discipline and national laws and committed crimes of robbery, adultery, and murder. Now the evidence is conclusive, and a total of 169 people, starting from Captain Li Fengsun, must be executed!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Fengsun raised his head in shock, only to see that the Huaibei sergeant behind him had drawn out the Yanling Saber. He was horrified, struggled crazily to get up, and shouted: "I am not convinced! I have something to say!"

On the stage, Chen Chu waved his hand, and the Huaibei sergeant behind Li Fengsun temporarily stopped slashing.

Li Fengsun, who had his hands tied behind his back, struggled to get up. He subconsciously looked back at the dense queue of robes, and then looked at King Jin on the stage.

At this moment, he knew that he, a small lieutenant, was not in the eyes of the King of Jin at all. If he admitted his mistake and begged for mercy, he would definitely not be able to save his life. After Dayi City was destroyed, there would be more than a hundred people who committed crimes of robbery, adultery, and murder. Multiple people.

Li Fengsun felt that he was being treated as a 'chicken' by the King of Jin to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys. Only by arousing the hatred of the tens of thousands of people behind him could he have a chance of survival.

Thinking clearly about this, Li Fengsun suddenly shouted: "The King of Jin quelled the rebellion at the foot of Tokyo City. Afterwards, he killed Jin Xia and sent thousands of soldiers. The Yellow River turned red! Everyone in the world knows this! My subordinates just followed King Jin's method, The King of Jin wants to punish his subordinates to death, but they refuse to accept it!"

The eldest son on the stage was furious when he heard this. He immediately jumped down and killed this person with his own hands.

However, Chen Chu stopped the eldest son, looked at Li Fengsun below, and said: "Everyone I killed had three or five lives on my hands! What crime did you have to kill the people you killed?"

Although he said this on the surface, what Chen Chu was thinking about was that he was killing foreigners who violated the border under the city of Tokyo! But now, it is a civil war in our Han family. The defenders of Dayi County just did what a soldier should do and fulfilled their responsibility to defend the land!
How can these two piles be compared?
Since ancient times, there has never been a standard of right or wrong in military matters. It all depends on which side you sit on. From the perspective of the people of Jin and Xia, we can also say that our son invaded Qi south in order to gain fertile land in the Central Plains for the people. Strive for greater living space.

But after Huaibei occupied Huainan, Chen Chu needed to consider it from the perspective of all Han people.

If the army is allowed to plunder and kill prisoners, it will be forcible to use force to merge Qi and Zhou into one country. In the next few decades, there will be a huge gap between the Han people in the north and the south. It is not surprising that they regard each other as life-or-death enemies.

Seeing that King Jin was really arguing with him, Li Fengsun couldn't help but become more courageous. He raised his head and said: "They don't respect the orders of the Supreme Emperor, but they respect the orders of the Lin'an Puppet Dynasty. We will fight for your majesty. What's the point of killing these traitors?" wrong?"

"Oh, it is up to Your Majesty to decide whether the Yangzhou garrison is a traitor or not! Even if he is a true traitor, An Feng still needs to be escorted and punished. How can you, a small lieutenant, handle it without permission? Not only are you addicted to He committed the crime of overstepping his authority!"

Li Fengsun talked about Chaiji, and Chen Chu also talked about Chaiji. The former was choked and speechless for a moment. Li Fengsun's heart skipped a beat, and his volume increased by another order, and he shouted: "Oh, the King of Jin is the king, belongs to You can't get down from a junior high school, no matter how you say it, the prince is right! But as everyone knows, the King of Jin is named Zhou Chen, and he is actually from Qi. As soon as we had a fight, the King of Jin couldn't wait to come to punish us. I'm afraid he wanted to do it! Kill all the 30,000 soldiers in Huainan who are loyal to His Majesty! Hahaha, everyone knows Sima Zhao’s intentions."

As soon as these words came out, the entire campus fell silent for two breaths, and then a buzz of discussion suddenly started.

The Zhou army below gradually began to become restless. The words "Kill my thirty thousand soldiers in Huainan" are quite provocative!
First of all, they don't think it is a big mistake to steal a few taels of silver and play with a few women after breaking the city.

Secondly, it was just as Li Fengsun guessed. Among the Zhou army, there were indeed many soldiers who had committed crimes of robbery, adultery and killing and fell through the net and were not brought to the stage.

These people were most worried about the King of Jin settling accounts with his wife, so they couldn't help but make a noise in the crowd.

"Captain Li is not wrong! If the King of Jin kills him, we will not accept it!"

"Just kill us all!"

"Prince Jin, are you a minister of Zhou or a minister of Qi?"

Anyway, he was hiding in the crowd and was not afraid of being seen. Some of the thoughtful people in the Zhou army below became bolder and bolder.

Even the queue at the front began to move, and even rushed to the reviewing stand.

Zhang Duofu on the stage was so frightened that he was sweating profusely and shouted: "Quiet, quiet! Don't move around!"

But his shouts had no effect at all in front of the gradually boiling Zhou army.

Seeing this, Chen Chu couldn't help but sigh and glanced sideways at Tie Dan. The latter understood and blew a loud whistle with his thumb and index finger.

The gates on the southeast, north and south sides of the school grounds suddenly opened at the same time.

However, they saw the cavalry troops of the Second Guards Regiment pouring in from the three gates. In just a few dozen seconds, the cavalry troops had changed from columns to horizontal formations, pressing towards the Zhou army on the campus from three directions.

Elite soldiers who have fought in hundreds of battles, their blood is still there!
This time, it was more effective than any reasoning. The school grounds with more than 10,000 people suddenly became quiet, and there was no more noise from the crowd.

Not to mention that the Zhou army had been disarmed before entering the school grounds. Even if the weapons were thrust back into their hands at this moment, they would not have the courage to fight the Second Guards Regiment head-on!
The strong sense of oppression, like the weight of a mountain, made Zhou Jun even breathe softly. They quickly lowered their heads one by one, not daring to look at the knights on the horses, lest the other party mistakenly think that they were provoking.

At this moment, more than two thousand horse troops suddenly shouted together.

"Mountain! Mountain! Mountain!"

The mountain will not collapse! The army is not in chaos!
This is the self-confidence and confidence accumulated by the Huaibei Army after the First World War in Tokyo.

The entire Dayi County seemed to be shaken by this shout.

I don’t know who it was, but he got so scared that his legs went limp and he was the first to kneel down.

Like a contagion, more than ten thousand Zhou troops knelt down in waves.

Not long after, the school grounds were filled with black heads.
Until this time, Chen Chu said calmly: "Let's carry out the execution."

Erlang hurriedly raised his breath and shouted downwards: "Execution!"

Just now, Li Fengsun, who once thought that he had successfully inspired Pao Ze, looked at Zhou Jun who was kneeling on his knees and wanted to say something else.

But this time, Sergeant Huaibei, who was behind him and couldn't wait for a long time, didn't give him a chance to speak.
The knife entered the neck, and the good man's skull rolled away.

A cavity full of blood stained the loess on the ground. (End of chapter)