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Chapter 392
Bianjing City, Ningyuan Street, Ningyuan Houfu.

Outside the corner gate, the concierge looked at the young man in Confucian shirt, dragon and phoenix, like Zhilan Yushu, holding a famous card, not daring to neglect, immediately bowed and saluted: "Young master, wait a moment, the villain will go to report!"

Changbai cupped his hands and said, "Thank you!"

After a while, the servant trotted out again, and bowed respectfully to Changbai: "Young master has kept you waiting for a long time. Lord Hou is here to invite you, young master, please follow the villain to this way!"

The young man led Gu Er all the way to the front hall, dressed in brocade clothes, with a hulking back, but the wrinkles on his face were already visible, looking at Gu Yankai, Marquis of Ningyuan, who was much older than his father, sitting on the first seat, holding With a teacup.

"Little nephew Sheng Changbai, I've met Lord Hou!" Changbai called himself his nephew, not to establish a relationship with Hou Ningyuan, but to show that the purpose of his visit this time was not for business.

"You don't need to be so polite, just sit down!" Seeing Changbai, Gu Yankai showed a rare smile on his face. Although his son was not up to date, among the few friends he made, one was more upbeat than the other, and the other was better than the other. At the same time, Gu Yankai couldn't help being envious of Sheng Hong, not to mention Changbai, who has such an outstanding son, even Wang Zhong, who is as talented as him, will soon become his son-in-law.

When Gu Er went to study in the Sheng family's school, Gu Yankai, as Gu Er's father, had personally brought a gift to Sheng's family to pay a visit, had a face-to-face meeting with Chang Bai, and personally visited Zhuang Xuejiao, so naturally he also had a good relationship with him. Changbai has met face to face, but although the two families give gifts every year and festivals, there is not much communication between them.

Like today, it was the first time that Changbai came to the Hou Mansion to pay a visit.

Changbai cupped his hands and said: "I should have come to visit a long time ago, but I have been entangled in mundane affairs recently, so I just have time, I hope Lord Hou will forgive me!"

Gu Yankai's attitude towards his son's friends like Changbai is still very good. After all, he is not those friends who only know how to drag his son to find flowers and ask willows all day long. Inevitably, I also came here when I was young!"

"By the way, how is your father Lingtang's health recently? How is the old lady at home?"

Changbai said: "Lord Laohou is very concerned. My father and mother are in good health and everything is fine. In the early autumn, my grandmother took my sixth younger sister back to Youyang's hometown, but she hasn't come back yet! Instead, I wrote a letter saying that I feel comfortable staying in my hometown. Some are reluctant to go back to Bianjing."

After the two exchanged pleasantries, Chang Bai entered the theme.

"This visit, one of the first is to take a look at Lord Hou for Zhonghuai, and at the same time tell Lord Hou that he is safe!"

Not wanting to listen to Changbai's words, the smile on Gu Yankai's face disappeared instantly, with a bit of sullenness, he hummed heavily: "Hmph! That Nizi still knows that I have this father!"

If it wasn't for Changbai's presence, I'm afraid Gu Yan would be so angry that he would slap the table and throw the glass.

Changbai said: "There is no overnight enmity between father and son. In fact, Zhonghuai knows the concern and love of Lord Hou for Zhonghuai. When we were drinking in private, Zhonghuai often proudly told Zihou and me, Among the entire Gu family's peers, he was the only one who was personally taught by Lord Hou, and received the true instruction of Master Hou's art of war and martial arts.

The beloved son of the parents has a far-reaching plan for it. This is - Master Hou is thinking so hard about Zhong Huai's future. How does Zhong Huai not know that as a son, he inevitably longs for some love and concern from his father. "

When Chang Bian was talking, he had been paying attention to Gu Yankai's expression, watching Gu Yankai's change of expression, Changbai continued: "Zhonghuai also knows what Hou Ye expects from him, and he made up his mind before leaving Beijing. We must do something so that Lord Hou can see that he is not the ignorant and incompetent slut in the eyes of Lord Hou."

"It would be great if he really has such determination, don't just talk about it!" Although Gu Yankai was still stubborn, his eyes had already betrayed him.

Changbai continued to observe while observing: "Now that Zhonghuai is in Quanzhou, he has been recommended by Zihou to take the temporary post of Quanzhou Military and Horse Superintendent, and lead the troops to the sea to destroy the seven or eight groups of powerful pirates entrenched on the sea road. , beheaded more than three hundred people, captured more than a thousand people, and made a lot of military exploits."

Gu Yankai was stunned for a moment when he heard the words. Before Gu Er left Bianjing, he didn't even say hello to him. He thought that Gu Er would go to the Jianghu, or go to Yangzhou to take care of the Bai family's properties, and hang out in the Jianghu. Unexpectedly, he went to Quanzhou and joined the army quietly.

"It's just a few pirates, and it can also be said to be military exploits!" Gu Yankai said with a bit of disdain: "Quanzhou soldiers and horses are all supervised, which sounds good, but Quanzhou soldiers and horses are nothing more than a group of archers. Not even the Xiang army, if they have any combat power, they can only bully a few pirates."

"It is naturally incomparable with Lord Hou, but for Yu Zhonghuai, it is still a good start. Now Quanzhou Zhizhou Chen Jun and Zihou have jointly signed a letter to ask for credit for Zhonghuai! It's just..."

But Changbai changed his voice and said: "It's just that in Quanzhou, as Lord Hou said, Zhonghuai is a general. If he stays in Quanzhou for a long time, he will naturally have no future. Therefore, Zhonghuai asked Zihou to write to the official family and recommend him. Going to Lianghuai to quell the rebellion, it's just that Zhong Huai offended the officials because of his childhood lies!"

"So you came to me because you want me to enter the palace to beg the official's family and give that bastard a chance?" Gu Yankai looked at Changbai and said.

Changbai said: "Hou Ye Mingjian! It's just that Zhonghuai didn't know about it, it was my idea and Zihou's."

Gu Yankai looked at Changbai, looked at Changbai's frank and upright gaze, and couldn't help sighing: "That evil son is really lucky to have friends like you and Wang Zihou who have carefully planned for him."

Changbai said: "Zhonghuai has always had great ambitions in his heart. Zihou and I get along with Zhonghuai because we share the same interests and admire Zhonghuai's character!"

Gu Yankai snorted again: "That Nizi would not hesitate to fall out with his family for the sake of a woman, what character would he have?"

Apparently, Lord Gu Hou still had a grudge against Gu Er because of Zhu Manniang's falling out with him.

Changbai explained: "Although Zhong Huai is smart, but after all, he is a little younger and has less experience and insight. Naturally, he is not as sharp-eyed as Hou Ye. He is helpless if he doesn't notice it for a while and is deceived by others."

"However, according to Zihou's letter, Zhonghuai has seen the true face of the woman. He only thought that she would give birth to Zhonghuai's children. After all, he couldn't bear to kill her. He just exiled her overseas and never allowed them to return to the Song Dynasty. !"

Gu Yankai was taken aback for a moment, and looked at Changbai in disbelief: "That Nizi really drove that woman away?"

Changbai took out the letter written by Wang Chong from his sleeve, "This is a letter from Zihou, Zihou is a man who never opens his mouth and never jokes about such things."

Gu Yankai took the letter and scanned it ten times at a glance. When Wang Zhong mentioned Gu Er's recent situation in Quanzhou in his heart, he began to read it carefully.

It's a pity that the length of a letter is not long, and it cannot be too detailed. Wang Zhong only said that Gu Er had seen Zhu Manniang's true face and knew that she was not a good person, so her children would be taught badly. It is said that now Gu Er's two sons and daughters are all in Wang Zhong's home, and Wang Zhong's sister-in-law is taking care of them.

Finally, it was mentioned that Gu Er was planning to go to Lianghuai to quell the rebellion, but fearing that something would happen again, Gu Er asked Changbai to go to Ningyuan Houfu to see if he could invite Gu Hou to come forward and run for Gu Er.

After Gu Yan opened the letter, he sighed with a complicated expression, not knowing whether it was gratification or emotion.

After Changbai left, Xiao Qin, who got the news, hurried over with a gloomy expression, but when he saw Gu Yankai, there was a surprised smile on his face, and he asked impatiently: "I heard that Erlang of the Sheng family brought Any news about our Ting Ye?"

Gu Yan said: "Erlang went to Quanzhou, and served as a soldier and horse commander, and made great achievements!"

The unnaturalness in Xiao Qin's eyes flashed away, but the pleasant smile on his face became brighter: "Really? Let me just say, Erlang is a good boy, but he was young and ignorant. , has made meritorious service, this is a great joy.”

As he said that, he turned around and greeted the nanny beside him: "Come here, order me down, let the kitchen cook more good food and dishes, prepare a few jugs of good wine, let's celebrate!"

Gu Yankai was also in a good mood. Although he seemed to be contemptuous of the things Gu Er did in front of Changbai just now, he was actually very relieved in his heart. His dandy son finally did something serious, instead of just looking for flowers and flowers and having fun all day long.

"It's just that Nizi offended the official before!" Speaking of this, Gu Yankai couldn't help sighing quietly in his heart, and looked at Xiao Qin with complicated eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.

Gu Yankai hurried into the palace to beg to see the official family, and when Gu Yankai left, the smile on Xiao Qin's face disappeared without a trace, and the eyes were slightly condensed, with a faint flicker of coldness.

"This scoundrel actually ran to Quanzhou and made meritorious service!" Xiao Qin said with gritted teeth.

The waiter next to him said to his mother: "We don't have many people in the south!"

Xiao Qin's face showed a dark expression: "We don't have it, but it doesn't mean others don't."

In just a short moment, countless figures flashed in Xiang's mother's mind, and suddenly she had a flash of inspiration, and asked a little uncertainly: "Ma'am, you mean those people from the Bai family?"

Xiao Qin said: "The Bai family's huge family business, the mountains and seas of money, are all owned by Gu Tingye now, will the Bai family have any ideas?"

Xiang's mother said worriedly: "But the Bai family is just a salt merchant after all, and now the Bai family's family property is in the hands of the second son. The servants are afraid..."

"Those who dare to be salt merchants are good stubblers!" Xiao Qin said.

"The earthen pot can't leave the well, and the general will inevitably die before the battle. Didn't he go to Lianghuai to suppress the rebellion? On the battlefield, there are thousands of troops. Even if something really happened, it can't be blamed on others."

Xiang's mother's eyes lit up, as if she saw the dawn, and a smile appeared on her face, and she complimented: "What the eldest lady said is very true!"

Xiao Qin's cold voice sounded again, her face was as sinister as a poisonous snake, and her eyes were venomous: "This matter must not be left to others, let your family go to Yangzhou in person! Remember to bring more money, Don't be afraid to spend money."

"This old slave understands!" Nanny Xiang was also a little excited.

Xiao Qin looked at herself in the mirror with a hideous face, and her eyes were in a trance for a while. She had pretended to be kind and kind for too long, and sometimes she herself couldn't tell which one was her real face.

"For Saburo, that evil must die!"

When this thought came to mind again, Xiao Qin's eyes widened and became more determined.

If it was before, all she wanted was to find ways to make Gu Tingye despise Gu Yankai and the entire Gu family, drive Gu Tingye out of the Gu family, and it would be best to remove her name from the family tree, so that her Saburo can inherit the Gu family business , inheriting the title of Marquis of Ningyuan.

But now, as Gu Er left Bianjing and the wind and water flourished outside, Xiao Qin's thoughts also changed accordingly.

As Gu Yankai's bedside person, how could Xiao Qin not know Gu Yankai's thoughts, openly favoring Dalang, and being harsh on Gu Er, but actually had high hopes for him and loved him, but he didn't say it out loud I just hate that iron can't be made into steel. If Gu Er really makes a name for himself, then in the future the Marquis Mansion will still have a title, and there will be no such thing as her family's Saburo.

Xiao Qin has long been paranoid about the title of Marquis of Ningyuan. Even for this title, she began to make arrangements as early as when Gu Er's biological mother, Bai, first married in, and instilled in Gu Tingyu the idea that Bai was a mother-killing enemy. Later, she married into the Marquis's Mansion, and pretended to be a loving mother in front of outsiders. After more than [-] years of painstaking planning, she held Gu Er above all the brothers in the Gu family. How could she allow Gu Er to transfer this title from her family? Saburo took it away!
Gu Er, who was far away in Quanzhou, naturally didn't know that someone in Bianjing City was concerned about his life, and a killing round against him was about to begin.

In the palace, Emperor Jiayou looked at the old Gu Yankai in front of him, and heard his pleading for his son, he couldn't help feeling a little bit emotional.

"Hey!" Emperor Jiayou sighed, and did not answer directly, but asked, "How is your Dalang's health? The condition has improved!"

Gu Yankai cupped his hands and bowed, and said respectfully: "Thank you for your concern, the dog's body is still the same, and he is sick in bed all day long. The imperial doctor said that Dalang's illness was brought from the mother's womb, and there is no cure!"

The eldest son hated the second son since he was a child, Gu Yankai didn't know, but he was biased because he only thought of his relationship with the Qin family, the elder son's frail body, and his high expectations for Gu Tingye.

Emperor Jiayou said: "I remember your Dalang has only one daughter and only daughter?"

Gu Yankai cupped his hands and said: "The imperial doctor said that the dog is too weak to have children, so he has only had one daughter for many years."

Emperor Jiayou looked at Gu Yan and said, "Is Gu Hou going to be 48 or 49 this year?"

"Return to Your Majesty, I just celebrated my 49th birthday!" Gu Yankai did not expect Emperor Jiayou to remember his own age so clearly.

Emperor Jiayou said: "I don't think Qing has reached the age of knowing the destiny. Since Qing has reached this age, I wonder if you can consider the successor of the Ningyuan Houfu in a hundred years?"

Gu Yankai did not expect that Emperor Jiayou would suddenly ask himself this question, but he was not flustered, because Gu Yankai had already made up his mind: "Father dies, son succeeds, brother ends up with younger brother, this is the principle of ethics, it is a matter of course, The minister dare not disobey."

Gu Yankai's eldest son has no sons but only one daughter. Naturally, women cannot inherit the title. In the future, they will either adopt a child from his brothers and inherit the title of Marquis of Ningyuan, or they will be brothers and brothers and let Gu Tingye become Ningyuan. Hou.

Although Gu Yankai didn't say it clearly, but hearing what Gu Yankai meant, it seemed that Gu Tingye wanted to inherit the title. Thinking of Gu Er's previous reputation and his performance in Quanzhou, he thought a lot in a flash.

"I have decreed to order the Ministry of War to reward meritorious service, and ask the Privy Council to transfer your Erlang to Lianghuai to suppress the rebellion!"

A smile suddenly appeared on Gu Yankai's face, and he hurriedly lifted his robe and kowtowed to Emperor Jiayou to thank him: "My minister kowtows on behalf of the dog!"

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The reward from the Ministry of War and the transfer order from the Privy Council had just been sent to Tokyo, and an urgent report from eight hundred miles was sent to Tokyo.

For the rest of this year, Haozhou and other places were plagued by locusts, and the people in the fields had no crops. The local gentry took the opportunity to buy land from the people and forced the good people to become tenant farmers.

At that time, there were riots in several villages, and the leaders killed the local wealthy households, robbed them of money and food, and went up the mountain. Not long after the Double Ninth Festival, the crops in the field seemed to be ripe, but at this time they made a fuss. stand up.

A group of rebels set off a rebellion in Dingyuan County of Haozhou, and captured Dingyuan within a few days. The magistrate of Dingyuan fled to Haozhou to ask for help. All the market towns in the city were occupied, and soldiers and horses were stationed on the south bank of the Haoshui River.

The magistrate of Haozhou did not dare to enter rashly, so he recruited the townspeople to refuse to guard the north bank, and confronted the rebels with Haoshui and Moye Mountain as the boundary. The gang of rebels had planned a long time ago and ambushed troops in the surrounding states and counties. They sent troops to the nearby counties and counties, took advantage of the night to raise troops into the government office, and the surrounding bandits and water bandits responded one after another. The group of rebels made a lot of noise.

Xie Bingde, the commander of the Wuwei Army, immediately led the army and went north to Haozhou. Not long after he entered the border of Luzhou, he ran into the rebels head-on and fought several battles. Fortunately, they are all mobs who have never been on the battlefield, and they have all kinds of weapons. Although the Wuwei Army is a Xiang army, it is still a regular army.

I never thought that Xie Bingde was so stupid, self-willed and incompetent. One night half a month ago, Xie Bingde, who was still asleep, was attacked by the rebels in the dark. Before he could react, he was attacked The rebels put the knife on their necks, and except for a few soldiers of the Wuwei Army who escaped, most of the rest became captives of the rebels.

Xie Bingde's big defeat directly boosted the morale of the rebels, and countless people in the green forest rushed to join them. In just a few days, the number of people surged to [-] to [-]. The nearby counties and counties in the south of the Yangtze River have been at peace for a long time, the city walls are mostly damaged, and most of the weapons in the treasury are also in disrepair. How can they stop the rebel front, and the regular army like the Wuwei Army on Huainan Road has collapsed. Not to mention the bravery of the states and counties.

The momentum of the rebels is getting bigger and bigger, and there are many green forests in Lianghuai and even Jinghu, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places to respond, raising rebellious flags one after another, attacking prefectures and counties.

Emperor Jiayou was already annoyed by the establishment of the reserve, but now there is a rebellion, one wave is not settled, and another wave rises again. The princes in the court are more and more anxious about the establishment of the reserve. Zhang even led several important officials into the palace to persuade him every day.

Fortunately, Emperor Jiayou is still here now, and the years of light corvee and poor taxation have given the people a sense of belonging to the imperial court, except for those who have suffered disasters and really can’t survive, those who have dreams of being named princes and prime ministers , And helplessly being coerced by the rebels, they can only be forced to work from outside the rebels' sphere of influence, and there are almost no ones who take the initiative to go to the rebels' sphere of influence to serve.

The Sheng family, Sheng Hong and Changbai were also worried about the safety of the old lady Sheng and Minglan who were far away in Youyang. After all, Haozhou is not too far away from Youyang, so how could this group of rebels attack You? Yang goes.

But both father and son are civil servants. Although Changbai has practiced some martial arts with Wang Zhong, he mainly focuses on strengthening his body and not on killing enemies. Moreover, Bianjing is far away from Youyang, so the father and son just want to Help is beyond our reach.

At the same time, Yuyang, who is thousands of miles away, because of the business all over the place, and the in-depth cooperation with the Cao Gang, although the news of the Sheng family is not as fast as the imperial court, it is not bad, and Haozhou is far away from Youyang. There is only one Zhenzhou and one Chuzhou, which is really not too far away.

With the defeat of the Wuwei Army, the atmosphere on Youyang's side gradually changed.

The yamen also posted notices to appease people.

In the old house of Youyang Sheng's big house, Changwu got married only for more than a month. Originally, Sheng Wei was going to lead Changsong and Shulan to Quanzhou again. After all, the Jihai business in Quanzhou is developing at a high speed. At this stage, you have to go and watch in person to be at ease, and Changsong will be the person in charge of Jihai Company in the future, so naturally he has to follow.

But now that Mrs. Sheng and Minglan are both in Youyang, Sheng Wei and Shulan naturally have a hard time leaving, so they just sent Changsong away and went back to Quanzhou first.

I didn't think how long it had passed before such an accident happened.

In the original plot, Gu Er joined the Wuwei Army early. Although the rebels are powerful, the Wuwei Army has won consecutive battles on the battlefield and gradually gained the upper hand.

But now that Gu Er is still in Quanzhou, and Xie Bingde is an idiot with no skills, he buried thousands of troops of the Wuwei Army, and obtained the armament and supplies of the Wuwei Army. Time, it was much stronger, especially in the past ten days, I heard that the rebels had captured several county towns, and their momentum was getting bigger and bigger.

Now that the position of the crown prince has not yet been decided, the old lady is worried about the situation in Bianjing, fearing that Sheng Hong will not be able to control it by herself, so she has thoughts of returning to Beijing.

"Auntie, although the rebels are only around Haozhou now, those murderers and bandits are everywhere. Didn't Auntie forget that when Auntie and Ming girl came, did they encounter the gang of water thieves?" Now the situation There was chaos and bandits everywhere. Sheng Wei was worried about the safety of Mrs. Sheng and Minglan, and he didn't want them to return to Beijing at this time.

Just when Mrs. Sheng was hesitating, Sheng Wei's mother suddenly fell ill.

(End of this chapter)