After the whole family was swept away, I lay down flat

Chapter 298 Out of the Northwest

Haitang and Peng Yuqi both turned to look at Zhou Yijun: "What? Is there such a rumor?!"

Haitang had heard the conversation between her grandfather Hai Xiya and her cousin Xie Wenzai before. She knew that the emperor did intend to exchange the people from the northwest frontier army with the people from the Shanxi Dusi next door. However, she didn't know that General Zhou Zhou would become the Chang'an vanguard. The commander's statement.

She intuitively felt that there was something wrong with this rumor: "Didn't it mean that General Zhou was just a temporary agent and that he would return to the Shaanxi capital after the new Chang'an vanguard commander was appointed? He was originally a second-grade capital commander. , there is absolutely no need to be a third-grade guard commander, right?"

Zhou Yijun looked at Zhou Wenjun, and Zhou Wenjun sighed: "Of course we know that this statement is ridiculous, but there are many fools outside who are willing to believe it! Seriously, Chang'an Vanguard is far worse than Dusi, okay? Fourth uncle, do your best As a commander of the capital, if you wait until your qualifications are up and retire at the peak, you will be a reliable commander of the capital, so why should you lower your status and go to the Chang'an vanguard? God knows who made up the lie, maybe they want to fish in troubled waters, right? "

Peng Yuqi sighed: "We know this statement is ridiculous, but Mrs. Tuesday... seems to believe it!"

Zhou Wenjun fell silent immediately. She also thought this was ridiculous and wondered what the second aunt had gone crazy about.

Zhou Yijun whispered: "Probably because...it is rumored that the emperor wants to transfer people, and he will transfer commanders and envoys from various guards? Although the fourth uncle has done a good job in the capital, it seems that the commanders and commanders are not included in the transfer. Second aunt probably misunderstood that fourth uncle wanted to use the Chang'an avant-garde as a springboard to transfer to the capital?"

Haitang said: "If that's the case, why should she be angry? If General Zhou just wants to use the Chang'an Vanguard as a springboard to transfer to the capital, he won't stay for too long. When he is transferred to the capital, the Chang'an Vanguard will The commander's position will still be vacant, and Mrs. Tuesday's brother will still be able to compete?"

Zhou Yijun said: "By then, the Yan'an Guard Commander's term will have expired, right? There will be more certainty that he will be transferred over."

Haitang blinked: "If the commander of the Yan'an Guard wants to be transferred, he can be transferred now. There are no regulations in the court that an official must complete his term before he can be transferred or promoted. As long as there is an order from above, he can still say that he has been in office for three years Are you unwilling to leave before your term is over? You don’t have to wait a few more months. The Yan’an Guard Commander and the Minzhou Guard Commander are also the most powerful candidates for the Chang’an Vanguard Commander. Mrs. Tuesday’s brother should have known who he would be. A competitor, why should I be angry about this?"

Zhou Wenjun's face darkened: "Is it because...the Tang family suddenly felt that an official position in the capital was more attractive than the position of commander of the Chang'an vanguard?"

The Tang family has always wanted to go to Beijing.

In the early years, the head of the Tang family also served in Beijing, as a general in the Forbidden Army. He also made great efforts in the process of the emperor establishing a heir to the throne. Unfortunately, he failed to compete for the title of Marquis of Yingchuan and became the Marquis of Yingchuan. The commander of the Forbidden Army, he was transferred out soon after, and was transferred back to Chang'an more than ten years ago in the name of participating in the war. After the war, he stayed in his hometown and never left again. He has always been worried about this.

After him, no descendants of the Tang family have ever left the sphere of influence of the Northwest Frontier Army. No matter how outstanding I am, no matter how many military exploits I have accomplished, or if I have been promoted to the position of commander of the capital, I will always be below Marshal Zhou, the Duke of Zhenguo. The Tang family is an in-law of the Zhou family. Zhou Wenjun has been dealing with people from his family since he was a child and knows each other quite well. She had heard private discussions among some members of the Tang family, and she felt that with the qualifications of the most outstanding members of her family, if they were not trapped in the northwest and suppressed by the imperial court along with the Zhou family, their achievements would never be worse than Zhenguo Gonggong. They were not dissatisfied with the Duke of Zhen, but they just felt that if they could leave the northwest and change places, it would not be surprising to have a marshal. Maybe they would one day be granted the title of Duke! Then he can be on an equal footing with the Zhou family. Instead of being trapped in the northwest and being inferior to others like now, no matter how outstanding the disciples are, they can only occupy a place in the ranks of talented frontier generals, but they cannot be the best one day.

In order to break out of the northwest, the Tang family tried many methods, including making friends with foreign generals, sending children from side branches to Beijing to do business, sponsoring local students to study and take imperial examinations in Beijing, etc., but unfortunately they all failed. They thought this was because the Sun family suppressed the northwest, so they changed their thinking and specially invited two nuns from the capital to train their daughters according to the rules of ladies in the capital. They also asked the Duke of Zhenguo's wife to beg the Queen Mother Zhou. I hope that I can use the Queen Mother Zhou's way to marry my daughter to the capital.

Back then, Zhou Shuyi married into the Yingchuan Marquis Mansion in the capital. Although she was marrying a second wife, it was still an excellent precedent. The Tang family only regrets that their daughter's appearance is not good enough and she did not come to Beijing with Zhou Shuyi twenty years ago. Otherwise, she would have secured a better marriage...

Zhou Wenjun didn't take the Tang family's thoughts to heart before, but now he can no longer ignore them. No matter what the Tang family's plans are, as long as they don't harm the interests of the Northwest Frontier Army, the Zhou family will not interfere. But this time, the Tang family obviously wanted to use the eldest grandson of Chengenhou Mansion as a springboard, and planned to use Tang Hui and Zhou Hengjun's marriage to help the Tang family develop in the capital. For this reason, they even did not hesitate to harm the dignity of the Zhenguo government. Zhou Wenjun couldn't tolerate this.

If the Tang family expresses their thoughts to the Zhou family, considering the two generations of in-laws, the Zhou family will not be able to help them. But they didn't even say hello, they just took matters into their own hands and tried to marry one girl to the second wife. The object was the eldest grandson of the two heads of the Zhou family. If they were not careful, it would lead to conflicts between the two families. Who did they think the Zhou family was? ? !

Zhou Wenjun said angrily: "Grandma always favors the Tang family. I will definitely talk to my grandfather later and let him be more alert! It would be embarrassing for the Zhou family to have a supercilious son-in-law. If even the Tang family You have to hold our Zhou family back behind your back, how can you live like this?!"

Seeing that she was really angry, Peng Yuqi and Zhou Yijun hurriedly comforted her: "Calm down, it's not that serious yet." "Didn't the Tang family fail to make it happen? Aunt Tang will not take advantage of the Tang family."

Haitang also poured a cup of tea for Zhou Wenjun, and changed the topic by the way: "Does the emperor really want to transfer the generals of the border army? I wonder who will be transferred?"

Zhou Wenjun's attention was drawn away for a moment: "I don't know about this. I have heard rumors at home, but this news was brought back by my cousin from the capital. It's still early. When it is finally decided, at least It's also been a few months. It must have been a direct order from the imperial court, right? I hope the Sun family won't make trouble again and deliberately transfer the most capable generals away. If there is another war on the border, the northwest frontier army will have to fight. It’s hard.”

Haitang didn't know that Mrs. Cheng'en Hou Shizi had brought this news from the capital. She knew about this because Zhao Zhuo, the commander of the Shanxi capital, wrote a letter to his old friend Zhuang Tongzhi, giving hints in the letter. It seems that the emperor has had this idea for a long time. It has been so long that the commander-in-chief of Shanxi Dusi next door has heard the news, but the people here in Shaanxi Dusi did not receive the news until the first month of the year.

The Zhou family's intelligence work in the capital was not done well... Although it was not easy for the Cheng'enhou Mansion, in order to escort the survivors of the Wu family and Du Qi, an important witness, the prince's wife and her children were asked to rush back all the way in the winter. Chang'an, but in terms of the speed of message transmission, it is obviously lacking. Chang'an always lags behind in intelligence, and sooner or later it will suffer a big loss!

While Haitang was meditating, Peng Yuqi and Zhou Yijun were also following her thoughts to divert Zhou Wenjun's attention: "Will it be difficult for a general to be transferred to Beijing? If you are not familiar with the place, the Sun family will definitely make things difficult for you, so why not stay? .”

Tang Wenjun said: "Having said that, this is a great opportunity for the northwest generals to go out. My grandfather feels that he should not let it go..."

(End of this chapter)