Troubled times: Start practicing spiritual practice by taking care of your sister-in-law

Chapter 273 Jinxia, ​​Northern Barbarians

End of October.

On the rugged mountain road, Sun Meng was riding a war horse, behind him were seventeen or eight horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts loaded with money and goods.

Han Aniang, Xia Zhiqing, Yi Shiyan, Song Min, and Xiao Ling sat in two carriages and followed the convoy.

From time to time, they opened the car curtains and looked at the scenery outside, with smiles in their eyes, and they were about to see Chen Mo.

After receiving Chen Mo's letter, they immediately packed their things and rushed from Pingting County. After entering Yuzhou, they sent a letter to Chen Mo. When they arrived at Tianshui Town, Sun Meng led Three hundred soldiers received them.

Now among the three states, Qingzhou has the smallest population and the smallest military strength. It is no longer suitable to serve as the headquarters in Pingting County. Chen Mo needs his family and talents to move to Yuzhou. Yuzhou is mountainous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and more difficult to attack. Safety.

Geng Songfu still stayed in Pingting County, and Chen Mo asked Li Yunzhang and Zhao Daoxian to assist him. Chen Mo also promoted Geng Songfu to the prefect of Qingzhou, Zhao Daoxian was appointed the magistrate of Qingting County, and Li Yunzhang was appointed commander of the local garrison with the military rank of captain.

Chen Mo has the right to act expeditiously, and the military and government of the three states are in his hands. It is perfectly okay to appoint someone else as the prefect of Qingzhou.

Han Aniang looked at the scenery outside the carriage, feeling a little embarrassed and expectant in her heart. This was her first trip. She had never even been out of Pingting County since she was a child. As a result, she now traveled thousands of miles and came here across the state. She felt a little... Not quite true.

These vehicles transported all personal property belonging to Chen Mo. Since Chen Mo appointed Geng Songfu as the magistrate of Pingting County, he separated his personal accounts from the public accounts and handed them over to Han Anniang for management.

The income mainly comes from the perfume factory, textile factory and Fuze Building in Fuze Village.

Lime plants, coal plants, etc. were all put into the inner treasury of the yamen and were managed by Wang Ping and others, who were responsible for distributing the salaries of subordinate yamen officials and maintaining the basic operations of the two counties.

As for the army, it has been independent from the outside world from the beginning. All expenses, including rewards and expenditures of various weapons workshops, are accounted for within the army's internal accounts. This will continue to be the case in the future, so that the accounts will not appear confusing.

The army is the army, and its purity must be ensured. Except for fighting and fighting, nothing else needs to be done.

The money currently used by the army comes from the seizures of Lu Yonggang, Yang Minggui, and Yuzhou Prefecture.

By the way, there is also Liang Xue’s dowry.

In fact, according to Chen Mo's current relationship with Liang Xue, these dowries should belong to Chen Mo personally.

But now we are in need of development, and money is needed everywhere, so we can only use it.

That afternoon, when it was getting dark.

The convoy arrived at the east gate of Longmen County.

After learning that they had entered Yuzhou a few days ago, Chen Mo had people clean up the Yamen's backyard inside and out.

The backyard of the yamen is big enough for Han Anniang and others to live there, so it won't be a problem at all.

As for the maids who served them, they were all the ones who originally served Liang Song and the others, so Chen Mo just took them over and used them.

Outside the Yamen, Chen Mo and a group of servants were waiting outside early.

When he saw Han Anniang getting off the carriage, Chen Mo immediately went to greet her, personally helped Han Anniang get off the carriage, and called: "Anniang."

Chen Mo usually calls Han An's mother-in-law, except when he calls her "sister-in-law" when looking for excitement.

After not seeing each other for more than half a year, Han Aniang's eyes couldn't help but turn red when they met again. Even though she was thin-skinned and embarrassed, she hugged Chen Mo in front of everyone and said, "Erlang, my family is good. I miss you. "

Chen Mo patted her back gently and comforted her softly.

"Husband."

"Mo Lang."

"Brother Mo."

"Uncle."

At this time, Yi Shiyan, Xia Zhiqing and others also got off the carriage and greeted Chen Mo warmly. Among them, Yi Shiyan would have rushed towards him if he hadn't seen Han Anniang hugging Chen Mo at the moment.

It was difficult to say much outside the yamen, so Chen Mo asked his servants to come forward to get the package. Then Chen Mo took Han An and the other girls into the backyard of the yamen through the side door.

As the place where the prefect of Yizhou usually lives, and Liang Song is the legitimate son of the Liang family, the entire backyard is much larger than the backyard of the Pingting County Yamen, and the overall layout is fresh and elegant.

The flower gardens and rockeries in the courtyard are all made by famous artists, and the scenery is beautiful.

After all, Han Anniang is a country woman. She originally thought that the Yi Family Courtyard in Pingting County was good enough, but now that she entered this place, she was still in a daze.

Feeling Han Anniang's anxiety, Chen Mo held her jade hand and said: "This will be our home from now on. You will live in this courtyard. This is the master bedroom. I usually live here, and Min'er lives next door. room."

"Ah."

Feeling Chen Mo's attention, Han Aniang felt ashamed and wanted to break away, but she couldn't let go.

"Husband, what about me?" Yi Shiyan said.

"We have already prepared it for Xiaolu. Of course, if Xiaolu and An Niang don't mind, it doesn't matter if you live together." Chen Mo pinched Yi Shiyan's face and said with a smile.

"Erlang." Han Aniang still didn't understand what Chen Mo was thinking, and her head was almost buried in the fruit.

Xia Zhiqing naturally lives with her sister Xia Zhining.

Liang Xue suddenly felt free and at a loss.

Han Aniang noticed Liang Xue. She read the letter Chen Mo wrote to her, took her hand out of Chen Mo's and walked towards Liang Xue, with a smile on her face and said, "Is this sister Liang Xue?"

After saying that, he looked at Liang Xue as if he were looking at his daughter-in-law.

To be honest, Han Anniang doesn't like Liang Xue. So charming.

Especially that gaze, like a hook, wants to attract all the man's attention.

The clothes she wears are also flashy and too flamboyant.

It feels like a brothel girl, but more upscale.

But what Han Anniang didn't know was that since Liang Song said that Liang Xue's dress was more glamorous, Liang Xue became more introverted. It was Chen Mo who asked her to dress like this and said she looked good like this.

On the contrary, Liang Xue didn't go out of the door and didn't take a step forward. She wore it for herself to see. Of course, she would only look good.

Chen Mo doesn't have time now, so it's not good to enjoy it too much. Otherwise, he has to give Liang Xue a hip-covering skirt, and by the way, he also researches on black stockings and high heels, so as to reward his eyes and his second brother.

"Hello, Sister Han. I am Liang Xue. I am the concubine of the Marquis." Liang Xue bowed and quickly changed her title. Her voice was also charming and sultry.

Liang Xue was now under the eaves and had to lower her profile. Moreover, she was indeed Chen Mo's concubine. She had signed the documents and had the seal of the prefect.

"Sister Liang Xue is so beautiful." Han Anniang held Liang Xue's little hand and said, "Now that we have entered the Chen family, we will be a family from now on, and we will serve Erlang together."

Liang Xue nodded with a blushing face.

While the women were getting to know each other, Chen Mo ordered his servants to move all the luggage inside.

At this time, Yi Shiyan screamed in surprise and said hurriedly: "Husband, where is the pool in this backyard? I brought all the tail-eye fishes and put them in a special water tank. I have to release them, otherwise Will die."

In order to bring these tail-eyed spirit fish to Yuzhou safely, Yi Shiyan took careful care of them all the way, feeding, changing water, etc., without daring to slack off.

"behind."

"I'll take you there."

As soon as Chen Mo opened his mouth, Liang Xue's voice rang out, offering to take Yi Shiyan with him.

Liang Xue also has her own Xiao Jiujiu. Seeing that several unknown people live in the backyard, and they will have to get along day and night in the future, she naturally wants to find someone easy to get along with, and get acquainted with them first.

Later, you can also learn about other people through acquaintances.

Yi Shiyan looked at Chen Mo.

Chen Mo nodded to her: "Xiaolu, let Xue'er accompany you."

"Thank you." Yi Shiyan said to Liang Xue.

It looked good initially, and Chen Mo breathed a sigh of relief.

After the girls all settled down, Chen Mo took the blood ginseng he had seized and gave one to each of Han Aniang, Yi Shiyan, and Xia Zhiqing.

……

Night falls quietly.

Jin Xia.

Jinxia is a kingdom composed of more than a dozen tribes in the northern grasslands. Due to the language barrier, the Song Dynasty called it the Northern Wilderness Kingdom, and the people of the Northern Wilderness Kingdom were called barbarians.

As for why it has this name, it is because after the Song Dynasty studied Jin Xia, the people who developed this country were simple-minded and only focused on brute force.

When Emperor Taizu first established the Song Dynasty, the overall national power was not as good as that of Jin Xia. The reason why he was able to drive Jin Xia out was that Emperor Taizu broke through to the first level. The key is that Emperor Taizu used very common words every time. With his own strategy, he defeated Jin Xia with a small number of troops.

Also, Jin Xia doesn't know how to use weapons.

During the original war, the Song Dynasty had catapults and crossbows, and even faced Jin Xia's cavalry, they also developed formations specifically designed to deal with cavalry on flat ground.

Jin Xia, on the other hand, only knows how to do horse riding and shooting, and doesn't know how to use or make any large equipment.

It is for this reason that the Song Dynasty despised Jin Xia.

But man is a very complex and cunning animal.

It will change and lessons will be learned.

Unbeknownst to the Song Dynasty, after the defeat of Jinxia four hundred years ago, the kingdom went through several power seizures and reforms, and in the end the Tuoba tribe won the final victory.

All tribes respect the leader Tuoba as Khan.

At that time, Jinxia Khan proposed to learn from the Song Dynasty, and sent a large number of people from the clan to study in the Song Dynasty, and even married and had children with local people.

This is a very long process, but it has brought about earth-shaking changes in the entire Jinxia.

They learned the Song Dynasty's method of making soldiers and armor, learned medical skills, and no longer used witch doctors to pray for treatment.

They brought back a large number of military books and opened martial arts halls in various tribes.

Even the nobles and generals of various tribes learned the language of the Song Dynasty and knew the living habits, customs, and hobbies of the people of the Song Dynasty.

When the Song Dynasty began to decline, in order to have no worries, Jin Xia began to conquer Gaoliao in the year of Xuanhe, but it did not go well at the beginning.

On the contrary, it led to internal conflicts in Jinxia. Some tribes were dissatisfied with the Tuoba tribe for hundreds of years. When most of Jinxia's troops went to conquer Gaoliao, they rebelled.

Helpless, Jinxia Khan could only put aside the crusade against Gaoliao for the time being and began to quell the civil strife.

(End of this chapter)