Inheritance policy

Chapter 52

"When? How about the casualties? How about the record?" Xing Zhaoxin snapped up all of a sudden, stood up abruptly, and asked each sentence in a hurry.

"It seems to have happened the night before." Before Lin Song recovered, he lay on the door frame panting, and said: "Master Hou received the news in the morning, and immediately summoned his staff and Qingke to discuss in Qincun Courtyard. Seeing that the situation was not right, I went to test it out and asked Mr. Zhang's servant, he was familiar with me."

Every spring, the Tartars would come to the frontier to burn, kill, and loot. It seems to be a custom. Outside the Pingxi Pass, the Tartars robbed as much as they wanted. As long as it is not excessive, Da Zhou is not willing to spend a large amount of military pay To exterminate them all.

But this year, the Tartars actually broke through the frontier defenses and made their way to Pingxi Pass in a flash. My uncle had 5 troops under his command, and he wanted someone to send a letter to Beijing urgently.
Is it a letter, or a call for help?

Xingjing was stunned for a moment, and after careful consideration, he calmly murmured: "Pingxiguan is a thousand miles away from Dingjing, and the daily report is once every thirty days. Uncle is acting so abnormal this time, it must be because the Tartars raided the night before yesterday, and the visitors were not kind. Although my uncle has 5 horses under his command, only [-] are cavalry, and the rest are all infantry, not to mention that in the peaceful world these days, the number of soldiers and horses stationed daily is no more than [-]! Come if you are prepared"

Xing Jing said, and couldn't help shivering.

Xing Zhao's analysis is superficial, but Xing Jing's thinking is deeper.

"Let's go to the main courtyard!" Xing Zhao made a decisive decision. In the previous life, the Fang family suffered a turmoil. She didn't know what it was, but what is certain is that the impact on the eldest lady will definitely not be small, and even, even this may be the final word. The reason!

Xing Jing thought for a while, nodded, and asked Xing Zhao to wait. He quickly ran into the Nuan Pavilion, found the neatly rolled map at the bottom of the sandalwood cage, and raised his voice: "The Great Zhou Dynasty can There are no more than ten people who have drawn such a detailed military map!"

Xing Zhao was stunned, and then smiled, full of relief.

The eldest lady in this room has also received the news. She paced around the room and asked Mother Huang from time to time: "Why hasn't Lord Hou come yet? The imperial decree hasn't come down yet. If you go out to fight, you must get a seal. It’s time to deploy troops and generals, right? Do you want me to send a post to see the empress immediately? My sister has a lot of ideas, and I will definitely find a way.”

Mother Huang came in with a cup of white fungus and bird's nest soup, put down the Guangcai powder porcelain, and suppressed her worries: "You forgot that it was like this before. After the winter, the Tartars had no food at home, so they came to rob us." Well, one year the old man got annoyed, he was in his sixties, and he was still wearing armor and looking handsome to fight. The result? Our Fang family army in silver-gray armor and holding red-tasseled guns was mighty, and the city gate hadn't even left yet. The tartar ran away."

Da Furen nodded distractedly, sat down, frowned and thought for a while, but felt something was wrong, and was about to say something, but saw Xing Jing and Xing Zhao coming in with the curtain one after the other.

"Come in!" Da Furen hurriedly waved.

Seeing the two children sitting next to him, one on the left and the other on the right, they finally sighed, how dare they tell the children about going to war.The eldest lady was bored, and ordered Yueqiao to go to Qincun courtyard to have a look.

Xing Zhao saw it, and shook the lady's hand, feeling cool.When a person encounters a crisis, the first person who wants to ask for help is always the most trusted and most dependent person in his heart.In Da Furen's heart, the first straw to grasp is He Yan.

"Mother, my uncle is brave and good at fighting, so he will surely turn danger into good luck." Xing Zhao could only comfort him in this way, and then pretended to smile and said, "Ah Wu read "Kyushu Regional Chronicles" and said that the entire Tatar tribe has nearly 50 talents, Extending from Pingxi Pass to the west of Xing’an Mountains, it’s only three thousand miles, and our mansion is as big as this.”

The eldest lady shook her head, her face paled: "When you go to the battlefield, every Tartar can become a soldier, and every horse can be a war horse. How many years have the Tartars plundered the people outside Pingxi Pass? How many times has your grandfather written a letter?" Want to go out in command and cut grass and roots? There are countless numbers, but they were all refuted by the first emperor. It used to be a small fight, but now your uncle rushed the letter to Dingjing all eight hundred miles away!"

Xing Zhao didn't know what to say anymore, the lady was not confused where she should be confused, she saw the key at a glance, so she had to wink at Xing Jing.

"Mother, if uncle can still send a letter and go to Dingjing, it means that the situation can be recovered." Xingjing threw the map on the green brick floor, and pointed out to the eldest lady: "From the northwest to Dingjing, it takes nearly one day. The journey of thousands of miles, passing through the three post stations of Jiamusi, Baodingfu, and Henghe, is the only way to arrive at Dingjing. After the Tatars raided the night before, the messenger was not stopped. You must know that Jiamusi is only less than a hundred miles away from Pingxiguan. It means that the Tatars were still stopped outside Pingxi Pass, and my uncle took control of the situation all of a sudden, and relying on the advantage of defending the city, the Tatars tried to attack the city in one step. I am afraid it will not be so easy. Although they were forced to alarm Dingjing this time, But at least it was suppressed. We can only wait for daddy to come over, so that we can know what the letter actually said, and then we can prescribe medicine to each other. If we should post posts, we will post them, and if we need to move around, we will move around."

The eldest lady listened carefully and nodded repeatedly.

Xing Zhao looked at Xing Jing who was squatting on the ground with a very serious expression, and he had mixed feelings in his heart.Xing Jing is usually a very careless person, it is very difficult for him to analyze so much information from a small matter.Probably Xingjing can really become a general who strategizes!
While talking inside, He Yan who was walking from Qincun Courtyard to Main Courtyard was also not idle.With a solemn face, he turned around the corridor without saying a word, and countless possibilities flashed in his mind——Fang Qi's letter was extremely short, and although the words were cryptic, they could still be read.

"On the evening of February 18th, the Tatars attacked Pingxi Pass with fire, and more than a hundred soldiers guarding the city gate were killed. After that, the minister led [-] cavalry to retreat from the enemy, and was able to defend Pingxi Pass. After a fierce battle, the enemy came fiercely. , ladders, eagle eyes, and gunpowder are all available. According to the rough estimate of the minister, the invaders are about ten thousand. In fact, after [-] years after Kanghe, the Tatars came to counterattack again with preparations. For food, I will fight to the death with that small clan."

Pingxiguan is an important city, how could it be possible that there are only a hundred soldiers stationed on the city wall every day!The Tartars are physically industrious but mentally weak, they only know how to rely on brute force, and where can they get eagle eyes and gunpowder for tens of thousands of people!The emperor allocates two carts of gold and hundreds of carts of grain to the Northwest every year. At this time, he dares to ask for money and grain, and he is not afraid of the emperor's wrath!
He knew that Fang Qi was not such a short-sighted person.

There must be something strange in the meantime.

Could it be related to the big shakeup in Northwest China the month before last?

Holding the letter copied from the palace in He Yan's hand, he turned a corner, just in time to hear the commotion in the main hall, and then remembered Fang, a stupid woman, when the national conditions and the fate of the family were at stake. He sent people to Qincun courtyard to disturb him again and again, his eyelids were so shallow that they were worse than the servant mothers in the inner courtyard!
"What are you doing?" He Yan suppressed his breath, lifted the curtain, saw a map on the floor, and saw Xingjing squatting on the ground, dancing and talking, his anger rose for no reason , "What do you look like! They're all about to kiss each other, and they haven't done it right yet!"

Stepping forward, he pulled Xing Jing up, heartbroken: "I don't even expect you to be famous, anyway, I can't let outsiders say that He Jia Dalang is an idle dude!"

Xing Zhao clenched his hands tightly in his sleeves, but the lady rushed forward and rescued Xing Jing from He Yan, saying, "Brother Jing is talking to me about the map!" Then he asked repeatedly: " How is brother? Pingxiguan has finally been defended, what is the attitude of the emperor? Do you want to send another minister of the army to follow?"

He Yan frowned, ignored the sentence "Brother Jing is talking to me about the map", waved his hand while holding the letter, stepped forward, sat on the upper chair of the grand master, and did not speak for a long time.

If it is an internal strife in the northwest, the new admiral Liang Pinggong, three ministers of armaments, and one township waiter Fang Qi, if there are problems and discord among the three parties, the consequences will be unimaginable
While thinking, He Yan raised his head and saw Xing Zhao who was blinking at him with wide almond eyes, his heart became lighter for no reason, and he waved to Xing Zhao to signal her to come over.He patted her hand lightly, turned his head and told Xingjing: "Bring your sister in, I have something to say with your mother."

Xing Jing agreed, and stepped forward to lead Xing Zhao in frustration, and walked slowly inside.

When the two reached the flower hall, Xing Zhao stopped, stood on tiptoe and whispered to Xing Jing, "Brother forgot what Ah Wu said? What father ordered is not necessarily right. We care about uncle, mother, What's wrong? What's more, my father only said to go in, but didn't say where to go."

Xing Jing's eyes lit up, he hugged Xing Zhao onto the Kang head, lifted his robe, sat on the side lightly, and listened with his ears pressed against the partition.

He Yan's voice in deep thought sounded from outside: "Uncle didn't say how dangerous it was the night before, but he can guess it. At any rate, Uncle Fang has calmed down the situation. It is impossible for Pingxiguan to fall within half a month." Afterwards After a pause, he continued: "The emperor has issued an order this morning, and sent a letter to the Northwest Guard Army to escort [-] carts of food and salaries with him. They will arrive in three to five days, which can be regarded as a solution to the urgent need of the Northwest."

"Amitabha!" The lady's voice was full of joy, comfort and relief, accompanied by the rustling of clothes: "The emperor's grace is mighty! I will go to the small Buddhist hall to burn incense sticks later, and then go outside the ancestral hall." Kowtow to the ancestors!"

There was another silence, and Xing Zhao frowned slightly, telling her intuitively that He Yan hadn't finished speaking.

Now at this time, success is also Xiao He, and defeat is also Xiao He.If my uncle defends this battle, he will definitely increase his rank and rank, and my mother will naturally rise with the tide, and there will be no more storms in Yingyi.On the contrary, when the Fang family was in turmoil, the first ones to bear the brunt were the eldest lady and Queen Fang.

Why does He Yan hide it when his future is still unclear?

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(End of this chapter)