kvmb Chapter 162 Message
Chapter 162 Message
Bai Zhi grabbed Qiao Wanwan who was about to leave and said, "Are you really going to write it? Have you thought about it?"
"Of course I did. I should have written it a long time ago. I should have written it when I arrived in Qing County." Qiao Wanwan clenched her fists as if ready to die. "Not only will I talk about my affairs, I also want him to stop interfering in my eldest brother's family life in the future..."
"No, no, no, you should just take care of yourself first. With you hitting the wall first, Qiaoqiao will definitely feel more relaxed afterwards."
Qiao Wanwan snorted twice: "That's it... I'm leaving."
"Hey, hey." Bai Zhi suddenly laughed, "Congratulations, Captain Qiao, you have achieved a lot since you were in the Marquis' Mansion."
"…You are the only one who has a big mouth."
Captain Qiao's words are worth a thousand gold. Ten days later, the frank family letter was placed in General Qiao's hands.
At that time, Chu Yunchuan was sitting opposite General Qiao Juchong. Seeing General Qiao's frighteningly gloomy face, he thought something had happened at the border, so he quickly stretched out his hand and said, "Let me take a look."
Qiao Juchong clasped his rough hands together and crumpled the letter into pieces, his teeth making a crunching sound as he bit it: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, it's nothing serious. It's a letter from my daughter."
The scraps of paper fell from Qiao Juchong's hands. Chu Yunchuan blinked and immediately understood what was written in the letter. He cleared his throat and said, "General Qiao, if you want your daughter to give up her marriage and join the army, please don't be angry. Listen to me."
Qiao Juchong was stunned: "How did the prince know this?"
"Your daughter, Captain Qiao, is a close friend of my wife. I already knew that she had joined the army, but it was only reasonable for Captain Qiao to tell me, so I never mentioned it to the old general."
Qiao Juchong's brows were knitted tightly, and after a moment he slammed the table angrily: "Girls should not be kept when they grow up! What's wrong with marrying a man peacefully? Why do you have to join the army? If anything goes wrong, how can I face my wife in heaven!"
Chu Yunchuan raised his hand and poured a cup of tea for Qiao Juchong: "Old General, you can rest assured. Captain Qiao is now under the command of the Qing County City Defense Army. He is far away from the border and has no worries about war."
"Qing County's city defense army..." Qiao Juchong narrowed his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief, "Zhu Daoxian."
"General Qiao, in my opinion, it is better to open up than to block. If you must join the army, I hope the generals under your command will be better."
"...Zhu Daoxian is a person who puts life first on the battlefield. Once she hides, you can't see her at all. In the past, I always ridiculed her as Zhu Sanku. Now that my daughter is under her command, I feel much more at ease..." Qiao Juchong said self-deprecatingly, "...It's really a matter of time."
"General Zhu, what General Qiao said is true." Chu Yunchuan laughed, "It was also thanks to General Zhu's ability to escape and save his life that he was able to protect Qing County from the Thirteen States that had become a deadly place. Otherwise, I would not have been able to reunite with my wife."
"Ah, Your Majesty, come to think of it, isn't it time for you to write a letter to Her Majesty? The cold weather has delayed you these days, and Her Majesty must be anxious."
Talking about family letters, Chu Yunchuan said very frankly: "I received a reply from my wife a few days ago. She complained that my words were too long and annoying, and asked me to write less. Just writing three or five pages is not too much trouble, so I did not stop writing during the few days of recuperation."
General Qiao burst into laughter, his voice so loud that the tent was shaking. Chu Yunchuan covered his ears skillfully, and it took a while before he let go.
“…Hahahahahahahahahaha, your Majesty is truly a person of temperament. No wonder my daughter can get along with your Majesty.”
Chu Yunchuan smiled and said, "We have just finished discussing the deployment of defenses on the left and right borders. General Qiao should write a letter back to Miss Ling. Otherwise, she will have to go to my house and worry about it with my wife."
When it comes to this, General Qiao sighed for a long time and said, "Your Majesty, you came to Ningzhou to investigate the barbarians secretly. I have no right to ask about this matter, but now it concerns my daughter... Your Majesty, let me ask, how long can the peace last?"
There had only been a few years of peace, and even though every soldier in the White Tiger Army was ready to sacrifice his life for his country, no one was eager to go to war.
As far as ordinary people are concerned, the purpose of fighting war is to live a peaceful and good life.
Chu Yunchuan said solemnly, "For many days, I have sent secret guards to investigate everywhere in Ningzhou. Now we have indeed found some clues, but the dust has not settled yet, so I dare not make a final conclusion. However, the old general also knows that after the reconstruction of the Thirteen States, the city defense is no longer comparable to the past, and many soldiers in the army hate the barbarians. If I were a barbarian, I would not rashly start a war."
Qiao Juchong knew the reason, but he wanted to hear it from Chu Yunchuan, the lord of the Thirteen States. Qiao Juchong nodded and said nothing more.
Capital City, Imperial Palace.
After Emperor Xiangyuan ascended the throne, the first thing he did was to depose the previous empress and enthrone his mother as the empress dowager. The second thing he did was to order the Ministry of Works to renovate the palace. It was called renovation, but in fact it was stripping. The people in the Ministry of Works, following the emperor's order, stripped away all the dazzling gold pieces and gems, and replaced them with porcelain and wood. All the valuable items were taken into the national treasury.
The great wealth that came from heaven benefited the people, and the Ministry of Revenue was so happy that they took turns to flatter Emperor Xiangyuan during the court sessions for several days in a row.
On the first day Lu Jiliang returned to the capital to report, he saw Emperor Xiangyuan standing in the back garden with a stiff smile on his face, surrounded by a group of adults who had just left court and were talking in a buzzing manner.
"Eunuch Lu," Lu Jiliang said with a bow, "Your Majesty is currently discussing state affairs and cannot meet with guests. I'd better come back later."
Eunuch Lu immediately shook his head: "Sir Lu, His Majesty has ordered that we should bring Sir Lu to see His Majesty as soon as we see him enter the palace. I will go and report to His Majesty right away. Sir Lu, please wait a moment." He hurriedly moved his legs and feet, and like a gust of wind, he sneaked into the crowd of adults and whispered to Emperor Xiangyuan. After hearing this, Emperor Xiangyuan immediately dismissed everyone and then brought Lu Jiliang, who was waiting in the distance, to the imperial study.
After dismissing all the palace attendants, Emperor Xiangyuan asked anxiously, "What happened?"
Lu Jiliang took out a thick booklet from his sleeve and presented it to Emperor Xiangyuan: "Your Majesty has entrusted me with this. I have recorded it in detail. Please take a look."
The booklet was thick to begin with, and the writing inside was in tiny regular script, so the content was extremely complicated. Lu Jiliang lowered his head and waited quietly for half an hour before he heard Emperor Xiangyuan sigh with a mixture of unwillingness and envy: "The Thirteen States are governed in this way... The Emperor's uncle really has a good mind, no wonder it was easy for Brother Chuan to rebuild the Thirteen States, this is really what the people want."
Lu Jiliang said nothing.
Emperor Xiangyuan then remembered Lu Jiliang, who had been left out for a long time, and said, "Jiliang, sit down."
Lu Jiliang shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, if there is nothing important, I will not disturb you and will take my leave first."
Emperor Xiangyuan's eyes darkened, and he said in a deep voice: "Do you have any other opinions about my plan?"
"Wei Chen dare not."
This monarch, who was above all others, seemed about to get angry, but suddenly calmed down. He slowly paced around Lu Jiliang, and finally stroked his subject's shoulder and sighed, "Jiliang, you should understand me. If I don't reduce the power of the vassal states, how can the people of Great Yan be blessed?"