[Quick Crossing + Red Mansions] I have a strong desire to survive

Gathered in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, besides the elders of the pavilion, there are also ministers of various ministries, governors of the Shuntian government and the admirals of the Nine Gates. Everyone is waiting for the emperor to give a clear order. These old people from the northwest should caress, arrest or...

There was an embarrassing silence in the Hall of Mental Cultivation.The emperor looked at the silent elder Ge and the ministers of various ministries, and his heart became angry: These people usually talk nicely, but no one can come up with an idea at a critical moment.

The elders of the pavilion and the ministers of various ministries also have big heads. It’s okay for these people not to enter the city. After entering the city, it’s easy to say that they just touched the Ministry of Households or Shuntian Mansion by themselves, but they entered the city with a leaflet stating what happened. There are thousands of people in the capital following, most of them are scholars, it is really difficult to deal with.

No one knows how many leaflets brought by those old people have been sent out, how many have fallen into the hands of scholars, and how many will be spread outside Beijing.The common people had long been dissatisfied with the court, and this leaflet was spread in Beijing, and it would not take long for it to cause an uproar.

"Shuntian Mansion and the Admiral of the Nine Gates are short of manpower, so they draw troops from the Beijing camp. None of these beggars from the northwest will be left behind." The emperor issued an order viciously.

The chief assistant knew something was wrong, so he looked at Zhang and Liu, the elders of the pavilion.In the past, these two people were supposed to act as persuasion, but now they both bowed their heads and said nothing.Under the threat of Shoufu's gaze, Shan Ge, who replaced Quan Ge, had no choice but to become a rafter:

"Please think twice, the sage. After the beggars from the northwest entered the city, they had already publicized the purpose of this visit to Beijing, and the crowd became angry. If you arrest people directly..." It's no wonder those scholars don't scold you.

"A group of things who have been bewitched by people and have no father." The emperor became more and more angry: "If anyone stops, let him go with the people from the northwest."

Shoufu had no choice but to personally persuade the emperor: "The sage knows the lesson, the people in the capital just don't know the truth, if they are arrested together, I'm afraid the hearts of the people will be disturbed."

Are you not turbulent now?The emperor felt that extraordinary measures should be used in extraordinary times. Not only did the troops of the Jingying camp enter the capital quickly, but also the Jinyiwei immediately imposed martial law in the capital. People who did not return home were waiting to go to the Jingying and Shuntian Mansions to arrest them.

Looking at the increasingly stubborn emperor, the elders knew that there was nothing to persuade them.In the past few years, the emperor has become more and more arbitrary, and they have not been able to persuade them once.When the first assistant came out of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, he looked dissatisfiedly at the elders Zhang and Liu: "I'm waiting for you..."

Before he finished speaking, Liu Ge's straight-tempered old man had already laughed: "I only obey the emperor's order." You persuaded me, but in the end, you still obediently returned to the cabinet to write the military dispatch document.

Now that he is still in the palace, the chief assistant cast a bitter look at Elder Liu Ge, and took the lead in striding towards the old man's house.Everyone silently followed behind Shoufu, knowing that with today's troop transfer document, the capital might be in turmoil for a while.

Jia Daishan, who received the military transfer document, smiled wryly at his staff: "There is nothing wrong with the Beijing camp to protect the safety of the capital. But now there are unarmed people in the capital. Just to ask for an explanation, the cabinet has solemnly transferred troops to Beijing." , I’m not afraid that someone will harbor evil intentions in the future..." Under the guise of the cabinet, directly deploy troops everywhere?

The aide smiled: "The Duke of the country has always protected the country and the people, and now he wants to deal with the people he protects, which is really annoying. The soldiers of the Beijing camp are transferred, and the saints personally issue orders, or take military talismans to act. Now there is only a cabinet document, and the Duke of the country can send someone to ask the saint to verify the authenticity."

Jia Daishan's eyes lit up when he said this, yes, the time when he asked the sage to verify the authenticity was the time when the common people hid.When the authenticity is verified, the people who hear the news should go wherever they want.

Seeing that Jia Daishan had figured it out, the aides turned around and went out to arrange for someone to deliver the news that the Beijing camp would arrest people.It is estimated that there will be people who are not afraid of death and refuse to hide. After all, I have done my best.

In fact, there is no need for Jia Daishan to worry. Jia Daihua dared to make those 70-[-]-year-olds travel thousands of miles to Beijing to appeal for tax exemption, and he made some arrangements himself.No, three or four hundred old men in ragged clothes began to disperse as they led the people in the city to the various yamen. As time went on, fewer and fewer old men came from the northwest. Almost all the people in the government are scholars in the capital.

No one knew that those old people had been taken to several pre-prepared courtyards unknowingly, and they all changed their clothes and took a bath.

When the people arranged by Jia Daishan's staff passed the news, most of the people in the capital were afraid of trouble, so they left.Those scholars were still unconvinced and didn’t want to go home, so someone whispered to them and warned them: “Swords have no eyes, and if you leave green hills, you won’t be afraid of running out of firewood. If something happens to you, the people in the northwest will feel uneasy.”

The scholar thought about it, and felt that what the person said made sense, so he left a part of it, leaving only a few dozen people who accepted the reason, and they still surrounded the gate of the yamen to let the officials inside come out.Someone came to their ears and said: "The emperor is worried that he won't be able to catch the Northwest Army. You are making trouble here. It is said that you were inspired by Uncle Ning Yuan or took his money, not to cause trouble for Uncle Ning Yuan." Is it? I didn’t see that the people in the northwest have all left, but they don’t want to make Uncle Ning Yuan involved.”

But no, the Lord is gone, and people like myself have learned nothing here, so I should go home and think about how to pass on the evil deeds of the officialdom in the capital to my relatives and friends far away, so that they all know that the officialdom today is already dark to what extent.

So in the end, dozens of people also left, and there was not one left.

Jia Daishan finally waited until the emperor confirmed the order to raise troops to Beijing, ordered troops without hesitation, marched all the way into the city, and found that there was no one on the street, except for the soldiers of Jinyiwei and the servants of Shuntian Mansion, a ghost all the time. not see.

It was funny in my heart, and I had to show apology on my face: "Commander Li, please forgive me, it is really a big matter to bring troops into Beijing, and Daishan has to confirm with the saint, it is too late to come, thank you for your hard work and Mr. gone."

Commander Li of Jin Yiwei had a constipated look on his face: "Young Master, you are being polite. Don't say that you can't see anyone now, even if you come half an hour earlier, it will still be the same." I was in the city, and when I came out It's not just a few vegetable vendors who have been rushed back.

Shuntian Fu Yin followed with a wry smile, while the emperor continued to be furious: Those ordinary people from the northwest disappeared into the capital out of thin air. Even if the spies caught some clues, as long as they stayed in the house and did not come out to make trouble, he would not be able to tell. Ask Jin Yi to come and get someone.

Unless you really don't take your reputation in history books seriously.

Even if he already has the reputation of being a faint king, the emperor still wants to save him, otherwise why didn't he bother Jia Daihua in the past two years?

If he doesn't torment Jia Daihua, can Jia Daihua, who wants to rebel, not torment him?Don't be funny, everyone is tearing their faces apart now, okay?

Within a month, news spread across the northwest land that the old people who had come to Beijing to plead for the people had already been sent to prison by the emperor and would be executed soon.After hearing the news, the prefects of the three prefectures couldn't sit still, and went to the northwest camp one after another, begging Jia Daihua to find a way.

Those three or four hundred old people are all respected elders in the villages. If something really happened, all the villages in the northwest would be in chaos.If the people in the Northwest cause chaos, they, the magistrates, will bear the brunt of the blame, okay?

Jia Daihua expressed his deep self-blame, and personally posted a post asking the generals of the three states to go to the northwest camp to discuss how to deal with this matter. After all, the reason why those old people went to Beijing to ask for orders was because they were worried that the defenders in the northwest would be hungry. It is to stand up for them who are soldiers.

Now that they are going to be beheaded by the emperor because of them, do bloody people have to take action?Meng Bai was the first to stand up: "General, the last general is willing to go to the middle of the capital to change the common people back to the northwest."

Jia Daihua pressed his hand and motioned for Meng Bai to sit down before speaking. His complexion was not good-looking: "It's because I didn't think carefully about the matter. I didn't expect that the sage had always been dissatisfied with me, and I went to the one who begged for the people of the three states. Tax-free booklet. So you stay in the northwest honestly, and if you want to change people, I will do it."

General Zheng Qi of Ningzhou said in a loud voice: "Uncle Ningyuan's copy seems to be asking for tax-free money for the people of the three states, but in fact it is not for the sake of us defenders. If you go to Beijing to change people, count me in as one of them. "

He had already stated his position, and Xu Jin couldn't help but say that he would also go to Jingzhong to change people.Jia Daihua was satisfied in his heart, and he wanted to persuade them to think twice: "Seeing that winter is coming, Beibei has been quiet for two years, and this year is a severe drought. Those livestock have no food, so they may not go south to violate the border. So you just Keep your defenses safe, and I can feel more at ease when I go to Jingzhong to change people."

Somehow, this word spread to everyone in the northwest camp. Many soldiers spontaneously surrounded the large tent of the Chinese army. Go to Beijing to change people with the main general.

"Is the emperor going to starve to death the people in the Northwest and our Northwest Army?" The soldiers became more and more excited as they talked, and some people couldn't help shouting out the doubts in everyone's heart.

"Fortunately, we are dedicated to defending the territory, but the emperor wants to starve us to death. Then what are you doing defending this territory? If you don't do it, whoever wants to guard this side will guard it." Another person shouted, and many soldiers felt relieved. They yelled and quit together.

The three of Xu Jin focused their eyes on Jia Daihua, wanting to hear what he had to say.Seeing that Jia Daihua's face was so dark that water dripped down, "Whoever yelled not to do it just now, stand up for me."

The people around fell silent all of a sudden, and no one stood up.Jia Daihua scolded angrily, "It's really embarrassing for the Northwest Army to dare to be such a coward."

The first soldier who yelled quitting heard this, and stood up with a red face: "General, it was the younger one who said not to do it first, and not to do other people's business. General, the emperor is clearly trying to force our Northwest Army to death. As he spoke, the burly man felt like a big stone was pressing on his chest: "Even if I was beaten to death with a military stick today, the young one should finish his sentence."

"General, haven't you been angry enough these years? If it weren't for the support of the general in the northwest, the Beirong people would have gone south to the capital long ago. But how did the emperor treat the general?"

"The chief generals of Pingzhou and Ningzhou are all here now. Please tell them about it. When our Northwest Army and the Beirong people fought to death, they shrank back to the city they guarded and turned a blind eye to the rescue beacon. For what?"

Ignoring Xu Jin and the two who were too ashamed to lift their heads, the soldier said loudly: "General, you have saved your life, but the emperor drove you back to the northwest before you recovered from your wounds. When you came back, Bei Rong came to attack you." , the brothers of the Fourth Battalion are desperately fighting the Beirong people with hungry stomachs, General."

"Brothers knew why you let the big guys live in the wild at that time. In order to fear that you would be sad, no one mentioned a word these years. But you clearly fought against the Beirong while appeasing the brothers, and you also tried to make the people in the Northwest eat If you have a full stomach, all of them are meritorious to the country. But the emperor still wants to put you to death, brothers don’t accept it, general.”

"Yes, we are not convinced." The soldier who had just calmed down couldn't keep silent when he heard this.Jia Daihua glanced at Jiao Da who was looking up at the sky and then down at the ground. Where did this guy find such an eloquent soldier?

"Brothers, listen to me." Jia Daihua lowered his head as if trying to calm himself down, but when he raised his head, people close to him still noticed that his eye circles were red: "We guard the border because we are Yanhuang. Children and grandchildren, behind us are our parents and brothers. What we guard is our own home." Zhongjun, it is still exempt.

"But the people in the family didn't appreciate us, and even stabbed us in the back." Someone in the crowd shouted.Both Xu Jin and Zheng Qi were shocked: Yes, someone stabbed them in the back right now.

When the knife fell on Jia Daihua before, they were still complacent, and even quietly helped the leader to make the knife penetrate deeper.Now that the knife fell on him, he realized the aggrieved and helpless.

"Don't talk too much." Jia Daihua looked at the crowd with cold eyes again: "I have made up my mind. I will go to Beijing tomorrow to ask the saint for orders. I will bear everything alone. I must return those village elders. After I leave , you must step up your patrols, and don’t let the Beirong people take advantage of it. Presumably after I enter Beijing, the court will send a new general over, and you must obey the command of the new general.”

The eye circles of the soldiers turned red one by one, and they called out to the general to persuade Jia Daihua not to take risks.Xu Jin and Zheng Qi's hearts twitched after hearing this, they also knew that what these soldiers said was right, Jia Daihua was going to Beijing at this time, the emperor might really kill him.

Not without chilling.

Jia Daihua also seemed to have thought of his possible ending, and bowed his hands to Xu Jin and Zheng Qi: "I wanted to send three of you to the camp gate, and you have seen it. Under such circumstances, Daihua will send a few of you here. Don't blame me for being rude." After speaking, he turned around, ignored the soldiers who were still noisy behind him, and walked towards the tent of the Chinese army.

Walking to the front of the tent, Jia Daihua paused under everyone's expectant eyes. Everyone thought he would turn around and say a few words, but they saw that he had already opened the curtain and entered the tent, leaving only the swaying Curtain.

Xu Jin and Zheng Qi wanted to take a look, both guarded and tempted, but in the end neither of them said anything, and accompanied Meng Bai silently out of the northwest camp.

That night, Jia Daihua summoned Meng Bai, who had returned quietly, and discussed with Zhang Jia and other senior generals in the middle of the night, and finally left Zhang Jia alone: ​​"I asked Meng Bai to be the general of Liangzhou that day, but I left you behind. In the Northwest Army, can you blame me?"

Zhang Jia grinned: "What did the general say? My father saved my life. From that day on, I belong to the Jia family. Don't say that the general thinks I can't bear the responsibility, it is the general who asked me to go. I won't go to Liangzhou either."

Jia Daihua also smiled when he heard this: "It's fine if you don't complain. To tell you the truth, I left you in the northwest camp for this day." Without waiting for Zhang Jia's reaction, he continued: " The emperor above us is too suspicious and too small-minded. Sooner or later, the entire Jia family will be wiped out by him."

Seeing that Zhang Jia was angry like a jerk, Jia Daihua patted him on the shoulder reassuringly: "So Zhang Jia, I decided to make a living. Why should my Jia family accompany the Tai/Zu to conquer the country, and then Guarding this place for them for decades, but people treat them as thieves, why don't you keep destroying the Jia family?"

Zhang Jia slapped the table: "The general has this idea for a long time. I don't want to serve the emperor who only knows how to stab a knife in the back. That's right, the general never allows us to talk nonsense. I was afraid that the general would get angry, so I endured it until today." .”

"So, you have to stay this time." Jia Daihua solemnly said to Zhang Jia who wanted to refute: "You have to guard the northwest camp for me, and Xu Jin and Zheng Qi are also on my guard. Remember, No matter what news you hear, the camp in the northwest cannot be lost, and the three northern states cannot be messed up, it can only be named Jia."

Zhang Jia had already knelt down: "The last general will live up to the general's entrustment."

Jia Daihua rushed to him and waved him to get up: "The division of troops will be done after I leave, do you understand?" Zhang Jia nodded in response, and Jia Daihua asked him to go back to his tent to rest.

On the second day, before the bugle sounded, Jia Daihua quietly left the camp with [-] personal guards.The guards at the gate of the camp knelt down to him, and the generals who heard the news also knelt down.

Jia Daihua went with his bodyguard like the wind, as if he hadn't seen him.Along with him, there was also a memorial still submitted by the Ministry of War. The superior requested the emperor in a righteous and stern manner. Those old folks in the Northwest risked the world for the sake of the people in the Northwest. Please ask the Emperor. Withholding.Jia Daihua himself, will go to Beijing to exchange villagers and return to the northwest, to ensure that the people in the northwest will not cause trouble because of this incident.

The emperor who received the memorial was furious—as if he would be furious whenever he encountered anything about Jia Daihua—he ordered the secret guards and Jinyi guards to dispatch together, and it was necessary to find out how many people Jia Daihua had brought to Beijing, and Quick report where he went.In addition, eight hundred miles urgently sent a message to the states along Jia Daihua's road to report Jia Daihua's itinerary in time, and strictly ordered all localities not to provide any convenience to Jia Daihua and his party.

This was not enough for the emperor to relieve his uneasiness. He ordered people to go to the study and told Jia Fu that he did not have to go back to Ningguo Mansion these days. He wanted to use people as a hole card to threaten Jia Daihua.

Unexpectedly, when I went to the study to ask, I found out that as early as seven days ago, Mrs. Ning Yuan was seriously ill.When I ordered the hidden guards to visit Ningguo Mansion, the building was already empty, saying that Mrs. Ning Yuanbo had been ordered by the imperial physician to leave Beijing to go to a place with a good climate in the south of the Yangtze River to recuperate, so she packed her bags and took Jia Fu back to Jinling.

The emperor who got the reward was relieved that Mrs. Lin did not go to the northwest, but his heart was still uneasy, so he ordered the secret guards to follow quietly, and must take the mother and child back to the capital.

Jia Daihua was not in a hurry to go on the road at this time, and the journey was only a hundred miles a day.When you meet people along the road, you have to send someone to ask about your harvest and the situation of your family's grain storage.Soldiers who talk to the people will also be asked by the people what they are going to do. They tell everyone frankly that their generals are going to the capital to exchange the villagers.

Apart from shedding tears for such a good general, the people secretly cursed the emperor in their hearts, hoping that he would die sooner, so that such a good general would not be framed by others.

From the second day onwards, there were soldiers chasing after him one after another. Jia Daihua staged another scene of driving people back to the camp, but the people did not drive away, and more and more people caught up.When he arrived in Pingzhou, Xu Jin found that Jia Daihua had already followed a team of 2000 people.

But Xu Jin didn't say much, he just ordered the cooks of the Pingzhou Army to make enough dry food for the 2000 people, and personally delivered it to Jia Daihua's horse: "Please, Uncle Ning Yuan, don't give up."

Don't give up, how can Jia Daihua give up with such a heart?He got off the horse with a smile, and took a piece of Xu Jin's heart with his own hands: "General Xu's kindness, Jia Daihua will always remember it in his heart."

Xu Jin smiled reassuringly: "Sometimes Xu Jin is not effective in restraining his subordinates, and those soldiers don't know how to cause trouble to Uncle Ning Yuan. Please be considerate of Uncle Ning Yuan."

Jia Daihua glanced at him with a smile, nodded his head as thanks, got on his horse, and headed towards Ningzhou.Some Pingzhou defenders silently followed Jia Daihua's team, Xu Jin acted as if he hadn't noticed.

When he arrived in Ningzhou, Zheng Qi, who was going out to meet him, looked at the team of nearly 4000 people, and was deeply annoyed by the lack of strength of his own scouts. The food is not good enough at all, is it?He asked Jia Daihua to wait for a while so that the cooks could make dry food quickly.

Jia Daihua waved his hand to stop Zheng Qi: "I know what General Zheng wants, so don't bother."

But Zheng Qi knelt down: "It wasn't that Uncle Ning Yuan was in large numbers, Zheng Qi had already been locked up and taken into Beijing. Even the Ningzhou Army, half of them would have starved to death a few days ago. If Uncle Ning Yuan was afraid that Zheng Qi's dry rations would be poisoned , Zheng Qi is willing to accompany Uncle Ning Yuan all the way to Beijing, and try the meal for Uncle Ning Yuan."

We are all brothers, so it is a bit serious.Jia Daihua had to stop his followers and wait for the Ningzhou Army to deliver hot meals, and continue to set off after a full meal.At this time, the number of people behind him had already reached [-]—that guy Zheng Qi directly dispatched people from each battalion to protect Uncle Ning Yuan's safety, and he was not at all worried about whether there were hidden guards placed by the emperor in his battalion.

If he wants to do this, Jia Daihua will not be hypocritical, accept the people and food, and tell him to pay attention to the movements of the Beirong people, and to cooperate with the soldiers and horses of the other two states, and exchange news with the Northwest camp, and then continue to move forward with the troops.

At this time, the news that Jia Daihua was going to exchange villagers had already spread. From time to time on the road, there were farmers bringing food to the troops, and there were also some stout men who followed the team and wanted to go to Beijing with Jia Daihua.