Cross the Sea in the Red Chamber

At the new Great Court Meeting, the matter of the Northern Expedition has been formally passed.Under the encouragement of Jiang Yuan, Situ Sheng and the nurses, all the generals of the Manchu Dynasty supported His Majesty's Northern Expedition strategy, and most of the rest of the civil servants also agreed. How could the remaining few people succeed? God?Rather than disagreeing and being forced to agree, it is better to honestly agree.

Situ Sheng had great prestige in the Dajing Dynasty. Regardless of martial arts or martial arts, he paved his own prestige with blood. Even if the old emperor recovers and stands up to fight with him in the group arena, he may not be able to win, let alone those who are scattered. , What about the courtiers who are not very firm?What he said, the final decision he made, the officials could not object at all, even if they wanted to object, there was no way, His Majesty the Emperor naturally had a way to make them unable to speak again.

As a powerful emperor, it is very easy to keep someone's mouth shut.He didn't even have to arrest him or threaten him, as long as he was not allowed to speak at the court meeting, it was enough.As for this person who wants to speak outside the court meeting, he can do whatever he wants, as long as he is not afraid of the censor coming to sue, he can say whatever he wants, and see if anyone is willing to listen to him.At worst, Situ Sheng will pretend he didn't hear...

The so-called court meeting is just going through the due procedures. When the procedures are completed, no matter what the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty think in their hearts, they will not be able to stop the Northern Expedition!It is imperative to crusade against the northern barbarians, and no one or anything can stop the northern expedition from starting!

Seeing that the Northern Expedition was hard to stop, some civil servants immediately changed their minds and turned around to stop Situ Sheng's personal conquest.

The reason for this is easy to find. The so-called country cannot be without a king for a day. An emperor who should deal with government affairs goes to the front line to be the commander-in-chief. Then who will the country's government affairs be entrusted to?Moreover, a gentleman should not stand under a dangerous wall, this is a truth that ordinary people understand, so how can His Majesty the Emperor take risks with his own body, and risk his own life?

As soon as they said their words, Situ Sheng waved his big hand, isn't there still the Supreme Emperor in the capital?

All civil servants were choked by His Majesty's words.The Supreme Emperor has already released more air and less air, okay?I can only be awake for one or two hours a day. Can this kind of body handle government affairs?Will he die just after reading the memorial... If he dies, who will be responsible?

Ahem, but they didn't dare to say that.

When Situ Sheng came to the throne, before the big Jiangnan case broke out, many courtiers, in the name of paying their respects to the Supreme Emperor, handed over state affairs memorials to the Supreme Emperor directly, bypassing Situ Sheng who was the emperor.Wasn't the former Supreme Emperor also bedridden and often in a coma?Don't you courtiers let him preside over the government?That being the case, then the only thing I can do is not bother the two masters...

Snorting coldly in his heart, Situ Sheng said coldly to the courtiers: "My prince is already old, so he can stay in the capital to supervise important state affairs!"

In the first year of Hongyou, Situ Sheng had decreed that the eldest son of the emperor, Situ Ye, should be made the crown prince.Today, Situ Ye has turned 11 years old. Perhaps in this world, this age is still a primary school student, but in the Jing Dynasty, this age is not too young for the royal family.

In ancient times, many emperors were not ten years old when they ascended the throne, and they did not see how chaotic the government was, and there were many promising emperors.Of course, at Situ Ye's age, he can't govern alone, but it is enough to be a mascot and put it in the court to deter the officials.He wanted to see, if the prince stayed in the capital, who would dare to mess around!

Over the years, Situ Sheng has been insisting on the strategy of promoting talents, leaving behind a large number of confidantes to assist the prince in presiding over the government. He has only been away for a while, and nothing major will happen at all.Of course, important events of the country will be sent to the frontier in an expedited form of [-] li and he will personally order them, but the rest of the minor matters can be handled by these ministers, not to mention that his confidant Lin Jun is still in the capital, With his ability, he can naturally assist the prince to control the court and suppress those ministers who have small thoughts.

After these three years, Lin Jun has moved three times a day, and he is no longer the little Yuanwailang he used to be.

Taking advantage of his military power in the south of the Yangtze River, Situ Sheng directly promoted him to be the left servant of the Ministry of Officials, skipping the hurdle of advancing from the fourth rank to the third rank.

At the beginning, he assisted Jiang Yuan to set off a bloody storm in the south of the Yangtze River. Within a few months, more than a thousand officials were beheaded, which shocked the civil and military courts and moved everyone in the world.After he entered the Ministry of Officials, he even assisted His Majesty the Emperor to rectify the administration of officials. After he was able to issue memorials and promulgate decrees, he even stirred up the court from time to time and interfered in state affairs. He was already one of the few big figures in the court.

Situ Cheng found an excuse to drive back to his hometown to eat himself, the past official minister who was made of dough. Lin Jun, the left servant, is definitely "overlord" in the official department. If it weren't for his seniority at the moment , Where is the position of Minister of the Ministry of Officials still vacant?

On the surface, Lin Jun was just the left servant of the Ministry of Officials, a second-rank official, but in fact, all the courtiers knew that Lin Jun was Situ Sheng's confidant next only to Jiang Yuan.He holds the golden medal arrow given by Situ Sheng in his hand, and he can even mobilize the nine soldiers and horses and even the Gyeonggi camp to suppress the court situation, and he has the right to kill first and then play.The officials of Situ Sheng's direct faction were naturally willing to follow his command, and unless the remaining officials were fools, how could they dare to arouse his anger?Hit yourself on the tip of the knife?

With Lin Jun, a "cruel official" who was regarded as "ruthless" by outsiders and "only obeyed the orders of His Majesty the Emperor" in the capital, who would dare to cause trouble in the government during the Northern Expedition? !Really don't want to live yet?This one really dares to use a knife!

According to the previously determined plan, the Ministry of Household Affairs has successively allocated food and shipped armaments to the frontier theater.A large number of resources are already moving closer to northern Xinjiang to ensure that all preliminary preparations are fully implemented before the war starts.

In war, a very important point is logistics. If logistics cannot keep up, it is likely to lead to the failure of the war.And with the operation of the household department, the entire Dajing is turning at full speed for this war, making final preparations.

They even prepared special tea powder for the soldiers, which was ground with dried orange peels and tea leaves, added with other grain powders and packed into small packets.When eating, you only need to add hot water to make a paste, which is similar to Leicha in the south. It can dispel cold and heat, clear fire and detoxify, and it can refresh the mind and supplement the vitamins that dry food lacks, preventing soldiers from night blindness and scurvy.It can be seen that the household department is fully prepared.

Now that the Ministry of Households has taken action, the Ministry of War has followed suit. All kinds of official documents were sent to various places by the knights, and the troops participating in the war have begun to assemble.Afterwards, even the nobles received orders from the Ministry of War...

The system that has been handed down from the founding period of the Jing Dynasty to the present, all noble families, people with titles or people who plan to attack the nobility, as long as they are over 16 years old and under 60 years old, must prepare weapons and food by themselves when the country launches a war Join the army.

Of course, it's not mandatory to go...but if you don't want to go, you will lose your title immediately, and you will not be an official within three generations.Of course, because the Jing Dynasty's first military merits were the most important, the heirs who did not have the merit of beheading were not allowed to inherit the title at all.Even if these pampered nobles wanted to object, it would be useless, because this system was not stipulated by Situ Sheng, but a mandatory order issued by Emperor Gao.With Emperor Gao's temper, this system was directly included in the Dajing regulations, and the descendants must not make mistakes in inheriting it, and no one is allowed to say no!

Honorables with clear official positions can get the "amnesty order" issued by the emperor in the name of handling government affairs, so they can not go to the battlefield to participate in the war, but those who have no official position and only a title are sorry. Whether they want to or not, they must go to the war No.

At the beginning of the San Francisco Rebellion, even Jiang Yan, the civil official of Dali Temple, honestly went to guard the city gate, and even Jiang Ning, a frail scholar, went up to the city wall and cut off the heads of bandit soldiers. Today's relatives are not special, so what reason do others not go to war?Do you really want to be reduced to a commoner?

Since the big Jiangnan case, the life of the nobles has become worse day by day.Although they still have some shops in their hands as support, most of the fields in their hands have been confiscated by the government, so how can they live a comfortable life?

Losing land is not as simple as losing the income of land rent. Without tenants, they will have no power. Without power, how can they coerce local officials to attach themselves?Without the filial piety and attachment of the officials, everything goes wrong everywhere, and the problems that could be solved with a letter of worship in the past are now directly classified as illegal.Such things as taking up lawsuits will directly beheaded. Doesn't this immediately cut off the way for these nobles to get money?How can the rent of such a small shop be enough for these dandies?

But no matter how much money is not enough, there is no honorable family who dares to stand up and provoke His Majesty the Emperor.

The beheading of thousands of people in the Jiangnan case has fully demonstrated the iron blood and courage of the new emperor Situ Sheng. At this time, whoever is sent up will die a miserable death. Everyone has not lived enough. Go to Yama Hall.Therefore, the nobles can only comfort themselves. Anyway, the aristocratic family is as miserable as they are, so there is no imbalance...

But now something unbalanced has appeared, the nobles suddenly found that the noble families did not need to go to the battlefield, and they were directly tied to the chariot by His Majesty the Emperor... It is so unbalanced in the heart, they are all suppressed forces, Why can the aristocratic family not go to the battlefield? !

The Northern Expedition was imminent, and all the nobles who received the transfer order from the Ministry of War were frowning.Although Emperor Gao left an order to participate in the war at the beginning of the founding of the country, but for decades, the battles that required the nobles to participate in the war were nothing more than the battles during the San Francisco rebellion. Just go up to the city tower to wave the flag and shout, and it's over.But this time it was different. This was the Northern Expedition, and it was to fight against the northern barbarians. How could these masters and young masters be the opponents of the northern barbarians?

The aristocratic family twitched their lips, not knowing their blessings... We fought for military exploits on the battlefield, and we haven't had a chance to gain military power...

In Jia's mansion, both Jia Amnesty and Jia Lian received orders from the Ministry of War. One of them is a person who has received a title, and the other is a person who will inherit a title in the future. Neither of them can escape, and both have to participate in this battle.

Mrs. Wang of the second room was still having fun there, thinking in her heart that if the two men from the big room died on the battlefield, wouldn't it be Baoyu's turn to attack the noble?But after thinking about it, the person who attacked the noble would go to the battlefield, and only if he had the ability to behead, wouldn't that mean that her heart and treasures would go to the battlefield?Thinking of this, she immediately shrank back in fright.

Not to mention whether Xijue can be their second wife's turn, and when the eldest son and grandson are both alive, they directly put Xijue's thoughts on the second son. Mrs. Wang is too whimsical...

After all, Jia Zheng is a bit more knowledgeable than her. After becoming a ninth-rank official in the past few years, and without the Duke's government covering him, he finally cultivated some winks, and he is no longer arrogant and self-righteous.

He knew very well that if both Jia She and Jia Lian died on the battlefield of the Northern Expedition, then the orthodox line of the Jia family would have no heirs.According to the consistent style of His Majesty the Emperor Situ Sheng these years, how could Baoyu come to attack the noble with a good deal and a good amount?The Jia family will inevitably end up being expelled from the noble family, and their family will lose their last support at that time.

Even if Jia Zheng finds his eldest brother distasteful, he absolutely does not want him and Jia Lian to die on the battlefield, otherwise, wouldn't he only be left with the title of a ninth-rank official?Even Xungui can't be counted directly, and it is even worse than the royal merchant Xue's family.

As for the East Mansion, Jia Zhen and Jia Rong also received the same transfer order. These two people are not as good as Jia She. At any rate, Jia She has been on the battlefield with his father, so Jia Zhen only has the ability to eat, drink and have fun. up.Moreover, the people from the East Mansion had already drifted away from their Rongguo Mansion. Instead of counting on the father and son, it would be better to count on Jia She to survive and continue to protect the family.

Grandpa Jia wept bitterly, but he honestly put together his weapons and armor for the battlefield.It was clearly written in the transfer order that these nobles were required to prepare their own weapons, horses, dry food and other items. The armaments mobilized by the household department were only responsible for distribution to the soldiers of the regular army, not their nobles.

There was no other way, Master Jia hurriedly ordered someone to open the warehouse, and threw the armor and weapons that had been unused for many years out.

At the beginning, he got some "decapitation achievements" on the battlefield, but that was the credit that his father Jia Daishanbai sent to him.More than a dozen enemy soldiers were bound into zongzi by ropes and iron chains and thrown on the ground for him to slaughter. One knife at a time was easier than killing chickens.He had been on the battlefield, but he was just dangling in his father's tent in the Chinese army. How could he have really participated in the battle...

Jia Lian was even worse. His father had followed his grandfather to the battlefield, and he was also forced to go to the tower during the San Francisco rebellion. Anyway, he was someone who had seen bandit soldiers.But what about him?

He was only 13 years old when the San Francisco rioted, and he didn't even have a place in the city tower.Now let him go to the battlefield all of a sudden, there is no room for excessive, he is about to faint from fright, okay...

He has grown so big, he has never even held a weapon, and he doesn't even know how to stand on a horse. Useless Jiaoliang children who are waiting to die.Not to mention beheading and killing people, he didn't even dare to watch the killing scene, he hadn't even seen the dead, his legs were weak just thinking about it, how could he go to the Northern Expedition?

Two playboys of different ages slowly turned the two sets of ancestral armor weapons out of the corner.I saw that the two pieces of fish-scale treasure armor placed in the deep part of the warehouse had already been covered with dust, and there were many cobwebs with moths stuck on them, and the wreath on the iron helmet had been rotten to pieces. There were several holes in the leather boots.It looked like a treasure armor handed down from generation to generation, but it looked like a piece of tatters just dug out of the soil.

For the two supporting swords, the crocodile-skin scabbard has long since lost its luster, and the blades inside are covered with rust for some reason, and the rust of the hand will be stained with the slightest touch. There were bite marks everywhere from being gnawed by mice from nowhere, even a piece of trash like Jia Lian could easily break it.This weapon is not as good as a tattered armor, let alone hold it and use it, just by looking at it, you know it is no longer good.

Seeing that the servant who moved the armor was exhausted, panting after taking two steps, Jia Lian secretly asked Jia She, "Master, how heavy is this armor?"

"Probably more than half a stone..." Jia Amnesty was not too sure, and he hadn't worn it, so how could he remember the weight?Anyway, this armor will only be heavier than what he said, never lighter.

Mostly stone? !

Hearing this amount, Jia Lian's legs were so frightened that his legs went limp. Not to mention riding a horse and brandishing a weapon, he probably wouldn't be able to move just wearing this armor. What kind of battle is he fighting like this?It doesn't take the enemy to kill him, a pair of armor can crush him...

If it was possible, Mr. Jia would not want to wear such a heavy armor!But if they don't wear armor, facing the northern barbarians who are good at riding and shooting, they will be turned into a sieve by the enemy as soon as they appear on the battlefield.Although I don't know how effective this fish scale armor is, it is still very effective in guarding against bows and arrows. At least wearing it can save your life. Don't think about comfort at this time. Life is the most important thing...

Together with the armor, long lance, and sword, the full armor is probably worth a stone. This is the result of Jia's father and son's insistence on not counting the bow and arrow, otherwise the bow and arrow would be even heavier.Although weapons and the like can be hung on the horse's back and let the horse help share the weight, but the armor has to be worn by oneself, and the horse can't do it for it.A sturdy iron helmet alone weighed more than ten catties, which almost didn't crush Jia Lian to the ground.

Since the weapons are completely useless, their father and son have to buy them again.Not only that, but you have to spend money to buy horses to ride on the battlefield, you can't ride a rook on the battlefield.

Others live in tents and have to prepare food well. Not to mention that the household department refuses to distribute grain and grass to them, even if they do, they will not be able to eat such poor grain.

The Jia family has to urgently recruit manpower and train some personal soldiers, otherwise, with the skills of the two of them, they will not die there immediately when they go to the battlefield?As for the servants of their family?Can those guys still protect their father and son on the battlefield?It would be good not to leave them among the enemies and escape by themselves.This group of slaves who are more masters than their masters can't be manipulated at all...

The recruitment of soldiers is not just about renting a living person. You have to prepare horses, armor, weapons, food and tents for others.unwilling?That's right, the Ministry of Finance uses this trick - to eliminate the nobles!

Others can make do with it, but buying horses will not save money.If the horse is not good, when you want to escape and find that the horse can't run, it will be fatal.Even if they don't escape, ordinary horses may not be able to carry fish scale armor, so they must buy better horses.

The price of war horses was so expensive that Jia Amnesty didn't even want to buy horses for his soldiers, but if his soldiers couldn't keep up with the speed of the march, he would definitely have to be accused by the Ministry of War of delaying the opportunity of the war, so he could only do it once. He gritted his teeth and bought horses for the soldiers.

All sorts of tens of thousands of taels of silver were thrown out, without even seeing a float, but sank to the bottom with a "boom".The West Mansion is getting busy, and the East Mansion is not much better.

When Jia Zhen heard that she was about to go to the battlefield, she immediately fainted from fright. A group of servants managed to pinch him to wake him up, but the old man just stood there blankly, and it took him a long time to recover. Come on.

He was still thinking about whether he could bribe his way to escape the catastrophe on the battlefield, but he was told by the Ministry of War that there was no amnesty for anyone.Just kidding, His Majesty the Emperor is about to go to the battlefield himself, who can be more honorable than His Majesty the Emperor?

Upon hearing the news, Jia Zhen immediately relented, and took Jia Rong to sort out the things to be used on the battlefield.While tidying up, he scolded his father in his heart. If it hadn’t been for him, Jia Jing, who slapped his ass and threw the title to himself so early on, maybe he would have found an excuse not to go to the battlefield. There is no need to be so trembling like now , frightened, sleep can dream of being hacked to death by bandit soldiers...

Except for the few who ransacked the family and exterminated the family, the rest of the family of the four kings and eight lords in Beijing received orders from the Ministry of War. Not spared.

King Xining himself happened to be over 60 years old, so he barely escaped, but his son couldn't escape, so he had to go to the battlefield honestly.As for Beijing Wang Shui Rong, he couldn't run away anymore. He was in the prime of his life, no matter how much he liked poetry and songs, and put on the posture of a literati, he had to pack up and wait to go to the battlefield.

Among the four major families, the Shi family has collapsed, and the Xue family is a merchant, not considered a distinguished family, only the Wang family is left.

Although Wang Ziteng was implicated in the beheading of the white duck and had his head chopped off, the head of the family, Wang Zisheng, was still alive.He was the eldest son of Xijue, so naturally he and his son Wang Ren couldn't run away, and both had to go to the Northern Expedition to join the war.

This Wang Ren is a playboy, he is a bit reluctant to spend money by himself, so he is not willing to spend money for the recruited soldiers.This guy just slapped his head, and went straight to Xue's house to play Qiufeng when he went out.

As soon as he entered the door, Wang Ren didn't even have time to swallow his tea, and Wang Ren directly expressed his intention of asking for money without even gossiping.At the beginning, Aunt Xue didn't intend to give it to her, but when Wang Ren made a fuss, she had no choice but to order the servant to take a few hundred taels and give it to her nephew.But Wang Ren looked disgusted, and directly overturned the tray containing the silver to the ground.

"What? Do your Xue family think our Wang family is a beggar? How dare you take out such a small amount of money?"

Wang Ren's voice was so loud that even Xue Baochai, who was embroidering flowers in the backyard, could hear, "I tell you, if it weren't for the protection of our royal family, your Xue family would have been ransacked by the emperor long ago! If it wasn't for that damned mourning sect of yours!" Xing Xuepan, how could my second uncle, Wang Ziteng, die? Now that you are asked to pay for some money, you will push back and find all kinds of excuses... to pay back my second uncle's life!"