"Haha, the old man is still charming and his body is still so strong!"
In the main hall of Mrs. Du's house, the old man and Jia Hui were sitting in the upright seats.
The old man's children passed away one after another, and now only some grandchildren in their fifties are left to take care of him.
It’s not that the old lady’s children have short lifespans, it’s that the old lady is too lively.
You must know that the old man's eldest son, third son and three daughters are all over seventy and have received dove sticks given by the emperor.
"Haha, it's a bit useless. This old man's left leg is already a little bit useless." Mr. Du smiled and patted his left leg. He said it was useless but there was no trace of it. Pity.
"Ah, is this okay? But have you seen the doctor? What does the doctor have to say?" Jia Hui was a little worried.
"I've seen it, I've seen it. Originally I didn't want to see it, but our housekeeper Wei took the doctor to the house and showed it to me." The old man was complaining, but the happiness on his face could not be concealed. Can't live.
"Oh, what did the doctor say?" Jia Hui asked curiously.
"What else can I do? It's just that I'm old and my bones are starting to feel bad." The old man said nonchalantly.
"This" Jia Hui fell silent for a moment.
"There is no need to feel sorry, Taiwei. This old man has wasted one hundred and fifteen years in his life. If you think about it carefully, he has achieved nothing except the fame of a child. He lost his mother when he was a child, lost his father and brother when he was young, and did not support his eldest sister when he was young. In middle age, The old wife also took the first step, and even the old heirs also left one by one when the old man was a hundred years old." The smile on the old man's face slowly lost, and he felt a little depressed.
"The relatives and friends around me have passed away one after another. Only the old man is left in this world, shamelessly accepting the worship of the family. He has long been tired of living."
"You can't say that. Old Master, if you live one more day, it will be a blessing for us juniors," Jia Hui retorted quickly.
"Haha, the Taiwei defeated Heshuote and avenged the old man's father and brother. Since then, the old man has no regrets. He really has no attachment to the world." The old man's eyes were blurred.
When he is old enough, he can't eat anything he wants because he can't restrain himself; he can't play anything he wants because his body and bones are not strong. There are no familiar friends around me, so I can only stay at home alone, recalling the scenes of my youth, which is so boring that I have no interest in life.
This feeling of wanting to die but not being able to die is really too bad!
"Aww!"
Suddenly there was an unconscious cry from a baby in the distance, and the two silent people looked to the side at the same time.
Well, the little Yanei in Li Wan's arms was waiting to look at the old grandfather with white hair and beard beside his old father with his big watery eyes.
"Oh, this is the eldest young master of our house! The old man is so dim-sighted that he never saw him. Lieutenant, I wonder if I can give him a hug." The old man looked at Jia Hui expectantly.
"No problem, there must be no problem. The old lady is willing to hold the dog, that is really the dog's blessing! Come on, madam, please pass it to me." Jia Hui stood up quickly, strode to Li Wan, took over the little Yanei, and took a few steps Returned to the old man.
"Oh, what a handsome baby, you are worthy of being the heir of the Taiwei." Taking the little Ya Nei from Jia Hui's hand, the old man looked at the baby lying in his arms with a kind face.
Xiao Yanei neither cried nor made a fuss, nor did he accept life. He just stared curiously at the old man with a long beard and a white beard in front of him with his big black and bright eyes. He ate his hands and said nothing.
The fair and well-behaved little Zai Zai will always be the heart of the elders no matter where he is. Mr. Du stretched out his fingers that had become like dead wood due to aging, and stretched them towards the small Yamen tremblingly, and tapped them gently. Click on Xiaoyanei’s little face.
"Ugh!" Feeling the rough feeling on his face, Xiaoyanei frowned, stretched out his extremely soft little hand, grabbed Mrs. Du's finger and pulled it into his mouth desperately!
"Hey, hey, it's dirty! Don't bite!" The old man quickly pulled his finger back to prevent Xiaoya Nei from holding it, but Xiaoya Nei grabbed the old man's finger very hard and refused to let go. Even as the old man pulled his hand, Xiaoyanei's body also slowly lifted up.
"Oh, our eldest young master is so energetic!" The old man looked delighted.
It’s good to have strength. If you have strength, your body will be good. If you are in good health, you can practice martial arts. Once you practice martial arts, you can become a military general and inherit the title of Taiwei. Let the good family of the Jia family continue to be passed down.
Mrs. Guo Gongtai is a good and approachable person, and the Marquis seems to be very filial. The maids and servants in Jia's Mansion in Chang'an are also very friendly, compared to other maids and servants in Jia's Mansion in Sijing. Friendly?
This kind of family deserves to live forever!
. . . . . .
No matter how strong the old man is, he is already an old man of 115 years old. His physical strength is not as good as before. After talking to Jia Hui for a while, he became a little tired. Jia Hui and his party also drank a cup of tea and left.
Jia Hui did not go home with Li Wan and others. He still had a lot of work to do!
Chang'an is different from Luoyang and the other three capitals.
Unlike Luoyang and Peking, which were rebuilt after the founding of the Qi Dynasty, all official offices were concentrated in the imperial city. Chang'an was located due to historical reasons, such as relatives and powerful ministers. Some of the official offices of Chang'an City are not concentrated in the imperial city, but are distributed throughout Chang'an.
For example, the ancient Taiwei Mansion.
The previous dynasty clearly had the official position of Taiwei Mansion. Although the reputation and power were not as good as those of the Qin and Han Dynasties, in the previous dynasty, the Taiwei was still the highest permanent military attache in the country, and he nominally commanded the national army!
But this is also a thing of the past. Even Da Qi has been founded for more than a hundred years. After ups and downs, this once glorious mansion that represented the highest glory of military commanders has become old and dilapidated. Some of the houses have even collapsed. .
Fortunately, these houses were all secondary buildings in the back house and the front yard. The festival hall of the Taiwei Mansion and some surrounding buildings were inspected by craftsmen and concluded that they were still usable, so Jia Hui approved a sum of money for the Governor's Mansion of the Fifth Army. The military expenditures were used to roughly repair the festival hall and some officials' rooms.
At least we can survive this year!
Festival Hall.
"Ah~" Jia Hui yawned, wrote a few words on the document and handed it to the clerk next to him for sealing.
Yun Yu's troops have already entered Shu with the captured Toungoo royal family. It will probably be about a month before they can enter Guanzhong.
In this battle against Taungoo, Yun Yu fought brilliantly. You must know that this group of Ziman people can be called the tyrants of Indochina. Their combat effectiveness is one of the best in Indochina. Only the Annan people in the east can fight with them. There is no difference between beating a son like Siamese and others in front of the Burmese!
That is to say, there is a hopelessly powerful Daqi in the north, who once beat him violently. Otherwise, Taungyu would have marched eastward to unify the Indochina Peninsula!
It is a pity that a unified Indochina Peninsula is not in the interest of Daqi. No matter how wise and ambitious the kings of Annan and Toungoo are, they can only act honestly under the supreme military power of Daqi.
But be honest, the Burmese have a fighting prowess here, plus they are good at jungle warfare and fighting at home, it can be said that they will be defeated by them if they are not careful.
Originally, Jia Hui's expectation for this war was that it would take at least two to three years to complete, and the fighting would definitely be very dangerous. But who could have imagined that King Toungoo personally went to fight the war?
It was precisely because of King Toungu's personal expedition that Yun Yu seized the opportunity to raid the Lashio City occupied by Toungu, capture King Toungu and many important officials of the Toungu court alive, and successfully paralyze their command system. With this ability, Yu successfully penetrated Toungoo in just half a year and also successfully captured the royal family of Toungoo.
"The Second Saint, are you ready to reward the soldiers in the southwest?" Putting down Yun Yu's diary, Jia Hui turned to look at the clerk beside him.
"Grand Governor, I haven't received any news from the palace yet." The clerk replied respectfully.
"I know, I'll go to the Supervisor of Ceremonies every hour and ask."
Although military generals with titles and other titles have to come to Chang'an to receive rewards, those mid-level and junior officers have to be stationed in the southwest. Their rewards must be determined as early as possible and then issued by the Fifth Army Governor's Office. .
Originally, these rewards should have been decided a few days ago when the team was in Tongguan, but it was a pity that the Second Saint went crazy and forgot about it.
Let the emperor decide this matter. He has already tempered it. There is no need for me to keep an eye on him all the time. Just one last look is enough. I just need to accompany Zitong on a tour of the mountains and rivers!
With my father here, is it my turn to do this? I'd better bother my old father one more time. I haven't left the palace for many years, but I have neglected the whole family. Let me take them to deepen their relationship!
Then forget about it!
Jia Hui, who still couldn't wait for the emperor to decide on the reward, could only take the initiative to ask. It happened that the emperor also remembered that the emperor in the southwest had not shown him the reward, so they came to the emperor's residence together.
Then I met the emperor’s family who were covered in mud and smiling like fools while climbing a mountain.
Except for the second prince, because his princess was going to give birth again in the past few days, the second saint was left in Luoyang.
Then the emperor was scolded bloody by the emperor, and the emperor could only admit that he was unlucky and endure it obediently.
Seeing the emperor looking at her more and more unkindly, Jia Hui, who felt that something was wrong, had already quietly run away under the cover of Chen Si!
When the emperor had enough scolding and left, the emperor who couldn't find Jia Hui had no choice but to kick the seventh prince, who had a silly look on his face, to divert his anger.
But no matter what, the things that need to be done still need to be done. The errands that could have been completed during the period from the time when Tongguan was stationed in Chang'an to Chang'an were forcefully delayed by the emperor for four or five days in Chang'an, and the emperor kept asking. Call back and change
Jia Hui sympathized with the emperor's hard work, but more than 100,000 victorious troops in the southwest were crying for food. As the nominal leader of the Qi military, Jia Hui had the responsibility to pay them!
"Here!" the clerk responded quickly.
"Yes." Jia Hui nodded, handed a pile of documents related to Jizhen's defense change to the clerk, and sent him out.
"Has Oda Nobunaga left?" Jia Hui suddenly asked as he picked up the tea cup.
"Back to the Governor, the Japanese deputy envoy Taira Nobunaga and the deputy envoy Akechi Mitsuhide have left, and now only the envoy Fujiwara Yukira is left to accompany them." The clerk beside him quickly put down his pen and said to Jia Hui.
"Got it." Jia Hui nodded and took a sip of tea.
After a small meeting between the six ministers, the cabinet, the prince, and the emperor, everyone unanimously decided that it would be better to support the Ashikaga clan.
No matter how you say it, the Ashikaga clan was supported by Daqi. He was a loyal dog of Daqi and made an indelible contribution to the imperial court's suppression of the four islands.
We can't just replace them with the Oda clan and then kick them away and ignore them just because they are useless, otherwise.
Otherwise, who will be Da Qi’s dog in the future?
And this is also unethical.
Life or death continues!
It can be regarded as the minimum security system that Daqi provides to the surrounding vassals and puppets. As long as the rebels don't rush in front of you and chop you with a knife, Daqi will let you live as long as you can escape.
If you perform well, the Daqi Heavenly Soldiers will help you restore your country and continue to dominate and act like a dog to Daqi.
The last time I can take you to Daqi is to give you a Zhuangzi to worship in the ancestral temple, so that your incense will not be cut off.
At present, it seems that the Ashikaga clan is still respectful to Daqi and ensures to the greatest extent that the gold and silver provided by the Japanese country can be transported to Daqi in full.
What has led to the current situation is that the Ashikaga clan is too weak and can no longer hold their own.
He was originally appointed as the general to conquer the barbarians by Daqi because he rebelled midway. His innate prestige was not enough, and he was even hostile to most of the forces!
With such a birdlike appearance, he also set up another Furukawa office in Kanto and cut off his own aorta.
Although in the eyes of the monarchs and ministers of Daqi, this was the Ashikaga clan showing their loyalty and showing that they would never dominate the four islands, but
But don’t you know what your own strength is?
After drinking all the tea in the cup, Jia Hui let out a long sigh.
You don’t need Daqi to save you!
"Have all the old weapons from the border armies and major battalions been sent to Linzi?" Jia Hui suddenly remembered something.
Since the Ashikaga clan is now too cowardly, and the surrounding families such as the Miyoshi family have been repeatedly defeated by Oda, it is only a matter of time before they are annexed, so directly strengthening the Ashikaga clan is the best answer to solve the problem.
It doesn't matter whether Ashikaga personally recruits troops after receiving these aids or whether he gives them to Uesugi, Takeda and others to join forces to kill Oda. It doesn't matter if the aid is based on the idea that the more chaos Japan has, the better.
Just keep fighting for a long time. This place must be in chaos. Otherwise, once there is peace, you will start to think about what is there and what is not.
"Back to the Commander-in-Chief, news came this morning. Except for the old weapons and equipment in Gansu and Ningxia towns that have not been delivered, the rest of the weapons and equipment you ordered have arrived in Linzi, and repairs have begun." The petty official said in front of Jia Hui. He turned over the documents sent to him this morning and handed the documents from Linzi Military Bureau to Jia Hui.
"That's good, that's good." Jia Hui nodded over and over while looking at the paperwork.
The message from Dad Daqi has arrived, and in the name of the Daqi court, you are officially enthroned as Ashikaga Yoshiaki, the right minister, General Zhengyi, the elder of the Minamoto family, and the pillar of the Wu family!
The title of Daiyi and the armaments and weapons were all delivered to Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, if you had these, you would still be overthrown by Oda Nobunaga.
Will we still survive?
dream!
(End of chapter)
