Early the next morning, it was made public that King Qin, Mrs. Sui and several ministers had been kidnapped.
The entire government was in an uproar, and no matter whether it was the first or second-rank ministers or the last sixth or seventh-rank courtiers, they could not help but express their opinions.
Zhao Sanniu had been waiting at the gate of the imperial city. When he saw Zhao Sidan and Cheng Zhaoshen coming out together, he immediately went to greet him: "Is there any result?"
Zhao Sidan shook his head: "The emperor means that we must send troops, but we can only gather 120,000 troops at most, which is no match for Xirong's 200,000 cavalry."
Cheng Zhao pursed his lips and said, "I just had a chat with Taifu Lin, and Taifu Lin quietly revealed that the emperor wrote an urgent and secret letter of 800 miles to be sent to Ji Province last night. I guess it was to ask the prince's teacher to return to the court. , some of the 100,000 troops in the prince's hands were lost on the battlefield of Laji Kingdom, and there are still 80,000 troops left, which can exactly assemble 200,000 troops to fight against Xirong Kingdom."
"Xirong has 200,000 cavalry, who are brave and good at fighting. Daeyu also has 200,000. I'm afraid..." Zhao Sanniu smiled bitterly, "and the 80,000 soldiers in the prince's hands have just experienced a war, and they can't keep up in all aspects..."
He used to think that he could rescue his mother just by sending troops.
But over the past few days, he had thought a lot. If he had to sacrifice tens of thousands of soldiers to save his mother, she would definitely not agree.
Their mother would always put her own safety last, and the country and the people first... She would probably rather die than have 200,000 soldiers fight a war that is destined to fail.
But he is a selfish person. As long as his mother can come back, no matter how painful the price is, he seems to be able to accept it...
Naturally, what happened in the court spread to the people. People in the capital gathered in groups to discuss the matter on the streets. They were all filled with righteous indignation and cursed Xirong.
As they walked on the streets, they heard many people's heartfelt words.
"Mrs. Sui has solved the problem of food and clothing for our country, Dayu. If she is caught, we must send troops to rescue her. Do we still need to discuss this matter?"
"That's what I said, but the prince has just led a hundred thousand soldiers to attack the Laji Kingdom. How can he find the men to go to Western Xinjiang?"
"You have to do it even if you can't spare the manpower. Should we let Mrs. Sui die in Xirong Kingdom?"
"Don't worry, King Qin has also been arrested. This is the emperor's younger brother. The court will definitely send someone to rescue him."
"Fortunately, King Qin and Mrs. Sui were arrested together, otherwise Mrs. Sui would definitely be abandoned by the court."
"Hey, Mrs. Sui's foundation is still too shallow, otherwise the court would not be able to negotiate a result for so long."
"..."
Hearing these remarks, Shen Zheng, who has always been optimistic, sighed: "Fortunately, my father was arrested together with King Qin's godmother, otherwise no one would care about my father, a fifth-grade official, missing."
"I believe that the imperial court will definitely send people to rescue." Zhao Sidan clenched his fists, "We need to think carefully, how can we ensure that we will win this battle?"
Several people looked at Zhao Sanniu one after another.
Because only Zhao Sanniu is a military general, he knows better in this regard.
He said: "First of all, food and grass must be sufficient, secondly, the disparity in military strength should not be too great, and then weapons and other aspects must also keep up..."
The Xirong Kingdom raised a large number of cattle and horses, so all their soldiers rode horses and became powerful cavalry soldiers that were feared by surrounding countries.
Daewoo does not have so many horses, so it will never be able to catch up in this regard.
but--
Zhao Sanniu took out a round smelly thing from his pocket: "This is a soil bomb that my mother was bored to study. If you bite off the fuse, you can blow up a large area. This thing is better than any other weapon." , if we can make a batch in large quantities, why worry about not being able to defeat Xirong?"
Cheng Zhao took the thing and smelled it: "It smells like fireworks."
"It's just fireworks." Zhao Sidan's eyes widened, "I remember when the second brother got married, the third brother was responsible for setting off firecrackers. A firecracker jumped into the third brother's clothes, and the clothes were blown to pieces. Increase the fireworks and firecrackers. If the amount is high, it will definitely kill people. Mom has thought of this a long time ago, why are we all so stupid!"
Shen Zheng said immediately: "I have a classmate who sells fireworks at his house. I'm going to ask if I can buy a large quantity."
Cheng Zhao thought for a while and said: "Don't make it public until you have researched it. This matter is dangerous to a certain extent and cannot be operated in the city. Please stay at my house for the next few days."
His home is in De'an Lane on the outskirts of Beijing. It is relatively quiet there, and there is a low hill just outside the alley. You can go into the mountain to test the finished product.
As soon as the group arrived at the door of Cheng's house, Mrs. Cheng came out when she heard the commotion: "Zhao'er, I heard that something happened to your second aunt, and people on the street were talking about what was going on... Hey, there are three cows and four. Egg is here too, but you two never enter the door of my Cheng family, but today the sun is coming out in the west."
"Stop talking sarcastically." Old Mrs. Cheng glared at her, turned around and said, "You are a fool, was your mother really captured by the Xirong Kingdom?"
Zhao Sidan nodded: "The imperial court is thinking of ways to save people."
"I just said that Zhao'er's second aunt is too popular and always likes to be in the limelight. Isn't that what happened?" Mrs. Cheng curled her lips, "If his second aunt defected to Xirong, wouldn't she be a traitor to our Dayu Kingdom? , will it affect Zhaoer’s promotion..."
"Mother!" Cheng Zhao's gentle face suddenly turned cold. "Since mother is so worried about hurting herself, my son will arrange a carriage to take mother back to Chengjia Village now. This way, no matter what happens to the second aunt, you won't be hurt."
Sister-in-law Cheng panicked immediately.
She didn't think her son was joking.
Because when Boss Cheng caused trouble, Zhao'er sent him away directly. In the past few years, Boss Cheng wrote many times to admit his mistake and wanted to come to the capital, but Zhao'er rejected him.
No matter how beautiful Chengjia Village was, life would definitely not be as easy as in the capital. She would not go back and stare at Mr. Cheng every day.
"I'm just talking nonsense, look at my bad mouth!" Sister-in-law Cheng lightly slapped her mouth twice, "Three cows, four eggs, you know that my aunt has no good mouth, she just talks like this, you guys Don't take it seriously, you two."
Zhao Sanniu and Zhao Sidan were scolded by her many times when they were young. Now that her attitude is considered very good, they naturally don't take it to heart.
And at this time, they didn't bother to worry too much about Mrs. Cheng.
"Grandma, I bought a yard in the city a while ago. Xiaoman has sent people to clean it up." Cheng Zhao raised his head and looked in the direction of Mrs. Cheng, "You all can move there first this afternoon."
Originally, I planned to wait for the second aunt to come back before organizing the housewarming ceremony, but now I can't care about so much.
They need to study soil bombs in this yard. This matter cannot be made public for the time being, and his mother's mouth is loose. If word gets out, it will be made a big fuss about.
Sister-in-law Cheng wanted to say something else, but she was stopped by Mrs. Cheng: "Don't cause trouble at this time. Go and tidy up quickly and leave in an hour!"
That afternoon, the entire Cheng family moved out, including all the servants and maids in the yard.
And Shen Zheng also bought a large number of fireworks.
Among the four of them, no one knew anything about this, so they spent a lot of money to buy a man from the fireworks workshop. He was a domestic slave who signed a contract of sale, and asked this domestic slave to study with them...
