The night is getting darker.
Inside the temporary camp more than fifty miles northeast of Minghu Mountain.
Jordan stood by the bonfire in the Chinese army's tent and listened quietly to Lu Zhongyi's spiel in front of him.
After he blurted out the first two steps of his plan.
Standing by the campfire, Jordan's face turned red unknowingly.
If Lu Zhongyi’s first step plan is a commonplace statement.
Then the second step of his plan is tantamount to an earth-shattering plan for governing the country.
This move can greatly divert many conflicts within the Xiongnu.
Secondly, it can capture a lot of reputation and prestige for Jordan.
Don’t underestimate this invisible and intangible reputation and prestige.
Sometimes this invisible and intangible thing can be as effective as thousands of troops.
With such a plan that kills two birds with one stone, how can Jordan remain calm?
Inside the Chinese army's tent.
Jordan forced himself to calm down, and once again bowed his hands in the Central Plains manner and said, "May I ask what the third plan sir is talking about?"
Lawrence Lu paused slightly when he heard the words, and then slowly revealed the third step of the plan.
In short, his so-called third step plan is to unite with King Yougu Li and launch multiple attacks on the existing Zhou soldiers while the reinforcements of the Zhou Dynasty have not yet fully arrived.
Of course, this attack was led by King Youguli, and King Zuoguli was the assistant.
This strategy seems to make Jordan bow his head and do "little".
However, in fact, the casualties of King Youguli's troops helped Jordan gain great fame and prestige in advance.
If this three-step plan can be fully implemented.
So no matter where the war between the Xiongnu and the Great Zhou ends up.
Jordan will become the biggest winner in this battle.
Inside the Chinese army's tent.
Lawrence Lu just finished speaking.
Jordan's face turned red and he held Lu Zhongyi's hands.
"To me, sir, you are no different than ten thousand cavalry commanders!"
"When the war subsides, I will find a prince for you!"
Jordan shook it vigorously several times, and then spoke with excitement on his face.
When Lu Zhongyi heard this, he felt a strong sense of ecstasy in his heart.
Jordan uses the metaphor of ten thousand knight commanders, which shows how high his status is in Jordan's heart at this moment.
It should be noted that ten thousand cavalry commanders means at least one hundred thousand troops.
To use this analogy, it is really not too high.
"General, thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty."
Lu Zhongyi forced himself to calm down, and then bowed respectfully with the Huns' surrender ceremony again.
Jordan nodded imperceptibly, a smile appearing on his face full of excitement.
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A few days later.
A huge dragon consisting of five thousand infantry, three thousand cavalry, and nearly ten thousand civilians and auxiliary soldiers slowly arrived at the foot of Minghu Mountain.
Li Guangli and a group of generals went to the foot of the mountain to welcome him personally.
As soon as he received Li Ling, the general who conquered the north, he had not had time to exchange too many greetings.
Suddenly, thousands of fine knights came slowly from a distance.
A flag with the word "Lin" in it made a clanging sound in mid-air under the guard of thousands of fine cavalry.
So far.
Li Ling, the general ordered by the imperial court to conquer the north, and Lin Heyun, the first general under King Zhao, successfully merged with Li Guangli's troops.
After nightfall.
The generals of all armies gathered in the central army tent in Minghu Mountain.
Let’s discuss counterattack strategies.
at the same time.
To the southeast of Minghu Mountain is the Xiongnu temporary camp, more than fifty miles away.
A grand bonfire dinner drove away the desolation after the defeat a few days ago.
As for the protagonist of tonight's bonfire dinner, there is another person besides Zuo Guli Wang Jordan.
That person was clearly one of the two Ten Thousand Cavalry Commanders under the command of King Mulianha of Youguli.
Tiffany Bear!
And it was just the advance army sent by King Yougu Li this time.
In recent days, as Jordan has almost revealed his shortcomings, the defeat of Minghu Mountain has been made public.
Shocking waves arose instantly within the Xiongnu.
At the same time, a large number of elite reinforcements from the Great Zhou Dynasty were reinforced in Mobei, and the news that they wanted to destroy the country in one fell swoop was quickly spread privately by people sent by Jordan.
The news spread quickly to nearly half of the tribes in Mobei.
As time goes by, it won't take long to spread throughout the Xiongnu land.
And every time the news passes through someone's mouth, the fear will grow invisibly.
As reinforcements from both sides continued to arrive.
A "national war" with a larger scale and far-reaching influence has already begun invisibly.
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Time flies by.
The end of October.
In the south of Juyang City, in Qingfeng Courtyard, the ancestral residence of the Zhu family.
It's past half time.
The sun is just right and I am neither arrogant nor impetuous.
The breeze is also good, blowing slowly.
Zhu Wanning, the legitimate daughter of the Zhu family, sat elegantly in the pavilion in the courtyard.
The heart-warming sunshine shone around her body, unknowingly turning Zhu Wanning's white and jade-like cheeks red.
A beautiful woman wearing a brocade silk skirt sat in front of Zhu Wanning.
With a look of envy on his face, he looked at the red elixir book in his hand and slowly recited: "Two surnames are getting married and a contract is made together."
"A good match will last forever, a match with the same name."
"Look at the peach blossoms blooming today, it's a good place to live in an IKEA home."
"It is predicted that the melons and melons will continue to bloom in the next year, and the people will be prosperous and blazing."
"I would like to write this letter to Hong Jian based on my old promise."
"The alliance of red leaves will be made clear."
"This is proof."
The book ends.
The beautiful woman in a brocade silk skirt slowly lowered her hands and held down the red elixir book. She exclaimed with envy on her face, "What a beautiful marriage book."
Upon hearing this, Zhu Wanning's already reddish cheeks instantly became even more rosy.
"It is said that this book was written by the prince himself."
Zhu Wanning lowered her head with a blushing face and spoke in a voice as gentle as a mosquito.
"Hey." The beautiful woman in the embroidered silk skirt said jokingly, "You haven't even passed the door yet, and you changed your name to the prince?"
Upon hearing this, Zhu Wanning's complexion became more and more rosy, as if it were a ripe hawthorn fruit.
Zhu Wanning was speechless for a long time.
The beautiful woman in the embroidered silk skirt sighed deeply.
Then he slowly said, "I feel a little envious of you."
The beautiful woman in the brocade silk skirt is not someone else.
Surprisingly, it was Zhu Wanning's boudoir friend, Fan Wenqian, the legitimate daughter of the Fan family, the second largest family in Shanggu County.
After hearing this, Zhu Wanning slowly raised her head and looked at Sanskrit Wenqian in front of her.
His eyes were full of indescribable complexity.
If it weren't for this close friend in the boudoir, how would he know Xu Yi in detail.
Then he became deeply attached to him.
nowadays.
She is going to become Xu Yi's concubine very smoothly.
But his best friend in the boudoir can still only admire her alone, but in the end, she cannot be admired.
One can naturally imagine the complicated meaning in Zhu Wanning's heart.
"Don't."
"Don't ever look at me like that."
Fan Wenqian crossed her arms and scratched the non-existent goosebumps.
The complicated color in Zhu Wanning's eyes showed no intention of dissipating after hearing this.
Instead, it became more intense.
San Wenqian sighed slightly when she saw this.
Slowly lower your hands and return to a sitting position.
Just now it slowed down again
He slowly said, "Wanning, you don't need to do this. Even without you this time, His Highness Prince Yan probably wouldn't choose me."
"Don't forget that on that day when we went to Prince Yan's Mansion to present the Buddha's bone relics, there was a woman who was always with you and me."
"That person is Qu Yutong, the direct daughter of the Yuyang Qu family."
"This person is above me regardless of his life experience or appearance."
The words are over.
Sanskrit Wenqian sighed deeply again.
As the legitimate daughter of a noble family, how could she not understand the twists and turns behind the word "marriage"?
Ever since I saw Zhu Wanning and Qu Yutong in Prince Yan's Mansion that day.
Sanskrit Wenqian had no other thoughts in her mind.
Zhu Wanning sighed softly when she heard this. She wanted to comfort her friend, but she really didn't know where to start.
"Okay." Sanskrit Wenqian shook his head slightly to get rid of some distracting thoughts in his mind, then chuckled and said, "Let's not talk about this anymore."
Zhu Wanning nodded slightly and then stopped talking.
The boudoir friends who used to talk about everything now fell into a strange silence for the first time.
I do not know how long it has been.
Sanskrit Wenqian slowly raised her head, taking the lead to break the ghostly silence between the two.
"By the way." Sanskrit Wenqian seemed to suddenly think of something, and then asked: "Have you and His Highness the King Yan decided on a special day?"
"It's settled." Zhu Wanning nodded slightly when she heard this, and then slowly replied: "The twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month."
"The twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month." Sanskrit Wenqian murmured in a low voice.
Then he asked in slight surprise: "Isn't this a little too anxious?"
In order to show respect, marriages in this era often require at least half a year of preparation.
The wedding of Zhu Wanning and Xu Yi has only been prepared for more than two months.
In fact, it was a little too short-term and anxious.
It is different from the wedding of Xu Yi and Wang Qiujin.
Xu Yi and Wang Qiujin had only been preparing for their real wedding for more than five months since Emperor Zhengde granted them a marriage.
But don't forget that the marriage was granted by Emperor Zhengde himself.
In today's world, what can be more honorable than a monarch personally granting a marriage?
Zhu Wanning's face paused slightly when she heard this.
Then he slowly lowered his eyelids and said, "This was decided unanimously by Grandpa and the Prince after discussion."
"Why?" Sanskrit Wenqian asked with a puzzled face.
It should be noted that aristocratic families always attach great importance to appearance.
If there was no special reason, how could a wealthy family ignore the family's reputation?
What if Xu Yi deliberately suppressed him?
Judging from the information Sanskrit Wenqian has learned, this is absolutely impossible.
In his opinion, the Zhu family and Prince Yan's palace are almost ready to wear a pair of trousers.
How could Xu Yi deliberately carry out such suppressive measures when the two families were getting closer to each other?
Zhu Wanning sighed slightly when she heard this, and then slowly raised her head to look at San Wenqian.
With a serious look on his face, he said, "Don't let anyone else hear what you say today."
Sanskrit Wenqian's heart froze, and then her face straightened and she said, "Relax, don't you understand what I am like?"
Zhu Wanning nodded slightly, and then said in a low voice: "Ten days ago, in Liaodong, there was a snow disaster."
"At the beginning of the month, the Yellow River changed its course, and the imperial court still has no plan to deal with it."
"In addition, the vassal kings from various places have been ordered to send troops to attack the Xiongnu. At this time, the land of Mobei is probably already flowing with blood."
San Wenqian couldn't help but tremble when she heard the words.
These three pieces of news seem to be completely inaccurate.
But if you savor it carefully, you can see the great "secret" hidden in it.
First, in the land of Liaodong, snow fell from the sky.
As the saying goes, auspicious snow heralds a good year.
But if the snow lasts forever, it is not auspicious snow, but disaster snow.
Once this snowstorm comes, God knows how many frozen bones will appear in Liaodong.
If the local government has no response plan, there will probably be turmoil in Liaodong.
After all, if people can't live anymore, how can they care about the so-called law?
Second, the Yellow River changes its course.
This matter is big or small.
It has been more than two hundred years since the founding of the Zhou Dynasty by Emperor Taizu.
In the past two hundred years, the Yellow River has changed its course at least ten times.
Every time Fang changed his route, the imperial court would send a large number of officials, soldiers and people along the way to overcome the difficulty.
Although it often costs a lot, the good news is that people's livelihood can always be restored as before in the shortest possible time.
This will greatly reduce the losses of the people and the court.
However, I don’t know whether it was because the court had no money or because it could not find suitable disaster relief candidates.
For more than half a month, from the time when the Yellow River was diverted to the time when Zhu Wanning's relatives and friends sent letters, the court remained indifferent to the matter.
Wait until next spring when the flowers bloom.
If the court still fails to respond.
It is feared that major disasters will occur in counties and counties along the Yellow River Basin.
Depending on the size of the Yellow River diversion, this disaster may be large or small.
Third, use troops against the Huns.
The fact that Li Guangli's troops were defeated in the Mogan Valley battle had already spread throughout the world with several imperial edicts that had a strong sense of punishment.
After that, the news that all the major vassal kings sent troops to Mobei had already spread to every corner of the border counties.
Nothing else.
Because it is located deep in the border counties, the people in the border counties are particularly sensitive to military affairs.
This time, all the major vassal kings sent out five thousand troops. This number could not be said to be too many, nor was it too small to say that it was small.
Such a large number of soldiers and horses can't be moved to Mobei out of thin air, right?
And every time when troops are used, local governments will inevitably recruit a large number of civilians to serve as corvees.
From time to time, the news of the use of troops must be concealed.
In the war between the two countries, regardless of victory or defeat, it is the people at the bottom who suffer.
in short.
The real news hidden behind these three messages is that the country may be in chaos.
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The ancestral residence of the Zhu family, in Qingfeng Courtyard.
Sanskrit Wenqian was stunned for a moment and then involuntarily stood up from the stone bench.
"Is this true?"
Fan Wenqian forced herself to calm down and asked with an extremely solemn expression.
Zhu Wanning nodded slightly and said slowly: "The Zhu family and the prince are jointly engaged in a medicinal jade business."
"The medicinal jade business in Liaodong belongs to the Zhu family."
"Not long ago, Seventh Uncle sent a caravan of more than 1,500 people to Liaodong."
"Unexpectedly, as soon as we arrived in Liaodong, we encountered a snowstorm that had never happened in a hundred years."
"More than five hundred people went, but in the end only a few dozen people returned, and 90% of them suffered from the cold disease."
Zhu Wanning's voice paused slightly, and after sighing softly, she slowly spoke again: "The diversion of the Yellow River was written by a remote relative of mine. I think it should be true."
"There are very few letters from him, so I don't know much about him."
"As for the vassal king sending five thousand troops to reinforce Mobei, there were rumors at the beginning of the month."
"Furthermore, my father is the governor of Yunzhong County, and the imperial court has newly ordered General Zhengbei to go out to Mobei this time. The soldiers, baggage, food and grass, civilian men, etc. needed."
"It was all planned by my father."
"There is absolutely nothing false about this matter."
