As far as the border army is concerned, there has been no holiday for the Spring Festival since ancient times. The closer to the new year, the heavier the defense of the border army becomes. Liaozhou was a newly acquired territory, and Goguryeo was launching such a big battle. Therefore, although Yang Ji did not care about government affairs, he did not slack off at all in terms of military affairs.
After seeing Yang Jian off, Yang Ji took care of his military affairs before heading to the backyard.
Entering the bedroom and walking around the screen, he saw Liu Rumei sitting at the table, sewing something intently.
She was wearing a sky-blue skirt and a snow-white double-breasted cotton coat. Her black hair hung down around her waist and was tied behind her shoulders with white silk. Her bright face had an indescribable charm of tranquility.
Yang Ji walked closer and asked, "What are you embroidering?"
Liu Rumei put down the sewing in her hands, with a calm smile on her face: "Young master came back so early today, don't you have any official duties?"
"It's been taken care of!" Yang Ji sat next to her and picked up what seemed to be a ready-made item in the bamboo basket. It turned out to be a small hundred-year-old coat with two lifelike and naive little tigers embroidered on the front. He smiled. Said: "Are these clothes prepared for children?"
"No way?" Liu Rumei denied it, but under the gaze of those eyes that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, she gently bit Fengze's red lips with her braided teeth and said honestly: "I did it in my spare time. Save the kids from having nothing to wear.”
"We worked so hard, you must have our child in your belly. It is really wise to prepare the baby's clothes now." Yang Ji held her on his lap lovingly. Xiao Ying and Pei Shuying became pregnant one after another, which made Liu Rumei, who was not pregnant, a little suspicious and sad. However, due to the underdevelopment of medicine, she had little idea of whether she could get pregnant and how to get pregnant. She foolishly thought that she did not work hard enough for not getting pregnant. After arriving at Huanglong City, I worked very hard every night.
Liu Rumei stroked her belly with her little hand, her face filled with the glory of motherhood, and said softly: "It's best to have one! If you have one more child, you will have more care in your heart; if you care more, you will cherish yourself instead of Like now."
She, Xiao Ying, and Pei Shuying are just little women. They care deeply about their families and will give everything for this family without regrets. However, they do not have such great feelings for the world. Therefore, although they often say that "state affairs are the most important thing", in fact, they do not want their husbands to be so tired and work so hard.
The reason why it is often said that "state affairs are the most important thing" is that one is to force oneself to fulfill the responsibilities of a woman and a wife; the other is that Yang Ji has to bear the hatred and rejection of too many people, and also has the hope of too many people.
Once he loses his fighting spirit or is defeated, who will protect the small family of Wangfu? The Guardian King family, everyone who shares weal and woe?
So sometimes we are not willing to do so, but we have to say "national affairs are the most important thing".
They can't change anything. Their only hope is that after their husbands become concerned, they can take care of themselves for the sake of their family when they are fighting outside.
"I understand!" Yang Ji nodded silently and said something very feeble.
Liu Rumei caught the helplessness in her voice and could understand Yang Ji's mood at this moment. She gently leaned her whole body tightly into the spacious and reassuring embrace, raised her pretty face, and changed to a lighter topic: "Sir, how do we celebrate the New Year?"
"This is hard for me!" Yang Ji thought for a long time and said: "On New Year's Eve, we took some people and went to the Ridge Mountain Pass and the Liashui River to set up tents, and then went hunting in the mountains and crossed the frozen river. Dig fish and have a wild new year! What do you think?"
Liu Rumei's delicate and picturesque eyebrows were filled with joy, and she hesitated and said: "Young Master has so many things to do, is it okay?"
"As long as you give the orders, you don't have to do everything personally." Yang Ji thought about it and added, "We have set the location in advance. If there are important or major matters, the scouts and messengers can go directly to them."
"Then it's settled!" Liu Rumei's eyes were looking forward to it, and she smiled happily: "I know a good place, just over twenty miles away in the southeastern suburbs, not far from Huanglong, and it is also a turn-off to Dongshan County southward; that place With mountains on its back and water on its back, birds and beasts roam around, and there is also the Xuandu Temple, which occupies a large area, is elegant and quiet, but due to the war, there are no Taoist priests anymore."
Yang Ji asked curiously: "How do you know so clearly?"
Liu Rumei said: "That's where we dug the winter bamboo shoots and picked the mushrooms the day before yesterday!"
Yang Ji nodded and said, "Then just decide there!"
According to what Liu Rumei said, it is indeed a better place, and the tense situation mainly originates from Goguryeo. If you have a picnic there, whether there is something happening in Da'an County, Huanglong County, or Dongshan County, you can be there as soon as possible. deal with.
"Okay!" Liu Rumei felt her husband's unabashed recognition and love for her, and smiled sweetly: "This time, I have to bring some incense and candles to Xuandu to worship. I was still in Chongyefang before. Xuandu Guan asked for the marriage lottery...!"
As she was talking, Liu Rumei suddenly felt speechless and quickly stopped talking, but her face was already red with embarrassment.
Yang Ji was both surprised and amused: "Other people go to temples to seek marriage, but you go to Taoist temples to seek marriage?"
"How can a Taoist monk understand marriage if he doesn't get married? Those who get married are all fake monks and cannot be trusted at all!" Liu Rumei said plausibly: "On the contrary, it is a Taoist priest who has no taboos and is more real and reliable than a monk."
"That makes sense!" Yang Ji held back his laughter and asked seriously, "Then what do you ask for?"
Liu Rumei buried her head in Yang Ji's arms and said coyly: "When I was in the Duke's Mansion of the State of Yue, I was a slave who could not control my life and death, and I didn't have any other thoughts. After the Master took me home and gave me citizenship, I Aye and Aniang have stabilized, and they are also anxious about my marriage. Under their influence, I have more thoughts, so I secretly asked for a marriage sign; my requirements are not high, I just ask the gods to help me find a husband who treats me as a human being and loves me. As for my family background, ability, and appearance, I have no extravagant expectations."
When Yang Ji heard this, he couldn't help but hugged the beauty in his arms tightly. He knew that Liu Rumei had not gotten rid of the inferiority complex of a slave, so her requirements for choosing a mate at that time were in line with her state of mind at the time; but he did not dwell on this, but deliberately asked: "Did the gods give it to you?"
"Yes!" Liu Rumei responded smoothly, but when she saw him looking at her with a half-smile but not a smile, she couldn't help but said angrily: "Young master, you know what you're asking."
"If you get your wish, you really have to return it." Yang Ji played with Liu Rumei's green and white catkins. Although he is a little busy, he doesn't have any bad habits. Except for fighting, he almost always goes home and spends time with his three wives, so it is difficult to say that they have no sense of existence. After all, if someone was born into a family like his, it would be an exaggeration if there were any unruly, willful, life-and-death love affairs.
The couple cuddled together for a moment, and Liu Rumei asked, "Sir, the Chinese New Year will be here in a few days. Is Yang Renqi coming back?"
Yang Xian's true identity was initially known only to Hao Yuan and Dugu Pingyun. Over time, all the important people around Yang Ji knew it. This was not because Hao Yuan and Dugu Pingyun couldn't keep the secret, but because Yang Ji was worried that this guy would die. On the battlefield, so everyone should pay more attention.
When he followed Yang Guang back then, Yang Guang also said forcefully that he would not care about him and would not leak his identity. But in fact, Yang Guang secretly sent many people to watch him to prevent him from dying.
"He came today, but he went back again!" Yang Ji told Yang Xian's growth and awakening.
Liu Rumei smiled unexpectedly after hearing this: She also heard that Yang Ji gave Yang Jian many old women, and that guy actually played with them. Regarding this, the only thought in Liu Rumei's mind was "worse than animals".
I never thought that such a bastard would have such a high level of consciousness, it was really unexpected.
After thinking about it, Liu Rumei suggested: "Sir, the saint gave him to you just to hope that he will get better. If you pass this good news to the saint, the saint will definitely be very happy."
"Now is not the time, continue to observe!" Yang Ji knew that Yang Guang had hesitated for a while before he decided to be a prince. If he accidentally fell into Yang Xian's trap and eventually caused Yang Guang to have thoughts of Yi Chu, what would happen to the couple? The whole world is not a good thing.
Liu Rumei didn't think so far and far, she just felt that since the emperor handed Yang Jian to her husband, he hoped that her husband would make Yang Jian a useful talent. If her husband's "report card" was handed over to the emperor, then for her husband, it would be absolutely It was a good thing, but when my husband vetoed it without hesitation, I didn't say anything more.
She looked at the dim sky with falling snow outside, stood up from her husband's arms, and said softly: "It seems to be getting late, I'll go to the kitchen to take a look."
"Go!" Yang Ji also stood up and walked out with Liu Rumei.
After leaving the room, Yang Ji said, "I'm going to the front study for a while."
Liu Rumei smiled brightly: "Are you writing a work report again?"
At the end of every year, chief officials from various places and chief generals of all armies have to go to Beijing to report on their duties. If they really can't go, the deputy ministers will be asked to come to Beijing, but the work reports of the chief officers and generals must be written. The work report is mainly about writing some things that have happened, and it is very in the nature of asking for credit and reward. The imperial court will also send people to verify the content of the work report. If it is indeed true, it will award rewards as appropriate. Then, they will compare them one by one and select "Best Governor of the Year", "Best General of the Year", and "Best General of the Year". "The best county magistrate"...and then publish their deeds to the world to help them become famous, and at the same time hope that other officials will imitate them. For example, Fang Gongyi, the current governor of Taozhou, was the county magistrate with the best political performance when he was the magistrate of Xinfeng County. And the year before last, he won the championship again and became the best governor of the year. His various deeds made the world compete. Praise.
Compared with others, the things Yang Ji did were too complicated and too many. He didn't know where to start from. He wrote many times but failed.
Liu Rumei, as the "secretary", knew this very well.
"Yeah! There's still some left, I'm going to finish it." Yang Ji also had a headache with this kind of 'self-bragging'. So he just recorded it item by item like a running account, and then let Hao Yuan and Shen Faxing polish it.
As for Liangzhou's big report, it was ghostwritten by Yin Shishi, Yang Shanhui and others, but they were all written on the basis of a "note sheet", so there would not be any major discrepancies.
When he arrived at the study, Yang Ji sat down and thought slowly. He has already listed his "notebook" for this year, so he can write or not write the work report. But there is one thing related to Tuyuhun that must be written: a few days ago, he received an eagle letter forwarded from Daxing, saying that Murong Fuyun, the Great Khan of Tuyuhun, defeated Murong Zhao, the king of Tianbi who was independent in the south.
Murong Zhao sacrificed Sansha City and surrendered to the Sui Dynasty. The Sui Dynasty did not hold him responsible afterwards, but returned all his soldiers and supported him as a sharp weapon against Murong Fuyun.
After Murong Zhao returned to Tuyuhun, he did not even go to Fuqi City, but returned directly to the area of Zhaling Lake and Eling Lake where his headquarters was located, thus making Murong Fuyun's dream of killing Murong Zhao and seizing his tribe come to nothing. After Murong Zhao returned to the base camp, while contacting Su Pi, he also flirted with Mai Tiezhang who entered Tuyuhun, causing great trouble for Murong Fuyun.
In the past two years, they have fought dozens of battles. Although Murong Zhao borrowed the power of the Sui Dynasty and the soldiers of Supi, Tuyuhun had been a country for hundreds of years and had already developed its own national self-confidence and pride just like Goguryeo. Sensation, centripetal force... The people were very repulsive and disgusted with Murong Zhao's treason. In addition, Dang Xiang helped Murong Fuyun fight, so Murong Zhao was in a very difficult situation.
Even though the Mai Tiezhang wreaked havoc in the heart of Tuyuhun, restraining part of Murong Fuyun's troops and consuming part of Tuyuhun's national power, it could not change the fact that Murong Zhao was weak.
After this disastrous defeat, Murong Zhao had been reduced to a state of survival. If he was finished or retreated to the Subi Kingdom, it would not only greatly increase Murong Fuyun's reputation, but it would also be detrimental to the Sui Dynasty's ability to use foreign forces to fight against foreign forces. Strategy, so Sui Dynasty must do something.
It's just that the various confrontation points in Liangzhou were tightly guarded by Tuyuhun, and the Sui Dynasty was in an uproar due to the relocation of the capital, military reform and other matters. This was not the best time to enter the scene openly; so Yang Ji hoped that Zhou Fa, the governor of Shuzhou and the general manager of Songzhou Road March, can still make a difference. If Zhou Fashang sends a group of "bandits" to the west from Gansong Mountain in Shuzhou, they can turn the Dangxiang (Tuoba Chi Ci tribe) and Bailan Qiang who support Murong Fuyun into a state of chaos, leaving them no time to care for themselves and withdraw their troops to protect themselves.
If Dangxiang, Bailan and other Qiang troops retreated to protect themselves, and the Liangzhou armies intensified their efforts at the confrontation point, Murong Zhao would have a chance to breathe, and even be able to counterattack Murong Fuyun.
"Your Majesty, General Pei Xingyan discovered something unusual while on patrol." Just as Yang Ji was writing, Hao Yuan's voice came from outside the door.
Yang Ji quickly put down his pen, walked out of the room, and asked, "What did Pei Xingyan find?"
"A Goguryeo army consisting of two hundred soldiers, disguised as Khitan herdsmen, entered Da'an County last night. They originally marched towards Huanglong City, but after arriving in the Xinkai River area, they suddenly headed west along the Xinkai River Let's go." Hao Yuan cupped his hands and said.
Yang Ji felt a little strange, what could a mere two hundred people do? Could it be that it was the Goguryeo envoy? After thinking for a while, he asked, "Are we going to be escorted by our soldiers?"
"No!" Hao Yuan said to Yang Ji: "Your Majesty, based on my humble position, this Goguryeo army has an ulterior secret."
An idea flashed in Yang Ji's mind, and he said with enlightenment: "The Goguryeo army has not sent anyone to inquire or negotiate so far. Now they just confront us. If they are willing to talk to the Sui Dynasty and find out the Sui Dynasty's position, they can do it. They sent envoys to enter the country openly and honestly, but they never sent anyone. This shows that Goguryeo has not eliminated the idea of "misunderstanding". But now there is an army sneaking across the country in a sneaky way, and it is still heading west. Maybe it's to Baicheng, the court of the Southern Turks; what do you think?"
Hao Yuan cupped his hands and answered: "Your Majesty, in fact, even humble officials have such suspicions; Goguryeo most likely wants to form an alliance with the East Turks, and the attitude of the East Turks towards Goguryeo will also determine Goguryeo's attitude towards me, the Sui Dynasty."
Yang Ji nodded and asked, "Where are the people from Goguryeo?"
"General Pei has already led his army to arrest people!" Hao Yuan glanced at Yang Ji and continued: "According to the messenger sent by General Pei, although the Goguryeo soldiers were one man and two horses, they seemed to be carrying heavy loads. He must not be able to escape far."
Yang Ji pondered for a long time and then ordered to Hao Yuan: "Ask Zhu Can to bring his personal guards to pick him up! If any good news comes, be sure to inform me as soon as possible!"
"I obey my orders!" Hao Yuan responded and retreated.
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[June 22 of the lunar calendar is the time of my birth; so I was lazy yesterday, sorry! 】
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