Speaking of this, Huang Qiong looked at the people who had been coordinating military affairs these days after the Guilin County King launched the rebellion. He also had to go to the palace from time to time to discuss things with himself. He was so busy that he stayed in the Privy Council for food and accommodation, and even never returned home. Yu Mingyuan, who also looked overtired, sighed with some distress. : "After I leave the palace today, I am not allowed to go to the Privy Council again."
"Look how you have endured? Go back home and have a good rest. There are many people in the world who want to be officials, but you are the only one in Yu Mingyuan. Even if it is for the imperial court, you have to cherish yourself. If you collapse from exhaustion, wouldn't it cost me half of my life? Before Yang Jiyuan arrives in the capital, you can give me a good rest and spend some time with my wife."
Yu Mingyuan could only smile bitterly at Huang Qiong's instructions. I am indeed very tired these days, but is this prince different? In this difficult time, the emperor ignored everything and left everything to the prince. He was staying up day and night, so wasn't he also staying up day and night? The battle report ahead arrived at midnight, and he wanted to read it at midnight.
I only deal with military affairs, but he has to take care of both government and military affairs. I am exhausted to death, isn’t this guy the same? However, during these days, I felt a little tired. But working under this prince is really a pleasure. When there are disagreements, there are many quarrels. But as long as you convince him, he will fully support you and let you do it without any worries.
When it comes to running errands under him, this man is absolutely willing to delegate power when needed. At the critical moment, I will not pretend to understand and intervene randomly to intervene in the command. Although sometimes I am a little picky about certain things, it is far from being nitpicking. Both himself and Fu Yuanshan understand this deeply. What is the Holy Lord? This is the Holy Lord.
However, Yu Mingyuan just smiled at Huang Qiong's request to rest. Although the war in Jiangnan is not a complete collapse, it is really not going well now. Most of Jiangnan West Road has been lost, and the area south of Changsha Prefecture on Huguang South Road has been completely lost. Zhao Wuhu was on Jiangnan West Road, although he barely managed to save Nanchang Mansion. But after several defeats in a row, the casualties were considerable.
It's not that Zhao Wushu can't fight, but that the Jiangnan West Route Guards' combat effectiveness is too low. In the battle of Fuzhou Prefecture, two thousand guardsmen faced a thousand vanguards of the rebels, and half of them collapsed before the battle even came out of Fuzhou Prefecture. Zhao Wushu can now only rely on regiment training and a few capable soldiers from the Guards to defend Nanchang and the state capitals north of Ruizhou. It is no longer easy to maintain contact with Huguang South Road.
The current situation on several other fronts is not optimistic either. Although the rebels who set out from Fujian did not capture Jianning Prefecture, they detoured through Funing Prefecture and invaded the two Zhejiang provinces. The Wenzhou prefect killed the soldiers and horsemen and the whole city surrendered. The Chuzhou prefect and the soldiers and horsemen, and the Jinhua prefect abandoned all the prefectures and counties and fled north to Hangzhou. Only Wen Chujin prepared his troops and collected the defeated troops in the front to resist in Jinhua.
Although the entire situation in Jiangnan has not yet completely deteriorated, the war situation is already extremely unsatisfactory. The number of rebellions by local officials and guard officials was rare in all dynasties. Those officials who always claimed to be the second-ranked Jinshi did not know whether they were greedy for life or afraid of death, or they had really accepted a large amount of money and property from the King of Guilin. Faced with the approaching rebels, they surrendered faster than anything else.
Now that the rebels have collected a large number of surrendered guards and continued to coerce young people along the way, they have now expanded to more than 400,000 people. Except for the more than 20,000 people who stayed behind in their old nest, almost all the rest of the army and horses were dispatched. They even coerced some of the Baiyi tribes and sent more than 30,000 troops to launch an offensive along the Central Guizhou Road in order to contain the troops of the two Sichuan courts and prevent them from transferring a large number to the east.
It turned out that Dali, which had always submitted to Da Qi, also mobilized an army of 50,000 and made frequent moves in the border areas. There is a tendency to take advantage of the situation and take advantage of it. In the entire south, it can be said that except for the two rivers, which are relatively stable now, there are wars almost everywhere. Huguang, Zhejiang, and Liangjiang have been the wealthiest places in the world since the Tang Dynasty. Once lost, the imperial court would lose almost most of its fiscal sources.
Under this situation, no matter how tired he was before Yang Jiyuan arrived in Beijing, where would Yu Mingyuan dare to rest? Therefore, he could only smile bitterly at Huang Qiong's request for rest. After Yu Mingyuan left, Huang Qiong picked up the battle report ahead and was about to check it carefully. Li Hai walked in tremblingly. I saw Li Hai acting cautiously, fearing that he would get angry and cowardly.
Huang Qiong frowned and said: "What's going on? Even if the rebels attack the capital, it won't be like this. Straighten your waist. You are the one next to me. Even if you are just a eunuch, you still have to give to me if you die." Stand and die. With such submissiveness, you can embarrass someone, but I can't afford to embarrass this person. What's more, even if the sky falls, I will still be here, what's the point of being scared like this?"
Hearing the dissatisfaction in Huang Qiong's tone, Li Hai not only did not become tough, but was actually frightened and even more frightened. He knelt down directly on the ground and kowtowed with a mournful face: "Return to the master, this servant is in trouble. Prince Ji, he ran away. He has been running away for five days, and the people I put in Prince Ji's Mansion have been there all this time. Not found. This morning, I received a report."
"I rushed to Prince Ji's Mansion to check, only to find that his concubine was the only one left in Prince Ji's Mansion. Prince Ji took his eldest son and disappeared. The servant asked Princess Ji, but she didn't know what happened. The servant had already Princess Ji and all her wives and concubines were all locked up and brought into the palace. The master asked the servant to keep an eye on King Ji, but the servant failed in his duty. King Ji ran away and took away the eldest son with him."
"For such a big thing, I have placed so many people in Prince Ji's Mansion. I don't know if they all grew up eating shit, but I didn't find out until now. I failed to do what my master ordered me to do, and I really deserve to be punished. Death. Now is the time when the master is busy, but this is the time for the slave. Instead of being able to share the worries of the master, he actually caused trouble for the master, and the master must punish him severely."
After hearing Li Hai's report, Prince Ji quietly ran away under the eyes of the people he arranged to monitor in Prince Ji's Mansion. This was the first time that he realized that he had really neglected his fourth brother, Huang Qiong, and he became very angry. He stood up and said angrily: "What do those eunuchs in Prince Ji's Mansion do for food? A living man with a half-grown child."
"I just disappeared out of thin air for a few days, but I didn't notice it all the time. Five days later, I found out that the memorial was useless again? At this time, no matter which direction I ran, I had already run out of the scope of Jingzhao Mansion. At this time, , even if you look for it, you don’t know how long it will take. A bunch of stupid slaves, they really grew up eating shit. They can’t even look at one person, they really deserve to die.”
Li Hai could hear the anger in Huang Qiong's tone immediately. In the face of Huang Qiong's anger, he could only kowtow and say: "According to the reports of the servants placed in Prince Ji's Mansion, Princess Ji had a big quarrel with Prince Ji after she returned from Princess Jing's place a few days ago. They eavesdropped. Come on, Princess Ji said she just wanted to live a peaceful life, so she had to do something stupid and her family would be implicated."
"What are you talking about? Now this Prince Ji's residence doesn't look like a royal residence, it doesn't look like a home at all. What can I say to beg Prince Ji? I will live an honest life from now on, stop thinking about what I have and what I don't have, and don't involve this whole family anymore. The stability of the whole family is more important than anything else. But King Ji seemed very silent, no matter how angry and crying Princess Ji was, she didn't say a word."
"According to the feedback from those slaves, King Ji originally planned to stay in Princess Ji's house that day. However, shortly after entering, King Ji walked out angrily. Later, they only heard Princess Ji crying in the house. There was a loud sound, and Prince Ji smashed everything in the study. In the following days, Prince Ji got angry for the first time and did not even take a step into Princess Ji's house."
"He also restricted Princess Ji and did not allow her to leave the house. One day later, even Princess Ji was not allowed to leave her own house. She also ordered those concubines who were not compatible with Princess Ji to keep an eye on Princess Ji. . King Ji even kept the legitimate son born to Princess Ji with him, and did not allow the mother and son to meet again. As for their husband and wife, no one knows what caused such trouble. "
"Master, although you have replaced the eunuchs in Prince Ji's Mansion, there are still Prince Ji's confidants among the servants in the mansion. Prince Ji's food has always been served by his servants and servants. These days, Prince Ji has been taking care of him He stayed in his study with his legitimate son and never left the study. All the food and drinks during these days were delivered to the study by a few personal servants around him. "
"The servants we placed in Prince Ji's Mansion were a little careless. They thought the couple were quarreling, and Prince Ji felt that he had lost face. Until this morning, the manager of the inner palace wanted to ask Prince Ji for some instructions, so he forced his way into the study. Zhongcai discovered that the person in the study was not Prince Ji at all, but just a servant in the mansion. As for Prince Ji, he had already changed into the servant's clothes, took his eldest son and put on makeup and ran away."
"After receiving the news, I ordered people to torture the damn replacement and ask him where King Ji had gone. But his mouth was not so tough, and he was beaten to a pulp, and the guy refused to say anything. This is God's fault. This slave doesn't dare to delay the important matter, and is eager to come back and report to the master. But the master has been discussing things with Master Yu, and the slave doesn't dare to disturb, so I have delayed until now."
After hearing Li Hai's reply, Huang Qiong pinched the bridge of her nose and felt a little irritated. So what if I ask? That guy has been running away for five days, and even if he asked, the day lily would have been cold long ago. I shouldn't have trusted these eunuchs a long time ago, they were a bunch of stupid guys. People have been running for five days before they discovered it. He didn't expect that there would be someone who could help him escape at this time.
It seems that he, the fourth brother, is good at wooing the servants in his house. He should have completely replaced all the slaves in his house from the beginning, leaving no one behind. Thinking of this, Huang Qiong looked at Li Hai and said: "It's me who's wrong. I'm the one who looked down on you. I'm a slave, and I can't even seize the opportunity given to you. Forget it, don't worry about this anymore. What's next? , and you can’t control it.”
"Take the lead yourself, and the slaves, and go to the Punishment Department to receive thirty boards each. As for you, the person in charge, you will be fined an extra year. Tell the eunuchs in other palaces to take this as a warning. If it happens again When something like this happens, you have to weigh the eight and a half kilograms around your neck to see if you can keep it for food. Now take me with you to see the people you locked up. "
Li Hai breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that Huang Qiong was only fined 30 boards for causing such a big trouble, plus a year's salary. He had always known how harsh the Lord was to the eunuchs. But today, I was fined one year's salary, plus thirty bucks. This is almost no punishment, it can be said that it is treated lightly. As for one year's salary, he didn't care at all.
