After waiting for half the night, I only got a message from a personal maid next to Miss Yu. The maid told him that her young lady had said that their family was just an ordinary family, not worthy of being the nephew of the current emperor, let alone a count. It is better to let him be matched with a high-ranking family. From now on, it would be better for the two of them not to meet again, lest it affect the reputation and innocence of his Earl's Mansion.
Gao Huaiyuan was stunned by what the little maid said. No matter how much he begged, this little maid would give him a message and he could explain it to Miss Yu. But no matter what he said, the little maid refused to spread the word for him. She just told him that the words she passed on were the lady's true words. She is just a little maid, how dare she get involved in her master's affairs?
Helpless, Gao Huaiyuan stayed up almost all night after returning to his home. He walked around in his yard like a donkey for almost the entire night. He didn't know how his identity was leaked. Although he also knew that this matter could not be hidden for long. You don't even have to go far. After Yu Mingyuan returns to Beijing, his identity will be exposed. But he always thought that he could hide it for a while, just for a while.
After listening to this guy's words, Huang Qiong shook his head helplessly. She directly scolded him for being stupid and showing no sense of responsibility. Since you like someone, why should you hide your identity? Isn't it okay to tell the truth? If he really likes someone else, if it doesn't work out, can he come to him? As an uncle, can you help him? Yu Mingyuan disagrees. Can he help persuade her? This must happen.
Gao Huaiyuan became even more dejected after being scolded by Huang Qiong. Wait until Huang Qiong asked him whether he had discussed this matter with his mother, Princess Jincheng. But he shook his head, indicating that he had not told his mother about this yet. Seeing that this guy was hiding both sides, Huang Qiong felt even more headache-y. Let him go home first, tell his mother clearly, and deal with his mother first before talking about anything else.
As for Yu Mingyuan, after Gao Huaiyuan settled his mother and beauty. He will talk to Yu Mingyuan, but if the Yu family agrees, he can support the marriage. If the Yu family disagreed, he would not force the Yu family. Gao Huaiyuan is indeed a talent that he focuses on cultivating, but Yu Mingyuan is also his loyal minister. I will not force my family to passively accept this marriage.
After Gao Huaiyuan was scolded by him and ran away, Huang Qiong had a headache. It is true that like father, like daughter, the temperament of this young lady is almost exactly the same as that of his father. After I was transferred to Mingyuan and came to the capital, I wanted to transfer him back to the capital as the son of Yu Mingyuan, who was in the wind and sand of Suzhou in Longyou. If you want to continue to be a local official, you have to find a better place.
When the boy was promoted to Jinshi, he was sent to Longyou, and he walked out step by step from the county magistrate. If we talk about experience, I have gained almost enough experience in the past few years. But Yu Mingyuan refused without even thinking about it. When his son was released, he had no connections with him. Wherever his son went to teach, he never interfered. Although he has turned to martial arts now, he was a second-ranked Jinshi after all.
In court, there are still certain interpersonal relationships. There is no problem in letting his son stay in the capital or work in a wealthy place. But Yu Mingyuan did not interfere. His son was even kicked out to be the magistrate of one of the poorest counties in Longyou. His handiwork was involved in this. Yu Mingyuan, who once served as county magistrate for two terms in one of the poorest counties in western Sichuan, believes that it truly trains people.
The poorer the place, the more training one can get. If you are transferred to a prosperous place, it won't take long for you to be lured by some people with ulterior motives and become a corrupt official. The richer the place, the more complicated the situation, and the less conducive it is to the growth of his son. Moreover, in Yu Mingyuan's view, his current position as Acting Privy Envoy was due to his modest contribution to the imperial court.
That boy has not made any meritorious service to the imperial court, and is not yet qualified to enjoy the credit of his father. The idea of one person being able to achieve the goal of a chicken or a dog ascending to heaven would not work here. Besides, my son's experience is not enough, and the temperature is too low. It would be harmful to him to be transferred to the big dyeing vat in the capital. He did not seek to be famous in Mingyuan and go down in history. He could have a dandy in his family, but he could never produce a corrupt official.
The categorical words spoken by Yu Mingyuan himself were still fresh in Huang Qiong's memory. Based on his understanding of Mingyuan, he knew that this was not pursuing his own interests, and that this was the real long-term vision. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, how many of those noble families who followed Taizu and Taizong to conquer the world and were once famous are still left? There are a few others who are not struggling to survive.
Without a year's salary from the imperial court, and the rewards given to Zhuangzi by successive emperors, I am afraid that at least 70% of them would not be able to solve the problem now. That's the case, but how many of those sons from aristocratic families, especially the ones from Wu Xungui's family, besides causing trouble for the place, can ride a horse? When I went to Longyou to quell the rebellion and mobilized the Royal Forest Army for the expedition, I still have a deep memory of the performance of the children of those aristocratic families.
Thinking of this, Huang Qiong was still not optimistic about whether Gao Huaiyuan could become Yu Mingyuan's son-in-law. Although Gao Huaiyuan is considered a young talent among the sons of aristocratic families. But in Yu Mingyuan's eyes, he was not much different from those playboys from aristocratic families. And the closer you go inside a big family, the more complicated some things become, and the fights are no worse than in the palace.
Yu Mingyuan was able to stay single for so many years as a widower for the sake of this son and daughter. This shows how much he loves his two children? Although Yu Mingyuan does not dote on his two children, judging from the upbringing of these two children, he really loves them. Would such a father really marry his only daughter into a complicated family for the sake of a countess?
Huang Qiong is not optimistic about this. Of course, if Gao Huaiyuan can handle Miss Zai, this matter will be discussed separately. But looking at Miss Yu's stubbornness, I'm afraid it will be difficult for my nephew to pursue his wife. Looking at the pile of books on the desk, Huang Qiong decided to let the boy have a headache. If you have so many things to do, do you have so much free time to worry about him?
Huang Qiong, who picked up a booklet, finally turned his attention back to the booklet. A matter of military expenditure is enough to give me a headache. There are relatively two directions, north and south, a heavy military burden, and a complicated situation. Gao Huaiyuan's matters are not even trivial. Just as Huang Qiong was leisurely approving the papers, an eight hundred mile urgent letter from the southern front was delivered to him.
Huang Qiong was happy when she read the above content. On the southern front, Cao Rui's army had broken through the Nanling rebel blockade, took the lead in breaking through Meiguan, and captured Meizhou, an important town in the north of Guangnan East Road. On the western front, Guo Chen's 12,000 troops, who traveled south from Yueyang at night, were no longer vulnerable to a single attack. After several battles on Huguang South Road, they became the elite former Lianghu Local Guards that have fought in hundreds of battles.
From Huguang South Road, they crossed the Shiwan Mountain and broke into Guangnan West Road. Ouyang Shan, who was left behind by Cao Rui, replaced all the five thousand commanded by Cao Rui. With the cooperation of the cavalry who captured the rebel Dali horses, the troops headed straight towards the Guilin County Prince's Palace. Located in Jingjiang Mansion. In this eight hundred urgent letter, in addition to a detailed report on the battle situation in the south, there were two situations that were both unexpected and expected by Huang Qiong.
One is that a few days ago, the rebel king officially ascended the throne as emperor in Jingjiang Mansion. He claimed to be a descendant of Han Emperor Gaozu, so the founding name was Han, Yongli was the year name, Jingjiang Mansion was the name, and the original Guilin County Prince's Mansion was the royal palace. He also granted posthumous titles to ancestors of all dynasties, and granted awards to hundreds of civil and military officials. But on the day he ascended the throne as emperor, the puppet Han regime appointed the prefect of Meizhou and the garrison of Meizhou to lead his army to surrender in Kaicheng.
Another piece of news is that after occupying Meizhou Prefecture, the 500 reconnaissance cavalry he sent were accidentally captured on the Xijiang River when cutting off the passage between Jingjiang Prefecture and Guangzhou Prefecture. The rebel palace was secretly transferring a large gold and silver fleet. According to the confession of the person who was captured and escorted, several batches had been transported before. However, the previous transfers were mainly ordnance, and the quantity of gold and silver treasures transferred was not very large.
The final batch of transfers is mainly property. Among this batch of property, there were more than 200,000 taels of gold alone. Silver is around 500,000 taels, and other jewelry and jades are even more expensive. There are also a batch of ordnance, armor, gunpowder, and more than ten cannons weighing 10,000 kilograms. They didn't know how much had been transported before. All they know now is that the treasury of the Rebel Palace is now empty.
As for where the gold, silver and ordnance were transported, not even the confidants of the rebel palace knew. The only thing they knew was that these items were being shipped to Guangzhou and then shipped overseas. Cao Rui reported on the paper that he would escort the gold and silver to Beijing truthfully. However, he also hoped that the imperial court could allocate part of it to give some rewards to the participating armies to boost morale.
Because for most of the officers and soldiers who went south to fight this time, most of whom were from the North, the weather on the east-west road of Guangnan was really fucked up. The sun is like a big fireball every day, and people in hot weather will be peeled off. Originally, Jiangnan West Road was hot enough, but I didn't expect that Guangnan East-West Road 2 would be extremely hot. There were too many soldiers suffering from heatstroke along the way.
As soon as we enter Guangnan East Road, hundreds of people suffer from heatstroke every day. There are even people who are being heated to death every day because of the intense heat. Coupled with the wide variety of poisonous snakes and insects that I had never heard of before, as well as the poor supply of food and grass, the morale of the army has not been very high since it passed Meiguan. Give some reward money to boost morale.
After reading the last request in Cao Rui's memorial, Huang Qiong held the book tightly in her hands. The bulging veins on his hands showed the abnormal anger in his heart. In Huang Qiong's opinion, whether or how much reward should be given should be given by the court, not what Cao Rui should open his mouth to ask for, especially not at this time. What exactly does he want to do by doing this?
Are you protesting against yourself, or do you have other thoughts? Do you want to threaten the army and the court and yourself? Or are you simply trying to win over the morale of the military? The anger in her heart made Huang Qiong drop the memorial in his hand, stand up and pace back and forth in Wende Hall. After thinking for a long time, he sent someone to find Fu Yuanshan. After Fu Yuanshan arrived at Wende Hall, Huang Qiong directly threw Cao Rui's memorial to him.
After reading the memorial, Fu Yuanshan did not raise any objections to Cao Rui's actions as Huang Qiong expected. But after pondering for a long time, he took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to Huang Qiong before he said calmly: "Your Majesty is looking for me, and I am also thinking of coming to see you. This money Whether you should give it or not, Your Majesty should read this letter and make up your mind before it’s too late.”
Huang Qiong was stunned by Fu Yuanshan's words. After receiving Fu Yuanshan's letter, he opened it and read it carefully. It was just the content of the letter that made him frown more deeply as he read it. After closing the letter, Huang Qiong said to Fu Yuanshan: "Does Mr. Fu mean that even if it is for the aftermath of the Guangnan East-West Second Road, this money will still have to be spent?"
