He wanted to say that the Li family thought of him as such a bastard and that he was not that bad.
He was too impatient back then, which is why he left such an arrogant impression on the Li family. In reality, he was actually quite humble, otherwise he wouldn't know so much about farming at such a young age.
The Jiang family was a small aristocratic family in the previous dynasty, but it fell into decline after the founding of Dasheng. When he was born, his grandfather was just a small county magistrate. Except for a few ancestral properties that could not be used for important matters, there were only a thousand acres left in the family. Fields and several shops.
His growth experience was not much different from Li Xiaolan's. On weekdays, he just studied and learned to grow crops from his family's tenant farmers and long-term workers——
Influenced by his grandfather, he knew the importance of crops since he was a child. In addition, the Holy Father kept asking strange questions, so he was exposed to farm work since he was a child.
Li Xiaolan has been literate since he was a child, doing housework, farm work, and making snacks. Is this fundamentally different from his growth experience?
Mr. Li made a fortune too quickly and completed half of his grandfather's journey in a few years. Therefore, he and Li Xiaolan were similar in age and had the same upbringing. He really didn't mean to look down on Li Xiaolan.
Although he said he wanted to use the Li family to get promoted faster, he had already thought about it when he decided to marry a daughter of the Li family. Now that he was married, he couldn't live up to it.
He didn't want to waste time mediating the disputes in the back house. The back house was peaceful, so that he could focus more on official duties.
As for the consideration and companionship requested by the Li family, he will do his best. Since he has married someone back, he cannot leave her alone.
Otherwise, the relationship between the two families would be ruined, which would be bad.
As for whether he loves or not, he really can't say that he loves Li Xiaolan now, but Li Xiaolan is beautiful, gentle and virtuous, literate, and has a wide range of knowledge. She has been exposed to the Li family's business since she was a child. This knowledge is not ordinary for a lady or a wealthy family. A thousand pieces of gold can be had.
Li Xiaolan actually met his requirements for a wife.
As Mr. Li said, feelings are born out of love. Even if you really can't fall in love in the future, it should turn into family affection.
Magistrate Jiang was very happy when he received Li Qiao's letter. He also hoped that the marriage could be concluded as soon as possible. Li Qiao had already asked experts to select several auspicious days, and he chose the closest one, which would be in March next year.
Three months is enough for the two families to prepare for the marriage.
After the wedding date was set, Li Xiaolan began to embroider the wedding dress, while Tao Zhu bought her a dowry according to the previous specifications of Li Yuan and Li Yuning when they got married.
The Jiang family bought a house in the capital, located in the north of the city, but the north of the city was a bit far away from the current Li family. Governor Jiang had accumulated some wealth over the years, and he asked Li Qiao to buy a house for the newlywed couple in the east of the city.
Tao Zhu was very familiar with Chengdong, so Li Qiao left the matter to Tao Zhu. However, the weather was cold during this period, so he asked Tao Zhu to go out to check the house after this period.
In fact, Tao Zhu felt more sorry for Li Qiao.
Now the Li family is enjoying happiness, but Li Qiao, the mainstay, has to go out in the severe cold every day.
well.
Being an official is really not as comfortable as being a local landlord.
Li Qiao also felt that being an official was not as comfortable as being a local landlord. The severe cold was a trivial matter to him as a superpower. The big issue now was that it was also very cold over there with the Hu people. The severe cold + food shortage caused the Hu people to launch attacks on the border towns one after another. attack.
Moreover, on the 14th day of the twelfth lunar month, Sheng Hong received an urgent report from 800 miles away from Xishan Province, and the barbarians launched an attack in Xishan Province, plundering food and people.
Sheng Hong looked very unhappy after receiving the report.
It seemed that the natural disaster really drove the Hu people crazy. He had no choice but to increase his troops.
And when Li Qiao thought of the sixth prince who was in Xishan Province and had not yet returned to the capital, he couldn't help but trembled in his heart. Could it be that the sixth prince went to the front line?
Although he didn't like the sixth prince, he didn't look forward to his early death. At the beginning of the year, the sixth prince decided to go to Xishan Province, which actually made him relieved that it would be better not to go to the border town.
But now that there is a war in Xishan Province, with the ambition of the sixth prince to make achievements, he will probably go to the front line...
After hesitating for less than half an hour, he expressed his worries to Sheng Hong. Should he call the sixth prince back to the capital?
Of course, he also made it clear to Sheng Hong that he was not afraid that the sixth prince would make meritorious deeds, but that he was worried that the sixth prince would hurt himself due to his young age and lack of experience.
After all, the Hu people have gone crazy now, and the Hu people have always been tough.
Sheng Hong thought the same way. Although he felt that the heir must have the ability to protect the country and command wars, his sixth son had no experience in marching and fighting before.
Moreover, Xishan Province is far away from Shengjing, and the supplies and medical care are not as good as those in the border towns in Jibei Province. He is also worried that something will happen to the Sixth Prince.
Sheng Hong issued an edict for the sixth prince to return to the capital. In order to prevent his son from being disobedient, he asked Zhao Cun to lead people to Xishan Province.
Even if you kidnap someone, you still have to kidnap him back.
These two wars have left this New Year with no festive atmosphere.
Sheng Hong received reports from the border towns every day. The small-scale harassment and large-scale attacks by the Hu people never stopped, and there were casualties every day in Dasheng.
These figures made Li Qiao feel heavy.
If he could go to the front lines...
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Chapter 235 Sheng Hong sends Li Qiao to the border town, Tao Zhu is worried
Li Qiao thought about going to the front line. It happened to be cold now. Although his water power could not condense water into ice, at this temperature, it would be too easy for him to freeze people to death with his water power.
Of course, this is dangerous.
He can't make sure nothing goes wrong.
Although he is a superpower, because he cannot openly kill people, he can only sneak attack at night, but he is not familiar with the opponent's camp, so he cannot guarantee that he can kill people in large numbers silently.
Although he felt sorry for the soldiers who lost their lives, his own safety was more important.
Besides, he had no reason to go to the front line.
He is a civil servant and Sheng Hong's right-hand man. Unless all the generals in Dasheng are dead, it will not be his turn to go to the front line.
After considering it comprehensively, he could only endure the thought of going to the front line.
But he couldn't do nothing.
Now Da Sheng was forced to go to war between the two places, which was burning money every day. So, on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year when Sheng Hong started working, he took the opportunity to enter the palace to help Sheng Hong handle trivial matters and expressed to Sheng Hong He wanted to donate money and materials to the front line.
It was New Year's Eve, but Sheng Hong's face looked a little haggard, his eyes were red and bloodshot, and he obviously hadn't had a good rest.
Hearing his words, Sheng Hong hesitated for a moment, then nodded gently: "Then you can donate some coal. The protection of the soldiers in the border towns from the cold is a top priority."
"Yes." Li Qiao agreed: "When I leave the palace, I will go to Fan's house to look for Fan, but I can't find him."
Sheng Hong hummed, and then said: "Yesterday Mi'er and Xiao Qi both came to see me. They both wanted to go to the border town to check out the situation. Who do you think is the right person for me to send?"
"Huh?" Li Qiao was surprised when he heard this: "Your Majesty, the border town is dangerous, how can you let the prince put himself in danger?"
"I just went to the border town to see the situation there for myself, not to pick up a big knife and fight the barbarians."
Sheng Hong explained.
He was constantly delivering all kinds of supplies to the border town for free. He couldn't just listen to the words of the border town guard. He had to send someone he truly trusted to have a look there to understand the real situation in the border town.
By the way, during the Chinese New Year, you should reward the soldiers who bravely guard the border.
Originally he wanted to send someone else to go, but his fourth son and seventh son both volunteered to go to the border town. After careful consideration, he felt that sending a minister was not as appropriate as sending a prince.
His heir must be able to fight, otherwise how can he protect the great prosperity?
A few years ago, there was no war in Dasheng, so his sons had no chance to go to the battlefield. Now, his sons are really quite old.
He couldn't raise them up like an old hen protecting her young, like a delicate flower that had not been exposed to wind and rain. Now that the border town was quite stable, he planned to choose one of his sons to go and experience the real battlefield.
Moreover, in order to reward soldiers and win people's hearts, it is naturally better to send royal people.
Sheng Hong's explanation was very reasonable. After hearing this, Li Qiao hurriedly said: "If that's the case, then any prince is suitable. However, years ago you sent Captain Zhao to Xishan Province to invite the sixth prince to return to the capital. If the sixth prince can Will he be unhappy knowing that you sent other princes to the border town?"
"..."
Sheng Hong sighed: "I forgot about this."
His sixth son was clamoring to go to the front line when the Hu people invaded the border for the first time. If he kidnaps his sixth son this time and sends Xiaoqi or his fourth son to the border town, then when his son comes back, Wouldn't it be a big commotion?
Headache.
Putting his hand on his forehead and thinking for a moment, he raised his eyelids and looked at Li Qiao: "Li Aiqing, why don't you go to the border town? You are young and strong and can withstand the cold and bumps."
The ministers he could truly trust and who could represent him were the bachelors in the cabinet. Zhou Zhengye, the youngest, was almost sixty years old. With such old men, he couldn't send people to border towns.
Sheng Hong's words made Li Qiao open his eyes in surprise. He had just made up his mind to go to the border town, but now Sheng Hong wanted him to go to the border town?
But after two seconds, he immediately responded: "Yes."
"Are you afraid?" Sheng Hong said hesitantly: "If you are afraid, I will..."
"Wei Chen is not afraid!"
Li Qiao immediately shook his head, his voice sonorous and powerful: "The prince can go to the border town, so can the humble ministers. The border town is now impregnable, why should the humble ministers be afraid?"
"Are you really afraid?"
"I'm really not afraid!"
Li Qiao's voice and expression were extremely firm.
Seeing that he really had no fear, Sheng Hong felt relieved: "Then I'll leave this matter to you. You first read the daily reports from the border town, and when you get to the border town, check whether these report talismans are in line with reality. We will set off in three days with the coal you donated."
"yes!"
Li Qiao responded loudly.
Reports from the border towns were all reviewed by Sheng Hong personally. Although Li Qiao had some involvement in the affairs of the Ministry of War, he had no right to interfere with such confidential matters before.
Now that Sheng Hong asked him to read it, he quickly browsed through the reports from this period.
Sheng Hong sat aside and explained the relevant situation to him.
There are now 120,000 troops in the border city, and together with the hundreds of thousands of civilians in the city, the total is less than 300,000.
The border town is actually a small city, but it is not an isolated city.
The border town was a market built by the previous dynasty to trade with the Hu people. Later, there were more exchanges between the two sides, and it slowly developed from a market into a small town.
Therefore, the border city was built at the junction of Dasheng and the Hu people, and after the border city was the Great Wall.
The Great Wall is not an isolated wall. Behind the Great Wall are important military towns and important cities. Together with the defensive wall of the Great Wall, they form a solid defense network.
Therefore, the troops in the border town are not weak at all, and there is no danger in this trip.
That day, Li Qiao didn't return home until dark.
