Zhao Xuanyi turned to look at Li Yukun
"Father-in-law, where did you buy this peach blossom wine?"
"Ah?" Li Yukun looked at the wine jar on the table and shook his head.
"I've never drunk this wine before!" Li Hanyan said with a smile.
"I got this from home. Yesterday I went to clean your room. I saw that there were more than a dozen jars in your room. They seemed very good, so I took two jars for my father to drink!" After Zhao Xuanyi heard this, he clenched his fist instantly. Fists and eyes were staring at Li Hanyan, but no one else could see what was going on. Zi Yuan found that the veins on Zhao Xuanyi's forehead had popped up. Zi Yuan didn't understand what was going on. Why was Zhao Xuanyi suddenly angry?
Just before Zhao Xuanyi got angry, Shen Wei hurriedly walked over, picked up a jar of wine, opened it, and poured wine for Li Yukun and everyone else.
"Young Master, let me pour you some wine!" After Shen Wei finished speaking, he gave Zhao Xuanyi a look. Zhao Xuanyi suppressed his anger without breaking out. He took a few deep breaths to calm down the restlessness in his body. Finally, despite Zi Yuan's fright, Zhao Xuanyi's face gradually returned to normal.
After Li Yukun picked up the wine glass and took a sip, he couldn't help but be surprised.
"This wine is good! Son-in-law, where did you get such good wine? I haven't drunk it yet!"
"This...?" Zhao Xuanyi bit his tongue, unable to say a word, his eyes full of forbearance and loneliness.
"This wine is produced in the south of the Yangtze River and is not available in the entire capital. Miss Tang Rou paid a lot of money to have it shipped from the south of the Yangtze River to my young master!" Shen Wei saw that Zhao Xuanyi was speechless, so he said everything loudly. out!
Shen Wei's words stunned everyone present. Li Yukun and Li Hanrui looked at Li Hanyan. Li Hanyan looked as if she had just been struck by lightning. She never expected that this good wine was left by Tang Rou. , I was angry and annoyed for a while, but more importantly, I was embarrassed. I thought it was the good wine that Zhao Xuan left for me, so I just took two jars of it, but I didn’t expect this to be the result!
The four of them looked at the table full of food and wine, and instantly lost their appetites. None of them knew what to do!
Tang Rou was a name they didn't want to mention, and they didn't dare to mention it. Everyone knew the real reason why Zhao Xuanyi became like this, and everyone avoided it. Unexpectedly, Li Hanyan broke the balance.
Zhao Xuanyi looked at everyone and smiled on his face
"Don't worry about where it came from. You can't live up to the good wine, right? Father-in-law, second brother, let's drink it!"
"Okay, okay!" Li Yukun and Li Hanrui also picked up the wine glasses. Everyone acted as if nothing happened, chatting about unimportant topics while drinking and laughing!
When Li Hanyan saw Zhao Xuanyi's expression at the banquet, she felt very unwilling. She hadn't been back for so long and didn't even talk to herself?
So I found some topics
"How is Qilin Camp doing lately?"
"Same old!" Zhao Xuanyi said softly.
"I heard that you have developed several more weapons recently. Can you show them to me when you have time?"
"inconvenient!"
"I'm your wife, I'll just take a look and don't want it, okay?"
"Danger! And it's all secret!" Li Hanyan was really angry. What happened to Zhao Xuanyi? Guard yourself?
"I'm not an outsider, can't I see your new weapons? All the military camps belong to me!" Zhao Xuanyi put down his wine glass and turned to look at Li Hanyan
"How about returning the Qilin Guard to you?"
"You...?" Li Hanyan was so angry that she couldn't say a word.
"Han Yan, what does it have to do with your woman when a man talks? Shut up!" Li Yukun's heart almost jumped out of his chest when he heard Zhao Xuanyi's words. He thought to himself, why is this girl so unable to speak?
Don't you see that Zhao Xuanyi is very angry now? Li Hanyan lowered her head and stopped talking, feeling very sad. Zhao Xuanyi was not like this before. He didn't even get any fish for himself today!
Because of Li Hanyan's unbridled talk, the anger at the dinner table once again dropped to freezing point. Several people ate in silence, and no one spoke. It really echoed the old saying of the ancients, eating without words and sleeping without words!
Just when everyone didn't know how to break the embarrassment, there was a sound of rapid running outside. When everyone looked up, they saw Liu Bo running into the hall at an extremely fast speed [Plop!
] He knelt on the ground with a cry, holding a letter in his hand.
"General, there was an attack in the Far East. The battle report was rushed to the capital from 800 miles away. This is from our own people!" Liu Bo gasped.
"What? Bring it quickly!" Li Yukun shouted. Liu Bo stood up in a hurry and handed the letter to Li Yukun. Li Yukun took it over and opened it, and his face became very ugly. Li Hanrui also stood behind his father. After reading the battle report, his brows also wrinkled!
Zhao Xuanyi, as if nothing had happened, picked up a piece of meat and put it in his mouth, eating it with relish, as if everything had nothing to do with him!
Li Hanrui is a little impatient
"Father, what's going on?" Li Yukun sighed after putting down the letter.
"Have you finally taken action, the abominable Jurchen tribe? They have no intention of letting our people in the Ming Dynasty have a good year!" Li Hanyan asked her father for a letter. Li Yukun gave the letter to Li Hanyan, and Li Hanyan took it and read it.
"The Jurchen tribe actually came with a 30,000-strong army as vanguard? And captured three cities?" Li Hanyan put down the letter
"This Tang Wujie is not a fool. Why did the Jurchens take over the city so quickly? What is Tang Mi doing? Is he dead?" Li Yukun picked up the wine glass and drank the wine in one gulp, his face filled with anger.
"Tang Wujie didn't say that his first battle was unfavorable, but he actually asked the court for 400,000 military pay? He really wants to go back as he lives longer!" After hearing this, Li Hanrui thought for a few seconds and shook his head slightly.
"In this situation, maybe Tang Wujie just wants to use military pay to encourage the soldiers! It's understandable that such a big war requires military pay! The Jurchen tribe's vanguard force this time is 30,000 people! No one knows how many people there will be in the real army!"
"It seems that Tang Wujie is planning a large-scale war!" After Li Yukun finished speaking, he looked at Zhao Xuanyi who had been silent for a long time.
"Son-in-law, what do you think of this matter?" Zhao Xuanyi put down his chopsticks and turned to look at Li Yukun
"It has nothing to do with us. Let's continue drinking and eating meat to celebrate the New Year. Tang Wujie has hundreds of thousands of troops. If he can't defeat just tens of thousands of people, wouldn't he be too useless?" After hearing this, Li Yukun nodded lightly.
"What you say is true, but real war is not that simple! Although the eastern theater is not under our jurisdiction, we still have to provide assistance if necessary. After all, it is the territory of the Ming Dynasty!" Zhao Xuanyi nodded with a smile.
"What my father-in-law said is absolutely true!" After saying that, Zhao Xuanyi continued to eat and drink without saying a word! When Li Yukun and Li Hanrui saw Zhao Xuanyi's appearance, they stopped talking and ate quietly. The dinner ended in a strange atmosphere!
Zhao Xuanyi led everyone to Piaoyun Pavilion. Zhao Xuanyi didn't say a word along the way. Li Hanyan felt anxious and angry. She hoped that Zhao Xuanyi would have a quarrel with her, but Li Hanyan ignored her at all, which made Li Hanyan feel anxious. Very sad.
With Tang Wujie's hundreds of thousands of troops guarding the Far East Theater, Zhao Xuanyi could naturally sit back and relax, but others in the capital could not sleep. I heard that the Jurchens in the East Theater had begun to take action. This was a big deal!
Ye Yaoguo came to Ye Yaoming's study and asked hurriedly after entering
"Brother, have you heard? There's a war in the Far East Theater!" Ye Yaoming nodded and wrote something quickly on the folding paper.
"I just heard about it! And Tang Wujie asked for 400,000 military pay right away. It's really a big deal!"
"It stands to reason that for an army of more than 100,000 people, it is not an exaggeration to ask for so much military pay. But since he failed in the first battle, and he wants so much, I guess the Holy Emperor will not agree so easily, right?" Ye Yaoguo said with a smile.
"Of course! The royal money does not come from strong winds, how can it be given so easily?"
"Then what are you doing?"
"Please fight! Didn't Tang Wujie ask for 400,000? Then let's order less, just 200,000!" After Ye Yaoming finished speaking, he stopped the pen in his hand, put the fold aside and waited for the writing to dry slowly.
"To defend the country, you have to eat before you eat! Brother, you have to know that war is a business, a big business!" Ye Yaoguo smiled and gave a thumbs up
"Brother, you are still smart!" In the Mingyue Palace, the lights were bright, but Zhu Yuejun didn't have any admiring eyes at this moment. He looked at the fold in his hand with a peerless face, which was about to turn into stone, and his eyes wanted to spit out their anger and sweep it away. These disgusting discounts!
The four maids stood aside and were so frightened that they did not dare to express their anger. After all, the Chinese New Year was coming soon, and such a big event came at a critical moment, which completely disrupted everyone's happy New Year mood. Seeing Zhu Yuejun's angry face, they almost A girl is scared!
"The Emperor has arrived!" A shout came from outside Mingyue Palace. Zhu Yuejun stood up in a hurry and took the four maids around him to pick him up. When he saw Zhu Chufeng walking over wearing a dragon robe, Zhu Yuejun hurriedly knelt on the ground.
"See you, brother!" Zhu Chufeng hurriedly grabbed Zhu Yuejun's arm and helped him up.
"Imperial sister, please get up quickly. Why do we, brothers and sisters, need so many etiquettes? I am the only one left with such a caring person like you!" The brother and sister came to the hall, and the guests and hosts took their seats. Zhu Chufeng looked at the things on Zhu Yuejun's table. Zhezi, looked at Zhu Yuejun’s face again
"Are you very angry?" Zhu Chufeng asked with a smile.
"Brother Huang is smarter than me!" Zhu Yuejun said with a smile.
"Hey...! These so-called loyal ministers and righteous men are all called by outsiders. Once they are asked to defend the country, they will ask for military pay. If they don't pay, they will not take action. I really don't know what they think of Jiangshan Sheji!" Zhu Yuejun Smiling, he walked aside and picked up the folding book.
"Tang Wujie needs 400,000 taels of military pay. Ye Yaoming is quite polite and only wants half of it, 200,000 taels!"
"Hmph! Two hundred thousand taels? If I really give it to him, he will probably only send 20,000 troops at most, which is too much!" Zhu Chufeng said angrily.
Zhu Yuejun sighed softly
"Yuejun has something he doesn't know whether to say or not!"
"Is there anything else that you, my brother and my sister, can't talk about? We've heard a lot of nasty things these days!"
"Yue Jun believes that Tang Wujie is not short of troops now. He holds 130,000 Far East border troops in his hands. The troops are only strong but not weak. The reason why he was so passive this time is because the Jurchen tribe suddenly attacked and caught Tang Wujie off guard. Only three cities were lost! So Yuejun wants...?" Before Zhu Yuejun finished speaking, Nan Zhu hurriedly ran into the main hall and knelt in front of Zhu Yuejun.
"Princess Qi, the Moon Guards are here to report that the fourth city has been lost in the Far East!"
"What?" Zhu Chufeng was so angry that he slapped a chair hard, gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, unable to say a word!
After Zhu Yuejun heard this, he waved his hand gently. Nan Zhu hurriedly retreated, and Zhu Yuejun came to Zhu Chufeng's side.
"Yuejun believes that the most important thing right now is not to send reinforcements, but to send a capable general to fight a few beautiful counterattacks. This can boost morale. If all the Far Eastern Army has morale, there will be no need to worry about the Jurchen barbarians. !”
"Yuejun's words make sense, but who should be sent? I would like to send Li Yukun, but I'm afraid he won't agree. It's even less likely that Li Hanrui and Li Hanyan will be willing to go. Their two families are at odds with each other. As for Ye Yaoming's lineage, don't worry about it. That’s the output of brass, you need money to speak!”
"Yue Jun has a candidate. In fact, if the emperor doesn't come at this moment, Yue Jun is planning to leave the palace to explain the matter. If he can be persuaded, it will surely happen!"
"Who? Who has such ability?" Zhu Chufeng asked very curiously.
"Qilin Guard, Zhao Xuanyi!" Zhu Yuejun said. When Zhu Chufeng heard this, he patted the chair
"Yes! How come I forgot about this person, but...he is Li Yukun's son-in-law. Can Li Yukun agree?"
