Chapter 5 The Overseer's House(1/2)
The next day, the red sun slowly rose from the east.
Dugu Liwei opened his hazy eyes, turned his head to look at Dugu Jin who was still shrinking in his arms and sleeping soundly. He couldn't help but pinched his face.
"It's really good to sleep"
Dugu Jin was not disturbed by Dugu Lifeng's little movements at all. He still closed his eyes and smacked his lips from time to time, saying whether he had dreamed of something delicious.
Dugu Lifeng, who was a modern person in his previous life, was not disgusted with the lazy bed of a five-year-old child. The five-year-old child should be at a good age to eat, drink and have fun, rather than being busy with schoolwork all day. To be honest, Dugu Lifeng felt a little distressed when he looked at Dugu Jin who got up early and went to class all day long.
Dugu Liqi gently pulled out his numb arms, put on his shoes and walked out of bed, tidied up his clothes in front of him, looked at the bronze mirror in front of him and frowned. There was a question that always existed in Dugu Liqi's heart, whether the place where he lived was ancient China or the earth.
If so, why are there no record in later generations? If not, there are many similarities with Chinese history, such as time, festival, currency, the Spring Festival is called the Shengyuan Festival here, on the last day of March.
Dugu Liqi, who had tidied up his clothes, turned around and pushed the door out. A touch of sunlight shone on Dugu Liqi's face, making him unable to open his eyes.
Wang Huai, who had been waiting in the prince's uterus, immediately stretched out his hand to block the dazzling sunshine for Dugu Li.
"Your Highness, the Prince's Young Guard Nie Rong has come to urge the Prince to go to class three times."
He snorted coldly at Dugu Liwei, who made five-year-old children get up early and go to bed late to study and get off the ground, "Tell him that the prince is still young and should not get up early every day to work hard. If you want to teach, you will continue to teach. If you don't want to teach, you will go home to support your old age."
"No" Wang Huai carefully agreed. After years of experience, he felt that the prince in front of him was really angry. "Your Highness, don't get angry."
"Okay, what's going on in the Governor's Court?"
"I was ready last night."
"Yeah, lead the way!"
Dugu Liqi followed Wang Huai and walked to the former Shengqian Palace, but now it has been changed to the Military Supervisor Academy. There is no other person on the way except Dugu Liqi and Wang Huai. It is not that Daqi Palace is so poor that no one can serve him, but that he can't believe it.
"How is it going on over there in Tiance?" Dugu Lifeng asked in a low voice.
"Your Highness, the amount has been arranged in the same few days. Three thousand Tiance Guards have been arranged. And according to the latest news from Tiance, Li Fu's eldest son Li Sheng has returned to Beijing."
"Oh" Dugu Lifeng said with a long voice, "Let Wang Quan come here, let the rest of you arrange, I will meet all the civil and military generals who can come, including this Li Sheng."
"No" Wang Huai stepped down and went to make arrangements.
Dugu Liqiu looked at everything familiar in front of the military governor's courtyard and slowly walked to the table to sit down.
After a moment, Wang Huai knelt in front of Dugu Liwei with a young man in his early twenties.
"Slave Wang Quan has seen His Highness Qiansui."
Dugu Lifeng waved his hand and signaled Wang Huai to arrange his affairs. After Wang Huai left, Dugu Lifeng spoke, "Your name is Wang Quan."
"Yes, Your Highness" Wang Quan knelt down and said respectfully.
"Get up and talk!"
"Thank you" Wang Quan stood up respectfully, without any disrespect in his entire movement. This made Dugu Liwei very satisfied.
"Wang Huai told you everything! What should I do? No need to talk nonsense."
"I am willing to protect the safety of Your Highness and the Prince with my wealth and life." Wang Quan was a little excited in his respect. He knew that this was his opportunity.
"Hmph!" Dugu Liwei snorted coldly, "Your life is worthless."
"Yes" Wang Quan answered without any displeasure. This is their life as slaves, and the life of his master is always much more important than that of a slave.
Seeing that Wang Quan's performance was quite satisfied, Dugu Liwei's tone slowed down. "But there are still family members"
"There are two younger brothers, an old mother and a married sister in the family."
"Well! I will not treat your family badly! From now on, I will give you some money to your family according to the monthly offer of the marquis."
Dugu Lifeng's tone was filled with a strong pain, "At present, I can only promise you these things. When the court stabilizes, I will reward you separately."
"Thank you Your Highness" Wang Quan trembled with excitement and knelt down again, "The life of the slave will belong to His Highness in the future."
"Get up! I don't want your life. Only when you are alive will it be useful to me and you."
"promise"
"I want to divide Tiance into Tianwei and Cewei. Tianwei is responsible for collecting intelligence, and Cewei is responsible for the safety of my prince and me."
Wang Quan lowered his body and asked respectfully, "I dare to ask your highness, how many people should be collected by Tianwei and Cewei."
"Caiwei will raise 10,000 yuan! The number of people in Tianwei is not limited, but you need to be virgin and not waste."
Wang Quan trembled all over. He deeply realized the ambition of the young prince in front of him. "But... money and food..."
Wang Quan was also full of confusion. This soldier could not be raised just by raising it. Nothing was worth raising it without money, but he did not dare to disobey the orders of the young prince in front of him, so he could only ask with a gritty question.
"I have some private money. You can take it first and implement Cewei first. I hope that in three days I will see the first batch of Cewei now in front of me and give me a safe sleep."
After saying that, Dugu Liwei took out three silver notes with a denomination of 10,000 taels from his arms and handed them to Wang Quan. Dugu Liwei's heart was so painful at this time! These were all the money for buying grain from the frontline Longwuwei, and he would never use it if he had no choice.
Dugu Liqi handed a token with the word Zhao from his waist to Wang Quan, "This is my token, you can enter and exit the palace gate at will."
"Don't worry, let's make arrangements! The Ministry of Revenue will allocate the money to you for two days."
"No" Wang Quan respectfully withdrew from the Governor's Court and then started preparing.
Looking at Wang Huaidu, who had retreated, shook his head and sighed helplessly, "No one is available!"
Chongwenfang, Tufu
"Eunuch Chen, what's going on in the palace?" The picture said to Chen Geng, who was wearing the Sili Supervisor's uniform in front of him.
"Returning to Lord Tu, there is no big noise in other places in the palace. King Zhao stays in the Prince's Palace and Shengqian Palace every day." Chen Geng continued to feel nervous and said with a hint of treason on his face: "The eunuchs and palace maids in these two places don't go at all, so our family doesn't know much."
Tuli was not dissatisfied with this reply. She smiled and took out four or five silver notes from her arms and stuffed them into Chen Geng's hands. "I'm sorry, I'll inform me if there is any movement in the palace."
"This... how can you be so embarrassed?" Chen Geng put the silver notes in his arms. "I'll be assured that our family will do our best."
Tuli nodded and shouted to the boy outside the door: "Send Eunuch Chen"
Chen Geng followed the little boy out of the picture mansion very tactfully. After Chen Geng left, a man wearing iron armor and a big beard walked out of the back hall where the picture was located.
"Uncle Second, why are you politely a eunuch like this?"
"Tuhai, can you move your brain? Don't even think about getting into the woman's butt's trunk?" Tuli said angrily to Tuhai, "If it weren't useful, I would bet on him again and again."
Tuhai smiled and said, "Look at the second uncle you mentioned."
"Don't smirk, enter the palace later, be careful. Look at what cards this Dugu child wants to play." The picture looked at his unsatisfied nephew in anger. Why did he send him to such an important position as the Imperial Guard?
"Look! Second Uncle, don't worry if I do my business."
Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye it was noon. In the middle, Dugu Liwei returned to the prince's uterus, had a meal together, and then came to send Dugu Jin to Nie Rong's place.
Nie Rong saw Dugu Liwei holding Dugu Jin with a cold face, "It's almost noon, why didn't your highness send the prince?"
This made Dugu Liwei very angry. The clay man still had a third temper. In his picture, Li Fu bullied me and you were arrogant and said angrily: "Nie Shaobao, when will the prince get up in the future, and when will you teach? If Nie Shaobao feels it is difficult, then I will ask you to be smart!"
After saying that, Dugu Lifeng hugged Dugu Jin and left, leaving Nie Rong who was angry and half-dead.
Dugu Lifeng put Dugu Jin himself in the prince's uterus and was worried. He wanted to meet the civil and military generals in Beijing at noon. Fortunately, Wang Huai had already done his arrangements, so Dugu Lifeng handed the prince over to Wang Huai for his care.
Daqi Palace, Military Supervisor
It was noon and the sun was at its highest position, but the Governor's Court of Jiman still felt a little cold, and the March day in Daqi was still a little cold.
Dugu Liqi sat in the main seat of the Military Supervisor Academy and glanced at the civil and military generals sitting in front of him.
"To be the general, I will accept the order of the Grand Commander of the World in the Imperial Palace to take charge of all the military affairs of Daqi. Everyone should know that this is not a nonsense."
Dugu Lifeng took a sip of the tea placed on the table and continued, "Today I asked you to come here without any other consciousness, just recognize your face."
"Your Highness, since you are in charge of military affairs in the world, you should call yourself the governor, not the king."
Facing Cheng Yaojin who suddenly appeared, Dugu Lifeng did not show any unhappiness, and smiled and said, "Dare to ask the general's name"
"Zheng Rong, the general of Huaihua in the third rank," Zheng Rong answered respectfully with his fists.
"But the Duke of Zheng," Dugu Lifeng asked.
"Zheng Qishan is the ancestor." Zheng Rong replied proudly, which made several literary generals beside him feel chills. What awesome? Your ancestors are awesome now, and now they are just a commander with titles but no authority. This is the current situation of Daqi. Literary and cultural generals look down on the military generals of the past.
Zheng Rong disagreed. This is his honor. If it weren't for their generals, how could this great country for them to have fun today? Do you look down on me, and I still look down on you?
"It's really a general! General Zheng, I accept your opinion,"
"Xie Tushuai, Lao Zheng, I don't know any prince, I only recognize the Tushuai. Please forgive me." Zheng Rong blushed, causing everyone sitting around to laugh.
"Okay, General Zheng has accepted the kindness of the governor. From now on, I will call you the governor, not the prince."
"No" everyone stood up and responded in unison
Dugu Lifeng waved his hand and sat down. "I heard that the General of Right Guard Li Sheng was the General of the Right Guard.
I returned to Beijing a few days ago, I don’t know if I can be with everyone.”
"Mo Jiang's Day" Li Sheng, who was sitting at the end of the crowd, stood up and clasped his fists at Dugu Li's side.
"I heard the name of Li Jun when I was at the border." Dugu Lifeng stood up and held his fists and said respectfully, "General Li has been living in Yongguan to resist the Jin thieves for three years, and to ensure the peace of Daqi border. I thank General Li for the people of Daqi."
"The commander-in-chief is serious, and I am really uncomfortable with the gift."
Everyone looked at each other, surprised why Dugu Lixiang in front of him praised Li Sheng like this as soon as he got up. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack when he is a resident of Yongguan. As long as he is not stupid, he can defend for a while.
Dugu Liqi, who sat down, cleared his throat, "There is one thing that I have to ask everyone to come today, that is, I will reorganize the army in Beijing. The Daqi army is divided into two armies, the left and right Weiwei, the left and right Wuwei, the left and right Wuwei, the left and right Xiaowei, the left and right leading military guards, the left and right Jinwuwei, the left and right Jinwuwei, the north and south armies are directly under our control."
To be continued...