Because Pei Kang was in Tangliyuan, Shao Xun did not dare to be presumptuous. After talking about the business, he left unhappy.
Princess Lu of Fan Yang rode a carriage and walked with him for a while.
I don't know if it was an illusion, but Shao Xun always felt that this woman was secretly looking at him.
When passing by the gate of Liuhuayuan, he asked his soldiers to help carry some household items inside.
There were also soldiers guarding Liuhuayuan. When they saw the famous Marquis of Luyang arriving, they all knelt on the ground with a huff.
Some people's bodies even trembled a little, as if they were afraid of something.
"What are you afraid of?" Shao Xun tapped one of them on the back with a riding crop and asked.
"Your Majesty..." This man seemed to be unable to handle the situation, his face turned earth-colored.
Shao Xun glanced at Mrs. Lu, who nodded slightly.
"Pull him down for torture." Shao Xun waved his hand, and the soldiers swarmed up and pulled the man down.
The other guards unsheathed their swords, strung their bows, and stared at the other guards.
Some soldiers looked calm and fearless.
Some of the soldiers even looked happy and looked at the others hatefully.
Others' expressions were unnatural.
Shao Xun thought for a while, then walked into the courtyard and sat for a while.
Lu was stunned for a while, and then quickly understood. After asking Shao Xun about his taste preferences, he cooked a pot of tea with his own hands and poured it for him.
Shao Xun was not polite, picked up the tea bowl, and drank leisurely.
All the servants and maids in the house were silent and watched quietly.
After quietly drinking a bowl of tea, Tang Jian came over and reported something softly.
The matter is actually nothing, just a collusion between servants and soldiers in the government. For the time being, they don't have much courage, they only dare to spend a little money, but who knows in the future?
"Make me Shuiyin cakes next time." Shao Xun stood up and said goodbye.
"Yeah." Lu's face turned slightly red and she responded softly.
The servants lowered their heads even more.
The large group of people left quickly, and with them, there were more than ten guards and servants from Liuhuayuan.
Madam Lu stood at the door of the courtyard, watching Shao Xun's disappearing figure, and sighed silently.
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When passing Guangcheng Palace, Shao Xun did not pause and went directly back to Green Willow Garden.
He is a little tired now.
Dealing with several women turns out to be so tiring!
He simply couldn't imagine it if there were dozens of women or even three thousand beauties.
Perhaps, in the end, like Sima Yan, he rode a sheep cart. Wherever the sheep pulling the cart went, he would spend the night with the concubine that day, leaving behind the allusion of "the sheep cart looks good".
Fortunately, he pulled back from the brink and didn't provoke the Lu family again.
It was already the 25th when we returned to Green Willow Garden, and the Chinese New Year was in five days.
When he sat comfortably on the recliner, listening to Lan Ji's soft voice, his mother's nagging with a hint of concern in her complaints, and her son's mouthful of "babbles", he felt much more relaxed.
If someone calls him to go out to war at this time, he will definitely fall out!
"Xiao Chong, how many months a year do you have to go on an expedition now?" Mother Liu asked while sewing clothes for her eldest grandson.
"It will always take three to five months, maybe half a year." Shao Xun closed his eyes and fell asleep, enjoying the massage of Song Yi's tender hands, and said: "In the future, there will be more and more days of expedition."
Mrs. Liu hesitated to speak, and finally couldn't help asking: "Can you tell Wang Situ that there is no one in the court who can fight? My son will go on an expedition and will not be able to return home for half a year. If it is a year
It's been fine for two years, but if it's like this every year, will the war never end?"
Shao's father coughed on the side and began to make a lofty speech: "Wang Situ is a famous person in the world. He summoned Xiao Chong to go out to fight, but he deliberately cultivated Xiao Chong. If you disobey him, it may be detrimental to Xiao Chong's career. What do you, a woman, know?"
"
Le Lanji had a smile in her eyes, and she almost lost her rhythm when beating her legs for Shao Xun.
"Wang Situ?" Shao Xun stroked Song Yi's pretty face and said, "Auntie, don't worry, Wang Situ doesn't have that much respect with me. It's actually voluntary for him to lead his troops to the expedition. Next year if the Xiongnu
When we call Luoyang, even if the imperial court has not issued an order, I will lead the troops north to resist the enemy without taking any advantage."
Father Shao was speechless.
Liu subconsciously ignored the previous words, focused on the key points, and asked: "Is the Huns going south?"
"Eight or nine are inseparable from ten." Shao Xun said: "In the past few months, Liu Yuanhai has been working hard to reorganize Pingyang and Hedong counties, sort out the internal affairs, and after saving up money and food, he will probably go south. There are always more than 100,000 troops.
, the cavalry is no less than 50,000."
Mrs. Liu didn't know what "50,000 cavalry" meant, but there were just a lot of them anyway. When she heard her son's words, her heart collapsed and her eyes were red.
Father Shao was also a little silent. After sighing, he went out to enjoy the cold wind.
He had participated in the Battle of Pingwu when he was young and knew what 50,000 cavalry meant. Even if it was just 50,000 herdsmen, at least he could shoot arrows and kill people on horseback, right? At least he could run fast, right? He would intercept your food route.
Come on, how do you deal with it?
This battle is very dangerous! There are tens of millions of elite soldiers. If one of them is not good, they may be drowned in these tides of barbarian soldiers.
"Liu Yuanhai is really..." Mrs. Liu put down her clothes, feeling a little annoyed.
"Liu Yuan, courtesy name Yuan Hai." Shao Xun corrected.
"Liu Haiyuan..."
"Liu Yuan, Zi Yuanhai." Shao Xun corrected again.
Mrs. Liu glared at him and said angrily: "Have you had lunch?"
"Have eaten, gravy soup cake." Shao Xun replied casually.
"I'm sure I haven't eaten enough." Mrs. Liu murmured and went out to prepare snacks for her son.
Le Lanji stopped her hand and asked, "Are there any soup cakes in the army?"
"When passing by Tangliyuan, Princess Donghai took pity on me as a general of the Yue family. I had been on a long campaign and worked extremely hard, so she made soup cakes with her own hands and invited me to enjoy them." Shao Xun looked into Le Lanji's eyes and said.
Lan Ji was a little surprised at first, and then realized that the man was lying to him. She smiled and said: "You are so beautiful!"
"Forget it if you don't believe it." Shao Xun smiled.
"Princess Donghai is dignified and elegant, and she is your mistress. How can a mistress cook for her servants with her own hands?" Lan Ji rolled her eyes at him and continued to beat her legs.
Shao Xun chuckled and stopped arguing.
Not only Princess Donghai, but also my sister-in-law are cooking together. If it weren't for Lao Pei's light bulb, who knows I wouldn't be able to go home tonight.
To tell the truth, no one always believes me! I’ll go to the Sheep Queen’s place to drink rice porridge in two days to make up for my lost mood.
However, this is really tiring.
Riding horses and galloping, bending bows and fighting hundreds of times, fighting life and death, being covered with wounds... In the end, they were not fighting for their lives for the children of these women.
Live for X, die for X, and work hard for X all your life.
Hey, man!
Mother Liu brought a bowl of japonica rice porridge and sour and crisp pickles, which were very delicious together. Shao Xun finished them in a while.
Very good, you don’t have to go to the Sheep Queen’s house.
After finishing his porridge, he took a stroll by the Ru River.
It was almost New Year's Day, and the countryside was deserted.
Far and near, there are smoked villages and cottages everywhere.
The number of people in Liang County is increasing every year.
The people's life is not very rich, but at least they can survive and be reunited with their families, which is better than anything else.
Living for X and dying for X is just a joke. Even if this peaceful life is not broken by violence, it is worth the pain.
Why did I come here? Of course, it was to fuck Liu Yuanhai—no, Liu Haiyuan—nor, to bring peace to the world.
On the day before the New Year, Princess Lu of Fan Yang sent someone to send 500 coins and 1,000 pieces of silk as a "thank you gift".
Le Lanji accepted it calmly, and her eyes on Shao Xun became a little unpredictable.
Shao Xun was too lazy to explain and continued to lie at home.
This is his rare uninterrupted leisure time in the year.
Perhaps, even the Huns have to celebrate the New Year.
After these few days, it will be the third year of Yongjia (309), the period in history when the Yongjia Rebellion really started.
From then on, the battles to defend Luoyang were fought one after another for nearly two years. In the end, Luoyang fell when the food route was cut off, internal fighting between the monarch and his ministers continued, and Sima Yue lost confidence and fled with his troops.
Can Luoyang really not be defended? Not necessarily.
Will Luoyang be destroyed? Definitely.
This is a huge crisis, but also an excellent opportunity.
Whether it can rise depends on this wave.
A few days later, the New Year arrives.
Heavy snow is falling in the sky, bringing a strong flavor of the New Year to Yongjia for the third year.
After spending the fifteenth day of the first lunar month with his family, Shao Xun went to the countryside with his soldiers, visited the families of the soldiers one by one, and gave them a gift.
This is an annual repertoire. The cost is not high and the effect is excellent.
I was busy like this until February, and I started to meet waves of people from Yingchuan and Henan counties to blend their interests and was very busy.
In fact, as Pei Kang said, the Yingchuan Chen family, the Zhong family, the Yu family, and even the Xun family all donated large sums of money and food, and their attitude was very obvious.
Shao Xun knew that this was a contract.
I help you as an official and take care of the rear, provide you with money and food, and you provide security and protection, mutual benefit and mutual cooperation.
This is the current situation in troubled times and the philosophy of survival in troubled times.
After all this work, mid-March came unexpectedly. It was at this time that Chu Hui, a large farmer, came to report that the rain this spring seemed to be less than in previous years.
Shao Xun's heart skipped a beat, what was supposed to come finally came.
In the last years of the dynasty, how could we avoid floods, droughts, and locust bandits?
He immediately rushed to Guangchengze, his largest agricultural and animal husbandry base.
Chapter completed!