Chapter 154 My Husband is Back
Zhao Yulin told Lao Lu to send someone from Shunfeng to infiltrate Bozhou first, find out the situation clearly and then lead the troops to suppress the rebellion. Then, confiscate the weapons of the government army, reorganize them and transfer them to Guanzhong to fight against the Mongolian army.
Those who disobey orders will be sent to build roads and bridges. Bozhou is mountainous and the roads are difficult to travel on. They eat so much rice from the people, they can't just be a glutton and do nothing.
Lao Lu said confidently that as long as my brother gave the order, the rest would be easy. The key is that the two ladies of Bozhou came to us personally to ask for help. We have the support of the people and we will definitely be able to do it well.
The imperial court set up vassal states in these places, and the policies implemented were very relaxed. Whatever the Shenwei Army wanted to do, wasn't it their own business?
Lu Youpeng was going to Renhuai personally to reorganize the army and deploy an attack on Bozhou.
The two men parted ways after leaving the military camp and went their separate ways.
At dusk, Zhao Yulin returned home but was dumbfounded. In the living room, two well-mannered Baiyi women shouted with smiles: "My husband is back, my husband is back, my master is back..."
Fairy Banban, what is this called?
Zhao Yulin quickly waved his hands and told them to stop shouting.
Li Chuan and the captain of the guard came in and told him that they had said everything, but the other party just refused to leave.
Zhao Yulin gave Li Chuan a fierce look. What had he done?
The captain of the guard explained to him seriously: Both girls are virtuous and beautiful, so the third young master should accept them to avoid making things difficult for them.
Zhao Yulin was completely speechless, staring at his two subordinates with wide eyes. This new captain of the guard really knows how to do things.
When the two girls saw that he would not accept them and even scolded the guards, they took two steps forward and suddenly knelt down before him, begging him with tears streaming down his face to accept them no matter what, even if they were treated like slaves. Otherwise, if they were sent back, the tribe would drown them in a pond.
Zhao Yulin quickly pulled them up. He couldn't bear to see women cry. When women cried, he immediately lost his mind. He said incoherently, "Why are you crying? I didn't bully them."
They are so young that they look like they could be their uncles.
A thin girl said that they were not young anymore, they were already thirteen, and they would be fourteen during the Chinese New Year. She also muttered that which man did not like young women, and how old was the young master?
Zhao Yulin was completely speechless and said that he was almost thirty years old and already had five wives, so he didn't want to get married anymore.
The girl immediately said, "Five wives are too many?"
Not much at all, her father had eight women. She had never seen a lady since she entered this yard?
Haha, people observe very carefully.
Zhao Yulin had been busy all day, and there was nothing he could do when faced with such a situation. He said that since the two girls had come to his house, they should take a break and go to Jinshajiang's Beggar's Chicken for a meal.
Seeing that Zhao Yulin agreed, Li Chuan also breathed a sigh of relief and immediately started to make arrangements.
Zhao Yulin asked the guard captain to pick up the children and go eat beggar's chicken together. He was about to leave Cuiping Mountain, and wanted to spend some time with the cute kids whenever he had the chance.
The whole family went out in a grand manner.
A dark shadow flashed at a distant street corner, and was about to run away, but was stopped by the secret guards led by Qu Zhengyang. This person knew that he could not hide, so he smiled and honestly confessed that he was Madam Shun's subordinate, and that he stayed here just to see whether the third young master accepted their sisters.
Qu Zhengyang also asked with a smile, "Have you found out?"
This person laughed and said that he felt relieved when he saw the young master accept it.
Qu Zhengyang waved his hand and ordered them to be escorted out of the city.
At this time, Zhao Yulin was already sitting in the thatched pavilion of the Beggar's Chicken. When the cute kids saw the Beggar's Chicken on the table, they immediately felt itchy and reached out to pull the chicken legs.
Zhao Yulin hurriedly called out to slow down and not to rush.
When everyone got the order to eat, they started eating immediately.
Wu Jing was small and had short arms, so he couldn't grab the chicken leg and kept shouting, "Daddy, help me get the chicken leg."
The two women looked at the three cute kids in confusion. Ma Yuan was skillfully pulling off a chicken leg and handing it to his sister Wu Jing.
Zhao Yulin said with a smile, "What are you looking at? They are all my kids. Let's eat." The three little guys gnawed on the chicken legs and nodded like chickens pecking at rice.
Ma Yuan asked while eating: Dad, what are the two young ladies doing in our house?
Li Chuan pushed the chicken plate toward the child and told him: I am here to be a mother to the three sisters.
Chen Liu immediately burped and said, "Wow, we have two more mothers to love us. That's great."
Wu Jing counted on her fingers, turned to Zhao Yulin and said, "We already have five mothers."
Zhao Yulin had just taken a sip of wine when he almost spit it out.
The two Baiyi women ate much more politely.
After dinner, Zhao Yulin told Ma Yuan to study hard and practice diligently, and asked the captain of the guard to send all the cute kids to the old house in Jiangbei.
When he got home, he invited the two girls to talk in his study.
After Li Chuan made the tea and left, he said, "Try it, it's the new tea from Qingcheng Mountain."
Only then did Zhao Yulin ask the two girls' names. The tall and thin one was called Zhen Youmei, and the plump one was called Shunzhidi.
He thought both names were a bit strange, and he didn't have the time to explore the mystery behind them.
After taking two sips of tea, he said, "Don't rush to get married, you're still young. To join our Shenwei Army, you need to be educated and learn more."
Both girls said they were learning, their families hired a Chinese language teacher for them, Zhen Youmei told him that she could also make matcha. Do you want to try her cooking skills?
Zhao Yulin immediately smiled and said that it was not necessary.
These chiefs and headmen all attach great importance to education.
He waved his hand and said that what was taught in the Shenwei Army was different from what their teacher taught, so they should go to Cuiping Academy first.
Zhao Yulin called Li Chuan in and asked him to prepare the uniforms of the Shenwei Army for the two girls and send them to the academy to study first. They will both do great things in the future.
Li Chuan agreed immediately, saying that the two ladies' rooms were ready and were both at the west end.
Zhao Yulin glared at Li Chuan with a dark face. What is this kid thinking?
Why is there a nerve short circuit ?
When did he say he wanted to take these two women in?
Zhao Yulin had no mood to work, so he washed up and went to bed early.
Zhen Youmei and Shunzhidi each brought a maid, who also quickly entered the room. Soon, Zhen Youmei ran to find Shunzhidi.
The two girls started whispering in the room.
Zhen Youmei said to Shunzhidi: Doesn't the third young master look like a murderous devil? Why do people in our village say that he kills people without blinking an eye?
Shunzhidi was much quieter than Zhen Youmei. She asked the maid to bring her some tea and said, "Have some. I see she has eaten a lot of beggar's chicken today, so she must be thirsty."
Zhen Youmei stuck out her tongue and said that she just couldn't control her mouth.
Shunzhidi said that the third young master hasn't said yet that he wants to accept us as his wife, so it seems that he still needs to test us. We must not be careless and break the rules, otherwise he will laugh at us.
Zhen Youmei said she was not afraid because Brother Abao in their village liked her very much and she would have no trouble finding a husband.
Shunzhidi immediately put her index finger to her mouth and told her to speak softly and stop talking nonsense.
The two little girls continued to mutter.
Zhao Yulin's mansion gradually became quiet.
At this time, the Central Plains had indeed entered a stage of fierce fighting against the Mongolian army as he said.
The Khan of the grassland sent troops into the Central Plains in three directions on the grounds that the Song Dynasty had broken its promise, forcibly seized Guanzhong and attacked the three capitals. After crossing the Yellow River, they chased Zhao Fan all the way. After the Song army withdrew from Yingtian Prefecture, the two armies fought fiercely around Xuzhou.
Compared with the fallen areas in the Central Plains, Guanzhong was more prominent because it was surrounded by the Mongolian cavalry. If the Mongolian army chose to attack any place, it would be enough to cause trouble for the Shenwei Army.
Zhao Yulin was very worried about the safety of Guanzhong, so he decided to go and guard it quickly.
The next day, he took a boat north to Jiazhou.
As soon as he entered the government office, Chen Chen told him that the document from Lin'an had arrived, asking Jiading Prefecture and Dali Kingdom to discuss the aftermath of the two countries.
He asked, the troops on both sides have retreated, what else is there to discuss?
Chen Chen said of course it was war compensation, and asked him how to calculate it?
Zhao Yulin told her that there were standards. The defeat of Dali five years ago was considered a precedent. In addition, with the increase in prices in recent years, all adjustments were made and all were collected without a penny difference.
As a punishment, we will only collect silver; the taxes from the new town that were originally allocated to Dali in the name of his fourth sister will be cancelled within three years.
Chen Chen stuck out his tongue and said: Brother, you are so cruel, this is money for Sister Sihan.
Zhao Yulin smiled and flicked his finger on her forehead, saying that the Prince of Zhennan used the money to expand his army and fight us, so what should we give him in return?
We’ll talk about it later.
He went to Fengyuanjian to check the production of coins.
After Chen Chen swiftly arrested a traitor, he took over the coin-making organization into the pocket of the Shenwei Army. Guigu's master has already tried to make brand new iron coins, which are just steel coins, and the cost is less than 70% of the past.
It is obvious that those in power at all levels are constantly adding water to the iron coin.
Chen Chen told him that 100,000 strings of new money had been made and sent to Chengdu, waiting for Lord Ding's instructions.
The dirty silver confiscated from Fengyuan Prison was deposited into her Jiading official treasury, as Jiading Prefecture was also short of silver.
She also wants to invest money to make money and reduce the burden on ordinary people.
Zhao Yulin knew that since Chen Chen proposed to build a street in Sanjiangkou, she must have a way to get the capital. He didn't expect that she would include the silver seized from Fengyuan Prison.
He was planning to take the money to Guanzhong for expenses, but now he was robbed by his aunt.
He asked the girl, the Shenwei Army has a lot of money to spend now, and your sister Ma Ling's hair has turned white with worry, how can you get some money to go to Guanzhong for emergency?
Chen Chen acted jealous and pretended to be angry and said that his belly was filled with his first wife, and she was so tired that her hair turned white.
Zhao Yulin knew she was acting like a spoiled brat, so he just drank his tea and ignored her.
The maid went over and hugged his shoulders and shook him, saying that there was another way to get money. The county magistrate of Jianwei came to see her alone and reported to her the clue that the salt administration of Yujin was embezzling money, and Shunfeng was already investigating the case.
Zhao Yulin seemed to have found a new gold mine and asked her what she was waiting for and to arrest the person quickly.
Yujin and the adjacent Yingling area both produce salt, so it is normal for the salt administration to take some small bribes, but when it comes to the county magistrate personally going to Jiading to report corruption to his superiors, the situation must be serious.
It must be investigated and dealt with strictly.
