Chapter 229 Gulgou Hot Spring
However, Hongyuan's rebellion interrupted the Shenwei Army's process of unifying Tubo. Otherwise, they would have personally investigated on Queer Mountain to see if the birds really could not fly over.
Yangjin then said that her father went to Dajianlu, and the young master decided to formally establish the second autonomous state of the Tibetans in Dajianlu: it was called Kangning State.
Officials from Baoning Prefecture will be transferred to the newly built Corning Prefecture, and a group of students from the prefecture's academy will graduate early and go to Corning to work.
Now it was the turn of the Baoning officials to get excited. Many of these people were emancipated serfs. After they followed the Shenwei Army to overthrow the evil slavery system and became the masters of their own country, their status had risen steadily. Now, another group of officials were to be promoted to Kangning to build a state.
Old Tuwa was even more delighted, and shouted that he would let his daughter take charge of Baoning Prefecture, and he promised to do a good job in Kangning Prefecture...
Zhao Yulin soaked in the hot spring, ate barley cakes, drank butter tea, and went to bed in a daze when Yangjin returned to the courtyard. She fell on him as soon as she entered the room and pretended to be dead. It was so heavy that he couldn't lift her up, but if he didn't, he would feel suffocated and couldn't breathe.
He held the woman in his arms and turned over, and after changing positions, he said he wanted to murder her husband, using such a vicious trick?
Yangjin laughed so hard at his amusement that she couldn't catch her breath and kept coughing.
Zhao Yulin quickly supported her and patted her back, scolding her for being so late at night and saying there was no need to be so exaggerated. An adult would have thought that the Third Young Master had come up with some new trick to make the chief steward so happy.
Yangjin continued to laugh, but her voice was much quieter than before. She quickly stripped Zhao Yulin of his clothes and asked him to accompany her to the hot spring again.
Zhao Yulin reluctantly dived back into the water, but before he could lie down, the mermaid slid over and lay on top of him.
Yangjin pinched his nose and said, "Don't be ungrateful after getting such an advantage. Fenghuang wrote to urge you to take more hot spring baths. Hot springs can help heal your wounds."
He knew that the women had good intentions, so he dozed off while holding Yangjin.
In the Chengdu government office, General Youwen, Deputy Envoy of the Military Administration and Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Armies in Sichuan and Shaanxi, was drinking with Mr. Ding.
After Lord Ding recounted in detail how Zhao Yulin was ambushed in Anfu Temple, he said with some exaggeration, "It was a close call. The killing happened right before my eyes. I saw people falling one after another, blood splattering on the spot. I felt deeply saddened.
Cao Youwen was not like Ding Gong, who had never been to the battlefield. The thought that this was an intentional ambush by the imperial court must have disheartened Zhao Yulin.
Mr. Ding said, "That's right. Brother Yulin has already ordered the Shenwei Army to enter various counties and prefectures. What is he going to do?"
Cao Youwen shuddered in his heart and immediately said, "Isn't it just about recruiting the garrison? He has wanted to do this for a long time."
But he knew very well that Zhao Yulin was definitely angry.
Otherwise, such a major event as the garrison in the county would definitely have been informed to them in advance.
He said with a firm look that the Shenwei Army must not be in chaos. He asked Ding Gong if he knew how many troops the Shenwei Army had now.
Lord Ding ruled by doing nothing and did not care about state affairs. How he be familiar with the situation? He looked at Cao Youwen with a confused face.
Cao Youwen said that the Shenwei Army currently has 14 regular columns, five columns of cavalry and a single line of navy, and four new columns of infantry were recently formed. He roughly estimated that there are no less than 400,000 troops, which is not a fictitious number reported in the past in order to collect empty salaries.
You really don't know until you calculate it. Once you calculate it, you will be shocked.
Mr. Ding said with some dissatisfaction that since they had such a strong army, why didn't they march eastwards and repel the northern barbarians in one fell swoop?
Lao Cao said that the border of the Northern Barbarians spans from east to west and is composed entirely of cavalry. A large number of Han troops have also defected from the Central Plains. The Shenwei Army must not only defend the existing defense zone, but also guard against attacks from the Northern Barbarians. How easy is it to march eastward?
Don’t you want Guanzhong anymore?
Don’t you want Hanzhong anymore?
Are the newly established Tibetan states no longer needed? These are all breeding horses, storing horses for the decisive battle with the northern barbarians.
Besides, the rapid development of our Sichuan military has only happened in the past one or two years. Brother Yulin feels sad to see the people displaced, and he never fights an unprepared battle.
Lord Ding understood the seriousness of the situation and immediately suggested to Lord Cao that he should hurry to Gulugou, as it was only three or four days' journey from here. It was said that the young man from Yulin stopped to take a bath and heal his wounds and had not yet left.
Lao Cao thought that the matter was of great importance and didn't even drink the half glass of wine left. He said that he would go back and rest and set off at dawn.
Before daybreak, Lao Cao hurried out of the west gate with a guard of less than thirty people and rode straight to Gulu Valley.
After being tortured by Yangjin for a whole night, Zhao Yulin dressed neatly and went out for a walk in high spirits.
He hadn't seen a single guard in the past few days, so he asked the maid outside the yard, "Where is the guard captain Geng Feihu?"
What have you been doing?
The maid smiled and said that the third young master's guards were holding a flea catching competition to see who could catch the most fleas.
Fairy, Zhao Yulin then realized that his brothers had been following him for many years, and they were tired on and off the horse, so it was inevitable that their clothes would be infested with fleas.
He went out and walked towards the camp where the guards were stationed. When the brothers on guard saw him coming, they greeted him and the guard captain Geng Feihu immediately ran out.
Zhao Yulin asked him with a smile, I heard that you brothers are catching fleas, how is it going?
They were all wiped out.
Feihu said cheerfully that it was arranged by Yangjin's wife, and asked the brothers to have a good rest and wash all the clothes. The brothers really washed comfortably in the big pool of the post station these days. Even the post station's postmaster sighed that he had never seen anyone wash the water so turbid that the bottom could not be seen.
"Damn, that's awesome." Zhao Yulin punched Feihu hard on the chest, telling him to relax and have fun with his brothers. If they see a girl they like, they can flirt with her and try to settle them down. He didn't plan to leave for the time being.
The group of brothers behind immediately laughed when they heard it, and shouted in unison, "Okay." Then they dispersed with a "boom".
Zhao Yulin went back and saw Li Sanqiang standing at the door.
He said that he was already the chief garrison commander of Baoning Prefecture, so why was he still standing at the door?
Sanqiang said with a smile that he had just arrived and was waiting for the young master to come back. Then he shouted: Sister Yangjin, the young master is back, and then gently opened the door for Zhao Yulin.
When he walks in, just ask him to come in; he’s not a stranger.
Zhao Yulin saw that Yangjin was already sitting under the grape trellis drinking tea, and shamelessly spoke up without saying a word, and ordered Sanqiang to bring tea.
Li Sanqiang immediately took the tea tray from the maid and brought it over.
Yangjin took the tea, took a sip and asked: Sanqiang, whose girl's house did you sleep at last night?
Li Sanqiang's hand holding the tea tray immediately shook, making Zhao Yulin's hand wet as he was holding the tea bowl. He glared at Sanqiang fiercely, but Yangjin burst into laughter.
Zhao Yulin rebuked Sanqiang and asked him, "Hasn't it just that he married a Tibetan wife? What's the point of being so pretentious?"
I didn't make any mistakes, so why can't I be stable?
Yangjin smiled and said that if she asked him again, there would be more than one.
Li Sanqiang said with a red face that he would come back later, put down the tea tray and ran away.
Zhao Yulin began to blame Yangjin, saying that Sanqiang was his good brother and he shouldn't play tricks on him like this.
Yangjin then told the truth: it turned out that Sanqiang fell in love with her personal maid, and after she found out, she personally acted as a matchmaker to bring them together.
Unexpectedly, Sanqiang's mother-in-law found that this guy was kind and strong, and did everything for him when he got home. She liked him very much and wanted to marry her youngest daughter to him. How could Sanqiang have the nerve to marry two sisters?
His wife was even more outrageous, and in order to fulfill her mother's wish, she prepared delicious food one night and drank with Sanqiang, intentionally getting him drunk and disarming him, and then stripped her own sister and sent her into the room. In the middle of the night, she heard the noise like a storm in the house and knew it had succeeded.
After dawn, his wife suddenly opened the door and came in to ask Sanqiang who was in bed what to do.
The guy could only say weakly that he would follow his wife's arrangements.
Zhao Yulin also laughed after hearing this.
Yangjin stood up and said, "Let's go out for a walk. It's comfortable in the sun."
They left the courtyard and walked towards the newly built street.
In fact, the so-called street is nothing more than dozens of houses with shop fronts built along both sides of the road. People live upstairs, while the downstairs is used for business, restaurants and stores, and a place for people to rest and eat.
Zhao Yulin saw that the eaves on both sides of the street were filled with stalls selling fresh and dried fruits, and pedestrians would stop from time to time to ask prices and make purchases.
Yangjin told him that there were a lot of people setting up stalls these days, and people from ten or twenty miles away came.
His guards became the main force of consumption. Several girls carried baskets full of walnuts and went to the garrison to sell them. One brother took a fancy to a girl, and her maid helped to introduce them to each other, and they both fell in love.
Walnuts are spades. The spades from Gulugou are thin and fragile, large, fragrant and delicious. I didn't expect that it would lead to a happy marriage.
Zhao Yulin even praised his brother for his ability, and told Yangjin that the more good things like this happened, the better.
Yangjin pinched his waist with her fingers and said, "This is a blind date. Is it that easy?"
The two of them walked happily on the street. Occasionally, someone would recognize Yangjin and excitedly call her in Tibetan: Miss Tashi Delek.
Many people followed and shouted: Tashi Delek, Tashi Delek.
Yangjin happily leaned on Zhao Yulin's shoulder and walked back.
Zhao Yulin asked her if she had paper and pen. He wanted to write something.
The woman said she knew he couldn't sit still, so she had already made preparations.
They went back and opened the door to the small living room, and found a large table inside with all the four treasures of the study. It turned out that the room had been arranged already.
Zhao Yulin hugged the woman and gave her a long kiss, then sat down and looked through the documents on the table.
Yangjin told him: Shunfeng has established a rapid intelligence delivery system here, and the newspaper printing of Baoning Prefecture has also been moved here. The post station can ensure that memorials and official documents are sent to Chengdu as quickly as possible, so he should just rest and recuperate here and not leave.
He pulled the woman into his arms and kissed her deeply, then asked her why she was so thoughtful.
The woman was already limp, and she said happily that her man was going to conquer the world, and the woman would naturally not be far behind.
With their love at their core, Zhao Yulin had no time to discuss the world with her, and had already started to visit the two mountains in front of him. After a while of hard work, both of them were out of breath, and he asked: Yunqing and the others have already set off, why hasn't she taken any action on the logistics?
Yangjin boasted that he had a capable father-in-law.
