Chapter 679 The King Makes a Big Plan
Zhao Yulin smiled and said: I want to go back to Yibin to have a look.
Lao Cao laughed and said that he missed his family all the more during the holidays. His brother had a home in Yibin, and the Princess of Feiyan was recuperating there. She must be about to give birth.
It should be.
Zhao Yulin nodded, and went back with Lao Cao after getting a little tipsy.
In the yard, under the huge osmanthus tree, Chen Chen, Huo Fenghuang and Shun Zhidi prepared wine and food on the stone table. Seeing him come back, Zhidi immediately pulled him over to accompany her to drink and admire the moon. She also spoke up for Fenghuang and complained: "Sister came back from far away and didn't stay at home. Brother has become wild."
Fire Phoenix said with a smile: You silly girl, you are just making excuses. I and I are an old married couple and we don’t care. But Zhidi must be missing me.
He walked over and sat next to Fenghuang, picked up his wine glass, called one of them away, and told them that he was planning to go back to Yibin.
Chen Chen immediately said that it was possible, as so many family members were there and Feiyan was about to give birth, so he should go back now.
Zhao Yulin nodded, drank three cups and helped Fenghuang back to the house.
At dawn, he asked Zhidi to pass a message to Huayue and take Fenghuang on board a ship to Jiading in the south.
Hua Yue was anxious when he learned that Zhao Yulin had left and was asked to be regent. He shook the stack of military reports in his hand and asked: What should I do? There was a letter from Marshal Gao in the west, and a military report from Marshal Feng in the east.
These are all urgent military affairs, what should we do?
Zhidi said with a smile: Brother Yulin, let Mr. Hua handle it. Both sides are very far away from us, so there is no rush. Mr. Hua can ask Shunfeng Company to send it directly to Yibin for Brother Yulin to decide. How about it?
Hua Yue thought about it and it made sense. He knew nothing about military affairs and was anxious, so he immediately ordered Shunfengsi to forward the report to Yibin.
As soon as Zhao Yulin's official ship arrived in Jiading, it was stopped by Shunfeng and delivered an urgent military report. He saw that a long time had passed since the time of the secret letter , so he smiled and told the ship to continue sailing to Qianwei.
Fenghuang pointed at the people who were downwind and said: Our brothers are waiting anxiously, are you going to handle military affairs like this?
He said that the Western Regions and the Korean Peninsula were too far away, and he did not have a telegraph, so he could not issue orders in time. He could only select good people to determine the major policies.
How could you tie up the brothers’ hands and feet?
Phoenix chuckled, pulled him up and waved goodbye to the people who were seeing him off on the shore.
The two returned to the cabin to read the military newspaper.
In the west, Gao Jin reported to Wang Hanchen that the area east of Yi Bohai had been basically stabilized, and the garrison, rebels and defeated troops had been cleared out. The army planned to go west to pursue Hubili in real time.
Gansu Road and the rear area of the New Song Dynasty successively allocated 100,000 troops to Alimali to maintain the law and order of the Chagatai Khanate. Zhao Yulin felt that after this group of troops arrived, they would stabilize the rear of Gao Jin's army and continue to pursue westward.
In the east, Feng Guiqi reported that Vice King Miao was patrolling the border all the way north. Although the north was bitterly cold, there were still tribes active in the forest. The Shenwei Army followed the trail and headed north, vowing to plant the flag of the Shenwei Army in every corner of the north.
Zhao Yulin liked to hear this. Since it is a territory, you can't just say it's yours. You must implement effective control and governance.
Next, Feng Guiqi reported that the Japanese pirates were very powerful. Almost all the Japanese soldiers who landed on the Korean Peninsula had a background in martial arts and were very good at fighting. In the words of ordinary people, they were all martial artists.
Moreover, these soldiers from the Japanese island country are martial and full of Bushido spirit. They are extremely fierce in their attacks and refuse to surrender if they lose. Even if they are surrounded, they will fight to the death. Few of them will drop their weapons and raise their hands.
This situation is very important, as it shows that the Japanese pirates will not panic after being surrounded and there is no possibility of collapse at the first blow. We must be careful when deploying troops on the battlefield. We must attack the Japanese pirates with superior forces in order to have a chance of defeating and eliminating them.
Zhao Yulin wrote back to Xibian with only two words: "Be on your own."
The reply to the east was long. He believed that an arrogant army would eventually be defeated, and that the Japanese pirates should be allowed to taste the sweetness first, so that the officers and soldiers of the Japanese island country would think that Goryeo was vulnerable. It would be best if the Japanese pirates even thought that the Shenwei Army was not that good. This would allow them to provoke and drive them crazy.
The woman waited for him to finish speaking, then sat in his arms and asked: What is a transmitter? Is it a magical device that can transmit messages? Tell me about it.
Zhao Yulin suddenly woke up and realized that he had talked too much again.
He smiled and tapped the woman's waist with his fingers as if sending a telegram, and told her that there was a tool. As long as he kept tapping like this to make sounds of different lengths and pitches, people far away could receive messages using the same tool. This was a telegraph.
The woman had already been jumping around in his arms like a deer because of his fiddling with her. She had no time to listen to his telegraph machine. The couple soon began to type messages to each other.
When the ship arrived in Xuzhou, Fenghuang immediately asked the favorable wind to send the reply letter.
Ma Linger took them and said Yuqi was busy outside, and took Fenghuang to see Zhao Feiyan's newborn son. The old scholar had given his grandson a resounding name, Zhao Guangxuan.
Huo Fenghuang teased Guangxuan happily and told Feiyan: My brother is thinking about them mother and son in his dreams.
Feiyan said happily: Sister, just blow it, I seldom dream, and her face was full of smiles.
Zhao Yulin brought his entire family across the river to have dinner and chat with his parents. When the people of Xuzhou learned that the third young master had returned, they swarmed out to the dock to watch, and the Xuzhou Defense Commissioner was so anxious that he urgently dispatched troops to maintain order.
The state magistrate wanted to come to see him, but he excused himself and said he was just back on vacation and would not see anyone.
The next day, he was planning to accompany Feiyan upstream to Xinshi for recuperation, but he saw Yang Xingyun coming.
Xingyun traveled to the southeast and came back just in time to meet him in Yibin. The two went to the study to exchange strategies for deploying troops in the east and west.
Yang Xingyun thought he handled the situation appropriately. The west was too far away, intelligence transmission was slow, and all decisions made based on the intelligence were hindsight. If the soldiers at the front were affected by the military orders from the Central Council, they would be at a loss as to what to do.
The news from Goryeo in the east is arriving a little faster, so we should make an overall strategy so that the frontline can deal with it more realistically.
Yang Xingyun reported to him: the training of the Yunnan Army was basically completed. The Baiyue knew that the young master had come and would definitely come back to report. The Yunnan soldiers were eager to fight and wanted to make achievements for the country.
Zhao Yulin nodded and said with a laugh that the Yunnan tiger was so fat and strong that it could not hold back and was about to bite people.
Yang Xingyun nodded, took a sip of tea and said that the navy felt a little aggrieved. The ships stationed in the military ports in the South China Sea and the East China Sea were training all day long. Zhou Ping felt that there was no point in training the Marines, so where could the enemies be?
Zhao Yulin said seriously that this idea was too dangerous. We have been preparing for war for a hundred years, and our only goal is to ensure the peace of China. Who says that we must go out to fight after training?
He told Zhou Ping to pass on the message: The navy must continue to reorganize and recruit marines. The island country of Japan in the East China Sea is currently invading Korea and is very active. Sooner or later, it will confront us. The navy should take the island country of Japan as its opponent, collect intelligence, and speed up the training of new recruits and new tactics.
Yang Xingyun nodded and agreed that he would arrange it later.
The next day, Zhao Yulin sent Yang Xingyun away and went to Xinshi with his family to recuperate. It was autumn, and Xuzhou was already cool, but Xinshi was still like summer because of its unique geographical location.
Zhao Feiyan was very happy to see Guangxuan spinning around in the hands of Ma Ling and Huo Fenghuang, and told Zhao Yulin that she was relieved. Guangxuan was a child who easily fell asleep, and it was too tiring to keep him awake all day.
He pointed at the exquisite baby carriage and asked Feiyan with a smile, "Didn't the king ask someone to make a baby carriage? It would be more comfortable to put the baby in the carriage and push it around than to hold him in his arms."
Zhao Feiyan glared at Zhao Guangxuan and said that this little guy was picky. He had to be held to sleep. He would wake up immediately when put in the stroller. No matter how he was pushed, he would make a fuss and cry loudly, as if our family wanted to kill the child.
Zhao Yulin burst into laughter when he heard this.
Zhao Feiyan thought he didn't believe it, so she took the child handed to her by Fenghuang and asked him to try it.
Zhao Yulin took it and rocked it gently in his arms. Guangxuan grinned at him very friendly. All the mothers said enviously that they had a deep affection for each other. The children smiled in his arms.
Zhao Yulin proudly held the child in his arms and rocked him around, and the child laughed even more happily.
He was feeling happy when he suddenly felt warmth on his arms and palms. He sensitively realized that the child must have peed or pooped, and he stood there in a daze.
The beauties didn't know why and asked him what was wrong?
He said cheerfully that he was suddenly attacked, Guangxuan had pooped, this kid is such a good actor, he was playing a trick on me.
The group of beauties had already smelled the little boy's poop and ran away laughing.
The maid quickly took the child from him and changed him for washing.
When Zhao Yulin came out of the shower, Zhao Guangxuan had already changed and washed himself cleanly. The little boy was crying in Zhao Feiyan's arms.
He held the baby in his arms again and rocked him, and the little guy immediately grinned at him. Several women gathered around him and said: Xiao Guangxuan is fighting with his father and wants him to hold him.
Zhao Yulin rarely had the leisure to take care of the child, so he picked up the child and rocked him while walking in the yard. On the yellow horn tree above his head, cicadas were chirping in the dense leaves, and Guangxuan slowly closed his eyes as he rocked rhythmically.
Over there, Ma Linger invited the sisters to sit down and have tea. She had something to say. Over the years, the children have grown up one by one, and Yulin Geer doesn't want our children to become officials in the court. She plans to expand and strengthen her own industry so that the older children will have something to do.
Zhao Feiyan also nodded and told Huo Fenghuang that she and Sister Ma Ling had discussed the idea of expanding our business team to open a construction business in other places and educating our children to do legitimate business.
Zhao Yulin had turned back and just heard Zhao Feiyan talking. He handed the sleeping Guangxuan to the maid and sat down and said: The children are grown up now, we have to ask for their opinions and find out the situation clearly before making a decision. We adults cannot take care of everything for them.
He believed that his children could become officials. If they liked to do it and were good at it, why should he be stopped? But no matter what they did, they had to follow the right path.
Ma Linger nodded and said that she had been getting closer to her uncles and aunts during this period, and all she saw were tall and strong nephews and nephews, both men and women, and the younger generations of the Zhao family had also grown up one by one.
She believes that our family cannot just have Wu Jing's business, but must expand and strengthen it.
