Kun Yuyang woke up leisurely, only to hear the noise in the courtyard.
She sat up on the bed and looked out, and saw the old emperor uncle leaning on crutches and chasing after Ning Xuan panting, "You bastard, who told you to fight with your majesty without saying a word? Do you still have me in your eyes? This father?"
Ning Xuan had been in the court for a few years, and he was already a figure who could stand alone, but was chased and beaten by the old emperor with no power to parry.
He hid and said: "Father, it is the responsibility of the country to rise and fall. There is no suitable general in the DPRK who can suppress the insurgents, and no one is willing to go. If the son does not go, will it be possible to see the people suffering from the war?"
"You dare to talk back!"
The old uncle hit him with a stick and said, "Know that no one wants to go, do you take the initiative to go? Do you know how brutal and powerful those rebels are? The people in the realm where they came are not alive, and those officials and wealthy businessmen are even more frustrated. Mildew! If you go, if they know that you are a royal clan, they wouldn't want to take your skin off?!"
After a few laps in the courtyard, the old emperor finally couldn’t run. He stopped and panted with a cane, "What if you have something to do with your father? What will your daughter-in-law do? With twins, you are so cruel to leave us old and young women and children to fight on their own?"
"If you are embarrassed to tell your majesty, for your father, go into the palace and tell your majesty, let him take back this Pingnan County King, and whoever loves it should go!"
As he said, he walked out, Ning Xuan hurriedly stepped forward and hugged him to stop him.
When the father and son were arguing, they suddenly saw Kun Yuyang not knowing when he had already gotten up, and he was leaning on the doorpost to look at them.
"Yu Yang, why did you get up? The imperial doctor said you should lie down and rest, and take care of heatstroke."
The father and son stopped quarreling immediately, and went into the room to sit down with Kun Yuyang. Ning Xuan hurriedly ordered people to fan the wind beside Kun Yuyang. The wind shouldn't be too weak to dissipate the heat, nor should it hurt her body too much.
Kun Yuyang's spirit had recovered a lot, but she was too lazy to speak. The old emperor knew it was not good at first sight. She hadn't been tempered since she married into the mansion, and it was the first time that she was so stern and not talking.
This time the anger can be considered to be a big move.
The old uncle said: "Yu Yang, don't worry. I will enter the palace and make it clear to your majesty, let Xuan'er stay honestly in the emperor's capital and accompany you nowhere!"
"Father!"
Ning Xuan looked at him embarrassedly, and said so many old uncles that he still insisted on his own opinions, but he couldn't say those words that were responsible for the rise and fall of the family and country in front of Kun Yuyang.
Kun Yuyang just said, "Father, the autumn tiger is hotter than summer. Don't rush into the palace if you go so far. I'll help you go back and rest first. Don't get angry."
The old uncle looked at Kun Yuyang and then glared at Ning Xuan, saying that his biological son was not yet considerate of his daughter-in-law.
He hurriedly waved his hand, "No need, you are inconvenient to lie down. Let the servant help me go back, so please persuade this bastard, don't let him get up to the south side to quell his mind."
Speaking on crutches, slowly walked out of the house.
Only Ning Xuan and Kun Yuyang were left in the room. Kun Yuyang spoke first, "Are you determined to go? The rebels in the south are so powerful, don’t you know how many people in the south have fled to Beili and West Kun has gone, you still have to rush to go?"
Ning Xuan paused. Kun Yuyang had always been gentle and submissive since marrying him. This was the first time he opposed his opinions.
She is not for the side, but for the sake of her own life.
He said in a deep voice, "Yu Yang, you are also from the Xikun imperial family, and you should understand my difficulties. Your Majesty is not a good emperor. Because of this, I, as a child of the royal family, have to take action to save the people of Dongling from the water and fire. This is my responsibility as a son of the royal family, and it is also a destiny that I cannot escape."
Kun Yuyang was silent for a moment, tears in his eyes when he raised his eyes, "Then you will sacrifice your life to save the people?"
Ning Xuan shook his head quickly, "I promise not, if I really can't beat me, I will come back, and come back to think slowly. I know how to keep the green hills without firewood. What's more, there are you three, how can I? Can you leave you alone?"
Kun Yuyang laughed with tears, "That's OK. If you can't beat you, you will come back. It really doesn't work. Let's go to Beili to join Yufu. I heard that the folkway of Beili is open to equality between men and women. I have long wanted to go. ."
Ning Xuan paused and hugged her lightly, "I'm wronged you, but you have to be tied up in this deep house compound and let you wash your hands and make soup."
"What nonsense?"
Kun Yu Yang pouted, "I'm willing to do it for you, and I don't feel wronged at all. Even if we get to Beili, if you don't like me, don't show up, is that good?"
Ning Xuan couldn't help laughing, "How can I be so stingy? If one day we really have to go to Beili, I will definitely let you be free and don't have to abide by Dongling's etiquette, and let you live the life you really want. ."
Kun Yuyang shook his head and leaned in his arms, "With you, is the life I want."
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In the East China Sea, there is a huge ship parked on the sea, standing without fear in the wind and waves.
The sea breeze blew the flag on the ship. It was the military flag of Bei Li, but the people on the deck looked at the city of Dongling.
In the past, the prosperity of the nation and the people living and working in peace and contentment, now the mountains and rivers are broken and the people are separated, making people feel the same sorrow and sorrow.
Gu Wenqing stood by the mast of the bow, her eyes were reddened by the wind, she suddenly turned her head and asked the person next to him, "Where is the fifth son?"
"Going back to the general, the fifth son said that he had thought of a good way to spread his majesty's will widely to Dongling through this wave, so that the people of Dongling would know where to go."
"Oh?"
Gu Wenqing became interested for a while, "Big brother sent us to try the sea fleet and observe the situation in Dongling Country Middle School by the way. I didn't expect the fifth brother to come up with a new method, I will go and see."
When he arrived in the cabin, he had just landed in a small boat and pulled the stalks full of the boat. Gu Xiang happily greeted people and ordered the stalks to be delivered to the cabin.
"Fifth brother."
Only then did Gu Xiang see Gu Wenqing, "Fourth brother, you came just right, see how I do this?"
He split the straw into finger lengths with a sword, and then thinly twisted the written note into a strip, and finally wrapped it with kraft paper and stuffed it into the hollow abdomen of the straw, and a simple letter box was completed.
Gu Xiang walked out of the cabin and threw the straw stuffed with the note into the sea. Waves of ocean currents pushed the straw pipe toward the coast of Dongling.
Gu Xiangdao: "What do you think of this idea, Brother Si? Let's do more. One-tenth or even one-percent of it floats to the shore, and our propaganda purpose is achieved. This straw is light, even if it can't get to the shore, it won't be enough. The sun will also be photographed in the water by wind and waves, and it will be hydrated over time, isn't it clean?"
Gu Wenqing's eyes suddenly brightened, "This is a good way to save manpower and money, so that the note with the will of your majesty can be passed to the hands of the people of Dongling. It's just that the national war is chaotic. Will the people want to see the stalks floating in the sea? Why not use eye-catching red paint to mark the straw tube so that once some Dongling people see it, it will be spread that the straw with the red paint mark is Bei Li's open policy."
"Okay, let's do that!"
Gu Xiangxi said: "Big brother, they used arrows to shoot the note into the opposite city at the border, but they can only control the city at the border of Dongling. With this method, we will surely let more people of Dongling see Bei Li's sincerity!"
After saying hello, all the soldiers on the ship started their hands. Except for those who were on guard and cooking in the kitchen, the rest were all working in shifts to make straw letter boxes.
Some people cut the straw and some painted. Gu Wenqing and Gu Xiang personally came to write the notes, and the soldiers wrapped them in waterproof kraft paper and put them into the straw carefully.
At night, tens of thousands of stalks floated along the ocean current towards the coastal city of Dongling. In the dark night, there are like thousands of stars, reflecting in the vast sky of the galaxy.
When the sky was twilight, an old man carrying a bamboo basket was picking up oysters and seaweed by the beach, and suddenly saw a large dense cluster of things.
He straightened up and rubbed his eyes, thinking that he was dazzled, but after a closer look, he discovered that it was countless straws that had been cut into small sections with traces of red paint on them.
This kind of thing, at first glance, someone has made meticulously.
He put up a pergola in his hand and looked at the distant sea. The cool sea breeze was blowing in the morning, the sun had not yet risen, and the sea was calm.
A distant black spot was faintly visible, forming a shadow under the colorful sunrise, like a huge ship parked on the horizon.
The old man smiled, "My old man is really dim-eyed, how can there be such a big boat in the world? Can I drive that far?"
He didn't think about it anymore, he picked up a handful of straw, put it in the back basket behind him, turned his head and left...
The navigator on the ship was very accurate in judging the ocean currents. These straws passed from the city on the Dongling Sea to the inland, not only to Yin Shuo of the rebel army, but also to the imperial court.
"Wen Dongling is in trouble in the country, I am sympathetic to the people, and we have specified the following policies. Those who die to Beili are all cultivated according to the population. Erdongling refugees are exempted from three years of taxation for rest and living. The same imperial examination right, the female monarch of Bei Li respected this."
Ning Xuan, who rushed to the south to quell the rebellion, got this straw letter in the army and was dumbfounded.
He rejoiced, because Yufu was a wise Mingjun at a young age. She had the world and compassion for the people. Even if she accepted Dongling refugees with her own selfishness, the essence was still for the people.
I don't know if Xi Kun has heard of Bei Li's generous treatment, but he has ordered people to spread the word about what the refugees can get when they come to Xi Kun. The regulations appear to imitate Bei Li.
Ning Xuan was really worried that Xikun would take advantage of this time to take advantage of Dongling's attack. There was an insurrection army before the Xikun army, and who could be beaten by the remnant of the 50,000 Gu's army under his leadership
What worries him more is...
"...Three can enjoy the same imperial examination rights as the people of Beili, the female monarch of Beili admires this. The female monarch of Beili, isn't that the lady of our family?"
Sitting by the bonfire were a group of low-level generals from the Gu's army, reading the straw letter, and their blood boiled over.
Although their ranks are not high, they are very impressed by Yufu in the Gu's army. She has saved many poisoned Gu's soldiers and saved them a large number of deaths and injuries.
Even the generals and major generals have received her life-saving grace.
Looking at the three extremely attractive conditions in front of them, even ordinary Dongling people couldn't help but be tempted, let alone these Gu family soldiers who had a lot of connection with Yufu
"The young lady is the female ruler of Beili. The general, the major general and several other princes have all gone to Beili, and even Lieutenant General Yan has gone, and I want to go too! If you can go, who wants to fight here? ?"
"Exactly, thinking that the uprisings are peasants who have no way out, I can't do it. If I didn't eat the royal salary against the reputation of Gu Jiajun, I would also like to stand up and overthrow the fainted monarch, who wants it? Fighting for him? Look at our general who fought for a lifetime and was almost beheaded by the faint king in the end. Is this worth it?"
If you change from the past, the word "Funjun" is directly spoken, someone must be sighed and panicked.
But now that the rebellion in the middle of the country is rising, the people are not living, the word "Funjun" is often talked about, and everyone no longer fears over time.
Ning Xuan heard the people in the dark, and he originally wanted to chat with the people, then silently returned to the big account.
"The prince, aren't you angry when they say that?"
The attendant was wronged for Ning Xuan. He knew that Ning Xuan was a talented person with the people in mind, otherwise he would not take the initiative to ask for help when everyone was afraid to come to the south to quell their rebellion.
But when the soldiers scolded His Majesty for being a faint emperor, he had to retreat as a child of the royal family.
"I'm not angry, they make sense. Although we cannot stand in the same position, this does not prevent me from understanding their thoughts. I am just worried that their emotions will make this already difficult battle harder to fight."
It's okay for a few generals, he can go to patiently soothe, even if it is to ask them to put down the war for the people. But what about the soldiers underneath
He is not Gu Huaijiang, nor Gu Shubai. He thinks that he does not have the strong influence of them to be able to respond in the army.
If Gu Shubai is in the big account now, the soldiers will not doubt what they are going to do out of trust in him
He sighed softly, "If Gu Hou and the son were still there, that would be great..."
Gu Shubai, who was far away at Beili's border, sneezed.
He thought that Yufu was thinking of him, and he smiled unconsciously, but he didn't know that someone else was thinking of him.
Yan Zheng stepped forward and added a cloak to him, and looked beyond the railing of the tower, "The wind is strong in the mountains at night, and the general is standing on the tower. Let's add a cloak."
Gu Shubai shook to the horizon, "Look, tonight is Mid-Autumn Festival."
Yan Zheng followed his gaze and saw a golden and bright round moon hanging on the treetops. He couldn't help but laugh, "Time flies so fast, does the general remember last year's Mid-Autumn Festival?"
"Why don't you remember?"
They spent the Mid-Autumn Festival last year at the border gate. That time they experienced a fierce battle with Xikun. Thanks to Yufu's arrival, they did not succeed in Kunwu's crimes.
He smiled and said: "You go to Zhuguan City and Xiaozhuguan to buy mooncakes so that all lieutenants can eat them. At that time, the moon was so big and bright, but it was a pity that I still couldn't stand with Yu."
"Miss Yufu arrived after the Mid-Autumn Festival."
When there were no outsiders, Yan Zheng was more accustomed to calling Yufu a young lady. He couldn't help saying: "This year is too deserted. Even the fourth son and the fifth son have not come back at sea. However, the way they thought about passing the book is really true. Okay, the DPRK also issued a letter of commendation saying that it would reward the two sons!"
Gu Shubai raised his head and looked at the night sky. In the deep night, the light of the moon obscured the stars, and the mysterious Milky Way added a bit of distance.
He couldn't help thinking, what is Yufu doing right now? Is it a lively palace banquet, or is it alone in the palace to admire the moon
Is she missing herself the same way she misses her
Yan Zheng glanced at him, "General, what are you thinking?"
Gu Shu came to the vernacular, and suddenly changed his words, "It's nothing, just wondering if the second brother and the others are in the capital. The imperial examination of the DPRK is underway. I wonder if the third and sixth brothers can get a good ranking?"
Yan Zheng raised his chin proudly, as if they were not discussing Gu Shubai’s younger brother, but his younger brother, “Of course! Let’s not talk about martial arts for the third son and the sixth son, even if the literary examination is just not a problem. !"
Yan Zheng was right, and both Gu Hanmo and Gu Yi passed the Wu Jinshi exam, and they were only waiting for the final round of the palace exam.
Originally intended to let Gu Shubai be responsible for the martial arts, after Gu Shubai went to the border, Gu Jiuge took over. Seeing the names of his two younger brothers on the roster, he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.
Under the melon field, he knew that he had no choice but to avoid suspicion even if he was frank and frank, especially when Yu Fushen took the throne.
To this end, he deliberately made suggestions to Yufu.
In the imperial study room, holding the memorial written by him in the jade handrail, he couldn't help frowning, "What? You said you want to cancel the martial arts examination?"
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That's it, Gu Shubai's ears will be cut by the moon tonight...