Chapter Twenty Nine

Suppress bandits

Ji Si was practicing calligraphy and copying a copy of Mo Jing. Qin Jun also held a wolf pen and stayed there for a long time, unable to start.

Jin Xiu: "Princess?"

Qin Jun frowned and said, "If this matter is not investigated clearly, there will be no peace for the Palace."

"What's up?"

Qin Jun pursed her lips and began to write a letter to Li Wuduan.

cousin.

Did Jindi and his party go well?First discuss with you about borrowing troops, and have asked the concubine of Jin in Beijing to write to the king of Jin to persuade the prince's mansion to send two thousand soldiers from the mansion to help you suppress the bandits.

In addition, King Jin and General Ji have always been at odds.Borrow the soldiers from the government, and use this method to stimulate the generals, and you can borrow another two thousand elite soldiers from General Ji.

Act according to the plan and face the Yuan bandits as much as possible.But the little girl still has one thing to worry about, and she has doubts in her heart, so ask brother to investigate one or two.

First, find out the relationship between the personnel in the Jin Palace, family relatives, staff, and scholar-officials. There are so many involved, you need to find out a few things.

Second, whether King Jin was really seriously ill.

Literally.

little six

Putting down the pen, Qin Jun handed the letter to Jin Xiu, and asked her to translate it into secret text and send it to Li Wuduan.

At the same time, Ji Si and Qin Jun put down their pens together.

Qin Jun was slightly stunned: "Did you finish copying?"

Ji Si shook her head, "No."

"Let me take a look," Qin Jun said, walking to Ji Si's desk, picked up the ink book she had copied, and looked at it, "I'll teach you."

Qin Jun looked left and right, but couldn't find a good posture, because she was not tall enough, and couldn't hug Ji Si from behind. After thinking about it, she could only stand beside her on the right side, half lying on the desk, grabbingHold Ji Si's hand and teach her to write with strength.

Qin Jun has a good handwriting, which was practiced by the six princesses by copying the posters of hundreds of schools in the past.

Ji Si's handwriting is not ugly, but it is tangible but lacks spirit. Each stroke is rigid and rigid. It is enough to take a look at the tiny characters, but it is still far from Qin Jun.

Qin Jun: "Take your time, calligraphy can't be mastered in a day, just like you practice sword."

Ji Si lowered her eyes and looked at Qin Jun, who was a lot shorter than her, clumsily holding her hand and writing two characters. After a while, the characters were crooked, only to realize that she was in such a posture, and she also wrote in a normal way.Let go of Ji Si with a sound.

Qin Jun: "Uh... you can practice by yourself."

"It can be done like this," Ji Si said, and lifted Qin Jun in front of her, and circled her from behind, "Princess can write now."

Qin Jun's hand was wrapped in the cold palm, "...Oh."

In the afternoon, in the dense forest outside the city, Jin Xiu sprinkled some poisonous powder that emits a smell on the backs of the pigeons.let go.

Carrier pigeons can travel hundreds of miles a night and send them to Jindi. As long as they are not robbed and killed on the way, the letter will reach Li Wuduan in a few days.

Qin Jun stood by the window holding the hand stove, spit out a cloud of white mist and dissipated in the cold winter, secretly thinking that Li Wuduan's letter should also come.

Not long after, the palace people came to pass the word that Qin Bian was invited.

"What's the matter?" Qin Jun asked, but the palace servant just shook his head and said he didn't know.

Ji Si put on the fur coat for Qin Jun, and was going to meet Qin Bian together.

Qin Jun hesitated for a while, "You don't have to go."

Ji Si raised her head, looked at Qin Jun silently for a while, and was about to agree, but Qin Jun was defeated first, and changed her words: "You can only stay outside the hall."

Ji Si: "No."

When Qin Jun entered the imperial study, Qin Bian was not seen grading papers at the imperial desk, only Eunuch Mu, the chief eunuch, saluted Qin Jun.

"Father?"

"Come in." Qin Bian's voice came from behind the tall screen door behind the imperial table.

After Qin Jun walked through the door with her skirt up, she was taken aback for a moment, and retracted her feet that were hanging in mid-air.

Qin Bian took off his outer robe, and only wore light regular clothes, sitting on his knees on the ground, carefully sweeping the landscape and stone paintings on the ground with a brush.

Qin Zhou's territory changed into a three-dimensional image, stretching from a place called Mount Heng at Qin Jun's toes to the distance, ups and downs, encompassing endlessly, to the Capital at the feet of the Son of Heaven.

Qin Jun raised her breath, remembered a sentence, and unconsciously read it out, "Under the whole world, is it the king's land?"

The mountains and rivers, one mountain, one river, one city and one pool, appear in Qin Jun's eyes like a vast sky, with ups and downs scattered and magnificent, but there is something missing.

"On the shore of the land, could it be the king's minister?" Qin Bian stood up, facing Qin Jun swayingly, one high and the other low, one was angry and angry, and the other frowned cautiously.

The light and shadow outside the window were reversed, elongating the shadows of the two of them and casting them on the river.

"There is a letter from your cousin Li Wuduan." Qin Bian said.

Qin Bian looked at Qin Jun, took out the translated letter from his sleeve, and handed it to Qin Jun, "Read it."

Qin Jun took it and opened the letter to read.

My sister kisses...

Qin Jun directly skipped the preface and some reminiscences, and looked at the following.

——I have met the officials of Ru, Mu, and Chi, and everything is going well, don't worry about it.

There is a word Li at the end of the letter.

"How did the father get this letter?" Qin Jun asked.

Qin Bian said: "The pigeon was seen by the officials stationed at the post station on the line between Jindi and Capital, and they determined that it was going to Capital, so they caught it and sent it along with the battle report."

Qin Jun: "..."

Suffered.

Qin Jun held up a smile, trying to say hello, looked around and saw snow-white carrier pigeons in a pigeon cage on the tea table next to them, pecking at the corn.

Qin Bian straightened up and walked towards Qin Jun step by step: "My son, if it's a letter from home, why not send it back with the post officer and Li Wuduan's military newspaper, and you have to pass the letter with a pigeon.Did the royal father know?"

Qin Jun pursed her lips, lowered her head, not knowing what to say, and clenched her hands hidden in her wide sleeves.

Qin Bian: "Jun'er, why don't you speak?"

Qin Jun: "...Probably because my cousin doesn't want to bother the post station officials. It's wrong to use public equipment for private use."

Qin Bian handed Qin Jun a brush, and suddenly said: "The people outside the palace also intercepted another carrier pigeon, the pigeon sent by Jin Xiu. I see that the handwriting was written by you. My father didn't know Jun'er's handwriting."When did you intervene in the matter of Jindi?"

Qin Jun's face froze, and she slandered Qin Bian for his hands and eyes.

Immediately, the voice of Jin Xiu's confession sounded from outside.

"It's the servant's fault." Jin Xiu knelt behind the door, lowered her gaze, and looked at the ground.

Qin Jun glanced out secretly, but was stared at by Qin Bian.

Qin Jun: "..."

Qin Jun picked up the brush, imitated Qin Bian, and knelt on the ground to sweep away the dust that did not exist on the map bit by bit.

Qin Bian said lightly: "Where is the mistake?"

"It wasn't concealed enough, and His Majesty discovered it." Jin Xiu replied, her expression was always expressionless when she spoke.

Qin Bian: "..."

Qin Jun rubbed her nose, and had no choice but to talk about it: "Before Li Wuduan went south, he came to see his daughter, and she was overwhelmed by her own strength, and she gave her cousin a plan..."

Jindi, the three cities of Ru, Mu, and Chi, are the three nearest cities near the border of the yellow sand. The people here are harassed by bandits, and the people are in dire straits. Seeing that winter is about to pass, February is the rainy season, and spring will return immediately, and the land will be short of water.The frontier of the country will sow wheat seeds in spring.

The soldiers came to report: "Your Majesty, the magistrates of Rumuchi and the three counties are here!"

Li Wuduan immediately rolled up the map, "Hurry up and invite people over here!"

Li Wuduan summoned the county magistrates of the three cities and hosted a banquet to welcome them, "The three adults are indeed here!"

The county magistrates of the three places in Rumuchi treated Li Wuduan very respectfully, because a few days ago, Li Wuduan visited one by one, saying that the imperial court knew that the people in the three places of Rumuchi had been robbed of the spring wheat, so they mobilized people from Jincheng.A batch of official wheat is on its way to be delivered in batches.Ask the county magistrates to count the number of households. When the wheat arrives, they will be distributed to the people in the three places in turn according to the number of people.

"My lord, the roster you want has already been counted. The people inside and outside Rucheng are based on four people per household, a total of 30,000 households."

"Mu City has a total of 21,000 households."

"Chicheng has the least population, only 10,000 households."

Li Wuduan nodded and took the roster, "Thanks for your hard work, my lords."

"Imperial officials counted the number of people everywhere. After a few days, the news of the release of wheat must have spread widely in the three places, and everyone knew about it." Qin Jun said to Qin Bian with a smile.

Qin Bian looked at Qin Jun and smiled indulgently: "So, don't the rogues also know about the court's distribution of relief food? How about being robbed?"

Qin Jun didn't feel at all that she was playing tricks in front of Qin Bian, and the more she said, the more she said, "It's also a trick to get food robbed. The three grain trucks set off at the same time. The bandits will definitely not wipe out their tracks like before.You can take the opportunity to explore their lair..."

Li Wuduan distributed the wheat, and according to the different numbers of people in the three cities, the amount of wheat distributed was also different.The county magistrates led the wheat back separately.Li Wuduan sent troops to escort him, but he was attacked and lost to the bandits on the way, causing several carts of wheat in Rumu Second City to be robbed.

The people wailed and cursed the imperial envoy for being incompetent.The Yuan bandits were also complacent and shared the benefits equally. Firstly, they relaxed their guard against Li Wuduan, and secondly, they also secretly felt dissatisfied with the wave of thieves who failed in the robbery.

The grain cart was robbed, Li Wuduan had no choice but to entertain the county magistrate to plead guilty.While drinking and eating meat, he accidentally revealed that there was still money for disaster relief. The amount was quite large, and he promised that it would be given priority to the robbed Rumu.

During the dinner, Li Wuduan said drunkenly: "The gold and silver can be deducted from the dozens of carts of wheat, which is more than enough. Li will definitely send more escorts. Don't worry, my lords!"

Rumu Ercheng's parents and officials left in high spirits, who knew that the news leaked out, the people of Chicheng were naturally unhappy, the people were bustling, the news spread like wildfire, spread to the gangsters, and made the bandits have the idea of robbing the official money.

However, the income of the three cities is different, how to grab the official silver, how to distribute it, and how to contribute, naturally there will be debates among the bandits.

"To grab the real gold and silver, they will definitely come out in full force this time." After Qin Jun finished speaking, she drank a cup of tea to moisten her throat.

Qin Bian asked: "Aren't my sons afraid of attracting other forces who covet this official bank?"

Qin Jun smiled and said: "If there is, wouldn't it be fun to let them kill each other? But we don't have that much money, so we only load a carload of gold and a carload of silver, lay some stones under the broken silver, and shoot them with a feint shot.Half of the bandits will take advantage of the opportunity to be defeated, and then when the bandits are suspicious of each other, they will gather borrowed soldiers to attack."

"This letter," Qin Jun pointed to Li Wuduan's letter, and said, "Counting the time it took to deliver the letter, the wheat in Rumu Lake should have been distributed. My cousin should be entertaining the county magistrate at this time.Just drink and apologize."

Qin Bian laughed loudly, "Come here, see my son for my father!"

Qin Jun walked over and stood in front of Qin Bian. Qin Bian suddenly stopped smiling and said, "When did Jun'er have such a plan?"

Qin Jun cleared her throat and said, "Uh...it's Lin Yan, the one next to my daughter..."

Qin Bian rubbed Qin Jun's head and called for Eunuch Mu: "Send that... Lin Yan to the imperial study."

Qin Jun said awkwardly, "Father...this..."

Qin Bian: "Why, are you afraid that you will kill your lovely lady for your father?"

"Ahem!" Qin Jun coughed violently.

Qin Bian glanced at her, then poured tea for Qin Jun helplessly, "Are you scared?"

Holding the teacup, Qin Jun said weakly, "Father, she and I are really innocent!"

Qin Bian's arrogant appearance has softened, "You!"

"Long live my emperor." Offscreen, Ji Si and Jin Xiu were kneeling in a row.

Through the tall barrier, Qin Bian looked at the dark figure cast on the screen, "That is your favorite?"

Qin Jun: "...just a servant girl."

Outside the barrier, Ji Si and Jin Xiu exchanged glances.

Jin Xiu opened her mouth silently: Where is Tong Book?

Ji Si replied coldly: Hidden.

Eunuch Mu coughed behind him, and the two immediately knelt down, bowing their heads in silence.

Qin Bian looked at Qin Jun, and said angrily: "This morning, Tong Shi came to report to Eunuch Mu, saying that he lost a Tong book and a red pen. Someone seemed to have seen someone from your palace go there."

Qin Jun said lightly, "My daughter doesn't know." After speaking, she cursed secretly in her heart, did she steal the red book and the red writing brush??

Ji Si glanced sideways at Jin Xiu.

Qin Bian couldn't force him to ask about his daughter's family, so he waved his hands helplessly, and said, "I'll ask the imperial concubine to talk to you later."

Qin Jun: "..."

Qin Bian put down the brush, "Come here."

Qin Jun followed Qin Bian out.

Looking at the two kneeling outside, Qin Bian said, "Raise your head."

Ji Si knew that she was talking about herself, and raised her head, her gaze first glanced at Qin Jun and then at Qin Bian.

"Presumptuous!" Qin Bian said.

Qin Jun immediately interrupted Qin Bian, her soft and waxy voice raised her voice: "Presumptuous! How can you look directly at Father Emperor Longwei! You still don't bow your head!"

Qin Bian: "..."

Ji Si lowered her head, and the back of her neck was pressed by Jin Xiu, almost touching the bottom.

Qin Jun acted like a baby: "Father."

Qin Bian flicked his sleeves, wanting to scold Qin Jun but reluctantly said, "Your mother is not here, it's because your father didn't teach you well, this girl..."

Qin Jun: "Naturally, I will make up for my mistakes and stay in the palace to accompany my daughter, and serve her with me!"

Qin Bian: "..."

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