Chapter 185 The Imperial Envoy Was Killed

It was gray and very cold. The branches of the transplanted green pines are all drooping, looking very listless.

After punching, Yu Xi came out of the house while wiping her sweat, looked at Tian Tian and asked, "Did the general bring an umbrella when he went out?" Yun Qing went to the barracks, and the Dingbei Army was now expanded to 50,000. Yunqing spends half of his time in the barracks every day.

Zijin shook her head and said, "Yu Cong took the coir raincoat and the bamboo hat." It's not realistic to carry an umbrella while riding a horse, and the coir raincoat and bamboo hat are more suitable. Unexpectedly, her wife would make such a common-sense mistake, and Zijin didn't tell Yuxi about it, so she secretly laughed in her heart.

Yuxi entered the room, and waited for the sweat to dry before asking for water to wash, and then having breakfast. Seeing Yuxi drinking mutton milk deliciously, Zaozao grabbed Yuxi's hand, indicating that she wanted to drink too.

Mother Lan watched Yuxi scoop up a spoon to feed Zaozao, and hurriedly said: "Madam, the eldest girl can't drink goat's milk yet."

As soon as the words fell, the goat milk that was intended to be delivered to Zao Zao's mouth went into her mouth. After drinking this mouthful of mutton milk, Yuxi asked: "Zaozao can drink rice porridge, why can't he drink mutton milk?"

Mother Lan said: "The child is too young, the stomach is delicate, and many things that are not easy to digest cannot be eaten. Rice noodles and vegetable juices are easy to digest, but sheep milk and cow milk are not. This sheep milk or cow milk is the best. Wait until the child is three years old before drinking."

Yu Xi nodded humbly, and said: "Raising children is really a profound knowledge." It was also Mother Lan who took good care of Zao Zao, which made Yu Xi feel much more at ease.

Not long after, Xu Wu came in and said to Yu Xi: "Ma'am, I brought you here, just wait outside."

Yuxi asked Mother Lan to take the child out, and everyone in the room also sent out, leaving only Zijin, and then said: "Bring him in!"

After the person walked in, Yu Xi glanced at the other party. The other party was very short, but his eyes were extremely fierce, which made people afraid. Yuxi was secretly surprised, and asked: "You used to look like this in the Xu family?"

The man shook his head and said, "No, it's easy to see now. With my current appearance, no one will recognize me even if I stand in front of the Xu family." The height of a person cannot be changed, but his appearance is different.

Yuxi has reservations about this answer, no matter how powerful the disguise technique is, it is only a partial change, how can it really change a person. But for this question, it would be better to ask Yunqing later: "What's your name?"

The man said: "When I was in Xu's family, my code name was Yingshanhong." When Yuxi asked him his real name, the man shook his head and said, "In the eyes of the world, I have long been a dead person."

Yu Xi did not express an opinion on this issue, but asked: "The general should have told you that he is going to sell a batch of supplies outside the customs to exchange for what we need."

Yingshanhong asked: "What is Madam going to exchange for?"

Yuxi said: "Horses. Yucheng's 100,000 army has only 5,000 horses, and the breed of these horses is not very good. It would be great if we could get some good breed horses back." Thousands of horses, including those who are too old to go to war

Yingshanhong shook her head and said, "You can exchange fine-grained rice white flour or silk and satin for fine horses, but the quantity will not be many. If there are too many, they will become suspicious." Not to mention that fine horses cannot be exchanged in large quantities, they are just ordinary horses. It is also impossible to change a lot of horses.

Yu Xi frowned, and said: "You can exchange as much as you can. If you can't exchange horses, try to exchange some things unique to the Beiyao people, such as sable fur and other things that are relatively rare in the inland. After these things are exchanged Only by selling them in prosperous places such as Jiangnan can they be sold at a good price."

Azalea shook her head and said, "Madam,

This is difficult. Even if there were precious things like sables, they were all in the hands of those nobles. And those who trade with us are ordinary herdsmen, and these people only have ordinary things such as cattle, sheep and horses in their hands. Rare things are all in the hands of nobles. "

Seeing that Yingshanhong was so familiar with the affairs of Beiyao, he took the opportunity to ask a lot of questions. After chatting for a whole morning, Yuxi only understood a small part. Yuxi said: "You go back and write down everything you remember, and then give it to me, do you think it's feasible?" The questions she can think of are very limited, so it is easy to miss many things. Asking Yingshanhong to write down what she knows will be more conducive to her understanding of the Beiyao people. Know yourself and the enemy and you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles.

Yingshanhong had no objection to this, nodded and said: "Okay, when I go back, I will write down what I have seen and heard over the years and give it to Madam."

Yu Xi rubbed her shoulders and wanted to enter the study, but was stopped by Mother Qu. Mother Qu said: "Madam, no matter how busy you are, you have to finish your lunch before you are busy." Madam has no sense of time when she is busy, and people around them need to remind her at this time.

After lunch, Yuxi fed Zao Zao, and then walked into the study. Everyone thought that Yuxi would stay in the study for a long time, but they didn't expect that she would come out after a quarter of an hour. Coming out is not to do other things, but to prepare for a nap.

Mother Qu said: "Madam has developed this habit very well." Under normal circumstances, Yuxi would sleep for two quarters of an hour at noon every day.

After taking a nap, Yuxi didn't do anything else, but played with Zaozao. This made Qu's mother a little confused, but Qu's mother also knew the rules, and this was not something she should ask.

Zi Jin hurried in, looked at Yu Xi who was amused by Zao Zao, and said, "Madam, it's not good, the imperial envoy was killed on the way back to Beijing."

Yu Xi held Zao Zao's hand and paused for a moment, then asked: "Who killed it? Where was it killed?" The imperial envoy has been away for more than ten days, and according to the distance, it is only seven or eight hundred to Xinping City place.

Zijin said: "Ma'am, they were killed by horse thieves, and the place where they were killed was only two hundred miles away from Lancheng City. Ma'am, I really didn't expect that these horse thieves dared to kill even the imperial envoys? Are they not afraid that the imperial court will send troops to wipe them out?" ?”

Yu Xi said in her heart that this is the result she wanted. But the less people know about this, the better, Yuxi asked: "Except for Cao De, have everyone else escaped?" Under normal circumstances, horse thieves would not be left alive. Of course, the fateful ones can still escape.

Zijin said: "More than a dozen escaped, but those who escaped were servants. All the officials died, and none of them survived." After a pause, Zijin said: "Madam, I heard that These horse thieves hate officials the most, and most of them have been persecuted by officials." However, even if they were persecuted, they dared to kill even the imperial envoys, which really took the courage of ambitious leopards.

Yuxi reacted very calmly, and said: "The imperial envoy was killed by a horse thief. This is not something we should worry about. What we should worry about is the prefect of Lanzhou City." When the imperial envoy had an accident in Lanzhou, the first person to be held accountable by the imperial court must be the prefect of Lanzhou .

Zi Jin looked at Yu Xi, who was not affected at all, and felt that she seemed to be over excited. Speaking of which, she really couldn't hold her breath.

Yuxi said: "In a few days, Qingming Hall will start classes, and the children in Zhuangzi will also come back. Tomorrow, you will go to Zhuangzi and bring back girls who are over eight years old." Frightened by the matter, Yu Xi decided to select a group of these orphans to use. Yuxi is not at ease if she buys it from outside or sends it from the Han family.

Knowing Yuxi's concerns, Zi Jin said: "Madam, there is no need to choose all orphans. The other children, like Jing Bai, are good. The other two girls are very good. If Madam does not object, I will I want to take them as disciples."

Yuxi laughed, and said: "You really have a big appetite? You can accept three." After a pause, Yuxi said: "I have no objection to your apprenticeship, but you have to agree to this matter, Master Yang. Only then will we succeed.” These children are all good children. It's just that she is a layman in martial arts, and Master Yang is a master in this area, Yuxi thinks that she should listen to Master Yang's opinion. After all, recruiting apprentices is not a small matter, so be careful.

Speaking of Master Yang and Yu Zhi, Zijin felt very upset: "The mansion is so busy now, he still has time to take Yu Zhi to visit friends. This trip has been without a trace for more than ten days. I don't know when I'll be back."

Yu Xi smiled and said: "When it's time to come back, I will come back naturally. By the way, you can go to the nursery school and bring back that child named Wei Meiyun. That child is also very good." Yu Xi has a special impression of that child Deep, so I want to bring this child into the mansion to be cultivated.

In the evening, Yun Qing came back from outside with a very ugly expression on his face. Yuxi stepped forward, took the cloak that Yunqing had untied, put it on the hanger, and asked, "Why is your face so ugly? Is it because the imperial envoy was killed?"

Yun Qing was very annoyed, and said: "These bandits and horse thieves are getting more and more rampant, and they even dare to kill the imperial envoy?" He didn't like Cao De, but the arrogance of the horse thieves really annoyed him.

Yuxi said: "I heard that there are a lot of horse thieves and bandits in Lanzhou, but the prefect of Lanzhou is not good at suppressing bandits, and bandits have become a disaster." In fact, the bandits in Shanxi, Gansu, and Shaanxi provinces are particularly powerful.

Yunqing said with a cold face: "Not only Lanzhou, but the entire northwest is full of bandits." What made Yunqing most angry was that the court did not order him to suppress the bandits. If he was ordered to send troops, he would be able to kill all the bandits and horse thieves in the northwest within half a year.

Yu Xi shook her head and said: "You can't kill these bandits and horse thieves cleanly." Seeing Yunqing staring at her big eyes, Yu Xi said: "Among these bandits and horse thieves, there are many vicious ones, but most of them are forced They had to go up the mountain to become bandits. If they could eat enough, wear warm clothes, and live an ordinary life, who would want to be a bandit or a horse thief. After all, the court is still incompetent, and the officials are incompetent, making it impossible for the common people to survive "If you fall into the grass and become a bandit, you can still survive, otherwise you can only die.

After a moment of silence, Yun Qing said: "But I still have to kill." This means that if the imperial court asked him to send troops, he would not show mercy.

Yuxi said: "The bandits and horse thieves who kill innocents indiscriminately will naturally be exterminated, but if you encounter those bandits who have principles not to kill innocents indiscriminately, let them go!"

Yunqing did not agree to Yuxi. Regardless of whether these people were forced or not, since they chose to become bandits, they should bear the consequences of being killed.

Yu Xi didn't argue with Yun Qing, and said: "We'll wait until the imperial court gives you an order!" Even if the imperial court is determined to suppress the bandits, Ji Xuan must be the one who takes the lead. Only when Ji Xuan failed to suppress the bandits would it be possible to call the Northwest Army.

Yun Qing was speechless immediately. (to be continued)