Chapter 681: engage in business
In winter, Lin Jinxiao received the first letter from Chu Nanzhi.
Calculated, their mother and son had been away from him for nearly two months, and he missed him so much that he had to put all his thoughts on governing the state and county.
Brothers Tang Ru and Tang Li retreated steadily, almost exhausting all the elite members of the Tang family under their hands.
Lin Jinxiao has arranged everything according to the previous arrangement, Zhang Yu is sticking to Haining County, He Ying and Zheng Huan have also taken over the 30,000 infantry in Changning County, and they have done a relatively safe job of appeasing the county.
And since Xu Jinzhou became the inspector of Funing County, he has also achieved great results. He deposed corrupt officials and punished noble gentry, which greatly boosted the hearts of the people.
In the early morning of this day, Lin Jinxiao ordered Li Ce to start reorganizing the army, and asked Sun Wucai to issue a series of notices to spread the disaster relief matters from all counties to the whole prefecture. The army's vigor, military strength and appeasement are two-pronged. He doesn't believe that those rebels who are isolated and helpless will carry on.
After finishing the preparations, he locked himself in the study and quietly read Chu Nanzhi's letter. When he saw the final inscription, he couldn't help being stunned: "It's late at night, and I saw that the begonia flowers are still awake."
This girl, where can I see crabapple flowers in the cold winter months.
I have entered the palace at any rate.
While thinking hard, he replied to the letter. When he was about to finish writing the letter, he suddenly realized that the lady has always been eccentric, and I am afraid that this sentence should be a sentence of love.
When I signed the title, I also added a sentence by the way: When the spring is warm and the flowers bloom in the coming year, my husband will be by your side.
Looking at the words "spring is warm and flowers are blooming", he is now only looking forward to the early stabilization of the situation in Pingning Prefecture.
After folding the letter paper and letting the pigeons fly, I heard Hai Da'a's voice outside the study: "Your Highness, the inspector of Jiangnan and the stayer in Jiangnan, the Minister ordered Lord Ji to come to the mansion to ask for an audience."
"Ji Huai Shu?"
Lin Jinxiao was overjoyed and hurried over to open the door.
Already got the news that Ji Huaishu was ordered to come to fight the rebellion and provide disaster relief for him.
When I came to the main hall, I saw Ji Huaishu greeted me with a smile, and after prostrating, I said happily: "This time, the old minister came to reward the meritorious deeds by the order of the ancestors and His Majesty, and help His Highness put down the rebellion. If His Highness has orders, Do as you please."
Just as Lin Jinxiao was about to reply, he heard a loud noise from outside the hall: "Brother Wang, why did you let He Ying and Zheng Huan stand still? My husband and Tang Li are trapped in the isolated city of Tanning, isolated and helpless. Do you want to see death? save?"
Ji Huaishu heard the voice of Princess Lin Jinqian, turned his head, and saw Lin Jinqian leading Tang Yuanxi in angrily, and couldn't help but choked coldly: "It's defeated again? All this time, the trilogy of the Tang family and that of Changning County There are nearly 100,000 defenders, if this goes on, how many men can we send to defeat the army of our empire?"
"What does Ji Shangshu mean by this?"
Lin Jinqian curled her lips in dissatisfaction: "My husband has been loyal to the court and escaped death all his life. It's not that he is greedy for life and afraid of death. It's just that the bandit army is powerful."
"Really."
Lin Jinxiao sneered coldly: "This king remembers that Her Highness the Princess once boasted that she was just a bunch of refugees. Why are you afraid now?"
Before Lin Jinqian had time to reply, Ji Huaishu took out the imperial decree in his bosom, and read it aloud solemnly:
"Princess Qian listened to the decree, the governor Tang Ru secretly formed cliques, arbitrarily monopolized power, causing public resentment to boil, rashly advancing and losing the army, the general was stripped of the post of governor, demoted to Pingning Prefecture to stay behind, and entered the state government as a servant. Princess Qian disturbed the morale of the army. He was good at military affairs, so he stopped his salary for half a year, stayed in the mansion to think about his mistakes, and was no longer allowed to intervene in the affairs of the state government."
"What. Strip the position of the governor?"
Lin Jinqian's legs softened suddenly.
Without military power, how can Tang Ru control Pingning Prefecture?
"Why, the princess has questions?"
Ji Huaishu asked coldly.
"Is this what the emperor meant?"
Lin Jinqian asked unwillingly.
"Who does Her Royal Highness hope to mean?"
"I"
Lin Jinqian hesitated and couldn't speak.
"Princess please respect yourself."
Ji Huaishu handed over the imperial decree to her, and Lin Jinqian slumped on the ground disheartened, only then did she faintly feel that she had harmed her son-in-law.
Tang Yuanxi doesn't care if his brother can be a great governor, the only thing he hopes is to see him come back alive.
Since she married into the palace, she has spent almost all of her time, learning how to cook and serve others, and asking people about Lin Jinxiao's preferences, but she couldn't please him at all.
Even in the past two months, he didn't even step into the door of the long stay hospital.
Although I was extremely sad in my heart, I still bit the bullet and knelt down and prayed: "I beg Your Highness to send troops to rescue brother immediately because of the poor side of my concubine."
"Thin noodles?"
Lin Jinxiao smiled sarcastically: "From the time you stepped into my mansion, this king has never felt that you are a thin-faced person."
After the words fell, he took Ji Huaishu and walked away.
After all, he is the son of a great general, so he can't stand by and watch him die in battle in his own fief, but this will fulfill his reputation of loyalty.
Watching Lin Jinxiao leave, Tang Yuanxi only felt a great humiliation, the defense line in her heart was disintegrating little by little, and the beautiful vision she had previously had was also broken, and she began to cry hoarsely.
"Yuan Xi doesn't cry."
Lin Jinqian became extremely calm at this time: "Since he doesn't like you and me, we sister-in-law and I will do something vigorously, and we can always make a comeback."
It has been two months since Gaosheng Restaurant was opened, and the available recipes are all handed down from the Qi family. In the past, many diners came here because of her name as a princess, but as time went by, the number of diners gradually decreased. On the contrary, the business of Yuanlai Restaurant on the opposite side became more and more prosperous. , Even the semicolon business has flourished.
She began to realize that it was a recipe problem.
"The jealous woman said before she left that her two younger sisters are in charge of the restaurant's recipes. Let's go find those two country girls. Even if your brother can't be the governor, we two sisters-in-law can earn more money." , you can still return to Beijing in a good way in the future."
Made up his mind, Lin Jinqian dragged Tang Yuanxi and ran to the restaurant quickly.
When we arrived at Qinghefang, it was lunch time in the afternoon. Because the garden in the square was completely open to the outside world, people came and went inside at this time, which made people envious.
Lin Jinqian found Chu Nanxiang's figure in the crowd, and went straight up, trying to start a conversation, but was stopped by Yin Liuxuan.
"His Royal Highness is very elegant, why did you think of coming to Qinghefang with Princess Yuanxi today?"
Yin Liuxuan asked with full vigilance.
"Cough, Sister-in-law Wang has entered Beijing, and I am thinking of sisterhood, so I came to visit her sister."
Lin Jinqian didn't take Yin Liuxuan seriously at all, and turned to Chu Nanxiang with a smile on his face: "Nanxiang, I have a banquet at Gaosheng Restaurant, would you like to go and talk about it?"
Seeing that Yin Liuxuan still wanted to stop her, and her brother-in-law was about to go to Changning County, Chu Nanxiang immediately thought of what her elder sister had said before she left, and pushed Yin Liuxuan behind her, and said earnestly: "The princess invites you, how dare I not know you?" Congratulations, and ask the princess to lead the way."
"Ah Xiang, I'll go with you."
As soon as Yin Liuxuan finished speaking, Chu Nanxiang shook his head resolutely: "No, just wait for me to come back at Qinghefang."
After finishing speaking, he followed his aunt and sister-in-law to the Gaosheng restaurant opposite.