After the emperor got married, he collapsed and set up

On the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, the emperor seals his pen, all officials rest for a year, and the winter chill sneaks into the capital overnight.

Just at dawn, heavy snow was falling, and the bricks and tiles of the eaves were connected into white mountains one after another for a while.

Yang Yanqing took off the letter tied to Black Eagle's feet, and read the words clearly by the light of the candle.

Qiongzhou is different

The letter was sent by Huaiji to the Zhenfu Division, and passed through Huaizhou to Yang Yanqing.Heqi Mountain Villa is not a specialized intelligence organization. It is just some random people with unknown pasts and whereabouts. Huaiji will occasionally archive the records of what they saw and heard when they were chatting or passing somewhere, and then screened out from the mixed information. Information that may be related to the North Korean bureau was handed over.

There are two major state capitals between Qiongzhou and Qingzhou. Qingzhou is outside the imperial court, while Qiongzhou is the state of Zhou, a subsidiary state adjacent to Daqing.

The state of Zhou is not big, and the interior is mostly mountainous. The lack of arable land leads to a single type of product and insufficient output. However, due to the rich mineral resources, the people of Zhou state are very good at smelting powerful swords. Most of the time, they need to trade food crops, cloth, tea oil, etc. with Daqing. This transaction is most frequent in late autumn and early winter every year.

The Zhou Kingdom was able to survive under the conquest of the Daqing Shengzu Emperor because the Zhou royal family voluntarily submitted the letter of credence before the Shengzu Emperor took the lead in the war, and it has been in a corner for 200 years without any rash actions.

In fact, compared with the state of Zhou, the emperors and courtiers of all dynasties have always been more afraid of the foreign races who would fight on the border of Qingzhou every few years. Daqing's weapons are apart from the Jingbei Army after Xiao Jinghe took charge of the army. The prefectural soldiers and the forbidden army largely depended on the tribute that Zhou Guo used in exchange for food and cloth every year.

Yang Yanqing stood by the door wearing a robe and looked at the snow that was still falling outside. A layer about half a finger thick had already accumulated in the yard. Because the weather was too cold, Yang Yanqing sent the servant girl away before going to bed, only There was a boy watching the charcoal brazier in the room.

Yang Yanqing put on the outer robe he was wearing, and went to the hanger to pull off the heavy cloak.

The sound of clothes rubbing woke up the dozing boy next to him. He suddenly opened his eyes and saw his master who was wearing clothes. He hurriedly stepped forward to take the cloak from Yang Yanqing's hand, unfolded it, shook it, and wrapped it carefully around Yang Yanqing's body: "Mr. Do you want to go out? It's snowing heavily outside."

"Go and see the prince." Yang Yanqing smiled and stopped the boy from filling the stove with carbon ash, "It's only two steps away, it's okay."

The servant hesitated for a moment, and finally found a lamb wool muff that had been roasted by the side of the charcoal basin before: "It's cold, young master should pay more attention."

Yang Yanqing has always been very talkative in terms of recuperating and keeping warm. He took the muff and put his hands in it, warming him up and putting it on his fingertips that were cold when he was sitting at the table thinking.

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Candles were also lit in Xiao Jinghe's room, and the cold wind was blowing through the room in the winter morning. The door of this man's room was half open, and there was no waiter outside the room.

Hearing the noise, Xiao Jinghe raised his head, and saw Yang Yanqing with a smile on his face, his hands in his muff, leaning against the door and looking sideways at him, while the servant behind him put away his umbrella and shook off a small pile of snowflakes.

Putting down the pen in his hand, Xiao Jinghe took out the blank paper below and covered it, walked over and hurriedly pulled the scholar into the room and closed the door, stretching out his hand, as expected, felt the wetness of his hand.

Yang Yanqing untied the snow-stained cloak and put it on the back of a chair, reached out and shook Xiao Jinghe's fingers: "It's not cold."

"If you have something to do, ask someone to come over and call me, don't come here when it's snowing next time."

Xiao Jinghe still had some disapproval, and brought him to the desk and sat down. The charcoal basin beside the desk was ravaged by the wind blowing in from the open door just now, leaving only a faint flame. He fiddled with the pliers twice to turn the red-hot coal After coming out, the warm temperature suddenly dissipated.

"The left and right couldn't sleep either, so I just wanted to ask the lord something." Yang Yanqing sat unceremoniously in the position where Xiao Jinghe was sitting just now, and when he looked down, he saw the paper covered with ink stains.

The paper pressed underneath is obviously not dry, and the ink color at the turning point of the stroke gradually soaks up.

Xiao Jinghe glanced at Yang Yanqing in surprise: "Sir, there will be things that you can't figure out and want to ask this king?"

"Of course there are things I'm not good at. For example, the prince is good at arranging troops and fighting bravely, but he can't even read the Go records." Yang Yanqing turned sideways and met Xiao Jinghe who was leaning on the table, " ...Your Highness is also worried about the heavy snow this year?"

Different from Yang Yanqing who is worried about the people's livelihood, Xiao Jinghe's focus is on the border: "The capital is still like this, if the snow keeps on, not only the snow disaster is inevitable, but also the foreign races outside the customs who lack food due to the cold winter will choose to take risks and attack the border cities to plunder. food for the winter."

"Is it the same in previous years?" Yang Yanqing asked.

"It's like this every year." Xiao Jinghe replied in a deep voice, "These barbarians who haven't lost their wildness don't know how to plant and live by grazing. Every winter, those who are more peaceful use cattle, sheep and horses to exchange food with past merchants in Qingzhou to hoard. Run around and loot the surrounding villages. Although those villages are in Qingzhou territory, they are far away from the capital city. The barbarians sneaked into the territory, burned, killed and looted, and then fled.

"With the weather this year, those barbarians are driven to a dead end, and they must have taken the risk and sneaked into the country many times to commit crimes."

Yang Yanqing was thinking about the geographical features of Qingzhou, puzzled: "Why don't the people near the border be moved away?"

Only then did Xiao Jinghe realize that Yang Yanqing didn't seem to know much about the people's sentiments and landforms of the states: "The arable land in Qingzhou is barren, and the existing arable land is the lifeblood of the blood and sweat of generations, even if a village is dead. , There will also be other people who are lucky enough to settle down because of the cultivated land, and the local state government has repeatedly lobbied but failed."

What's so scary about dying?What is more terrifying than the dead is watching one's own relatives die of poverty and starvation one after another.

Doing business, studying, and studying medicine, these three paths are only feasible for a very small number of people. For most people, farming is their life.If you leave the cultivated land, you will starve to death, but if you stay on the cultivated land, at least there is hope in front of you.

In the final analysis, it is a poor word.The local state capital is still stretched thin, and even the supply of the Jingbei Army is paid out of the private money of the commander-in-chief King Jingbei. Where did the money come from to reform Qingzhou's farming and improve the lives of the people?

To put it bluntly, the imperial court has been consuming internal affairs these years, and Yang Yanqing has only been an official for only six years. The capital city and some southern state capitals have indeed looked prosperous in the past two years, but the poor and difficult places are still clinking with poverty.

Xiao Jinghe spoke with sarcasm and sharp words: "Emperor Gaozu fought in the battlefield in person, and after he ascended the throne, he traveled in disguise every year to observe the people's sentiments. Although there were natural disasters under the rule, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. But sir, look at the emperor who is not sitting high Temples, do not touch the world at all? You want the people in the world to love and respect Xiao Yun, a child emperor who is not as weak as a crown, but have you ever thought about why he sits in the world?"

"Is it due to the blood in his body, or because he has a gentleman like Zhuge?"

Yang Yanqing put his hands in front of him, and instead of answering Xiao Jinghe's sharp question, he turned to another question: "The information just sent by the Zhenfu Department said that there has been a change in Qiongzhou. I don't know if it is also related to the abnormality of this winter."

"Qiongzhou?" Xiao Jinghe's eyes changed, he hesitated for a moment as if recalling something, "So early...?"

Yang Yanqing keenly caught the strangeness of Xiao Jinghe's attitude, and it seemed that he was not surprised by the news of the change in Qiongzhou, so his eyes flickered a few times: "Your Highness cares about Zhou Guo?"

Xiao Jinghe had already shown some vigilance towards Zhou Guo, which has always been a peaceful subordinate country, but Yang Yanqing checked the information of Zhou Guo in the past ten years, and did not find anything wrong with this peaceful subordinate country. That's why it was suppressed.

However, when he received news of changes in Qiongzhou today, Yang Yanqing's first reaction was Zhou Guo.Now it seems that the only one who can answer his question is Xiao Jinghe who is inexplicably wary of Zhou Guo.

"An affiliated country that has pinched the shortcoming of Daqing's weapon smelting, what point is not worthy of vigilance?" Xiao Jinghe asked Yang Yanqing back, and at the same time removed the paper that was used to cover the previous handwriting on the table, and handed it to Yang Yanqing. , "This is news from Qingzhou."

Yang Yan scanned the above text and Xiao Jinghe's reply to the comments below, and frowned: "Isn't the Jingbei Army's weapons not paid tribute by Zhou?"

Xiao Jinghe hesitated for a moment, and explained frankly: "There is no iron ore recorded in Qingzhou. Although the weapon smelting technology is acceptable, it is limited by the raw ore. The number of weapons produced is far from being able to supply the army. Weapons are still mixed, but they are not equipped for the vanguard battalion. This time the discovery of crossbows|arrows is good to be discovered in advance, if they go to the battlefield like this, there will be endless troubles.”

As Xiao Jinghe said, he took a box from the table next to him and opened it, and handed a crossbow｜arrow lying inside to Yang Yanqing.

Yang Yanqing took it, and the cold and sharp arrow was pressed against the soft fingertips. He poked the arrow downwards forcefully towards the dark table in front of him, only to hear a crunching sound, and the arrow drew a shallow trace on the table. , rolled down from the table, but the arrow body was still firmly held in Yang Yanqing's hand.

Just so much strength...

This batch of crossbows｜Arrows seem to be strong and sharp, but after the cold and flooding in winter, the arrows loosened on a large scale. If it weren’t for the soldiers of the Jingbei Army who are all experienced veterans, and Xiao Jinghe’s annual iron order must The plan for combat drills must have been inspected by officials of the Ministry of Industry and Military Affairs in the summer and autumn. The crossbow | arrows would not have been discovered in time to have problems.

And this batch of crossbow | arrows happened to come from Zhou Guo's tribute at the beginning of spring this year.

The Daqing Dynasty has a vast territory and rich mineral resources. It is reasonable to say that it should not be calculated by a small country affiliated to a small projectile. However, Zhou Guo retreated and cultivated for 200 years. Corroding this huge monster, only now looking back is it surprising that Daqing has been buried with such a deadly hidden danger.

"My lord is not going to report to the imperial court?" Yang Yanqing put the solitary and naked arrow｜body lightly on the table.

"What about after reporting?" Xiao Jinghe sneered, "Allow money or cast soldiers? Don't you know how much money was allocated to resist the snowstorm a few days ago? Where does the money come from to take care of this shit? Besides generals, who civil servants really know how many battles Qingzhou has to fight on the border every winter?"

"After all, for a distinguished scholar living in a temple, as long as the Qingzhou border is not broken, it is a trivial matter, isn't it?" Xiao Jinghe said, "Reporting it is nothing more than a quarrel between the courtiers, and the military general is punished by the civil servants. The chapter was so blocked that I couldn't speak, and the matter was delayed until the next spring."

By then, winter will have passed, and the imperial court will probably not think about repairing this hole.But if something happened to Qingzhou and Qiongzhou in winter, the first to be held accountable would be the soldiers guarding the border.

How ridiculous.

Yang Yanqing was silent for a long time, then suddenly said: "If so, let him take a look? Would the prince be willing?"

Xiao Jinghe was taken aback: "Who?"

After realizing it again, he raised his voice in disbelief: "You asked me to take the little emperor to the border?!"

Yang Yanqing raised his eyes, his slender eyelashes fluttered slightly, and added: "Yes, we."

The author has something to say:

It doesn’t feel right these two days... the state seems to have suddenly down (scratching head)

It may be too cold to enter the hibernation period poof!

Babies in Jiangsu and Zhejiang should pay attention to epidemic prevention!Wear a mask and wash your hands frequently, stay healthy!

Then I got into the warm blanket in the heating room of the northern baby at the speed of light (hold head)

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Thanks to the little angel who threw the mine: 1 piece from Yushan;

Thanks to the little angel who irrigates the nutrient solution:. . . 1 bottles;

Stick it! !