Jia Lian of the Red Chamber

Xiaohong was clever and transparent, and immediately understood.

Pan You'an is Jia Lian's favorite assistant, in charge of the economic lifeline of the Jia family, he can be called the purse of the Jia family, of course such a talent cannot be cheap.As a result, Si Qi is not suitable for dowry, and Yingchun's dowry must be smart and capable. There is no one more suitable than Qingwen in this mansion.

Xiaohong hurriedly went to comfort Qingwen: "The second girl is not as good as before. The second master and the second grandmother dote on her very much. Baoyu can't help herself. It may not be a way out for you to leave Jia's house. You also know that the eldest girl is very powerful. Even our second grandma can only avoid the edge temporarily."

Qingwen was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "Thank you, it doesn't really matter. I have two hands, and I can go anywhere hungry. It's just that I don't have brothers and sisters. The sisters I knew since I was a child are all in the house, so I'm a bit reluctant to leave here."

Xiaohong saw that there was nothing wrong with Qingwen, so she felt relieved: "Don't worry, the second girl will stay for at least a year or two. I'm in the front yard, and we spend more time together."

Qingwen frowned, stretched out her hand to pinch Lin Xiaohong: "I'm really not ashamed, who is in the front yard? What do you think?"

Lin Xiaohong blushed herself, and hugged Qingwen with laughter.

Turning back, they talked about the marriage between Jia Ling and Lin Xiaohong. The two sides exchanged grass-roots keepsakes.

Jia Ling's mother went home and thanked Sister Feng a thousand times.I beg Sister Feng to go to Lin's house to make peace, and choose auspicious Xiaoding.

Sister Feng chuckled when she heard the words: "You don't need to be so anxious, Xiaohong is only fourteen this year, I have to wait for her to reach the age, don't worry, she can't escape."

The fourth sister-in-law said with a smile: "I can't settle down, I don't feel at ease."

Sister Feng also likes Zhang Luo's affairs, so she recruited Lin Zhixiao's family to discuss, and made a small decision on the sixth day of June.

Jia Ling's mother, the fourth grandma, felt at ease, and hurriedly went to make a dowry for her daughter-in-law.

Jia Lian's formation here was basically formed, but he was not very proficient, he was only shivering at the last moment, he spent almost every day in the team and never returned home.

Because Emperor Qianyuan had already said that he would test the training effect of Jia Lian's new battalion at the Winter Hunting Feast.

On the sixth day of June, Jia Ling made a small decision, and Jia Lian had no time to go down the mountain.Fortunately, this kind of thing is originally a matter for women in the backyard.

Just two days after Jia Ling got engaged, news came from Ningshou Palace that Zhen Yinglian's water broke.

Jiamu and Fengjie were busy dressing up and chatting about bringing Xichun into the palace to visit.

Originally, Xichun was a little girl, but she was Jia Rong's aunt, so I didn't feel at ease if she wasn't invited.

Jia Qiang was busy writing letters to Jia Rong, while Ke Qing was busy burning incense, kneeling down on behalf of the entire Ningguo Mansion to worship the ancestor Bodhisattva, begging them to protect Zhen Yinglian's mother and child.

Zhen Yinglian has a strong body and a resolute personality. With the encouragement of Sister Feng and the help of Lingquan ginseng soup, Zhen Yinglian gave birth to a pair of twins on the ninth day of the second day of June.

The empress dowager was overjoyed, and rewarded the entire Ningshou Palace, all the maids and eunuchs with a reward of March.Instruct Aunt Suju to open a warehouse to select precious medicinal materials.Because ginseng has expired for a long time, the chief manager Defu was sent to Tai Hospital to ask for it.

This is a big deal.All of a sudden, the six palaces moved together, and the precious supplements of Ningshou Palace piled up.

Sister Jia Mufeng stayed with Zhen Yinglian in the palace for three days, and returned to the palace after visiting the family for three days.

At such a moment, Jia Rong received Jia Lian's urgent letter from Jia Lian to help private interests five hundred miles away, and she wept with joy when she learned that she had become a father.

You Shi knelt in front of Jia Zhenling and cried: "Master, you have a grandson and a queen, master, are you happy? Hey, you are too greedy and domineering. If you are willing to let the third sister live , why is this!"

On the ninth day of the seventh month, Jia Mufeng led the female relatives from the two houses into the palace again to celebrate the full moon for Zhen Yinglian's twins.

Sister Feng wanted to take Zhen Yinglian back to her residence, but the Empress Dowager chose to live in Ningfu, but the child was too young to refuse.

On the wedding day, Sister Feng met Yu Liuyue at the wedding banquet.

Yu Liuyue has been married for four years and only gave birth to a daughter. Now she is two years old and looks like a jade carving. Unfortunately, she is not a son. The second and third princes married later and have already given birth to a son.

Emperor Qianyuan has already spoken, and there is no news about Yu Liuyue this year, and the next year's draft will be given to the eldest prince as a side concubine.

Yu Liuyue looked at Zhen Yinglian enviously: "I also lived in Rongfu, how could she give birth to dragon and phoenix twins, but I was not blessed?"

Sister Feng was startled secretly, and hurriedly tried to comfort her: "Bloom first and then bear fruit, Madam, don't worry."

But Yu Liuyue sighed: "It is said that the Imperial Hospital has a secret formula for conceiving children..."

Sister Feng was shocked: "Mother, listen to me..."

Soon it was August, on the third day of the eighth lunar month, there was a hustle and bustle of carriages and horses on Rongning Street, red lanterns were hung at the door, copper ingots were brightly lit on the door, and red hydrangea balls were propped up by stone lions guarding the door.Rongxi Hall was full of guests, laughing and chattering loudly.

On the ground in Kyoto, everyone from the prince's son-in-law down to the seventh-rank official came to congratulate Jia Mu on her 73rd birthday.

The Empress Dowager of Ningshou Palace also had birthday presents.

Mother Jia didn't expect to have such a decent life in her lifetime, and she was deeply moved for a while!

The eldest concubine also had birthday congratulations.At the same time, Yu Liuyue also rewarded Sister Feng, the hostess of Rongfu, but it was a handful of Lantian jade, Yu Ruyi.

Sister Feng immediately understood and closed her eyes with a smile.

In the blink of an eye, Dongyue came, and the annual winter hunting feast was held as scheduled.This time, Jia Lian's Pingzi camp also participated, but they did not participate in the examination of the family guards, but came to accept the examination of Emperor Qianyuan.But the opponent was the elite combination selected from the Fengsheng Army. This army was exactly the team that Jia Lian brought to Ping'an Island last time.

In the first battle, Jia Lian attacked the city and formed a battalion to defend the city. The defending team adopted the law-abiding invented by Jia Lian before, and used the method of pouring oil, beans and chili powder to deal with the attacking troops. The two sides can shoot at each other, but they are not allowed When shooting rockets, there are only arrow shafts and no arrows when shooting each other.

Jia Lian's siege team.The main force was [-] child soldiers transferred from Changping, but they were all in night clothes when they appeared on the stage, which surprised the princes and nobles in the stands.

When the two sides shot at each other, the siege troops set up ladders, and the two sides fought hand-to-hand. When the city began to sprinkle oil, beans and pepper, the [-] team members quickly put on the gas masks around their necks. They walked fast, without slipping on their feet, and their mouths and noses were not troubled by poisonous powder. Taking advantage of the moment when the other party was stunned, the two groups of players attacked the castle separately.

It's just that although the twenty children attacked, they couldn't capture these defenders who were much stronger than them alive.However, it is also very difficult for the soldiers defending the city to counterattack and catch them. These children bounce and leap like monkeys. The only flaw is that they are only thirteen or fourteen years old and lack strength.

The war was at a stalemate.Emperor Qianyuan, as the chief referee, judged Pingziying to win.During the intermission, in the imperial tent of Emperor Qianyuan, Feng Tang asked in detail: "How do you restrain slippery and poisonous powder?"

Jia Lian handed the gas mask and spiked shoes that had been concealed for a long time to Emperor Qianyuan and Feng Tang: "Actually, there is no secret technique. The secret lies in the mask and shoes. However, it is best to keep this matter secret, otherwise, the enemy will know about it." , will do everything possible to design and break our secret technique."

Emperor Qianyuan nodded, and looked at the spiked shoes and mask with Feng Tang, looking at each other in blank dismay, such a simple thing, but it came in handy.

Emperor Qianyuan nodded and praised: "The idea is so ingenious, it's hard for you to think of it. Can you tell me how you came up with these two things?" Jia Lian said: "The iron spikes are very simple. As a result, they are not afraid of slippery or water when wearing clogs. I first tried wooden spikes, but I couldn’t control the slipperiness. Later, I realized that iron nails can press down on wood. This experiment was completed. Just put these iron nails firmly and not shake, It was a waste of effort. Later, our embroiderer reminded me: why not borrow a pearl shirt."

Emperor Qianyuan laughed loudly: "Where is this gas mask?"

Jia Lian suddenly felt a little embarrassed: "Well, when I was young, I ate pea yellow, but my cousin told a joke. I laughed and sprayed a whole mouthful of pea yellow on my grandfather's face. Fortunately, my grandfather wore glasses to protect him. Eyes. Otherwise, you will definitely lose your eyes. When Weichen was thinking about how to avoid the enemy's poisonous powder, he occasionally recalled this incident in a dream, and designed this gas mask with an idea."

Feng Tang frowned: "Anti-virus is anti-virus, why wear night clothes?"

Jia Lian laughed and said, "This is purely for the purpose of confusing. When we show up, everyone will notice that we are wearing night clothes instead of armor, and they will ignore the gas mask we hang around our necks. And our gas mask is made of fur. It is very soft, hanging on the back of the neck, and it is concealed. In this way, if the enemy’s strategy fails again and again, they will panic and hesitate. This kind of opportunity is the best opportunity for us to attack the city on the battlefield.”

Emperor Qianyuan's eyes sparkled when he heard the words: "The concept is good, but those soldiers are a little weak."

Jia Lian nodded: "The Pingzi camp is all child soldiers. The only flaw is their weak strength. In three to five years, this shortcoming will no longer be a shortcoming."

Emperor Qianyuan nodded: "That's true. Well, I heard that you are training formations. Does that work? If you use formations, how many of your children can deal with an adult?"

Jia Lian said with a smile: "The training of formations is usually done by themselves. They haven't played against adults before. You have to try it to know its power. However, they have no problem protecting themselves."

Emperor Qianyuan was very interested: "Then try it."

Jia Lian called seven children to form a small trio, with two pawns on the two wings, two main attacking fronts, and the last three as assists for the jumping team.

The seven children put up a battle, but the mixed camp didn't look down on them, and they came out to challenge each other.He used a spear, thinking that if he shot it, the seven children would scatter like birds and beasts.Unexpectedly, as soon as he shot his spear, a shield in front of him blocked him. Just as he was about to return to his horse and stab again, the main attacker thrust out two spears, entangled the end of his spear, and then the child holding the shield moved left and right. Two sharp short knives were already approaching his neck.If it is a real enemy, the head has already been awarded at this moment.

This time, only three of the seven children took the shot and had already won.

The mixed battalion was changed to two people attacking at the same time, one left and one right, and the children still blocked with shields. This time, it was replaced by the child holding the shield with the shield in his left hand, and the mirror handle in his right hand to pin the gun head. The two children in the front work together to entangle the enemy's weapons, and the three children in the back take the opportunity to stab the enemy with three long-guns. Two of the long-guns are used against one person, so that at least one can be killed, and the remaining one will not Without retreating, the children remain invincible.

Emperor Qianyuan smiled: "This is bullying the few with more people."

Jia Lian said with a smile: "The array is that many people bully the few, but it can also be a combination of the weak and the weak against a strong enemy. If the two soldiers just now were one-on-one, the child would definitely be vulnerable, but with the array, they will You can calmly face a strong enemy, but this is due to the huge disparity in their strength, if the strength of the enemy and us are similar, the power of the formation will be even greater."

Emperor Qianyuan nodded: "That is to say, if seven children are replaced by seven adults, they can completely defeat an enemy that is much stronger than the seven of them?"

Jia Lian nodded: "That's right. The power of this method is to obtain the greatest victory with the least sacrifice. This is just a single formation. Weichen is leading the children to train double formations. The founding predecessors also have successful cases. , but with the distance of the war, it has been lost in the army, and I am preparing to regain this formation."

Emperor Qianyuan became more and more excited: "How powerful is your junior team? How many people do you need?"

Jia Lian said: "The Pingzi Battalion can form three medium battle formations, or 300 people can form a large battle formation."

Emperor Qianyuan danced with his hands and feet: "Come on!"

Jia Lian first formed a three-talented team of 100 people, and one hundred children successfully restrained the attack of a hundred people.

Then, three hundred child soldiers formed a formation of juniors and successfully restrained the mixed battalion.If it weren't for the disparity in the strength of the children, they could have won a complete victory.

Emperor Qianyuan saw something: "That wolf son of yours can restrain even knives, guns, swords and halberds?"

Jia Lian nodded: "Yes, this requires someone to cooperate, one to cover, one to entangle the enemy's weapon, and the other to attack and kill the enemy."

Emperor Qianyuan squinted his eyes and thought for a while: "Well, you haven't demonstrated the power of long-distance combat?"

Jia Lian said with a smile: "I can't show this. The long-distance attack depends on the shotgun."

Emperor Qianyuan suddenly realized, and nodded: "It can be used for both long-distance attack and short-range defense. Especially for close combat, unless the enemy is swarming, one will die! It can not only protect oneself, but also destroy the enemy to the maximum extent. It is very good. It is worth it." Promote."

Emperor Qianyuan looked at Feng Tang with a smile: "His ability to be a captain, is there no problem?"

Feng Tang was slightly startled, and immediately smiled and said, "No problem!"

Emperor Qianyuan made a final decision: "Then give him a full force." Then he looked at Jia Lian and said, "I'll give you half a year. In May next year, I want to see a mighty army. Do you dare to accept it?"

Jia Lian bowed and saluted: "Well, I report back to Your Majesty. If you are not in your position, you will not seek his own government. A small official, a school lieutenant, dare not talk to a captain, who is training soldiers."

Emperor Qianyuan nodded, and then clapped his hands: "In this way, you simply become independent. This year's hunting feast is just an opportunity. Those eliminated candidates can be recruited by you, and they will be treated as fourth-class guards. From the fifth rank, you from Pingziying The name should also be changed, let’s call it Yulinjun, you are the newly appointed captain of the Yulinjun, from the second rank.”

Emperor Qianyuan was very excited, and patted the table: "Someone come to draw up an order, and I want to form the Imperial Forest Army."

Coincidentally, it was Uncle Zhang and Uncle Lin who were waiting outside.Uncle Lin is now also a walker in front of the imperial court.The two heard that the emperor called people to come in and listen to the announcement together.

Emperor Qianyuan smiled immediately: "It just so happens that the two of you each drafted an imperial edict for me. Together, I want to form the Imperial Forest Army. All the natives of the capital, and the children of officials and eunuchs can participate in the selection. The selected ones will be the fourth-class guards and the fifth-rank. Another one, poke Jia Lian, who was promoted to Fengshengjun School Lieutenant, will be transferred to be the captain of the Imperial Forest Army from now on. He will be responsible for recruiting the Imperial Forest Army!" Uncle Zhang was slightly stunned and asked, "May I ask Your Majesty, what is the age for recruiting the Imperial Forest Army?" scope?"

Emperor Qianyuan looked at Jia Lian: "What is the right age?"

Jia Lian bowed and replied: "Reporting to Your Majesty, I think that anyone over 14 and under 20 years old can take part in the exam. Does Your Majesty think so?"

Emperor Qianyuan nodded: "Yes!"

Uncle Zhang touched the cold sweat on his forehead, glanced at Jia Lian, bowed his head and went to write.

For a while, the imperial edict of Uncle Lin's uncle Zhang's family finished writing and handed it to Emperor Qianyuan. Emperor Qianyuan looked at it at a loss, waved his hand, and the eunuch wrapped in the jade seal presented the jade seal.

The chief eunuch went out and sang loudly: "Your Majesty has a decree, all officials listen to it."

Then the two imperial edicts newly released by Emperor Qianyuan were read out.

When those honored disciples who failed the rankings heard that they were recruiting the imperial forest army, they were still the emperor's guards, and they were from the fifth rank, and they were only half a level behind the Ouchi guards, which is very good.

Immediately, people flocked to sign up, and when they knew that the upper limit was 21, many people became uneasy.Immediately there was a quarrel around the registration office: "It's not fair. A few years ago we missed the opportunity because we didn't have a quota for the Imperial Forest Army. Now we are stuck at the age of 20. Are we [-] so much older than [-]?"

When one person speaks, hundreds of people support him.

"That is, we are not yet 30 years old, why not give us a chance?"

Jia Lian just spread his hands when he heard the words.

Emperor Qianyuan was very happy to see that many noble children signed up enthusiastically and received such support.

He waved at Jia Lian: "Come here, how many people are you going to recruit?"

Jia Lian said honestly: "Each captain has three to five Lang officials, and Weichen has a Pingzi battalion under his command. He plans to recruit another 400 people, and it is enough to set up two strengthening Lang teams."

Emperor Qianyuan beckoned again and asked Jia Lian to come closer: "Since they are eager to sign up, you might as well make the stall bigger. Isn't the largest organizational system five Lang teams? The Imperial Forest Army will recruit four Lang teams, and one Lang team will add another 100 people." Four, four, one thousand and six, eat all these idlers, and save them from carrying cages and cages every day, running dogs and cockfights, and making the capital smoky."

Jia Lian suddenly laughed: "These people are the money bags that Shuntian Mansion allocates for dredging the river bed every year?"

Emperor Qianyuan said cheerfully, "Who cares about him."

Thinking of being fooled by Emperor Qianyuan last time, Jia Lian said that he strongly supported him, but he didn't care about the source of troops and military expenses, which made Jia Lian beg everywhere for two years.

This time, Jia Lian didn't want to beg for food anymore, so Emperor Qianyuan had to issue an edict, so that the Ministry of War had to take out the money.

With a face full of embarrassment, he said: "Suddenly there are thousands more soldiers, and the salary for this month is five thousand silver, plus the weapons and equipment needed for the formation, such as shotguns, wolf guns, mirror handles, forging knives, shields, etc. Another large sum of money, Weichen just met the Minister of the Household Department to test it out, and the Minister of the Household Department was blown away, calling for poverty and saying that he was just begging for food. If there are few people, Weichen can still try to go to the poor to beg for money, but You have more than 1000 people, and the humble officials really can't support them."

At the beginning, Emperor Qianyuan didn't really believe in Jia Lian's thinking on governing the army, so of course he didn't pay much attention to him, and Feng Tang deliberately blamed him.It's different now, Emperor Qianyuan has strongly supported it, and it's about the peace of the coastal and northern borders, how dare the military department prevaricate?

It's just that Emperor Qianyuan couldn't put it bluntly, but he pretended to be angry and squinted his eyes: "Hmph, your Pingzi Camp military department didn't allocate a penny, why did you mess it up?"

Jia Lian bowed: "Pingziying is affiliated with the Fengsheng Army. Of course, I have the right to fight against General Feng. Now that I am independent, I have nothing to do with Fengsheng Army. How can I have the face to disturb General Feng again?"

Emperor Qianyuan snorted coldly: "Where is the subordinate of the Fengsheng Army? Where did his money come from? Isn't it from the court of the Ministry of War? Let me tell you, you, the Imperial Forest Army affiliated to the Ministry of War, dare to prevaricate you, unless the Minister of the Ministry of War I don't want to do it anymore."

Jia Lian was secretly happy, but his mouth was touched: "Thank you for your instruction, Your Majesty, I have little knowledge, so I'm at odds with you."

Emperor Qianyuan waved his hand: "Go. Oh, don't worry about the matter of relaxing the age, just push it away if you have something to do, wait a few days, and I will have something to say."

This is not to allow Jia Lian to be a good person, but to keep himself to be kind!

Jia Lian flattened his mouth when he heard the words, and did not forget to put on a benevolent face for such a trivial matter. All the good people in the world really let him do it all by himself.

Jia Lian was here to take care of the registration, and secretly sent a letter to Kyoto, telling the children of the Jia family who were over 13 years old and under 20 years old, that they felt that there was no hope of studying, and that they were willing to join the Imperial Forest Army to apply for the exam in Nanyuan.

Jia Ling quickly passed the news to the Jia clan.

In no time, more than fifty young men from the clan came to Yanwu Hall.

Jialan Jiazhu and Jialan are also eager to try.

Jia Ling stopped them: "Second Master said that students who go to government schools are not allowed to participate in the assessment of the Imperial Forest Army."

Jia Lan was displeased: "We are the same age, why are we not allowed to participate in the assessment?"