Scholar and old attack

Seeing the urgency of the situation, Jiang Jingyuan nodded to Xu Shuizhou as a signal, and hurriedly rode his horse to the palace with the guard.

Sure enough, as soon as I entered the hall, I could vaguely hear someone talking about dysentery.

Jiang Jingyuan's steps paused slightly, Xu Changming is indeed a villain!

Although Jiang Jingyuan was anxious in his heart, but fortunately his face could not hold back, he found Pan Yuquan and asked in a low voice, "What happened."

Pan Yuquan put away his all-encompassing thoughts a long time ago. Seeing Jiang Jingyuan's inquiry, he organized his language and said in a low voice, "I don't know what happened to the border guards. In recent days, people have been suffering from dysentery, and there is no cure for it. , and the dysentery is still spreading."

Pan Yuquan heaved a long sigh as he said that, seeing Daming getting up day by day, and even having a chance to fight the grassland, but this happened.

If this continues, the guards on the frontier will be seriously injured in a few days, and it will be a breeze to attack the grassland by then.

"There are many deaths." Jiang Jingyuan asked again.

Pan Yuquan, "There have been no deaths yet, but the number of people who get sick is increasing every day, and the disease is also increasing day by day. I fear that time is running out."

Jiang Jingyuan nodded, looked at the exhausted and frowning emperor on the dragon chair, and walked to the court hall.

Bowing down, he said earnestly, "Your Majesty, the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers in the frontier are at stake. Now every moment of delay, some people may die. I am willing to lead the imperial doctor and dozens of excellent doctors to the frontier to treat them together."

Jiang Jingyuan was full of guilt at the moment. If he had made more perfect preparations and considered more things, he would not have allowed Xu Changming to escape.

If Xu Changming hadn't escaped, the soldiers on the frontier would not have suffered such an indiscriminate disaster.

Sure enough, a villain is a villain, and he only uses these unscrupulous tricks, and people with real skills disdain to use such methods.

As soon as Jiang Jingyuan's words came out of his mouth, the court fell silent again.

All the officials couldn't help but have a question in their minds, this Jiang Jingyuan is really a daring person, even the dysentery dared to break through.

One must know that such contagious dysentery would cost one's own life if one is not careful, so he really wants fame and not fortune?

Even Gu Renhuai was stunned for a moment, his disciple was beyond his expectation time and time again, he used to think he was a bold person who dared to think and act.

At this moment, he felt that he was wrong again, not because Jiang Jingyuan dared to think and act, but because he had been living to save Daming.

Immediately, Jiang Jingyuan's image in his heart was several levels higher.

He also thought that since Jiang Jingyuan worshiped him as his teacher, he had never taught him anything, so he felt ashamed.

The emperor had a tired face just now, but when he saw Jiang Jingyuan take the initiative to stand up with such courage, he suddenly became relieved.

Immediately, his face darkened again, the Ministry of Finance still had a lot of work to do, it was extremely inappropriate to send Jiang Jingyuan out at this moment.

Besides, the frontier is so dangerous, if Jiang Jingyuan had an accident, it would be Daming's loss.

"But there are still people who are willing to take over this matter." The emperor asked the officials under the dragon chair in a neutral tone.

All the officials looked at each other when they heard the words, but no one dared to stand up.

Only Minister of the Ministry of War Yuan Changjian came out, full of air and authenticity, "I am willing to take over."

The Minister of the Ministry of War was also looking at Jiang Jingyuan with dissatisfaction at this moment. It was clearly a matter of their Ministry of War, and Jiang Jingyuan insisted on stepping out to intervene.

A civil servant must have a son of a civil servant, so don't keep grabbing his job.

Jiang Jingyuan and Yuan Changjian stood side by side, of course he could feel the dissatisfaction in Yuan Changjian's heart, but he really couldn't pass the test of conscience.

Seeing Yuan Changjian standing up, the Son of Heaven could only entrust this matter to Yuan Changjian, but Jiang Jingyuan stood up again.

"Your Majesty, it's because of a momentary mistake of my humble minister." Jiang Jingyuan interrupted the emperor's upcoming announcement, and spoke out the grievances and grievances between Xu Changming and his family.

"Please give your Majesty the consent to let the minister go and settle the karma." After Jiang Jingyuan finished speaking, he bowed deeply to the emperor, he didn't want to involve more innocent people because of the grievances between his family and the Xu family. up.

Now the courtroom began to make noise.

All along they still don't know that Jiang Jingyuan's husband is actually the grandson of the former Prime Minister You, and that the former Prime Minister You actually has a daughter alive?

It is even less clear that the dysentery was caused by a wealthy businessman who escaped.

There was not much emotion on the emperor's face, after all, it was his approval to let He Yuzhu go.

He Yunhaigui is the right prime minister, and he has a roll of iron scroll pill in his hand. He exchanged the iron scroll pill for his daughter's life.

Afterwards, before Jiang Jingyuan became an official in the court, he also investigated He Yuzhu's past. Of course he was not surprised when Jiang Jingyuan said it.

Later, although he knew that He Yunhai was wronged back then, the emperor would not admit that he was wrong, so he kept pretending to be confused.

Of course, Jiang Jingyuan couldn't let the emperor issue an imperial edict, but he would not let Xu Changming go.

The Son of Heaven is also clear that Jiang Jingyuan is directing all his anger at Xu Changming, and he is not allowed to go to the frontier at this moment, for fear of resentment from the monarch and his ministers.

Forget it, let him suffer.

"In this case, let Jiang Aiqing go." The emperor finally compromised.

Jiang Jingyuan seemed to be relieved, but Yuan Changjian felt a little melancholy, and said unwillingly, "This time, it will be regarded as repaying the kindness you gave the military department last time. Next time, if you want to rob my military department, I will follow you." Fight to the end."

Jiang Jingyuan rubbed his nose, Mr. Yuan, it looks like you can't compete.

However, Jiang Jingyuan cared about the affairs of the frontier, so he could take his people home to clean up after the court, and when he was ready, he could set off for the frontier.

As soon as Xu Shuizhou heard that Jiang Jingyuan was going to the border to clean up Xu Changming, he packed up the burden three times and five times, and hunched on his back, looking at Jiang Jingyuan with a self-evident expression.

Just as Jiang Jingyuan was about to speak, Xu Shuizhou robbed him of the words.

"I've made arrangements for the newspaper office. I can report some interesting stories about the farm these days, and the popularity of the Xu family has not gone down. I just need to write an article one day."

"You don't have to worry about the child. Mother and the others take good care of them. Besides, the child is only one year old. It's time to learn to live by himself."

"I, you don't have to worry, I'm by your side and you can see me every day, so don't worry about me."

Jiang Jingyuan couldn't help laughing when he saw that Xu Shuizhou's tongue was full of lotus flowers and said everything, "How did you know that I would say no to you? This time I want to praise you for understanding my heart so well."

Xu Shuizhou looked puzzled.

"After all, how can you not be present in the matter of killing the enemy with your own hands." Jiang Jingyuan's words were extremely cold, and Xu Changming would die if he said anything at the frontier this time.

"Ah."

Xu Shuizhou lowered his eyelashes and responded lightly.

Because he left in a hurry, Xu Shuizhou didn't pack too many things for Jiang Jingyuan, but took a few clothes that the two of them needed to change.

Dozens of imperial physicians were also summoned in the palace over there, together with a dozen people with better folk medical skills, and several carts of various medicinal materials. A mighty dozen or so carriages were parked in front of the palace gate.

Jiang Jingyuan cared about the lives of the frontier soldiers, so he did not go with the carriage, but rode a horse with Xu Shuizhou, and set off on the road in a hurry.

After driving for four days, two horses were exhausted on the road, and when they arrived at the border, there was no one to greet them.

Fortunately, Jiang Jingyuan is not a very particular person, and when he entered the city with Xu Shuizhou, the city was desolate for a while, and many soldiers fell ill.

Jiang Jingyuan asked the city's garrison, "How is the situation now?"

The garrison was busy running around, seeing Jiang Jingyuan's inquiries, he ignored Jiang Jingyuan and continued to work.

Jiang Jingyuan had no choice but to take out the official seal, "I am Jiang Jingyuan, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and now I want to ask you how the situation is."

After seeing Jiang Jingyuan's official seal clearly, the man was stunned for a long time before he realized it. He hurriedly prepared to give Jiang Jingyuan his luggage, but Jiang Jingyuan interrupted him, "These hypocrisy can be avoided. Tell me about the current situation."

"Yes, to report to Mr. Jiang, the situation is not good. Originally, there were 20 garrisons in Jiangjia City, but now there are as many as 1000 people who are sick. Hundreds of people are infected with dysentery every day. The first batch Sick soldiers have gone to [-] people."

The guard stuttered a bit at the beginning, but he couldn't help crying at the end. They buried people every day these days, and every brother who passed away was a relative who used to guard with them.

"1000 people."

Jiang Jingyuan felt even more guilty, because so many people were killed by his momentary mistake.

"Take me to see the sick soldiers."

Jiang Jingyuan didn't want to see more people die, so he wanted to be on guard and take him to the sick camp.

The guard hesitated, "Master Jiang, this dysentery is contagious."

If there is a problem, his defense cannot escape, besides, Mr. Jiang is kind to these soldiers.

Without Mr. Jiang, the military salaries of the soldiers on the frontier this year may not have been settled. Without Mr. Jiang, they would have such an easy life this year.

Therefore, in his selfish heart, he didn't want Jiang Jingyuan to take risks.

"It's okay, I just need to cover it thicker."

Jiang Jingyuan shook his head and didn't care.

Xu Shuizhou hurriedly dug out a few overcoats from the bundle, and wrapped them up so that only the eyes were exposed.

Seeing this, the guard had no choice but to take Jiang Jingyuan to the sick camp.

The patients inside the camp were more serious than the ones outside. Their eyes were dull, their bodies were swollen, and their faces were so pale that there was no trace of blood.

Lying there is like lying a living corpse.

"Just lie down together like this?"

Jiang Jingyuan glanced and turned around to ask the guard.

"There are so many people every day that the sick camp can't be built." The guard also knew that it was not good to lie down like this, but if they were resettled back to the barracks, more people would be infected.

"My order is that as long as all the intact people in the home city come out to build the sick camp, it must be kept clean and tidy. All the clothes of the soldiers must be washed with lime, and the inside of the barracks must also be sprinkled with lime."

Jiang Jingyuan didn't know how to treat diseases, let alone what caused the dysentery, but he still knew some ways to treat infectious diseases.

Blindly isolating is not the answer, it is necessary to keep these patients clean at all times.

"Besides, from this moment on, you can no longer drink cold water, and everyone must drink boiled water." Jiang Jingyuan has been in prison here for a while and knows that many people drink raw water when they are thirsty for convenience. Knowing how this general city arranges patients, in short, he will say whatever comes to his mind.

For fear of missing a little bit.

"Yes."

These days, he was so busy on defense that he heard Jiang Jingyuan's orders as if he had found the backbone. He immediately paid attention and started to order one by one.

When he saw that the defense was in order, Jiang Jingyuan found the doctor who was seeing a doctor in the hospital camp.

Seeing that they were feeling the pulse one by one for treatment, I couldn't help shaking my head, I don't know when it will be a head if I continue to treat them like this.

"Does the doctor have some prescriptions to prevent headaches and brain fever? Do you want to boil some medicine for the soldiers first, and drink a bowl of medicine for each of them, and the soldiers can last a little longer."

Jiang Jingyuan didn't make random decisions, he was not good at practicing medicine, and he was afraid that instead of saving people, he would harm them instead.

"Where did you come from, you know nonsense. It's about treating the disease and treating the disease with the right medicine. If you act like you and really kill the patient, you can take responsibility."

A rather old-fashioned doctor refuted Jiang Jingyuan's words on the spot.

Jiang Jingyuan was silenced by the doctor, secretly worried, thinking that there were other ways.

"I think what this little friend said is reasonable. Like this time, we see patients one by one. Even if we see them for a month, we may not see all the patients. Why don't we prescribe some mild prescriptions and boil some medicines?" Go down and get a little less sick."

Just when Jiang Jingyuan was in despair, a middle-aged doctor thought about it and agreed with Jiang Jingyuan's words.

"Not only for patients, but also for those who are not sick. It may prevent the disease from getting worse." Xu Shuizhou suddenly remembered that when he was a child, when he was taking care of Uncle Jiang's bedside, a doctor was afraid that they would accidentally contract the disease when they were young. , also prescribed a prescription to boil the medicine for him to drink.

The middle-aged man looked at Xu Shuizhou curiously, and asked briefly, "This little friend also knows medicine."

Xu Shuizhou waved his hands again and again, "I don't understand, I just saw someone do it."

"So let's try it." The doctors are benevolent. They can't bear to see so many people die of illness every day. Since there is a way to try it, why not try it.

Jiang Jingyuan was overjoyed immediately, and ordered to continue until the imperial doctors arrived. Although there were still people who would still get sick and die every day, the epidemic was controlled within a certain range.

As soon as the imperial doctors arrived, they devoted themselves to treating the disease intensively. After three days and three nights of sleepless nights, they finally worked out a prescription for treating dysentery.

The thick fire kept boiling the soup in the cauldron. As soon as the soup boiled, someone would immediately scoop it out and give it to the patients in the sick camp.

Seeing the patient getting better day by day, the burden on Jiang Jingyuan and Xu Shuizhou became easier day by day.

At this moment, spies came to report that a prairie army was coming to Jiang Jiacheng.

I guess it's only three days away.

"They came to pick up a bargain."

Jiang Jingyuan immediately thought of the key point, and snorted coldly, it is not sure who will take advantage of whom.

Immediately, Jiang Jingyuan ordered everyone to come as they were when they were sick, so as to confuse the enemy.

He and Xu Shuizhou came to a remote room in Jiangjia City, and slowly pushed open the locked door outside.

Four people lived in it, three women and one man.

The woman was the wife of Xu Changming whom Jiang Jingyuan and Xu Shuizhou knew well. She was watching Jiang Jingyuan and Xu Shuizhou warily at the moment, holding her daughter tightly in her arms.

Her daughter looked about twelve or thirteen years old, and she was still a child, burying her head in her mother's arms with a face full of fear, as if she regarded Jiang Jingyuan as some kind of heinous person.

The other woman seemed much calmer. She pulled her ten-year-old son and looked at Jiang Jingyuan and Xu Shuizhou warily, but compared to Mrs. Xu Changming's panic, she was at least calmer.

"The two ladies are safe and sound." Jiang Jingyuan squinted his eyes when he saw the four of them.

"You brought us here. What is your purpose? My Xu family is already in ruins. What else do you want?" Mrs. Xu was even more frightened when she saw Jiang Jingyuan. She did not forget how their family was sent to the prison that day. of.

He didn't forget how the person in front of him went there that night when Xu's parents said he vomited blood.

"We'll know when the time comes." Jiang Jingyuan's tone towards her was a little cold, but he looked at the other woman with interest, "Let's call this Mrs. Xu."

"I don't know what you're talking about." Hearing Mrs. Xu's words, the woman shook her son's hand tightly and said forcibly.

"It's okay if you don't know, you will know soon." Jiang Jingyuan smiled lightly, seeing that she refused to admit it or explain.

"This girl is also a member of my Xu family. I don't know which family member she is." On the contrary, Mrs. Xu Changming heard Jiang Jingyuan tell her that the woman she was locked up with was also a member of the Xu family, and wanted to get closer.

People always need some comfort in desperation, especially this kind of blood relationship, so they want to get closer.

The lady looked at her with some indifference, and did not answer her words.

Mrs. Xu made fun of herself, seeing that Jiang Jingyuan didn't think they did anything excessive, she dragged her daughter back to hide in a corner.

Jiang Jingyuan felt a little funny when he saw this scene, and he didn't know if he would be able to laugh in the end.

After seeing that the four people had no problems, Jiang Jingyuan locked the small courtyard again and asked Yan's family to guard it to ensure that no flying insects could get in or come out.

Three days passed in a flash, and a prairie army of [-] had gathered under the gate of Jiangjia City.

The population of the grassland is not large, and what they are good at is fighting more with less. In the past, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty couldn't even eat enough to eat, let alone the grassland soldiers who took up weapons and chopped up meat and wine.

But the situation is different now, the imperial court can buy food from rich merchants when they have money, and the soldiers on the frontier of Ming Dynasty can also have enough to eat.

If there is no dysentery this time, it is only a mere 5 people, of course it is not a problem.

The grassland only sent 5 people here this time, which must have been a warning. According to their normal estimates, most of the soldiers in the home city would die of dysentery.

It's a pity that they didn't count that the imperial doctors of the Ming Dynasty were not vegetarians, and they cured dysentery in just three days.

Now the soldiers suffering from dysentery have been almost treated. Although their bodies are still weak, there is still no problem in taking up the weapons in their hands to fight the enemy.

Standing on the city wall, Jiang Jingyuan looked at the dense grassland army below, and kept searching behind them with sharp eyes.

Sure enough, not long after, he saw the Xu Changming he wanted to see.

For a villain like Xu Changming who doesn't have much brains, if he wants to gain a foothold in front of Prairie Khan, he must have meritorious deeds.

There are not many achievements such as picking up 20 troops for nothing, so Jiang Jingyuan expected that Xu Changming would definitely come.

The moment he saw Xu Changming, Jiang Jingyuan smiled, this time he could hardly fly even with wings.

Grassland is leading the team this time, Prince Uzda of the Grassland. Last time he tried to provoke a war between the Grassland and Daming but failed.

His eldest brother has already noticed what happened last time, so he has to be careful recently. This time he led the troops out to dispel his suspicions, and secondly, he wanted to make some achievements, so that other tribes on the grassland People can support him in critical moments.

"Look, my lord, the soldiers in Jiangjia City are all listless. Presumably all the soldiers in the city should be dead." Xu Changming looked at the soldiers standing on the city wall who were "shaky" and felt a little complacent.

But this is his masterpiece, destroying a city without any effort, no one has ever been seen before, and there will be no one in the future. In the future, as long as the Great Khan of the Grassland wins Daming, the Xu family he lost will be prosperous again by then.

"That's right, it's great. After you go back, Da Khan will definitely reward you greatly!" Uzda's Daming language was not very good, and he couldn't understand Xu Changming's words very well, so he just praised him with a smug expression. correct.

Xu Changming was so fat that his narrow eyes disappeared when he smiled, and he looked extremely weird.

"Pass down the order, let the defense of the general's home city quickly open the city gate to welcome my grassland army, and spare their lives." In Wu Rida's view, these Ming people could not live for a few days, so instead of wasting the physical strength of his men It would be more satisfying to let them open the city gate and let them in to rob them one by one.

Hearing someone shouting under the city wall, Jiang Jingyuan couldn't help sneering, stood out from the shadows, and said to the prairie army below the city, "If you want to fight, fight, I will wait for you on this city wall, and see if you can attack or not!" We can attack."

As soon as Jiang Jingyuan appeared, Xu Changming was taken aback. Why didn't he receive the news that Jiang Jingyuan came to the border, no matter what, he immediately became proud again.

It just so happened that the old and new hatreds were settled together today.

Wu Rida didn't know Jiang Jingyuan. Seeing Xu Changming excited, he asked, "Do you know him?"

"I know, Jiang Jingyuan, Minister of the Household Department of Ming Dynasty, must be very familiar with Mr. Wu Ri." Xu Changming remembered that Jiang Jingyuan had made the grassland a big suffocation, and everyone in the grassland now should be very resentful of Jiang Jingyuan.

Wu Rida understood, of course he remembered the name, it was this person who ruined his good deeds, if it wasn't for Jiang Jingyuan, Daming would have fought with the grassland a few months ago, maybe he is already sweating the grassland by now .

"Of course, I will take the head of this person." Wu Rida's hatred for Jiang Jingyuan is no less than Xu Changming's.

"Xu Changming, don't be a turtle. Why can't you stay in Daming? You want to go to the grassland where birds don't shit. Is the rice not delicious enough? I want to eat shit."

Jiang Jingyuan knew that the two armies were at war, and scolding each other was a good way to boost morale, so he also learned to be rough.

Xu Changming blushed when he heard Jiang Jingyuan's words, and came forward immediately, "Jiang Jingyuan, don't be too much, you have to call me uncle in terms of seniority."

"I don't have an uncle like you. Don't forget that my family, Ah Zhou, is not included in your Xu family tree. What kind of relative are you? Don't try to get married, lest your ancestors don't even know you."

"You! You wait for me, the army will attack me, and see how long they can last." Xu Changming is not Jiang Jingyuan's opponent even if he talks ten words, so he wants to let the grassland army directly.

"Why are you so embarrassed and angry because of this, I haven't given you a big show yet, it's really useless." Jiang Jingyuan sneered, and as soon as he clapped his hands, his servants brought Mrs. Xu and her daughter up.

"father--"

When Xu Changming's daughter saw Xu Changming below, she cried out excitedly, did her father come to save her?

"Woooooooo..."

Mrs. Xu also choked up with some excitement.

Dudu Jiang Jingyuan looked at Xu Changming's obscure but still calm face, and sneered, the next thing is the real highlight, he just hoped that Xu Changming would continue to keep calm.