Chapter 64： missing

The foreigners near Gucheng have their own name of Guiyan Kingdom, and they also have their own cities, but they are located in remote areas and few people go there.

There are many ethnic groups in the Ghost Yan Kingdom, mainly the warlike Ghost True Clan, and they are the ones who harass the border mirror in the Daxia Kingdom all the year round.

The attack of the Ghost Yan Kingdom this time is predictable.

Two months ago, Li Mingjin and Wei Linyuan and other generals discussed whether the foreigners in the north would go to war with Gucheng because of the winter food. It turned out that there was absolutely no problem with them discussing in advance.

Li Mingjin worked very hard in Gucheng this year, and even let the soldiers plant the land with him while farming. The income of the entire Gucheng has doubled compared with previous years. Not only the local officials admire his methods and ideas, but also the surrounding ghosts. Yan Guo also often sent scouts to inquire, and they caught several waves.

Since there is a harvest, it will naturally be robbed. Who doesn't want to stock up on more food for the winter?

Of course, Li Mingjin didn't think about negotiating with the other party and making deals. The other party has cattle and sheep, and he has grain, which can be exchanged, but the plan is obviously not favored by others. Gucheng's grain has indeed doubled this year, but It is only enough for Gucheng's own internal consumption, and it is necessary to predict whether there will be a war in the future. It needs to be more. The granary of Gucheng cannot be empty or moved.

Besides, where would the Guiyan Kingdom trade honestly with them, asking for a huge price, it would be more realistic to fight with them. This is also in Li Mingjin's favor. The gentle way is useless at all. It not only wastes time, but also makes the enemy stronger. chance.

According to the report of the spies in the front, the Ghost Yan Kingdom came with their cavalry this year. Listening to the sound, it may be far from 10,000 soldiers and horses, but it is estimated that there are 30,000 or 40,000.

There were also cavalry in Gucheng, which were the troops of Wei Linyuan and were left to him by General Wei.

Although Li Mingjin has only been in Gucheng for a few months, during this time, some of his innovative methods have won the favor of many soldiers. Even Wei Linyuan, who does not prefer any side, occasionally has a few good words for Li Mingjin, not only him, The third prince and concubine also, their husband and wife's approach is really too advanced, and it has benefited the people a lot, and every thing they do has merit.

Wei Linyuan would of course communicate with General Wei. After he explained the deeds of the third prince and the third prince's concubine in the north one by one, he found that his father did not know it at all. It turned out that these news were not sent back to the capital at all. Wei Linyuan thought a lot for a while. Perhaps the third prince did these things not to compete for fame with other princes, but that he was really doing it seriously, regardless of other interests.

Wei Linyuan even heard his father mention that Emperor Tiansheng often mentioned the three princes of Gucheng in front of him. He was afraid that they would not have enough to eat and clothed them, so he often had people quietly give food to their husband and wife, and he would not let them. The other princes knew that his father was a man who didn't like to talk, but he couldn't hide things very well, and he didn't know who to tell them, so they wrote letters to Wei Linyuan, who could hide things. .

Hearing more about Emperor Tiansheng's dealings with the third prince, combined with Li Mingjin's current actions, Wei Linyuan quietly changed his mind about the third prince, and occasionally reminded his younger brother to be respectful to the third prince. Still some hope?

It's absolutely right to follow the third prince, at least Wei Linyuan can understand what he means from his father's letter.

For so many years, he hadn't heard his father mention any prince, and even the prince hardly mentioned it, so why is he paying attention to the third prince now.

In fact, a lot of important information was revealed to Wei Linyuan in the letters from home.

At this time, Luo Shuyu also began to worry about Li Mingjin. He paced the study in the mansion, worried about Li Mingjin who was on the front line today.

Under Lin Yuan's nearly half a year of conditioning, Chen Rong no longer supports the wind like a willow, and there is no problem with following Li Mingjin to the front line.

Li Mingjin wanted to go to the front line, but Luo Shuyu didn't stop him. Compared to living comfortably, it was worth taking a risk. There were secret guards around him to protect him, and Li Mingjin promised Luo Shuyu that he would not blindly charge into battle. He would keep himself safe and secure. bring back.

However, Luo Shuyu is still worried. Li Mingjin has never been on the battlefield in his last life, and this is the first time in his life. Luo Shuyu has confidence in his intelligence, but swords have no eyes, and the battlefield is changing rapidly, who knows what will happen next moment.

When Luo Shuyu was tangled up and down, it was getting dark, and soon a guard came back to report the news of Li Mingjin to him.

The cavalry of the Ghost Yan clan was not far from Gucheng. The Daxia Army fought with the opposing cavalry. Li Mingjin was in front of the army, but there were other generals who were more brave and good at fighting. take countermeasures.

After listening to the previous report, Luo Shuyu breathed a sigh of relief, and when the guards told the rest of the content, Luo Shuyu raised it again in one breath: "What did you just say?"

Guard: "His Royal Highness said that he will lead troops to fight tomorrow."

Luo Shuyu paused: "I see, you go eat something first, and I'll get a letter to His Highness later." He knew that Li Mingjin would not be silent for too long when he watched others play.

Guard: "Yes."

Since they got married, Luo Shuyu has not written a letter with Li Mingjin for a long time. The two sleep together every day and they will talk to each other. They understand each other more and more. Naturally, they do not need to express their feelings by writing letters. .

But today, Luo Shuyu suddenly wanted to write a letter to Li Mingjin, but he couldn't express himself after all through the oral communication of others.

Luo Shuyu researched ink by himself, picked up a pen and wrote down the first letter to Li Mingjin after arriving in Gucheng.

The Ghost Yan Kingdom and the Daxia Army fought on a par with the Daxia Army that day. They came with light cavalry troops, and most of the time they were used for surprise attacks, but today Daxia Army was prepared early, and their surprise attack army did not get the desired results. After a battle, they retreated to twenty miles away, while the Daxia army camped on the spot.

When he was free, Li Mingjin had time to let the guards deliver a message to Luo Shuyu who was waiting in the house. Just after drinking and eating meat with the generals, Li Mingjin received a reply from Luo Shuyu.

After being in contact with Li Mingjin for a few months, many generals knew that the third prince in front of him was a little scared, and they felt that the third prince became more and more down-to-earth. After all, they were also afraid of it! Although everyone said that the third prince is a handsome and extraordinary son, in the eyes of the generals, the person who even the third prince is afraid of, must be as fierce as the one in their family!

No, the third prince has to send someone back to report for a battle. After a comparison, the generals feel that the third prince is the same as them, and they have a common topic.

Fear is a good thing!

Li Mingjin took the family letter passed by the guard and put it in his arms.

The general who knew him well joked: "Your Highness, my daughter-in-law never checks the post when I'm fighting outside."

Li Mingjin replied with a word, and the generals laughed.

Well, now everyone knows he's scared.

Li Mingjin took the letter into the tent, and after opening the letter, a small smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

It's still his wife's style of writing letters, she doesn't write as much as she can.

【Mengzhi! 】

Even if there are only two words, Li Mingjin cherishes the land in his chest, and will do his best in the battle tomorrow.

In the early morning of the next day, the army of the Ghost Yan Kingdom came to harass the Daxia army again, and Li Mingjin came out early in the morning to fight.

The two sides have sufficient physical strength and food and grass, and the fight is inseparable.

After several days, the two sides fought to a draw.

Ghost Yanguo found that this year's Daxia army was not like the old Wei general's routine. Daxia army had a tendency to overwhelm them this year. The further back they felt, the more pressure they felt. Yan State's light cavalry suffered heavy losses and were beaten to run a hundred li overnight, leaving the Great Xia State.

Running too fast.

This year's victory came very quickly, and even Wei Linyuan, who had been fighting for many years, wondered if the Ghost Yan Kingdom had been vegetarian all year round, so he didn't need to fight.

But thinking about it carefully, most of the ideas this year were the ideas of a staff member surnamed Chen beside the third prince, and he was able to pinch the Guiyan army by seven inches and hit them. The night attack on the fourth day was also from him. out of the idea, otherwise the other party will not slip so fast. Of course, this is also related to the fact that both of them have changed their leaders.

The great victory of the Daxia army, the news spread to the capital quickly. Originally, Emperor Tiansheng was worried about the coming of the Ghost Yan clan for a while, so he started a great victory. When Emperor Tiansheng was happy, he rewarded the third prince with a bunch of things one after another. , and quickly send people to the front line.

I never thought that Li Mingjin would do something there, but he did a good job.

Emperor Tiansheng has been in power for many years, and he naturally has his eyes on the border. It is impossible for him to not know what Li Mingjin and Luo Shuyu did. Now it is a real battle. However, in order to protect Li Mingjin from being targeted by other princes, he will Wei Linyuan stood at the front and tried his best to praise the old general Wei for being a good son. The old general Wei was muttering in his heart, of course I am good at teaching his son. Your crown prince and the eldest prince are really indescribable.

However, this news made Emperor Tiansheng happy for two days. On the third day, the fourth prince just came back from the south, bringing good and bad news.

It took a few months for the fourth prince to find evidence that the food for the disaster relief had been embezzled. Come back, bring the evidence yourself, so as not to be robbed on the road.

However, he didn't expect Li Mingjin's first victory in the north to be a day earlier than his!

It was a coincidence, as if it had been arranged by God.

When it comes to the smooth return of the Fourth Prince to Beijing, we have to mention the difficult process they have had in the past few months.

After Shen Mingyun was kidnapped, he has been honestly accompanying the fourth prince to investigate the case. During this period, he was not considered a threat by the fourth prince. He kept a low profile, and the Xiaoming incident hit him quite hard. Well, it's been a few days.

After being kidnapped, he began to do the task seriously, and he attracted a wave of goodwill from the fourth prince. The two were reconciled as before, Xiaobiesheng was newly married, and it was sweet and sweet for a while.

With the concerted efforts of the two, the Four Emperors investigated the case, and Shen Mingyun began to do some small tasks and completed several achievements. Of course, the result of his task was to make the local arresters busy, and today they caught the serial murderer who was suddenly released. I'm going to investigate the case of the sudden death of my wife's domestic violence tomorrow. In short, I'm very busy.

It was also because of Shen Mingyun's accumulation of these small tasks that he got points, bought props, found out that the fourth prince had never found the specific location of the evidence, and spent a little effort to get the evidence, it was not a legal method after all.

The matter of Dong'an County was investigated here, and the fourth prince took Shen Mingyun back to the capital, leaving the imperial envoy to pretend to be investigating the case in Dong'an County, and no one knew that the fourth prince had left with Jin Chan's escape.

This is already Li Mingchun's fastest time to come back to report the situation to Emperor Tiansheng. He wants his father to impress him and leave a good impression in his heart. Unexpectedly, his third brother came from the north with good news. If he made a secret report on this matter, then his credit would become the fuse that made the father unhappy, and his credit would be greatly reduced. But he thought about handing this evidence to the imperial envoy to do it, but for so many years, he has never made his mark, and now if he does not seize the opportunity, he will not have the opportunity to show his face in front of the father. After all, Emperor Tiansheng is getting older and older. .

This thing is too important for the eldest prince. If he sends it to the father, the two brothers will definitely turn against each other, and the eldest brother will be the first to let him go.

Suddenly, I was a little envious of Shen Mingyun, who started eating and drinking after returning to the capital. It's fine to be heartless.

It's only a matter of his mind to fight against his eldest brother or go to the sky in the future.

After thinking about it, Li Mingchun finally chose to meet Emperor Tiansheng on the second day of his return to Beijing, because if it was later, the eldest brother and others would find that he had returned to the capital and cause him trouble.

Emperor Tiansheng saw the evidence brought back by the fourth prince and a series of lists of corruption and bribery, collusion between officials and businessmen. This matter is inseparable from the Lin family in Dong'an County, and the main source of corruption is the Lin family. Emperor Tiansheng is really angry. , The good mood of the previous two days has been beaten into smoke.

It's really nice that the Lin family is staying in Dong'an County! They even dared to swallow the imperial court's food for disaster relief, and even raised prices on the ground, making life difficult for the people. Not only that, the Lin family also invaded and occupied civilian land, and the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes were heavier than any other county, completely disregarding the life and death of the people!

No wonder there were so many refugees last winter, and no wonder the people of Dong'an County rebelled, because they were forced to survive!

What a Lin family!

Emperor Tiansheng made a fire in the imperial study, and the fourth prince stood by and waited for his next orders.

Fortunately, after the joy of the first two days, Emperor Tiansheng was not in a hurry, and he didn't need to ask an imperial doctor. He still stabilized his emotions and began to think about the next arrangement, how to get rid of these worms in the big summer. .

At the same time, Concubine Lin learned from the **** that the fourth prince entered the palace immediately after returning to the capital, and her heart skipped a beat, and she immediately called the eldest prince into the palace.

After Emperor Tiansheng ordered him to go south, they secretly made plans.

After learning that the fourth prince entered the palace today, Emperor Tiansheng would not let others approach the study, which shows that the situation is very serious.

The eldest prince rushed into the palace in a hurry to see Concubine Lin, with sweat on his forehead: "Concubine Mu, what should I do?"

Concubine Lin raised the willow eyebrows she just drew: "What does the fourth prince mean now, I won't let you know when I go back to Beijing quietly."

The eldest prince: "I don't know, mother-in-law, will the fourth brother get any evidence about the Lin family?"

Concubine Lin: "No, I asked your grandfather, and he said that all the people who should have been dealt with at the beginning were dealt with, and the fourth prince would not get the evidence."

The eldest prince: "But why did he go straight to the father after returning to the palace? There must be some things that have not been cleaned up. No, I am going to see my grandfather!"

Concubine Lin, "Come back, what's the hurry! What if this is exposed, have you forgotten your uncle?" He also had soldiers in his hand.

The First Prince: "Are we really going to come this far?"

Concubine Lin Gui, "Son, do you want to see that your grandfather's foundation for many years is destroyed in this moment, he is also for you, for us, otherwise why do you have to do this."

The eldest prince: "I, I don't know, he is my father."

Concubine Lin snorted coldly: "Your father is a heartless man. I was his wife back then, but he did not make me his queen after he ascended the throne. Instead, he listened to the queen mother and married someone else."

The eldest prince hesitated: "Mother, please allow me to think again! Think again."

Concubine Lin: "What is there to think about, everyone has climbed on your head, and besides, your father's body has not been as good as before, if the prince ascends the throne, where is the possibility for our mother and son to survive, he is the first If one takes us and opens the knife, in the end, it's still a death."

The eldest prince was very confused.

After the eldest prince and concubine gave birth to a daughter, he felt that the throne was getting farther and farther from him, especially when Emperor Tiansheng ordered him to go south.

What should he do?

After many years of planning, it must not fall short!

A month after the Ghost Yan Kingdom's light cavalry left in embarrassment, the Ghost Yan Kingdom's army was overwhelmed, and the battle in Gucheng was tense.

With the good start last time, the momentum of Daxia Kingdom is like a flood.

However, Chen Rong still poured cold water on Li Mingjin: "His Royal Highness, last time the light cavalry leader was the inexperienced little prince of Guiyan Kingdom, and this time the leader is the eldest prince who has been fighting with General Wei all the year round. Now, General Wei is not here, and General Wei Linyuan's prestige is not enough to crush the opponent. The big prince of Guiyan Kingdom is unscrupulous, he just came to test us last time, and this time we must be careful and not the opponent's plan."

Li Mingjin has never been arrogant and is willing to listen to other people's suggestions. Chen Rong showed his ingenuity in the north, and he was right.

Li Mingjin asked, "Then what can be done?"

Chen Rong: "Or you can send someone to help Langcheng."

Li Mingjin frowned. It wasn't that he didn't want to ask for help, but if he sent a letter for help, would the people in Langcheng be willing to send troops?

At night, Li Mingjin informed Luo Shuyu of his distress.

Luo Shuyu handed him a tip: "Your Highness, remember the token Wei Xianfei gave us before we set off."

Li Mingjin accepted the token: "I know, but I want to give it a try first. If I really can't beat Prince Guiyan, I will immediately send someone for help. This is our last trump card."

Luo Shuyu nodded: "Your Highness, go with confidence, I believe you can do it."

As long as he can come back alive, he didn't say this, for fear that Li Mingjin would have a psychological burden.

Now is the most difficult time for them, and they have to get through it no matter what.

At the same time, the documents presented after the return of the fourth prince were like thunder, and the calm capital began to surge.

Half a month later, Li Mingjin led his troops deep into the enemy, was ambushed, fell into the enemy's trick, and disappeared.

After Luo Shuyu got the letter from the front, he was shaky.

"Your Highness, you'll be fine..."

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