There is Room For the Poor Daughter - Chapter 690

[Chapter 690, Lord Shengping]

, who is far away in Ningmen Mansion, does not know about the changes in the main capital of Shengping County. After the reason, the corners of his mouth involuntarily curled up.

The opportunity she’s been waiting for has finally come!

Daohua found Gu Jian: “Master, the imperial court is going to confiscate grain again!”

Gu Jian learned about the burning of the army rations from Dong Li the day before, cursed the eight kings in his heart, and at the same time lamented that Xiao Wu It’s not easy being an emperor.

Seeing that her master didn’t speak, Dao Hua had no choice but to go up to him: “The people have already handed in the grain once, and it will be hard to collect it again.”

Gu Jian sighed: “Then there is no way, we can’t let the soldiers Let’s fight with hunger.”

Dao Hua blinked her eyes: “Master, I have food.”

Gu Jian quickly raised his eyes to look at his apprentice, seeing his apprentice’s eyes wide open, almost saying ‘I am a rich man with food’ on his forehead These words were engraved on it, and the corners of his mouth twitched: “So?”

Daohua: “So… I want to donate food, will the emperor reward me?”

Gu Jian asked with a dull face: “What do you want? ”

Daohua twitched a bit: “For example, rewarding me with a county magistrate or something, is that okay?”

Gu Jian was speechless: “You’re at odds with the county magistrate.”

Daohua: “That can’t be helped, Xiao Ye Yang is the son of the prince, if my status is too low, what should I do if I am bullied in the future?”

Gu Jian stared: “Who dares to bully you?”

Daohua: “Xiao Yeyang, or, other people in the capital, anyway, I If it’s just a magistrate’s daughter, others will definitely make me angry.”

Gu Jian retorted: “That kid Yeyang dares to bully you?”

Daohua pouted: “Not now, but then, who knows what will happen in the future Be clear.”

Gu Jian was silent: “How much can you donate?”

Dao Hua stretched out her hand and gestured with the word ‘1’.

In view of the amount of medicinal materials donated by the apprentice last time, Gu Jian couldn’t help shaking his heart when he looked at the index finger extended by the apprentice.

Dongli and Caiju, who were serving next to him, were also very sensible this time and did not speak.

Daohua: “One million shi of grain is exchanged for a county head, the emperor will not lose money, right?”

Hearing that Daohua really said that he would donate 1 million shi of grain, Gu Jian and Dongli Caiju looked away at the same time.

After Gu Jian exhaled, he looked back at Daohua: “Prepare the food, and write a letter to the emperor personally for the teacher.”

Daohua’s face brightened: “Then I will wait for the good news from Master.”

Beijing.

Although each family is actively donating food, the food needed by the hundreds of thousands of troops is not a small amount. Moreover, the food of many aristocratic families still needs to be transported from various places.

Just when the emperor was anxious about this, Gu Jian’s letter arrived.

After reading the letter, the emperor sat on the dragon chair and took a long breath. After a while, he asked Eunuch An to prepare a blank imperial edict.

Eunuch An stood aside grinding ink, watching with his own eyes that the emperor wrote down the award of Yan Yiyi, the eldest daughter of Yan Zhigao, the prefect of Ningmen Prefecture, as the county head, with the title of ‘Shengping’.

Seeing this title, Eunuch An’s eyelids flashed with surprise.

The title of ‘Shengping’ was intended to reward the princess, but now it is given to a county lord! ! !

He was not surprised that the emperor awarded the young lady of the Yan family, after all, the young lady of the Yan family has made a lot of contributions.

However, the title bestowed by him is still such a good title, he is still surprised.

After drawing up the imperial decree, the emperor called Wei Qi over: “Yan Zhigao, the prefect of Ningmen Prefecture, donated 1 million shi of grain. You go to Zhongzhou yourself and secretly send the grain to northern Xinjiang. Remember, don’t let the wind out.”

Said with a sneer.

“Now the old man and the Tatars know that our army is short of food. This time I will give them a surprise and clean them up together.”   Eunuch An and Wei Qi looked at each other with a

grain of 1 million shi .

Shock was seen in the eyes.

One million shi of grain is not a small amount. Isn’t this Yan family too good at farming?

When the Yan family donated medicinal materials last time, the emperor sent people to investigate the fields under the name of the Yan family. To be honest, compared with some aristocratic nobles, the Yan family’s fields are really not many.

The emperor gave Wei Qi the imperial decree in his hand: “Give this imperial decree to the old man, and tell him not to spread it. When the war in northern Xinjiang is over, I will announce it at the court.”

Peach Blossom Temple.

Wei Qi read the imperial decree to Daohua who was kneeling on the ground. After reading, he handed the imperial decree to Daohua, and said with a smile, “Congratulations to the Lord of Shengping County.”

Daohua took it happily and read the imperial decree several times After confirming that he was the Lord of Shengping County, the corners of his mouth turned up.

Wei Qi was in a hurry to deliver the food, so he quickly asked, “Master, do you know where the food is?”

Dao Hua continued to stare at the imperial decree without raising her head, “I’ll let the servant take you there.”

Yan Shouhou immediately stood up , motioning Wei Qi to follow him.

Wei Qi saw that neither Gu Jian nor Dao Hua was going to go with him to take over the handover, and he sighed that their hearts are big, this is a million shi of grain.

Soon, Wei Qi escorted the food and left.

Hurry up, and in mid-October, the food was secretly sent to the military camp.

Just when the Eight Kings and the Tatars were still thinking about delaying the defeat of the Great Xia army, Jin Lingwei and the army cooperated with each other and launched a fierce attack on them.

At the end of October, Dongqu City, the last city taken by the eight kings, was recovered, and the eight kings hurriedly fled to the Tatar army camp with some of their cronies.

At the beginning of November, the Great Xia army and the Tatar army fought head-on, and the Tatar army was beaten back steadily.

In mid-November, the Tatar army began to retreat.

This time, the Great Xia army did not cease fighting after the Tatar army retreated, but pursued the Tatar army, approaching the Tatar hinterland where the Tatar royal court was.

In mid-December, except for a few Tatar royal families who fled to the colder north, most of the Tatar royal families were arrested and killed. The Tatar royal palace was burned to the ground. Since then, the Tatar royal court no longer exists.

One piece of news was sent back to Beijing one after another, and the officials and the people were all excited when they heard about it.

In the early morning of December 15th, civil and military officials were much more active than usual, gathering in twos and threes to discuss in low voices.

“I didn’t expect the war in northern Xinjiang to end so soon!”

“Yeah, the emperor ordered the withdrawal of the government order to collect food from the provinces. I thought there was a truce? I didn’t expect that the eight kings were wiped out in a blink of an eye, and the Tatar royal court also It ‘s gone!”

“I heard that someone secretly donated a million shi of grain.”

“Who is so rich and powerful?” When the

emperor brought Mr. An over, seeing the officials discussing, he was in a good mood and didn’t reprimand him. After listening to the compliments and compliments from all the officials for a while, he said,

“The reason why the war in northern Xinjiang ended so quickly is thanks to the one million shi of grain donated by Yan Zhigao, the prefect of Ningmen Prefecture. Go forward with all your strength, quell the rebellion, and drive out the Tatars.”

As he spoke, he glanced at Eunuch An.

Mr. An immediately held up the imperial decree drafted in advance and began to read it. The

imperial decree has two themes, one is to reward the eldest daughter of Yan Zhigao, the prefect of Ningmen Prefecture, as the head of Shengping County; the other is to promote Yan Zhigao as the servant of the household department.

(end of this chapter)