The news from Kyoto soon reached Ji'an County. After all, the mining case involved the Eighth Prince and was not so easy to handle. But the matter of escorting grain and fodder was handed over to the Second Prince Xuan Tianling, which really made her feel relieved.
Although the Eighth Prince and his party would not take no action behind the scenes, at most they would just create trouble along the way. It would not be so easy for them to cheat by putting the power over food and fodder in their hands.
However, Feng Yuheng still had to go to the southern border. He received a letter from Xuan Tianming sent by eagle, and knew that the first battle was fought beautifully, but it also consumed a lot of ammunition, so she had to go to replenish it. The further the war progressed, the more the Dashun people were not used to the climate in the desert. She felt that it was very foresighted to prepare enough hot weapons. The reason why Dashun had not had a good solution to the ancient Shu for so many years was that the Dashun soldiers were not suitable for fighting in such an environment.
Heat is not as bad as cold. No matter how cold it is, just wear more clothes. But in the desert, you will still feel hot even if you are completely naked, not to mention fighting in the heat. It is really painful.
She also started to make arrangements in Ji'an County, mainly to arrange some matters after she left. Fortunately, the Sixth Prince was in charge, so she simply entrusted the county's internal affairs and the jade mine to the Sixth Prince for a while, and the affairs of the mansion were handed over to Xu and Qin, and the shops outside were handed over to Xiangrong and Bai Furong.
The women didn't have any objections, but the Sixth Prince said helplessly, "I have come from Kyoto to Ji'an County, but I still can't avoid these mundane things. Sister-in-law, you must come back soon. To be honest, I am not good at these things."
As the two of them interacted more, Feng Yuheng had a better understanding of the Sixth Prince. She knew that Xuan Tianfeng was telling the truth, so she said embarrassedly, "I can't do anything about it. Sixth brother, please bear with me! You can see that I don't have many people on hand, and I'm worried if I don't go to the South Territory. Feng Jinyuan also created a fake princess to cause trouble in Lanzhou, and the army is fighting in the desert. Xuan Tianming wrote a letter mentioning the heat. I'm afraid that if I don't go, it will be difficult for them to move forward."
Xuan Tianfeng was just nagging. In fact, he naturally understood this truth and had already prepared for Feng Yuheng to leave Ji'an County at any time. He told Feng Yuheng: "Don't worry! No matter how bad I am, I am still a prince. I don't think anyone would dare to make things difficult for me too blatantly. What's more, there is still money to be harvested! The war in the southern border is an important matter, but you must be careful along the way. Even if you pull out one tooth of a tiger, it still has many teeth. It is impossible to get rid of them all at once. There is no guarantee that someone will not trip you up on the road, so be careful."
Feng Yuheng nodded seriously, and handed the seal of Ji'an County to Xuan Tianfeng. Xuan Tianfeng promised her again: "When you return, I will return it in its original state."
Three days later, Feng Yuheng took Huangquan Wangchuan with her on the road, and drove the carriage in shifts. It seemed that she did not bring anything with her, but she did not know that her space was filled with all the wealth she had stolen in the capital. She left a part of the silver in the county and gave it to Xuan Tianfeng for the maintenance of Ji'an County. With the addition of taxes, the normal operation of Ji'an County would not be a problem. As for the food and military supplies needed in the south, she decided to collect them on the way instead of taking them away directly from here, after all, the target was too big.
Although the task of transporting grain and grass to Kyoto was handed over to the Second Prince, Kyoto was too far away from the Southern Border, and it would take more than two months for large-scale grain transport to arrive, which was not as fast as hers. What's more, she was more anxious about the supply of medicines and ammunition.
A carriage was galloping from the southwest to the south. Ban Zou whipped the horse very fast. If the road was not too long and Feng Yuheng was not too tired, he really thought it would be better for the four of them to ride horses.
"Miss, is it really that hot over there?" Huang Quan had never been to the South Boundary and was very curious about it. "The wind and sand in the desert must be very strong. I heard my master talk about it when I was practicing martial arts. He said that the ancient Shu army was particularly good at using its geographical advantages to fight, and even developed a lot of formations related to sand."
Wang Chuan also nodded and agreed, "Yes, I have heard of this too. The countries in the desert are different from ours. They are surrounded by wind and sand all year round, and all the strategies they have developed are related to the desert. I always felt that the Dashun soldiers would suffer in this regard. Fortunately, after our prince went there, he won a victory first. At first, I was really worried that the situation would be like the eighth prince, and the stalemate would last for several years." She hesitated for a while, and finally said what was in her heart: "My lady is about to reach the age of marriage, but you and your prince have not yet got married."
Huang Quan was also anxious about this matter. He got depressed when it was mentioned. When he was pushed to the limit, he simply cursed the Eighth Prince in the carriage. Feng Yuheng laughed when he heard it. She was not anxious at all, but the two girls were anxious enough? "When you first came, you said that it was easy to follow me, and it would always be more depressing to follow your prince. If I really marry him, I will still have to be with him every day. What? You are not afraid of depression now?"
"That's not the same thing." Huang Quan stamped his feet, "Miss, are you really not anxious? I saw that the two aunts of the Yao family were very anxious! Didn't we say this time when we came to Ji'an County that Concubine Yun personally went out of the palace to give the betrothal gifts again, which shows that everyone is anxious."
Feng Yuheng was helpless, "What's the point of me being anxious? It's not me who has the final say. Besides, I am a girl after all. Have you ever heard of a girl being anxious about this?"
The two maids thought that it was true, but they were really unwilling to accept it, so Huang Quan scolded the Eighth Prince inside and out, until Ban Zou outside couldn't help but scold him too, and only then did she feel better.
In the Southern Realm, ever since Xuan Tianming started investigating the people in the Biannan army who had colluded with the Ancient Shu under the instruction of the Eighth Prince Xuan Tianmo, a total of twenty people have been caught. When Xi Fang reported this data to him, he was not surprised at all, and even said, "There must be more, but it would take too much time to keep investigating, so let's just leave it at that for now!"
This was the first time that the Ninth Prince Xuan Tianming had come out of the north gate of Shaping City since he arrived in the southern border and captured Shaping City. He rode a camel given by the people of Shaping and returned to the Biannan camp.
Because the deputy general Jiang Xuan was imprisoned, the Biannan camp has been in a state of disarray for a while. But it is not that no one is in charge. Xuan Tianming has specially assigned some people to manage the affairs there, and also assist Xifang in investigating the traitor. The Biannan army was still unconvinced at first, but when the soldiers of the Shenji Camp raised their guns and blew at the sky, the 300,000 people were silent in an instant! No one dared to provoke Xuan Tianming's army again.
Until Xuan Tianming arrived that day, people came out of their tents one after another, looking at the purple-clothed figure sitting on the camel from afar. They could still remember the thunder and lightning that Xuan Tianming brought when he broke through Shaping City that day. Many people believed that the shock would leave a horrible shadow in their hearts for the rest of their lives, so that when Xuan Tianming stood in front of them, no matter whether their hearts were originally on the side of the Eighth Prince, they were all terrified of His Royal Highness the Prince.
Xuan Tianming held the military token in his hand and ordered the army to assemble. When 300,000 people gathered, dust rose up, but he remained unmoved. He didn't even squint. He just sat on the tall camel and looked at the heads of people gathering below. The purple lotus between his eyebrows bloomed even more mysteriously.
Jiang Xuan was also escorted from the camp south of Shaping City, but the soldiers who came with Xuan Tianming rode camels, while he was tied around the neck with a rope and led to Biannan like a dog. When the Biannan army saw Jiang Xuan's appearance, their fear of the Ninth Prince became even greater.
In Dashun, everyone knew that the Ninth Prince was a capricious and willful person, but the Emperor spoiled him, so that he developed a character of doing whatever he wanted since he was a child. Even when he grew up and led the army and became a general, he still showed no respect to his deputy general. Some people's impression of Xuan Tianming plummeted again because of this, and fell to the bottom.
But Xuan Tianming didn't care about these things. He never needed to explain to irrelevant people what he was going to do and how he was going to do it. He was a general, but he was only responsible for his soldiers. Although these people were now under his rule, they worshipped the military token in his hand, and they were thinking of the old eight in Kyoto. They didn't even regard him as a general, so why did he think that they were his pawns?
Three hundred thousand people, facing less than a hundred people on Xuan Tianming's side, did not have any momentum at all, and could not produce the slightest feeling of a hundred times suppression. Because the people on Xuan Tianming's side had guns in their hands, and if they pulled the trigger casually, the people on the opposite side would only wait for death.
Xi Fang took two steps forward, took the rope that tied Jiang Xuan, looked at the 300,000-man army with cold eyes, and said loudly: "Do you know why this deputy general Jiang fell into such a fate?"
People shook their heads, and one of the brave ones said, "The new general doesn't like us."
Xifang laughed loudly, "Bullshit! Our general always treats his soldiers like brothers. When fighting in battle, he always rushes to the front. No matter what danger he encounters, he will never exchange his own life for the lives of his brothers! When marching, he distributes all the good tea he brought with him to the soldiers, and drinks some tea leaves himself. He also gives the snacks he brought to the younger brothers, and eats the steamed buns himself. You say such a general doesn't like his soldiers?"
"That's for you! It's different for us!" Someone said indignantly, "You are his people!"
"Say it again?" Xifa was furious and immediately ordered his men to pull out the person who had just spoken. "What you mean is that we are the general's men and you are not? The general holds the military order of 300,000 troops in Biannan. You don't admit that you are his men. Then I want to ask, whose men are you?"
"We..." The man was speechless and unable to argue. He couldn't say that he was the Eighth Prince's man and had nothing to do with the Ninth Prince, right?
Xi Fang continued, "The general has always treated his soldiers equally. I will not hide the truth from you today. The reason why I gathered 300,000 troops from Biannan in one place, why I tied Jiang Xuan like a dog, why I restricted your freedom of movement these days, and why I added so many people to guard the camp here, do you really not understand why?"
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