Xu Mansion in the capital.

Xu Fan helped his father get out of the sedan chair, and after entering the mansion, he took the overheated towel and wrung it out to apply his face, rubbed his hands and feet hard. The servants beside him had already prepared a brazier and hot soup.

Xu Jie is not considered a poor family. After all, his father is an eighth-rank county magistrate, but compared with the Lu, Gu, Qian, Zhang and other major families in Songjiang, it is inevitable that they will be pale in comparison.

However, Xu Fan, who had been in Songjiang for more than 20 years, developed a luxurious temperament and used all the things he used. There were five beautiful concubines alone. Although his wife Ji still has no son, the concubine has given birth to three sons and four daughters for him.

"Go back." Xu Fan waved his hand and asked his children who came to ask their worries to return to the house, leaving only his sister Miss Xu Si.

After lying in the chair for a while, Xu Jie recovered. Although he was only in his early fifties, the capital this year was particularly cold. Although there was a brazier in Xiyuan Zhilu, it was difficult to resist the biting chill.

"I received a letter from my uncle and my second uncle today." Xu Fan whispered, "The Japanese pirates plunder Qingpu, and their family's Sangyuan was damaged a lot."

The Xu family was considered domineering in Songjiang and surrounded a large area of ​​land in Qingpu. Before the Qingpu County system was abolished, it was said that there were countless papers in the county government.

However, Xu Jie ignored these trivial matters, and he still closed his eyes.

"It is said that Shuangjiang Gong set off and returned to Beijing?" Xu Fan asked tentatively: "This time, thanks to Shuangjiang Gong and Yu Dayou, Songjiang was on the front line but was not seriously damaged."

Xu Jie seemed to hear nothing, and still closed his eyes and was thinking about something in his heart.

Xu Fan was a little bored, glanced at his sister beside him and sneered: "The Qian family is said to have been expelled by Shuangjiang Gong for exaggerating his military achievements and left in shame."

The graceful Miss Xu Si lowered her eyes slightly and whispered: "Brother, you should take care of the backyard, it's not easy for my mother to interfere."

Xu Fan was stunned and immediately asked, "Is it the boss again?"

"What do you think? Every woman learns to play with swords and swords, which is really a destruction of the style of the family!"

Xu Fan stopped halfway through his speech, grinning and dodging the sight of his father Xu Jie. He took his first concubine at the age of thirteen and gave birth to his eldest daughter. He was originally gentle and virtuous, but recently he liked swords and the backyard was very chaotic.

Xu Jie sighed and did not scold anything. He felt that he owed his eldest son in his heart. He was exiled to Fujian and his wife died of illness. Xu Fan was alone in Huating and has not even had any fame.

But Xu Jie still hopes that his son can learn something, at least he won’t be told about a tiger father and a dog son.

"Is Qian Zhan stupid?" Xu Jie asked lightly: "Can a fool help officer and soldiers defend the city twice to achieve great victory? Can a fool make friends with so many civil and military officials?"

Xu Fan was stunned and didn't know what to say. Miss Xu Si replied in a low voice: "Qian Zhancai is extremely smart and well-versed in the world. It is said that he is a teacher of Mr. Pingquan and is engaged in the development skills."

Xu Jie's admiring eyes fell on his daughter. Judging from the qualifications, among the three sons and one daughter, Miss Xu Si is the most outstanding.

"Qian Zhancai will definitely take the right path to the imperial examination in the future. It is not difficult to pass the first exam in the Songjiang case." Miss Xu Si explained in a delicate voice: "So, military achievements are of no use to him. At most, it is the icing on the cake. He will never be stupid enough to tamper with it."

"Then...then..." Xu Fan stuttered, "It's impossible. He has no harm in himself, and he killed more than 30 Japanese soldiers... If it is true, why did Shuangjiang Gong drive him away?"

Xu Jie closed his eyes again and sighed: "What a young hero."

Miss Xu Si lowered her head and said nothing. News about the foreign Zhang family had long been spreading. It seemed that the Qian family was very similar to his great-grandfather and his uncle, with a little hard bones.

...

Xiyuan, outside Wanshou Palace.

"Commander Lu is finally here." Huang Jin quickly walked up to him, "Your Majesty is anxious and asked twice in three quarters of an hour."

Lu Bing is tall, strong and brave. He doesn't walk very well, but he lifts his feet very high and has an elegant posture. Huang Jin knew from a distance that it was Lu Bing who came.

"Eunuch Huang." Lu Bing bowed and said, "If you don't check it clearly, how can you dare to come to see Your Majesty?"

Jiajing's gloomy and slender voice sounded by the palace gate, "You can check it clearly now?"

Lu Bing nodded and took out a booklet from his arms, "I'm sure I can't leave you."

"Come in and talk."

He brought the round stool to sit down, and then took the hot soup from the eunuch and drank it all. Only then did Lu Bing carefully talk about the matter from beginning to end.

Lu Bing is a smart man. He will not deliberately consume Emperor Jiajing's affection and trust in him, but when Xu Jie and Yan Song join forces, he will not take Li as Nie Bao and Zhang Jing excuse him.

"In other words, Zhang Jing did not send troops until the Japanese pirates invaded Suzhou Prefecture?" Emperor Jiajing's face became even more gloomy.

"It is indeed the case in terms of the battle situation, but there were garrisons in Jiaxing Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture, and Songjiang Prefecture before." Lu Bing was sloppy, "Tianzhou Wolf Soldiers did join the battle situation in the end and finally defeated the Japanese pirates in Wangjiangjing."

"More than a thousand beheads?"

"About 1,500."

"How many Japanese pirates?"

"Uh... the Japanese pirates divided their troops outside Suzhou City, and about tens of thousands of Japanese pirates went south to Jiaxing Prefecture."

"Hehehe." Emperor Jiajing laughed in a silence, "More than 10,000 Japanese pirates, more than 1,000 Japanese pirates beheaded, and the Japanese pirates who were divided into troops did not arrive in all!"

"What a bullshit Jiaxing victory!"

"How did Zhang Jing have the good reputation to send good news!"

Emperor Jiajing cursed for a long time. Huang Jin and Lu Bing were both old men brought from Prince Xing’s Mansion back then. They knew that the master was so uncomfortable that he would not scold him, but he was afraid that he would turn around and irritate him on their heads.

Suddenly, Emperor Jiajing stopped and turned around to stare at Lu Bing, "Is Hu Zongxian true or false?"

"Zhejiang Jinyiwei Qian checked and interrogated in person, and the Japanese pirate leader Shen Nanshan and more than 400 subordinates were captured." Lu Bing decisively said that "no mistakes."

Emperor Jiajing's face was unstable and there was suspicion in his eyes.

Lu Bing took out the booklet from his arms calmly, turned to that page before handing it over, "Please read your Majesty."

Emperor Jiajing suspected that he took the book and looked at it a few times. His narrow eyes widened. After pausing, the corners of his mouth were smiling. Finally, he couldn't help laughing, "It's actually... it's really, no wonder it's all captives!"

"There are more interesting things." Lu Bing leaned closer and said deliberately: "Does Your Majesty still remember that Songjiang scholar Qian Yuan?"

"Qian Yuan?"

"It is the one who helps the officers and soldiers defend the city, the Jiading victory, and the Chongde victory..."

"Oh, I remembered it, and I also specifically instructed the Ministry of Personnel to collect merits for him." Emperor Jiajing asked with great interest: "There is still something for him?"

"At that time, most of the troops in Hangzhou were taken to Jiaxing Prefecture and Suzhou Prefecture by Zhang Jing. Japanese pirates came and threatened Hangzhou and Yuhang to invade the canal. Qian Yuan urged Hu Zongxian to leave the city to meet the enemy."

Lu Bing made a lot of fun about this story, "It was Qian Yuan who took charge of changing the poison to laxatives. It is said that the Japanese pirates could not even climb, and even the Japanese pirate leader Chen Nanshan scolded this for being too immoral!"

"Hahaha!" Emperor Jiajing, who had been depressed these days, had a rare second laugh. "Although it sounds a bit bad, the Japanese pirates suffered losses in this hand repeatedly. They are really the nemesis of the Japanese pirates!"

"This son was a scholar in the middle of the year before and the head of the Songjiang Mansion. Maybe he will be able to pass the imperial examination the year after that. Then he will tell him a storytelling." Huang Jin made fun of him.

"Huating Qian family, a young hero, has made contributions to the country, how can he be so humiliated?" Emperor Jiajing cursed with a smile.

Huang Jin smiled and stopped talking.

Seeing that Emperor Jiajing was in a good mood, Lu Bing took out the memorial from his arms, "After the Battle of Jiaxing, Nie Bao, who went south to supervise the war, set off for Beijing. He fell ill in Tongzhou from a long way, and asked the post station to deliver the memorial."

Emperor Jiajing stopped laughing, and squinted his eyes and took it open, "I want to retire and return home... What does he want to do..."

The minister said he wanted to resign and retire, but in most cases he did not really want to get out. It was just a means of bargaining.

But I never thought that Xu Jie would attack Nie Bao. Emperor Jiajing was confused for a moment, but he keenly discovered that there should be some weirdness that he was not clear about.

It was already considered that the memorial was full of kindness and righteousness. Lu Bing looked at his eyes and his nose, but he did not say a word.

At this moment, footsteps came from outside the hall gate, and the little eunuch nervously knelt outside the door holding the memorial.

After nightfall, there are memorials to be delivered. There is only one possibility, the military newspaper I just delivered.

A moment later, angered scolding sounded in the hall.

Five thousand Japanese pirates who were divided into troops under Suzhou City defeated Wang Chonggu in succession, Ren Huan returned to the rescue, crossed the Yangtze River to capture Jingjiang County, and the Japanese pirates burned, killing and looting, and thousands of people died in Jingjiang County alone.

Lu Bing lowered his head and closed his eyes. The time when the army reported it was too coincidental. It was too coincidental. I don’t know if it was Yan Song or Xu Jie’s hand.

In this case, Your Majesty will only vent his anger on Zhang Jing, Li Tianchong and even Nie Bao, who had just handed over the memorial of retirement.
Chapter completed!