Chapter 647 Family Letter
The war lasted for three months, and the letter from home was worth ten thousand gold.
When the husband who was concerned about him finally sent a letter, Yang Qingxiao's somewhat disappointed mood was immediately revived. She almost grabbed the letter from Li Xu like a snatch. Before she turned around, she hurriedly opened the envelope and pulled out the thick stack of letters, which attracted her eyes.
Finally, she returned to her room and lit three candles to make the room brighter. She sat upright in front of the desk. Zhan Xin looked carefully, not daring to miss a word:
"Qingxiaowu's wife: I see my words as if I met
It has been half a month since I left home and said goodbye. I don’t know that everything is safe at home. I miss me on weekdays. Although I am in other places, I can always think about the situation when I was with you and Yue'er every day. Now, thinking about the lack of concern for you before, I feel a little ashamed.
Now that the two places are separated, we know how strong the relationship between you and me is. I hope you are safe at home and take care of your body carefully. Don’t neglect your diet and daily life just because I am not by your side. Now you are pregnant, the most taboo thing is to hurt your body and mind, so you must be happy on weekdays. If the weather is good, you can ask Yue'er to walk in the garden together, or you can go out to relax when the weather is good, so that people can feel at ease..."
The contents on the previous sheets are full of some concerns and family matters, which makes people unable to see that Li Ling is a court official who is responsible for heavy responsibilities and is busy with major events. Instead, he is more like a little man with a beloved wife in the family. Although he is outside, his heart is still tied to everything in the family.
Looking at the sincere and sincere advice in the letter, Yang Qingxiao was not impatient at all, only deeply joy and emotion. The corners of her mouth were lightly raised and her eyes were flowing. After a while, she felt a little reluctant to continue reading, so she picked up the letter and put it in her heart.
At that moment, it seemed that my husband was back to me, and that familiar and warm feeling continued to grow and spread from my heart, allowing my originally depressed body to regain vitality.
After just holding the trust in her arms and enjoying her husband's care for a while, Yang Qingxiao put down the letter with satisfaction and continued to read the content below. Speaking of such a letter, the thoughts of the two people's feelings a hundred miles away will never be seen in the future.
After writing about his care, thoughts and advice for his wife, Li Ling's pen tip turned around and began to describe what he saw, heard and felt along the way. This is not only a summary of his thoughts along the way, but also a clue to it, but also to make up for the regret that Yang Qingxiao could not go north with him:
"Before going north, I had some ideas, and felt that Dayue had been negligent about military ration transportation over the years. Now it is time to face and solve the problems. But the facts prove that my idea is correct, and now there are more problems on the road to grain transportation in Dayue than I think.
One of them is the road. Although the official roads in Jiangnan, Central Plains and other places are extremely well-off, we have an inherent view that our official road of Dayue can be smooth and unblocked. But in fact, this is not the case. At least in the past few sections I have walked, many official roads have been disrepaired and have been constantly having problems.
Especially in this season, under the wind and snow, there are many official roads that are cut off. We must rely on the military and military generals to shovel snow and pave the roads so that the heavy carriages and horses can pass through smoothly. During this period, there have been several landslides, which not only delayed the trip, but also caused many casualties.
The second is the attitude of the government army towards the civilians. I have had contact with at least three grain delivery teams. The government army has extremely strict attitudes towards the civilians and even regards them as cattle and horses. In the eyes of those officials, the civilians and the people are just tools to achieve their goals themselves, and they do not treat them as compatriots. They often beat and scold them, and even have the desire to suppress everyone by killing them indiscriminately.
This wind is really not conducive. Although it seems that this can allow the transshipment team to arrive in the north faster in a short period of time, it actually makes the conflict between the two sides deepen. I am worried that one day it will cause a disaster. Especially when there are some enemies like Luo Tian Sect who are the best at bewitching people, such a harsh approach to the people is even more giving people a handle.
Although I have stopped many related matters along the way and helped to appease many wronged people, in the end, the symptoms are not the root cause. The court must issue an inventorial document to stop and reverse this mistake.
The third is that the governments of all parties are not responding to it. Along the way, the more north I go, the more difficult the situation in each town is. As an official of the court, I naturally don’t have to worry about accommodation, food and drink, but whether it is military soldiers or civilians, their situation is quite worrying.
Without a arranged garrison and without the food prepared by the court, hundreds of grain transport teams could only be stationed in a certain place. As for what to eat, they could only be called from the military rations on the way. Even those officials who were ordered to supervise grains could not be stopped in this matter, otherwise they would be afraid that the accident would be caused at that time.
But in my opinion, this is not a proper and long-term solution. It is hard for the military and civilians to run around outside, but they still cannot rest after entering the town. This is a big blow to their physical and mental health. In the long run, everyone will inevitably slack off, which will slow down their travel speed.
It is even more inappropriate for the grain transport team to retrieve grain at will. If you delay for one more day on the road, the consumption of grain will be an incomprehensible loss. These foods should have been sent to the front line. If you eat more on the road, the soldiers on the front line will eat less. Perhaps this food can determine the life and death of a soldier and the survival of a pass... Although my words are exaggerated, you must understand the meaning of it.
Therefore, I have already made an offer to the court to separate the rations of the military and civilians from the escorts and the escorts of the local stations, so that military rations must be delivered to the border faster and more steadily.
I once read a poem by my predecessors: I will always feel that it is shallow when I get it on paper. I must practice it myself. I used to realize it before. I only felt that it was in the truth, but only after I really followed it, I could know how profound the truth was. In the capital, I could certainly use all kinds of strategies to make military rations delivered to the north faster, but in fact, this is just a talk on paper. If I hadn't followed along the way, I wouldn't know that there would be many problems on the way to transport grain.
Now that I think about it, everything in the world is like this. I am not a saint, and I know very little after all. If I really want to do something, there are too many things that I need to put myself in my shoes, truly see and understand to make a correct judgment…”
This thick stack of letters from home is afraid of being less than ten thousand words. In addition to the concerns and concerns for his family and his wife at the beginning, more of them were what Li Ling felt along the way.
Moreover, these contents are not systematic. Sometimes the contents mentioned in one paragraph will change the topic in the next paragraph. Obviously, these are some essays written by Li Ling after he was stationed in the camp every day, and then he added them to the letter. So it seems that the contents in the letters are often divided.
But Yang Qingxiao looked at her without any impatience, but instead enjoyed it with relish. Looking slowly, there was no omission of a word. This was because she was actually quite interested in these things. After all, Miss Yang had a certain amount of power in the Cao Gang and could lead her brothers to make achievements.
It is also because of this that in the two years after marriage, Li Ling would always talk to her about the affairs in the yamen, and the couple would even discuss some official matters. It is precisely because of this common language that the relationship between Li Ling and Yang Qingxiao continues to deepen over the years.
Today, in this letter from home, Yang Qingxiao felt the similar feeling of talking about everything between the couple, and the joy in her heart became even more serious, so she naturally read it word by word. She only regretted that Li Ling was wandering for a while and had no exact address, otherwise she would have to pick up her pen and reply to a letter that was also very long.
After reading what she saw and felt along the way, Yang Qingxiao calmed down a little, and in the end she was only two thin pages of paper, which made her feel a little reluctant to continue reading because after reading it, there was nothing left.
But soon, she turned to the next page: "I thought the problems above were the biggest problems that need to be faced in transferring food. Until today, I realized that I had underestimated the difficulty of this matter. Just now, I received a message that there were no responses in the 32 teams that sent grain from the Central Plains to the north.
First, the grain teams in Yingzhou Prefecture, Huaibei, which should have set out two months ago, had no response from the beginning. The court asked only that the grain was in urgent need of food and could not be transported. Second, a grain team that had already entered southwest Shanxi suddenly disappeared. I wonder if it had encountered an unexpected situation.
These two grain teams were all in the troubles that were made in my Great Vietnam. It was hard to believe that there were still people in the Central Plains who dared to attack our imperial court's military rations. As the chief grain chief, these two things must be resolved as soon as possible. In the southwest of Shanxi, I have asked the Yang brothers of the Imperial City Department to go to investigate. Whether it is the local government seizure or the robbers robbed food, they must be recaptured by force.
As for the transfer of military rations from Yingzhou, Huaibei, I plan to go there in person. I think when you see this letter, I was already near Yingzhou and would meet with local officials.
Although we have only been separated for more than half a month, our longing in our hearts deepens day by day. However, the love is long and short, even if we say more, we will end up. We can only wait for the future and pass on the letters with wild geese. I hope to take care of it, but don’t miss it.
Husband: Li Ling”
Chapter completed!