Chapter 193: Each one makes a move

Pei’s mansion has been quite busy these days. In three days, Pei Jun’s birthday will be his fifty-five years old. Generally speaking, the birthday of every five or ten is the birthday. The last time Pei Jun went to Ye County to spend his fifty-year-old birthday and accepted congratulations from his tribe members. However, the situation this year is severe, so Pei Jun sent a message early and would not do this year’s birthday.

However, the sons refused to agree. Even if they didn't go to Ye County to celebrate their birthday, it would be necessary to have a small gathering for their family to hold a simple birthday party for their father.

From early morning, the Pei Mansion began to be busy, with lights and cleaning the mansion. Delivery carriages filled the side doors of Pei Mansion. Some brought fresh fruits and vegetables, mountain delicacies, and wild game from farms near Chang'an, and some were famous wines delivered by famous restaurants in Chang'an. They were busy until near dusk, and there were more than a dozen carriages parked outside the side door.

At this time, a carriage with hundreds of knights guarded rushed towards the gate. A butler standing at the door loading lights recognized the carriage and rushed into the mansion to report.

Pei Jun locked himself in his study after returning from the Chaofang in the afternoon. Like Cui Yuan, he was worried about the situation in Shu County. Zhu Li's outrageous atrocities after entering Chengdu made him extremely indignant. Among the hundreds of wealthy families who were wiped out, one of the families was the family of his second wife Han. There was nearly 300 people in the family.

This massacre exposed Zhu Li's beastly nature, and later his "good deeds" such as opening warehouses and releasing grain and pacifying the people's hearts could no longer hide the disaster that this person would bring to the Tang Dynasty in the future.

On the principle of dealing with the principle of major issues related to the life and death of the Tang Dynasty, Pei Jun and Cui Yuan were consistent. Although Zhu Li later put forward the political slogan of clearing the monarch and returning the emperor, it seemed to coincide with some idea that Pei Jun wanted to weaken the affairs of the aristocratic family, Pei Jun did not buy it, and did not plan with it.

However, the chaos in Shu made Pei Jun admire his son-in-law's foresight. When he saw him last time, Zhang Huan told him that there would be chaos in Shu, and his chance was waiting. Facts proved that his judgment was completely correct.

Pei Jun smiled self-deprecatingly. The son-in-law's role in him even exceeded that of several sons.

At this time, the housekeeper's anxious voice came outside the house, "Master, Cui Xiangguo is here, the eldest son has welcomed him to the living room to wait."

Pei Jun was stunned, and then he smiled slightly. Cui Yuan must have brought what he wanted.

"Please wait for the Prime Minister Cui, and I will change my clothes."

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The lights were bright in the living room, and Pei Mingkai was chatting with Cui Yuan respectfully. This time his father's birthday was hosted by Pei Mingkai. He called several younger brothers who were officials in the capital and announced to them that he must celebrate his father's birthday. Since he returned from Jincheng County, he has clearly felt his father's coldness towards him. In the past, he asked him to inform all his uncles of his father's birthday every year, but this year his father asked his second brother Pei Mingyao to go, which made Pei Mingkai feel a little uneasy.

While drinking tea, Cui Yuan carefully looked at the layout in the living room. A big longevity word had been placed on the table, and every corner had been wiped clean. He came in and saw lights inside and outside the mansion, making a happy scene. But Cui Yuan knew that this was Pei Jun's fifty-five birthday, but he did so simply. Why is this?

"Nephew, didn't I say to you, is your father's fifty-five-year-old birthday just so simple? When it is spread, you brothers will have a reputation of being unfilial!" Cui Yuan looked very sad in his tone, but his eyes were extremely sharp, and every subtle expression of Pei Mingkai could not escape his eyes.

Pei Mingkai sighed, "Uncle Shi didn't know that the chaos in Shu was in chaos, and his father was worried. Why did he still have the heart to celebrate his birthday? So he had said hello long ago. This time he would not have done his birthday at the age of 55. Now, the simple birthday of our brothers insisted on doing it, but the family gathered."

"So that's it!" Cui Yuan nodded slightly. He was secretly proud of himself. It seemed that Pei Jun was also very concerned about Zhu Li's rebellion. If this is the case, things would be much easier. He raised his head and smiled, "I originally wanted to come to pay my birthday, so now I can only give you a birthday gift."

At this time, light footsteps came from outside the hall, and Pei Jun, wearing a wide Zen suit, appeared at the door, "Pei was not in good health and made Cui Xiang wait for a long time!"

"I came here uninvited. It was me who should apologize." Cui Yuan stood up and quickly met him, smiling and said, "I heard that in three days it will be the birthday of my brother. This is what you are wrong, so I won't tell my brother I'm not saying anything."

A trace of surprise flashed in Pei Jun's eyes. He quickly glanced at Pei Mingkai. Seeing that he had retreated, he laughed and said, "I am about to celebrate my birthday at the age of fifty-five. Isn't it a little too early? I think I'm still very young! So I cancelled this tedious thing."

"My brother thinks he is young, but I am old."

"That's because Brother Cui is worried about too many things in the world, and some things should be done by the younger generation."

"What my brother said!"

While talking and leaving, they came to Pei Jun's study and sat down. The two pretty maids served tea for the two. Cui Yuan picked up the tea, took a sip, and sighed slightly: "I'm not hiding it from my brother. I came for the rebellion of Zhu Li in Shu County. This incident made me restless!"

Pei Jun also picked up the teacup and took a sip, but smiled without saying anything. Waiting for Cui Yuan to continue to say downwards, Cui Yuan knew the intention, so he closed the lid of the cup in his hand and said solemnly: "What kind of person is Zhu Li? If you tolerate the evil spirit, what consequences will be? I won't say it. Pei Xiangguo should also be very clear, so I will immediately send troops to wipe out him without giving him any chance."

"I wonder how Brother Cui wants to use troops?" Pei Jun asked without saying a word.

Cui Yuan stood up, walked a few steps in the room with his hands behind his back, and suddenly turned around and said, "I have thought about this matter carefully. The court has no remaining soldiers, so I can only send troops from the three major families of Cui, Pei and Wei. I can transfer 80,000 from Hedong and Guanzhong. Pei and Shangshu Wei will send 60,000 troops each. In addition, Shangshu Wang sent 20,000 troops to advance from Shannan. As for other families who do not send troops, they will pay for food to provide military service. Do you agree to this decision?"

Pei Jun lowered his head and pondered. After a long time, he said lightly: "It is best to convene the cabinet to discuss this matter, and everyone agrees. I heard that Wei Yan will arrive in Chang'an tomorrow afternoon. It is better to set the time for the morning of the next day, and then let the main officials of various ministries, temples and prisons participate. What does Cui Xiangguo think?"

Cui Yuan didn't say anything. He kept looking up at the roof. After a while, he slightly closed his eyes and said, "I have another thing today that I want to tell Pei Xiang that someone impeached Cui Qinggong to set up gambling and lending in Chang'an, and his character was misconduct, so I have decided not to consider his entry into the cabinet. Then, according to Pei Xiangguo's proposal, Li Mian, the governor of Jiannan, will enter the cabinet."

Pei Jun was waiting for this sentence. He nodded slowly, "At the day after tomorrow, we will discuss how to mobilize money, grain and combat preparations, and send troops to Jiannan as soon as possible."

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Chunlei Hall, Wuwei County, is the girls' school founded by Cui Ning. With more and more students, the original two school buildings were too small, so Zhang Huan invested and expanded the school buildings. Now there are more than 30 brightly lit rooms and places for teachers and students to live in. Cui Ning asked Zhang Huan to go to Jincheng County to hire more than a dozen female teachers with knowledgeable knowledge and etiquette to teach.

The newly founded Wuwei Military Academy Zheng Xin Yunjing wrote the school name: Chunlei Hall.

Since Zhang Huan took over Hexi, he first founded fifty schools, taught by scholars from the West to serve the country, and issued strict orders that all boys over six in Wuwei County must go to school to study and learn to read, and children from Han and other ethnic groups must also go to school. Especially for Dangxiang people, all children who enter school are exempted from slavery, and all children are exempted from fees, and the school provides food and accommodation. In addition, parents who refuse to send their children to school will be punished by a hundred rods and will be punished to go to Liusha River for half a year. If they refuse to correct, they will not be an official slave.

Under the government order of leniency and strictness, Wuwei County set off a craze for sending children to study. Under this craze, some enlightened parents also sent girls to the girls' school founded by Cui Ning. In just half a year, Cui Ning's girls' school increased from 20 to 30 to 270. She simply formally established school children to recruit girls' school.

Cui Ning was busy all the time in the past two months. She had to register for school children, divide the teacher, and supervise the construction of houses and buy paper and pens. She had to do everything herself. Gradually, everyone in Wuwei County knew that there was a very beautiful female husband in Chunlei Hall, but no one knew that this female husband was actually the dignified Princess Qinghe and the only daughter of the right prime minister of the Tang Dynasty.

Early in the morning, more than a dozen young female gentlemen began to set up newly completed schools. Most of them were very young and full of vitality. The Tang Dynasty was an era of showing off their personality. Women from ordinary families were like men. They actively engaged in various social activities, riding horses and shooting archery, reciting poetry and essays, and even women rode donkeys to compete in polo. Even remote frontier prefectures and counties like Wuwei, women were riding horses and galloping everywhere on the streets.

The arrival of these beautiful and young female gentlemen filled the Chunlei Hall with vitality. The large group of children also ran back and forth, with laughter and joy everywhere. Cui Ning was installing curtains with a few female gentlemen. Suddenly, Pei Ying was walking slowly with her big belly and supported her with both hands. A maid from behind carefully supported her. Cui Ning quickly handed the curtains in her hand to someone else and greeted her and complained to her: "Didn't the midwife say you're going to have a baby in the past two days? Why don't you go and lie down and run to do it?"

Pei Ying greeted several female gentlemen with a smile, then found a ring chair and sat down with difficulty and said, "It's so boring to lie on the bed all day long. I heard you laughter and joy from afar, so I came to talk to you."

As she said that, she looked up at the school and saw that the school was decorated in a fresh and elegant manner. She nodded and said to Cui Ning: "When you were a child, you said that you wanted to be a female teacher when you grew up. At that time, we joked about you and said that you must be the first to marry. I didn't expect that you really became a female teacher, and you were still in Wuwei."

"What about you?" Cui Ning smiled with a pursed lips: "You said you wanted to go to the Western Regions to fight like a man, but you came to Hexi, but you became two people."

Pei Ying gently stroked her stomach and smiled, "If you can't fight, let the children in your stomach achieve it!"

At this time, the curtains had been hung. Pei Ying suddenly saw that the corner of the curtain seemed to be not sewn, and there were some burrs, so she stood up with difficulty and reached out and pulled them. At this moment, several girls hiding behind the curtains suddenly jumped out, caught off guard, and hit Pei Ying's stomach.

Seeing Pei Ying falling, Cui Ning quickly held her and turned around and scolded the naughty children, saying, "Everyone sat in my seat, each of them was fined to write a hundred words."

Seeing that the children seemed to have been in trouble, they all lowered their heads and sneaked away. Cui Ning suddenly felt Pei Ying grabbing her hand violently and looked at her quickly. She saw that her face was pale, beads of sweat as big as beans flowed down from her forehead, and her teeth were biting her lips, and she couldn't say a word.

Cui Ning was shocked, "What's wrong with you?"

"Hurry up... help me back, this little enemy... is coming out!"

"I understand, hold it back!" Cui Ning held Pei Ying tightly and walked out the door carefully. She hurriedly said to the helpless little maid: "Don't be dazed! Go and call the midwife."

The little maid turned around and ran away in panic. Cui Ning helped Pei Ying and walked to the door, when Pei Ying was so painful that she almost fainted.

"Everyone, come and help!" Seeing that she could no longer leave, Cui Ning called several female gentlemen to help. Everyone stepped forward together and carried Pei Ying back to the mansion with all their fingers.

At this time, several midwife arrived, and everyone started to prepare hot water and other essential products for production.

Pei Ying was already covered in cloudy hair and sweating heavily. She grabbed Cui Ning's hand tightly and gasped for a short time and said, "Cui Ning... don't go away, stay with me!"
Chapter completed!