Chapter 126: The White Horse Crosses the Gap
In March, a large number of troops from Nanyang Town and Heluo gathered around Funiu Mountain.
Although Su Hetai was so embarrassed that he had eaten a lot of money, he had already made great contributions to the Qing court based on the information he had pried out from the prisoners.
In the same month, the modified canal ship started the second batch of canal grain transportation.
The boat was escorted by thousands of infantry, cavalry and horses. Protective nets were also installed around each canal ship. Liang Xingzhou reported that those nets were just a guise to fool people. The real killing move of the modified canal ship was the thin silk thread installed at the bottom of the ship.
They were hung one by one at the bottom of the boat, and they could not see it in the night. Anyone who dived under the boat could easily uncover the protective net outside, and could not escape the thin threads entangled in the seven-dimensional vertical and eight-horizontal bottom of the boat.
Just like being entangled by algae when taking a bath in the river, it is difficult to break free, and it is even more difficult not to make a sound or not to alarm the person above.
In April, Zhao Liang's wedding letter was delivered to Ruzhou, and the betrothal gift was quickly delivered. Then he asked for a date, and the wedding date was set in October of this year.
To be honest, compared with the dowry that the Kang family has prepared for Kang Guan, the Zhao family really doesn’t give much betrothal gifts.
What about buying cakes, seafood, three animals, four-color fruits, and four-color sugar are all worthless things, and they can’t compare with 10% of the betting fee together.
The Zhao family’s betrothal gift was a real ten thousand taels of silver and eight hundred taels of gold!
The news spread and the entire Chenzhou Prefecture caused a sensation.
I have never heard of such a generous home in the past few years!
But in Kangguan's dowry, there are 1,200 mu of land alone, and all of them are covered with good water irrigation land.
In addition to the store, various dowry decorations, various styles of jewelry heads, pearls, gems, etc., and essential silver. The Zhao family’s bet is really not much.
After looking at the dowry list sent there, Zhao Liang wondered if the Kang family in Ruzhou had sent half of the family.
Then there was the news that Zhao Hui passed the mansion examination.
"Your brother has only such a little bit of ability. The county test and the government test can be used to open the joints. The difficulty is to take the next hospital test, so you can only rely on your own real skills."
Zhao Liang said it very explicitly, and Zhao Hui was so ashamed to hear it.
He had vaguely noticed this before, because no one showed any worry in the county or the government test.
At first, he thought it was because everyone was unwilling to put pressure on him, but Zhao Hui was not that stupid after all.
But Zhao Hui had already guessed in his heart that it seemed like one thing, and it was another thing that was said without any concealment by Zhao Liang...
Is he still a young man, and he is thin-skinned?
However, Aunt Zhang lit up Zhao Hui's forehead after hearing this, "Your brother was the one who made some money for your own good. Otherwise, why would you have to spend so much unnecessary money?"
"Guangming (Zhao Liang's name) is not going to take the officialdom route anymore. You are the only one in the Zhao family who can count on. Everyone hopes that you can get a title on the list as soon as possible. Only then will our Zhao family truly gain a foothold!"
When the Zhao family was roasted by Su and Tai on the fire, Zhao Hui was young and no one told him, but Aunt Zhang knew it.
Of course, she was even more satisfied with the family's arrangements for their room.
If your own man is a man without great ability, he will live and work hard until he grows old in this life.
My son was arranged to work hard in the officialdom, and this really did not treat their second wife badly at all.
My eldest nephew is not old and can study in the capital. There are many activities on the official side. If his son enters the officialdom and receives the care of his elder brother, he will earn a rosy cloak for himself in the future, wouldn’t it be easy?
If you have a big house, go rich. If your son can become an official, that is not worse than a big house.
Moreover, the eldest nephew also said that Brother Hui would not be able to make a list in the future, and that would pay to donate officials and would pull Zhao Hui into the officialdom. He patted his chest and promised her that Brother Hui would not have a bad future in the future.
After waiting for more than ten or twenty years, the Zhao family can also produce a third-rank official, gloriously gloriously gloriously!
In May, Zhao Liang's first child came. Liu was called out of the joyful vein. Not only was Liu, but Li Pozi and others very happy, and even Zhao Liang himself breathed a sigh of relief.
He was really afraid that he had made a lot of women like Xiang Shaolong, but he could not leave his own seed.
Liu's pregnancy made his little sorrow sweep away.
Then he went to Jinan openly. On the way, he was staggering the time and did not make trouble in the canal, nor did he cause trouble in Jining or in the Qing Dynasty. Instead, he went to Yanzhou Prefecture and sent a large amount of food and wages stored there, the Qing army's hot and cold weapons, armor and medicine powder, etc., to make a big sweep.
Perhaps the Qing army did not expect anyone to come to their base camp to cause trouble. It was not until the 'timed medicine powder buckets' buried by Zhao Liang exploded one after another, and they realized that overnight, all the food and large amounts of military pay in the warehouse disappeared.
This incident once again irritated Qianlong's belly.
Shuhede, who was in charge of Yanzhou Prefecture, was removed from the flower feather and made meritorious service.
All officials in charge of logistics will lose their posts at the least, and move their heads at the worst. What's even more unlucky is that the Qing army on the front line will soon find out. For a while, the morale of the army was in chaos, and Wang Lun took the opportunity to counterattack.
The rebels from both north and south came out together, and all five battles were won!
For a moment, the world was in an uproar, but also the excitement that Qianlong had just risen because of the major progress in the battle between Jinchuan and Jinchuan was swept away.
Two years ago, the military minister Wen Fu was defeated by Jinchuan, and the Qing army with more than 20,000 people lost more than 4,000. In addition to Wen Fu himself, the senior generals who died also had two deputy commander Balang and three other generals, as well as the general, the imperial guards, deputy generals, chief generals, governors, prefects, prefects, prefects, county magistrates, chief officers, Tongzhi, Dianshi, Dushi, garrison, generals, and more than 100 civil and military officials.
But the Qing court, which had a great family and a great cause, could bear such heavy losses. In a blink of an eye, Emperor Qianlong reappointed Agui as the commander and sent additional Jianrui Camp, 2,000 firearms and 4,000 Northeast Eight Banners soldiers to western Sichuan for reinforcements.
Agui fought for two years, and now the army has arrived at the Lewuweiguanzhai of Dajinchuan. Seeing that the situation is poor, the chieftain of Dajinchuan Sonomu poisoned the young Jinchuan chieftain who had defected to him, Gesang, who had surrendered to the Qing army, and Qianlong refused to allow it.
But Sonom does this and can tell the slightest momentum of its power.
Seeing the battle between Jinchuan, which took many years and spent 70 million taels of silver in the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty was about to win the final victory, but the Qing army in the Yimeng War Zone suffered another big defeat. It would be strange if Qianlong could feel relieved!
The fault is that the battle between Jinchuan and Jinchuan has not ended yet. I am afraid that Qianlong has transferred Agui to take over the Yimeng War Zone.
In that case, Shuhede lost all his face.
The Songhe Tower in Jinan has been opened smoothly, and Zhao Liang has been here for a while. He returned to Chenzhou in March. He did a good job here. Although he is not old, he is doing things very safely.
Chapter completed!