Chapter 312
Chapter 312
Chu Yan listened to Chu Minyu boasting about how rich his eldest sister was. Although he was happy, he couldn't see the way Chu Minyu looked like a villain.
"Snapped!"
Chu Minyu was hit on the back of his head and heard Chu Yan curse: "What are you proud of? Once you become a brother, you are reduced to working for your sister to make money, and you still have the nerve to brag here!"
Chu Minyu was poked at a sore point and immediately fainted.
Chu Yan had previously received military pay from Chu Tianjiao to the northwest. At that time, there were only a few words in the letters home, and there was no detailed discussion of how the money came from.
Just after listening to Chu Minyu's narration, Chu Yan was indeed shocked.
He has been in the army and has deeply felt the pain of lack of money and food.
Ninety-nine percent of the white hair on Chu Yan's head came from worrying about military pay.
"Jiaojiao, do you really have that much money to rebuild the Ganzhou camp?"
"Fourth uncle, the matter of money is nothing. This time I found five or six million taels of property from Zhang Tianhe's secret room. It is enough to build the Ganzhou camp. It will cover the first year's expenses.
In the future, we will cooperate with the Third Prince on the caravan, and we will earn nearly 50 yuan every year, which can be used to subsidize the Ganzhou Camp.
My businesses can generate an income of several hundred thousand taels per year. Although there is still a shortfall, I will find a way. "
Chu Yan opened his mouth wide when he heard Chu Tianjiao talking about hundreds of thousands taels. He found his voice after a while and said: "Niece, I suddenly feel that the waiter is right. I should pay my respects to you."
Seeing that Chu Yan really wanted to bow to him, Chu Tianjiao hurriedly avoided it and said coquettishly: "Fourth uncle, do you want to break me?"
Chu Minyu also protested: "Fourth uncle, we agreed not to call him 'Xiao Er', why do we call him 'Xiao Er' again?"
Chu Yan would not really worship Chu Tianjiao. He was so happy that he rubbed his hands together, walked around in the room, and began to think about the changes that might be brought about after building the Ganzhou Camp.
"Eldest niece, as long as I am given enough food and grass, I can add 10 troops to Ganzhou. With the addition of [-] troops from the northwest camp, I can capture the royal court of Xirong!
Damn it, fighting a war of attrition with Xirong every year, when will it end?
It would be better to accomplish all our efforts in one battle. Let's do it hard once so that Xirong will not dare to invade the country for ten years.
By then, your fourth uncle and I will be able to marry a wife and have a son with peace of mind! "
Chu Tianjiao thought about how old his fourth uncle was. He went to the battlefield at the age of 14 and had been fighting for more than ten years. He had only been back in Beijing for less than a year.
Chu Yan has not married yet, the main reason is that he has no time to see her.
"Fourth uncle, my grandmother helps you see each other every year. You should take some time to go back to Beijing and get married! My second brother is getting married next March."
When it came to Chu Minyu's marriage, Chu Yan naturally became concerned about the pros and cons of marrying with the Wang family.
Chu Tianjiao did not hesitate to analyze the situation in the capital for Chu Yan.
Then, Chu Yan sighed: "In the capital, eldest brother can still have some words with His Majesty.
By staying in the capital, he can avoid the imperial court from constantly thinking about stupid tricks to adjust military affairs.I went back and it didn't help much.
I also want to go back to Shangjing for a visit. I will go back when the waiter can take charge of his own business. "
Chu Minyu, whose name was called, suddenly felt that the burden on his shoulders was heavier.
Regarding Zhang Tianhe's case, Chu Yan was not surprised.
"I knew that Zhang Tianhe would have problems sooner or later. It's a good thing that he solved them."
Chu Tianjiao was stunned. She didn't tell Chu Yan that she sent someone to deal with Zhang Tianhe. What did Chu Yan mean by this?
"Eldest niece, I was thinking on the way here, who is so powerful that he can kill Zhang Tianhe in Ganzhou?
I didn't think it was you at the time.
But I just heard what the waiter said about the things you did in Jiaozhou, Linhai and Shangjing. If I hadn’t guessed that it was you who killed Zhang Tianhe, I wouldn’t be your fourth uncle.
Do you think anyone in a state can kill anyone? "
Chu Tianjiao broke into a cold sweat: "Fourth uncle, will others also guess it?"
Chu Yan shook his head: "That's not possible. Zhang Tianhe has not dealt with me in the past few years, so I only paid a little attention to him.
I had heard a little about what he was doing behind his back.
I originally planned to wait until the war calmed down and I would have time to wrestle with him when I returned to Jincheng to collect evidence of his crimes and report them to the court.
It saves trouble if you take action first.
Outsiders don't know his details at all. Who would have thought that he is not from the Chu family?
You are a small child, and no one will doubt you. "
Chu Tianjiao was afraid that Chu Yan would be implicated, so he asked, "Will that implicate you, Fourth Uncle?"
Chu Yan asked slyly: "Didn't you throw dirty water on him after he died so that he could die a worthy death?"
Chu Tianjiao felt relieved when he thought about the more than twenty female corpses that had been recovered from the Zhang family's private residence.
Based on this, Zhang Tianhe is dead.
When he told Chu Yan, Chu Yan chuckled, and he looked a bit like Chu Ye who had eaten a lot of pig heads.
"Fourth uncle, who do you think is the right person to be the governor of Ganzhou?"
Chu Yan frowned and thought for a while and said: "Our Chu family is not good at government affairs, but we need someone in this field.
But since you want to build a Ganzhou camp and you want to mine in Wusheng County, the candidate for this state herd must be one of your own.
This candidate is really hard to find.
In the past few years, I have also met some capable people in the west, several of whom can govern a county or serve as staff.
But to be a state shepherd, there is really no one with the official rank requirements.
Hey, eldest niece, your fiefdom is in Wusheng County, and your official rank is the first rank. Why don't you let your eldest brother run it and let you take the position of Ganzhou Prefectural Shepherd?
Anyway, the people who work are all people from below. If you and my uncle and nephew join forces, are you afraid that we can't run Ganzhou like an iron barrel? "
Chu Tianjiao was very excited when he heard this.
Yes, if you can’t find a suitable candidate for the state pastoral position, you might as well get one yourself.
With two emperors and a queen mother around him, are you still worried that he can't manage the small Ganzhou?
"It's just Fourth Uncle. I am a woman after all, and the court may not agree."
Chu Yan pointed at Chu Minyu and said: "Let his father-in-law find a way. Since the emperor dares to make you a first-class general, he will also make you a state pastor. He just needs a suitable reason."
Chu Yan is a young man after all, and his thinking is more out-of-the-box than Marquis Liyang.
After following Chu Tianjiao for half a day, I have completely accepted Chu Tianjiao's way of thinking of keeping the initiative in the hands of the Chu family.
It's just that although their idea is good, it still requires a lot of work from the court to implement it. Whether it succeeds or not depends on luck.
Chu Yan stayed in Longcheng for three days. During these three days, the uncle and nephew settled Zhang Tianhe's matter, classified the case as a vendetta, and reported to the court the evidence of Zhang Tianhe's murder of countless women.
Emperor Chengzong was secretly happy when the court received the news.
“This piece of Tianhe was originally recommended by the Chu family themselves, but now that something has happened, it’s time to give Chu Ge a beating.
This time, when Ganzhou Prefect is appointed again, Chu Ge cannot listen to him. "
Emperor Chengzong pondered over it and thought that Liu Changguang, the censor, was quite suitable to go to Ganzhou to be the state shepherd.
Liu Yushi was from Ye Linxuan and often opposed the Chu family in the court.
By sending him to Ganzhou, Emperor Chengzong thought he could have one more spy in Ganzhou to monitor the Chu family.
However, things went against expectations. Before Liu Yushi took office, he was exposed to have invaded the people's farmland and allowed slaves to beat the villagers to death.
Although he was not promoted to official position, he went to Dali Temple for trial first.
Everyone in the capital guessed that the Chu family had done this.
When Emperor Chengzong replaced another candidate, it was revealed the next day that he had embezzled river work money when he went to build the embankment of the river a few years ago and was sent to prison.
Then, Emperor Chengzong wanted to send someone to Ganzhou to serve as the governor of this state, but no one was willing to go.
Either the stepmother or the second father died and Ding You was needed, or he was seriously ill and was not suitable for traveling far.
Who dares to go to Ganzhou without being a member of the Chu family?
Aren't you afraid that you will die inexplicably?
There was no other way, so Emperor Chengzong had no choice but to ask Prime Minister Wang for advice.
Then, Prime Minister Wang recommended Chu Tianjiao to temporarily take over the post of Ganzhou Prefect. The reason was very simple. Princess Wu Sheng happened to be in Ganzhou and had a first-rank official position. Ganzhou Prefect was only a second-rank official and was fully qualified.
Emperor Chengzong thought that it was just a temporary generation and a woman, so it was just a formality.
Let the Chu family occupy this hole temporarily, and it will be easy to replace them with suitable candidates in the future.
This plan is very good.
Therefore, the imperial court issued a decree and appointed Chu Tianjiao to serve as Ganzhou Prefectural Shepherd temporarily.
When this appointment came to Ganzhou, Chu Tianjiao was already preparing to leave Ganzhou for the Beihuang Grassland.
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