The winter in the capital is very cold, especially in the capital behind the snow. People on the street walk in a hurry, and no one dares to stay on the street for too long.

The snow on the ground creaked when walking, making people feel a little irritated. The north wind blew up the fallen leaves and slanted, like a sword blade slashing, making the skin hurt.

Since the beginning of winter, the court and the capital have stabilized, and nothing major happened in the court. All officials have finally lived a stable life, which is a relief.

The people in the capital are preparing for the New Year peacefully. The capital in the evening is shrouded in the afterglow of the sunset, and it looks slightly cold.

Due to heavy snow, the lively market in the past is empty today. However, at any time, there are lively places in the capital, such as brothels and Chuguan, and casinos.

However, recently, there has been another lively place in the capital, called Lushizhai.

You can tell where it is by listening to the name, which specializes in selling green vegetables.

In fact, the incident of growing green vegetables in the court has spread in the capital.

After all, a few days ago, His Majesty had sent someone to reward the ministers and nobles, and they had already eaten it. Although ordinary people did not eat it, they had heard of it.

Under such circumstances, the opening of Lushi Village naturally caused a sensation. Although everyone may not have bought them all, they all went to watch the fun.

Lushizhai was opened on an inconspicuous street, and the street was blocked by people watching the fun and carriages.

Many nobles and Xuqi family rushed to Lushizhai to order goods. People like this are not short of money and have to eat vegetables, fruits and melons every day, so they can send them to their doors on time and on time.

After registering, people will not send people to buy anything they need. Basically, they will send a list to Lushizhai in advance for whatever they need, and then the Lushizhai staff will send it to the mansion.

Lushizhai is also quite generous, and it opened dozens of stores in one go. Every day, people come and go, and many people are hired to deliver goods to their doorsteps.

Whether it is picking outside the city, transporting it to the city or delivering it to the door, it requires a large amount of manpower. Now it is winter again, and the people have nothing to do at home, and Lushizhai can provide a way out for the people.

Although the vegetables and fruits sold are much more expensive than other times, any one who has eaten fresh food will never want to eat pickled vegetables again.

Every morning and evening, the carriages and horses of Lushizhai are busy transporting trucks of vegetables covered with oil cloth, which adds some popularity to the cold and quiet capital and makes the capital look less bleak.

West Garden.

In recent times, Zhu Youxiao has completely bid farewell to bask in the sun. He will only bask under the eaves when the weather is particularly good, otherwise it would be too cold.

The north was furious, like a fierce horse that had broken away from its reins, raging in the air with debris, hitting the face with a pain like a whip. The banner in the distance was torn and rushing, and Zhu Youxiao looked up at Bai Meng in the sky, and it was about to snow again.

Judging from this situation, the snow outside the city has accumulated very thickly, and it is probably not until spring will melt. I believe that the things in Lushizhai are very good.

Zhu Youxiao turned around and returned to the warm room, put down the question book in his hand, glanced at his father-in-law Zhang Guoji who had been waiting for a long time, and nodded with satisfaction.

He reached out and picked up the peppercorns from the plate and took a sip of wine, and said with a smile: "This time the Office of the Interior has done a good job."

"My dear has been in the Interior Affairs Office for half a year. The inner affairs are also managed by me in an orderly manner and have done a good job. My dear is also a contribution. I will ask someone to send the rewards over."

Hearing Zhu Youxiao's words, Zhang Guoji smiled on his face, but his heart felt a little sour.

Since I arrived at the Office of the Internal Affairs, I have been doing this one by one, but I don’t have many things to do when I make a good deal. Most of the time I am being poked and scolded by others.

Since taking charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Zhang Guoji has asked his wife to pull out the white hair from his head every day. I think before coming to Beijing, he had black and shiny hair, but now...

Now that he has received praise from his emperor's son-in-law, Zhang Guoji is a little sad.

But all this is worth it. He finally gained a foothold and the Ministry of Internal Affairs was on the right track. This was very good and good, enough for Zhang Guoji.

"I thank you Your Majesty for your praise. I dare not take the credit for your size. I really cannot give you the reward." Zhang Guoji said with tears in his eyes quickly.

"If you have merits, you need to reward me!" Zhu Youxiao looked funny and said to Zhang Guoji more and more gentle: "Your dear, please step back first. I have to think about this reward."

"Yes, your Majesty, I will leave."

After Zhang Guoji left, Zhu Youxiao stretched and stood up.

The Chinese New Year is finally coming, and this year is about to pass.

Speaking of it, I have been traveling through time for a year and have done a lot of things myself, but this is just laying the foundation and not laying a solid foundation. The real test will only begin next year. I hope everything will go smoothly.

The first thing to do next year is the imperial examination. At that time, civil servants and scholars will definitely make trouble, but they are ready.

I just don’t know how things are going on in the southwest now, and there is no news.

At this time, the battle situation in the southwest was still very fierce.

Guizhou, in Bijie City.

Yuan Keli sat next to the table, drinking the light tea sips after sip, and the expression on his face was very calm.

Around him were two generals, one was Zhang Yanfang, and the other was naturally Zhang Cheng.

With the expansion of the army during this period, Yuan Keli's strength has expanded very strongly, and his military strength has almost reached 50,000 people. Although most of them are raw melon seeds that have not been through actual combat, it is enough to be fooled.

With such military strength, Yuan Keli naturally could not be idle.

After looking at Li Biao beside him, Yuan Keli said with a little disgust: "Have they arrived yet? Let someone go and pass a message to them. If they can't arrive tomorrow, it won't be used."

"Yes, Master of the Capital." Li Biao said quickly without any hesitation.

Since there were more troops in his hands, Li Biao found that the temper of the capital was getting better.

Of course, it’s not to people like me. Lord Dutang must be very kind to people like me, after all, everyone is their own.

However, Lord Dutang was even more arrogant and domineering towards the southwest chieftains and the like; he was even more unreasonable to the rebels, and he would never be able to kill anyone, and he was simply a butcher alive.

Li Biao didn't expect that Master Tutang would have such a side.

Li Biao agreed with what Lord Dutang is doing now. That is to summon the chieftains to discuss matters and let them fight An Bangyan with them.

First, it can unite people's hearts, second, it can stabilize the place, and third, it can reduce An Bangyan's strength. It can be said that it is a good strategy to kill more birds with one stone.

However, the news has spread, but now it has not had much effect. A few of the chieftains have come, but they are all the chieftains of small tribes, and there seems to be no news for the large tribes.

Li Biao was a little anxious when he was waiting, let alone Master Dutang?

So Li Biao didn't find it strange to Lord Tutang's orders, nor did he even dissuade him. He felt that such an ultimatum would be effective.

At this moment, someone came in outside.

The expression on this person's face was awkward, and he was full of anger.

The person who came was none other than Zhang Zhongmou, the deputy envoy of Guizhou Censor.

After Zhang Zhongmou arrived at the lobby, he saluted respectfully and said, "Secretary of the government will meet the capital and the governor."

"Okay, get up." Yuan Keli said: "But there is news?"

"There is indeed news when you go back to the capital." Zhang Zhongmou said quickly: "We just received the news. After An Bangyan rebelled, many chieftains also rebelled. However, the news was not smooth before, and we did not receive the news."

"Now that An Bangyan has been repelled by us, we have also received the news. Judging from the news that has been sent back now, when An Bangyan rebelled, An Xiaoliang, the governor of Wusa (now Weining, Guizhou), had already defected to him. The chieftains in Dongchuan, Sichuan (now Huize, Yunnan), Zhanyi, Yunnan (now Xuanwei, Yunnan), Hongbian, Guizhou (now Kaiyang County, Guizhou) and other places all rose to respond."

Zhang Zhongmou became more and more angry the more he spoke, and his expression on his face was very ugly. Obviously, the news was getting bigger. He originally thought it was only An Bangyan's rebellion, but now more and more people are being affected, and the power of the rebels is getting bigger and bigger.

After hearing this, Li Biao looked ugly. He glanced at Yuan Keli and said hesitantly: "Your Highness is guilty!"

Li Biao’s meaning is very obvious. He has been in Guizhou for so many years, not only has he indulged An Bangyan, but he has not shocked other chieftains. He is simply a very failed official.

Yuan Keli waved his hand and said directly: "Now is not the time to talk about this."

Yuan Keli cannot say that Li Biao is not guilty, nor can he say that Li Biao is guilty, because this matter requires the decision of His Majesty in the palace, and Yuan Keli himself will definitely not express his opinion at this time.

Yuan Keli said indifferently: "It's good that this will save me trouble. But one thing I have to worry about is that in Sichuan, I don't know how Sun Chuanting and Qi Yuangong are. If we can't send reinforcements here, they will probably be in danger."

After hearing this, Li Biao's expression was also very heavy.

Because according to the original plan, Yuan Keli needed to quickly quell An Bangyan's rebellion and then rushed to support Sichuan. But the result is that he can't get through it anymore.

At this moment, footsteps came to mind outside again.

Then someone shouted in surprise: "Sir, great news!"

After hearing this, everyone stood up. Yuan Keli hurriedly took the lead and walked out.

As soon as I walked out, I saw someone rushing in with a good news.

After seeing everyone, the visitor quickly said, "Sir, you are very happy! A great victory in Luzhou!"

After hearing this, everyone was stunned and looked at each other.

Yuan Keli hurriedly asked, "Where is the good news?"

The man did not dare to neglect his mistakes and quickly handed the victory to Yuan Keli.

He reached out and brought the news. Yuan Keli read it quickly, his face full of joy, and the sorrow just now disappeared. Then he laughed and said, "Okay, okay, Sun Chuanting did a good job!"

While saying that, Yuan Keli handed the victory to Li Biao and said with a smile: "Look at it."

He reached out and brought the news. Li Biao also quickly looked through it, then laughed and said, "In this way, there will be no worries."

The content of this good news is very clear, that is, Sun Chuanting and Qi Yuangong won in Luzhou.

In this good news, Sun Chuanting wrote in detail about his journey into Sichuan, how to gather soldiers, how to adjust morale, and how to attack Luzhou, all of which were written in detail. At the same time, he also wrote about the next plan, and the army had set sail and headed straight to Chongqing.

Judging from this good news, although Sun Chuanting may not be able to quell the rebellion in Sichuan, he at least has been able to protect himself.

This was enough for Yuan Keli. He could work in Guizhou with confidence and boldness and quickly deal with An Bangyan and the others.

Yuan Keli turned around and said to Zhang Cheng: "I will send you this good news to Beijing, and I will also send my question book in. 600 miles in a hurry, and I will rush all the way, don't stop at all!"

"Yes, sir. I'll go make arrangements right away." Zhang Cheng quickly agreed.

After Zhang Cheng left, Yuan Keli said: "Since things have reached this point, there is nothing to say. Let's take action and we must destroy An Bangyan as soon as possible. Since the chieftains have chosen An Bangyan, we don't have to take care of them."

"Yes, Master Capital." Everyone bowed and agreed.
To be continued...