Tianliangyuan

Chapter 407 First Report of Victory

Gu Dongyang was indeed working together with Xu Zhaozhao.

Warfare is all about money and supplies.

The army set off, and after a month, the cost was astronomical.

Once the war officially begins, there will be casualties, losses of medicine, weapons and other supplies, which will increase the expenses even further.

Regarding weapons, Gu Dongyang naturally needed to gather information from Lu Jin. As for food, Gu Dongyang wasn't worried. The only thing he wasn't concerned about was medicine, which was a lifesaver.

Because the news came so quickly, preparations for the war were made even more hastily.

After Gu Dongyang communicated with Xu Zhaozhao and Princess Leyang, he simply ordered people to load the medicinal herbs that could be collected in the capital onto carts and send them to the border. The rest, which he did not have or had in small quantities, were given to the two of them to help procure.

Xu Zhaozhao and Princess Leyang are both women, not court officials, so Gu Dongyang was naturally more than happy to help them.

He was so busy that he could only sleep for two hours a day; he simply couldn't keep up.

Xu Zhaozhao and Princess Leyang couldn't possibly spend money directly, and besides, the national treasury had money. Gu Dongyang was already doing a good job of getting these two to help him, so how could he have the nerve to let them spend money for nothing?

However, Xu Zhaozhao and Princess Leyang were not greedy for money, so they gave Gu Dongyang the same amount of money they received for the medicinal herbs.

As for the prepared medicines that Xu Zhaozhao produced, they didn't take a single penny and let Xu Han and Xie Zheng take them all away.

Of course, when Xu Zhaozhao mentioned this to Gu Dongyang, she also specifically mentioned that some of the medicinal herbs were given by Princess Leyang.

Gu Dongyang understood the implied meaning, so when he reported the matter, he naturally took credit for the two of them.

How could Your Majesty not know the feelings of these two children?

"Sigh, look at this. Everyone says I'm biased, that I don't love my own daughters but dote on my nieces. And now I'm even favoring a child from another family! How can you blame me for being biased? Knowing how hard I work for the country, I've been spending money and resources on these two children every time. If it were a boy, people could say he had ulterior motives, but these two girls, what do you think they're after?"

Gu Dongyang understood that His Majesty was angry.

Besides the princes, there were also many cases of princesses being impeached by censors.

They are either extravagant and wasteful, or they bully men and women.

In short, it almost angered His Majesty to the point of resorting to family discipline.

Fortunately, Princess Ning Shuo was also commendable; she took the initiative to send ten cartloads of grain to the Ministry of Revenue, which was no small amount.

“Your Majesty, please calm down. I have observed that Princess Ning Shuo has often shared Your Majesty’s burdens in the past two years. Moreover, I have heard that Princess Ning Shuo even took the initiative to ask Princess Anle if she could help in other areas, which shows that she is a kind and filial person.”

Emperor Yong'an sighed again. Of all his children, few were easy to manage.

And even fewer people can truly help share the burden.

Looking at those rebellious sons, Emperor Yong'an wished he could kick them out of the capital.

"Your Majesty, I have something else to report."

"speak!"

"In yesterday's court session, regarding the matter of establishing an heir apparent, I believe Your Majesty truly needs to consider it. You are currently in your prime, and if you can establish an heir apparent sooner, you can better educate the Crown Prince. If I may speak disrespectfully, royal children are born different, and establishing rules early can reduce potential troubles."

That's certainly disrespectful.

Isn't this tantamount to telling everyone that if a crown prince isn't appointed, there will be trouble caused by the struggle for succession?

His Majesty understood his meaning, but remained silent.

Gu Dongyang dared not try to persuade him any further; saying another word might cost him his life.

Emperor Yong'an actually looked down on his second son, but the problem was that the second son was the legitimate son!

Although the eldest son has the title of "eldest," he is not particularly outstanding in terms of talent. Moreover, governing a country is not the same as having talent.

Xie Zheng spent the last few days at home making preparations before his departure, but in reality, he exhausted Xu Zhaozhao.

She's someone with plant-based superpowers, yet Xie Zheng managed to exhaust her to the point where she couldn't get up. That shows just how despicable this man can be when he's being a beast!

In fact, Xu Zhaozhao knew what was going on. Her period had been going on for half a month, but there was still no news. She had originally planned to tell Xie Zheng the good news, but Xie Zheng was like a wolf seeing meat as soon as he saw her, his eyes practically turning red with desire. Xu Zhaozhao had no chance to tell him.

It wasn't until the day of departure, when Xu Zhaozhao was so exhausted that she couldn't wake up, that Xie Zheng reluctantly left.

The young couple were deeply in love and reluctant to separate, which their elders, having been through similar experiences, naturally understood. However, they had never seen anyone as outrageous as Xie Zheng before.

On the very night Xie Zheng set off with the army, Jian Qi caught up with him.

"Why are you here? Didn't I tell you to stay by the young mistress's side?"

"This is a letter that the young mistress asked me to deliver to you."

Xie Zheng took it and glanced at it, so startled that he dropped the letter, which fluttered to the ground.

Xu Junfeng, standing to the side, sneered at him, "Pathetic!"

After saying that, Xu Junfeng picked up the letter and read it, without feeling that there was anything wrong with peeking at other people's letters.

Before he could finish reading, he turned around and grabbed Xie Zheng by the collar.

"You bastard! She, she's pregnant, you, you..."

What?

I couldn't say anything more.

They were ordered to go to war.

Besides, Xu Zhaozhao is Xie Zheng's wife and has borne him children. Isn't that normal?

Xu Junfeng angrily let go of him, but he didn't know why he was so angry.

I just think Xie Zheng deserves to be beaten!

When Xu Han heard the news, he was both anxious and angry. He called Xie Zheng into his tent. When Xie Zheng came out, he was completely dejected. On the way, he encountered Xu Junfeng, who punched him in the eye socket. Fortunately, he dodged quickly, but his eye was still a little red.

Two days later, the person arranged by Xu Zhaozhao came to deliver another letter. This time, he also brought a letter and some gifts for Xu Han.

Xu Zhaozhao only realized something was wrong after learning from Jian Qi that her second brother had lost his temper. She quickly wrote a letter to appease him. In addition, she specially prepared some good medicine for her father to take with him. He was the chief steward, and the lives of the soldiers under his command were in his hands. More medicine would give him more confidence and also make her father feel less guilty.

Xu Han naturally understood his daughter's intentions, and felt comforted. He finally gave Xie Zheng a kind look.

Xu Zhaozhao kept her pregnancy a secret from the outside world until the first victory report came from the front lines, saying that Xie Zheng and Zheng Tuo had only led 500 light cavalry to wipe out more than 2,000 enemy soldiers and brought back nearly 100 prisoners. Only then did Xu Zhaozhao finally feel relieved.

The first major victory doesn't seem to have resulted in many enemy casualties.

But the problem is, Shiwei was originally a small country.

Moreover, how exciting and dangerous it would be for 500 light cavalry to sneak around behind enemy lines and launch another surprise attack!

The old lady was so frightened that her emotions fluctuated wildly. She murmured, "Heaven help me, my Sanlang has no heir yet!"