Chapter 151 The Regent Is Destined to Be Childless?

In mid-September, Xie Tinglan took the tiger talisman and three thousand elite soldiers to the border to join the army and officially started the expedition to Mobei.

The poor Mobei royal family thought that their prince and envoys could complete their self-righteous plan, but they did not expect that the regent of Yong would not play by the rules at all. Before the Mobei envoys left Yong, the border army was ready to go, planning to catch them off guard.

Princess Pingyao was responsible for the military preparations and food in the rear. She urged the Ministry of War to do things with a big belly every day. The Ministry of War pushed the responsibility to the Ministry of Revenue, saying that the Ministry of Revenue did not allocate silver. Princess Pingyao went to the Ministry of Revenue with a big belly. Once the Ministry of Revenue said that there was no money, she threatened to confiscate the family, starting with the Minister of Revenue and the two assistant ministers.

As the person in charge of the national treasury, the Minister of Revenue’s family could not be without money. He didn’t know how much he had made over the years. He didn’t dare to give Princess Pingyao the opportunity to confiscate his family, so he could only cooperate as much as possible.

One fights in the front, the other supports in the rear.

Ji Yucang still goes to court every day, while Shen Ning concentrates on training the Feifeng Army and doesn't care about other things.

Time passes day by day in this busy and tense atmosphere.

In mid-October, Princess Pingyao had a stomachache at night and gave birth to a big fat son the next morning, which means that she will have to sit in confinement for the next month to recuperate and can't go out.

The officials of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households all breathed a sigh of relief.

However, they breathed a sigh of relief too early.

After Qin Yumo took care of her in the Princess's Mansion for two days, Princess Pingyao rushed him to the Ministry of War to take over her duties, and he needed to report the progress of the officials of the Ministry of War every day. At the same time, Qin Yumo was allowed to train alone, and the other two princes-in-law were allowed to be his assistants.

This undoubtedly made the dissatisfaction of the officials of the Ministry of War even worse.

But unfortunately, no one still cared about their dissatisfaction.

In addition to food and grass, Qin Yumo also asked about the progress of the cotton-padded clothes every day.

As early as the end of September, Princess Pingyao urged the Ministry of Revenue to allocate money to make warm clothes for the soldiers at the border. The weather in the northern border is very cold, and it is even more freezing cold in winter. Without decent warm clothes, how can the army survive?

These clothes are handed over to different merchants in batches. The quality is guaranteed. They use good cotton. If anyone passes inferior clothes for good ones, he will be executed.

Even if it is a profit-seeking merchant, he will never dare to adulterate the cotton clothes of the soldiers.

When the cotton clothes were delivered to Mobei, Xie Tinglan led the generals to distribute the clothes one by one. When the clothes were in their hands, the soldiers were full of vigor.

At the end of the year, the border sent a victory report, along with a letter of peace written by the emperor of Mobei - of course, before that, the overwhelming abuse and clamor in Mobei was the most fierce.

They denounced Yongguo for starting a war without reason, not talking about martial ethics, ignoring the request of the two countries to form an alliance, and imprisoning the prince of Mobei in Yongguo as a hostage, which was a completely immoral act.

They demanded that Yong release the crown prince and the envoy immediately, and rebuked Ji Yucang for causing public outrage.

However, when the Yong army captured three of their cities in succession, Mobei dared not scold them anymore. Xie Tinglan burned all the letters of abuse and accusation. Then he kept asking for peace and requesting a ceasefire agreement.

Xie Tinglan ignored it and fought.

He followed Ji Yucang when he was young. Although his tactics were different from his, his style of doing things was somewhat similar, which made Mobei completely confused about his tactics and suffered losses no matter how he fought.

As for Mobei's request for peace, Ji Yucang just threw the letter of request for peace into the incense burner lightly, and then made the next plan.

Yan Qingchen assisted in the affairs of the court, so Ji Yucang had to worry less.

Qin Yumo had been well trained during this period. Following Princess Pingyao, in addition to courage and character, he also had a little dignity, and was no longer the inferiority and restrained mentality before.

During the day, he shuttled between the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue, and at night he returned to the Princess's Mansion to take care of Pingyao and the child. He often held the child in his arms and was reluctant to let go. It is said that on the night Pingyao gave birth, Qin Yumo was so excited that his eyes turned red when he saw the child for the first time.

Perhaps it was because he recalled the misfortunes of his first half of life, and thought that he now had a wife and a child, and that he had gradually established his foothold in the court, and that he had his own career and lived out the meaning of life. He didn't know whether he was sad or happy for a while, and his emotions were slightly out of control, and he was teased by Pingyao for several days.

There was a good news during the New Year's Day, and Ji Yucang ordered fireworks to be set off all night, so that the people of the city could see the growing strength and prosperity of Yongguo.

Maybe one year, maybe two years, at most three years.

The flags of Yongguo will be erected everywhere in the world, and their people will become the people of Yongguo. From then on, there will be no more wars in the world, and the people will live and work in peace and contentment, and no longer have to suffer from war.

The earth returns to spring in February.

The victory reports from the Mobei land came in like snowflakes. The civil and military officials in the court were happy, but also shocked by Xie Tinglan's tactics, and couldn't help but doubt it.

Isn't Xie Tinglan a civil official? How come he was as assisted by God on the battlefield?

Even when the regent was at the border before, he was not as unstoppable as him, and he took down the Mobei city like harvesting crops.

So it is said that you know what you do.

When Ji Yucang fought with Mobei, the three most courageous commanders of Mobei died in his hands within a year and a half, and most of the cavalry they trained were lost in Ji Yucang's hands.

If the late emperor had not been seriously ill and urgently summoned him back, Ji Yucang might have been able to destroy Mobei in one go.

It is precisely because of this that Mobei is worried about the Yong Kingdom's uprising, because their lost vitality has not yet recovered. It takes time to recruit soldiers, train new soldiers, and buy equipment. Relatively speaking, these are easy to deal with.

But the people in Mobei who are good at leading troops have been killed by Ji Yucang.

So the fierceness of Xie Tinglan's offensive and the rapid fall of Mobei cities were completely within Ji Yucang's expectations.

The war in Mobei did not even require his attention, and his energy was focused on the royal family of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

In early March, the first document from the Western Zhou Dynasty came from the southern border.