C107 (1/2)
The harem was peaceful again, and the southern battlefield was turning for the better.
The king wants to go out and fight the bandit, and Rong'er is worried that the king might coincidentally advise the king.
After all, Rong'er had entered the palace together with Su Ya, and Rong'er couldn't bear to have Su Ya suffer. This was the first time Rong'er had made a presumptuous request of the Emperor, and since the Zhang family had committed a crime, it would be a huge blessing for their palace maids to not die, but Xuan Ye had allowed it. Rong'er knew that as one of the four palace maids, he could send Xiu-Er to another place, so Xuan Ye could only smile and say that it was fine for Rong'er to stay by his side as long as he was pregnant.
Su Ya finally returned to the storage palace. When she saw Rong'er that day, she hurriedly expressed her gratitude. ”Master Rong, thank you so much.”
Rong'er lightly shook her head and said bitterly, ”Su Ya, although you stayed in the palace, I'm afraid you'll never be able to leave.”
Su Ya smiled and said, ”If you can't go out, then you can't. You'll have to spend the rest of your life accompanying Young Master Rong. Su Ya is also willing.”
Rong'er sighed helplessly, while Xiaoqing also smiled and interjected, ”Master, I'm not going out either. I'll stay by your side and serve you for the rest of your life.”
”Nonsense.” Rong'er shook her head and said, ”Women always have to marry. Su Ya has no other choice, so of course you two can marry each other. Xiao Qing should be able to leave the palace in two more years. When the time comes, you can find a good family and marry.”
”Mistress, what are you talking about? There are still two more years. It's still too early, maybe this servant will not be willing to leave the palace.” Little Qing blushed as she spoke.
Rong'er suddenly thought of Wang Jingzhi, ”Oh right, Little Qing, where's Little Jun? ”Where were they sent?”
”Oh, Mistress, I've already asked around. Jing'er was sent to the empress dowager's Tender's Palace. I think he went to take care of the imperial concubines.” Little Qing hurriedly replied.
”Oh?” Rong'er lightly nodded. Actually, she really wanted Jing`er to come as well, but she couldn't say anything else. She thought that Jing`er wouldn't suffer much under the Grand Concubines' watch.
Although peace had been restored to the imperial harem, the battlefield in the south was still in the midst of fierce fighting. Every day, countless war reports would gush into Xuan Ye's ears. At the end of September, Geng's loyal judges captured Qingxi and Huizhou. The imperial government ordered the prince, Lama Bu, to lead the army to Jiangxi Province as well as the governor of Guangxi, Ma Xiong, and Wang Yuewei as well as General Dingyuan and Pingkou, to lead the army to Guangdong.
At the same time, in order to spread the trust of the rebel army, Xuan Ye also sent people to Fujian and Guangxi to recruit Geng Jing Zhong and Sun Yanling.
In addition to this, there was another matter that was extremely important to the war, and that was that the Drinking Sky Guards, South Huairen, a Belgian, had made light cannons suitable for mountainous warfare. According to the extremely high firing rate, a total of 350 new cannons had been made at the end of the year and shipped to the southern battlefield.
In early December of the year of Kangxi, the King's Assistant Minister to the Governor of Shaanxi Province, Yu Ningqiang, betrayed the Emperor and killed the Emperor of Shaanxi. This action shocked Xuan Ye, and when Wu Sangui started the army, he sent a letter to his aide asking him to join the rebellion. When his assistant sent his son, Wang Jianzhen, to the capital to deliver Wu Sangui's letter, Xuan Ye was touched. When he mentioned that Wang's aide-de-camp had accompanied Shanxi generals at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and that Dogon had failed in his two personal campaigns, and had then surrendered to Daqing, becoming a slave of Shinzhe, the late Emperor Shunzhi had admired this man, and had taken him out of Shinzu and reused him, and then captured him together with Wu Sangui into Myanmar. Xuan Ye truly did not think that this man was an ungrateful person, but now he had turned traitor and had to astonish people.
However, in December, Xuan Ye began to receive favorable reports. The Qing Army defeated the Geng Army in Wenzhou, Huangyan, Hangzhou, Rao Zhou, Quzhou, Jinhua and so on. They destroyed about a hundred thousand of their troops.
One day at the end of December, Xuan Ye went to visit Rong'er for dinner. Rong'er was five months pregnant, so it was no longer convenient for her to sleep with him. When Xuan Ye arrived, Rong'er was currently leaning on the warm brick bed, reading a book. On the warm brick bed, there was a small smoking cage. Naturally, the warmth of a lowly concubine like them couldn't compare to that of the main palaces. Seeing Xuan Ye walk in, Rong'er stood up with a smile and walked towards him.