According to Ye Guixue's understanding of the Nangong family, she can only think of this reason. Otherwise, what other reason could there be?
"It makes sense to say so." Su Rong put away the letter, "I don't know how many soldiers and horses there are, fifty thousand or one hundred thousand."
“The Nangong family has accumulated a lot of wealth over the generations. It’s not surprising that they can raise a hundred thousand soldiers and horses.” Ye Guixue said: “If this is the case, Brother Zhou will probably have to spend a lot of effort to subdue him.”
Su Rong said to him: "Start from the royal capital and march quickly. We can reach the three southern states in half a month. I want people to send another 100,000 troops and horses from the royal capital. What do you think?"
Ye Guixue nodded, "I have no objection. The sooner the situation in the three southern states is resolved, the better. The closest troops to the three southern states that Brother Zhou can dispatch are only two military camps, with a maximum of 100,000 troops. If you follow The royal capital will dispatch another 100,000 soldiers and horses to help Brother Zhou solve the problem as soon as possible."
"Okay, who do you want to let go?" Su Rong asked.
Ye Guixue said: "I will go in person!"
Su Rong looked at him and said, "Your goal in leaving Beijing is too big."
Ye Guixue said: "I can call you sick."
He sighed, "Others are worried about me. I have been tired for so long. It would not be surprising if I fell ill. As long as I can hide the news of my departure from Beijing, I will lead my troops to the three southern states in half a month. That will be fine." . Even if there are spies from the Nangong family in the royal capital and elsewhere, and they find out that I am not in the royal capital, it will not change the fact."
Su Rong thought about it and said, "Okay, then you can go in person."
She believed Ye Guixue, "Take care of the doctor, I will send Lanzhi and Biqing to you.", before Ye Guixue refused, she added: "The king has Doctor Zhang here, although Lanzhi and Biqing's medical skills Not as good as Dr. Zhang and Qin Feng, but there is a discomfort on the road. Their medical skills are much better than those of the military doctors. Besides, it is almost late autumn now, the weather is cold and it is easy to get sick, so just take them with you."
Ye Guixue could only swallow the rejection and said with a smile: "In that case, I accept the order."
So the two of them agreed. That day, Ye Guixue took the tiger talisman and left the palace. At night, accompanied by Yinyue, Lanzhi, and Biqing, he quietly led one hundred thousand soldiers and horses out of the royal capital.
In the morning of the second day, he took a leave of absence claiming illness.
In the morning, Ye Xiang kept coughing. Su Rong asked with concern: "Ye Xiang, you are not feeling well. You can rest in your house and don't work too hard."
Prime Minister Ye covered his mouth with a handkerchief and said, "Gui Xue had a fever last night, and I probably got the cold from him. I didn't notice it when I got up early, but I didn't expect it to be serious. Thank you for your concern, my concubine, and I will go back to the house to rest after the court." "
Ye Xiang was naturally pretending to be sick. He was afraid that Ye Guixue could not hide it alone, so they helped him cover it up together.
Sure enough, after the morning court, Prime Minister Ye no longer discussed matters with Su Rong, but returned to the mansion. And soon, Dr. Zhang went to Prime Minister Ye's mansion carrying the medicine box. And he stayed in Ye Xiang's mansion that day.
The Ministry of War wanted to mobilize troops, so naturally they couldn't hide it from Zhang Yun. After all, he was asked to prepare food and fodder urgently. He was busy working in the night wind and couldn't get any rest. He really made himself sick from exhaustion.
So, after the night phase, Zhang Yun came up in the morning and kept coughing.
Su Rong asked with concern: "Mr. Zhang, why are you coughing so badly?"
Seeing that he was really sick, Su Rong said with concern: "The weather is getting colder, so you should pay more attention to your health. You can leave the affairs of the Ministry of War to others. After you returned to the capital and entered the court, haven't you rested yet? In this way, you can rest for three days." Today, take good care of yourself."
Zhang Yun shook his head and said, "I'm fine. I don't have a fever. There's no need to stay in bed." After hearing this, Su Rong forcibly ordered, "Rest for three days. No need to say more."
Zhang Yun: “…”
After the morning court, Su Rong had someone deliver a prescription to Zhang. He also selected some good medicine to nourish the body from the storehouse and sent it to Zhang's house.
Zhang Yun could only be forcibly ordered to recuperate in the mansion.
Zhang Yun went to visit Zhang Yun and said enviously: "Third brother, it's good that you are sick and have a good rest. I want to rest too, but Lord Ye is ill and there are too many official affairs to do so I can't rest."
The next day after he finished speaking, he also coughed. He was shocked and thought that he was infected by his third brother.
Ning Ze, Jiang Zhu, Cui Xingzhi and others who had spoken to Zhang Yun inevitably fell ill one after another.
So, in the morning, there was an uncontrollable cough.
Su Rong was also shocked, thinking that this time Ye Guixue didn't have to pretend to be sick to hide it. More than half of the civil and military officials in the court were coughing. This fake thing has become real.
So she asked the sick courtiers to take leave and rest in the palace. And I felt that the typhoid fever in late autumn and early winter was a bit serious. I was afraid that the imperial officials were sick now, and it wouldn't be long before the people in Beijing would also get sick in large numbers. Since it was contagious to a certain extent, we had to pay attention to it, so I quickly asked him. Doctor Zhang studied prescriptions to prevent and cure typhoid infection.
Ye Xiang, who was pretending to be sick, was speechless in the palace and said to his wife: "I should say I am lucky, right? Thanks to your son, I was forced to pretend to be sick, but I avoided contact with the courtiers and I am not sick anymore."
Mrs. Ye Xiang was amused, "No."
Doctor Zhang had good medical skills and led a group of imperial doctors from the imperial hospital to quickly develop a prescription. After sending someone to copy it, he sent a copy to each courtier's mansion, and then followed Su Rong's order to give the prescription. The situation of posting the imperial list was posted.
Therefore, half a month later, the wind-chill fever that was about to break out in Beijing was quickly and easily eliminated.
In half a month, Ye Guixue had brought 100,000 soldiers and horses to the three southern states. Sure enough, when he arrived, Zhou Gu had brought 80,000 soldiers and horses and 100,000 soldiers and horses privately raised in the Black Canyon of the three southern states. Confronted.
The maximum number of soldiers and horses dispatched by Midnight was only 80,000, which made Zhou Gu somewhat weak. Fortunately, he led many secret guards and other people, so he was not beaten and retreated.
The hundred thousand soldiers and horses brought by Ye Guixue were like falling from the sky, which immediately relieved Zhou Gu's pressure and allowed him to reverse the situation.
Zhou Gu looked at Ye Guixue in surprise, "Brother Ye, why are you here? And you brought a hundred thousand soldiers and horses?"
"It's your concubine. I received your letter and I'm worried. We guessed that the Nangong family has accumulated a lot of wealth over the generations. If they raise soldiers and horses privately, it might be more than 50,000, so we guessed ten more. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be the case. "Ye Guixue said: "I will personally lead the troops here."
Zhou Gu nodded and patted Ye Guixue on the shoulder, "Thank you very much."
So, with the reinforcement of Ye Guixue's 100,000 reinforcements, and the 100,000 soldiers and horses raised privately by the Nangong family, finally, after retreating three hundred miles, the general was killed by Zhou Gu's two-handed sword, and more than half of the remaining soldiers and horses surrendered. .
At this time, news spread that rebels from the defeated Gong family in the three states in the south were harboring soldiers and horses, and reached the capital. Only then did the courtiers realize that Ye Guixue had fallen ill. It turned out that he had led the troops out of the royal capital, and the concubine had gone to pick up the old Lord Protector and others. It turned out that he had gone to the Three Prefectures in the South. Chapin was in disarray. (End of chapter)