The most arrogant in history

Chapter 611: I sprained my waist.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Yourong clapped her hands and laughed, "Your Majesty, this arrangement is the best. I was just worried that the ceremony would be too grand and there would be too many guests, and I wouldn't be able to handle it."

Ye Kun held Jiang Yourong's hand and said with a smile, "Are you sincere in what you said, Madam?"

Jiang Yourong rolled her eyes: "We have been married for 20 years, have I ever lied? I am originally a country girl, and I became the queen because I followed you. But a country girl is a country girl, and even if she becomes the queen, she is still a country girl.

We country folks have thirty tables of guests for our son's wedding, and each table costs twenty taels of silver for wine and food. This is already quite a lot, right? Even a wealthy man in the countryside can't afford such a wedding, right?"

Ye Kun laughed loudly and spun around while hugging Jiang Yourong.

Jiang Yourong was embarrassed and punched Ye Kun with her little fist: "Put me down quickly, don't hurt your old waist. How old are you? I thought you were a young man?"

Ye Kun then put Jiang Yourong down and said with a smile:

"My Lady, I made this arrangement to temper Feng'er's temper. He is still young, and if he likes to spend lavishly now, he will definitely be a tyrant when he takes over my job.

This time, I am setting an example for him and teaching him to learn to live frugally, which will benefit him throughout his life."

In fact, Ye Feng, this guy, has already shown some signs of extravagance.

He lived alone in the Prince's Mansion. He liked delicacies and fruits from all over the place and often sent people privately to other places to purchase delicious food.

If this is not stopped, he will become a tyrant like "A horse gallops through the red dust, and the concubine smiles, but no one knows that the lychees are coming."

Ye Kun often made surprise inspections of the Prince's Mansion, and if he found anything wrong, he would give his son a lesson.

However, to eunuchs like Huang Ye, Ye Feng's actions seemed very childish and nothing serious.

Because the former Xiahou Chang was ten thousand times more extravagant than the prince.

Jiang Yourong supported Ye Kun very much and nodded, saying, "Your Majesty is right. Feng'er is young, and he should be made aware of the difficulties in material resources and people's livelihood. Back then, when we got married, our family only had... a broken bed and a broken quilt..."

Speaking of those years, Jiang Yourong's face flushed, "Your Majesty, don't misunderstand me. I'm not saying that I was unhappy at that time. I'm saying that... as long as a couple is in love, they can still live together even if they live in a thatched cottage."

"Yourong, you are absolutely right."

Recalling the past, Ye Kun was also moved and smiled: "That time I woke up from my coma and found you lying next to me. I was shocked. After I figured it out, I thought, this wife is really good. My family is so poor, but she doesn't dislike it at all..."

"You don't dislike me, because I'm a jinx that no one wants."

"Nonsense, you are the Vega from the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, you fell from the sky and got a chance for a poor boy like me."

The couple's feelings became warmer and warmer as they talked, as if they were on their honeymoon.

Before I knew it, it was already late at night.

When he woke up the next day, Ye Kun tucked in the quilt for Jiang Yourong and went to wash up.

In the imperial study, Jasmine said:

"Your Majesty, the Great Prairie Beihai Camp sent a telegram. It said that the remnants of the Xiongnu Tianxian Chanyu gathered more than 10,000 troops and attacked the Beihai Camp. The Beihai Camp fought back, killing more than 1,000 enemies and capturing more than 1,000. Please give your instructions, Your Majesty."

"Great victory in the North Sea?"

Ye Kun was very happy. He took the telegram and read it, smiling, "The commander of the Beihai Camp is a young man named Cheng from Fuling County. He is Huang Jingzu's cousin, named Huang Mao. At that time, he volunteered to stay."

In the telegram, Huang Mao briefly reported the battle situation without asking for any credit.

According to the telegram, Tianxian Chanyu refused to give up and had no chance of surviving the winter, so he wanted to attack the Beihai camp and steal its food and grass.

Huang Mao used advanced muskets to kill more than a thousand enemies. He also took advantage of the Huns' retreat and pursued them, capturing more than a thousand people alive.

Huang Mao didn't dare to decide how to deal with the prisoners.

Ye Kun thought for a moment and said to Jasmine, "Send a telegram back to Huang Mao, asking him to release a few prisoners and tell Tianxian Chanyu to exchange the remaining prisoners with cattle and sheep. One cow for one person."

Jasmine smiled and said, "A cow for a person, wouldn't we be at a disadvantage?"

"Instead of suffering a loss, I gained something."

Ye Kun smiled and said, "I guess the remaining Xiongnu can't survive this winter, so they attacked the Beihai camp to grab some food for the winter. I proposed to exchange captives for cattle and sheep to give Tianxian Chanyu a difficult problem.

If Tianxian Chanyu is unwilling to change, he will lose the support of the people and the army; if he is willing to change, the cattle and sheep will continue to decrease and there will be insufficient food, which will make the situation even worse. "

Jasmine suddenly realized: "I am calculating small accounts, and the emperor is calculating big accounts, which are the country and the people."

Ye Kun touched Jasmine's head and said, "That's right. I don't care about those few cattle and sheep, but I care about completely destroying the Huns."

In fact, the Beihai camp won this small-scale friction and must have seized a batch of war horses.

The soldiers guarding the border can now have extra meals for the dead and wounded war horses.

The Huns' surprise attack on the Beihai camp was equivalent to sending food and fodder.

After sending the reply to the Beihai Camp, Ye Kun sent a second telegram to inform all the garrisons on the prairie: "If any Huns come to surrender, treat them well and give them food. Then choose the right time to send the surrenderers to the Yinshan Camp."

To destroy the Huns, it is not necessary to kill them all.

As long as the Huns are willing to surrender, they can be immigrated to the south of the Yin Mountains and slowly assimilated.

The nine departments were also very happy when they learned about the great victory in Beihai and came to congratulate.

Liu Ai said: "I used to worry that the North Sea was too cold and there were harassment from the remnants of the Xiongnu. I was afraid that the two thousand soldiers left behind in the North Sea would be wiped out. I didn't expect that the soldiers would actually win the battle with fewer soldiers in the North Sea!"

Ye Kun chuckled and said, "Before the invention of the musket, we really couldn't destroy the Huns. But with the invention of the musket, the Huns' destruction is irreversible."

In the era of cold weapons, the nomadic people on the grassland were like devils.

Even a powerful emperor like Qin Shi Huang was helpless against the nomadic peoples and could only build the Great Wall to isolate the nomadic peoples to the north of the Great Wall.

Even as powerful as Emperor Wu of Han was, he exhausted the country's national strength, causing the population to be halved. Even with the support of the empire's two pillars, Huo Qubing and Wei Qing, he was only able to defeat the Huns but failed to eradicate them completely.

But now it’s different. The muskets, cannons, telescopes, searchlights, and high-strength light armor developed by Ye Kun are all the Huns’ nightmares.

Moreover, Ye Kun’s sextant is not only used for sea navigation, but also for navigation on the prairie.

This ensures that soldiers going to the expedition will not get lost as soon as they enter the prairie like Li Guang!

It was difficult for Li Guang to be given a title because this guy would get lost every time he fought against the Huns, and was nicknamed "Marquis of the Lost" by later generations.

Huo Qubing was lucky and never lost his way. He was able to directly attack the main force of the Huns. Later generations jokingly called him a person with a built-in GPS locator.

The soldiers under Ye Kun used sextants and compasses to navigate on the grassland, which was equivalent to a positioning system. They left the Huns with nowhere to hide!

Liu Ai added: "The last time we tried to persuade Tianxian Chanyu to surrender, we failed. But I think we should be able to persuade him to surrender again. Your Majesty, do you want to try again?"