EBE Chapter 521 Are you going to pledge yourself to me?
Chapter 521 Are you going to pledge yourself to me?
"Qihua's father has been kidnapped." Wen Qingyan repeated again, his voice so cold that it seemed to float in the sky.
Zhou Chang finally reacted and asked a series of questions: "When, where, who did it, how much ransom is required, what's the situation now?"
Wen Qingyan had already spoken, so he didn't hold back: "About two months ago, Uncle Yuan was kidnapped outside Beiji City."
"It's been more than two months?" Zhou Chang was shocked beyond words.
For such a long time, she and Feng Ming had been avoiding news about the Yuan family intentionally or unintentionally, but she never expected that such a thing would happen to someone in the Yuan family and she knew nothing about it.
Wen Qingyan had already spoken, and no longer vented his anger on Zhou Chang as he had done before, but calmly recounted: "About two months ago, the kidnappers kidnapped Uncle Yuan and demanded a ransom from Qihua. At that time, Qihua gave the first ransom, one million taels. However, what was unexpected was that the kidnappers were unfaithful and not only did they not release him, but they also demanded another million taels. Qihua finally gathered enough money and sent it over, but the kidnappers still refused to release him, and even asked for another five million taels of silver..."
"So after she left, you also followed her to Beiji?" Zhou Chang didn't know why this thought popped up in his mind, but he had to focus on the kidnapping. "The kidnappers paid the money but didn't release the person. If it happens once or twice, it will happen again and again. We must be cautious."
He was not worried that the Yuan family would not be able to pay the money, but he was worried that the kidnappers would break their promise and keep asking for money until they had drained the Yuan family dry, and then Yuan Yu would no longer be of any use.
Wen Qingyan didn't pay attention to Zhou Chang's thoughts, but after the kidnapping, he finally stopped trying and held his head with his arms helplessly: "Qihua has already paid two million taels, all the cash she had, but the kidnappers not only refused to release her, but also threatened to ask for another five million taels, and it must be in cash. Qihua now has no choice but to delay time to collect the money. If this goes on, not only will she be anxious and sick, but she will also drag down the Yuan family. I'm afraid that by then, Qihua will be left with nothing. What should she do?"
Zhou Chang had calmed down from his initial shock and asked, "Did she report it to the police?"
"What's the point of reporting to the police? Those people are obviously not afraid of reporting to the police." Wen Qingyan shook his head violently in his arms, "The kidnappers hid in the huge Qihuang Mountain. The local yamen runners have searched the mountain several times, but they didn't even find a trace of the kidnappers."
"If there are not enough people, we should mobilize the local garrison." Zhou Chang thought to himself that it would be difficult for the runners to be dedicated if there were few of them, and it would naturally be different if there were many stationed troops.
Wen Qingyan just raised his head and sneered: "Mobilize the garrison? Who wouldn't think of that? But even if he thought of it, what does it matter? Even the Northern Governor Yang didn't ask General Mao to move the garrison, let alone Qihua."
"Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Zhou Chang is now the Prince of Yi after all.
For matters like this, as a prince, he can always find a way to mobilize manpower.
"Tell you?" Wen Qingyan smiled coldly, "You were busy marrying a new princess at that time, would you really care about Qihua?"
"Qingyan" and "Qihua" Zhou Chang felt uncomfortable again, and couldn't help but say something sarcastically: "I did marry someone else, but it didn't prevent me from helping. But you, do you think everything will be fine if you marry the daughter of the general of the Wuwei Army?"
When he came, Zhou Chang had already learned a little about the background of Wuwei General Lu Hui from the memories of Prince Yi Fengming and Shen Rui, as well as the mouth of Shouhou.
Lu Hui, the general of Wuwei, was the favorite student of Jiang Qin, the champion marquis among the “two marquises and three generals in one family”.
Needless to say, Jiang Qin, the Marquis of Guanjun, was the grandfather of Xian Wang's wife, Jiang. The Jiang family was a family of founding heroes of Lin State, and had produced two marquises and three generals. However, if you look closely, only Jiang Qin's title was earned through strength and military merit.
The second brother, Wu'an Hou Jiang Rui, married the old Princess Pingning and was given the title by borrowing the title of Marquis of the County. He did not have much prestige in the army.
My third brother Jiang Feng was given the rank of general after he retired as a reward for his hard work. He was mediocre in military performance throughout his life and there was nothing remarkable about him.
Therefore, in the previous generation of the Jiang family, there was actually only one champion, Hou Jiang Qin.
Jiang Qin is 75 years old this year. When he was young, he made great contributions and was awarded the title of Marquis. Unfortunately, he had only one son who died early due to illness, and his son left only one legitimate daughter. In order to compensate him, the court awarded his legitimate granddaughter the title of Princess. Later, this Princess also married Prince Xian as his principal wife.
Jiang Qin was not good at political tactics and did not like them, so even though he had sons and nephews like Jiang Meng, who were considered rising stars in the family, he was not close to them.
His own son died young, so he trained Lu Hui, a general who had followed him for many years, as his successor.
Wuwei General Lu Hui, 55 years old this year, has been with Jiang Qin since he joined the army, and is no different from Jiang Qin's biological son. And like Jiang Qin, he is upright in the army and neutral in the court. Therefore, he not only inherited Jiang Qin's ambition, but also inherited Jiang Qin's prestige and power in the army.
However, Jiang Qin was enjoying his retirement and seldom showed up in public, while Lu Hui was too low-key, so Prince Yi actually had no impression of him.
But it was the marriage with the "flawless gentleman" Jinke top scorer Wen Fei that was made very high-profile.
Everyone also learned that General Wuwei Lu Hui had three sons and three daughters. Three of the sons had already married, and the two concubine daughters had also married their subordinates in the army. Only Wen Qingyan married the only remaining legitimate daughter this time.
Now that we already know that Yuan Yu was kidnapped, it is self-evident why Wen Qingyan married Lu.
However, in Zhou Chang's opinion, does this mean pledge of love?
It's really not worth it.
Wen Qingyan's idea was completely different from Zhou Chang's: "Since the day before yesterday, I have been the left commander of the Wuwei Camp. Later, His Royal Highness Prince Rong also promised to help me borrow the guards of Maojian, the garrison of Beiji City, so that I can lead the troops to search for the kidnappers."
Zuo Ling joins the army?
Neither Prince Yi Fengming nor Zhou Chang knew much about the military position, but they roughly guessed that it was a civilian position of little importance.
A Bachelor of the Hanlin Academy is probably of the third rank, and this Zuo Ling Canjun is at most of the fourth rank, and it is a nominal position in the army and is under the Ministry of War. Wen Qingyan is really willing to give up everything for Yuan Qi.
But Zhou Chang felt it was not worth it, and he was even more disdainful. He just asked: "Even if you join the army and have troops, what are you going to do? Borrow soldiers to go up the mountain to suppress the enemy? If you alert the enemy and anger the kidnappers, where will Mr. Yuan's life be?"
Wen Qingyan didn't know if he had thought too much or too little, and he really couldn't answer, but he was still stubborn: "At least get the soldiers and generals first. With people, everything will be easy to talk about. It has come to this point, it is better than doing nothing."