Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 144 Bad News

Yang Chao couldn't stay in the barracks safely, and left the barracks the next day after recruiting, because there was bad news from Nanjing.

It's not about the fourth son, it's not about Erlishe, and it's not about the government.

It was from Wang Xiao, it was news from Yang Chao's family.

During this period of time, Yang Chao has been more concerned about the news of his family, and even Wang Xiao sent someone back to inquire directly.

It's only been ten or so days, and it's said that the news didn't come back so soon, but the news did come.

It turned out that the Yang family had indeed set off at the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, but when they arrived in Suzhou, they were robbed by a group of scholars.

The boatman of the Wang family brought the scholar who snatched the boat to Nanjing and informed Wang Xiao. Wang Xiao felt that the situation was serious and immediately informed Yang Chao.

"Then where are my parents and sister? Where are you now?"

As soon as Yang Chao heard the news, he became angry, and immediately he couldn't care about other things, such as the Fourth Young Master, the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Military Affairs, and getting promoted and getting rich.

"Brother Yang, don't worry. Uncle, aunt, and sister Lingmei are auspicious people, so nothing will happen. I have already sent people to Suzhou to inquire, and maybe there will be news in a few days."

Wang Xiao comforted.

Yang Chao said, "No, I want to go to Suzhou myself."

"what!"

Wang Xiao exclaimed: "It's absolutely impossible, the current situation in Nanjing, Brother Yang, what will happen if you leave?"

Yang Chao smiled wryly and said, "I can't control that much anymore. Let Xiong Mingyu and the others seek their own blessings."

It's all because of Xiong Mingyu's lack of trustworthiness, otherwise Yang Chao wouldn't have needed to help the Fourth Young Master build momentum, help the Fourth Young Master make suggestions, let them take the opportunity to establish a society, and suddenly raise the height of the four to the level of Zhang Pu, who was in his 30s back then .

Wang Xiao sighed and said, "Forget it, Brother Yang, someday you go, I'll arrange a boat."

To go to Suzhou, you have to take a canal, and you have to take a boat, because no matter whether you ride a horse or a carriage, you can’t continue to travel. The boat will not get tired and can travel continuously, but it is much faster than the horse.

It's just that Yang Chao's big boat can't enter the canal, so he can only borrow a boat from Wang's family.

Yang Chao thought for a while and said, "As soon as possible!"

Wang Xiao said: "That's good. Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, my family still has a boat coming to Nanjing. Brother Yang will go to Suzhou then."

Yang Chao sighed: "That's the only way to go."

After finishing speaking, he rushed back to the barracks. He didn't want to go alone, he had to take someone with him this time, so that if the family had an accident, there would be someone to deal with it.

If a scholar makes trouble and affects the safety of his family, don't blame Yang Chao for killing him.

Xiong Mingyu hasn't had a good time these few days.

Just because he doesn't want to get himself involved doesn't mean he doesn't want to make the scholar stop making noise as soon as possible.

A few days ago, he and the Minister of Rites met the four princes of Jinling, and made some promises to them, such as promising not to take out the scholar's student status, not to dismiss some of the meritorious names, but said that punishing the emperor's relative Tian Wan and the others would not be able to do so. Handing over Tian Wan is even more nonsense, because Tian Wan is no longer in Nanjing, and has already returned to Beijing.

The fourth son also knew that he wanted to punish Tian Wan. The Nanjing government did not have this power, so the emperor had the final say. Not to mention that Tian Wan was the father of Chongzhen's concubine and Chongzhen's father-in-law. It is under the control of the civil officials and the government, which is an organization directly under the emperor.

Anyway, after the arrest and release of the fourth son, he has become famous in Jiangnan, and he has become a leader among young scholars in Jiangnan. They got everything they wanted, so they didn't want to make trouble. Accept it when you see it.

As a result, it seems that the uproar of scholars is about to subside.

But all of a sudden, the fourth son established an Erli Society, and 300 people joined for the first time. These people are obviously diehards, and they are not afraid of the government's threat of deprivation of school status, dismissal of fame, or arrest by the government. Not to mention, the scholars from Suzhou and Hangzhou still came to Nanjing in groups. These scholars who can come to Nanjing from thousands of miles are obviously diehards, and when they came, they chose to join the Erli Society without any scruples.

The joining of these diehards also brought a tough character to the Erlishe, and they put forward a new request to punish Tian Wan, and wrote a note to the emperor asking them to hand it over. Xiong Mingyu was disgusted by the written blood book.

But at this time, he found that Yang Chao didn't care about it, and didn't come up with any ideas at all. He let Feng Kezong, the Jin Yiwei who jumped out to do things, directly catch him blind.

The sudden turn of the situation made Xiong Mingyu think of Yang Chao again.

He had already put Yang Chao aside before, and when he saw that the scholars had regained their senses, he directly talked to the scholars. Now that the scholars were crazy again, he didn't want to set himself on fire, so he thought of Yang Chao again.

But when he thought of Yang Chao, Xiong Mingyu felt a little embarrassed, because he might not be able to do what he promised Yang Chao.

Last time, he promised Yang Chao to give him an explanation within three days, and Yang Chao promised to solve the noise within ten days. Yang Chao did suppress the noise through a series of actions, but Xiong Mingyu couldn't give Yang Chao an explanation.

Because he discovered that the matter of Yang Chao's military merits was too complicated. It was not the two yamen of Bingbeidao and Xunjiang Yushi, but directly involved the yamen of the imperial envoy of Caojiangdu.

The imperial envoy of Caojiang is the admiral of Caojiang. After Emperor Chongzhen came to power, he changed the practice of civil servants in charge of the yamen in the past decades, and appointed Xun Chen as the admiral of Caojiang. Zhenyuan Hou Gu Zhaoji.

If it was a civil official, Xiong Mingyu always had a little bit of friendship and a little bit of friendship, but after the founding heroes, they usually had very little contact with civil officials, so Xiong Mingyu couldn't get in the hands of Admiral Caojiang's yamen.

Through official channels, he only knew that Yang Chao's letter of acknowledgment of merit was detained in the admiral's office of Caojiang, but there was no reason for it, and he asked the admiral's office of Caojiang, but there was no reply. The "Jiang Bandit" killed was not a real Jiang Bandit, implying that Yang Chao killed the good and pretended to be meritorious.

However, Xiong Mingyu discovered through the other party's understanding that merchants in the Xinjiangkou area said that when Yang Chao's warship was delivering goods for others, he encountered a Jiang bandit, killed the Jiang bandit, and reported the goods. Now Those merchants trusted Yang Chao and asked Yang Chao to protect them from crossing the river.

Although Xiong Mingyu didn't fully believe it, he also knew that there must be tricks in it.

It seems that Yang Chao offended the people in Admiral Caojiang's yamen, but what surprised Xiong Mingyu was that the reason why Yang Chao was able to become the general manager was through the admiral Caojiang's yamen, and he was recommended in the name of Admiral Caojiang. The general manager left the relevant recommendation documents in the Ministry of War for a job that no one did.

He couldn't figure it out, and he couldn't care about it, so Xiong Mingyu didn't care about it. At that time, the scholar's noise had weakened, so he didn't mention it again.

Now that the situation is serious again, Xiong Mingyu has to think about whether he has to support Yang Chao, whether he has to come forward in person, go to Zhenyuan Hou Gu Zhaoji for a while, and ask Gu Hou Ye to sell him face.

However, compared to the face of his Minister of War, Xiong Mingyu felt that it was better to suppress Yang Chao's face.

"Come on."

Call to come down.

"Go and tell Yang Chao to deal with the matter of the scholar immediately for me, otherwise don't blame me and tell him that although he is the general of the water battalion, the Ministry of War can still control him."

The Ministry of War has the power to deploy troops, but not to control them. Admiral Cao Jiang has the power to control them, but not to persuade them to do so.

But the civil servant government also has another power, which is to control the promotion of military officers and the distribution of military salaries.

"Forget it, let me write a letter."

Xiong Mingyu wrote a letter eloquently, and immediately asked his servant to send it to Yang Chao.

After Yang Chao received the letter, he snorted coldly just after reading it, and slapped the letter on the table. Not only did he not help him with his military achievements, he even threatened himself.

The Ministry of War can indeed manage the payment of the army's military salary, and is responsible for verifying military merits, promotion and other matters.

But Yang Chao can't be promoted now because of meritorious service. As for the military salary, he has never seen it. I heard that there is not much deduction at the level of the general manager, let alone the general manager. Anyway, Yang Chao has never seen the military salary.

Since the Ministry of War can no longer control military pay and merit, Yang Chao no longer needs the Ministry of War.

In addition, he was angry and anxious because his family members were missing, so he wrote a letter immediately.

Xiong Mingyu's letter contained threats, and Yang Chao simply threatened and threatened, declaring that he would resign from office.

After Xiong Mingyu received the reply, he immediately patted the table and scolded Yang Chao for being an asshole.

(End of this chapter)