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Chapter 153 (Outer Part) Xiong Mingyu's Choice
"Extend your life with blood! What the hell?"

Xiong Mingyu is a scholar. He has been familiar with the books of sages since he was a child, and he doesn't believe in gods and ghosts at all.

After questioning Xiong San carefully, Xiong Mingyu found out that Yang Chao used his own blood to save the lives of his subordinates.

While making Xiong Mingyu sigh, he also felt a mysterious sense of awe.

People are always so afraid of what they don't know.

What worries Xiong Mingyu is that Yang Chao's army seems to be in a bad situation. Xiong San reported that many of them were injured, which can be said to be a loss of troops, but Yang Chao now has more than 400 soldiers, and how many died? It's nothing, it's just a few hairs missing, and it doesn't hurt the bones, so it's not so easy to move.

In addition, without Yang Chao, Xiong Mingyu would not know how to deal with the problem of scholars. The recent behavior of scholars has become more and more incomprehensible to him. It is not surprising that an Erli Society has been established. This Erli Society seems to be different from other literary societies. The organization is extremely strict. The scholars in it act in a unified manner and have a firm attitude, which is extremely difficult to deal with.

Xiong Mingyu invited the Fourth Young Master three times, but the Fourth Young Master didn't accept the invitation, which made him lose face as the Minister of War.

Thinking about it now, Xiong Mingyu suddenly felt that Yang Chao really had some tricks that he couldn't understand, especially after the one who passed the blood to renew his life made Xiong Mingyu feel a sense of mystery towards Yang Chao.

"The side door! Hmph."

After thinking about it for a long time, Xiong Mingyu still snorted coldly, feeling that it was just some crooked means, not worthy of elegance.

But he also believed that Yang Chao could deal with these scholars.

However, Xiong Mingyu still didn't quite understand this life extension.

Most of the civil servants in the Ming Dynasty knew some medical knowledge, because the Ming Dynasty raised the status of medicine to a high level, and because it was a kind of filial piety to be able to see a doctor for their parents, so quite a few Ming Dynasty officials read medical books. The two most noble occupations in the Ming Dynasty, only doctors and literati would not look down upon them.

Xiong Mingyu has also read some medical books, but he keeps secrets about blood transfusion, because some weird doctors have done similar experiments. People lose blood and die, which is easily related to blood transfusion, but the results of the experiment are very miserable. The number of living people is far from being saved.

Therefore, the superstitious ancients believed that blood was related to life, and reckless use of blood would hurt life, and some brazenly said that it involved the power of the king of hell, so blood transfusion would shorten life.

Xiong Mingyu didn't believe in the saying that life was shortened but not, but he believed that blood transfusion was not life saving but killing. What surprised him even more was that Yang Chao used his own blood to transfuse his soldiers.

Blood transfusion may not shorten lifespan, but transfusion of own blood, Xiong Mingyu thinks it will definitely shorten lifespan.

Xiong Mingyu firmly believed in the principle that blood is the root of life, and that when people get old, blood declines. The reason why people die of old age is that the traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is due to the aging of blood energy.

"But there is also some loyalty!"

Xiong Mingyu also had to admit that Yang Chao was willing to transfuse his own blood to his subordinates. This approach might not save lives, but it was very righteous.

No matter what, Xiong Mingyu couldn't get rid of Yang Chao's knot, only he could untie the scholar's noisy knot.

Therefore, Xiong Mingyu still asked Xiong San to urge him every day.

"My lord, I'm alive, I'm alive!"

On the third day, after Xiong San came back, he told Xiong Mingyu in surprise that Yang Chao had really used blood to save two of his subordinates, and now they have woken up, grateful to Yang Chao, but Yang Chao was still lying on the bed , seemed a little weak.

Xiong Mingyu couldn't help but twitched a few times, feeling that Yang Chao was not only mysterious, but also a little crazy. The facts were obvious. His blood saved his men, but he hurt himself.

After a while, Xiong Mingyu suddenly said: "Send me another letter to Zhenyuanhou's Mansion!"

Xiong Mingyu had already had a banquet with Gu Zhaoji, but Gu Zhaoji had a tough attitude at the time, saying that Yang Chao was killing someone and taking credit for his meritorious deeds. There were family members to prove that Yang Chao dispatched troops without orders, and the evidence was convincing. Trace is more confident.

However, after Xiong Mingyu's investigation, although Yang Chao did suffer casualties, it was far from the level of loss of soldiers and generals. On the contrary, it was said that he had captured a lot of heads. Gu Zhaoji must have been wrong on this point.

Xiong Mingyu intends to write a letter to Gu Zhaoji to explain that he must stand up, otherwise the deadlock will not be solved. Many of those scholars will not go home for the New Year, because the imperial examination will be held in the spring of next year, and many scholars will come from far away Those who come to the exam, such as the fourth son, will definitely not go home.

If they don't go home, Xiong Mingyu still wants to have a good year, a quiet year, and the emperor also wants to have a good year. If the emperor has a bad year, Xiong Mingyu can't afford to go around because the emperor A strict order has been issued for him to resolve this matter as soon as possible.

Therefore, Xiong Mingyu must solve it as soon as possible, but he will never take the risk of sending troops. He would rather lose his official position than take the risk of causing soldiers to conflict with scholars. The death of a scholar is an eternal infamy, and Xiong Mingyu does not want to carry such a reputation when he is old. He doesn't care, but his descendants still have to continue to study for the imperial examination. After the reputation of killing scholars is carried on, his descendants will not be able to wash away the stigma.

So Xiong Mingyu would never send troops even if it was the emperor's strict order. Besides, the emperor's middle finger did not instruct him to send troops. Even if there was Xiong Mingyu, he planned to reject the middle finger. It's fine, but if it's bad, it's possible to kill him with the virtue of Emperor Chongzhen.

Gu Zhaoji's attitude was still obvious, as if he wanted to kill Yang Chao.

He even threatened to take the lawsuit to Beijing and let the emperor decide.

If the emperor is stabbed, it is obvious that it is only a private deployment of troops, which is enough for the suspicious Chongzhen to deal with Yang Chao ruthlessly.

One made the trouble to the emperor, but there was only one result, and that was the death penalty. If he didn't die, he would have to be skinned, and no one could protect him.

Xiong Mingyu couldn't help but flinch a little. In order to protect a small boss, it's worth it to tear yourself apart with a minister like Gu Zhaoji.

The next day, when Xiong Mingyu just woke up, an official letter from Wuxi was delivered to his desk, and Xiong Mingyu was shocked when he saw it.

Immediately there was no compromise: "Come here, draw up an official document, ordering the Zuo Division in the middle of Xinjiangkou to clear the general Yang Chao to suppress the Jiang bandits."

Xiong Mingyu planned to completely intervene. Since Gu Zhaoji insisted that Yang Chao privately dispatched troops, and the power to dispatch troops belonged to the Ministry of War, it was Xiong Mingyu who had the final say. In terms of writing, even he, Gu Zhaoji, cannot deploy troops at will.

Supplemented an official letter of dispatching troops, telling Gu Zhaoji that Yang Chao's attack was to carry out the order of the Ministry of War. Although the procedure did not seem to be strict by bypassing the admiral's office in Caojiang, he would not lose if he went to the emperor's court.The big deal is to bite more at that time, saying that the reason for such a troop deployment is to keep it secret, and it really broke with Gu Zhaoji, which means that the Ministry of War suspects that there are Jiang bandits in the admiral's yamen, so it is not at ease.

In this way, Yang Chao's military merits are confirmed, so that the emperor can't find any faults. The more heads Yang Chao kills, the more it seems that the Ministry of War is acting decisively and correctly. The quarrel is getting more and more fierce, when such a factual case is filed in the future, it will not only win the case, but also make Gu Zhaoji very embarrassed.

But in this way, it can be regarded as tearing face off with Gu Zhaoji. For the sake of the general manager and the master Hou, this matter was absolutely impossible to happen to Xiong Mingyu before, but now he has to do so Yes, because of the official document from Wuxi.

During this period of time, under the influence of the noise of Nanjing scholars, the entire Jiangnan scholars were a little unstable.

But Wuxi is the most troublesome. Recently, the students in Wuxi expelled the Wuxi county magistrate from Wuxi county.

Students who have obtained the title of scholar can enjoy a five-cent tax exemption according to the regulations, but not every scholar has a farm at home, and not every scholar has sold his tax-free quota.

Some scholars have neither land nor investment. In this case, the imperial court also stipulates that if they have no land and need to be exempted, they can directly receive silver from the government. This kind of silver is called "kousanmi".

It is almost the end of the year, but there are still many students in Wuxi County who have not received the deduction of loose rice from the county government, and the New Year has become a problem.

This situation has been very common in the past few years. The imperial court is seriously short of money, and every yamen is also seriously short of money.

But a considerable amount of anger has accumulated among Wuxi scholars.

As a result, after the news of Nanjing scholars making a fuss spread to Wuxi, Wuxi scholars also made a fuss, besieging the county government to demand rice.

After the request failed, the student finally broke into the county government yesterday in a fit of rage, smashing the gauze cupboard in the hall, and Pang Changyin, the county magistrate, fled in fright.

The students in Wuxi were completely out of control. The County Dragon Education Officer, who was in charge of the county's academic administration, happened to be in charge of the scholars, and ordered the students who broke into the lobby to kneel down and admit their mistakes, but in the end the students forced the instructor to kneel instead. .

Some spectators even booed and smashed the county magistrate's sedan chair, umbrellas, weapons and other things that represented the status of officials.

The county magistrate Pang had no carriage, horse and sedan chair, so he had to walk to the west gate of Wuxi and leave the city by boat, which was extremely embarrassing.

There is a custom in Wuxi, because only the county magistrate who resigned, transferred, retired, or died left Wuxi to go to the west gate, so there is a rule that Wuxi county magistrates are not allowed to re-enter when they leave the west gate.

At that time, County Magistrate Pang was so anxious that he didn't care about this stereotype at all, and only wanted to escape, so he ran away from the west gate in a panic.

The escape of the county magistrate made the leading students even more arrogant. They wrote a letter in large characters, "Expell Pang Changyin, a county magistrate in Wuxi, and he is not allowed to re-enter." The county government officials were whipped and scattered.

After Pang Changyin left the city, the city gate was closed.

The county magistrate Pang then quietly entered the city, wrote a letter and reported it, but the next day the scholars made noise in the county hall again.

Pang Changyin cried and complained to the governor, who urgently reported the matter to Nanjing and transferred it to Xiong Mingyu's desk.

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Recently, I have written a lot of outer chapters. The outer chapters are actually plots, but my definition is that besides the protagonist, they are concurrent plots, which are equivalent to parallel plots.The reason why I write so many extra chapters is to present the specific situation, because the recent events are indeed complicated, and if they are not explained well, it will easily confuse people.So everyone can look at the outer chapter as a plot, and just ignore those two words.

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