Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 170
I have to admire Dong Xiaowan's ability. Before she left, she forced her stubborn mother to change her attitude.

I don't know what she did, but it made Zhao's mother happy, and she felt that it would be no problem for her son to accept her as a concubine.

He even told Yang Chao about it, but Yang Chao declined, feeling a little shy.

Before leaving, under Dong Xiaowan's persuasion, the parents even reconciled.

Of course, my father never mentioned the matter of taking concubines, so my mother let him go.

Before leaving, I ate a breakup meal. Dong Xiaowan's delicious dishes were full of praise.

After that, Chen Yuanyuan went directly to the Bian sisters, while Dong Xiaowan had to go back to Hangzhou first, which made her mother quite reluctant.

Dong Xiaowan's mother has always been ill, good times and bad times, and she often needs to take some precious medicinal materials to save her life. Not only did the originally wealthy family become dilapidated, Dong Xiaowan even had to sell herself in a brothel to treat her mother's illness.

Yang Chao continued to go out for social gatherings, not because Yang Chao liked these social gatherings, but for those who could not go, he also went because he couldn't stay at home.

Because after the parents came back, a large group of relatives came to the door every day.

Especially there are many relatives of Xiaolingwei's mother's natal family.

Uncle came several times.

Usually, after talking politely with their parents, they would start nagging, complaining that their son was just a team leader, but Wang Pu and Lu Zheng were both banner chiefs, and they complained vaguely that their nephews were turning their elbows and not promoting their own people.

Zhao Kang insisted that he would rely on his own ability to make meritorious service and be rewarded, and asked his father not to talk too much, so that the Yang family almost quarreled with the words "father and son".

After the uncle, there are other relatives, who are out of reach, and don't have much contact with each other at ordinary times.

Most of them are the family members of the Xiaoling Guard soldiers who were driven away by Yang Chao because they couldn't bear hardships. At first they saw their sons being driven back, but when they inquired, they found out that it was too hard in the army, so they didn't care. Seeing that Zhao Kang and the others left behind had all become captains, and Wang Pu and Lu Mo had even become banner chiefs, they couldn't help feeling a little regretful.

Frankly speaking, if his son is here, he is now the leader of the team and the head of the banner, so this time he came here to put his son into the army again.

For this point, Yang Chao will never agree.

The living conditions of the military households in Xiaolingwei are much better than those of other guards, so the spirit of hard work is much worse. The same training, the soldiers of the water army guards even trained harder, but none of them were unable to eat. For those who left due to hardship, there were quite a few Xiaoling Guards who couldn't bear to leave because they were fined and deprived of food for a day or two.

Therefore, it was not without reason that Yang Chao stopped going to Xiaolingwei to recruit soldiers.

In addition to relatives from her natal family, some relatives from the Yang family also came.

Yang's family is monotonous, and the closest relatives are separated by three generations. For example, he is a grandfather with his father, and a great-grandfather with Yang Chao. These are because Yang Chao has become an official. The son plans to join the army, because most of the Yang family's family members are also blacksmiths like Yang Chao's family, and their life as a blacksmith is no worse than Xiaolingwei's.

In addition to relatives, there are also some officers and subordinates who often come to give gifts.

From time to time, Chen Kuan sent his son to bring a large amount of pork. Yang Chao tried his best, and he felt a natural intimacy with Chen Jiujin, the son of a swineherd with a simple and honest face.

Chen Kuan's pig farm moved out of the military camp, but he built a new house in his hometown in Mochou Lake, built more than a dozen pig pens, and continued to raise and kill pigs.

His son Chen Jiujin is now Yang Chao's personal soldier. Apart from daily training, he often walks around with Yang Chao. When Yang Chao returns home, he sometimes lets him go home. Serving a big sling of pork, there was nothing to be done after warning several times. Chen Jiujin said honestly that if he didn't bring his father, he would beat him up.

Li Fu also sent his son Li Feng to deliver vegetables to Yang Chao. After discussing with Li Fu about the vegetable shed, Li Fu was completely worried because no one had done it before, so he was very nervous, but it was still early. It is after autumn to build a greenhouse.

In addition, there are even some colleagues who come to curry favor. Yang Chao has now replaced the former Central Qianzong Jia Shilu, and has become the new Central Qianzong. Ba Zong and You Si Ba Zong were his colleagues in the past, but now they are his subordinates.

Therefore, it was normal for the right department to invite Huang Chong to curry favor with him, but it was a little weird that the two equals, Boss Qian, also came to curry favor with Yang Chao.

The same President Qian, also belonged to the Xinjiangkou Daying Camp, and they all belonged to Yu Chengwu, the deputy general of the Shuiying Camp, so there was no need to curry favor with anyone, but they all came to give gifts to Yang Chao, and they still pretended to be officials, because Yang Chao's official position was higher than theirs. Both of them are the staff of Commander Wei, and Yang Chao is the acquaintance of Commander Wei, they are from the third rank, and Yang Chao is half a level higher than the third rank.

But just like civil servants look at the military officer's official position is not worth money, military officer look at the official position is not worth much, generally they look at the military position, everyone is the boss, in fact, there is no distinction, a few people come to curry favor, it is nothing more than thinking that Yang Chao has a future Wu Liang will not sit in the position of President Qian for long, and sooner or later he will climb over their heads.

Of course, Yang Chao is also willing to accept this kind of flattery. In the future, he will work together in the water camp, with many friends and multiple paths.

Because of these troubles, Yang Chao either lived in the military camp, and when he returned home, he also used excuses to socialize and left home early, mainly because he didn't want to meet face-to-face with his begging relatives.

But it was still blocked. Early in the morning, several people suddenly knelt in front of Yang Chao's house, blocking Yang Chao at the door.

Yang Chao was stunned for a moment, and immediately thought of the identities of these people: "Zhang Tianshou, Wu Yi, Sun Yong! What are you kneeling here for?"

Yang Chao couldn't help wondering, these three people sued Xu Zhongxiao with him last year, and Zhang Tianshou took a lot of money from Yang Chao for this. Yang Chao really couldn't guess what they were kneeling here for.

"My lord, help me!"

Zhang Tianshou accepted his head and bowed, and the other two followed suit.

"What's going on? Get up and talk!"

Yang Chao shouted.

The three of them did not dare to get up, and kowtowed vigorously: "Xu Baihu is back, and he has become a thousand households, the little people are dead."

Yang Chao was taken aback, Xu Zhongxiao came back and was promoted, and immediately questioned the three of them in detail.

Only then did I realize that Xu Zhongxiao had returned many years ago, and was promoted to a real-time job in the Nanjing Zhenfu Division, specializing in prisons.

You must know that Nanzhen Fusi only has five thousand household offices, and Xu Zhongxiao can occupy one of them, which can be said to be a high position and weight.

Yang Chao couldn't help frowning. He thought that Xu Zhongxiao was afraid that he would hide in Beijing. Now it seems that it is not that simple. He went to Beijing for activities. a trouble.

The three of Zhang Tianshou came to look for Yang Chao because they were afraid. As soon as Xu Zhongxiao came back, he immediately took over the medicine shop of Wu Yi's family, the shop of Sun Yong's family, and the property of Zhang Tianshou's family. Find the other two for help.

Those properties were originally what Yang Chao threatened Xu Zhongxiao to hand over. Although they were originally the property of these three people, they have no plans to take it back now, and only ask Yang Chao to save their lives.

These three people were working together with him back then. Although Zhang Tianshou took the money, it was Yang Chao who put them in danger after all, so they couldn't be ignored.

Yang Chao thought for a while, and asked Zhang Tianshou to go to the Jinchai Building to find Kang Hui, and stay in the Jinchai Building to work. As for Sun Yong's family, who used to be in the silk flower business, he was very good at appreciating flowers, so he was also asked to go to the Jinchai Building. Going to the military camp, martial arts is a doctor, and it is not bad to recruit a military doctor in the army.

After dismissing these three people, Yang Chao immediately rushed to the home of Feng Kezong, the governor of Jinyiwei Town.

The Feng family is indeed extravagant, all the furniture is made of mahogany.

Yang Chao's house also had new furniture, and all the furniture from the Jinchai Building had been moved back, but only the parents' room had a few pieces of mahogany, and the wing room was only made of beech wood.

But Feng Kezong's house is made of mahogany from the inside to the outside, and the window lattices are made of red sandalwood.

Feng Kezong was at home at this time, he was the governor of Jinyiwei, and there were not many people in Nanjing who needed to curry favor.

"Master Feng is really high-spirited."

After being promoted, Feng Kezong's whole body was different.

Feng Kezong said with a smile: "Master Yang is not the same."

Then he welcomed Yang Chao into the house, made arrangements in the hall, asked the maid to serve tea, and asked the servants to prepare wine and meals, and he had to get drunk with Yang Chao.

Yang Chao didn't come to drink.

Instead, he came to handle matters: "Master Feng, don't worry about drinking, I have something to ask for from the lower officials."

Feng Kezong was very straightforward: "If there is anything, Mr. Yang can just say it, as long as it can be done, I will never refuse."

Yang Chao smiled and said: "That's good. I want to manage one person. A thousand households of Jinyiwei."

Feng Kezong was taken aback for a moment, and then he understood: "But Xu Zhongxiao?"

Feng Kezong had definitely inquired about Yang Chao's background. He knew that the Yang family had a grudge with the Xu family. Recently, Xu Zhongxiao had a reputation for thousands of households, so Yang Chao asked him to take care of him, so he naturally got in touch.

Yang Chao said: "Exactly!"

Feng Kezong hesitated: "Xu Zhongxiao is not easy to move."

Yang Chao said: "Then Mr. Feng can't do it. Even if I didn't come."

Standing up as he spoke, he made a gesture to leave.

Yang Chao was just deliberately scaring Feng Kezong, because after dealing with Feng Kezong these days, Yang Chao faintly felt that Feng Kezong was a little afraid of him, so you don't have to be polite.

Sure enough, Feng Kezong quickly stopped him: "Master Yang, don't worry, it's hard to do, I didn't say no to it."

Only then did Yang Chao say, "I wonder how long Master Feng will be able to do it?"

Feng Kezong sighed: "Xu Qianhu has just taken office, so it's a little unreasonable to dismiss him at this time. There is no strong argument, so it's not easy to move him."

Yang Chao said: "Just tell me how long it will take?"

Feng Kezong sighed: "I don't dare to say this. But Lord Yang, don't worry, I will help you deal with him in half a year, how about it?"

In half a year, Feng Kezong felt that he was enough to clean up a thousand households of Jinyiwei.

Yang Chao said: "Alright then, I will wait for Master Feng for half a year."

Then the two drank and talked about official affairs.

The past few years have not been peaceful.

Dashou, the ancestor of Guanwai, was besieged in Jinzhou for half a year. Hong Chengchou led more than [-] people to the rescue. He fought with the Houjin army in Songshan and was wiped out. The most elite troops of the Ming Dynasty were reduced by more than [-]. The human army was surrounded by groups.

Li Zicheng fell into Henan and killed Fu Wang Changxun and Lu Weiqi, the former minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing.Li Zicheng called himself King Chuang and became the most powerful force in the peasant army. He formed an alliance with Luo Rucai, who claimed to be the General Daitian Fumin, who had tens of thousands of horses, and he was ready to confront the officers and soldiers head-on.

Another Zhang Xianzhong peasant army was chased by Yang Sichang and ran to Sichuan, and was killed again, captured Xiangyang and killed King Xiang. The troops did not lose their strength, and Li Zicheng was shot in one eye.

But at this time, the people's hearts had changed. Li Zicheng left Kaifeng for [-] miles and stationed in Zhuxian Town.

Then Li Zicheng fought a decisive battle with Zuo Liangyu, Hu Dawei, etc. in Zhuxian Town, and defeated the army. Zuo Liangyu's mother and wife were both captured.

Feng Kezong felt that the court was really difficult, and Henan was being ravaged by thieves again.

Yang Chao felt that this time was different. In the past, the peasant army fought against the officers and soldiers. Although there were victories and losses, they were all driven away by the officers and soldiers. A large number of civil servants have already begun to surrender.

Yang Chao remembered that Li Zicheng had always accepted the surrender to Beijing in this way, and Beijing did not resist much. Several generals guarding the gate directly let him into the city.

Difficulties at home and abroad, the Ming Dynasty is over!

(End of this chapter)