Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 273 Shock the world
The news of Yang Chao's victory reached Huai'an first.

A dozen gate soldiers and Yang Chao's soldiers did not turn back after blowing up the Qiangwei River, but rushed directly to Nanjing. They were responsible for asking Huai'an for help, and asked Shi Kefa to allocate a batch of food as soon as possible, otherwise Haizhou would run out of food.

According to Yang Chao's account, these people directly told Shi Kefa that all the captive soldiers outside Haizhou City had been beheaded by Yang Chao.

Shi Kefa was naturally very shocked, and confirmed again and again that the confessions of Yang Chao and his subordinates were very consistent, and even the minzhuang had matched their confessions beforehand, insisting that the Haizhou captive soldiers had been killed by Yang Chao, but it also confirmed one thing The thing is, there are not 1 captive soldiers in Haizhou, only more than [-].

More than 1 were annihilated, which has a completely different meaning from 1, because [-] means that this is still a looting army, and [-] is undoubtedly the main force of the captive soldiers. After closing, he claimed that it was only [-].

So when Shi Kefa was happy, he gave each of these letter-delivery soldiers a huge reward of 50 taels of silver, which made the gate soldiers happy again. They didn't tell this lie for nothing, but Yang Chao's soldiers didn't care much, but felt a little regretful. They failed to kill the last batch of captive soldiers with those comrades in Haizhou. You must know that it was a great contribution of 1 people. The most important thing is that they believed that if they stayed to kill the enemy, the final reward would definitely be better than Shi Kefa's. Adults give a lot.

In particular, Zhang Ergun, who had already taken the lead, seemed a little dispirited. He was already the leader of the team. It was a great disadvantage to miss such a big battle when it was the critical time to raise the flag. Compared to Li Ergou's competitor, the two of them are neighbors, and he was a little depressed when he thought of the eyes of his neighbors when he went back next time.

After Shi Kefa distributed the reward, the first thing he did was to re-draft the memorial, and he wanted to report the good news to the emperor as soon as possible.

At the same time, they sent people to Haizhou urgently, urging Yang Chao to send back the head and captives immediately.

It's just about sending rice to Haizhou. Shi Kefa couldn't dispatch it immediately, so he could only order to hurry up and make preparations.

When Shi Kefa's letter was reported to Beijing, the emperor was shocked again.

"This, this, this is a real warrior!"

"Andre warrior guards all directions!"

At that time, the emperor received the good news sent by the old servant Wang Cheng'en immediately, and circled around the imperial case three times, waving the good news and generous elegy.

Wang Chengen bent over and smiled foolishly at the side.

Before the emperor received Shi Kefa's message that Haizhou was besieged by captive soldiers. After the loyal Qianzong Yang Chao was surrounded, he was still a little sad. However, Mr. Qian, who had not received the reward, was surrounded by captive soldiers.

The emperor also repeatedly communicated with Zhou Yanru in Tongzhou, asking if Zhou Yanru was capable of dispatching troops to support him. Zhou Yanru vowed that the main force of the captive generals was still in Shandong, and Haizhou must be partial, so there was no need for rescue.

After the results came out, it turned out that as Zhou Yanru said, Haizhou is just a partial teacher, but there are tens of thousands of people.

And these 1 people were defeated by Yang Chao again, not only defeated again, but also wiped out like the first time, but last time the captive soldiers were only about 600 people, and Yang Chao had 1 There are many people, and it is understandable that the captive soldiers were wiped out. This time there were more than 600 captive soldiers, but Yang Chao's number was less than [-]. The ending was the same, and the captive soldiers were completely wiped out.

After the emperor was excited by this result, he couldn't help but feel a little depressed again. Zhou Yanru led hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in the north, and has been sitting in Tongzhou.

However, Zhou Yanru has always been deeply trusted by the emperor, so he delivered good news many times. The emperor rewarded him with jade belts and python robes, but compared with Yang Chao, the emperor immediately felt that there seemed to be something wrong with Zhou Yanru's military belt. According to Yang Chao's standards, It seems that Zhou Yanru should wipe out all the captive soldiers who invaded the bandits. This is such an ambitious thing. Counting the captive soldiers who have invaded the bandits five times this time, each time they hit the face of the Ming Dynasty again. Why didn't Chongzhen want to have a fierce general under his command? , To be able to cut off Donglu's claws that penetrated into Daming at once, let out this bad breath.

But Zhou Yanru——

In the end, Emperor Chongzhen still chose to believe in Zhou Yanru, and only sighed at his behavior: "The Zhou Ge Department is still too calm!"

One cannot expect a civil servant to achieve astonishing military exploits like Yang Chao's.

But after being shocked, the emperor suddenly felt a little embarrassed. Last time he rewarded 300 taels of silver, what should he reward this time?

It is said that the emperor thought about it for three days but he didn't think about it. The achievement of killing 10 with [-] million is a bit unrewarding. It's serious, not to mention that the emperor might have to pay several [-] taels of silver, and the emperor was faintly worried that the generals would take credit and become proud.

Before the emperor could figure out how to reward Yang Chao, the court was already arguing about it.

At this time, the court in Beijing was divided into two factions, one was the obvious Zhou Yanru Party, and the other was the obvious Inverted Zhou Party, and there was a faint shadow of Donglin behind the Inverted Zhou Party.

Senior officials of Zhou Yanru's faction immediately congratulated the emperor, and at the same time hurriedly drafted a reward for Yang Chao.

However, the officials sent by Zhou Yi immediately questioned how Yang Chao could defeat the captive soldiers besieging the city with only 600 people. They suggested that they should take a look at the battle report before they knew it.

The reason for the disagreement between the two factions is not simply due to the policy of opposing parties for the sake of opposition, but also because of deep-seated interest entanglements.

Zhou Yanru went out of Beijing this time to be in charge of supervising the world's soldiers and horses, which means that no matter where the world has won a battle, as long as it is a captive soldier, it should have his credit for Zhou Yanru. It is he who dispatches well, so Zhou Yanru One party will definitely kill Yang Chao's military exploits. This is too timely. Zhou Yanru's looting by the enemy in Tongzhou has already aroused criticism from the court.

Moreover, Zhou Yanru reported hundreds of good news, large and small, but everyone knows that none of them are true. The real good news that appeared here in Yang Chao this time, although Haizhou is far away from Tongzhou, isn’t it next to Shandong? , It can be said that it was caused by Zhou Xiangye's brilliant strategy of attacking from the north and the south. It can even be interpreted far-fetchedly as that Master Zhou blocked the captive soldiers in the north, forced them to go south, and then mobilized brave generals in Haizhou to intercept them.

As for why you were able to break [-] with [-] million, it can only be said that you, Lord Zhou, employ people well and command effectively. As for what kind of conspiracy, military secrets, is it justifiable that it has not been reported for the time being?

As for the Zhou Yi faction, they finally seized the opportunity of Zhou Yanru to leave Beijing. If they don’t move him this time, then there will be no better chances in the future. Therefore, during the war, they kept seizing the opportunity to impeach, and played every day. The newspaper questioned Zhou Yanru's good news, especially when these good news were not killed, it was even more reasonable to question.

But they can't beat Zhou Yanru for a while. If Zhou Yanru counterattacks after returning to Beijing, they don't know how many people will fall to the ground. Therefore, they must question the battle report of Yang Chao annihilating tens of thousands of captive soldiers. , This is a matter of political direction, not right or wrong.

The two factions were arguing back and forth in the court hall, and the emperor couldn't be sure to pay attention for a while. To be on the safe side, he could only order Shi Kefa to find out the specific situation as soon as possible and report it immediately.

When the news of Yang Chao reached Beijing, it also spread back to Nanjing. Yang Chao won another battle and wiped out the captive soldiers again.

The news immediately exploded wherever the news passed.

The city of Nanjing was as loud as if a huge firecracker had been set off.

After hearing the news, Yang's mother, Zhao Lan, fainted with joy. After waking up, she yelled to go to the temple to fulfill her vows. He can go to any temple, whether it is Taoist or Buddhist, as long as it is a god, he will worship and make a wish. Now that the news that his son is fine, he is the first to think of going to fulfill the wish.

The father was overjoyed at first, and then he was shocked when his wife fainted. After a surprise and a joy, he got drunk for a while, and finally fell ill for a while.

The younger sister was so happy that she didn't know how to express it. She secretly ran to the Jinchai Tower to have a good time with two good sisters, Chen Yuanyuan and Dong Xiaowan. When she got home, she was grounded by her mother.

Kang Hui, who had already changed his name to Xiaobao, used the Jinchai Tower to perform ten big dramas in a row, and changed the style of the past. He didn't perform anything like "The Story of the West Chamber". The appearance received a lot of applause.

Li Xiangjun, Gu Mei and other famous prostitutes came to the Jinchai Tower to join in the show. The Jinchai Tower was really lively, and of course they made a lot of money.

On the contrary, a scholar from Erlishe dropped his jaw in shock. This is too cruel. He was besieged by [-] captive soldiers, but he was fine with only [-] soldiers in his hand. He even claimed to kill all the captive soldiers. Resurrection, second brother Guan wouldn't dare to say that even if he was alive, so their first thought was not to believe it, at best Yang Chao broke through.

But this has shocked them enough, it's unbelievable, they don't even have the thought of drinking flower wine for a while, and even some low-level members of the Erli Society have some admirers of Yang Chao, even if they are conceited The scholar also highly respects this military general, wishing he could make friends with him as a confidant.

Zhang Dawei was once again praised by his peers, not only said that he would never compete with Zhang Dawei for business, but also said that in the future, only Mr. Zhang would follow his lead, and the Yangtze River Shipping was once again controlled by the Xinjiangkou Shuiting.

Let Zhang Dawei feel full of ambition again, feel that he let go of his care and follow Yang Chao to do it. This step is really on the right track. Not only does he not have to worry about the food and clothing at home, but he can also earn money for his son. A big family business, or even earn a big way out is also unknown.

But it was Nanjing officialdom that really shocked.

Without any hesitation, Xiong Mingyu immediately interrupted the reinstatement document of Gu Zhaoji's brother-in-law Cui Wei again, expressing decisively that the court should never use this kind of scum.

Finally couldn't help being confused, Feng Kezong, who drank flower wine with the generous Xu Zhongxiao again, was at the wine table, being served by two red girls until he was slightly drunk, a subordinate suddenly came in and whispered in his ear Whisper a few words.

Feng Kezong woke up immediately, not only did he lose half of his drunkenness, but also felt that his hairs were breaking out, his whole body was cold, and he was sweating in the summer, and he immediately slapped himself severely.

"Calling you shit doesn't have a long memory, it really remembers eating but not beating, a dog can't change eating shit! You obviously said that you won't play with Xu Zhongxiao's grandson without waiting for the result, so why did you get involved. This grandson is indeed rich and rich, but it is not worth risking his life."

Xu Zhongxiao Qianhu, who was teasing an underage girl, saw that his eunuch slapped himself hard, and immediately asked with concern.

Feng Kezong laughed immediately, saying that he had a toothache.

He really had a toothache. After hearing the accurate news from his subordinates, he immediately had a toothache. He felt that his bones were soft and painful at all. Does Nima need to be so cruel? One hundred thousand captive soldiers, one hundred thousand!Forget it if you broke through, and you killed them all!This is 10 people, not [-] pigs. If you want to kill them, you will kill them. What a crime it will be.

Thinking of Yang Chao's killing star who killed 10 people at once, it's no wonder his gums don't hurt, especially when he was drinking at the same table with Yang Chao's enemies, his gums didn't rot, his bones are hard , in good health.

At this time, Xu Zhongxiao, who was rated as a caring subordinate by Feng Kezong, asked with concern if he wanted to find a doctor.

Feng Kezong politely said no, then waved his hand to dismiss the girls.

Then he said very politely to Xu Zhongxiao: "Xu Qianhu, the envoy has considered what you said last time, so you can go ahead and do it. But there is one thing, you can't implicate the envoy, so during this time you I don't want to meet again. So as not to arouse suspicion!"

Xu Zhongxiao was overjoyed when he heard it.

Xu Zhongxiao recently fell in love with a business. There was a timber merchant in Huguang. His family was very rich. He trafficked timber from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to Nanjing for sale. With a huge amount of money, and many family members, he came to Nanjing to seek refuge.

This person has quite a background in Huguang, but he doesn't have much support in Nanjing, so Xu Zhongxiao attracted the attention of the wealth of the wealthy merchants.

After careful investigation, Xu Zhongxiao learned that this wealthy businessman had brought at least one million taels of gold and silver treasures. He wanted to blackmail the money, but he knew that he could not eat such a large amount of wealth alone, so he planned to keep going. Feng Kezong, the envoy of the Jinyiwei Township, of course, is responsible for all the dirty work. Feng Kezong only needs to sit back and enjoy his achievements, and at best provide him with a protective umbrella.

But Feng Kezong never agreed, which made Xu Zhongxiao quite nervous. He was worried that Feng Kezong wanted to take it all by himself, so he spared no expense to give gifts to treat guests. Today finally touched Feng Kezong, how could Xu Zhongxiao not like it.

So I immediately went back to deploy, and I must take down the rich businessman as soon as possible, so as not to have long nights and dreams, and be robbed by others.

What Xu Zhongxiao didn't know was that it was Feng Kezong's cold eyes staring at his back.

(End of this chapter)