Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 74 The Death of Zhang Pu
One hundred people were placed in the barracks, and the training had not yet started, but they were organized first and divided into eight teams.

There are eight teams, and eight team leaders have been appointed, and the eight boys are already beaming with joy after just being one team leader.

What made them even more happy was that Yang Chao announced in public that the first month salary of the eight teams would be raised to one tael, which made them cheer.

The other soldiers were paid two dollars a month, but when they saw that the team was paid one or two dollars, they couldn't help showing envy on their faces.

Yang Chao told these soldiers in good time that anyone who trained well could be promoted, as long as he became a team leader, he would be paid one tael of silver.

Then he said to several teams who were not yet excited that they would promote several banner chiefs by the end of the year, and each banner chief would be paid three taels a month.

Immediately attracted several team leaders again, Yang Chao continued, as long as whoever has the best soldier training, he will be promoted to be the banner chief.

Whether it is the newly appointed team leader or the newly recruited recruits, everyone is happy.

Only cousin Zhao Kang was unhappy, he was the leader of the team, and these people used to be under his control, but now he is going to be his equal.

In the end, Yang Chao comforted him quietly, saying that he would be the first to be promoted to be the head of the banner, and Zhao Kang regained his vitality. However, just like last time, Yang Chao still told him that Yang Chao should not be ashamed. It's not good to force him to promote him.

As for how to fight for Yang Chao, now that Zhao Kang is the leader of the team, Yang Chao told him that as long as he can train his troops well, it will be fine.

Yang Chao was not in a hurry to train, but asked the team to lead the soldiers and repair the barracks first.

There were less than ten intact barracks in the barracks, but Chen Kuan and Li Fu's family of dozens occupied six rooms.

The remaining houses are simply enough for these soldiers to use.

Yang Chao asked a craftsman to look at it, and said that he would get two or three hundred taels of silver to repair the barracks.

Yang Chao's barracks, on the right side of the mouth of the Qinhuai River, used to be a tidal flat, and later a fixed barracks were built.

When it was most prosperous, 4 to 3000 people lived in this large barracks, but now there are less than [-] people in total.

Yang Chao's camp used to have about 3000 people.

Throughout the Ming Dynasty, the military system has been changing. At the beginning, the main force was the Guards Army. After the Guards were destroyed, the battalions were recruited. However, the battalion system has not been finalized and has been changed frequently.

The same is true of the Xinjiangkou Marine Battalion. In the past, it was a sentry barracks, with a quota of 3000 people, [-] battalions permanently stationed, and [-] squads of troops.

The current organization has changed, because the navy camp was re-organized after the Japanese pirates, and the editing of Xiao was cancelled.

Now it is the battalion, department, division, banner, team, and army establishment. This is the barracks of Zuo Division, and the biggest official is Yang Chao, the commander of Zuo Division.

A team of five or five people, a team of ten to 12 people, a banner of about 30 people, a bureau of about 100 people, a division of about 400 people, a division of about a thousand people, and a battalion of more than 2000 soldiers.

Yang Chao was divided into eight teams, one team had 12 people, a total of 96 people, and the remaining four people, Yang Chao picked out to follow.

It's not that Yang Chao is afraid that he won't be able to hold these soldiers, but because the four of them are relatively old.

The youngest among them is 33 years old, and the oldest is in their forties. They are not suitable for high-intensity training with young recruits.

Under normal circumstances, no one would recruit such soldiers, but these four were good sailors, so they were recruited by Yang Chao. Naturally, there must be someone in the water camp who can sail.

A few masons and carpenters were invited, and some military officers led the recruits to help the craftsmen renovate the barracks, while Yang Chao took four veterans to the banquet.

The venue of the banquet is at the Nobile Building.

Jinchailou is not another brothel, it is the brothel opened by Yang Chao and Kang Hui.

This name was given by Yang Chao. In fact, at first Yang Chao wanted to choose one from heaven and earth, but it was too ridiculous to think about it, and he thought of the elegant name of the Twelve Beauties of Jinling in the Dream of Red Mansions, so he took it as Jinchailou.

The object of the banquet was Wang Xiao, because Yang Chao planned to hold another gathering and asked Wang Xiao to help.

But as soon as Wang Xiao came, he brought bad news.

"Zhang Pu is dead!"

Yang Chao couldn't help being shocked, Zhang Pu's name came out directly.

It is very impolite and rude to call his name directly. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Ma Chao and Cao Cao had a feud with Cao Cao who killed his father.

Yang Chao naturally knew it, but it was really too unexpected. Zhang Pu died just as soon as he promoted Zhou Yanru to the position of Chief Assistant.

"Hey, isn't it?"

For Zhang Pu's death, Wang Xiao was even more disappointed than Yang Chao.

He has been accompanying Zhang Pu to the north this time, helping Zhang Pu exchange money from the south to Beijing, and helping Zhang Pu arrange gifts all the way. Although he took the opportunity to meet many dignitaries, the biggest benefit was Zhang Pu. Friendship, but Zhang Pu died.

As soon as Zhang Pu died, most of Wang Xiao's efforts were in vain. How could he not be disappointed.

"How did Tian Rugong die?"

Yang Chao couldn't help but wonder why Zhang Pu looked healthy when he parted with him a few months ago, why he went to Beijing and died when he got home.

Wang Xiao sneered and said, "He was poisoned to death!"

"what!"

Yang Chao exclaimed.

Yang Chao asked, "Who did it?"

Zhang Pu operated Zhou Yanru to come to power, and this name spread, who would dare to kill Zhang Pu.

Wang Xiaodao: "The criminal was not caught. I heard that someone who saw Wu Changshi went to Zhang Tianru's home the night before, and Zhang Tianru died the next day."

"Wu Changshi?"

Yang Chao was even more puzzled, Wu Changshi was the backbone of Fushe and Zhang Pu's subordinate, how could Wu Changshi murder Zhang Pu.

But Wang Xiao said affirmatively: "Zhang Tianru's momentum is too fierce, pushing Zhou Yusheng again, the momentum is the same for a while, not everyone wants to see him in full swing."

Yang Chao nodded, and felt that what Wang Xiao said made sense, but Zhang Pu's reputation in Jiangnan had skyrocketed all of a sudden, but his political opponents absolutely didn't want to see this. It's just too sad.

Wang Xiao continued to sneer: "Zhang Tianru is dead. After he personally pushed Zhou Yanru to the throne of chief assistant, he was poisoned to death. But do you know what those 'fellows' in the Fushe are doing now?"

Yang Chao shook his head.

Wang Xiao snorted, "They are all anxious to find Zhou Yusheng now, and to find a position for themselves in the court."

This is not surprising, the people who restored the society hoped that Zhou Yanru would give them an official position. In fact, didn't Ruan Dacheng also want to use Zhou Yanru to re-emerge as an official?

Yang Chao couldn't help asking: "It's not surprising, this is a good time to seek a superior position."

Wang Xiao shook his head and said contemptuously: "These people usually claim to be clean and honest, and it is understandable to fight for power and profit, but now that Zhang Tianru's body is still alive, and his funeral has not been taken care of, they are in a hurry to fight for power. Blind Zhang Tianruyi What a painstaking effort!"

Yang Chao couldn't help but feel cold at this time. Zhang Pu helped these people push Zhou Yanru to power, and helped Donglin Fushe raise a banner in the court, but he was poisoned and killed, and no one took care of him in future generations. His like-minded friends and community members usually went to Zhou Yanru to ask for officials.

Wang Xiao continued: "There is also that Qian Qianyi who broke openly with Fushe that day. But as soon as Zhou Yanru took the stage, he licked his face and joined him. He even publicly praised Zhou Yanru and publicly praised Fushe as a gentleman. It’s really shameful to publicly say that Fushe Donglin is like-minded. Don’t you just want Zhou Yanru to give them some official positions in Donglin? It’s shameless.”

Yang Chao suddenly felt a chill at this time, the shamelessness of these literati who had read poetry and books made him feel chilly from head to toe.

These people are full of poetry and books, etiquette articles, and sage books full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, but they only read the word snobbery from the books.

"He is full of benevolence and morality, and he is full of male robbers and female prostitutes!"

Yang Chao suddenly thought of this sentence, thinking it was an insult to literati, but he didn't think it was a true portrayal of them.

Upon hearing this, Wang Xiao praised, "Good scolding!"

Wang Xiao's praise made Yang Chao calm down suddenly.

Yang Chao sighed: "There must be some good people."

Wang Xiao also sighed: "Not to mention, there is one person, Guiyang Ma Shiying. This person has traveled thousands of miles from Guiyang to Wumen to help Zhang Tianru take care of his funeral!"

"Ma Shiying!"

Yang Chao's heart couldn't help but move, this is also a big treacherous minister.

But I don't want to be so loyal. People in Donglin Fushe don't care about their leader, but Ma Shiying does.

Yang Chao couldn't help wondering: "Could it be that Ma Shiying has an old relationship with Tian Rugong?"

Wang Xiao admired: "It's okay if there is an old one. This Ma Shiying was sent to stay at home, but he didn't know Zhang Tianru. It's just that his friend Ruan Dacheng and Zhang Tianru were good friends. When Zhang Tianru died, he learned that no one would take care of the funeral. Just run around."

Zhang Pu belonged to a maidservant, so when he was a child, his elder brother who was an official took away his family property. He even filed a lawsuit for this, and his father died of anger because of it.

Zhang Pu achieved his fame entirely by his own hard study. I heard that he copied all his books, and he did not copy or read them.

After he became an official, Zhang Pu was not that kind of corrupt official, and he was driven out after a short period of time, so his family had no money left and no money for burial.

When Ma Shiying heard the news from Guiyang, he traveled thousands of miles to attend his funeral.

If it is said that Ma Shiying is for himself, then it is unreasonable. A dead Zhang Pu is no better than a living Zhou Yanru.

Aren't all the scholars in Donglin Fushe busy flattering Zhou Yanru and disregarding Zhang Pu's funeral, but Ma Shiying did the opposite. This move may make him stand out, but it is also tantamount to offending that A large number of scholars even offended Zhou Yanru.

Yang Chao couldn't figure out Ma Shiying's motives, so he couldn't help sighing: "Ma Shiying is righteous."

Wang Xiaodao: "It's not that righteous. I heard that someone recommended him. Zhou Yanru made a favor and repaid Ruan Dacheng's debt. He was grateful to Ruan Dacheng, so he helped Ruan Dacheng's friend Zhang Pu take care of the funeral, although death is not counted. Being righteous is also a way of repaying kindness, this person can hand it over."

Ruan Dacheng had donated 2 taels at the beginning, and at the political meeting of Ruanjiahefang, a donation of 10,000+ taels was raised. It can be said that Zhou Yanru reunited, and Ruan Dacheng contributed the most.

However, Donglin Fushe still opposed Ruan Dacheng's comeback, so Zhou Yanru wrote to Ruan Dacheng to explain his difficulties and difficulties.

He directly expressed his willingness to let Ruan Dacheng's friend Ma Shiying recover, and returned Ruan Dacheng's favor.

This is really a favor, because people heard that the person is Wang Xiyun, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, so Zhou Yanru actually sold two people for one favor. The so-called gentleman.

After listening to Wang Xiao's story about Beijing's officialdom, Yang Chao couldn't help admiring, at least in terms of political means, this Zhou Yanru is a character who is very good at balancing.

Wang Xiao said again: "There is also that Wu Changshi, who was also promoted, and now he is a doctor of Wenxuan of the Ministry of Officials."

Wu Changshi poisoned Zhang Pu to death, and then not only was he not caught, he was not implicated, but he was promoted.

It is easy to explain why he was not arrested. He is an official in the capital, and the local officials dare not control him. Besides, without any real evidence, who dares to say that he killed Zhang Pu.

But once Zhang Pu died, it was a little strange that he was promoted, and people had to think about the relationship.

Seeing that there was something in the myth in Wang Xiao's eyes, Yang Chao couldn't help but wondered: "You mean, it's Zhou Yanru who wants to kill Zhang Pu?"

Wang Xiao shook her head quickly: "I'm just guessing."

But Yang Chao felt that this was probably the case.

Zhou Yanru has been appointed by the emperor as a scholar of the Zhongji Temple, the chief assistant of the cabinet, and also the Minister of the Ministry of Officials. When Wu Chang was promoted to be a doctor of the Ministry of Officials, it was obviously because of his hand.

Zhang Pu supported Zhou Yanru as the first assistant, Wu Changshi killed Zhang Pu, and Zhou Yanru promoted Wu Chang, there must be a conspiracy.

Yang Chao couldn't figure out the joint, because he knew too little information.

Ask Wang Xiao directly: "What else did you guess?"

Wang Xiao smiled and said, "If Zhang Pu is not dead, how can Zhou Yusheng be an official?"

When Wang Xiao asked, Yang Chao suddenly realized, yes, Zhang Pu supported Zhou Yanru to the stage, if Zhou Yanru didn't want to be restrained by Zhang Pu, the only way was to kill Zhang Pu, otherwise he would be a puppet, obviously this old bureaucrat didn't want to be puppet.

Yang Chao was not only shocked in his heart: "This old guy is not only smooth, not only can play balance, but also has a vicious heart."

Not to mention that Zhang Pu praised him on the stage, Zhang Pu was still his student, but he also murdered cruelly. With such a thick and dark skin, it is no wonder that he can be the chief assistant. (It’s a great event to drop pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you! Follow up~click/Chinese website official account (add friends on WeChat-add official account-enter qdread), and participate immediately! Everyone has a prize, now immediately Pay attention to qdread WeChat official account!)

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