The ninth and forty-fifth chapters of the new situation of the Ming Dynasty
Putting down the letter, Yang Feng picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip, but found that the tea was already cold.
Yang Feng shook his head helplessly. If he were in his mansion, this would not have happened at all. The maids or wives and concubines around him had already replaced the teacup for him, but the servants around him were all used to being knives and guns. It would be no problem to let them charge in the battle, but it would be difficult for them to do such meticulous work of serving people.
Just thinking of this, Yang Feng was slightly shocked. I don’t know when he had become accustomed to this kind of life of clothes and food, and this sign is not very good.
You should know that five years ago, I was just a worker at the bottom of society who could only live in the cheapest rental house and could not see hope. Now I am unhappy about a cup of cold tea. When did I become so spoiled? This is not a good phenomenon.
After drinking the cold tea, Yang Feng shouted: "Come here!"
Song Ye strode in, saluted and asked, "Mr. Marquis, what are your instructions?"
"Has the father-in-law who sent the letter today left?"
"I haven't left yet." Song Ye said: "Because the storm is quite strong today, the father-in-law was afraid of seasickness, so he postponed his return date."
"That's good." Yang Feng felt relieved, "You go there immediately and invite that father-in-law, and say I have something to ask him."
"Here!"
More than twenty minutes later, the door was pushed open, and Song Ye led a eunuch in his forties. After the eunuch came in, he bowed to Yang Feng and said respectfully: "Cao Huachun, the eunuch in the Silijian, has met the marquis. I hope that the marquis will be the one who wishes for you forever!"
"Hey……"
Yang Feng couldn't help but laugh and shook his head. Why did the eunuchs from this palace say auspicious words one by one like you don't have money, and they almost became instincts. No wonder... huh... wait...
Suddenly, Yang Feng raised his voice: "Say it again, what's your name?"
Seeing Yang Feng suddenly became serious, Song Ye, who was standing beside him, held the musket grip at his waist with his right hand and stared at the eunuch.
The eunuch's heart skipped a beat and his face turned pale. He replied tremblingly: "We... our name is Cao Huachun. How dare you ask the Marquis, is there something wrong with this name?"
"No, no!"
Yang Feng noticed Song Ye's vigilance and Cao Huachun's uneasiness, and smiled and waved his hand to indicate that it was okay.
But he was slightly shocked. According to historical books, Cao Huachun should be the person of Wang An, the eunuch in charge of the seal of the Sili Supervisor. He was exiled to Nanjing for offending Wei Zhongxian and was not recalled until Chongzhen ascended the throne. How could he appear here now?
Thinking of this, Yang Feng couldn't help but ask: "Eunuch Cao, aren't you guarding the ancestral tomb in Jinling? Why did you return to the capital?"
The speaker is unintentional and the listener is intentional. Cao Huachun was shocked. He was just a eunuch who failed the struggle and was sent to the death, but the other party was a marquis with high power and heavy troops. How did he know him?
But although he was shocked in his heart, he answered respectfully: "If you come back to the Marquis, our family was summoned back to the capital by His Majesty three months ago."
"I was recalled to Beijing three months ago?"
Yang Feng muttered in confusion, and couldn't help but wonder. This guy was taken to Nanjing by Wei Zhongxian to guard the ancestral tomb, but Zhu Youxiao summoned him back. Isn't this slap Wei in the face?
However, others may not dare to slap Eunuch Wei in the face, but Zhu Youxiao is different. Eunuch Wei is only a slave of the royal family, and he will be beaten. Do you dare to have any objections?
Suppressing the doubts in his heart, Yang Feng couldn't help but look at Cao Huachun. Not to mention that although this guy is ordinary in appearance, he looks like a kind of honest and honest appearance. No wonder he was valued by Zhu Youxiao so soon. You must know that not everyone can sit in the seat of the Sili Supervisory Hall.
Yang Feng knew that this eunuch who was so evil-minded by our Qing Dynasty and the Donglin Party members in later generations was actually a person who was very loyal to the Ming Dynasty royal family and was quite kind, so he didn't mind getting closer to him when it was convenient.
He picked up the letter on the table and Yang Yang: "Eunuch Cao, in this letter, His Majesty asked me to handle the matter here and return to Beijing as soon as possible, but His Majesty did not say much in the letter. I wonder if Eunuch Cao knows what happened?"
Cao Huachun hesitated and said, "It's so good for the Marquis to find out that our family is not very clear. But over the past year, the situation in our Ming Dynasty has not been very good.
Since the beginning of this year, after the Marquis defeated the Jiannu outside the pass, he originally thought that all external troubles in our Ming Dynasty could be eliminated and he could rest and recuperate, but he expected that the disaster of the bandits in the pass became more and more serious. The bandits led by the 36th Battalion, the king used, were in Shaanxi, and hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Shanxi, shouting "Why not die if you sit and die if you sit, you will die." The slogan "If you sit there, you will die." Kill the officials and rebels. After the incident, the government and the people were shocked.
Your Majesty ordered the governments of the two places to send troops to suppress the enemy. Unexpectedly, the officers and soldiers were defeated. At that time, a censor and censor wrote a letter to ask Your Majesty to mobilize the Jiangning army to return to the court to wipe out the enemy, but his Majesty refused. Your Majesty ordered Lu Xiangsheng to lead 30,000 new troops into Shaanxi to suppress the enemy.
Lord Lu deserves to be a famous general. He led the new army generals and bandits to retreat step by step. Even the thief chief king himself was cut off by Lord Lu."
After Wang Ziyong's death, everyone thought that the bandits were destroyed at night, but unexpectedly, a few more powerful figures appeared in the bandits. They began to break into pieces, and some began to wander to Sichuan, Henan and other places. Local governments were in a hurry. Lord Lu was powerless due to his limited military strength. At this time, someone in the court wrote a letter to ask His Majesty to drop the Jiangning army and return to the North Korea to wipe out the bandits. It is probably because of this that Your Majesty summoned you back to the court.
"I see!"
Yang Feng nodded, it turned out that the root of it was here.
To be honest, Yang Feng has never had a good impression of such things as bandits.
Of course, when Yang Feng was studying, his history textbooks called them the Rebel Army and said a lot of good things about them.
At the beginning, Yang Feng also believed that because the Ming Dynasty's incompetent and corrupt court led to the misery of the people and the farmers could not survive, so they rebelled.
This is true. Yang Feng would have done this. Anyway, he will die. Killing officials to rebel is death, and starving to death is death. Why don’t you fight, maybe you can even find a future?
However, the disadvantage of bandits is that when they turn from people to bandits, their kindness will quickly transform into viciousness. In order to expand their team, they will snatch everything in every place they capture, and will encircle all the people to become one of them. Those who dare not obey will immediately be beaten to be aliens and killed by them.
Like locusts, they eat up everything in a place, snatch it and destroy it all, and then move towards the next goal.
What...what if you finish grabbing it?
Chapter completed!