Chapter Sixteen: Substitute the Ghost
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Yang Ze, the eunuch who guarded the tomb, hid in the dry well that day before he escaped. When he was rescued from the dry well, he found that the whole thing had been burned and robbed.
As the eunuch who guarded the tomb, the imperial tomb was destroyed this time and he would definitely not be able to escape. Yang Ze was originally planning to commit suicide, but when he heard that the guerrilla general of Denglai had rushed to Zhongdu thousands of miles away and drove the bandits out, a glimmer of hope suddenly emerged in his heart. He hurriedly chased Zhao Yan's march with the prefect Yan Rongxuan overnight.
He entered Zhao Yan's military camp at midnight. As soon as he saw Zhao Yan, Yang Ze directly knelt down and cried loudly: "General Zhao, help! Save our family!"
The voice was extremely miserable. He hugged Zhao Yan's thighs tightly and refused to let go. Zhao Yan struggled for a few times, but when he could not break free, he asked quickly: "Eunuch Yang, why are you? Please get up quickly, please get up quickly."
"If General Zhao doesn't save our family, our family won't get up." Yang Ze cried. The old eunuch played a scoundrel. Zhao Yan said helplessly: "Eunuch Yang is so serious. I, Zhao Yan, are just a little guerrilla guerrilla. How can I save you, my father-in-law!"
"It's OK, it's OK." Yang Ze nodded quickly.
"Eunuch Yang should get up and talk! It's okay to try it if you can save it." Zhao Yan was a little helpless, then responded and reached out to lift Yang Ze up.
Yang Ze stood up and greeted outside. Two servants from the government office walked in with a box. Yang Ze asked someone to open the box.
What surprised Zhao Yan was that the box was full of gold, which looked like it was less than a few thousand taels. It seemed that Yang Ze had caught a lot when he was guarding the tomb, but he was surprised that he was just a small guerrilla guerrilla. Why did Yang Ze come to bribe?
However, Zhao Yan made a lot of money and did not react to this box of gold. Seeing that Zhao Yan had no reaction, Yang Ze said, "General Zhao, to thank you for rushing to Zhongdu thousands of miles away, this was given by the people of Fengyang."
"Haha! I'm determined, I don't know what Eunuch Yang wants to do?" Zhao Yan laughed dryly and asked Yang Ze directly.
Yan Rongxuan asked at this time: "I wonder where General Zhao learned that the bandits wanted to attack Zhongdu?"
"Self-detecting," said Zhao Yan.
"Can General Zhao help me? Just say that the thief had learned more than ten days before the bandits fell into Zhongdu. When he was about to report, he was blocked by the minister Zhu..." Yan Rongxuan said in a low voice the compiled content.
It was roughly slandering the thieves of Zhu Guoxiang. They and others had already discovered that the thieves wanted to attack Fengyang. They were obstructed by Prime Minister Zhu Guoxiang when they reported the report. The people sent out to invite reinforcements were also intercepted by Prime Minister Zhu Guoxiang. In the end, only one person sent the information to the guerrilla Zhao Yan of Denglai, Shandong.
Denglai guerrillas rushed to help at night, but fortunately arrived in time. Although Xiangtan and Longxing Temple were destroyed, the ancestral tomb was not dug out by the thieves...
As the chief of the Zhongdu Department, Zhu Guoxiang had long been hacked to death by the bandits. In order to get rid of the charge, Yang Ze directly pulled Zhu Guoxiang out as a scapegoat.
After reporting this, they can get rid of their guilt. Because they had already discovered the movements of the thief, but were blocked by Prime Minister Zhu and failed to report them. Later, they went to Shandong to invite reinforcements and arrived in time to protect the ancestral grave.
Zhao Yan was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and it turned out that this was possible!
I have to admire the fabrication ability of these bureaucrats, which is invincible in the world.
"This..." Zhao Yan pondered: "Then the young Prime Minister Zhu's family is not..."
"Zhu Guoshang's family will definitely protect it." Yang Ze said quickly, "As long as General Zhao is willing to help, our family will definitely write a letter to someone whisper good words in the emperor's ear..."
Although Yang Ze was sent to guard the tomb, he still had some power in the palace.
"Okay~! It's all up to Eunuch Yang's words." Zhao Yan was too lazy to worry about this matter, so it would be better to throw the stall to these people.
"Thank you General Zhao, thank you General Zhao." Yang Ze was overjoyed.
After a while, the governor of Fengyang, Yang Yipeng, the inspector of Fengyang Censor Wu Zhenying, and the two of them rushed to the scene. After a group of bureaucrats discussed, they finally came up with a specific reporting plan.
First, eight hundred miles urgently reported to the capital, and Fengyang was attacked. The report literally focused on the reinforcements rushing in time. The bandits who were about to dig the grave were driven out of Fengyang, and the ancestral tomb was safe and sound. Longxing Temple, Xiangtan, and the escaped Suozong just mentioned it vaguely.
The inspector Wu Zhenying reported the impeachment of the thief in Zhu State and obstructed the news of the thieves' invasion... and also focused on asking for credit for Zhao Yan.
In order to block Zhao Yan's mouth, these bureaucrats have invested a lot of money and all put money in Zhao Yan, and have a close relationship with Zhao Yan.
Zhao Yan collected a lot of silver, which was as much as tens of thousands of taels, but the most important thing was to take the opportunity to blackmail the iron ore in Zhouji area of [***] County.
When he came back to Fengyang this time, Zhao Yan was more interested in Zhouji's iron ore. Although there were iron ore in central Shandong, it was too troublesome to start.
No one has mined the iron ore in Zhouji area of the county. When the governor of Fengyang heard that Zhao Yan wanted to mine there, he quickly patted his chest and agreed.
The lives of these officials are all trapped in Zhao Yan's hands! If he is unhappy and stabs the real thing to it, none of them will survive.
Although Zhao Yan sent people to encircle the iron ore in Zhouji area of [***] County, the iron ore there seems to be not so easy to mine, so it can only be idle in the near future.
Zhao Yan naturally would not feel idle and came to save Zhu Youjian’s ancestral tomb for no reason. Instead, he planned to take this opportunity to encircle some minerals.
The first thing I targeted was iron, coal, Handan of Zhangde Mansion and Xingtai area, which undoubtedly became his preferred target, both iron and coal, which was very convenient to smel.
Handan and Xingtai later generations belong to Hebei, but now belong to Henan.
The iron ore in Ma'anshan area is so close to Nanjing, and there are already people mining it. It is obviously not that easy for Zhao Yan to intervene.
However, in places like Henan and Shanxi, there have been thieves who have been pirated by thieves, it will be much easier to trap those minerals.
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When it was dawn, the thief who had been resting for a night stepped on the road of escape again. From a bird's eye view of the sky, you will find that there is a dense black dot moving between the North and West Feishui.
These black spots are numerous thieves, and many of them are glad that they escaped the pursuit of the government army yesterday or grabbed rations in Fengyang.
But these thieves walked too fast, and many people didn't get food. They were hungry all night, and ran hungry in the morning to where they could grab food.
Suddenly, a slight vibration came from the ground. Thousands of thieves looked back in shock and immediately found that on the gray horizon, a row of black dots were moving quickly.
It's approaching!
It was the group of officials who were rushing to help Fengyang yesterday that were galloping out on majestic military horses. The bandits who saw clearly turned their heads in horror and ran wildly, shouting: "It's the official army, the official army is chasing us."
But they could not run past the horse-riding official army on both legs. Wang Wenyue and his men caught up with the bandits and surrounded them directly. Amid the shouts of kneeling on the ground and not killing, most of the bandits knelt on the ground and knelt on the ground as soon as they were bitten.
But the leaders and backbones of the bandits did not surrender so consciously. They left behind the cannon fodder they had brought in and ran away quickly on horseback.
These backbone personnel of the thieves have always been the main target of extermination, but Wang Wenyue did not pursue them because his main target was to arrest people.
The soldiers from the baggage camp were left to deal with the prisoners, and Wang Wenyue and his men were on horseback and continued to chase the bandits in front of them.
It is very easy for the infantry battalion to advance on horseback and catch up with the thieves.
Some thieves ran away when they saw the official army, while others were chased and chose to turn around and resist, but the outcome was generally not good, so they directly let the Second Battalion cut them down.
After dawn, the Cavalry Battalion and the two companies of the Infantry Battalion intersected northwest along Xifeishui. In the afternoon, the Xifeishui crossed directly from the ferry and blocked the bandits.
The infantry was ordered to intercept this again, while Lin Yi divided his cavalry into a team of 200 people and killed the thieves head-on.
The task of the cavalry battalion is to kill, killing the thieves who dare not resist or escape at all.
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Chapter completed!