Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 88 Entering Yangzhou City
His wrinkled hands trembled involuntarily, like old swaying bark.

"Gao Jie, you kneel quite simply."

"Did I let you leave the city? Who gave your dog the guts to come out?" Zhu Cihong looked down at Gao Jie who was kneeling in front of him.

"Yes, I made my own decision, and I'm guilty." Gao Jie knew he was wrong, and he didn't dare to beg for mercy, let alone defend himself.

"Slap your own mouth." Zhu Cihong didn't give him any face at all, and let him, a majestic earl and a general with tens of thousands of soldiers, slap his own mouth in the street.

From the corner of his eye, Gao Jie could even see someone on the second floor of the shop facing the street watching his commotion, but since Zhu Cihong had spoken, no matter how embarrassing he was, he could only follow through, otherwise he just didn't want it.

In fact, Zhu Cihong had also thought about embarrassing Gao Jie. If he were an ordinary person, Zhu Cihong would definitely not do this.

But warlords like Gao Jie are different. They support their own troops, and the imperial court's control over them is very weak. If they don't have no territory and financial power, they are almost the same as Wei Bo, Lu Long, and Ding Hai in the late Tang Dynasty. Hebei Fanzhen is almost there.

Let Gao Jie lose face and let him feel his authority, so that he can honestly obey his orders in the future.

Zhu Cilang recalled that he had read an animal novel about wolves in his previous life. The wolf king in it did this. He decided whether other male wolves could have enough to eat. Those male wolves leave scars, so that those male wolves will fear the wolf king and obey the wolf king's orders.

At the same time, the throne of the wolf king can last for a long time. Zhu Cihong felt that doing so was similar to training a wild male wolf.

When Gao Jie is trained like a domestic dog, at that time, Gao Jie can almost be used by Zhu Cihong with peace of mind.

"Do you know where I went wrong?" Zhu Cihong asked.

"I know." Gao Jie paused to answer, and continued to slap his lips gratefully.

"Then you admit your mistake or not." Zhu Cihong asked again.

"I admit my mistake."

At this moment, Gao Jie's face was already a little red, and he was about to bleed again. Zhu Cihong felt that it was almost done, so he thought that this time he would stop here.

"Okay, you stop."

"Your soldiers destroyed this old man's candied haws. It's a pity that they are already dead. Then you pay for it." Gao Jie and his men must accept punishment for their wrongdoing.

Gao Jie's soldiers offended Zhu Cihong and paid the price with their lives, and Gao Jie also got a big mouth, and now only the old man who sells candied haws has not been compensated.

"Your Majesty, no need, no need, this general is blushing, please send him to the hospital for treatment." When the old man heard that Gao Jie should compensate him, he immediately waved his hand and refused.

He thought, asking such a great general to compensate him would be too embarrassing for him, wouldn't this make him lose his life.

"I said, if you want him to pay, he must pay, and you can't refuse." Zhu Cihong said angrily.

It's ridiculous that a gentleman's words are hard to follow, not to mention what the emperor said, this old man is really a peasant thinking, bargaining with the emperor, that is, I have a good temper, if it were another emperor, I would have killed you.

"These ten taels of silver will be enough for you old man, right?" Gao Jie took out a twelve taels of silver ingot from his bosom and put it in the old man's hand.

He doesn't know how much the candied haws are worth, but he knows that in this world, ten taels of silver is more than enough to buy the old man's head, so he thinks these should be enough.

"Enough, enough, enough." The old man didn't expect that he would have such good luck today, so he sold a candied haws and got 11 taels of silver.

In the next year or two, even if he does nothing, he can still live the life of an ordinary city resident.

"Today I wanted to see the lives of the military families outside the city, but I didn't expect to run into you. What a disappointment." Zhu Cihong's tone was full of disdain.

"Yes, yes, I'm at fault." In fact, Gao Jie didn't know why he was so unlucky that he bumped into Zhu Cihong as soon as he left the city.

He didn't even understand what was wrong with him, whipping pedestrians and rampaging in the street market, in his mind, this was as natural as water flowing downhill.

But whether he understands it or not, he has to make amends to Zhu Cihong and admit his mistakes.

This is the magic power of the imperial power, which is more powerful than the two mouths of official characters. Even if your guess is wrong, it is also your fault.

"Then what is your Majesty doing now? Most of the north of the city are members of the minister's army, I can show your majesty." Gao Jie thought that the north of the city was all members of his army, so he could just take Zhu Cihong for a walk to calm him down.

"Don't watch it, go back to Yangzhou City." Zhu Cihong rebuffed straight away, and Gao Jie's little plan just came to nothing.

"Go and find an open space outside the city to camp." Zhu Cihong said to the [-] battalion of cavalry.

So these three thousand cavalry came in like a tide, and then receded like a tide.

Looking at the 3000 people, Gao Jie always felt that these people were a little weird, they appeared out of nowhere, as if they had fallen from the sky, but he was afraid of offending Zhu Cihong, so he could only rot this doubt in his stomach, forever Don't say it.

After Zhu Cihong and Gao Jie left, the vendors on the street withdrew from the shops along the street and came to the street to clean up their stalls and carts that had been overturned by the horses.

"The young man just now is the emperor, he is really young and promising." A man who saw Zhu Cihong's face just now said standing in front of a cloth booth.

He also wanted to buy candied haws just now. If Gao Jie's cavalry hadn't come over like a gust of wind, he would have been able to buy candied haws together with the emperor. This was probably the first time in history.

It's a pity that it's all because of Gao Jie's interruption. Thinking of this, the man cursed in his heart, it's all because of the damn Gao Jie, and he couldn't buy candied haws with the emperor.

But he dared to say this in his heart, no matter what, Gao Jie was an official of the imperial court, a general outside the town, Uncle Xingping, that name would not scare people to sit on the ground.

"The emperor came to Yangzhou, and he didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse." The peddler standing behind the cloth stall said to himself while packing up the cloth.

"Brother, why worry so much, just do your own business honestly and it's over."

"I see that the emperor is so kind to that old man who sells candied haws, and even asked that official to pay him money. Where can I find such a good emperor?"

"That's true. If all the officials in the world can do the same, we ordinary people will have a better life."

(End of this chapter)