Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 151 Old Acquaintances

Seeing Xue Siming, Xu Meng, and Wang Tiechui brazenly bringing a team of people over to block the gate of the Thousand Households, Yang Menglong was also a little dizzy—he still hasn’t understood what happened until now Things were fine at first, why did a large group of high officials come and yell at him all of a sudden?Forget it, he didn't order troops to come here, why did Xue Siming and Wang Tiehammer bring a team of elite soldiers here?What the hell is going on?

Among so many people, he was probably the only one who didn't know what was going on.

That's what happened:
After the Battle of Shahe was over, Yang Menglong casually asked Xiao Yufang to write a victory report and hand it over to report the victory to his superiors.He also didn't expect to be rewarded by the imperial court. After seeing how poor the Ming Dynasty's central government was in the capital, he was completely given up on the words "reward from the imperial court". It's come out, where can I get some property to reward?So he pinched his nose for the bounty for killing the enemy in this battle, and he himself pinched his nose for the casualty compensation. Reporting victory to the superior is just a routine.

But he didn't expect that there would be more than one memorial sent to the court, but three.

The second copy was written by Liu Jintang.It took a lot of effort, and the wallet shrunk by more than half. It finally fed the hungry wolves of the chief envoy and the inspector, and boasted Wuyang's wealth with a clever tongue. Those big figures were naturally moved by it.Those military farmlands that had their irrigation systems restored, those livestock farms, and the mines that have grown to a considerable size after Yang Menglong's manipulation, as well as the steelmaking blast furnaces that are under construction, are all money!Although they have scraped off more than three feet of land in Henan, no one thinks that too much money will be hot, right?There was nothing to say, and everyone quickly came up with an idea. Liu Jintang wrote the pen, and the chief envoy, the inspector, and the commander-in-chief endorsed the three giants, and jointly signed a letter to sue Yang Menglong for negligence in duty and supervision, even though the grassroots invaded Wuyang and washed the village with blood.In this memorial, Liu Jintang exaggerated the destruction of Wuyang by the grass bandits by more than ten times, almost saying that Wuyang was killed and the population was halved. As for the extermination of the grass bandits...it must have nothing to do with Yang Menglong, it's all about Mr. Liu Well-organized, Nanyang Wei is brave and good at fighting, and after repeated bloody battles, they are wiped out, okay?
There are people above who are easy to handle, this memorial was delivered to the capital first, and placed on Chongzhen's desk.As expected, Chongzhen was furious after reading it, and scolded: "Trash, trash!" It's really difficult for him to be a civil servant these days, but he can't even blink if he wants to crush a small thousand households to death. All of a sudden, in a fit of rage, Jin Yiwei ordered Jin Yiwei to cooperate with the Henan Procuratorate to arrest that little Qianhu who neglected his duties and cut him down!Needless to say, Chen Song, Liu Jintang and others who received the oracle were overjoyed. Without saying a word, they rushed over aggressively with hundreds of people.Along the way, they were amazed by the new atmosphere presented by Wuyang Guard, and they became more determined to kill Yang Menglong and snatch the property!
Facts have proved that they got complacent too early, Wuyangwei is not a soft persimmon to be pinched, in the words of Taijun, the people here are very troublesome!The number one troublemaker is Xiao Yufang. She heard that so many Jinyi guards and officers and soldiers came to the door, she had a bad feeling, so she hurriedly asked a few old servants to greet her, while she hid in the dark to observe——Anyway, she and Yang Menglong haven't met yet. It's perfectly normal not to show up when you get married, and no one can find anything wrong.Seeing someone drawing a knife to surround Yang Menglong, she became anxious immediately, slipped out of the academy, and asked someone to ring a big gong to tell everyone that someone was going to arrest Yang Menglong!Sure enough, as expected, when the gong was struck, all the military households in the Qianhusuo rushed over, and whoever dared to touch their adults would fight with their lives!

The second troublemaker is Liu Ziyan.This eldest lady grew up in a family of officials, and she has seen too much intrigue. When those officials pouted their tails, she knew whether they were going to be dry or loose. Hu Zhai, sent Lian'er, a close maid, to sneak out, borrowed a carriage and ran to the barracks to ask for help!The soldiers in the barracks were furious when they heard that someone was going to arrest their generals, even those bandits who had only joined the Wuyang Army for half a month were no exception, they all yelled and wanted to kill these dog officers!Without saying a word, Xue Siming and Wang Tiechui ordered two hundred elite soldiers, rode horses and rushed all the way into the Qianhu House, showed their knives and guns, and made their attitude clear—see who dares to touch our adults!
There are so many troublemakers that Chen Song and Liu Jintang are a little dumbfounded. How can this be done?If they insist on coming, I'm afraid that the first ones to rebel are not those thugs, but their servants and Jin Yiwei!Sir, don’t pull us if you want to die. You see, these guys are vicious. Whoever dares to touch a single hair of this kid will have to be chopped into meat by them. It’s worth it to sacrifice your life for the sake of a bigger soybean. ?

Xue Siming shook the red bow in his hand, and asked coldly, "Who wants to arrest our lord?"

Liu Jintang shouted: "How dare you, a small family like you, lead people with weapons to attack Shangguan? Do you want to rebel?"

Xue Siming said: "Responding to my lord's words, I don't dare to be humble! It's just that the world is so big, and it's nothing more than a word of reason. If you want to arrest our lord, you have to give us an explanation, right?"

Xu Meng said in a low voice: "Brother Xue, Brother Wang, why are you talking nonsense with them? These dog officials have no good things, let me go up and chop them all up one by one, and then we will recommend Mr. Yang to be the leader With the skills of our three brothers and the sharpness of the Wuyang Guard's [-]-strong iron army, where can we not make a name for ourselves? We can simply establish ourselves as kings in Wuyang, drinking in big bowls and eating large pieces of meat, isn't it better than here Are you going to help the dog officer’s subordinates to suffer from this bird’s anger?”

The faces of the well-dressed beasts turned pale again, Xue Siming yelled: "Shut up! Say one more word, go back and rush to kill you!"

Xu Meng visibly shivered for a moment, and he didn't dare to make a sound. It seemed that this 1.9-meter-tall man was also very afraid of going uphill.

Wang Tiechui said flatly: "If you don't come up with a convincing reason, my Mo Dao will never agree."

Chen Song shouted angrily: "You... How dare you be so rude to Shangguan? Aren't you afraid of being punished by the nine clans!?"

Xu Meng roared angrily: "Punish the Nine Clans? I will punish you first! Liu Jintang, you bastard, this time you were the one who encouraged us to go down from the Tongbai Mountain Thirteen Villages to loot Wuyang. You killed thousands of our brothers! Instead of going to settle accounts with you, you turned to trouble General Xiao Yang, what a coward!"

Liu Jintang was stunned and asked, "Who are you? I don't know you!"

Xu Meng said: "You don't know me, but even if you turn into ashes, I will know you! It was you who sent people to Tongbai Mountain to join forces and told us that Wuyang Juntian had a good harvest of grain. Let us go down the mountain to loot, as long as we specialize in Wuyang Qianhusuo, don’t rob other places, you just turn a blind eye and close your eyes! Pity our thousands of brothers, who believed your nonsense, went down the mountain excitedly to grab some food, and went up the mountain to have a full meal, but ended up on the bank of the Shahe River We were wiped out by Wuyang Guard in one battle, and thousands of brothers died in peace! In that battle, we were convincingly defeated. General Xiao Yang took pity on us, gave us food, and let us go to work in farms and mines. Everyone thought it was good. , is much better than being a bandit in the mountains, so I no longer think about the Battle of Shahe, but you..." He took a deep breath, and his voice was like thunder, "You have harmed thousands of our brothers , Now you are going to kill General Yang again! I used to be a farmer, and you forced me to go up the mountain to become a bandit. Now I am an officer and soldier of the imperial court. You want to break our backbone. Do you want to force us to go up the mountain to become a bandit again? Bandits? Are you willing to force us to death!?"

This big man's voice was terrifyingly loud, and his roar was like thunder, which made everyone's ears buzz and at the same time made everyone's heart tremble.What kind of life they lived when Yang Menglong came, they knew it in their hearts, saying "life is better than death" is considered polite, do they want to go back to that kind of life that life is better than death?

We don't do it!

The dog-leg knives in the hands of the military households became tighter, and many homeless people who had been watching the excitement began to look around for a guy.Wuyangwei is developing very fast. According to this momentum, it is likely to become a new city, and they can definitely become residents of this new city. This is much better than wandering around. If you pinch it off, they won't do it either!
Liu Jintang was furious: "It's rebellion, it's all rebellion! Take them down! Take them all down!" He yelled loudly, but unfortunately, no one listened to him.

At this time, a feminine voice came over: "Who is yelling here?" The voice was so neither male nor female that it made people's hairs stand on end, but to Fang Yizhi's ears, it was almost like a fairy. The music was beautiful, and his waist was straightened all of a sudden!The crowd stepped aside again, and several young eunuchs surrounded a middle-aged eunuch, and came slowly under the protection of a group of brocade-clothed warriors.This middle-aged eunuch wears a moth crown, long sleeves fluttering, and is quite elegant. He is an angel from the capital!The eunuch's gaze immediately turned to Yang Menglong, and he was obviously relieved to see that he was unscathed.Yang Menglong stared blankly at this man, why did he feel familiar?Could it be... Uh, I can't remember, but he is more familiar with the dozen county magistrates behind the eunuchs, after all, I just met them a few days ago!
The father-in-law walked slowly in front of Chen Song with his hands behind his back, and said in a dark voice, "Our family name is Wu and our name is Yong. We are from the capital city. We are here to investigate the inside story of the Shahe Battle at the Emperor's order!"

Wu Yong?

Yang Menglong suddenly realized, ha, old acquaintance!

(End of this chapter)