The Founding of the Red Chamber

This time, let alone the Japanese bandit leader who was captured alive asked many valuable confessions.Even the number of bandits suppressed is unique in the history of the Jiangnan Anti-Japanese War.This time's great achievement, the war merits book is a section, so it is natural to write a special book, it's not that someone robbed Lin Jing of the credit.According to Lin Jing's current reputation, who would dare to steal the military merits of "Yan Wang Li".

It was Lin Jing who first said to Tu Xiaosan, "I have no official or job in the army, so I don't need these military merits. If not, I can share them with Yan Dalang and Ma Sanlang."

Tu Xiaosan knew that Lin Jing didn't care about these military achievements, but he was not happy to do so.Lin Jing made such great achievements, Tu Xiaosan didn't want to wrong him, so Tu Xiaosan said, "It's okay to distribute it to them, but it's better not to do this, the current situation in Fujian, although we just won a big victory, we only look at the inside and outside You will know how the officialdom in Fujian is. Once you give up your military merits, you will be easily caught. If you don’t, report the truth. It doesn’t matter what the court rewards, you just go ahead.”

Lin Jing thought about it, and it made sense, so he responded to Tu Xiaosan's words.

Fortunately, the greatest military merit is still that of Tu Xiaosan. After all, the calculation of military merit has always been simple and straightforward, it is calculated by the number of enemies killed.According to this calculation, although Lin Jing commanded the battle, he did not directly participate in the battle.But having said that, for Tu Xiaosan to have such a big victory, Lin Jing's timely dispatch of troops to help is the key reason.In addition to the battle in Quanzhou City, although Lin Jing did not go into battle to kill the enemy, he still contributed a lot.In addition, Lin Jing was really not easy to mess with, so in the list of military merits, Lin Jing was listed after Tu Xiaosan, and below that were Yan Ma Shi and others.

When such military merits are reported, all those on the military merit list will be promoted and get rich, such as Kong Xie, they also won the imperial court's awards again.Only Lin Jing got nothing, just a sentence from the imperial decree, this trip is commendable.

Although Tu Xiaosan was hurt by the court because of the previous incident, but Tu Xiaosan is ruthless when he is ruthless. It can be said that he has always had a very special feeling for the court. He is not like Lin Jing, okay? Just thinking about changing the emperor for the court, changing the dynasty and so on.Tu Xiaosan has always thought that as long as the people live a good life, his own life will be fine, and that will be the case. He has never thought about being an emperor or anything.

But this time, Tu Xiaosan was really angry.

Tu Xiaosan gritted his teeth, Fang didn't explode on the spot, but the evil spirit around him, even the imperial envoy who made the edict suddenly felt that there was something wrong with the atmosphere.Not to mention Yan Ma Shi and others who are acquainted with Tu Xiaosan. Although they don't know why the general is displeased, they have already suppressed the joy of being rewarded by an official.

The imperial envoy announced the decree, and even Miss Murongmu was rewarded with a thousand taels of silver, but Lin Jing got nothing!Tu Xiaosan bit down an angry line, and when Lin Jing stabbed him quietly, he swallowed his breath, got up to accept the order, and at the same time, his face returned to calm, and invited the imperial envoy to sit down and rest according to the etiquette.

Taking advantage of the imperial envoy's presence, Tu Xiaosan didn't go to inquire elsewhere. After the banquet, he directly asked the imperial envoy to inquire. Right now, there are no individuals like the imperial court that cannot be bought with money.The imperial envoy took the silver ticket and said to Tu Xiaosan, "Hey, if you say that Li Xiucai here is of high merit, it's just that Li Xiucai is cruel and cruel. Besides, according to the imperial court decree, children under ten years old are 70 years old. Elderly people over the age of [-], even if they are guilty, they can forgive them and save their lives. I heard that this Li Xiucai is so disregarded that he can even skin a child under the age of one month. Many adults heard about this and said that Li Xiucai cultivated his character well before he was appointed an official."

Tu Xiaosan was already angry, but his voice was still flat, "The skinning of a child under the moon is just nonsense, absolutely nothing. Besides, those individuals are all the secret work of Japanese bandits in the city. How many people in Quanzhou Because the Japanese bandit’s family was destroyed, how can these meticulous efforts allow them to survive! Their old people and children are human beings, but are those old people and children who died under the Japanese bandit’s sword human beings?”

"Oh, I said General, don't worry about it. The lower officials just came here to deliver the decree, other things, the lower officials don't know."

Tu Xiaosan restrained his evil spirit and sighed, "Hey, I was just asking, it's really Li Xiucai who contributed a lot."

The imperial envoy laughed and said, "This Li Xiucai is not incompetent. As long as he changes his temper and makes contributions to the court and His Majesty, there will be no rewards." A few words of relief with a smile.

Tu Xiaosan also smiled and said, "Yes." Turning around, she was extremely angry.

Leaving aside the fact that the war was critical at that time, could it be that benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness are not enough with these detailed works!If you tell them about the Dao of Saints, can they recruit them?And if these individuals are not killed, can they still be kept for the Chinese New Year?What children under the age of ten, elderly people over the age of 70, and those ordinary people who died in the hands of Japanese bandits because of careful tipping, there are more than tens of millions!Those people whose heads were beheaded by the Japanese bandits outside the city, the Japanese bandits can talk about children under ten years old and old people over 70 years old!At this time, it is necessary to talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality to Xi Zuo, Tu Xiaosan really knows it!Tu Xiaosan thought to himself, His Majesty is fainter than before, and he really is not the master of the Ming Dynasty.

Tu Xiaosan got angry for a while, and he was not very happy about his promotion to the second-rank general.He went back to the government office and said to Lin Jing, "It's useless for us to keep those things that His Majesty rewarded. Look, the clothes and materials are all exchanged for silver. If there are gold and silver antiques, antiques are nothing more than gold. The silver utensils have all been melted and recast, and you can still buy some food and grass.”

Lin Jing poked the side of his face and said, "Are you still angry?"

Tu Xiaosan held his hand and sighed, "In the past you always said that His Majesty is not the Lord of England, and I still feel that your words are a bit biased. Now it seems that you are really not a sensible person." Let's not talk about what Lin Jing said this time. Tu Xiaosan said that they have won more victories than they lost in fighting against the Japanese, but in the past two years, only 2 Japanese bandits have been suppressed, and the rest of the place is far less than Tu Xiaosan's military exploits. , It can be seen that this anti-Japanese war is only just beginning.Wouldn't it be chilling for His Majesty to be so mean to those with military exploits?

Let's not talk about Tu Xiaosan's discouragement towards the court, it's just that Chen Qibao listened to those court ministers blindly talking about Lin Jinglin's cruel torture and skinning people alive. The cruel ones are dead!Chen Qibao's deduction of military achievements because of this matter is really a big joke in the world!

Tu Xiaosan told Lin Jing what he had learned from the imperial envoy, and Lin Jing sneered, "Send those who said I was cruel to Jiangnan, and fight the Japanese bandits, and they will know what cruelty is." gone."

Tu Xiaosan said, "Don't worry about those idiots..." When Tu Xiaosan wanted to say something, the guards reported back, saying that it was Governor Kong who asked the general to come and discuss something.

Lin Jing sneered, "It's really funny, you are the second rank, but he is only the third rank, so I told you to go over."

"In the future, there will still be wars in Fujian, why bother about such trivial matters, what's the matter if I go there?" Tu Xiaosan knew that the court emphasized culture and education, so the status of civil servants has always been higher than that of military officials.As far as civil and military officers of rank are concerned, military officers are slightly inferior to civil officials.Even the military officers of the upper half rank sometimes have less right to speak than the civil servants of the lower half rank.It is different for Governor Zhang, who is a serious Jinshi who is a senior official in the frontier, but an out-and-out military officer like Tu Xiaosan, in the officialdom, is really not as glamorous as a civilian official.Therefore, Governor Kong asked Tu Xiaosan to come over and speak, which was not too impolite.

With Tu Xiaosan's temperament, as long as it doesn't touch his bottom line, he is always easy-going.Lin Jing stretched out his arm to stop Tu Xiaosan, and said to Qin Wei, "Go to the governor's yamen and tell me that the general is raising his account and discussing wars with the generals. I'm afraid there is no time at this time. If Governor Kong is free, Let Governor Kong come over and speak."

The personal guard is a close friend brought by Tu Xiaosan from outside the customs, knowing that sometimes Lin Jing's words are more effective than his general, so he sneaked a look at the general, seeing that the general had nothing to say, he went to the governor's mansion to answer.

Governor Kong originally wanted to invite Tu Xiaosan to come and talk about Lin Jing's military achievements, but he didn't expect Tu Xiaosan to come over instead.Governor Kong was a little displeased at the moment, but fortunately, he has been an official for many years, and he has no shortage of scheming, so he smiled with the guard, "That's fine, you go first, I will be there in a while." After dismissing the guards, Governor Kong's face immediately sank.Kong Fanyu also couldn't help but frowned, and then said, "This General Lin has a lot of style."

It was Mr. Yang who said, "Now it's General Lin."

Governor Kong breathed a sigh of relief, and said lightly, "The general is now in the second rank, so I should wait to meet him." He said to Mr. Yang, "I will tell you to thank the magistrate, but it is better to go to the general Greetings, General."

This time, the anger of bowing his head to the disciple Xiaosan who was born in the military was really hard to swallow.

Even Zhifu Xie, in the past, Tu Xiaosan was of a higher rank than him, so he may not have put Tu Xiaosan in his eyes for some reason.At the beginning, it was Tu Xiaosan who wanted to recruit soldiers in the counties and villages under the rule of Quanzhou, didn't he also send his confidant Li Qing and Li Xiucai to discuss with him?

But now, because of his military exploits, Tu Xiaosan has been promoted to the second rank. In terms of official rank, he really wants them to go over and pay his respects.

But, thinking about Tu Xiaosan's background, he was just a child of the Han family!

Prefect Xie also told Zheng Yun, his aide, "It's okay with me. I'm only a fourth-rank magistrate. That's the one. Is it possible that he really went to the general's mansion to pay his respects?" That one, of course, was Governor Kong .

Zheng Yundao, "If it wasn't for this, I'm afraid Governor Kong would not have specially sent someone over to tell your lord."

The corner of Xie Zhifu's lips twitched, "This formal greeting is always supposed to be in the morning. What time is it? I've already eaten lunch. Forget it, since the governor said he wants to go there now, let's go there." With that said, he ordered people to prepare cars and sedan chairs, and went to the governor's mansion first, and then, the two of them went to the general's mansion together.

When we arrived at the General's Mansion, Prefect Xie didn't forget to put some eye drops on Governor Kong, and said with a smile, "I thought, it would be tomorrow that Qian Qian would formally come over to greet the General. But the Governor was in a hurry and sent someone to my place, I came here just now. Please forgive me for my misbehavior, General." Saying this, he got up and gave half a salute.

Governor Kong was run on by the prefect Xie, so his face was not very good-looking.Governor Kong said, "It's true that I have something to discuss with the general. I thought about asking the prefect of Kong to listen to it, so I came here. The general is not a rigid person, let alone, we are all officials in Quanzhou. What if we don't see each other in the day? Now it's more important to entertain the imperial envoy."

Zhifu Xie just stabbed Governor Kong in vain, and did not argue with Governor Kong again. Hearing Governor Kong talk about entertaining the imperial envoy, Zhifu Xie also said, "Yeah, we were busy paying for the war after the war. There still needs to be a charter here.”

Tu Xiaosan said, "Didn't you have a drink? These few days, the imperial envoy is also living in the governor's mansion, how can I entertain him?"

The two of Kong and Xie were a little dumbfounded when they heard what Tu Xiaosan said, thinking that Tu Xiaosan received the gift in Chongyang, which is quite official, so how could he be so stupid in entertaining imperial envoys?However, thinking about Tu Xiaosan's background and official experience, both of them felt relieved.That's right, he was originally from a poor boy, because of his good luck, he won several battles and won an official position, but where did he meet imperial envoys, and how did he entertain imperial envoys?

It has to be said that Lin Jing directly summoned the two of them to the general's mansion to listen to his orders, which really irritated the two adults.Tu Xiaosan is not very good at entertaining imperial envoys, but, not to mention that Tu Xiaosan has seen the world before, that is, in Yancheng in the past few years, the court has rewarded him for his military exploits again and again, Tu Xiaosan Have you ever seen the imperial envoy?However, Tu Xiaosan was really not familiar with receiving imperial envoys.

Lin Jing then said, "Does the imperial envoy have any other duties?"

This sentence is really an extremely sharp sentence, directly cutting to the key point.The two of Kong and Xie couldn't help thinking, it's strange that the general would hire such a scholar as his staff, because a scholar knows how to do it.Governor Kong quickly said, "That's right. When the imperial envoy came, His Majesty also told him to let the imperial envoy take a look at the people in the south of the Yangtze River on his behalf."

Lin Jing said, "Since it depends on the people in the south of the Yangtze River, it's hard to make up our minds here. How about I ask someone to go to the governor's mansion to ask, and see what the governor's regulations are?"

Seeing what Lin Jing said, Kong Xie and the two of them had nothing else to say, because Lin Jing was really too knowledgeable in dealing with it, so that both of them were speechless.Of course, because of Lin Jing, the jokes in the stomach that Tu Xiaosan didn't understand, turned around in the stomach, and turned into: What's the use of being clever, it's because there is no reward for any military exploits!

After being mean to Lin Jing for a while, the two of them didn't discuss anything else. After congratulating Tu Xiaosan on his promotion, they got up and left.They simply didn't want to stay in the general's mansion for a while longer. According to their backgrounds and their official positions in the civil service system, they actually wanted to come over to pay respects to a military officer. Really, it is an insult to a saint!

The two left the General's Mansion one after the other. Governor Kong was okay, but Zheng Yun said, "Do you need to inform Li Xiucai about Li Xiucai's military exploits?"

Xie Zhifu raised his eyelids slightly, and a cold light flashed across his deep eyes. Xie Zhifu said softly, "No, with Li Xiucai's ability, it is not difficult to find out about this matter. Wouldn't it be better for him to inquire about it than what we said in the past?" ?”

Zheng Yun nodded and stopped talking.

Regarding the fact that the imperial envoy wanted to see the people in the south of the Yangtze River, Lin Jing sent Vice General Shi to the Governor's Mansion.As everyone knows, Governor Zhang and Mr. He are also talking about this time's Quanzhou military exploits. Governor Zhang sighed, "Although Ah Qing has no official position in the past, and although he is only a civilian, this time the battle of Quanzhou can achieve such a great victory." , according to me, the first contribution is Ah Qing. Why is this court..." Not rewarding Lin Jing at all, this is too chilling.

Mr. He said, "The old man is really too confused." The old man here is referring to the father of the Queen Mother Kong, who is now Yansheng & Chengen.Without him, Lin Jing's tyrannical nature is the result of Kong Laoguo taking the lead.According to Kong Laogong's intention, Lin Jing skinned people alive and cruelly tortured inhumans. If he rewarded too much, he would be a cruel official again and damage the reputation of the sage.With Kong Laoguo taking the lead, Chaozhong Qingliu went crazy, and made such a fuss that His Majesty the Emperor gave Lin Jing a verbal praise in the imperial decree, and the rest were given nothing.

Governor Zhang said softly, "It's not just ignorance, it's a mistake for the country!"

The two were feeling sorry for Lin Jing, when Deputy General Shi came over, and when Governor Zhang heard that the imperial envoy wanted to take a look at the people in the south of the Yangtze River, his expression turned cold. Does Your Majesty suspect him?