Reincarnation of the powerful minister

Hu Tian is snowing in August.Now it is the end of October, and the south of the Central Plains may still have the afterglow of autumn, but outside the Great Wall is already covered with snow, and the frost grass is vast.

The light snow that had fallen all night finally stopped, and the clouds were still gray, making the outline of the fortress on the mountain ridge blurred, as if ink had been smeared on wet paper.

Two grain transportation officers in the army were riding slowly and chatting beside the team responsible for escorting grain and grass.

"...Have you heard that the imperial court is going to send a supervising army to supervise the battle?"

"No way, didn't our general let out the news a long time ago, saying that a dead eunuch dared to come to the army to tell him what to do, and just throw it to the front of the battle to carry the banner?"

"It's true! No wonder the imperial court was worried. I was shocked when I first arrived—Yu, the general is too ruthless! I haven't killed any of the enemy chieftains yet, and my own officers and soldiers killed a group first. In their twenties A human head, just rolling around the gate like this, who wouldn't be terrified when he saw it?"

"There is also the new rule that the rear team beheads the front team, and the soldiers behead the general. It really makes people's backs chill!" A grain transportation officer touched his neck subconsciously.

The grain transportation official B was about to continue talking, when a scout galloped over and reported: "There is a team of chariots and horses ten miles ahead, about 300 people, under the banner of the Ming court, and there are still people behind the two chariots. Escorted by Jin Yiwei Tiqi, they are coming this way."

Food transport officer B said in surprise: "See clearly, is it really Jin Yiwei?"

The scout replied: "Yarmulka, brocade clothes, embroidered spring knives, you can't go wrong."

The two grain transport officials looked at each other in dismay: "...it is said that Cao Cao Cao Cao has arrived, could it be that he is the supervising army sent by the imperial court?"

Not long after, the team came close to the field of vision, and both sides kept a certain distance cautiously.

A Tiqi in a brocade coat and hat drove his horse closer and shouted loudly: "The brocade guards are escorting. What team is ahead? Quickly reveal your identity to avoid accidental injury!"

Grain Transport Officer A quickly responded: "The grain transporter! We are under the command of the Jingbei Army!"

Jin Yiti turned around and returned to the carriage. He seemed to have listened to some orders from the people in the carriage, and then stepped forward and said: "I am escorting the military supervisor sent by the imperial court, and he is about to go to the Jingbei Army camp. Can you Can you set aside one or two people to lead the way?"

The food transport officer knew that he had no right to verify the identity of the other party, and the fortress where the camp was located was extremely strong, and there were many checkpoints outside the city, stretching for several miles, so he had his own person to verify the identity of the people coming and going.Then he nodded and said: "The humble job sent a scout to lead the way for the adults. I have a duty, and it is inconvenient to stay for a long time, so I leave."

The two of them clasped their fists at Jin Yi Tiqi, and continued to move forward with the grain and grass vehicles.

When the two teams passed by each other, the food transport officer turned his head and looked a few more times curiously, just in time to see the door of the carriage in front opened, and a middle-aged man wearing a three-mountain cap and an imperial python robe came down. The eunuch stretched his arms to stretch his muscles and bones, and let out a sigh.

Food transport officer A and B looked at each other again, mouthing together: Dead eunuch!

They lost interest in watching more, and hurriedly escorted the car away.Behind them, the eunuch in python walked to the next carriage and asked through the window: "Sir, do you want to get out of the carriage and relax your muscles and bones, or continue on to the Jingbei Army camp?"

A young man's voice came from the car window: "Hurry up first, it gets dark quickly in winter."

The python-clothed eunuch responded, and ordered the guards: "Continue on your way."

Under the leadership of the scouts, a group of bicycles meandered towards the fort on the mountain.

Inside the border fort, there is a one-story house made of stone and earth blocks. The light from the windows is much brighter than other houses.

This is where the current main account of the Jingbei Army is located.

Of course, the army is in the guerrilla attack on the border, and there is no fixed station, and the several large-scale border forts nearby are only temporary camps.

Hua Ling, who used to be the guard commander of Prince Yu's Mansion, is now the new Heiyuntu cavalry commander.Therefore, a pro-army leader was re-promoted, a young man in his twenties named "Wei Shengwu", who was originally a soldier in the Taiyuan Army Town. Under the influence of his ears and eyes, full of admiration, he desperately begged to be a soldier of "General Jingbei".In order to integrate these soldiers from Taiyuan, Yulin and Ningxia as soon as possible, King Yu agreed.After using it for a while, it feels pretty good. The young man is loyal and clever, but he is a little too enthusiastic, and needs to be curbed by pouring cold water from time to time.

At this moment, Wei Shengwu, who came here full of enthusiasm, knocked on the door, and after being allowed to enter the room, he said face to face: "General, you are indeed here!"

King Yu was studying the military newspaper, without raising his head: "What's coming."

"The supervising army sent by the imperial court."

King Yu raised his eyebrows and stared at Wei Shengwu.

Wei Shengwu was pierced by this meaningful question, and scratched his eyebrows: "The checkpoint has checked the documents and identity badge, and it is Li Man, the head of the Imperial Horse Supervisor in the capital."

King Yu couldn't hide his disappointment.

Wei Shengwu knew that his generals hated being held back by others, especially laymen with no skills, so he proposed: "Why don't you give him a lowly position first? If he is sensible and doesn't dictate military affairs, he may still survive."

King Yu turned over a page of the military newspaper and lazily said, "Whatever you want."

After leaving the room, Wei Shengwu squinted his eyes a few times, thought about his heart, and ran to ask the quartermaster: "Where's the litter of wolf cubs we caught on the grassland last time?"

The quartermaster replied: "I raised it according to your wishes. Now it looks like a big wolf. After taming it, maybe it can be used as a messenger beast."

"Lend me two ends." Wei Shengwu said, entered the wolf pen, squeezed a prairie wolf under the nest, and walked away boldly.

The soldiers in charge of reception were quite negligent towards the new army supervisor and his guards, and led them to an earthen cave dwelling, and murmured, "The border conditions are poor, gentlemen, it's better than pitching a tent in the open air." .”

Li Man was originally the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and he was used to living in the Forbidden City. Wherever he lived in such a shabby room, he was about to get angry: "Is this a place where people live—"

The soldiers who received him didn't wait for him to finish complaining, and simply replied: "No!" and then walked away.

Li Man fell back angrily.

However, he saw the adult accompanying him with his bodyguard, walking towards the earthen cave without hesitation, and hastily shouted: "What is your status, how can you live in such a ghostly place..."

Unexpectedly, the other party turned his head and looked at him rather strangely: "No matter what status General Jingbei is, he can live there, why can't I?" Although the tone of this question was flat, it revealed an unshakable strength, and Li Man was overwhelmed. He choked so hard that his breath stuck in his throat, and he swallowed it like an egg raw.

"It's okay if Eunuch Li is not used to living here, you can find another better place, let me here." The other party entered the cave with his personal guards, and bolted the dilapidated wooden door behind his back.

Li Man didn't know what to do, and he didn't dare to lose his temper in front of him again, so he had to tell his followers: "Look around around you, and see if anyone has a decent place to live?"

In the end, I don't know if Eunuch Li found a satisfactory place to live, but he left anyway.

Originally there was a team of Jinyi guards who wanted to guard in front of the cave, but they were also persuaded to disperse. The reason was: "I like to be quiet, and it is enough to have a guard by my side. You have worked hard all the way, and each has a good rest. I will call everyone tomorrow."

Calm was restored in front of the cave dwelling.The people in the cave stretched their waists, and under the service of the personal guards, they washed up a little before getting ready to sleep on the kang.

After blowing out the oil lamp, he just closed his eyes when he heard the guard whisper: "There is a person sneaking up from outside the cave, with evil intentions."

He laughed: "This is a border fort, and there are patrolling soldiers everywhere. You haven't seen that person outside. How did you judge that the other party's intentions were wrong?"

"Because he is not alone, and he brought two beasts with him."

"The two beasts... are they sheep? It seems that there are a lot of sheep in the castle here, and the roadsides are full of shit particles."

"It's a wild beast." The personal guard said expressionlessly, and at the same time held two gravels in his hand, and was about to shoot them out of the window with a snap of his fingers.

But he was pulled by the sleeve by his own adult: "Don't worry, let's see what tricks the other party wants to play."

The window was quietly opened from the outside, and two beast shadows jumped in from the window. The dark green eyes of the beasts glowed in the darkness, and the low growls of the beasts accompanied by the stench of the beasts came to the face.

There was an exclamation in the cave, followed by the sound of objects falling to the ground in the pit, and the low growl of the wolf.

Wei Shengwu snickered outside the window, waited for a while, and then called out slowly: "Elder-in-law, are you okay? I passed by and seemed to hear wolves howling. I would like to remind you that this place is close to Beimo, and there are many prairie wolves." Very, there are also bears, they will look for food everywhere in winter, so you have to be careful on weekdays."

As soon as he finished speaking, the cave dwelling became silent.

Wei Shengwu listened intently, but there was no movement. He suspected that the eunuch in the room had his throat bitten off by a wolf, so he pushed open the wooden door at the entrance of the cave, which was not fastened at all.

A sword blade pierced out soundlessly, like the primordial lightning that pierced the night, and arrived at his throat.The coldness on the tip of the sword was like an ice pick nailed into his throat, Wei Shengwu didn't even have time to think of avoiding or parrying, only three words remained in his mind: I'm dead!

After the blank passed, he realized that he was still alive.

Wei Shengwu knew that he was being teased, and he was ashamed and angry that he could not steal the chicken, and cursed: "Dead too—"

Inside the cave, a twilight light lit up, and then ignited into a small ball of flames, illuminating the face of a young scholar in a shady blue robe.

The last word "Jian" froze in his throat, and was blown into a loud hiccup by the new wind.Wei Shengwu opened his mouth to look at the blue-clothed scholar in the candlelight, but couldn't utter a word.

The blue-clothed scholar smiled slightly and asked, "Is it your general's order that you come to take my prisoner's life?"

Wei Shengwu nodded blankly, then shook his head immediately.He knew that if he missed, he was afraid that something bad would happen, so he simply shut his mouth tightly and said nothing, his eyes looked around - he saw two half-sized prairie wolves lying in the corner, not knowing whether they were dead or not; and the guard holding a sword against his throat , a cold face is more frozen than a snowy field.

The scholar in blue said again: "If you don't speak, I will take it as your acquiescence."

Wei Shengwu clenched his fists and wanted to draw the dagger, but out of the instinct of a martial artist, he also knew that he could not move under this sword, and he had no chance of winning.He squinted his eyes, and was about to shout at his death—someone pretended to be the court supervisor and assassinated General Jingbei!Come, take down the assassin!

Unexpectedly, the other party's next sentence slapped him in the face, which caught him off guard: "Go and tell Zhu Jincheng, just say that I want to ask him, how long has the bloody smell spread to the capital, right? Hold it in for too long, and go too far?"

Wei Shengwu showed disgust on his face: "What do you eunuchs who eat like rice worms and wait to die? You don't command soldiers with mercy, those heads are not beheaded, and military orders are not issued. It is impossible for the Jingbei Army to become the Jingbei Army! We Everyone supports the general, if you want to slander the court - you will die!"

The scholar in blue didn't lose his demeanor when he was cursed, he still smiled: "Who says I'm a eunuch?"

Wei Shengwu glanced mockingly at the lower part of the other party's waist: "That's right, I haven't seen the disgusting part of an eunuch—maybe the man you raised has seen it."

Before the blade cut his throat, someone hooked it with a finger, and a clear red mark popped out on his cheek.The scholar in blue comforted the murderous bodyguard with his eyes, and said to Weisheng Wu Zhengse: "The Thirteenth Dao of the Ming Dynasty supervises the censor, and he has the post of 'Qing Army' when he is patrolling outside, and the teacher supervises the army's discipline. It is the law of the country. What do you despise, is it the authority and officials intervening in politics, or the law of the country?"

This time Wei Shengwu finally changed his face, gritted his teeth and said, "Supervising Yushi..."

He can kill a hundred eunuchs without any psychological burden, but he can't kill a censor indiscriminately.

It seemed like he... really got the general in trouble.

The scholar in blue flicked his flesh with the blade, as if he had become addicted to it, and Wei Shengwu had a few red marks on his face in the blink of an eye, but he chose to bear it, without saying a word of curse or beg for forgiveness.

When half of his cheek was swollen into a pig's head, he asked in a muffled voice, "Master Yu Shi, what's your name? I'm a lowly post so I can report to the general. The general is still reading the military newspaper in his room, and he doesn't know what happened outside."

The blue-clothed scholar thought for a while and said, "My surname is Diu, and my name is Ni Mu. You can also call me Lao Mu. If you do something for me, I won't let the leader of General Jingbei's personal army murder the supervising army." How about reporting to the court?"

Wei Shengwu was not reconciled, so he had to ask: "What matter, Lord Yushi will say first, and the humble position also depends on whether it can be done."

Diu Yushi said: "Tell me in detail how your general beheaded more than [-] generals and generals in one go, and how did you formulate the military order that soldiers can commit crimes?"

It was late at night, and King Yu was about to roll up the map on the desktop when he heard several knocks on the door.

Outside the door, Wei Shengwu said in a muffled voice: "The general hasn't slept yet, I have something important to report from my humble position."

"Come in."

As soon as the door opened, King Yu was slightly startled: "Did you go dig out the hornet's nest?"

Wei Shengwu covered his red and swollen face, suppressing the shame: "The imperial court has sent two supervisors, the deputy is the eunuch Li Man, and the official is a censor, Di Ni Mu."

"...What did you say? If you have the guts, repeat it to me!"

"Dou Ni Mu, Lao Mu."

King Yu grabbed the empty teacup on the table and smashed it on the other half of his uncovered face.

After a few seconds, King Yu suddenly came to his senses, and rushed forward in two or three steps: "Is he a handsome scholar-like censor?"

Wei Shengwu nodded vigorously while covering his cheeks.

King Yu laughed loudly, saying "If he wants to throw it away, he can throw it away", and strode out the door, his tall figure disappearing into the night.