Chapter Seventy-Nine: The King of the Tan Who Self-Immolated
"呯~呯~" Two large bowls of sharp meat fell in front of Li Jie and Tang Sheng, and then Tang He also filled himself with a bowl of meat and sat opposite the two of them, picked up the chopsticks and ate them.
"Grandpa, did you really kill Lao Huang?" Tang Sheng looked at the meat in front of him but showed an unbearable expression, Lao Huang is a dog raised by Tang He, older than him, he often played with Lao Huang when he was a child, in the past two years, Lao Huang has been getting older and older, lying in the nest all day long, Tang Sheng rarely sees it again.
"Kill it, kill it, it's just a dog, do you still want me to give it a grand burial?" Tang He saw his grandson like a mother-in-law, and immediately said angrily.
At this time, Tang Sheng didn't dare to say more, and silently picked up chopsticks to pick up a piece of meat, but he didn't dare to say anything for a long time.
In contrast, Li Jie picked up the bowl and smelled it, then showed a somewhat playful smile on his face, picked up the chopsticks and ate it, not to mention, the soup and the meat were cooked fragrant and rotten, and Li Jie was also full of oil.
"Grandpa Tang, I want to ask you something!" Li Jie said to the soup while eating.
"What's the matter?" Tang He only cared about picking the meat in his mouth, and he didn't even lift his eyes.
"You have led troops to eastern Zhejiang and Fujian, and you have also fought against them, so you must know them very well, right?" Li Jie put down the chopsticks in his hand and asked.
Hearing Li Jie inquire about the Wako, Tang He's eating action also paused, and then raised his eyes to look at him before asking, "Why are you kid interested in the Wako?" ”
"It's not that I'm interested, but yesterday there were craftsmen from Quanzhou in the workshop, and their family was killed by the Japanese invaders, and it is said that the Japanese have been making a lot of trouble recently, so I just wanted to inquire." Li Jie said that in the end, his face was also solemn.
I saw Tang He put the last piece of meat in the bowl into his mouth, chewed it a few times and swallowed it, and then wiped the oil on his mouth with his hand and said: "Wako is like a fly in a meal, although it can't eat the dead, but it can disgust the dead......"
With Tang He's narration, Li Jie finally understood the situation of the Ming Dynasty in the early Ming Dynasty, in fact, it was almost the same as he had expected, the number of Japanese was not large, and the combat effectiveness was not strong, and when they encountered the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, they had almost no strength to resist, after all, the Ming army in this period was extremely strong in combat, and even the Mongols were not their opponents, let alone the small Japanese invaders.
However, there is an extremely troublesome place for the Japanese Kou, that is, they are too mobile, they can land from any coast by small boat, and the coastline of the Ming Dynasty is so long, it is impossible to prevent it at all.
At the beginning, Tang He also thought about taking the initiative to attack and directly find the nest of the Japanese invaders to clean it up, but the sea is endless, and the islands are dotted around, God knows where the nest of the Japanese is located, there is a way that there is only "a thousand days to be a thief, there is no thousand days to prevent thieves", so this little Japanese invader actually made a mess along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, and almost every year there are Japanese robberies landing and looting.
At the end, Tang He suddenly stopped, then looked at Li Jie and Tang Sheng and asked rhetorically, "Do you know what was the most hateful thing I encountered when I was purging the Japanese Invaders?" ”
"What is it?" Li Jie and Tang Sheng were fascinated by what they heard, and they also asked in unison at this time.
I saw Tang He snort coldly at this time, and his face also showed a bit of murderous aura: "If it's just a wolf, it's not enough to worry at all, but the hateful thing is that there are many people in the coastal area who have fornications with the wolf, not one or two, but countless, and the reason why those wolfholes can be ghostly is because these people report to them, causing the army of the imperial court to be exhausted, and in the end they are in vain!" ”
Tang He also slammed the table hard when he said this, compared to the Japanese Kou, he hated those scum who had fornicated with the Japanese Kou, but there were too many of these people, and they were very deep, like rats in a hole in the ground, and they couldn't catch it if they wanted to.
"Then why did they have an affair with the murderous pirates?" Tang Sheng asked a very crucial question at this time.
"Humph! People die for money, birds die for food, these people have huge interests in fornicating with the Japanese robbers, or smuggling, or selling stolen goods, many people even become a wealthy family, after having money, these people can even buy officials, so that the movements of the court are clear! Tang He said angrily again, he had also killed a group of people who had fornicated with the Japanese Kou, but these people were killed endlessly, and soon a group of people who were not afraid of death appeared, so he had nothing to do.
Li Jie was also silent after hearing this, in his opinion, the Japanese have become a systemic problem in the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty, just by killing a group of Japanese and traitors is useless, the most important thing is to find the root cause of this problem, only from the root of the problem, in order to completely eliminate the Japanese bandits.
Next, Li Jie asked Tang He about some other coastal issues, and Tang He was very patient with Li Jie and explained in detail what he knew.
However, when Tang He was talking, he occasionally glanced at his grandson Tang Sheng, he didn't think it before, but as soon as Li Jie came today, he suddenly found that his grandson really had no advantages other than being honest and honest, which made him sigh secretly, they are all the same age, why are other people's grandsons so much stronger than their own grandsons?
In the end, after the matter was over, Li Jie got up to say goodbye, and Tang He also asked Tang Sheng to send Li Jie away.
"Woo~" But as soon as Li Jie and Tang Sheng left, they saw an old yellow dog limping from the backyard, and his black nose was constantly sniffing the smell of meat in the air.
"You old dog, you don't usually come out of the nest, you only come out when Lao Tzu eats meat!" Tang He looked at the old yellow dog under his feet and couldn't help but smile and said, then he took a piece of meat and threw it to the old yellow dog and said, "Eat, this is the best yellow beef, Emperor Lao Tzu strictly forbids anyone to eat cows, but when he was a child, he killed the cattle of Rich Liu's family to eat meat, and he ate more than others!" ”
At the same time, after going out to say goodbye to Tang Sheng, Li Jie got into the carriage, felt that his teeth were a little uncomfortable, and reached out to remove a few strands of beef from the gap between his teeth, which made him whisper to himself: "The beef made by this old man is quite delicious, but the beef itself is too old, it can't be an old cow, right?" ”
…… Dividing line ......
Changsha Mansion City, in the inner hall of Tanwang Mansion, all kinds of gold and silver wealth, antiques, calligraphy and paintings are piled up together, making the whole hall look golden and brilliant, very spectacular.
On the throne of the main hall, a man and a woman are hugging each other and crying, among which the man is wearing a woven cotton satin robe and a nine-seam crown, which is Zhu Zi, the king of Tan, and the woman who embraces him, of course, is the princess of Tan.
"It's all because the concubine is not in good health, if it weren't for my father and brother's fault, it wouldn't have affected my husband!" Princess Tan cried and said with remorse, she never dreamed that her father and brother would commit such a big crime, and even they would be affected.
"You and I are husband and wife, what is not involved!" I saw Zhu Zi wipe a handful of tears and said, "My father ordered us to enter Beijing, I must have listened to the rumors and wanted to blame me, I have long heard that Jinyiwei is famous, if you and I go to prison, there will definitely be no good results, so I simply die to show my innocence!" ”
"Husband~" Princess Tan hugged her husband again when she heard this, they have been married for many years, although they have no children, but the relationship between husband and wife is extremely deep, even if this kind of thing happens, King Tan has never blamed his wife.
Tan Wang and his wife hugged their heads again and cried for a while, and finally Zhu Zi finally made up his mind, only to see him stand up and walk to the hall, pull out the sword at his waist, and wave his hand to chop several large jars on the ground, and then saw a black grease flowing to the ground, which is the fierce fire oil commonly used in the army.
Princess Tan also tidied up her clothes at this time, and then raised a candlestick and walked to Zhu Zi's side, the husband and wife were dead at this time, as early as when they received the holy decree to summon them to Beijing, they were ready to commit suicide.
"Husband, the afterlife...... I'm going to be your wife! Princess Tan said to her husband again with a firm expression.
Zhu Zi took the candlestick with one hand, stroked his wife's smooth face with the other, and said softly: "Okay, we will still be husband and wife in the next life!" ”
After Zhu Zi finished speaking, he was about to throw the candlestick into the grease on the ground, but at this moment, he suddenly heard a burst of eager footsteps outside the hall, and then a eunuch panted and said, "The temple ...... Your Highness, ...... again Another decree has come! ”
"What?" Zhu Zi also stopped his movements when he heard this, and then glanced at his wife, but the husband and wife were confused, they only received the holy decree to enter Beijing today, why did they come again?
But before Zhu Zi could figure it out, he heard another rush of footsteps outside, and then a brocade guard was carried by several guards and ran in, only to see that this brocade guard had a muddy face, and he could hardly see the appearance of a person, and his whole body was soft without the slightest strength, if it wasn't for the guards to support him, I am afraid he would have fallen to the ground.
"Pond...... His Royal Highness the King of Tan receives the order! The tired half-dead Jinyi Wei saw Zhu Zi finally struggle to remove the bamboo tube on his back, but he didn't have the strength to read the holy decree anymore at this time.
Zhu Zi was also anxious to know what was written on the holy decree, so he snatched the bamboo tube, and then opened it to find that in addition to the holy decree, there was also a letter inside, and it was written by the eldest brother Zhu Biao, which made him even more surprised.
At that moment, Zhu Zi opened the holy decree, and the result began with a big scolding of the old Zhu Pi's head and face, Zhu Zi was panicked at first, but then he showed a look of great joy, and the fear in his heart disappeared all of a sudden, and finally he opened Zhu Biao's letter, and the more he looked at it, the happier he became, and finally he looked up to the sky and laughed: "Heaven will never stop me!" Heaven is not ending me! ”
"Husband, what is written in the holy decree, and who wrote this letter?" Princess Tan was also startled when she saw her husband's somewhat crazy appearance, and then asked with concern.
Zhu Zi then remembered that his wife had not read the holy decree and letters, and immediately looked ecstatic and wanted to show these to her, but the accident happened, Zhu Zi may have been too excited, and did not pay attention to his feet at all, and the cotton satin robe he was wearing was too wide, and as a result, he accidentally stepped on the hem of his clothes, and the whole person fell forward suddenly.
Fortunately, the eunuch who reported the news was quick and helped Zhu Zi, but don't forget, in addition to the holy decree and letters, Zhu Zi also held a candlestick for lighting a fire, and the candles on the candlestick also flew out at once.
I have to say that the quality of the candle used in the palace is good, seeing that this candle turned around in the air a few times, the flame on it was not extinguished, and it fell to the ground and rolled out for a long time, and finally Zhu Zi and his wife were horrified in their eyes, and the "bones" rolled into the fire oil!