Shangqiu Valley Mature Town, Henan.

In the sound of firecrackers, many children gathered at the door of the Yang family's old house, carrying small bamboo and blue seeds, shouting and making noise at the door.

These are the children of the residents of Gushu Town, and they will come to pay New Year's greetings to the old man on the first day of the new year every year, and then go to the next house with a full load of bamboo blue.

This has almost become a local custom, and every family, whether rich or not, will prepare a large number of melon seeds, peanuts and sweets on the first day of the new year to wait for the children to come to pay New Year's greetings. No matter how poor they are, they will give the children a handful, so that the children can have a happy New Year.

The old minister is Yang Hao, he has never entered the cabinet, only as a military strategy for aiding Korea and the governor of Liaodong, but the people in the town don't know, they only know that Yang is very majestic when he is in the middle of the court, and he also went to North Korea to fight the devils of the Japanese country, and he is a great official, so he is called by the old minister.

Yang Hao likes children very much, especially these children in his hometown, and he paid for the social studies in the town. As long as it is a child in Gushu Town, no matter which family it is, you can go to social school. If they can be admitted to Tongsheng, Xiucai, Yang Hao will cover the cost of their future studies, so they are very respected by the villagers.

"Both, both..."

Yang Hao, who is over fifty years old, got up early in the morning and came to the gate early, and the servants put the things that had been prepared before the year beside the master, just so that the master and others could send things to the children who came to pay New Year's greetings.

There is another reason why children like to come to the old man's house to pay New Year's greetings, that is, the old man will give them copper coins. Although it is not much, one person has three or two articles, but these three or two articles can make the children happy.

As the biggest person in Gushu Town, the Yang family will definitely receive a lot of New Year's greetings on the first day of the New Year. However, except for his closest relatives, Yang Ho does not like to receive people who come from other places, and he usually returns to the study after giving things to the children who wish for the New Year.

Seeing that the hair was almost done, Yang Hao was about to go back to the house, but at this time, three fast horses stopped not far from the gate of Yang's house.

The three people on the horse looked like they were wearing military uniforms, and they looked like they were in the dust. The three of them saw that there were many children at the gate of the Yang family paying New Year's greetings, and they hesitated to know if it was now in the past.

Yang Hao looked at the expressions of the three of them, and quietly called the servant Yang San to go over and ask where the person came from.

After a while, Yang San came over and whispered that the three of them were from Jingshi, and said that they were the people of the old man's student Eunuch Wei.

"I'll leave it to you,"

Yang Hao smiled and reached out and grabbed a large handful of peanuts and stuffed them into a child's bamboo blue, then clapped his hands, and told Yang San and the others to bring the visitor to the study.

After returning to the study, Yang Hao's face gradually became solemn, he sent someone to him on the first day of the Qing New Year, there must be something important, but I don't know what a big deal it is.

There is a newly filled tune on the case, which was written by Yang Hao on the 28th of the month, which has the following sentences: "The purple silk robe, a product is still too small, and the sea waves are measured, and people's hearts are difficult to worry about." ”

This is the outpouring of Yang Ho's inner pain.

Since he was impeached by Yang He in the matter of Liao Fu and Yang He, the emperor ignored him, and there were many sieges in Kedao, which caused Yang Hao to have to hang up and resign, he was extremely depressed in his heart and felt the pain of not being understood.

Unlike the first impeachment of Zhishi, Yang Ho did not lose in Liaofu's tenure, but pacified the barbarians, beheaded and regained a lot of land.

In this way, the imperial court did not reward his merits, Kedao played him for provoking the side, treating his merits as nothing, and the emperor did not know what to do not appease, all kinds of cold places, only Yang Hao had no intention of going out again. Therefore, there is a sentence in the song: "The flat ground is so leisurely, the high places are more upside down, and the personnel are just less turned back".

Judging from this sentence alone, Yang Hao has obviously had the intention of completely retiring.

"Master, the people have brought it!"

Yang San's voice from outside the house interrupted Yang Hao's meditation.

"Let them in."

Yang Ho touched his bald head.

There was only one person who came in, and the person who came was very young, and after entering the house, he kowtowed to Yang Hao, and said while kowtowing: "The little Wei Xuewen kowtowed to the teacher's ancestor to pay New Year's greetings, and I wish the teacher Zufu such as the East China Sea, and longevity than Nanshan!" ”

"Hehe, get up, get up."

Yang Hao was the one who led the troops, and he was very happy to see Wei Xuewen's handsome appearance, and it was rare that he was heroic, so he was very happy, "Hearing you say this, could it be that you are my student's nephew?" ”

"Back to the teacher's ancestral words, Father-in-law Wei is the youngest thirteenth uncle." After Wei Xuewen got up, he respectfully placed a gift slip on Yang Hao's table, and respectfully took three steps back and stood there straight.

"Sit down and talk."

"There is no small place to sit in front of the teacher's ancestor."

This is the way of etiquette, and Yang Hao didn't force it, so he asked: "This is the New Year, your thirteenth uncle sent you to me, it's not as simple as just giving me New Year's greetings, right?" ”

"Ancestor, this is my thirteenth uncle's letter to you, he said that you will know it when you read the letter." After Wei Xuewen finished speaking, he took out the secret letter in his arms and handed it to Yang Hao.

Yang Hao opened the letter and saw that it was indeed the handwriting of his half-collected students, but when he looked at it carefully, he was taken aback, and said in a lost voice: "Jianzhou actually founded the country and called Khan!" ”

Looking down carefully, the more I looked, the more frightened I became, it turned out that the Jianzhou Dragon and Tiger General Nuerhachi not only founded the country on New Year's Day, with the name of Mandate of Heaven, but also had tens of thousands of elites of the Eight Banners, like a hegemon.

In the letter, Gonggong Wei clearly told his cheap teacher that Nurhachi had conquered the Jurchen tribes of Haidong and Haixi, and his strength had already possessed tens of thousands of elite horses.

Three years ago, on the grounds of betraying the alliance, imprisoning his wife, and sending hostages to Yehe, Nurhachi led an army of 30,000 people, including Daishan, his nephew Amin, the generals Fei Yingdong, Eyidu, He Heli, and Hu Erhan, to conquer Ula again, and brought all the people of Ulla, including the sons of Buzhantai, into 10,000 households and brought them back to Jianzhou.

In this way, thousands of elite soldiers were added, and then there were crusades against the Horqin and Khalkha tribes, and more than 10,000 Mongol soldiers, not counting the pro-affiliated tribes, the actual number of troops in the Eight Banners that could be deployed in Jianzhou alone at present was enough to be 60,000 or 70,000, and the cavalry was the mainstay, and the armor was advantageous.

After the teacher left office, Nurhachi can be said to have taken advantage of the situation, Zhang Tao, who took over the position of the teacher Liaofu, did not know martial affairs, only knew how to keep the conservatism and incompleteness, and tried in vain to appease and maintain Liao, and sat back and watched Nurhachi continue to annex the surrounding tribes. He is now full-fledged, so he dares to call the Khan the founding of the country, and looking at my Ming Liaodong Dusi, it is difficult to compete with one of them even if he tries his best. Therefore, the students thought that Liaodong was about to burst into flames, and Nurhachi would betray me soon! ”

In the letter, in addition to informing Yang Hao of the details of Jianzhou, Gonggong Wei asked Yang Hao for advice.

Yang Hao pondered for a while, Yu Wei Xuewen said: "You go back and tell your thirteenth uncle, to deal with Jianzhou, you can't use the strength of my Liaodong family, you can contact Lin Dan of the Mongolian Chahar Department, although this person also has ambitions, he has always wanted to reunify Mongolia, and it is also a problem for my Ming henchmen, only the rise of Jianzhou is not beneficial to him Chahar, so Lin Dan will never sit idly by and watch Nurhachi grow, as long as the imperial court sends envoys to the Chahar Department and promises benefits, Lin Dan will send troops to attack Jianzhou." ”

After a pause, Yang Hao thought about it again and continued: "In addition, to tell you the thirteenth uncle, there are four people in Liaodong who can be used now, one is Zhang Chengyin, the general of Guangning, the second is Po Tingxiang, the deputy general of Liaoyang, the third is He Shixian, the general of Shenyang, and the fourth is Shang Bozhi, the garrison of Jianzhou. These four people are all generals, and if Nurhachi rebels, then these four people can be used to quell the rebellion. ”

After speaking, Yang Hao didn't say anything more.

How to use these four people, and how to use them, he was already difficult to grasp, it all depended on how his student who was a eunuch spoke by the emperor's side.

"Teacher, don't worry, the little ones have been written down!" Wei Xuewen nodded heavily, "My thirteenth uncle also has a sentence for me to bring to my teacher's ancestor." ”

Yang Ho asked, "What?" ”

"If the Liao affair arises, the good minister will pour all his family wealth, and he will also help the teacher to return to Pingliao!" Wei Xuewen said this sentence that he had already memorized.

Yang Hao was stunned for a long time, and muttered: "Daqing, can you do it?" ”