Chapter Ninety-Six: Yu Kang
When Mi Xun was trapped by love, Chen Xian sat in the carriage with a small wooden box in his arms, and after inspecting the business of Hua Hanxiang's shop on a daily basis, the carriage turned back to Zhugan Lane.
In front of the door were a few chestnut horses, fat and strong, with manes blowing in the breeze.
"How can there be horses?" Chen Xian got out of the car and asked Liu Changgen, the housekeeper who was ushered in, in amazement, "Guests?" ”
"It's a guest from the capital, and I'm eating tea in the main hall, and I want to see the owner by name!" Liu Changgen reached out in a panic to pick up the wooden box in Chen Xian's arms, but was stopped by Chen Xian reaching out.
"Beijing?" Chen Xian was stunned, his only friends in the capital could only be Fan Dingbo and Mi Yun, but these two were still staying in Hangzhou at the moment...... Could it be - old saying?
"Where?" Chen Xian's eyebrows raised, and then suddenly, Liu Changgen said it in the first sentence, and said with a smile: "I'm going to see them!" ”
When Chen Xian hurriedly walked into the main hall, he only saw a strange man standing with his back to him, and on both sides of the gate stood two guards with knives at their waists.
The man looked about thirty years old from behind, wearing a blue-edged green coat with a cross-collar and wide sleeves, a large blue belt with a blue edge tied around his waist, and his hair was neatly tucked into a scarf, and the whole person was as tall and steep as a pine tree.
At this moment, the man was looking up at the couplet that Chen Xian had written before, he was reading it while reading, and his voice was buzzing: "I know that I am sad and desolate through the ages. but see evil and promote good. Embrace the long cloud outside the moon...... Who is the Lord of justice in the world? What a family law Dharma! I only believe in the knife in my hand! ”
"Good!" After reading this couplet, he turned around with a smile and looked at Chen Xiandao: "Chen Xingzhi in Hangzhou is as imposing as a rainbow. ”
"It's overrated." Chen Xian arched his hand, and glanced at this person cautiously, only to see that this person's face was resolute, thick eyebrows flew obliquely into his sideburns, and a pair of tiger eyes were not angry but mighty, quite a bit of military spirit.
"Yu Kang." He introduced concisely: "Tian Ju has the experience of the former military capital governor's mansion, and my father ......"
"Hahaha!" Before he finished speaking, Chen Xian grinned, stepped forward enthusiastically and tugged at Yu Kang's sleeve, and said with a smile: "It turned out to be Brother Yu, please sit down!" ”
Chen Xian was a little nervous before, after all, because he considered where there would be any guests in this small mansion when he wrote it, so he wrote this couplet...... It seems that you still have to be careful in the future!
Yu Kang was a little uncomfortable by Chen Xian's enthusiasm, but he was in the army all the year round, and he was a straightforward person, so he sat down casually, picked up the teacup, and said with a smile: "My father often mentioned it in Beijing, saying that he met a friend in Hangzhou. Knowing that I was going south with the army this time, he asked me to bring a letter. ”
As he spoke, he took out a sealed letter from his arms and put it in front of Chen Xian.
Chen Xian took the letter, without the slightest intention of evading it, directly tore open the seal, took out the letter paper and opened it and looked at it.
"The little friend of the humble book ......" familiar handwriting, familiar title.
It was as if looking at this letter that one could see the spirited middle-aged scribe sitting in front of him with a smile, looking at himself with a pair of wise eyes......
After a while, Chen Xian put down the letterhead and looked up at Yu Kang in front of him thoughtfully.
It has been made clear in the letter that this location Kang is actually not Yu Qian's biological son but an adopted son, and the rest of the content is about the southeast.
Ye Zongliu, who had been active in the Jiangxi and Fujian areas, actually led the army to invade Chuzhou in Zhejiang, and supervised the imperial Shi Liuhua as early as last year, leading the troops and horses of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi provinces to encircle and suppress.
However, this Liu Hua has been in vain for a long time, and even let Ye Zongliu's group of miners enter Zhejiang, so that the military generals in the court are ready to move, since Liu Hua, who represents Wenchen, can't command the soldiers and horses, then send our generals to go?
In fact, the military generals have declined since the Jingjing, and the current emperor is closer to the civil officials, which makes it more difficult for the military generals in the current court to compete with the civil officials.
got this opportunity, these generals who were pressed on weekdays naturally continued to play slowly, and the ministers naturally couldn't let the generals raise their heads, and the final result of the game between the two sides was to send a five-grade former military governor's office experience to lead 500 soldiers and horses to supervise the battle.
In fact, they chose Yu Kang for a reason, this is Yu Kang's father's position, which was considered a military general, but his parents died when he was a child and was adopted by Yu Qian.
Of course, if things are done well, this credit will naturally have to be fought for together......
The letter also mentioned that there was another rebel army, which was Deng Maoqi further south, and this Deng Maoqi was even more exaggerated, and even named himself a "bulldozer king", and repeatedly broke officers and soldiers in Fujian, and won every battle.
Of course, these wars, which have little to do with him, are not the reason for Yu Qian's letter.
At the end of this letter, it was even mentioned: "Yesterday, there was a remark from the magistrate of Shanghai: Chen Xingzhi, a genius from Hangzhou, helped the government to break the pirates with a strange plot......
I said how did I write such a long letter to myself, and the feeling was that Ren Zhongyuan mentioned me by the way when he invited merit, and then I was remembered by the old saying...... So he decided to invite himself to help his son?
Chen Xian looked at the sturdy man in front of him, and looked at it in a daze for a long time before frowning and asking, "Brother Yu, before you leave, Lao Yan, cough cough, what can Lord Shilang explain?" ”
"There is an explanation, but my father said ......"
"Conditionally, right?" Chen Xian shrugged his shoulders and rolled his eyes to think - sure enough, it was the style of Lao Yan, the first letter he brought to Wei Qingqing last year was to set the premise that he needed to climb the mountain for three consecutive days before he could hand over the letter to him, and now he actually came to this hand......
"Well, yes!" Yu Kang subconsciously felt that the scholar in front of him had a lot of appetite for himself, unlike the scholars he knew in the past, who opened and closed his mouth, and many things that could be explained in one sentence had to go around in a big circle.
Since this scholar looks pleasing to the eye, it doesn't hurt to tell him the conditions in advance, Yu Kang gently put the teacup in his hand on the table, and said with a smile: "My father said that if Chen Gongzi is willing to go with me, I can inform you of the follow-up explanation." ”
"Haha, let me guess!" Chen Xian grinned, his eyes blazing as he looked at the surprised man in front of him, and said with a smile: "Isn't it that if I am willing to walk with you, then you must carefully consider my opinion?" Or even make you obey me? ”