The walls of more than three feet high were indeed insurmountable in this era, and even Dolgon, who was able to fight well, could only sigh in front of such a wall. Yang Hongzhang was in no mood to continue to enjoy the scenery of Beijing.

Although the Jinyi Wei Qianhu led by him said that it was specially arranged by the emperor, from Gao Keng's eyes, he knew that he might really enter the city as Zhang Bao said this time......

Sure enough, after entering the city of Beijing, those brocade guards were no longer polite to Yang Hongzhang, and directly put chains on him, and then stuffed into a carriage blindfolded, and after about half an hour, Yang Hongzhang opened his eyes and found that he might be imprisoned in a dungeon that is often heard in novels. Because it's very dark and damp, with walls on three sides and a cold iron fence on one side!

I just don't know if this is a prison or a place in the Criminal Department. The only consolation is that there is no one else in this separate room, so it is relatively quiet, and although the environment is not very good, the stench is not there for the time being.

But soon he had a partner, and the next day, his second brother Yang Hongcheng was also sent in.

This was the first time he had met this brother after crossing over, and it was obvious that this brother was surprised by Yang Hongzhang's growth speed at first. But what came to Yang Hongzhang next was bad news.

Because his second brother was brought in, that is, now the court is no longer a question of appreciating his merits, but how to punish him! From the second brother's simple description, the current court is also upset about his affairs.

What surprised Yang Hongzhang the most was that Yang Sichang returned to the capital with Wang Lenian! The two of them jointly accused Yang Hongzhang of not saving him when he saw death, killing his colleagues, and delaying the fighter plane. Then Xue Guoguan, a scholar of the imperial court cabinet, and others wrote a book, and Yang Hongzhang was listed in total for five major crimes:

First, Yang Hongzhang secretly hid a large number of muskets and firearms, which were enough to arm the army against the soldiers of a town. This is undoubtedly tantamount to rebellion and disloyalty!

Second, Yang Hongzhang knew many times in Gaoyang and Hejian that Lu Xiangsheng was under siege and did not save him, Lu Xiangsheng was almost equivalent to Mrs. Yang Hongzhang's uncle, this kind of person who saw his elders besieged by the enemy's heavy troops and led his troops to be free was unfilial.

Thirdly, he led the army to leave Gaoyang without authorization, ignored tens of thousands of people, did not rescue Gaoyang refugees in time when he was in Hejian, and sat back and watched the refugees step on landmines and be slaughtered by the Qing army, and shot at ordinary people, resulting in thousands of deaths outside Hejian City, which is extremely heinous, which is unkind.

Fourth, it is unjust to refuse to rescue Gaoyang Wang Lenian, Linqing Yang Sichang, and Liu Zeqing, and kill their colleagues.

Fifth, he obviously had muskets and artillery that could equip a town's people, but he hid them, and he was still unwilling to take them out until Sun Ge Lao and Lu Xiangsheng forcibly kept them. Obviously, he could wipe out all the Japanese at the mouth of the Yangtze River, but he was stingy with his artillery, muskets, and casualties and watched the Japanese escape, and only under the persecution of Jiannu did he take out the weapons he had step by step, and he was forced to expose his unbelief.

Such a disloyal, unfilial, unkind, unrighteous and unbeliever, don't say that living in a temple, even if you kill it, it is also the emperor's grace!

From the tone of the second brother Yang Hongcheng, it is obvious that if the imperial court continues to pursue it like this, not only the family in Hangzhou will not be spared, but even the eldest brother Yang Hongnian, who is far away in Kuizhou, will be affected.

Yang Hongzhang imagined the stupidity of the court and the difficulties of important ministers, but he didn't expect that he would be described by these people as such a heinous person. I really wanted to go to Sun Chengzong and Lu Xiangsheng to settle accounts, but it is said that Sun Chengzong ordered troops to follow Dolgon to Shanhaiguan, saying that it was a pursuit, but in fact, it was more to see people leave. And Lu Xiangsheng is not out of danger so far!

It is precisely because of this that I can't tell with a hundred mouths. In the final analysis, it was because he was a traverser, and he completely ignored some of the constraints of this era, and the result was that he violated some taboos one after another. For example, on the issue of private possession of muskets and firearms, from 400 flintlock guns to 800, from 6 artillery pieces to 40 or 50 guns outside Beijing. This is unacceptable to some pedantic literati! It has also become a handle for Sun Chengzong, Lu Xiangsheng and other political enemies to attack him.

Looking at the second brother with a simple face, Yang Hongzhang felt a little guilty in his heart, it was his own accident that affected him. More people may be affected in the future.

However, Yang Hongcheng is obviously more interested in Yang Hongzhang's experience over the past year or so. So Yang Hongzhang talked about his past again, and Yang Hongcheng seemed to have forgotten the dangerous situation of the brothers for the time being, and was full of interest in the vast sea.

Yang Hongzhang said with a smile: "Second brother, you can't read the eldest brother, you can't lead the troops to fight as much as me, I think if you can go out this time, you should go back to Hangzhou to help your father, there are a few big ships at home that are enough for you to travel safely between Korea, Japan and the Ming Dynasty." ”

"Since you came to Gaoyang, I have told Lord Lu about this, all three of us brothers have come out, and no one in the family can't do it, so my original plan was to wait for the war to end and go back, but I didn't expect to come here now."

Yang Hongzhang smiled when he heard this, and said in his heart that he still didn't know people in this era, it turned out that the second brother had already had the idea of going back to do his filial piety for his eldest brother and himself.

The two brothers had a good conversation in this cold dungeon, and soon two days passed.

On this day, the iron bars of the cell were opened from the outside, and a person who looked like a cell leader brought in two people, an old man and a young man, but took Yang Hongcheng out.

Yang Hongzhang looked at the two people who came in, and the cell boss was respectful to the two of them, obviously the other party was not locked in. On closer inspection, it seemed that the young man was the dominant of the two.

However, he is a young man, and his face is about his early thirties, but his temples already have gray hair, and he looks like he is tired of trivial matters, and then he looks at his bearing and most of the people who can come to this kind of place are court officials. I want to look at the two sideburns and white hair, this young man should be a good official. It's just that I don't know if it's from the Criminal Department or Dali Temple.

Yang Hongzhang looked at the other party, and after the other party came in, he didn't rush to speak, but looked at Yang Hongzhang carefully.

"Why should you be a thief?" These were the first words of the young man after entering the cell.

Hearing this, Yang Hongzhang frowned, and then smiled: "Yang has killed red hair, killed Japanese robbers, and killed Jiannu, but he has never been a thief, why did the adult say this?" ”

"Bold Yang Hongzhang, now that the lords of the court have impeached you for the five major crimes, do you want to quibble?" Seeing Yang Hongzhang's disdainful look, the middle-aged man behind the young man couldn't help but take two steps forward and scolded.

Yang Hongzhang still sat in place and glanced at the man: "The two of you don't know what to do here, if you want Yang to confess, please go back." Although Yang is young, he also knows Yue Wumu's unwarranted story. Even if it is unnecessary, why bother to sign and draw it? ”

"Bold, do you mean that the prime ministers of the DPRK and China are Qin Hui?"

"Don't dare, I have never met with the ministers of the DPRK and China, and I am ashamed that I am not as good as Yue Wu Mu. But since it's a heinous sin, it's not a pity to die, so I don't bother with it, so please go back. ”

The middle-aged man wanted to question Yang Hongzhang, but was stopped by the young man.

The man paused and suddenly asked: "General Yang, Huang came to replace the imperial court and the auxiliary ministers to ask the general how to explain his crimes, if it is reasonable, in fact, the general may not really be punished for serious crimes." Since so-and-so is here, the general doesn't have to refuse people for thousands of miles, and it doesn't hurt to talk about it. After saying that, he sat down on the floor, and the middle-aged man hurriedly ran over to tidy up and wipe the ground, but was stopped by the man.

Seeing the other party like this, Yang Hongzhang also felt strange, looking at the age, the other party did not look like an important minister in the court, generally speaking, Xiang Siwen's prefect in his early forties is already young, even if he is talented and learned, his early thirties are already very good in the six subjects, and he is a speech official in the Inspectorate if he mixes well, and his tone seems to be a posture of a squire or even a scholar. In line with the idea of chatting to relieve boredom, Yang Hongzhang began his personal speech: "In order to save himself and hundreds of sailors from being enslaved by the red-haired devils, I ask this lord, if you face hundreds of muskets and dozens of cannons, will you throw them into the sea or give them to the pirates at sea?" Firearms are innocent in the first place, it depends on who uses them and what they do with them. Do you know what Yang did with those muskets and artillery? Kill thousands of Japanese who are besieging Shanghai City, and tens of thousands of who are looting Jiannu in Zhili, where does disloyalty come from? ”

Without waiting for the young man to speak, Yang Hongzhang continued: "Yang was originally just a grass people, and he came to Zhili because he heard that Jiannu was about to invade and brought people thousands of miles away to take his uncle and two brothers away.

There is also the Gaoyang Wang Lenian, taking advantage of Yang Mou's troops out of the city to close the city gate and not let a certain group enter the city, he had to go to attack the river, whether it is to defend Gaoyang or the river, it is more to win with less, then Yang Sichang has 20,000 people according to the city but can not withstand the three-day attack of Jiannu, and he is embarrassed to ask Yang for a garrison with less than 1,000 soldiers to ask for help, and he is crazy enough to escort Haoge and Yue Tuo to Linqing, if so, wouldn't it let Duoduo snatch back?

Besides, outside the city between the rivers, as Gaoyang's parents and officials, but bewitched their own people to be the lackeys of the Jiannu people, and used their flesh and blood to clear mines for the Jiannu people, the court did not investigate the sins of the king madman but what kind of injustice should be said, Yang Mou first arrived in Cangzhou, without any official position, but saw the Jiannu slaughter of my Ming people, and led 200 people to ambush a Jiannu of Niu Lu on the side of the road, may I ask if this is an unrighteous act? In order to prepare for the war in Gaoyang, in order to guard the river, Yang has so far put in more than 100,000 taels of silver, and he doesn't know who to ask for, I don't know if the adult can help Yang ask for it back? As for not believing, Yang was entrusted by the governor in Hangzhou to harass the Japanese at sea, and as a result, he came to a trick to startle the snakes, and then blocked the Japanese outside Shanghai and killed thousands of people, and seized dozens of ships of supplies. Yang killed thousands of Jiannu in Gaoyang with only 600 people, resisted the onslaught of 3,000 people in Haoge and Aobai for three days and retreated from the enemy, and captured Haoge, and led a thousand people to attack Hejian at the request of the prefect of Hejian to Siwen, successfully killed thousands of Jiannu, and captured Yue Tuo, Hejian has not fallen so far, is it considered a loyal invitation? ”