A tall stockade, brightly lit. Although it was almost midnight, the blazing torches lit up the house as if it were day.

In the lobby, it looked like it should be the seat where Tusi was sitting, but at this time, a person dressed in the costume of the Prince of Daming sat on it. Not only that, but he also shouted at the person standing in front of him respectfully and asked, "Knife delivery, are you guilty?" ”

"The minister is guilty, please punish His Highness." The knife delivery knelt down and said.

"Since you are guilty, then Lone will punish you for giving 1,500 taels of gold within the year for military use; And within the next three years, offer a thousand slaves to my country to atone for your sins. Zhu Yang said.

"Yes, Your Highness." The knife delivery was full of reluctance, but the situation was stronger than people, and he didn't dare not agree.

Last year, Zhu Yang led the army to conquer Ava, and recruited various toasts to help in the war, among them, Meng Lian Tusi was the one with the least troops. This made Zhu Yang very dissatisfied, and said that he would punish Meng Lian Tusi at that time. But then because the battle of Ava was delayed for a long time, he had to go to the capital to pay tribute, and the matter was delayed.

It wasn't until he came back from the capital that he remembered this incident again, and Zhu Yang took thousands of people and horses to Meng Lian to Xuanfu Si Xingshi to ask for the guilt.

Of course, the thousands of men and horses he brought with him could not be Meng Lian's opponent. If he started fighting in the plains, Meng Lian couldn't beat him; But in the deep mountains and old forests, the delivery of the toast knife can easily kill his thousands of people.

But the knife delivery did not dare. It's easy to kill these soldiers and horses, but it's not so easy to anger Daming. angered the Ming Dynasty, and even the Ming Dynasty did not need to send troops directly, as long as he made a decree, the surrounding Tusi would happily lead troops to attack him Meng Lian Xuanfu Division. On the one hand, you can plunder the population and money from his place, and on the other hand, you can also receive rewards from the Ming Dynasty, why not?

Therefore, the knife delivery was particularly respectful and accepted Zhu Yan's punishment.

After Zhu Yang disposed of the knife delivery, he immediately said: "The knife delivery, Lone is not aimed at you Meng Lian, but all those who do not obey orders. The so-called order is forbidden, if everyone does not obey the order, how can my Min Fan conquer the Fan Kingdom that does not obey the king? ”

"Although you Meng Lian sent very few troops this time, Lone also rewarded Meng Lian's meritorious service equally, and he was treated no differently. As long as you serve my Min clan with peace of mind in the future, Lone will never treat you badly. ”

"Thank you, Your Highness." The knife delivery said immediately.

Zhu Yang nodded. It doesn't matter if what the knife sent just now is true or false, as long as he is obedient.

And so it passed. Zhu Yang got up from the chair and said to the knife delivery: "It's getting late now, you arrange a lonely place to rest." ”

"Your Highness, Your Highness has come to me from the evening and Meng Lian has not eaten yet. It's better for the minister to do it and wash the dust for His Royal Highness. ”

Zhu Yang hesitated for a moment, but still said: "No need, just take a rest alone, don't bother with the knife toast." ”

The knife delivery ate a soft nail, but still said very respectfully: "The minister will go down immediately to make arrangements." ”

Waiting for the knife delivery to retreat, a guard beside Zhu Yang whispered in his ear: "Your Highness, this knife delivery is so respectful, Your Highness should be careful." ”

"Lone knows that those who are too attentive are cunning people in their hearts, and Lone will be careful." Zhu said.

The two of them were talking, when suddenly a very standard Chinese dialect came from outside the hall: "Your Highness! ”

"This is, Yunlong's voice!" Zhu Yang immediately reacted: "What is he doing when he came from Yongchang!" "Yunlong is also one of his guards, and this time he left him in the palace of Yongchang. According to his order, unless it was a very important matter, the left and right ministers should not send someone to Meng Lian to inform him. What's going on?

Zhu Yang involuntarily walked towards the door of the lobby.

However, before he walked out of the gate, a short and stocky man wearing the uniform of Prince Daming's guard ran in, and when he saw Zhu Yang, he immediately knelt down and said, "Chen Yunlong has seen His Highness." ”

"Don't be polite at this time, what happened to my Min Domain, I want to send you over to report to Lone?" Zhu Yang said impatiently.

"Your Highness, nothing happened to the Min Domain. Instead, a decree came from the capital. His Majesty will send 600,000 troops to conquer Annam, and requisition Yunnan's Yi troops to fight. Lord Zuo Xiang had already mobilized the Yi troops from Shunning Mansion, Dahou Prefecture and other places to Lin'an Mansion to join the army led by Xiping Marquis. Because this matter is very important, he sent a minister to communicate to His Highness. Yunlong said briefly.

"In the end, did you decide to send troops to conquer Annam?" Zhu said. He was in the capital during the Chinese New Year this year, so he naturally knew that Chen Tianping went to the capital to ask for help.

"Your Royal Highness, it was His Majesty who sent the lord of the country to Guangxi to recruit loyal ministers of Annan, who knew that Hu Jichen lost his conscience and sent assassins to assassinate the lord of Chen. His Majesty then decided to send troops to Annam. Yunlong knew that Zhu Yang didn't know about the follow-up, so he immediately explained.

"I see! This Hu Jichen is indeed bold enough. By the way, you just said that Xiping Hou led the army? Zhu Yang suddenly asked.

"Your Highness, Your Majesty's will for the Marquis of Xiping to temporarily lead the army that is about to attack Annan in Yunnan." Yunlong Road.

"Since Mu Sheng is temporarily in charge now, he will definitely let him lead the war in the future. Your Majesty is confused! Mu Sheng's talent in using soldiers to fight is not as good as Mu Ying's Yicheng and Mu Chun's Sancheng, and even Mu Ang is much stronger than him, so he even let him lead the troops! Zhu Yang said.

Yunlong didn't speak. He wouldn't dare take it.

"No! Lone had to go back immediately and lead the troops with Mu Sheng, so that Mu Sheng couldn't let these soldiers be ruined. Zhu Yang said.

Zhu Yang was about to gather the soldiers he had brought back immediately. But at this moment, the knife was sent back to the lobby and said to him: "Just now, the person guarding the door reported to the minister that there were Han soldiers who were going to enter the village, and the minister guessed that it was the person who came to report the matter to His Highness, and immediately ordered this person to be let in. But it's still a little late, and I hope it hasn't delayed His Highness's affairs. ”

"You're doing a great job and you're not delaying anything." Zhu Yang said.

"Your Highness, your resting place has been arranged, and the minister has come to ask Your Highness to rest." The knife was delivered again.

"No need, Gu is going to return to Yongchang now, you can prepare some dry food." Zhu Yang said.

"Your Highness," the knife delivery said with a look of surprise on his face, "What happened to you and suddenly want to leave?" But do you think I, Meng Lian, am not well entertained? ”

"It's not that Lone thinks you're inhospitable, and it's not that something happened to my Min Domain. It was the imperial court that had a will to send troops to Annam, so he was in a hurry to go back. Zhu said.

The knife delivery sighed, and said, "Your Highness, even if you are in a hurry, you will not be in this day or two. His Royal Highness had just led the soldiers to Meng Lian in the evening, and the people were sleepy and tired, so I would go back after a day or two of Meng Lian's rest. ”

Zhu Yang heard that what he said made sense, and he no longer insisted on leaving now, and said: "That Gu will rest here for one night tonight, and talk about it tomorrow." ”

After saying this, Zhu Yang looked at the knife delivery, thought of something again, and said, "Didn't the knife toast just say that he wanted to work for my Min Domain?" The Ming Dynasty's expedition to Annan is a great opportunity for the Dao Tusi to serve the Ming Dynasty. Is Dao Tusi willing to send troops to conquer Annam? ”

The knife delivery was stunned for a moment, and then immediately said: "The minister is willing, send 7,000 troops to conquer Annam." If it can be delayed for a longer period of time, the minister can also recruit more soldiers and horses to follow His Highness to fight. "This is directly for Daming, not for Zhu Yan, of course he has to do such a thing.

"No, seven thousand men are enough. If Meng Lian's soldiers made great contributions, His Majesty and Gu would definitely not hesitate to reward. ”

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"Daddy, the summoning order of the Ming Kingdom has arrived." A large, dark-skinned man shouted as he ran into a room.

Inside the room, a middle-aged man in his forties and a woman in her twenties were sitting and talking. Seeing him running in, the middle-aged man frowned and said, "Isn't it a matter of course that the summoning order of the Ming Kingdom came?" Why be so excited? You are going to be a person who will be a soil house in the future, how can you be so unbreathable? ”

"I see, Daddy." After receiving this reprimand, the dark-skinned man immediately bowed down and said.

"Daddy, since the summoning order of the Ming Kingdom has come, let's immediately gather the people in the village and prepare to go." The woman in her twentieth year said at this time.

"So early? There's no need. It only takes half a month from us to the Rendezvous Lin'an Mansion, and the summoning order of the Ming Kingdom has a month. The middle-aged man took the summoning order from the dark-skinned man, read it and said.

"Daddy, it's useless for the men in the village to stay at home, it's better to go to Lin'an Mansion early. On the one hand, when the generals of the Ming Dynasty saw that the people of our chief lawsuit came to Lin'an Mansion so early, they would definitely feel that our company was submissive to the Ming Dynasty, which was very beneficial to our chief lawsuit; Both of them, even if the Ming Kingdom recruits us to fight without military salaries, we have to take care of the food, and if we go one day early, we can save a day's food in the village, why not go early? The woman said.

"But the surrounding chief lawsuits?" The middle-aged man said worriedly.

"With such a big event, how dare the surrounding chief lawsuits invade my three divisions of education? Aren't you afraid that the Marquis of Xiping will be angry and set foot on his stockade first? Daddy doesn't have to worry about other lawsuits. The woman said again.

The middle-aged man thought about it again and said, "You're right. Two days later, I led the people in the village to Lin'an Mansion. ”

He then said to the swarthy man, "Go and tell all the people in the village the news so that they can be prepared." ”

The swarthy man said yes and ran out again.

The middle-aged man said to the woman again: "Thanks to your frequent reading of Da Ming's Di Bao, we can know twenty days ago that Da Ming is going to send troops to conquer Annam, and will recruit and transfer native soldiers in Yunnan." Not only did we avoid the chaos, but we also made a lot of money. ”

This middle-aged man is Tushe Long Shangden of the Third Department of Enlightenment, this swarthy man is his son Long Zhehei, and the woman is his daughter Long Ping'er.

After Long Ping'er returned from Kunming last autumn to the Third Department of Indoctrination, he sent people to the Xin'an Office every month to buy a manuscript of the newspaper from the officials. At that time, Long Shangden actually didn't think much of it, thinking that it was useless, but he agreed because it didn't cost much.

But he didn't expect it to happen soon. At the beginning of August this year, the newspaper brought back from Xin'an once again published that the Ming Dynasty was about to send 600,000 troops to punish Annan.

Although this news is very brief, Long Ping'er attaches great importance to it, and immediately finds Long Shangden and says to him: "Daddy, Daming is going to send troops to Annan, and he will definitely recruit our people, Daddy still prepares early." ”

"Although the practice of the Ming Dynasty is to recruit local soldiers when they go out, they may not necessarily recruit us here, right?" Long Shangden said with some confusion.

"Daddy, don't you see? Daming wants to send 600,000 troops! With so many soldiers dispatched, it is definitely impossible for all of them to be the Han people's own army, and many native soldiers will definitely be recruited, and all the native soldiers in the east of Yunnan are probably among the recruits, and our chief lawsuit will definitely not be able to escape! Long Ping'er said.

Long Shangdeng recognized Long Ping'er's judgment and began to prepare for it.

At the same time, Long Ping'er also took advantage of his own knowledge of the matter, and the Han traders who came here to do business did not know the time difference in this matter, and ordered that no matter what the price, he would do his best to buy herbs or other items related to the treatment of injuries from the vendors, but his own herbs would not be sold to them.

At that time, these vendors were still very strange, and suspected that they had a problem with their heads in the people of the three divisions; But after a few days, the news that the Ming Dynasty was going to send troops to conquer Annan came from the people who had just come from Xin'an, and these people immediately understood what was going on. The price of herbs or items related to the treatment of injuries rose sharply, and the people of the three departments of education and re-education resold the herbs to the vendors, making a lot of extra money.

"Daddy knows how important Di Bao is this time." Long Ping'er said.

"In the future, I will send someone to Xin'an to buy a newspaper every half a month." Long Shangden said.

Long Ping'er smiled, laughed with Long Shangdeng, and suddenly said with a straight face: "Ah Dad, this expedition, my daughter thinks that she should take Luo Yi and his wife as military doctors with the army and go to Lin'an Mansion together." ”

"What! You're going to take them with you? Daddy remembered Zhu Xiancai's identity or you wrote back from Kunming to tell me, and he also told them in the letter that he must not offend them. Now you're marching to battle with the two of them! You should know that if Zhu Xiancai makes a mistake, everyone in our three divisions will die without a place to be buried! Long Shangden said.

"Daddy, of course I do. But the daughter also has her own reasons for thinking so. ”

"Over the years, my daughter has repeatedly inquired, and finally found out all her life experience and what happened back then."

"A few years ago, there was a rebellion in the Ming Kingdom,......。 This Zhu Xiancai is the daughter of the King of Qi who rebelled among his subordinates. Luo Yi, on the other hand, is the son of a military general who joined the rebels. Not only that, Luo Yi's father also ** the concubine of King Qi. Long Ping'er said.

"In this way, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty will still allow Zhu Xiancai to marry Luo Yi?" Long Shangden said in surprise.

"Of course the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is unwilling. But Luo Yi's father was a very favored general of King Qi before, and Zhu Xiancai was engaged to Luo Yi before; Luo Yi's father's rebellion was also a last resort, and he did it anyway at a critical moment, and he didn't ask Daming to forgive him, but only asked for forgiveness for Luo Yi. ”

"The emperor of the Ming Kingdom was a little entangled because of this, and he didn't know what to do. And Zhu Xiancai and Luo Yi were very good before, and begged the emperor to spare Luo Yi's life at this time. The emperor agreed to pardon Luo Yi, but asked them not to appear in front of him from now on. So Zhu Xiancai and Luo Yi came to Yunnan. As for coming to us, it's probably a coincidence. Long Ping'er told his father the inaccurate news he had found.

Long Shangdeng heard this story, weighed it several times, raised his head and said to Long Ping'er: "But what does this have to do with us sending troops to bring their husband and wife as military doctors?" ”

"Daddy, this naturally has something to do with it." Long Ping'er then said what she thought.

Hearing her thoughts, Long Shangden was silent for a long time and asked, "What if you guess wrong?" ”

"Daddy, my daughter is ninety percent sure that she won't be wrong. Even if you guess wrong, as long as you don't let Da Ming know that Zhu Xiancai used to be a military doctor with the army, there will be no problem. Long Ping'er said.

Long Shangdeng was silent for a while, and said, "Okay, let's bet on this for the sake of our long lawsuit." However, Zhu Xiancai must voluntarily follow her as a military doctor, and she must not be forced. ”

"Daddy, don't worry, she will definitely be willing to be a military doctor." Long Ping'er said.

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"You mean, your three departments of education are going to send troops, and ask me and Luo Yi to be military doctors?" Zhu Xiancai asked with some surprise.

"Yes, Sister Zhu." Long Shangdeng's second daughter, Long Pulan, said.

"You know my identity, and you dare to make me a military doctor with the army?" Zhu Xiancai asked.

"Sister Zhu, this is what my father ordered, I don't know why. If you want to know, you can ask my daddy. Lumpland said.

Zhu Xiancai was silent for a while, and said, "No need, since you are willing to use me as a military doctor, I will not shirk it." When to go? ”

"The morning after tomorrow." Longplan Road.

"Okay, Luo Yi and I will set off with you the morning after tomorrow." Zhu Xiancai said.

When Long Pulan left, Luo Yi came out of the back room and said, "Xiancai, what did Long Shangdeng bring you for?" He must know that if you have a good one, they will not end well in the three divisions of education. ”

Zhu Xiancai shook his head and said, "I don't know, and I don't want to know." All I need to know is that Long Shangden will not dare to harm the lives of the two of us. We're just military doctors, so there's no need to know that much. ”

"But......" Luo Yi didn't finish speaking, but was interrupted by Zhu Xiancai: "It's nothing." Let's also prepare and bring everything we need to bring. You don't need to bring too many herbs or anything, even if Mu Sheng's military doctors are not enough to treat these local soldiers, at least the herbs are enough, and then you can use their herbs. ”

Luo Yi opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything, just said, "Got it." ”

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