Chapter 58: The Governor Wants to Get Married (5)

Under the arrangement of the old housekeeper, Chunmei and her sister Dongmei wore pink wedding dresses after a simple ceremony, and entered the room from the side door of the governor's yamen in a small sedan chair, which was regarded as officially becoming Zhao Kang's concubine.

Seeing that Zhao Kang's governor's yamen looked majestic and magnificent from the outside, but the inside was extremely simple and gloomy, the old housekeeper went to buy more than a dozen handsome and clever little girls for Chunmei and Dongmei to send. Although the identity of the concubine is not protected by the law, and strictly speaking, it is only "a girl ring who has the great task of sharing the inheritance for his wife", but at least it can be regarded as a fighter in the girl ring, with Zhao Kang's status and status, it is unreasonable for a few concubines in the family to call the girl.

Chunmei and Dongmei's mother, Shufen, was appointed by Zhao Kang as the housekeeper of the inner courtyard, responsible for managing all matters in the backyard of the governor's yamen.

Because the old housekeeper Zhao Laocai needed to return to Suzhou in a hurry, Zhao Kang arranged for two people to send him back along the way, and Zhao Kang and Zhao Fugui, Chunmei, Dongmei, and former Shufen personally saw him off. Before leaving, Zhao Laocai asked: "Young master, have you really decided that the marriage date will remain unchanged and marry the second miss of the Zhang family on the eighth day of April next year?" I'm more worried that you're being criticized for doing so, and you're falling for the words of those envoys. ”

Zhao Kang said disdainfully: "It's okay, I'll just send someone to greet my relatives when the time comes, although the groom doesn't go to greet my relatives in person, but I think the Zhang family should understand my situation." As long as I don't go out of Shaanxi, what can those idle officials do to me? As for the rule that no family members are allowed to take office, who else is abiding by it in the current Ming Dynasty? ”

Bidding farewell to Zhao Laocai, Zhao Kang returned to the governor's yamen and was preparing to study the human body structure and physiological hygiene course with Chunmei and Dongmei, so as to get some research results out as soon as possible, so as to pass on the lineage of the Zhao family in Suzhou and break the curse of five generations of single transmission. However, before he could take off his pants, Zhao Fugui came to report again: The blast furnace ironmaking equipment brought by Zhao Kang from Hyundai has been installed, everything is ready, and only the iron ore is owed.

For the distribution of iron ore in Shaanxi, Zhao Kang studied it when he purchased this set of equipment. At present, the nearest iron ore resources to Zhao Kang are all in the Ordos Department of Mongolia outside the Guanguan. And the Ordos Department has surrendered to our Qing Dynasty a few years ago, so it currently belongs to the hostile forces of Zhao Kang's Daming. wanted to run to the other party's territory safely to mine, and transport it to Yulin safely, Zhao Kang estimated that the other party would definitely not agree, but the iron ore Zhao Kang was bound to win, so the contradiction came.

Zhao Kang summoned Chen Erdian and other six garrisons to rush to Yulin for a meeting at night, and asked Zhao Fugui to "invite" Temur, the young patriarch of the Ordos tribe, who was undergoing labor reform on the coal mountain in Fugu County. During this time, the Ordos Ministry sent envoys many times, hoping to redeem Temur, but Zhao Kang didn't even see them.

Early in the morning, Chen Erdian, Li Laoguan, Daniel Zhang, Wang Fuchen, Zhao Liangdong, and Wang Pingfan's six generals gathered at the Inspector Yamen, and as soon as they entered the lobby, they saw Zhao Kang wearing a very formal Zhengerpin crimson rhino official uniform, wearing a black gauze hat, sitting upright above the desk, and Zhao Fugui sitting at the bottom.

Everyone was surprised that the young patriarch of the Ordos Tribe, who had been captured before, was sitting tremblingly on a chair on the right side of the lobby and drinking. A few people thought: Could it be that the matter to be discussed today is related to the Ordos Ministry? But I thought I'd find out later, so I didn't ask too much, and each sat down in their respective places.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Zhao Kang asked Zhao Fugui to bring a special large map and put it on the ground in the lobby. The map is certainly not the map of the late Ming Dynasty, but the map of the heyday of the Ming Dynasty. Zhao Kang walked down from the desk and pointed to the Hetao area on the map and asked everyone: "Look! This is the Hetao Plain, which stands to reason is the territory of our Ming Dynasty, but why has it become the territory of the Ordos Department of Mongolia now? ”

Chen Erdian and the other six people knew any history, and they just looked at Zhao Kang with a blank face. Zhao Kang glanced at the expressions of the six guards under him, and knew that what he had just asked was a superfluous move, playing the piano to the cow. So he turned to Temur and said, "They don't know, you come and tell me!" ”

Although Temur, the young patriarch of the Ordos Department next to him, was very scared and his legs trembled a little, in order to maintain the dignity of the Golden Family, he still gritted his teeth and mustered up the courage to say: "Since the time of Genghis Khan, the Hetao region has always been the territory of our Ordos Department. The ancestors of our Ordos tribe were the guardians of Genghis Khan's mausoleum. It is one of the 60,000 households in Ordos, one of the 60,000 households in Mongolia. ”

Zhao Kang glanced at Temur with disdain and scolded: "Temujin has been dead for hundreds of years, and you still have the face to mention it here?" Look at you, your legs are shaking more than sifting chaff, you can't even hold a cup in your hand, and the water is spilled on your clothes, afraid that you will have the face to mention your ancestors like this? The face of the Golden Family has been disgraced by you. From now on, you are not allowed to speak unless I ask you to speak, or I will have someone chop you up and throw you outside Yulin City to feed wild dogs! ”

Temur quickly shut up, thinking: I don't want to tremble, but I'm afraid! Is it sinful to be afraid of death?

Seeing that Temur didn't dare to speak, Zhao Kang continued: "In the early days of our Ming Dynasty, this Hetao area was the territory of our Ming Dynasty, and it was the territory of our Ming Chahan Naoerwei and Dongshengwei. However, in the past hundred years, the Ordos Department has taken advantage of the civil strife and the decline of national strength in our Ming Dynasty to invade these areas. Originally, as long as the Ordos Department was a vassal to our Ming Dynasty, it would be invaded and occupied, whether it was a Mongol or a Semu person, as long as he was a vassal to our Ming Dynasty, we could treat him as our Ming people. ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Kang raised his tone: "But these Ordos tribes have betrayed our Ming Dynasty, the father of the young patriarch of Temur is only a catty-Phosphine minister in Chongzhen for eight years, surrendered to the Jurchen Tartars, and changed his name, what kind of bullshit Yike Zhaomeng, and gave our Ming Dynasty's Hetao Plain, known as the "Saiwai Jiangnan", to our Ming Dynasty's biggest enemy: the Jurchen Tartars!" It's really unbearable! ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Kang made a sad and indignant expression, and solemnly asked the six guards, "What do you think?" ”