No matter how Yang Chao thinks of Dong Xiaowan, she is a first-class beauty, and she is talented and learned, even if she is a Qinglou woman, she will not be unable to marry, but she will do everything possible to marry herself as a concubine, which makes Yang Chao feel a little emotional.

Although Dong Xiaowan didn't know what it meant to hate marrying a girl, she knew that she had no intention of being unintentional when she heard Yang Chao's slightly mocking tone.

Immediately said gloomily: "If the uncle dislikes the woman in Xiaowan Qinglou, Xiaowan will not dare to climb high, and she will move out tomorrow!" ”

Yang Chao lamented in his heart, Dong Xiaowan's tone was poignant, now the whole of Nanjing knows that the Yang family accepted Dong Xiaowan as a concubine, and let him move out, with the strong character of Dong Xiaowan and these people, I am afraid that I can't stand this humiliation, and it is only inevitable to find a short-term view.

To be honest, Yang Chao is indeed a little resistant to Dong Xiaowan's identity, no matter how she says it, she is a woman in a green building, it doesn't sound good to say, Yang Chao has always been a face-saving person, he is not keen on striving for fame and fortune, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't care about his face, he is a person with a sense of honor.

Wanting face is not a disadvantage in the eyes of Yang Chao, who has studied abroad, but on the contrary, it is an advantage, in other words, people who want to save face also have a strong sense of honor. Like those literati in the Ming Dynasty who were talking about good birds and choosing trees to perch on all day long, and wanted to take shortcuts by surrendering and becoming an official, they really didn't care much about face, and regarded shame as the capital for promotion, this kind of person Yang Chao couldn't look down on.

This kind of person doesn't care what others say, they don't care about anything except their own interests, they don't have any bottom line, and they dare to do anything, it's really terrifying.

Yang Chao wants face, so he cares what others say, and when others say that he marries a girl, he will definitely find it difficult to accept, but caring for face is one thing, and directly forcing Dong Xiaowan to death, that still can't be done.

Yang Chao sighed: "That's it." I heard you came to my house at night? ”

Daming's wedding and funeral customs are very particular. It is different for people and funerals at any time and at any time, and they are not qualified to do happy events during the day with lowly status like Ji Nu and Xia Ren. They only come to marry at night, and they themselves believe in it. I feel that if I don't do this, it will be very unlucky, so basically no one changes the rules for the sake of face, and this is a kind of etiquette, civil officials pay attention to this, if Yang Chao dares to break the etiquette, someone will definitely impeach him tomorrow.

Dong Xiaowan thought that Yang Chao was deliberately mentioning her identity and glanced at Yang Chao. lowered his head again, his chest had begun to rise and fall, full of grievances, and tears flowed down in an instant.

"Although the concubine is a dusty woman, she is also forced to be helpless, who is born cheap? Please uncle, don't be so humiliated, the concubine will leave tomorrow, and never see each other again! ”

After Dong Xiaowan finished speaking, she suddenly stood up with a broken look.

Never to see each other?

Yang Chao estimated that she would probably really seek death.

Shaking his head: "You misunderstood!" I don't pay attention to those. Since you have entered my Yang family, since I have married you as a concubine. I also want to carry a sedan chair eight times, my Yang Chao's woman. How can you be like a thief in the middle of the night, and enter the door without knowing anything! ”

Yang Chao thinks that marriage is festive, it should be publicized, a person can have a few times in his life, maybe the Ming Dynasty has three wives and four concubines, but only a few times, except for a pervert like Wu Tianxing, he must be the master of a hundred concubines, and he asked for a hundred concubines. There is also Hong Xiuquan's kind of thing that the poor bomb the rich and crazy concubines. Who will marry more than ten wives?

So Yang Chao still hopes to be more formal, as for what is unlucky. Or being impeached, Yang Chao doesn't care at all, Yang Chao doesn't believe in fate, and he is even less afraid of being impeached, holding heavy troops is not a minister but also a minister, who dares to impeach Yang Chao at this time.

But Dong Xiaowan was stupid when she heard it, what do you mean, eight sedan chairs!

She used to yearn for it, but since she voluntarily sold herself in Qinglou in order to treat her mother's illness, she no longer has this luxury, and it is impossible for ordinary people to carry a sedan chair to marry her, let alone a prince like the Yang family.

But she heard Yang Chao's kindness: "Uncle has a heart, but the concubine can't stand it!" ”

Yang Chao waved his hand: "I can afford it, how can I not stand it!" Men and women are in harmony because of affection, and they should respect each other, and you don't need to be formal in my house! ”

Dong Xiaowan nodded vigorously, and then said shyly: "Uncle, it's late at night, it's time to rest." ”

Yang Chao smiled: "You rest, I'll go to the guest room." Tomorrow, you still move home first, and wait for me to pick you up in a sedan chair, as short as ten months, or as long as half a year, you may wait. ”

Dong Xiaowan couldn't help but be disappointed, Yang Chao didn't want to share a room with her, but when she heard the promise given by Yang Chao, she was overjoyed, and she heard Yang Chao's clear promise for the first time, not forgetting that he took great pains to marry into the Yang family.

Nodding stubbornly, she chose to believe Yang Chao.

Yang Chao said to rest early, and then went out and closed the door with her.

To be honest, Yang Chao is also forbearing, to put it bluntly, such a delicate beauty is picked by Jun, and any man with strong blood will probably not dare to ignore it, but Yang Chao is not a chick, he is the first time, he feels that he still has to find a perfect one, so he is also forbearing, and he can't help but go to spring in a dream at night.

On the second day, Dong Xiaowan moved out of the Yang family and lived back in the Dong family river house next door to the Jinchai Building, which immediately caused a great reaction in the Qinglou circle, and many people sneered, saying that Dong Xiaowan was driven out by the Yang family.

Li Xiangjun, who was supposed to be a competitor, felt sorry for Dong Xiaowan, and even went to Dong's house to visit him in person.

She even felt a kind of desolation of the dead fox of a rabbit, she also had the intention of Yang Chao, but Yang Chao seemed to be really what Aunt Li said, a person who has no heart, she has invited Yang Chao several times, but she has shirked and is not available, saying that she will meet when she is free, she made up her mind to see Yang Chao for the last time, and then she had the idea of dying, but she couldn't even see this last side, she was even more pitiful than Dong Xiaowan.

Before his mother went crazy, Yang Chao sneaked out of the house and went straight to the barracks with his personal guards.

Since returning to Nanjing and handing over the training to Lao Jin, Yang Chao has plunged into the court to fight for power and profit, and has not even returned to the barracks.

As soon as they entered the camp, the soldiers immediately became excited when they saw Yang Chao, especially the recruits who were being trained, one by one, with jealousy and admiration, shouting Lord Yang, and even a little out of control, they all wanted to get closer to Yang Chao.

At this time, the worship of Yang Chao in the army has reached a fanatical level, and it is nothing to break 10,000 in Haizhou, compared to saving the prince in the capital, escorting him for thousands of miles, and protecting the prince from the throne, the officers and soldiers value the latter more, which is a great achievement.

And the process is so legendary, most of these soldiers are involved in it, and they feel that they have followed Lord Yang to do a great thing worth boasting about in their lives, but then Yang Chao left the barracks, and this time he came back, which caused a kind of emotional commotion.

Yang Chao's heart is also very touched, a person is worshiped by others, that feeling is not imaginable, especially when tens of millions of people worship, it is easy to make people get carried away, so many founding kings often do some stupid things in the later stage, it is because this kind of worship makes them feel close to the gods.

Fortunately, Yang Chao had not yet reached the level of national worship, so he calmed down and immediately felt a sense of crisis.

"I have been away from my army for so long that my soldiers are strangers to me."

How can there be a sense of distance if you are not a stranger, how to produce this kind of worship, people will not worship people, but only worship God!

Yang Chao has always known that the cornerstone of his rights is the army in his hand, but he knows this, but he still goes to the court to fight for fame and fortune, isn't this putting the cart before the horse, he is not a civilian official, what can be fought for in the court, the military camp is the fundamental.

Thinking of this, Yang Chao couldn't help but break down in a cold sweat.

He immediately announced among the excited soldiers that from now on, he would stay in the army and encourage the soldiers to train well.

Prestige is something that can make people listen to it in a few words and make people feel imposing.

The soldiers were encouraged and said that they would train hard and kill thieves with Lord Yang in the future.

After that, Yang Chao gave the emperor an excerpt to tell him about his illness, saying that it was difficult to go to court and concentrate on staying in the army.

The army developed normally, Yang Chao expanded to 50,000 in Linqing, returned to Nanjing and recruited 20,000 stranded people into the army, there were already 70,000 troops, and then asked for a regimental training, and obtained 100,000 soldiers, which was full at this time.

The recruits were all taught to Lao Jin for training.

The remaining veterans are only many men and a thousand headquarters, as well as five hundred soldiers led by Zhao Kang.

The recruits are training, the veterans are also training, and they are all practicing horseback riding in the school field.

Yang Chao gave a death order this time, and if his own soldiers could not learn to ride horses within a month, they would be immediately dismissed and demoted to ordinary soldiers.

Yang Chao's personal requirements are extremely strict, the first is to have seen blood in battle, the second is to have excellent physical fitness to approve double-layer armor, and the third is to be able to ride a horse.

At the same time, their salary is also particularly rich, other troops, soldiers are divided into four classes, privates and one, two and three soldiers, the strongest first class soldier is only two taels of silver a month, but Yang Chao's personal soldiers, each directly three taels of silver, equivalent to an ordinary team, the officer's salary is also increased by one level, this is the elite treatment.

What's more important is that the pro-soldiers can always follow Yang Chao around, and there are a lot of opportunities for meritorious service.

Therefore, after this order was issued, these people had a very strong desire to ride horses, and they continued to practice every day, and most of them were able to sit on horses and run, but few people could do it on horses and wield knives on horses.

"I'm going to practice horseback riding, too!"

Seeing the enthusiasm of the veterans to practice horseback riding, Yang Chao thought to himself that he was indeed relaxed some time ago, and after encountering difficulties in horseback riding, he gave up temporarily, perhaps it was because he gave up as a general that he encouraged the laxity of other soldiers.

"If you don't know how to ride a horse, how will you go north to the Central Plains in the future!"

Yang Chao always had a plan in his heart, he didn't want to divide Jiangnan, stabilizing Jiangnan was just a means, not an end, and the goal was to dominate the world.

As a general, you may not be able to ride a horse, so you may have no problem in the paddy fields crisscrossing the rivers and canals in the south of the Yangtze River, but when you go to the open areas of the plains such as Shandong and Henan, and even in the future, you may fight in Liaodong and the Mongolian steppe, but you must learn to fight on horseback.

So the day after returning to the barracks, Yang Chao also began to practice horseback riding with the veterans. (To be continued)