The rumors spread very fiercely, and the time was probably from Yang Chao letting Ge Nenniang beat those scholars, and it spread all over Nanjing City in three days, and it must have begun to spread out.

"Okay. Brother Kang, let's also find someone to take a walk with the rumors! ”

Yang Chao said helplessly.

Kang Xiaobao asked, "What do we say, do we say the fourth son?" ”

Kang Xiaobao thought that Yang Chao wanted to treat him in the way of others, and the fourth prince spread rumors to slander Yang Chao, so he would create rumors about the fourth prince and make them stink.

Yang Chao shook his head and said, "Make rumors about them? I didn't do that! Or make my rumors! ”

"Make up your rumors?"

Kang Xiaobao was stunned, not knowing what Yang Chao was going to do.

Yang Chao said with a smile: "This is called fighting poison with poison, and rumors against rumors." Find someone to go out and say that not only is the crown prince fake, but in fact, Emperor Chongzhen did not commit suicide, but I Yang Chao sent someone to assassinate him. also killed the prince's family, found someone to pretend to be the prince, and then let the fake prince be the emperor and manipulate the government! ”

Kang Xiaobao opened his mouth wide: "Who will believe this?" ”

Yang Chao said with a smile: "It's just not credible, a lot of rumors are mixed together and it's hard to distinguish between true and false, and in the end, no one believes it." ”

Kang Xiaobao stretched out his thumb: "High!" ”

It is indeed high, and this is called the rumor of revolution against the rumor of counter-revolution, the tactic used by the Red Army.

The rumors released by Yang Chao are shocking that some people really believe it, and it spreads even more, but Yang Chao didn't expect it, this kind of thing is believed by people, it's really weird, of course, people who really think don't believe it.

The people who really believe and preach it are also some boring people in the market.

But then all kinds of rumors came out one after another, what is today's son is not only a fake prince, but also Yang Chao's sworn brother or something, and finally the inheritance is Yang Chao's brother who has been scattered for many years. is the illegitimate son of Yang Chao's father or something.

continued to evolve into the fact that today's son is Li Zicheng's godson, deliberately pretending to be the prince, just to seize the Ming Dynasty. Yang Chao's identity has also become a gap for Li Zicheng to enter the Ming army early, and cooperated with Li Chuangwang to play this big drama.

Obviously, the rumors have been created to this extent. It was definitely not Yang Chao's doing, his IQ was not up to this level, and such outrageous rumors would be created, which were completely spread by the people themselves who were burning with the fire of gossip.

Although with the IQ of ordinary people, they all know that these things are impossible, but everyone likes to pass on and listen to them.

The most annoying thing is that some people rumor that Yang Chao and Dangzi have a good relationship with today, and the two have that kind of relationship.

The rumors frightened Zhu Cihong at first. The ensuing evolution made him angry, and he strictly ordered Jinyiwei to arrest people, but only a group of small people in the market were caught, and they were just beaten at the entrance of the vegetable market, and the real mastermind behind the scenes could not be found at all.

Not to mention the fourth son, even those scholars of Erli Society have been silent recently.

The fourth prince was beaten by Ge Nenniang because of bullying Chen Yuanyuan, and he also stripped naked and rushed to make trouble, his reputation had long been stinky, and he didn't dare to show up at all. And the people they sent out to spread rumors are afraid that they have already left Nanjing, and they can't find the root cause.

The government can only put up notices prohibiting rumors. But this unhealthy trend cannot be stopped for a while, and can only wait for the wind to pass and become a joke in the future.

But there are really good civil officials who don't think it's a big deal, and they actually take the opportunity to impeach Yang Chao at this time, officialdom practice, impeaching someone someone to temporarily avoid suspicion, put down official duties, called waiting for participation, or wait for the result. Either go to the book to defend yourself.

Yang Chao didn't defend himself and went home directly. I didn't go to the barracks, I didn't go to the court. With a posture of waiting to be participated, according to the usual practice, the emperor should give an order to be relieved, and then Yang Chao came out to work.

Yang Chao's actions startled the emperor and some civil and military officers, and this is the time to use troops, and a fierce general like Yang Chao strikes, so it will be worth it.

Then they began to speculate about Yang Chao's intentions, whether it was to take the opportunity to put pressure on the imperial court, whether it was because of the dissatisfaction of the rumors, or something else.

Yang Chao's intention, in fact, is very simple, is to take the opportunity to withdraw from the court battle, he knows that his source of power is the force in his hand, and he already intends to focus on the army, he does not plan to contaminate the muddy water on the court, anyway, he should have won it, and the next thing is to stabilize the interests in his hands, and transform these interests into strength.

At the same time, because he has been fighting in the court for dozens of days, he has offended many people, Yang Chao doesn't want to get involved in the political struggle too deeply, so let those civil officials play politics, Yang Chao is still comfortable being a soldier.

So Yang Chao didn't have too many intentions in this move, just to find an opportunity to leave the court completely and concentrate on military affairs, after all, the last time he stayed in the army, he played the banner of illness, and this time with the help of impeachment, he simply said that he had no ability to govern, and then pushed away the matter of politics.

But when a person's power reaches a certain level, every move will be very involved.

So others are secretly speculating, and they can't help it at all.

And Yang Chao's performance does seem to be expressing dissatisfaction, of course, Yang Chao does have reasons for dissatisfaction, dissatisfied with someone boring to participate in him, a military department to give things, a small official, when he heard a little wind and grass, he dared to impeach Yang Chao without wind and waves, so he angered Yang Chao.

Moreover, everyone in the DPRK and China understands that behind this person there is the shadow of the Erli Society, and although this society has not yet become a climate, it is very large in scale and has a great momentum, and it is not difficult to control one or two officials in the DPRK and China.

Linked to the fact that Yang Chao had just broken with the Erli Society, so Yang Chao expressed his dissatisfaction at this time, in fact, he was testing the pressure on the imperial court, asking the court to punish the speech officials of the Erli Society, so many pro-Yang Chao ministers immediately suggested that the emperor punish the speechless officials in order to appease the hearts of the heroes.

Because Yang Chao escaped from Beijing safely, Zhu Cihong, who was able to become the emperor after that, has always had a very good relationship with Yang Chao, and Yang Chao's performance made him feel very sad, he agreed with the courtier's advice, felt that the official had hurt the loyal minister, and ordered the official to be dealt with strictly at the first time.

Then it's how to appease Yang Chao.

There are several henchmen in him now, one is Lu Jiude and the other is Yu Jiye.

immediately found Lu Jiude and Yu Jiye to discuss.

Lu Jiude was his eunuch, while Yu Jiye was named the Thousand Households of Jinyi Wei, and he was escorted by the sword officer.

The so-called officer with a knife is worthy of some special guards in the guard, the number is not much, responsible for taking turns on duty in the palace, responsible for protecting the emperor closely, in the early Ming Dynasty called the knife house, later changed to a knife officer, and assigned to each guard, in the upper direct guard, the front guard of the government army with a knife officer 40 people, the standard-bearer and other 20 guards with a knife officer 180 people, take turns to guard the emperor with a knife.

Because Nanjing's army has been abandoned for too long, there are indeed places of officers with knives in these guards, but people are useless, and they are not trusted by Zhu Cihong, and Yu Jiye has been rescuing Zhu Cihong's brothers and sisters from Beijing, all the way to the south of the Yangtze River, and he has deep trust, so he took Yang Chao to pass Yu Jiye, and added a hundred strong martial arts soldiers of the Yu family to form a new officer with a knife, that is, the so-called imperial guards with knives, and they have been guarding around.

Yang Chao has one less cadre, but Yu Jiye has a great future, and the old general Yu Chengwu also specially sent his disabled second son to Nanjing to thank Yang Chao, he did not come in person because he was sick, and he heard that he was very sick.

Yu Jiye told the emperor that Yang Chao was not a cautious person, and he would not be angry about it, and he could just be relieved by issuing an edict.

But Lu Jiude thought a lot, and he warned the emperor that he should not be careless, so as not to hurt the hearts of his courtiers.

Although the official was punished this time, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no next time, and I can't be relieved every time.

It's okay in normal times, but if it comes to an emergency, the enemy attacks, and Yang Chao, the military attaché, is to be involved, then the big thing will be bad.

The emperor thought that Lu Jiude was old and serious, and asked how to appease Yang Chao.

Lu Jiude took a look and told the emperor that the Yang family gave Yang Chao a concubine, but Yang Chao was dissatisfied and drove the concubine out, so there were rumors that Yang Chao liked Longyang.

The little emperor blushed for a while, because it was him at the end of Long Yang.

Lu Jiude then hinted to the emperor that there is a princess in the royal family who has not yet married, if he can marry a family affair, Yang Chao must be grateful to Dade, how dare he not be loyal to the emperor without his death, and he can block the mouth of the world, proving that Yang Chao is not a person from Longyang, Yang Chao does not have to worry about rumors, and Yang Chao has already punished the official, Yang Chao should be satisfied.

And once the Yang family becomes a royal prince, when they are involved in the alliance in the future, they will not strike because of dissatisfaction.

After saying something, the little emperor's heart went, although he was only fifteen years old and had no children, the royal family did have a princess, that was the eldest princess, his sister, Princess Zhu Yujiao of Changping.

It's just a little hesitant, because when Zhu Yujiao was in Beijing, she had already made a marriage contract.

However, Lu Jiude told the emperor that Beijing had been occupied, and the life and death of the concubine Zhou Shixian were unknown, even if the heavenly family wanted to abide by the marriage contract, they could not do it for a while, and the eldest princess was still sixteen, and she could not afford to delay.

Zhu Yujiao was born in the same year as the prince, slightly older than the prince, her biological mother died of dystocia, since she was a child, Zhu Yujiao was adopted by Queen Zhou, and grew up with Zhu Cihong, the two are like sisters and brothers, Zhu Cihong can't bear to look at her sister is equivalent to being widowed, and the Ming monarchs and ministers actually believe in their hearts that the best ending of the Ming Dynasty is just the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, it is not easy to hold half of the south of the Yangtze River, and it is difficult to ascend to the sky if you want to enter the Central Plains north, so everyone in the open and secretly is actually planning to rule the river with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, especially under the banner of revenge for Chongzhen. The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty felt that it was also reasonable to use half of the country as a reward for the Manchus.

So if he can't give up the marriage contract with the Zhou family, his sister will be widowed for the rest of her life.

As for Zhou Shixian's future if he did not die and did not get married, Lu Jiude said that he would be rewarded with gold, silver, pearls and jade at that time, and the high-ranking officials and lords would be honored.

Therefore, the little emperor had no obstacles in his heart, and happily agreed to this marriage. (To be continued)