I have to admire Dong Xiaowan's ability, before leaving, she made her stubborn mother change her attitude.

I don't know what she did, anyway, it made Zhao's mother full of joy, and she felt that it was no problem for her son to accept her as a concubine.

also told Yang Chao about this, but Yang Chao politely refused, and felt that he was still a little shy.

Before leaving, under the persuasion of Dong Xiaowan, his parents were reconciled.

Of course, his father never mentioned the matter of taking a concubine, so his mother let him go.

Before leaving, I had a casual meal, and Dong Xiaowan's first-hand cooking was full of praise.

After that, Chen Yuanyuan went directly to the Bian sisters, and Dong Xiaowan had to go back to Hangzhou first, which made her mother quite reluctant.

Dong Xiaowan's mother has always been sick, sometimes good and sometimes bad, and often needs to take some expensive medicinal materials to save her life, which not only makes the originally solid home dilapidated, but Dong Xiaowan has to sell herself in the Qinglou to treat her mother's illness.

Yang Chao continued to go out to socialize, not that Yang Chao liked these entertainments, and if he couldn't go, he also went, because he couldn't stay at home.

Because after the parents came back, a large group of relatives came to the door every day.

Especially with Xiaolingwei's mother's relatives as the majority.

Uncle came several times.

Usually after a polite conversation with his parents, he began to nag, complaining that his son was just a team leader, but Wang Pu and Lu Zheng were both flag bosses, and faintly complained that their nephews had some elbows turned out and did not promote their own people.

Zhao Kang said vigorously that he would be rewarded for his meritorious service, and asked his father not to say too much, so that in the end, the father and son Yang family almost quarreled.

After my uncle, I was at the house of other relatives, and I couldn't beat them, so I didn't have much contact at all.

The most is because I can't endure hardship at the beginning. The family members of the Xiaolingwei soldiers who were driven away by Yang Chao, when they first saw their son being driven back, they found that the army was too bitter. I didn't care, but I saw that Zhao Kang and the others who stayed behind were all in the team. Wang Pu and Lu Mo couldn't help but feel a little remorseful after becoming the flag chief.

bluntly said that if his son is here, he is now the leader of the team and the head of the flag, so this time I came to stuff my son into the army again.

For this, Yang Chao will never agree.

The living conditions of the military households of Xiaolingwei are much better than those of other guards, so the spirit of hardship and hard work is much worse, and the same training, the soldiers of the Navy Guard are even harder to train. But none of them left because they couldn't endure the hardships, but there were several Xiaolingwei who couldn't stand leaving because they were punished for a day or two and had no food to eat.

Therefore, Yang Chao later stopped recruiting troops from Xiaolingwei, not for no reason.

In addition to the relatives of the mother's family, the relatives of the Yang family also came.

The Yang family is monotonous, and the nearest relatives are also separated by three generations, such as a grandfather with his father, and a grandfather's brother with Yang Chao, these are because Yang Chao is an official, and he wants to move around. There is no plan to let the children enter the army, because most of the Yang family's own family are also blacksmiths like the Yang Chao family. As a blacksmith, his life is no worse than that of Xiaolingwei, and he has craftsmanship, so he is unwilling to let go and become a soldier.

In addition to relatives, there are also subordinates of officers who often come to give gifts.

Chen Kuan sent his son to send a large amount of pork from time to time, and Yang Chao tried his best, and he had a natural sense of intimacy with Chen Jiujin, the son of this five big and three coarse swineherds with a simple face.

Chen Kuan's pig farm moved out of the barracks, but he built a new house in his hometown of Mochou Lake and built more than a dozen pigsties. Continue to raise pigs and kill pigs.

His son Chen Jiujin is now Yang Chao's personal soldier, in addition to daily training. often walks around with Yang Chao, when Yang Chao goes home. Sometimes he was let go home, but when he came back, he brought a big hanging pork, and he warned him several times that he couldn't do anything, Chen Jiujin said honestly that he would beat him if he didn't send his father.

Li Fu also sent his son Li Feng to deliver vegetables to Yang Chao, and after discussing the matter of the vegetable greenhouse with Li Fu, Li Fu was a hundred worried, because no one had done this, so he was very worried, but the time was still early, and the real greenhouse was built after the autumn.

In addition, there are some colleagues who also come to stammer, Yang Chao has now replaced the past central thousand general Jia Shilu, and has become the new central thousand general, under the jurisdiction of the left and right two general departments, the left division is currently directly under Yang Chao, and no new general manager has been appointed for the time being, and the right general manager used to be his colleagues, and now he has become his subordinate.

Therefore, it is normal for the right division to bring the general Huang Chong to the knot, but the two equal-level thousand bosses on the left and right also come to slap Yang Chao, which is a little weird.

is also the general manager of Qian, also under the new Jiangkou battalion, all under the command of Yu Chengwu, the deputy general of the water battalion, and they can't make any mistakes with whom, but they all come to give gifts to Yang Chao, and they also regard themselves as officials, because Yang Chao's position is higher than them, both of them are Wei commanders, and Yang Chao is Wei Commander Tongzhi, they are from the third grade, Yang Chao is the third grade is half a level higher.

But just as civilian officials look at the worthlessness of military attache positions, military attaches look at acting positions are not worth much, they generally look at military positions, everyone is a thousand presidents, but there is no difference, a few people come to stammer, nothing more than feel that Yang Chao has a bright future, and he will not sit in the position of Qian Zong for a long time, and sooner or later he will climb on their heads.

Of course, Yang Chao is also happy to bear this kind of knot, and he will have to work together in Shuiying in the future, with many friends and many roads.

Because of these troubles, Yang Chao either lived in the barracks, and when he went home, he also left home early under the pretext of socializing, mainly because he didn't want to meet his relatives who pleaded.

But it was still blocked, and early this morning, a few people suddenly knelt in front of Yang Chao's house and blocked Yang Chao at the door.

Yang Chao was slightly stunned, and immediately thought of the identities of these people: "Zhang Tianshou, Wuyi, Sun Yong!" What are you doing here? ”

Yang Chao couldn't help but wonder, these three people sued Xu Zhongxiao with him last year, and Zhang Tianshou also received a lot of silver from Yang Chao for this, what are they kneeling here for, Yang Chao really can't guess.

"Help, sir!"

Zhang Tianshou bowed his head, and the other two followed.

"What's going on? Get up and speak! ”

Yang Chao shouted.

The three of them didn't dare to get up, and kowtowed vigorously: "Xu Baihu is back, and he has been a thousand households, and the villains are dead." ”

Yang Chao was stunned, Xu Zhongxiao came back and was promoted, and immediately asked the three of them carefully.

That's what I understand. Xu Zhongxiao came back a few years ago, and was promoted to the Nanjing Zhenfu Division, specializing in criminal prisons.

You must know that Nanzhen Fusi only has 5,000 households. Xu Zhongxiao can occupy one of the positions, which can be said to be a high power.

Yang Chao couldn't help frowning. I thought Xu Zhongxiao was afraid that he would hide in Beijing, but now it seems that it is not so simple, he went to Beijing for activities, I don't know whose way he went, he was promoted to a level, it seems that this bully is still a trouble.

Zhang Tianshou and the three came to Yang Chao because they were afraid, and Xu Zhongxiao came back. Immediately accepted the martial arts family's pharmacy, Sun Yong's shop, Zhang Tianshou's industry, among the three, Zhang Tianshou was the most scheming as a turtle prince, and immediately found the other two to ask for help.

Those properties were originally handed over by Yang Chao under duress on Xu Zhongxiao at that time, although they were originally the property of these three people, but now they have no intention of taking it back, and they only ask Yang Chao to save their lives.

These three people were because they were doing things with them at the beginning, although Zhang Tianshou received the money, but after all, it was Yang Chao who put them in danger. Therefore, it cannot be left alone.

Yang Chao thought about it and asked Zhang Tianshou to go to Jinchai Tower to find Kang Cheng and stay in Jinchai Tower to do things. As for Sun Yong's family in the past, he was very good at appreciating flowers, and he also let him go to the Golden Hairpin Tower, and let Wuyi go to the barracks.

After sending these three people away, Yang Chao immediately rushed to the house of Feng Kezong, the envoy of Jinyiwei.

The Feng family is really luxurious, and the furniture is all mahogany furniture.

Yang Chao's home has also been replaced with new furniture, and the furniture in Jinchai Building has been moved back. But only a few kinds of mahogany in the parents' room, and the side room is only beech.

But Feng Kezong's family. It is made of mahogany from the inside out, and the window lattices are all rosewood.

Feng Kezong was at home at this time. He is the envoy of Jinyiwei, and there are not many people who need to be tied up in Nanjing.

"Lord Feng is really high-spirited."

After being promoted, Feng Kezong's mental head was different.

Feng Kezong smiled: "Lord Yang is not the same. ”

Then he welcomed Yang Chao into the house, opened in the hall, asked the maid to serve tea, and asked the subordinates to prepare wine and dinner, and wanted to get drunk with Yang Chao.

Yang Chao didn't come to drink.

Instead, he came to do something: "Lord Feng, don't worry about the wine, the lower officials have something to ask for." ”

Feng Kezong was very simple: "If there is anything, Lord Yang can just say it, but if it can be done, this official will never shirk." ”

Yang Chao smiled: "That's good." This official wants to run a person. A brocade guard thousand households. ”

Feng Kezong was stunned for a moment, and then understood: "But Xu Zhongxiao? ”

Feng Kezong definitely inquired into Yang Chao's background and knew that the Yang family had grievances with the Xu family, and recently Xu Zhong was filial piety to thousands of households, and Yang Chao asked him to do it, so he naturally contacted him.

Yang Chao said: "Exactly! ”

Feng Kezong hesitated: "Xu Zhongxiao is not easy to move." ”

Yang Chao said: "Then Lord Feng can't do it." Even if you don't come. ”

As he spoke, he stood up and made a gesture to leave.

Yang Chao was just deliberately scaring Feng Kezong, because after dealing with Feng Kezong these days, Yang Chao faintly felt that Feng Kezong was a little afraid of himself, so he didn't have to be polite.

Sure enough, Feng Kezong hurriedly stopped: "Lord Yang, don't be in a hurry, it's difficult to do, it's hard to do, didn't I say no." ”

Yang Chao then said: "I don't know how long it will take for Lord Feng to do it?" ”

Feng Kezong sighed: "Xu Qianhu has just taken office, and if he is dismissed at this time, it is inevitable that he will be a little unreasonable, and there is no strong rhetoric, so it is not easy to move him." ”

Yang Chao said: "You just say how long it will take, right?" ”

Feng Kezong sighed: "I don't dare to say this. But don't worry, Lord Yang, how about helping you do him in half a year? ”

In half a year, Feng Kezong felt that he was enough to clean up a thousand households in brocade clothes.

Yang Chao said: "Okay, I'll wait for Lord Feng for half a year." ”

Then the two drank and talked about officialdom.

It's not been a quiet few years.

Guan Waizu Dashou was besieged in Jinzhou for half a year, Hong Chengchou brought more than 100,000 people to rescue, and the Houjin army fought in Songshan and the whole army was annihilated, the most elite troops of the Ming Dynasty were less than 100,000 yuan, and Hong Chengchou led less than 10,000 troops to be surrounded by regiments.

Li Zicheng fell into Henan and killed Chang Xun, the king of fortune, and Lu Weiqi, the former secretary of the Nanjing Military Department. Li Zicheng called himself King Chuang and became the most powerful part of the peasant army, and formed an alliance with Luo Rucai, who claimed to be the general of the people on behalf of the heavens and had tens of thousands of horses, and could already confront the officers and soldiers head-on.

Another Zhang Xianzhong peasant army was chased by Yang Sichang and ran to Sichuan, and then killed, captured Xiangyang and killed King Xiang, after a circle, Zhang Xianzhong returned to Henan, and Li Zicheng attacked Kaifeng for seven days and nights, the general soldier Chen Yongfu led the troops to defend without losing, and also shot Li Zicheng in one eye.

However, at this time, the people's hearts have changed, Li Zicheng left Kaifeng forty miles to stay in Zhuxian Town, and as a result, the inner towns and towns of Pingtang County and Xinye Zhucheng surrendered one after another, and Liu Zhenshi, the governor of Dengzhou, welcomed fifty miles in the suburbs and moved his family from it.

Then Li Zicheng and Zuo Liangyu, Hu Dawei and others fought a decisive battle in Zhuxian Town, defeated the official army, Zuo Liangyu's mother and wife were captured, and since then the imperial court has not recovered the city south of Xuzhou, and Li Zicheng continued to besiege Kaifeng.

Feng Kezong felt that the imperial court was really difficult, and Henan was ravaged by thieves again.

Yang Chao felt that this time was different, in the past, the peasant army and the officers and soldiers had a tug-of-war, although there were victories and defeats, and in the end they were all driven away by the officers and soldiers, but this time it was clear that the military horses and the officers and soldiers were facing each other, not to mention the victory or defeat, the key was that a large number of civilian officials had begun to surrender.

Yang Chao remembered that Li Zicheng had always accepted surrender to Beijing, and Beijing did not resist much, and several generals guarding the gate directly let him into the city.

Domestic and foreign difficulties, the general trend of the Ming Dynasty has gone! (To be continued)