The first news of Yang Chao's victory reached Huai'an.

More than a dozen gate soldiers and Yang Chao's soldiers, after the bombing of the Rose River, did not turn back, but rushed directly to Nanjing, they were responsible for asking Huai'an for help, asking Shi Kefa to allocate a batch of grain as soon as possible, otherwise Haizhou would run out of food.

According to Yang Chao's explanation, these people directly told Shi Kefa that the captives outside Haizhou City had been killed by Yang Chao.

Shi Kefa was naturally very shocked, and repeatedly confirmed that the confessions of Yang Chao's subordinates were very unified, and even those people had confessed in advance, insisting that the captives in Haizhou had been killed by Yang Chao, but it also confirmed one thing, there were no 100,000 captives in Haizhou, only more than 10,000.

More than 10,000 were annihilated, and the meaning of 100,000 is completely different, because 10,000 means that this is still a plundering force, and 100,000 is the main force of the captives.

So Shi Kefa was happy, and gave a big reward of fifty taels of silver to each of these soldiers who sent the letter, and made those gate soldiers happy, not telling this lie in vain, but Yang Chao's soldiers didn't care, but they were a little regretful, they couldn't kill the last batch of captives with those comrades in Haizhou, you must know that it was a great merit of 10,000 people, and the most important thing is that they decided that if they stayed to kill the enemy, the final reward would definitely be much more than what Lord Shi Kefa gave.

Especially Zhang Erguo, who has taken the lead, seems to be a little excited, he is already in the team, and when it comes to the critical time to raise the flag, he missed such a big battle, which is really a big disadvantage, and it is not good to be compared with Li Ergou's competitor, the two of them are neighbors, thinking of the next time they go back, they will look at their neighbors. He was a little depressed.

After Shi Kefa finished the reward, the first thing he did was to redraft the note, and he wanted to report this good news to the Son of Heaven as soon as possible.

At the same time, people were sent to Haizhou urgently. urged Yang Chao to send the heads and captives back immediately.

It's just a matter of sending rice to Haizhou, and Shi Kefa can't immediately transfer it for a while. I can only order to go down and hurry up to prepare.

When Shi Kefa's letter letter arrived in Beijing, the emperor was once again shocked.

"This, this, this is a real warrior!"

"Ande warriors are guarding all directions!"

At that time, the emperor received the good news from the old slave Wang Chengen as soon as possible, and circled around the imperial case three times, waving the generous and sad song of good news.

Wang Chengen bent over and bowed to the side and smiled stupidly.

Before the emperor received the Haizhou sent by Shi Kefa, he was besieged by heavy captives, and after the loyal and brave Qianzong Yang Chao was surrounded, he was still a little sad, that is, he felt sad for the people of Haizhou City. I also regret that Mr. Qian, who had just won a battle and had not yet received the reward, was surrounded by captives.

The emperor also communicated with Zhou Yanru in Tongzhou again and again, asking Zhou Yanru if he had the ability to transfer troops to support, Zhou Yanru swore that the main force of the captives was still in Shandong, and Haizhou must be a partial division, so there was no need to rescue.

After the results came, as Zhou Yanru said, Haizhou was just a partial teacher. But there are also tens of thousands.

And these 10,000 people were defeated by Yang Chao again, not only were they defeated again, but they were also like the first time. was wiped out again, but last time the captives were only about 300 people, Yang Chao had more than 600 people, and it is understandable that the captives were completely annihilated, this time there were more than 10,000 captives, but Yang Chao was less than 600 people, and the ending was the same, the captives were completely annihilated.

After this result made the emperor excited, he couldn't help but feel a little depressed again. Zhou Yanru led hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in the north and has been trapped in Tongzhou.

But Zhou Yanru has always been deeply trusted by the emperor. Many times handed over good news, and the emperor rewarded jade belts and python robes. But compared with Yang Chao, the emperor immediately felt that there seemed to be a problem with Zhou Yanru's soldiers, with Yang Chao's standards, Zhou Yanru seemed to be able to wipe out all the captives who entered the Kou, what a long-term ambition thing this time, counting that the captives have entered the Kou five times, each time it is to slap the face of the Ming Dynasty again, how can Chongzhen not want to have a fierce general under his command, who can cut off the claws of the Dongyu deep into the Ming Dynasty at once, and take out this evil breath.

But Zhou Yanru -

In the end, Emperor Chongzhen still chose to believe Zhou Yanru, and only sighed at his behavior: "The Zhou Pavilion is still too calm!" ”

We can't expect a civilian official to make such shocking military exploits as Yang Chao.

But in addition to being shocked, the emperor suddenly felt a little embarrassed, he rewarded three hundred taels of silver last time, what should he reward this time?

It is said that the emperor thought about this for three days and did not think about it, with the merit of 600 and 10,000, no matter how you look at it, it is a bit of a taste of unappreciated merit, the reward is too light, and the people of the world will think that the emperor is mean and unkind, and the reward is heavy, not to mention that the emperor has to pay hundreds of thousands of taels of silver if he can't do it well, and the emperor is faintly worried that it will make the generals proud of their achievements.

Before the emperor could figure out how to reward Yang Chao, there was already a lot of noise in the court.

At this time, the court in Beijing was divided into two factions, one was the obvious Zhou Yanru Party, and the other was the obvious anti-Zhou party, and there was a faint shadow of Donglin behind the anti-Zhou party.

The high-ranking officials of Zhou Yanru's faction congratulated the emperor as soon as possible, and at the same time hurriedly drafted a reward for Yang Chao.

However, the officials sent by the Zhou faction immediately raised doubts, questioning how Yang Chao could defeat the besieging captives with only 600 men, and before the actual battle report was clarified, they suggested that they should take a look.

The reason for the disagreement between these two factions is by no means simply the result of the policy of the hostile party that they oppose for the sake of opposition, but there is a deep entanglement of interests in it.

Zhou Yanru went out of Beijing this time to supervise the soldiers and horses of the world, which means that no matter where in the world a battle is won, as long as it is a captive soldier, it should have a credit to him Zhou Yanru, and he is the one who has the right management, so Zhou Yanru and his party will definitely bite Yang Chao to death for this military exploit, this is too timely rain, Zhou Yanru has plundered the enemy in Tongzhou, which has already aroused criticism from the imperial court.

And Zhou Yanru reported hundreds of good news, big and small, but everyone knows that none of them are true, this time Yang Chao here is a real good news, although Haizhou is far away from Tongzhou, but it is not next to Shandong, it can be said that it is caused by Zhou Xiangye's high moves in the north and south, and it can even be far-fetched to explain that Lord Zhou blocked the captives in the north and forced them to go south. Then he mobilized brave generals in Haizhou to volley, and only then did he make a great achievement.

As for why you can break 10,000 with 600, it can only be said that you Zhou Daren has a good way of employing people and commanding effectively. Otherwise, how could such a miracle occur, obviously it can no longer be explained as the soldier's life. It can only be said that Lord Zhou had a strange plot, as for what kind of conspiracy it is, military secrets, it is understandable that it has not been reported for the time being.

As for the Reverse Zhou faction, they finally seized the opportunity of Zhou Yanru to leave Beijing, if they didn't move him this time, then there would be no better chance in the future, so they were during the war. constantly seized the opportunity to impeach, and questioned Zhou Yanru's good news every day, especially when these good news were not headed, and the doubts were justified.

But they can't beat Zhou Yanru for a while, if Zhou Yanru returns to Beijing to counterattack, I don't know how many people have fallen to the ground, so Yang Chao's battle report of annihilating tens of thousands of captives, they must question it, this is a matter of political direction, and it has nothing to do with right or wrong.

The two factions quarreled in the court. Let the emperor not be able to pay attention for a while, and for the sake of safety, he can only issue an order to let Shi Kefa find out the specific situation as soon as possible. And immediately played it up.

When the news of Yang Chao reached Beijing, it also spread back to Nanjing, and Yang Chao won another battle, and once again annihilated the captives.

The news immediately blew up where it passed.

The city of Nanjing is as loud as a firecracker.

After hearing the news, Yang Mother Zhao Lan fainted happily all of a sudden, and immediately shouted to go to the temple to make a vow after Yang Chao was besieged, Zhao Lan temporarily hugged the Buddha's feet and walked all over the temple to be able to go to any temple, whether it was Taoist or Buddhist. As long as it is a god, worship and make a wish. Now that the news of his son's fine came to him, he was the first thing he thought of going to make a vow.

My father was overjoyed at first. Then he was shocked by his wife fainting, surprised and delighted, and then got drunk, and ended up sick.

My sister didn't know how to express her joy, so she secretly ran to Jinchai Building to have a lively time with Chen Yuanyuan and Dong Xiaowan, two good sisters, and was grounded by her mother when she got home.

Kang Cheng, who has changed his name to Xiaobao, operated Jinchai Lou to perform ten big dramas in a row, and changed the style of the past, what kind of West Chamber and the like are not acted, and what Yang family generals have changed, Chen Yuanyuan's Mu Guiying's appearance ushered in a round of applause.

Li Xiangjun, Gu Mei and other famous prostitutes came to the Jinchai Building to cheer, and the Jinchai Building was very lively, and of course they made a lot of money.

However, the jaw dropped in shock from the scholar of Erli Society, this is too cruel, besieged by 100,000 captive soldiers, with only 600 soldiers in his hands, it turned out to be fine, and he also claimed that all the captives were killed, that is, Yue Fei's grandfather was resurrected, and Second Brother Guan didn't dare to say so when he was alive, so the first thing they thought of was not to believe it, at best, Yang Chao broke through.

But this has shocked them enough, it is unbelievable, they don't even have the mind to drink flower wine for a while, and even among some low-level members of the Erli Society, there are some admirers of Yang Chao, even if they are conceited scholars, they also have great respect for this general, and they can't make friends as confidants.

Zhang Dawei was once again praised by his peers, not only said that he would no longer compete with Zhang Dawei for business, but also said that in the future, only the old man Zhang would look forward, and the Yangtze River shipping was once again controlled by the Xinjiang Estuary Water Camp.

Let Zhang Dawei feel complacent again, feel that he let go of his caution and follow Yang Chao to do it, this step is really the right step, not only do you not have to worry about the food and clothing at home, but you can also earn a lot of family business for your son if you don't make it, and even earn a big way out.

But it was the Nanjing officialdom that really shook it.

Xiong Mingyu immediately did not hesitate, and once again interrupted the reinstatement document of Gu Zhaoji's brother-in-law Cui Wei, and said decisively that this kind of scum scum should never be used by the imperial court.

Finally couldn't help but be confused, Feng Kezong, who once again drank flower wine with Xu Zhongxiao, who was generous, was on the wine table, and when he was slightly drunk by the two red girls, a subordinate suddenly came in and whispered a few words in his ear.

Feng Kezong suddenly sobered up, not only did he not have half of his drinking, but he also felt that his hairs were rising, he was cold, and he broke out in a cold sweat in the summer, and immediately slapped himself hard.

"Call you Tama doesn't have a long memory, it's really a memory of eating and not remembering, and dogs can't change eating! obviously said that he didn't wait for the results to come out, so he wouldn't play with Xu Zhongxiao's grandson, how could he get involved. This grandson is indeed generous and rich, but it is not worth risking his life. ”

Xu Zhongxiao Qianhu, who was playing a minor girl on the side, saw that his soothing envoy actually slapped his mouth, and immediately asked with puzzled concern.

Feng Kezong immediately smiled and said that he had a toothache.

He does have a toothache, after listening to the accurate news reported by his subordinates, he immediately had a toothache, he felt that his bones were soft, and he felt pain at all, is it necessary for Nima to be so cruel, 100,000 captives, 100,000! Forget it if you break through, you still kill them all! This is 100,000 people, not 100,000 pigs.

Thinking that Yang Chao's killer killed 100,000 people at once, it was no wonder that his gummy didn't hurt, especially when he was still drinking at the same table with Yang Chao's enemies, the gummy was not rotten, and he was already considered to have hard bones and good health.

At this time, Xu Zhongxiao, who was rated as a caring subordinate by Feng Kezong, asked with concern if he wanted to find a doctor.

Feng Kezong politely said no, and then waved his hand to rebuke a few girls.

Then he said to Xu Zhongxiao very politely: "Xu Qianhu, the thing you said last time, I thought about it, you let it go." But there is one thing, you can't implicate the envoy, so you and I don't want to meet during this time. Lest you arouse suspicion! ”

Xu Zhongxiao was overjoyed when he heard it.

Xu Zhongxiao recently saw a deal, there was a timber merchant in Huguang, his family was very rich, from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to sell timber to Nanjing, but because Huguang was ravaged by Zhang Xianzhong, this wealthy merchant was also looted, so the wealthy businessman with a huge amount of family assets, and many family members, came to Nanjing for refuge.

This person has a background in Huguang, but he doesn't have much to rely on in Nanjing, so Xu Zhongxiao paid attention to the wealth of wealthy merchants.

After careful investigation, Xu Zhongxiao learned that this wealthy merchant had brought at least one million taels of gold and silver treasures, and he wanted to hack this money, but with such a big fortune, he knew that he couldn't eat it alone, so he planned to join Feng Kezong, the Jinyi Guard, to pacify the envoy, of course, the dirty work was done by him, a thousand households, Feng Kezong only needed to sit back and enjoy his achievements, at best to provide him with a protective umbrella.

But Feng Kezong has not agreed, which makes Xu Zhongxiao quite worried, worried that Feng Kezong wants to swallow it alone, so he does not hesitate to spend money to give gifts and treats, and today finally moved Feng Kezong, how can Xu Zhongxiao not like it.

So he immediately went back to deploy, and he must take down the rich merchant as soon as possible, so as not to have too many dreams at night and be preempted by others.

What Xu Zhongxiao didn't know was that what stared at his back was Feng Kezong's cold gaze. (To be continued).