Chapter 16: Substitute for the Dead

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Yang Ze, the eunuch guarding the tomb, hid in a dry well that day and escaped. When he was rescued from the dry well, he found that he had been burned down.

As a eunuch guarding the tomb, this time the imperial tomb was destroyed, and he would definitely not be able to escape, Yang Ze was originally planning to commit suicide, but when he heard that the Denglai guerrilla general was thousands of miles away to help Zhongdu and drove the thieves out, a glimmer of hope suddenly appeared in his heart, and he hurriedly chased the direction of Zhao Yan's march with the prefect Yan Rongxuan overnight.

In the middle of the night, the third watch entered Zhao Yan's military camp, and when he saw Zhao Yan, Yang Ze knelt down directly and cried loudly: "General Zhao, help!" Save our family! ”

The voice was extremely tragic, and he hugged Zhao Yan's thigh and refused to let go. Zhao Yan struggled twice, and seeing that he couldn't break free, he hurriedly asked: "Gonggong Yang, why are you, please get up quickly, please get up quickly." ”

"If General Zhao doesn't save our family, our family won't get up." Yang Ze cried and said, this old eunuch played a scoundrel. Zhao Yan said helplessly: "Yang Gonggong's words are serious, I, Zhao Yan, am just a little Denglai guerrilla, where can I save my father-in-law!" ”

"Yes, yes." Yang Ze nodded hurriedly.

"Father-in-law Yang should get up and speak! If you can save it, it doesn't hurt to try. Zhao Yan was a little helpless, then dealt with it, and reached out to lift Yang Ze up.

Yang Ze stood up and greeted outside, and the two officials from the government walked in carrying a box, and Yang Ze asked people to open the box.

To Zhao Yan's surprise, the box was full of gold, which looked like no less than a few thousand taels. It seems that this Yang Ze has made a lot of money when he is guarding the tomb, but he is strange in his heart, he is just a small Denglai guerrilla, why did this Yang Ze come to bribe?

However, Zhao Yan did not make any less money on this thing, and he did not react to this box of gold, Yang Ze saw that Zhao Yan had no reaction, and said: "General Zhao, in order to thank you for rushing thousands of miles away to help Zhongdu, this is sent by the people of Fengyang." ”

"Huh! I have a heart, I don't know what Grandpa Yang is going to do? Zhao Yan laughed dryly and asked Yang Ze directly.

Yan Rongxuan asked at this time, "I don't know where General Zhao learned that the thieves wanted to attack the capital?" ”

"Self-detection." Zhao Yan said.

"Can General Zhao do me a favor, let's just say that more than ten days before the thieves fell into the capital, Yang Gonggong and Zai already knew about it, and when they were about to report, they were obstructed by Zhu Guoxiang......" Yan Rongxuan whispered the content of the compilation.

Basically, it is to slander Zhu Guoxiang and thieves, and they have already detected that the thieves want to attack Fengyang, and when they report it, they were obstructed by Zhu Guoxiang, and the people who sent out to ask for reinforcements were also intercepted by Zhu Guoxiang, and in the end, only one person sent the information to Zhao Yan, a guerrilla in Denglai, Shandong.

Denglai guerrillas rushed to the aid at night, but fortunately arrived in time, although the Xiangdian and Longxing Temple were destroyed, but the ancestral tomb was not dug up by the thieves......

Zhu Guoxiang, as the chief of the left-behind division of the central capital, has already been hacked to death by thieves, and this time Yang Ze directly pulled Zhu Guoxiang out as a substitute for the dead ghost in order to get rid of the charge.

After such a report, they can be exonerated of their guilt. Because they had already discovered the movements of the thieves, they were only blocked by Prime Minister Zhu and failed to report, and later came to Shandong to invite reinforcements, and arrived in time to save the ancestral tomb.

Zhao Yan was stunned for a moment after listening, it turned out that it could still be like this!

I have to admire the ability of these bureaucrats to fabricate, they are simply invincible in the world.

"This ......" Zhao Yan muttered: "Then Zhu Guoxiang's family is not ......"

"Zhu Guoxiang's family will definitely protect it." Yang Ze hurriedly said, "As long as General Zhao is willing to help, our family will definitely write a letter to make people blow some good words in the ears of the saint......"

Although this Yang Ze was sent to guard the mausoleum, there were still some forces in the palace.

"Okay~! It's all based on what Yang Gonggong said. "Zhao Yan didn't bother to worry about this matter, so it was better to throw the stall to these people.

"Thank you, General Zhao, thank you, General Zhao." Yang Ze was suddenly overjoyed.

After a while, Yang Yipeng, the governor of Fengyang, and Wu Zhenying, the governor of Fengyang, also hurried to arrive, and a group of bureaucrats finally came up with a specific report plan after discussion.

First of all, 800 miles rushed to report to the Beijing Division, and Fengyang was attacked. The report literally highlighted that the reinforcements arrived in time, and the thieves who were about to dig the grave were driven out of Fengyang, and the ancestral tomb was safe and sound. And Longxing Temple, Xiangdian, and the escaped sin sect were only vaguely mentioned.

Wu Zhenying, the governor of the imperial history, reported the impeachment of Zhu Guoxiang and the thieves, and obstructed the news of the thief's attack...... also focused on Zhao Yan for credit.

In order to stop Zhao Yan's mouth, these bureaucrats invested a lot of money, and they all stuffed money into Zhao Yan, and they all had an affectionate relationship with Zhao Yan.

Zhao Yan collected a lot of silver, as much as tens of thousands of taels, but the most important thing was to take the opportunity to extort the iron ore in the area of Zhouji in [***] County.

When he came back to Fengyang this time, Zhao Yan mainly fell in love with Zhouji's iron ore. Although there are iron mines in the Luzhong area, it is too troublesome to start after all.

The iron ore in the Zhouji area of [***] county has not yet been mined there. When the governor of Fengyang heard that Zhao Yan wanted to open a mine there, he hurriedly patted his chest and agreed.

The lives of these officials are all in the hands of Zhao Yan! If he was upset and stabbed the truth on it, none of them would want to live.

Although Zhao Yan sent people to circle the iron ore in the Zhouji area of [***] County, the iron ore there does not seem to be so easy to mine, so it can only be idle in the near future.

Zhao Yan naturally wouldn't be idle, and came to save Zhu Youzhen's ancestral grave for no reason. Instead, he plans to take this opportunity to circle some minerals.

The first target is iron and coal, and the area of Handan and Xingtai in Zhangde Mansion has undoubtedly become his first choice target, that is, there is iron and coal, and it is very convenient to smelt.

Handan and Xingtai belonged to Hebei in later generations, but now belong to Henan.

The iron ore in the Ma'anshan area is so close to Nanjing, and there are already people mining it, so it is obviously not so easy for Zhao Yan to get involved.

However, in places like Henan and Shanxi, they have been troubled by thieves, and it will be much easier to circle those minerals.

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When it was dark, the thief, who had rested for the night, set out on the road again. From a bird's-eye view of the sky, you will find a dense black dot moving between the North and West Fertilizer Waters.

These black spots are a large number of thieves, many of whom are glad that they escaped the pursuit of the official army yesterday, or grabbed rations in Fengyang.

But these thieves went in such a hurry that many of them did not get their rations, and they went hungry all night, and in the morning they ran hungry to the places where they could grab them.

Suddenly, there was a slight tremor on the ground, and thousands of thieves looked back in shock, and immediately found that on the gray horizon, a row of black dots was moving rapidly.

It's close!

It was the group of officers and soldiers who galloped to Fengyang yesterday who were galloping out on majestic military horses. The thief who saw clearly turned his head in horror and ran wildly, shouting: "It's the official army, the official army is chasing after you." ”

But where could they outrun the officers and soldiers on horseback on their two legs, I saw Wang Wenyue leading people to catch up with the gang of thieves, and directly surrounded them, and in the shouts of kneeling and not killing, most of the thieves knelt on the ground as soon as they were bitten.

But the leaders and backbones of the bandits would not surrender so consciously, they left the cannon fodder they had brought and rode away quickly.

The backbone of these thieves has always been the main target of extermination, but Wang Wenyue did not chase after him, because his main goal was to arrest people.

The soldiers of the baggage battalion stayed behind to deal with the prisoners, and Wang Wenyue led the men on his horse to continue to chase the thieves in front.

The infantry battalion rode forward, and it was easy to catch up with the thieves.

Some of the bandit leaders ran away when they saw the officers and soldiers, and some were chased in a hurry and chose to turn their heads to resist, but the end was generally not good, so they directly let the second battalion cut down.

After dawn in the cavalry battalion, he and two companies of the infantry battalion interspersed along the Xifeishui road to the northwest. In the afternoon, we crossed the West Fertilizer Water directly from the ferry port and blocked the front of the thieves.

The infantry was ordered to intercept again, while Lin Yi divided his cavalry into a team of two hundred men and headed towards the rushing thieves.

The task of the cavalry battalion is to kill, kill those thieves who dare not resist and flee in the slightest.

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