In the second year of Chongzhen, the end of summer! Xi'an Mansion!

In the backyard of Lord Yang Hong of thousands of households, there is a lot of noise. A middle-aged woman in her thirties, her figure was quite round, and the silk dress on her body was so swollen that it almost looked like it was about to collapse. She was carrying a slipper and chasing her man in the inner courtyard.

"Dead Man...... You stinky man...... You ...... of killing a thousand knives" The fat woman scolded while dragging her slippers, beating Yang Hong to jump up and down in embarrassment, hiding in the east, kicking over a flower pot for a while, and knocking down a family member for a while.

"Fuck, stinky bitch, if you do this again, I'm going to fight back!" Yang Hong was furious.

"You also! If you have the ability, you will kill me, otherwise the old lady will get up in the middle of the night and bite off your ear. The fat woman was scolding, her hands kept stopping, and she kept smashing the slippers on Yang Hong's body.

"Damn, didn't Lao Tzu just lose a battle? You scolded Lao Tzu for a few months, and you came out every day to say this, saying that it was not enough to say it once and saying it twice, and saying today and tomorrow, is it annoying? Yang Hong's face flushed.

"I'm going to say! You stinky man who killed a thousand knives, the above are all set to give you a promotion, and the old lady can be promoted to the fourth grade, or the third grade lady, but you, the stinky man who killed a thousand knives, lost the battle, and it is not your turn to be promoted, and the old lady is also unlucky...... The wife of the deputy commander of the family made fun of me the day before yesterday, who do you think I am bothered by? The fat woman slammed the soles of her shoes on Yang Hong's back.

It turned out that after Yang Hong was defeated by Zhu Yuanzhang in Huanglong Mountain, he was scolded by Hu Yanyan, the governor of western Shaanxi, after he came back.

Yang Hong himself is nothing, he has not been promoted to an official, this kind of thing is just a trivial matter in the eyes of men, life encounters, some things pass with a wave of his hand. But his wife doesn't see it like this, this lady is very snobbish, and loves to show off and compare, after Yang Hong made a meritorious service last time, this fat lady went to show off in the east, west, south, and north, which made other women jealous.

I didn't expect ...... Yang Hong made a meritorious service, and he committed it immediately, and he made the merit off, that is, there was no merit, and it was no fun to be promoted to become rich, and his wife was ridiculed fiercely by those jealous women, so that he couldn't get down in face, so in the past few months, he quarreled with Yang Hong when he had nothing to do, from morning to night, from night to morning, and often staged the trick of slippers chasing and fighting.

"Dead Man...... Stinky man...... The ......woman scolded endlessly, scolding Yang Hong in a hurry, stretched out her fist, and punched the lady in the face, the soldier shot, it was extremely heavy, and this punch suddenly made the fat woman fly away.

"Fuck!" After Yang Hong punched this punch, he was not at ease, a dignified military attaché of five grades, beating his wife at home, what did this look like? He couldn't get his face up, so he walked into the front yard angrily.

Walking to the front yard, the henchman Ding Bing came up and said in a low voice: "General...... Madame again? ”

"Don't mention that stinky bitch!" Yang Hong rolled his eyes unhappily: "Fuck, that kid Zhu Ba robbed the mother-in-law of the second young man of the Ma family, why didn't he rob my mother-in-law?" He wants to come to Xi'an once and snatch my mother-in-law away, and I will call him Brother Sheng. ”

"Shhhh......h You can't say this, and if you are heard, you will rebel. Jia Ding Bing hurriedly said: "By the way, Lord Hu Yanyan sent someone to come just now, and I want to invite you to the governor's yamen to discuss matters, but you are ...... with your wife The little one thinks it's inconvenient for you to see outsiders, so he blocks it back, and if you have time now, go to the governor's yamen for a trip. ”

"Oh?" Yang Hong jumped up suddenly: "I'll go, I'll leave now...... Damn, I can't stay in this house anymore, don't care anywhere, just let me leave this house, I'll go right away. ”

He hurriedly rushed out of the door, asked the family to lead the horse, and beat the horse towards the governor's yamen.

When I arrived at the yamen, I saw that there were sedan chairs parked here, many family members were waiting outside the door, and a large number of horses were tied to the horse binding stakes of the governor's yamen.

Yang Hong was not polite, and rushed in with a big grin, and sure enough, the hall was full of civil and military officials, Xi'an Prefect, Shaanxi * Xicheng announced the political envoy department, the criminal envoy department, the envoy department, the grain road, the political road, the senator road, and the post salt road...... Anyway, those people, whether Yang Hong knew or didn't know them, sat in a room full of people.

Since he was fighting with his wife at home, the family did not notify him in time, so he came a little late, so he did not catch up with the polite time at the beginning of the official gathering, and as soon as he came, he happened to hear the governor talking about the key points.

"The current situation is not optimistic......" Hu Yanyan said in a deep and depressed voice: "There are more and more chaotic people, and the rogues are becoming more and more intense, and there is gradually an uncontrollable situation...... Alas...... I came here today to discuss a solution with you. ”

"Can't take it anymore?" Yang Hong was a little surprised, he had been fighting with his wife every day recently, and he didn't pay much attention to the affairs of the court, why did he become uncontrollable when he came out?

Hu Yanyan glanced at him and said unhappily: "General Yang, as a military general, don't you even know these things?" At the end of last year, there was a mutiny in Guyuan, the reason was that the border soldiers were short of pay, and the soldiers took advantage of the opportunity of making trouble outside, and also followed the blind coaxing, and robbed the Guyuan Prefecture Treasury. ”

"Scared!" Yang Hong was really shocked now, even the regular border army of the imperial court rebelled? This...... It's hard to clean up. You must know that the border army is different from the guards in the hinterland, that is the real elite of the elite of the fine tax, every soldier is one in a hundred strong, it is no exaggeration to say that a thousand border troops against three thousand guards is like a play, no effort at all.

"On the eighth day of the fourth month of the leap month this year......," Hu Yanyan continued: "More than 7,000 people of the Liukou army attacked Sanshui, the guerrilla general Gao Conglong was defeated and killed, and more than 2,000 officers and soldiers were wounded......

"Silk!" Yang Hong gasped, as many as two thousand officers and soldiers were actually killed by the rogue? This rogue is really powerful! Although he was newly defeated by Zhu Yuanzhang, he didn't think that his opponent was so powerful, mainly because he had too few troops. He only has more than 500 soldiers, and it is normal that he can't exterminate a rogue bandit, but the guerrilla general Gao Conglong was defeated with 2,000 officers and soldiers, so it is really a bit unbelievable, or the thief is really a bit big.

"A few days ago, I also received an expedited ...... of eight hundred miles" Hu Yanyan sighed: "Zhu Ba in Huanglong Mountain, unwilling to be lonely, came out of the mountains again, robbed all the squires in Baishui, and he was bold, and the phrase used during the robbery was actually 'collecting taxes', which is simply unreasonable, in my Ming Dynasty, only the imperial court is qualified to collect taxes, he is just a thief, what do you say to collect taxes?" It's just a rule. ”

Yang Hong's eyes widened when he heard this. He couldn't help but secretly say in his heart: People are originally thieves, when did they have a royal law in their eyes? You say he has no king's law,.

Many of the civil servants in the room heard this information for the first time, and they exclaimed in surprise.

"Lord Governor, didn't you say last year that these troublemakers were ordinary people, and as long as the year is good, they will go back to the fields and redo good people?"

"Lord Governor, you told us to ignore them last year, and after a while, the rogues will naturally disappear!"

"yes, what now?"

The civil officials were shouting, and suddenly a person walked in from outside the hall, this person was about thirty-five or sixteen years old, thin, with three strands of beard, quite heroic, it was Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi * Western Grain Dao. He didn't walk fast, even slowly, but with a heavy sense of oppression, the civil officials next to him seemed to faintly smell the smell of the battlefield from him.

Hong Chengchou walked in and said loudly, "I'm back...... A few days ago, he defeated Wang Jiayin in Fugu, and drove that guy into the mountains, and just returned to Xi'an to rest for a while, when I heard that the governor had convened a hundred officials to discuss the matter, I specially rushed to listen, where did everyone go? ”

"Wow, Lord Hong still has the ability, and he can defeat Wang Jiayin, the most powerful among the thieves, it's not easy!" The civil servants were flattering.

"We're saying that the current situation is not easy to clean up!" Someone whispered the conversation just now to Hong Chengchou.

After Hong Chengchou listened, he snorted coldly and said: "Lord Governor, the lower officials have long said that the rogue is in chaos, if you let it go and let the tiger return to the mountain, you will make a comeback, and you must be exterminated as soon as possible, do you regret it?" ”

Hu Yanyan sighed: "Then you say, what should I do now?" ”

"What else can I do? Put away your luck and ask the court for help! Hong Chengchou shook his head and said: "If you want to hide from the Ministry of War, it is no longer realistic to mobilize some small-scale troops to deal with the rogues, you must notify the imperial court, receive the transfer of troops from the Ministry of War, mobilize the troops of the whole province, and make every effort to exterminate the thieves, otherwise, the consequences will be even more serious." ”

After he finished speaking, he snorted coldly and said: "I know that the lord doesn't want to report to the court, this report, the future of the governor is over, and the court will definitely investigate your mistakes....... If the adults continue to deceive the court, when the whole province is corrupted, the emperor will have to kill your head. Forget it, I don't have time to talk to you about this...... I'm going to send troops to deal with the rogues in Sanshui, and I don't have time to play with you here. ”

Hong Chengchou waved his hand, turned around and walked out of the hall again.

When Hu Yanyan heard this, his body stiffened, then he trembled, and sat down on the chair in a dejected manner. After half a ring, he propped himself up and said in a trembling voice, "Twist...... I wrote a recital to the imperial court......"