296. False letters
Zhang Yingxian knelt on the ground with a "poof": "Xianggong...... Akiba gave birth to a daughter...... You...... But don't be angry...... Oh! No, how could you not be angry...... Please don't be angry for too long, don't snub her in the future, give her another chance, the next child will definitely be a son. ”
In fact, Zhang Yingxian and Zhu Ba have been together for a long time, and they already know that he is not a very bad person, at least he will not lose his temper for no reason, but this time the matter is different, giving birth to a boy and a girl is the number one thing in the family in this era, no matter how good the temper is, I heard that the firstborn is a daughter, and I will also be crazy for a while.
In a situation like that, where there is already a son in the family and another daughter is born, of course, it doesn't hurt. But the first child of the Zhu family is a daughter, which is too unlucky, Zhang Yingxian is afraid that Zhu Yuanzhang will be angry with Qiuye, and will no longer love her from now on. After all, Autumn Leaves is a big girl that Zhang Yingxian has played with since she was a child, and her feelings are very deep, when she first went to Huanglong Mountain, Autumn Leaves also helped her a lot, and she didn't want Autumn Leaves to be sad in the future.
Zhu Yuanzhang had a big headache, and was tossed by a group of leaders outside about his daughter, but he didn't expect to be tossed by Zhang Yingxian again when he went home. He gently pulled Zhang Yingxian up from the ground: "It's okay, I don't mind having a daughter!" ”
"Huh?"
"I really don't mind!" Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously: "My daughter is good, she looks beautiful and bright, she loves to be clean, she doesn't talk about foul language, and she is no worse than her son." ”
"But you have such a big career now, and your daughter can't inherit ......," Zhang Yingxian said Ai Ai.
"Don't think too far! A daughter does not necessarily fail to inherit. ”
"Hey, how can my daughter ......?"
"Nothing is impossible! I won't talk about the farther ones, let's just talk about the closer ones, the toast of the Sichuan Shizhu Tujia family, and now it is a woman in charge, huh...... You may have heard her name, Qin Liangyu! ”
Qin Liangyu and the white pole soldiers in Sichuan have been powerful for several years, and their reputation is like Zhongtian, Zhang Yingxian is a young lady of the official family, of course, she has heard this name, she thought about it, and then said: "Hey, yes, Qin Liangyu is a woman, and she also inherited the position of the patriarch of the Tujia family." ”
"Well, it's good to figure it out." Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately showed a little smile and showed it to Zhang Yingxian: "I'm going to go to the west of the mountain in two days, and when the autumn leaves come out of the mountain, I shouldn't have come back yet, you help me comfort her, tell her not to worry too much, take care of her daughter, don't treat her well because she is a daughter...... Well...... I even gave her a name. ”
"Huh? Got all the names? Zhang Yingxian was overjoyed.
In recent years, due to the preference for sons, quite a number of people have given birth to a daughter who is too lazy to choose a name, and has been using a milk name until they grow up and have no official name. As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang heard that his daughter was born, he immediately chose a name for her, which means that he is really not angry.
Zhu Yuanzhang told Zhang Yingxian the name "Zhu Zhi", and then explained that she was waiting at home for her to return from Shan*xi, which were all ordinary family words-
Three days later, Xue Hongqi led her two hundred horse thieves to come, and after a few days, she seemed to have become a little more beautiful, dressed in red and clean, with less wind and simple taste, and more delicate and elegant. A city and a cloud rate were left by her in Dali to lead the infantry to garrison the city, and she herself came to join forces with Zhu Yuanzhang at the request of Zhu Yuanzhang and crossed the Yellow River east to confuse the government.
The two sides met outside the city, and after greeting each other, Xue Hongqi took out a letter from his arms and said with a smile: "Eighth Brother Zhu, I put a knife on the neck of Dali * County Order, and forced him to write a letter to Hong Chengchou, come and see, is it appropriate to write like this?" ”
All the leaders were interested, and they gathered together to read the letter. Xu Renjie, who was the first (self-confessed) writer, took the letter and unfolded it to read it to other leaders. The letter is written in a decent manner, and the content is also unpretentious, and the letter uses very simple sentences to describe that a few days ago, there was a bandit named Xue Hongqi who attacked Dali and once broke the city, and then said that the thieves had recently suddenly abandoned the city and crossed the Yellow River to the west of the mountain.
Xue Hongqi said: "Eighth Brother Zhu, I asked the literate brother to read this letter repeatedly, looking for any sentences that might be mixed with code words and other sentences that might give Hong Chengchou a message, but I can't see any problems, do you see that there is a problem with this letter?" ”
Zhu Yuanzhang was about to speak, Xu Renjie preemptively said: "There is a problem, there is a big problem, Dali * County Order, this old fox, this letter has a hidden evil intention, if it is sent to Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou will definitely be able to guess that we are in the old doubt." ”
"Huh? Why? Xue Hongqi was puzzled: "Generalissimo, where is the problem in this letter?" ”
"Ahem!" Xu Renjie coughed dryly and said, "Hmm...... Belch...... Ay...... Anyway, there is a problem, and I always feel weird when I look at this letter...... Something doesn't feel right...... But I can't say what is wrong......"
"You...... So you're a bastard to entertain your old lady? Xue Hongqi was furious, pinched her fist, and seemed to want to give Xu Renjie a punch in the face, but in front of Brother Zhu, she didn't dare to make a mistake, for fear of breaking the rules of the rivers and lakes, so she forcibly put her fist back and hummed: "Generalissimo, the old lady will want you to look good one day." ”
Xu Renjie sighed and said: "Although I don't know what's wrong, this letter must be wrong, I don't believe you ask Zhu Bugs, he will definitely be able to tell the reason." ”
"You don't have the ability to see through the mystery in the letter, so don't jump out and shout first!" Xue Hongqi scolded Xu Renjie angrily, then turned his head and said respectfully to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Eighth Brother Zhu, is what the unreliable guy said true?" Is there really something wrong with this letter? ”
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled, took the letter from Xu Renjie's hand, and tore it into pieces: "There is indeed a problem with this letter, fortunately, you show it to us first, if you send someone out directly, the consequences will be unimaginable." ”
"Huh?" Xue Hongqi was shocked: "But the people I trust have looked over and over for a long time and haven't seen the problem." ”
"Well, the problem with this letter is that there is no problem!" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "You don't know about officials, they won't write letters in such unpretentious words, let me show you how real court officials write letters." ”
When Zhu Yuanzhang said this, he took out two letters from his arms, one was written by Cao Baoxiang, the commander of Baishui * County, this letter was full of official flavor, and the content of the letter was to boast about how wise and martial he Cao Baoxiang was, led a large group of officials to capture quickly, organized a township brave army, and defeated the attack of Huanglong Mountain thief Kou Baishui Zhu Ba many times in a row, and ensured the safety of the county, Zhu Ba saw that it was unprofitable, so he went to Chengcheng...... The whole letter was sprinkled with 10,000 words, of which there were as many as 5,000 words describing his brave battle.
The second letter was written by Xinlancheng, the county commander of Chengcheng, and the content of the letter was even more exaggerated, saying that he Xinlan led the township warrior army and fought hard with Baishui Zhuba for eighteen rounds, each of which was described in great detail...... In the end, Xin Lancheng was injured in more than 20 places, and the arrows on his body weighed half a catty, and he finally defeated Baishui Zhuba. And successfully cut off Zhu Ba's retreat to Huanglong Cottage, and in desperation, Zhu Ba had to cross the Yellow River east and go to the west of Shandong...... The full text is sprinkled, with more than 30,000 words, of which more than 10,000 words are written about how hard it was for Xin Lancheng to fight with his wounds.
Xu Renjie read out the two letters, and after Xue Hongqi listened to them, his two eyes suddenly widened as big as Tong Tongling: "Hey...... This...... What kind of bullshit letter is this? It's really okay to write such nonsense? Hong Chengchou's head has not been hit by a stone, is it possible for him to believe it? ”
"Hahaha!" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "Of course Hong Chengchou won't believe that these two county orders can really defeat me, but...... These two letters are the letters that real officials will write, Hong Chengchou knew at a glance that the two county towns were fine, and the thieves had indeed come and gone, and the two county commanders dared to write such stinky, long and false letters to show their merits. But your letter from Dali is unpretentious, and at a glance you know that the thief has not left yet, and it is something written on the neck of the county order with a knife. ”
"How can there be such a thing?" Xue Hongqi said in disbelief: "Writing simple and simple is regarded as fake, and deception and bragging are regarded as true?" This...... Is this the way the imperial court does things? ”
Zhu Yuanzhang's face sank: "Although it is difficult to accept, this is a fact...... Alas......"
His heart is not very comfortable, in fact, the officials' exaggerated and indiscriminate behavior is not the same as the Ming Dynasty, until the new China of later generations, the officials wrote like this, but the words have changed a little, but the spirit of the performance has not changed, what so-and-so leader personally came to the front line of flood relief and worked tirelessly to direct the disaster relief work. Another leader came to the front line of the earthquake in person, was injured by rolling rocks, and was still injured and commanded the rescue of Yunyun...... What is the difference between it and the scribbling letters of the officials of the Ming Dynasty?
What method must be used to kill this unhealthy trend? Even the eloquent Zhu Yuanzhang felt very tricky!
"Sister Xue Hongqi, Da Li's letter, please send someone back to get a new one!" Zhu Yuanzhang decided not to think about such a distant thing first, and to do what is in front of him first.
Xue Hongqi nodded, and said a few words to a horse thief beside him, and the horse thief Pegasus went towards Dali.
"Alright, let's set off for Shanxi!" Zhu Yuanzhang left Yang Hong to sit in Baishui, took all the rest of the leaders, and brought 500 elite soldiers from the old team to the old 5th team, plus 7,000 recruits, and Xue Hongqi's 200 horse thieves, and embarked on the road to cross the Yellow River east.
(To be continued)