Threat, this is the threat of Chiguoguo. I am afraid that Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, could never have imagined that more than 200 years after his death, his descendants would be threatened by a petty official the size of a sesame mung bean in front of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, and the threat was justifiable.

"Huhu...... Whew......"

The solemn Taihe Hall was silent as usual, and occasionally only heard a sound like an old cow panting, which was Zhu Youzhen's dull breathing.

Dry throat, poor breathing and even feeling tightness in the chest, Zhu Youzhen's symptoms at the moment are like a patient suffering from emphysema, feeling extremely unsmooth breathing, at this moment, in addition to extreme shock and anger, there is also an extreme fear.

Yes...... It was the same feeling he had when he had not yet ascended the throne and had just entered the palace. At that time, his elder brother Zhu Youxiao was critically ill, and he was still the king of Xin, and he was urgently summoned to the palace, and he stayed in the room near the Yangxin Palace, and could only wait powerlessly for the verdict of fate. Ten years had passed since that feeling, and he thought he had forgotten it, but today it resurfaced in his heart, and this feeling made him a little crazy, and he wanted to stand up and call the samurai in front of the palace to drag the daring thief to the entrance of the vegetable market and immediately ask for beheading, but when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed them back, because he did not dare to bear the consequences caused by this.

In fact, not only Chongzhen, but even the ministers in the main hall are in the same mood at the moment. For more than 200 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Tang Hu, who dared to threaten the emperor and civil and military officials in the Jinluan Treasure Palace, was the first, according to the urine nature of those hundred officials, what they should do at this time should be to immediately rush forward and knock down this guy who doesn't know whether he is alive or dead, and step on 10,000 feet so that he will never be able to turn over, so as to relieve the hatred in their hearts.

But this is just a good wish after all, because this hateful guy has already said that if anyone dares to touch him today, then from now on Shanxi will stop paying a qiē tax to the imperial court, and they don't know what crazy things the loyal and brave Marquis Yueyang, who is still far away in Liaodong, will do if he knows that if they execute the people he sent in the capital without authorization. When the time comes, what if this loyal and brave marquis sends people to splash paint and feces in front of their house, or even give them cold knives, they are all civilized people. You can't be as rude as those vulgar martial artists, the ancestors also taught us gentlemen not to suffer immediate losses, let's not be like this kind of person.

Tang Hu straightened up, first looked at Zhu Chunchen next to him with disdain, and then looked at the civil and military officials who were silent all over the court, and then said to Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, if there is nothing to do, Weichen will go down first!" ”

After speaking, Tang Hu didn't wait for Zhu Youzhen to speak, then turned around and walked towards the outside of the main hall, and when he walked to the center of the main hall, he suddenly groaned loudly: "The flag is erected on the king's city, how can the concubine know in the deep palace that 140,000 people are disarmed, and none of them are men!" Hahaha...... Hahaha......"

At this moment, Tang Hu remembered what Yue Yang had said. "Those sanctimonious civil officials are actually cowards, even if you spit in their faces, they won't dare to say a word, provided you have enough strength." And at this moment, Tang Hu felt very proud, because behind him there were the entire Shanxi and more than 100,000 troops supporting him, and because of this, these high-ranking officials in the hall didn't even dare to fart now.

Looking at Tang Hu's departing back and the laughter when leaving, no one in the Manchu Dynasty dared to stop him, although everyone was speechless by Tang Hu's words, Chongzhen was even more eager to immediately ask someone to drag this madman down and behead him, but he still didn't dare to say it when the words came to his mouth. He could only watch Tang Hu stride out of the hall, and finally Chongzhen could only sit on the dragon chair, at this moment he knew that he was cowardly after all. And what is more cowardly than himself is the civil and military ...... of the Manchu Dynasty below

Just when Tang Hu was humiliating the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty in public at the Taihe Palace, what was our Comrade Yue Yang doing? It turned out that Yue Yang was seizing the time to engage in civil engineering construction in Jinzhou, building the city wall, and seizing the time to recruit soldiers.

Yes, that is, conscription. Because Yue Yang felt that his troops were not enough. This is also the reason why Yue Yang feels very distressed.

Originally, when Yueyang's territory was only on the North Road of Shanbei, he was enough to protect his territory with the 40,000 or 50,000 troops in his hands, and he became the governor of Xuanda. When he also took the post of governor of Shanxi into his arms, he expanded his army to 120,000, which made him feel that this was the only way to protect Shanxi, but with the fact that he took Liaodong, the contradiction of insufficient troops was once again revealed. After all, from Shanxi to Liaodong, there are thousands of miles in between, although there is still a border defense line of the Xuanda generation, but the passes that come all the way need to be guarded by troops, so Yueyang is like sprinkling beans and constantly dispatching troops to guard, and finally found that he did not have enough mobile troops at hand. In the end, someone can only lament, no wonder the ancients had Han Xin's saying that the more soldiers the better, how is this force not too much, there is no way, just recruit troops on the spot, Yue Yang waved his pen and ordered 50,000 troops to be recruited on the spot, so in the Spring Festival of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Yueyang stayed in Liaodong.

After dinner that day, Yue Yang took dozens of personal soldiers to the city wall of Jinzhou, with the help of the dim sunset looking at the snowflakes flying in the sky and the fields covered by heavy snow, feeling that every evil in this world was covered by this heavy snow, seeing this white and magnificent scenery, he felt that the negative feelings brought by the killing these days were also slowly dissolved, and the whole person was in a much better mood.

He turned around and looked around, and saw that there were dozens of soldiers on the surrounding city walls who were sweeping snow with brooms, and the snowflakes were floating in the air, Yue Yang smiled and was about to leave, but saw Chen Dazhi coming from not far away, came to him and gave a military salute and said, "Master Hou, how can the governor ask to see him!" ”

Yue Yang nodded: "Let him come over!" ”

Soon, He Kegang followed Chen Dazhi to Yue Yang, Yue Yang looked at He Kegang and said kindly: "Zijing, what are you looking for me?" ”

He Kegang bowed his hand to Yue Yang, and said solemnly: "Master Hou, there will be something I want to ask Master Hou in person in private, I hope Lord Hou will be gracious!" ”

"Oh......" Yue Yang smiled and nodded: "Of course you can, Zijing, you came just in time, I ate a little bit just now, you can walk with me and eat by the way." ”

He Kegang said solemnly: "Kegang dares to disobey his orders? ”

The two walked slowly along the city wall, while Chen Dazhi followed dozens of steps behind with dozens of personal soldiers, and everyone stared at He Kegang vigilantly.

After the fall of Jinzhou, most of the generals of the original Jinzhou fled to Shengjing with Zu Dashou, Wu Pai and others and took refuge in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. But there were also some people who stayed, and for these people, Yue Yang did not let them fend for themselves, but gathered them together, and reassigned them jobs after being screened by Arikawaji. After all, these people were originally Liaodong generals, and they were very familiar with the customs and geographical environment of the Liaodong generation, and it was also a lot more convenient for Yueyang to carry out future work, and this He Kegang was a person that Yueyang valued a lot, not only hired him in his original position, but also handed over the important task of recruiting and training recruits to him. It's just that in Chen Dazhi's opinion, this He Kegang has just surrendered to his own marquis, and his loyalty has yet to be tested. It's not very reassuring to let him be alone with Yue Yang, if he has the intention to be unfavorable to Hou Ye, it is still very dangerous, so he still has to keep an eye on it.

"Squeak...... The sound of "squeaking ......" continued to sound with the footsteps of the two, and Yue Yang walked slowly along the city wall, and the white field outside was still unchanged. After a while, Yue Yang asked, "Zijing, if you have anything to say, just say it." ”

He Kegang looked at Yue Yang's calm face and plucked up the courage to ask: "Master Hou, the last general wants to ask you, now you are the Lord Hou who lives with the country." It is not an exaggeration to say that you are a feudal town with heavy troops, are you willing to spend your whole life on the border of the Ming Dynasty? ”

Yue Yang didn't directly answer He Kegang's question, but asked rhetorically: "What does that Zijing think this marquis should do?" ”

He Kegang said boldly: "Master Hou, you are also a scholar. You should know the truth of loyalty to the country, and now I am aware of the external worries and internal troubles that are the time for my generation to serve the country, and you are the prince of the country and have a heavy army, it stands to reason that it is the time to show your ambitions. But why does the last general always see that you are wary of the court, the last general believes that as long as you are honest with the emperor, the emperor will definitely reuse you. ”

Yue Yang shook his head slightly. sighed lightly and said: "Zijing, Ben Hou knows what you want to say, and also knows that you have always been loyal to the emperor, do you still think that as long as Ben Hou is honest with the emperor and hands over all taxes and military power to the emperor, the emperor will inevitably be happy, and then he will inevitably reuse Ben Hou again, and order Ben Hou to regain military power and fight the Tartars inside and outside, and finally write a good story in history, isn't this the case?" ”

He Kegang asked, "Isn't that so?" ”

"Hehe......"

Yue Yang smiled, he really didn't expect that this He Kegang was almost forty years old, and he was still so naïve and superficial when he looked at the problem, no wonder he would be played to death by Zu Dashou in history, and he died without regrets, Yue Yang didn't want to say anything about such a person.

He said bluntly: "Zijing, I will also tell you the truth, if I do what you say, within two months, my end will definitely be to ask for beheading at the vegetable market in the capital, and my Yue's family is full of dozens of people, and there is only one dead end." Ben Hou would never pin his life and death on someone's kindness, no matter who that person is. I know that my son is loyal and righteous, which is why I reuse you, but if you persuade me to say this kind of thing again, then Benhou can only ask you to leave, I Xuan Dajun This small temple can't accommodate you as a great god, do you understand what I mean? ”

Yue Yang's words were straightforward, and he didn't give He Kegang any face. To tell the truth, the first time Yue Yang met He Kegang was three years ago, at that time Yue Yang was just a small general, and at that time Yue Yang had no more than 10,000 generals but only a few people, at that time he admired He Kegang a person who was known as a person with a reputation for loyalty and righteousness in history, and once wanted to pull him under his command, but with the improvement of his status, the expansion of soldiers and the increase of his generals, his thoughts slowly changed.

Although He Kegang is talented and loyal to the imperial court, it is this loyalty that makes Yue Yang very dissatisfied with him. You eat me and use mine, but all day long you persuade me to be loyal to the emperor and loyal to the Ming Dynasty, do you know that if I really want to do this, I will die a miserable death, others are cheating fathers, are you going to pit the boss?

Yue Yang's expression was solemn and abnormal at this time, he stared at He Kegang, the meaning is obvious, if you want to say to me like this today in the future, then please find another job, there are more talents around me, you are not much, you are not much, you are not a lot.

Today's Yue Yang is in a high position, once he is displeased, his body will naturally exude a momentum of not being angry and arrogant, Rao is He Kegang has a resolute personality, and he was also shocked to some speechlessness. Although He Kegang was loyal to the imperial court, he was not a stupid person, and he knew very well that after Wu Sangui, Zu Dashou and others collectively surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the few former Liaodong generals who remained behind had already become synonymous with rebellion in the eyes of the imperial court. Although Daming is big, no one dares to use them except for Yueyang here, to put it mildly, now they have no way out except to hug Yueyang's thigh.

After a long time, He Kegang sighed, "Since the Hou Ye doesn't like the last general to say these words, then the last general will not say it in the future, today is the last general's recklessness, I hope the Hou Ye will atone for his sins." ”

Yue Yang looked at him meaningfully and nodded, "Wangzi Jing should not forget today's words...... Okay, it's too cold here, let's go back. ”

The two were about to go back. Suddenly, I heard a shout from under the city wall: "Master Hou, there are six hundred miles from the capital in an emergency." ”

"Pick it up!"

Soon, a letter was sent by a personal soldier, Yue Yang opened it and saw that it was escorted by Tang, the deputy director of the Financial Secretary who was stationed in the capital, and the above reported what happened in the capital today, and finally Tang Hu also said in the letter: "Zhu Chunchen and Shang Zhou have done this filthy thing, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty have become clay sculptures, and the emperor, as the monarch of the Ming Dynasty, has turned a blind eye to this. Alack...... Why did the Ming Dynasty fall to this, and the hall was full of villains, is this kind of court still worthy of assistance? ”

Yue Yang didn't make a sound after reading it, but handed the letter to He Kegang on the side. He Kegang was also full of surprise after seeing it, he really didn't expect such a strange thing to happen in the court today. The court did not commend the law-abiding merchants who sold cheap grain, but wanted to hold them accountable, while the nobles who oppressed the good and rampant in the capital were arrogant. Is there any reason for this?

"How? Now do you still want to persuade me to ask the emperor for sin? Do you think the emperor will reuse me? Yue Yang's words were full of sarcasm, "Today's Daming is already a big ship leaking everywhere, no matter how hard you try, you can't save it." If I try to save it, I will end up sinking into the water with it. ”

He Kegang was silent for a long time, and then he solemnly said to Yue Yang: "Master Hou, the last general is wrong, and in the future, the last general will never persuade you again." ”

"That's a good feeling, let's go back." Regarding He Kegang's attitude of admitting his mistake, Yue Yang was basically satisfied, nodded and signaled that he was ready to go back.

It's just that as soon as the two of them walked down the city wall, another personal soldier came to report: "Master Hou, the imperial court has sent someone again, and the messenger who delivered the letter is waiting for you in the palace." ”

"Hey...... The court is not over yet! Yue Yang couldn't help but be a little impatient, what else did this Chongzhen have to do.

It's just that although he was very impatient, Yue Yang still had to hurry to the mansion. When Yue Yang came to the mansion, he saw two muddy Ti Cavalry Marquis in the lobby, and after seeing Yue Yang coming, the two hurriedly knelt down to salute him, and then one of the Ti Cavalry hurriedly took out an official document with fire paint on the surface from his arms and solemnly handed it to Yue Yang.

This official letter was sent in the name of the Ministry of War, and the content was not long, and Yang Sichang, the current secretary of the Ministry of War, a scholar of Dongyang Pavilion University, and the first assistant minister of the cabinet, asked Yue Yang to return to Beijing to report on his work in the name of the Ministry of War, and said that the emperor would personally summon him.

Yue Yang summoned many of his generals, showed everyone this official letter and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, now that the imperial court wants to summon Benhou back to Beijing to report on his work, what do you say Benhou should do?" ”

Shunbao, who is Yueyang's hardcore confidant, was the first to jump out and object: "Master Hou, can you go, this Yang Sichang is uneasy and kind, and you will be in the net if you go." ”

Even Yang Guozhu, an old and respectful person, also persuaded: "Yes, Lord Hou, now the imperial court is extremely suspicious of you, and I am afraid that you will be a sheep in the mouth of a tiger." ”

Wu Chengfeng, who was in a hurry, shouted: "Master Hou, don't you hear Yuan Chonghuan's end?" ”

Hearing this, even Yue Yang rolled his eyes, this kid is too bad at talking.

Everyone, you say a word to me, the meaning of the words is to persuade Yue Yang not to go to the capital, and now there are not 10,000 people in the capital who are looking forward to Yue Yang's death, but also 8,000, doesn't he go like this is equivalent to throwing himself into the net?

Yue Yang's years of operation in the Ming Dynasty have created an interest group with him as the core, these people's net worth and glory and wealth have long been tightly tied to Yue Yang, and now Yue Yang's son is still young, once something goes wrong with Yueyang, then this seemingly powerful group will be torn apart in an instant, and these people will be reduced to the role of grandpa who does not love grandma and grandma again, which is intolerable for them who have tasted the sweetness.

Seeing everyone persuading themselves, Yue Yang smiled and waved his hand, and everyone immediately stopped and looked at Yue Yang in unison, waiting for his order.

Yue Yang looked at the crowd: "Originally, Ben Hou planned to go back in a few days, but since the imperial court has a will, then Ben Hou happened to go home early...... You don't have to worry, listen to me...... Ben Hou knows that you are worried about the safety of Ben Hou, but Ben Hou is not a person who can be slaughtered, this time the capital report Ben Hou must go back, but Ben Hou is not going back alone, this time Ben Hou will take the army back to the capital together. ”

"What ......" everyone was stunned when they heard this. (To be continued......)