I have to say that Yue Yang's words were really scary, and he even got the word eunuch out, so frightened that Yang Guozhu hurriedly covered his mouth.

Yang Guozhu looked around with palpitations, fortunately there was no one around, and quickly pulled Yue Yang aside and shouted in a low voice: "You are crazy, if this sentence is heard by Gonggong Gao, you and him will become mortal enemies in a blink of an eye, he is the person who is known as the most knowledgeable soldier in the Holy Body, and he is likely to be the supervisor of our army in the future, how can you offend him?" ”

Yue Yang looked at Yang Guozhu, sighed lightly and said, "Chief Yang Bing, why are you confused, now that I have offended even the saints, are you still afraid of offending another eunuch?" ”

"Uh......"

Yang Guozhu couldn't help but be dumbfounded, yes, this guy's courage is already boundless, even the emperor is not afraid of offending, is he afraid of offending the eunuchs around the emperor?

Yang Guozhu persuaded Yue Yang on the side, and Wang Pu on the other side also pulled Gao Qiqian to the side to apologize with a smile, Wang Pu, who was born in a merchant family, is still capable in handling interpersonal relationships, but his sharp teeth in the past have lost their effect today, and the angry Gao Qiqian is still shouting to go back to avenge the sin of the Holy Lord to cure Yue Yang. The generals of Xuanda, who were good friends with Yueyang, were also constantly persuading, but the generals of Liaodong led by Wu Sangui were talking coldly on the side at this time, and the scene was very chaotic for a while.

"What are you doing?"

At this time, a voice sounded, and everyone looked back, and Lu Xiangsheng, who had gone back to write a thanksgiving table, came back.

"You are all generals in the army, and you should be an example for the soldiers, why is it like a mess in the market?" Lu Xiangsheng held the thanksgiving watch in one hand, the sword at his waist in the other, staring at everyone with bright eyes, seeing Lu Xiangsheng's arrival, the generals who were originally in chaos all fell silent as if they had collectively won the fixed character.

"What the hell is going on?" Lu Xiangsheng strode over. After sweeping the sharp eyes around everyone, he immediately looked at Yang Guozhu and Yue Yang, "Chief Yang Bing, you come on!" ”

"The Governor...... Weekend...... The last general ......, "Don't look at Yang Guozhu is a famous fierce general in Xuanda Town, and his prestige in the army is also very high, but under the pressure of Lu Xiangsheng's powerful aura, he also lowered his head and couldn't speak, and finally looked at Yue Yang helplessly.

Seeing Yang Guozhu's eyes, Lu Xiangsheng immediately frowned and asked, "Yue Yang, you come!" ”

"I ......" Yue Yang coughed lightly and was about to speak, when Gao Qiqian's sharp voice interjected in time, "Lu Xiangsheng." I didn't expect you to really manage the army well, our family is a long time to see today, our family came to the camp to announce the decree, on behalf of the emperor, on behalf of the court, but someone dared to insult our family, what do you say about this? ”

"What? Someone dares to insult you? Lu Xiangsheng was dumbfounded, he looked around, and finally his gaze fell on Yue Yang. A person as smart as him immediately guessed the cause of the incident, and his face immediately turned up and asked, "Yue Yang, what's going on?" Did you annoy Grandpa Gao? ”

At this time, except for those generals from Liaodong. Including He Kegang and the generals of Xuanda were worried about Yueyang, Lu Xiangsheng has always governed the army strictly, and this time Yueyang is afraid that he will have to eat military law.

And something surprising happened, only to see Yue Yang shaking his head like a rattle. "Governor, don't wronged the last general, the last general has never spoken a bad word to Gonggong Gao. Where is the insult? ”

"Yue Yang, do you dare to do it or not?" When he heard this, he pointed at Yue Yang and scolded on the spot.

Yue Yang sank his face and said coldly: "Father-in-law Gao, you can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense, you said that the official insulted you, then good, you will repeat what the official scolded you again and let everyone comment, how did the official scold you?" ”

"You ......" Gao Qiqian was stunned for a moment, and then his words stopped, Shicai seemed to be that Yue Yang really didn't insult himself with words, but he was indeed despising himself with both the look on his face and his actions, but this kind of thing can only be understood and not spoken. Does he want to tell Lu Xiangsheng that although your subordinate didn't say it with his mouth just now, he despised me with his eyes? Although Gao Qiqian is greedy and treacherous, he is not stupid, if he really wants to say this, he will probably laugh everyone to death.

At this time, Gao Qiqian's face was blue and red, although there was a surge of anger in his chest, but he was never able to attack, and finally he took a deep breath and said with a sneer: "Okay...... Good...... Yue Yan, you are good, the mountains do not turn around, I believe that we will have a chance to meet again today, we hope that you can still be so arrogant at that time, today's things are remembered by our family, farewell! ”

After speaking, Gao Qiqian turned around and strode outside, and several Jinyi guards and more than a dozen Beijing camp sergeants standing behind him also hurriedly followed......

It wasn't until Gao Qiqian and his party disappeared from view that Lu Xiangsheng turned his head and said lightly to Yue Yang: "Yue Yang, you come with me!" ”

Came to the big tent with Yue Yang, Lu Xiangsheng walked to his handsome seat and sat down, looked at Yue Yang for a while, and then sighed and said: "Yue Yang, this official has always valued you very much, originally this official planned to finish this battle, and after you have made a few more great achievements, he will promote you to the imperial court as a deputy general or even a general soldier, but you are too disappointed by this official." ”

Yue Yang was silent for a while before replying, "Governor, the matter has come to this point, and there are some generals who want to ask you for advice. The last general dares to ask what is the root cause of my internal and external troubles now? Is it the unclear rule of the officials or the villain? Or is it a slack of government now? ”

"This ......" Lu Xiangsheng was dumb for a while.

It is said that although Lu Xiangsheng is also a two-list jinshi, he has also thought about the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, but he has never come up with a correct answer, and now Yue Yang has thrown out such a few questions, which stumped him even more.

Seeing Lu Xiangsheng's speechless appearance, Yue Yang sighed: "Governor Lu, the general has also been thinking about it at the end of the past few years. Why is it that our Ming Dynasty has a vast territory and hundreds of millions of people, but why has it been repeatedly invaded by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, a small country with a population of less than one million? There is only one reason, that is, the roots of my Daming have rotten.

Those scholars shouted all day long that scholars and the Son of Heaven would rule the world together, but in fact, those scholars never regarded the Ming Dynasty as their own country, they owned ninety percent of the land of the Ming Dynasty and owned ninety percent of the wealth of the Ming Dynasty, but they didn't want to pay a penny to the imperial court. shouted all day long that the sea should not be opened, but in private, he desperately traded with overseas to earn a huge amount of silver. But the imperial court needs to spend three million taels of silver every year just for Liao, and there are also nine-sided soldiers, famines in various places, and silver to maintain the operation of the imperial court, where does the silver come from? So those ministers encouraged the emperor to raise taxes on the people, how many people were displaced because of the oppression of the cool officials, so the thieves are more and more, and the court invests more and more energy every year, if one day when the exiles sweep the entire Ming Dynasty, that is when the Ming Dynasty falls! ”

"Yueyang...... How daring! ”

As soon as Yue Yang's words were finished, Lu Xiangsheng's angry shouts rang out. He reprimanded angrily: "Don't think that this official will not dare to deal with you because you are important, if you say a great rebellion again, this official will immediately ask Shang Fang to take out the sword and correct the law on the spot!" ”

In the face of Lu Xiangsheng's formidable momentum, Yue Yang did not flinch, but puffed up his chest and sneered: "My lord, you are also a person who has read poetry and books, and the last general will ask you, we have been chanting long live my emperor all day long, long live, long live, but have you ever seen that emperor who can live for 10,000 years?" Since the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, has there been a dynasty that can last for eternity? Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty are considered a generation of Ming monarchs, right? But did the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty continue to this day? ”

"You...... You bastard...... How dare you say such a rebellious thing. The official ...... The official ...... "Lu Xiangsheng was so angry for a while, and he couldn't say anything later.

It's just that although Lu Xiangsheng was so angry, he had to admit that Yue Yang's words were reasonable, after all, he was also a person who read poetry and books. Naturally familiar with ancient and modern history, from ancient times to the present, every dynasty has continued even if it was overthrown after a few hundred years, and the unlucky Sui Dynasty or the Qin Dynasty ended in the second, is the Ming Dynasty different from other dynasties? Even Lu Xiangsheng himself didn't believe this. It's just that he doesn't believe it, but in the past, he was always reluctant to admit it, thinking that with his own efforts, he could bring this crumbling dynasty back to normal. Now that Yue Yang said this, it was tantamount to peeling off Daming's coat and revealing the rotten things inside.

Holding the sword at his waist in his right hand, Lu Xiangsheng looked at the rebellious general in front of him, his face was also uncertain, and several times Lu Xiangsheng wanted to call the soldiers outside the tent to pull this bold guy out and cut off his head, but his reason told him that if he really did this, I am afraid that the consequences would not be something he could bear. Not to mention whether he can succeed or not, even if he can kill Yue Yang, but Lu Xiangsheng can be sure that the tens of thousands of troops will inevitably fall apart, it is a taboo in the army to behead the general without permission before the war, and if he can't kill Yue Yang, the consequences will be even worse, according to Yue Yang's current personality, this guy will definitely not say a word to the opposite of Da Ming, thinking of this guy's destructive power, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but shudder.

For a long time, Lu Xiangsheng only felt a sense of powerlessness welling up in his heart, he leaned heavily on the chair, and closed his eyes tiredly.

Seeing Lu Xiangsheng's gloomy and sad appearance, Yue Yang on the side also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and his hand slowly slipped out of his arms. The reason why he said such a thing was actually a temptation, and he also wanted to test where Lu Xiangsheng's bottom line was. If Lu Xiangsheng didn't say a word just now and immediately called someone to come in and cut him, he would naturally not sit still, he has been shuttling back and forth between Daming and the present for so many years, although limited to the strict laws of modern society, he can't buy arms from modern times on a large scale to move them to Daming, but it is still possible to buy one or two pistols for self-defense through some illegal means, if it really comes to that point, Yue Yang is confident that he can still break out of the big tent and return to his own camp.

But this is also the worst plan, now it seems that Lu Xiangsheng is a reasonable commander, and at the moment of the great enemy, he will not mess with himself.

After a long time, Lu Xiangsheng spoke, and he asked tiredly: "Yue Yang, do you really hate Daming so much?" ”

"Hate Daming?" Yue Yang was stunned and asked: "Governor, where did you start with this, Yue Yang asked himself that he had never done anything sorry for the Ming Dynasty since he stepped into the official career, could it be that in the eyes of the governor, Yue Yang is such an ambitious person who wants to rebel?" ”

"Uh......"

Lu Xiangsheng thought about it carefully, it is really true, Yueyang has been developing in the north road in the past few years, it stands to reason that in the past few years, the Ming Dynasty has been in drought for many years, and Shanxi and Shaanxi are the hardest hit areas. Take Shaanxi next door as an example, now it is full of thieves, Zhang Zizhong, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and these people have fled to Henan, Hebei and other places to attack cities and plunder, making the Ming court exhausted and headaches. But what about Shanxi, which is also in drought? Today's Shanxi North Road in Yueyang and the storage of various high-yield seeds such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and wheat have now become the land of fish and rice in Saibei. Every day, countless homeless people come to Yingzhou Prefecture, Hunyuan Prefecture and other places to seek a way to live.

Last year, Yueyang paid to the imperial court tax silver and grain accounted for 30% of the Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue, you must know that this is only the tax of Shanbei Road, if there is no tax paid by Shanxi North Road, I believe that the financial situation of Daming will be even worse.

Thinking of this, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help crying and laughing, what is this called? From this point of view, Yue Yang's credit is too great, so big that it seems that the imperial court does not confer his title.

The more Lu Xiangsheng thought about it, the more confused his mind became, and finally he shook his head. Only then did he say to Yue Yang: "Okay, as long as you don't rebel against Daming or do something too out of line, and the official doesn't bother to care about you, you might as well do it yourself." ”

Yue Yang was overjoyed in his heart, the subtext of Lu Xiangsheng's words was to sue him, and from now on, Lu Xiangsheng would turn a blind eye to his affairs, but the premise was that he didn't go too far.

As soon as he arched his hand, Yue Yang said to him, "The governor has filtered. The last general never thought of being unfavorable to the Ming Dynasty, and what he did was just for self-preservation, as long as the court could achieve a bowl of horizontal ends, it would no longer target the last general. The last general will be assured to obey the command of the governor. ”

Lu Xiangsheng also smiled bitterly, Yue Yang's words sounded very ordinary, but the subtext was "As long as the court no longer targets me, I won't do anything out of the ordinary." will also obey the dispatch of the imperial court, but the premise is that you have to be my commander, just forget about it like Gao Qiqian. ”

If it's someone else. Hearing his subordinates compliment himself in his heart, but in a person like Lu Xiangsheng who is loyal to the court, it sounds very unpleasant. Just as Lu Xiangsheng wanted to speak, a desolate horn sound faintly came from outside.

"Woo...... Woowoo woo ......"

Lu Xiangsheng and Yue Yang's faces changed at the same time, this rhythm of the horn sound is clearly the sound used by the Manchu army to transmit information, is it ......

Before the two could speak, the curtain of the tent was lifted, and a guard strode in and reported.

"The Governor of Qiqi...... If you don't receive a report at night, the Manchu Tartars have already dispatched the whole army and are coming in the direction of our big camp! ”

Lu Xiangsheng's face sank, and he immediately shouted: "Order, immediately beat the drum and raise the tent, and gather all the generals!" ”

"Yes!"

"Knock knock...... Knock knock knock ......"

Soon, the drums outside the big tent immediately sounded, and the low drums pierced the camp far away. With the sound of drums, soon a general entered the tent, and in less than a quarter of an hour, dozens of neatly dressed generals gathered in Lu Xiangsheng's big tent.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng returned to his previous energetic appearance, he looked at the generals standing below majestically and said: "Everyone, according to the reports that do not receive at night, the Tartar army is coming out of its camp one after another, and is currently coming in the direction of our camp. ”

Everyone looked at each other, and a Liaodong general walked out and hugged his fist at Lu Xiangsheng and said: "Governor Mingjian, the slave army is large, with as many as 100,000, and our army currently only has 60,000 horses. ”

"General Luo is right!" Some Liaodong generals also echoed their words, and although the generals of Xuanda did not speak, many people also had a look of approval on their faces, after all, the pressure of the Manchu Qing on the Ming army was too great, and the Ming army lost more and won less when fighting with the Manchus over the years, not to mention that now their own numbers are far inferior to the other party, and they are even more bottomless in their hearts.

At this time, a voice sounded: "General Luo's words are different, although the Tartars claim to be 100,000, but go out to divide the troops to plunder the people and horses, at this time the Tartar camp in the soldiers and horses is at most more than 80,000, so the difference between the number of Tartars and our army is not so big, and the war has always been fought for courage, fighting is morale, and now our soldiers have just received a large number of food and wages, it is when morale is high, and why be afraid of slave soldiers." The last general thinks that since the Tartars have been sent to the door, we should go out to fight with the Tartars, and let the Tartars see the demeanor of my Ming soldiers. ”

As soon as Yue Yang's words came out, the deputy general surnamed Luo only felt a little unbearable on his face for a while, he glared at Yue Yang angrily, but he didn't dare to say anything. After all, it doesn't matter if you don't dare to fight yourself, if you still want to make sarcastic remarks when people invite you to fight, it is a matter of position, and Lu Xiangsheng will have a reason to punish him for his crime just because of this.

At this time, everyone in the big tent also looked at Yue Yang with complicated eyes. Especially the generals of Xuanda, although they had long heard that Yueyang's soldiers could fight, they had never fought side by side with Yueyang, and now they also wanted to see how this increasingly famous guy fought in battle. (To be continued......)