After deploying today's task, Marshal Yu Dong personally went out of the camp to pacify the people, and the master Wu Wei accompanied the owner, and the two of them rushed to the town on the side of the road without even bringing a few guards. Along the way, Yu Dong adhered to the pro-people policy, and gradually the people did not flee without hearing the sound, first the people who couldn't walk stayed to see the style, and then more and more people did not escape, especially the scholars and gentlemen, and they welcomed Yu Dashuai's army. Regardless of whether the owner had already fled, Yu Dong's soldiers were helping the villagers to repair the roof, and when they saw the door they forgot to close, they would also bring it to others, and if they met an animal that was too late to take away, Yu Dong's men would leave a piece of silver far above the market price when they took it away.

There are still many people in this town today, and when Yu Dashuai arrived in the town, he jumped off his horse and sat on the threshold of a storefront on the side of the road to rest. When the shop served the tea, Yu Dong was like an old farmer, first it was too hot, and then he begged for a big bowl of cold water, and drank it all with his neck tilted in front of the curious people.

"Happy!" After drinking the water, Yu Dong sat on the threshold, took the good dry tobacco from Wu Wei's hand, and took a big gulp.

"These war-torn days are hard," Yu Dong said loudly to the boss while smoking: "There is chaos everywhere, soldiers come for a while, bandits come for a while, it's not easy to do some business, right?" ”

"Yes, yes," the shopkeeper nodded again and again, not long after he opened this shop, Sun Kewang fled with the main force of the camp in Guide Mansion. The boss knew that if he fled, the store would be ruined, and he felt sorry for the business and goods that had just started, and heard that Yu Dong had never disturbed the people all the way, so the boss pretended to have the courage to stay and guard his shop: "The grass people all look up to Wang Shi, burn incense and pray day and night, and hope that Wang Shi will come to Henan to rescue him as soon as possible." ”

Yu Dong waved his hand with a big grin: "Don't worry, fellow countryman, I also had a hard life when I was a child, and I served in the army for a mouthful of food." I'm from Henan! It's not those Huguang barbarians and Zhili guys who want to take advantage of the fire in Henan to fight. If I harm every grass and tree in my hometown, will I be able to go down to see my ancestors in the future? ”

The people around the store nodded their heads when they heard this, only to hear Yu Dong say again: "Since we are fighting on the territory of our Henan, whether there is credit or not, it is all fake, and the affairs of the villagers are true." If the thieves want to run, I won't chase them desperately, lest they jump over the wall in a hurry. Well...... I don't dare to say that I will win all battles, but if there is a case in the future, I will never drag our Henan fathers into the flames of war. I'll put my words here today, as long as I encounter thieves, I will go out to fight them, and if I lose, I will pat my ass and leave, and I will never fight to the death in any town. Rest assured, even if I lose, I will not delay your voice, ruin your store by fighting here, and I will never wash our own folks in Henan! ”

Yu Dong's loud words caused a sigh of admiration around him, there were already many businessmen around, and the most worried was that the tug-of-war between the two armies of Mingchuang would destroy everything nearby. Although Yu Dong's words cannot be taken seriously, they give people hope after all, and many businessmen have expressed their desire to donate military salaries.

Unexpectedly, Yu Dong's face sank when he heard this, and he waved his hands repeatedly: "No, no!" The general will have the military salary given by the imperial court and eat the imperial grain, and now Henan has suffered a military disaster, if it weren't for the fact that the general really has no surplus food, he would not have taken it out to his father and fellow villagers, how can he ask for your money now? ”

Everyone didn't know Yu Dong's intentions, but they still claimed to give, Yu Dong stood up from the threshold and said loudly to the people around him: "Don't hide it from all the folks, if Henan is okay now, the gentlemen will laugh at it, but now there is no, the thieves have not been pacified, I can't ask for this silver." If, in case the king is unfavorable, and the thieves come back, they will embarrass you because of your support to the general. ”

Yu Dong has said similar things a few times before, and after many previous exercises, he said it even more subdued and emotional. Many businessmen even burst into tears after hearing this, thinking that Sun Kewang would collect taxes all day long, and swore that there would never be any more military disasters, and deceived everyone to come out and invest money to open a store. The small businessmen who have never seen anything of the world can't help but think in their hearts: After all, Henan villagers like Yu Dashuai are their own people, and they are still more reliable than Sun Laoshan.

After his generous speech, Yu Dong sat back on the threshold and continued to chat with the shopkeeper who accompanied the smiling face. At this time, a young man dressed as a scholar suddenly squeezed over from the crowd, and after paying a greeting to Yu Dong, he said that he wanted to abandon his pen and follow Rong.

Yu Dong had seen a lot of this kind of thing along the way, but he pretended not to know, while Wu Wei greeted him with great skill and talked with the scholar.

Generally speaking, this kind of scholar is either himself, or has relatives and friends who have worked for Xu Ping, and seeing that the officers and soldiers are powerful, they hurriedly come to join the army in the hope of being washed away. Of course, both Yu Dong and Wu Wei knew that this kind of person would not be in an important position in the camp, and those who were entrusted with important tasks by Sun Kewang, even the lawyer in charge of justice, resolutely supported the camp, and now these officials who were closely related to the camp went to Guide and other big cities to resist it.

As expected, this person also worked in the camp for a few days as a clerk and lecturer, and took some meager money, because he was not an official in the camp, of course Sun Kewang would not take him with him when he fled, and the local army did not arrange positions for him in various strong strongholds. Although it is not an important position, but the crime can be big or small, this person feels that he has been teaching for some time, and has not participated in any military and government affairs that break into the camp, and if he is convicted of a lost thief, it is a little wronged. Seeing the officers and soldiers approaching step by step, this man became more and more worried, and many people knew about the work he had worked for the camp, for fear that the officers and soldiers would settle accounts after victory. Hearing that Yu Dong was more kind, and he thought that no one would care about the small sins, this person hurried to join the army, hoping to wash away the previous stain.

After pricking up his ears and listening to the person talk about this experience, Yu Dong, who had been preparing for a long time, suddenly jumped up from the threshold again: "Scholar, what's the big deal?" Could it be that when the thieves come, the peasants will stop farming? Vendors don't buy and sell? You are a young scholar who doesn't teach, what do you do to make a living? What do you take to support your parents? You didn't contribute to the thieves, and what if you did? ”

After a pause, Yu Dong took a deep breath and repeated loudly to the surrounding crowd again: "I am from Henan, not a Huguang barbarian or a Zhili guy!" I went back to my hometown, not to Henan to fight for merit. Many of the thieves are also from Henan, and for the Huguang barbarians and Zhili guys, they are the first level and the merit! But for Ben General, it's all Ben General's fellow countrymen, it's fellow countrymen! Not to mention teaching and teaching for the thieves, all kinds of places, even if they have fought for the thieves, the general will never ask! ”

As on the way before, Yu Dong's declaration once again caused thunderous colors, and everyone who heard this relieved their hearts and cheered Yu Dong sincerely.

These words have been discussed by Yu Dong and the master, if there are too many words, the court will inevitably be unhappy, but Xu Ping is estimated to be very happy when he hears it, and the people who know best are Xu Ping and Sun Kewang, Yu Dong knows that the other party is not afraid of going to them to fight for the hearts of the people. The imperial court is likely to be dissatisfied with what he said not to investigate and not stick to it, but Wu Wei helped Yu Dong analyze and said: I really haven't heard of the current emperor daring to clean up any generals who hold military power, a typical bully and afraid of the hard.

Now Yu Dong has military power in his hands, so he doesn't have to worry about the emperor asking him for blame, but if he wants to keep his military power, it is Xu Ping who can't be offended, not the court. So...... Does the court not be happy to hear it, who cares?

"Another idiot." When Yu Dong and Wu Wei returned to the camp, they talked about the scholar who came to join the army today: "We can't see clearly how to win or lose now, and we are all afraid that when General Xu is more than the imperial court, he will actually put a bet on us!" No wonder the thief only let him teach, this person is afraid that he is stupid at reading books. ”

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"Yu Dong is really an informed and interesting person," Sun Kewang, who has always regarded Guide Mansion as his private property, although he had to retreat to Kaifeng, he still paid great attention to Yu Dong's actions, and he reviewed the report sent back from Guide these days, which said that Yu Dong had not touched Sun Kewang's grass and trees, and every time someone helped Yu Dong to send people away: "I'm afraid I don't know that he has never taken a tael of my silver, has never touched my shop, and has eaten my food - even if he eats, he will definitely pay." Sun Kewang chuckled: "If Brother Xu goes to beat him, I'm afraid I will be embarrassed and will intercede for him." ”

Like Sun Kewang, Nanjing is also paying attention to Yu Dong's progress, although he is still the chief soldier of Henan, but recently he has been eating Nanjing's grain and taking Nanjing's salary, and there are also a large number of Nanzhili soldiers under his command, no one in the Jiangbei Army dares to attack, and Yu Dong is the only person who can earn face for them. Since Yu Dong sent troops, Nanjing has been singing praises for him repeatedly, especially at the beginning when Yang Zhiyuan and Zuo Liangyu were cautious, Yu Dong marched all the way, and regained half of the Guide Mansion without bloodshed, Nanjing of course gave itself the biggest piece of credit: it was precisely because Nanjing decisively intercepted the arms and materials of the new army that should have been paid to the imperial court in taxes, so that an elite Jiangbei Army was quickly established, and a force that could be in Henan when there was a crisis, The army that kept the thieves out of the Ming Dynasty's tax land, and Yu Dong is the proof of the combat effectiveness of this army.

Of course, the governor of Henan was not convinced, Gao Mingheng felt that Yu Dong was promoted by himself, and his previous record in Henan was also good, which was enough to show that he was a wise and talented Bole. However, it is very difficult and unwise to argue with Nanjing now, the difficulty is that Gao Mingheng is still surrounded in Kaifeng City, and the contact with the Beijing division is intermittent and very unreliable. And the unwise thing is that Gao Mingheng is now looking forward to the siege of the troops to kill under Kaifeng City day and night, and it is obviously stupid to offend Nanjing and the Jiangbei Army at this time. However, Gao Mingheng had secretly made up his mind that once Kaifeng was lifted, he would immediately ask Yu Dong back. Yu Dong is such a nostalgic person, he still has the official title of Henan, it will not be too difficult to be reasonable, if he succeeds, Gao Mingheng also plans to protect Yu Dong to supervise Henan military affairs to repay him.

As for the imperial court, Yu Dong's perception is very complicated, at the beginning Yu Dong took the lead in launching a counterattack, as the first general of the three-way siege army to attack the camp territory, Chongzhen Tianzi and the cabinet admired him very much.

There are several letters of Nanjing's victory recital every day, and Chongzhen Tianzi praised Yu Dong on the first day: the savior of the Central Plains war; The next day, he praised Yu Dong as: Xu Thief's nemesis. On the third day, it was repeated several times in a row: the savior of the Central Plains, the nemesis of the thief, the savior of the Central Plains, and the nemesis of the thief......

What particularly satisfied the cabinet was that not only Nanjing's recital, but also the local gentry took the initiative to write articles praising Yu Dong. Every time the officers and soldiers crossed the border before, the scholars and gentry all scolded, and when the officers and soldiers killed the good and took the merits, they didn't even let go of the itch, but the emperor of Chongzhen was unwilling to offend the generals with military power, and the court had to pretend to be deaf and dumb. This time, when the scholars and gentry of Henan heard that the officers and soldiers had come to relieve the siege again, they scattered and fled with other people, and a few of those who had the audacity to stay in the south were indeed suffered by the Chu army. But for Yu Dong's military discipline, the gentry praised him, and all those Henan officials received letters from their hometowns, praising Yu Dong, and they all took the initiative to intercede for him, hoping that the courtiers could speak well for this Henan countryman in front of the emperor, so that he could be promoted and make a fortune.

At first, Chongzhen Tianzi was satisfied with this, otherwise he would not praise Yu Dong as the savior of the Central Plains and Xu Ping's nemesis, but gradually, as some of Yu Dong's remarks were introduced to the court, the emperor and his ministers began to be unhappy.

"Yu Shuai said that he would not violently sweep the thief, lest the thief dog jump off the wall in a hurry!" Chongzhen knew that Yu Dong had said this more than once, and he said dissatisfiedly: "Yu Shuai forgot that he ate the grain of the court and took the salary of the court?" How can you put your personal feelings above the righteousness of the court. ”

There is also a piece of praise for Yu Dong on the imperial case, and Chongzhen is not the first time he has seen the words in it, so he is even more dissatisfied: "Yu Shuai said that if he is defeated, he will not be strong, how can this kind of self-defeating words be said nonsense?" Isn't this a lie-trick in the army? Yu Shuai, as the lord of an army, would say it himself, which is really disappointing to me. Chongzhen angrily threw down the recital.

"What the Holy Lord said is extremely true," Wei Ge Lao immediately echoed: "Yu Dong also said that in order to avoid the disaster of war in his hometown, he will not stick to the city and will take the initiative to give up the country, this is really a big fallacy!" The minister thought: The saint should severely reprimand Yu Dong, and asked him if he remembered the city in the world, whose city it was? Whose land is this land under the whole world? ”

Chen Yan, who has become the first assistant, also jumped out of the court class and scolded: "Yu Dong said wildly, saying that he was not to blame the sinner who lost his body and broke into the thief, and the minister thought that he was suspected of trespassing, so please ask the emperor to cut the words and ask him to defend himself." ”

This answer was obviously a bit unexpected by Chongzhen, and he coughed: "What you Aiqing said is very true, but now is the time to employ people. ”

Chen Yan knew in his heart that the last sentence that the emperor just said was most likely what he wanted to hear from the mouths of the ministers, but even so, Chen Shoufu still did not mean to build steps for the emperor, and he pleaded again and again: "Yu Dong is rude, and the ministers think that it cannot be tolerated, and I hope that the saint will make a clear decision." ”

"The minister seconded," the other ministers responded, and several people even knelt down and kowtowed: "Holy Lord, Yu Dong is bold and reckless, and I implore the Holy Lord to cure this crime." ”

The Son of Heaven Chongzhen coughed twice again and rejected the suggestions of the courtiers: "Although Yu Shuai has a small fault, he must be loyal and diligent. Saying that, Chongzhen looked at Chen Yan: "What does Yuan Fu think?" ”

"I don't think so!" Chen Yan didn't give the emperor a son at all, and shook his head categorically and denied: "Only the name and the instrument, no dummies, Yu Dong's crime of trespassing, must not be severely punished to warn future generations." ”

- If I obey the Holy One today, if something happens to Yu Dong tomorrow, or if this matter is criticized, the Holy One will definitely push me out as a scapegoat, even if the two sides are equal, the Holy Lord may not speak for me, and maybe I will pretend to be impartial to seek fame. Let alone......

Chen Yan thought in his heart:

- What's more, it's impossible to be equal, the saint has never carried the black pot for anyone for so many years, and no one will speak for the saint anymore, I must be a lonely person when I come out, and maybe I will be attacked by the imperial historian who wants to seek fame as a sycophant minister, but I can't provoke this disaster, and I can't afford to provoke it.

"Yuanfu said very much," Chongzhen Tianzi once again politely persuaded: "It's just that Yu Shuai has served the country for many years, if he is punished, won't Yuanfu worry about chilling the army's heart?" ”

"The minister thinks that this is appeasement and adultery." Chen Yanyi is stern.

- If the saint is like the first emperor, he would rather have his reputation damaged, but also desperately protect the courtiers who contributed to him, then I will be said to be a traitor by the imperial history and build this platform for the saint, if the saint is like the first emperor, thinking of the good of the courtiers who contributed to him, it is said by others to be Wei Zhongxian, I am not afraid.

It's just that Chen Yan knows very well that once Emperor Chongzhen gets his will, he will take all the credit on himself, and only when something goes wrong and someone needs to top the cylinder, he will search for the courtiers who supported his opinion back then, and Chen Yan estimates that he has no chance to get military power to protect himself. Although Chen Yan agrees with Chongzhen's opinion: that is, acting like this will chill the morale of the army and cause serious consequences, but ......

- But the saint doesn't dare to punish the generals who hold military power, I just don't speak for Yu Shuai, even if the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty say that Yu Shuai is heinous, the saint will not do anything to him. Since whatever I say will not harm the affairs of the state, then why should I speak according to the will of the Holy One and provoke unforeseen disasters?

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