Chapter Twenty-Six: The Little Things That Stirred the Capital
A day later, six secret reports were placed on the case of the military headquarters in the capital.
Bai Du'e, the secretary of the military department, slowly opened the first envelope, and it was clearly written in black and white: The eldest prince of Xueyu Mountain Villa entered Beijing, and the two women accompanied him, everything is unknown.
After reading it, the old man opened the second copy unhurriedly: the eldest prince of Xueyu Villa entered Beijing, and the two women accompanied him, everything was unknown.
The third part: The eldest prince of Xueyu Villa entered Beijing, accompanied by two women, everything is unknown.
The fourth part: The eldest prince of Xueyu Villa entered Beijing, accompanied by two women, everything is unknown.
The fifth part: The eldest son of Xueyu Villa entered Beijing, accompanied by two women, and everything is unknown.
There was only the last one left on the desk, Lao Shangshu reached out and picked it up, felt the difference in thickness and showed surprise, slowly opened it and pulled out two pieces of paper, the first one was the same as the previous five, clearly written that the eldest prince of Xueyu Mountain Villa entered Beijing, and the two women accompanied him, everything is unknown.
On the second piece of paper, a lot of slightly vulgar words were written, and the last place read: Wang Xiaojian.
"The observation is good, Yun Qianyu, Yun Bailing, all surnamed Yun." Lao Shangshu put down the secret report, turned his head to reveal his still angular face, and handed the sixth secret report to the middle-aged man who was waiting in the room, and the middle-aged man respectfully took it and read it carefully.
"He is a messenger, but he doesn't want to deliver the news as quickly as possible, but instead does the work of an intelligence officer, isn't he afraid of delaying time?" Lao Shangshu sneered.
"So, punishment?" The middle-aged man with a knife hanging from his waist in the room asked with a little puzzled after reading the secret letter in his hand twice.
"Of course they will be punished, if everyone loses their responsibilities to do the work of their colleagues, won't the entire military department be in chaos?" Although everyone calls him Lao Shangshu, Bai Du'e is not so old, he is in his fifties and is the mainstay of the entire court, and the biggest reason why everyone calls him Lao Shangshu is that he has stayed in this position of Shangshu in the military department for too long.
Bai Du'e sixteen civil and military champions, eighteen generals, twenty champion marquis, twenty-three serious illness, the same year the emperor was worried that the title of champion marquis was not good, so he abolished the title of champion marquis, transferred it to the military department to become a squire, two years later the old Shangshu resigned and returned home, Bai Du'e became the youngest military secretary in the history of the empire, and stayed in this position for thirty years.
No one knows why Bai Du'e didn't pay any further direct homage to the prime minister back then, but stayed in the position of Shangshu for thirty years, after all, his youth was too brilliant and dazzling, and some rumors said that the emperor knew that he was old, and deliberately pressed Bai Lao Shangshu to leave it to the new emperor to promote, and leave a friendship for the new emperor, although this statement has no basis, but it is not unreasonable.
In the room of the Yamen office of the Ministry of War, the middle-aged man standing in front of the case was the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of War, who had been following Lao Shangshu for more than ten years, and he knew Lao Shangshu very well. “
"Well, go ahead, reveal this news to other people who are concerned about this matter, and remember to let someone bring a message to Xuefu, so that Yunsheng's girl doesn't go out recently, if you really don't want to stay at home, be honest and don't make trouble when you go out to play; Although he is not afraid of his Yun Dagongzi, there is no need to make conflicts early, he came to the capital, we just happened to watch the play quietly, this Yun Dagongzi is not an honest person in the intelligence, take this opportunity to take a look at the details of his Xueyu Villa first. ”
The left waiter of the military department nodded: "Miss Xue is not the kind of person who causes trouble, presumably it is a group of children's sense of justice, and she will not fight for no reason." ”
"Don't put gold on her, my niece in that life I understand, although she won't bully people for no reason, but it's not a good thing, what to do, naughty first place, a few days ago because of a little contradiction in the college cafeteria, tied a wire to the pillar, and the little third son of Zhang Shilang's family fell half to death, I saw Zhang Xiaosan limping on the way to school when I went to court today, and I gave him a ride." Lao Shangshu waved his hand and motioned for Zuo Shilang to step back.
The left waiter of the military department touched his nose, smiled, closed his mouth and retreated, obviously he had heard of Xue Yunsheng's bad deeds, and he was just touting just now.
In the afternoon, the screams of a young post man named Wang Xiaojian echoed outside the gate of the military headquarters, and everyone knew that the little post man ran to collect information when he delivered an urgent secret report, and was fined ten boards by the kind old Shangshu.
This matter is very hot in the streets and alleys of Fengge City, and there are people in every restaurant who are fighting for good things that are red-faced and even fighting, some people say that this ordinary person has been beaten by ten boards but he has gone to half his life, and the punishment is too heavy, and some people say that the post guard's move is against the military order, and it is not enough to establish his authority if he does not kill.
What no one knows is that Wang Xiaojian, who was beaten outside the yamen of the Ministry of War, was beaten with his skin open, although his body hurt, but he was very happy in his heart, although this beating was really painful, but it was still very worthwhile to have a stable livelihood in the future, and no longer have to run around on the road, Wang Xiaojian, who reached out and pinched the transfer letter in his arms, was beaten until he fainted.
This is just a trivial matter at the foot of the imperial city, as for why the heat is so high, the main reason is that the imperial city has been a long time and there is nothing new worth talking about, and the people are a little bored, but soon this boredom is swept away, and everyone is like chicken blood.
I don't know where the news came from, the letter sent by the beaten little post guard is related to Xueyu Villa, according to rumors, the young master of Xueyu Villa will arrive in Fengge City in a few days, so the whole city is suddenly boiling.
Although many people were not born when the major event happened in the past, the thing related to the king of Zhennan in the empire was not buried in the dust with time, but as the power of the king of Zhennan spread more and more widely, some shabby scholars in the capital even created one story after another with this prototype, so that future generations who did not experience the war can understand.
The storytellers in the alleys love to tell the following things:
In the past, when Yanzicheng, the king of Zhennan, was only the general of Zhennan, a general under his command whipped a cook in Xueyu Villa on the street after drinking heavily in Qingling City in the south.
The good deeds saw the woman go back to the Snow Rain Villa, and then the gate of the Snow Rain Villa was opened, and more than 100 horses carried more than 100 men and women dressed in white like snow left the Snow Rain Villa.
As the general of the southern expedition to the north, the strength of this Lyton is naturally not weak, and then two groups of men and horses in the courtyard and the courtyard in front of the gate of the bloody battle, in a short period of time, the general Lyton around the two hundred soldiers killed and wounded, Lyton was cut off an arm by a sword, and his body was also poked with a few bright holes in the front and back, his life was in danger, and he fled in a hurry under the escort of his own soldiers.
Although Li Dun said that many families had banqueted him in the past three or two days when he came to Qingling City, he had also passed a scene and formed a good fate, and he had no deeper friendship with him at all, so it was naturally impossible to help him at this time.
Then Lytton also saw this very clearly, understood that no one would help him, and thought that the local government and military were basically controlled by the major tycoons, and he was definitely unwilling to offend a tiger sleeping on his side for him Lyton injured his own people, so he didn't even stay, and fled directly from the city, heading towards the 6,000 soldiers and horses he was stationed outside the city.
But even so, the general could not escape, and after fleeing for thousands of miles, he was killed by the guards of Xueyu Mountain Villa outside Yangzhou City, and at this time, there were only more than 2,000 of the 6,000 military horses left.
If it is a direct battle, the 6,000 soldiers and horses may not be afraid of the 100 people in the villa, but the 6,000 people who are frantically fleeing for their lives are moving targets for more than 100 masters, and there is almost no threat at all, and they will be killed if they catch up.
More than 3,000 people who died on the road carried swords, guns, swords and halberds on the battlefield and survived with great difficulty, destined to be praised, but because their generals died on the way to glory after the whip was lightly struck.
When the general triumphed, the imperial court rewarded him, and the general of Zhennan was crowned as the king of Zhennan, and among the eight generals under his command, except for the Lyton, each of them was added to the rank of knight, and this Lytton was defined as a grievance by the Ministry of Criminal Affairs after several ministers made a statement to the emperor, and it was not accepted.
The king of Zhennan, who was fighting in all directions on the war horse, was in the most bloody year, how could he bear this breath, and said at a banquet that since the court regarded it as a matter of the rivers and lakes, it would be the rivers and lakes, but what surprised everyone was that without waiting for the king of Zhennan to make a move, the people of Xueyu Villa arrived in the capital.
In the pouring rain that day, a woman dressed as a maid in white walked into the plaque of Zhennan Wangfu and said that she was looking for someone, and after a few words did not agree, the woman in white dressed as a maid hit from the gate to the backyard of Zhennan Wangfu, and the god on duty that day died on the spot, and the eight generals under the command of Zhennan Wang only folded two in the hands of Xueyu Villa.
And Xue Qianli, the eldest son of the Xue family who had not yet become the Snow Marquis that day, and the champion Hou Bai Du'e were all there.
Some storytellers will tell that the woman in white and the king of Zhennan, the eldest son of the Xue family, and the champion Hou fought a game, and the seriously ill white prince was unable to make a move, and in the end, no one on the two sides could help anyone, so they shook hands and made peace.
There are also old storytellers who are old and plain when they tell the story, and there was no shocking battle that day, and the woman in white killed a lot of people in the process of hitting the backyard from the gate, but the two sides did not fight when they saw the champion Hou and the king of Zhennan in the backyard.
I don't know what was discussed, and in the end the two sides stopped fighting, and the old storyteller speculated that maybe it was because if there was a real fight that day, maybe the woman in white would die, but the Zhennan Mansion didn't know how many people would be buried with him.
No matter which storyteller tells this story, he will sigh, if the champion of that day was not sick, how could he allow the wild woman over there to scatter wild in the capital.
It's just that this story has been passed on and passed on, and most of them have changed their flavor when they reach the mouths of young storytellers, for example, deliberately belittled the worthlessness of Zhennan Wangfu to arouse the interest of the audience, and for example, silently forgot the champion of the Beijing Dinghai Shenzhen that year.