"The ministers and governors know Dong Xing, long live Your Majesty, long live!" A military general in armor half-knelt in the hall after unloading his sword.

Zhu Di looked at the good news in his hand, nodded constantly, and finished reading it after a while, and then motioned for him to get up and said, "Sit down." ”

"Where's Huang Xiao's head?"

Dong Xing sat on the chair brought by the eunuch and said, "The minister has been sealed, and the head of the thief is difficult to enter the hall of elegance, so he didn't bring it in." ”

In fact, Dong Xing didn't dare to say anything, mainly because he was afraid that the emperor would be frightened.

On the way here, he also heard that the newly enthroned Emperor Jingtai was a prince in the past, and he had never seen any big battles at all.

Therefore, in order to seek stability and successfully get the post-war reward, Dong Xing's style of acting is different from the momentum during the battle, and it is relatively stable.

"I've been waiting for this news for a long time, bring the head in!" Zhu Di looked very excited, and he didn't mean to be afraid at all.

Dong Xing was stunned for a moment, and hesitated: "Your Majesty, this head has just been sealed, there is still blood, Your Majesty's dragon body is heavy, if you disturb Your Majesty, it will be difficult to redeem your death!" ”

"So you're worried about this, you're underestimating me." Zhu Di laughed and said, "I was back then..."

Saying that, Zhu Di realized something, and changed his words and said: "When I was slashing and killing the Warat people outside the city and defending the Jingshi, the scene I saw was much bloodier than a mere human head. ”

"I forgive your sins, bring them."

These words successfully changed Dong Xing's mind about the emperor's weakness, and he was very surprised, so he said: "The minister obeyed the order." ”

"The head of the thief!"

After a short time, the two Han generals took the human head in the wooden box and carefully placed it in front of the eucalyptus.

Zhu Di did not hesitate, opened the box, and after reading it carefully, he praised it greatly, and said: "Dong Xing, I have sent someone to check on you, you are a border soldier, it is not easy to do this step today." ”

Dong Xing was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that the dignified son of heaven would still pay attention to his martial artist who was born with mud legs, and immediately knelt down and said, "Your Majesty has a good reputation." ”

"I don't have a reputation, you deserve my appreciation." Zhu Di got up, came to him, and said:

"I know that you once followed Liu Ju in Shandong to quell Deng Mao's seven disasters, and made great contributions, and now you are fighting for me to quell the thieves in Guangzhou, which is really a rare general."

"By the way, how did you pacify the thieves this time?"

"I heard that when your subordinates arrived, the thieves were invincible, and even Huang Xiaoyang was shot to death?"

Zhu Di walked back to the royal eucalyptus and asked with interest.

Dong Xing didn't expect that the emperor would be interested in such fights and killings, generally speaking, he was afraid that he didn't even bother to read his good news.

The emperor not only saw it, but also talked to himself about the war.

Suddenly, Dong Xing felt very cordial, did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly said: "Back to Your Majesty, speaking of this matter, there is also the credit of Yang Xinmin, the imperial history of the governor of Guangdong. ”

"Before the ministers were transferred to Guangdong, Lord Yang mainly appeased, attacked the hearts of the thieves and the army, and appeased them in many ways, forcing them to postpone the siege of Guangzhou, so that the ministers could have the opportunity to transfer Jiangxi and the two Guangxi troops to Guangzhou to encircle."

"The ministers are divided into five battalions, and they led the Guangxi 'wolf soldiers' to the continent outside Guangzhou, and advanced in five ways, taking the thieves by surprise and annihilating nearly 10,000 thieves!"

"Yang Xinmin, I know him, this is a good official, and I intend to give him the governor of Guangdong." Zhu Di recalled this name, and it was somewhat familiar.

This person is a person in the eighteenth year of Yongle, Zhu Di had a relationship with him in the palace test in the previous life, and knew that Yang Xinmin was able to write and martial arts, and he also had the meaning of cultivating and reusing.

In this life, Yang Xinmin, like Yu Qian, has sufficient qualifications and can be entrusted with important tasks.

But when Dong Xing heard this, he was a little hesitant, and he said carefully after a long time: "Your Majesty doesn't know that Lord Yang has died outside the city of Guangzhou!" ”

"What did you say?" Zhu Di was a little surprised and asked, "When did it happen, was it killed in battle?" Why didn't I know at all? ”

Only then did Dong Xing realize that it seemed that the emperor was not as smooth as he seemed now.

He had a lot of flattery at this time, but he didn't know what the emperor thought, so he said with a straight look: "Lord Yang died violently, and a few days before his death, the minister discussed war strategies with him, and suddenly heard the news of his death. ”

"So it seems that something is wrong." Zhu Di thought for a moment, and suddenly said: "Dong Xing, listen to the seal!" ”

Dong Xing immediately stepped forward and shouted, "The minister is here!" ”

Zhu Di said: "I will send an edict to the cabinet to pacify Guangdong, and you will be the commander of the pro-army and the right governor of the envoy, and all the Guangxi soldiers under your command will be merged into the four guards of the government army." ”

Dong Xing said: "The minister obeys the order!" ”

Watching Dong Xing leave, Zhu Di instructed the eunuch standing outside the palace: "Now that most of the thieves in Guangdong have been pacified, in addition to rewarding all the civil and military forces, the rest of the thieves should be mainly appeased, and there is no need to kill them all." ”

"There must be a reason for everything, I want to know why these good and decent people rebelled, and I intend to send Xu Hui, the imperial historian of the Imperial Procuratorate, to Guangdong to investigate the life history of the thief Huang Xiao."

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That night, Xu Hui, who received the holy decree in the mansion, learned that there was an assignment and keenly realized that his opportunity had come.

Since Xu Hui proposed to move the capital after the Tumubao Change, he has been criticized by the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, and it is even more difficult to turn over.

In order to avoid the current dilemma, Xu Hui tried all the means, but with little success, and he was unwilling to let his life end there.

For this reason, he even changed his name to Xu Youzhen, and named Youzhen, which naturally means loyalty, but it is useless, and others still look at him with disgust.

This time, he finally waited for his chance.

Xu Youzhen knew that going to Guangdong this time was not just to investigate Huang Xiaoyang, why did a dead thief rebel, what is there to investigate?

The emperor must have something to say that was still left in the holy decree, and if these obscure meanings were to be said in the open, how could the cabinet pass this holy decree so happily.

But what is it exactly?

After all, Xu Youzhen is not an immortal of an unpredictable prophet, he can only roughly guess these.

After thinking about it, Xu Youzhen suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and thought of Dong Xing, the commander of the pro-army capital who was appointed today for pacifying Guangdong.

Xu Youzhen doesn't know much about this person, only that his reputation is not very good, and they all say that this person is an executioner who started by suppressing Liukou.

A few years ago, he was a lonely junior, but in recent years, he has become famous.

Dong Xing first followed Liu Ju in Shandong to pacify Deng Maoqi, the leader of the water thieves, and now as the main general, he exterminated the Huang Xiao Yang Gang who had been entrenched in Guangdong for nearly a year, and after two major battles, he was claimed to have beheaded more than 10,000 people.

With his proud military exploits, Dong Xing has repeatedly achieved success in just a few years, and his career can be described as a smooth progress, and now he has been directly incorporated by Emperor Jingtai as the four guards of the government army, and he is even more proud for a while.

In this case, it is impossible for him to have a good reputation, after all, people are jealous of the virtuous, and the civil officials are even more vigorous in publicizing Dong Xing's so-called cruel deeds of abusing soldiers and brutality.

That's it, Dong Xing still made many military exploits, successfully won the favor of Zhu Di, and was reused with his extremely high emotional intelligence.

If there is anyone who is most likely to give Xu Youzhen some inspiration, it is only this Dong Xing.