In the Xinfeng Marquis Mansion in Luoyang, Duan Cheng, the general of Poqiang, and Tian Yan, Xia Yu and Zhang Kai, the captains of the Qiang Guard, discussed the placement of the disabled soldiers in the study.

Last summer, although Duan Cheng destroyed Dongqiang in one fell swoop, beheaded 19,000 people below his commander, and obtained countless cattle, horses, mules, donkeys, felts, and tents.

However, after excluding the goods offered to the imperial court, the money distributed to the soldiers was pitiful, and on average, each person received less than a thousand yuan, which made many soldiers dissatisfied.

Especially for those who are disabled, this money does not guarantee their future life.

In the end, under the mediation of Duan Cheng, some of the disabled soldiers were arranged in the imperial village in Luoyang, and they were exempted from taxes for ten years.

However, there are still some disabled soldiers who have not been placed, and these people are now mixed in the imperial village, waiting for the arrangement of the imperial court.

Originally, all this was fine, but recently the demand for fruits and vegetables in Luoyang City has surged, and the soldiers of Huangzhuang have also begun to learn to grow vegetables.

Especially since that day to congratulate Zhuo Taijun on his birthday, Wu Yong personally promised to send someone to guide the planting and help with sales, which gave them great confidence and cooperated very well to set aside land to plant melons, fruits and vegetables.

The growth cycle of vegetables is generally not too long, no, after two months of careful care, not long ago, the vegetables in Luoyang Huangzhuang began to harvest the period.

After this period of fermentation, stir-fried food has long become the most popular food in Luoyang City. Up to the officials and nobles, down to the ordinary people, three meals a day are inseparable from stir-fried vegetables.

Therefore, the supply of vegetables near Luoyang has always been in short supply. Therefore, as soon as the vegetables in Huangzhuang appeared, they were immediately sold out without Wu Yong's help.

The success of this vegetable planting surprised the sergeant of Huangzhuang and was also very happy. And looking at these people who were placed in Huangzhuang, they could have an income of tens or even hundreds of dollars every day, and those soldiers who were not placed were unbalanced in their hearts.

So they found the Xinfeng Marquis Mansion and asked Duan Cheng to make decisions for them, and they also wanted to be placed in the imperial village.

This gave Duan Cheng quite a headache, there are not many Huangzhuang in Luoyang, basically there are owners, not to mention that these Huangzhuang are the property of the royal family, how can he, a small broken general, be the master of today's son!

So he thought of his old subordinates Tian Yan, Xia Yu and Zhang Kai, and they had today's gathering. In fact, if it is placed on ordinary people, there may not be such a responsibility as Duan Cheng!

Duan Cheng, the word Jiming, Wuwei Guzang, the great-grandson of Duan Huizong from the Western Regions, learned to gallop and shoot arrows when he was young, advocating the style of rangers, despising financial bribery, and when he became an adult, he changed his previous aspirations and loved ancient studies.

Duan Cheng has a civil, military and wise strategy, and was originally promoted as filial piety, as the Xian Cemetery Cheng and Yangling Order, and has the talent for governance.

Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty entered the army, first broke Xianbei, and then asked for the peace of Dongguo Dou and Gongsun to raise things, and sealed the princes with merit.

During the second year of Yanxi to the second year of Jianning, he fought on the border for more than ten years, fought 180 times against the Qiang people, killed nearly 40,000 people, and finally pacified the Western Qiang and destroyed the Eastern Qiang.

Accumulated efforts to seal Xinfeng County. In the spring of the third year of Jianning, the imperial court summoned Duan Cheng to return to Beijing, and led more than 50,000 Qiang and Hu infantry cavalry and thousands of horses with sweat and blood, and captured more than 10,000 people.

Liu Hong, the Son of Heaven, sent Da Honglu to greet him at the pickaxe, and after the troops arrived, Liu Hong, the Son of Heaven, appointed Duan Cheng as a servant.

Shizhong is a loose post directly assigned by the emperor in the palace officials under the Shaofu, and is one of the additional officials outside the regular official position.

At the same time, he is also a close minister of the emperor, in charge of the emperor's car, sedan chair, clothes, utensils, etc., and can even participate in court affairs.

Duan Cheng's march was based on benevolence, and when the soldiers were sick, they always personally comforted and wounded. For more than ten years at the border, he has not slept well and shared weal and woe with the soldiers, so the sergeants are willing to fight to the death for him.

This is also the reason why Duan Cheng is willing to take over these disabled soldiers, on the one hand, these soldiers have followed him from birth to death, and on the other hand, he also wants these people to have a good home in the future.

Now these people are jealous of the benefits of Luoyang Huangzhuang, which makes him feel very troubled, so he thinks of finding someone to discuss.

At this time, Cheng sat on the main seat and said with a wry smile: "I guess you have also heard, now many soldiers are clamoring for the land of Luoyang Huangzhuang, this matter, where can I decide as a broken general!" Tian Yan, Xia Yu and Zhang Kai all glanced at each other, and they all saw helplessness in each other's eyes.

Recently, they have also received many requests from their subordinates, most of whom want to obtain a piece of land near Luoyang.

But they were all soldiers at the border gates, and they were not familiar with the officials in the imperial court, so they had more than enough heart but not enough strength.

Originally, they also planned to ask Duan Cheng to help, find some ways in the imperial court, and do some activities, but now looking at this scene, their own general also has no way, otherwise they would not be helpless, and came to invite them to come to the palace to discuss.

In the hall, there was silence for a while, and when Duan Cheng was waiting a little impatiently, Tian Yan opened his mouth and asked: "As a servant, the general can see the Son of Heaven every day, so hasn't he probed His Majesty's tone?" As soon as he heard this, Duan Cheng was a little angry and said, "Don't you know, these ten permanent servants are like thieves, prohibiting others from approaching the Son of Heaven every day. But if anyone wants to say something in front of His Majesty, they will be easily stopped by them without the nod and permission of the Ten Standing Attendants. Tian Yan, Xia Yu and Zhang Kai looked at each other after hearing this, they didn't expect the Ten Standing Servants to be so rampant!

Zhang Kai is still young and has a more impulsive temper, slapping the table and saying angrily: "It's just hateful!" Could it be that none of the hundreds of officials and ministers in the court dared to stand up and stop it? If today's son is still young, the concept of right and wrong is weak, and the way of the king has not yet been learned. If he continues to be fooled around like this, sooner or later, the Son of Heaven will follow in the footsteps of Emperor Huan. Tian Yan hurriedly persuaded: "Brother Zhang Kaixian, be cautious, how can the Son of Heaven be something that you and I can discuss at will, be careful to pass it into the ears of those who have a heart, and then you will be punished, even the general will be questioned, and the gains outweigh the losses." ”

"Is there any royal law in this world, and for the crime of speech, Shang Xia Wei did not dare to do so." Zhang Kai stiffened his air.

As he spoke, his voice was a little quieter,

"What's more, there are only four people in the hall today, including the general and me, and it will never be passed out." Next, he said dejectedly: "I would have known that you and I wouldn't have come to Luoyang, not to mention this nest of anger, I haven't been free yet, how can I wait for me to be at ease in the Western Regions!" At this time, Duan Cheng also sighed and said: "You have been coming to Luoyang for a while, compared to the previous border life, don't you have any ideas?" We work hard at the border, and we only sleep in the open every day, but these high-ranking officials and nobles in Luoyang only care about forming parties and running private interests, but they can still sing songs every day. As he spoke, he said with a straight face: "I just don't want our border soldiers to have no way out in the future, so I want to break out of a world that belongs to us in this court, so as to live up to those soldiers who throw their heads and spill their blood." When Tian Yan, Xia Yu and Zhang Kai heard this, they couldn't help but be impressed by Duan Cheng's dedication, and bowed in unison: "I am willing to die for the general!" ”

"You and my brother, it doesn't have to be like this!" Duan Cheng helped the three of them up. The four of them returned to their positions and discussed various feasible countermeasures, as well as the hundreds of officials and ministers who could be won.

Of course, they all have a good impression of Wu Yong, especially Wu Yong's willingness to accept the disabled soldiers of Luoyang Huangzhuang, which makes them automatically divide Wu Yong into their side.

Everyone discussed for a long time, and only then did they stop when they saw that it was getting late. At this moment, Xia Yu hesitated for a moment, and finally spoke: "There is something that my subordinates want to tell the general, but I don't know whether to say it or not?" Duan Cheng said with displeasure: "You and I have been fighting side by side in the Western Regions for many years, and we are both from Guzang County. I didn't treat you as an outsider, so why bother talking and making people unhappy! Xia Yu was a little moved, so he spoke: "Recently, many soldiers in the imperial village have reported to me that the ruling Jin Wu Dong is bullying people and forcing them to pay a lot of money. Duan Cheng was stunned and hurriedly asked, "What's going on?" ”

"Here's the thing......" Xia Yu said the reason without hurrying. It turned out that this stir-fried dish was already famous in the palace, and the Empress Dowager Dong of Yongle heard that she could make a lot of money by planting vegetables, so she asked Dong Pet to operate it.

Dong Pet is the elder brother of Empress Xiaoren, the biological mother of Liu Hong, the son of heaven, and the maternal uncle of Liu Hong, the son of heaven. In the first year of Jianning, Liu Hong ascended the throne as the Son of Heaven.

On the first day of the third month of the leap year of the same year, Liu Hong, the son of heaven, with the consent of the Empress Dowager Dou Miao, posthumously honored his late father Liu Chang as the emperor of filial piety, and his mausoleum was called Shenling, and his mother Dong was a nobleman of Shenyuan.

In September of the first year of Jianning, the general Dou Wu was killed in a failed struggle with the eunuchs. In the first month of the second year of Jianning, Liu Hong, the Son of Heaven, sent Zhongchang to welcome his biological mother Dong to Luoyang, Kyoto, and recruited Dong's elder brother Dong Chong and nephew Dong Zhong to Luoyang.

On the third day of March of the same year, the mother of the Son of Heaven Liu Hongzun, Dong, was the Empress of Xiaoren, and lived in the Jiade Hall of the South Palace, the palace was called Yongle Palace, and Dong Chong was appointed as the ruling Jinwu, and Dong Zhong was the general of the five officials.

The rank of Jin Wu is 2,000 stones, and his duties are mainly to warden the forbidden army and protect the safety of the capital and Miyagi.

Three times a month, he would make rounds around the palace to prevent and stop fires and floods outside the palace and other extraordinary accidents.

There is also a subordinate official arsenal Lingcheng, who is in charge of the manufacture and storage of weapons. Dong Pet received an order from the Empress Dowager Dong of Yongle, thinking that this would be an easy matter, after all, there are many imperial villages in Luoyang that are the private property of the Son of Heaven.

But he didn't expect that all the imperial villages in Luoyang were leased to the people for planting, and they were tax-free, which made him feel extremely unbalanced.

So he tried every possible way to squeeze some oil and water from this group of people. I don't know if it's a coincidence, but it just so happened that Wu Yong made a bridge and bought manure water for the people of Huangzhuang to fertilize the fields.

This made Dong Pet see the operability, so he charged a certain amount of money to the people on both sides on the grounds that the smell of feces and water affected the image of Luoyang.

There was an extra expense, but of course the people of Huangzhuang were unwilling, and they all found Xia Yu to complain. And the person in charge of the eunuch's side also notified the ten permanent attendants.

Cao Jie and others swallowed their anger because they didn't want to conflict with the Empress Dowager Dong of Yongle. When Duan Cheng heard this, he smiled coldly and said: "What a guy who doesn't know whether he lives or dies, I'm afraid that he has a life to take this money, but he has no life to spend it!" ”