Chapter 095: Taizhou Knowles

Lou Qing's home is very dilapidated, Chen Cao's first reaction when he stepped into it was to think of Song Che's home back then, cramped, and the tea served was the end of tea.

"This is Lou Qing." The old village chief pointed to Chen Cao very respectfully.

Chen Cao put down the teacup, looked at the honest middle-aged man in front of him, and said with a smile: "This is the heir of Lou Nan, the former deputy chief soldier of Yunnan?" ”

There is a Lou Nan in Loujia Village, and Lou Qing is really the only heir of Lou Nan, seeing this young Lord Qincha, Lou Qing knelt down to Chen Cao very regularly: "Caomin Lou Qing, I have seen Lord Qinchading Wubo." ”

When Lou Nan and his eldest son were beheaded, Lou Qing was only fifteen years old, after all, he was a wealthy family, and the etiquette of seeing people was learned, Chen Cao was a little surprised: "I don't know if there is anyone else in Lou Zongbing's family besides you?" ”

The rules of the Ming Dynasty were very large, and the ordinary people paid a lot of attention to officials, especially the noble officials of Chen Cao's level, who did not agree, saying that if he knelt, he had to kneel, and he must not make a bow and get up by himself.

Obviously, Chen Cao forgot to let Lou Qing get up, so Lou Qing knelt down and replied: "If you go back to Qin and Ding Wubo, there is only one grass man left in my father's branch." ”

"How old are you this year?"

"As soon as the grass people pass this year, they will be fifty." Lou Qing still lowered his head.

Chen Cao found that Ren Louqing was still kneeling, so he said, "You get up." I see that you are fifty years old and in good health, but you have a family martial arts? ”

Lou Nan is very good at fighting, before he met Qi Jiguang, he was in the army in Shanhaiguan and fought with the Mongols, so his heirs naturally have some skills.

Lou Qing got up and bowed and said, "Caomin has some family martial arts, but he hasn't practiced them for many years, and he only taught the bastard boy at home. ”

"Okay, Ben Bo bluntly said the purpose of coming here, Ben Bo was ordered by the Holy Lord," Chen Cao arched his hand towards the north: "Form a new army, to resist the Tartars, and come to Zhejiang to recruit generals at all levels of the Qi family's army, I want to come to Qi Shaobao to train the troops well, and wait for the generals under your command, you should be able to learn a lot of battle formation methods, now that you are fifty years old, Ben Bo will naturally not force you to join the army, this time, I want your son Lou Xingye to join the army, I don't know what Brother Lou wants?" ”

Lou Qing's body trembled, and he knelt down without thinking about it: "I can get the admiration of Uncle Ding, and the grass people thank Uncle Ding for the kindness of Uncle Ding for that bastard." ”

"Where is your son Lou Xingye?" Zhao Xin asked.

"Master is here..."Lou Xingye shouted at the gate, he heard that someone from the county was looking for him, thinking that his beating was reported, which would inevitably affect his family, so he hurried back.

However, the scene in front of him was very terrifying, outside the courtyard of his house was the county government officer, and the courtyard was full of guards with knives in colorful costumes, and his old father was kneeling in front of a young man in a python robe.

"Dad..."Lou Xingye hurriedly ran into the courtyard, seeing this situation, he hurriedly knelt in front of Chen Cao: "Little Lou Xingye, Huang Si from the next village was injured by a small one, and it has nothing to do with my father. ”

"He's a daring guy." Chen Cao nodded appreciatively: "Your clothes don't match your figure, why don't you wear a standard armor?" ”

As soon as Lou Xingye raised his head, he didn't know what to do, Lou Qing patted him on the back of the head: "Bastard, this is Uncle Dingding, I came to the house to find you and let you go to the barracks on an errand, I have already come down for you, why don't you hurry up and pay tribute to Uncle Dingding?" ”

Lou Nan was implicated a lot, and the most annoying thing was that the family plummeted, from a rich family to a commoner, and stipulated that his heirs were not allowed to learn literature and martial arts, and they were farmers for generations.

When Lou Xingye heard this, he grinned and said: "The little one has been learning the kung fu passed down by his grandfather since he was a child, and he can't serve the country, and he wants to join the army several times because of his grandfather's affairs. ”

"I don't want you to saddle the horse before and after," Chen Cao shook his head with a smile: "You keep your skills, and when you use them to fight tartars in Liaodong, what do you think?" ”

Lou Xingye's chick pecked rice: "Willing... Willing... Uncle Xie..."

"Ben Bo heard that the armor of the general soldier of Lou is enshrined in the ancestral hall of your Loujia Village?" Chen Cao looked at Lou Qing.

Lou Nan is the pride of the entire Loujia Village, but because he was beheaded, the village was afraid of being implicated, so he removed his armor from the ancestral hall, and it was not until the first year of Taichang that it was moved back to the ancestral hall, and now it is also enshrined in the ancestral hall as the pride of the Lou family.

"Grandpa's armor is a small one that I often want to take it back, but the old village chief said that it was from Loujia Village and wouldn't let me take it," Lou Xingye said with a big grin.

Chen Cao stood up and clapped his hands: "Ben Bo is in charge, you take your ancestor's armor and go with Ben Bo to join the army." ”

Lou Xingye bowed again: "Xie Dingwubo..."

Chen Cao took a big turn in Loujia Village, and then left with Lou Xingye, and then ordered Zhao Xin to go to Yiwu immediately and gather the remaining generals and heirs of the Qi family army to come to Taizhou.

Three days later, Chen Cao finally saw Gao Chong, who rushed to report the news.

"Uncle, my subordinates are fortunate not to be dishonored..."Gao Chong bowed his hand to Chen Cao: "The subordinates have summarized a lot of news in the past two months, after the subordinates arrived in Hangzhou, they convened the local detectives to investigate the situation, there are indeed Japanese people in Hangzhou, but the number is not much, most of them are coming to pay tribute and stay, and then the subordinates went to Jiaxing Mansion and explored for four days, without any harvest, but in Hainingwei listened to the local fishermen talking, saying that there were many Japanese people in Ningbo Mansion that year, because after the Jiajing Japanese Rebellion, there were few Japanese people in Zhejiang, The arrival of those widows was a bit sudden;

So his subordinates led a team to Ningbo, separated more than 1,000 people to look for it, and finally heard the news in Dinghai County. ”

Gao Chong handed a record to Chen Cao: "Wangjiaji in the south of Dinghai County, according to the local Lizheng, at the end of the forty-third year of Wanli, a ship from the East China Sea docked, and a lot of Japanese people came down from the boat. ”

"It should be them..."Chen Cao frowned and nodded: "And then?" ”

Gao Chong continued: "During the Ningbo Rebellion, the Japanese invaded Dinghai County first, and the people who often went to see Wangjiaji said that these people left on the day the Japanese went ashore, and left the boat on the beach in Wangjiaji; The subordinates explored Baisha Village all the way, and the local villagers also said that these Japanese people were dressed in Ming clothes, but the Ming people stammered and stammered, and they were the same as the Japanese people. ”

Chen Cao suddenly remembered something, and turned his head to look at Zhao Xin: "Isn't Zhang Chunyao's home in Dinghai County?" Where is she now? ”

Zhao Xin's eyes rolled and he arched his hand: "My subordinates sent a hundred households to escort Mrs. Zhang back to her hometown according to my uncle's instructions, and it was indeed in Dinghai County." Uncle forgot that Mrs. Zhang's father was the former Dinghai Zhixian? ”

Chen Cao's heart trembled, and he suddenly remembered something, and his heart sank for a moment, and he thought that it couldn't be so coincidental, but he was still a little uncomfortable, so he said: "Send someone to urge, when will Mrs. Zhang come over?" ”

"My subordinates will do it, uncle, could it be that Mrs. Fei is related to them?" Zhao Xin asked tentatively.

Chen Cao shook his head lightly: "When... No—" said Poop and looked at Gao Chong, and you continued.

"This group of people went all the way south from Shaoxing Mansion to Fujian, and then from Jianning Mansion in Fujian to the north to Chuzhou, Jinhua, and finally to Taizhou..."

"In Taizhou?" Chen Cao frowned?

Gao Chong nodded: "It's true, in the Yuehua Mountain ten miles north of Yuexi Town under the rule of Ninghai County, it is called Yue'ao Ping, and the subordinates personally pretended to be a merchant who walked to investigate, the village cluster is very large, and there are also our Han people, visually, this group of people has at least more than 300 people, and the subordinates met an old hunter who lived in Yue Ao Ping, and talked to him, saying that this group of people moved in the forty-sixth year of Wanli, and it has been more than six years. ”

"Are there any particularly valuable clues?" Chen Cao looked through the records in his hand.

"Yes..."Gao Chong carefully took off a bag and took out a copper coin from it: "Uncle, please take a look." ”

Chen Cao took the copper coin, looked at the text on it, and his heart jumped: "How did you come here?" ”

"The subordinates pretended to be merchants, bartered with them, their money was very small, basically in exchange for goods in the mountains, and when they left, one of the widows liked sugar gourds, and the subordinates used some small tricks to deceive this thing."

"You lied?" Chen Cao was shocked.

Gao Chong nodded proudly: "Although this money is slightly the same as my Daming money, but the printed text is different, plus these people are sneaky, and the subordinates can think that this group of people is the person the uncle is looking for according to the uncle's prompts." ”

"Bastard thing..."Chen Cao stood up and couldn't help but kick Gao Chong: "Zhao Xin, immediately gather troops and horses, and quickly go to Yuexi with Benbo..."

Zhao Xin took the copper coin from Chen Cao's hand and said suspiciously: "Uncle, this coin will make us fight, won't it?" ”

"What do you know?" Chen Cao tried to calm himself down: "This 'Keicho Tongbao' is a circulating coin minted by Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the former generals of the Wa Kingdom, and we don't recognize their copper coins, only gold and silver, so every time the Wa Kingdom pays tribute to me, the currency they bring is gold and silver, even if they use copper coins, they are directly traded with copper ore after the copper coins are melted down;

These people are so vigilant, you have defrauded them of a piece of money, they must know, I hope we can rush over it now, otherwise..."

When Gao Chong heard this, he hurriedly surrendered his hand: "Uncle, rest assured, his subordinates have scattered all the people of the entire Thousand Households around Yue'ao Ping, no matter where they go, the people under him can find them, besides," Gao Chong smiled: "In the name of the uncle, the subordinates mobilized three thousands of households around Yuexi, and more than 2,000 people gathered in the road out of Yue'ao Ping, as long as they dare to run, they will inevitably be captured." ”

Chen Cao squinted at Gao Chong, and then looked at Zhao Xin: "Zhao Xin, did you teach this guy's methods?" ”

Zhao Xin: "......"