Wanli Xinming

Chapter 88
Zhu Yijun led the ministers to spend a day in Nanyuan, half distraction and half inspection, and taught the Hanlin Academy a lesson.Tell everyone that if you want to work under the gradually growing emperor, you will definitely not be able to play poems, songs, and eight-part essays.

On that day, the emperor was shy, and he told everyone that his words were well written and complimented, and all the compliments were accepted, making the literary scholars of the Hanlin Academy speechless.

However, this incident also made it clear to the court: as long as the emperor works, the rest - including his own face, can be ignored.

Dai Xun later heard his colleague return to the hospital to talk about the subsequent experience, and only then did he realize that he had been used as a raft by the emperor and set a negative example.

From then on, he changed the character of his "incompetent layman" and called himself "Ling Yun Sou", which means "Top Gun".It's not surprising that when others heard it, they thought that his number came out of "Han Lin Pine".Colleagues who knew about Nanyuan knew that he was frightened and just smiled.

It was August, and Yu Maoxue was still in the imperial prison, with unidentified objects resembling moss growing on his body, and no one in the court remembered the number one official of the Wanli Dynasty.

Zhang Siwei was completely relieved and asked to see Zhang Juzheng continuously.Fu Di was a child, and he was desperate to spend money while crying and repenting. Finally, he was forgiven and went back to continue compiling "Records of Sejong", waiting to be admitted to the cabinet.

The first court battle in the Wanli Dynasty was diverted by Zhu Yijun's use of the "Lianghuai Yuyan Case" to shift the focus.Killing two chickens not only beaten the officials who were noisy like monkeys, but did not completely stun them, and the functions such as reviewing the six departments worked well.

Outside the city of Gule in eastern Liaoning, the iron ropes blocking the surface of the Suzi River dripped with water in the summer sun.

On the south side of the iron cable, Chamberlain, who ran out of Langmanzi Manor, stood on a blocked boat, and used Jurchen language to negotiate with the captive soldiers on the river bank.

A [-]- or [-]-year-old prisoner jumped on the boat and searched carefully.Seeing that there was nothing on the side of the two horses on the boat except salt, tea leaves and a few rolls of cotton cloth, it was confirmed that Chamberlain was a smuggling businessman from the Ming Dynasty.

Chamberlain took out a cloth bag the size of a palm, filled it with large grains of salt, and placed it in the hands of the captive soldier.The captive soldier opened his pocket and glanced at it, grabbed one, threw it in his mouth and tasted it, his face looked much better.

He jumped from the pedals to the shore, shouting a few words.The captive soldier in charge of the iron chain loosened the iron chain on the cow's back and let it slide down quickly around the wooden stakes on the shore, and the middle part sank into the water with a clatter.

The boat, which can only carry two horses and two people, continued to move forward, and slowly swayed downstream to the intersection of Wulong River and Suzi River.There is a water bay several acres in size, with willow trees on the bank, and a simple pier made of wood by the water, which is the starting point for entering Gule City.

On the wharf, which was not very big, there were a lot of captives, and they all looked on guard.Although Chamberlain was an old man of Jin Yiwei, he raised his heart upon seeing this.He looked for a while in the crowd at the dock, his face suddenly showed joy, and shouted loudly: "Master Atai!"

Atai is Wang Gao's eldest son. At this time, he was in his early twenties. Like his father, he had a pair of thick eyebrows, a full beard, and a small nose and small eyes found some places in the pile of hair. outside.

He was sitting on a wooden bench on the dock, and when he heard someone call him, he looked up to see Chamberlain, and waved his hand with a smile.

When Chamberlain waited for the boat to stop, he led his horse to the pier, and when he came to Atai, he wanted to kneel and salute.

Atai held onto his arm, and murmured the truth: "Why did Mr. Zhang come at this time? What did he get this time?"

Chamberlain understood and replied with a smile: "This time I got [-] catties of salt and [-] catties of tea. It's enough for the city for a while." After listening to Atai, he frowned and said, "I'm not telling you that the salt can be less, More tea, why so much tea?"

Hearing this, Chamberlain had an embarrassed look on his face, and said in a low voice: "Master, Fushun is very strict. These teas were bought little by little in Fushun and Tieling. I bought salt cured meat and fish in bulk. In the past, this tea can only be slowly accumulated a few kilograms at a time."

Atai listened and sighed deeply.He frowned again and said, "Iron, no?"

Chamberlain said with a wry smile: "The ironware workshops in Liaodong were all made by the Jiliao Governor's Office. Even if they were to use a hoe, they would have to have their handprints printed before they could be sold. There's really no way. But—"

Atai heard that there was a turning point in his words, and hurriedly asked: "What?"

Chamberlain glanced around and said in a low voice, "This time in Tieling, I used the old ginseng that my uncle rewarded last time to save a blacksmith's old lady. He promised to secretly save some iron materials for me. Next time I guess I can Bring a few hundred pounds here."

Atai listened, although he felt that a few hundred pounds was too little, but it was better than nothing. At least the arrows were better than those made of bones and stones in Gule City today.

This manager is smart and smart, and he is much stronger than those Han profiteers who have their eyes drilled into mink velvet and old ginseng who can't pull it out, but they are very rude in business. Atai is still willing to deal with him.

This spring's great defeat left Gule City's family property in ruins. His father Wang Gao only escaped, and took three personal soldiers to become hunters in the old forest in Liaodong. It took three months to run back home.When Atai met his father outside the city, he thought it was a wild girl who came to rob and almost shot Tamarfa with a bow.

Atai suddenly recalled the feeling of hunger in Gulecheng when the green and yellow were not connected, and the Cone who killed the horse to get the meat for food was suffering, and quickly shook his head to throw the shadow out.

Seeing Chamberlain, he looked at himself with a mysterious smile on his face.Atai frowned and said, "What do you have to say, just say it, why do you look at me like this?"

Chamberlain bowed and said, "I heard that the uncle is going to have his first child. I haven't congratulated the little one yet." After speaking, he took out a small cloth bag from his arms and said, "This is a little thought, uncle, please don't. decline."

When Atai opened the cloth bag to see, it was actually a step-shaking hairpin on a Han woman's head.The whole body is made of gold. Not to mention the golden phoenix, the phoenix above it trembles and swings, as if it wants to ride the wind, and it is ingenious.

Atai had never seen such a beautiful thing, although it was for women's household, he was stunned.He stammered, "How much does this cost?"

Chamberlain said with a smile: "This is a general in the Ming army who sold it to a young man. He sold it because he was jealous of gambling. It is said that it is an in-house jewelry made by the capital's "Rising Dragon". The small one does not know whether it is true or not, but it looks good. I bought it for 30 taels. ——After inquiring, I took advantage of it in the casino, and it was worth 70 taels outside.”

Atai stuck his tongue out of the beard and said, "This little thing is worth three horses?"

Chamberlain smiled and said: "Master, that horse is a companion and can save lives. This is a thing. No matter how expensive it is, a good man doesn't care about it. It's just a little thought."

Atai still stammered: "You are right, but it's too expensive." Although Chamberlain was right, Atai still cherished it and wrapped it in cloth and put it in his arms.

He turned his head and instructed the people around him, adjusted his clothes, and said to Chamberlain in Chinese: "Go, go up the mountain, I'll treat you to some game. The wild boar you just hunted, yesterday, was fat. There was no wine. ,pity."

Chamberlain showed a thief-eyed expression again, and rolled his eyes left and right, signaling him to stay silent.Atai was surprised and delighted, and said in a low voice, "Is there that one?"

Chamberlain took a hand from his arms and showed him a small sheepskin bag.Atai almost screamed out in surprise, busy suppressing, and walked quickly with Chamberlain.

Gule City is said to be a city, but it is actually a large stockade located on Longtou Mountain.This Longtou Mountain can be four or five miles long, three hundred paces wide, less than two hundred paces high, and it is not very steep. Because it is near the intersection of the two rivers, Wang Gao chose this place to build the city.

Therefore, the land is the main hub of water and land routes in the Jurchen area. Wang Gao used Gule City to control the mutual market traffic of many Jurchen tribes such as Hada and Wula, and used this to condense the forces of various tribes, which eventually became a major disaster in Liaodong.

After this year's defeat, Wang Gao's army was left with only [-] soldiers. Due to the accumulation of power for many years, there was no new chieftain to challenge his authority for the time being.

However, in the headquarters of Gule City, because every family has relatives who will never return, the members of the group are already seriously dissatisfied with Wang Gao's rule, but they are just patient in secret.

Gule City is built on the top of the mountain. It is a city wall of wood and stone structure. It can be more than [-] feet high. The battlements and arrow towers on the top are solid and solid with the Han people.

Although Chamberlain had been here several times before, he was only allowed to enter the city when he followed Lang Mangzi a few years ago.

As he walked, he secretly remembered the situation of the garrison. Seeing that the garrison was much stricter than before, he knew that Wang Gao was afraid of Li Chengliang's Xingbing attack, so he acted to embolden his troops.Seeing Atai walking so fast, he stopped him and said, "Sir, slow down, I'll tell you something."

Atai listened, slowed down his steps, and his small eyes shone with a smile, and said with a smile: "I just said that you gave me a big gift, there must be something, let's take a look."

Chamberlain showed a coy look on his face, and said, "Master, Mafa's former female slave third sister, I heard that she was killed. Is she still alive?"

When Atai heard it, she said in her heart that it was not what I expected, you thief looked at Sanjier's face before.

He nodded and said, "To live is to live, but together with other Chinese girls, Marfa was thrown into the stockade to pick up guests, and you can sleep with her with eight pheasants or half a wild boar - you want her?"

When Chamberlain heard it, although he had expected it, his face was slightly discolored, and the circles of his eyes were red.Diligently smiled and said: "The first time I came to Mafa's house that day, I thought the third sister was beautiful. I have no family or business, and I don't care about those poor people, as long as she has a good color. Uncle, you can take her Would you give it to the little one? Next time I come, I will give you [-] catties of iron materials for free."

　Well, Lao Mo wrote this chapter with red eyes, maybe it was because of staying up late - he was stunned after finishing it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)