my days with tyrants

Chapter 49 What Did You Do To My Sister?
"Can you teach me how to use this?"

Yang Feng put on a smile that he thought was very sunny, and quietly appeared beside Zhang Fu's sister.

And he was holding someone else's slingshot in his hand.

The latter smiled at him, took the slingshot from his hand readily, and glanced at him again. Yang Feng hurriedly continued to show his smile. Miss Zhang smiled again, and took out a dried Put the clay projectile in the pocket in the middle of the bowstring, draw the bow and aim at a distance.

"Alright!"

She said.

Yang Feng nodded quickly.

The next moment, the slingshot in her hand suddenly went down.

Immediately afterwards, the bowstring of the right hand was released, and the left hand holding the bow body was thrown outward.

The projectile instantly hit the helmet that suddenly protruded from Yang Feng's hand. Although the hardness of this special mud pellet was not low, it was still crushed by the helmet, and then turned into countless fine debris and flew out.

"Understood, you have to shake it while shooting, otherwise it's easy to hit yourself."

Yang Feng said seriously.

Miss Zhang, who failed in the sneak attack, snorted angrily, raised her head and stomped on his feet, then instinctively crushed him hard, but then frowned, as if she wanted to cry...

"I picked a stone on it."

Yang Feng said very sincerely.

This is really outrageous, you must know that although she rides a horse, but a rich daughter like this, even if she rides a horse, she is nothing more than wearing a pair of leather boots...

Ah, Zhu Yuanzhang is not allowed to wear leather boots.

However, she was indeed wearing a pair of small leather boots. Obviously, no one would care about her as a little girl in such a place where the sky is high and the emperor is far away. He rubbed hard on the stone on the toe of his boot, and his heel felt sore all of a sudden.

Still unwilling, Miss Zhang gritted her teeth, elbowed him on the chest with all her strength with her right arm, and finally cried out of pain.

"I have a thing called a bulletproof plate on my chest. It's very hard. I really didn't mean it. Since I came to you, I have always needed to be vigilant. Don't see your brother chatting happily with me. In fact, I also I don’t know if your emperor has given him a secret decree, find an opportunity to shoot me in the back. The mutual trust between me and your emperor is very fragile, so as long as I am with someone like your brother in this situation, I will Adequate defense must be done, including body armor and even weapons.

I don't like this kind of life very much, but for the sake of safety, let's endure it for the time being! "

Yang Feng sighed beside her.

What he said was the truth, and the mutual trust between him and Zhu Yuanzhang was very fragile.

He really didn't know that His Majesty the Emperor suddenly became cruel one day and simply strangled this scourge to death, so he still had to be vigilant at all times.

At this moment, Ms. Zhang was crying from the pain. How could she be in the mood to listen to his nonsense explanations? Clutching her almost numb right elbow, she limped on one foot and cried and walked forward, looking completely hopeless. .

By the way, is this the noble lady of Zhu Di?

However, the age should be about the same. In history, Concubine Zhang Gui was conferred in the seventh year of Yongle, but this cannot be used as a reference for her age. After all, she must have followed Zhu Di long ago.

No one noticed the interaction between the two of them. At this time, Zhang Fu was still studying those Francophones with those civil servants and military generals, especially those military generals. Those stationed here often go deep into the grassland. Naturally, they are very clear about such a situation. Lightweight rapid-fire artillery value.In the past, they had an absolute advantage over Remnant Yuan. In fact, every time the Ming army went deep into the grassland to fight in these years, the result was a complete victory. With these artillery, it can be said to be crushed.

Yang Feng looked around with emotion, surrounded by military households watching the excitement.

However, this city really doesn’t have much population. According to the population statistics in Hongwu’s eighth year, there are [-] civilians and [-] military ones, exactly the same. In fact, there are [-] more military ones. They are men, women, old and young. In his yellow book, there is a family of men, women, old and young, with land and real estate, and even a few families together have a map to match. A picture is the most basic unit.

So this number is the actual population, and it is difficult to hide the population. After all, this was not the time when the local gentry did whatever they wanted in the late Ming Dynasty.

Even if there is more than ten years of growth after this, it will not increase too much. The biggest increase is estimated to be Zhu Di's three guards, but in fact it is an increase of one guard, because there are two guards who were originally the commander of Beiping. Adapted under the jurisdiction of the company.

So now there are at most [-] people.

The population structure should still be half military and half civilian. This is a pure frontier fortress.

Moreover, not all of them live in Beiping City, because the people's nationality is from Daxing and Wanping counties, and there are also a large number of military registrations in the surrounding military settlements.

Those who really live in the city are at most 10,000+ people.

"What did you do to my sister?"

Zhang Fu, who finally found his sister crying, walked up to Yang Feng and said in a bad tone.

"Heaven and earth conscience, I just asked her how to use a slingshot, and she taught me how to use a slingshot. Don't you think I'm the kind of person who flirts with women? Don't you want to defile people's innocence out of thin air?"

Yang Feng said with an innocent face.

"that's it?"

"Otherwise, what do you think, what heinous thing did I do to her? If you doubt so much, I can admit it. Tell me, what do you want me to admit? "

"Uh, Zhang didn't mean that, he just came here to ask."

Zhang Fu said quickly.

Indeed, even if this bastard really did something, he can't be allowed to admit it!

His younger sister is not married yet, if it is really spread as a rumor, how can she get married, but he still has a certain trust in Yang Feng, after all, this guy has already rejected Zhou Dexing's bunch of beautiful girls in the capital. spread the word.And there is a little maid beside him, who has not done anything in the capital for so many days. This is what those Jin Yiwei are watching. The little maid made it clear that he can do whatever he wants, but he has never start.

So Ambassador Yang is not a lustful person, and this is well known in the capital, so if this is the case, it is all a misunderstanding.

Those who misunderstand or not misunderstand are misunderstood!

"How do I see the morale of these military households around me is not good!"

Yang Feng said.

The spirit of the military households here is obviously lower than those in the capital, but it’s definitely not because they don’t have enough to eat. Judging from their faces, the nutritional level is sufficient, but it just feels that the atmosphere is not as good as that in the capital, or it can be said that the proportion of people with smiles on their faces is lower. Unlike in the capital, where people go out and walk around, there are laughter and laughter. The atmosphere here is obviously a bit depressing.

"The military households in Beiping are all southerners. They were sent from the land of flowers and flowers in the south of the Yangtze River, where the yield of a few stones per mu, to this bitter cold land in the north. They worked hard to produce one stone per mu for a year. You have to be here, and when you think about the people who fought for His Majesty in the past, but still enjoy the blessings in the south of the Yangtze River, who do you think can laugh?"

"Uh, it's not very bitter here, is it?"

"Isn't it very bitter? Compared with Kaiping and Daning, it is indeed not bitter, but don't forget that they were all born in the south of the Yangtze River for generations. After a while here, it will be cold and snowy. Those who stayed in the south Yes, but they are already looking at the winter wheat harvest in the coming year."

"But there is no way to defend the border for the country."

"It's true that there's no other way, so they all stay here, but you can't expect them all to laugh. They obviously can't laugh, so do you have to make them laugh?"

Zhang Fu said.

So it is understandable that all the armies in Peiping supported Zhu Di so much.

How could they support Zhu Di? They obviously wanted to leave this ghostly place quickly and go back to their hometown in Jiangnan to be happy. However, they did get their wish, but the result was that Zhu Di moved the capital and had to come back with the emperor. But until the Tumu Fort, the first reaction of the nobles in the capital was to hurry up and go back to Nanjing, so that they would not suffer here.

"Is there someone named Zheng He beside your king? Maybe Ma He."

Yang Feng changed the subject and said.

The time when Zheng He bestowed the surname was guesswork later. In fact, there is no clear record when it was given. In fact, this kind of eunuch usually does not use his own surname. It is a standard practice to change his surname when he enters the palace. The genealogy of the original family was expelled, and in theory the relationship with the original family was severed. As for the later prosperity, the family needs to flatter him at that time, and of course it can be changed back to Guangzong Yaozu.

For example, when he entered the palace at the age of nine thousand, he changed his surname to Li, and when he became prosperous, he changed his surname back to Wei.

In fact, even if many people make a fortune, they only glorify their ancestors when they are alive, and they still cannot enter the ancestral grave when they are dead.

So eunuchs like to give money to temples and the like.

Because after they die, these temples will deal with their funeral affairs for them, and even protect his tomb in the future.

"Ma He?"

Zhang Fu's eyes searched...

"Where did Ma He go?"

He asked a royal official.

"Ma Chang followed the order of the concubine to meet Princess Hanshan and her party at Lugou Bridge, and it seems that they are almost here."

said the latter.

"Uh?"

Yang Feng's gaze immediately turned to the direction of Marco Polo Bridge.

Because a long queue had already appeared there at this time, he quickly took out the binoculars and looked there, and then his special carriage appeared in his vision, but at this time the carriage was sitting on a A familiar figure, holding the same telescope, is looking at this side.Immediately afterwards, she put down the binoculars, stood up on the carriage, and waved excitedly to this side. Next to her was a young man riding a horse, looking at her in obvious surprise.

"Let's go and meet the princess."

Zhang Fu said.

And those officials and generals who were still watching Frangji before also got on their horses and headed to the reception pavilion not far away to welcome their Princess Hanshan...

Although their highness the princess is standing in the carriage like an excited rabbit.

(End of this chapter)