Ming Empire

Chapter 82 Assassination
After the New Year, Cao Chao, accompanied by his mother Wu and some clansmen, left Datong for Nanjing.

Cao Chao went to work in Nanjing Jinyiwei. Cao Yue wrote a letter to his friends in Beijing, Chang Yanling and others who are now working in Nanjing, asking them to help take care of his second brother.Mother Wu is also planning to stay in Nanjing. The Cao family who passed away years ago have already bought a house near the imperial city of Nanjing.Some of the other people in the family will stay in Nanjing with the Wu family and take care of Nanjing's affairs.Some people will go to Suzhou, Huzhou, Hangzhou, Xiuzhou and other places. They will follow Cao Yue's proposal to start a business and make the Cao family's property bigger and stronger.

Many members of the Cao family were originally engaged in business, which may have something to do with Cao Wenzhao's original decision.

The imperial court's military salary supply was insufficient, and there was no way to support a well-equipped army. As the leading general, Cao Wenzhao had no choice but to pay for it himself and pay the soldiers under him.Although the Cao family had a good family background, the family property left by the ancestors alone could not meet the needs of the troops led by Cao Wenzhao, so they had to raise funds in other ways, and many members of the clan also started to engage in business.

Over the past few decades, the business of the Cao family has grown bigger and bigger. It can be said that the Cao family convened can be regarded as a famous family among Shanxi merchants. Wu went to business and helped his sister-in-law Wu to take care of Cao's family business.

The Wu family is proficient in business, and Cao Wenming is also a well-rounded person. One is in charge of the inside and the other is in charge of the outside. With the efforts of other Cao family children, the Cao family business is managed very well.Cao Wenming was the first to leave Datong for Nanjing years ago.Cao Wenzhao and Cao Wenyao died in battle one after another. Today's Cao Wenming seems to be the most authoritative person in the family besides the Wu family.

After his mother Wu's family and second brother Cao Chao led many Cao family members to leave Datong, Cao Yue also felt a lot more relaxed. Don't worry too much, he also put his main thoughts into continuing to train the Datong army.

As the special training team of the secret force under his name, the training has been in charge of Cao Yue himself. Over the past few months, these sergeants who have been selected from thousands of people have been trained in a good way.

Before crossing, Cao Yue was an officer of the field army, and he was selected into the special forces training team, but he was rejected due to an accident in the end, but he stayed in the special forces training team for more than three months. very familiar.The training methods of later generations of special forces can be copied, especially in terms of physical fitness and willpower training.

Nowadays, there are not so many modern weapons in later generations. It is impossible to carry out the training of these subjects, but the training of physical fitness, skills and many special combat techniques is completely possible.

Except for Cao Yue who is in charge of the training of his own family and the selected special training team, the training of other troops is handed over to his generals.

Over the past few months, these generals have fully understood Cao Yue's requirements. They also understand Cao Yue's training methods and training purposes. They don't need Cao Yue to interfere too much. They can basically carry on the training according to Cao Yue's requirements. .After several months of training, the military capacity of the Datong new army is no longer comparable to that of other Ming army.Although some of their sergeants have not experienced actual combat training, Cao Yue believes that if they are really pulled into the battlefield, their performance will not be bad, at least they are much better than other Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers like the mob.

Cao Yue plans to plan a large-scale military parade at the end of March or early April when the weather gets warmer, when the recruits are trained for about half a year. A well-disciplined Master of the Ming Dynasty.

Another day, Cao Yue, who had finished the training with his family and the quasi-special forces, returned to his hometown with a tired back and sore back.After a simple dinner, he ordered his personal guards to prepare hot water for him, intending to take a good hot bath and have a good night's sleep.

In order to exercise, Cao Yue has always taken cold showers, but after personally participating in the special forces, he found that taking a hot bath before going to bed is very helpful for sleep and can quickly eliminate fatigue, so he also began to change his habits. Take a hot bath before.After the guards prepared the hot water in the tub, they retreated. Cao Yue took off all his clothes and jumped into the steaming tub naked.Without his paging, the people around him would not dare to enter the account, and would not let other people in. Cao Yue was not worried about his indecent appearance being seen by anyone.

Taking a cold shower can indeed strengthen the body, but the refreshing feeling of soaking in a hot bath is also very attractive. Cao Yue sat with his back against the tub, closed his eyes, and did not move, letting the hot water soak up his fatigue. wash away.

An indescribable comfort came in from the pores all over his body, and he couldn't help but gasp a few times.

But when Cao Yue was enjoying the hot bath, he suddenly felt something strange, as if there was a very slight sound of footsteps.He thought it was some uninterested personal guard who came in to report something, opened his eyes slowly, and wanted to reprimand him.

But when he opened his eyes, he was startled. Under the dim candlelight, a black figure rushed towards the bathtub where he was sitting.

"Who is it?" Cao Yue shuddered immediately and asked in a low voice.

But the black shadow didn't pay any attention to it, and sped up the speed. In an instant, he rushed to the side of the bathtub where Cao Yue was staying, and pointed the shining long sword in his hand at Cao Yue.

The instinctive reaction made Cao Yue stand up from the bathtub, he didn't care about his nakedness, let alone the cold exposure, he knew that the man in black was coming to assassinate him.How did this man in black appear in the tent, how did he get in, and he had such skill to escape the guards patrolling outside the tent?

Cao Yue knew that he was in trouble today. He was unarmed and trapped in the bathtub. The other party's gleaming long sword had already stabbed him in front of him, and he had almost no strength to fight back.

But to my surprise, the long sword stopped after stabbing a few centimeters in front of Cao Yue.The owner of the long sword, the man in black clothes and a black mask with only a pair of eyes exposed, did not stab the sword directly into Cao Yue's body.

But this still made Cao Yue break out in a cold sweat. Before he had time to think about it, he sat back in the bathtub with a plop, and asked anxiously, "Who is my friend? What is difficult for me to help? If you can , let's sit down and talk."

But to Cao Yue's surprise, the other party ignored his words, the long sword in his hand was still pointing at him, and his eyes were staring at him blankly.

This look seemed a little familiar, but Cao Yue couldn't figure out whose eyes it was. He turned his head quickly, and suddenly thought of something, and blurted out: "Are you a red lady?"

(End of this chapter)