Ming Dynasty fake eunuch

Chapter 261 New Year's Eve
Busy days always go by very quickly. Before you know it, tomorrow is New Year’s Day. The people are preparing for the New Year’s goods at the last time. It’s the custom of the Chinese people. During the Chinese New Year, I wish I could move the entire store to my home, lest it’s not enough .

The government office also started to have a holiday in the afternoon. After a busy year, it was time to take a break. Strictly speaking, the officials in Liaodong were much busier than those in the pass, because Ye Xun was in charge of Liaodong.

However, the treatment of Liaodong officials is undoubtedly the highest in the entire Ming Dynasty, especially after the imperial court transferred the previous officials, Ye Xun increased the salary and treatment of the successor deputy officials, so this year, not only ordinary people, but also officials The same is smiling.

The holiday will last from New Year's Day to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

This holiday was decided by Ye Xun. The Ming court stipulated five days for New Year's Day, three days for Winter Solstice, and ten days for Lantern Festival, which adds up to eighteen days.

Ye Xun felt that such a holiday was problematic and not conducive to work efficiency, so he simply linked New Year's Day and Lantern Festival together, and the winter solstice has passed, and the holiday can only be scheduled next year.

Everyone else can rest, except Ye Xun who doesn't have a holiday. On the first day, he went to Tieling first, and after paying New Year's greetings to the soldiers and civilians of Tieling, he went to the cemetery where Zhang Baoguo and other warriors were buried to sweep the graves.

Because of Ye Xun's attention, the ancestral hall and cemetery dedicated to the warriors' spirits have been built on a very large scale, and they are guarded by special personnel, so that the warriors can enjoy incense in the four seasons of the spirit of heaven.

Not only the spiritual tablets of Han soldiers, but also the spiritual tablets of Mongolian soldiers are enshrined here. The remains and spiritual tablets of Jintaiji and Buyangu are also enshrined here.

A seemingly simple move has touched the hearts of soldiers and civilians of all ethnic groups. Now if someone says Ye Xun is not good, the custody will be mobilized and attacked.

After returning to Shenyang to give his subordinates a holiday, Ye Xun first came to the barracks to pay New Year greetings to the soldiers of each battalion. During festive seasons, they miss their relatives a lot. What the soldiers need most at this time is care.

Needless to say, dumplings, except that you can’t drink alcohol, all Northeastern special meat dishes such as pork stewed vermicelli and chicken stewed mushrooms are enough.

Many of the soldiers are poor people, and the food in the barracks is obviously better than that at home. Although homesickness is unavoidable, due to Ye Xun's attention and the attention of the generals, the soldiers' emotions are very stable. Talk about the world together, imagine the future.

After leaving the barracks, Ye Xun went non-stop to condolences to the civil and military officials and soldiers who were on duty in various parts of the city, and finally returned to his mansion. After running in a large circle, it was already dark.

Ye Xun's residence was also extremely lively. Cheng Yu, Zhang Quan, and some civil and military officials whose family members were not in Shenyang were all invited by Ye Xun to celebrate the first Spring Festival after Ye Xun's crossing.

Countless colored lights illuminated the entire mansion like daytime, and some children who came with their parents were playing in the snow in the courtyard to their heart's content, and the sound of firecrackers never stopped from morning till night.

There are more than ten banquets in the huge hall. Of course Ye Xun likes to be lively, and the officials also know very well that this kind of occasion is undoubtedly a good opportunity to deepen their relationship with Ye Xun, so some officials who were not invited stayed home. Come with a mouth.

For the Chinese New Year, Ye Xun naturally couldn't drive people out, so he could only add banquets one by one. Fortunately, there was no shortage of anything in the mansion, otherwise there would be no place to buy at this time.

Amidst the laughter, the banquet quickly reached its climax, and everyone took turns to toast Ye Xun to celebrate the New Year.

Relying on his deep internal strength, Ye Xun never refused to come to the officials who toasted. After nearly eight months of busy work, Ye Xun also felt that it was time for him to rest.

Ye Xun's experience in these eight months may not be completed by many people in their entire lives, but seeing that Liaodong is becoming more and more stable and people's lives are gradually improving, Ye Xun feels that it is all worth it.

Although most of the wine was expelled from the body with internal force, there was still some alcohol left. As time went by, Ye Xun also felt a little bit drunk.

After the last toasting official went down, Ye Xun stood up voluntarily, and said to everyone with a glass of wine: "It will be a new year soon, Ye thank you for your support for me in the past year, and thank you for your support. For the contribution made by Liaodong, please drink this cup to the full, and wish us more and more success in the new year, and strive to pacify Liaodong as soon as possible.”

When Ye Xun got up, all the civil and military soldiers also stood up, and when Ye Xun finished speaking, they hurriedly held their wine glasses and said in unison: "I can wait for today, thanks to the help of my father-in-law, I wish my father-in-law a good health in the new year." Healthy, step by step"

The gratitude of the civil and military officials present to Ye Xun can be said to be from the heart. Without Ye Xun, they would not be where they are today, let alone the stable life of the people in Liaodong.

In fact, Ye Xun himself knew that many ordinary people in Liaodong enshrined his tablet, and the incense was constantly burning in the four seasons, and he had already regarded him as a baojiaxian.

But Ye Xun is not a god after all, and he sometimes miscalculates, and some mistakes often lead to extremely serious consequences.

When celebrating the New Year in various parts of Liaodong, Hu Erhan's [-] Jurchen troops had secretly lurked around the outskirts of the Six Forts of Kuandian, and were ready to attack.

The defender of the Six Forts of Kuandian is still Cao Wenzhao. In order to ensure that this place will not be occupied by Jurchen again, Ye Xun stationed more than [-] troops here. Even if the Shenyang camp was reorganized, Ye Xun did not mobilize here of troops.

Cao Wenzhao is very capable and has always been vigilant about Jianzhou, but people always make mistakes.

The New Year is not only the New Year of the Han people, people of all ethnic groups will celebrate it, and the Jurchens are no exception.

According to the information fed back from Hetuala, Huang Taiji and his civil and military ministers are also busy preparing for the new year.

After receiving such news, Cao Wenzhao was naturally a bit lax. In addition, Huang Taiji had just sent Ye Xun 300 million taels of silver. No matter from which point of view, it was to repair the posture with Shenyang. How could it be possible to treat Kuandian at this time? Liubao do it?

But often the seemingly impossible will always happen.

The six castles of Kuandian are sharp knives stuck in Jurchen's ribs, and Huang Taiji is always thinking about taking back this place.

It must be said that Huang Taiji was very talented in acting. Not only did he successfully confuse Ye Xun, but even among the Jurchen ministers, few knew that he was going to sneak attack the Six Forts of Kuandian.

Moreover, he also calculated that New Year's Eve was the time when Han people were least vigilant, so he chose to launch an attack at this time.

In fact, from the very beginning, Huang Taiji did not choose to attack by force, but ordered Hu Erhan to adopt a sneak attack method, and then launch a sudden attack after the army quietly approached the Ming army camp.

Hu Erhan is also a veteran general. He patiently lurked outside the Ming army camp until the New Year's bell rang and cheers came from the Ming army camp. Then he led the army to attack the Ming army camp. .

"Kill!"

"Come on!".
It was too late when I heard the shouts of the Jurchens shouting like a tide
(End of this chapter)