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Chapter 350 Rumor vs. Rumor
The rumors spread very fiercely. It probably started when Yang Chao asked Ge Nunniang to beat those scholars. It spread throughout Nanjing in three days, and it must have started to spread to the outside world.

"Okay. Brother Kang, let's find someone to spread rumors!"

Yang Chao said helplessly.

Kang Xiaobao asked: "What should we say, the Fourth Young Master?"

Kang Xiaobao thought that Yang Chao wanted to treat him in his own way, and the fourth son spread rumors to slander Yang Chao, so here he would create rumors about the fourth son to make them bad.

Yang Chao shook his head and said, "Creating rumors about them? I didn't do that! Let's make rumors about me!"

"Creating rumors about you?"

Kang Xiaobao was taken aback for a moment, not knowing what Yang Chao was going to do.

Yang Chao said with a smile: "This is called fighting poison with poison, using rumors to rumors. Find someone to go out and say that not only the crown prince is fake, but Emperor Chongzhen did not commit suicide. I, Yang Chao, sent people to assassinate him. I also killed the crown prince's family and found someone Pretend to be the prince, and then let the fake prince become the emperor and manipulate the government!"

Kang Xiaobao opened his mouth wide: "Who would believe this?"

Yang Chao said with a smile: "It's just that people don't believe it. A lot of rumors are mixed together and it's hard to tell whether it's true or not. In the end, no one will believe it."

Kang Xiaobao stretched out his thumb: "High!"

It is indeed high. This is called counter-revolutionary rumors with revolutionary rumors, a tactic used by the Red Army.

The shocking rumors released by Yang Chao are really believed by people, and the rumors spread even more widely, which Yang Chao did not expect. It is really strange that people believe this kind of thing. Of course, people who can really think will not believe it. .

Those who really believe and spread the word are also some boring people in the market.

But then all kinds of rumors came out one after another, that today's son is not only a fake prince, but also Yang Chao's sworn brother. In the end, the inheritance is Yang Chao's brother who has been scattered for many years, and he is the illegitimate son of Yang Chao's father.

It continued to evolve into that today's son is Li Zicheng's godson, deliberately pretending to be the prince, in order to seize the Ming Dynasty, and Yang Chao's identity has also become a gap between Li Zicheng's early entry into the Ming army, and he cooperated with Li Chuangwang to play this trick. big drama.

Obviously, it was definitely not Yang Chao who made the rumors to such an extent. His IQ is not up to this level, and he would create such outrageous rumors.

Although with the IQ of ordinary people, we all know that these things are impossible, but everyone likes to spread and listen.

The most irritating thing is that there are rumors that Yang Chao and today's emperor have a good relationship with Long Yang, and the two have that kind of relationship.

The rumor frightened Zhu Cihong at the beginning, and then made him very angry, and ordered Jin Yiwei to arrest people, but only a bunch of common people were caught, and they were beaten at the entrance of the vegetable market. The real mastermind behind the scenes Can't find it at all.

Not to mention the fourth son, even the scholars in Erlishe have been quiet recently.

The fourth son was hanged and beaten by Ge Nunniang because he insulted Chen Yuanyuan, and even took off his clothes and rushed to the scene of the disturbance. His reputation has long been rotten, and he dared not show up at all, and the person they sent out to spread rumors probably left Nanjing long ago. Can't find the source.

The government can only post notices prohibiting rumors, but this unhealthy trend cannot be stopped for a while, and it can only wait for the wind to pass, and it will become a joke in the future.

But civil servants who really have something good to do don't think it's a big deal, and they took the opportunity to impeach Yang Chao at this time. According to the official practice, impeaching someone should temporarily avoid suspicion and put aside official duties.

Yang Chao didn't defend himself, he went home directly, neither went to the barracks, nor went to the court, and put on a posture of waiting to attend. According to the usual practice, the emperor should issue an order to comfort, and then Yang Chao came out to work.

Yang Chao's actions startled the emperor and some civil and military officials. This is the time to use troops. If a general like Yang Chao goes on strike, that's fine.

Then they began to speculate whether Yang Chao's intention was to take the opportunity to put pressure on the court, because of dissatisfaction with the rumors, or something else.

Yang Chao's intention is actually very simple. He takes the opportunity to withdraw from the court battle. He knows the source of his power, which is the force in his hand, and he has already planned to put all his energy on the army. Contaminated, anyway, he has won what he should strive for, and the next step is to stabilize the interests he has obtained, and transform these interests into strength.

At the same time, because he had offended many people after fighting in the court for dozens of days, Yang Chao didn't want to get too involved in the political struggle, so let the civil servants play politics, Yang Chao is still comfortable as a soldier.

So Yang Chao didn't have too much intention in this move, he just wanted to find an opportunity to leave the court completely and concentrate on military affairs. After all, he stayed in the army last time under the banner of complaining about his illness. This time, with the help of impeachment, He simply stated that he had no ability to manage politics, and then rejected the matter of discussing politics.

But when a person's power reaches a certain level, every move will involve a lot.

So others are secretly guessing, and they can't help it at all.

Moreover, Yang Chao's performance seemed to be expressing his dissatisfaction. Of course, Yang Chao did have a reason for his dissatisfaction. Feng Qilang impeached Yang Chao, thus angering Yang Chao.

Moreover, everyone in the court knows that behind this person is the shadow of the Erli Society. Although this society has not yet become popular, it is large in scale and has a great momentum. It is not difficult to control one or two officials in the court.

It was related that Yang Chao had just broken with the Erli Society, so Yang Chao expressed his dissatisfaction at this time, in fact, he was testing the pressure on the court to punish the spokesperson of the Erli Society, so many ministers who were pro-Yang Chao immediately made suggestions The emperor punished the speech officials who said nothing to appease the hearts of the heroes.

It was because of Yang Chao that he escaped from Beijing safely, and Zhu Cihong, who was able to become emperor later, has always had a good relationship with Yang Chao. Yang Chao's performance made him feel very sad. He agreed with the courtier's advice and felt that the officials had hurt loyal officials. , Immediately ordered that the speaker be severely punished.

Then it was how to appease Yang Chao.

He has several confidants now, one is Lu Jiude and the other is Yu Jiye.

He immediately called Lu Jiude and Yu Jiye to discuss it.

Lu Jiude was his eunuch holding pens, while Yu Jiye was named Jinyiwei Qianhu, commanding and escorting officers with swords.

The so-called knife-carrying officers should be some special guards in the guards. The number is not too large. They are responsible for taking turns in the palace and protecting the emperor. In each guard, there were 40 officers with swords in Shangzhi's personal guards and the front guards of the government army, and 180 guards with swords in the [-] guards including the flag bearers, who took turns to guard the emperor with swords.

Because Nanjing's army has been slackened for too long, there are indeed places for officers with swords in these guards, but they are useless, and they are not trusted by Zhu Cihong, and Yu Jiye has been rescuing Zhu Cihong's brothers and sisters from Beijing and protecting them all the way to the south of the Yangtze River , deep in his trust, so he managed Yang Chao to pass Yu Jiye, and together with a hundred of the Yu family's highly skilled soldiers, he formed a new sword officer, the so-called imperial sword guard, who was always guarding the left and right. .

Yang Chao lost a general, but Yu Jiye got a great future. The old general Yu Chengwu even sent his disabled second son to Nanjing to thank Yang Chao. He didn't come because he was ill. I heard that he was seriously ill.

Yu Jiye said to the emperor that Yang Chao is not a narrow-minded person, and he will not be angry about it, and just issue an imperial edict to comfort him.

But Lu Jiude thought a lot. He warned the emperor not to be careless, so as not to hurt the hearts of his subjects.

Although the speaker was punished this time, there is no guarantee that there will be no next time, and he cannot be relieved every time.

Ordinarily, it's okay, but if in an emergency, the enemy army attacks and Yang Chao, the military officer, is waiting to join, then the big thing will be broken.

The emperor thought that Lu Jiude was mature and prudent, and asked how to appease Yang Chao.

Lu Jiude made a fuss and told the emperor that the Yang family gave Yang Chao a concubine, but Yang Chao was dissatisfied and kicked out the concubine, so there were rumors that Yang Chao liked Longyang.

The little emperor blushed for a while, because the other end of Longyang was him.

Lu Jiude then hinted to the emperor that there is still a princess in the royal family who is not yet married. If he can form a marriage, Yang Chao will be grateful. It proves that Yang Chao is not from Longyang, Yang Chao doesn't need to worry about the rumors, and the speaker has already been punished, so Yang Chao should be satisfied.

Moreover, once the Yang family became a member of the imperial family, when they were joined in the future, they would not go on strike because of dissatisfaction.

Some words said that the little emperor's heart went away. Although he was only 15 years old and had no children, the royal family did have a princess, that is the eldest princess, his sister, Princess Changping Zhu Yuxi.

It's just a little hesitant, because Auntie Zhu had already made a marriage contract when she was in Beijing.

But Lu Jiude told the emperor that Beijing has been occupied, and the life and death of the son-in-law Zhou Shixian is unknown. , but found out that the son-in-law Zhou Shixian had died in the war, or was already married, what should he do? Wouldn't it be a waste of time to delay the eldest princess.

Aimee Zhu was born in the same year as the prince, slightly older than the prince, and her biological mother died of dystocia. She was adopted by Queen Zhou since she was a child, and grew up with Zhu Cihong. In fact, I believe in my heart that the best ending of the Ming Dynasty is only the ending of the Southern Song Dynasty. It is not easy to hold half of the south of the Yangtze River, and it is difficult to go north to the Central Plains. Yes, especially under the banner of avenging Chongzhen under the banner of the Manchu Dynasty, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty felt that it was reasonable to use half of the country as a reward for the Manchu Dynasty.

So if he can't give up the marriage contract with Zhou's family, his sister will be widowed for the rest of her life.

As for Zhou Shixian in case he is not dead or married in the future, Lu Jiude said that he will be rewarded with gold, silver, pearls and jade at that time.

So the little emperor had no obstacles in his heart, and readily agreed to the marriage.

(End of this chapter)