my steam dam

Chapter 73 Gossip spread throughout Suzhou

"Have you heard?"

"What's the matter?"

"That Commander Peng, after accepting the oiran of our Suzhou Mansion, led him to exterminate the Knights Island."

"You don't know, on the ferry outside Suzhou City, there are three giant ships as high as the city gate, and two thousand Jinyiwei soldiers, pulling cannons several feet long!"

"That scene is simply shocking!"

"The cannon is firing and blasting his mother, and Vega is bursting into flames!"

"Counting the heroes, Peng Yan Wang, and the giant boats, blowing up the four directions!"

"I heard that when the nearby fishermen approached Xiake Island, they saw with their own eyes that three steam airships kept dropping cannonballs for half an hour!"

"That movement is so loud!"

"I don't know, I thought it was the earth dragon turning around, and the fish in the surrounding lakes were all scared away!"

"That fierce?"

In a small tavern in Suzhou City, two wharf laborers were talking about the rumors they heard in the morning.

The guests who were enjoying lunch all around were attracted by their funny conversation.

What kind of nonsense doggerel is this talking about!

However, the amount of information between discourses is still very large.

Did Penke take giant ships and airships to destroy Knight Island?

The reputation of Knight Island in Suzhou Mansion is not very good.

Although it has been 28 years since Hongwu.

Moreover, in the past ten years or so, Chivalrous Island has lived very peacefully, very low-key, basically never showing up to the common people, just staying on their own island to practice martial arts.

But the old people in the people's homes of Suzhou Prefecture are not dead yet!

Everyone still remembers the dog-leg behavior of the disciples of Xia Kedao when the Beiman ruled Suzhou.

Help the northern barbarians oppress the Chinese people, and help suppress the righteous men who resisted!
Moreover, in the homes of many people in Suzhou Prefecture, uncles and uncles were forcibly taken to practice martial arts by the people of Xia Ke Island.

Then it happened that it was sent to Beiman as cannon fodder!
Back then, in order to meet the annual "recruitment target" of the Northern Man, Xia Ke Island recruited young men directly from the common people.

About 6 children aged 8-100 in Suzhou Prefecture are taken to the island to practice martial arts every year, and after ten years of martial arts training, they are taken to the west by Beiman.

From the very beginning, these disciples were not the real inheritance disciples of Xia Ke Dao, they were just cannon fodder specially trained for Bei Man.

And after these disciples were taken to the Western Expedition, they basically never lived a life!

They all died under the axes of those Western magic arts and blood warriors!
That is, after Hongwu rose to power, Xia Kedao began to keep a low profile, trying to reduce his sense of presence.

Now that they have been liquidated, the people of Suzhou Mansion are all watching it for fun, and no one has any sympathy at all.

In this era when one person commits a crime and the whole family is punished, it is not so easy for Xia Kedao to be forgiven for his previous mistakes.

"It's not long since King Peng Yan arrived in Suzhou. He has just liquidated the Diancang Sect and the Buyan Sect on the front foot, and the Knight Island is gone on the back foot. What a thunderous trick!"

"Tsk tsk, I heard that from the north to the south, Mr. Peng has already liquidated more than 20 sects in the Jianghu, and one-third of the sects in the entire Jianghu have been taken over by one pot."

"They're all people who deserve what they deserve, they deserve it!"

"You can't say that, no matter what, the disciples of the Knights Island are also warriors. If they can serve the country, it will be good!"

"Shit, now the imperial court has no shortage of warriors!"

"At the beginning of this year, the Huashan School opened its gates and recruited nearly a thousand disciples. The imperial court not only gave support, but also paid for all the disciples' martial arts training expenses for the next ten years."

"It's not just the Huashan sect. I heard that those sects that struggled to fight against the northern barbarians for the common people in the past, counted as one, and all of them received the support of the imperial court."

"In the first year of Hongwu of the Emei Sword Sect, there were only a dozen or so disciples left in the whole sect. Up to now, there are more than 300 disciples, and I heard that the number of students will expand in the past two years!"

"My child is not good at studying literature, but I can consider taking the child to Mount Emei to try his luck and see if he can be accepted into the mountain gate."

"Anyway, now that the train is connected, it only takes one day to get there from us to Bashu, which is very convenient!"

"Hey, yes, with the train, you can travel thousands of miles day and night, and the morning and evening has really become a reality. Moyuan is too powerful!"

"My child likes to play with the mechanism dolls sold by Moyuan. He is only six years old now, and he can dismantle and assemble it by himself. Maybe he can go to the school of Moyuan to become a Mohist in the future!"

"Hey, I'm really envious of the two elder brothers. My child is not good at literature and martial arts. He is getting old and will be 17 years old after the Chinese New Year. When the time comes, he will try to send him to the army. I don't know if he can be accepted Choose."

"The military household system that His Majesty tried out back then was pretty good. I don't know why the previous dean of the Mo Academy persuaded me to change it to a recruitment system."

"If the military household system is really implemented, my old man has also carried guns back then, and our family can serve in the army for generations, so we don't have to worry about losing our future!"

"Hey, my brother's words are wrong. If you are a military household for generations, you will become a bad government in the future..."

In the entire restaurant, all the guests were gradually moved by the topic, from Peng Ke's actions to Ming's state affairs, they talked about everything.

There is no such thing as a crime in Ming Dynasty, as long as you are not an official, you can discuss court affairs at will, even the emperor can be discussed.

It has the open atmosphere of the Western Han Dynasty.

This also made the people of Ming Dynasty, after drinking a few ounces of horse urine, love to become civil politicians, arguing endlessly about various policies of the imperial court.

It's as if they were the ministries who made policy.

It has a taste of the keyboard politicians of later generations.

Not just this restaurant.

In the entire Suzhou Mansion, in various restaurants, restaurants, and tearooms, what was seen and heard about Penke's deployment of troops on the pier in the morning and the fishermen on Taihu Lake afterward was spread everywhere.

Among them, the fact that Peng Ke accompanied the beautiful and beautiful Gu Nianqing was even more interesting!

It is human nature to gossip.

What's more, the gossip of Peng Ke, a court official full of rumors, made everyone even more interested.

Gu Nianqing, the oiran of the Suzhou Mansion, is so beautiful that even King Peng Dayan would linger on him, and he would miss her like crazy if he didn't see her for a day, and he had to take her with him when he went out to fight.

How fresh it is!
Immediately, this eclectic anecdote was spread throughout the entire Suzhou Prefecture.

Even the bombing of Chivalrous Island by an airship was not as popular as it was.

There are too many sects that Peng Ke has cleaned up, and there is not much record in the addition of this Knight Island.

But he was fascinated by a woman, and he even had to take it with him when he went out to fight. This was a shocking and shocking thing!

There is no need to deliberately spread the news.

Wang Man, who was obediently lurking in a large manor on the outskirts of Suzhou, knew about this gossip that had spread throughout the streets and alleys.

"Peng Ke was really taken down by Yan Qingbo?" Even Wang Man, who was always cautious, couldn't help but have some doubts!
Could it be that Peng Ke made a play at the expense of tarnishing his own reputation?

If this kind of matter of taking the female family members to the expedition reaches the ears of Emperor Hongwu of Yingtian Mansion, Peng Ke will probably be punished!
Apart from losing their minds, probably normal people really can't do this, right?
Wang Man was a little hesitant, unable to guess whether it was true or not.

(End of this chapter)