The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 34 A Story

It's not bad, the imperial court is more generous to Wu Fu when employing people.

Huang Yizhou was promoted two levels in a row to become the actual conferred chief executive of Dongsheng Zuoweizheng, the fifth rank, and a thousand households.

Huang Han was awarded the general banner officer because of his great achievements in beheading the white armored soldiers. Xu Yu was Dongsheng Zuowei who wiped thousands of households from the fifth rank, and Hanzi became the general banner officer from the sixth rank to test a hundred households because of his third-level beheading skills. official.

Song Pengfei, Yang Danian and other five people who had beheaded were all small banner officials who were not given false titles.The rewards given by the five of them are not a complaint from the Ministry of War at all, they are official documents issued by the generals, and even Huang Han and Hanzi were rewarded directly by the Ministry of War because of the special period.

It stands to reason that if a military officer is promoted to a fifth-rank Qianhu, he has to go to the Military Selection Department of the Ministry of War to report and collect his body. However, at this time, the Jin army is approaching the city. Although it is still unable to encircle the capital due to insufficient troops, the court should go at this time. The program will also work around.

If Huang Yizhou, who had just made military exploits, was unlucky on the way to the capital and was killed by the Hou Jin army, it would seriously damage the morale of the Ming army, so the Ministry of War directly sent a letter to Yongping Mansion.

Zheng Guochang is the highest-ranking civil servant in the Yongping Mansion, and he can't be bothered to give a reward to a mere low-level military officer, but he is really curious why so many generals are empty-handed, and only the little chief banner officer can make meritorious service?
When he saw Huang Yizhou and his son, Hanzi, Yang Hanwei and others, he was greatly surprised, and it would not be an exaggeration to describe these people as majestic and murderous.

Seeing that it was approaching noon, Zheng Guochang, who was just going to take a look, unexpectedly accepted Huang Yizhou's invitation to stay at Huang's house in Jiulitai for a glass of wine.

Zheng Guochang, who is in his early 50s, is two ranks higher than the fourth-rank Bingbeidao, and is on the same level as a governor. Han Zhikuan, who dare not show his air in front of Bingbeidao, feels like sitting on pins and needles, wondering why this old man thinks so highly of the Huang family?

Zheng Guochang behaved very modestly, Huang Han had a good impression of this old man, and he was planning to save his life and form a good relationship.

If the wheel of history does not go astray, Zheng Guochang and his family members in Yongping Mansion will all die on the fourth day of the first lunar month next year. Since we want to save people, we should do the whole thing and save his whole family.

The countryside is simple and simple, and the Huang family is not a wealthy family without any professional cooks. The home-cooked dishes made by the aunt and her two younger sisters are very ordinary. Zheng Guochang didn't comment, only praised the wine in the glass.

Of course, this wine is about [-]% white wine, a by-product of Huang Han's distillation of alcohol, and it should be unique in Daming at present.

Zheng Guochang has a good capacity for alcohol and is a good cadre who has been tested for a long time. After a few glasses of wine, he began to talk about "Iron Horse and Glacier Falling into Dreams". Civil officials talked about Lu You's poems.

Huang Han is a college student who loves reading as well as Tang poetry and Song poetry. He immediately took over the conversation with Zheng Guochang to talk about the situation in the Southern Song Dynasty, and then talked about the background of the era when Lu Fangweng wrote this poem.

The poems of the patriotic poet Lu You are the texts that Huang Han once learned. The story of Lu You should be well-known to modern people. Of course, Huang Han has something to say about it.

Zheng Guochang was amazed that a young military officer was able to talk about the past and the present. After chatting with Huang Han for half an hour, he found that the young man in front of him who was neither arrogant nor humble was not easy.

After chatting happily and having a good drink, Zheng Yacha became a little bit drunk, and gradually talked about practical issues, lamenting that the uselessness of the court's officers and soldiers caused the later Jin army to harm the northern Zhili.

After drinking a full cup, he looked up to the sky and sighed: "How difficult the state is, a mere scholar of my generation can't fight the enemy like you. I am ashamed of the emperor, but I have no face to see the people!"

Seeing that the groundwork was almost done, Huang Han hit the snake with the stick and said: "Your Excellency's words are wrong. You can plan a decisive battle for thousands of miles. Scholars also have no shortage of opportunities to serve the country. If you want to do something, there are people here who are willing to die."

Zheng Yacha's eyes lit up, and he asked: "You are a man who dares to fight, I know it, but there are too few people to do anything!"

"Scholars die for their confidantes. If your lord is willing to give the Huang family some respect, you must kill at least a [-]th-level real slave and offer it to the Huang family."

"Oh? If you plan to kill Jiannu, you will get [-]. Are you serious?"

"Is your lord going to give face to the Huang family?"

"How decent do you want to talk about it?"

"If your lord is willing to bring your family to the Huang family to celebrate the new year, it will be enough to make the Huang family flourish. This is enough to show your great love for the Huang family. If a scholar dies for his confidant, he will definitely kill twenty real slaves for his confidant. grown ups."

"That's all? Haha, I just wonder if I can still drink such good wine when I come to your house for the New Year?"

"The humble job guarantees that adults can drink freely."

"Haha..." Zheng Guochang almost burst into tears with laughter, he jokingly said: "Okay, okay, I will definitely bring the whole family to your house to celebrate the New Year. If you can really kill Jiannu and get out, the news of today will be announced. For a good story!"

Zheng Yacha, who was drunk, was supported by four servants on his horse and returned to Yongping Mansion, and the guard of honor of the inspector also disappeared from sight.

Han Zhikuan looked at Huang Han with a bitter face. He no longer put on the lineage of officials and elders. He was also born from grassroots. It is really not easy to go from a small pawn to today.

Today's banquet, except for Huang Han, no one dared to speak out. Huang Han not only speaks freely, but also has witty words like pearls. Even the third-rank civil servant Zheng Yacha praised Huang Han in person. The meaning of the following is obvious.

Huang Han is both civil and military capable of charging and breaking through the formation, and now he is appreciated by the civil officials, and his future is boundless.

The self-motivated Han Zhikuan gritted his teeth, seemingly determined, and said, "Nephew, uncle will make up your army quota tomorrow, at the latest at noon the day after tomorrow, no, no, a hundred good soldiers will come to report to you, according to the inspection Let the safety of adults not be careless!"

It was all covered, presumably Han Zhikuan was worried that Zheng Guochang would really come to Jiulitai, so he decided to send some soldiers who could fight to the Huang family.

Huang Yizhou was able to get a hundred battalions assigned just after he was awarded the title of hundred-president, such a good thing but disrespectful.Huang Han happily said: "Thank you uncle, how many of the hundred battalions are cavalry?"

This kid is not kind!Han Zhikuan thought to himself, he was already bleeding heavily for 100 people, and he still had the cheek to ask for cavalry, forget it, let's do all the good things to the end.

Han Zhikuan bit the bullet and said, "According to the court system, there are three cavalry and seven infantry."

"That's great, don't worry, uncle, you have treated the Huang family so well, the Huang family will surely repay you in the future!"

"We are all on our own, everything is easy to talk about. Uncle knows that you are fierce, but you have to understand that death is like a lamp that goes out and everything is over!"

Han Zhikuan's words are a sincere reminder to Huang Hanyou not to risk his life. He has seen a lot, he has seen through the fickleness of the world, and knows that only by being alive can he have a chance.

Huang Han was educated, and saluted him: "I will definitely keep my uncle's golden and jade words in mind."

Han Zhikuan didn't say anything else, he patted Huang Han's thick shoulder, and then galloped away with a dozen servants on his horse.

(End of this chapter)