Red House Shoufu

Chapter 350 Strong Deterrence of Gyeonggi Bandits Returning to Beijing, All Things Are Worrying

As soon as the drum beat ended, Fuquan, who was hiding behind the hill, led the cavalry to kill immediately, blocking Chen Jingchou's retreat.

Although there are only 5000 cavalry, the deterrent force of iron cavalry is greater than that of [-] people infantry. Everyone raised their crossbows and aimed at the dark crowd in front of them.

Wang Youde took Fan Youcheng up the hill with great difficulty, and after joining the people arranged by Lin Shu, he lit a firework to announce the news, and then heard the rhythm of the drums change.

"My lord has orders, attack!"

Boom, boom, boom...

The drums were beating rapidly, and a large number of bows and crossbows appeared on both sides of the hill instantly. The rain of arrows covered the entire center of the valley, leaving no room for the enemy to breathe.

Fierce wailing and calls for help resounded throughout the valley, and half of the 500-people team was killed or injured after only three rounds of arrow rain.

Standing at a high place, Lin Shu looked at the development of the war from a distance, without any mercy or aggressiveness.He doesn't care if he can't catch the leader of the White Lotus Sect and the Tartars. He can effectively kill the enemy's vital forces while protecting the safety of his own soldiers. This is the way he wants to fight.

The crossbowmen shot all the feather arrows in their hands in one breath, especially the longbowmen, feeling that their shoulders were aching from continuous long-term output.Only then did Lin Shu order the shield soldiers and infantry to enter the field to clean up the battlefield.

"This is the first time I have fought such a rich battle. It's really refreshing!"

Lin Shu sighed, and said to Gao Wanxuan who was beside him: "Before in Henan, there was either a lack of troops or a shortage of ordnance. Every time it was extremely difficult to fight. The so-called ingenious tricks were born because of insufficient firepower."

"Insufficient firepower?"

Gao Wanxuan heard this word for the first time. After following Lin Shu to the valley, he saw the feathered arrows all over the valley and understood the meaning of this new word.

The entire valley was covered by feather arrows, and the corpses all over the ground were almost all tied into hedgehogs.Those who survived by chance basically lost their mobility, crying for help on the ground.

Compared with the fighting between the two armies, the tragedy of the battlefield was much less severe, at least there were no broken limbs or arms.But even so, Gao Wanxuan couldn't help but vomited.

Lin Shu took a look and continued to direct the battle. He ordered: "Two people check the corpses on the ground!"

After cleaning the battlefield, Gao Wanxuan had already vomited up his breakfast.

The wind blowing from the valley carried a strong smell of blood, Lin Shu ordered the corpses to be collected and cremated in a leeward place.The summer is scorching, and it is easy to breed plague after a long time.

Then he took Gao Wanxuan and the captured Fan Youcheng back to the camp, and asked Fan Youcheng carefully about the collusion between the Eight Shanxi Merchants and the faithful Wang Gao Yongyi, the White Lotus Sect, and Wala.

"My lord, the student knows that he has committed a serious crime, so I just ask you to save the student's mother and sister!" Fan Youcheng knelt directly in the big tent, praying to Lin Shu repeatedly.

Wang Youde naturally knelt and kowtowed behind Fan Youcheng, and even Gao Wanxuan helped him speak after listening to Fan Youcheng's narration.

Lin Shu sighed, and asked back: "You said that you have committed a serious crime, and you mean that you betrayed your clan and failed to hide your relatives?"

Fan Youcheng bowed to the ground and kowtowed in the direction of the capital: "As a subject of Your Majesty, if you know that your relatives are unfaithful, you only reported it today, which is disloyalty; It is not filial; I have read the books of sages and sages for more than ten years, and I am indifferent to watching the thieves kill the people. This is inhumane. My lord, students are ashamed of the court, their family, and their Confucian uniforms. What face do they have to see the world again?"

"Fool!"

Lin Shu reprimanded: "The matter of the Fan family cannot be reversed by a mere junior like you. The emperor is the father of hundreds of millions of subjects. Loyalty to the emperor is great filial piety. If you can report the villain's plot to the court in time, you will not only save The Fifth Prince even saved thousands of people in this town, this is an act of great loyalty and great kindness!"

"It's difficult to choose between a country and a family. But you have to understand that there is a country with a family. If Oara breaks through the capital and reappears the events of the Yuan Dynasty, under the sinking of China, how can the Xiao family resist the attack of the Tartars. "

Lin Shu finally comforted the poor man who was conflicted in his heart, and asked someone to send him to a tent to rest.

Ugh!
Lin Shu and Gao Wanxuan let out a long sigh almost at the same time.

"How does Your Highness think Fan Youcheng should deal with it?"

Gao Wanxuan paused and replied: "The Fan family deserves to die, but Fan Youcheng is an innocent person, and his contribution in this battle must be shown, and his crime can be pardoned."

"It can't be said that he is innocent, it can only be said that he has been involved in relatively minor crimes."

While writing the secret memorial, Lin Shu explained to Gao Wanxuan: "The crimes committed by the Fan family are beyond description. Fan Youcheng was born to be raised by the Fan family, and all the money he used came from the blood of innocent people. It cannot be offset."

Gao Wanxuan seemed to have realized something, and asked, "Then what do you think the teacher should do?"

"The crimes of the Fan family, the family will punish! Fan Youcheng abandoned evil and followed good deeds, made great contributions, commuted his crimes as appropriate, and sent him to the imperial mausoleum for a year of service. The imperial court will reward his mother and younger sister, and help him to reconcile with the Fan family. Another door, give a house and reward silver."

After Lin Shu finished writing the melody, he put it in an envelope and called Liu Xianglian: "Hurry up and send it back to the capital to present to Your Majesty!"

After Liu Xianglian put away the secret performance, she bowed and promised: "The general will obey!"

……

The battle of Yanbei Town completely wiped out the largest group of rogues in Gyeonggi, and the rest of the rogues were frightened by Lin Shu's cruelty and did not dare to come out to make trouble.

It is said that the bloody smell near Yanbei Town has not dissipated for three days, and the stench of burning corpses can be smelled for miles around.Especially the merchants in Yanbei Town who were frightened by the screams and fled to the capital once again mentioned Lin Shu's great reputation when he was in Henan, and the three words "Lin Butcher" kept ringing in restaurants and teahouses.

The Secretary of General Administration received several memorials to impeach Lin Shu, which were nothing more than idiomatic words such as "benevolence, righteousness and morality".

The emperor didn't even look at it, and just kept these memorials unpublished.The Embroidered Guards had already taken over several captives that Lin Shu secretly sent back to the capital, including Chen Jingchou, the great elder of the White Lotus Sect, and an Oara Tartar who was about to die of serious injuries.

"Zuo Lan, it's time to close the net!"

After reading the confession sent by the Embroidered Guards, the emperor handed a gold medal and a secret decree to Zuo Lan, the commander of the Embroidered Guards.

The wrath of the emperor, bleeding thousands of miles.

The Embroidered Guards went all over the city to arrest people, but no one knew where the commander Zuo Lan had gone.

The edict prison is already full of people, including officials, soldiers, businessmen and even prostitutes from the Qinlou and Chuguan.There are really not many people who can survive the embroidered clothes and guards. There are more and more crimes on Gao Yongyi, and many people put all the blame on Gao Yongyi under the threat of death.

Of course, the same is true for the Eight Great Masters of Shanxi Merchants, colluding with the White Lotus Sect, colluding with the clan vassals, and even colluding with Oara, smuggling forbidden items, and intending to rebel...everything is a crime against the Jiu Clan.

The Supreme Emperor of Longshou Palace was almost pissed to death by the thick stack of confessions sent by the Xiuyiwei. He imprisoned the Zhen family who came to serve him again, and ordered the Southern Zhili Chief Political Commissioner, Press Inspection Commissioner, The Jinling government worked together to investigate the Zhen family.

But the Taishanghuang is old after all, and his heart has softened a lot.He held the emperor's hand as if begging: "Save your brother's life and let him guard the imperial tomb. The old lady of the Zhen family is the father's nanny, so don't scare her."

"If Zuo Lan can prevent the old twelve from rebelling one step earlier, I will not want to kill brothers. But if he really commits the crime of treason regardless of everything, the law of the country is ruthless!"

The emperor hated Gao Yongyi to death, but he couldn't let his father down.The Taishanghuang's health is getting worse and worse, and the imperial doctor has sent a pulse report to his desk, and it will only take a year or two to take care of him well.

……

The battle in Kaipingwei was extremely fierce, and the city had different owners several times. Fortunately, the Liaodong army arrived in time and attacked the Oala flank from the east, so that the Oirat forward had to turn back.

King Qin's armies from Shandong and Henan arrived in the capital seven days later. The combined army of King Qin from the two provinces had 80,000 people and horses, which greatly eased the pressure on the imperial army.

The emperor once again ordered to send [-] imperial troops to aid Kaipingwei. At the same time, he ordered the Songjiang navy to use the method of sea transportation to purchase military rations and send them to the capital for emergency needs.

Don't panic if you have food at home. On the [-]th day of the seventh month, the Hexi army [-] miles away rushed to report the good news.

The main force of the rebel army was blocked on the bank of the Yellow River, and they were besieged for ten days.On the first day of July, it rained heavily.The Hexi army advanced by land and water and entered the rebel camp.

Almost all the rebels who had been starved and exhausted for a long time surrendered, but it was a pity that when Qi Wenhua realized that the situation was not good, he took the opportunity to escape, and the way out was unknown.

The First Battle of Hexi lasted more than half a year. Qi Wenhua almost crossed the Yellow River and captured Lanzhou Prefecture in his heyday. Tens of thousands of people were killed and injured by the imperial court. It took a huge amount of money to pacify Xining.

With the news of the victory coming, the tense atmosphere in the capital eased a lot amid the sound of firecrackers, and even the Qinlou and Chu Pavilion put up a sign to celebrate the victory to attract customers.

After nearly a month of busy work, Lin Shu finally returned to the capital.He briefly reported the situation in Gyeonggi at the Palace of Qinzheng, and returned home exhausted.

After soaking in the bath and changing clothes, after a quick dinner, he fell asleep in a drowsy state.Daiyu ordered the whole house to be silent, not to disturb the sleeping Lin Shu.

Lin Shu slept until noon the next day. Xueyan had already brought water for washing and knocked on the door: "Master, lunch has been set, and this servant will serve you to wash. Second Master Lian sent a message yesterday, Please go to Rongguo Mansion to have a banquet in the evening."

At the dinner table, Daiyu kept adding food and vegetables to Lin Shu, until Lin Shu patted his swollen stomach before stopping.

After the meal, the two brothers and sisters continued as usual, Lin Shu closed his eyes and rested his mind, and Daiyu softly talked about the family affairs in the past month.

"There's something I can't figure out..."

After hesitating for a moment, Daiyu said to Lin Shu: "A few days ago, the empress ordered my grandmother and I to enter the palace. Although she was just chatting about family affairs, she said something to me on purpose. It's a bit strange."

"Huh? What are you talking about?" Lin Shu opened his eyes. With Yuan Chun's temperament, he would not order Daiyu to enter the palace for no reason.

I only heard Daiyu say: "Your Majesty said that the Seventh Prince is diligent and studious, and Concubine De intends to choose a good teacher to teach him."

Why did Yuanchun say this to Daiyu?Could it be that the candidate for a good teacher in Concubine De's heart is herself?how is this possible?

The Lin family and the Jia family are in-law relationships. From the point of view of etiquette, Lin Shu and the little prince born in Yuanchun are uncles and nephews. Moreover, Lin Shu is the half-teacher of the current prince. A prince teacher came to win over the Lin family.

No matter from which point of view, Lin Shu would not help the seventh son of the emperor win the heir.Concubine De should not be so stupid!
"What else did the lady say?"

Daiyu propped her chin and thought for a while, then shook her head: "It seems that there is no more. The time for seeing you that day was not long, and there was too much noise in the middle because the imperial concubine empress dealt with a servant, and the meeting ended hastily."

Lin Shu was a little puzzled, it seemed that he had to find out the inside story.It is estimated that this matter should involve himself, the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, and Yuan Chun is a cautious person, fearing that the famous words will cause unnecessary misunderstandings, so he ordered Daiyu.

In the evening, when the brothers and sisters came to the Rongguo Mansion for a banquet, Lin Shulin told Daiyu when he got off the car: "The old lady must have someone in the palace. Yu'er should try to inquire about the concubine De from the old lady." .And why did the imperial concubine deal with the servants that day, and why there was such a commotion and even interrupted the audience."

……

Today's banquet is mainly for Jia Lan, the golden autumn rural examination is coming soon, 11 years old Jia Lan is going to take the test.

Of course, Jia Lian invited Lin Shu to a banquet and there were important matters to discuss. After the two came to the study, Jia Lian handed him a letter.

"There's something wrong with Prince Yizhong's mansion. My people found in Yansui Town that someone was trying to win over the general in the name of Gao Wanjin."

Yansui Town is regarded as the inherent power of the Jia family. Under three generations of management, even though the Jia family has gathered the main forces back to Beijing, there are still many people left in Yansui Town.

Lin Shu skimmed through the letter hastily, and asked in surprise: "Gao Wanzhen has been in a coma for almost a year, didn't he say he has been hanging himself with ginseng soup?"

"I'm also wondering, if it wasn't for the fact that there is no real evidence, I would have reported this matter to His Majesty a long time ago. Moreover, it is difficult for us to explain the source of this letter to Your Majesty..."

What Jia Lian said is also true, Wu Xun has a close relationship with the border general, which emperor would not be suspicious.On the face of it, Jia Jiaming had handed over the power of Yansui Town to the imperial court, which was one of the reasons why the emperor revived Jia Amnesty.

Although there is no real evidence, Jia Lian has to be wary of Gao Wanjin.After all, several border generals in Yansui Town were brought out by Jia Daishan, and they are inextricably linked with the Jia family.

If they really colluded with Gao Wanxuan to rebel, the Jia family will not be able to tell even if they have a mouth!
"What is Cousin Lian going to do?"

"Prince Yizhong's Concubine Qi has a brother who serves as the minister of the Taipu Temple. I have found out that he took the opportunity to embezzle more than 100,000 taels of silver. I am a general and I can't be impeached, so I will trouble Cousin Lin."

Jia Lian handed a stack of papers to Lin Shu, cupped his hands and said: "After the old man of the Qi family died of illness, there was only one official in the Qi family. In order to survive, he must go to the palace to ask for help. But Concubine Qi has been worshiping Buddha for many years, regardless of common affairs. Let's see if Gao Wanzhen will find a way to protect his uncle!"

(End of this chapter)