Dragon Soul in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 101

Wen's family, with its own family and courtyard, is located in an unremarkable square in the inner city. There is a small alley here, and the Wen's family is at the end of the alley.

Who would have thought that there lived a chief minister of the cabinet who held the power of the world, and his position and weight were no different from that of the prime minister. The courtyard here looks really shabby, and there is not even a janitor, only a man and a woman. Old servant, Wen Tiren put down his book, let out a long breath, and looked at the dancing flames in the oil lamp, his expression was extremely ugly.

The Red Clothes Army was defeated in the south. When the news came, the court was full of joy.

This was tantamount to great news for Ming Ting, but for old foxes like them, they sensed the danger and the harbinger of the Donglin Party's counterattack.

When Zhu Youjian was in power in the past, he fought against the Donglin Party and the world, it was purely for the purpose of stabilizing his position, and he also walked cautiously, never being greedy or forming a party, but that was just for the sake of Zhu Youjian looked at it, but now it was Zhang Yan who saw his thoughts clearly, and several times of beating made him have to walk on eggshells even more.

But now he has been carried from behind the scenes to the front stage, fighting against the Donglin Party in the open, he has become a pawn, he can only advance, not retreat, retreat is death, and there is absolutely no place for death.

Zhang Yan's heart doesn't know whether it's the heart of the seabed or the dust in the desert. It's so vast that it's hard for him to guess, but he knows one thing. This woman is crazy. Everything was buried with him.

This may also be impossible. As a woman, if she wants to do something in the court where the scholar-bureaucrats are deeply rooted, it will be difficult to go to the sky. Either she will perish together, or she will perish together with Lao Zhu's family. Perhaps it is this group. Only with a rational and demon-like ruthlessness can he sustain until now.

Boom!Boom!Boom!There were several knocks on the door, and the old servant of the Wen family welcomed the person who knocked on the door. This person was wearing a big black cloak, which completely concealed his figure and face.

When we arrived at Wen Tiren's study, the man in black handed over a letter and said softly: "The Empress asked me to tell you, take a good look at this letter and think about it, then I will leave."

When Wen Tiren vaguely saw this face through the shadow under the black robe, he was shocked. How could he come to deliver the letter in person, and what benefits did Zhang Yan give him, making him willing to be an errand? people.Now that Zhang Yan has his help, she is like a tiger with wings added.

This was also a beating for himself. After sending him away, he opened the letter and read it carefully. Seeing the warning to him above, Wen Tiren fell silent. He couldn't figure out what Zhang Yan was going to do.

Although the red-clothed army was defeated in the south, and the battle report stated how great a victory was, anyone with a discerning eye knew that the red-clothed army was not injured at all, but was just retreating strategically. take root.

Look at his actions again, all the way like locusts crossing the border, he offended the scholar-officials thoroughly, and he hardly expected these scholars to work for him in the future, but he tried his best to win the hearts of the people, although it seems useless now, once he again When he comes back, these good people who know him will definitely help him as much as possible, and will definitely form a trend of sweeping the fallen leaves with the autumn wind, which can be said to be far-sighted.

Since the red-clothed army is not injured, it will definitely continue to cause chaos in the south. It will always be a huge threat to the imperial court. Once the south wins, its prestige will rise to a higher level, and the newly formed balance between the north and the south will be disrupted. Chaos, when the Donglin Party exerts its strength and the court counterattacks in an all-round way, Zhang Yan's position will also be unstable.

But now Zhang Yan actually wants to let herself join forces with the Minister of the Ministry of War and other people from the queen's direct line to secure the position of Li Mingyang as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. Among them, she has listed almost all the steps he has to do. The official put forward a test, and then launched an attack on the Donglin Party step by step. She was like a patient chess player, using the entire court and the princes as pawns, playing against fate.

Li Mingyang seems to be incompatible with the southern gentry, and has conflicts with the southern gentry. It is okay to promote him to make those southern gentry feel disgusted and put a nail in it. Master the military and civil affairs of Guangdong and Guangxi.

After all, Li Mingyang was born in the south, and if he didn't tell the truth about some things, what he did would shake the Donglin Party's reputation. This is a knife that cannot be mastered, and it is impossible to say who will be hurt if it falls in the end.

Wen Tiren was a little confused by holding this kind of chess piece that was too difficult to handle and completely uncontrollable.

"Is she scheming, or is she purely feminine?" Wen Tiren was thinking about the question in front of him. Although it was inconspicuous, it was directly related to his fate. If Zhang Yan was scheming, then he had to hold on tightly. If Zhang Yan is purely feminine and blindly believes in this big thick line, then he has to abandon her as soon as possible and choose another camp.

When the clear and crisp bell rang, the ministers waiting outside the Meridian Gate dispersed in groups of three or five, and lined up according to their respective positions. Wen Tiren walked to the head of the hundred officials and stood there. The palace gate opened, and the officials took turns Enter, cross the Jinshui Bridge and form a team again in the square. At this time, Yu Shi came to picket to see who's etiquette was inconsistent.

After all this was done, all the officials knelt down and kowtowed three times to salute. Immediately after the officials of the fourth rank and above entered the main hall, they saw that the emperor's throne in the middle was still empty. Everyone's eyes were awe-inspiring, what kind of swords, lights and swords will rain today.

The battle in the imperial court was far away, but it did not have the slightest impact on the situation in the south. Li Mingyang's reputation once again started in this battle.

Captured more than 2 people from the Red Army. Anyone who knows the reputation of the Red Army will be shocked. How could the Red Army, which has always been unstoppable, lose so badly.

Li Mingyang sat on the wheelchair with a stern expression, and a large group of people below stared at him without saying a word, their eyes full of expectations. Gradually, Li Mingyang's expression became colder and colder. To put it nicely, the victory of capturing 2 people, There was not a single Red Army soldier caught here.

They were all ordinary people captured from various villages by these people, but they were replaced by the things discarded by the Red Army, and after they were arrested in prison, a crowd of people happily ran to him to receive the reward Yes, it's just shameless.

What annoyed him the most was that the more than 2 red-clothed army recruits actually cast nets on all sides of him and disappeared in an ambush on all sides. They disappeared without a trace, as if they had grown wings.

But the only thing that made him feel at ease was that the more than 1000 veterans of the Red Army led more than 5000 people to fight against them, and finally retreated into Dulongkan, and were still besieged. These thousands of people were too stubborn. He didn't even think about destroying them all, so he stalemate like this, and he finally got a handle on the red-clothed army.

Looking at the scoundrels of the officers and generals below, now Li Mingyang has to rely on them to win over them, and seized so many outfits discarded by the red-clothed army, which can be regarded as an explanation to the court, but unfortunately, his strength is still too small Some.

It was getting late, and in a small bush, there were a few bird calls.

Several people got out of the quagmire covered in black mud, and only the whites of their eyes could tell that they were a group of people, not a group of black mud monsters.

Gradually, more and more people came out of this quagmire. Everyone took off their clothes and was covered in black mud. This is a dangerous place that stretches for more than ten miles, and there is a foul stench coming from time to time. , I didn't expect this group of recruits to have the courage to hide in this place.

The officers and soldiers are not just a group of mobs, and it’s okay to fight against the wind. Let them have the courage to enter this place. They couldn't resist, thinking from their point of view, where they didn't have the guts to go in, these 'defeated men' naturally didn't have the guts, so they searched hastily for a while, and then left.

However, they sent people to guard here, and they didn't leave easily until it was dark. These guards couldn't bear the stench in the swamp, so they left one after another.

Fortunately, Zhu Gan did not miss out on the training of the new barracks on weekdays, and taught them how to hide, and these dangerous places were just one of the escape methods.

Even though Li Mingyang has the means to reach the sky, but there are too many idiots under his command, he can't reverse the day. It's just that Zhu Gan forced the recruits to teach a disguise technique, so that they successfully escaped from the net and died. out.