Han ride

Chapter 183 Zhou Daodeng

"It's done, this matter is done." Gu Sanmazi struggled a little on his face, and finally slapped his thigh fiercely and said loudly.As Li Xin expected, Gu Sanmazi, who had been in the ranks of horse bandits for several years, was still bloody. After struggling for a while, he immediately agreed.

"So, thank you brother Gu." Li Xin even felt that he was being hypocritical.

"Don't dare to do it, don't dare to do it." Gu Sanmazi hurriedly waved his hands and said: "General and I are all rough people, and our ability to rob houses is not bad, but if we talk about fighting the imperial army, we are still far behind. Since we agreed this time , and ask the general to command us. Hmph, although I, Gu Sanmazi, am not a good person, I hate people who want to betray their ancestors. This time, I will kill these people even if I risk my life."

"Okay. With Brother Gu's help, why worry about this matter failing." Li Xin laughed loudly, then turned to Zhang Cai and said, "Mr. Zhang, we are going to fight in Shandong for a while this time. If someone like Kong Youde is defeated, the battle is dangerous, why don't you just come down in Taicang, anyway, no one here knows that you have been captured by me before!"

"Damn it. This guy is definitely a hero." Looking at the smile on Li Xin's face, Zhang Cai was furious in his heart. He wanted to step up to slap Li Xin, lock his neck and ask him if he had a lower limit.But he knew that the matter was divided into big and small, so he finally suppressed the anger in his heart, and said with a cold snort: "It's such a grand event, how can I have Zhang Cai!" As soon as the words fell, he suddenly felt as uncomfortable as eating a fly.Originally, he didn't want to follow Li Xin to leave Jiangnan. Even if he was detained on the boat at this moment, he still had to find a way to get out of here. After Zhang Cai died, he didn't even have the chance to enter the ancestral grave.The hateful thing is that Li Xin actually came up with the idea of ​​killing Kong Youde, and now he is in a difficult situation. If he leaves, he can be safe, but the reputation of the same fleeing will be ruined. This Li Xin may threaten outside I am not even as good as a pirate, if I continue to go, I am afraid that I will never have the opportunity to return to Jiangnan.Zhang Cai was very tangled.In the end, he could only turn into anger, cast a cold glance at Li Xin, snorted coldly, turned around and returned to the merchant ship regardless of others.

Li Xin didn't care if he saw it, as long as he got on the boat, Li Xin had many ways to make Zhang Cai submit, just like just now, if he used righteousness to pressure, Zhang Cai had to agree even if he didn't agree. These scholars, in fact, deal with it It is also very convenient.Turning around immediately, he discussed with Gu Sanmazi and Zhou Chuyun about the march.All of a sudden, a fleet of hundreds of giant ships headed for Wusongkou.There, they supplemented the needed food and grass, met Dong Xiaowan and others, and headed north along the coastline.

"Outside the east gate of the county, that is, under the long bridge, it divides the flow of Taihu Lake and flows eastward. It was named Lize River in ancient times, Songling River, and Songjiang River." This refers to Wujiang, Jiangsu, because there is a Wusong River in Wujiang And famous, Wusong River was also very famous in the late Ming Dynasty, because there was a cabinet scholar here, that is Zhou Daodeng.How Zhou Daodeng became famous will not be discussed, but even though Zhou Daodeng has been dismissed at this moment, he is still an emperor in Wujiang. The Zhou family has a vast area of ​​fertile land in Wusong City. All to meet.This shows the prestige of the Zhou family in Wujiang.

Of course, this is also the influence among the gentry. As for the folks, the reputation of the Zhou family is not good.No, it just came out that Zhou Daodeng was going to take a concubine.How old is Zhou Daodeng now? He is over sixty years old. He is in his 60s and has a big gray beard. He may go to see the King of Hades at any time. He actually takes a concubine, and he is going to take a 13-year-old girl named Liu Rushi .It is said that this girl was a skinny horse that Zhou Daodeng bought from Yanhualiu Lane. Zhou Daodeng claimed that he bought it to serve the old lady, but he didn't expect to accept her as a concubine in a blink of an eye.It aroused the great interest of the whole Wujiang people.

Although he was a concubine, Zhou Daodeng was also known to the whole city. All the civil and military officials in Wujiang City received Zhou Daodeng's wedding invitation. It was just getting late when they saw sedan chairs in twos and threes coming towards Zhou's mansion.On the one hand, these people came because of Zhou Daodeng's official position, and on the other hand, they could also take the opportunity to catch up with each other.I thought that although Dao Deng was dismissed from office this week, after all, he had served as the chief minister for one term, and he still had many contacts in the officialdom, and these people had to come.

The Zhou Mansion was also decorated with lanterns and festoons. There were dozens of tables of banquets in the courtyard, and three or four tables of banquets in the main hall. Of course, the seats outside were just for ordinary officials and gentry. But inside are the seats of some important officials and students of Zhou Daodeng.

It's just that Zhou Feng, Zhou Daodeng's son who was supposed to receive guests, was not in the compound, but entered Zhou Daodeng's study. As the groom tonight, Zhou Daodeng looked thin and his eyes became extremely cloudy. Surprisingly, This fellow, who hadn't even been a chief minister for a year, actually had a little bit of blush on his cheeks, making his face look radiant.

"Feng'er, what are you doing here if you're not entertaining guests in the front yard?" Probably because of the upcoming concubine, Zhou Daodeng, who used to be strict before, also looks amiable now.

"Boy, baby wants to take a concubine." Zhou Feng looked at his father and said boldly.

"You." Zhou Daodeng's complexion changed, he stared at Zhou Feng for a while, and said, "Hey, you and I are the same father and son, and the heirs are thin. Up to now, you have only one son under your knees, and you can take a concubine if you want." A father must have a son, Zhou Daodeng also used this reason to his mother Mrs. Zhou not long ago.Otherwise, how could Mrs. Zhou give her maid to Zhou Daodeng as a concubine!He didn't expect his son to want to take a concubine today.

"My son thanked father for his understanding." Zhou Feng felt contemptuously in his heart, thinking that his father had more than a dozen concubines, and now that he is old, he still thinks about pear blossoms crushing begonias.Thinking of the beautiful girl who was about to become his father's concubine, Zhou Feng despised his father even more.

"Who do you want to take as a concubine, and where is the woman?" Zhou Daodeng himself has a bad character, and he still takes a concubine when he is old, so naturally he will not stop his son from taking a concubine as well.

"When my son went to collect rent outside the city today, I saw a family living in one of my father's manors. In that family, there was a girl with a beautiful face and a beautiful appearance. My son wanted to ask my father, who is the woman in the manor?" Where is he from? Why can he live in father's Qingyi Garden." Zhou Feng asked with his eyes brightened, staring at Zhou Daodeng.Apparently, he never thought that he would meet such a beautiful woman when he just went to Yitian Qingyi Garden on a temporary basis, and he was not at all inferior to Liu Rushi who Zhou Daodeng was about to accept.

"Where is it?" Zhou Daodeng wrinkled his face, waved his hands at last, and sighed: "If it's that person, I'd better forget about it and choose someone else!"

"Father, that family?" Zhou Feng became anxious immediately, how could he just let go when he finally met a beautiful woman, and said anxiously: "Father, could it be that the woman is also your concubine?"

"Presumptuous." Zhou Daodeng's gray beard trembled when he heard this, his cloudy eyes shot out with anger, and he said coldly: "That is the family that the Xiao family in Shandong asked us to take care of, not an ordinary family."

"Shandong Xiao family?" Zhou Feng was stunned for a moment, a trace of panic flashed past, and finally couldn't help but said: "Father, what about the Xiao family? I don't know how many there are, so what is the Xiao family?"

"Stupid." Zhou Daodeng snorted coldly: "You see that my father is an old man of the court, but do you know why I was resigned from office. Hmph, do you really think that those with black teeth are black teeth? For my father Reading poetry and books, how can you not even know this? The old man is asking for resignation on purpose. Today is not an ordinary emperor, and the old man is not willing to stay in the court, and even his life will be lost by then. Do you think the old man is so old? Why do you still want to be a concubine?"

"Don't you think that Liu Rushi is extremely beautiful?" Zhou Feng said to himself.

"That's to let the emperor rest assured me." Zhou Daodeng sighed. Although he is older and more lustful, there is one thing that others can't compare to, that is, he cherishes his life. He knows that he, the chief minister, is How did it come about, it was drawn by lottery, which shows that Emperor Chongzhen actually didn't appreciate him, or that he was not Jane in the emperor's heart.Being the chief assistant not only requires talent and the help of former disciples and old officials, but more importantly, simplicity is in the heart of the emperor.Without this, the Chief Minister and Assistant Minister would be meaningless.More importantly, the Chongzhen dynasty would kill people, including literati.In the past, the emperor seldom killed the chief assistant. At most, he waited for you to settle accounts after death, but it was not the case during the Chongzhen Dynasty. Killing people would be killed at any time, and it did not matter when, just for this point. Zhou Daodeng was not willing to be the chief minister. The assistant minister, God knows when, he was killed by the emperor.So Zhou Daodeng used some tricks without hesitation, and it really made Emperor Chongzhen think that he was stupid, so he asked him to resign.

In fact, anyone who is familiar with history knows that Emperor Chongzhen was suspicious. In his court, few people who had served as chief ministers had a good death, but Zhou Daodeng did. Everyone once commented on Zhou Daodeng: "Chongzhen has a good personality." Suspicious, cabinet ministers rarely have a good death, and Zhou's foundation is shallow and he can retreat all over his body, so that he is destined to be evil? If you are wise and stupid, you should be so!" Looking at it now, this Zhou Daodeng really has two brushes.

"Father, my son thought that if he was really a member of the Xiao family, he could leave by land in a fair and honest manner instead of staying in Wusong. Moreover, my son asked the people around that the family of three never went out. I have never been to the county town." Zhou Feng rolled his eyes, and suddenly took a few steps closer, and said, "Father, I think there must be something wrong here, even if this family is from the Xiao family, they are ordinary people, even if they are direct descendants What can I do, I, Zhou Jian, belong to a famous family, and I have taken a woman as a concubine, so what can the Xiao family do to me! This is still flattering them."

(End of this chapter)