Blood from Daming

Chapter 241
When Commander Luo saw that Xue Yun mentioned that his courtyard was grand and beautiful, he was a little jealous, so he said with a smile: "Brother, this courtyard was built by our ancestors. For my brother, I just got the shadow of my ancestors. It's not that my brother came to Datong. My brother is poor." I really want to sell this yard."

Xue Yun: "Brother, you are being polite. As the commander of Datong, your eldest brother commands the tens of thousands of guards in Datong. Even if you just get stuck in fuel, it is not enough for your family to live."

Commander Luo said: "Brothers don't know that Datong is really a poor place, and the soldiers in the guard are lazy. After a year, they are so poor that they have no food for half a year. In addition, Datong is located in a frontier fortress. There were not many sexual incidents, quarrels, escaping, and killing officials that year, and we superiors tried our best to appease our subordinates, so this Datong Town is the most lucrative place in Daming."

Xue Yun: "It seems that the rumors outside are not true, big brother is really a good official of Ming Dynasty."

Commander Luo smiled wryly: "Brother Datong, did they say that I am the most greedy?"

Xue Yun: "These are all speculations by people who don't know the truth, and they should belong to the phenomenon of hating officials. Big brother, you clean up yourself and don't care about other people's opinions."

Commander Luo sighed and said, "I am indeed a corrupt official, but I have earned less money than the guards in other places in Ming Dynasty. There is no need to mess with the meat.”

Hearing Commander Luo's frank words, Xue Yun was a little embarrassed: "Hey, brother is right, there are Mongols harassing Datong every year, and the soldiers in the guard are willing to grow crops, not to mention the soil in Datong is not very good. Suitable for farming."

Commander Luo pulled Xue Yun to sit down under the flower stand in the courtyard, and then Xue Yun leisurely said: "The ancestors have been in Datong for more than two hundred years, and my Luo family is the hereditary commander of Datong, the guard of Datong. Soldiers are the capital for my Luo family to live and work, and I feel sad to see my subordinates not having enough food and clothing, but I am the patriarch of the Luo family, and there are thousands of people in Xuanda and even Shanxi waiting for me to give them living allowances."

Xue Yun was very surprised when he heard this, and looked at Commander Luo for a long time before speaking: "Brother, you are under a lot of pressure, but don't they have their own way of making a living?"

Commander Luo shook his head and said: "The Luo family has been divided twice, and those who separated and had a bad life want to come back. Those people have made many troubles, and no one will mention the separation in the future, but that It all happened a hundred years ago, and now there are thousands of males in the Luo family, but fortunately, the ancestors favored males over females and only gave money to males, otherwise my commander would have gone bankrupt."

Xue Yun felt that these were Commander Luo's housework, and he couldn't interrupt. He wanted to talk about his own affairs but felt that the timing was not right. It shouldn't be a problem."

Commander Luo: "It would be fine if I just paid some money, but after I took over this mess from my father, I was encountering the rise of Jianlu in the north and the continuous military disasters on the frontier, which made Daming's economy not as good as Wang Xiaoer's during the New Year. One year, my ancestors, like Shanxi Mingsu, practiced the big family model, saying that one thousand and ten thousand means that the family cannot be separated. The relatives and clan members of the Luo family just waited for me, the patriarch, to send relief money, especially in the spring and autumn. I can’t catch up anymore, and relatives and clansmen come to my house in groups to eat big families. After all, they belong to the same ancestor. I really have no way to deal with them. In the end, I can only focus on making money to subsidize home."

Xue Yun sighed and said: "Every family has a scripture that is hard to recite. Some time ago, the eldest grandson of my family proposed to divide the family, and even asked for more than half of the family wealth of my Xue family, but was blocked by my grandfather and his old man. I kindly gave him away secretly. I earned more than 20 taels of money and supplies by myself in the Datong Mansion. I didn’t expect that he would sell me to Yuan Chonghuan, who was in charge of politics in Liaodong this time. Our Datong Army was almost killed. It was annexed by the Liaodong Army." Xue Yun half-truthfully talked to Commander Luo to find a common language.

Commander Luo was shocked when he heard this: "Brother, your luck is really bad. You have met all these hooligans and rogues. The next time Yuan Chonghuan and your cousin touch my hand, you will die or live according to your brother." Talk."

Xue Yun heard Commander Luo's words and said: "If it wasn't for the court's attitude, I really wanted to chop Yuan Chonghuan into seventeen or eight yuan, so that I could relieve my hatred."

Commander Luo asked, "Brother, you said you came to me with something, so tell me what it is."

Xue Yun looked around the courtyard and saw that there was no one there before he said, "Brother, brother is in trouble now, and I hope brother will rescue him."

Commander Luo was taken aback and asked, "Brother, did something serious happen to you?"

As soon as Xue Yun said that, he let go of his burden, and told Commander Luo about Jianlu's plan to negotiate a peace with the court to kill him. The poisonous trick is to use the sword of the Ming court to kill Xue Yun. Even if Xue Yun survives this time, he will have to shed a layer of skin.

Commander Luo said: "Brother, how can I help you when you come to find brother?"

Xue Yun: "Brother, I discovered the remnants of Jianwen. My younger brother, who is also a guard of Jinyi Qianhu and the guardian of Dongchang, has the responsibility of arresting criminals. My younger brother is going to send troops to Mobei to wipe out the remnants of Jianwen in the next few days."

Commander Luo did not expect that the little brother he recognized would also serve as Jinyiwei Qianhu and Dongchang Dharma Guardian. It seems that Xue Yun is not as simple as he appears on the surface. To arrest people is still to remove Xue Yun from his post. As long as Xue Yun himself, the commander-in-chief, cannot be seen, the handover cannot be completed. He has an attitude.

Commander Luo is a bit bigheaded. Although he knows that if the imperial court agrees to the condition of building captives, it will be a disorderly government that will harm the country and the people, but based on the experience of Commander Luo for many years, those officials in the court who are greedy for small profits and love to fight in the nest, the successful establishment of captives Hope is really big.

Commander Luo said: "Brother means to go to the desert to hide, and then sit still and watch the court make moves."

Xue Yun: "That's what my elder brother said. If the imperial court still remembers my merits and refuses to accept Jianlu's conditions, my younger brother will sincerely go to Chechen Khan to arrest Zhu Youhua and return to work. If the imperial court is ungrateful, I will stay in the desert and will not come out or report to you." After several defeats, they temporarily disappeared into the Mongolian desert."

Commander Luo: "Brother, what about Datong and your family?"

Xue Yun: "I will hand over Datong to my sixth brother. As for my family, I believe that they will not be punished without guilt. If it really comes to that time, my brother will not support Zhengshuo and re-establish the Ming Dynasty."

Commander Luo secretly thought that Xue Yun was also a ruthless character. If Emperor Tianqi knew Xue Yun's thoughts, he would dare to deal with Xue Yun lightly. I also know it well, I don’t want to kill my heroes just because of Jianlu’s one-sided words, why not talk to Eunuch Zhang and Lord Zhao first, and our Datong Mansion will also do the work of the court, and let the younger brother and sister Ha Rizhu Come to Datong for a stroll, then the court officials will know the importance of brothers."

Xue Yun said: "The younger brother also wants to ask the elder brother to play around with it. I believe that after a year or two, the true face of Jianlu will come out. almost there."

Commander Luo said: "Jianlu's tricks can't even fool a three-year-old child. I'm just afraid that someone will take the opportunity to blackmail you. After all, you have offended many people in the massacres of businessmen in Datong. If the seat of Datong General Soldier Once it is taken over by others, it will be difficult for my brother to stand up again."

Xue Yun: "Datong is the source of the money and rations of my Xue family's elite soldiers. I, Xue Yun, will never give up easily. If I lose the support of Datong, others will not want to eat foreign trade when they come to Datong. With me here If the new commander in chief in the desert can defend Datong City, he should be honored."

Commander Luo knew that Xue Yun was expressing his determination to himself. Commander Luo thought that his life has been much better for more than a year. He just reached an agreement with Xue Yun to make a fortune together a few days ago. If the court treats Xue Yun But Xue Yun refused to back down, and he counted on Datong's foreign trade to become a cake. Thousands of people in his family, men, women, and children will drink the Northwest Wind. The key is that these people have a good life recently, and let them Going back to the previous life, it is estimated that these thousands of people will swallow themselves alive.

Commander Luo secretly gritted his teeth and decided to go with Xue Yunbo. As long as Xue Yun didn't lose too badly this time, with the strength of his Xue family army, it wouldn't be a problem for him to be reused by the court. Even if he took refuge in Jianwen's remnant Zhu Youhua, maybe Daming could still be revived. Commander Luo It made my heart skip a beat, why did I think of rebellion, but after thinking about it carefully, it is really not impossible, as long as Xue Yun is willing to help Zhu Youhua sincerely, it may not be impossible to succeed, now I can catch Xue Yun this way. With one road, one can step on two boats at that time, and it is possible to preserve the wealth of the Luo family for generations, even for generations to come.

Commander Luo thought it over and said to Xue Yun: "You are my brother. Now that you are in trouble, if your brother doesn't help you, who will help you? I will go all out, and if I don't do anything, I will kill a general if I don't do anything. Soldiers, if there are two chief soldiers, I will kill one of them."

(End of this chapter)