Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 165 Hitting the ground running

  Fang Jifan looked at his father panting like an old cow.

  The next moment, Fang Jinglong directly covered his heart, and shouted: "My heart hurts, hey, my heart hurts..."

  Guard Yang on the side quickly stepped forward and directly supported Fang Jinglong.

   "Help my dad to rest, his body is so fragile, don't worry." Fang Jifan frowned and shook his head.

  Guard Yang snorted, and was about to help Fang Jinglong walk, but he felt that Fang Jinglong's body was like a rock, motionless.

Fang Jinglong shouted excitedly: "Don't rest, don't rest, I'm fine, I'm just shocked, it doesn't matter, I still have something to do, I've made an appointment with Yinggong and Jianzhouhou for my father to drink, I have to go ,must go."

  Guard Yang said anxiously: "Master, I'm not in good health, why drink..."

Fang Jinglong looked at Guanshi Yang with contempt: "What do you know, you should go drink at this time, do you know the son of the British Duke, what kind of letter is there, do you know, he is really worthless, the British Duke is good at everything, just I don’t know how to teach my son. He and I are old brothers, and we have a duty to teach him. Don’t teach a good child to be useless. Tell me, such a big child knows how to farm all day long. I have gained some experience. The last time I went to the British Mansion, my lord, I went to drink with the British Duke. His son came and asked him what he was doing recently. He said farming, and asked him what kind of land he was planting. Forget it, farming is a big science, how deep the land should be plowed, how to dig the flue, how to divert water, when to sow the seeds, I heard the British Duke burst into tears, saying that the ancestors followed Taizu and Emperor Wen immediately. Fighting the world, how could such a coward be born."

"My lord, I have to teach the Englishman a good lesson. He doesn't understand anything, but he knows how to beat his stupid son on the ground. I have to tell him that teaching his son is like leading a soldier. There must be rules. of."

As he spoke, he happily lowered his head and looked at the letter in his hand. It actually basically described what happened in the Longevity Palace. : "My son Jifan..." looked up...

   Only then did I realize that Fang Jifan had slipped away.

  Fang Jinglong laughed, dusted off the letter paper, and said to Guanshi Yang: "Guanshi Yang, I don't quite understand many words on this letter. Read it once, sir, and I'll listen to it."

  Guard Yang couldn't help but said: "Don't master often read books?"

  As soon as he spoke, he suddenly realized something, and hurriedly said: "The student must read it to the master."

Fang Jinglong sat down and raised his legs leisurely. For some reason, he suddenly felt that his image was much taller, and his legs were raised. While waiting for Manager Yang to read the letter, he couldn't help but Zhu Zhu said with emotion: "Nowadays, the prefectures in this capital are really inferior to each other. Why, isn't it that they have no way to teach their children? Scholars often say that it is the fault of the son not to teach the father. I deeply agree with this. what…"

  …

   "Good news, good news..."

   Outside the gate of the governor's office in Guiyang Mansion, the travel-stained horses came galloping, and the panting courier officer got off his horse.

  Because the whole of Guizhou is in a state of war, the officials of all departments in the province are working in Xingyuan.

  Governor Wang Shi, after the defeat of the former governor Wang Yue and the setback of the initial march, became cautious when encircling and suppressing the rebels.

  More than two months ago, His Majesty personally issued a decree, ordering Guizhou to immediately prepare for the establishment of a mountain camp. Wang Shi did not dare to be negligent, although he was somewhat incomprehensible to this, in his view, Guizhou's troops were mixed, including native wolf soldiers conscripted, guest troops transferred from Jiangnan, and the main army of various guards in Guizhou. Now that we are planning to build a mountain camp, it is necessary to draw manpower from the various guards, which is inappropriate. After all, the wolf soldiers, guest troops, and local soldiers may not even understand the language, and each has their own grudges. The mountain camp, the effect is not great.

  However, since this is His Majesty's own decree, it is called Zhongzhi, which is tantamount to bypassing the cabinet. It is obviously His Majesty's own idea. How dare Wang Shi resist the decree.

   As a result, a group of healthy soldiers from the local soldiers, guest troops, and Guizhou guards were drawn out, a total of 3,000 people, and began to practice!

In order to show that he is trying his best to do his job, the supply of food and salary is almost tilted to this army and horse. Among them, the healthy soldiers transferred by the Guizhou guards are very familiar with the local situation. The wolf soldiers are natives, and it is no problem to cross mountains and mountains , As for the guest army, more soldiers from Fujian, western Zhejiang and other places were mainly transferred.

Not to mention, the effect is not bad. Here in Guizhou, the supply of food and wages is sufficient, and there are no disputes in this mountain camp. Those who can be transferred out are already in good physical fitness. , one by one to recharge their batteries.

  So half a month ago, Wang Shi decided to let the mountain camp to practice his hands, but there was no news.

  And now, this good news immediately made the governor Xingyuan boil.

The newly transferred middle-level supervisors from the palaces of the nearby yamen, the Jinyiwei Qianhu stationed here, the Guizhou chief envoy, the Guizhou capital commander, the transfer envoy, and the newly appointed Guizhou general soldier, the prefect of Guiyang, all of them in Guizhou The characters on the stage were all dogs, and all of them got out, and within a short time, they were all together in the governor's main office.

  Since Miru's rebellion, everyone hasn't had a good night's sleep.

   Qian Yue was defeated and killed, the general soldier died in battle, and the middle officer died in battle.

   It was enough to make everyone feel cold. The imperial court immediately transferred them here to organize a new encirclement and suppression, but the question is, whether to send troops or not?

   Entering the army is very likely to repeat the ending of Qian Yue and others, which is miserable. But if you hide in Guiyang City every day, if there is no progress in the war, it will be even worse. The court will definitely be dissatisfied. crime.

  Now everyone is in a hurry. When they heard the good news, they were all overjoyed. Their faces turned rosy. They used to have bad faces, but today they are all smiling, as if a big stone in their hearts has been lifted away.

  Wang Shi cheered up and sat at the head of the lobby. The new governor had received the news, opened the news, and immediately beamed with joy.

"Okay, okay, okay, it all depends on the hard work of the soldiers. There was a good news from the mountain camp. Thirty miles east of Jinshazhai, they encountered rebels and fought with thieves. Seventy-nine thieves were killed. The rest of the thieves They all ran away, and the mountain camp took advantage of the situation, took down Jinsha village in one go, and punished six hundred and seventeen rebels, the total number of owl heads is more than seven hundred..."

  Wang Shi blushed, stroked his beard and laughed loudly: "Hahahaha... This is a great achievement. The rebels must be terrified when they win this time. This mountain camp is really long-faced. It's very good. Come here and report the victory to the capital immediately!"

   Killed nearly 700 enemies...

   All the officials present looked at each other in blank dismay. This was indeed a big victory.

  In the minds of many people, it seems that a battlefield is not a victory without thousands of deaths.

   But in fact, for a battle, especially in Guizhou, where there are many mountains and only suitable for small-scale army fighting, such a record is already unexpected enough.

  The most important thing is that the greatest significance of this good news is that it is a good start for the rebels who encircled and suppressed Miru.

  Wang Shi's eyes sparkled, he shook his head with excitement, and continued: "Send it to the urgent delivery shop immediately, there must be no mistake!"

   "Wait a minute!"

  At this moment, a drake's throat suddenly rose, and everyone followed the sound, and saw Zhongguan Yang Xiong holding a teacup with his orchid fingers raised, and giving out a sinister smile.

Wang Shi frowned slightly, this Yang Xiong is a middle official, a **** sent by the palace, even though Yang Xiong is nothing in the palace, but in the local area, he is equivalent to the emperor's eyes and ears, even the governor, can't help but fear him a bit.

  Wang Shi then asked: "Eunuch Yang, do you have anything to say?"

  Yang Xiong glanced left and right, and then said with a smile: "It doesn't matter who you are, you all go back first."

  The so-called irrelevant people are naturally the scribes who accompanied here. The scribes all knew themselves, so they left quickly.

  Everyone looked at Yang Xiong in puzzlement. In fact, Yang Xiong came to Guizhou. Compared with other middle officials, Yang Xiong was quite easy to deal with. In military affairs, it was rare that he didn't point fingers.

  Yang Xiong lowered his head, took a sip of tea, and then said with a half-smile: "Good news, you can't deliver it like this."

  Can’t deliver like this?

  Everyone is puzzled, you look at me, I look at you.

  Yang Xiong said slowly again: "This credit is too small."

  Hoo...

  The people present here are all human beings. It seems that Yang Zhongguan thinks he is too small and wants to report to Dali.

  Wang Shi frowned and said: "If you report it to Dali, you will be taking credit, Mr. Yang, the crime of taking credit is not small, once the court investigates..."

   "Governor Wang knows how to be an official, but he doesn't know how to be a minister." Yang Xiong laughed, and the smile seemed meaningful.

  Wang Shi exchanged a wink with the chief envoy.

  As for the Guizhou General Soldier and the Commander of the capital, they seemed to have glanced at each other, and everyone became jealous. This Eunuch Yang doesn't know how much the imperial court is paying attention to the war situation in Guizhou. It's a big risk to take credit, and what kind of consequences it will be!

  In this era, although the Ming Dynasty's armaments were lax, fortunately it hadn't been corroded to the bone, so even though it would increase the number of false credits, it would distort some facts.

For example, in this victory, when Wang Shi wrote the letter, he would use the concept of an imaginary number, such as beheading more than a thousand people, pulling out several villages in a row, and then enthusiastically brag about his leadership achievements, but after all, he still has professional ethics, so he can't brag too much. big.

  The Jinyiwei Qianhu Wang Dao stood aside with his hands folded, his face expressionless from beginning to end, just staring at Yang Xiong coldly.

  When the grades are better, the trolls will come. What makes them unhappy, the loss of morality, or the distortion of human nature?

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