Chapter 128 Red Cannon
The girl simply told her brother what happened before, "Brother, don't blame the good guy."
Then the man bowed to Wu Zheng solemnly and said, "Sir, forgive me, but the student is reckless."
Wu Zheng nodded and said, "You were wrong just now. The Ming army is different from the Tartars after all. Although the Ming people also have scum, there are many good people after all. Aren't you also a Ming people?"
"Adults are advised, students should remember it." The man replied with a blushing face.
"Okay, hurry up and take your sister back."
After saying that, Wu Zheng walked towards the war horse.
At this time, the Ming army officers and soldiers had withdrawn, and the onlookers had gradually dispersed.
But a middle-aged man and a young man stayed, and they walked straight towards Wu Zheng.
Wu Zheng could only put down his raised foot.
"Caomin Chen Shoujie brought his dog son Chen Qicai to visit Lord Wu."
Wu Zheng asked with a slight hand and said, "No need to be polite, what's the matter with your father and son looking for me?"
Chen Shoujie bowed and said, "The Caomin and his son want to join the army under the command of the adults, and I hope they can be successful."
Wu Zheng was not surprised. Now that the Ming army has revived Hangzhou City, the vagrants who have nowhere to live naturally want to join the army and make a living, it is not surprising.
After looking at Chen Shoujie and his son, Wu Zheng was quite satisfied, tall and healthy, and his words seemed to have been read.
So he nodded and said, "What did you father and son do before?"
Chen Shoujie replied: "My father Chen Yujie was originally the chief officer of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty. When Yangzhou City fell, he died with Shige's troops."
Wu Zheng was stunned. He had never heard of Chen Yujie, but knew that the official position of the Ministry of War was to collect documents from various yamen in other provinces, submit documents, register numbers, handle branches, and inspect the diligence and laziness of the officials of Titang in various provinces, manage the officials and servants of the headquarters.
Simply put, it is a clerk of the Ministry of War and a ninth rank official.
Wu Zheng felt a little amused when he heard Chen Shoujie compare his father with Shi Kefa.
But Wu Zheng could understand that since he took the initiative to join the army, he should always leave a deep impression on the superiors.
It's a little bit exaggerated, and it's understandable.
But Wu Zheng did not see Li Ruhai's expression behind him was a little weird.
"Chen Shoujie, since you are also a loyal and loyal person, I will accept you. However, I have a doubt about it. The Duke of Yue was here just now. Why didn't you join the Duke of Yue and join the army in my office?"
Chen Shoujie replied: "After my father died for his country, Caomin made a vow that one day he would bombard Yangzhou City to worship his father's soul. The reputation of the Lord's three battles and three victories in Shaoxing Prefecture is sincerely admired by Caomin, so Caomin is willing to serve under the Lord's command."
Wu Zheng was shocked when he heard this. He was quite angry.
Repay his bombardment from Yangzhou City?
"Chen Shoujie, you must know that most of the capitals in Yangzhou are also Ming people. If you really bombard Yangzhou City, wouldn't it be burned?"
Chen Shoujie suddenly became sad and angry, and said excitedly: "There may be Ming people in all the prefectures in the world, but everyone in Yangzhou City deserves to die."
Wu Zheng was even more surprised, "As far as I know, the Qing army in Yangzhou killed corpses everywhere in the city in ten days. As you said, should all the people who died in the city die? Absurd."
Chen Shoujie's eyes were red, "I don't know that my father followed Shige's troops to defend Yangzhou City that day. Although it was difficult, he finally survived. If it weren't for those stingy people in Yangzhou City that blew up the cannons on the city wall, how could the Tartars attack Yangzhou City so easily? Can you know that when the enemy chief Duoduo entered Yangzhou City, he was still worried about the Ming people's resistance and ordered that except for the army, the Ming people should not wear a braid to comfort the hearts of the people. However, those civil officials who were noble and noble, who were usually full of benevolence and righteous, shaved their hair and expressed their loyalty to Duoduo."
Wu Zhengen frowned and said, "That is also the crime of this minister, what does it have to do with the people in the city?"
Wu Zheng did not think that the Ming people would blow up the artillery in the city walls to welcome the Tartars into the city.
If this is true, wouldn’t it be a joke in Yangzhou Ten Days?
But Chen Shoujie said angrily: "Sir, Caomin saw with his own eyes that when the enemy chief Duoduo entered the city, tens of thousands of people lined up on both sides of the city, causing a strange scene of people everywhere. More than a dozen people were even squeezed to death because of watching Duoduo. Sir, it's a strange story for all ages."
Wu Zheng was really stunned. He couldn't believe that the people in the world would be like this.
But what he saw in Hangzhou today told himself that this might be true.
The Ming army plundered and bullied the people, and the people were more afraid of the Ming army than the Tartars.
With the consciousness of surrendering with all the heart, how could the Ming Dynasty not perish?
At this time, Li Ruhai suddenly pushed Wu Zheng's waist behind him, and Li Ruhai finally remembered who Chen Yujie was.
He was excited for a moment, and he took into account the lack of etiquette and directly stabbed Wu Zheng's back.
Wu Zheng was stunned by the sternness and looked back at Li Ruhai.
Li Ruhai stepped forward and leaned into Wu Zheng's ear and said, "Sir, Chen Shoujie's father Chen Yujie is a minister of the Aboriginal Ministry, but he still has several identities, one is a doctor of the Imperial Heaven Supervision, and the other one says it, so he will definitely like it."
Seeing him keeping a secret, Wu Zheng held a grudge against him, poked himself in the back with his hand, kicked him with his leg and said, "Speak quickly."
Li Ruhai said with a sneer: "All artillery soldiers under Shige's headquarters are trained by Chen Yujie."
Wu Zhengwen heard that his eyes were almost falling off. Isn’t this a hunger cake or a thirsty delivery of water?
When did your luck become so good?
"really?"
"really!"
Chen Shoujie didn't know what Wu Zheng and the others were muttering, "If Lord Wu does not abandon him, he will take over Caomin and his son, and Caomin will give him a gift."
Wu Zheng shook his hand and said, "No, no, I am eager to ask for talent, so I naturally have to use two people. I don't take some money seriously. Keep it for yourself."
Chen Shoujie and his son looked at each other.
"The adults misunderstood, the grass-roots people are not talking about gold and silver."
"Uh...what is that?"
"Please borrow a step to speak."
Wu Zheng followed Chen Shoujie a few steps to the side in confusion.
"Sir, my father once followed Shige's troops to defend the city, and Caomin also followed his father to serve under Shige's troops. After Yangzhou City fell, most of the Ming army's artillery fell into the hands of the Tartars."
Wu Zheng's heart was just moved and Chen Shoujie poured cold water on him. If it weren't for his father Chen Yujie's part, he would have kicked him directly, which was so breathless.
"Chen Shoujie, since the artillery has fallen into the hands of the Tartars, what else do it do?"
Chen Shoujie lowered his voice and said, "I don't know that the city walls deployed above 1,000 kilograms of cannons were basically useless."
Wu Zheng's eyes lit up and he asked, "What about these artillery?"
Chapter completed!