Chapter 250 The Imperial Commander (Part 2)

After a massacre that night, Lu Feng's name was like a demon among the literati. No one dared to mention this name, and no one dared to think of it. After this killing, Zhu Di's ears were purified for more than ten years, but officials of the Ming Dynasty had only been just a substitute and could not find a suitable person to serve. The centralization of the Central Plains reached an unprecedented level. Zhu Di personally took care of everything, which greatly satisfied his vanity.

Lu Feng, who had established such great achievements, was even more powerful and was led by Zhu Di as the most capable general under his command. With the intentional or unintentional lobbying by the old eunuch Lu, Monk Daoyan and others, Lu Feng was favored in front of Zhu Di for a while, with a hot and powerful force. Under the cover of Lu Feng's heavy power, Huanglongmen expanded again into a huge sect of 3,000 people, and its power penetrated into key departments such as the Governor's Office of the Five Cities, the Imperial Guard, the City Defense Force, and the Six Divisions. The killers of the Nether Dragon Society also had a scale of 2,000 people, and the shadow of death enveloped the Ming Dynasty.

With the secret support of Lu Feng, Qin Daozi's "Youxian Temple" has become synonymous with immortals in the southwest area. Although there is no big news in the open, there are more than 200,000 believers in secret, of which 800 highly qualified children invested under the Yiyuan Sect. Now, "Youxian Temple" no longer needs Lu Feng's financial support. Instead, he can offer Lu Feng's Jinyiwei a large sum of silver every month, which makes Lu Feng deeply feel that this transaction is worth the capital.

In the southeast, under the leadership of Li Zhu, the Golden Dragon Gang annexed most of the rivers and lakes in the southeast, almost monopolizing the private salt and tea transactions there. The annual dividends are rolling, and Lu Feng has the style of the largest underground merchant in the Ming Dynasty. With a large sum of silver in his hand, Lu Feng has not hesitated to give more pensions to the subordinates of the Jinyiwei. The officers and soldiers of the Jinyiwei regard Lu Feng as a god. Now the Jinyiwei is already Lu Feng's Jinyiwei and has no relationship with the Zhu family anymore.

After the massacre, the entire Ming Dynasty suddenly became quiet. The literati who liked to point at the emperor and scolded him was killed. However, the common people only care about whether there were more silver in their belts and whether there was still rice in the rice jar, but they were not interested in the emperor. Therefore, Zhu Di felt that the current court was like a clear pool of spring water, and I wonder how comfortable it made him.

Several unscrupulous brothers, the prince who wanted to make trouble behind the scenes, were also deposed by Zhu Di for excuses, and then Lu Feng found an opportunity to kill him. Now it was the time when the country was peaceful and the country was strong, the army was strong and the horse was strong, and it was suitable for war. Zhu Di immediately started to think about the north. He recruited Ma He, who was supervising the southeast area, and Zhu Xi, who was dealing with political affairs in Yanjing City. After sending several generals to command the army, he was ready to lead the army in person.

He did not discuss the imperial commander's personal conquest of Yuan Meng in the court, and Zhu Di never disdains to discuss these issues with the civil servants. Sitting on the dragon chaise in the imperial study, Zhu Di held a teacup and asked with a smile: "What do you have any opinions? I am going to personally lead an army of 200,000 to conquer Yuan Meng, and Xi'er stayed in Yingtian Prefecture to deal with the government affairs. Ma He is the central officer, Li Hu is the vanguard general, Zhang Yu leads the right army, and Jian can lead the left army. Lu Feng leads the guerrilla army outside to act according to the opportunity. Daoyan leads his disciples to deal with the Yuan Meng national commander, can it be?"

What can I have any opinions? This is the strongest military configuration in the Ming Dynasty. Only Shu Yuanzi, who followed Zhu Xi back to Yingtian Mansion, laughed and didn't have any seriousness. He crossed his legs, grabbed a pig's leg in his hand, and said with a smile: "No objection, no objection. As long as you care, I promise to help you beat that national teacher into a pig's head... I am a person who practices Taoism, fighting and killing, and I just teach him a lesson for Tianxing Tao. Hey, hehe, the things cooked from the imperial kitchen are indeed delicious."

The monk Daoyan smiled and bowed, "Sir Shui's Taoism is boundless, so he can naturally be competent for this matter. Your Majesty, since Senior Shui wants to go to war with the army, it is better to leave Daoyan to assist His Highness in Yingtian Mansion. Perhaps Daoyan can only shake others and others if Daoyan is in the capital. Otherwise, if the army of Your Majesty is outside, it will be a big bad thing."

Zhu Di was thinking about this problem. Shui Yuanzi rolled his eyes and shouted at the monk Daoyan: "Little monk, are you saying that if I stay in Yingtian Mansion, I can't suppress the scene? Hey, I'm not..."

Lu Feng looked at Shui Yuanzi with a smile and said in a strange voice: "Oh, Senior Shui, Old Shui, why did you say that? Didn't you misunderstand Master Daoyan's kindness? What he meant was that he was a little talented and knowledgeable, so he stayed in Yingtian Mansion to assist His Highness. And Senior, you have endless Taoism and magical power. Then Master Yuanmeng is just a native chicken and a dog. The senior, naturally he will be invincible. Hey, this is the master's humility."

Shui Yuanzi tilted his head and thought for a long time, as if he had agreed with Lu Feng's words, nodded and said, "This makes sense. Well, little monk, I blame you for wrongly. Hahaha, the roasted pork legs are delicious, who do you want them?" He shook the pig legs at Zhu Di, and Zhu Di smiled bitterly and shook his head. Only Shui Yuanzi dared to yell in front of Zhu Di. In order to avoid taboos, the pigs in the Ming Dynasty were called meat.

Seeing that Shui Yuanzi stopped making jokes, Zhu Di made a decision: "In this way, the army set out in a month." He said complacently: "Now the court is peaceful, no one will talk about nonsense about my use of troops to the outside world, and the people are exhausted and money. Humph, if the north is not pacified, the people are really tired."

Lu Feng and the others stood up, kowtowed to the mountain, and then slapped Zhu Di a few easy flatteries, which were nothing more than wise and martial arts. Zhu Di laughed and said casually: "Forget it, I just want to work hard to be a wise king. Well, the Lu Qing family passed on my order to choose 40,000 wealthy merchants in Shanxi, Suzhou and Hangzhou to enrich Yanjing City." He narrowed his eyes slightly and said confidently: "In this way, the population of Yanjing City can be increased by at least 300,000, and the circulation of wealth can be increased by millions of taels. In a few years, the capital will be in full swing."

Monk Daoyan laughed and bowed: "Your Majesty, the emperor has the dragon spirit of the emperor in Yanjing City. Compared to Yingtian Mansion, it is really suitable for being a capital. Especially with abundant wealth and food in Yanjing City, the military strength will definitely be even better. In the future, the attack on Yuan Meng will not be as restricted as today."

Zhu Di was very happy and nodded repeatedly and praised: "Daoyan is very popular with my heart. My father set the capital in Yingtian, but because of the prosperity of Jiangnan. When his father ascended the throne, he said, "I wanted to rob the whole way, but I didn't expect it to be faked but it turned out to be true." Zhu Di's face suddenly became extremely strange. This was what Zhu Yuanzhang said after drinking when he first ascended the throne. However, Zhu Di said this a little bit the taste of revealing his father's background.

After coughing a few embarrassingly, Zhu Di looked at the floating clouds outside the window. Lu Feng and the others lowered their heads, their faces were serious, as if they were pretending to hear nothing. Lu Feng smiled in his heart: "What kind of virtue is that Emperor Taizu, everyone in the world knows. Hey, this is the truth. I, Lu Feng, just wanted to join the royal palace at the beginning and bully people with their power, but I didn't expect to be such a big official along the way."

When Zhu Xi saw the scene, he immediately spoke up and said: "Emperor Taizu, when he established the capital of Yingtian Prefecture, it must have been the war in the north that was not yet determined. Yanjing City was still in the reach of the Yuan and Mongolian Tartars soldiers, so it was naturally not suitable to establish the capital. However, now our Ming Dynasty is strong and powerful. With Yanjing as its capital, we can attack Yuan and Mongolian in the north, threaten the Jurchens in the east, and accumulate water divisions in the Bohai area, which is the best choice... Yingtian Prefecture is prosperous, but I am afraid that the officials and generals will forget the military and national affairs for a long time."

Zhu Di nodded repeatedly, deeply as Zhu Xi said. He smiled and said, "That's how it's decided. After one month, the army will fight northward. Within one month, the Lu Qing family will select 40,000 rich families in Yanjing. It's not wrong. Let's go down. This is a big deal, but the news should not be leaked in advance. Except for the Ministry of War, the relevant people of the Ministry of Revenue, others cannot allow him to know the details."

He stood up with confidence and said with his hands behind his back: "I should point directly at Wulandui with a thunderous force. If I could kill the Emperor of the Yuanmengwala tribe, hey!" In his eyes, Lu Feng's familiar and cruel light unique to the Zhu family flashed. A faint smell of blood was floating in everyone in the imperial study room. When he sent troops, he didn't know how many big heads fell to the ground and how much blood was about to be applied to the boundless prairie.

Zhu Xi stayed in the palace. Zhu Di was preparing to open a side palace in the palace for Zhu Xi to live in order to facilitate his political affairs when the army was in the north. However, Shui Yuanzi was impatient to live in the palace and waved his hand. He followed Lu Feng and left the palace gate. Riding on the horse, he swayed to look at the scenery on the road while smiling and saying without seriousness: "Little guy, you haven't seen you for so long, your kung fu has improved. I can't even see through how far you have reached. It's weird, weird."

His eyes were full of curiosity, and he raised his foot and kicked a Jinyiwei Baihu who had walked too close, shouting, "Get away, don't listen to us... Well, boy, what magic tricks are you practicing? It's completely different from the last time. Well, weird, it's so weird. I can't grasp the breath on you at all. What did you practice?"

Lu Feng looked around and suddenly remembered that Shui Yuanzi had been a man for more than ten thousand years, but Xia Jie was also a person who was left behind during the war between gods and demons, and he couldn't help but have an idea in his heart. He smiled and whispered: "Senior, do you know a person named Xia Jie? He taught his disciples the secret methods of the witch clan, and his cultivation was also given to me by him."

Shui Yuanzi screamed suddenly, as if there were spikes on his butt, jumped out of thin air more than ten feet high, and then quickly fell back on the horse's back. He looked at Lu Feng with a little envious, a little jealous, and a little annoyed, and muttered, "That guy? That guy is not dead? Hey, yes, all the old bastards in the witch clan are dead, how could he be wrong with Xia Jie?" Touching his face, he looked at Lu Feng with a little angrily and said, "Is it him? No wonder, with him, any strange thing can happen."

A very desolate feeling emanated from Shui Yuanzi's body. He seemed to have been deeply trapped in his memories of the past. He was whispering, as if it was from the ghosts that existed in the ancient times. The weak and extremely floating voice made Lu Feng's body feel goose bumps.

"Xia Jie, he is an anomaly of the witch clan. This guy is very strange. After he was born, he did something unreasonable. The elders of his clan had a headache when they saw him. However, he is indeed a genius. In a short time, he had a very profound magic power... It's amazing, really amazing. Damn, I can't go to their tribe to steal a few sheep, but he was beaten to the point of being a blue face. Isn't it just a lamb? He chased me for more than a thousand miles for a lamb."

Lu Feng coughed a few times. He wanted to laugh, but he didn't dare to laugh. Shui Yuanzi is so powerful, so it turns out that there are times when he eats turtles?

Shui Yuanzi looked at Lu Feng angrily and cursed: "I'm unlucky, are you very happy, are you? Humph, that guy has nothing to say, he is not a good person anyway, he always likes to act against the sky. But his cultivation is too high, and God always makes him mess around. Later, he found that he could not get rid of the shackles of the heavenly way, and he disappeared. When the gods and demons fought, he appeared again, and a sound of magic became extremely terrifying, killing nineteen demons from outside the realm one by one."

Shui Yuanzi's face was full of awe: "You can't imagine that kind of power. With a spell and a handprint, a demon was blown away by the devil. Let's not talk about those little demons, they are just like tofu under his hands. Be good, how could he learn such a clever witchcraft? Damn, this guy is not a human... Later, the end of the war between gods and demons was that everyone was both defeated and did not find any benefits. The witch clan exterminated the clan, and I thought he was dead, but who knew he was still alive. It made me cry."

He sighed, as if the little doll's face was full of lonely expressions: "If I had known that he would look for you, I would have followed you. Maybe he would have stayed the only ones I knew back then. Alas!"

Lu Feng looked at his sad look and suddenly felt that Shui Yuanzi might be the real Shui Yuanzi? Because he is immortal, he can only endure the loneliness of thousands of years alone. So what if he makes friends? It is not a fun thing to watch friends die in front of you. So, maybe it is precisely because of this that Shui Yuanzi would rather cover up his mind or hypnotize himself, so that he feels that he is just a teenager who can play in the world at will.

He hypnotized himself and said that he didn't need to care about anything. So he could get rid of the emotional disorder. But he was entangled with Lu Feng and the others now, and he didn't know how to end in the future. You can't tell the truth about feelings. Even if it's a child, there will still be a playmate.

Lu Feng didn't want to see a sad Shui Yuanzi, so he immediately changed the subject and asked: "Then what did you do during the war between gods and demons?"

Shui Yuanzi opened his mouth and looked at Lu Feng with anger on his face, cursing in a low voice: "Damn, what can I do? How great am I at that time? My magic power is far less than now, so I can only beat and drum next to me. Hum, huh, the thirty-six royal clans of the Witch Clan, the 172 tribes, and the 397 tribe masters went to block the door, and I beat the smallest demons behind me... It's not that I don't fight hard, but they are too powerful, and I can't get involved at that time."

Gradually, Shui Yuanzi was happy again, "Ha, you can't imagine what he looked like at that time. At that time, those bastards were really fighting too scary. What's the point of moving mountains and filling the sea? They had done more things, such as..." Shui Yuanzi wanted to say something, shook his head and sighed: "Forget it, I'm too lazy to talk to you more, you will never believe it. Those things, hehe, are scary."

He seemed to be afraid that Lu Feng would ask about the detailed situation. He asked: "The group of little bastards under your command have improved greatly. That one is called Zhou Chu. Isn't he almost in the Golden Calendar Stage? He is just a little bit too late. He just doesn't know what his heart is. If he can't understand it thoroughly, he will suffer."

Lu Feng smiled flatteringly, and he almost nodded and said, "Then, senior, you will help you. This is just a trivial matter. As soon as you reach out, you will naturally be, hehe..." Lu Feng was so happy. As long as Shui Yuanzi helps, he will soon have twenty-nine masters in the Golden Elixir stage. Bah, what is the unstable foundation? Isn't it more difficult to overcome the tribulation in the future? With Shui Yuanzi's guardian, he can fight four or five immortals at one time. What is the heavenly tribulation that can overcome the tribulation?

Immediately in the following month, the entire Ming Dynasty war machine started to run tensely. One Biao Biao and one battalion of troops mobilized to Yanjing, and the elite soldiers mobilized from several provinces in the southeast and southwest. In addition, the 50,000 cavalry trained by the kitten in Yanjing City, 50,000 elite troops were stationed in Yanjing City. A total of 350,000 troops were stationed in Yanjing City. After 150,000 troops were taken to the Shanhaiguan area to strictly prevent the invasion of the Northeast nomads and the Goryeo army.

More things toward Yanjing City were trucks of grain and grass. The grain and grass that were enough to supply the 500,000 army for a year were transported by countless grain transport trucks.

Those who were mixed with these grain trucks were the 40,000 rich households who were transferred to Yanjing to enrich their household registration. At the command of the Jinyiwei, no one dared to talk about it? Those rich businessmen could only drag their children and sell their real estate in their hometown. With a nervous heart, they followed the team of people transporting grain to Yanjing in a daze. How many private bags did the Jinyiwei have filled them? Lu Feng himself didn't know.

He knew that there were about 300,000 migrant households who met the conditions, and half of them refused to pay for the joints. The 40,000 households with the most abundant oil and water were transferred to Yanjing. Their real estate was purchased at a low price by Jinyiwei for the backend money house. Specifically, Lu Feng didn't know how much silver he had invested in his own pocket.
Chapter completed!