Chapter 184
: Starting from the Sixth Day
Taiyuan and Datong echo each other and serve as horns. The Tatars attacked the borders all the time, and most of them started from Xuanfu Datong. Taiyuan relies on the mainland and is not the main target of attack. Therefore, Taiyuan's troops have become an important force that can restrain Tatars. Every time Datong is in danger, they have to mobilize troops from Taiyuan to rescue them.
Yang Yiqing's army rushed to Datong. Due to the critical situation at the border, the Taiyuan Guard Commander led a large army to rescue. He was injured by a trap on the battlefield. The disease was not too serious, but unexpectedly, the wound suddenly worsened after returning to Taiyuan and died. Unexpectedly, the new Taiyuan Guard Commander was Lord Zhang Yin and Zhang.
The Guo family is very influential in the army. It seems that Zhang Yin is a confidant recommended by Guo Xun. Yang Ling hurriedly bowed to him and said, "I have been longing for a long time. Lord Zhang still had to travel on the road on New Year's Eve last year. It's really hard."
Zhang Yin immediately bowed his fists and said with a smile: "It turned out to be Lord Yang in front of him. The honor of his master has long heard of it. It is like thunder. Today, I am lucky to see him. I have been in my life. I have been in charge of my army. It was originally a matter of raising troops for a thousand days and using them for a while. It is also worth working hard at this time."
While he said, he gently swept over the person beside Yang Ling. Seeing Wu Han's eyes bets for a long time, he immediately turned his eyes back to Yang Ling as if nothing had happened. Yang Ling saw that he was gentle and elegant, with a spirited eyes, and neither humble nor arrogant, he felt a good impression in his heart.
The two sides talked for a few words, and seeing that there were more and more pedestrians at the city gate and some congestion, Guo Xun frowned slightly and said to Yang Ling: "I won't disturb Lord Yang anymore. Brother Zhang is eager to take office to manage the government, so I say goodbye."
Yang Ling smiled and said, "Okay, you and I have time to talk to you. I respectfully send General Guo and Lord Zhang!"
Zhang Yin smiled and nodded, saying loudly: "Mr. Yang, please say goodbye!"
Yang Ling watched them ride away from the city. He turned his head and saw Han Youniang, Su San and several other women standing aside with a smile. Seeing him turning back, Han Youniang stepped forward and said happily: "Mr. It's New Year's Eve today. My sisters and I were saying that when will my husband come back? I didn't expect you to come back so early."
Yang Ling turned over and got off the horse, walked to her side, glanced at Su San and others, and smiled and said, "Didn't you go to the temple fair? What did you do when you run to the city gate?"
Han Youniang's pretty face turned red, Su San and Xue Limei looked a little embarrassed, Gao Wenxin covered her mouth and chuckled, Yang Ling didn't even point it out, and said with a smile: "Since you meet, let's go back together."
The sedan chair of several people stopped aside, and several girls got into the sedan chair. Yang Ling couldn't get off the horses and rode his horse. He was staying by the sedan chair and watching the lively New Year atmosphere in the capital. While talking to Han Youniang through the curtains, the group was about to reach the edge of the Xicheng City, and saw a group of people surrounded by the roadside. The soldiers of the military personnel had already surrounded them.
Yang Ling's men passed the last time the factory supervisor was robbed, but there was a stir. It would be better to face the enemy. Dozens of people immediately protected the sedan chair and horses. They isolated the people, quietly reached into their arms, and clenched the powerful crossbow and short guns.
Wu Hanchao didn't look at the noisy place ahead. While he pulled his horse to Yang Ling, he quickly glanced around and looked at the people on the roadside. Yang Ling raised his buttocks slightly and looked at the crowd immediately. When he saw the people in the crowd, he couldn't help but frowned slightly. He waved to Liu Biao and whispered: "Go, see what's wrong."
Liu Biao understood, got off the horse and threw the reins, squeezed into the crowd to observe the movement inside, and saw a tailor shop owner holding a man in his forties and shouting to the police officer of the Bingmasi: "The Fourth Master Hu is here just right, and this person is so unreasonable. He came the day before yesterday. He paid a deposit of one or two silver taels, and Yanming asked me to make a good velvet robe on his body. Today he came to try it out, but he said that Yanming only bought a low-quality velvet robe. When I took out the contract, he also pulled it to pieces and said that I was lying to him.
The young man thought he was unlucky and wanted to calm down the situation, but he said that the day was the New Year. I missed his robe and asked me to use this velvet robe to compensate. The young man has been opening a shop for 30 years and has always traded fairly. He is a neighbor and can testify. When did he deceive people? This man is really domineering."
There was a scholar in his early twenties next to the man in his forties. He turned red and pulled his clothes. The man shook his hand and opened it. When he saw the officers and soldiers, he was not afraid, but was ashamed to be arrogant. He glanced at the police squad and sneered: "You are not lying? You are not lying, right? Do you seem to be lying? Let go!"
He shouted coldly, took off his suspicious hand, dusted his robe, and said slowly: "Do you know who I am? I am the current emperor's personal army commander, the governor of the inner factory, and the mighty uncle Yang Ling."
The old tailor shivered in fear when he heard this. The police chief who was called Master Hu couldn't help but change his face, and it was silent all over the place. The man forty-year-old continued leisurely: "... cousin, Policeman Hu, do you think I am a cheater?"
He raised his eyelids when he said this. Unexpectedly, when he raised his eyes, he saw several tall horses outside the crowd. Yang Ling was looking at him with a blue face, and his body trembled and his expression suddenly became cramped.
Police Officer Hu nodded and said with a bitter face, "Don't be like, don't be like, uncle, you are handsome, you are Uncle Yang, Lord Yang's brother, how could you bully him a small clothing store owner? Hehe, hehe."
After saying with a smile, he straightened his waist and shouted to the old tailor: "Old Man Pei, it's obviously your old age and you missed the order. Uncle Yang is a person with a status. Will he be skeptical about you, a little tailor? If you misunderstand the old man, what should you do?"
The old tailor said stutteringly: "This...this...this..., my husband will use this robe to the uncle as apologize!"
What the old man said was really painful, but the factory guards really couldn't afford to provoke him.
As the saying goes, "There is Gu velvet in the north and the Nu gizzard in the south." The best-quality large velvet in Lanzhou can only be seen in the tributes of the palace. The purple-red embroidered gold velvet face that Yang Ling now wears, with a heavy and thick silk cloak that is lined with the inner lining, was just given by Emperor Zhengde two days ago, worth 100 taels of silver.
Although the old tailor's velvet is not a tribute, it is worth ten taels of silver. Even wealthy families often wear it for decades, and even pass it on to their descendants. This robe was given out and it was in vain for several months.
Yang Quan stared at Yang Ling. His lips turned white, so how could he dare to take the velvet robe? Liu Biao looked back at Yang Ling. Yang Ling lowered his anger and signaled him. Liu Biao nodded, turned around and squeezed into the crowd, took out the silver ingot from his sleeve, and stuffed it into the old tailor's hand. He smiled and said, "How could the Yang Mansion take advantage of you? The Third Master originally wanted to make a regular dress that he usually wore, and he was not afraid of being dirty or worn. Since he had used good materials, we bought it the same. This ingot was a total of ten taels of silver, and is it enough for one tael of silver?"
Tailor Pei was overjoyed and nodded quickly and said, "It's enough. After deducting the materials and handmade materials, I have to find you five cents of silver."
Liu Biao smiled and said, "No need, it's not easy to celebrate the New Year, it's my third master who is rewarding you."
As he said, he took the robe and said to Yang Quan: "San Master, let's go home."
Yang Quan was stunned for a moment, and quickly followed him out of the crowd obediently. Yang Ling looked like water. He looked at him indifferently, and shook the reins of the horse before his death. Yang Quan's face turned purple. Liu Biao was very versatile. Although he knew that Yang Ling was extremely angry, Yang Quan's uncle and nephew were from the Yang family, and no matter how far he was, he knew that the two of them could not ride horses. He hurriedly recruited a man and hired a horse sedan chair and carried them on.
Cheng Qiyun lifted the curtain of the sedan chair. Seeing this scene, her black eyes rolled, and she looked thoughtful.
Yang Ling returned to the mansion, entered the middle hall with a calm face and took off the cloak. Han Youniang knew that he was in a bad mood now, so she took it obediently and gave a wink at the sisters. Everyone quietly went to the back house.
Yang Ling walked into the Zhongtang Study with only a blue sky-brown waisted arrow sleeve. He just sat down, Yang Quan and Yang Yunlong followed in awkwardly. Yang Quan said embarrassedly: "Brother Ling..."
Yang Yunlong also called out timidly: "Uncle!"
There are couplets, characters for blessing, and New Year pictures everywhere in the house, and the joy is full of joy. From afar, firecrackers are heard from time to time. Today is New Year's Eve...
When Yang Ling thought of this, he just sighed and stood up and said, "If the cost is not enough, the third brother and young lady will just say it. How can our family do something that makes people stung the backbone?"
Yang Quan was both ashamed and irritated, but he didn't dare to have anger. He responded slobally. Yang Ling glanced at Yang Yunlong and said, "The New Year is coming soon. I have greeted the Ministry of Personnel. After the fifteenth, I will arrange an errand for Yunlong. If you can write, don't use the Yang family's brand. Do it well with your ability, and don't be too ambitious."
Yang Yunlong said happily: "Thank you uncle. As long as there is a guy who can gain a foothold in Beijing, Yunlong will definitely not cause trouble for you."
Yang Ling nodded and looked at Yang Quan and said, "Even a small pawn in the capital, even a small man is not that easy to be a member of the third brother... well... I'll help you find a proper seat when you look back."
Yang Quan was a little disappointed, but he didn't dare to show it on his face. He agreed and saw that Yang Ling didn't want to say anything to him anymore, so he dismissed.
Yang Ling sat back on the chair, pinched his eyebrows and closed his eyes for a while. Yang Quan was ignorant and had a bad character. He really didn't want to get involved with him, but the clan's kinship and legal relationship was like an invisible big net. The silent pressure made people even have no way to resist. So many great storms have come, and he didn't know what to do if he took such a little person who could be killed at any time.
It turned out that he wanted to arrange for him to do a job as a prison chief in the Ministry of Justice. Seeing this situation, this person was useless. Yang Ling sighed and would not think about him for the time being. He carefully considered the arrangement of the emperor to leave the capital after the New Year, and then got up and walked towards the back house.
Cheng Qiyun smiled sweetly on her face, greeted her three wives and Gao Wenxin. As soon as she turned into the inner study, the faint smile on her face disappeared. She collapsed her shoulders with some fatigue and walked slowly into her own residence.
Han Youniang and the others were all girls of the same age, with great energy and speculation. She was more than ten years older than these girls. Her experience and age made it difficult for her to be interested in the topics that the four girls talked about. After walking in the city for a morning, Han Youniang and the others were still energetic, boring and boring, but she felt tired all over.
Cheng Qiyun was afraid of the cold, so Yang Ling specifically asked her to add two more braziers to her room, which would burn the braziers during the day, and at night, the kang and wall-mounted walls would also make the room warm. The day just passed noon. Because it was New Year's Eve tonight, the braziers in the room were still burning, warm as if they were bathed in the spring breeze.
Cheng Qiyun lazily took off her silk skirt, put her jacket on her back, changed her deer leather boots and embroidered shoes, and sat in front of the mirror with graceful eyebrows, starry eyes, peach cheeks and diamond lips. She was still as beautiful as a flower.
She was wearing a narrow-sleeved shirt and robe with a long moon-white dress that was dragging the ground. The crimson "Hazi" inside the shirt was wrapped around her plump breasts. Her cleavage was deep and her clothes were about to come out, outlining an attractive curve.
Cheng Qiyun sighed softly, and her fingers were gently stroked by her soft and pink breasts, and her body was still charming. The almond-eyed starry eyes still had the charm of bewitching all living beings, but how many years can there be? Today, I am one year older.
The joyful joy of the family in Yang's house and the sound of firecrackers from time to time in the village made her feel lonely and empty, and everything she yearned for in the past seemed to be tired of. Now she just wanted to find someone to let her lean on and to let her curl up in her warm arms and say something softly, but this simplest requirement is not as easy as power and money.
Cheng Qiyun lazily folded her shoulders, looked at herself in the mirror and sighed softly. Just as she was about to go to the kang to take a break, Yang Ling outside the door said in a voice: "Miss Cheng, have you rested?"
Cheng Qiyun was stunned, a trace of joy flashed in her eyes, and the feeling of fatigue and soreness disappeared, and her spirit suddenly returned to her eyebrows. She hurriedly said, "No, sir, wait a moment. I'll come out now."
Cheng Qiyun hurriedly picked up her clothes and put them on, and still slapped her soft embroidered shoes, and hurriedly came out. Yang Ling stood by the table with her hands behind her back and looked at Cheng Qiyun's paintings that were graffitied with her hands. Seeing her lifting the curtain, she smiled and said, "Are you tired? I'm the most annoying to go shopping. It's better to fish under the willow trees in summer and go into the water. Lying on the mat and sleeping with the wind. In winter, she snuggled on the kang to read a good book. The young ladies and the others are still young. It's rare to go out, so she likes the excitement and is not outsiders. You don't have to socialize them, so you'll stay in the house if you don't want to move."
Cheng Qiyun said sweetly: "It's rare to go out, why can I disturb everyone's interest? The adults have been very busy these days and it's hard to ask about their humble positions. I just heard that the adults often go to the Third Factory, One Battalion and the Twelfth Regiment Battalion, but they are still fighting for the north?"
Yang Ling nodded and said, "Well, it's important. Only Mr. Wu in the inner factory knows the details. The others only know the reason, but they don't know why. Haha, I originally said that I had settled in Beijing and decided to return to Jiangnan. Unexpectedly, I first planned to cultivate grain for the sea ban and cultivate species for the grain for the grain. Then bandits entered Beijing and the border bandits were in chaos. This matter was put on hold again and again. Are you still used to living?"
Cheng Qiyun smiled with a smile: "The wind in the north is as cold as a knife. At first, I was not used to it, but now I feel that it has a different taste. It is as wet and cold as inside and outside the house in the south. Once I enter the house, I feel warm as spring. The adults and my wife are also very considerate to me. If you do this, you will be so happy to be in a humble position."
Yang Ling smiled and said, "That won't work. If you don't want to think about Shu, you have to do the major task of lifting the sea ban first."
Cheng Qiyun's eyes lit up and she asked, "Are you sure?"
Yang Ling nodded and said, "Well, I just have to thank you for your hard work. On the sixth day of the lunar month, I will leave Beijing and go north. You will go south to Jinling at the same time and start planning all matters. In early February, people must be brought into Beijing. I have already grasped some of their handles to those officials representing coastal officials and lands. The emperor has nodded to agree. Now the embarrassment is a group of old stubborn people who use the decency of the Celestial Kingdom as a shield. They are right to cheat the country and the people. They can't beat them or scold them. They have to trouble you to be a girl to block their mouths."
Cheng Qiyun sat on Qi opposite him, and Yingying smiled and said, "Don't worry, Qiyun will be fulfilled. I will return to Jinling in the first month, and I will return to Beijing on time in February."
Yang Ling gently stroked the warm jade paperweight with his fingertips and said, "Okay, although you are a weak person, you are a hero among women. You have never lie to me. I will definitely trust you when you do things."
He pondered for a moment, stood up and said, "Today's New Year's Eve, I'll be in the flower hall for dinner. Let's be lively together, don't hide here."
Cheng Qiyun agreed with a smile, and when she saw him walking to the door, she suddenly asked, "Sir, the noble relative Yang Sanye came to Beijing to surrender. It seems that he is quite worried about how to resettle him. Why not take him to Jiangnan?"
Yang Ling hesitated and said, "This... is indeed a worry, and I don't hide it from you. He is a ignorant person and has all five poisons. Although it is not a big disaster, it is really annoying. It is not to drive away or stay. Relying on the blood relationship of the clan, I looked at this piece of hob meat and was actually a dog bite and thorn. I don't know where to slap it. Do you dare to bring this trouble with you?"
When Cheng Qiyun heard his self-deprecating tone, she couldn't help but smile and said, "You, just say he is not good at it, why do you compare yourself to...... Haha, I don't dare to do anything, but of course I have to ask you for a golden arrow. Mr. Yang San is your closest relative, and since ancient times, the most difficult thing is to have a relative relationship. The humble position is a layer of separation. As long as you can pull your face, it will be much easier to talk to than you."
Yang Ling thought for a moment, Zhan Yan smiled and said, "Okay. Then I will leave this trouble to you. You should be more strict than tolerate it. If I heard that he relies on my power to do evil, you will only ask!"
Cheng Qiyun smiled and said, "As for the orders of humble duties!"
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the emperor did not attend the court, but the princes and ministers followed the rules and wanted to visit the palace. Yang Ling gathered in the warm room at home and played with them. He continued until the afternoon. He thought that all the ministers who should enter the palace had already been there, so he rushed into the palace with his close servants to meet the emperor.
Zhengde worked hard all morning. When he got up in the morning, he went to the Empress Dowager's bedroom to pay his respects and receive red envelopes. Then he returned to the Qianqing Palace to sit upright and accept a group of royal relatives and civil and military ministers to pay his respects and send red envelopes. He finished all the work he should do. He had just had lunch and was just reconciling, and was shy about throwing arrows and pots in the hall. Liu Jin smiled and applauded.
Yang Ling entered the hall, stood aside and waited for Zhengde to throw the arrow in his hand, and then came forward to see him. Congratulations to Xinxi. After a bunch of scenes that asked people, the king and his ministers all breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
Zhengde called Yang Ling and Liu Jin into the inner study room. He immediately asked anxiously: "Yang Shidou, how are you preparing for?"
Yang Ling said: "Everything is ready, just wait for a suitable opportunity to ask the emperor to issue an order to govern the border, and then you can build the plank road openly..."
When he said this, he suddenly remembered something and his face changed.
Zhengde was also very clever. Seeing his face stiff, he asked, "What happened?"
Yang Ling hesitated and asked, "Your Majesty, there are only ministers in the outer court, Grand Secretary Jiao and Yan Song from the Ministry of Revenue, Wu Jie of the inner factory knows that in addition to Eunuch Liu, there are anyone else in the inner court who heard about it?"
Zhengde hesitated and said dryly, "I feel so uncomfortable about such an interesting thing, so... I mentioned it to Jieyu and Xihua, two girls, but they only said they wanted to travel north and eventually to Datong. Besides, they never said anything to them. What's the problem?"
Yang Ling frowned and said, "I remembered something. Two hundred thieves from the Green Forest in Bazhou were bewitched by Maitreya. What was the original purpose? Only a few leaders of the bandits knew. We still don't know what the emperor left the capital. What is the major event? I know that there shouldn't be too many local people."
He laughed dryly and said as if he was joking: "I was scheming by Maitreya, but I still have a fear of it. I remember when I first met Miss Jieyu, I saw her wearing a jade pendant carved with Maitreya Buddha. Wouldn't it be strange if a woman wears a Buddha statue? Haha, of course, I may have thought too much, which is a bit ridiculous..."
Zhengde was stunned for a moment and laughed in silence, "You, you are indeed ridiculous. Do you suspect that Xie Yu, the two beauties of the Maitreya Sect are from the Maitreya Sect? How is that possible? Besides, the man wearing Guanyin and female pea Buddha, and the woman wearing the Buddha refers to Maitreya Buddha. If this is the case, it is considered a Maitreya Sectarian. Seventy percent of the 100% of the women in the world will be beheaded."
Yang Ling was stunned when he heard the words of Jing Zhengde, and then he remembered that he had heard the sayings of the male and female Guanyin and female Peifu before. It was only after Zhengde reminded that when he thought about the limited history that he knew, although King Ning rebelled, he did not hear any connection with Maitreya Buddhism. I think he was suspicious?
Yang Ling said embarrassedly: "This...it's always good to be careful. Chen Yuan was not suspicious about this. But when he met the emperor, the two girls knew to avoid being favored by officials and were not suspected of being ceremonial. The grass-roots people knew etiquette, so I was a little strange."
Liu Jin laughed and said, "Mr. Yang, although they were born in a rash family, they had been taught the court etiquette for three months before they were sent to Beijing. Before entering the palace, the Silis Office sent someone to teach the exercise for five days. It would be strange if they didn't know these etiquettes.
They were the place where King Ning was taken to the place where he was sent. King Ning was the imperial uncle and the royal family of the Ming Dynasty. The Maitreya religion opposed our Ming Dynasty. There was no possibility of a common plan between the two, let alone Prince Ning has always been the most loyal to the emperor?"
Zhengde remembered that when the throne was in the farthest place among the first vassal kings who sent He Yi, King Ning was the farthest place among the first batch of vassal kings who sent He Yi, and the most consistent with his own wishes. Now he sent Jieyu Sha Hua again. It is conceivable that he was respectful and obedient to himself. Moreover, he did not have a soldier in his hand, so how could he have malicious intentions? So he nodded and said yes.
Yang Ling said: "Maybe I am suspicious, but for the sake of safety, I have decided to stop the route and the way to leave the capital. When leaving the capital, please do not mention it to anyone, including the two girls."
Zhengde smiled helplessly and said, "Yi you, as long as you can leave the capital, I will rely on you all, right?"
Seeing that Zhengde was dissatisfied, Yang Ling said seriously: "Your Majesty, you have no jokes. If you agree, you must keep your word. The emperor must go to Datong to fulfill his responsibility for the emperor. I will fulfill his responsibility for the safety of the emperor!"
Chapter completed!