Chapter 193
It’s hard to understand the soulmate
The girl in front of her gently stroked the parrot's feathers. Seeing the soldier in front of her staring at her stupidly, she couldn't help but smile and said, "The princess will pass the door in a while. Don't run around. If you step on the princess' skirt, you won't be scolded."
After she said with a smile, she turned her body to walk towards the west wing hall. The palace was magnificent, luxurious and magnificent, with corridors and veranda connected, with scattered houses, front hall and back bedroom, and deep halls. There are dozens of buildings in this west wing hall, which are the residences of servants and servants, so naturally no one is guarding them.
Zhengde raised his hand and said "Oh" and saw that the pretty girl had raised her legs and stepped over the high threshold. He hurriedly chased after her. The guards on both sides looked at each other and thought in his heart that the emperor had liked this pretty girl, and he was a little embarrassed for a moment. Why did the emperor chase women too close? But after all, this is not a big palace. What if the emperor fails?
Several guards had to bite the bullet and put on the door far away. Fortunately, this was the residence of the servants and were not strictly supervised. This was the first time that many generals, the servants and the personal soldiers who came to the palace today entered the palace. They felt it was rare everywhere, and occasionally someone ran into this side hall to see something new. In addition, the prince accepted the concubines and the servants were all arranged outside. There were not many people in the side hall, so they walked into the courtyard of the right crossing courtyard.
Zhengde hurriedly chased behind him, and saw the girl standing lightly. When she walked to a house, an old woman happened to walk out of the door and picked skewers of dried vegetables from behind the door frame. The girl called out in a sweet voice: "Mom, I'm back."
The kind-hearted old lady looked up and saw her daughter. She immediately smiled and said, "Good girl, is the empress admiring the parrot again? Send it back to the warm room, don't freeze it. Mom makes some pork stewed with dried vegetables, and remember to call your father back for dinner later."
The girl agreed crisply. She turned to a low warm cellar next to her, opened the door and walked in, and the old lady also brought the dried vegetables back to the house. Zhengde paused: "Good girl? Mother? She...isn't she Tang Yixian?"
Zhengde thought about it carefully. Although he always remembered this girl, he was just a hazy and beautiful figure in his heart, carrying a faint warmth and sadness, when he saw her, Zhengde clearly remembered her appearance. His age, figure, appearance, voice, and the beauty mole on her lips. How could such a coincidence be in the world?
Zhengde pulled his feet and chased after him, and also flashed into the greenhouse. The guards glanced at each other, wandered out in a tacit understanding, surrounding the greenhouse. The girl entered the greenhouse, tiptoed to open a bamboo cage. She put the parrot in, then pulled off the cover. When she heard the door creaking, she turned her head and looked at it, she couldn't help but wonder: "It's you? What are you chasing me?"
Zhengde's breathing was a little rapid. He calmed down and said with a blushing face: "Miss Tang, you may not remember me, but Yang Ling, you should remember it? He has been sending people to find you. Why did you change your name and go to the Dai Palace?"
The girl's plain clothes and light makeup were more charming. She leaned beside a row of bamboo cages, slid her temples with one hand, and turned her eyes and said with a smile: "Yang Ling? You said, "You said, the admiral of the inner factory, Lord Yang? I know, the actors in Datong have compiled his stories into songs. I naturally heard them, and he looked for me..."
When the girl said this, her pretty face suddenly changed and she walked to him and said hurriedly: "Do you recognize me? Do you know what my name is? Tell me quickly, who am I? What does General Yang ask me for me?"
Zhengde was stunned and said in a daze: "You... don't you know your name?"
The girl gave him a blank look and said anxiously: "I know I'm still asking you? I was rescued by the princess. When the empress said that when she found me, I lay on the river with blood on my face. When I woke up, I didn't remember anything. I don't know who I am. Are there any parents, brothers and sisters at home? You said... you said my surname is Tang?"
After speaking, her voice trembled slightly. Although Liu Liang and his wife treated her like their biological daughter, it was natural to find relatives with blood, everyone said that her origin was unknown. Now that she has the opportunity to know her origin, she is not in a state of excitement and is extremely excited.
Zhengde murmured, "Abstinence?" He suddenly understood a little. When Yang Ling reported to him that day, he had found a bloody hilt and stone on the cliff, with hair and blood on it. It must have been a severe blow to Tang Yixian in the head and fell into the water, so he had abstinence.
Emperor Zhengde knew that the girl in front of him was really Tang Yixian, so he couldn't help but be excited. He grabbed Tang Yixian's wrist and said, "That's not wrong. You are indeed Tang Yixian, you are Tang Yixian, you are...you are..."
Zhengde suddenly choked when he said this. Now he is no longer as ignorant as the prince. He also knows that the brothel women are a low-ranking family and have a very low status. He may make Tang Yixian embarrassed and angry when he said it. He choked and said without hesitation: "You are Yang Ling... General Yang's sister."
Tang Yixian opened her cherry mouth and opened her big, her two bright eyes straightened. After a while, the joy in her eyes suddenly faded away. She suddenly broke free from Zhengde's hand, took two steps back, picked up a bamboo hook for hanging the bird cage, and stared at Zhengde vigilantly and said, "What are you saying sweetly? Do you want to lie to me?"
"Ga! I'm lying to you?" Zhengde was a little panicked: "Do I have no talent to lie?"
Tang Yixian sneered, and Xiao Yao's nose raised, and she looked at him with a scheming and said proudly: "Mr. Yang's surname is Yang. You just said that my surname is Tang. Isn't this just a fool? You are such a big liar who is tempted to be lustful."
Tang Yixian was so angry that he was so angry that he swung the stick and whispered to Zhengde's thigh. Zhengde oh oh, jumped up, covered his thigh and jumped straight in place. Tang Yixian couldn't help laughing when he saw it, but then he snorted: "Boy, get out quickly, you can think of such a erratic way to deceive the girl, but... Tang Yixian... Well, your random name sounds better than Liu Liangnu, hehe."
When the two guards outside heard the emperor's scream, they immediately opened the door and snatched in, and squeezed into the door, shouted: "Emperor...Captain Huang. What happened?"
Zhengde shouted in anger and said, "Get out of here, there is nothing you have to do!"
As soon as the two guards saw the situation, they knew that the emperor was frustrated in picking up girls. This incident did hurt the face of the world's number one man. He didn't let any of the two top-notch masters with outstanding martial arts skills and immediately went out and brought the door of the room with him.
Tang Yixian said disdainfully: "Yohe, it's true that you are still a school official at a young age. This is the Dai Prince's Mansion, and you can't be arrogant. I shouted, "You little brat, you will have to go to prison, hurry up!"
Zhengde said with a bitter face: "Miss Tang, I didn't lie to you. You are...You are Lord Yang's cousin, so naturally they are not the same surname as him."
"Uh?" Tang Yixian stared at him. He looked at him half-believingly for a while, slowly put down the bamboo stick in his hand, and said ate: "You... are you talking about it true? I... am I the cousin of General Yang Ling, the admiral of the inner factory?"
Zhengde nodded as if he was pecking at the rice and said, "That's right, right, you think. This is the royal palace, do I dare to talk nonsense? Even if I lie to you, Lord Yang will come out to see you later, he will never help me lie to you, right?"
Tang Yixian stood there, his eyes drifting into the air, muttering something in his mouth, but after a long time he threw the stick in his hand and cheered: "Hurry, take me to see my cousin, it turns out that I have such a mighty cousin."
Tang Yixian rushed over happily, and Zhengde was shocked. If she was asked to meet Yang Ling now, she would guarantee that she would pass through the country immediately. Although with the power of the emperor, no woman he wanted could not be invited into the palace, he did not want to make Tang Yixian unhappy at all, let alone that he would rather Tang Yixian call him around than be respectful to her.
Zhengde hurriedly advised: "Mr. Yang should be attending the ceremony of Prince Dai's concubine in Yin'an Hall now. When he went there, he lost his etiquette in front of the prince. General Yang would also be punished. I am his personal soldier. I will go to see him when I leave. You have been separated for so long. It's not bad for this moment."
Tang Yixian was full of joy, nodded constantly, and asked again with a smile: "Yeah, yes, you are right, right, Huang...Captain, where are my parents? What do they do? I heard that my cousin is from Xuanfu, and his family is poor, so my parents should be ordinary people, right?"
"Ah... this, Lingzun Lingtang has been in the wars of many years of land wars... You are the only one in the Tang family now. It's Lord Yang who brought you up," Zhengde said as he secretly wiped his sweat.
"Oh...", Tang Yixian was a little disappointed, but he had no impression of his parents in his memory, and he couldn't say he was sad. "I grew up in my cousin's house? By the way, why am I injured? You are my cousin's personal soldier, do you know?"
"Cough, ache, this... is a long story..."
Zhengde's spit was flying, and his lies became bigger and bigger. He suddenly realized that he was already nonsense and talented.
After chatting happily for a long time, Tang Yixian suddenly said reluctantly: "Oh, when I see my cousin, I will accompany him back to the capital. My parents treat me so well..."
Seeing her disappointed appearance, Zhengde felt soft and hurriedly coaxed: "Mr. Yang is also very nice to you. As long as you say it, he will definitely agree to take the Liu couple back to Beijing."
"Really?" Tang Yixian said happily: "That's good. Dad and mother treat me like their biological daughters. I really can't bear to be separated from them. Alas, these birds have been with me for so long, and they are all the concubines of the Empress. I will never see you again when I go."
Tang Yixian looked at the various bird cages with a little sadness, and the birds inside were leaping and singing happily.
Zhengde watched her pass by the hanging bird cages in obsessively, and sometimes she whispered her lips, making a sound as pleasant as the bird, which made the birds jump and scream. Two blemishes on her cheeks were dizzy, pink cheeks and jade skin, and autumn water was the god, and it was indescribable to say that it was moving.
"Hey, Captain Huang, help me get the water." Zhengde, as Feng Lunyin, quickly rolled up his sleeves, ran to the corner of the wall to lift a big bucket of water, and sent it to Tang Yixian.
Tang Yixian turned his head and saw it, and couldn't help but smile and said, "Look at you being stupid. I really don't know what's wrong with my cousin. Using you as a guard, these birds can't drink a total of water. Why did you bring the whole bucket over?"
Zhengde giggled, feeling that this girl had a unique charm in her heart, and she felt that the girl was so angry that she felt a different kind of charm, and she felt more and more love. He lived in a woman's nest in the forbidden palace in the palace, and even when he was out, he had beautiful palace maids to serve her. The eunuchs who grew up to be the most were women. Eunuchs and women surrounded him like clothes they wore every day, and he was used to treating these people as decorations.
But Tang Yixian gave him a completely different feeling. In front of her, he didn't have to do it, and he was relaxed. In the deep palace and courtyard, he always played endlessly on the surface, and as he got older, he often felt very depressed and lonely.
Whenever there are eagles or geese flying by in the sky, he holds his hands and looks up at the sky, and his eyes are chasing far away. He looks enviously until the birds disappear. The sunset in the long river, the autumn in the desert,... In that magnificent house, there are taboos and etiquette everywhere, and the emperor is not as good as a free bird.
Tang Yixian looked at his clumsy look and smiled: "From your appearance, why do you seem to do nothing?"
Zhengde couldn't help but answer: "Yes, I have lived in a very big house since I was a child. I am not allowed to go anywhere. I am locked up there all day long, and there are so many rules. I can't come out to meet him until I met Yang... sir."
"Oh? It sounds like you are still a child of a wealthy family." Tang Yixian's delicate eyebrows frowned slightly, and he held his head thoughtfully: "I remember... I remember that when I was a child, I lived in a big house and I was not allowed to go anywhere all day. I was locked up every day. I could only look up at the sky, and people were stunned. Strange. How could I feel like this?"
Zhengde's eyes lit up and said, "Is that right? It turns out that you are as miserable as me? But I am much more pitiful than you. Not only do they not allow me to go out, they also ask me to learn this and that every day. No matter whether I like it or not, they force me to learn..."
Tang Yixian suddenly clapped his hands and shouted, "I remembered it, so too, I am the same, I have to learn everything, how to eat, how to dress, how to walk, and how to manipulate people like a doll. I also have to learn a lot of piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, songs, and essays. It's so annoying. I don't want to take the top scorer... Oh, my head hurts again, and I can only think of these."
Zhengde said excitedly: "Yes, so is me. I don't want to take the top scorer in the exam. Why do I do so much? I have a headache." The more he said, he became more and more speculative, and he felt that he was the only fairy girl. Thinking about his own suffering, he was just like a prostitute who cultivated sex in brothels and entertained people, he felt ridiculous and terrified.
Tang Yixian smiled after hearing this, glanced at him, and said with a smile: "Lazy guy, I am a woman, of course I don't have to take the top scorer as a man. You should study hard. Look, if you don't study hard, you can only be a guard now."
Zhengde laughed dryly and touched his nose and said, "This is better, free and easy. What's the best thing to be the top scholar? There are so many rules and etiquette. Oh, you don't know that you have to say insincere words to many people all day long, do insincere things, and pretend to be fake, even if you are unhappy, you have to smile..."
Tang Yixian said in surprise: "Really, I remembered what you said, as if I was like this..." She thought about it for a while and suddenly changed color and said: "Why are these things happening? Is my cousin bad for me?"
Zhengde hurriedly said, "No, no, Lord Yang loves you very much. These things must be when you were very young and at home."
Tang Yixian turned his head and thought for a while, nodded with satisfaction and said, "Well, it makes sense. It seems to be something that happened when I was very young. By the way, tell me first, how old my cousin is and what he looks like. I seem to have some impression of it."
"Mr. Yang?" Zhengde straightened his chest, pulled his clothes, and said seriously: "He was young, handsome, handsome, handsome, handsome, and handsome. Basically, you can see how I look. You can roughly imagine it. Lord Yang is the virtuous minister around the emperor. He is good at planning, has a variety of strategies, is not surprised when changing, and is quite handsome..."
Zhengde said that Yang Ling, the imperial envoy of Yang Ling, who was "strategic, had a variety of plans, was not surprised when changes were made, and had a great general's demeanor". At this time, in Jinde Hall, he was pulled by Yang Tinghe, Hu Zan, and Wang Yixiao, the governor of Xuanfu, who was originally unknown, and was in a mess. The three-sided general Yang Yiqing stood aside, feeling embarrassed, and didn't know who should persuade him.
Zhang Yong also knew how to fist and kicked him in the chaos. He wanted to go up to take revenge, but was stopped by Prince Dai. He had to hold his jade belt torn off and stood angrily.
Yang Ling is young and healthy, and has been practicing kung fu with Wu Han these days, and has given famous teachers guidance. There are still some ordinary fighting skills, so I really have to take action. These three civil servants are really not opponents, but the youngest of these three are forty-five or six, so how can he really take action?
Last time, Yang Tinghe was broken by his horse's legs with a Liu Damao, and accompanied the two old masters to return to the capital in a sad and tranquil way. He was also criticized by the three generations of old, middle-aged and young mothers. He went to the Ministry of War with a strong aura to receive a pass through the imperial examination. When he passed by Xuanfu, he also brought the same Jinshi and the governor of Xuanfu Wang Yixiao.
He first met King Dai secretly to explain the truth that the emperor secretly came to Datong, and wanted to gather the power of all officials to suppress Yang Ling's arrogance. Zhengde could come to Datong with all his support. If he changed his mind, he would persuade the emperor to return to the capital. Yang Tinghe was too lazy to bother with him.
Unexpectedly, after Yang Tinghe explained his intentions with great thoughts, Zhang Yong went forward, saying on the left that the emperor had an order, but the servants dared not refuse to obey, and on the right that the land was the king's land. It was natural for the emperor to patrol the country. He had a smile on his face, but he pushed everything to the emperor, but he didn't let it go.
Wang Yixiao, the governor of Xuanfu, was angry and did not come to him. He was not in the capital. Zhang Yong had been the governor of the Beijing camp for only a few months. He was not as domineering as Liu Jin. He was relatively low-key. Wang Yixiao didn't know how powerful he was, so he rushed forward and shouted: "My minister is directly advised to serve the country. What do you have such a castrated person?"
An old punch hit Zhang Yong in the face, and Zhang Yong was reluctant to give up. The two of them immediately fought together. Yang Ling originally wanted to calm down, but he came forward with Yang Tinghe and others to persuade him. They were both angry in their hearts. Without saying a few words, they joined the battle group.
The King of Dai was so angry that he glared at him. He had long heard that the officials in the capital were so unreasonable to Mr. Hongzhi, and he often performed a full martial arts movement in the court. Li Dongyang once seized the warrior's golden gourd and chased the Marquis of Shouning in the Golden Palace. This incident spread to the people of Shilin, but was regarded as an anecdote by scholars, which further encouraged this trend. Now it was unexpected.
The King Dai shouted: "It's outrageous. Stop it all. You are all first and second-rank officials of the imperial court. What's the point of fighting here?"
Wang Yixiao, the governor of Xuanfu, bowed to the Dai Wang and said, "Your Highness, the emperor has just inherited the throne, and the sage has not been nurtured. How can one easily take risks? Even before the ban, the emperor was still warned everywhere. Yang Ling kept saying that he was the country and the country, but he used the emperor as a pawn and took the emperor to this place of swords and guns. If it is unexpected, the disaster for the Bolang Shaqian people will not be far away. How can the officials not worry about it?"
Hu Zan had to acquiesce to the Emperor and Yang Ling that day, under the influence of the emperor and Yang Ling, but he had always been extremely opposed to this. Now that he has Yang Ting and this backer, he naturally wants to persuade the emperor to return to Beijing as soon as possible.
He shook his wrinkled official robe, and did not pick up the hat wings that were pulled down and thrown on the ground. He only took one side of the hat wings and said to the Dai King: "I would like to ask the prince to be the master of this matter. The emperor is the supreme emperor in the world. He should respect the righteous learning, speak out, make up the name, avoid traveling for luck, go to villains, establish the second crown prince, and six things to go hand in hand. It is better to respect frugality and virtue, cultivate benevolence and govern with ease."
The King of Dai is the highest here, but he speaks the most and he is not as straightforward as these foreign ministers. He is a royal family, and interferes too much will be taboo to the emperor. If he ignores it, if the emperor really does something happen to him on the ground, he will not be able to cry.
Dai Wang Qing coughed twice, just as he wanted to take some gentle words to persuade the two imperial envoys. Yang Ling sneered: "Cultivate benevolence? How to raise benevolence? Like Liu Adu, he was not happy to raise benevolence? Like Li Houzhu, he was like the romantic and romantic? These two cowards, benevolence and benevolence were destroyed!
The strong enemy is on the side, and the emperor does not know how to fight. Can it be possible if he does not pursue martial arts? The Tartar Emperor is just outside the Great Wall, galloping horses and shooting archery and personally leading the army to fight. Our emperor is still in Datong City. Are you trembling with fear, loyalty or spoiling?"
Wang Yixiao said strongly: "My Ming Dynasty is prosperous and peaceful, and I sing and dance to peace. Some Hu people who do not work in farming occasionally cross the border and are considered a major concern? This is a disease of scabies. Why should the emperor surrender to the nobles to the border in order to seek alliance?"
Hu Zan and Yang Tinghe both felt a little guilty when they said this. Yang Ling laughed and said, "The disease of scabies? Not to mention it, just talk about it in recent years. In the seventh year of Hongzhi, the Tatars disturbed Xuanfu, besieged Chicheng, and killed the people. The entire town of Fengyi Town was slaughtered.
In the eighth year of Hongzhi, Tatars attacked Yingzhou and captured more than 300 men and women. In the ninth year of Hongzhi, they attacked Jizhou. They destroyed crops, trees and trees outside the city and plundered 900 women. In the tenth year, they invaded Suzhou and Ganzhou, plundered thousands of mules, horses, cattle and sheep, and captured more than 500 men and women. Nearly 3,000 men and women were killed in old and young, and the bodies were everywhere. Qingshui was red. In the same year, they plundered Weizhou and destroyed more than 1,000 village houses. There were countless refugees."
“Twelve years…”
"Thirteen years..."
Wang Yixiao's face changed drastically, and sweat dripped down. The Tatars' borders were bound to come every year, and they became more and more fierce year by year. The more cattle, horse and women captured, they were more and more. The officers and soldiers killed ranged from hundreds to thousands, ranging from tens of thousands. Seeing that the Tatars' power became stronger and stronger, if they were lying with their eyes open, they would say that they were just scabies. How could they say it?
"In the 17th year, the Tatars attacked Wanquanwei, Arieskou, Ningwu Pass, Huamachi and other places, and more than a thousand soldiers died. The Tatars attacked Datong and Xuanfu again. The vanguard rushed into the vicinity of the capital and killed countless cattle and sheep. This year, 70,000 cavalry were sent out and a large-scale invasion was launched. Governor Wang, if you turn a blind eye to these things, wouldn't it be a disaster for the country and the people?"
Seeing that Hu Zan and others were ashen, Yang Yiqing sighed and said smoothly: "Mr. Yang, Grand Secretary and others mean that the emperor is the lord of the ancestral temple and the country. The matter of conquest is light, the country is the most important, and it is always inappropriate for the imperial commander to personally fight."
Yang Ling knew that the General Yang Zheng was in his heart to support the emperor in joining the three guards of Duoyan and splitting and dismantling the Tatar power, and he could also see the benefits of this in the long run.
In particular, Yang Yiqing used a trick to exterminate the family and sent an isolated army to do what they did. The Tartars had no strong city and high walls to defend, and there were no millions of soldiers to rely on. Once they were invaded into an unguarded home, the disaster would be far more serious than the people of the Ming Dynasty.
He dragged Boyan on the border, consumed other places, money, grain, and horses, and divided the relationship between Boyan and Fire Screen according to his own strategy. The Tatar regime was even worse, and after this battle, it would definitely be severely damaged. At this time, it was particularly important to form an alliance with the three guards of Duoyan. With their control and cooperation, the Tatars would gradually decline, and there was no chance and time to repair the vitality. Its far-reaching significance is a great temptation, and this is a risk of being worth it.
From this point of view, Yang Yiqing is on his side, but he is from Li Dongyang. Now Yang Tinghe is representing the three great scholars to persuade the emperor to return to Beijing, so he is not convenient to publicly express his personal attitude.
Thinking of this, Yang Ling calmed down his tone, as if he was talking to Yang Yiqing, but in fact he told Yang Tinghe and others: "Prince, sir, I have just described the importance of the emperor coming here in detail. The emperor is only sixteen years old. Only by practicing more experience can he become a famous king for all ages.
Who is afraid of military affairs? Emperor Gaozu of Han personally stormed Chen Xi, Ying Bu, Emperor Taizong of Tang personally stormed and subdued Goryeo. Hongwu of this dynasty captured Zhang Shicheng and destroyed Chen Youliang. When did the imperial army not attack the emperor? Emperor Yongle personally stormed the north of Mobei for five years, it is not even a matter of saying that Emperor Yongle personally stormed the north of Mo.
If the son came here in person today, he just showed his sincerity to the three guards of Duoyan. Not so, let alone the great talent and strategy? If the officers and soldiers shrank in the Great Wall and were proud of their pride, the emperor hid in the Forbidden City and thought it was right, how could the heroic lord of the world deserve his name?"
He sighed and said sincerely: "The prince and all the adults are worried about the safety of the emperor. The emperor is clear and can wait for the flowers to reply. I will definitely go to Baideng Mountain to explore the terrain, properly arrange troops, and keep the emperor safe. Please help the emperor with ambition."
After Yang Ling finished speaking, he bowed deeply to the King Dai, Yang Tinghe and others. After hearing this, the few looked at each other. Yang Yiqing and Hu Zan were moved, Yang Tinghe looked hesitant. The King Dai seemed to be thinking, and only Wang Yixiao was left with glaring.
The emperor and the Three Guards of Duoyan were in alliance. If they led a hundred thousand troops, they would be surrounded by them, and were in a vast way. Only more than ten miles away from Datong, they would naturally not be afraid of the Tatars attacking. The difficulty would be that the border generals repeatedly broke their trust in the Three Guards of Duoyan. The reputation of the Ming Dynasty in the eyes of Duoyan was almost gone.
If a large army gathers, how dare Hua Dang and the leaders of various tribes come to see him? If Duoyan guards also brought tens of thousands of troops. First, they did not have so many elite soldiers, and second, it would be difficult to hide from the Tatars along the way, so there would not be too many soldiers. It was the limit that the Ming army could dispatch 5,000 mountaineering officers and soldiers, no wonder they were so worried.
It was heard that a needle fell to the ground quietly in the hall. Yang Tinghe pondered for a while, and suddenly shouted with anger: "Yang Ling, if the emperor makes some mistakes, don't blame me for not talking about personal friendship. I asked for an imperial decree to destroy your nine clans!"
Chapter completed!