Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 156 Broom Star

Wu Yong is like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, seeing everything is novel, looking around, making Yang Menglong a little impatient.Thankfully, in the evening, the father-in-law finally had enough shopping and was going back to eat. Yang Menglong breathed a sigh of relief, and said in his heart: "Tomorrow, I won't go out with you if I kill you!"

Back at Qianhu House, the meal is ready.After all, it is to greet distinguished guests, and the dishes are much richer than usual. Wu Yong smiled happily after eating, and repeatedly praised Xiao Yufang for her ingenuity. Go in, hide in the boudoir after serving the food, it seems that you don't plan to come out tonight.

Wu Yong poured himself a glass of wine, and said to Yang Menglong: "Master Yang, it's really not easy for you to start from scratch and run the Wuyang Thousand Households into what it is today. Come, let us offer you a toast!"

Yang Menglong quickly picked up the wine glass and said, "Don't dare, don't dare!" He clinked the glass with Wu Yong and drank it all.

Wu Yong also drank it all in one gulp, ate a chopstick dish, and sighed: "The world is hard... The whole Beizhili has been plagued by droughts and locusts for years, and countless people have been displaced. It is becoming more and more difficult to have a full meal. To tell you the truth, our family has been to many places over the years, and we have seen a lot of officials who risk their lives to make money, but it is really unheard of for an official like you to manage the local area with his own money. If the emperor knows that you put Wuyang The health center is managed so well, and so many refugees have enough to eat, I don't know how happy they are!"

Yang Menglong said angrily: "He is happy, but I am not happy! The imperial court still owes me [-] months of food and salary for the Wuyang Qianhu Office!"

In the final analysis, what he cared most about was that the imperial court was in arrears of food and wages.Wu Yong laughed dumbly, and said: "It's okay, it's okay. After our family returns to Beijing, we will talk to the emperor and ask him to urge the Ministry of War to send down the payment owed to Wuyang Guard... What help do you need? Just say, we Anyone who can help will definitely help!"

Yang Menglong said: "Then please help me to ask the imperial court for the owed military salary, and by the way, return the 3 taels of funds I advanced to open the guard!"

Wu Yong's smile froze: "Except for money, everything is easy to talk about."

Yang Menglong was disappointed: "You won't help me with this?"

Wu Yong sighed: "It's not that our family doesn't want to help, it's really impossible to help! Do you know how empty the treasury is now? It could starve a mouse to death. Now the whole country is full of smoke and fire, and the court is focusing on one thing and not the other. There are a lot of people The trash can do nothing but ask the court for money and food! In the past, the emperor could use a little money from the internal funds for military expenses or disaster relief, but now the internal funds are empty, and the emperor even has a decent piece of clothing. It’s all gone. How can I give you so much money in a short while? Besides, your family is not the only one that has been owed food and wages. After hearing the news, they wrote letters one after another demanding food and wages. How should the court deal with it?"

Yang Menglong said dejectedly: "How can I say that the imperial court is more pitiful than me... Forget it, I don't count on the 3 taels. I will be satisfied if I make up for the outstanding food and salary. Eunuch Wu, can you think about it?" Can you get me a group of craftsmen?"

Wu Yong smiled: "What kind of craftsman do you want?"

Yang Menglong said: "The crossbow maker."

Wu Yong was startled: "You want to make a crossbow?"

Yang Menglong said: "Of course! The firecracker is too bad, I think the crossbow is better."

Wu Yong frowned and said: "My Ming Dynasty has always been famous all over the world with firecrackers and cannons. I have never produced a large number of crossbows. It is really hard to find a craftsman who wants to make crossbows..."

Yang Menglong said hurriedly: "I won't let your work go in vain. After the work is completed, you will be well rewarded!"

Wu Yong said: "Let's help you figure out a way. There are countless craftsmen in the capital's craftsman camp. It shouldn't be difficult to find a few who can make crossbows."

Yang Menglong was overjoyed: "Then thank you, father-in-law!"

Wu Yong said: "You're welcome! General Xiao Yang, after our family returns, we will report to the Emperor and ask him to remove the Nanyang Guards. The Wuyang Guards will be responsible for the defense of Nanyang. Don't let our family down." Such high hopes!”

The smile on Yang Menglong's face froze instantly: "Remove Nanyang Guards and let me, Wuyang Guards, be responsible for the defense of Nanyang Mansion?"

Wu Yong nodded resolutely: "Yes! Anyway, Nanyang Wei has been rotten for a long time. I don't know if there are 500 people who can fight in the five thousand households. There are only less than 6000 people, but there are 2000 solid elite soldiers. Is it more cost-effective to raise five or six thousand wine bags and rice bags or two thousand elite soldiers?" With a smile, he added, "Besides, you are so good at farming and reclaiming wasteland. How can you make the best use of your land?"

Yang Menglong roared angrily: "You are catching a treasure and going to death, labor and capital quit!"

He really doesn't want to do it. This kind of unfortunate thing of paying money to become an official is enough once. Does he want to do it again?Something is wrong!It's a pity that the official level is overwhelming. The father-in-law has spoken, and he has to do it even if he doesn't want to.In the end, Yang Menglong was still defeated by Wu Yong's coercion, temptation and abduction, the host and guest broke up happily, Wu Yong went to bed, and he went to the study dejectedly.

Candles flickered in the study room, two beauties were sitting at the desk, Xiao Yufang was reading a book, Liu Ziyan was painting, they were both quiet and beautiful, it made his heart itch.But now he wasn't in the mood to appreciate beauties anymore, he went to his seat and sat down, sullen with puffy face.Seeing this, Xiao Yufang and Liu Ziyan put down their books and brushes, and asked in unison, "What's the matter?"

Yang Menglong snorted: "What else can I do, it's all Wu Yong, a bastard, it's too deceitful!"

Liu Ziyan's eyes rolled, and she smiled: "Why did he cheat you? It makes me happy to say it."

Yang Menglong glanced at her: "You seem happy to see me unlucky?"

Liu Ziyan nodded happily: "For me, a poor little girl who is cruelly exploited by you as a free laborer, there is nothing that makes me happier than seeing you unlucky." The bastard Yang Menglong left her to teach , but did not pay her a salary. It is not an exaggeration to say that he cruelly exploited her.

Xiao Yufang smiled and said, "Don't listen to her nonsense, tell me quickly, what's the matter? Didn't you two have a good chat?"

Yang Menglong said: "It was a very happy chat, but that bastard said that after returning to Beijing, he would persuade the emperor to abolish the Nanyang Guard and let the Wuyang Guard take over the defense of Nanyang Mansion. I couldn't be happier at all." He said with a mournful face, "I spent 3 taels of silver in four months to clean up Wuyang. How much would it cost to clean up all the guards in Nanyang? He deliberately wanted to bankrupt me!" "

There are still people who think of their official university?
Xiao Yufang and Liu Ziyan looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.

Yang Menglong rolled his eyes and said, "Smile, laugh, what a fart, help me find a way, I don't want to be taken advantage of again!"

These two hateful girls spread their hands tacitly, expressing that they are helpless, which makes Yang Menglong extremely depressed!
He was just depressed, Liu Jintang was not so lucky.What he did was a big taboo.For the magistrates of the thirteen counties of Nanyang, it doesn't matter if you are a little greedy, and we admit that you are incompetent. Anyway, we never expected to rely on your gang of poor soldiers to protect us.However, if you dare to collude with grass bandits to loot the place, then it cannot be tolerated, it is simply devoid of conscience!Officials from various counties in Nanyang said that this is absolutely unbearable, otherwise, who knows who your next looting target will be?This is not a joke, if this happens, even if the grassroots bandits don't kill them and the place is looted, the imperial court will kill them, you want our lives!Seeing Liu Jintang's loss of power, the Nanyang officials and gentry came together to attack him. All kinds of unfounded crimes with conclusive evidence flew towards the magistrate's yamen, and each one was more bitter and bitter than the other. I wanted to peel off Liu Jintang's skin and eat his. Meat!
Liu Jintang originally planned to throw Ji Youcai and other scapegoats out to take the blame, and these scapegoats also kept taking the blame on himself... One tried hard to shirk it, and the other desperately took the blame on himself, that picture is also quite beautiful .It's a pity that Fang Yizhi didn't accept this. Although the scapegoats were not spared, it was impossible for Liu Jintang to get away with it. There were too many evidences pointing to him, and he couldn't push it away even if he wanted to.In the end, this unlucky guy was imprisoned for crimes such as corruption and breaking the law, dereliction of duty, self-respect, and fish and meat. This time he will lose his skin if he doesn't die.After hearing the verdict, Liu Jintang was taken aback, while the common people who were listening outside cheered and the gentry clapped their crowns to celebrate, which shows how unpopular this guy is!Liu Jintang glared at Fang Yizhi and hissed, "Lord Fang, don't do things so badly. How can a person not make mistakes in the officialdom? If everyone catches a little mistake like you and doesn't let it go, why don't you let me go?" How do you become an official!?"

Fang Yizhi said in a cold voice: "The Goulian grassroots looted the place, is this a small mistake!? Just for this one, you will lose your head ten times and it's not enough! Someone, take me to prison!"

Several yamen servants who looked like wolves rushed forward and dragged Liu Jintang down.Liu Jintang struggled desperately, and roared sharply: "I am the commander of Nanyang Weidu, whoever dares to touch me, who dares to touch me!" roared loudly, but the yamen servant refused to eat this, and "accidentally" stabbed him in the lower abdomen With a kick, the roar stopped abruptly, and the world became clean.

Fang Yizhi shook his head, and said to himself: "It's come to this point, and it's still showing the prestige of the commander of the Nanyang Guard. I really can't see the coffin without crying! He is finished, who will take over the Nanyang Guard? Yang Menglong ? If it was him..." Suddenly thinking of Zhang Qianhu's head being galloped around the city with a spear on his head by Jian Nu, he stumbled for no reason.That kid has been in constant trouble since he first appeared. First, he had a conflict with Zhang Qianhu, and Mr. Qianhu’s head was picked up by Jian Nu with a spear; now he has a conflict with Liu Jintang. , sent to the capital for interrogation, I'm afraid I can't escape a knife!Yang Menglong, Yang Menglong, you are really a broom star!
(End of this chapter)