204. Rotating Mind
Yang Hong secretly called himself trapped!
The country affairs next to him have begun to curse people unyieldingly. You should know that his position as an inspector, the job he usually does is to curse corrupt officials and defame history, and write down the illegal affairs of civil and military officials as memorials and demolish them to the court to fight for the reputation of the Qing Dynasty.
Now he caught Yang Hong accepting bribes and destroying the evidence that the emperor's plan to recruit pacification was not a good idea. He immediately put on an pose of a clean official cursing a corrupt official, pointed at Yang Hong's nose and cursing. Of course, the way other people's curses is different from ordinary rough people's swearing. Literati criticizes people, and emphasizes quoting classics and does not spit out dirty words. It makes you dizzy and unable to get angry.
After hearing a few words, Yang Hong felt very annoyed.
He was a rough military officer and was not good at wisdom, but no matter how poor his brain power was, he understood that this civil servant could no longer believe him. Any opinions he put forward would be considered as selfish and would not consider them any longer.
So after Yang Hong sighed, he stopped talking nonsense with Lian State Affairs. He just bowed to Zhang Yingxian and said, "This... well... Miss... Madam, I don't know what to call you. Take me to see Zhu Ba. For the sake of our battle, I have a few private words to talk to him."
Zhang Yingxian nodded and turned to lead the way. Yang Hong ignored the state affairs behind him who was jumping and scolding him. He followed Zhang Yingxian for a while and saw the mountain road winding. The two of them turned around and then turned to the top of the mountain. Zhu Yuanzhang stood on a rock with his hands behind his back, waiting for Yang Hong. It turned out that he had already calculated that Yang Hong would come to see him.
"Yang Qianhu, you are indeed here to see me, ha!" Zhu Yuanzhang chuckled, with a hint of mockery in his tone.
Yang Hong nodded helplessly: "I can't see you... I lost to you last time. After I went back, I thought hard and always felt that I lost inexplicably. This time I got you into your trick again, which made me no longer work with me in the state affairs... You won! I lost miserably!"
Zhu Yuanzhang's smile slightly closed and said, "Since you and his group went up the mountain, I was thinking that Yang Qianhu came with the envoy to recruit the scoop, which was very unfavorable to our parody. Because you fought a war with me, you know the strength of my parody. If you see the parody now, you will definitely be alert... People are wary of this thing, once you are wary of it, it will be difficult to be deceived. You will definitely be able to see through the plays I sent to perform. Then you will return to the cave and tell your doubts about practicing state affairs. My plan will inevitably be destroyed!"
Zhu Yuanzhang said slowly, just like the worm in Yang Hong's belly, he guessed the situation between him and practicing state affairs. Yang Hong couldn't help but be surprised: This guy has such a strong inference ability...
Zhu Yuanzhang continued: "So I was wondering, what method can destroy the trust relationship between you and Jian State Affairs? Ha... the best way is to send my wife to come forward. She only needs to talk about the matter of accepting bribes, and with the rigid literati nature of practicing the state affairs, you will never want him to listen to your advice."
"You are right!" Yang Hong said distressedly: "I have seen through the play you played, but it is impossible for you to believe me in the state affairs practice. I talk nonsense, and he can't accept my opinions anymore. I just don't understand why you are acting in this play? If you are unwilling to accept the pleading, just drive the state affairs practice down the mountain? If you are willing to accept the pleading, why do you need to delay time and act in this strange drama?"
"Of course there is a reason for doing this." Zhu Yuanzhang lowered his face: "But I didn't give you a reason to listen. Although you can no longer hinder my plan now, you are an official after all, and I am a thief after all. I am not on the same path. I am not as stupid as teaching the enemy."
"Then what do you mean by telling me these...?" Yang Hongwei was surprised.
"I mean, do you want to be an official? Come to me as a thief?" Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly laughed: "You and I know very well what the inspector's censor does. As long as you let Lian return to the city, he will immediately compile a book and secretly demolish it to the capital. In a few days, the emperor's imperial study will have a memorial to impeach you... Then in a few days, the imperial edict to raid your house and kill you will fly out of the capital. At that time, no one in the world will save you. Your former colleagues, friends, and subordinates will want your life... There is only one way to save you, that is, to become a bandit."
Zhu Yuanzhang blinked: "If you are willing to become a bandit with me, I can tell you the reason for my acting..."
"This..." After hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's words, Yang Hong was shocked and sweated. It was indeed a troublesome to offend the state affairs, but the time was too short just now, and he had not thought deeper. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang reminded him, and followed Zhu Yuanzhang's thoughts and indeed... he was already in a life of death.
Accepting bribes is a minor crime and cannot be killed. But if you destroy the emperor's plan to pacify the emperor because of accepting bribes, it would be a major crime. If you don't think you will die, you will die. Now who in the world doesn't know how much the emperor attaches importance to this pacification? This is something the emperor paid out of his own pocket and took out 100,000 taels of treasury to do... Whoever makes a joke about this matter is really too long.
Yang Hong's sweat fell down eight pieces, and instantly soaked his clothes behind him.
"You don't have to rush to answer me." Zhu Yuanzhang chuckled: "When you go back and think about it carefully, you will stay in our village for a while after practicing state affairs. You have a few days to consider, but if you think too slowly and delay the practice of state affairs, his secret message will be sent to the capital...then it will be too late."
Yang Honggabeng almost bit his teeth with a sound. His body shook twice and walked to the road back to the cave exhausted. Heavy step by step, and a few traces of smoke and dust were poured on the mountain road.
Until he walked far away... Zhang Yingxian beside Zhu Yuanzhang sighed faintly: "Zhu Ba, do you really want to recruit Yang Hong into the village? This person... I don't like it very much... Seeing him, I will remember the past, the story of me who is dead!"
"In this village, you are the only one who has the leisure and ambition to remember those useless past events." Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly.
"But I really don't like him!" Zhang Yingxian said quietly: "Why do you have to recruit him?"
"He at least knows how to fight!" Zhu Yuanzhang sighed: "In the environment where the military soldiers in the ward have been completely defeated, Yang Hong can be regarded as a snow lotus in the mud! Do you know? If the copycat is still strong, it is absolutely not enough to recruit rough men. Now there are more than 3,000 soldiers in the copycat, Xu Renjie and I can still command it. In the future, there will be 5,000? What about 10,000? Is there a hundred thousand? Are you still relying on a group of people with only muscles and no brains to command?"
"Can we stop growing stronger?" Zhang Yingxian said timidly: "Zhu Ba... I've actually been afraid of you, but it's been a long time since time left. I want to thank you again. Although life in this mountain is simple, it makes me feel calm... I don't want to fight anymore... As long as this kind of life can continue... I... I'll be the real wife for you, I won't call you Zhu Ba, but instead call you husband... We won't sleep in separate beds, I... take care of your husband and children for you... You don't want to expand the scale of the village anymore. Wouldn't it be good for us to live peacefully for the rest of our lives?"
It was changed to Zhang Yingxian a few years ago, so she really didn't dare to say such words. She was frightened by Zhu Yuanzhang's angry killing of the official officer. The head, which rolled in the air with blood, rolled in her heart for several years, making her as well-behaved as a rabbit in front of Zhu Yuanzhang. But as time went on, she slowly discovered that Zhu Ba was actually a good person. He only killed people when he had to kill people, and would not wave butcher knife for no reason, or even fight wars. He only fought necessary wars, meaningless wars, and he disdained.
After years of life, her courage has gradually grown. Until now, she finally dared to stand up and say what she is in her heart. She even exposed her feelings... She is a woman, a creature like a woman lives in the same cave with a man for several years. Even if she had no love, she has it now!
She said this with expectation, hoping that Zhu Ba would nod and perhaps happiness would appear before her.
However, the man in front of him shook his head cruelly and murmured a few words Zhang Yingxian couldn't understand: "Calm? Can't calm... In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen... Hang the Coal Mountain... Destroy... Qing soldiers entered the pass..." Zhu Yuanzhang spoke these words very quietly, so that Zhang Yingxian could not hear them clearly at all.
After he murmured and laughed, he said, "Yingxian, sometimes, it's not that you want peace, God will give you peace. You have to work hard on your own. You can't get it if you hide in the mountains for a lifetime... You can do it yourself!"
After saying that, Zhu Yuanzhang turned around and left, never glanced at Zhang Yingxian again.
"You... don't leave..." Zhang Yingxian didn't know where the courage came from. She raised the skirt and chased after her: "You answer it clearly..."
"I will not stop expanding the scale of the counterfeit village!" Zhu Yuanzhang did not look back.
"I'm not asking this!" Zhang Yingxian shouted loudly: "What I said later? Don't avoid answering. I said, I want to be your real wife and take care of your husband and children, but you haven't answered me yet!"
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Zhu Yuanzhang was still walking forward without looking back, and even coughing did not sound like a cry, as if he was too lazy to waste a little energy to respond to this question.
"Damn it! A hateful man!" Zhang Yingxian took off her shoes in a panic and threw her hard towards Zhu Yuanzhang's departure: "Give me a good answer! As a woman, it takes a lot of courage to ask such a question... Is it easy for me? Woo... a hateful man..."
Chapter completed!