His Majesty the Emperor's imperial edict did not mention Yang Feng, as if he, the culprit, did not exist at all. In this case, Yang Feng assumed that he did not want to fall out for the time being...
Of course, temporarily.
But when it’s time to fall out, you still have to fall out.
And this is just for now, there is no guarantee how long it will last.
After all, the imperial envoy arrived soon.
Zhu Yuanzhang should actually have kicked the ball to those civil servants.
If the latter really revealed the truth, it would be hard to predict what would happen to him. After all, Yang Feng provoked his bottom line again and again. His Majesty the Emperor should have been murderous at this time, and he was getting older, although his body was still there.
You can't tell much, but after all, he is almost seventy years old.
So it's time to consider this issue.
If civil servants choose to admit the so-called truth fabricated by Yang Feng and others...
That’s hard to say!
It's possible for him to do it all in one pot.
In short, no matter what, Yang Feng actually has to face a crisis.
In this case……
What the hell!
What should I do? Why should I worry about this kind of thing?
Immediately afterwards, Yang Feng left Qingzhou and took a stagecoach directly to Dengzhou.
If he didn't leave, he always felt that the princess was going to do something heinous to him. This woman was panicking now and desperately needed comfort.
But……
Ambassador Yang is a serious person!
We must not give her this chance!
He arrived in Dengzhou the next morning, but it caused panic here. The main reason was that the news that he had seriously injured King Qi had spread, including everyone in Dengzhou. Faced with his arrival, Dengzhou
The local officials in the prefecture and the generals in the Biwadu Command were all embarrassed. How should they face him?
In other words, how will His Majesty the Emperor deal with him?
A warm welcome?
If the emperor turns around and cuts him to pieces, these people who warmly welcomed him will be easily targeted by the emperor.
not welcome?
But the problem is that Qi Fan said it has nothing to do with him!
Since he came with an imperial edict, everyone should still warmly welcome him in principle.
But once you compare the two, everyone will know what to do.
"Brother Qi, I really didn't expect that now that rumors are flying all over the sky and everyone is avoiding me like the god of plague, you can still come to welcome me. We have never met each other. Brother Qi trusts you so much. Brother, I am grateful.
many."
Yang Feng said.
Among the civil and military officials in Dengzhou, only Qi Bin came out of the city to greet him.
"The ambassador was joking. Since Qi Fan has made it clear that he is rebelling against the party and has nothing to do with the ambassador, does Qi not believe Qi Fan but believe the folk rumors? Shandong was the nest of the White Lotus Sect at that time. Although it was pacified, many members of the White Lotus Sect were hidden among the people.
It is not unusual for the generation to deliberately spread rumors to disturb people's hearts in order to avoid chaos in the world. Previously, the White Lotus Sect in Qingzhou spread rumors that the ambassador was the reincarnation of Han Lin'er and would lead them to rebuild the Song Dynasty. They also said that the ambassador knew magic and could control ghosts and gods.
Such absurd rumors could spread everywhere, let alone hurt King Qi.
It’s just a rumor!”
Qi Bin said with a smile.
"Given your age, you should have met Han Lin'er. Then do you think I look like Han Lin'er?"
Yang Feng said.
Qi Bin looked at him in shock...
"There is quite a bit of similarity between the features and eyes!"
he said.
Then the two looked at each other, smiled, and then laughed at the same time.
"Not to mention the ambassador, I have actually met Han Lin'er, but it has been a long time ago and I was still young at that time. Apart from the fact that I remember that he was quite thin, there is nothing else."
Qi Bin continued.
The two of them climbed onto the wall of Penglai Water City while talking.
In fact, not long after this place was built, Zhou Fang presided over the construction. The Qi family is the hereditary commanding officer of the Dengzhou Guard. This is why Zhu Yuanzhang was not granted titles below the earl. He was originally awarded the title of son and son, but
They were all killed in battle posthumously, but were actually canceled later because of these hereditary commanders.
They are no different from knights.
They are all hereditary.
As long as the offspring reaches adulthood and has not committed any crime, they will undergo a symbolic assessment by the court...
It's still very strict now, but in the future it will be symbolic.
Then the hereditary position can be inherited.
This system has its advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that it ensures loyalty to the Zhu family. The disadvantage is that once the strongman like Zhu Yuanzhang is lost, it will quickly corrupt and develop into serfdom. After all, this makes the hereditary generals have a negative attitude towards the hereditary military households.
With absolute control and the endorsement of the imperial power, the military households were locked in their jurisdictions and could not escape from generation to generation. Moreover, it was almost impossible to overthrow the hereditary positions unless they themselves committed some serious crime.
, otherwise it means that I have committed a small crime. As long as I am not deprived of my secular position, my descendants will still be hereditary.
Qi Jiguang said that his later life was miserable, but in fact his son inherited the Dengzhou Guard command after his death.
He even served as the commander-in-chief of Shandong Province.
"These are the ambassador's workers. I was afraid that they would have conflicts with the locals outside, so I placed them in the water city. They happened to help the navy with what they needed, and they also learned martial arts from them on weekdays.
We get along pretty well.
But the women the ambassador gave them are the envy of the brothers."
Qi Bin pointed down and said.
Yang Feng looked at the busy workers and their women below...
His adopted daughters.
The soldiers here are constantly walking around, even joking with these women, and the latter respond without hesitation. Although most of these are Korean women, they have already followed Yang Feng. It can be said that they have been reborn. Indeed,
It's hard not to make these soldiers in Dengzhou jealous.
After all, everyone likes beautiful women, let alone whether they are practical or not, I really like them when I look at them!
"Are you all envious?"
Yang Feng suddenly shouted.
The people below raised their heads and looked at him. The adopted daughters were surprised and quickly saluted and called their godfather.
The soldiers whispered to each other.
"Do you envy them for having beautiful women?"
Yang Feng shouted.
"envious!"
"envious!"
…
The soldiers shouted with laughter.
"Then go and grab it!
I snatched them from North Korea, although to them, it was actually me who saved them from the sea of misery.
But I admit that it was indeed a robbery.
Now your emperor has issued an order to conquer the Japanese country.
You can also grab it!
The cannons are firing at his mother, and the giant whale is swallowing the fusang!"
Ambassador Yang continues to plagiarize poet Zhang.
"Open the cannon and blast his mother, and the giant whale will swallow the fuso!"
"Open the cannon and blast his mother!"
…
There was an excited roar below.
"The military spirit is available!"
Yang Feng sighed with emotion.
Qi Bin next to him smiled slightly.
"The ambassador's method of boosting morale is indeed straightforward and effective. It is far more depressing than those corrupt scholars who quote scriptures."
he said.
He doesn’t know that his descendants are also bent on leaning towards the corrupt Confucians!
Yang Feng has more than a thousand workers here. In fact, the total number of workers he has recruited is less than 2,000. Among them, there are only 600 real land reclamation workers, and the remaining 700 are from factories in the capital.
, and there are more than 600 people who went north to build factories. But these factories are not necessarily all in the reclamation areas designated by Huining. There are less than 1,000 people who actually go to the reclamation areas. There are indeed not many people, but they are already there.
This is the limit of what can be done. After all, no matter how good the conditions are in this era, not many people are willing to go to a place like Huining.
Next, Yang Feng needs to regroup the more than a thousand people here.
In fact, it is also militarized.
It's just that he is named after the production team.
A team will be responsible for a farm in the future, and then it will be divided into groups, the agricultural group, which must be more than one group, and the agricultural machinery operators will be divided into other groups, and then there will also be the carpentry group, the ironwork group, the livestock group, the construction group, etc.
Separate.
In the end, a production team is a complete collective.
When faced with plunder, all men, regardless of their age, must take up arms if they are taller than a wheel, including women, who also have hand crossbows.
Young adults are powerful crossbows.
It is an ordinary crossbow level, but with the addition of a winding device, the continuous shooting ability will be very strong, and it can be kicked off in a hurry. This power is enough. Their opponents cannot have heavy armor anyway. In fact, some
Workers know how to bow and arrow. At this time, there are many civilians who know how to bow and arrow. However, bow and arrow require long-term training and are not suitable for such production-oriented industries.
Crossbows are much simpler.
Even if you are familiar with the winding device, it does not require much effort, and women can use it to wind the crossbow.
Bows and arrows don't work.
Archers must maintain great strength.
As for fighting with cold weapons, Yang Feng doesn't care. All he needs is the organization of these workers. Fighting requires long-term training and experience. It's not necessary. He doesn't really expect these workers to fight with this kind of equipment.
It means being able to protect yourself in the face of wild beasts or nomads marauding, at least for a certain period of time. But the organization and discipline must be strict. Once this is achieved, you can equip it with a flintlock gun when necessary, and you can play queue directly.
Shot to death.
However, these people are not the real main force for his future settlement in Huining.
The real main force...
"Master, let's make it clear that no matter what you promise to them secretly, it doesn't matter even if you really say that I am the reincarnation of King Ming.
But there is one thing, we must make them feel at ease and follow me in Huining."
Yang Feng looked at Zhang Ding and said.
Another group of people not far away were looking at Master Zhang with excited eyes.
These guys are all around forty or even older. Many of them have obvious scars on their faces. They are all dressed in rags, like a group of beggars, but they have a strong aura of old gangsters. They are not like Shuicheng.
Together, in fact, they were more accurately escorted, because there were still some soldiers watching them.
These were brought from Jiangxi and Huguang.
But it's just not tied up.
After all, their wives, children, and children had all been resettled in various places by this time.
They can't run.
And this is just one of the groups, there will be thousands more people coming north one after another.
At the same time, Jiangxi and Huguang are still accepting more people who have left the mountainous areas. This is part of the two provinces' work to recruit, screen, and relocate refugees. Of course, ordinary refugees do not need to go north. Those who look like they are not good people at first glance are given to Yang.
Harvesting wasteland.
It is estimated that in the end there will be seven or eight thousand people, if not ten thousand.
However, there is much controversy between North Korea and China over this matter.
People have been admonishing Zhu Yuanzhang, saying that these are the remnants of the Chen Han Dynasty. They were originally unruly people, many of whom were still hostile to the Ming Dynasty, and Yang Feng was not loyal to the Ming Dynasty. Letting them follow Yang Feng was simply a conspiracy, so even if they can't
Even if all these people are killed, they cannot be given to Yang Feng. They can just be dispersed directly to various guard stations as military households.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang remained unmoved.
It's hard to say what his real purpose is.
"Then that person has become your accomplice."
Zhang Dingbian said.
"Whatever you think!
You also know that I do it for their own good. They went to Huining with me honestly to give their wives, children and children a piece of fertile land outside the mountains, so that they don’t have to suffer in the mountains in the future. As for them, in fact, on the day you hid in the mountains and forests after your failure,
He is already considered dead.
Then go and die in Huining!"
Yang Feng said.
"I want to see how long you can continue to act as a friendly envoy.
You are as hypocritical as Yao Guangxiao.
Yao Guangxiao is obviously a monster monk full of intrigues, but he insists on pretending to be an eminent monk. You are obviously a monster with a rebellious back of his head, but you still insist on pretending to be a good person. Unfortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang knows everything. He is just watching you act, so he is waiting.
God, he's bored. If he delays you again, it will be the last good show for him."
Zhang Dingbian said.
"Then it depends on whether he has this ability."
Yang Feng said.
Zhang Dingbian didn't talk nonsense anymore.
Of course, he didn't go to find those people. He still had to be cautious in public, so he immediately walked down the city wall and walked towards a temple in the distance.
Yang Feng continued to look at the busy workers below...
"ambassador!"
Qi Bin, who had been called away before, came back with a solemn expression.
"What's wrong?"
Yang Feng said.
"Ambassador, you are going to be in some trouble!
Demons from the White Lotus Sect appeared in Qingzhou and spread rumors at night, saying that you were the reincarnation of Han Lin'er, so you killed the King of Qi first and then destroyed the Zhu family, asking the people to raise troops to follow you in rebellion.
And there are quite a lot of them.”
Qi Bin said.
"This is very interesting."
Yang Feng said with a strange smile.
This is indeed very interesting, especially when the imperial envoys from North Korea and China are on their way.
No matter how you look at it, it looks like you are cooperating with the imperial envoy.
But this means that those civil servants really want to take the opportunity to deal with him, but Yang Feng really doubts whether they have the courage. If they do this, it will be a dead end. If Zhu Yuanzhang really takes this opportunity to attack him, he must also do it right.
A purge of those involved would inevitably lead to a new prison, and many civil servants would be killed.
This is the same fate.
So do these people have such courage?
However, it is difficult to say that these Confucian scholars in the early Ming Dynasty were indeed very hard-boned.
Do not rule out partial sacrifice in exchange for his death.
"Brother Qi, are you scared?"
he said.
"Whether you're afraid or not, Qi is already here with the ambassador. It's impossible to escape, and Qi Fan seems to be more anxious than me. It is said that the princess is furious and has ordered all Qi Fan's guards to go out to hunt for these monsters.
Ambassador, this is very interesting."
Qi Bin said with a smile.
So his statement that he didn't believe the rumors was just talk.