Soon the carriages and horses were ready, and Chang Yu got up and left. Chunxiang, because of his arm injury, stayed in Jiaocheng to command the three hundred men and horses in order to avoid the pain of traveling, but Chang Yu left in a hurry with only a dozen riders.
Outside the north gate of the city, Zhou Yuji looked at Chang Yu and his group who had gone away in the dark night. He took a long breath and said with a wry smile: "It's strange to say that when the factory owner is here, he is like a centering stone and makes me feel very at ease. But
He breathed a sigh of relief when he left, as if he was sending away a plague god."
Hahaha, Niu Yong and the others burst into laughter, patted their chests and said, "To be fair to you, I have this same mentality in humble positions. The factory owner is really a magical person. With him, everything seems to be solved easily, but after all, I am still young and can't do anything."
He is reckless and has no regard for consequences, and he always makes people worry about causing trouble." He quietly looked around and whispered, "To put it bluntly, he is a troublemaker."
Everyone laughed again, and Zhu Kong said: "Not only is he a troublemaker, but he is also a powder keg. He can be ignited at the drop of a hat."
A horseman came quickly from the north. Zhou Yuji and others stopped smiling and looked up, only to see a follower who had just returned to Taiyuan with Chang Yu.
"Commander Zhou, the factory master has asked me to send you a message. If the rebel army becomes impatient in two days, you can say this... This will delay the attack for at least another three to five days." After the follower whispered, he immediately ran back.
After hearing this, several people looked at each other.
"Is this okay?"
Wang Yongkui licked his mouth with a look of disbelief: "Is it possible that the frail Buddha is more generous than the adults and is still in charge?"
"That's right, why do civil servants seem to be superior to us?" Niu Yong rolled his eyes.
“It seems to work”
Zhou Yuji nodded lightly, and then smiled bitterly: "Civil officials are not necessarily superior to us military men. To conquer the world, military men need to shed blood, but An Tianxia needs scholars. And what the intruders need most now is influential scholars to serve him.
Endorsement, so if it is in the name of that little old man, the intruder will be ecstatic, the factory owner is really a smart man, I am really impressed."
Besides, Chang Yu and his group of more than ten people were riding in a hurry. Although it was dark, the road was flat. There were no troops marching, and there were few refugees. It took more than two hours to reach the gate of Taiyuan City in a hundred miles. Of course, Chang Yu also felt that he was fast.
He was knocked to pieces and his riding skills still need to be improved.
There were still a lot of people outside Taiyuan City, terrifyingly so, but they were refugees who were working all night. In addition to expanding the moat, they also dug many ditches in various directions within a few miles of the south side of the moat to prevent the enemy's baggage from approaching the city wall.
The city gate has been closed, but the business of the porridge shed next to it is still very prosperous, and it is crowded with many refugees who have just fled to the city before it closes.
"Open the door!" A royal guard shouted at the top of the city. Immediately, people on the city and inside the city gate asked questions at the same time.
"The factory governor is here"
As soon as he heard this, someone from the city immediately went to report it. After a while, he saw the deputy commander-in-chief, Ying Shisheng, sticking his head out of the city.
According to military orders, military personnel must be on duty in the city at night, perform their duties and stick to their posts. Chang Yu and Zhou Yuji are not in Taiyuan City. Ying Shisheng is the largest military officer in the city and is stationed at the South Gate.
"Factory Supervisor?" Ying Shisheng asked
"It's me" Chang Yu replied from below,
Ying Shisheng hurriedly asked someone to open the door, and then hurried down to the city to meet Chang Yu.
The city gate was wide open, and the doorway was filled with soldiers and several braziers. When Chang Yu came in, the soldiers were extremely respectful.
However, Chang Yu soon discovered something was wrong, because as soon as he walked out of the doorway, he saw a lot of people gathered near the city gate. At least fifty or sixty people gathered around several braziers to keep warm, pretending to be neither soldiers nor civilians.
This damn person is a scholar! Chang Yu’s face suddenly darkened.
Chang Yu's Ying Shisheng, who wanted to greet Chang Yu when he went down to the city, was blocked by those people before he could reach him. They kept shouting something. Fortunately, the soldiers around him immediately blocked them, and Ying Shisheng finally pulled out.
He looked slightly embarrassed and walked up to Chang Yu to greet him.
Before the two of them started talking, the scholars gathered there saw the signs and knew that a big shot was coming. They crowded towards Chang Yu and kept shouting loudly: "Open trial, still mention it."
Learn to be innocent,
You want to see people when you are dead, you want to see corpses when you are alive...
Severely punish the evil dogs of Dongchang...
Chang Yu's face turned livid, and he reached out to draw the knife, but Ying Shisheng held him down and shook his head gently: "My lord, you can't."
"Illegal gathering, besieging the Yamen, disturbing public order, and dare to insult me, why not kill one to serve as a warning to others?" Chang Yu said angrily in a low voice.
"Sir, you must not act rashly. These scholars... Hey, if you draw your sword today, you will be the common enemy of the scholars in the world tomorrow. No one can defeat you, not even the emperor."
”.
"Hey, what should our family be afraid of? Being a minister is to share the emperor's worries. If the emperor cannot do anything, our family will do it for him." When Chang Yu became angry, few people could stop him. Seeing those scholars becoming more and more angry, they became more and more angry.
The more it came to his face, the more unbearable it became.
"Sir" Ying Shisheng pressed the back of Chang Yu's hand hard again: "At this time, the enemy is at hand. This will add fuel to the fire and may disturb the people's hearts!"
Alas, Chang Yu sighed heavily. When it comes to people's hearts, this is his weakness.
Looking back at the scholars, Ying Shisheng pulled Chang Yu away: "Mr. Factory, it's better to go to the governor's yamen quickly. The big scene is over there. Hundreds of scholars gathered at the gate of the yamen, blocking Mr. Cai in it.
I need an explanation."
"Can you find out who the leader is?" Chang Yu asked as he left.
"Governor Cai" Ying Shisheng smiled bitterly and shook his head.
What, Chang Yu almost fell over: "Cai Maode took the lead in blocking his own yamen!"
"You will know when you go there."
The governor's office is in the west of the city, where most of the government agencies in Taiyuan are gathered. It has always been an important place for public security. Especially at this critical moment, the evening is a curfew area, but at this time the curfew has become a decoration.
Hundreds of people gathered outside the governor's office and did not leave even late at night. They gathered in groups in front of the brazier in silent protest, and there were a large number of officers and soldiers around to maintain stability.
The appearance of Chang Yu and Ying Shisheng immediately caused quite a stir. Few of these scholars knew Chang Yu, but Ying Shisheng was a military boss and they were familiar with each other. They saw that he was very respectful to the young man next to him.
, they knew he was a big shot, and there had been rumors that the director of the Dongchang Factory was a young eunuch, so they reacted instantly and told each other...
So they swarmed up and surrounded Chang Yu and Ying Shisheng who were just about to enter the Yamen. For a while, Chang Yu's head was buzzing with all kinds of yelling.
"Shut up," Chang Yu shouted, and pulled out his sword with a click: "I have something to say, illegal gatherings, and besieging court officials, but I think Dongchang's sword is not sharp enough."
As soon as he finished speaking, more than a dozen attendants around him also drew out their knives. The cold light flashed, and the scholars were shocked to retreat. For a while, no one dared to speak.
"You will recommend a few people to represent you in the Yamen to deal with this matter. The others should not be disturbed. If there is any further excessive behavior, in this emergency, I will not mind a bloodbath of Sanli Academy." Chang Yu said coldly. He knew that most of the people here were Sanli Academy.
Taxi.
Sanli Academy is one of the four major academies in the world, with a lofty status. Many court officials or contemporary literary figures are inextricably related to it. It can also be understood as one of the several major mountains of the Donglin Party.
Sure enough, Chang Yu, who had a murderous look on his face, calmed down the situation, so that these scholars, who were usually eloquent and eloquent, were silent at this moment, watching Chang Yu domineeringly kick open the door of the Yamen and go straight in.
As soon as Chang Yu entered, he heard a lot of chatter outside the door, all of which were secretly scolding him for being domineering and other undesirable things.
Huh, Chang Yu is too lazy or ignorant to argue with these literati. It is destined to lose or not win. The literati are all scoundrels. To use the joke of later generations, if you reason with him, he will act like a hooligan with you; you will follow him.
When he acts like a hooligan, he will talk to you about the system; when you talk about the system with him, he will tell you about the country's conditions; when you talk to him about the country's conditions...
So the best way is to just draw the knife whatever he tells you.
After just a few steps into the Yamen, Cai Maode, who received the news, came to greet him, followed by several unfamiliar faces.
"The factory owner is finally here."
Cai Maode saluted Chang Yu: "You see, this matter has gotten out of hand. The old man really couldn't control it anymore, so he had to ask the factory official to come and make the decision."
"My family heard that you were always adding fuel to the flames after this happened," Chang Yu said with a sneer as he walked away.
"Hey, it's hard to finish in a year. This matter is beyond the control of the old man."
Cai Maode's face turned red: "Let's go in and discuss it in detail."
Entering the lobby, everyone sat down and served tea. Cai Maode began to introduce everyone present one by one. However, they were all officials from the Department of Education and big bosses from Sanli Academy. Apart from Chang Yu and Cai Maode, they were all from the education system.
Chang Yu was neither impressed nor interested in the others. It was not until Cai Maode introduced a middle-aged man in his forties that his eyes lit up.
This man is of medium build. He doesn't have the nerdy air like those literati, but he is very heroic. More importantly, this man has a great reputation, Fu Shan.
That's right, it was Fu Qingzhu in the martial arts novels. He was not only a famous person in Taiyuan, but also a great writer at that time. He could even be said to be an all-rounder in both literature and martial arts. He not only had high attainments in literature, but also in calligraphy, painting, chess, medicine, Buddhism...etc.
He is simply an encyclopedia expert, and even a master of martial arts, but his highest achievement is medicine. He is proficient in men's and women's medicine, and is thousands of times better than the retired old military doctor on the telephone pole.
Some people say that eunuchs and literati are natural enemies. In that social environment at that time, eunuchs were the lowest profession, but literati were admired by thousands of people. It is said that all people are inferior but only those who are educated are good. They seem to be born to be superior. People like eunuchs are their most
It's shameless, not to mention that in their eyes, eunuchs are not only despicable but also harm the country.
Therefore, even though Chang Yu is now the powerful Admiral of Dongchang, and on the surface he is polite to everyone, but he can clearly feel that these people here have a kind of contempt for him from the bottom of their bones, even if they
I try my best to hide it, but it always shows up inadvertently.
Even a Buddhist like Cai Maode, who is almost pure from the world, will occasionally show his contempt for Chang Yu while admiring him.
Fu Shan was also like this at this time. That kind of vague contempt made Chang Yu very uncomfortable. What happened to the great writer, what happened to the celebrity, I am teasing you for a minute, Chang Yu felt very arrogant in his heart, thinking about how to deal with it.
People who don't like it say: "Let's talk about what's going on. I've been running all the way until now and it's still unclear."