In the mansion of the largest noble family in Guide, the courtyard is complicated, servants and servants are constantly coming and going, and there are armed troops everywhere carrying gold, silver, soft goods and valuables.
Hou Fangyu sat in a small pavilion in the courtyard, holding a charcoal fire. Because the wind and rain were very fierce and the weather became much cooler, Hou Fangyu bought an extra large fur coat lined with chinchilla skin, and kept leaning on the fire with his hands.
Rub.
The servant of the Hou Mansion brought in a man dressed in variegated cloth. His name was Jia Kaizong, who was also a well-known scholar. He was much older than the great Marquis Fangyu, but his expression was much clearer and immersed in wine and sex than he had been in poetry and wine for a long time.
Hou Fangyu looks young and capable.
Hou Fangyu was the son of Hou Xun, who had just been entrusted by Emperor Chongzhen with the power of controlling and suppressing the enemy. But at this moment, he had a bitter look on his face and helplessly replied to Jia Kaizong: "Thanks to Brother Jingzi Hongfu, Chen Zhen finally defended the river."
The soldiers withdrew."
"What did Chen Zhentai say?"
Jia Kaizong hurriedly walked to the opposite side of Hou Fangyu, sat on the other side of the stove, and asked repeatedly: "Is Chen Zhentai preparing to go to Xuzhou? But what does he plan to do with the wealth of the famous and wealthy families in Guide? I'm coming all the way.
In the Hou Mansion, what Chen Zhen's troops did is a bit too much! I don't know if it's because they took in Xiao Yuanying's thieves, but what they are doing in the city now is no different from thieves."
Hou Fangyu sighed and questioned: "Alas! Chen Yongfu thinks he has military power. Even the Hou Mansion has been allocated 40,000 taels of military supplies by him, let alone everyone else? There is no other way to do it under the roof. But Jingzi
Brother, you don’t have the burden of a family, what are your plans for the future? You’d better leave Guide as soon as possible!”
Jia Kaizong smiled at this time and said: "I am not a teacher and you are a suave and a knight. I am a farmer and a hoe. I don't want to serve the country but I am free."
Jia Kaizong was a bohemian man, admired Li Zhi, and only judged his rank based on his knowledge. Therefore, although he was older than Hou Fangyu, he regarded Hou Fangyu as his teacher.
"Brother Jingzi, please don't make fun of me. I, Hou Fangyu, entered the Xueyuan Club at the age of ten. It has been decades since I was born, and yet I have achieved nothing at the beginning of my life. I feel so ashamed! I wish I was born at the wrong time. If I could have been born in the early years of the Han Dynasty,
How great would it be to win King Xiao of Liang?"
"That's wrong. I think your Hou family is a famous family that I have returned to Germany. It is another famous family after Mr. Shen Ge. Zuo, Shi, and Yuan are all the first to come from your father's hands. Chaozong, your poetic talent and literary name are also known to women and children, and you are even more famous.
In his weak years, he became famous in the north and south of Qinhuai. Being ranked first among the "Four Young Masters" can be said to have greatly boosted the reputation of Guide, our ancient city. Chen Zhen was able to maintain a foothold in Guide under the invasion of the invading army, and it was not only thanks to the Hou family
Organized group training for thousands of people?”
As soon as Jia Kaizong mentioned the matter of team training, Hou Fangyu felt even more heartbroken. Even after drinking several sips of tea, he could not suppress the boredom in his chest. After thinking about it, he said:
"Team training, team training... It is for this reason that Chen Zhentai has been in trouble with me. He has long been eyeing the regiment training troops brought up by our wealthy families. He is eyeing them and trying every means to swallow them up.
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Jia Kaizong stroked his beard and said in surprise: "Didn't Chen Zhen just have a conflict with Tuan Yong when he accepted Xiao Yuanying? I thought he had calmed down Brother Chaozong at this time! Unexpectedly, I have only been to the Yellow River for a few days.
Things have changed again?"
The conflict he was referring to was that after Xiao Yuan Ying's defeat in Yingzhou, Chen Yongfu went against all opinions and proposed that Guide accept Xiao Yuan Ying, which triggered a firefight between Henan Town and Guide regiment.
At that time, several prominent families, headed by the Hou family, were in charge of the regiment training in Guide Mansion. They all hated the thieves deeply. Even if Yuan Shizhong stated that he wanted to "abandon the darkness and turn to the light", he could not win their understanding and trust at all.
Hou Fangyu made it clear to Chen Yongfu at that time that Henan Town could take in Xiao Yuanying if he wanted to, but it could never take him in within Guide Prefecture.
If Chen Yongfu insists on this, then don't blame them for ignoring the old friendship between Hou Xun and Chen Yongfu and driving Henan Town out of Guide.
Chen Yongfu, like Zuo Liangyu, was both from Changping Town, and had some relationship with Hou Xun, who had led the Changping soldiers. It was also because of this relationship that Hou Fangyu dared to shout unusually arrogantly in front of Chen Yongfu.
But how did they know that Chen Yongfu was now a fence-sitting faction who was on both ends of the spectrum between the Ming Dynasty and the Chuang Army? Even Emperor Chongzhen couldn't control him, and some gentry in Guide wanted to punish him?
Isn't this just wishful thinking?
Chen Yongfu immediately used his iron strength to teach Hou Fangyu a lesson. He and his son Chen De left the city under the pretext of suppressing bandits. The soldiers of Chen Town who stayed in Guide City immediately besieged the gentry's mansions in the name of asking for military pay.
After plundering the whole city, Hou Fangyu and several other representatives of the gentry hurriedly organized a regiment to practice armed resistance.
However, although the Guide regiment had a large number of people training, there were tens of thousands of them at that time, but in terms of equipment and training, it was far behind Henan Town.
There was a conflict between the two sides, resulting in many casualties during the Guide regiment training, and the gentry's property also suffered great losses. It was not until Hou Fangyu lowered his head and begged Chen Yongfu to return to the city that Chen Yongfu returned to the city with Shi Ran's savior attitude and quelled the mutiny.
The situation was calmed down.
After Hou Fangyu had a clear understanding of Chen Yongfu's character and the strength of Henan Town, he managed to convince several other gentry and agreed to Chen Yongfu's request for apportionment. Each family would pay for the supply to Henan Town, but he had to accept Chen Yongfu's transfer of Xiao Yuan.
Requirements for camp resettlement to Guide.
However, Chen Yongfu took care of the face of the Hou family, especially the face of the court boss Hou Xun, and still put the credit for quelling the mutiny on Hou Fangyu.
Therefore, some people like Jia Kaizong and others who did not know the inside story really regarded Hou Fangyu as a first-rate political figure who criticized the princes.
Hou Fangyu himself knew how weak the Guide regiment was in front of Chen Yongfu. He smiled bitterly and said: "Chen Yongfu is in a hurry to evacuate from Guide to Xuzhou, but the wealth and land of various wealthy families are all in Guide. How can he just leave?
Let's go? In fact, everyone's request is not much. We just hope that the town will be given more than ten days of grace, so that each family can have more time to transport all the gold and silver.
But Chen Zhentai is so afraid of the enemy... Chen Zhentai is so impatient that he is not willing to wait for us any longer. Because of this incident, that boy Chen De set off to plunder the people again, deliberately causing a mutiny and burning down many mansions, in order to force us to surrender.
After leaving the ancestral home, he quickly followed Henan Town and fled to Xuzhou with his tail between his legs."
Jia Kaizong suddenly realized: "So that's it! Then another conflict happened because of this incident?"
Hou Fangyu nodded: "Which one can't bear it? In fact, all the gentry have been very restrained, and I have done enough persuasion work for Chen Zhentai. Even Chen Zhentai's repeated increases in military pay assessments, after my best efforts to persuade him,
Next, all the gentry also expressed their efforts to put it together.
However, the Zhentai demanded that everyone evacuate Guide within two days. The time was too urgent! Moreover, before the two days were up, Chen De started setting fire to the city. How could the local gentry endure it? Each family organized group training and Chen De
There was a conflict between Germany and Germany, and they fought fiercely in Guide City, each of them suffered hundreds of casualties before they stopped."
Because everyone had already agreed on the policy of evacuating Guide, Jia Kaizong followed some generals from Henan Town to the south bank of the Yellow River a few days ago, preparing to withdraw all the river defense soldiers on the south bank.
He didn't know that such a farce between the gentry group training and Chen Yongfu actually happened in Guide City at the same time. However, after hearing this incident, Jia Kaizong understood why all the river defense soldiers had withdrawn, but Guide Shou had already withdrawn.
The army remained motionless.
"No wonder!" Jia Kaizong shouted loudly, "When the river defense troops withdrew, we heard the news that the intruders had captured Xiayi County. I was also surprised that Chen Zhentai had said that he would evacuate Guide a few days ago, so why did he act like this?
Slow? You actually sit back and watch the intruders cut off our eastbound route...