After the New Year's Eve, it was the Zhengdan Festival of the Ming Dynasty, and all civil and military officials went to sleep.
According to custom, this is the time for New Year greetings. Needless to say New Year greetings between relatives, there are also greetings to bosses, and visits between close friends.
For the dignitaries here in Nanjing, it is a busy official festival.
A few years ago, all the troops led by imperial envoy Ma Shiying had crossed the Yangtze River and were placed in Yingtian Mansion and Taiping Mansion and Zhenjiang Mansion around Yingtian Mansion. No one expected this.
Originally, they thought that Ma Shiying's attention would be mainly focused on Nanjing, or at most Yingtian Prefecture. However, they did not expect that even the neighboring Taiping Prefecture and Zhenjiang Prefecture would send garrison troops.
Of course, theoretically speaking, there is no problem at all. After all, Ma Shiying came here to exterminate the bandits and protect the safety of Nanjing.
However, in the eyes of the powerful people in Nanjing, Ma Shiying is actually here to deal with them! Shouldn't his power be in Nanjing, or at most Yingtian Mansion?
For this reason, out of this consideration, when they secretly moved the hermit houses in each prefecture, they also moved them mostly to the two neighboring prefectures, that is, Taiping Prefecture and Zhenjiang Prefecture.
After all, it would be too much trouble and money to move further!
Of course they didn't know that no matter how far they moved, such a big movement would be detected by factory guards arranged in advance in Nanjing. If Ma Shiying knew about it, he would definitely send troops further away.
During the Chinese New Year, although Ma Shiying did not immediately start to reorganize the place like Luzhou Prefecture, the dignitaries in Nanjing lived like a year and began to seek solutions.
One of the ways is to take the opportunity of New Year greetings and start walking around with Ma Shiying.
But on Ma Shiying's side, they used sugar-coated bullets a year ago under the pretext of catching up with the situation, but it had no effect.
Therefore, during the New Year's greetings on the Zhengdan Festival, their targets were mainly aimed at Ma Shiying's garrison generals in various places.
Among Ma Shiying's men, the most important one was of course Ning Yuanbo Li Dingguo, who had just temporarily taken over the garrison in Nanjing.
However, when Li Dingguo took over the garrison power of Nanjing with the assistance of Nanjing garrison eunuch Lu Jiude a year ago, he showed his evil side.
There was no rest or recuperation at all. As soon as he took over the post of Nanjing garrison, he inspected the Nanjing city defense and inspected the armament situation of Nanjing.
Needless to say, Nanjing has been at peace for hundreds of years and its armaments are lax.
During the Jiajing period, several Japanese pirates were killed at the gate of Nanjing City, but the defenders at the top of the city were panicked but did not dare to move. In the end, these Japanese pirates left in a swagger. This shows how poor the military equipment of these nobles in Nanjing was.
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Li Dingguo was really not polite at all. If he inspected any place and found any problems, he would immediately punish them severely. He would hit those who deserved a military stick, and those who deserved to be dismissed would be dismissed. He did not care whether it was Wei Guogong or Xincheng Bo who was behind you. He was unselfish and unselfish.
Anyway, he took office with his own army. After punishing the people, he replaced his own men, and then began to eliminate the weak and retain the strong in the army. This was a vigorous and resolute manner.
In just a few short days, Nanjing City's armaments were basically overhauled.
This aggressive approach made all the powerful people in Nanjing realize that this Li Dingguo was a fool and could not cooperate with them.
In addition, Li Dingguo was born a bandit and was despised by these hereditary nobles. Naturally, they gave up the idea of continuing to attack Li Dingguo with sugar-coated bullets.
On the surface, they couldn't find any fault with Li Dingguo, because Li Dingguo was very rigid in everything he did and did everything according to rules and regulations. He also implemented military control over his subordinates and never left the military camp. At least in the short term, there was no chance of making mistakes.
Therefore, the Nanjing dignitaries' resentment towards Li Dingguo could only be tolerated for now.
There was nothing Li Dingguo could do for the time being, so they targeted other people, such as Huang Degong.
Of course, Wei Guogong and others will not come forward in person because their identities are not equal. However, they will send people there!
No, Xu Wenjue, the eldest son of Wei Guogong, went to pay Huang Degong New Year's greetings in a very low-key manner.
Under normal circumstances, this situation is impossible. Although Xu Wenjue does not have a title yet, he will definitely succeed Wei Guogong. This status is very high, at least more prominent than Huang Degong.
However, Xu Wenjue didn't have this kind of self-consciousness. He said "Brother Huang" to each other, which made it seem like they had a good relationship.
Huang Degong seemed a bit flattered that the Crown Prince of Wei took the initiative to pay him New Year greetings. Not only did he meet him, he also hosted a banquet for him.
After a few glasses of rice wine, we talked a lot, as if the two of us were old friends who hadn't seen each other for many years.
"Come on, come on, Brother Huang, I'll give you another drink!" Xu Wenjue raised his glass very enthusiastically and said, "Among the most capable generals in our Ming Dynasty, I don't agree with anything else, but only Brother Huang.
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Upon hearing this, Huang Degong happily raised his glass in response.
"If you want to talk about the one who has great military exploits, it really has to be Brother Huang!" Xu Wenjue said with a look of reverence, "Killing the captives and the bandits is like killing a chicken. It is the most powerful one! I respect you by doing it first.
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After he finished speaking, he drank it all in one gulp and then lit up the bottom of the glass!
When Huang Degong saw it, he happily drank it all in one gulp and also lit up the bottom of the cup.
When Xu Wenjue saw it, he burst into laughter and filled the glasses of wine for the two of them himself. Then he said with emotion: "To be honest with you, Brother Huang, although my ancestor's military exploits are famous, it has been passed down to my generation, and there has been peace for so many years."
When I came down, I have long been unfamiliar with fighting. Now that the rebels are in chaos, I am determined to serve the country. I don’t want to talk about my skills on the battlefield. I wonder if Brother Huang can teach me and pass on some skills to me? In this case, I will
You can use it on the battlefield one day!"
This scratched Huang Degong's itch, and he immediately smiled and said: "This is easy!"
Then, perhaps under the stimulation of alcohol, he immediately started talking, starting from all aspects of marching and fighting, just like the endless water of the Yellow River!
Xu Wenjue, on the other hand, listened with admiration, and from time to time exaggeratedly exclaimed such words as "That's how it is" and "Wonderful, really wonderful" to cater to Huang Degong.
Suddenly, at this banquet, the guests and hosts were enjoying themselves!
I don’t know how long he had been drinking, but suddenly, Xu Wenjue let out a long sigh, which seemed very abrupt.
Under such circumstances, it would be abnormal for Huang Degong to turn a blind eye.
Therefore, Huang Degong naturally asked strangely: "Brother Xu, what's wrong with you? Why are you sighing so much? If you have any difficulties during the Chinese New Year, please tell me and I will make the decision for you!"
After hearing this, Xu Wenjue had a sad look on his face, and replied to Huang Degong: "What trouble can I have? I'm just messing around, who can do anything to me?"
"Then why are you sighing?" Huang Degong was even more surprised after hearing this.
Seeing his expression, Xu Wenjue felt that the heat was almost over, so he sighed again and said: "Brother, I am sighing for my brother! I just listened to Brother Huang talk so eloquently, I admire him very much for his ability, I have to say
, Brother Huang is the most powerful general in our Ming Dynasty. The result... the result..."
When it came to the latter part, he seemed to have something to hide, but he stopped talking.
This made Huang Degong very unhappy, and he immediately yelled at Xu Wenjue: "You are a big man, Nini, can you speak more openly? I'm sorry!"
As he spoke, he picked up the wine glass and drank it in one gulp.
Xu Wenjue was scolded by Huang Degong and felt very unhappy. However, seeing that Huang Degong seemed to have drunk too much, he suppressed his discomfort and hurriedly went to fill up the wine with Huang Degong, and then said to Huang Degong: "Brother, I am
It’s not that I don’t want to say it, but I’m afraid that it will make Brother Huang angry if I say it, so I just sigh to myself.”
"Why the hell are you like a girl?" Upon hearing this, Huang Degong pointed at Xu Wenjue's nose and shouted, "If you don't say this, then stop saying it!"
Xu Wenjue was secretly angry when he heard this. He was the dignified prince of the Duke of Wei. Who dared to scold him in person? Even his father had never scolded him like this. Now that he was pointed at his nose and scolded by such a vulgar warrior, it was enough!
So, he stopped acting and said directly to Huang Degong: "Originally, we always thought that the post of Nanjing garrison belongs to Brother Huang. Unexpectedly, in the end, it was not Brother Huang who took the post of Nanjing garrison.
This is really unreasonable! Based on seniority, military exploits, ability, the order of titles, the iron certificate in Brother Huang’s hand, etc., it should be Brother Huang who should be the garrison in Nanjing!"
At this point, he sighed in an exaggerated way and said: "Even someone else like me is avenging Brother Huang! To be honest, I don't have a title yet and don't have the qualifications. Otherwise, I will definitely submit a letter."
To avenge the injustice for Brother Huang. People fight for a breath, and Buddha fights for a stick of incense, right?"
Huang Degong seemed stunned after hearing this. He didn't expect that Xu Wenjue's sigh was actually about this matter.
After he came to his senses, he didn't answer the words. He just picked up the wine glass again, drank it down in one gulp, and then slammed it on the table. Fortunately, the wine glass was really strong, otherwise it would definitely break.
"Come on, come on, drink, drink!" Then, he seemed not to care anymore, and just called to Xu Wenjue, "I have wine today, and I'm drunk today. You are celebrating the New Year, what are you talking about? Drink!"
"Okay, okay, drink, drink!" When Xu Wenjue saw him like this, he did not continue talking about the matter, but agreed with him, and the two started drinking again.
I don't know how much time passed, but both of them were drunk and finally couldn't drink anymore.
However, when Xu Wenjue was helped into the carriage by his servants and left, he opened his eyes in a drowsy manner. It could be seen that he was not completely drunk, with a sneer on his face, and then