jdhmnovel Chapter 913 I got beaten up again?
Chapter 913 I got beaten up again?
The 16th day of the first month of the seventh year of the Hongwu reign.
Wang Guangyang, the Shandong Provincial Governor, stood with a gloomy face at the port dock outside Dengzhou City, while Xu Liang, the Assistant Prefect of Dengzhou, stood cautiously beside him.
"How many ships are there now?"
Wang Guangyang snorted and said, "Each ship carries a hundred or so people. Just these dozen or so ships today must have over a thousand people, right?"
Xu Liang wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and replied, "Yes, there are almost a thousand people."
Wang Guangyang snorted again, his eyes fixed on the large ship that had already set sail and sailed away.
Thousands of people.
How many people were there in the entire Shandong Provincial Administration Commission?
All in all, it's less than five million.
In one day, a thousand people can be transported; in ten days, ten thousand people can be transported; and in five thousand days, the entire Shandong Provincial Administration Commissioner's people can be moved to Liaodong!
Wang Guangyang glanced at Xu Liang with a dark expression and said with a forced smile, "How much did your Dengzhou Prefecture intercept?"
What?
Xu Liang immediately cried out in protest, "Provincial Governor Wang has wronged me to death!"
"These past few days, the people being sent to Liaodong have all been citizens of our Shandong Provincial Administration Commissioner's jurisdiction. How could I dare to intercept them arbitrarily?"
"There are just a few people who occasionally suffer from acclimatization problems. I have arranged doctors for them and will send them to Liaodong once they have recovered."
“My lord said that the people of Shandong don’t earn money easily, so we won’t rob them.”
Wang Guangyang glanced at Xu Liang again.
No wonder Xu Jingyu has already risen to the position of Prefect of Huai'an, while this idiot is still only the Assistant Prefect of Dengzhou.
Damn it, he actually blushed before telling a lie.
Is this how a Deputy Prefect of Dengzhou should behave?
While inwardly cursing, Wang Guangyang looked at Xu Liang with a forced smile and said, "I don't care how many people from Shandong you've intercepted."
"However, you must give me half of the portion of the people of Jiangnan that was intercepted by your Dengzhou Prefecture."
"Don't even think about fooling this old man."
"Although I have to return to Jinan tomorrow, I will leave some people behind to help you count the people sent to Liaodong."
Seeing Xu Liang's grief-stricken appearance, Wang Guangyang snorted coldly and said, "Don't worry, I've already spoken to your prefect, and he won't cause you any trouble because of this."
Xu Liang pondered, "Is there any necessary connection between what you agreed upon with my lord and what my lord instructed me to do?"
Yes, you made a deal with my magistrate to give you half of the people who were diverted from Dengzhou Prefecture.
But my master also told me that if I dare to share half with you, he'll make me pay when I get back.
What the hell did I do to deserve this?
Also, isn't Wang Buzheng from Gaoyou? How come you've become like a bandit now?
……
Just as Xu Liang was having a headache because of Wang Guangyang's request, Yang Shaofeng and Zhu Biao were also having a headache because of the arrival of a few people.
"A crown prince, the heir apparent of the Ming Dynasty."
“A prince consort of the current emperor, the Duke of Ying.”
After discussing the proper etiquette between ruler and subject with Zhu Biao, Chang Yuchun circled around Yang Shaofeng and Zhu Biao, clicked his tongue, and said, "Instead of returning to the capital for the New Year, you two sneaked off to Liaodong. Is this what you two did?"
"Good heavens, they even know how to intercept the memorials from the Embroidered Uniform Guard, and they even know how to intercept the memorials from Liaodong and Shandong."
"They also made Princess Funing and Princess Fuyang return to the capital on specific dates."
Yang Shaofeng got kicked in the butt, and Zhu Biao's butt was also kicked in the same way.
"Before they left, the Empress specifically instructed that each person should be given one kick, no more and no less."
Chang Yuchun said with a forced smile, "The Empress also said that you two should make the most of your last moments and enjoy yourselves. Once we return to the capital, she will personally skin you two alive."
Lan Yu, Li Wenzhong, and Li Mingchen hid to one side. One looked up at the sky over Liaodong, another looked down at the puddles in Liaodong, and the third simply closed his eyes.
Want to see.
But I'm too afraid to look.
want to laugh.
But no one dared to laugh out loud.
Li Shanchang's heart sank to the bottom.
It's over.
Chang Heitan, Lan Yu, Li Wenzhong, Li Mingchen.
What good could possibly happen when these four people get together?
They weren't particularly skilled in other areas, but when it came to murder, arson, and conquering territory, these four were first-rate experts.
Especially Li Mingchen, who closed his eyes and pretended to be dead.
On the surface, he's a spineless coward who won't utter a sound.
In reality, he was a bandit who dared to leave the pass with eight hundred herdsmen to cause trouble for Hu Yuan.
The emperor couldn't have sent those four to Liaodong to capture the crown prince and Yang the Madman and bring them back to the capital, could he?
Thinking of this, Li Shanchang simply closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
despair.
This is utterly hopeless!
I'm over sixty years old, you bastard!
Now look what's happened, I have to go to the northern desert with these people again!
Just as Li Shanchang was mentally ranting, Chang Yuchun's dark face was suddenly filled with a smile: "Prime Minister Li."
Li Shanchang lowered his eyelids and gave a soft "hmm," "So you want this old man to come along to the northern desert?"
Chang Yuchun chuckled twice and said, "Prime Minister Li is wise."
"His Majesty and the Empress have said that the two children are too young, and we rough men are not good at handling the logistics and supplies, so we need to trouble Prime Minister Li to help oversee things."
"And the memorial presented to Heaven during the Fenglangjuxu ceremony also needs to be drafted by Prime Minister Li."
That's more or less.
He was the first prime minister in thousands of years to lead an expedition to the northern desert and achieve the feat of sealing the wolf's lair.
The drafter of the memorial for the Fenglangjuxu sacrificial ceremony.
It's not a loss if the history books can add just two more lines like this.
It's just a pity about the concubine I took last year.
They had only brought her home a few days ago, and now she was left alone in her empty room.
While pondering this in his mind, Li Shanchang looked at Chang Yuchun and asked, "Have the Emperor and the Empress said when they will march into the northern desert?"
Chang Yuchun shook his head slightly, then took a small wooden box from his personal guard and handed it to Li Shanchang.
"This is the imperial edict appointing Li Xiang as the Grand Commander of the Northern Expedition."
"The superior said that all military and civilian affairs in Liaodong should be decided by Prime Minister Li on the spot. When Prime Minister Li says when to advance, then we will advance."
"From the day that Prime Minister Li decided to advance, all the local officials, military commanders, garrisons, and civilians in Liaodong and southern Mongolia were placed under the command of the Grand General of the Northern Expedition."
"If it is truly not advisable to advance into the northern desert, then we should remain inactive and allow His Highness the Crown Prince to return to the capital as soon as possible."
As Chang Yuchun finished speaking, Li Shanchang, who had been drooping his eyelids, suddenly opened his eyes wide.
When did the Ming Dynasty have the position of Grand Commander of the Army?
Logically speaking, at most, a regional military command would be established in Liaodong.
Most local government affairs were still handled by Hu Weiyong, the provincial governor.
Now look what's happened! I, an old civil official, have inexplicably become the Grand General of the Northern Desert Army, and now I have to oversee all military and civil affairs in Liaodong and the southern desert.
Good heavens, how much do you want His Highness to become the first crown prince in history to achieve the legendary feat of sealing the wolf's lair?