Yun Zhao has never experienced such a big scene in his two lifetimes.
In one day, six well-dressed matchmakers came to visit his mother at home, hoping to send their best daughter to the Yun family mansion.
That's right, they were sent to the Yun family's mansion. The women's families they represented didn't seem to care about the status of their daughters in the Yun family.
I just want to send my daughter to the Yun family's not-so-luxurious mansion.
Most of these girls are girls from wealthy families. According to my mother, some of them are really good-looking.
It was only then that Yun Zhao understood some of the things he had read in history books before, such as the maid in Cai Jing's family who was responsible for chopping green onions, and the maid in Yan Shifan's family who was specially used as a spittoon.
This is disgusting! Especially Yan Shifan! ! !
Of course, the most disgusting people are the fathers and brothers of these girls! ! !
Yunniang doesn’t think so. Yun’s own family has eleven girls waiting to be married, and each of them has been well-educated by her.
Except for Gao Jie, who was given an advantage, none of the others got married at Yun Zhao's insistence.
The little girls with all kinds of poor and strange looks who came out of the bandit villages in the past have completely disappeared.
Replaced by eleven standard ladies!
Yes, this is how Yun Niang teaches the girls in her family, and she teaches these girls according to her imagination. After all, the family of her mother, the leader of the teachings in Xi'an Mansion, is not actually a big family. , she doesn’t have much knowledge and can only rely on imagination or hearsay.
Here, Qian Duoduo gave Yun Niang a lot of ideas... Then Yun Zhao became 11 more literate, able to calculate accounts, ride a horse, and even shoot a blunderbuss sisters.
Of course, the charming look that Qian Duoduo emphasized so much was sternly rejected by Yun Niang.
Women are very troublesome, especially after studying and gaining knowledge. In addition, the Yun family did not ban books such as "The Romance of the West Chamber" that teach bad women, which makes their self-confidence inflated. pole.
The serious consequence of this is that honest farmers and tough robbers are no longer good husbands in their eyes. They like thin, clean, handsome, and Weiyu Xian. Laughing scumbag!
The template for a Yun woman to choose a husband is ready-made. One is a man with long hands and legs, and handsome features - Gao Jie!
The other one is Qian Shaoshao, who has a more exquisite appearance than them!
As for Yun Zhao, he was not as heroic as he was heroic, nor as handsome as he was rich, so he was never what they recognized as a good son-in-law.
This made Yun Zhao very hurt. Gao Jie was a guy who was used to seducing his boss's wife, and he had a bad record. How could he be a good match?
As for Qian ShaoShao, Yun Zhao fantasized about the woman marrying Qian ShaoShao and felt that that womanIt should be very pitiful. When a woman gets under the quilt at night, there is a face even more beautiful than hers. I don’t know how this woman should deal with herself!
The Yun family is still in the dormant period, and it is not yet time to live and work in peace and contentment, so only the gentlemen in Yushan Academy are good matches for these women.
But Xu Yuanshou was unwilling.
Life in Lantian County is a leisurely place without outside interference. After living here for a long time, people seem to have forgotten that the large land outside Lantian County is still in a state of war.
Li Hongji's army has been patrolling the territory east of Tongguan, and Zhang Bingzhong's army is also attacking cities and plundering territory in Hubei. The vast Lantian County is sandwiched between the two bandits.
Sun Chuanting led his already formed Qin army and stayed in Xi'an City. No matter how corrupted the area east of Tongguan was by Li Hongji, and how the officers and soldiers east of Tongguan asked for help, he still sat idly by.
In the evening, Yun Fu and Yun Meng came back.
Zhang Bingzhong wants to take advantage of Shangnan County!
Shangnan County is the southeast gate of Shaanxi. After passing through the mountainous Shangnan County, you can enter the fertile Lantian County.
Of course Yun Zhao knew the military significance of Zhang Bingzhong's intention to take advantage of Shangnan.
Since the eighth year of Chongzhen, the imperial court's campaign to suppress bandits was about to win. Thirteen battalions of bandits held an important military meeting in Xingyang.
At this military meeting, they made an important decision, that is, they would no longer fight head-on with the imperial army and start fleeing in all directions!
Li Hongji and Zhang Bingzhong, led by Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang, broke through to the east where the imperial army was weak.
The main force of this East Route Army is Zhang Bingzhong's troops.
His troops fought bravely, defeating Gushi in Henan and Huoqiu in Anhui and other prefectures and counties, and pointed directly at Fengyang, the central capital of the Ming Dynasty.
On a foggy morning, Fengyang City was surrounded.
In less than half a day, they completely wiped out the 20,000 officers and soldiers guarding Fengyang, killed guard Zhu Guozheng and others, captured Yan Rongxuan, the prefect of Fengyang, and counted his crimes in front of the people. After committing the crime, he was beheaded on the spot.
The central capital Fengyang was captured by bandits, and Zhang Bingzhong, Gao Yingxiang and others divided their forces.
Because I couldn’t take away the mountains of victory trophies and the food in the treasury.
So, under the advice of his advisers, Zhang Bingzhong followed the example of Wangang Village and distributed the spoils that could not be taken away to the poor local farmers. He also forced the people from all over the countryside to cut down hundreds of thousands of trees in the imperial tomb. Pines and cypresses were demolished, and the surrounding buildings and the Huangjue Temple where Zhu Yuanzhang became a monk were demolished.
After recruiting a large number of people in Fengyang, the central capital, in order to cut off these people's escape route, Zhang Bingzhong suddenly ordered the emperor's ancestral graves to be dug up, and at the same time, all the wealthy households in Fengyang were killed.
When the news reached the capital, the emperor immediately put on mourning clothes and ran to the Ancestral Temple to cry loudly.
He also ordered the court officials to go about their official duties in plain clothes and vegetarian food to express their condolences.
In angerHis subordinate Emperor Chongzhen dismissed the minister of war, beheaded the governor of Fengyang and the censor, and also took out the governors of the five provinces who had been dismissed from their posts and sentenced them to death.
Despite such severity, the officers and soldiers were still unable to annihilate all Zhang Bingzhong's men.
After Zhang Bingzhong captured Fengyang, he sent his troops southward and successively captured Luzhou, Anqing, Hezhou, and Chuzhou, all the way along the Yangtze River to Yizheng, Jiangsu, and was invincible along the way.
Faced with a large number of regiment training organized by the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, Zhang Bingzhong strictly abided by the strategy formulated in Xingyang, did not attack directly, and chose to return to the west.
After passing through Yingshan and Huoshan, he joined Ma Shouying's troops in Macheng, Hubei.
Then, he entered Henan from Hubei, and now he is preparing to re-enter Guanzhong from Shangnan, thereby achieving his purpose of joining Li Hongji east of Tongguan.
Yun Zhao did not care whether Zhang Bingzhong and Li Hongji met up or not. What he cared about was that Zhang Bingzhong wanted to go all the way from Shangnan through Lantian, the area west of Tongguan in Hua County, so that he could meet Li Hongji at Tongguan.
"If Zhang Bingzhong's more than 100,000 horses pass through Lantian County, will we still have any left?"
After hearing the reports from Yun Fu and Yun Meng, Yun Zhao laughed. He shook his head.
"If we mobilize the entire army and stick to Shangnan, the terrain there is dangerous, and we have well-equipped soldiers and numerous firearms. Zhang Bingzhong will not be able to get through.
However, this is the case. Once we do this, our strength will be completely exposed."
"When did Zhang Bingzhong's messenger come to Shangnan?"
"Their army is still in Nanyang, come to me. Shang Nan must at least pass through Xiangyang Prefecture. Even if he breaks through Xiangyang Prefecture, he will not reach Shang Nan until April next year."
"What else did Zhang Bingzhong's messenger say?"
"They guarantee that the army will pass through Shangnan and Lantian, ensuring that Qiu will not commit any crimes."
Hearing what Yunmeng said, Yun Zhao looked at Yunmeng and smiled and said, "Do you believe it?"
< p>Yunmeng simply shook his head and said: "I don't believe it!""Since you don't believe it, then chop off the envoy's head and let Zhang Bingzhong completely give up this idea."
Yun Fuxiao He said: "We have been pretending to be pigs and eating tigers in the past few years. People have really regarded us as pigs, so it depends on whether they think we can spread the word."
Yun Zhao shook his head and said: "These Whether it is Li Hongji, who wants to use Guanzhong as his old camp base, or Zhang Bingzhong, who travels around the world, they have never stopped testing our Lantian County.
Whether it is Qian County, Fufeng, or... It's Shang Nan. We have never stopped fighting in the past five years. Every battle ends with our victory.
Gao Yigong is Li Hongji's confidant, and Ai Nengqi is Zhang Bingzhong. The capable warriors under his command were beaten to death in Qian County and Shangnan.
They should already know the power of Yun's firearms.
So, It is impossible for Zhang Bingzhong not to know that Lantian County is the fundamental place of my Yun family, and he will not allow him to do so in any case.If you want to pass through my Lantian County by borrowing the road, you can only do it by killing everyone in my Yun family.
So, why did he send an envoy to my Yun family?
Yun Fu frowned and said, "Could it be that this is a counter-intuitive plan?"
Yun Zhao smiled and said: "How can an envoy play counter-intentional tactics?" There is no one in our family that they can drive a wedge between. "
"I mean Sun Chuanting! That Sun Chuanting who just killed Gao Yingxiang and became our governor of Shaanxi, don't you worry that Zhang Bingzhong will inform Sun Chuanting about our dealings with him, so that my Yun family will have to rebel, no matter whether he borrows the way or not, as long as the Yun family rebels , Sun Chuanting, who was huddled in Xi'an City, was in danger.
Yun Zhao closed his eyes and thought for a moment, shook his head and said: "This kind of thing requires a very delicate connection to be effective. Zhang Xianzhong and his subordinates are not able to pull off such a trick." "
Yun Meng saw that Yun Zhao and Yun Fu were not talking much, so he whispered: "Could it be that Zhang Bingzhong really wants to borrow a way?
Yun Zhao waved his hand impatiently and said: "It's not Zhang Bingzhong who wants to take advantage of the road, but Sun Chuanting who is testing whether we have the possibility of joining the bandits."
After all, Zhang Bingzhong is now in Nanyang Mansion, very close to Xiangyang Mansion. Once we join Zhang Bingzhong, Hanzhong will become a major channel connecting Hubei and Guanzhong. Together with Li Hongji east of Tongguan, Guanzhong Fall is at the turn of a hand.
If we close the main road from Hanzhong to Shaanxi, he can concentrate on dealing with Li Hongji east of Tongguan and avoid being attacked from both sides. "
"Xiao Zhao, do you think the envoy is a dead soldier sent by Sun Chuanting? "
Yun Meng's frown gradually relaxed.
Yun Zhao sighed and said: "There is an 80% chance that this is the case. In our current situation, no matter which envoy Who sent you, Uncle Meng, go and chop off his head, then ring the bell, summon the Lantian County regiment to train, and stationed in Shangnan County. In any case, Guanzhong is ours and Zhang Bingzhong is not allowed to come in. ”