Chapter 91 Xia Wanchun enters Beijing
Xia Wanchun was kicked out by Yun Yang.
General Yun was busy mobilizing troops and generals, preparing to enter Kaifeng, and then send troops eastward. He was so busy that he had no time to pay attention to the little kid's nonsense.
As for this guy wanting weapons, he is completely out of his mind.
Since his master had sent him to the capital, how could he lack the things he needed when he got there? If there really were none, it meant that his master did not allow him to go on a killing spree.
Xia Wanchun had no choice but to hold back his anger and continue towards the capital.
Sometimes he even complains that even though Mu Tiantao is a person who has little relationship with Lantian, his master is willing to go all out to help, but he, his direct disciple, seems to be picked up from the garbage heap. Yes, no one kissed me, no one loved me, and I was kicked.
When he arrived in Kaifeng, he actually received a letter from a spy here. This letter was written to him by his biological father Xia Yunyi.
In the letter, his father actually asked him to help find out whether Zhang Feng and Tan Boming, the important ministers in Nanjing, were Lantian spies.
After seeing the letter, Xia Wanchun knew that his father had asked the wrong question. He should ask those people in Yingtianfu Yamen if they were Lantian spies!
Of course these two people are Lantian spies. Not only are they two, but in the Yingtian Mansion Yamen, only Shi Kefa, his own father, Uncle Chen Zilong and a few other people are not Lantian spies.
If Shi Kefa still stayed in Nanjing safely, then he would not have this trouble. When the master comes to the city, he will be surrounded by his subordinates to welcome the arrival of the new emperor.
At that time, even if it was painful, it would only be painful for a while. When the pain is over, you can do whatever you need to do and live your life as usual.
He really couldn't figure it out. Uncle Shi Kefa, Uncle Chen Zilong, and his father were not idlers. Why couldn't they see his subordinates clearly?
Xia Wanchun shuddered just thinking about it.
The partners who work together, fight together, and advance toward the same goal are actually disguised as their own enemies.
The contents of my father’s letter are still just questions.
It’s so damn obvious, but they are just suspicious?
They have used the White Lotus Sect to completely clean up Nanjing City and even Yingtian Mansion, making it suitable for them to govern. Do my father and others still think that these people are thinking about the Ming Dynasty?
In the letter, his father also told him angrily that he could not go to the capital to serve the king, and hoped that his son could go to the capital to serve the king in his place. Even if he died in battle, he would protect the country of the Ming Dynasty.
After reading his father’s letter, Xia Wanchun felt very unhappy in the letter.
In the letter, his father did not ask about his mother and younger brother, let alone his current situation. He just asked him, the eldest son of the Xia family, to be loyal and patriotic, and to serve the country.To sacrifice one's life is very sad.
In fact, my mother has lived a good life in the past few years. She and her brother have enough food and clothing, and they live a comfortable and comfortable life guarding a farm of one hundred acres near Fenghuang Mountain.
The family employs two families, a total of six male and female workers, farming, raising livestock, chickens, ducks and geese. My mother also does some textile work and raises seven or eight silkworms. She is ambitious. I am preparing to expand my family business.
That’s right—my father always doesn’t want to come to Lantian.
How to reply?
Xia Wanchun fell into deep thought for a moment.
My father is already very pitiful. If I deceive him again at this time, I am afraid it will not look good when father and son meet in the future.
To be honest, this should be a bolt from the blue for his father. Thinking about his father's character who can't pull back nine oxen, Xia Wanchun is very worried that he will do something that will make him regret for three lifetimes. Things come up.
After thinking for a long time, Xia Wanchun finally put pen to paper and persuaded his father.
He did not reveal the true identities of Zhang Feng and Tan Boming. He only said that he was still a student and knew nothing about these things. He also expressed his worries about the Ming Dynasty by borrowing the words of a gentleman from the academy.
Tell his father that he accepted his destiny and went to the capital to serve as king... Finally, he spent a long time telling the life of his mother and his brother, how his mother missed him, and how his brother always missed him because he could not see his father. He was called a boy without a father by the neighbor's children. After he helped his younger brother to stand up a few times, he instead incurred the revenge of the evil neighbor - he cut down several mulberry trees at home...
Yushan Academy There is a group of people who specialize in the study of speech.
Most of them are secretarial supervisors. They find that speaking is actually a very powerful knowledge that needs to be studied carefully. If it is studied to a deep level, speaking skills will not be worse than artillery. , at least, it can be on par with operas like "The White-Haired Girl" that can arouse people's common hatred and hatred.
Xia Wanchun is no longer interested in talking about politics with his father.
Because if I tell you, my father will think that this is a heretical technique and not an upright knowledge.
The master made it clear - the so-called politics is to let our opponents get off the stage and we get up ourselves. On the stage, politics is - the struggle of representatives of the interests of various classes to seize the administrative power of the country. A decent statement.
Father doesn’t understand this.
My father has proven with facts that he is not a good official, let alone a good father.
The only thing suitable for Lan Tian's father is to go to Yushan Academy to teach the "Book of Changes". For his father, a real Jinshi, his understanding of the "Book of Changes" far exceeds his knowledge of politics. understanding.
After replying to his father, Xia Wanchun wrote another letter asking his senior brothers to be more tolerant of rotten people like his father, and not to make things bloody when trying to expose the situation in the future, which his father would not be able to accept for a while. It would be bad if he commits suicide.
Ten thousandIf his father still couldn't think about it, he might as well use some gentle methods...
After finishing the family affairs, Xia Wanchun officially crossed the Yellow River and headed for the capital.
Having just crossed the Yellow River, the sight of the refugees in front of him looked different from humans and ghosts, which made Xia Wanchun feel so heavy that even breathing became a burden.
After wielding a knife and killing some bandits who wanted to rob their luggage and horses, Xia Wanchun was about to vent his anger when he saw more refugees surrounding them.
There were men, women, old people, and children in the crowd. It could be said that anyone who could move rushed over.
Xia Wanchun roared angrily and fled with his men...
He couldn't tell whether this was Li Hongji's army or the common people.
In many cases, there is basically no difference between the bandit army and the refugee group.
Faced with the refugees blocking the road everywhere, Xia Wanchun finally regretted that he should have entered Beijing from Shanxi instead of crossing the river from Kaifeng in a circle.
Fortunately, their horses are very fast, and the weak bandits or refugees can never catch up with them.
He walked non-stop through Li Hongji’s territory and finally set foot on the border of Hebei.
Along the way, all the state capitals were at war, all the villages were almost deserted, and the refugees were wandering on the plains like lonely ghosts.
Xia Wanchun finally stopped under a dead tree.
A woman was hanging from a dead tree. Her clothes were in tatters. Judging from the texture of the clothes, this woman should be from a wealthy family.
After hanging, her face was too hideous to look at. Xia Wanchun cut off the sling with a knife. The woman's body had become stiff, and she fell straight from the air. Thrown to the ground.
Just when the woman's body fell, he took out a swaddling clothes from the woman's arms as fast as lightning.
Opening the swaddling clothes revealed a baby's face. It was the child's cry that made Xia Wanchun stop. Without the child's cry, Xia Wanchun would not have paid attention to the body.
He had seen too many corpses along the way, so many that he had long been numb.
The baby's cry was already a little faint. Xia Wanchun jumped off the horse, lit the dead tree on fire, and set up a pot to boil water. The water was very small, but it boiled quickly. He took out the pot helmet on the horse, Knead it into pieces and put it in water. After boiling it into a pot of batter, he used a spoon to feed it to the little baby bit by bit.
He didn’t know if batter could save the baby, but this was all he had at the moment.
Maybe it was because God had mercy on this child that she actually started eating batter, and the food was very sweet.
The baby was very obedient and continued to sleep after it was full. Xia Wanchun boiled another pot of water and wiped the body of the baby who was too dirty to see. Only then did he realize that this was a little baby. Little baby girl.
Tear open his spare underwear and make it for the little baby girlHe bought a simple piece of clothing and wrapped the child in his own cotton-padded jacket.
He has long been familiar with this routine. He used to help his mother take care of his younger brother, and later he had to take care of Yun Zhang and Yun Xian. Therefore, taking care of a baby was not difficult for him.
Tie the child to his chest, Xia Wanchun looked gloomily towards the capital and whispered: "Chongzhen, Chongzhen, what will happen if you don't die?"
After saying Chongzhen, He looked in the direction of Shandong and said: "Li Hongji, just wait, I will skin you and cramp you one day."
While he was busy taking care of the baby, his subordinates had already taken care of the poor baby. The woman found a hole and buried it.
After these things were done, Xia Wanchun said in a sad voice: "Let's go to Beijing."
On this journey, unless the child is crying, pooping, or hungry , Xia Wanchun would stop his horses. Other than that, he kept rushing. Finally, three days later, he saw the Zhengyang Gate of the capital.
It is no different from Mu Tiantao entering the capital.
When the noble prince Xia Wanchun entered the city with weapons and twenty-two followers, the followers threw a piece of silver to the soldiers guarding the city gate. The soldiers immediately let the door open and respectfully invited This young nobleman with a baby in his arms entered the city.
Not long after entering the city, Xia Wanchun saw Mu Tiantao leading a group of warriors equipped to the teeth roaring past Zhengyangmen Street. At the end of the team, a dozen men with their hands tied were staggering. He staggered behind them.
Mu Tiantao did not see Xia Wanchun, and Xia Wanchun just looked at Mu Tiantao's back coldly and said nothing.
A simple and honest farmer suddenly appeared behind Xia Wanchun and cupped his hands and said, "Sir, the residence is ready."
Xia Wanchun glanced at Mu Tiantao's retreating back again and said : "Find a place close to Prince Mu's Mansion, and contact Wang Xiangyao, the dog eunuch, and tell him that I want to come to the palace to have a look!"
The farmer shook his head and said: "This is an order from the Secret Service Department. There is no way to help the young master enter the palace."
Xia Wanchun looked at the farmer coldly and said, "Now I have it."