Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
Prev Index    Favorite Next

Thirty-one royal family

Chen Luyao brought his confidant horses, Zhang Dalei, and a group of more than ten people took shortcuts, whipped them up quickly, crossed the Yangtze River before dawn and entered Nanjing City. Then, under the leadership of Wei Guangdong, the commander of Yingtianwei, he paid homage to Ruan Dacheng, the Minister of War.

"Report to Mr. Ruan, Lin Zhenjiang set off last night after receiving the imperial edict, came to the capital to offer an armored cart, and ordered the villain to meet him at the north gate."

Chen Luyao saluted respectfully and told Ruan Dacheng the good news.

Ruan Dacheng was overjoyed and applauded: "Great, this is really great news. I will notify Mr. Ma now!"

Chen Luyao smiled: "The villain is willing to be loyal to Ma Ge Lao and Minister Ruan, and he will never refuse to die!"

Ruan Dacheng had white face and nodded, pinched his chin with his slender fingers, and nodded, "Chen Qianhu did a good job. I and Mr. Ma will never treat you badly. You will continue to play in Yangzhou and report Shi Kefa and Lin Zhenjiang's every move at any time."

After a pause, he said, "How fast is this armored car? When will it arrive in the capital?"

"Lin Zhenjiang walked half an hour earlier than the villain. The speed of this armored car was much faster than riding a horse. Logically speaking, he should have arrived on the edge of the Yangtze River long ago." Chen Luyao also looked puzzled.

Ruan Dacheng ordered Wei Guangdong: "Prepare a large ship immediately and transport it to Jiangnan immediately when the iron-armored car arrives by the river so as not to repent Lin Zhenjiang will change his mind."

Wei Guangdong received the order and returned to the camp. He sent two thousand households to lead his soldiers across the river on a boat to find Lin Yu in Jiangbei. He mobilized several large ships to wait at Wuma Ferry, which was mobilized on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

After leaving Gujiazhuang and walking south for sixty or seventy miles, Lin Yu and his party arrived at the rushing bank of the Yangtze River.

Lin Yu drove the tank to Taoye Ferry first, frightening the merchants and ships and boats to scream, unable to figure out where this giant came from?

Lin Yu had no choice but to let Li Wei stand on the top of the tank and shout with a loudspeaker: "Don't panic, fellow villagers, this is the iron-armored vehicle that defeated Jiannu, and the general of Lin Zhenjiang drove to meet the saint!"

The horror of the people dissipated, and they all pointed at the mighty Mekava tank and talked, "It turns out that this is the armored car that defeated the Tartars, it's really daunting!"

"I heard that the person who defeated Jiannu in an iron armored car was named Lin Zhenjiang. He was the niece of Shigemen. He was a hero who was able to make such great achievements!"

Lin Yu quietly clicked on the screen in the palm of his left hand to check, and saw that the gold coins he owned were growing rapidly, with more than a dozen accounts being recorded every second. After walking five or six miles east along the Yangtze River, nearly ten thousand gold coins were added to the account.

The villages on both sides of the Yangtze River are dense. In addition to the merchants and travelers coming and going to the ferry, the people living in nearby villages and towns also took to the streets to see the style of armored chariots, and were all shocked.

Lin Yu was worried about how to cross the Yangtze River, so a thousand households came up with soldiers, and explained their purpose from afar: "The general of Lin Zhenjiang in the iron armored car was ordered by the commander of Wei to pick you up across the river."

Lin Yu stopped the tank and got out of the car to greet the other party: "Do you ask how Commander Wei learned that this official presented the car with the holy car today?"

"It was Commander Wei informed by Chen Qianhu."

The Qianhu replied respectfully, "At this moment, Chen Qianhu and Commander Wei are waiting for the general at Wumadu."

"Chen Luyao really has collusion with Nanjing. It seems that most of the whistleblowers are this person!"

Lin Yu murmured in his heart, ordered him to lead the way, turned around and got into the tank and then headed.

Taoye Ferry is a civilian ferry, which is specially used for business travelers and people, while Wuma Ferry is a military ferry. On weekdays, a naval army under the Yingtianwei stationed here, and there is also a dock for mooring warships by the river.

At this moment, flags were waving on the shore, and Wei Guangdong, his subordinates, the assistant ministers and Chen Luyao were waiting and looking around.

"Here, come!"

Chen Luyao had sharp eyes and saw a huge chariot coming from afar, and immediately started to please and shout.

Wei Guangdong looked into the distance. After seeing the face of Lushan in the armored car, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief: "Hiss... It's such a magic weapon. With such a giant, no wonder Lin Zhenjiang was able to repel the Tartars and make amazing achievements!"

Chen Luyao agreed indignantly: "That's not the case. Talin Zhenjiang is lucky! Taizu took his dream and found an iron armored chariot to defeat the Tartars. He was promoted from a sixth-rank deputy garrison to a fourth-rank Guangling general, which was simply lucky!"

A military officer next to him, who was 35 or 100 feet tall, with a national face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and had short beards snorted coldly: "Chen Qianhu's words are unfair. If you give you an iron armored car, will you control it? Are you sure to defeat more than 100,000 Tartars by your own strength?"

Chen Luyao turned his head and looked at it, and found that the person who spoke was Xu Gongji, the commander of Ying Tianwei. He knew that he could not afford to offend him, so he hurriedly smiled and said, "What General Xu taught me is that General Lin still has merits, so how dare you compare with humble positions?"

"Why should Xu Tongzhi have the ambition of a son-in-law and destroy our prestige?"

As soon as Xu Gongji finished speaking, Zhu Youliang, the commander-in-chief next to him who was full of armor, stopped doing it and stood up and retorted: "I think Chen Qianhu is right. Taolin Zhenjiang is just lucky! He is just a son-in-law of the Jiang family. What ability does he have to defeat the Tartars? It's not because of our ancestors who have dreamed that he has made such a shocking contribution!"

Chen Luyao turned his head and found that the person who spoke was Zhu Youliang, the commander of Yingtianwei, who was also a master who he could not afford to offend.

Emperor Tianqi was called Zhu Youxiao, Emperor Chongzhen was called Zhu Youjian, and the current Emperor Hongguang was called Zhu Yousheng, and his name was Zhu Youliang, so he was naturally a royal family member.

Zhu Yuanzhang was a good ancestor. He suffered a lot when he was a child. Later, when he became an emperor, he was determined to take good care of his descendants and stop letting them suffer.

Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that the sons he gave birth to were all princes, and the eldest son born to the prince inherited the title of prince, and the other sons were all named princes.

The eldest son of the county prince inherited the prince, and the other sons were granted the title of General Zhenguo. The eldest son of the county general inherited the title of General Zhenguo, and the other were granted the title of General Jiao.

The general of the auxiliary state will go downwards, including the general of Fengguo, the lieutenant of the Zhenguo, the lieutenant of the auxiliary state, and the lowest level of the auxiliary state will not be demoted. All the sons of the auxiliary state can inherit this title and enjoy the salary of the imperial court.

This is better for the royal family than the Han Dynasty's order to recommend grace. No matter how bad it is, it can be a lieutenant of the auxiliary country and is raised by the court. If Liu Bei was born in the Ming Dynasty, he would not have been able to get to the point of weaving mats and selling shoes.

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang's original intention was good, in order not to let his descendants suffer, but later it became one of the important reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang felt that he had only twenty-five or six sons and could be fully afforded by the Ming Dynasty, but he did not expect that after his death, after more than two hundred years of development, by the Wanli period, his descendants had grown to a huge amount of millions.

At the beginning, the treatment of the Ming Dynasty royal family was quite good. Even the lowest-level lieutenant of the auxiliary country had an annual salary of 200 stones. You should know that the annual salary of a seventh-rank county magistrate was only 170 stones.

But during the Jiajing period, the descendants of the Zhu family reproduced in an explosive manner, and the number of royal family members had reached more than 100,000, and their salary alone accounted for one-quarter of the national treasury.

During the Wanli period, the Ming Dynasty was suffering from internal and external troubles. When the Ming Emperor Shenzong saw that he could not afford to support so many "ruins", he greatly reduced the salary of these royal families and stipulated that the generals of the auxiliary state would no longer enjoy the salary of the court. You should die for yourself!

Due to Zhu Di usurping the throne, the emperor who later succeeded the throne was very wary of the vassal kings and stipulated that the royal family could not engage in "scholars, farmers, industry and commerce", and could only obediently become the local lord and enjoy the salary of the court.

With such troubles from Wanli, the royal family members who could not engage in scholars, farmers, industry and commerce would be miserable. It would be better if there were land and salary. Those who had no land and salary could only stay on the streets and live a life of sanity and have only a royal title.

When the Emperor Shenzong of Ming Dynasty saw that this was not possible, he simply turned a blind eye and did whatever he liked to do, as long as you did not rebel and did not ask for money from the court. So later, descendants of the royal family joined the army and became officials one after another.

Zhu Youliang was the twelfth descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang. He was the same generation as Zhu Youjian who was hanged in Coal Mountain. He was named Lieutenant of Fengguo and had no salary.

However, because Zhu Youliang was a martial artist since childhood and was brave and good at fighting, he climbed the big tree of the chief assistant Ma Shiying, and was promoted to the commander of Yingtianwei. He was known as the "Three Tiger Generals of Nanjing" and was jointly responsible for guarding the capital.

Although there are already many "Lieutenant of Fengguo" in total, not many people have reached the fourth rank as a royal family member. Therefore, Zhu Youliang is very arrogant and arrogant in his daily life, and has long been famous in Yingtianwei.
Chapter completed!
Prev Index    Favorite Next