The two of them walked into the village ancestral hall, laughing and joking. This is the only high house in the village.
Walls made of bluestone. There are floor-to-ceiling long wooden windows, and an Eight Immortals table obtained from a villager's home is placed in the hall.
Huotoujun has already packed more than a dozen dishes. There is also a large jar of burning knives.
Huang Tengyuan was not polite. After the two parties sat down, several close people of Tong Jianye also came to accompany him.
Neither of them mentioned anything serious, they just drank and chatted. After three drinks, the atmosphere became lively.
Tong Jianye laughed and said: "Damn it, I've lived half my life, and I've spent just these ten days happily. I can rob whoever I want, and kill whoever I want. It's a pity that the time is too short, and I haven't had the pleasure of it yet. He’s fucking defeated.”
Huang Tengyuan smiled and did not answer, and did not answer the question. He knew that Tong Jianye must have the following words when he mentioned this. He has a place to go and has already arranged an escape route. He is not in a hurry. At this time, don't be in a hurry to speak. The one who speaks first will be at a disadvantage, and whoever is in a hurry will be passive.
Seeing that he didn't speak, Tong Jianye had no choice but to continue speaking.
"Brother, you have been an old master for more than ten years. You haven't made any progress in all these years."
Huang Tengyuan said with some shame: "My dear brother, this is a joke. I was very high-spirited back then and became the capital minister at the age of twenty-eight. Unfortunately, the supporter from above has arrived. The years have passed by. More than ten years have passed, and still... Staying where you are.”
Tong Jianye poured him a glass of wine with a smile and said: "My little brother is only thirty-seven years old this year, and he has also been mixed up in Dusi. It is not bad, but it is a bad time and the boat capsized in the gutter. This time we have become brothers and sisters in the Ming Dynasty officialdom. There is absolutely no place to stand.”
He had offended Wang Yingzhi, so he naturally had no good fruits to eat. However, he did it himself, and no one could blame him.
Wang Yingzhi planned to change his family to join Dong Lin and the emperor. Tong Jianye's background is in the Jin Party. He planned to mess with Wang Yingzhi secretly, but it was exposed. He simply took advantage of this opportunity to rebel.
Huang Tengyuan smiled and said: "Now that the matter has come to this, there is no need to talk about officialdom. Thank God if I can save my head. As long as I am not desperate. I don't dare to expect too much."
Tong Jianye slapped his thigh and said: "Brother, you are right. People go to certain mountains to sing certain songs. The situation is stronger than others. You have to be able to take it up and put it down at any time."
"My dear brother, this is a good thing to say. It suddenly dawns on you." Huang Tengyuan raised his glass and clinked it with him.
"Brother, do you think the more than a thousand people in your hands can stop Zhou Yuji?"
"Block your ass, the army will arrive in a few days. You have also seen it, five hundred heavy artillery. Do you think this small Guancheng can withstand the bombardment for a few days?"
Tong Jianye smiled and said: "I have real abilities. In the Jizhou Army, I was known as a brave general back then. It is unknown to turn defeat into victory."
"Stop making fun of me. As soon as the army arrived, I took my family and subordinates and ran deep into the grassland. I will not defend this broken city for a day. As long as I go deep into the grassland, they will not chase me. ." Huang Tengyuan said.
Tong Jianye nodded and said: "This is also a retreat. They really can't get out of the pass. They chased them to the Great Wall and recaptured Da'ankou Pass, so they gave up."
He turned around and said: "Brother, although this is also a road, and you have a lot of money and food in your hands, you are sitting on nothing. The grassland is bitter, wind, frost, rain, snow, and wild beasts are infested. You really want your children and grandchildren to be a good people." A savage."
"At this point, we can only take one step at a time."
Huang Tengyuan said in his heart that the drama is here. He has been preparing for it for so long, and he just wants to say the following. Time to see what shit is in his stomach.
So, he asked with a frown on his face: "Brother, tell me, is there any other way to go? Now that we brothers are in dire straits, we are begging for food. How can we still find it sour?"
Tong Jianye smiled and said: "Brother, I do have a good place to go, and I can give me a hand, but I don't know if I am willing to go."
Huang Tengyuan raised his hands and asked with a solemn expression: "Please tell me clearly, dear brother."
Tong Jianye said nothing, dipped his finger in wine, and wrote a golden letter on the table.
Huang Tengyuan was shocked. He didn't expect this guy to be so bold and wanted to become a slave.
This place is more than a thousand miles away from Jiannu's territory, and now this whole grassland is no man's land. It’s also difficult to walk through no man’s land.
Because the upper reaches of the Liao River are the territory of the Chahar tribe, the imperial court in the middle reaches has deployed 100,000 troops along the river, and the Jinzhou area in the lower reaches is the territory of the Guanning Army.
These people are the sworn enemies of Jiannu. How to get by.
Seeing Huang Tengyuan's shocked expression. Tong Jianye was also expected.
If he didn't react, he would become suspicious. This reaction is the most normal reaction.
Huang Tengyuan's eyes flashed in all directions, and he suddenly felt that there were ambushes on all sides. I cursed in my heart, I was really unlucky today, I didn't look at the almanac when I went out.
I didn't expect that this grandson would be so wild and want to betray the country and surrender to the enemy.
Huang Tengyuan believed that the imperial court was sorry for the soldiers, and rebelling against the emperor was not a big deal. But taking refuge in the establishment of slaves is another matter entirely.
The conflicts between himself and his colleagues in the officialdom and his dissatisfaction with the court were all internal problems. However, to seek refuge in slavery would be to betray one's ancestors and renounce oneself to China.
Seeing Huang Tengyuan panicking, Tong Jianye picked up his glass and drank.
Huang Tengyuan changed his expression several times and said with a grimace: "Brother Xian, you are trying to trap me into disloyalty and injustice."
Tong Jianye sneered in his heart, pretending, and still pretending to me at this time. However, even though I despised his hypocrisy, I still gave him a chance.
"Brother, it's not that we're sorry for the court, it's the court that's sorry for us. If you don't leave me here, you have to leave me. The right way is that the father is kind and the son is filial. It can be seen that father's kindness comes first. The same goes for the emperor. He sorry for us first, we There is no need to be foolishly loyal to him. Who knows whether Wang Yingzhi’s poison was the emperor’s intention.”
This is a bit heartbreaking to say. In fact, the people below are not fools. They have understood the Qing army's policy this time.
The emperor only considers his own gains and losses and does not care about the life or death of others. Wang Yingzhi beat all the battalion officers severely and forced them to submit a list of those who had been paid without compensation, intending to dismiss them directly without compensation.
The emperor only has money in his eyes, and everything else is a small problem.
Huang Tengyuan shook his head and said: "The emperor will not do such stupid things. Governor Wang may have been plotted by others. This matter is very deep and involves the entire Ji Town and the court. Who is the big boss behind this? Push Hands, our brothers’ status is too low and we are not qualified to know.”
It was such a coincidence that this poison was administered. There must be someone with good intentions who took advantage of this opportunity to stoke the fire.
However, now the emperor directly put the shit basin on Wang Yingzhi's head, and the Jin Yiwei had arrested him and put him in jail. It can be seen that the emperor has made up his mind to use him as a scapegoat. Put all the problems on him. Let him resist everything. Used to calm the anger of the entire Ji Town.
When this person was favored before, he was very domineering. Now the emperor has turned his back on Ma Zai, who he once praised and praised.
It can be seen from this that if you work for the emperor with your head down, once something goes wrong, the emperor will immediately turn his back on you and stop recognizing you. Not even saying that the bird is gone and the bow is hidden. Now the bird is not gone yet, the bow is hidden first.
This is a cold person, a mean and unkind master.
Between people, it's just a matter of business, and you won't know what the other person is like for the rest of your life.
The same goes for the ministers and the emperor. The emperor watched the performance of the ministers with cold eyes, and the ministers also admired the emperor's character. But in the past two years, the emperor's performance has been chilling.
Some people died, but not completely...
