"Sir, are you from the Qingcha Sect?" The first thing Yu Dayou said when they met was to inquire about Xu He's identity.
Xu He nodded secretly in his heart. In the past two days, it seemed that the waiter was very tight-lipped.
He smiled and said: "It doesn't matter who I am, great monk, do you know about Guangxiao Temple being copied?"
Yu Dayou was shocked and said: "What happened to Guangxiao Temple?"
"The Jin Yiwei arrested everyone in Guangxiao Temple! The charge is that these monks are collecting money for the rebels and plotting against evil!"
After Xu He finished speaking, he stared at Yu Dayou's face.
Sure enough, Yu Dayou's face turned livid, he frowned and said nothing. After a long while, he said, "Master, do you know where these people are being held?"
Xu He shook his head and said: "I'm not a Jin Yiwei, how can I know where the other party keeps these monks?"
At this time, he asked Yu Dayou: "Has the great monk practiced martial arts in Shaolin Temple?"
Yu Dayou suddenly turned his head and stared at Xu He, looking up and down. His tiger eyes seemed to be able to see through Xu He's inside and outside. After a while, he sneered and said, "Young master, you know a lot of things, don't you? You are not from the Qingcha family. people!"
Sure enough, as in history, Yu Dayou once went to the Shaolin Temple to practice martial arts, but he was said to be practicing, but in fact he was the best fighter in the Shaolin Temple. Later, he also brought two monks and apprentices, Zong Qing and Pu Cong. He followed Yu Dayou to learn the stick technique while fighting, and finally brought Yu Dayou's stick technique back to Shaolin, which became the famous Shaolin stick technique passed down to later generations.
This matter is so famous that his stick classics even appeared in Qi Jiguang's "Martial Classics General Essentials", so Xu He naturally knew about it.
Xu He smiled and said: "Not only do I know this, but I also know that the great monk's ancestors were from Fengyang Huoqiu, and they once followed Zhu Yuanzhang to fight against Bei Yuan, right?"
Yu Dayou was really surprised this time. If he hadn't known that Xu He had no ill intentions, he would have tied him up and asked him what happened.
"What else do you know?" Yu Dayou's face was as dark as water.
Xu He shook his head: "I don't know much! That's all! I didn't deliberately ask for information about you. It's just that people from Jin Yiwei came to me just now and suspected that I was hiding you!"
Yu Dayou stood up and looked outside.
Xu He smiled and said: "Don't worry, Jin Yiwei will probably not chase you anymore. Just stay here for two days and I will send you away!"
"Did Jin Yiwei's eagle dog tell you this?" Yu Dayou stared at Xu He.
Xu He was worried that he couldn't explain it. Seeing that Yu Dayou had misunderstood, he nodded.
The expression on Yu Dayou's face kept changing, and after a long while he said: "I didn't expect the Jin Yiwei people to find out so many things about me!"
Then he looked at Xu He: "You can send away all the Jin Yiwei, which means that you or your family have a close relationship with the court. Why do you help me?"
"Repay the favor to the tea clan!" Xu He said it directly and didn't hide anything.
When Yu Dayou heard this, he nodded slowly and said: "I see, it seems that the young master is not one of those stubborn corrupt scholars. Let's get to know each other again. My name is Yu Dayou. Oh, you should know my real name!"
Xu He smiled. Historically, it was said that Yu Dayou was a man of both courage and courage, but he was not careful and shrewd in his conduct. He spoke very straightforwardly, and what he said was indeed true.
Xu He cupped his hands and said, "My name is Xu He!"
"Are you Xu He? Xu Song's nephew, that little Sanyuan?" Yu Dayou's eyes widened and he looked at him in disbelief.
Xu He said in surprise: "Do you know me?"
Yu Dayou smiled and said: "I have been staying in Guangxiao Temple for nearly a month. Who doesn't know you, Xu He, inside and outside the temple? You are the one who brought the food back from Caodu Yamen, right?"
After speaking, Yu Dayou sighed: "Although we are not from the same family, I, Yu Dayou, still admire the fact that your Xu family and you, Xu He, can survive countless people!"
Xu He took the conversation and asked curiously: "Brother Yu, who are you? What are you going to do? Can you tell me?"
Yu Dayou hesitated for a moment and said: "I can't say more about the specifics, but I can tell you that if the imperial court is in power, the emperor is ignorant and dishonest, and the local officials do not care about the life and death of the people except for collecting money, the Tartars will invade the border in the north, and the Japanese will be in chaos along the southeast coast. Jing, even the wealthy Southern Zhili has been supporting us, but do you know how miserable it is in other places?"
Xu He shook his head.
Yu Dayou said: "Take my hometown, Quanzhou, Jinjiang, for example. Every year in July and August, Japanese pirates will loot the place. The fields are vacant, the villages are in ruins, and almost ten houses along the coast are empty. The only ones left behind are lonely old people. Just waiting to die."
"But what about the government? Although the court said it would reduce the amount of money and food, it still imposed excessive taxes in summer and autumn. They knew clearly that the poor food was robbed by the Japanese pirates, but the tax they should pay must not be less! "
"The young people in the village can no longer survive, and some even seek refuge with the Japanese pirates, colluding with the Japanese and robbing their fellow villagers."
"What about you?" Xu He looked at Yu Dayou, "What did you do? Did you join those people?"
"Bah!" Yu Dayou spat on the ground, "Even if I starve to death, I can't harm our Chinese people!"
Xu He nodded and said, "So you joined the Zhu family, your old club?"
Yu Dayou took a deep look at Xu He: "Not many people know that the Zhu family still exists. It seems that Xiao Shigong told you, right?"
Xu He smiled slightly, neither denying nor admitting.
Yu Dayou quite believed in Xu He's character and said bluntly: "When I was fourteen years old, I learned through family friends that the descendants of His Highness King Wu were still dealing with the court and couldn't live any longer, so I also I simply took refuge with His Highness King Wu."
Historically, Zhu Yuanzhang was elected as the King of Wu by officials after he killed Chen Youliang. However, Zhang Shicheng also called himself the King of Wu at that time, so people at the time called Zhang Shicheng the Soochow Wu and Zhu Yuanzhang the Western Wu.
This is the origin of His Highness King Wu in Yu Dayou's mouth.
Xu He asked curiously: "Do you still have a national title?"
"Of course!" Yu Dayou nodded, "But we now call ourselves [Da Ming]! We no longer use the reign name of King Wu!"
"The Ming Dynasty..." Xu He had mixed feelings in his heart. It turned out that there was also the Ming Dynasty in this era.
When Yu Dayou saw that Xu He was silent, he thought he didn't understand why the country's name was changed to [Da Ming], so he explained: "You know Han Shantong, right?"
Of course Xu He knows, Zhu Yuanzhang's old boss! The leader of the Red Turban Army.
"At the end of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, Han Shantong used the White Lotus Sect to fight against the imperial court. In fact, the White Lotus Sect was the Ming Sect. Later, Han Lin'er died, and the old King Wu took over the legal authority of King Xiao Ming. From now on, someone here wants to change Wu to [Da Ming]!" Yu Dayou probably didn’t want to go into details, so he only gave a rough outline.
But anyone familiar with that period of history knows what’s going on.
When Zhu Yuanzhang took Prince Xiao Ming to Jinling, Prince Xiao Ming fell into the water and died inexplicably. However, at that time, Prince Xiao Ming and the Red Scarf Army behind him were the direct descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang's line of rebels.
Perhaps for the sake of justice, Zhu Yuanzhang later changed his name to the Ming Dynasty.
There is also a theory that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to appease the Mingjiao forces in the Red Scarf Army.
From this point of view, at least in this time and space, the second theory is tenable. After all, the White Lotus Sect is still the Luo Sect, or the Wenxiang Sect and the Qingcha Sect. Many of the traditions of these secret sects are derived from the Ming Sect. .
According to Xu He's current understanding of these organizations, the Zhu family is hiding behind the scenes and relying on these sects to gather old members and collect money.
It seems that Mingjiao, no, it should be called Luojiao now, is the source of the Zhu family’s evil intentions!
