Chapter 41 Gu Baihua
Mr. Yang was a little scared.
Do not misunderstand.
The demolition team was beaten violently by the law, even if his confidant Zhang Anmin was cut into pieces, the chieftains complained, and the local civil and military complaints... Mr. Yang was not afraid of these.
Mr. Yang is only afraid of one person and one thing.
The person Mr. Yang is afraid of is Emperor Wanli. The thing Mr. Yang is afraid of is the change from the chairman and general manager of Yunnan Mining Group who enjoys deputy ministerial status to the waiter A Rong.
Because up to now, in addition to sending some Burmese jade to the emperor, about one-tenth of the "hundreds of thousands taels per year" that Haikou boasted about has been completed - and in the Ming Dynasty, jade was not valuable! Han scholar-officials like white jade with a restrained brilliance and warmth like fat. They look down on colorful jade and label it as "fake jade". It was not until the Manchu Qing Dynasty took over the Central Plains that the Manchu compatriots who liked bright red and green couldn't put it down when they saw the colorful emeralds. The value of these things increased sharply (think of the big red flower jackets worn by the waiters in the Northeast Pavilion~ Undoubtedly, the Han people who traveled to Guandong were influenced by How much impact does it have).
Yang Rong knew that he was a domestic slave of the great emperor, and no one in the civil or military court could do anything to him, let alone the chieftains and common people. A word from the great emperor can make him rich and powerful, or he can immediately turn him into a loser.
Mr. Yang was very angry and the consequences were serious.
Violent resistance to demolition?
This is great! Arrest people and beat them to death!
Ming history records: "Thousands of people were killed with sticks"! Personally, it may be an exaggeration. It would be a bit exaggerated to kill thousands of people with a big sledgehammer - for example, scholars say that a red cannon can "corrode for dozens of miles" after being fired. Even today, only nuclear weapons can have this effect - but It is indeed possible to kill hundreds of people.
The dignified officers and soldiers were driven everywhere by the natives?
It's all you local military leaders who are secretly sabotaging it! Catch it for us!
In order to serve as a warning to others, the commander Fan Gaoming was arrested. First, he was paraded through the streets with shackles, and then he was sentenced to stand in a cage: Take a good look, this is what you will get if you don't listen to our family!
Later, He Ruifeng, the commander of Guanbao, was arrested again - our family asked you for forty fast horses, and you actually said you couldn't get them all? Who the hell cares if you have it or not? You know who our family represents, right? If the task is not completed, it means that the attitude is not correct, and if the attitude is not correct, it means being disloyal to the emperor! Call our house!
And you, you, you, you are not a good person! I have to arrest them all!
There are no weak soldiers under a strong general. Eunuch Yang is so arrogant, and his men are naturally like wolves and tigers. In order to distinguish themselves from ordinary local law enforcement officers, Eunuch Yang and his subordinates all wear public uniforms made of white raw silk - "all in uniform". Onyx is white raw silk. The chest is decorated with blue bat patches. Anyone with a discerning eye can tell at a glance: the official uniforms of the Ming Dynasty are composed of civilized animals and military beasts. Eunuch Yang’s group of white-clothed men imitated the flying fish uniforms of the Jinyiwei, which means "both civilized and military, but also birds and beasts."
Although these guys in white can't deal with the toasts who violently resist the law, they are extremely vicious when they bully the honest and humble people. Bullying men, dominating women, extorting money is child's play. In the end, these guys even looked down on the rough-and-tumble Naxi women. They openly broke into private houses under various high-sounding names, plundered property, and even raped and humiliated the female relatives of prominent gentry!
But the local officials were at a loss to deal with this group of men in white, and dared not speak out in anger.
The characteristic of people like Mr. Yang is that they can't hold back their anger when they encounter cowards. The more the local civil and military officials seemed to accept the situation, the more serious they became. He seriously threatened to "capture all the six guards" - no one could escape from the command of the six guards!
Finally, Eunuch Yang came to an end.
On the eleventh day of the first lunar month in the thirty-fourth year of Wanli, Yang Rong sent people to arrest He Shixun.
On this day, Gu Baihua happened to be in the camp.
Seeing dozens of gangsters holding an iron chain around the neck of his benefactor and dragging the imperial military attaché out of the command tent like a dog, Gu Baihua couldn't hold it in any longer.
Don't forget, this guy once accidentally entered a bandit's den because of wrong intelligence, and beheaded all nineteen tough Tibetan bandits at the cost of six deaths and eight injuries - not a single one was left alive!
The fate of these scoundrels can be imagined.
There are two chains, and four people are holding them. The chains of the first two people were wrapped around He Shixun's neck, while the chains of the latter two people were holding his arms and chest.
Without any obstruction, no negotiation, no curse, and no unnecessary actions, Gu Baihua walked toward the man in white with his knife and stabbed it diagonally.
The first knife swung through, and the guy on the left was cut in two from his right neck to his left armpit.
Before anyone could react, the second knife struck the guy on the right front through his heart, until it reached his hilt.
He raised his foot and kicked the man's lower abdomen and pulled out the knife. Gu Baihua didn't seem to feel the bloody arrows shooting out all over his body and face, and he went straight to the man behind him with the knife.
The two guys at the back wanted to turn around and run away, but they couldn't. In order to show their power and save effort, they wrapped the iron chains around their wrists several times. In desperation, they couldn't untie them for a while. One end of the chain was still on He Shixun's body.
For the third time, as soon as a guy turned around, the back of his head was split open. I don't know where this guy got a helmet that covered his mouth and nose (the Ming Dynasty's standard iron helmet did not have a face protector). Mr. Rao Shimu specially asked Achang craftsmen to tailor the Husa knife for Gu Baihua. The helmet stagnated and got stuck on the sternum.
The fourth guy fell down and struggled to get up. Then he felt someone riding up. He hurriedly turned his head and shouted with tears in his eyes: "Sir, spare your life. I'm just following orders!"
Riding on him was He Shixun. The warrior's bloody nature has been completely stimulated by the splash of blood. Just listen to He Shixun's deep voice: "Acting on orders? Don't you know what it means to be unreasonable, Gouzai! Will you only know your regrets when you are about to die? I won't spare you!"
Gu Baihua had already pulled out the knife, turned the handle over and handed it to He Shixun. Commander He shook his head and used his two big, thick hands to fight with each other. With a click, he actually broke the man's neck bone. The corpse shriveled into a puddle, the sphincter muscles lost control of the nerve center and relaxed. Feces and urine soaked the hem of the white clothes into a large yellow stain, which was extremely smelly.
It's not that easy for other people in silk clothes to run away! At this moment, their domineering clothes became their own reminders. Within a matter of seconds, except for the two people who were guarding outside the camp, they saw the opportunity and fled. Everyone else who entered the camp lay dead in the barracks.
He Shixun, who never stopped doing anything, led a group of people and went straight to Yang Rong's mansion.
When Eunuch Yang received the report, he was frightened and relied on his "emperor's authority" to send someone to notify the commander Han Daguang and local civil servants, asking them to "lead troops to fight the rebellion immediately"; on the other hand, more than two hundred people were gathered The partisans tried to resist.
Unexpectedly, the local prefects, prefects, county magistrates, etc. "sit close to the ground" - they all ran out of the government office to find a nearby place, moved a chair under the shade of a tree, sat down, drank tea and watched the excitement!
Fortunately, the commander Han Daguang really brought people here.
Hey, something's wrong? What are the two round things Han Daguang is carrying in his left and right hands?
Head!
The heads of the two guys sent there for help!
Several battalions of soldiers, led by the generals, rushed straight towards them with murderous intent.
Behind them are the chieftains, big and small, with their tribesmen!
The Han gentry in the city also brought their servants to join this army!
In an instant, more than 10,000 people in the small Lijiang City joined the liquidation of Eunuch Yang!
Eunuch Yang's more than two hundred minions dispersed in an instant. However, there is really no way to escape this time - crowds are coming from all directions!
Those who were caught on the spot lost their lives without exception: those who were hacked to death with a hatchet from the left to the right, those who were knocked to death with a hoe, those who were beaten to death by your punches and my kicks, those who were beaten to death by scythes. His chest was slowly gouged to death one by one from his back, and his hands and feet were tied with ropes and his body was torn apart by five horses... When the rest of the party saw this, they were all heartbroken: after having done so many immoral things, there is definitely no hope of survival. The biggest wish at this moment is Just die quickly: "Hundreds and dozens of people were hanged from trees and thrown into wells to beg for their lives"!
Eunuch Yang, who had no way to go from heaven to earth, also threw himself into the well, but he was a step too late - there were already several people in the well. Eunuch Yang stepped on his men who were floating and sinking. The well water was only up to his waist, and his head was only a few feet away from the well mouth. Gu Baihua pulled him out by his hair and dragged him to He Shixun. Of course, along the way, he would inevitably receive many punches, kicks, and sticks, and his limbs would be broken.
Eunuch Yang, who could no longer maintain his composure, huddled at the feet of everyone covered in blood, watching helplessly as Nuo Da's Yang Mansion was set ablaze, and then... everyone worked together to throw the severed arms and legs into the fire.
When Wanli, who was far away in the capital, heard the news, he was furious - it was okay to kill the father-in-law of Shangshan Supervisor. There are many guys without eggs these days, but it was not okay to refute the face of the Holy Emperor!
Immediately ordered: "Arrest the local magistrate"!
Shen Li, a cabinet scholar, is the tutor of the prefect Xiong Duo. Xiong Duo is the one who was imprisoned by Yang Rong in the previous article. When Xiong Duo passed the Jinshi examination, Shen Li was one of the examiners. According to old habits, a teacher-student relationship was established from then on - moreover, Shen Li had a private friendship with Chen Yongbin, the governor of Yunnan, and it was because of this relationship that he sent Xiong Duo to Yunnan.
Shen Li immediately found another father-in-law. This one was a real "eunuch", and he was a great eunuch: Chen Ju, the eunuch in charge of the eunuch's ceremonial seal!
The ordinary people who work in the palace are called father-in-law, the deputy leader of the twelve eunuchs is called young eunuch, and the leader is called eunuch. The eunuch in the palm of Si Li Jian is known as the first eunuch - Si Li Jian is the head of the twelve eunuchs. There are three leaders, namely the admiral eunuch, the palm seal eunuch, and the pen pen eunuch. The admiral eunuch is the head of all eunuchs, but this title is rarely given and is often vacant. Therefore, the latter two positions are the most powerful among the eunuchs. As the name suggests, the eunuchs who drafted edicts for the emperor were those who drafted edicts for the emperor, while the eunuchs who printed jade seals were the ones who affixed jade seals to the edicts - without the jade seals, the edicts could not take effect. For example, if the emperor's order is found to be inappropriate, the eunuch holding the seal has the right to request that the text be reconsidered. Therefore, Chen Ju was the number one eunuch at this time.
What's more, Eunuch Chen has another identity that is even more frightening: the eunuch of the East Factory!
Chen Ju advised Wanli: "If there is someone to blame, Tiqi will arrest him and question him. I am afraid that the journey back and forth will be long, my ears and eyes will be frightened, and it will be inconvenient to hear rumors, so we should be lenient in the investigation."
This is a learned statement!
We know that people in the imperial palace are very particular about their speech - Chen Ju’s words cannot be translated directly according to the original meaning of ancient Chinese. There is a subtext behind it: If all the local officials are arrested because of this guy, the journey will be thousands of miles long, and the places he passes through , what do all the local officials think? Rumors are flying all over the place, and maybe there will be chaos on the border. Not only will everyone stop working, but they may also become disloyal. This is a big deal!
Shen Li lost no time in playing: "I heard that all the people in Yang Rong are wearing silk clothes. This is not a good omen for the country. If the flames burn, the sky will destroy it. If you blame the place for this, it may go against the will of heaven." Translated into modern Chinese, it is: What a tragedy it would be to run around the world in white clothes! Burn them all, this is God going to destroy them, a good thing!
Wanli was not stupid. He figured it out in a moment and ordered that only He Shixun and a few other culprits should be punished, and "the rest should be ignored." Not only were they not asked, Xiong Duo and others continued to be reinstated to their posts - the various fancy deaths of Yang Rong and his minions were like a speck of ashes in front of the emperor's eyes, dissipated without a trace with the flick of a whisk.
He Shixun himself knew that he would inevitably die, and had already arranged Gu Baihua's escape route. Master Mu Zeng gave Gu Baihua two good horses, greeted the living Buddha Shezi Tenzin in Diqing Prefecture, and asked him to bring his cousin Gu Baisong, who was fourteen years old at the time, to join him. The rest of the Gu family changed their Naxi nationality and entered the village newly built by Master Mu.
Gu Baihua was unwilling to live under someone else's roof, nor was he willing to be a lama. On the way to Diqing, he encountered a group of horse thieves, and took Gu Baisong into the group.
Not long after joining the gang, he drank too much highland barley wine in Huanglong, Sichuan. He was caught by the army while drunk. Because he was an accessory, he was inexplicably sentenced to exile. He and Gu Baisong were sent to Xuanda Border Guard and assigned to Lu Yong Camp. .
One time, Lu Yong got himself a good horse from the horse market, but it was too hot-tempered and kept kicking and biting for several days to prevent anyone from getting close to him. He even kicked the groom in the camp who was trying to forcefully saddle it. Ribs. A group of beggar soldiers gathered around and laughed and watched the fun. Lu Yong was a little embarrassed. Just when he was about to kill him to save some face, a dark-skinned guy with a round head and a round face appeared from among the beggars and said with a barbarian accent. I'll give it a try, and then we'll chat with the horse. I saw this guy murmuring barbaric words that no one could understand as he moved closer. Strangely enough, the Mongolian horse in the north seemed to understand the Naxi language in the southwest, and actually let him come close to him and even let him touch his face. I saw this guy scurry suddenly and suddenly flew onto his horse! The horse felt that it had been deceived, and stood up with a long neigh. It wanted to throw the man off and trample it to death with a hoof, but he firmly grabbed its mane and could not get rid of it several times. Then, he started running wildly around the fence!
Horse is a relatively intelligent animal. Especially fierce horses will test their master before being tamed. In order to get rid of the rider, they will use various methods - and these methods are often very dangerous for the rider. For example, run close to the fence and let the fence snap off the rider's legs. Another example is that they will suddenly stop while running, and inexperienced riders will be thrown far away by the huge inertia. They will also gallop under branches that happen to be similar to their own height, letting the cross branches hold them on their backs. The rider was swept away... But these tricks were completely ineffective against the barbarian. Not only did the man seem to be on the bare horse's back, but he also seemed to have telepathy and knew the tricks the horse was about to use. Twice, the horse The tall man stood up and turned back suddenly, trying to use his own weight to crush the man on his back half to death! But every time, this barbarian could easily jump down at the moment when the horse lost its center of gravity and fell down, and watched in amusement as it fell heavily, and then jumped up again the moment it turned over and stood up!
Finally, the fierce horse started to trot obediently. When this guy passed by Lu Yong again and dismounted, the horse actually followed him as if it was being led by an invisible rein, lowering its head to sniff his tattered clothes from time to time!
So that day, Gu Baihua and Gu Baisong became Lu Yong's horse guards together, and met Guan Shengyun and others...
Knowledge points in this article:
Twelve prisons in the Ming Dynasty.
Si Li Jian: the head of the twelve supervisors. There are three responsibilities: criticizing and responding to memorials, propagating edicts, taking charge of other eunuch affairs, and holding other positions concurrently, such as admiral of the East and West Factory, garrison of Nanjing, etc.
Neiguanjian: in charge of books, ceremonials, etc.
Royal Horse Supervisor: In the beginning, he was a horse breeder, and later he was responsible for supervising military affairs. He was very good.
Shrine Supervisor: Management Office of Taimiao and other sacrificial places.
Shangshan Supervisor: Ouchi Canteen.
Shang Baojian: Office of seal engraving and certificates, in charge of various seals (the emperor appoints officials, such as the Pingman general, to engrave a seal, stamp the seal on white paper and distribute it to various places. How will the general cooperate in the future? , a seal is used on official documents. When the local magistrate receives the order, he will take out the archive and check the seal on the official document).
Yin Shou Supervisor: Document Room.
Supervisor: Cleaning Department.
Clothing Room: Tailor Management Department.
Du Zhijian: When the great emperor goes out, the people in front of him are pretending to be powerful.
