The high priest Francisco whispered a few words and handed over a newspaper sent back from Yangzhou.
After Liu Zhaosun finished reading the newspaper, his fingers trembled.
"May I ask Your Majesty, who are the five tigers?"
Pei Dahu was stunned.
The story of the Five Tigers of Kaiyuan has not been mentioned for a long time since the death of Zhang Chaochen Lian.
Two of the original five tigers: Shen Lian, Wu Xiao, Lin Yu, Zhang Chao, and Pei Dahu are gone. Pei Dahu is old and has been fighting on the front line for the past two years, only following the Supreme Emperor.
The Supreme Emperor raised his fingers:
"Wu Xiao, Lin Yu, Li Zicheng, Jiang Liu'er..."
The clearance of his parents-in-law in Taicang was completed. In February, Li Zicheng escorted Xie Yang back to Nanjing and has been on standby at the Capricorn Guard.
At the beginning of this year, Jiang Liuer ended his five-year exile and returned to the pass from Crescent Lake (Lake Baikal).
When Pei Dahu was about to ask the fifth tiger, the Supreme Emperor asked first:
"How long can a tiger live?"
Pei Dahu was stunned again.
"Thirty years, I heard from Orion before, it is rare to see a tiger that has lived for more than thirty years."
The Supreme Emperor shook off the dust from his Taoist robes, held a fly whisk in hand, and stood up from the futon with an air of immortality.
"The tiger raised by Jiang Liu'er is ten years old, right?"
Pei Dahu scratched his gray hair.
"I remember that Panasonic is exactly twelve years old this year."
"It is in its prime. It is the fifth tiger going to Yangzhou this time, a real tiger."
The Supreme Emperor closed his eyes and imagined Jiang Liu'er riding a tiger and swimming across the Qinhuai River.
"The ancients said that with a hundred thousand guan in your pocket, you can ride a crane down to Yangzhou. There are no cranes in Daqi, and there is no 100,000 guan to reward those scoundrels, so we have to let Jiang Liu'er ride a tiger and go to Yangzhou to meet them."
The Supreme Emperor handed Pei Dahu the Tang newspaper that had just been sent back from Yangzhou.
"Let's see, Liu Kan can't bear it anymore and asks me for help."
"It's good to ask for help. I have known for a long time that water transport cannot be abolished so easily."
Pei Dahu took the newspaper with a solemn expression.
He had also heard about things in Yangzhou, but he didn't expect it to be so difficult.
The Tang newspaper was sent back in the name of Pu Gang.
Pu Gang reported in detail in the letter that since they arrived in Yangzhou in the first month of the first month, the Cao workers and Cao army had carried out raids and strikes, dumped grain and cotton into the canal during the day, set fire to ships at night, and attacked soldiers and civil affairs everywhere. officials.
There are hundreds of thousands of these criminals.
There is intelligence that they are planning to assassinate Emperor Guangde.
The Chongming Island shipping port in Songjiang, which was being expanded, was burned down by gangsters.
Sea-going ships transporting grain from Jiaozhou and Dengzhou south to replace water transportation are frequently set on fire, making it difficult to prevent...
Millions of water workers are responsible for food and clothing.
People who lost their livelihoods after the abolition of water transportation, no matter whether the opponent is Daqi or Ming Dynasty, let alone Qianqiu Dynasty, they obey the overall situation. No matter who it is, as long as they block their way of making money, they will retaliate and kill people.
When Xuzhou rebelled, Liu Zhaosun had seen the fierce folk customs of Huaiyang.
Emperor Guangde and his party were attacked ten times more violently than the Suzhou riots.
If it weren't for the Fifth Corps led by Pu Gang and Xing Zhongyi, he would have been the second emperor of Da Qi. Now he may have fallen into the water and died like Zhu Houzhao, or he may have left his life in Jiangnan forever like Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty.
"Jiang Liuer was exiled on Sakhalin Island for five years. He came back a few days ago. He has been transformed. Panasonic is in his prime. Panasonic is what I call the Five Tigers."
Pei Dahu volunteered:
"I'll go, too. How dare these little thieves be so arrogant, ignore me, Da Qi, and dare to murder Emperor Guangde."
"You are old, stay with me and don't go."
"I have issued recruitment orders to all provinces to recruit new soldiers and officers and students from the martial arts hall. A total of 50,000 people will be recruited. Together with the Fifth Corps, we can get a total of 70,000 people. 70,000 people will be used to suppress Yangzhou, which should be enough."
Pei Dahu was worried: "Seventy thousand is enough, but the newly trained soldiers may not be able to be used."
Liu Zhaosun looked solemn: "It is useless to kill the enemy in battle, but it is more than enough to deal with those who make trouble."
After the Emperor finished speaking, he looked back at the Portuguese Francisco.
"I remember that when Marco Polo came to China, he witnessed the prosperity of the Celestial Empire and marveled at the majesty of the North-South Grand Canal. That was the era of Kublai Khan. The Mongolian cavalry traveled across the Eurasian continent. No one dared to disobey the Khan's orders. Supply from the south The grain and cotton from Gyeonggi and the army that conquered Java and Vietnam in the north can be transported by water or sea, and no one dares to stop it. Daqi is destined to become a great empire. But now, there is such a group of people who want to use a tattered The canal full of defects threatens the court and me. I have given them a way out and a livelihood, but these people want to attack shipping, burn ships, kill harbor construction workers, kill my officials, and even kill my only son. ! These blood-sucking insects are parasitic on the skin of the empire. They are all extremely fat, ten times and a hundred times fatter than Lu Tongzhi!"
"I will bleed the moths and restore them to health."
Francisco's big blue eyes kept blinking, listening carefully to every word the Emperor said.
"Let them see the tigers in the north and use the tusks of Panasonic to bleed them. Bleeding will be good for these borers. Right, High Priest?"
The high priest, who stood beside the Supreme Emperor and remained silent, shrugged his shoulders and purred his nose:
"Your Majesty, in the great eastern country you rule, in this magical country, everything is possible. I want to say that in our Europe, from Britain to Prague, bloodletting has always been very popular. It is very useful in treating many difficult and complex diseases. disease, can achieve very good results.”
Liu Zhaosun patted the Portuguese on the shoulder and told him:
"High Priest, you must prepare for a thousand castration surgeries. Many people will need them this time."
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Jiang Liuer returned to Nanjing.
During his five years on Sakhalin, he encountered the most ferocious enemies and experienced the most brutal wars.
Now, he is going to Yangzhou, with Lin Yu and Li Zicheng, as well as Wu Xiao who is far away in Shaanxi, and the tiger Matsushita who accompanies him day and night.
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On the eve of leaving Nanjing, Lin Yu said goodbye to Chiyoko.
Chiyoko prepares his favorite food.
"I heard from my brother that hundreds of thousands of water workers in Yangzhou are rebelling, and the civil administration's grain and gunpowder cannot be transported there."
Lin Yu gave his son some food and was indifferent.
"Last night, I dreamed about the cherry blossoms in Osaka. "
In Chiyoko's hometown, people dream of cherry blossoms before leaving, which is a bad sign.
Lin Yu was eating and drinking.
"Your brothers are all dead. If the earthen jar is not broken outside the well, the general will inevitably die in battle."
Chiyoko chattered endlessly, and eight-year-old Lin Zhenyu concentrated on eating.
"Can I not go to Yangzhou? I have a bad feeling."
Lin Yu put down his bowls and chopsticks and looked lovingly at Lin Zhenyu, who looked like a tiger-headed man.
"If you are not afraid of death, you should also think about Zhenyu. He is only eight years old. Do you want him to become an orphan?"
"I heard Yuan Chonghuan say that the Japanese are better than cherry blossoms, and death is a new reincarnation. Aren't you a Japanese?"
Chiyoko shook his head and said: "I am from the Japanese country, but I hate the Japanese country and everything in Japan. The shogunate and the daimyo never regard the common people as human beings. The samurai can test the sword on the peasants in the street. The samurai do not cherish life. The cherry blossoms are legends. The Lord It has been said that those who do not value life will go to hell after death."
Lin Yu's wife had believed in the European religion before.
"The Emperor will burn you like firewood and send you to Yangzhou to die."
"That's enough, don't say any more!"
Chiyoko cried.
The obedience in the bones of an island woman defeated her rationality, and she no longer persuaded her husband.
"I am General Fu, the bullets will go around, nothing will happen."
