"Angel, have you rested?"
Sun Guodong's staff came to the door of the guest room where the angels rested, raised their hands and knocked lightly on the door several times.
"come in!"
The people in the room seemed to have guessed that someone was coming back, and their tone was very calm.
The staff stretched out his hand to push open the door, looked inside the room, and saw the staff member sitting on the chair. He said with a smile on his face: "The military sect sent me to give the angel a small gift. I hope the angel can accept it."
As he spoke, he waved to the people outside the door.
Two servants carried a wooden box into the house from outside.
"Put the things down, you two can go out." The staff asked the servant to put the wooden box on the ground, and then asked the servant to go out.
The angel sitting on the seat glanced at the wooden box on the ground and asked, "What is this?"
After the servant walked out of the room, the aide closed the door and came to the wooden box.
"This is a gift from the military gate to you, angel." With that said, the aide reached out and opened the lid of the wooden box, revealing an ingot of silver inside.
Each ingot of silver is made from ten taels, which is a full thousand taels.
"this!"
The angel stood up from his seat immediately after seeing so much silver.
He had seen even the most valuable things, but they were all other people's things, and they were far less impactful than the one thousand taels of silver placed in front of him.
"Is it all for our family?" Angel stared at the silver in front of him and asked again.
A thousand taels of silver was not much, but it was already a lot for him. If he could easily come up with a thousand taels of silver, he would not have to do the hard work of going to the state to deliver the order.
The staff member smiled and said, "This thousand taels of silver belongs to you, angel."
"Haha, okay, okay, our family likes Sun Futai more and more." The angel picked up a piece of silver in one hand, looked at it from left to right, and couldn't put it down.
The staff member smiled and said, "As long as the angel likes it."
"I like it, how could I not like it? How could I not like such a good thing." The angel holding the silver in his hand had a smile on his face, thinking that his trip to Dengzhou was the right one.
Under normal circumstances, even if you go to the local place to upload the edict, you will only get about one hundred taels of hard-earned money at most.
The angel, who had been wondering for a while, put the silver back into the wooden box, closed the lid of the wooden box again, and sat back on his seat.
Then he smiled and looked at Sun Guozhen's staff standing aside, and said: "It's better to be here. With such a big source of wealth in Dengzhou, everyone will get rich!"
The supplies shipped to Lushun had to pass through Dengzhou. The rule of the imperial court was that things should be passed through each hand once, and at least one layer of skin had to be peeled off. Now that the governor of Deng came to hand over a thousand taels of silver, he felt more and more that Sun Guozhen had borrowed a lot. He made a fortune as a governor.
He had seen many things in the imperial city about civil servants reaping benefits.
There is no time when the money and food coming out of the Ministry of Household Affairs are not severely scratched by the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs. You must know that the Ministry of Household Affairs, from the ministers to the doctors below, are all civil servants, and many of them are Jinshis in the Ming Dynasty. The worst They are also judges, all of whom are scholars.
The staff on the side could hear the envy in the angel's words, but he just smiled in apology.
Because he knew that even if he explained, it would be useless. After all, there were so many supplies sent to Liaodong in Dengzhou. In the eyes of many people, Dengzhou's coming as governor would certainly bring benefits to his family.
But he knew that what he got was not much.
Moreover, a large part of that stuff has to be sent to the capital for management, and the remaining bit has to be used on the navy, so there is almost no real benefit for the family.
"Go back and tell Sun Futai that our family likes it very much and will accept it." Angel said to the staff on the side.
The staff member who heard this smiled and said, "As long as the angel likes it."
"We are a little tired. If you have nothing to do, you can go back." The angel gave the eviction order.
The staff member bowed slightly and said, "I won't disturb the angel's rest."
The man withdrew from the angel's room and closed the door again.
The moment the door closed, the angel hurriedly stood up from his seat, reopened the lid of the wooden box, and grabbed the ingots of silver in the wooden box.
The staff member who was about to leave outside the room heard the noise in the room, raised the corner of his mouth, and let out a silent chuckle.
Then he took the two servants who had been waiting outside the door and left.
At this time, Sun Guozhen was meeting with Yang Guodong, the commander-in-chief, at the back office.
What happened in Lushun is indispensable to Yang Guodong.
"The imperial edict has been issued. The Holy Emperor has ordered us to come to support Lushun. We must prevent Lushun from falling into the hands of tiger thieves." Sun Guozhen did not hide anything and directly informed Yang Guodong of the requirements mentioned in the imperial edict.
Hearing this, Yang Guodong frowned and said: "Since the tiger thieves are willing to occupy Lushun, let's give it to them. Why bother to take it back? It's totally not worth the gain."
With the islands such as Pidao and Changshan Island falling into the hands of the Tiger Flag, the threat from Dongjiang Town to the counterfeit gold rear has been greatly reduced.
At this time, Dengzhou spent all his energy to save Lushun, which in his opinion was totally worth the loss.
"This is the intention of the Holy One, and I'm afraid it is also the idea of the princes in the court. You and I can't change it. The top priority should be how to save the Ming army in Lushun." Sun Guozhen was not surprised that Yang Guodong said this.
Even he himself felt that he should not save Lushun.
Instead of wasting strength fighting with the Tiger Character Banner in Lushun, it would be better to give up Lushun and leave the Tiger Character Banner to face the forces of counterfeit gold.
After hearing this, Yang Guodong said in a bad tone: "No one in the court advised your majesty. Don't they know how much manpower and material resources it will take to save Lushun from the tiger thieves? This is still a smooth situation." , if things don’t go well, even the military power and supplies from Dengzhou won’t be able to save Lushun.”
"So you're not sure?" Sun Guozhen looked at Yang Guodong.
Yang Guodong shook his head and said: "We are not sure at all. The tiger thieves can seize the land of the three provinces. If they were so easy to deal with, the imperial court would have wiped them out long ago."
"Not even the navy?" Sun Guozhen asked.
Yang Guodong snorted softly and said: "You haven't seen the losses suffered by the Navy on Pi Island. It's not like you haven't seen the military. They are equipped with large ships from the West, with dozens of cannons on board. Our Navy's ships didn't wait to get close." It was sunk.”
"So you have nothing to do?" Sun Guozhen naturally knew what a Thai-Western ship was. Not only did he understand it, he had also personally burned a Red-Mao Yi warship.
Yang Guodong said to him: "It's not that I don't want to lead troops to support Lushun. It's actually that this battle is really difficult to fight. I also asked the military to come forward and explain the pros and cons to the court."
If it were three years ago, he would definitely be willing to lead troops to Lushun to deal with Lushun's Tiger Flag troops. Even if it was more than a year ago, he would not refuse.
After all, if you can't win a land battle, there will be a naval battle. As long as you take advantage of the ships, there is no possibility of defeat.
But since a fleet flying the tiger flag appeared in the waters near Pi Island, everything changed.
In land battles, Dengzhou soldiers and horses were no match for the Tiger Flag troops that had occupied three provinces. In naval battles, Dengzhou Navy was defeated in front of the Tiger Flag fleet.
You can't win a land battle, and you can't beat a naval battle.
The imperial edict asked him, the commander-in-chief of Dengzhou, to go to Lushun to deal with the soldiers and horses of the Tiger Flag. In his opinion, it was almost like going to die.
