Chapter 1240: defected to the mountains

Chapter 1240: defected to the mountains

Chapter 1240 Defection and Going to the Mountains

He was beaten. Gu Jinan was startled, and his voice was full of understanding that he had already guessed.Updated from novelb(i)n.c(o)m

Dou Shaodong's family nodded: "Well, I was whipped twenty times by the Yulin Army, and my whole back was beaten to pieces."

Back then, he bought the rank of holding a halberd in the Yulin Army. Now when he returns to Beijing, he will invite several Yulin Army to drink. He has a good relationship with them. If he wants to buy some news from the palace, he can still do it, so he knows Got to be more.

My back was beaten to pieces! Gu Jinan was completely shocked. How could this happen? Isn't Mr. Qi a favorite of the emperor? The emperor can't even listen to his favorite minister's words?

He was very worried: "The injury must be very serious. I wonder if there will be any internal injuries."

Dou Shaodong's family: "Probably not. The Yulin military commander who executed the execution knew that Mr. Qi was the emperor's favorite. He kept his hands, so his internal organs should not be hurt."

But his back was smashed, and his internal organs must have been slightly injured.

Dont worry, Mr. Qi is in his prime, just take care of him. Dou Shaodongs family still wanted Gu Jinan to help him with the work. He didnt want him to feel uneasy because of Mr. Qis affairs, so he said a few perfunctory words.

Gu Jinan heard the perfunctory tone in his words, frowned and asked, "Does the Dou Shaodong family feel that Master Qi is seeking death and has no benefit whatsoever?"

Gu Jinan was angry. Mr. Qi was his family's benefactor and a good minister who asked for orders for the people. He was a good official with a kind heart. If Mr. Qi's actions could not be praised by most people, he would Chilling.

Dou Shaodong's heart skipped a beat, hey, he was guessed right.

"Brother Gu has misunderstood. I didn't mean that. Mr. Qi is a good official who speaks for the people. I admire him very much."

The corners of Dou Shaodong's mouth twitched when he heard this, and he said: "If you want Mr. Qi to leave the capital, just say so. Why do you say such convoluted words? This will give me a headache."

Gu Jinan stuffed the medicine into his arms and said in a cold voice: "I can make it clear, but I'm afraid you will lose your head."

The emperor will definitely send someone to keep an eye on Mr. Qi, and the person who spreads the message is the Dou Shaodong family. If the emperor's people hear this, I am afraid that the Dou Shaodong family will be destroyed.

The matter of Dou Shaodong's family being choked and asking Mr. Qi to leave the capital cannot be said too straightforwardly.

Dou Shaodong's family accepted the two bottles of medicine and gave him a message: "Okay, I will send someone to Qi's family, but I can't guarantee whether Mr. Qi will listen or leave."

I heard that Mr. Qi is very loyal to the emperor. Even if the emperor lets him go, I guess he might stay and try to correct the emperor.

Seeing that Dou Shaodongs family agreed, Gu Jinan put away his anger and worry and asked about things in other places: "What's going on in Zhongzhou? Didn't they increase taxes?"

Hehe, Dou Shaodong's family sneered: "It's because they didn't increase taxes in Zhongzhou, but Zhongzhou has never been truly stable since the disaster victims' rebellion began. Yuchang Mansion and Tongshan Mansion, which are close to Northwest Chi Road, have long been unable to hold on. Ordinary taxes cannot be collected, and the bandits entrenched in Yuchang Mansion and Tongshan Mansion took advantage of the time when the people were worried about summer taxes, and went down to the mountains to rob again, making the lives of the people of Zhongzhou even more difficult."

"Officials in various prefectures in Zhongzhou still ignored the life and death of soldiers and used brutal methods to collect taxes from the soldiers' families. The adults in the command and envoy department in Zhongzhou did not have extra money to pay the soldiers to relieve their families from the summer tax. It caused The soldiers were angry, and many soldiers took their families to hide in the mountains. Later, it developed to the point where the general banner directly took the soldiers and family members under his banner and ran away, occupying the mountains as kings. Anyway, they knew very well that with the capital of Zhongzhou With the current strength of the Commander, it is impossible to destroy them."

"People will do what they see others do. As long as one soldier runs away with his family, other soldiers will follow suit. I heard that there are no more soldiers in the garrison camps of Yuchang Mansion and Tongshan Mansion. Whoever was left was almost all gone."

"What? Dou Shaodong's family, are you telling the truth? Are you lying? How is this possible?!" He Jinsheng was shocked when he heard this, and his whole body was shaking. He had never escaped from famine, and he had never been hungry since he was a child. The southern boys in Shunam simply cannot understand the suffering in the northwest.

Besides, they are soldiers and receive military pay from the imperial court. As long as they stay in the military camp, they can get their military pay. Why would they defect and go to the mountains to become bandits?

He Jinsheng was very puzzled. He felt that it was only a fool who would defect to the mountains and become a gangster instead of doing a decent job.

After hearing this, Dou Shaodong's family laughed and asked He Jinsheng, "What if the court doesn't give them military pay?"