In the middle of the night, the hustle and bustle on the wharf outside Yangzhou City was exhausted, Ren Minyu led a group of officials and Wang Zhaoyi and others to see off Chang Yu, came quietly, went quietly, stayed in Yangzhou City in a hurry for a day, talked about a big deal, borrowed a huge amount of money, and poached a few loyal and courageous talents.

It's time to leave with a wave of your sleeves, there are many things in the capital, and the head of the palace is also in a hurry.

In ancient times, boats relied on oars or oars in shallow water, and deep water relied on oars or oars, and canals were not deep or shallow, but even so, their speed was far less than that of land horses.

There are not many boats on the water in the night breeze, Shi Kefa has fallen asleep on Chang Yu's big boat, the Chen brothers and a few relatives are talking and laughing in a low voice with Lianxin at the stern, and Li Muxian at the bow of the boat is sitting cross-legged and closing his eyes to recuperate.

Although it was autumn, the weather was still hot and dry, even if the river breeze was cool, but the cabin still looked stuffy, Chang Yu came out of the cabin and breathed a sigh of relief, and sat down next to Li Muxian: "It's late at night, and the Taoist chief hasn't returned to the warehouse to rest."

"Stuffy panic in the cabin" Li Muxian opened his eyes, glanced at the stern of the boat and sighed: "That little fairy is a troublesome spirit."

"What do you say" Chang Yu frowned, and sure enough, Li Muxian said something that disgusted him very much: "Bad faces, sooner or later, the brothers of the Chen family will be at odds with their brothers because of Lianxin, and even turn their faces" and other beauties are guilty......

Chang Yu wanted to refute it fiercely, but thinking that the patriarchal thinking of men in this era was extremely deep-rooted, it was useless to say it, but it made the atmosphere very embarrassing, so he changed the topic: "The Taoist leader of the party cultivates early in the morning on weekdays and absorbs the essence of heaven and earth all day long, why does it look like not only his steps are vacant, but his whole expression is also sluggish, is it that he didn't cultivate this morning or your essence has been sucked by others."

cough cough, Li Muxian coughed lightly a few times to hide his embarrassment: "Maybe it's because I've been running around and overworking lately."

Before Chang Yu could answer, he saw Gao Jie come out of the cabin: "Could it be that there is a girl named 'Lao' in Qingyue Building" Chang Yu snorted and the tears he held back almost burst out, Li Muxian covered his face with his hands, "cough cough, Gao Zongbing don't want to entertain the poor road, the poor road is a cultivator who never goes to the fireworks alley."

Yes, Gao Jie sat down with a smile and said with a smile: "Today, I heard from the girl in Qingyue Tower that there is a Taoist priest who can pinch it very tightly, but in the end, he cheated on eating and drinking and tricked the girl into sleeping, but I don't know who did it."

"It should be a person who pretends to be a swagger and deceitful person from my Daomen" Li Muxian snorted and chirped: "The poor Dao is lacking and retired first" turned his head and went into the warehouse.

Chang Yu punched Gao Jie: "Your mouth is more poisonous than Wu Zhong, aren't you really looking at him today?" Gao Jie smiled: "I heard that Wu Zhong said that one side of the Tao is good before, so he deceived him, but it seems that there is really such a thing......"

The two of them were gossiping about Li Muxian at the bow of the boat, whispering for a long time, and before they knew it, the boat had traveled more than ten miles, and the riverside on both sides of the river was pitch black, I don't know whether it was grass or crops, Chang Yu lay on the deck and looked at the night sky, the sky was a little cloudy and there were not a few stars, and he pedaled Gao Jie next to him with his foot: "There is something for you to discuss."

"Do you want food?" Gao Jie smiled faintly, but Chang Yu was slightly surprised, turned over and sat up and looked at him: "How did you guess."

Gao Jie smiled: "It's not difficult to guess what you're thinking, the topic you mentioned the most recently is the lack of food and grass, and the only thing that can make your brows frown tight is the lack of war at the moment."

Chang Yu sighed: "Then you ......"

"Whether it's borrowed or not, you can go to my warehouse, when you have to pay it back, but you have to leave enough food for my more than 10,000 mouths" Gao Jie's faint words moved Chang Yu: "Big brother, you ......"

"With your 'big brother', it's worth everything" Gao Jie patted Chang Yu on the shoulder: "Aside from your identity, although you are young, you are righteous and thin, in terms of conduct, you are loyal to the monarch and protect the country, for the sake of the people, it is this point that is beyond the reach of many people, you are in a high position, but you have no official frame, no hypocrisy and pedantry of those civil officials, and no cold and thin coldness of eunuchs, so even if you are not the governor of Dongchang, I Gao Jie can worship you is also a fortunate thing for three lives, you and I are brothers, and now you need help and it is a major event for the country and the people, Brother, I will do my best."

Chang Yu never thought that Gao Jie, a rough person, could say such heart-wrenching words, which made him really emotional, to be honest, when he first crossed over, Gao Jie was recorded on the blacklist in his small notebook.

However, creation makes people, and this unruly warlord in the late Ming Dynasty is ...... at this time

"Big brother is righteous" Chang Yu patted his chest and promised: "You can rest assured, you will never borrow in vain, whether this grain is borrowed in my personal name or in the name of the imperial court, the amount of interest will definitely be calculated for you, brother, although I like to rely on the debt, I will never rely on you, and I will not let you post it upside down."

"I believed you!" Gao Jie touched his head: "Brother, I'm a rough person, and I won't calculate this, when I go back to Xuzhou, you can agree with your sister-in-law, she is good at this."

Chang Yu actually had the idea of borrowing grain from Gao Jie, but he didn't know how to open his mouth, after all, Gao Jie had already donated and borrowed some when he went south, although he had a lot of reserves, but Gao Jie had more than 10,000 soldiers and horses under his hands to provide for himself for two years.

Who knew that Gao Jie was unexpectedly refreshing, which made Chang Yu surprised but also grateful: "You also have military achievements in the south this time, but it is not enough to ensure that you are knighted, if you do it, you must gossip, so that you and I are both in the hands of others, but as long as you have military merits when you fight Xi'an, I will protect you from being knighted!" ”

Gao Jie smiled indifferently: "To be honest, before I Gao Jie had the heart to cling to you, of course, I also wanted to be promoted and make a fortune, but now it's different, whether you believe it or not, I really give you a brother, as for whether you are knighted or not, you can do it yourself, if you can be knighted, it is a beautiful thing, if you can't be knighted, there will be no complaints, to be honest, with a brother like you, what is the difference between being knighted and knighted"

Tut-tut...... Chang Yu shook his head exaggeratedly: "I can't believe that these words came from your mouth, I really doubt that Li Yan taught you to say it" Gao Jie pouted: "Li Yan is not so kind to me, he is close to Huang Degong, and he seems to dislike me."

Chang Yu rolled his eyes: "Why don't you review why he doesn't like you......"

Moreover, Gao Jie looked disdainful: "Why do I want to please him."

Chang Yu was stunned, but too, it is most important to do a good job and maintain your own style, if you become a gentleman who looks at people everywhere and is only humble and humble, then is it still Gao Jie.

Chang Yu doesn't need such a Gao Jie, nor does he need such a Huang Degong, let alone such a Wu Sangui, the reason why these fierce generals are in his eyes is because of their strong personal personalities and styles.

In the past few days when Chang Yu pacified Bai Wang's bandit class and returned to Beijing, the capital was naturally restless: sure enough, the eunuch in Dongchang did not have an uneven war as soon as he made a move, and the thief army in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River who was approaching Nanjing was wiped out by Lianwo, and the head of the thief Bai Wang was hung outside the Desheng Gate in the north of the city to show the public, and every day because hundreds of people went to watch, almost 10,000 people were empty.

Dongchang has always been the most feared and spurned place by the government and the opposition, but it is such a place that people love, hate and admire a little eunuch, who will fight and rectify.

The courtiers and nobles in the capital have almost all suffered from his stuffiness, and they wish he had burps early, but they have to admire the ability of this eunuch, no matter who the opponent is on the battlefield, he will win.

If it is said that the thieves who approached in Gyeonggi and the Tartars who entered the customs were because of the cooperation of the imperial court and the whole country, his achievements were achieved, but this time he went south to really block everyone's mouths, asking for money or money, asking for food or not food, and relying on him to get food to the ground, and he was still like a bamboo.

And those cabinet bigwigs know more, this eunuch himself took the soldiers to ask for food to quell the chaos, and forced to squeeze out a part of the military rations to help the people, this move really made some people extremely embarrassed, so that in the month of Chang Yu's battle, the voice of the court impeaching him disappeared, and only some of the imperial historians who didn't know who instructed him still couldn't pick bones from the eggs to impeach him.

It's just that they were directly ignored by the cabinet and the emperor, and no one paid attention to them at all.

The court is like this, and the people's praise of Chang Yu is even worse, but where there is a little bit of gossip that has anything to do with Chang Yu, it can be spread beyond recognition and flying all over the sky, it is said that during this period of time in the capital, ten out of ten are talking about various rumors and gossip about the little eunuch, the content is varied, of course, the war is mainly fighting, what Taiyuan War, Baoding War, Ningyuan War, Qingzhou War...... There are little eunuchs in the battle, and they have become serials.

It's okay for the common people to do this, but the attitude of that group of people has also begun to change, literati.

This group is the sworn enemies of the eunuchs, and from the day there were eunuchs, they have been undying opponents, natural enemies that cannot be resolved, and they are also enemies that the emperor does not want to resolve.

When Chang Yu first emerged, those literati scolded the street one by one, saying that he was the second Wei Zhongxian! At that time, Chang Yu also adopted some public opinion confrontation and suppression, and he was very good at using public opinion to suppress public opinion, bribing some literati to stand in the perspective of Dongchang to argue and scold those people.

It is said that the most used and most lethal sentence is: The eunuchs of Dongchang fought bloodily in front of the battle to kill the enemy and defend the country, what are you doing, and what have you contributed to the Ming Dynasty?

The confrontation in public opinion, coupled with the crushing of the battlefield, whether it is the reputation of Dongchang or the eunuchs, is in full swing, and now whether it is an ordinary literati or a scholar of Guozijian or a group of public intellectuals of the Fushe, they have passively or automatically reduced the firepower of Dongchang, eunuchs and Chang Yu.

Of course, no matter how good a person is, there will be people behind him who point fingers and make irresponsible remarks, just because some people always demand others with the standards of saints, and demand themselves with the standards of sluts.