Early the next morning, the news of Shang Yi's assassination reached the ears of Zeng Hualong and Wang Yingtai. The two governors were also panicked. Fortunately, Shang Yi was safe and killed more than twenty assassins on the spot.
The two governors were relieved and somewhat admired. After all, he was a fierce general who could not even be harmed by assassins. However, they were still uneasy after all and immediately sent people out of the city to investigate. As a result, no rogue bandits were found near Yanzhou City.
There was no trace of them, so the two of them breathed a sigh of relief. They defined this incident as the remnants of the rogue bandits causing trouble.
Later, rogue bandits sent people to sneak into the city and assassinate Shang Yi. The news spread throughout the city. However, Shang Yi was safe after all, so it did not cause much panic. It just became a topic of conversation in the streets.
Moreover, the common people added fuel to the fire, saying that the assassin failed to assassinate Shang Yi, but instead Shang Yi killed fifty or sixty people. Some people even explained the details clearly, how the assassin carried out the assassination, how Shang Yi evaded, and what happened next.
Counterattack, if this one kills, what moves does that one use, such a punch or a kick, as if he saw it with his own eyes next to Shang Yi, and it is said with nose and eyes. There are many people arguing because of the different details.
My face turned red and my ears turned red.
After dawn, Shang Yi came here with his two children and asked their neighbors about their family's situation to see if they had any relatives they could entrust.
But according to the reports from the neighbors, the man’s surname is Xu, and I don’t even know his name, because the man in this family makes a living as a hawker, and his family is wealthy. Therefore, the neighbors just call him Mr. Xu.
In their mid-thirties, these children are the children of their family. They are indeed a pair of twins, who are ten years old this year. The boy is called Bao'er, the elder brother, and the girl is called Niuniu, the younger sister. Of course, these are the younger ones.
I haven't given a name yet.
However, their family has lived here for more than ten years and is considered an old household here. However, the neighbors have not seen any relatives visiting their home, and they have not seen them return to their hometown during the holidays. It seems that they do not have any relatives.
Judging from what he learned, it was impossible to entrust these little brothers and sisters, so Shang Yi had no choice but to adopt them by himself. He would give them nicknames for the time being, and then give them big names after they returned to Mulinguan.
The neighbors were also very grateful to Shang Yi for his actions, and at the same time they said goodbye to the little brothers and sisters one by one.
Later, Shang Yi came to Zeng Hualong and said that Muling Pass was being rebuilt and he was worried. Now that the crisis in Yanzhou was resolved, he wanted to return to Muling Pass. Zeng Hualong also felt that he should also return to Dengzhou, so the two
Everyone came together to say goodbye to Wang Yingtai.
At this time, Wang Yingtai was also eager for them to leave quickly, because the Denglai troops stayed in Yanzhou, and all food and grass had to be supplied by Yanzhou, which was too expensive. But he was embarrassed to ask them to leave. Taking the initiative to say goodbye now was naturally what he wanted, and
He pretended to hold them back, and then reluctantly let them return. Of course, Wang Yingtai turned a blind eye to Shang Yi's failure to return the three Franco cannons. He pretended not to know.
.
So the Denglai troops gathered up their own affairs and returned to their bases the next day. Wang Yingtai personally performed the duties for them outside the city. Shang Yi asked the large group of troops to go ahead, and then followed after he had finished socializing. Wang Yingtai told the Denglai generals one by one
We toasted and sent him on his way for another five miles before leaving in tears.
Mulinguan and Dengzhou are not on the same road, so Shang Yi and Zeng Hualong had to break up after walking for a while.
Before parting, Zeng Hualong encouraged him: "Shang Yi, you have made great achievements in rescuing Yanzhou this time. Now to be a small Qianzong is really a bit of an insult to your talents. But don't worry,
I will definitely report to the imperial court truthfully, and ask for your merits and rewards, and your promotion and promotion will be just around the corner. Therefore, I have to be patient for a while longer, and do not slack off in the defense of the city."
Shang Yi said: "My lord, please rest assured that my subordinates will work conscientiously, fulfill their duties to the public, and live up to your expectations."
Zeng Hualong nodded and said: "Now the country is in crisis, the Tatars invaded the pass again, and the bandits are causing chaos everywhere. However, the country is in crisis and loyal ministers are revealed. Although you are young, you are really talented. You will definitely show your prominence and make contributions in the future."
The opportunity to become a general is just around the corner. Go back and guard the pass and train your troops."
Then the two of them separated and went their separate ways. Shang Yi also caught up with his own group of troops, and then rushed towards Mulinguan together.
During the rescue of Yanzhou this time, the Muling Army killed a total of ninety-eight people, which was not a huge casualty. Including the parents of the Xu brothers and sisters, there were a total of one hundred corpses, all wrapped in white cloth, placed in sacks, and loaded into trucks.
Transported back for burial.
On the way back, many more people were added. Luo Yuanbin and his team of firearms soldiers plus their families had more than a hundred people and seven or eight large vehicles. The family members of the three Sun brothers also had more than a dozen people, but Lin Zhi
There are eight members of the foreign family, a foreign monk Akonia, and a pair of brothers and sisters adopted by Shang Yi. Therefore, the number of the entire team has not decreased, but has increased a lot.
The little brothers and sisters of the Xu family are still children after all. Although both their parents died, they gradually recovered their children's nature after the sadness. In addition, the whole army knew what they had experienced and sympathized with them very much.
They both took great care of them. In addition, there were many fourteen and fifteen-year-old children in the youth group who often played with them during the march, so the two brothers and sisters also had a lot of smiles on their faces.
Adopting orphans is a good deed in any era, so the three brothers of the Sun family and the foreign monk Akonia also praised Shang Yi's behavior.
Shang Yi also took the opportunity to say to Sun Heding: "Mr. Sun Da, these children's surname is Xu. They only have nicknames but no big names. If you learn well, you can give them different names so that they can be called each other in the future!"
Sun Heding was stunned for a moment and said, "Don't you plan to change their surname to Shang?"
Shang Yi was a little strange and said: "Their surname is Xu, so why should we change their surname? Just give them better names."
In this era, it was very common for slaves to take their master's surname. Shang Yi adopted these two brothers and sisters, and it was natural for them to change their surname to Shang. Boys were usually given auspicious and festive surnames such as Fu, Shou, Xi, and An, while girls were given an auspicious and festive surname.
Then just give it the name of the maid. The Sun brothers don't think there is anything wrong with this.
Of course, the Sun brothers didn't know that Shang Yi didn't have the idea of letting others change their surnames. They also thought that he was generous and didn't change other people's family surnames, so they liked Shang Yi even more. Sun Heding also gave him a favor immediately.
The boy was named Xu Li and the girl was named Xu Yuan.
On the way back, the soldiers were very curious about a foreigner and a foreign monk in their team, especially the soldiers from the Youth League. When they saw Akonia, they all pointed at him as if they were surprised.
Akonya didn't take it seriously at all. Instead, he took the initiative to greet and talk to them in half-baked Chinese, trying to establish a more harmonious relationship first. Although Akonya looked different, his attitude was kind and respectful.
Shang Yi was also very polite to him, so the soldiers gradually became familiar with him.
Shang Yi also had to admit that this foreign monk really had a problem. But from the bottom of his heart, although Shang Yi was not opposed to Catholicism, it was not a belief, and Shang Yi also knew that Catholicism would never be what the foreign monk said.
Although he spoke so grandly, he also did a lot of dirty things secretly. However, in troubled times, everyone often needs a spiritual sustenance, so the spread of Catholicism was quite rapid in the late Ming Dynasty, and many Chinese people were baptized by Catholicism.
.Including Zheng Zhilong, who is currently rampant in Southeast Asia.
It seems that I need to impose some restrictions on Arconia, so that he cannot develop his followers in Mulingguan without any reason.
After the Sun brothers learned that Aconia was a Catholic missionary, they went to Beijing to find Father Tang Ruowang this time, and they were also in awe of him. Because Sun Yuanhua was a Catholic during his lifetime, the day before his death, Tang Ruowang
He once disguised himself as a charcoal delivery worker and went to prison to say the last mass for Sun Yuanhua. Although the Sun brothers were not Catholics yet, they still respected Catholic missionaries very much.
After Akonia learned about this situation, she was very happy. It seems that in this team, not only Shang Yi is the one who can develop, but also the Sun brothers, including their family, also have potential development value.
Therefore, the foreign monk became very close to the Sun brothers along the way, and he studied Chinese desperately, hoping to achieve something and be able to explain to his chief helmsman in the future.
At the same time, Aconia was also a professional painter, and he brought a lot of Western painting tools with him. Every day when he was stationed at the camp and resting, he would take the paint on the canvas and paint a few landscape sketches. Not only did he attract many young people to watch, but he also attracted
Many adults.
Because the soldiers are all from poor backgrounds and may not know many of them, they instinctively have a kind of respect for those who can draw. And Western paintings are mainly based on realism, which is very different from Chinese paintings which focus on meaning.
.But for laymen, whether the painting looks like it or not is the biggest criterion for evaluating the quality of a painting.
Once, Aconia became interested and secretly drew some sketches for Shang Yi and gave them to Shang Yi.
Shang Yi also found it very interesting when he saw it, because he had also learned some portrait sketches, and he still had some skills in seeing foreign monks. It was not just for fun, so he signed his name and stamped his own seal on the painting.
This immediately aroused great interest among the soldiers, who came to see if the painting looked like it. Of course, not everyone liked the foreign monk. On the day when the foreign monk painted Shang Yi's portrait, two people immediately reminded Shang Yi.
, Be careful, the foreign monk is casting a curse on him, casting a magic spell on him.
Although Shang Yi disapproved of the foreign monk's behavior and planned to impose certain restrictions, he scorned this unreasonable superstitious statement. In the end, he scolded the two guys and left in despair.
, no more words.
When the soldiers saw that Shang Yi did not object to taking down the portraits of foreign monks, their interest immediately increased, so everyone rushed to ask Aconia to paint their own portraits. The foreign monks also did not refuse who came and tried their best to satisfy them.
However, what Shang Yi and He Konya did not expect was that hundreds of years later, these paintings would become hot items in the collection world. Especially the pretty portrait paintings signed and stamped by Shang Yi, which were once sold for hundreds of millions.