Chapter 53: The Poor Dagger (3)
The plan could not catch up with the changes, and for the sake of the current plan, they could only be ordered to go to Fuzhou.
Only Zhang Ying and their group of people received the order, and Jiang Meiao and Ruan Mei were in two batches, one of them was late for the paperwork, and the other was late, and they couldn't complain about others, and now they can only look at Zhang Ying and their envy, jealousy and hatred. However, this time, some of their senior officers were invited to accompany them at the farewell banquet. After all, the place of the Yamen of the Inspection Division is not large, and the eunuch bag of the inspection boss is not very thick.
Zhang Ying and the others' minds have all been focused on the farewell banquet, and there are many and miscellaneous questions that need to be asked, which is the most desired for these generals who are not familiar with life.
The preparations have already reached the grassroots level of the officers, but fortunately there are not many things that need to be prepared, and with the combined efforts of the original subordinates and the auxiliary soldiers who have just bought from Jiang Meiao, it did not take long to complete the preparations. The rest is nothing more than a good rest and a fuller mental state to meet the new master.
The senior officers had to learn from the inspection and inspection, and the officers and non-commissioned officers at the grassroots level naturally would not be idle, but simply learned about the current situation in Fujian and Haihai from the auxiliaries who had passed too far from Jiang Meiao. Even if there is a big deviation in these eight-hand information, at least it is better than knowing nothing.
"Say bad things about the old master, the villain is unwilling, just talk about the things in Minhai, it's all said by the former officers, right, don't care......"
"On the Fujian Sea, to put it bluntly, the Zheng family's own family is infighting. The surname of the country attacked Zhongzuo, killed the Marquis of Dingyuan, and expelled the founding of the country, some said that they regained the foundation, and some said that they forcibly seized the family property of the clan brother. Hey, people have two skins on their mouths, whoever wants to say whatever they want to say can say it. However, if you want to say that you can fight, you have to be surnamed Guoye, I heard the former Lin General always say that when the Guojia Ye started, there were about 90 people, one or two boats, and later it was to recover Chaozhou, and it was to fight Zhangzhou, where the Tartars, well, the Qing army couldn't beat him......"
"I heard that in the second half of this year alone, Marquis Weiyuan has defeated the Qing army several times in a row, and now southern Fujian is going to change his surname to Zhu."
"Not that exaggerated, right?"
"Who knows, I only heard that the Qing army sent reinforcements to Zhangzhou once and was defeated once, and once they went, and now there are no more usable troops in Fujian."
"No wonder you are in such a hurry to call us to Fuzhou to wait, the co-authors want to use us as cannon fodder."
“……”
Similar descriptions and similar dialogues are being staged in a similar way on each ship of Yu Zhang Ying and others. Zhang Ying and others, it was inconvenient to continue to wear the official uniform of the Ming Court on such occasions, and it was even more difficult to wear armor or something, so they simply changed into civilian clothes and went to the banquet.
It is not like being in the city, the conditions here are relatively simple, the inspection department has just set up a yamen, and many of the tables are borrowed from the people's homes by the people below. It is said that it is a banquet, but in fact, the dishes are also home-cooked, especially a lot of fish dishes, fried and fried, steamed and braised, plus a fish soup, almost tossed all over again. It is wine, but there are still a few jars that can be eaten, and it is said that they were all brought by the inspection when they took office, and they were originally kept for their own enjoyment, but now they are cheaper.
Eating and drinking is like this, but female music can never be found. In the evening, the banquet officially began, and after the toast, everyone began to toast each other. In this, it is nothing more than wishing Zhang Ying and them to be appreciated by Zhang Xuesheng, wishing Jiang Meiao and Ruan Mei that they can receive the news as soon as possible, and wishing the inspection inspection to be promoted and make a fortune.
Some of the things that are very cliché are even more boring in this humble banquet. Fortunately, the minds of everyone present were not focused on this, but they frequently showed favor to the inspection, looking forward to more useful things.
A vigorous touting, although it shows that the phenomenon of abuse of officials and lords in the court is serious, and the official positions on these guys are not very valuable, but the praise of such a large group of "high-ranking officials" still makes the inspection a little smoky, and after a few cups, this mouth can no longer be held.
"If you want to say that this blessing is a blessing, it is Zheng Zhilong's fellow villager and cronies, and later Zheng Zhilong supported the puppet emperor, and he also followed the rising tide and made him an earl, as if he was called Uncle Wu Yi. When Zheng Ci succeeded Zheng Cai to guard the Jiangxi Pass, he and his nephew Shi Lang disobeyed, and later directly descended to our Qing Dynasty. followed Li Chengdong to fight in Guangdong, took the lead, and worked very hard......"
Later, Li Chengdong rebelled, and he also rebelled. But he was a foreign general, and he was very excluded, and then he voted for the surname Zheng Ci. After several years of fighting, somehow, the two sides suddenly had a conflict, and Zheng Ci arrested Shi Fu's two nephews and his family, and as a result, Shi Lang ran away. Who knew that Shi Lang escaped from the center left with the front foot, and the back foot was calculated by that Chen Kai......"
After a few glasses, the strength of the inspection came up a little, and there were more and more words. talked about Zheng Chenggong's desire to kill Shi Lang in one breath, but when he reached the key point, he suddenly stopped, ate a small dish, drank a sip of wine, and tasted it carefully, which was completely a posture that hung everyone's appetite.
Zheng Chenggong did not arrest Shi Fu earlier, but now that Shi Fu has been cleared, many people want to find out the inside story, so they touted it again, until the inspection was satisfied, and then continued.
It was a dark and windy night, and it was said that Shi Fu designed to save his nephew from it, but he didn't show up, because he didn't quite know what the surname Zheng Ci was planning. However, Shi Lang, with a group of Shi Fu and his cronies, about a hundred people hurriedly left the Zhongzuo Institute and went straight to Na'anping Town by boat, saying that he wanted to seek the protection of his uncle surnamed Zheng Ci. Unexpectedly, when more than 100 people just walked to Anping Bridge, they saw a scholar standing on the bridge, chanting poems to the moon. ”
"It's just a matter of being someone else, but Shi Lang knows the scholar, even to the point that he can't forget it when he turns into ashes. Who is that person, so that you can know, this person is Chen Kai Chen Jingcheng, nicknamed the Death Scholar, with a Scholar Death Sword in his hand, which was killed all the way from Datong Mansion in Shanxi to Chaozhou, and the sword was stained with the blood of living beings. There are poems ......"
The more he talked about the back, perhaps because he drank too much, the more the inspection began to talk nonsense. However, after listening to this seven-hero and five-righteous fight scene, Shi Fu, Zheng Chenggong and Chen Kai all have irreconcilable contradictions, but they can still easily hear it clearly. As for their arrival in Fuzhou and meeting Shi Fu, the impression of meeting for the first time was very important, and scolding Zheng Chenggong and Chen Kai vigorously was the best plus.
The banquet continued, and gradually, the nonsense of the inspection became more and more boundless, and after concentrating all their spirits, they finally had a certain understanding of the process of blessing and the situation in the past six months, and they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
However, the patrol inspected and drank a lot, but there was a kind of drunken madness, for a while Shi Fu was holding an eight-hundred-pound drum urn and a golden hammer, and for a while Zheng Chenggong sacrificed the seal of the sky, which was so lively. In the end, everyone didn't take him too seriously, eating, chatting, and calculating by themselves, until the end of the banquet, when they were already thinking about saying goodbye, and the inspector came over step by step, saying that he was going to give Zhang Ying a parting gift to commemorate it.
For this inspection, in fact, Zhang Ying and they look down on them very much, but they do help them a lot, they can be regarded as kind people who collect money and do things, and now there are gifts to be sent, Zhang Ying is a little emotional.
Can you still suffer a loss in observance? Zhang Ying shirked it at first, and then got off the donkey down the slope to accept the kindness. Next, the inspector waved his hand and summoned a subordinate, who was holding a box in his hand, and the inspector opened it casually, but it was a delicate short gun.
"This handcuff doesn't need an arquebus."
As he spoke, he picked up the handcuff and muttered that the loading method of the unfired arquebus and the arquebus was different, and if he wanted to demonstrate it to Zhang Ying, he took care of it and filled it himself.
Flintlock pistols did not exist in the Ming Dynasty, and weapons expert Bi Maokang once made them and named them self-generated firearms. This weapon has not been widely used, so not many people know about it. At this moment, when they saw it, they only felt novelty, and even more envy, especially Na Ruan Mei, he had never received such a generous gift from a marquis, but this inspection was willing to give it to such a seal general, and even jealousy had passed, and it fell directly on hatred.
The inspection seems to have drunk a little too much, but the hands are not busy, but the order is always wrong, especially when filling the gunpowder, the mouth is not right, while pouring in, while leaking out, it seems that more leaks out than in. After a long time, the inspector burped and finally filled the firecracker, but then he didn't hand it to Zhang Ying, but raised his hand, and pointed the gun directly at Zhang Ying's head, even with a bang.
"There is no scholar life-killing sword, but if any guy dares to betray Huaxia, this official will shoot a traitor, just clean up the portal!"