Wei Zhongxian's identity, such a city, even if he is angry, he will not attack immediately, but his face is extremely gloomy, Wang Tiqian knew at a glance that Wei Zhongxian was really angry at this time, and he couldn't help but feel uneasy in his heart, I don't know why, I only saw Wei Bao twice, and he secretly married a father-son relationship with Wei Bao, which is not counting, knowing that Wei Bao is in danger, he will actually be nervous for Wei Bao.

Mrs. Fengsheng Kebaba happened to be present, and she didn't expect Wei Bao to be so bold, so big that he dared to refute Wei Zhongxian's face? I wonder if Wei Bao is stupid?

"I didn't expect that even a young man in the countryside would dare not take our family in his eyes today." Wei Zhongxian smiled self-deprecatingly at Wang Tiqian, his tone had returned to his usual tone and calmed down.

"Father-in-law Wei, don't be angry, that kid didn't say no, and I didn't say anything about Father-in-law Wei wanting to accept him as a godson." The king's body is dry.

"Didn't you just say that he told you that he would be a father? Isn't that unwillingness? What else to say? Wei Zhongxian said.

"It's not easy to do, isn't it over if you let someone take this child? It's okay to be a godgrandson. Kebaba said.

Wei Zhongxian waved his hand, "Mrs. Fengsheng, you don't understand what it means, who is he Kefu?" I don't want to have anything to do with me, I see that the kid seems to have studied, and he is obsessed with his career and wants to get together with the people of Donglin. After that, they will want to worship under my door again, and there will be no more such door. ”

"That's not going to happen, this kid is obsessed with being an official, and everyone who reads is a little sour, and this kid is also a little bit, but he is still in awe of Grandpa Wei, I can see this." Wang Tiqian said good things for Wei Bao.

Wang Tiqian rarely said good things for someone, he still has a lot of weight in Wei Zhongxian, basically, when Wei Zhongxian and Wang Tiqian have different ideas, he will eventually change his mind according to Wang Tiqian's views.

"It seems that he wants to be an official in the future, but he doesn't want people to think that he is relying on Gonggong Wei, right?" Kebaba kind of understood.

Wang Tiqian nodded and said: "There are many such people, relying on a little talent, they want to rely on their own careers, especially this child is still so young and arrogant, it is common to have this idea." ”

Wei Zhongxian didn't speak, thinking about whether to rectify Wei Bao!

Kebaba knew Wei Zhongxian's temperament very well, and Wang Tiqian was the same, and the two of them saw Wei Zhongxian's eyes glaring silently, and they were even more worried about Wei Bao.

"This kid is quite annoying, but he is really spiritual, Grandpa Wei, he sent you another 10,000 taels of silver?" Kebaba spoke for Wei Bao.

"What is silver? What's the use of asking for so much silver? Wei Zhongxian said coldly: "This matter is not over! Let people know, where is my face going? ”

"No one will ever know." Wang Tiqian assured: "I was afraid that this kid would not know how to say the wrong thing, so I asked everyone to go out, and I hinted at him when I was alone with him." ”

Wei Zhongxian glanced at Wang Tiqian curiously: "The prince seems to be very good to this child, if I remember correctly, this is the first time that your prince has said good things for a person, and he has said so much." How? Did the prince take a fancy to this child? ”

Most of the eunuchs' psychology is abnormal, not only for women, but also for men, especially in the Ming Dynasty, when the dragon and yang style are strong, and many court officials even have a habit of raising boys.

Wang Tiqian was taken aback, secretly thinking that he had already said what he should have said, there were too many things to say today, Wei Zhongxian's suspicion was heavy, this was already suspicious of himself! Fortunately, his brain turned quickly, and he muttered: "Father-in-law Wei, don't be careful, my loyalty to Father-in-law Wei, father-in-law shouldn't doubt it, right?" I'm not assigned, I really don't want to leave the palace, let alone see a teenager like this. This child is in awe of his father-in-law, understands current affairs, and is obsessed with his career, I conclude that he will never get involved with the Donglin people, but may become a good chess piece buried by our Donglin people in the future. ”

On the way back, he had been thinking about how to tell Wei Zhongxian about Wei Bao's refusal to be his godson, and he had already had a preliminary idea.

"Did you make it clear? Does this kid know that I want to take him as my godson? Wei Zhongxian wondered.

"I can't say for sure, I think Wei Bao should understand, right?" Wang Tiqian said: "It's all my fault for this, I see that Gonggong Wei's power in the court is now stable, but the Donglin people have deep roots and have a great influence on some new students, which is fundamental." So before I said that, when I was chatting, I gave Wei Bao a little bit of wind, and he told me that he wanted to take the imperial examination, so I wanted him not to be too close to Grandpa Wei on the surface, so that Wei Bao could play a role in the new promotion in the future. ”

Wei Zhongxian frowned, "Princess, you are the most reassuring person for me, I asked you to collect Wei Bao, it wasn't so complicated as I said?" That Wei Bao is smart-minded, listening to you so thoroughly, Zhun Bao thinks too much, maybe he thinks that I want to accept him as his godson, I am testing him, does he dare to agree? ”

"It's okay, it's okay, it's all a trivial matter, maybe the prince didn't explain it." Kebaba was confused and heard that things had taken a turn for the better, but he didn't expect Wang Tiqian to take Wei Bao's refusal to recognize Wei Zhongxian as his godfather, and he was overjoyed, and hurriedly became a peacemaker, "Wei Bao is not difficult to find, he can come and talk at any time, and he will make it clear to this kid in the future." ”

"And who have we become? He was a young man in the township, and the eunuch with the palm print came to him and said it, and the eunuch with the pen found him again? The child's tail is not up to the sky? Forget it, let's not talk about this in advance, Wang Gonggong is not wrong, we can't always put people on the bright side, secretly cultivate new students, and let these people be loyal to us inside, but on the surface they are mixed with Donglin people, and at the critical moment, they bite back, and the effect is greater! ”

"yes, wouldn't that be good?" Seeing that Wei Zhongxian didn't plan to pursue Wei Bao anymore, Kebaba immediately breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.

Wei Zhongxian continued: "It's just that this kind of thing must first be made clear that it is your own person, and then it can be put in the sour pile of Confucians in Donglin." Otherwise, how do you know if it will work at a critical time? ”

"This time it was my fault, but Grandpa Wei rest assured, I dare to vouch with my head, Wei Bao, this kid is extremely smart, and he will never be so stupid as to not recognize the situation, standing with the people of Donglin and working against Grandpa Wei, that is, looking for death." Wang Tiqian hurriedly apologized.

Wei Zhongxian snorted, "That's not bad, Wei Bao is indeed a very smart child, otherwise he wouldn't be able to do business, and he wouldn't take the initiative to make friends with imperial relatives like Li Chengnei, how could those sour Confucians who boast of having a high style and bright festival pull down their bodies and stammer with their relatives?" ”

Wang Tiqian and Ke Baba hurriedly said yes, and they were secretly relieved.

Wei Zhongxian's turmoil was avoided, but Wei Bao didn't know it.

After waking up the next morning, I was uneasy, how powerful was Wei Zhongxian? One person is below ten thousand people! If you want to kill him, you really don't need to use your little fingers, a single hair can crush him. Therefore, he was anxious to leave the capital and rush back to Shanhaiwei, and when he arrived at his own territory, it was the emperor Lao Tzu who wanted to find him trouble, and he still had the road to escape and rebel.

Although Wei Bao does not plan to take the rebel route, he has not given up this possibility, rebellion is a matter anytime and anywhere, mainly depending on whether his strength is enough! If you really encounter a hurdle that you can't overcome, you can only take the step of rebellion.

"Chunshi, big head, hurry up and clean up, we'll leave Jingshi today! From the newly recruited people, select a few more clever and honest shopkeepers to stay in Beijing, let them unite with the principal, leave them 10,000 taels of silver, let them continue to secretly buy real estate, and do business in Beijing, we will buy goods from merchants from the south, sell goods on the spot, don't need them to make money, as long as they don't lose money, just stabilize the business we got out of the capital. Wei Bao found Liu Chunshi and Fan with big heads, and asked eagerly.

"Childe, leave Jingshi today?" Fan's head is still a little reluctant to go, he hasn't stayed enough in a big place like the capital, and he hasn't been to many places yet, this is definitely a world of flowers compared to Shanhaiwei.

"And you stay?" Wei Bao didn't have a good airway.

"I have to follow Childe." Fan said hurriedly.

"Don't be verbose, get ready to go. Childe did what he told. Liu Chunshi patted Fan's head, thinking that he talked too much.

After the two of them went out, Wei Bao secretly wondered while drinking tea, not knowing that he didn't take advantage of the big tree of Wei Zhongxian, and he didn't know whether it was right or wrong. He felt that although there was a certain risk in doing so, it might make Wei Zhongxian embarrassed himself, but compared to the end of the road four years later, there was only one way left to rebel, it was still safe. On the one hand, he felt that Wei Zhongxian was not too likely to kill an ordinary person for such a thing, and with the small tree of Wang Tiqian, the risk was even lower. In addition, Wei Bao mainly didn't think that with four years of accumulation, his strength would be greatly improved, and he would be able to compete with the Ming power system that had not yet completely withered.

Even if Wei Zhongxian is in power at this time, then Wei Zhongxian's own strength will not be big enough to affect the change of imperial power in the original history four years later?

What's more, yourself? He threw himself under Wei Zhongxian's command, Wei Zhongxian's soldiers are strong and strong, and there are many people and horses, which onion is he? People don't use a bunch of nephews and nephews, reuse you as an outsider? It's impossible.

After thinking about it, Wei Bao still felt that there was no problem with his step, and now he was just worried that Wei Zhongxian would make trouble before he left Beijing, as long as he could leave Beijing smoothly, the possibility of Wei Zhongxian finding trouble for himself again was almost zero.

After lunch early at noon, Wei Bao's group was ready to go on the road, when Li Chengnei came.

"Brother, are you leaving?" Li Chengnei asked very strangely: "Don't you leave Kyoto to say goodbye to your brother?" ”

Wei Bao smiled: "Big brother, I have something urgent, no, I just wrote a farewell letter and asked someone to bring it to Big Brother." ”

"What's the hurry? So urgent. Li Chengnei asked.

"Business." Wei Bao said perfunctory casually, although he bowed to Li Chengnei, but he has such a character, with a strict mouth, not to mention Li Chengnei's sworn brother, he doesn't want to say many things, even his father and mother, his own woman, he won't say it.

Li Chengnei sighed and said with a smile: "Brother, thanks to you this time, your eldest brother is now a hundred households of Jinyiwei!" Early this morning, the people in the yamen came to congratulate me, saying that it was the edict of Gonggong Wei from the master of ceremonies in the morning, and Gonggong Wei personally promoted me. ”

Wei Bao sighed, his heart moved, Wang Tiqian went back yesterday, he must have told Wei Zhongxian yesterday that he refused to be Wei Zhongxian's son, right? If Wei Zhongxian was angry, he would definitely not have personally promoted Li Chengnei this morning! So in other words, Wang Tiqian helped himself to get through? Thinking about this section, I can't help but rejoice: "Congratulations big brother!" ”

Li Chengnei saw Wei Bao's depressed face just now, and now he saw Wei Bao congratulating himself so happily, and he couldn't help but feel warm in his heart, "Brother, what are you worried about?" Tell the eldest brother, now the eldest brother is not as good as before, and his subordinates are also in charge of twenty or thirty people, and there are hundreds of households with real power. ”

"Well, I may really have something to trouble big brother." Wei Bao's heart moved again, the danger alarm was lifted, his mood relaxed all of a sudden, the pressure was less, and his brain turned faster, although his brain turned fast under heavy pressure, but in the end, because of the pressure, the decisions made were easy to be extreme, and it was easy to drill a dead end when thinking about problems, it was better to think about the problem when he was refreshed, thoughtful and comprehensive.

"Brother, if you have something, just say it!" Li Chengnei patted his chest proudly, "Big brother must do it as his own business." ”

Wei Bao then said about the grievances and grievances with the Wu family, as well as the matter of the old Linzi Liuzi Gang in the north of the earth, "They robbed me of more than 50,000 taels of silver, and they want my life on the way back!" ”

The reason why Wei Bao wanted to lie and say that Zhentianbei robbed him of his silver was because he wanted to find the soldiers and horses of the Jinyi Guard to support him, so he simply took Zhentianbei's nest and did it once and for all!

He felt that Zhentianbei's nest must have some silver, and he couldn't estimate how much, but it was unlikely to exceed 10,000 taels of silver. Besides, business is so difficult to do, and there are not a few big businesses in Yongping Mansion, where does the Liuzi Gang have so much money? He deliberately said a number that was so big that it was impossible to prepare, in preparation that after he found Jinyiwei to help serve the old Linzi Liuzi Gang, those people didn't care how much silver he gave them!

If you copy out 10,000 taels of silver, but you are robbed of more than 50,000 taels of silver? Seeing that he still lost 40,000 taels of silver, those Jinyi guards must be embarrassed to care about how much 'commission' he gave, and asked Jinyi Wei to help catch the country bandits, and dare to miss the red envelope?

Wei Bao is very quick to calculate money, and he has a bunch of calculations in his heart in seconds.

"I've heard about the chaos outside the border, so it's so chaotic?" Li Chengnei patted his thigh: "It's easy, it's on the eldest brother, now that Lord Tian is very serious to me, I'll borrow some people to escort my brother home, and it will take three or five days to go back and forth, and Lord Tian will definitely allow it." ”

Wei Bao was overjoyed, and felt that Li Chengnei also had some brains, not really stupid, but he was a little sluggish in terms of human sophistication, and he was quite clever in doing things, and said with a smile: "Then I'll go with my eldest brother, right?" ”

"Done!" Li Chengnei smiled and happily hugged Wei Bao's shoulder.

The two of them went to find Tian Ergeng together, and it went well, and when Tian Ergeng heard that Wei Bao was coming, he immediately met him!

Tian Ergeng was originally very optimistic about Wei Bao, and today Li Chengnei was suddenly promoted from a small flag official to a hundred households, and it was still a personal edict from Wei Gonggong, which shows that Wei Bao and Li Chengnei have a very hard background now, so they naturally look up to Wei Bao even more.

Wei Bao knew that the officialdom system in the capital looked down on the forces outside the Guan, and the Liaoxi Jiangmen was in Liaodong, Liaoxi, which was only for the locals, and in the eyes of officials in other parts of the Ming Dynasty, in Liaoxi and Liaodong, the life of the officials outside the Guanxi was simply miserable, and there were not many 'benefits to be gained', and they were always worried about preventing Jiannu from suddenly killing them. It's not as good as even the officials in the poorest places, and in officialdom, it's like asking for food.

Therefore, Wei Bao bluntly told what he had just said to Li Chengnei, the festival with the Wu family, and the matter of the old Lin Zi Zhentian Beiliuzi Gang supported by Wu Sanfeng.

"It's easy. Brother Wei, don't worry. Tian Ergeng laughed at first, and then feigned anger and said: "This gang of soldiers and ruffians outside the gate is too disagreeable, so they will be paid airspace!" Yongping Mansion has stationed an army of thirty or forty thousand guards, can it still be presumptuous by a few thieves? ”

Wei Bao heard Tian Ergeng promise to help, and thanked him with great joy: "Thank you, Lord Tian!" I will be grateful. ”

"Brother Wei, if you say this again, you just don't give face to my brother, I said yesterday that I wouldn't accept the fan silver, you want to give it! Yesterday's incident also said that the prince personally spoke, but it was also said in the past, today is so little busy, and if you mention the silver again, my brother will really be angry. Tian Ergeng's face was raised, and his expression was extremely rich, which made people feel cordial and good.

Wei Bao secretly wondered, are you really good at being officials, you really know how to pretend, how many years will it take for Lao Tzu to practice to the level of your rubber face? Hurriedly greeted Tian Ergeng.

Tian Ergeng and Wei Bao argued for a long time, but after all, Tian Ergeng was hard, saying that Wei Bao would mention the silver again, so don't tell him about it, Wei Bao had to give up.

"Go find Luo Yangxing!" Tian Ergeng said to a personal guard outside the hall.

The guards agreed.

"I'll find a thousand households to go with my brother, and let him bring fifty brocade guards, if it's not enough, he has a waist card, he can mobilize the garrison of the local guard, one or two thousand people can be found at any time, how many thieves have been exterminated! Got my brother on the head? Snatched the money and still want my brother's life? They're turning the hell around! "Tian Er's ploughing road.

"Thank you, big brother, thank you, big brother!" Wei Bao saw Tian Ergeng's 'righteous and heavy' appearance, and hurriedly expressed his gratitude, although he was unwilling to bow to Tian Ergeng, but the verbal eldest brother was really affectionate! After all, it will be known, there is no impermeable wall in the world, but if you are polite, you are not afraid, in the future, Wei Zhongxian will fall, and he can't be implicated because he was once close to Wei Zhongxian's subordinates, right? If you handle a case well, you have to talk about some evidence.

Tian Ergeng listened to Wei Bao's sweet mouth, the eldest brother on the left and the eldest brother on the right, and completely let go of Wei Bao's heart knot that Wei Bao refused to worship with him yesterday, thinking that the backer behind Wei Bao was hard, and he was unwilling to worship casually, probably because he was afraid that the backer would be unhappy, which is understandable.

Regarding the matter of Jinyiwei, because Wei Bao was originally more interested in modern times, and after coming to the capital recently, he has collected information about the officialdom in the capital, so he knows a little bit.

The current Jinyi Wei commander is still Luo Sigong, Luo Sigong has been the Jinyi Wei commander for more than 40 years from Wanli ten years to the present, more than seventy years old, still strong, old and strong, in Xili's palace transfer case for the Donglin people, so Wei Zhongxian ostracized.

Wei Zhongxian and Xi Li, as well as Ke Baba, the relationship is more complicated, Wei Bao has now figured out the clue, originally these three people are in a group, if when Emperor Taichang dies, Xi Li can successfully gain power, then Wei Zhongxian and Ke Baba are still Xi Li's subordinates.

Now the Xili bamboo basket is empty, but Wei Zhongxian and Kebaba firmly grasped the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and the Apocalypse did not thank the group of Donglin Party ministers who supported him to power blindly and obediently, but packaged all the power and handed it over to Wei Zhongxian for trusteeship, so Luo Sigong, who is close to the Donglin people, is also the target of suppression, and there may be a reason why Wei Zhongxian wants to reshuffle all the Jinyi Guards.

But in such a situation, why did Tian Ergeng ask Luo Sigong's son Luo Yangxing to escort him home and help exterminate the old Lin Zi Zhentian Beiliuzi Gang? It seems that Tian Ergeng still seems to have a lot of trust in Luo Yangxing, and a shrewd person like Tian Ergeng will definitely not have a good relationship with the son of the target that Wei Zhongxian wants to prune, right?

Wei Bao has always had a big question about Luo Yangxing, that is, after Luo Sigong was ousted, Luo Yangxing has still been safe and sound in Jinyiwei, and has not been affected.

Even after Chongzhen came to power, he immediately gained Chongzhen's trust and appreciation, and suddenly became the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and occupied such important positions for a long time, for 17 years, until the last years of Chongzhen, because of collusion with eunuchs, chaos in the foreign court, serious corruption, was deposed by Emperor Chongzhen.

This is also amazing, Wei Bao has the impression that the great eunuchs in the later period of Chongzhen are Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun, Wang Chengen is not as famous as Cao Huachun in history, Cao Huachun is a must-appear character in martial arts films in the late Ming Dynasty, and Luo Yang's collusion must be the powerful Cao Huachun in the later period.

Later, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Luo Yangxing seems to have rebelled and became a feudal official of the Manchu Dynasty.

What kind of ability did Luo Yangxing have to preserve when his father was excluded by Wei Zhongxian, and after Chongzhen came to power, he was able to rise rapidly, and after several major changes in the political pattern, he has always been at the peak of power, which is something that Wei Bao is very interested in.

These things that Wei Bao couldn't understand, as soon as he saw Luo Yangxing, he understood everything.