Li Jingbai then rushed to the capital with a few cronies to see Wei Zhongxian.

In fact, Li Jingbai had already looked for Wei Zhongxian before, but Wei Zhongxian did not see him, but Wei Zhongxian's nephew Fu Yingxing saw Li Jingbai.

Fu Yingxing's speech has always been cloudy, and he has very few words, so people will not understand what he is saying at all.

So now, Li Jingbai can't figure out who it means to let Wei Bao take charge of the Yamen, the governor of coastal defense?

The establishment of the Yamen of the Governor of Haiphong is inherently puzzling.

The predecessor of the Governor of Haiphong Yamen was the Yamen of the Governor of Cao Yun.

The Yamen of the Governor of Caoyun is the Yamen of the same level as the Political Envoy of Shandong.

Since the abolition of the Governor of Caoyun, Yamen, he has not only remained in charge of the management of the river and Caoyun, but has also recently joined the management of Hejian Province, Cangzhou Province, Shandong Province and Denglai.

It is equivalent to merging such a large area, which is the gateway of Gyeonggi, and even the gateway of the entire northern Ming Dynasty.

With such a big power, is it going to be handed over to Wei Bao, or is it going to let Wei Bao take the lead first, and then hand it over to Wei Zhongxian's other cronies later?

What Li Jingbai is now anxious to figure out is this question.

This time, Li Jingbai was lucky, and he met Wei Zhongxian smoothly.

"Nine thousand years old, now the situation in Shandong is in a mess, Wei Bao brought people up and beat him, killed thousands of officers and soldiers, and kidnapped tens of thousands of people, which is even more ferocious than Jiannu. The sergeants below are dissatisfied with the withdrawal, but it is not without room for negotiation, where can they come up and do this? This is forcing everyone to have no way to live. Li Jingbai complained to Wei Zhongxian.

Wei Zhongxian paid close attention to the movements of Hejian Mansion, Cangzhou Mansion, Shandong and Denglai during this time, and naturally knew no less things than Li Jingbai, "Wei Bao has done a little too much, but he is on an errand under His Majesty's holy purpose, what can you do for me?" Otherwise, you will stay in the capital, wait for a while, I will see if there are any suitable vacancies, and then I will give you a new errand, you are still a second-class member, what do you think? ”

Li Jingbai tried for a while, but he still didn't understand whose power Wei Bao was fighting against when he was so arrogant, so he could only ask directly: "Isn't Jiu Qian-seou going to let me be the governor of Shandong again?" So who will be the governor of Shandong, and will it fall into the hands of the Donglin Party, right? And this Wei Bao is at the behest of His Majesty? Aren't Your Majesty's homes all 9,000 years old? ”

"What are you talking about, you can't talk nonsense in the future, what do you mean by me being Your Majesty's home?" When Wei Zhongxian heard this, he immediately reprimanded with a straight face.

Li Jingbai hurriedly said: "Yes, it's a humble, but I'm not willing to be driven away like this, I've always worked for the nine thousand years old." Moreover, there are still more than 30,000 troops in Shandong gathered in the city of Jinan, if Wei Bao comes like this again, I am worried that the soldiers will fight to the death in the city and fight with Wei Bao to the end. ”

Wei Zhongxian said with a smile: "Our family knew that Wei Bao would definitely win, but I didn't expect Wei Bao to win so quickly, it seems that Wei Bao is indeed powerful!" What do you do to fight Wei Bao? Can you fight a lonely city in Jinan? What is the war fought? Do you have any money? Even if you have money, are you willing to take the money out to pay the soldiers, and you are not waiting for the court to send you military salaries and food. And what about Wei Bao? He came out with his own silver, otherwise, how would the yamen of the governor of coastal defense be erected? How did Haiphong Bank come up? ”

"Yes, what Nine Thousand Years Old said is, we can't do Wei Bao, but I left like this, not only am I unwilling, everyone knows that I am a nine thousand year old, and Nine Thousand Years Old has no face, right?" Li Jingbai saw that Wei Zhongxian still refused to reveal the truth, so he could only start a tactful run on Wei Zhongxian.

Wei Zhongxian sneered, "You still deliberately use words to squeeze our family!" Wei Bao disarmament is what we mean! ”

Li Jingbai finally heard Wei Zhongxian's truth, and was so shocked that he couldn't speak.

In fact, it was Wei Zhongxian who told Wei Bao to go to Shandong for disarmament, and it was indeed Wei Zhongxian who first proposed it to Wei Bao, and then asked the emperor for the holy decree.

Wei Zhongxian was a kind of repayment to Wei Bao for helping him relieve the siege in front of the emperor.

If Wei Bao told the emperor the truth about the 24 charges against Yang Lian's impeachment on the same day, he would be in big trouble.

Let Wei Bao first set up the Yamen of the Governor of Haiphong, and then let Wei Bao go to Liaodong to make meritorious contributions, this is Wei Zhongxian's plan.

It's just that Wei Zhongxian said to Wei Bao that when Wei Bao has made contributions in Liaodong, he will give Wei Bao the position of governor of coastal defense.

But Wei Zhongxian's calculation was to wait for Wei Bao to make a contribution in Liaodong, and then transfer Wei Bao to a remote place to suppress the thief.

When the time comes, Wei Bao will not be able to go back to the capital, and the governor of Haiphong, Yamen, will not be able to go back, unless Wei Bao wants to continue to stay in Liaodong.

Anyway, Wei Bao doesn't have a share in a good place, and when the time comes, he will give Wei Bao another third-grade official, but he definitely has to go to a place where the people are not living to suppress thieves.

But these calculations in the stomach, Wei Zhongxian is not convenient to tell Li Jingbai.

Li Jingbai said after a long time: "Since it means nine thousand years old, then I won't say anything about the humble position, nine thousand years old, I won't care about this disarmament matter in the future, can you keep my position?" ”

Li Jingbai thought that Wei Zhongxian would get a position for himself again, and there was absolutely no position for himself as a governor or political envoy, let alone the yamen of various ministries and courtyards in Beijing.

"That's your own business, if you can go over to Wei Bao, our family will be happy to see it, but it's inconvenient for our family to help you say anything, Wei Bao is on the rise, and our family is determined to let Wei Bao jump for a few days first." Wei Zhongxian said with a smile.

Li Jingbai is a smart person, listening to the meaning of Wei Zhongxian's words, he immediately understood that Wei Zhongxian only temporarily let Wei Bao be in the Yamen of the Governor of Haiphong, and he will send someone to take over the Yamen of the Governor of Haiphong soon, and he will definitely not leave it to Wei Bao!

Understanding this meaning, Li Jingbai couldn't help but regret coming to Beijing to find Wei Zhongxian, so he should compromise with Wei Bao in Shandong, in exchange for a few days of peace, and when Wei Bao's gust of wind blows, Shandong is still his territory!

Originally, Li Jingbai still wanted to say to Wei Zhongxian that Wei Bao was reorganizing the army, and all the soldiers and horses in Shandong had been replaced by Wei Bao's newly recruited people, so he couldn't bear it.

Because Li Jingbai couldn't figure out how much energy Wei Bao had, since Wei Zhongxian asked Wei Bao to do it for a while now, listening to Wei Zhongxian's meaning, Wei Bao should be transferred away in the future, instead of dealing with Wei Bao, when the time comes, Wei Bao should still have a certain amount of influence, and there is no need to offend such a powerful figure.

"The meaning of nine thousand years old, the lowly position is understood, the lowly position will go back to Shandong, I will be sick at home, and Wei Bao will take me out of line." Li Jingbai said.

Wei Zhongxian smiled and nodded, "You insist on trying how much Wei Bao has in detail, wouldn't it be okay to do this earlier?"

"But Wei Bao really got a lot of silver in Shandong, and the big families in various places have basically been rectified by Wei Bao, Hejian Mansion, Cangzhou Mansion, Shandong and Denglai Territory, but if the family has a little family background, not to mention that the family is bankrupt, anyway, at least peel off the skin, and one or two percent of the family property will burn high incense." Li Jingbai said.

A serious expression crossed Wei Zhongxian's face, the biggest conflict between Wei Zhongxian and Wei Bao was the conflict of interest, let Wei Bao do things, he could indeed get a large sum of silver, and no one under him had the ability to do this.

However, Wei Zhongxian felt that Wei Bao was too clever and clever, and he didn't know how much silver Wei Bao had gotten, and he always felt that Wei Bao gave him just a small head, and let him bear a bad reputation with Wei Bao, after all, so many landlords went bankrupt, would these people not scold?

People are like this, others may only be able to help him Wei Zhongxian get a hundred yuan, but what he handed over is three or four percent, almost half, Wei Zhongxian knows that he will be more comfortable in the future.

And Wei Bao can help him get a thousand yuan, or even two thousand yuan, but Wei Bao is very likely to give him less than ten percent, and the money is too much, but Wei Zhongxian still may not be at ease.

And when other people make money, they are all a group of people who make money together, and when there are more people, they can contain each other, and it is difficult to hide everything.

But Wei Bao never asked him for help, he did it by himself, and the people who used it were all people who Wei Bao had recently promoted, so Wei Zhongxian knew very little about the situation of Wei Bao's subordinates!

The less he knew, the more uneasy Wei Zhongxian became.

"Do you have a way to get the accounts of Wei Bao's silver?" Wei Zhongxian asked.

Li Jingbai was taken aback, and secretly blamed himself for talking too much, where did he get this? There is such a thing as accounts, it is estimated that Wei Bao himself may not have it, "At this point, there is nothing to be done, there are too many people under Wei Bao, and it seems that the people under him are not set up according to the official rank of the imperial court, or Wei Bao is engaged in the business name, a lot of stewards, who knows which stewards are specifically responsible for getting silver." ”

"Isn't that? What do you tell our family about things you don't know yourself? Deliberately add to our family? Wei Zhongxian frowned and snorted coldly.

"Yes, it's a lowly job, a humble retirement, don't dare to delay the nine thousand years old to rest, nine thousand years old take care of your noble body." Li Jingbai hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed.

Wei Zhongxian snorted, "You step down, you are a member of our family, when I can help you, our family will naturally help, and the rest depends on you." ”

"Yes, I understand that I am nine thousand years old, take care of my noble body." Li Jingbai hurriedly kowtowed a few times and retreated in a gloomy manner.

Although he touched the dust in the end, Li Jingbai did not come to the capital in vain, and finally roughly understood the relationship between Wei Bao and Wei Zhongxian.

Now from Li Jingbai's point of view, even if Wei Bao is not Wei Zhongxian's person, he is inextricably linked to Wei Zhongxian, and he can be regarded as at least half of Wei Zhongxian's person.

In this way, you must no longer be able to carry Wei Bao.

Li Jingbai led people and horses to Jinan overnight.

On the way back, Li Jingbai kept thinking of a way, thinking about how to turn a fight with Wei Bao into a jade silk, and try not to involve himself.

Although he felt that with Wei Bao's official rank, no matter how bold he was, he would not dare to move himself, a second-class member, but thinking that Wei Bao dared to kill thousands of people at once, what else would he not dare to do?

Besides, Wei Bao didn't kill the Zhengerpin, wasn't the previous Caoyun Governor Zhengerpin, didn't he say that he was killed.

When I arrived at Jinan City, Thousand Buddha Mountain was already faintly in sight.

Li Jingbai stopped and said to his cronies, "If you want to restore relations with Wei Bao, the only way to do this is to relieve the siege of Jinan City Defense and hand over military power to Wei Bao." ”

"But the military power is not in the hands of adults, but in the hands of General Liu?" Li Jingbai's clerk replied.

"Arrest Liu Yang'o, won't the military power be in my hands? Liu Yang'ao is not here, who else dares not to obey my orders? Li Jingbai said coldly.

Yes?

Arrest Liu Yangyao?

Several of Li Jingbai's cronies were taken aback, they didn't expect Li Jingbai to be so ruthless, Liu Yangbai was his daughter's wife-to-be.

Where is the reason for the old man to catch his son-in-law?

"If you do this, I'm afraid that it will cause a big mess, what if Liu Yang's subordinates are not good for adults?" Book Office.

"You go to contact Wei Bao first, and say that I, Li Jingbai, am determined to support Lord Wei's disarmament and support Lord Wei's reform of the tax system! Anyway, I support everything that Master Wei does! Tell Master Wei that I have already controlled Liu Yangyao! Let Master Wei quickly send a team of cavalry to Jinan to take over the defense of Jinan, and reorganize the 30,000 remnants under Liu Yangyi. Li Jingbai said.

The secretary knew that Li Jingbai had made up his mind, and while he was cold, he could only agree to it, secretly wondering if Li Jingbai did this, what would others think of you in the future?

Where is someone who cuts his own people in order to please his political enemies, and you are so ruthless to your son-in-law, if anything happens, none of us will be counted as one, and you will all slaughter them?

"You can rest assured, Liu Yang'ao is defenseless against me, I invited him to my house for a banquet, and then put him under house arrest, his subordinates dare not say anything, besides, the political envoy Yamen also has thousands of tolerances waiting for my dispatch, I only said that Liu Yang'ao is sick and needs to recuperate in my house, and he will never make any trouble for a day or two." After Li Jingbai finished speaking, he blushed a little, and he also felt that he had no face and was not close to people, I was afraid that he would leave a handle on people, and there were three hundred taels of silver here: "It's not that I want to deal with Liu Yangao, it's that Liu Yangao is really incompetent, I shouldn't have done it against Wei Bao in the first place, just do it, the 100,000 army can't resist the offensive of others for three or five days, and it is really useless to raise so many waste soldiers!" ”

Several of Li Jingbai's cronies could only nod their heads and help Li Jingbai go down the steps.

At this time, Wei Bao's army still did not approach Jinan, and Wei Bao was still engaged in reorganization in the Dongying battalion, temporarily absorbing one or two thousand elite men and horses from the original army, five or six thousand in the naval division, and dismissing more than 70,000 officers and soldiers of the army and more than 2,000 naval divisions.

Such a big action, if it were someone else, it wouldn't be able to be completed in a few months, but the efficiency of the Heaven and Earth Society is high.

The main reason is that the Heaven and Earth Society has enough silver, and it is grain and silver, and it has obtained a lot of land from the local landlords in Hejian Prefecture, Cangzhou Prefecture, Shandong Province and Denglai Prefecture, and the land has also been sent down in a real way, so that no disasters have been caused.

After receiving grain, silver, and land, most of the hereditary generals returned to their hometowns with peace of mind, and those who did not want to return to their hometowns were arranged in various places in Shandong.

The Bao Army trained together with the newly recruited hereditary generals of the 2,000 Shandong Army and the 5,000 or 6,000 sailors, mainly to help them complete the rectification training.

If these people want to gain a foothold in the treasure army, they must join the Heaven and Earth Society.

In fact, those who can stay are counted as one, and they are basically abject poor, and only those who have been developed through fighting wars and making military merits will not be left behind.

As for the total establishment of the Governor of Haiphong's Yamen, which is 50,000 troops and 10,000 sailors, the sailors do not need to recruit people, and the Heaven and Earth Society can fill them up by sending people themselves.

At that time, the army will also transfer people from southern Liaoning, and will not use the local people of Shandong much, and if it does, it will only use two or three thousand local strong men as logistics soldiers.

According to the configuration of the treasure army, the treasure army pays the most attention to logistics supply.

Of the 50,000 army troops, there may be 20,000 real field troops, and the remaining 30,000 are logistics personnel!

From then on, the Shandong Army was still called the Shandong Army, but it was a different family.

Because Wei Bao was still in Dongying Daying, Li Jingbai thought that the secretary office sent to him would be able to contact Wei Bao within a day, but it was a certain difficulty.

After Li Jingbai entered Jinan City, he didn't dare to rest, because the sky was already bright, he didn't dare to delay, and immediately invited Liu Yangyao.

Liu Yang'ao has been in a very bad mood these days, the Dongying camp and the Dongying Navy Division camp have been broken one after another, and the army of seventy or eighty thousand is vulnerable under Wei Baojun, which is a great blow to Liu Yang'o, and he sees his own dead end.