[Dear book friends, happy Mid-Autumn Festival]

[What the hell is it that I went to Chen * Liang and is also a forbidden word? 】

The second day is the ceremony of the queen of Daxing, it is to have no permanent dynasty, early in the morning the British public Zhang Weixian and Fang Congzhe sat in the town of the main priest, at the same time there are four altars in the city of Beijing, Taining Hou Chen Liangbi sacrificed to the southern suburbs, Gongshun Hou Wu Ruyin sacrificed to the northern suburbs, the horse Wanwei sacrificed to the Taimiao, and then Amber Chen Wei sacrificed to the Sheji.

At this time, the weather was already extremely hot, and after a set of rituals, Fang Congzhe couldn't bear the heat and sat in the hall to rest, but he still had to enter the palace with a strong spirit.

Fang Ge Lao arrived outside the Rende Gate to greet him, and after waiting for a while, he was summoned into the Hongde Hall by an internal official.

As soon as Fang entered the hall, he felt a burst of coolness, and the four corners of the hall were now filled with copper plates filled with ice cubes.

Zhu Yijun was lying on his side on the couch with his eyes closed, and the anxiety of the past few months and the old illness had completely crushed the fifty-eight-year-old genius. A hand-cranked fan, said to be made in the Song Dynasty of Nanyang, was constantly sending cool air to the emperor, but Zhu Yijun's forehead was still oozing a dense layer of fine sweat, and his right foot, which looked to be somewhat deformed, made him quite painful. Zhu Yijun lay on the east side, and Fang Congzhe bowed four times to the west according to the etiquette before kneeling down and said: "Today, the queen's gift has been completed, and the Sacred Heart mourns, I hope that the emperor will comfort the saint Huaishan and adjust it to comfort the hopes of Chinese and foreign subjects." ”

Yan Bifang Congzhe kowtowed to the emperor on the couch again, with old tears in his eyes, and he didn't know if it was really for the emperor's current illness or for the stormy Ming who was tired. In the past few months, in order to manage the funeral of Empress Daxing, he has only been supported by the cabinet, which is really difficult to cope.

"I know, now that the country is troubled, Mr. must devote himself to assisting the country's affairs." These words were like a gossamer, but they came out of the emperor's mouth with great strength.

Fang Congzhe was frightened, and hurriedly said: "The minister has received the emperor's kindness, if he dares not to do his best." ”

"I also know the intention of your visit, it seems that my illness is not going to happen, you can wait until you can assist the prince to maintain this country."

"The emperor is cared for by a hundred gods, but he cares for nature." As if hesitating to phrase it, Fang Congzhe thought for a while and said: "Now that the situation in Liaodong is urgent, there is only one old minister in the cabinet and he is very sick, it is really difficult to support it anymore. ”

Because of the emperor's illness, the appointment of court officials was delayed a lot, including Liaodong. In Fang Congzhe's view, this article is also one of the reasons for the instability of the situation in Liaodong, which is to deliberately urge today to hope that the appointment of the Liaodong Zhudao and the prison army will be issued as soon as possible, so that people can do things in the name of righteousness.

As the elder Fang Ge spoke, his personal attendant repeated it in the emperor's ear, Zhu Yijun's tinnitus became more and more serious, and after listening to the complaints of the Dongge scholars, the emperor said as quietly as he was explaining: "The affairs of Liaodong are only because of civil and military discord, so that it is like this." The inscription on the cabinet has already been approved, but because there are many documents for the Birthday Festival, I don't know where they are, and they will be sent out as soon as they are found out. ”

After saying this, Zhu Yijun seemed to appease Fang Congzhe's emotions, and said: "Xiong Tingbi has discussed and the military salary is insufficient, so you can allocate another 300,000 taels to him from the household department, and if the household department is not enough silver, borrow some from the internal funds." ”

Hearing this, Fang Ge Lao's face looked better, but he also understood that Zhu Yijun had this attitude because of the slave chieftain who had come to the capital not long ago, which insulted the monarch's father with the Song family's demise and humiliation, which could be regarded as a heavy blow to the emperor's illness.

After talking about Xiong Tingbi, Zhu Yijun suddenly turned the conversation and pulled the topic to Xu Guangqi, "The day before yesterday, I saw Lian Chen (note: Xu Guangqi's official position at this time is to manage the training of soldiers Shao Zhan Shi and Imperial History) to talk about the training of the Tianjin New Army. ”

Instrumental? Can't help enough? The emperor's intention was obviously to see where to give some more silver, originally Xu Guangqi said that the money for military training was raised by him, and the household department also allocated land in the salt field to build a military camp for this purpose, how to help? Xu Guangqi said in his recital that he hoped that the military department would allocate to chariots and artillery drills, but you, the new army, have been training for almost a year but have not gone into battle, and the ordnance on the Liaodong front line is not enough, where is it for you to add to the chaos? It's just that this thought is not easy to show, thinking of this, Fang Congzhe said: "Xu Zixian's earlier request has been discussed by the lower ministry, but last year he said that he would go to Guizhou for training with the new army first, and at that time he selected more than 600 elites. ”

Unexpectedly, the emperor surprised Fang Ge Lao again, "The last time I brought those new troops south, it seems that it was a local military attache in Guizhou, and it seems that he is called Wang ...... What flat? ”

"Wang Xingping ......" reminded the attendant next to him in a timely manner.

Fang Congzhe thought about how he could get involved with a military attache for no reason, but this name was familiar, it seemed that he had seen it several times in Qianfu Zhang Heming's recital, and he didn't have any special impression, the only thing he could remember was his very young age.

"Long live the lord, it's time to take medicine." Another chamberlain came in to serve Zhu Yijun with medicine.

After taking the medicine, the emperor was much more energetic, "Sir, maybe you don't know yet, this autumn water elixir also has a credit to this Wang Xingping, Honglu Temple Shaoqing (note: Li Kezhuo was promoted to a higher level because of his meritorious contribution to the medicine) once told me that he was very helpful in refining this pill, and he was also a great loyal minister." ”

So that's the case, Fang Congzhe said in his heart, it still has to be about his own ability to be in the emperor's heart, but he has always been vigilant about the pills offered by foreign dynasties, not to mention that the emperor's condition is not as effective as this medicine, but he doesn't know that although the autumn water elixir can relieve the pain of gout, the emperor's illness is not as simple as a gout.

Without waiting for Fang Congzhe to say more, the emperor said again: "I also heard that Xiong Tingbi intended to summon him to Liaodong to listen to the use, but he politely refused. ”

Fang Congzhe still thought that Zhang Heming would not go to the country, which made him very annoyed, but now that the emperor said this, he naturally had nothing else to say.

After listening to the emperor's chatter about his illness for a while, Fang Ge Lao got up and went outside the hall with the help of the inner attendant.

Out of the hall, he did not go directly to the outside, but first went to the duty room on the west side of the hall, where the value of the Tai Hospital is located, how high the imperial doctor on duty today is, and the court judge Chen Xi is also there.

He immediately called the two of them to him, "What is the effect of this colchicum elixir?" Your Majesty is the body of ten thousand gold, how can the imperial doctors such as the imperial court Yang'er tolerate such a pill offered by foreign officials indiscriminately. ”

Chen Xi glanced at Imperial Doctor He, meaning that this specific business is still up to you.

"This pill is indeed effective against the emperor's wind disease." He Qigao is a 'technical talent', and he doesn't understand the twists and turns in the words of the civil official, and when he saw the first assistant asking, he bluntly said, and he didn't forget to make up for it in the words, "I heard Li Keqing (note: Honglu Temple Qing and Honglu Temple Shaoqing aliases) said that the British Gong is also taking this pill, and the wind disease is already very good, and the emperor will be like this because of the accumulation of too much work." ”

Zhang Weixian was presiding over with him today, how could he not see that the old man's complexion had improved a lot, but he didn't know that it was also the efficacy of this elixir, and he listened to how high he talked about the medical theory of this medicine, and he also said that it was the truth, so it was not good to say more.

just silently wrote down the name Wang Xingping in his heart.

…………

At this time, in the study of Xu's mansion, Wang Xingping was talking with Xu Guangqi and his cadres, and among the four or five people in the room, there were Xu Ji and Sun Yuanhua.

"So you brought troops with you to Beijing this time?" Xu Guangqi first told Wang Xingping what should be paid attention to in the Guozi Prison and how to prepare for next year's Shuntianfu Township Examination, and then the topic returned to military training.

"Where do you dare to lead troops, it's just a few family members." Wang Xingping said with a smile.

Xu Guangqi bowed slightly, he understood what Wang Xingping meant, according to what he said, what he brought this time was just a few healthy soldiers. He formed a new battalion in Guizhou, called Yelang, although this battalion is called a battalion, in fact, the number of people is not yet 100, and he took it to Beijing this time There are less than ten. Among them are not only the original new army, but also the natives he recruited himself in Guizhou, and the ones brought back from Liaodong, including Liu Wei's Burmese family.

Whether it is Xu Guangqi or Sun Yuanhua for the special operation, they are all confused, maybe they know that the night in the Liaodong Army is not collected, but they don't think that a few people can have much ability, Wang Xingping just smiled and said nothing, and did not intend to explain more.

In fact, he had already thought that if the military department really transferred troops to Guizhou, he would decide to let Zhang Heming block him back, and even if Zhang Heming left, he would find other reasons. However, with less than ten soldiers of the Yelang Battalion, if there is a chance to go to the Liaodong battlefield to reconnoitre, it is also an acceptable plan, at least to find out the path of the future enemy. After all, the content of the history books alone is not as intuitive as what you have seen with your own eyes, not to mention that you can also form a good relationship with the troops who came to aid Liao.

Xu Jiben can be said to be the head of the agricultural calendar, but he is not a capable role in the practice of military training, and he is busy with military training these days, and he is busy saying: "I heard that Tiancheng has been walking with the Sichuan soldiers for a month this time, I don't know if you have any opinions on its military strength?" It was also a helpless move for the military department to transfer troops from the southwest, but if the Sichuan soldiers were really able to fight, it would be good news. ”

"The Sichuan soldiers and Zhejiang soldiers are indeed worthy of war, but it's a pity that the civil and military forces in Liaodong are not in harmony, but I don't know how the barracks in Xianshuigu have happened in the days when I returned to Guizhou? Are those soldiers still alive? ”

Ann has a fart! Xu Ji said in his heart.

Since Wang Xingping left, those recruits began to make noise, although in the correspondence with Wang Xingping in these months, they said that everything was normal in the training, but with his Xu Ji and a scholar, plus a few Jesuits, how could they appease the morale of the army, was always anxious.

But he didn't say that he was incompetent, "It's okay to live." ”

"I think this new army is not new, it needs to go through some battle formations to grow, I don't know if Mr. has ever thought about this?"

"Battle formation? These soldiers have never even seen blood, could it be that Tiancheng really wants them to go to Liaodong? Xu Ji was quite unimpressed.

Wang Xingping laughed when he heard this, "How could I want them to do such an immeasurable thing, besides, the battle formation doesn't have to be on the battlefield, Beizhili has not been peaceful recently." ”

Only then did he tell everyone about the murder of thieves in Xiongxian on the road and the report to the official.

"Bandits?" Xu Guangqi was thoughtful. "It's really a good way to train soldiers."

"Of course, whether this move will be helpful for military training will have to go to the barracks to see if it is going to the barracks first."

"When does Tiancheng plan to leave?"

"It's not too late, let's leave today." His schedule is very tight, and he has time to delay.

Xu Guangqi was also resolute, and even if he arranged for his son to prepare, the carriage and horses had already stopped, and the group of people and horses went out of the city and headed towards Tianjin.

Only when he went out of the city, he saw a team of honor guards going far to the northeast, so Wang Xingping asked casually.

"That's going to be Tobe Cui Langzhong right away."

It turned out that the decree had just been issued in the morning, and the emperor approved the cabinet's previous plan to promote Cui Ruxiu of the Hubu Langzhong as the military preparation of the original Dao of Liaodong, and Niu Weiyao, the head of the Nanjing Hubu, as the supervisor of the military of Liaodong, but he did not expect that the two of them had already gone to Liaodong in the afternoon.

"It's really efficient." Wang Xingping muttered, not knowing whether it was praise or sarcasm.

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