"Zhong Shilang has a way to deal with it?"

"That's the ......" Zhong Nan whispered his back hand, one to calm the hearts of the three old men, and the other to strengthen his own beliefs.

"It's still Lord Squire who is brave and strategic, and the old man admires it!" Shen Shixing did not hesitate to praise.

"Admire, admire, admire ......" Xu and Zhao also had more smiles on their faces.

"However, we still have to pretend to be the way we were, lest those bandits become suspicious." Zhong Nan suggested.

"That's nature!" The three old men spoke in unison.

……

On the other side, the Zhong Mansion exploded. Outside the banquet hall, Fu Bo waited for a while, but did not see the owner come out to arrange something, he dared to go to the door, but did not hear the slightest sound. After thinking about it, Fauber quietly pushed open the door of the banquet hall, and he was amazed by what he saw.

The guests in the entire banquet hall, they either fell to the ground or fell on the table, and no one was sitting upright, which gave people a very strange feeling at first glance. Fauber, though not an atheist, had a big heart, and he mustered up the courage to go forward, find someone at random, and put his finger to the man's nostril with trepidation. Fortunately, the man's snort was normal; I tried it again with the person next to me, but I still breathed steadily.

Fu Bo put his mind at ease, as long as the senior officials present are not dead, everything else is easy to say. He planned to find Zhong Nan first to see if the owner had also fainted, and if it was the same, then he could only ask his wife to deal with it. Just looked left and right, but didn't see the figure of the owner, Fu Bo didn't give up, and searched carefully again, but the result was still nothing.

Without bothering to check on the rest of the situation, Fauber quickly ran to the backyard and reported the matter to Qiu Xiang.

"Fauber, don't panic! You go to the banquet hall with me first, and then go and find Captain Hu!" Qiu Xiang has experienced so many things, and she has many years of experience in the Ma family, and these experiences finally came into play at this time - she calmly gave orders, so that the Zhong Mansion had the backbone.

Half an hour later, Qiu Xiang reported to the official at Hu Huanshan's suggestion. It didn't take long for the head catchers and prefects of Shuntianfu to come to Zhongfu one after another; After a while, the men and horses of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies also arrived. All of a sudden, Zhongfu became the busiest place in Beijing that night.

Before dawn, the entire court already knew that the new right attendant of the military department was kidnapped at his opening dinner, along with the three important ministers of the cabinet, Shen Shixing, Xu Guo and Zhao Zhigao. It is said that when Emperor Wanli heard the news, it was the middle of the night, and he was so angry that he threw something on the spot, and ordered that the four ministers must be found as soon as possible and rescued safely. For this reason, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, which is now mainly responsible for the security of the Beijing Division, is under great pressure.

The Five Military Governor's Mansion is an organizational structure established by Emperor Taizu, which evolved from the Dadu Governor's Mansion of the Yuan Dynasty, including the left, center, right, front, and rear military governors. In the early days, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies was the real power agency that held the power of the world's soldiers and horses and led the country's military construction, managing the Beijing division and the soldiers of the guards in various places, and its power was quite large, not only responsible for managing the training and production of the guards, but also participating in the central military decision-making of the Ming Dynasty.

In the early days of the establishment of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, although it and the Ministry of War constrained each other, its status was still slightly higher than that of the Ministry of War. The Governor's Office of the Five Armies has the right to command troops but not the right to transfer troops, and the Ministry of War has the right to transfer troops but not the right to command troops, so as to ensure that the military power is always in the hands of the emperor and there is no risk of being overthrown by the army.

How to say it, for example, the imperial court is about to fight, and the emperor instructs the military department to appoint front-line generals to lead the army of the guard. After the war, the generals returned the letters, and the soldiers returned to the guards. The advantage of this is that the generals who want to rebel have no soldiers under them, so they can't make any waves; The shortcomings are also obvious, "the generals do not know the soldiers, and the soldiers do not know the generals", and if we fight a tough battle, the combat effectiveness will not work.

After the "Tumubao Incident", due to the loss of the elite strength of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, coupled with Yu Qian's strength, the status of the military department gradually overshadowed the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies. In the late Ming Dynasty, the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies was in vain, not only did it lose its power to command the army, but it was reduced to being responsible for the security of the Beijing Division.

Originally, the governors of the five armies were all served by meritorious children, but in the "Tumubao Change", a large number of important princes and governors were killed in the war, which not only led to the decline of these aristocratic groups, but also greatly weakened the strength of the five military governors, making it impossible to become the leader of the defensive battle of the Beijing Division, which led to the rise of the military department.

At this time, the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and the Governor's Mansion of the Left and Right Armies still have a little energy, for no other reason, the Governor of the Left Army Governor's Mansion is Dingguo Gong Xu Wenbi, and the Governor of the Right Army Governor's Mansion is the British Duke Zhang Yuangong. These two people are the descendants of important meritorious deeds in the Taizu or Chengzu period, Xu Wenbi is after Xu Da's fourth son Xu Zengshou, and Zhang Yuangong is after Zhang Yu.

Needless to say, Xu Da is the hardcore of Emperor Taizu; Xu Zengshou and Zhang Yu are not simple, they are both heroes who helped Emperor Chengzu sit on the throne.

Xu Zengshou is the first generation of Dingguo Gong, his father Xu Da is the first generation of Zhongshan King, and his brother Xu Huizu is the second generation of Wei Guogong (Xu Da was the Duke of Wei before his death, and was posthumously crowned the King of Zhongshan, but the title of Zhongshan King cannot be hereditary). The Xu family's dual public power has continued to this day, but the Dingguo public line is more favored by the emperor.

Zhang Yu made great contributions in the Battle of Jingjing, and after his early death, he was posthumously named the Duke of Rongguo by Chengzu, and then went one step further and posthumously crowned the King of Hejian. His eldest son Zhang Fu was crowned the Duke of England for his contribution to pacifying Annan during the Chengzu period, and his descendants can inherit this title. As the first generation of the British duke, Zhang Fu successively assisted four emperors, but unfortunately died in the "Tumubao Change", but fortunately, his descendants can enjoy his glory, and it is not in vain the loyal protectors of Zhang Yu and Zhang Fu.

At this time, Xu Wenbi and Zhang Yuangong were sitting in the Zhong Mansion. The emperor gave them a three-day deadline, although even if they didn't save people after the expiration, the emperor couldn't really do anything to them, but in that case, the five military governors' mansions, which had been marginalized, would only decline even more, and they couldn't afford to lose that person.

"Lao Xu, who do you say is so unsightly and has taken care of these four masters? You know, they can be regarded as the ministers that the emperor relies on the most now! Zhang Yuangong whispered to Xu Wenbi.

"Lao Zhang, no matter who tied them, this time they can be regarded as stabbing into a hornet's nest, and the emperor will definitely not let go of these people!" Xu Wenbi added.

Both of them are thirty-five or sixteen years old, their ancestors have been friends for a long time, and now they are both governors of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, so the relationship is naturally good, and even the title is very casual.

"Lao Xu, it's all a matter of time to clean them up; If I can't save people, the emperor will clean it up first! Zhang Yuangong said self-deprecatingly.

"If you really can't save people, don't say anything else, just the saliva of the court can drown you and me, where can the emperor do it."

"Not necessarily, maybe there are some people who wish that our five armies couldn't save people!"

"Lao Zhang, how do you say this? If there is no basis, don't talk nonsense, beware of being listened to and passed on to the emperor. Xu Wenbi turned his head to look left and right, but fortunately, there were no outsiders nearby except for their personal guards.

"Lao Xu, I'm not talking nonsense. Let's not talk about anything else, let's just talk about this Zhong Shilang, you said that such an inconspicuous person has risen to his current high position in a few years, if no one looks at him and kills him, I don't believe it. In this case, it is hard to guarantee that no one will take risks and want to get rid of him quickly! Zhang Yuangong guessed casually.

"Although there is some truth, why did you take the three of Shen Ge together?" Mr. Xu had reservations about Mr. Zhang's speculation.

"That's too, if it's really a red-eyed Zhong Shilang, it would be good to tie him up alone, how can even Shen Ge Lao and them be tied up. It doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense......" Zhang Yuangong denied his guess again.

"Lao Zhang, let's stop guessing first, the top priority is to find the four of them first, and then try to rescue them. As for who caused the mess, it will be determined when the time comes. Xu Wenbi still knows the priorities of the matter.

Then the two questioned Fu Bo, Hu Huanshan, Qiu Xiang and other people in Zhongfu, and went to the nearby neighbor's house to investigate, but there was still no result. In desperation, I can only decide: cast a wide net first, see if I can find some clues, and then make a plan.

So, as soon as the sky was light, people from all walks of life took action, and a large search was carried out throughout the city. Not only did they include the people from the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and the Shuntian Mansion, but even Dongchang and Jinyiwei also dispatched a large number of fans to do secret investigations in private.

Although a large amount of manpower has been put into the search work, Qiu Xiang still asked Hu Huanshan to take all the family members of the Zhong Mansion to search and search according to their way.

Hu Huanshan blamed himself very much, as the captain of the pro-soldiers, the main general was kidnapped not long after he arrived in Beijing, this is a naked slap in the face. He took all the people of the pro-army team, plus more than a dozen family members from the Zhong Mansion, a total of about 50 people, and first made a check around the Zhong Mansion, but to no avail. Then Hu Huanshan divided the people into four groups, according to the east, south, west, and north four directions, and conducted a dragnet search, and Qiu Xiang and several maids also joined the search team.

At around ten o'clock in the morning, Qiu Xiang's group finally made a discovery. A maid found two identical hand beads in a row close to a kilometer away from Zhongfu. Because the two hand beads are of precious material and do not look like ordinary people's objects, this maid named star fruit found Qiu Xiang with the hand beads for the sake of prudence.

Qiu Xiang recognized it at first glance, these two hand beads belonged to a string of hand beads that Zhong Nan carried with him. At the beginning, the two were still in Jizhou, and in order to let Zhong Nan have the blessing of gods and Buddhas on the battlefield, Qiu Xiang specially asked someone to go to Beijing to buy it, and also specially found the monks in the temple to open the light!