Chapter 39: Marin
Plans are never changing fast.
Ma Zongbing did come with a belly full of fire, but when he arrived outside Tieling City and heard that Gonggong Ye was going to compete to select officers, he changed his mind.
Strictly speaking, Ma Lin is not a strictly real general, and he became the chief soldier through the shadow of Lao Tzu, and he must be able to make the best use of his talents than he can command the army.
Although the battle of Salhu was lost, Ma Lin did not receive an order from the imperial court to change the military system, which means that this bold and reckless Ye Gonggong dared to do this, and he must be tired.
If you can catch this Ye Gonggong's handle and refer to him, will it be possible to offset some of his own charges?
With this idea, General Ma immediately died down and quietly came to the school military field with a few guards and his entourage.
According to Ma Zongbing's idea was to find Ye Xun's fault, but he never expected Ye Xun's martial arts to be so high, and when he saw the end, Ma Lin couldn't help but wonder, how could such a magical character suddenly appear in Tieling? Could it be that the emperor sent it a long time ago?
Thinking of this possibility, Ma Lin couldn't help but gasp, and then chatted with the people watching the excitement with doubts about what Ye Xun had done these days.
The more he knew, the more uncertain Ma Lin became, if this Ye Gonggong was not the person by the emperor's side, how could he have such courage?
But during the Salhu War, why didn't this Ye Gonggong appear?
Ma Lin quickly made up this question on his own, Ye Gonggong must be a secret flag of the emperor lying in Liaodong, and he will not be exposed until the critical time.
Well! It must be so.
After making up for what Ye Xun had done, Ma Lin immediately extinguished the idea of Xingshi asking for guilt, and ordered his subordinates to prepare gifts immediately, the more valuable the better, he was going to visit Ye Gonggong.
There was no shortage of shops in Tieling, and although Ye Xun asked these rich gentry for money, it was not enough to bankrupt these people.
Ma Lin's subordinates bought a hundred-year-old ginseng and a few high-end mink skins, and were about to visit Ye Xun when they heard about the people besieging Li Ruzhen.
Kaiyuan is not far from Tieling, of course Ma Lin knew the Li family's energy in Tieling, but he never expected that the people of Tieling would treat Li Ruzhen like this.
Ma Lin and Li Ruzhen have known each other for many years, but they don't have much friendship, mainly because the Li family is too strong, so Ma Lin also doesn't like Li Ruzhen.
Now that this kind of thing happened, Marin was very kind of gloating, but when he witnessed the whole process, Marin couldn't be happy, because the whole incident was too conspiracy.
In the battle of Salhu, Li Rubai escaped, Li Ruzhen retreated in Shenyang and refused to return to Tieling, could it be Your Majesty...
Sometimes people's ideas will go further and further once they are off the track, and this is the case with Marin now.
By the time he appeared outside the palace, the people had already begun to disperse, and the soldiers had begun to clean up the debris outside the palace.
When Li Ruzhen's body, which was no longer breathing and had a black and purple face, was cleaned out under the debris, it happened to be seen by Ma Lin.
Seeing Li Ruzhen's death, Ma Lin believed in his thoughts more and more, what kind of person was beaten to death by rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs? And it's still this way of dying, fooling the hell!
As a result, Marin's attitude was more respectful.
Who doesn't know that the eunuch has great energy, if he can have a good relationship with this Ye Gonggong, can he still be called guilty of that little crime when he defeats it?
Soon, Ma Lin was invited into the mansion by Liang Zhen, under normal circumstances, with Ma Lin's identity, there was nothing wrong with Ye Xun personally going out to greet him, but at this moment he was brought in by a small officer, but Ma Lin was not displeased at all.
As soon as he stepped into the lobby, Ma Lin was like an old friend who had been absent for a long time, clasped his fists and smiled: "Father-in-law Ye, I haven't seen you for a long time, is this always good?" Ma is polite."
Stretching out his hand not to hit the smiling person, although he didn't know when he had seen Ma Lin in this painting, Ye Xun still stood up, hugged his fists and said with a smile: "General Ma is here, there is a long way to come, forgive sins, forgive sins"
"Huh! The father-in-law is too polite, the father-in-law shows his might, and the old slave army is broken, and now the land of Liaodong has spread, Your Majesty should also get the news at this moment, I think the day of my father-in-law's ascension must not be far away, don't forget to pull my brother when the time comes! ”
At first, Ma Lin was unusually respectful, but Ye Xun was confused, but now after listening to Ma Lin's words, he realized that this buddy is not here to ask for soldiers, but to engage in relationships.
In this case, the rhetoric he had just thought of was no longer necessary, so he let Marin to the side room of the reception, ordered tea, and then sat down with Marin as the guest host.
After a few simple greetings, Ye Xun took the initiative to say: "Even if Mr. Ma doesn't come, our family is also going to ask Mr. Ma for guilt."
"When the old slave attacked Tieling before, some of the soldiers who were left outside took the initiative to participate in the defense of Tieling in order to resist the invasion of the old slave, because it was too chaotic at that time, in order to facilitate management, our family incorporated these loyal people into our camp, and later learned that many of them were Ma Zongbing's subordinates, these people have made some contributions in the battle of Tieling, and our family is ready to report to the court and give rewards, such as him"
Ye Xun said and pointed to Liang Zhen who was standing at the door, and continued: "He was originally just the general banner under General Ma, and now he is the captain of our family's personal soldiers."
Ma Lin is the chief soldier, and the official position is 108,000 miles away from the general banner, so he doesn't know Liang Zhen at all, and when he heard Ye Xun talk about it, he took a closer look at Liang Zhen a few times, but he still didn't have any impression at all.
Ma Lin is not stupid, from Ye Xun's disposal of Li Ruzhen just now, he can see that this is definitely a ruthless master, and now that people take the initiative to mention this matter, they obviously want him to express his position.
Thinking of this, Ma Lin immediately changed to a sincere expression and said: "It's not a secret, Ma is indeed here for this matter."
After a pause, he continued: "Whether it is Tieling or Kaiyuan, they are all the land of my Ming Dynasty, and the soldiers are all Ming soldiers, and they all serve the country, why should they be so clear, Ma is here for fear that his father-in-law will have concerns and cannot use these soldiers boldly and boldly, so he plans to allocate these soldiers to his father-in-law's command, so that even if someone asks in the future, he will have his own Ma to bear this matter."
Ye Xun was overjoyed, this guy is very good!
"Come on, set up the wine, our family wants to have a few drinks with Mr. Ma"
"Why is my father-in-law so stingy? How many cups is enough? You have to be not drunk and don't go home, haha..."
A lot of things are like this, it looks complicated, but it's actually just a matter of one sentence.
Ma Lin's father, General Ma Fang, was a legendary figure who went from slave to general, known as the Mongolian nemesis.
It's a pity that in Marin's generation, I can't see the shadow of General Ma at all, and Ma Lin in real history died heroically with the loss of Kaiyuan, which can be regarded as a loyal martyr to General Ma.
But history has changed with the appearance of Ye Xun, and since Ma Lin doesn't have to stick to Kaiyuan, his mind has naturally undergone subtle changes.
Ye Xun knew the prestige of the old general Ma Fang, so he was polite to Ma Lin, but it was only polite, if Ma Lin relied on the old man to negotiate any conditions with him, Ye Xun didn't mind locking him up first, and then charging him with a crime to make him disappear.
But Ma Lin is different from Li Ruzhen after all, if he really had an accident with Ye Xun, Ye Xun would definitely have to spend a lot of effort to complete this matter afterwards.
Thankfully, so far, so good.
Just as Ye Xun and Ma Lin were pushing the cups and changing the lamps, another group of people came outside the east gate...