Chapter 515: Rumors don't stop, accomplices must be guarded against

Due to the fact that the new official of Wu'an Hou Zheng Heng took office with three fires, even if the entire Xuanfu City was sensational because of the emperor's will to cut it in half, the General Military Mansion was still not chaotic. At noon, people up and down hurriedly finished their lunch and began to prepare for the afternoon parade, and no one had time to think about the bright guillotine at three o'clock in the afternoon. Lu Feng came to invite Meng Jun and Zhang Yue to the execution ground to watch the execution, but Uncle Lang politely declined. After all, after Zhang Yue was sentenced in Qingzhou last time, he never wanted to come to a place like the execution ground again; Meng Jun has no grudges or enmity with someone, and he can't go to the execution ground to show off his might.

However, when the cannon rang out at the execution ground at three o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Yue, who was talking to Zheng Heng in the second hall of the General Soldier's Mansion, heard that someone was coming to look for him. He had no other acquaintances in Xuanfu, and he was very puzzled, and when the soldier explained in a low voice that it was Wang Xiang, the son of Wang Zhao, who was in command, he suddenly realized, and Zheng Heng nodded considerately.

"The emperor gave Wang Zhao's son Yanshan Zuowei the commander of the envoy, and the body was directly transported back to Datong, although we all sent some ceremonies to him, and you also counted a share, but after all, they didn't go to the mourning hall to worship. Now that it is his bereaved family who has come to see you, you should go and meet you, and you will also comfort and comfort others. ”

This is the proper meaning, Zhang Yue naturally agreed. Out of the second hall, along the middle of the avenue out of the second gate, from the side of a path to the flower hall, he opened the curtain and went in to see a young man in his early thirties. That person's face was cool and Xiao Wang Zhao, just a little more honest and a little less resolute. After the meeting, Wang Xiang didn't say a lot, but at the end he said with a face full of embarrassment: "Lord Xiao Zhang, although my father died a heroic death, but before he set off to Xuanfu, some people said that he was greedy for ink during the garrison of Kaiping. Although there is a posthumous gift from the emperor now, I don't want my father to go away with notoriety, and I ask you to make the decision for him. ”

"Don't worry about this matter, I have sent someone to inform Yu Yushi, who is in Kaiping, and I will definitely find out and return your father's innocence."

Hearing that Wang Xiang was begging for such a thing, Zhang Yue felt that this was an honest man who was dedicated to his father, so he agreed immediately. Although he had dealt with the veteran for a few days, he was convinced that the other party was by no means a despicable person, and Yu Qian would not lose his justice. He sat down and said a few more words to Wang Xiang, and then personally sent the person out, and when he arrived at the gate, Wang Xiang suddenly turned his head.

"There's something I didn't want to talk about, but after thinking about it, I still plan to talk to you about it. I escorted my father's coffin back to my hometown for burial, and there were many relatives and friends along the way to help with the funeral, but someone told me that so many soldiers in the court were in harmony, but my father died, and the matter was really strange, and I wanted to avenge my grievances in front of the emperor. I was originally a scholar, but now it is an accident that I have entered the martial arts, and I can still distinguish right from wrong. Although my father has accumulated merit and promotion in this life, he often thinks about the battle when he is drunk on weekdays, and now he is killed on the battlefield and is considered to be benevolent. I don't know where this comes from, but please be careful. ”

"I understand, thank you for reminding me."

Seeing Wang Xiang away, when Zhang Yue turned around and went back to the General Soldier's Mansion, he was always a little less proud in his heart. The rumors that Wang Xiang said may be a handful of red-eyed people who are jealous of this military exploit, or it may be a distraction that is born of regret for the death of Wang Zhao's veteran in battle, or even someone who is taking advantage of this to stir up the wind and rain. But in any case, for this kind of verbal matter, it is tantamount to pursuing it without three hundred taels of silver here, which is really not very interesting.

When he returned to the second hall, he heard a loud voice inside before he entered the door, and it sounded as if it was a personal soldier talking. Realizing that the man was describing the bloody situation of the crown covered in bruises and the slashing of the guillotine on the execution ground, he did not rush in, but first went to the left and right signing rooms and walked around, and when he turned around, he happened to see Wan Shijie walking in from outside, so he greeted him.

"Yuanjie, I'll leave this afternoon." Wan Shijie didn't wait for Zhang Yue to speak, and said his intention straightforwardly, and grinned again, "You are now the governor of Xuanfu to praise military affairs, even if I want to stay here to help you, I have no name, plus the Ministry of War and the Treasury Department is missing such a man as you, and everyone is so busy that they can't wait to put their feet on top, and I can't delay here." You've probably reported what happened yesterday, right? This is indeed good news, but you have to take care of it, if this kind of thing is shoddy, no matter how good your saints are, it will be in vain. ”

"You don't have to worry about this, when the military rations are weighed, not only will the Marquis of Wu An send his own soldiers to check it, but I will also call Father-in-law Shanglu."

"Tsk, I knew you guys were confident, but I just gave you a command!" Wan Shijie stared at Zhang Yue for a while, and suddenly said curtly, "By the way, do you really want to send Xiao Wu back with me?" ”

Zhang Yue saw his cautious appearance, and couldn't help but glance at him funny: "Of course, what kind of place is this Xuanfu, she is a girl's family here, and I can't take care of it, what if I encounter an exit molester like yesterday?" Besides, there is another war, and I am afraid that there will be no shortage of Tartar spies, and I am naturally afraid that she will be in danger. In a word, how did you bring her, how did you bring her back. With this incident, it will not be so difficult for you to communicate with her in the future. If you can really impress the hearts of the Yiren, after the Northern Expedition is over, I will ask my father to help you propose! ”

Wan Shijie, who has always been articulate, only nodded at this time, and finally added: "Also, don't forget to fish out our father-in-law first." ”

"You really dare to say that you didn't have a word for eight characters, and you actually put the word father-in-law on your lips!" Zhang Yue almost choked and coughed, and replied with a straight face, "Okay, I won't play tricks with you, you take care of Jingshi's affairs, since my father is back, you don't have to worry about my family, but the Du family and Xiaofang will be handed over to you." Well, in the afternoon, I will follow Wu Anhou to the Dajiaochang to review the Xuanfu Zhongwei, and I will not have time to send you, so let Lao Peng send you out of the city. Go back and talk to Xiao Wu on my behalf, my brother-in-law has no time to accompany her this time, and he will make amends when he returns to Jingshi! ”

"Don't worry, wrap it up with me!"

The two have been friends for many years, and they never talk much when they smile at each other. Seeing that the curtain of the second hall was raised high, but it was the soldier who reported the incident bent down to come out, and Zhang Yue entered with Wanshijie. Wan Shijie is a person from the military department, and it is just a matter of the scene to come to see Zheng Heng, the Marquis of Wu'an, and after saluting, he sat down and only said a few words before getting up to say goodbye, and Zheng Heng naturally did not stay long. As soon as the person left, he put away his smiling face and clasped his hands in front of him thoughtfully.

"Lu Feng is a eunuch after all, he is too vindictive, and he doesn't know how to act seriously. When the crown was escorted to the execution ground, don't say anything and shout out about injustice, he needs someone to help him do anything, and he only has one breath left. Zheng Heng patted the armrest lightly, and then shook his head, "Anyway, the matter has passed, but his life or death is none of your business and mine, if the other eunuchs in the palace want to use this to find his fault, it is also his own death, who let him do things without leaving any room at all!" ”

There is no discrimination against the eunuch Zhang Yue - to discriminate, there is only discrimination against the perverted system, not to mention that there is the famous Zheng He in these years, and Zhang Qian, who has also been to the West, and many of the eunuchs he has dealt with are still reasonable people - but not discriminating does not mean that he is defenseless, at least he has worked hard on Lu Feng, neither wants to be calculated by this ambitious eunuch, nor does he want to let such a guy who has established a friendship easily and can do troublesome things fall so easily. It's just that in front of Zheng Heng, he didn't want to show this kind of thought, so he responded vaguely.

Because Zheng Heng paid close attention to military discipline after taking office, after half a month, Zhang Yue, who came to the Dajiao field again, felt the completely different spirit of the soldiers. He knew that he was able to survive in Xinghe to a large extent because he had a group of capable people following him, and his luck was really good, so although the time he returned to Xuanfu was a reward and a reward, he never thought that he had really become a famous general.

The matter of fighting a war should be left to experts, and if a country has to rely on civilian officials even to fight a war, then it will be over!

It took an hour and a half for a big parade to end, because Wu'an Hou Zheng Heng praised the performance of the soldiers for the first time, the officers up and down the Xuanfu Zhongwei felt quite dignified, and several thousands of households even went down to drink hot soup with the soldiers to relieve the cold, and when the whole army returned to the city, the morale was extremely high.

It was already evening when Zhang Yue and Zheng Heng returned to the General Soldier's Mansion. Although the two did not belong to each other, they were close neighbors in the past, and Zheng Heng regarded Zhang Yue as a junior, so he stayed to eat together. After dinner, after the servant brought tea and retreated, Zhang Yue took the opportunity to propose another important matter - Mongolian spies active in the Xuanfu area. Hearing this, Zheng Heng casually put down the teacup.

"This is an old problem of Xuanfu, don't look at Lu Feng who was busy leaning back before he got the crown and hurt his feet, and in the end he didn't grab a finger from others, even I, the chief soldier, didn't catch a few when I was in office before. Because of the Great Wall, a large number of Tartars could not enter, but there were quite a few small ones. Kaiping was originally the capital of the Yuan, although it has been decades since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, but there are still many people in the same area of Xuanfu who had Tartar blood in the past, so the spy may not necessarily be a Tartar. And because of the relationship between the border markets, many of the merchants of the Ming Dynasty have business with that side, and the private transactions may not be cleaner than the crown, but because they are also involved in the opening of the middle school, and they can't catch the handle, so this spy is caught all the time, but the harvest is very little. ”

Zhang Yue knew that the Ming Dynasty had gone from light business and light profit at the moment to excessive business and profit in the later period, but it was just decades and hundreds of years of hard work, and the famous Shanxi Jin merchants in the future were even accomplices in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. If you can't put in place rules and guard against it now, then you won't be able to mention it in the future. Therefore, he was not discouraged by Zheng Heng's words, but smiled slightly.

"I also understand all the truths that Hou Ye said, so this time I have to work hard from those merchants. Besides, the East Factory Jinyi Wei is all there, can't you make good use of it, isn't it a waste? ”