Chapter 158: A Big Game of Chess

On the third night, besides, he was allowed to enter Zuo Ling's room, and the little girl next to Zuo Ling secretly came to him and told him that he had passed the test of the young lady.

"What are you testing me?" Besides, ask Zuo Ling, he is really inexplicable.

"You haven't gone to Li Xiangjun in the past two days, at least in your heart, I am still more important than her." Zuo Ling's ruddy and beautiful lips opened and closed, and he felt his heart beating with it.

"How do you know I didn't go to her?" Besides, he asked with a smile.

"Of course you know, you don't smell of her." Zuo Ling said in one word.

"The taste? What does she smell like? "Besides, I didn't understand.

"Of course, as long as you are with her, no matter how you wash it afterwards, it will smell, even if you can't smell it, I can feel it, and women feel the most accurate in this regard." Zuo Ling said proudly.

Besides, with a wry smile, he really didn't go to see Li Xiangjun, it had nothing to do with any test, and he wasn't afraid that Zuo Ling would be annoyed, but he was disturbed by a series of things, and he was not in the mood at all, he didn't want to look at Li Xiangjun with a bad mood.

This night is still as passionate as before, the two seem to have returned to the state of being together for the first time, and afterwards both of them naturally have some more scars on their bodies, but they don't know how to get it.

"You're sadistic." Besides, he pointed to the tooth marks and nail marks on his body.

"You're just as ruthless." Zuo Ling also pointed to the scars on his body and said.

Zuo Ling's carcass like mutton fat and jade did have some more scars, and there were still many fewer on his body, but these scars did not tarnish this most perfect body, but added some dazzling beauty.

The two kept warm all night, chattering crookedly, talking heart-to-heart, and the emotional exchange made them feel like spring.

"I heard Nier say that your situation is still not good, but I can't see it, no matter how you look at it, you look like you're going straight up, you don't have anything to hide from me." Zuo Ling has been puzzled.

Besides, gently brushed aside the green silk on Zuo Ling's face, and sighed, this matter is indeed not easy to explain, on the surface, the emperor fully supports him, and tries to reuse him against public opinion, in the eyes of outsiders, it is naturally the ancestral tomb that is smoking, and it is already red and purple.

Even if Hai Rui is promoted to the governor of Jiangnan and hundreds of officials are popular, the limelight is still not as prosperous as it is to be done.

Besides, he knows that there is a great terror in this great luck, and he can't tell the specific things, but he can clearly feel it. Once that terror comes, it will be his end, and his whole family will suffer.

He didn't care about his life, otherwise he would have moved away according to the advice of the Qinwang faction, he came to the capital just to exchange his life for the safety and freedom of his family, but he didn't expect that now the emperor and he played this game of chess with the chips increased, on his side is betting on the lives of the whole family, and even relatives and friends are forced to bet.

He felt that this was the emperor's true intention, didn't you give up your life? I don't want to, I have increased the stakes, forcing you to bet on all the ten clans, only the Son of Heaven has such a privilege.

The so-called nine clans refer to the branches under the same ancestor, as long as they can be classified as an ancestor, they are all counted as a clan, with clan relatives, anyone who has a marriage relationship with this clan is counted, but the real extermination of the clan is rarely so ruthless as the extermination of the nine clans, as for the ten clans, that is, plus teachers, protégés, and friends, only Yongle was so ruthless when he killed Fang Xiaoru.

Exterminating the nine clans is just a saying, in fact, the ancients were not so barbaric, legally speaking, one person does things and one person is responsible, and the disaster is not enough for his wife, only if he commits the crime of rebellion, he will destroy the family, that is, a family, as long as the family is separated, the brothers will not be too implicated.

But when it comes to this, things are different, he is accused of Jianwen's sins, the head of the Qinwang faction, the three-foot method is no longer applicable to him, once the disaster occurs, it is inevitable to destroy the nine clans, and it is possible for the ten clans.

And it's fighting against its own fate.

Of course, there is still a turnaround in things, and this turnaround lies in the fact that he can train an elite soldier for the emperor, and then do a big thing for the emperor, which is the bargaining chip that the emperor bets, as long as he wins, he can be free.

He couldn't say it, and he didn't have any evidence, and whoever knew what he was thinking would think it was madman's babbling.

Thinking of this, he even lost the feeling he should have when he stroked Zuo Ling's smooth cheeks, and his hand stopped a little stiffly.

"Isn't that really good?" Zuo Ling asked with big beautiful eyes flashing under his long eyelashes.

"Not really, just be careful." Besides.

"Am I still trading, then?"

"Of course I do, and I want to make it bigger, and now I am blessed, and this advantage is not in vain."

Besides, now he is the commander of the sixth guard of Jinyi, which is equivalent to the commander of the capital, and he is also a powerful figure in the capital, I believe that no one dares to compete with him. If he does business, it will be smooth.

"That's good." Zuo Ling didn't ask about the troubles, and knew that he couldn't ask.

"You take over all those shops in Beijing, buy them when you see a good storefront, and if someone dares to rob you, you will come to me." Besides.

"So domineering?" Zuo Ling smiled.

"Well, I'll have to do something domineering in the future."

"You've changed." Zuo Ling looked at him with some concern.

"I'm still me, it's just that it's different, I've learned to adapt."

Besides, he also knows that he has changed a lot, no way, he wants to be a pure literati, or even just an artist, with calligraphy and painting as his life goal, take reading and writing articles, and study science and do scholarship after middle age, this is the life he should live, but unfortunately it backfired, and now he has to lead the army, which is simply a ridiculous thing in the world.

Knowing what happened to those students, Zhang Juzheng looked for the situation and talked about it from the bottom of his heart.

"Yunming, you can't just show grace to your subordinates, you can't buy people's hearts with money. Although it has always been important for the emperor to pay attention to both grace and power, in fact, it is necessary to grasp a scale, and if you want to choose in grace, you would rather be less gracious and heavier. Zhang Juzheng said with some murderous anger.

Besides, he thought to himself that he still couldn't do the word widowhood, and it was even more difficult to do heavy punishment, and the most he could do now was to strictly enforce military discipline.

"Those who have committed crimes, you are just too light to remove the name, and you should be strictly punished in accordance with Jinyiwei's family law, some things must be stifled immediately when they show signs of something, and they must be quick and ruthless, and they must not be allowed to spread." Zhang Juzheng said again.

Moreover, nodding, although he would not do this, he also admitted that Zhang Juzheng's words had some truth.

The same is true of the imperial court's approach to officials, who are meagre and only have enough food and clothing, and once they commit crimes, the punishment is severe. Even so, there are still countless people rushing to it, just because only this road is the way to glorify the ancestors, military attaches have money, but no one wants to be a general, because the power position is too low, there is no sense of self-worth, even if there is a family, they feel that they live like a dog, and only civil officials live like a person.

Status and glory, this is the value of officials, as for the additional source of wealth of officials, after all, it is not legitimate, although everyone wants to do it, but as long as they are caught, they should be punished.

Only at the level of Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gong will they not worry about this, especially since these two people are still emperors, this identity is more effective than the death-free iron scroll in the prince's family, of course, it can only keep the current dynasty, and after the generation, it will naturally be invalidated.

"My lord, the errand of Lord Hai to patrol Jiangnan is said to be what you mean, my lord?" Besides, he asked with a smile.

"That's true, but what those people say that I have a grudge against Hai Gangfeng is nonsense, I have nothing to do with Hai Gangfeng, and I don't have any grievances, but he is really not a suitable candidate to be the imperial history of Zuodu, if it was in the Hongwu Yongle period, it can be considered, but not now, so I rejected the emperor's appointment. I only treat things and not people. Zhang Juzheng said with a smile.

Hai Rui's word is Gangfeng, so most people call him Haigangfeng. This word is extremely accurate to describe Hai Jui's character, which would rather bend than bend, as inaccessible and intimidating as a cliff.

Ji Xiaolan, a great genius of the Qing Dynasty, likes to use the word "cliff and shore" to describe a person's lonely character, which describes Hai Rui's character, but Hai Rui was born with this personality, and many soft-boned literati in the Qing Dynasty just pretended to be.

"You must have a special intention in proposing that Lord Hai patrol Jiangnan, right?"

Besides, the fire of gossip is also burning in his heart, for these rumors outside, he wants to be verified by Zhang Juzheng, he has the qualifications to ask Zhang Juzheng for verification, and ordinary people really dare not open this mouth.

"Yes, it's still a foreshadowing for your future." Zhang Juzheng said frankly.

"Foreshadowing me?"

Besides, I never thought that Hai Rui, the governor of Jiangnan, could still have anything to do with him.

"Of course, to be honest, I can guess what the emperor asked you to do, but I'm not optimistic, if it really comes to that time, you may not be competent, where is the Jiangnan Shi clan so easy to suppress, especially those wealthy clans along the coast, it is simply the emperor who is far away and lawless. Even if you bring 20,000 elite soldiers, it is still a source of water, and you can't last much time at all, and it is impossible to get it done, otherwise, Qi Shuai and Tan Lun would have done it a long time ago. Zhang Juzheng sighed.

Besides, he didn't speak, his heart was also very heavy, not to mention that Zhang Juzheng was not optimistic, he himself couldn't see any hope, a lone army stayed in danger for a long time, once there was no food and grass inside, and there was no rescue outside, it was a blessing to be able to break through and escape, where can we talk about the dominant side.

He did this hard, but he was forced to a dead end by the emperor, and there was no second way to go.

"Haigang Peak patrols Jiangnan, and he can't do anything big, so that the emperor and those who like to stir up trouble can understand what is going on in Jiangnan and the coast, and when you really fail in the future, the emperor and those people will have nothing to say. On the contrary, if Haigang Peak wins by surprise and makes a gain, it will pave the way for you. ”

Besides, he was moved in his heart, he didn't expect that Zhang Juzheng had already deliberately prepared a way back for his future, but even so, if he really failed, it was difficult to say whether the emperor would spare him, after all, the emperor had also made a big bet.