Chapter 860: Joining forces with Infernal Affairs
Is this kid serious, or is it deliberate?
Feng Bao couldn't help but think about it in his heart, but seeing Cheng Naixuan's expression, he decided not to test it. After all, he is now in charge of the ceremonial supervisor, with the trust and support of the Empress Dowager Li, the awe of the little emperor, and the factory guards in his hands. Therefore, he leaned back, put his hands on the armrests, and immediately held them together in front of his chest, and then said lightly: "No need." ”
"Then the lower official listens to his father-in-law." Cheng Naixuan changed his words very quickly, but he was thinking in his heart, what did Feng Bao do to find himself? He knows his own family affairs, except for having a good father-in-law, what is the shining point? The achievements in foreign office are good, but there are more capable and promising county orders in the world, and when it comes to Feng Bao's status, not to mention the county order, the prefect or the political envoy or even the governor will not be taken seriously, right?
"You served as a county magistrate in Anyang, and your political achievements were remarkable, so you didn't wait for six years to be promoted to the middle of the court, as for the post of county magistrate you left behind, Wang Chonggu's son Wang Qian took over, right?" Feng Bao saw that Cheng Naixuan was stunned for a moment and then nodded, and he laughed, "You have such a good foundation, after Wang Qian took office, Xiao Gui Cao followed, and presided over several good things to build roads and bridges on the basis of the canal, and now the official reputation there is better than yours, do you have any complaints?" ”
"Of course, there are complaints." Cheng Naixuan knew that Feng Bao was not easy to fool, so he simply admitted it very honestly and cheerfully, "There are so many states and counties in the world, and Wang Qian is a second-class jinshi, and you can go to the southeast to get it, but you have to come to take over my class, I am naturally very puzzled." It's just that people asked for my position, but they also gave me a position in the matter that others dreamed of, one in and one out, outsiders felt that I was not at a loss, and I was not too dissatisfied. As for his good political performance, then I can only be happy, and I can't hope that the successor is a brutal person, and I have to overturn the decree of my predecessor, then I will be satisfied, right? This is what I say from my heart, my father-in-law. ”
Feng Bao listened quietly, and then asked again: "You have been in the Sixth Science Corridor for almost a year, and Wang Fulin has been in charge of the Imperial History of the Imperial Court for more than a year, you two are the same year and first, with similar seniority, he is already famous all over the world, but you are still not famous, although you are a close friend, you are willing to be left behind by him all the time?" Or do you want to be a shadow at his behest? ”
What does that mean?
Cheng Naixuan suddenly only felt that the originally relaxed nerves were tense, and an instinctive premonition was born in his heart. Feng Bao seemed to be instigating him to catch up and fight against Wang Fulin? Feng Bao thinks that his consistent laziness and impropriety are just broken jars under unwillingness?
Don't look at Cheng Naixuan's hippie smiling face in the past, after his brain started to move quickly, he suddenly put forward several response plans and several different guesses. For example, Feng Bao wants to bribe himself to investigate Wang Fulin, for example, Feng Bao wants to instigate himself to write a book to impeach anyone, and for example, ......
But in the end, he still lowered his eyelids and said in a very smooth tone: "My father-in-law said that he was laughing, Wang Shiqing and I are like brothers, he is famous, and I can only be happy for him." As for what shadow to do, I can't talk about it, it's just a knife in my friend's ribs, not to mention that Wang Shiqing only asked me to help him a little. I don't have any big ambitions, I never dreamed that I could really be admitted to the Jinshi in one fell swoop, but even after the first, I didn't expect to be able to enter the Sixth Science Corridor. I am already very satisfied with my current official position, and I have never thought of comparing with Wang Shiqing. ”
Feng Bao seemed to be very satisfied with Cheng Naixuan's statement, and said with a smile: "Wang Fulin is really lucky to have a good friend like you. ”
After praising Cheng Naixuan, he suddenly changed his words: "Since Zhang Taiyue is the first assistant, I, the master of ceremonies, have never refuted his vote, and they are all according to the red." It was those things that made a fuss at the beginning, and it was precisely to prevent someone from playing tricks during his departure from Beijing. At the beginning, Zhang Taiyue cleaned up the portal because of You Qihu's misdeeds, and now I have also taken out Xu Jue beside me. However, now that You Qixu Jue is gone, he is good, and I am good, the people around me can't help but not believe it, do you understand what I mean? ”
Don't understand...... That's weird! Isn't it just that once you were bitten by a snake, you were afraid of the well rope for ten years? But what does this have to do with me? Could it be that I should replace Xu Jue as your doorman? What are you kidding, you will not do it yet!
Cheng Naixuan was crazy in his heart, but his face seemed to be stunned because Xu Jue was removed, and he said after a while: "The strictness of Yuan Fu and Gonggong Feng is really admirable. ”
"Wang Fulin has repeatedly asked Zhang Taiyue to resign from the imperial history, although there have been many amazing actions in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but more people don't offend me, I don't offend people. And you are also satisfied with this son, and after you entered the Six Science Corridor, you did not rush forward, in order to become famous overnight, and you did not show much in front of the palm prints, and asked for leave if you wanted to, but it was a true temperament. I came to you tonight for one thing, if there is an important matter between me and Zhang Taiyue in the future, you can bring a letter to Wang Fulin. If you want to come from a dignified scholar's background, and now you are in the science road, you are not more selfish than the deserters and domestic slaves. ”
This is to let him and Wang Fulin be the bridge between Zhang Feng and the two? It's a joke, right?
Cheng Dagongzi's face was genuine, like a wooden fish. His stupid look looked at Feng Bao's eyes, but in exchange for a smile.
However, Cheng Naixuan finally couldn't help but ask such a sentence in his heart.
"Gonggong Feng doesn't think that it is also a very conspicuous thing for you to personally enter and exit the Six Science Corridors?"
Feng Bao came over today and said this, it was still a temptation, after all, he didn't pay much attention to Cheng Naixuan in the past, and now it would be child's play to say that he suddenly entrusted him with a big deal. However, hearing that Cheng Naixuan did not happily agree, but felt that it was not a small risk to do so, he felt that he had a good eye for people, but he couldn't help but feel a little angry.
"There are a total of six directors in the Six Branch Corridors, all of which are from my own door, not to mention that it is common for the Master of Ceremonies to send people into the Six Branch Corridors at night to deliver the recitals, do you think I will come to you every once in a while?"
It's good not to come often! If I really bump into someone, won't I also have the reputation of eunuchs?
Cheng Naixuan only felt that Feng Bao was because there was You Qi in front and Xu Jue in the back, overkill, and he was too vigilant all of a sudden, so the helpless expression on his face didn't need to pretend at all, and he actually whispered at the moment: "When Yuanfu comes back, he will definitely stay in the cabinet often, Gonggong Feng, you have the kung fu to come to me at night, wouldn't it be appropriate to go directly to the cabinet to discuss with Yuanfu when the time comes?" A sentence changes hands three or four times, in case it is wronged, wouldn't it be wronged? ”
This lazy boy!
Feng Baolai's previous assumption process was Xuan's reaction. Either he happily agreed, or he refused strictly, or he pushed back and talked about the conditions. However, Cheng Naixuan didn't mention the conditions, but he just felt that it was inconvenient and unsafe for him to do so, and he was a little surprised. Therefore, when Cheng Naixuan got up and saluted, he said very sincerely that it was not that he was unwilling to do it, but that this way of transmitting information was really inefficient, but he showed a smile instead.
"Very good, it deserves to be Wang Fulin's best friend, I didn't say what I said just now."
Hey? I haven't had time to put forward some conditions, it's a real loss!
Cheng Naixuan suddenly regretted his mistake, wondering if he had said too much, so he offended Feng Bao? This kind of big eunuch said that his heart is smaller than a needle, don't make people unhappy with his roundabout persuasion, right? Thinking like this, his face was very unnatural, but at this time, it was impossible to change his words and agree, and he had to stand there awkwardly, not knowing what to say.
"Then I'll put it another way. I won't often come to the Liuke Corridor, let alone let you talk about everything, I naturally have a few trusted people under my hands, if I want to go to the cabinet to find Zhang Taiyue, I have no choice, but if I encounter something critical at a critical moment, such as Zhang Taiyue is sick, and for example, when he is at home, the internal servants are too conspicuous not to say, if something like a handwritten book falls into the hands of someone, it is also a trouble. Even if it is a message, if the person does not keep his mouth firm, it is a curse. Moreover, anyone can learn a lesson from the experience of high-arched manuscripts, and some things cannot be put on paper. ”
Speaking of which, Feng Bao even regretted that he had listened to Xu Jue's pout, so he took the Qingming Riverside Picture by skill, and now there are no sequelae in this matter. Because of this, he didn't want to accept people at will. He released the news that he wanted to recruit customers, and it must be a cloud of applicants, where there is no talent, but talents and henchmen are different! Zhang Juzheng is not the same, because of the incident of You Qi, his subordinates are no longer full-time! This is the same reason as the abolition of the prime minister by Taizu of this dynasty.
Seeing Cheng Naixuan's hesitation, as if he was still hesitating, Feng Bao threw out the most important killer feature.
"I heard that Ling Zun is the salt of the Hui Gang? Sacrificial wine? Huai salt has become more and more difficult to find over the years, although the Jin merchants were once defeated and lost, but now they are making a comeback, and Ling Zun seems to have just been pitted. Feng Bao's face changed greatly when he saw Cheng Naixuan, and he knew that the father and son were connected, so he laughed and said, "But Ling Zun is a veteran for many years after all, and after fighting back once, he also found a little bit of ground." Hui businessman Wang Cheng Xu advanced and retreated together, but the boss of the Xu family was in charge, and the second and third children couldn't help but have a fire in their hearts, but it was not surprising to lure wolves into the house. ”
Cheng Naixuan didn't expect that his father, who had always been cautious and cautious, would suffer a loss, but as soon as he learned that the person who made his father suffer was the second and third eldest of the Xu family, his face changed. Although Mrs. Xu said that he returned to the old house on Doosan Street from Yangzhou, but the family affairs have not been completely let go, under his strong advocacy, the Xu family's salt merchant business in Yangzhou was all taken over by Mr. Xu, and the second and third Mr. Xu were in charge of the property in the fields and other places, and they were resentful over time, so they seduced outsiders to harm their own affairs, which is not surprising.
However, what he didn't expect was that Feng Bao, the master of ceremonies, would bother to understand even the dispute between the Hui merchants! He wouldn't think that he was so important, after all, he used to be just one of the people in the Six Science Corridors who ate and waited for death, so was it because of Wang Fulin?
Knowing that there was something wrong with his father, Cheng Naixuan didn't have to pretend to be worried at this time. Although he used to mess around when he was a teenager, he was a filial son, and at this moment, since he realized that Feng Bao threw out the news at the right time, it was not just to inform and remind, but faintly threatened, but he still had to be more sincere and sincere: "Thank you Feng Gonggong, otherwise my father will never mention these things in the mall to me." ”
Ever since he became an official, his father has given up his heart to let him do business, and only hopes that one of his future sons will have such a business mind.
Feng Bao's thanks to Cheng Naixuan were expected, and he said lightly at the moment: "Although His Royal Highness King Lu has not been a vassal domain, the old lady Cisheng loves him very much, so he has invited him for two consecutive years, with 50,000 taels of salt every year. It's just that he hasn't opened a mansion yet, and these salt introductions are originally taken care of by internal officials, and they just need to put the money into the inner treasury, but the internal officials are not as good as salt merchants after all. This salt lead, if I hand it over to Ling Zun to take care of, his original precarious Huibang salt? The sacrificial wine seat was stabilized. ”
This is really a great bait!
Not to mention that Cheng Naixuan regretted that he pushed too much like a refusal just now, which was likely to anger Feng Bao, at this time he knew that even if it was a hook, he would have to swallow it, not to mention that there was a fragrant bait on the hook. So, after he was silent for a while, he smiled bitterly and said, "Gonggong Feng, please command, as long as I can do it, I will do anything." ”
In the evening of the next day, after Cheng Naixuan returned home, he went to the house as usual to listen to the movements of the child against his wife's abdomen, talked for a while, and only slipped to Wang Fulin after dinner. After entering his friend's familiar study, after holding back for a day and a night, he talked about the meeting and conversation with Feng Bao last night, and finally slammed his fist on the table.
"I thought, don't say it's me, just say it's you, what can he value? Even if he and Yuan Fu lose Xu Jue and Feng Bao, can they still think of a way to contact and communicate? It turns out that he has taken a fancy to your connections on Yuanfu's side, your good relationship with Wang Shaofang, and the fact that you and Yin Zhengmao are fellow villagers, so if you meet him and Yuanfu have different opinions, I will beat the side drum, and you will influence Yuanfu's decision! Moreover, I feel that he was not so much trying to test me at first, but trying to provoke me to compete with you, and if you have Motosuke, I will gradually lean towards him, so that through you and me, he can know Motosuke's movements well. ”
"It is said that the inside and outside are one, just like one person, but in the end, there are two people, then the idea will not be exactly the same, let alone completely one heart. Of course, it may not be that Feng Zhang is centrifuged, but it is our father-in-law Feng, because of those things before, the sense of crisis is too strong. ”
Wang Fulin touched his chin as he spoke, feeling that he had always been so high-profile, and the results were not small, but there were also many negative effects. No, Zhang Hong has already regarded him as an informant, and now Feng Bao has found Cheng Naixuan again, is this a brother teaming up to infernal affairs? Moreover, did Master Cheng's side really encounter a crisis, or did he deliberately let him suffer a crisis because of Feng Bao's attention? Didn't Mrs. Xu claim that the three sons have already split up, how could Xu Er and Xu San, who are useless, hook up with Jin Shang? Yes, I think when he met Second Master Xu on the West Lake, this guy was with Zhang Taizheng!
"Shuangmu, what should I do about this, say hello to my father? And then let's turn against each other? Seeing Wang Fulin's face stiffened, Cheng Naixuan suddenly laughed, "Anyway, you and your uncle have been here before, it's not normal for us to come again?" ”
"The first time the play is a good show, the second time is unsatisfactory, and the third time is a bad play. My uncle and I have already played twice, and if you come back, do you think the city is full of fools? Besides, what Grandpa Feng wants is for you to get this set of news from me, if we fall out, where will you get the news? Not only do we not fall out, but we have to be more and more intimate so that you are valuable over there. ”
"Closer? We are already fellow villagers and friends of the same year, your sister-in-law is still my daughter-in-law's sister-in-law, how can we get close? Why don't we get married? The more Cheng Naixuan spoke, the better he felt, and when he saw that Wang Fulin's face was dark, he said with a smile, "Don't worry, I won't blow outside, in case Gonggong Feng comes to me again, I claim it to him, then it's okay, right?" ”
Wang Fulin was too lazy to fight with this guy, and as for betraying his beloved son, he didn't need to mention it, so he immediately changed the topic and said, "I have to tell you one more thing." Our two families were originally like iron buckets, but now that there is such a thing as you, it seems that it may be difficult to avoid being mixed with sand by the factory guards in the future, you have a preparation! ”
PS: The first update (to be continued.) )