After only seven days of farewell to the capital, now standing in front of Chaoyang Gate, Guo Bao only feels like a world away. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Fortunately, he also knew that his trip not only involved Wang Jiguang and Lou Dayou, but also the future of Li Chengliang and Qi Jiguang, the two generals of Jiliao, so he only stayed for a short time, and then immediately entered the city.

As a brocade guard, he was familiar with the set of extortion methods of the city gate guards, and he also knew how to deal with it if he couldn't get a way, so after a while, his beard was very different from the previous appearance, and he entered the city and went to Chaoyangmen Street without a road.

If according to his habit in the past, before going to the north and south pavilions to hand over the stagecoach, at this time, he should first go to Jinyiwei to see Liu Baichuan, the top boss in charge of the punishment of thousands of households, or directly ask to see Liu Shouyou, the governor, and listen to the instructions of these two before deciding on the next step. But this time, don't say that there was a reminder from Lou Da first, even if he didn't, he didn't dare to rush to Jinyiwei. After thinking about it, he weighed the distance, and went straight to Wang Fulin's private house first.

He didn't have the luxury of going straight to Wang's Mansion to ask for a meeting—because in that case, once he was detected by the rest of the Jinyi Guard, he would be completely on the opposite side of Liu Shouyou—but hoped to run into Chen Liang. Sure enough, when he looked at the street that crossed with Chengjia Hutong, he found Chen Liang in disguise.

This is not to say that Chen Liang's disguise is so easy to be recognized, but in order to facilitate contact, Chen Liang has demonstrated all the various disguised identities in front of him, so he can find people effortlessly.

Looking around, to make sure that there should be no other brocade guards monitoring this place, Guo Bao, who covered the post horse logo with horse coats and other sundries, quietly came to Chen Liang, who was selling fruits, picked up a peach casually, lowered his voice and asked, "Chen Liang, is Wang Zhangdao not at home?" ”

Chen Liang was a little surprised when he saw Guo Bao approaching before, and he was even more startled at this time. Fortunately, he suddenly realized that Guo Bao must have something important to sneak back to the capital like this, and immediately took the basket to choose peaches as if he was selling them diligently, but he whispered in his mouth: "Wang Zhangdao is not here today, he is in the Metropolitan Procuratorate." That Liu Bo sent me a message before, if there is something urgent, you can go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to find Zheng Yougui, but the code is changed every five days. This time, the code was to say to that Zheng Yougui that it was his cousin on the other side of the Chaobai River who was looking for him to have something important, and the cattle in the family were lost! ”

"Okay, I'll go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate." Guo Bao casually chose three or four peaches and threw them into the horse coat, and then gave Chen Liang a few pennies casually, and before leaving, he whispered, "This time I was calculated, you should be careful yourself." ”

Calculated? How did you calculate?

Chen Liang only felt that his heart tightened suddenly, and when he saw Guo Bao turn over on the back of the horse and leave, how could he have the leisure to sell any fruit, and his heart was full of only entanglements. The last time he was able to stay in Beijing was Guo Bao's plea for him in front of Liu Baichuan, although Wang Fulin had already nodded and recognized that they were his people, but in case Guo Bao had a problem, is his small flag still useful?

Guo Bao didn't have time to consider Chen Liang's little entanglement, he hurried to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and according to the password conveyed by Chen Liang, he successfully called Zheng Yougui out of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. As soon as the two sides looked at each other, he saw that Zheng Yougui was slightly stunned when he saw him, and then smiled and took a bite of his cousin, as if he was really familiar with himself, but he directly pulled himself to a secluded place, he secretly sighed that Wang Fulin was really careful enough, and hurriedly exchanged a few words with him, and then said quickly: "You hurry up and tell Wang Zhangdao, 100,000 is urgent, I have to hurry to see him......"

Zheng Yougui looked at Guo Bao a little familiar just now, and at this moment, he suddenly thought that this was the one he had seen with Wang Fulin, Guo Bao, who was punished by a hundred households in Jinyi, and his face changed. However, thinking of Wang Fulin's instructions, he immediately came back to his senses, patted Guo Bao's shoulder heavily, and whispered: "Master Daoist knows that there is something important, so I will lead you to meet him." Don't worry, I'll take you down the path......"

After a long detour, the two came to a restaurant that was too small to be small. The shop outside can only accommodate two tables, and at this moment, because it is only Shinshi, there are no customers. Zheng Yougui familiarly took Guo Bao past the shopkeeper who was ignoring them behind the counter, and quietly walked into the kitchen. And through this steaming place, there was a courtyard topped by a grape trellis, and Wang Fulin sat proudly on one of the circle chairs.

Guo Bao saw that Zheng Yougui beside him quietly retreated, and hurriedly rushed to Wang Fulin, and he didn't have time to salute or say anything polite, so he poured out all the things that happened on the return trip, including Lou Dayou's suspicions, the helpless situation of himself and Wang Jiguang, and even Lou Dayou reminded him not to go to Jinyiwei, but directly poked things out and told him. In the end, he bent down one leg and knelt down on one knee, and said with a bitter face: "This time, I have to ask Gongzi to save us, I really dare not guarantee that General Wang Yuhe Lou will not bring a corpse back to Beijing after me." ”

"General Lou has been in Jizhen for many years, and he should be able to speak Mongolian, he didn't try to interrogate that Suning?"

"Before I left, I tried to interrogate him once with him, but as soon as he took off the strip of cloth that strangled his mouth, he tried to kill himself, and if it weren't for General Lou's quick eyes and quick removal of his chin, I am afraid that he would have succeeded. And Wang Shiyu and I have already asked General Lou to translate to him in Mongolian, if he is really a herdsman of the Chahaner tribe, and his people are really killed by Tao Chengyu's lying about the military situation, we will definitely tell the emperor and severely punish Tao Chengyu, but this person does not listen at all and is bent on seeking death. That's why I had to take a trip. ”

"I see, I can't blame you for this, I can only say that the enemy is too cunning, and you have thought it through."

Guo Bao hesitated for a moment and said Wang Jiguang's previous concerns, but he didn't expect Wang Fulin to snort: "As long as people can get to the capital safely, you don't have to worry about anything." By the way, when did you leave and what did you bring with you? ”

"Returning to Wang Zhangdao, I set off in the middle of the night after arriving at Lufengkou, and it took less than two days and one night to arrive in the capital, and I brought the book of the king's servant."

Wang Fulin groaned slightly, then stood up: "In this way, you go out of the city immediately, and then take your own road guide, change the city gate and enter the city again, and then you directly take your brocade clothes and guard waist card into the palace, and go to the Huiji Gate to meet the eunuch of the gate." Although theoretically, you, the Jinyi Wei Punishment Hundred Households, did not go to the recital in the past, but since there is Wang Jiguang's recital, there is no problem. And as soon as you finish handing in the transcript, Motosuke will summon you. Remember, the time to enter the palace is accurate, the time to step into the noon gate, and the time to reach the gate of the pole, you have to be pinched at the beginning of the unitary period. ”

Although Guo Bao was seventy or eighty percent sure that Wang Fulin would not stand idly by this time, he was still a little overjoyed to really help himself to this point, and hurriedly thanked him. When he saw Wang Fulin, who was dressed in civilian clothes, got up first, he didn't take his original path, but left directly from the stairs on the fence, and he almost didn't stare out.

Finding that Zheng Yougui, who had led him over before, came back again, when he followed him out, he had to look at the kitchen again, and saw that the noodle cook was still not looking back at his work, as if he didn't exist, he knew that this small shop not too far from the Metropolitan Procuratorate was full of Wang Fulin's people inside and out.

Otherwise, from the shopkeeper outside to the cook inside, he will be allowed to enter and exit so loudly?

The reason why Wang Fulin asked Guo Bao to enter the city again was to eliminate the incompleteness of his previous entry procedures and erase the possibility of others attacking from this point, that is, Wang Fulin had to go to the cabinet in advance and explain the matter to Zhang Juzheng in advance.

Although he is the head of the Imperial History of the Imperial Palace, the Son of Heaven is a close minister, but it is not the same as the things that have been done in the palace for many years, if he wants to enter the palace, he must first ask Chen Ji, the imperial history of the left capital, and then, he has to quickly sort out the original situation and write an excerpt for Zhang Juzheng to see, so as to reveal any clues in the cabinet where there are many people with many eyes and ears.

Therefore, when he entered the imperial city from the right gate of Chang'an, and then entered the palace city from the noon gate, it was already a matter of Shen Zheng's second moment.

It is not very easy to enter the cabinet to meet the first assistant on weekdays - of course, it was even more difficult in the early days, because the cabinet was only a counselor, and the relationship with the ministers of civil and military affairs of the six ministries and five ministries was as small as possible, but now that the cabinet power has overwhelmed the ministry power, it is no longer the same thing back then - but who is Wang Fulin? The well-known henchman of Yuanfu, coupled with his important sentence, there were already informed and interested Zhongshushe people who went in to report. So, he crossed several officials of the six ministries who came to send the court or ministerial posts, and successfully stepped into Zhang Juzheng's straight room.

After entering the door, after he saluted, he said bluntly: "Yuanfu, the Guangdong Governor has just finished handing over the imperial history, and the former imperial historian has sent a notebook, saying that it is the Francophone who has recently sent a number of missionaries to Macao......" said these things, but Wang Fulin took out the fold he had just written when he returned to the Imperial Court from his sleeve.

Zhang Juzheng took the thing in his hand with some suspicion, and while listening to Wang Fulin talking about Western missionaries in front of him, and looking at the fold in his hand that had nothing to do with this matter, his face became extremely solemn. He did not pay attention to what Wang Fulin said about the Spanish king's ambition to expand his territory by inheriting the throne of neighboring Portugal, but carefully considered what should be done in this matter. After a long moment, he suddenly slapped the table lightly.

"Motosuke?"

Seeing that Wang Fu immediately shut up, but there was a tentative cry from a Chinese scholar outside, Zhang Juzheng said coldly: "Go to the Huiji Gate to see who will send the recital book today." ”

"The affairs of a small Western country are also worth talking about here, and you don't look at how many people are waiting to see outside!" Zhang Juzheng said this, in fact, he didn't pay attention to what Wang Fulin was talking about just now, and then he thought about the words for a long time, and then said cautiously, "Don't be so anxious to do things in the future, you should know that you are already in charge......"

With words of admonition in his mouth, Zhang Juzheng returned Wang Fulin's share of the fold. In a place like Shousuke Naofu, even if you want to burn paper, you have to beware of the ashes left behind and the choking smell of burning paper, which will leave people with room for reverie. Therefore, then Zhang Juzheng only ordered a temporary dispatch to inspect the Beijing camp, and he was going to send it to Guangdong Dao, but because of the lack of manpower in Guangdong Dao, he gave it to Huguang Dao, and began to say that redundant officials inside and outside the country would be eliminated. Sure enough, Wang Fulin, who had calculated the time in advance, finally waited for the reply from the middle scholar.

"Yuanfu, I was ordered to go to Shanhaiguan with the king of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Court of Jinyi Weibei Town, and Guo Bao of the hundred households is back, and he is handing over the book of the king's servant at the Jimen."

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Juzheng immediately raised his voice: "Why did he come back alone and present Wang Jiguang's recital?" People go together, why don't they come back together? ”

Wang Fulin glanced at Zhang Juzheng, and simply said straightforwardly: "Yuanfu, Wang Zishan is from Guangdong Province, let me go and see what is going on?" ”

"You go, bring someone over, and I'll ask him personally what's going on!"

Wang Fulin gave a deep salute, then turned around and went out, nodded to the Zhongshushe, who was obviously accustomed to Zhang Juzheng's temper, and saw that the person was obediently leading the way without saying a word, so he followed him quickly to the Huiji Gate. Fortunately, this gate is a gateway to the west of the cabinet, the imperial room and the imperial room, so Wang Fulin, who set off as soon as possible, stopped people directly before Guo Bao left the noon gate.

When the accompanying scholar stepped forward to convey Zhang Juzheng's order to Guo Bao, he glanced at a few Jinyi guard officers who rushed to hear the news outside the noon gate, thinking that Liu Shouyou was in this matter, and he didn't know which side he was on. But the only thing he can be sure of is that he can't take this risk, so he still let Guo Bao take some risks, go directly to Huijimen, and stab the matter directly to Zhang Juzheng, which is also equivalent to making the matter clear to all the officials in the capital. In this way, if someone stirs up trouble, they will not dare to act rashly because they are in the open.

As for the rest, it depends on whether Lou Dayou and Wang Jiguang have the ability to bring people to the capital, even if they are half dead, they are better than dead! As long as you bring it, plus another layer of preparation, it's almost the same.

Guo Bao hurriedly returned to Beijing but directly entered the palace with the brocade clothes and waist card, and sent the book to Wang Jiguang to the Huiji Gate, and then was taken by Wang Fulin to Zhang Juzheng and directly summoned into the cabinet for questioning. Together with the five mansions and six departments, Taichang Temple, Hanlin Courtyard and other yamen, nested in the Jinyi Wei Yamen in the thousand-step corridor outside the Chengtian Gate, when Liu Shouyou learned of such a thing, he immediately frowned.

Historically, when the Jinyi Wei Emperor came back from his errand, it was he, the governor in charge of the Jinyi Guard, who personally accompanied the face saint - before the emperor was in power, of course, he met Feng Bao or Zhang Juzheng. But now Guo Bao hasn't finished this trip at all, so if he doesn't return to Jinyiwei, it can be generally said, but he can't help but feel very uncomfortable in his heart. And Liu Baichuan, who came to tell him, was even more sneering, and only after a long time did he whisper: "I picked Guo Bao before, also because he has always been honest, but I didn't expect it to be so slippery this time......"

"Enough!" Liu Shouyou shouted impatiently to Liu Baichuan, and when he saw that people were immediately silent, he said lightly, "The music book was sent to the palace, and others don't know the content." And Yuan Fu summoned him, and it was not so easy to inquire about it for a while. When the recital is copied by the Six Branches, then everything will be clear. However, if things go well, Guo Bao will not be in such a hurry to rush back, there must be something wrong. ”

"Yes, yes, handsome and wise." Liu Baichuan hurriedly patted his ass, and then asked with a bit of temptation, "In case Guo Bao really made a big mistake, then he is ...... son."

"Idiot!" Liu Shouyou finally couldn't help but pat the handrail, "There was a mistake, the entire Jinyi Wei was disgraced, and you still have the heart to think about his position?" It's good to sit firmly in your position as the one in charge of a thousand households! ”

ps: First update (to be continued.) )