Chapter 173: The Jingshi Comes to Envoy

Peng Chaodong was a little uncomfortable with the imperial court's practice of sending Jinyi Wei and the Detective Factory to verify military merits at the same time.

In the end, the military exploits that the soldiers exchanged for their lives and blood had to be confirmed and verified. This practice is chilling to the soldiers.

Of course, the imperial court also knows this, and every time it sends Jinyi Wei and the Investigation Factory to verify military merits, it is not called verifying military merits. Instead, it is called the "Reward Army", and it is said to be the "Reward Army", this time Jinyiwei and the Detective Factory only brought an edict from Song Yuren to encourage the three armies to be brilliant and brilliant, and did not bring anything other substantive to reward the army.

On the contrary, the soldiers also had to show their gratitude to the soldiers who came all the way from Beijing and worked tirelessly to send a batch of blockades to the Jinyi Wei Investigation Factory. It's also an unwritten rule.

The news that the detective factory was going to Tangchi Fort to "reward the army" reached Tangchi Fort. Although Wu Tingzhen has never met Huang Zheng, he still has heard of Huang Zheng's character.

Huang Zheng's character is so bad that even Wu Tingzhen, who is far away in Liaodong, has heard a lot of Huang Zheng's glorious deeds.

Wu Tingzhen has also been in the sea for decades, and the rules in officialdom are very clear. Ah Blockage is indispensable, and it is not a big problem for him to take out some silver money to bribe the envoy from Jingshi in the past.

It's just that now the Wu clan is in decline, and tens of thousands of people in the whole clan are hungry, and even he, the head of the family, is not much more nourishing than the common people. Where to get the money to bribe Huang Zheng? Huang Zheng is a person from the palace, and his appetite is naturally only big.

Wu Tingzhen was worried, worried that the verification of military merits would make this great victory yellow, and the survival of the Wu clan in the next half a year was counting on the reward of this great victory. If this thing is yellow, the whole clan will have to gnaw on the bark and grass roots for half a year after tens of thousands of people up and down.

"The whole clan can still draw out a few thousand taels of silver, Huang Zheng should barely be able to deal with it." Wu Zhenfei said with some uncertainty.

The money of the Wu family is under the control of Wu Zhenfei, Wu Zhenfei is the housekeeper of the Wu family, and Wu Zhenfei is very easy to be the housekeeper this year, because the Wu family has no property to manage this year.

"Huang Zheng's appetite, just a few thousand taels of silver want to fill it?" Wu Zhenwu sneered, "After Huang Zheng comes, Luo Tianming will come again, what will the Wu family do to fill the desire of these two people?" The emperor's move is really chilling. ”

Wu Tingzhen had already heard of the degree of bribery solicited by the great eunuch. A few thousand taels of silver, these big eunuchs didn't look at it at all. The bribes to the great eunuchs were often in the tens of thousands of taels. Wang Zhen, the former chief eunuch of the court, asked for bribes, and used the same unit of measurement as rice. Gold is called yellow rice, and silver is called white rice. You can see how greedy it is

When Song Yuren succeeded to the throne and raided Wang Zhen, he was shocked when he saw the amount of yellow rice and white rice recorded on Wang Zhen's account, and asked Zhao Ze: What does Wang Zhen want so much rice for, and finish eating? Zhao Ze replied to Song Yuren very embarrassed, these are not real rice, yellow rice alludes to gold, and white rice alludes to silver. Song Yuren suddenly realized, and as a result, Wang Zhen's family confiscated that the family property was actually more than twice the amount of silver deposited in the household. The whole country was shocked, and the rich rivaled the country, and that was it.

Regardless of whether the Wu clan welcomed Huang Zheng's arrival or not, Huang Zheng still came to Tangchi Fort to "sacrifice the army" in fresh clothes.

The fresh clothes and angry horses of Huang Zheng and his party are in stark contrast to the ragged and thin images of the Wu people in Tangchibao.

The scene of Tangchi Fort disappointed Huang Zheng. The scene here is no different from the camp camp you see on the road.

Huang Zheng's reputation is very bad, and Wu Tingzhen also dislikes Huang Zheng's personality, but Wu Tingzhen does not dare to snub Huang Zheng. Ten miles out of the fort to welcome Huang Zheng into the fort.

The living conditions of the Wu people were very poor, and Huang Zheng, who was close to Tangchi Fort, covered his nose unabashedly, with a look of disgust, and he was even wondering: How could such an army fight a great victory with a beheading of nearly 50,000 people?

Seeing Huang Zheng's appearance, Wu Zhenwu held back the anger in his heart and did not step forward to beat Huang Zheng down.

"Uncle Wu Yi, how do you say that you are also the lord of our Da Zhao, how did you live such a shabby life, let outsiders see it, and it will not fall into the face of our Da Zhao." Huang Zheng frowned, and said in a narrow voice characteristic of eunuchs.

Face? couldn't be happy anymore, Wu Tingzhen just laughed, and if he didn't reply to Huang Zheng directly, he didn't know how to reply to Huang Zheng.

Huang Zheng hated this and that along the way, and even his entourage pointed at Tangchibao and pointed at the skinny Wu people on the side of the road, without any scruples. The accompanying Wu people have black faces one by one, this Huang Zheng is bullying people, who hasn't been in trouble?

Finally, after pointing along the way, he came to Wu Yibo's Mansion, and the shabby Wuyibo Mansion surprised Huang Zheng even more.

The banquet for Huang Zheng to take over the dust was held in Wu Yibo's mansion, and Wu Tingzhen had no way to hold the banquet extravagantly due to his current financial resources. However, the fish, meat and wine are all available, and these foods are what the Wu people have dreamed of eating in the past year.

Huang Zheng is actually a character who is so red and purple that hundreds of officials are vying to please him. Such a banquet for washing the dust was really shabby for Huang Zheng, and Huang Zheng was very dissatisfied with it.

"Wu Yibo, your quality is not much lower than that of Governor Peng, but your reception banquet is much worse than Governor Peng's." Huang Zheng swept the food on the banquet table, couldn't raise any appetite at all, didn't move his chopsticks, and said to Wu Tingzhen quietly.

"Governor Peng, the first governor, is a popular person around the emperor like Gonggong Huang, Tingzhen is just a small earl in the border area, and he is a vulgar person, how dare he compare with the Governor, Gonggong smiled." Wu Tingzhen said with a smile, although there were thousands of grass (mud) horses galloping in Wu Tingzhen's heart at this moment, he still squeezed out a smile.

Wu Tingzhen laughed vigorously, Wu Zhenwu couldn't stand it.

"I think this reception banquet is very good, there is wine and meat, and what Governor Peng prepared for his father-in-law is nothing more than wine and meat." After that, Wu Zhenwu ignored Huang Zheng, directly grabbed a piece of sauce meat, and ate it by himself.

Wu Zhenwu's move made Huang Zheng very unhappy, this reception banquet was for Huang Zheng to pick up the dust, Huang Zheng hadn't moved the chopsticks yet, Wu Zhenwu ate it first.

Seeing this, Wu Tingzhen reprimanded Wu Zhenwu sharply, and continued to smile at Huang Zheng: "Vulgar martial artist, I don't know how to count etiquette, and if the number of etiquette is not thoughtful, I still look at the palace Haihan." ”

Wu Zhenfei touched Wu Zhenwu's arm, motioned for Wu Zhenwu to stop, and squeezed a glance at Wu Zhenwu: "Don't make amends to Gonggong Huang yet!" ”

"Gonggong Huang, Zhenwu is rude." Wu Zhenwu raised his head, his mouth was stuffed with sauce meat, stood up, and brought the sauce meat in his hand to Huang Zheng, "Huang Gonggong, the sauce meat tastes good, Huang Gonggong can't eat such a rough thing in Beijing, Huang Gonggong also tastes this sauce meat?" ”

"Hmph." Huang Zheng got up angrily and shook off Wu Zhenwu with one hand to get the meat in front of him, and said with a gloomy face, "Uncle Wu Yi, according to our family, don't eat this meal, just go and see your head!" (To be continued.) )