Feng Hou worshiped the general, once became a close minister of the Son of Heaven, Wang Lanping is now more beautiful and beautiful, not only added officials, the emperor also gave a new house, three in and three out, although not as magnificent as the Du family compound in Huaining City, but the four big characters on the plaque in front of the gate 'Dingnan Hou Mansion' are much more noble than Du Mansion.

In addition to these, the emperor also rewarded Wang Lanping with 50,000 taels of silver as a reward for the three armies, and gave ten miscellaneous servants and ten palace maids, although these palace maids were all picked by Zhu Yousong, but all of them also had a bit of beauty, at least more pleasing to the eye than Song Dali, Zheng Sen and other rough men, and added a bit of feminine femininity to the Hou Ye's mansion.

Whenever Wang Lanping comes back from a drunken outside, there can also be a woman on the side to ask for warmth, wide clothes and quilts, what to pinch a shoulder and beat the back is much more concerned than a man, oops, this day is so comfortable, so comfortable that Wang Lanping is a little fluttery.

It's just that Wang Lanping doesn't understand more and more, which piece of pie fell from which cloud this is, and why did the emperor do this? It seems that I haven't seen what the emperor wants to do by himself in the past few days, it's easy to take over the Praetorian Guard, but it's not so simple to clean up people's hearts, what does the emperor want to do, forget it, or according to his own plan, Chongzhen said: The Manchu Dynasty civil and military can be killed.

The Nanjing garrison camp is Wang Lanping's current yamen, but this place has been abandoned since the Ming Dynasty moved north, and it has not been used seriously for two hundred years.

When Ming Taizu called the emperor in Nanjing, not only built this unprecedented Nanjing garrison camp in Nanjing City, but also set aside two streets outside the garrison camp as a military camp for the garrison in the city, the location was at the gate of the garrison camp, at the beginning it was considered a quasi-military management, and then with the passage of time, it slowly became a commercial street headed by professional soldiers, the sergeants of the garrison camp did business here, opened business, prosperous for a while, Chengzu moved north, the Son of Heaven guarded the border, Nanjing's city defense was not so important, and the garrison of the Praetorian Guards went north one after another, The VIA garrison camp and the shopping street built by the military also declined, and for two hundred years, only a few dozen hereditary veteran soldiers remained, doing some cleaning and maintenance.

When Emperor Hongguang officially proclaimed himself emperor in Nanjing, the garrison camp was reactivated, but it was just a garrison, and the original commercial street had long been dilapidated, barely able to live in.

At the beginning, the responsibilities of the Nanjing garrison camp were roughly equivalent to the Jiumen Admiral's Mansion in the later Qing Dynasty, which was only used to guard the city defense, and had no power to control the garrison outside the city.

According to today's words, Wang Lanping's identity is roughly equivalent to the position of commander of the Beijing garrison and commander of the Nanjing Military Region, and his power is not insignificant.

But in fact, he doesn't have this power, Wang Lanping since he took over the power of the Praetorian Guard, and he also knows that this person is too jealous, and buying people's hearts is the most important thing now, the Nanjing City garrison camp and stationed outside the city have a total of fifteen battalions, with a total of more than 60,000 troops, and most of the fifteen generals who lead the army are from hereditary honors, and the family exploits of these people can almost all be traced back to the era of Taizu and Chengzu, and their qualifications are not the same as Wang Lanping, and some of them are like Zheng Hongkui, who holds the strength of the Daming Water Division, No matter what kind of person they are, Wang Lanping is not a single one in front of them.

Therefore, after Wang Lanping was well aware of his shortcomings, he adjusted his mentality, and in the first day after taking office, he did not talk about military affairs, second, did not put on a show, and third, did not get involved in the commanding power of these generals.

For a few days, Wang Lanping with these generals frequently appeared in various prosperous areas of Nanjing, is to eat, drink and have fun, Nanjing is the most famous is the fireworks willow lane on the bank of the Qinhuai River, here Wang Lanping is a lot of sprinkled silver, all sent to people, get the empty Wang Lanping also personally went into battle, gambling money, not only gambling, but also big losses, anyway, he has not won.

In just a few days, Wang Lanping has already emptied all the 10,000 taels of taels he brought from Huaining plus the 50,000 taels of silver rewarded by the emperor, and the money is not his own anyway.

In this way, Wang Lanping quickly dissolved into these people, who doesn't like such a chief, as long as you don't count my command power, everything else is easy to discuss, as for this fictitious position set up by Emperor Hongguang, no one among these people takes him seriously, only a name.

In addition to eating, drinking, and having fun with the generals, Wang Lanping also reorganized the thousands of people he brought from Huaining, and arranged about 200 veterans of the Fengzi Battalion by his side, as personal guards, and the Muzi Battalion and the rest of the people were stationed on the military street outside the garrison camp, at least the current garrison camp was completely controlled by Wang Lanping from the inside out.

Not only to contact the generals, but also to clean up the Dingnan Hou Mansion is also an endless stream of officials, hundreds of people before and after, some are here to pat the ass, some are to explore the truth, anyway, no matter who it is, Wang Lanping is enthusiastic one by one, and he is polite and polite, but one of these people who came is a big and small official who escaped from Beijing with no power or power, these people used to be beautiful, and now they are bullied by dogs in Pingyang, and Wang Zhuangyuan is also half of the characters who came out of Beijing City, and they move around each other more, It also allows for a good future in the future.

On this day, Wang Lanping, who had just sent off a group of idle officials who had come to pull relations, called Zheng Sen and Song Qianhu to the back garden of the mansion, found a stone table, and the three of them sat around the table.

Zheng Sen and Song Qianhu are also happy like fairies these days, they really feel a little happy, how comfortable these days are, drinking small wine, drinking small tea, hugging the little palace maid, humming a small song, receiving a small gift, and beating him and his mother.

Not only the two thousand households, but even many small soldiers are immersed in the prosperity of Nanjing City and can't extricate themselves, Wang Lanping is afraid of this, good scars forget the pain, the world is still chaotic, a good life is to exchange for life, Nanjing City can be peaceful for a few days, and when the Qing army cleans up Li Zicheng, the next one is Daming.

Wang Lanping also took the time to run a few Praetorian Guard barracks in the past two days, and he was startled when he didn't look at it, and gambling became a trend, and some petty officers openly brought prostitutes and women in the city into the barracks to stay overnight, and all kinds of armaments were not in order, if it weren't for the sergeants who came in and out of the barracks, who would have thought that this would be a military camp used to guard Nanjing, it was simply a group of rabble, and these soldiers could still fight.

Wang Lanping poured a cup of tea for each of the two of them, and said, "Two thousand households, our Hou Ye's Mansion is still a good place."

Zheng Sen smiled, "Very good, very good, it really feels like a different world, I was still working the battlefield in Huaining a few days ago."

"Isn't it" Song Dali laughed, "Master Hou, you really came to Jinling this time, the brothers also followed the light, look at this tea, what is it called, I heard that it costs more than ten taels of silver a catty, hey, we are rough people, hehe, it tastes far worse than wine."

Wang Lanping also smiled, "Yes, it is rare for generals to have such a comfortable day, but yes, I'm afraid that this good time will not last long."

Zheng Sen nodded and said, "The emperor is so generous, he is an official and a knight, and he is a palace maid, I still haven't figured out what the emperor wants to do."

Song Dali hurriedly instructed, "Who said it wasn't, Master Hou, you were still a general soldier a few days ago, and your soldiers were less than 1,000, and in a blink of an eye, you have 60,000 soldiers, and you still have the emperor's food, and I am also thinking about it every day."

It seems that these two people have not been completely corroded by sugar-coated shells, Wang Lanping clapped his hands and laughed, "Well, even if you can still think about something, is the emperor's reward so easy to give in the world, tell you, you go back and tell your respective subordinates, the more you can't relax at this time, the emperor is using us as a shield, you are all smart, don't forget why we came to Nanjing"

The two thousand households sat up straight and said in unison, "Shield? Whose arrows are in the way? Could it be that someone wants to harm the emperor? ”

Wang Lanping suppressed his voice and said, "Don't worry about this, I have my own way to maneuver, tomorrow, I will enter the palace and let the emperor promote the two of you, don't look at these officials these days, one by one, they can't count on me, and they have to rely on you, my brother and the thousand people we brought."

Zheng Sen said, "What does the general want?" ”

Wang Lanping raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "Originally, I thought that this time I would come to Nanjing to mix some silver at most, but I didn't expect to give me such a big hat, but it saved me a lot of trouble, come, listen to me, tomorrow I will promote Zheng Sen to the emperor as the deputy commander-in-chief of Huai'an, and Song Qianhu will be the commander of the 3,000 battalions of the Praetorian Guard."

The two looked at each other and smiled, yo drink, this official was promoted too quickly, especially the 3,000 battalions of the Praetorian Guard, this is a division of tigers and wolves, established in the era of Ming Taizu, mainly composed of the soldiers of Meng Yuan at that time, all the cavalry, the battalion system has been passed down from generation to generation, all of them are elites drawn from the guards, and the number has been kept at 3,000 until now, so the name is 3,000 battalions, and it is also the most effective escort in all the Praetorian Guards.

Zheng Sen was a little worried, "What if Ma Shoufu doesn't agree?" Moreover, Liu Zeqing, the deputy chief soldier of Huai'an, also disagrees with Hou Ye, if I go, will he be able to tolerate me? ”

Wang Lanping laughed, "Don't worry, you don't need to let Ma Shoufu know about the transfer to Huai'an, the order will go directly from the military department, I think Shi Kefa and Ma Shoufu are not all the way, this matter will help me hide it, when you take office in Huai'an, even if Ma Shoufu knows, it is already a boat, remember, don't argue with Liu Zeqing after you take office, pretend to be a grandson?" ”

Zheng Sen was a little embarrassed and laughed dryly.

Wang Lan said with a straight face, "What to laugh at, just pretend to be a grandson, if you don't know how to pretend, you have to pretend to me, success or failure depends on how you pretend to be, and you have to scold me, scold me as if you died, let him think that you have a dispute with me, how to make him believe, you can figure it out yourself"

Song Dali laughed when he heard the words on the side.

Wang Lanping glared, "What are you laughing at, and you, you also remember it for me, tomorrow I will transfer the commander of the 3,000 battalion to the garrison battalion, and nominally let him be the commander of the Nanjing garrison battalion, after you take over, you still say the same sentence, try every means to win the hearts of the people, and I don't care about the abduction and deception, I only need the 3,000 hearts of the 3,000 battalion, and if I can't do it now, I will say to me, I will change people."

Seeing that Wang Lanping was talking solemnly, the two did not dare to be ambiguous, and nodded solemnly.

Song Dali said, "But the commander of these 3,000 battalions has been in charge of the army for many years, and his power is also deeply rooted in the battalion, will he surrender the military power lightly?" ”

Wang Lanping took a sip of tea, pouted and said, "You think my silver has been spilled in vain these days, I have already seen it, these people are not a heart at all, everyone just wants to keep their own strength, take my silver, at least let them not be disgusted with me, let's take these three thousand battalions first, and try the reaction of other people, as long as no one objects, then the rest will be broken one by one"

Song Dali nodded with palpitations, there is nothing to be afraid of on the battlefield, there is nothing to be afraid of, it is a big deal, playing with power, there are many enemies in the shadows, and it is impossible to prevent it.

Zheng Sen didn't understand why he was transferred to Liu Zeqing's military camp, so he asked, "Master Hou, what do you want to do, I'm not sure."

Wang Lanping snorted and laughed, "Kill people, kill Liu Zeqing, a few of our brothers are bleeding desperately in Huaining City, he didn't say hello and threw us away, and ran away, and he also got a Dongping Bo, and the emperor also rewarded him with 50,000 taels of silver, let me make a wedding dress for others, I can't swallow this breath"

Zheng Sen nodded, and slammed his fist on the table, "Okay, one less general for this escape, the more safe it is."

The three of them had already decided, and when they were done, Wang Lanping instructed Song Qianhu to arrange a few trustworthy people to go to the military department to spend some money and inquire where Liu Zeqing's family lived.

Early the next morning, as soon as Wang Lanping packed up his lisuo and wanted to enter the palace to face the saint, he heard Zheng Sen come to report that there was a eunuch in the palace to deliver the decree, and that it was said that Wang Lanping immediately entered the palace to discuss the government.