Wu Gonggong Wu Jingxian did not come back, the secret letter had already reached Jinling, and the Donglin Party leader in the capital was also not slow, but it was only one day later than the Dongchang line.

Zheng Sanjun, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Officials, was very anxious after reading the secret letter of Zhou Yanru, the first assistant, he never expected that the eunuchs and the nobles would unite and quietly exert their efforts to seek the position of the fourth commander of the Nanjing Five Military Governor's Mansion for the hateful wild Taoist Zhu Daolin, and the bewitched Emperor Chongzhen actually gave his permission, and directly ordered the reconstruction of Baoshan Port, which had been abandoned for many years, by the cabinet.

Although this sudden oracle was limited to the military affairs of the naval division, the ministers of the court and the central government faintly felt that things were not good, and the first assistant Zhou Yanru predicted in a secret letter:

This matter is likely to be related to the replacement of shipping by sea, and it is even possible that after the restoration of Baoshan Port, the emperor who is empty in the treasury and trapped by money will insist on going his own way, and strive to open the Baoshan City Shipping Division, which is definitely a disaster and chaos that the scholars and enlightened gentry in the southeast cannot tolerate with the responsibility of the world!

As for the reopening of the Nanjing Firearms Factory in the last stroke of Zhou Yanru's letter, Zheng Sanjun also disagreed, Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne for five years, repeatedly issued such edicts, but none of them could be done, and in the end they all ended up with an embarrassing ending of delaying up and down, passing the buck to each other, and finally not ending.

Therefore, the emperor personally issued an edict against common sense this time, appointing a wild Taoist priest as a four-grade military attache and in charge of the Nanjing Firearms Factory, Zheng Sanjun and Zhou Yanru were disdainful, and roughly estimated that it would cost at least 500,000 taels of silver to restore the Nanjing Firearms Factory, and the poor and crazy Emperor Chongzhen probably hoped to use a holy decree to urge the wild Taoist Zhu Daolin and the nobles of Jinling to take out real money and silver to invest in it, and make guns and cannons for the imperial court and send them to the capital, but how much is the possibility of realizing such an idea?

Taking a step back, even if the Nanjing Firearms Factory can really resume production, it will be for the Donglin Party and the powerful forces behind them. It's a trivial matter.

Zheng Sanjun even hoped that Zhu Daolin and Jinling nobles, who were disgusting but rich, would come up with a huge amount of money to restore the Nanjing Firearms Factory as soon as possible, only in this way could their strength be greatly consumed, and if they did not do well, the more they did, the more wrong they were, and naturally they would have more handles for impeachment.

Night. Zhai Fengchong, the squire of the Nanjing Military Department, and Yin Ye Chengzhang of Yingtianfu both rushed to Zheng Sanjun's mansion, and after reading the secret letter sent urgently from the capital by Lord Shoufu, and then listening to the analysis of Lord Shangshu Zheng Sanjun, they immediately realized the seriousness of the problem, and it was imperative that they should make every effort to stop the repair project of Baoshan Port, even if they could not defeat the army controlled by Jinling Xungui in the end, they would never allow the emperor to take this opportunity to replace Cao Yun with sea transportation, and completely break the emperor's delusion of opening Baoshan City, otherwise it would bring a fatal threat to the Donglin Party and the Southeast Family.

The far-sighted Zheng Sanjun asked, "Erten." You are in the military department, you should be familiar with the situation in the Wusongkou area, right? ”

The last time Zhai Fengchong went to Wusongkou to inspect was two years ago, and now the boss Zheng Sanjun asked, he naturally didn't dare to say that he didn't know what the current situation was if he hadn't been there for two years, but talked with a relaxed face:

"The officials in that area are quite familiar, the Baoshan Thousand Households are flat and open within a radius of three miles, and the rest are all swamps and quagmires, and the reeds can be seen as far as the eye can see. The grass is green, and the snakes and scorpions are infested. There is no population at all, and it is not until the northern suburbs of Shanghai County, more than 20 miles to the south, that there are contiguous lands and people who have been cultivated for many years! ”

"Secondly, the Thousand Households of the Naval Division Baoshan was abandoned ten years ago, and although the names of more than 1,000 officers and soldiers were still registered on the military register, the actual number of people was less than 300. At the same time, most of the wharves have collapsed after years of disrepair, and no ordnance has been replenished for several years, and large warships of more than 500 stone have rotted down, and small warships are even rarer, even if the Governor's Office of the Five Armies is determined to restore the system. It will take at least a year, if the pier is to be rebuilt...... Hey! ”

"In the past half month, the weather in Sichuan, Huguang and other places in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River has changed abruptly, the rain has continued, the river has gradually risen, and there are two months of flood season, and this wharf is probably not easy to repair!"

Zheng Sanjun and Ye Chengzhang were full of joy, and Ye Chengzhang said excitedly: "In this case, we still have enough time to stop this matter, as long as we work together and promote public opinion, we will definitely make all the opponent's conspiracies and tricks stillborn!" ”

Zheng Sanjun stroked the sparse beard on his chin, and suggested to Ye Chengzhang in a low voice: "Put pressure on the Shangyuan County Decree at both ends of the first rat, and order him to personally lead the county Yahu Fang Xu and the officials to Shangyuan Wharf before the holy decree is issued, strictly investigate the disobedience of the orders of Hushan Manor, and build houses on a large scale without permission, and in accordance with the relevant laws, recover the real estate tax, and re-measure the land, and report to the Ying Tianfu Ya within three days!" ”

Ye Chengzhang was taken aback, but Zheng Sanjun had already picked up the teacup and leisurely tasted tea, he could only suppress the worry in his heart, gritted his teeth and agreed happily: "The lower official obeys the order, and will give Shangyuan County an order early tomorrow morning!" ”

"Hugh should underestimate this matter, whether it is done or not, we can provoke the opponent, once the young wild Taoist priest repeats his old tricks, let those Xu officials and officials sent lie down, and then you quickly send a group of Xu officials to rush over, no need to reason with the other party, and do not conflict with the other party, just use the door panel to carry back the scenery of the 'injured Xu officials and officials'."

"In this way, we will have a reason to make it public, make a big accusation, and at the same time mobilize all our colleagues to play the court, and talk to him fiercely, and then I will see what our young emperor does!" Zheng Sanjun smiled happily.

Zhai Fengchong was immediately full of praise, and repeatedly stroked his palms and shouted Gao Ming.

Ye Chengzhang reacted, quickly stood up and gave Zheng Sanjun a deep salute: "The younger generation has been taught!" ”

Zheng Sanjun and others' calculations are interlocking and ingenious, but they all make a common mistake common to Donglin Party members, that is, they are high and superstitious about power, and naturally they also missed the most critical person, this person is Shen Weibing, the Shangyuan County Commander who is regarded by Zheng Sanjun as the two ends of the first rat.

Shen Weibing is a native of Xiaogan County, De'an Prefecture, Huguang, a Jinshi in the early years of the Apocalypse, and was selected as the Donglin Point General Record edited by Wei Zhongxian, Chongzhen in the second year He was already a promising military department, but he was caught by Wen Tiren's faction for accepting bribes and beaten violently, and finally demoted to Nanzhili to serve as the head of Shangyuan County, and was promoted to Shangyuan County last year under the promotion of Zhou Yanru, the leader of the Donglin Party.

Perhaps it was because he had experienced an unforgettable ups and downs, Shen Weibing, who knew the cruelty of officialdom, changed his sharp personality in the past and became cautious, and he keenly saw that his position was unstable, and the Donglin Party was attacked by various factions because of too many enemies, so although he still regarded himself as a Donglin Party member on the surface, he had secretly begun to leave a way out for himself.

What shocked him the most was that within half a year of being promoted to the county commander, he encountered Zhu Daolin, a killer star, and the angry scene of tens of thousands of people besieging Ying Tianfu, as well as the secret support of the nobles of Jinling, which completely frightened Shen Weibing.

When he sold a large amount of public land to Ziyangguan before, Shen Weibing accepted bribes from Xuanqing Daoist and set the land price very low.

If this is the case, it is still lucky that the black gauze hat of the Qipin County Order is gone, and if he is grabbed by his benefactor Donglin Party or the Ziyangguan United Lords, his life will be completely over. (To be continued......)