When he left the Heart Cultivation Palace, Xu Liang's heart was very angry. He finally understood why the two cabinet elders who did not have a good impression of him would let him go back to Shaanxi so easily. It turned out that they still had a backup move, and transferred the Tongzhou soldiers and horses to Jizhou, so that they had no one to use!

What a trick to draw salary!

Although in the end, Xu Liang said that he was good, and Emperor Chongzhen also felt that he would not send any troops to Xu Liang, which was somewhat unreasonable. In the end, Chongzhen agreed to draw 1,000 men and horses from the Tongzhou soldiers to return to Shaanxi with Xu Liang.

Walking out of the palace stupidly, Huang Daozhou was still waiting outside the noon gate, and when he saw Xu Liang coming out, Huang Daozhou greeted him.

Xu Liang had a dark face, and Huang Daozhou didn't dare to ask more when he saw that the situation was not good, and followed Xu Liang back to the Dongjiang Courtyard.

In the courtyard, a Liang military captain was waiting there anxiously, and when he saw Xu Liang coming back, the captain dared to step forward and respectfully present a letter, saying, "My lord, General Dai is anxious!" ”

Xu Liang was not surprised at all, took the letter, opened it and looked at it, and snorted angrily.

"My lord, what did General Dai say?" Huang Daozhou asked curiously, he really couldn't think of what Emperor Chongzhen said to Xu Liang to make Xu Liang so angry.

Xu Liang threw the letter to Huang Daozhou and said, "Look at it for yourself." ”

Huang Daozhou took it, looked at it carefully, and exclaimed, "What! General Dai wants to move to Jizhou! ”

Xu Liang sneered and pouted: "This is the plan of the two old horsemen in the cabinet to draw salaries!" They had long expected that when I returned to Shaanxi, they would definitely transfer the soldiers and horses of Tongzhou! ”

Huang Daozhou was anxious, "My lord, transfer the state soldiers back to Shaanxi." But what is the greatest reliance of adults! If the adults have no soldiers under them, won't they become the governor of the bare pole? ”

Xu Liang sneered. said: "He has a good plan, I have a bridge and ladder!" Wen Lao Pifu wants his official to have no soldiers available. He missed a link, and the emperor still allowed me a thousand people! After that, he said to Captain Liang: "You go to the study with me!" ”

The three of them entered the study, Xu Liang sat behind the desk, pondered for a while, then spread out the paper, took a pen and wrote a string of names, a full page of paper, dozens of names.

Zodiac Zhou was confused. When the captain saw the name above, most of them knew or heard of it, and what Xu Liang wrote turned out to be the sentry officer in the Liang army, and the list of generals at the level of general and battalion commander.

However, Captain Liang and Huang Daozhou didn't understand what Xu Liang was going to do, so they waited patiently.

Xu Liang put down his pen and reviewed the list again. Seeing that there was nothing missing, he took out the seal of Liang Junshuai from a treasure box in the study, pressed the ink on it, and printed the seal. Then he put it away in an envelope and handed it to Captain Liang, Zhengse said, "You take this letter back and hand it to General Dai." Let him send the person whose name was written on the letter, plus a thousand soldiers, back to Beijing! ”

The lieutenant nodded. solemnly put it away and saluted Xu Liangyi. And he went out.

Huang Daozhou suddenly realized, "Xia Guan understands, my lord wants to transfer some of the elite generals of the Liang Army back to Shaanxi!" ”

Xu Liang said: "Not bad. Wen Ge didn't want me to take the entire Liang army back to Shaanxi, so the official took a group of Liang army generals back to Shaanxi and formed a Liang army to come out! ”

Huang Daozhou stroked his palms and exclaimed: "My lord's clever plan! ”

Xu Liang nodded and said, "However, it will take a while for General Dai to transfer people back to Beijing, and in the next few days, we have to make some arrangements for what happens after I leave Beijing." ”

Huang Daozhou naturally also understood that Xu Liang was not a person, but represented a large number of civil and military generals, and in the Imperial Procuratorate alone, there were as many as seven officials secretly cultivated by Huang Daozhou, and in Guanglu Temple, there were also three or four newly promoted officials after Xu Liang took office. In terms of the army, there are 50,000 soldiers and horses in the general barracks of Tongzhou, and those are all Xu Liang's descendants, from the army commander to the general, they are all Xu Liang's people.

If Xu Liang leaves the capital, how to ensure the interests and safety of these people is the first issue to be considered.

Xu Liang and Huang Daozhou closed the door of the study, and after discussing carefully in the house, in the next few days, Xu Liang frequently set up banquets, banquets for Chengguo Duke Zhu Chunchen, Li Tengfang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Wang Yongguang, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, Fu Yu, the secretary of the Ministry of Langzhong, Wang Xian of the Ministry of Officials, Yu Dacheng of the Ministry of War, and other ministers of the court.

The position of Guanglu Temple Secretary was also determined a few days later, and Shen Congliang, the former Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple, took over. Xu Liang was originally going to leave Jingshi, and instead of letting others get involved in Guanglu Temple, it was better to cheapen Shen Congliang and sell him his personal favor.

When the things that should be dealt with were almost dealt with, Xu Liang entered the palace again, and after bidding farewell to the emperor, he remembered that there was still one thing to be done, so he walked to the gate of Ciqing Palace.

Today's Ciqing Palace has long been much more lively than before, although the guards at the gate have been withdrawn, but there are still two eunuchs waiting at the palace gate.

After Xu Liang asked a eunuch to enter the palace to report, not long after, Ruyun, the chief palace maid in Ciqing Palace, walked out, bowed slightly to Xu Liang, and said, "Lord Xu, Niangniang is invited." ”

This is the fourth time I have seen Empress Yi'an Zhang Yan.

Zhang Yan should have dressed up today, wearing a well-fitting lake green gauze skirt, with light makeup on her face, sitting on top of the brocade, with a faint flush on her face.

Xu Liang's gaze stayed on Zhang Yan's face for a while, then he looked away, and said in a proper manner: "Xu Liang, the left deputy capital of the lower official, has seen Yi'an Niangniang, Niangniang Wanfu Jin'an." ”

Zhang Yan nodded slightly, pointed to the Jindun in the hall, and said, "Lord Xu, please take a seat." ”

"Xie Niangniang." After Xu Liang thanked him, he sat upright on the brocade pier. Then his eyes wandered around the palace.

Zhang Yan glanced at Xu Liang a few times, and when she saw that Xu Liang sat down, she just looked around, but she didn't speak, she couldn't help but feel angry in her heart, coughed lightly, and said, "Why, Lord Xu came here today, just to see the costumes in this palace?" ”

"Oh, of course not!" Xu Liang hurriedly shook his head and said, met Zhang Yan's gaze, and chuckled, "It's just that when I entered Ciqing Palace again this time, I felt that the palace was very different from usual, so I couldn't help but take a few more looks." ”

Zhang Yan raised her eyebrows, and said in a light tone: "As soon as Lord Xu entered Ciqing Palace, he was busy looking around, didn't he feel that the people in this palace were old and yellow, and he couldn't afford to enter the eyes of Lord Xu!" Is it to look at it or not to look at the main palace? ”

Zhang Yan's tone was light. But the meaning of the words really scared Xu Liang.

Xu Liang had seen the interests of the Empress Yi'an in front of him, and his face was immediately filled with sincere smiles. shook her head again and again, and said, "Niang Niang has wronged the official." Today's mother is glamorous. People are more delicate than flowers! It's not that the lower officials don't dare to look at the mother, but ......"

"And what?" Zhang Yan glanced at Xu Liang and asked with a little disgust.

Xu Liang gritted his teeth and said the words that had been around his lips several times.

"It's that the mother is too beautiful, and the lower officials are worried that if they see too much, they will lose their manners!"

Zhang Yan was stunned when she heard this, and then she felt that her face was hot, and she changed her sitting posture, and her heart was full of joy. I forgot to answer for a while.

The hall fell silent.

Seeing her master's resentful and happy mold, the palace maid sighed secretly, coughed lightly, and woke up Zhang Yan.

"Ah, Xu, Lord Xu is here, but is there something?" Zhang Yan asked stumblingly, combing the hair on her forehead with one hand, and stroked her face by the way. Secretly say to yourself, what's wrong?!

Xu Liang also had a sudden look, and when he heard this, he hurriedly got up, took out an extremely square silk handkerchief from his arms, and held it up towards Zhang Yan. said: "The last time the lower official borrowed the silk handkerchief of Niangniang, cough cough, it should also be returned." ”

Zhang Yan saw that the silk handkerchief Xu Liang was holding in his hand was square. remembered that Xu Liang took it out of his arms, and he didn't know how long it had been stuffed in his arms along the way! Own silk handkerchief. But it was stored in the arms of the young man in front of him for many days! When Zhang Yan thought of this, she couldn't help but burn her face.

The palace maid saw this. Hurriedly stepped forward to take the silk handkerchief and handed it to Zhang Yan. After Zhang Yan took it, she felt a warm tentacle in the silk handkerchief, and she couldn't help but feel strange.

"That ......" Xu Liang embarrassedly took out a small wooden box from his arms, held it in his hand, and said: "Niangniang also knows that the next official will leave Beijing in a few days and take up a post in Shaanxi. cough cough, I was previously protected by my mother, so that the lower officials were protected from being framed by traitors. Niangniang's kindness to the lower officials, the lower officials have nothing to repay, this is the night pearl of the South China Sea brought by the lower officials from Jiangnan, and she also asked the mother to accept it. ”

The palace maid took the wooden box like a cloud, opened it in front of Zhang Yan, and suddenly a soft white light emanated from the box, and in the wooden box, a white bead about the size of an egg was quietly placed.

"This, this is for me?" Zhang Yan asked happily, and under the joy, she even forgot the self-title of the main palace.

"A small gift is not a tribute." Xu Liang chuckled.

"That'...... How is it good? This gift is too valuable! Zhang Yan pushed it, looked at the night pearl, and couldn't put it down more and more.

Xu Liang looked at Zhang Yan's expression in his eyes, and secretly said that this gift seemed to be the right one. Then he said: "Niangniang's kindness to the lower officials is as heavy as a mountain, how can a small night pearl be worthy of Niangniang's protection." ”

Zhang Yan was entangled for a while.

Ruyun, the palace maid on the side, also liked this gift very much, so she chuckled and said: "Niangniang, since this is a piece of Lord Xu's heart, if Niangniang insists on not accepting it, Lord Xu will not be happy." ”

Xu Liang was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "Miss Ruyun is very right, the lower official is determined to give it to Niangniang, how can she take it back." ”

When Zhang Yan heard this, she twisted for a moment, then smiled and said, "Since this is the case, then I will accept it." ”

"As it should be!" Xu Liang said.

After Xu Liang left, Zhang Yan carefully took out the night pearl, held it in the palm of her hand and looked at it carefully, the more she looked at it, the more satisfied she became, and she played with the palace maid Ruyun for a long time.

A few days later, Luo Baiguan returned to Beijing from outside the city and reported to Xu Liang that 1,000 Liang soldiers had been stationed outside the Yongding Gate of the Beijing Division and could be drawn at any time.

Xu Liang asked, "Is the military salary, grain and grass for the accompanying sergeant ready?" ”

Luo Baiguan listened, but he showed anger, and said hatefully: "My lord, don't mention it!" After the subordinates let a thousand sergeants be stationed outside the Yongding Gate, they took people to the household department to ask for food, but the people from the household department said that they had not received a notice and asked us to go to the military department, and the subordinates went to the military department again. ”

"Nonsense!" Xu Liang said angrily: "A thousand troops, that is the emperor's special order!" ”

Luo Baiguan said: "That's what my subordinates told Liang Shangshu about. However, Liang Shangshu stretched out his hand to his subordinates to ask for the emperor's holy decree! This...... How can this subordinate! His subordinates argued with him, and Liang Shangshu sent his subordinates with one sentence over and over again: If you don't see the holy decree, you won't allocate food and salary! ”

Xu Liang was angry for a while, and sent a thousand troops from Dai Feng's hand to go to Shaanxi with him, which was verbally promised by Emperor Chongzhen, and it did not fall on paper, where did the holy decree come from? !

However, this kind of thing cannot be faked, and I believe that the adults of the military department and the household department should also know about it, but now these two yamen are talking about this and obstructing it, if no one instructs it, Xu Liang will not believe it.

Cabinet! It must be those two wretched people in the cabinet! Only the cabinet has the ability to influence the household department and the military department!

Xu Liang was so angry that the roots of his teeth itched!

Stamping his feet indignantly, Xu Liang waved his hand at Luo Baiguan and said, "Okay, don't count on the military department, you go to Yan Qi and let him try to raise food for us on the road." ”

Luo Baiguan heard this, and went to find Yan Qi with hatred.

Xu Liang called Tietou to him and said viciously: "Old Man Wen is too much, if you don't give him some color, he won't know that Lord Ma has three eyes!" How's it going to get you done? ”

The iron head knew what was going on, so he said with great relief: "Young master, everything is done, when to do it, I will give you orders." ”

Xu Liang narrowed his eyes, smiled coldly, and said: "The day after tomorrow is the day when we set off, the day after tomorrow, if you come out of the old man's house on the hour, you should give us a strong trip!" ”

"Yes!" The iron head rubbed his hands and responded heavily.

On November 24 of the third year of Chongzhen, Xu Liang, the governor of Shaanxi, left the Dongjiang Courtyard early in the morning, preparing to go out of the city and go to Shaanxi to take office.

Under the Zhengyang Gate, Li Tengfang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Huang Daozhou, the imperial history of the Imperial Palace, Yu Dacheng, the squire of the Ministry of War, Fu Yu, the secretary of the Taichang Temple, and other officials of the DPRK and China who had a good relationship with Xu Liang stood there, ready to say goodbye to Xu Liang.

Xu Liang's carriage was guarded by nearly sixty Tsing Yi guards, and when he saw the officials in front, Xu Liang got down from the carriage and said to Feng Suqin, Rou'er, Yan Qi and others who saw him off: "Okay, you can send it here." He looked at Feng Suqin again and said, "Suqin, you stay in Beijing, be careful in everything, if there is an emergency, don't hesitate to leave Beijing immediately according to the set route." ”

Feng Suqin nodded solemnly and said, "I know, take care." He also instructed Lou Xian'er, who was accompanying him, "Xianggong will hand it over to your sister to take care of." ”

Lou Xian'er chuckled, "Don't worry, sister." ”

Xu Liang nodded at Yan Qi and the others, and then walked towards the officials under the Zhengyang Gate.

Coming to the front of the officials, Xu Liang arched his hand, and was about to say hello, when he suddenly looked at him, and then showed a meaningful smile on his face, and sneered: "Xu Mou's departure from Beijing actually alarmed the dignified cabinet scholars, Xu Mou is really flattered!" ”

The officials followed Xu Liang's gaze, and saw the cabinet minister Wen Tiren get down from the carriage on the side of the road and walk in front of Xu Liang step by step, Wen Tiren stared at Xu Liang with gloomy eyes, and smiled meaningfully: "The old man was worried that Lord Xu would never come back after leaving Beijing, so he came to see Lord Xu for the last time!" (To be continued.) )