Chapter 199: The Department of Public Security is useful
Wang Tong swaggered and camped on the official road, and the next morning, the letter asking for help was sent to Xianghe County, and the identity of Jinyi Wei Qianhu was far higher than the county order.
After receiving the letter, the Xianghe County Commander almost fell off the chair, and immediately mobilized the only three hundred soldiers in the county and twice as many people to come to the rescue, there were six carts of grain and vegetables alone, not to mention wine and meat, the county magistrate and the county Cheng all followed the past, and offered Wang Tong and his party as ancestors.
After seeing so many people coming, Wang Tong breathed a sigh of relief, no matter what, such a diligent and careful rescue shows that this Xianghe County should not be involved in it.
With the help of the people of Xianghe County, Wang Tong's convoy began to move forward again, but after reaching the village in front, it stopped and waited for reinforcements behind him.
The villagers were still terrified when they saw the large group of people in the village where the "Megatron Tigers" had been stationed, and according to them, a masked team had stormed the village three days earlier.
He didn't rob food or money, nor did he touch women, but he drove people into the courtyard at the end of the village, and he didn't leave until yesterday afternoon.
Wang Tong, Tan Jiang and others looked at the situation in the village, there were indeed traces of a large number of people stationed, but they were also very clean, and looking at the layout of various places at the entrance of the village, they were even more sure that this was the judgment of the officials and soldiers.
It's very simple to find out who did it, I went to Tianjin Sanwei, and went to the various battalion heads of the official documents to check, and the generals who died recently and lost men and horses, that must be right.
It's not too late to cook slowly, and all we have to do now is to rest well in this village, recuperate, and wait for the arrival of rescue soldiers.
There was not too long to wait, on the twentieth day of the lunar month, on the second night of the battle, hundreds of cavalry led by Deng Pu, the commander of the left guard battalion of Longxiang, converged with Wang Tong, and the panicked Xianghe County laboriously organized a large number of military supplies, so that these Beijing forbidden troops recuperated overnight, and only went on the road the next morning.
The hundreds of cavalry fully armed by Long Xiang's left guard can only be dealt with unless more than 3,000 foot soldiers or more than 1,000 cavalry are mobilized in Beizhili, but such a big transfer will definitely alarm the governor and the local military generals, how can the Ming officers and soldiers make a move against the forbidden army.
Therefore, today's Wang Tong and his entourage are foolproof.
*******“…… Wang Tong shouted in his mouth, "Master Zhang is dead" and "return to the camp", those masked thieves were immediately panicked, they thought that their deeds were exposed, according to the pre-orders, regardless of men, women and children in the convoy were shouting in unison, such a shout, the thieves became more and more panicked, plus Wang Tong killed the two big leaders with a firearm, the morale of the thieves was extremely low, and Wang Tong charged bravely, the thieves could no longer support ......"
Zhang Cheng looked at the newspaper in his hand, and preached in a colorful voice, thinking that Wang Tong was really novel, and it is said that he specially asked the master of Xianghe County to write this thing.
It's very simple, it's all written in the vernacular, as if it's a commentary in the teahouse, saying that it is playing the Ming Shengshang, but in fact, it is for Zhang Cheng to tell the emperor.
Of course, the Wanli Emperor knows the words, but Zhang Cheng is also quite interesting to read it like this, the Wanli Emperor listened attentively, and leaned forward when he went to the tense and moving place, and when he reached the wonderful place, he also patted the table with his hand and applauded.
After Zhang Cheng finished reading, he looked at the little emperor's unfinished appearance, and couldn't help but smile and said:
"Long live the Lord relax, when this battle report was sent, Wang Tong was only a day and a half away from Tianjin Sanwei, and he might have settled down now!"
Wanli didn't answer this, but said excitedly:
"If I am in this team, I will definitely take the lead, fight fiercely with those guts thieves, and when the time comes, I will kill some heads, and go to the local government to receive rewards and repay my merits.
The little emperor said excitedly, completely substituting himself into it, thinking about himself and his companions in the martial arts hall traveling far away on the official road, cooking by himself, and meeting the enemy and the enemy working together, Emperor Wanli was very excited, Zhang Cheng smiled there, but he said two sentences in his heart, if the Lord of Long Live followed him, he must not send a large army to accompany him, not to say that it is a thief, and even a pedestrian on the road cannot be seen.
On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, a ceremony of worship was held in the palace, and when it was close to dinner, Zhang Cheng recited the newspaper sent by Wang Tong to the Wanli Emperor.
It was already dark, and according to the rules of the palace, the little emperor of Wanli was going to dine with the Empress Dowager Cisheng, the Empress Dowager Rensheng, and King Lu tonight.
But after Wang Tong left, Emperor Wanli was not so interested in going to dinner with the Queen Mother and King Lu.
After being excited for a while, Emperor Wanli patted the book case and asked in a deep voice:
"At today's court meeting, whether it is to ask Feng Daban or Mr. Zhang, Dongchang and Jinyiwei have not found any news, how about Zhang Banban's side?"
Zhang Cheng hurriedly bowed down and replied:
"Long live the forgiveness of the sins, the security shelf on the slave maid's side has just been erected, and it is inevitably slower, the slave and maid estimate that they are touching, whether they hear it or not, the news will be there tomorrow."
The situation of the Public Security Division is that Emperor Wanli has always been concerned about participation, and now there is a shortage of manpower, the various yamen are not very cooperative, and the distribution is incomplete, etc., and he also understands the situation, and when he heard this, he shook his head helplessly, sighed and said:
"It's difficult for our monarchs and ministers to do whatever they want, people and money are in the hands of Feng Daban and Mr. Zhang, and when Wang Tong settles down there, he still writes to ask, according to what Wang Tong said, this security department can support himself, and those at the beginning, but now it is not the same as what he said.......
Zhang Cheng's old face was slightly red, and he bowed his head and agreed, Wang Tong handed over this security department to his department, although this so-called security department is a grass creation, whether it is financial resources or intelligence spying, it is indeed useful. Zhang Cheng thought that he had been on an errand for so many years, and it must be easy to run this matter, but he didn't expect that there were so many mistakes, and everything was not smooth, which was a little ashamed.
At this moment, I heard someone outside raise a voice to announce:
"Slave Zou Yi has something important to ask to see Long Live Lord."
Zou Yi is Zhang Cheng's righteous son, and he is commensurate with Wang Tong's brothers, in a sense, he is also a person who the little emperor of Wanli can rest assured, and immediately nodded, Zhang Cheng opened his mouth to announce that people came in.
Zou Yi's face flushed with excitement, holding a few pieces of paper in his hand, he kowtowed as soon as he entered the door, knelt on the ground and said with some excitement:
"Long live Lord, the news that came from Lord Lu Wancai and Lord Lu just now has an eyebrow about what happened to Lord Wang on the road."
"Oh!?" Emperor Wanli and Zhang Cheng exclaimed almost at the same time, Zou Yi hurriedly handed the scroll in his hand to Zhang Cheng, and said breathlessly:
"Anping Hou Fang Ruixing's housekeeper Fang Da raised a woman in Xicheng, this woman has a personal affair with a splash, and the splash skin lives on the silver money given by this woman, yesterday when the splash skin gambled in Nancheng, he boasted that his mother-in-law gave him fifty taels of silver, it is said that Fang Da wanted to invite someone to kill an official who offended their young master halfway, and took out five hundred taels from the two thousand taels of the relationship, and gave the woman two hundred taels ......"
Zou Yi's speech was a little unfocused, but the news was heard by the people in the casino, and it was told to the errand officer who came to check it as a braggart anecdote.
However, Lu Wancai arranged the matter of tracking down the case outside the city, and the messenger who heard the news immediately paid attention, reported it layer by layer, and finally arrived at Lu Wancai's side.
Emperor Wanli muttered a sentence "Marquis of Anping", his face gradually turned cold, and he muttered and instructed Zhang Cheng to say:
"Zhang Banban, write down these things, I want to come to the queen mother's side to see it, Feng Daban and Mr. Zhang's side also want to see it, this security department is really useful, the news in the market Dongchang and Jinyiwei did not hear it, but he knows, Zhang Banban, in the future, you will use less effort in the affairs of the celebrant supervisor, anyway, there is Feng Daban's heart, and if you work hard in this security department, it will be of great use sooner or later."
The two queen mothers, Wanli and King Lu, sat around the table to eat, and in such a ceremony, Feng Bao, as the chief of the inner court, also had to serve as an attendant.
After eating a few bites, King Lu was just about to say the words of blessing, but Emperor Wanli took out the fold from his arms, and the originally pleasant atmosphere immediately changed.
Empress Dowager Li and Empress Dowager Chen naturally understood the content of the fold, and Empress Dowager Li's face gradually turned cold, and she said in a deep voice:
"The Anping Marquis Fang family acted unscrupulously when Emperor Shizong Su, and killed three people outside the city in order to fight for water and water the fields, and the first emperor did not restrain when he was there, how can he do such a bad thing that hurts heaven and reason, he has repeatedly tolerated it in order to care about the face of the heavenly family, but now it has become like this, Feng Bao, the people of Dongchang will go tonight and ask people for their crimes!"
Emperor Wanli lowered his eyebrows and pleasing his eyes on this matter, without saying a word, he had the power to eunuch inside, and he had the power to minister outside, although Empress Dowager Li also relied on these two, but there must be caution in his heart.
Empress Dowager Li's vigilance made her unable to allow any more unrestrained people to appear, and the Marquis of Anping violated this taboo, and was able to ambush people outside the capital to do something to the emperor's cronies, and they were also officers and soldiers pretending to be thieves, and they dared to do this today, to what extent would they do it in the future.
The sternness of the Empress Dowager Li's words could be heard by anyone, Feng Bao hurriedly bowed down and agreed, and King Lu also put down the dishes and chopsticks and sat quietly on the side.
The Empress Dowager Rensheng Chen thought about it after reading the excerpt, and said in a low voice:
"Sister, after all, the Fang family is the foreign family of Emperor Shizongsu, and it is also a bad thing to let Fanzi come to arrest people, it is better for the Fang family to demote the lord, how about only taking this Fang Zhongping?"
After Wang Tong, who arrived at Tianjin Sanwei, said goodbye to Deng Pu, who escorted him here, he found an inn to stay, and from beginning to end, no one greeted or greeted.
(To be continued)