Chapter 198: Great Eunuch Cao Huachun
"Mukden Carrier...... Recently, Datong Mansion has been plagued by bandits, looting and looting, and the general guard of Datong Mansion cannot shirk the responsibility. However, I remembered his meritorious service to the country, authorized him to make meritorious service for his crimes, and continued to serve as the chief soldier of Datong Mansion, serving the imperial court, and making meritorious contributions to his crimes......"
"In order to put an end to bandits in Datong Mansion and ensure the stability of Datong Mansion, I have decided to increase the military strength of Datong Mansion. The strength of the garrison in Datong Province remained unchanged, and the Haw Par Army was expanded from 4,500 to 10,000. After the expansion of the Haw Par Army is completed, the annual food and salary will be raised by the Datong General Military Office itself, and I will not allocate any food and salary to the Haw Par Army. β
"In order to facilitate the imperial court's management of the Haw Par Army, I specially sent Cao Huachun to serve in the Haw Par Army and serve as the supervisor of the army......
"Admiration for this ......"
Under the gaze of the official Shangshu Wang's article, Wei Zheng's face did not change in the slightest, and he knelt on the ground without shock, and shouted loudly: "The ministers are grateful, and they will never live up to His Majesty's trust in the ministers, for His Majesty, for the imperial court, and guard the Datong Mansion......"
After receiving the holy decree, Wei Zheng directly shifted his gaze to the middle-aged man standing beside Wang Wenwen with a white face.
Maybe it was because he felt Wei Zheng's gaze looking at him. Cao Huachun, who was still slightly closed just now, opened his eyes suddenly. After shooting out two gloomy gazes, he said with a smile at Wei Zhengpi......
"Lord Wei, the miscellaneous family is Cao Huachun, the overseer sent by His Majesty. I hope that the general soldier will take care of it more in the future, and we will serve His Majesty and the imperial court together. β
If you compliment, Wei Zheng will also say. Besides, if you want to maintain a good relationship with the imperial court for a longer time, the confidant eunuch in front of you who was sent by Emperor Chongzhen. At least not to offend for a short time.
So, Wei Zheng also showed a smile to Cao Huachun, and said modestly: "Father-in-law Cao thinks too highly of me Wei Zheng." Gonggong Cao, you are a red person in front of Your Majesty. In the future, he will rely more on Gonggong Cao, and give us a few more good words for these ministers, so that His Majesty will not be confused by some villains and no longer trust us ministers. β
"After all, from now on, Gonggong Cao can also be regarded as a member of our Tiger and Leopard Army...... The Haw Par Army has developed strongly, and Gonggong Cao, your face also has light. Your Majesty will trust you more. β
"However, if our Haw Par Army is attacked and slandered by some villains in the imperial court, then the soldiers of the Haw Par Army will be chilled. The combat effectiveness of the Haw Par Army will be greatly reduced, and Gonggong Cao, as the supervisor of the army, will have no light in front of His Majesty. β
Hearing this, a trace of fine light quickly shot out of Cao Huachun's eyes.
Because. He came from this sentence of Wei Zheng. not only heard Wei Zheng's compliments to himself in front of him, but also heard Wei Zheng's dissatisfaction with Wang Wenwen around him, and directly compared Wang Wenwen to a villain.
Not only that, but Wei Zheng also told himself in his words that he was now on the same boat as him, one glory and one loss, and deal with Wang Wenwen together. Provoke the relationship between himself and Wang's article.
After thinking of this, Cao Huachun couldn't help but sigh in his heart: the object of his future cooperation. is not only a general with excellent military command ability, but also an old fox whose level of political struggle is not lower than that of Wang Wenwen around him.
However, being able to stand out among tens of thousands of eunuchs and be trusted by Emperor Chongzhen, Cao Huachun is not a good type.
After only a trace of emotion in his heart, he quickly regained his calm.
Then, he said to Wei Zheng with a deep face......
"Master Wei values the miscellaneous family too much, and the miscellaneous family is not as capable as you say...... When the miscellaneous family came to the Haw Par Army, they only knew one thing, and that was to serve His Majesty and be optimistic about the Haw Par Army for His Majesty......"
Speaking of this, a trace of exhaustion flashed directly on the cunning Cao Huachun's face, and he continued to Wei Zheng: "Lord Wei, Lord Wei and I have been on the road for several days. Now that we have finally arrived at your Lord Wei's territory, shouldn't you Lord Wei try your best to be a landlord, let us rest first......"
Wei Zheng pretended to be suddenly enlightened and said, "Oh, look at my memory...... Suddenly I was so happy to see such a high-ranking official as Lord Shangshu and Gonggong Cao, I forgot about such an important matter, please atone for my sins with Lord Kiss and Gonggong Cao, I will let you take you to rest, and at noon I will have a banquet for you in the General Military Mansion, and give you a ......"
After dozens of people led by Wang Wenwen were taken down to rest, Wei Zhengpi's smiling facial expression was quickly covered by Yan SΓΉ. Zhao Yun, who had been standing behind Wei Zheng and did not speak, was like an angry lion, roaring loudly with a dissatisfied face.
"General, what does the imperial court mean by this, indiscriminately and directly sent us a prison army, does the imperial court want to take our tiger and leopard army as its own......"
Zhou Shuyuan followed with a look of agreement and said, "General, I think General Zhao is right. In our Ming Dynasty, the role of the supervising army is to monitor the leading generals. Therefore, when the imperial court sent us an overseer at this time, it must be that the imperial court has begun to be suspicious of us......"
"Prison ......" Hearing these two words, a sneer appeared directly on Wei Zheng's face.
Under everyone's gaze, he said with a disdainful expression on his face: "These eunuchs, to put it mildly, they are the eagle dogs sent by the imperial court to give us the tiger and leopard army." β
"When we were outside the gate, the court gave us ginseng sand, and we were not afraid, not to mention a group of eunuchs who were not even men......"
"Don't worry, as long as they are people, they will have shortcomings. Once they have shortcomings, these people can be used by me. So, you don't have to worry about these prison guards, I have a way to deal with them. β
"However, the arrival of this group of Qincha also brought us good news, the imperial court allowed us to expand the Tiger and Leopard Army by 10,000."
With this holy intent in hand, our Haw Par Army can rest assured that we can boldly expand our strength......
"In addition, the imperial court also asked our Haw Par Army to raise its own food and salary in the future. And this gives us a great opportunity for the Haw Par Army to play. Our idea was that since the imperial court allowed us to expand the army, then we would expand and expand it on a large scale. β
"The number given to us by the imperial court is 10,000, so we will expand it to 15,000 at one time. Among them, 10,000 were in the open, and 5,000 were secretly formed and trained as Tuntian soldiers, and the Haw Par Army carried out unified command. β
"When the time comes, with the elite of the 15,000 Tiger and Leopard Army in hand, plus the 15,000 Datongfu garrison who are also well-trained, we will have a full 30,000 soldiers in our hands."
"For the entire Ming Dynasty, although 30,000 soldiers is not a lot, it is enough for us to gain a foothold in the Ming Dynasty and protect ourselves."
"Therefore, everyone must be cautious about this military expansion." (To be continued......)