Duan Zongkui came to Nanzhili, and he accompanied Tian Hong, the commander of Jinyiwei, to meet Nanzhili, and they came to Nanzhili together, and they also accepted the dispatch of Jiading Bo Zhoukui and came back to select women for the emperor.

With the secret help of Zheng Xunrui, Duan Zongkui spent nearly a year and invested a lot of money, and finally got married to Jiading Bo Zhou Kui and Jinyi Wei Commander Tian Hongyu, as the saying goes, money can be spiritual, Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu are both people who love money, and it is expected that they can have a good relationship with businessman Duan Zongkui.

However, Duan Zongkui's approach is very different from others, and there are many people who want to make friends with Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu, especially some businessmen who do business in the capital, but these businessmen are all with obvious purposes, and they have not really made friends, so they began to brag everywhere about the relationship with Zhou Kui and others, hoping to get benefits from Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu and others, and never bragged outside, almost every time he came back from doing business in Liaodong, he would bring some treasures such as Liaodong ginseng to Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu, and Duan Zongkui had a good relationship with some officials in the capital, which naturally attracted the attention of Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu.

Duan Zongkui really got Zhou Kui's trust because of Zheng Xunrui's help.

Zhou Kui's youngest son gambled in the gambling house and owed a lot of silver, Zhou Kui was a stingy master, and his youngest son naturally wouldn't let his father know, the gambling house began to look at Zhou Kui's face, just urging him to repay the money, but unfortunately Zhou Kui's youngest son didn't have so much money to pay back, and the people in the gambling house couldn't help it, and began to urge Zhou Kui's youngest son to repay the money, I don't know why this matter was known by a certain imperial history. So this imperial historian was ready to impeach Zhou Kui, and he didn't educate his son well.

Although Zhou Kui is Jiadingbo, he does not have much status in the court, and the civil and military officials in the court look down on Zhou Kui in their hearts, and the emperor's requirements for the harem are relatively strict. It is strictly forbidden for the harem to participate in politics, and Queen Zhou is also very virtuous and strict with herself, so Yushi dared to impeach Zhou Kui.

This matter was known to Duan Zongkui, so Duan Zongkui secretly took out the silver to help Zhou Kui's youngest son repay the money, and at the same time specially found this imperial historian and stuffed it with enough silver, so that the imperial historian broke off the idea of impeachment.

Although the impeachment will not have much impact on Zhou Kui. But it is a great damage to her reputation, and it will also affect the reputation of Empress Zhou.

By chance, Zhou Kui knew about it, and he knew it from someone else's mouth.

Zhou Kui quickly inquired about his youngest son and learned that it was indeed the case.

Until this time, Duan Zongkui was unknown, never mentioned the matter, and never asked Zhou Kui's youngest son to pay back the money. Especially the matter of leveling the imperial history, Zhou Kui has an unusual feeling.

Since then, Zhou Kui has begun to pay attention to Duan Zongkui. After eating together a few times, he found that Zhou Kui was a person who valued righteousness, so he began to try to ask Zhou Kui to help him do some business, but he didn't expect Zhou Kui to be able to make money every time, and he sent the silver to the capital on time, Zhou Kui knew. It is impossible to make money every time in this business, Duan Zongkui must be sticking money.

Zhou Kui's final means of inspecting Duan Zongkui was to ask Duan Zongkui to help Tian Hongyu also take care of the business, but Duan Zongkui still had no regrets and helped take care of the business very well.

Tian Hong was more straightforward when he met this person. praised Duan Zongkui in front of Zhou Kui many times.

In this way, Duan Zongkui officially entered the field of vision of Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu, and gradually gained the trust of Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu.

Zhou Kui once wanted to get Duan Zongkui a half-official position, but Duan Zongkui refused, saying that he was used to doing business, and he was attached to Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu, and it was much easier to do business, at least in Liaodong, the sergeant did not dare to blackmail him.

Duan Zongkui could speak, the reason was clear, and he also praised Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu, which made the two very happy, and they naturally got the benefits given by Duan Zongkui.

A year has passed, and through Duan Zongkui's own efforts, he has finally become the person Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu believe in the most, and has truly become the confidant of the two.

The emperor tried his best to consider the court and the world's major events, because there were too many things encountered, he always seemed depressed, Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu discussed, and decided to find a beautiful woman for the emperor, it is said that the daughters of the two are the queen and the concubine, they should not think of these things, but the emperor is different from ordinary people, the harem cannot only have so many women, you must know that many times, with beautiful women to accompany you, men's mood will be much better.

Therefore, Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu made this decision.

They even consulted with Duan Zongkui, who thought that this method was very good, which could not only help the emperor relieve his unhappy mood, but also gain greater trust from the emperor.

So Zhou Kui decided to let Tian Hongyu personally go to Nanzhili to do this, and let Duan Zongkui accompany him.

Duan Zongkui was able to do such a thing, which showed that he had become the most trusted person for Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu.

All of Duan Zongkui's actions, including everything he did, Zheng Xunrui was clear, of course, many things, Houjin's Fan Wencheng also knew, but Zheng Xunrui and Fan Wencheng's attitudes were different.

After the Houjin suffered a series of fiascos, it really quieted down, Huang Taiji tried his best to ignore public opinion, no longer considering the matter of entering the customs and looting, but starting from the internal rectification, and at the same time began to consider the complete conquest of the entire grassland tribe, so that the power of the Great Qing Kingdom could be more powerful, and the only thing that Huang Taiji did not give up was to continue to arrange strong forces in Liaodong.

Of course, Huang Taiji has a place to worry, that is, Fuzhou, Jinzhou and Lushun and other places occupied by the Zheng family's army, Zheng's army is stationed in these places, like a stinger pierced in the heart of Huang Taiji, after all, Fuzhou is not very far from Liaoyang and Shenyang, once the Zheng family army takes Gaizhou and other places, then Liaoyang and Shenyang are in great danger, but the Zheng family's army is powerful Huang Taiji, and does not want to spend troops to attack Fuzhou and other places, if it triggers a comprehensive rebound of the Zheng family's army, the Qing Kingdom may not be able to withstand such a blow, So Fan Wencheng's idea is the best.

Huang Taiji also overcame his impatience, he knew that it was not a short time for Emperor Chongzhen to deal with and deal with Zheng Xunrui, so Huang Taiji never urged Fan Wencheng.

But Fan Wencheng's thoughts are different, he really wants Duan Zongkui to quickly approach Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu, and let his plan start to be implemented, so that it can not only hit Zheng Xunrui, but also cause greater turmoil in the Ming court, once the plan is realized, Fan Wencheng will throw out Duan Zongkui, implicate Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu, give Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty a headache, and make the Ming court turbulent.

Fan Wencheng continued to provide money to Duan Zongkui, and learned that Duan Zongkui had won the trust of Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu, Fan Wencheng was very happy, he thought that Duan Zongkui's ability was by no means ordinary, and he would definitely be able to complete the task.

So after learning that Duan Zongkui had won the trust of Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu, Fan Wencheng gave Duan Zongkui a task, so that Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu tried every means to start framing Zheng Xunrui in front of Emperor Chongzhen, and at the same time Fan Wencheng asked Duan Zongkui to leave all the evidence, one day he would expose the evidence that Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu colluded with the Qing Dynasty, and at that time, the Ming court would be completely in chaos.

I have to say that Fan Wencheng's strategy is indeed very good.

It's a pity that Fan Wencheng's opponent is Zheng Xunrui, a person who travels through time, a time-traveler who is familiar with history and knows people's hearts.

Zheng Xunrui did not give Duan Zongkui any tasks, Duan Zongkui was able to get close to Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu, and was able to do business in Liaodong unharmed, all of which were secretly supported by Zheng Xunrui.

Zheng Xunrui is not without requirements for Duan Zongkui, he needs to know the core information of the Great Qing Kingdom, and it is Duan Zongkui who can get these information, as for Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu and others, it is difficult to become a big weapon, Zheng Xunrui did not pay attention to it at all, Fan Wencheng wanted to make the court chaotic, to a certain extent, this is also in the interests of Zheng Xunrui.

The contest between Zheng Xunrui and Fan Wencheng was not at a starting point at the beginning, Zheng Xunrui stood higher and controlled all the situation, Fan Wencheng worked hard, paid a lot of energy and money, and sometimes helped Zheng Xunrui do things.

Duan Zongkui accompanied Tian Hong to meet Nan Zhili and select beauties for the emperor, this matter is recorded in history, but the real historical record is later, and now it is advanced, this is the witness of Zheng Xunrui's change in history after he appeared.

After Xu Fojia gave the information to Zheng Xunrui, he was about to leave the study, but was stopped by Zheng Xunrui.

"Qingling, Zhou Kui has an orchestra in Suzhou, do you know about this matter?"

"Husband, it's been made clear in the intelligence."

"I didn't mean that, what I needed to know was the details of the band, such as whether there were any great girls in it."

Xu Fojia glared at Zheng Xunrui, but she quickly understood that her husband was not thinking about beauties.

When he was in Qinhuai River, Xu Fojia knew that Zhou Kui had an orchestra in Suzhou, which cost a lot of money, and this orchestra was used for self-entertainment.

"Husband, the slave family has been away from Qinhuai River for many years, and I don't know the situation here."

Zheng Xunrui looked at Xu Fo's house and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"Qingling, everything about Zhou Kui must be clarified, didn't you arrange a lot of dark lines in the Qinhuai River, then thoroughly figure out the situation of Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu, including Zhou Kui's situation in the Suzhou Orchestra."

Xu Fojia nodded, she has been engaged in intelligence work for so long, and she also knows that some seemingly inconspicuous intelligence can actually play a major role.

After Xu Fo's family left the study, Zheng Xunrui's eyes narrowed slightly, and he thought of a woman who had a lot of controversy in history was about to appear, and this woman was Chen Yuanyuan. (To be continued......)