Chapter 696: Twilight Heroes Speak of National War
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Since it was said that it was the Son of Heaven's dictation, Wang Tong got up the next morning to prepare, and called Shang Tan to wait for a few guards to go out of the city together, and when the gatehouse of Chongwen Gate appeared in his field of vision, the bell and drum on the side of the imperial city rang. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Living in South Street, these bells and drums are very familiar to Wang Tong, and the gate of the imperial city is also open, Zou Yi can only come out at this time, he came early, and he has to wait for a while.
The east is already bright, because the city wall is shading, and the rising sun cannot be seen, but there are really a lot of people waiting to leave the city on the side of Chongwenmen.
Chongwen Gate is a tax customs, most of the merchants outside the Beijing Division have to go here to enter the city, but the way from the Beijing Division to several other prefectures and prefectures has to go through the Chongwen Gate, it has to go far away, so there are not many people out of the city, Wang Tong has been in and out here a few times, this time, has always been very deserted.
Wang Tong and others also stopped in the open space by the city gate, there was a personal guard to buy breakfast, waiting for Zou Yi's arrival, Wang Tong and others were wearing civilian clothes, although everyone had a spirit of toughness, but the children of the wealthy families in the Beijing division traveled mostly in this style, and everyone was not surprised.
However, Wang Tong saw that something was wrong from these people gathered at the city gate, and this group of people gathered at the city gate did not look like good people, first of all, they were dressed up, many people were wearing clothes made of satin fabrics, and ordinary people naturally couldn't afford to wear them, they were all holding packages, and there were generally horses or carts.
The chariots and horses followed, the satin clothes, and the people of the partial birth were all looking around, and there were a lot of them with fierce and strange looks, and these cadres should know each other, and they were all talking to each other in low voices, but they were very separated from each other, and they were divided into small circles, and they were not contaminated with each other.
Wang Tong glanced there, often meeting the gaze of this cadre, some people glanced at it and turned their heads, some people were weak and some people glared at him viciously, seeing Wang Tong's fierce expression, but he also shrank his head.
"My lord, my subordinates saw a familiar brother in the Patrol Division......"
In the observation room, a guard on the side came over and whispered, Wang Tong was stunned, but he understood, he was all bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods, and he was just wondering whether to call the soldiers near the city gate or the people who transferred the nearest brocade guards to arrest him, and when he heard what the guards said, he remembered yesterday's newspaper.
Jingshi and other local tyrants, Xiaoyu robbers, liars who set up a situation to deceive, and all kinds of people who have committed crimes or have committed crimes in the past are all going out of the city and going to other places to escape.
The Public Security Department and the Patrol and Arrest Department used their former eyeliner to insert people in, preparing to see who they were defecting to outside Beijing, especially some of them needed special attention.
Since this is the case, Wang Tong has no need to observe and ponder, so as not to startle the snake, the soldiers over there have already bought it back, it is nothing more than a few baked cakes with meat, and everyone ate to cushion their stomachs.
Not long after, in the shouts of the soldiers guarding the city of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, the city gate opened, and a group of people poured out, and Wang Tong and others watched these people go away.
After the city gate was opened, after the two caravans outside entered the city, Zou Yi rode in a man's robe and rode under the escort of several cavalrymen, and after the two sides met at the city gate, they walked out of the city.
At the beginning of May, the weather was just right, and I went out early in the morning to ride a horse and walk on the road, which was very pleasant, and there were not many carriages and horses on the boundary road outside the Chongwen Gate, and it was very quiet.
The guards on both sides spread out to protect the surroundings, but Wang Tong and Zou Yi walked slowly and chatted while walking, the matter at the city gate was not a matter of important secrets, and it was used as a talking point, leading the conversation, Zou Yi said with a smile: "The people over there in Dongchang now admire the adults very much, saying that they have been on an errand for so long, and they still have a feeling that they are not clear about all parts of the capital, and now Brother Wang is cracking down on this, and asking the Public Security Department to do what household registration is, it will be clear all of a sudden, and it will be convenient for them to check what they want in the future, these cows, ghosts, snakes and gods are few, Dongchang doesn't have to worry so much about those trivial little cases, don't you know, at this time the year before last, the second housekeeper of Wuqinghou Mansion lost silver and ornaments outside, and as a result, Shuntianfu, Jinyiwei and Dongchang were all called, this toss these bandits and bastards in the capital, they should have been in charge a long time ago, but they mentioned this matter to Shuntianfu several times, but there was no response, and the servants of Shuntianfu were all fed by these thieves and gangsters......"
"This crackdown, at least for two years, I plan here, if these cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods are not interesting, and they want to do illegal things, then they will crack down again.
Wang Tong said with a smile, Zou Yi also smiled, walked a few steps forward, and shrugged Yi said again: "In this case, if there is any chaos in the Jingshi, your people can act immediately, and they are familiar with the way, know where to go, how to do it, so as not to delay the time, and it will not be like that night, the situation is critical everywhere, but we still need a few brothers to do it on their own."
Speaking of this, Zou Yi didn't have a smile on his face, thinking that he remembered the thrill of that night, Zou Yi shook the reins in his hand, let the mount that was about to stop go faster, and said in a deep voice: "In all aspects of the Beijing Division, as long as there are civil and military officials, there will always be someone who can intervene, Brother Wang, you have this structure, you must master it yourself, it is not easy for Long Live Lord to have such an intimate force......
Wang Tong nodded, the person leading the way in front was a companion of Zou Yi, after leaving the city, he went all the way to the east, but in front of him was a village, the reason why this village was there was because there was a large-scale post station here, and if the officials of the Beijing Division did not need to go to Beijing to do business, they all rested and stayed here.
"Brother Zou, who are you seeing today?"
Seeing that the guide pointed to the post station, his own guards had already moved forward, Wang Tong couldn't help but ask curiously, when he arrived here, Zou Yi didn't hide it, but said with a smile: "It's Qi Jiguang." ”
When the guide arrived at the door of the post station, more than a dozen soldiers appeared to stop and interrogate, but after Zou Yi and Wang Tong's people identified themselves, they were allowed to pass.
"Qi Jiguang handed over the errand of Jizhen, and when he left the boundary of Yongping Mansion, he sent a messenger to send a note to Jingshi, and wanted to meet Long Live Lord, but Long Live Lord was not allowed directly, but after a day, Long Live Lord wanted to hear what Qi Jiguang said, so he sent our family and Brother Wang over together, no matter what Qi Jiguang said, we just have to return what we heard and saw." ……”
Qi Jiguang went to Guangdong to take office, and his family had almost 500 people, most of whom were elite soldiers and generals, and they lived in this post station, which immediately became like a military camp, faintly revealing a murderous atmosphere.
But when I entered the place where I met the guests at the post station, when I saw Qi Jiguang, the barracks outside, the aura of slaughter and so on, all disappeared, Qi Jiguang was wearing a brown gold thread robe, and was drinking tea there slowly, the tables, chairs and furniture in the house were all newly replaced, and the tea sets used by Qi Jiguang were also very valuable, and the faint fragrance in the air showed that this tea was probably also of the highest quality.
Qi Jiguang's bun was covered with a rich scarf, and he had to be trimmed neatly, which was obviously a little richer than when he saw it in Tianjin Wei that year, and when he saw Wang Tong and Zou Yi walking in, he hurriedly stood up and said: "Father-in-law Zou, Lord Wang, you have to work!" ”
"I've seen Lord Qi!"
Qi Jiguang actually lost power, but then he was still the position of the chief soldier of a province, and he still had the title of earl on his body, Wang Tong and Zou Yi also had to do enough etiquette.
After seeing the ceremony, Qi Jiguang waved his hand to let the guards who were waiting in the house go down, picked up the teapot sitting on the red clay stove, and poured tea for Wang Tong and Zou Yi, Wang Tong and Zou Yi had to get up to thank him, Qi Jiguang said with a smile: "When I was in Zhejiang, there was good tea over there, and the old man also had this hobby, and he brought some good tea over there every year, but there is no good water in Jizhen, and it is different here in Beijing!" ”
Zou Zhi nodded with a smile, and said in a deep voice: "But I didn't expect Lord Qi to be so elegant, this time our family and Lord Wang came to listen to what Lord Qi had to say, and when I went back, I reported it to Lord Long Live, and Lord Qi said it." ”
There was a vague urge in his words, Qi Jiguang shook his head and smiled, put down the teacup in his hand, and said: "Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Tartars are the great enemy, otherwise there will be no nine-sided setup, now there are two major harms on the grassland, one is the Datong against the Korqin Department, and the other is the Korqin Department of the Jizhen Needless to say, although the Altan Khan is dead, but after the monk Guleng succeeded to the throne, the strength has not been damaged, and he is still the overlord of the grassland. If they are allowed to merge, they will inevitably cause great harm in the future......"
Zou Yi and Wang Tong glanced at each other, their expressions were not moving, these things are in the position of the two of them, they can't be regarded as secrets, Emperor Wanli and the ministers of the court must know, if they come specifically to say these words, it is really not necessary, Wang Tong stared at Qi Jiguang a few times, and suddenly appeared that the frost on his head under the rich scarf was very heavy, and the wrinkles on his face were dense, Wang Tong suddenly appeared, Qi Jiguang was much older.
"The year before last, Gubeikou Jizhen, Xuanfu, and the Huwei Army joined forces to annihilate more than 10,000 Tartars, not to mention anything else, but it can be seen that the Tartars are strong outside the middle, and the old man of Jizhen soldiers and horses has been trained for nearly 20 years, it can be said that the soldiers are strong and strong, and there are strong soldiers and strong generals in Liao Town, and the rest of the towns have good soldiers and horses, this is the blessing of the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty, and the good time given by God should be the best group of forces, and the two Tartars on the grassland will be annihilated, and they will be destroyed if they are not good, and one of them will be broken!!"
Speaking of this, Qi Jiguang's tone was fierce, and his voice was raised, but Zou Yi and Wang Tong's faces changed slightly, Qi Jiguang was planning a national war, no wonder he wanted to meet the Son of Heaven.