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Xianghe County, which was about to arrive in Layue, had been making a lot of noise for a whole day, and people inside and outside the city were ignorant and didn't know what was going on. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The well-informed one heard some news, saying that there were big thieves here in Xianghe County, and the Jinyi guards and officers and soldiers of Tianjin Wei were here.

Whether you got the thief or not, we don't know, we only know that when it was dark, the Jinyi guards who came from Tianjin left the county with a few prisoner cars, and no one knew what was in the wooden cage prisoner car, because it was covered with black cloth, and I couldn't see inside.

In November, a certain house in the Tianjin Acropolis was inhabited, and it was said that the male owner was a silk merchant who was doing business abroad all the year round.

Meng Side of Tianjin Wei Shipyard is now busier than usual, and he must go to the port to take a look every morning when he gets up, and sometimes he gets up in the middle of the night and goes over with a lantern.

In the bitter cold of winter, the coastal area of Tianjin Wei is frozen, and the sea ice spreads for thousands of miles, no matter how good the ship is made of wood, if it is squeezed by the sea ice, it will be cracked and destroyed, so it is necessary to dig ice to protect the ship.

More than 100 shipwrights in the shipyard were on duty in shifts, and the silver was specially allocated to come down and hire people to assist, but they were able to protect the ships thoroughly.

In addition to this busyness, after entering Layue, suddenly a hundred and ten shipwrights moved from Shandong to join this shipyard and make a home in Tianjin.

The masters and craftsmen of Tianjin Wei Shipyard are mainly from the two prefectures of Denglai, Shandong, and they have some relationship with each other, but Meng Side knows a few of these people, who are the people who work for Shen Vao, the king of the three waters, not to mention a lot of silver, how much has a pirate background, is this a conspiracy of sea thieves, and finally started this business, and they can't let them take advantage of the loopholes.

hurriedly went to Wang Tong's side to report, Wang Tong just replied with a smile:

"Rest assured, everything is already known to the official."

Since Lord Wang said so, then Meng Side has to be busy settling his residence and arranging posts, which is a hard job to prevent sea ice, and this is even harder.

However, the number of skilled craftsmen has increased, and there are still large timbers that have been accumulated for several years from Liaozhen next year, and Meng Side has estimated that the degree of shipbuilding will be greatly accelerated next year.

It is said that in the month of Layue, the forbidden army drills that have become a rule in the past two years are about to be implemented again, but the imperial horse supervisor is silent from top to bottom.

From Chu Zhaoren to Lin Shulu, they didn't seem to remember this incident, it is said that there was a steward in charge who took the account to the palm seal eunuch Zhang Whale to inquire, but Zhang Whale picked up the account and fell on the face, and scolded angrily.

All the big eunuchs have this attitude, the people below will naturally not have much trouble, and the military department is also pinching their noses and pretending to be confused, the inner court and the outer court should not have this matter, and others will naturally not mention it much.

The Imperial Horse Supervisor Warrior Battalion and the left and right guards of Long Xiang and Wu Xiang, from the battalion officers to the supervising army, all the way to the soldiers below, naturally did not want to suffer from the bitter cold outside the first month of the lunar month, but it was a happy situation.

There are also jokes, saying that every time the Saiwai martial arts are performed, they give Tianjin Wei's Huwei Battalion the opportunity to show their faces and make meritorious contributions, although Wang Tong's promotion is pressed up and down, but after a few years of training, even if Wang Tong is promoted step by step, I am afraid that he can only give a knighthood to pay for his merits, which many people do not want to see.

Not to mention this, on the fifth day of the first month of the ninth year of Wanli, the Son of Heaven issued an order to promote Ma Dong, a general of the former Datong Town, to the deputy general of Datong Town.

General Ma Dong is not an ordinary general, but the eldest son of Ma Fang, the former chief soldier of Xuanfu, Ma Fang of Xuanfu is known as the first general in the world, and the second son Ma Lin is being a deputy general in Liaozhen, the standard general, the promotion of Ma Dong seems to be a balanced policy, after all, Li Rusong, the eldest son of Li Chengliang, the chief soldier of Liaozhen, is now the chief soldier in Xuanfu, and the power of the Li family is too great, and another family should be raised to contend with it.

The cabinet and the Ministry of War had no doubts about this will, and after the vote was drafted, the celebrant approved the red, and the fast horse sent someone to deliver the decree.

There are also Qingliu scholars as usual questions, saying that the Beijing division is left and right, the Ma family and the Li family are staggered, and the two families are in charge of nearly half of the soldiers and horses in the world, which is too much, and I hope that the Son of Heaven will be cautious, but there are no waves, and now a whip method has shown great use, and everyone is thinking about how to sing praises for Zhang Ge.

There are also rumors that the news that Ma Dong was promoted to deputy general of Datong Border Town reached the Ma family in Xuanfu, and Ma Fang was also stunned, and he didn't know anything about it.

This is really wrong, the Son of Heaven issued an order just to go through a final procedure, the deputy general is the deputy of the general army, the second person of the military general in the border town, such a personnel change, it is certain in advance that the inner court and the outer court, the Beijing division and the local government, many times of communication, the Ma family should have heard about it.

Not to mention that most people think that Ma Dong's promotion this time is the result of Ma Fang's long-sleeved dancing and walking around in Beijing, how can he be "stunned", it is really ridiculous.

The deputy general of a town was appointed, according to the established rules, the party had to go to Beijing to receive the seal letter, bow to the Son of Heaven to thank him, and the Beijing Division also released rumors early, saying that Ma Dong is the son of the veteran Ma Fang, and he has made meritorious contributions to the country for generations, and the Son of Heaven wants to give a banquet in the palace in order to encourage his family's loyalty.

This rumor came out, and it made everyone admire Ma Fang, a member of the general soldier who was retired at home, could actually have such a skill in the court, and actually gave his two sons such a rich future, although there was no more news that Ma Fang was stunned and at a loss, everyone didn't believe it, and it was only a lie.

During the month of Layue, at the end of the year, Zhang Ge's old meritorious deeds were covered by the world, everyone praised each other, and there was a clear name of the direct minister's strong order, even the Queen Mother asked for an official for her brother, and was selflessly refuted by Zhang Ge's old iron face, however, on the twelfth day of the lunar month, the six cabinets jointly played, saying that Li Wenquan, the eldest son of Li Wei, Marquis of Wuqing, was loyal and diligent, and had made great contributions to the world, and should be knighted.

Since it is a joint name of the six ministries of the cabinet, Zhang Ge Lao must also be among them, the Empress Dowager Li did not think much and shirked, the Empress Dowager Niangniang's attitude, Emperor Wanli will naturally issue a decree to confer knighthood, and the people below will not talk much, and no one has any questions about Zhang Ge Lao's repetition.

As for the bitter battle between the two border towns of Jizhen and Xuanfu, the annihilation of the Tartars nearly 10,000 Qi Jiguang and Li Rusong was awarded such a title, and the government and the opposition were still talking endlessly, so no one mentioned it.

And Wang Tong led the Huwei army to drag most of the Tartars, which was the key to victory, and they themselves also killed three thousand, but they were only promoted by one level, and no one mentioned this.

Even if such a political matter is copied out of the cabinet, no one outside will spend a penny to buy it, and no one cares about it, which is a matter of course.

At this time, as the New Year approached, the most talked about by the wealthy idlers in Beijing were the two Siamese beauties given to Zhang Ge by Wang Haiquan, the political envoy of Guangdong.

It is said that this Siamese beauty has a slightly dark complexion, but she is as soft as a boneless congenital charm, and she has practiced the kung fu of serving men since she was a child, and all kinds of secret techniques are really wonderful.

Everyone was curious, and some people even spent money to buy the subordinates of Zhang's mansion and asked about the appearance of these two Siamese women, and the news that came out was even more fascinating, saying that these two girls were not black at all, but wheat-colored, and their skin was like curd, which made everyone talk about it non-stop.

The inner house of Fu Zhang Ge Lao has always been considered to be a place where the beauties gather, and the high-ranking officials and magnates in the capital and the local area, who are close enough to Zhang Ge Lao, have the habit of sending beauties.

It is said that Zhang Ge Lao's house has everything, as well as the Taixi woman, this is really fascinating, but unfortunately the inner house is like the sea, and there is no chance to see it.

Talking about such things, I talked about Fengyue at the beginning, and then I inevitably fell to the point where my words were unbearable and involved obscenity, and they all said that Zhang Ge Lao was in charge of the world's political affairs and worried about labor, how could he take care of such a large scale of the back house.

There are also people who understand that those who have great power must have great desires, not to mention Zhang Ge Lao He Xu people, who have their own famous doctors inside and outside the palace to dispense medicine for them, it is said that after taking this medicine, not only let people show their strength, but also help the body greatly, as for what to use in this medicine, this is a unique secret recipe.

The news is circulating everywhere, Zhang Ge Lao takes this kind of medicine is said to need a blind dried sea seal, what is the sea seal, many people even heard the name for the first time, do not know what it is, idlers go to the pharmacy to inquire, the people in the pharmacy said, this medicine is indeed a great supplement, but it takes hundreds of thousands of miles to go to the sea to find, the chaos of the pirates at sea is abnormal, who will go across the sea for a medicine, now such as today's rich and noble family, it is difficult to find this medicine.

From the Siamese woman to the dry fur seal, the mouth of the speaker is foaming, and the eyebrows of the listeners are dancing, no one has seen it with their own eyes, but the secret affairs of such high-ranking officials make everyone really interested, which is inevitable in ancient and modern times.

Approaching the first month, the yamen in Beijing were sealed, but news came from the ministry that Wang Haiquan, the political envoy of Guangdong, had excellent performance in the evaluation, and that he might be transferred to Jiangxi in the first month of the tenth year of Wanli.

Guangdong is a remote place, and Jiangxi is a first-class province of the Ming Dynasty, from Guangdong to Jiangxi, the same level of transfer, but in fact it is equivalent to a two-level promotion, the next step is estimated to enter the Beijing division as a court official.

There are causes and effects, so that this rumor is even more flying in the sky, everyone knows, even the documents of the Department of Public Security have a lot of such content, and there are rumors in the palace that the Wanli Emperor is very interested in this, not whether Wang Haiquan has sent a Siamese girl, but the appearance of this Siamese woman and the utility of dried sea seals.......

The eunuch Lin Shulu took a few days off in the month of Layue, saying that he was not in good health and would recuperate for a few days before coming on an errand, this was the first time that Eunuch Lin had taken leave, and there was an endless stream of condolences and visitors, except for the queen mother, the emperor, the envoys sent by Feng Bao and the big eunuchs such as Zhang Cheng and Zhang Whale, the rest of the people were blocked back by Wanyan.

In the midst of chaos, the ninth year of Wanli is about to pass......