Chapter 351 (Three Tickets for Brother Xie Moshaocong)

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Song Nan took the little county lord back to the British Mansion, and the British Mansion warmly welcomed each other, after the events of the previous year, the old man and the little grandfather were even more impressed by Song Nan, the old man and the little grandfather had been secretly discussing several times, and they could not decide whether to intervene strongly to keep the integrity of Song Nan's Jinyi Guard's power, but they couldn't find a reason and opportunity to make a move for a while; Now Song Nan has solved the matter quietly, which has greatly frustrated Liu Jin's spirit, and the big stone in his heart fell to the ground all of a sudden.

On the same day, the new aunt returned to Ning with his wife, and the British government welcomed him ceremoniously, Zhang Mao welcomed him to the gate of the mansion, and the little grandfather accompanied him throughout the whole process, giving Song Nan enough face.

Since the third day of the first lunar month, there has been an endless stream of officials in the Song Mansion who have come to visit them, and these guys have also smelled the atmosphere, which is completely different from the respect and distance of the previous year, and they are flocking to it at this moment. Song Nan's heart is like a mirror, which people are the grass on the wall and which people are true friends, you can know what happened a year ago. But Song Nan obviously won't break this matter, warmly received these people, set up a banquet to entertain them, and chatted vigorously, and there was no abnormality in the surface of the harmony, but Song Nan's heart had already divided these people into three, six, nine and so on.

Early in the morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year, Mrs. Yang boarded the car and rushed to Shaanxi, where Song Nan gave a lot of clothes, gold and silver and drugs for the treatment of lung diseases, and sent 50 brocade guards to accompany her to protect her; For Song Nan, there are not many allies, Yang Yiqing is absolutely good to protect, Yang Yiqing's drastic rectification in the northwest will definitely touch the interests of many people, he himself is out of the way, but Song Nan never wants him to have an accident.

These fifty Jinyi guards, as special guards to surround the left and right, also brought orders to all Jinyi guards in Shaanxi, asking them to always pay attention to Yang Yiqing's safety, detect the signs and movements of the generals in the border towns, prevent the slightest slight, and strive to protect Yang Yiqing thoroughly.

In the palace, Zhang Yong and Ma Yongcheng are also objects that need to be protected, Zhang Yong is better, after all, he is not directly involved in his affairs, although Liu Jin suspects, he will never attack him directly; However, Ma Yongcheng was used as a gun by Song Nan, but in the end, he didn't get any benefits, and he complained in his heart and was also worried about Liu Jin's retaliation. On the night of Shangyuan, Song Nan found Ma Yongcheng when he was driving and admiring the lanterns, comforted him with kindness, and promised to protect him, although Ma Yongcheng complained, but he was helpless.

In today's situation, only by hugging Song Nan's thighs can he have a way out, it is conceivable that if Song Nan hadn't warned Liu Jin, he might not have been able to survive this year, and Liu Jin would not have allowed him to live until the first day of the Lunar New Year. Moreover, after this incident, Ma Yongcheng also figured out that the only person who can wrestle with Liu Jin is Song Nan, although he was used as a gunman, but the subtlety of Song Nan's strategy was beyond his expectations, and he can be regarded as a meritorious person in it, judging from Song Nan's past behavior, this person is conscientious in protecting his own people, as long as he follows his footsteps wholeheartedly.

In the next few months, Liu Jin seemed to have reined in after being hit, and did not radically make any tricks, and the Ming court unexpectedly ushered in a rare period of stability, but it was like a refractory period after passion, all parties entered a period of weakness, and everyone seemed to want to take a break. But everyone understood that this was only a brief truce, that this situation of harmonious coexistence was only an illusion, and that there was no time when fierce fighting and fighting would break out again, and that this period of time was only a period of active preparation and accumulation of strength on all sides.

In April, a letter came from the northwest, due to the warmer weather and Mrs. Yang's careful care, Yang Yiqing's lung disease improved a lot, although the shape of the border town is still severe, Yang Yiqing's various measures in the northwest are still difficult, but at least this is good news; Song Nan also comforted Yang Yiqing in his reply that it would not be easy to achieve it overnight to avoid the excessive intensification of the contradiction.

In these idle months, Song Nan was also busy speeding up the expansion of the Jinyi Wei Yamen, and the thousands of households in the Jinyi Wei were nearly full, with nearly 50,000 people; And according to the plan, the yamen was also added to the blank state capital, and Song Nan's goal was to expand the Jinyiwei to about 100,000 people, becoming the largest yamen in the Ming Dynasty, of which more than 60,000 cavalry officers and soldiers could be dispatched abroad, and at that time it would be equivalent to holding six regiments and battalions that could be mobilized at will, so it could be called a powerful faction.

Regarding Song Nan's actions, Liu Jin remained silent, perhaps because he accepted Song Nan's warning and did not dare to meddle in the affairs of the Jinyi Guard's yamen, or maybe he was brewing another conspiracy, which is unknown. Song Nan didn't have much energy to think about this, the financial and manpower required for the large-scale expansion of the yamen and the huge and complicated affairs of inspection and selection, Li Daniu's supervision department was already too busy, Song Nan had to participate in it personally, and he was busy every day, almost not a moment of leisure.

Another important thing that Song Nan was concerned about still could not be implemented, that is, the mass production of Mrs. Lu's firecracker, because of the huge amount of money consumed, Song Nan really couldn't make a large amount of equipment for his own guards according to his own thoughts, and invested tens of thousands of taels of silver before and after, and finally had to suspend it after making less than 100 of them, because Song Nan really couldn't afford such a huge cost.

The business opportunities that I have been looking for have been fruitless for the time being, the expenses in the house are getting bigger and bigger, and the income of Yipin Duck Store is decreasing month by month, and it is already unrealistic to take out a large amount of money to make firecrackers, and Song Nan also has a headache.

The little county lord asked for money from his mother's family, and Song Nan also refused, in this matter, Song Nan would rather cherish the broom himself than scatter the fire gun manufacturing technology, which may be the most unwise thing; Unless it is ordered by the emperor and strictly ordered by the Military Department of the Ministry of War, Song Nan will never pass on the manufacturing methods and technologies, and even if he has to make it public, Song Nan will definitely have absolute benefits before agreeing.

One day in late April, Dai Suer vomited in the room, Uncle Zhong invited a doctor to treat the disease, and suddenly congratulated him after the pulse, saying that Dai Suer was pregnant, and then the Song Mansion exploded; Lu Qingli and Ye Fanggu and Song Nan have been in the same room for two years, and their stomachs have not moved, and Song's mother doesn't know how many kowtows in front of Guanyin Bodhisattva and how many wishes she makes, but it just didn't work.

Song Nan was also very relieved to hear the news, he was also twenty years old, and although he worked weekdays, the stomachs of several women did not move, which was indeed a troublesome thing; Song Nan even sometimes suspected that there was something wrong with his little tadpole, fearing that it was the sequelae of the crossing; Dai Su'er was pregnant, which made a stone fall to the ground in Song Nan's heart, and there was no risk of cutting off children and grandchildren.

Dai Su'er couldn't help but be overjoyed, her face was full of face, although the wives and concubines of the Song Mansion got along well, but there was still a heart to fight and win in her heart. After the Song Mansion has it, everyone naturally wants to see, but it is best to have that seed in your belly to feel at ease.

The little county lord felt a little unbearable, and attributed the responsibility to Song Nan's partiality to Dai Suer, to be honest, Song Nan was indeed a little partial to Dai Suer, after all, among the girls, Dai Suer was the most beautiful, and she also had the demeanor of a well-informed lady, which was very in line with Song Nan's long-standing aesthetics, and she naturally stayed in Dai Suer's room a little more; But if the success or failure is judged by the number of times, it is a little unreasonable, whether it is the little county lord or Lu Qingli Ye Fanggu, they have surrendered to Song Nan countless times before they got married, and this time they were taken the first place by Dai Suer, I have to say that Dai Suer is lucky.

Fortunately, this unpleasantness quickly disappeared without a trace, and when he realized that this was Song Nan's child, and he was about to be upgraded to an elder, it was replaced by novelty and surprise. The little county lord took out the demeanor of an eldest woman, sent more maids to Dai Suer's room to serve, added all kinds of things, and invited an experienced mother-in-law from the Guogong Mansion to serve, and the whole mansion was like a great enemy. Then there was a round of competition to make clothes for the unborn child, the child in the womb was probably still an unconscious lump of meat, and dozens of clothes, shoes and socks had been made, Song Nan could only smile bitterly when he learned about it.

Of course, in the matter of Fangdi, the three women who were not pregnant also lost their little reserve, before Song Nan wanted to coax them to do things, but now they took the initiative to attack and made Song Nan happy as if she were in heaven.

Peaceful and happy days always pass quickly, in June, Dai Su'er's belly has been slightly raised, and the enthusiasm of the Song Mansion has gradually tended to be rational and calm, but there are waves in the calm court.

On the morning of the seventh day of the sixth month, the military department discussed the need for 1.5 million taels of silver to give up the war horses of the border army, but Gu Zuo, the secretary of the household department, made it clear that there was no silver to give, which caused a dispute between the two sides; The next morning, he threw out a reconsideration to Gu Zuo, taking the statistics of the fiscal revenue and expenditure of the Ming Dynasty in the past two years as an example, listing the decline and deficit of fiscal revenue in the past few years, and building measures to increase the fiscal revenue, otherwise the treasury would be empty, so as to prove that the household department could not afford the silver taels purchased by the war horses.

A few days later, Zhengde put forward a reform measure for Ma Zheng in the early court, and at the same time threw out a reform plan to increase fiscal revenue for everyone to discuss and implement, which immediately became the focus of controversy among the civil and military ministers.

Everyone knows that these two things are neither proposed by the cabinet nor the six ministries, and it is unlikely that the emperor will come up with it himself, the biggest possibility is the reform plan proposed by Liu Jin, Liu Jin is unwilling to be lonely, and finally has to make a move.

For Song Nan, the content of these two measures is not to be talked about, but Liu Jin's motives have to be considered, in fact, this is not difficult, Liu Jin suddenly intervened in national affairs, firstly, to figure out Guò's decision-making on major court affairs to show that he is still strong and has influence on Zhengde; Second, as long as the measures can be effective, Zhengde will naturally rely more on himself in the future in major affairs of the imperial court, which is a huge political capital.

There is no doubt that if the important measures of the government can be successful, the merit will be no less than the victory of the military merits.