(Thanks to a bunch of monthly passes from brothers such as Yuhaitao1983, and Huaisha 15.) Chapter 300

Song Nan didn't want to come to see him off, although he had no choice but to let the flowers fall, and when he parted, he was the most ecstatic, but after all, he knew each other, although he had no fate, and he would not be angry and unwilling to see this last side.

The actual situation is that when Song Nan brought a few flag schools in the yamen and was about to go out, he was blocked in the yamen by the old man who suddenly came.

"What kind of wind blows the old man here, you don't say hello in advance, please hurry up, come here, watch the tea." Song Nan hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.

The old man's military uniform, presumably from the yamen of the governor of the regimental camp, waved his hand and strode towards the yamen, and asked as he walked: "Are you going to enter the palace?" ”

Song Nan said: "No, I want to go out of the city to bid farewell to a friend." ”

The old man said: "Don't go, the old man has something important to tell you." ”

Song Nan also knew that since the old man of Lu Dao had come to Jinyi Wei Yamen for the first time, he must have something important, so he had to order a few flag schools to escort Dai Su'er's car outside the south gate, and turned around and sat in the hall with tea and talked to the old man.

"You've been moving a lot lately." The old man blew on the tea and took a sip of it and said lightly.

Song Nan wondered, shouldn't the old man have come here to rectify the matter of the Jinyi Guard Yamen, could it be that there are any rumors?

"It's nothing, it's just that the atmosphere of the yamen has been cleaned up, and a bunch of unusable waste has been cleaned up, and the movement is really bigger." Song Nan said with a smile.

Zhang Mao nodded and said: "The old man is not here to meddle with your affairs, it is understandable for you to do this, your yamen can be tossed as much as you want, as long as the emperor does not object." ”

Song Nan nodded yes and asked, "The old man said that there is an important task, but I don't know what the priority is?" ”

Zhang Mao glanced at the hall, waved his hand and said, "What are so many people doing standing here?" Let them all go down. ”

Song Nan hurriedly waved his hand and ordered the guards and several subordinate officials in the hall to avoid, and Zhang Mao said: "You are bent on taking care of your own yamen's affairs, but you don't care about the affairs outside at all." ”

Song Nan was stunned and said, "What's going on outside?" ”

Zhang Mao said dissatisfiedly: "You are now also the head of the Jinyi Guard Yamen, you are a three-grade yamen on an equal footing with the six departments of the outer court, and you don't care about the affairs of the court at all?" ”

Song Nan became more and more puzzled: "Old man, what happened?" ”

Zhang Mao glared at Song Nan and said, "The imperial court is drawing up the matter of candidates for the trilateral general system, do you know the way?" ”

Song Nan said: "Zhilu Dao, but I can't intervene in this matter, the cabinet and the Ministry of War are planning candidates for the chief officer, do I still have to go up and insert a bar?" Isn't it gossip? ”

Zhang Mao said: "Do you know who Lu Dao is?" ”

Song Nan said: "I still know this, I heard that the candidate voted by the cabinet scholars is Lu Wan, the right attendant of the Xuanfu Governor's Military Department, to take this position, and the outer court seems to agree with this proposal." ”

Zhang Maosun said: "You don't know what you're doing these days, Lu Wanzhi's proposal has already been vetoed by the emperor, and the emperor proposed to let Ma Ang, the chief soldier of Yansui, take this position." ”

Song Nan said: "Yansui Chief Soldier Ma Ang? I don't know, but since he is the official of the trilateral system, Ma Ang is in Yansui, which is also suitable, is there any problem? ”

Zhang Mao reprimanded: "You don't know this Maang, how dare you say that this person is suitable?" Besides, the emperor has never seen this Ma Ang, why did he suddenly bring up this person? Do you know who this Maang is? ”

Song Nan saw that Zhang Mao was a little excited, and said puzzledly: "Old man, forgive me for being foolish, the promotion and appointment of the chief officials of the three sides have nothing to do with us, why is the old man so concerned about this matter?" Teach me to see, whoever you love is whomever you love, and we can't be guilty of intervening. ”

Zhang Mao sneered: "It can be regarded as knowing that you are fake and smart, and this matter has a lot to do with you and my British government; On the same day, the old man proposed the establishment of the post of trilateral general system at the court meeting, and the reason was because you mentioned the disadvantages of the poor coordination of soldiers and horses in the border towns, and it can be said that this matter was caused by you. The lieutenant of the inner court originally had the right to restrain the soldiers of the border town, but once the trilateral chief official was established, the fingers of the inner court were cut off, and Liu Jin not only hated you, but even the old man hated it. The last time I was a big matchmaker for you, I wanted to take the opportunity to turn you against my country's government, it can be seen that Liu Jin is killing two birds with one stone, and he used that incident to provoke you and me at the same time, and the insidiousness of his heart can be seen. ”

Song Nan said: "Are you saying that the restoration of the trilateral chief system is moving the interests of the inner court?" Then ......" Song Nan frowned, suddenly stopped speaking, got up and walked two steps.

Zhang Mao looked at Song Nan and said, "Do you understand?" ”

Song Nan raised his eyebrows, turned around and said in a low voice: "The proposal of the cabinet and the Ministry of War to take Lu Wanchong to this post must have been rejected by Liu Jin to the emperor, and this Ma Ang's proposal is probably also what Liu Jin meant." In other words, Ma Ang is Liu Jin's person, and Liu Jin wants to compete with the foreign court for the important position of the chief official of the three sides? This trick is quite ruthless, since the power of the officers in the trilateral border towns has been damaged, he will directly seize the position of the chief officer of the trilateral without doing anything, if he succeeds, won't we do him a great favor? ”

Zhang Mao snorted and said, "Finally, you are not too stupid, and you finally understand this truth." ”

Song Nan frowned and said, "Who is this Ma Ang?" ”

Zhang Mao said: "Who is he, you come to ask me, you are the head of Jinyiwei, in short, this person was demoted, and later for some reason, he was promoted to the general army of Yansui, the old man has never asked about the appointment and dismissal of the border army, but he is not very clear; But there is no doubt that it must be Liu Jin's person. ”

Song Nan said: "I still don't know something, old man, we can all analyze the reason, it is impossible for the cabinet and the military department not to understand the stakes, and they will definitely not agree to Ma Ang as the chief of the trilateral system, forgive me for taking the liberty of it, why did the old man suddenly be so concerned about these disputes in the court?" ”

Zhang Mao said angrily: "Do you think about it? It's not because of you. ”

Song Nan was stunned and said, "Why is it because of me again?" ”

Zhang Mao said in a low voice: "You have a marriage contract with Xian'er, which is a complete ambition for you, but for me, I have torn my old face with Dingguo Gong." Originally, I agreed with Dingguo Gong to marry Xian'er to his son Xu Yande, but later you, the eighth lamb, hooked ...... hooked that concubine, it was out of control, I had to tear up the marriage contract with Dingguo Gong, Xu Guangzuo, do you think it's easy to provoke? He threw the glass in front of me, and my decades-long friendship with him ended, and he said it's none of your business? ”

Song Nan said apologetically: "I'm sorry old man, but this doesn't seem to have anything to do with this matter." ”

"You know a fart, when Xu Guangzuo wanted to be a matchmaker for you and the princess, I felt that something was wrong. Liu Jin is a fart, why did he come forward to ask Grandpa Xu to be a matchmaker? The old man felt that there was something strange in this; Originally, we should not have expressed our stance on the selection of candidates for the trilateral general system, but Xu Guangzuo, Hui Anbo, Zhang Wei, and Xin Ningbo Tan You all spoke out against the norm and opposed Lu Wan's appointment to the post of trilateral general system. It can be seen from this that these old things must have reached a tacit understanding with Liu Jin, Liu Jin's inner court exerts its strength, and they echo outside, in this case, how can the outer court compete? ”

Song Nan took a breath and said, "You mean, the family of Xun Qi is not monolithic?" Xu Guangzuo, they actually threw themselves at Liu Jin? ”

Zhang Mao said: "I'm afraid that it won't be possible to throw it into Liu Jin, and Xu Guangzuo shouldn't do it like this, the old man thinks that they are united to take what they need." It's no secret that you and Liu Jin don't get along, and now that you are the son-in-law of my country's government, Xu Guangzuo and I have torn our faces again, obviously Xu Guangzuo and Liu Jin have the same common goal, and it is reasonable to walk together. And the outer court is now in decline, if Liu Jin is allowed to win on such important appointments, the outer court will inevitably become a chicken rib, and many civil officials have already invested in Liu Jin's account, and if he does this again, Liu Jin will be able to cover the sky with one hand. ”

There is no need for Zhang Mao to explain too much, Song Nan also understands the seriousness of the problem, Liu Jin's power has already penetrated into the outer court, and Jiao Fang, a cabinet scholar, is also a member of Liu Jin's people. The civilian clique is already fragmented, and it is already reluctant to deal with Liu Jin, coupled with the secret support of some nobles in central Beijing, and then install his own people in important positions in foreign military border towns, this Liu Jin can cover the sky with one hand, which is very bad.

It is conceivable that Liu Jin will never tolerate his own existence when he monopolizes power, even if he has the support of Zhengde, once Liu Jin launches a group of minions to attack, and everyone is bombarded indiscriminately, Zhengde is afraid that it will be difficult to distinguish right from wrong to protect himself, thinking of this, the cold sweat on Song Nan's back came down.

"Old man, I understand, it seems that we can't stay out of the matter, this time we can't let Liu Jin succeed, otherwise we won't be far from destruction; The wall-riding faction in the inner and outer courts are all watching this competition for the trilateral general system, and if Liu Jin succeeds, a large number of people will be put into Liu Jin's account. ”

"It's good that you understand, that's why the old man came to you in person, do you have any countermeasures?"

Song Nan thought about it carefully, and said slowly: "Old man, most of the relatives in Jingzhong are only looking forward to you, you have to stand up at this time, and you can't let Xu Guangzuo and them jump too hard; I think the outer court must be more anxious than us, let's let them take the lead, and we can support it in the back. Not...... It seems that I will have to visit the Cabinet scholars, and count on them to come to me, for they would rather lose face than go home. ”

Zhang Mao smiled and said: "You are wrong, there are people in the cabinet who are much more shrewd than you think, yesterday someone handed a post to see the old man, and the old man was inconvenient to see him, so it was postponed to tonight, and you can come to my house in the evening to participate in the meeting." ”

Song Nan was surprised: "Oh? Who is so far-sighted? ”

Zhang Mao said: "Yang Tinghe, this person is not simple. ”

Song Nan nodded, Zhang Mao got up and said: "The old man went back to the yamen, and he will talk again in the evening, remember, you have to think about this matter carefully, since we are going to make a move, we can't return in vain, the old man hasn't done anything wrong." ”

Song Nan got up and bowed and saluted: "Old man, let's go, I will be there in the evening." ”

Zhang Mao nodded, strode out of the door, and the entourage pulled the horse, Zhang Mao jumped on the horse, his body was as strong as a teenager, and he galloped away with people.