Chapter 168: The Melancholy of Traditional Mortise and Tenon Joints

"Oh? Is there such a thing? And then what? ”

And then ...... With the exclamation of the people of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division, the dignified Guanning Iron Cavalry was mistaken for an alien Iron Cavalry by the people, which caused a small panic, and also confronted the city gate guards for a while, and almost forced to close the Guangqu Gate. ”

"Humph! A bunch of rice buckets, and then what? ”

And then ...... Fortunately, Lu Xiangsheng, who did not know the current affairs and was sent out of Beijing to serve in the Daimyo's Mansion, was able to avoid an embarrassment and disaster. ”

"Indeed, it almost caused a calamity enough to alarm the saints! Lu Xiangsheng is a stunned young man, he is really a little bold, but it's a pity that he can't be used by me......"

The henchman peeked at Wei Zhongxian's emoji, and after a short period of time, he was interested, angry, and happy, and regretted the process of talking to himself, so he dispelled Wei Zhongxian's idea of secretly sending someone to kidnap the Zhou family's daughter, let go of his thoughts, and in order to cover it up, he hurriedly said: "My subordinates have something unclear, and I ask Your Highness to give me advice." ”

"Say it."

"Your Highness has controlled the factory guard in his hands, and the Beijing camp is in his hands, why don't you just take the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses into your pocket and completely suppress the pedantic people in Donglin Academy? Until he imitates Zhao Gao? ”

The confidant who claimed to be deeply trusted never expected that Wei Zhongxian would be really angry because of this question, and turned half of his face sideways, and the other half hid in the darkness of the lights on, and squinted at him with sympathy: "Who gave you this dog the audacity to discuss the government?" ”

The henchmen knew Wei Zhongxian's temperament very well, and knew that what he was angry about was not that he was arguing about the government and politics in vain, but that he was trying to figure out his mind without authorization, and suddenly felt two cold breaths, one rushing to his face, and the other being born from his heart.

was so frightened that he hurriedly threw himself on his knees and bowed to confess his guilt again and again, even if he broke his head, he did not hesitate to break his head, just asking this eunuch who could put his opponent to death in the most brutal way to forgive him.

After the henchman knocked his head thirty or fifty times, and his brain was blurred with flesh and blood, Wei Zhongxian waved his palm lightly and said, "Forget it, don't take it as an example." ”

The henchmen were like being pardoned, and thanked them repeatedly, but they still didn't dare to lie on the ground and didn't dare to get up.

Wei Zhongxian looked at his cowering miserable state, and finally gave birth to a trace of human intolerance in his cold heart, and he sighed lightly: "You don't know anything."

Then, he explained in detail: "Our saint seems to be obsessed with carpentry and ignores the government and politics, but in fact, whether it is Donglin Confucianism or our so-called eunuchs, they are just tools for him to balance the power of the court." ”

"Huh?" The henchman suddenly raised his head and showed Wei Zhongxian a bloody face.

Wei Zhongxian was startled, and finally raised his voice and scolded angrily: "Ah what! I've been following the old man for so long, and it's still a pit slate that can't be lifted! Are you really ignorant and ignorant? Do you say that the Ming Dynasty has been established for more than 250 years, and there is no other means except for factory guards?

East Factory, West Factory, Inner Factory, which one was not created by the Ming Emperor according to his needs, supervising hundreds of officials and controlling the court? So what's so strange about the saints tinkering with some things like internal guards and secret guards today?

might as well tell you, all the means we have to deal with Donglin, including the impeachment of Sun Chengzong and the crucifixion of Yang Lian, if there is no acquiescence of the saint, which one can be done? Even everything we do in secret seems to be secret, but in fact, the saints know it clearly.

Moreover, our carpenter emperor who has devoted himself to studying is actually not useless, the strong crossbow used in your Dao Guanning army is the two light crossbow arrows that the big locust shot and injured the flower thief, who improved it? ”

"Could it be...... Is it holy? The henchman muttered, and even the blurred flesh and blood on his face could barely hide the shock in his heart.

"That's right, Wuzong Shizong Shenzong, which emperor of the Ming Dynasty who ignores the government is an easy person? In the same way, even if the saint has achieved nothing today, it must not be underestimated, not to mention that with the respect of the Son of Heaven, he has mastered a superb carpentry skill? ”

"This ......" Wei Zhongxian's words seemed to refresh his henchman's cognition of the emperor, and he only knelt in place stupidly, looking dazed.

When Wei Zhongxian saw this, he chuckled again, and said quite complacently: "Xiao Gao, you and I are just slaves, and the duty of a slave is only to serve the master. You are still young, follow the old man to study for a few more years, the old man will keep you with a bright future. ”

Henchman Xiao Gao didn't know whether the emperor's slave was considered a slave or not, anyway, since the moment he decided to join Wei Zhongxian's disciple and was selected by him as a confidant, his identity as a slave had already been confirmed. ”

Wei Zhongxian waved his hand casually and said, "Okay, okay, the old man is tired of hearing these words." Go to the inner house to get some silver, and find a medical officer to keep a good face. Well, let's take the old ginseng to make up for the body, everything you have done for the old man over the years, the old man has seen it. ”

Xiao Gao was overjoyed when he heard this, and bowed three more times, and after getting up, he bowed backwards, and when his buttocks were about to be next to the door, he seemed to be able to see it with the eye behind him, and turned around and opened a crack and quickly drilled out.

"This kid's ability to drill when he sees a crack is becoming more and more perfect."

Wei Zhongxian smiled dumbly, and listened to Xiao Gao's brisk steps leaving quickly, and couldn't help but caress the beard that didn't exist under his chin, and said to himself triumphantly: "In the end, you are young, and you can wear it as soon as you make it, hehe." ”

He didn't know that as soon as Xiao Gaofu went out, he put a smug smile on his face facing the ground, and he didn't even care about the injury on his forehead, but secretly smiled in his heart: "Sure enough, flattery and horse shooting is also a science." You don't know how to learn, I am familiar with military books, and one day I will rise to a position of power and power, and I will definitely be above you Wei Jiuqian. ”

Wei Zhongxian looked at the luxury of the house and was smug, so he drank Shang Wen's tea and moistened it in one gulp, and then suddenly said, "Someone." ”

"Your Highness Nine Thousand Years Old." A man flashed out of the darkness, standing in the shadows, silent.

"Tell the steward to arrange it, and three days later, it will be a birthday banquet for the old man." Well, after all, it's been done several times this year, so let's keep a low profile this time. Also, you really didn't do that very well, go and do it again, remember to be more secretive and clever this time. ”

"No." The shadow whispered a promise, and then vanished, as if it had never been seen before.

Wei Zhongxian stared at that place with blazing eyes, and muttered to himself: "The old man also has secret guards, and they are all first-class experts in the rivers and lakes, hehe." ”

He thought he was smiling elegantly and sunny, but in fact it was very cold, so he even flickered lightly with the candle flame.

At the same time, the Forbidden Imperial City, a small courtyard for nourishing the heart.

In the carpentry hut, the black-clothed secret guard was kneeling in the shadows on one knee, and said to the emperor who was mistaken by Wei Zhongxian for having gone to bed: "Qi Qi Sheng, Huang Chongzhen and his party of Guan Ningjun have entered the Beijing Division this morning. ”

"Oh? Have you ever observed? What are your impressions? Apocalypse put away his thoughts on a giant crossbow and turned to look at him.

"As the name suggests, people love to toss and are good at jumping, and they are worthy of the name of the great locust."

"Love tossing is good, only love tossing, can I Daming, the pool of living water less and less Longtan, stir up the wind and water, and toss a new source of living water. Only by being good at jumping can we break out a new Ming from north to south, from east to west...... Hi Hi ......"

Apocalypse said happily, and said it extremely heroically, just talking and talking, but coughing lightly with his fists clenched.

The secret guard was shocked, and immediately admonished with concern: "The Holy Lord, please take care of the dragon's body......"

Tianqi put down the carving knife in his hand abruptly, and sighed: "The traditional carpentry mortise and tenon joint is not as good as the emerging cast iron steelmaking after all, sighing, sad ......."

Dark Wei is silent, he is a martial artist, where does he know this.

Tianqi knew that he was playing the piano to the cow, so he sighed again: "That's it, let's go to the queen." The soldiers of the Nine Sides are working hard to defend the border, and how can I slack off, so I have to work hard. ”

It was even more difficult for the secret guard to accept this, so he had to bow his head and answer the "promise" and act according to his words.

Early the next morning, it snowed heavily.

Inside the Jiangnan Hotel, the pavilions, the lush forests and bamboos are covered with snow, which is beautiful.

But whether it is Sun Yuanhua and Lu Xiangguan, two scribes and Confucian scholars, or Huang Chongzhen and other young rough men from the Guanning defense line, not only can they not arouse the slightest interest in watching, but they are also quite worried.

Sun Yuanhua, who had benefited a lot from Chongzhen and had only digested it for a night, hurriedly ran back to his secret room to test these truths with practice.

The winter snow is bleak, and everything is in ruins, as if most people are idle.

The Jiangnan Hotel, which has a good environment, finally welcomed a lot of guests early in the morning, packed the second floor, and the windows were wide open, allowing the wind and snow to blow on the face, while watching the snow scene, while cooking sake, it was not chic and comfortable.

In the flattery of "good poetry and good poetry", they were smug, thinking that the talent in their abdomen was chasing Li Du Sansu, but they could only send out some feelings such as "what a big wind, good snow", and they couldn't even hold back half a sentence of poetry that responded to the situation, let alone chase the heroism of "thousands of miles of ice and snow".

There are also self-proclaimed talents who talk about the general trend of the world and bluntly talk about the disadvantages of the court.

In the midst of the advice of "cautious words", he laughed wildly, claiming that Wen Neng Anbang and Wu Neng could set the country, so that he could not be inferior to Yuan Chonghuan, if he was the governor of Liaodong, he would be how he would be, until he took the initiative to attack, and used the red-coated cannon and the three-eyed bird gun to bombard Jiannu without leaving a piece of armor.

Although it attracted bursts of boos, there were not a few people who loudly echoed and stroked their palms.

In short, at first glance, it looks like a prosperous scene of Wenchang and Wusheng.

A young man sitting in the corner couldn't stand it anymore, so he angrily scolded these words and deeds as "Wen Tian and martial arts, whitewashing the peace", which immediately attracted a series of ridicule and rebuttals, and won the boy with only saliva.