Bao Yuanqian made eye contact with her, and both of them were fearless. The county lord's status and respect naturally didn't take them seriously, but these two people who were dressed plainly and out of place were really out of place with others.

Bao Yuanqian is a person of later generations, so he naturally doesn't care about the gaze of this county lord, so he also stares straight at her. When he first entered the imperial capital, he didn't have a deep concept of respect and inferiority in the hearts of these princes and nobles, otherwise he wouldn't have nailed Qiu Yue with a spear that day.

But curiosity is always short-lived, and ants like Bao Yuanqian don't seem to deserve her much attention. The county lord blinked his big eyes and looked away, wanting to follow the clan queue beside him towards the Zhengyang Gate.

"Lord Xiao, do you know that woman?" Bao Yuanqian pointed at the county lord Qianying and wondered.

"Which one?" Xiao Yi followed the direction of his finger, his face turned pale all of a sudden, and he hurriedly pressed Bao Yuanqian's raised hand and whispered: "Alas, put your hand down quickly, don't point fingers." ”

Bao Yuanqian was curious by his actions, "Lord Xiao won't be enough?" Those who don't know are not guilty. ”

Xiao Yi hurriedly waved her hand and said: "The charge of disrespecting the clan is not small, and besides, she is not an ordinary clan noble, but the pearl of Mu Sheng, the Marquis of Xiping." ”

"Mu Sheng?"

When Bao Yuanqian heard this word, the first thing he thought of was Zhu Yuanzhang's righteous son, the late Muying, the king of Qianning. This Mu Sheng should be the second generation of Xiping Hou, this county lord is her daughter, no wonder she was not afraid of the cold that day and wore the "Ling Rou Yi" of the Tusi custom, and her ability to control elephants was quite spicy, so it turned out to be a professional counterpart.

He thought in his heart that this Mu family town in Yunnan, and the relationship with the local Tusi was intertwined, and Emperor Tiangao had already become a local emperor. This Mu family is a staunch supporter of Zhu Yunwen's faction, and Zhu Di also deeply felt the threat from the southwest after the martyrdom.

This Mu Mansion enjoys a high prestige in the local military guards, the division, and the many Tusi. @·No mistake start~~ The mountains and rivers in the Yunnan-Guizhou region are high and long, in case the use of troops is unfavorable and protracted, the kings, generals, and officials who are forced to submit to themselves are likely to take advantage of the provocation.

Thinking about it this way, it is no wonder that this Mu Sheng's daughter can be in the front row as the county lord. Seeing Zhu Di's car driving, he only gave a half-blessing gift, which seemed to be Zhu Di's intention to win over Mu Sheng, the leader of the largest military group in the southwest, and specially rewarded him.

Xiao Yi covered her mouth and whispered, this Mu family seems to be a noble, but in fact it is a lineage of Ming Taizu's righteous son, which is actually a double esteemed identity of the clan and the noble. Although the Marquis of Xiping is a marquis, the regulations are the same as those of the princes.

The government and the opposition are also called Mu Wangfu, and the daughter of the marquis is no different from the daughter of the prince, and the rules of honor are only high and not low, and they are all called by the county lord.

When Bao Yuanqian heard this, it was no wonder that Xiao Yi asked him not to point fingers. The gold content of this Marquis of Mu Sheng is much higher than that of Duke Qiu Funa. Now that Zhu Dijing is difficult to decide, it is a critical time to win over Mu Sheng, who has a heavy army, and the little county lord of Mu Wangfu can be said to be calling for wind and rain in response to the sky.

No wonder that Jinyi Wei was submissive that day, and she took responsibility with a fluttering sentence. Not to mention losing one tribute elephant in her identity, even if it is ten, it doesn't matter.

Jiang Wei listened to Xiao Yi's chatter, stared at the back of the county lord and said thoughtfully: "In the past few days, it has been rumored that this Xiping Marquis Mu Jiasu and Changxing Marquis Geng's family are in-laws, if she is the county lord of Mu Wangfu, then the old man who is close to her should be Geng Hou." I didn't expect the veteran of a hundred battles to be so pampered..."

Jiang Wei saw that although the old man was dressed in gorgeous clothes, he did not have the perseverance of a general, how could he look like a veteran of the battlefield who had been fighting for half his life? Who knew that Jiang Wei didn't say anything, Xiao Yi jumped up in fright to cover Jiang Wei's mouth.

"I said you two don't want to die! "Xiao Yi's eyes rolled around, "Don't question this person, this is a taboo in this dynasty, I don't know how many people were killed for spreading rumors last year!" ”

Bao Yuanqian and the others were confused, and they thought to themselves, why did Xiao Yi make such a fuss. Especially Bao Yuanqian, he knew who Jiang Wei was asking. This Changxing Marquis is Geng Bingwen, who was replaced by Li Jinglong after being defeated by Zhu Di in the Battle of Zhending. In the history books, he later died of trespassing and committed suicide.

But now it's only the first year of Yongle, this Geng Bingwen should have the merit of supporting, why does talking about this person make Xiao Yi secretive?

Xiao Yi sighed lightly, and when she saw that the two of them didn't open the pot, she pulled the two of them aside and said, "Hey, you still don't have to inquire about this matter." I only work with.

You say it again, the old man is the Marquis of Changxing. ”

"Oh, yes."

Jiang Wei nodded as if he had just woken up from a dream and glanced at Bao Yuanqian beside him.

Bao Yuanqian understood what Jiang Wei meant, and Xiao Yi seemed to be too nervous. Jiang Wei just saw that the person's demeanor was not like a veteran on the battlefield, and he unintentionally mentioned it, but Xiao Yi was shocked into a sweat.

The Mu family and the Geng family are in-laws, and the little county lord of the Mu Wangfu came to the capital from Yunnan to be unfamiliar with the place, so naturally he can only be familiar with the Geng family. The nobles who came to welcome the saints all had knighthoods, so the Geng family could only have Geng Bingwen qualified to welcome the saints, which is not difficult to guess.

As the saying goes, when things go wrong, there must be demons. If he was calm, the two of them would not suspect anything, but Xiao Yi's radical reaction was like there were no three hundred taels of silver here, so Jiang Wei's unintentional words were not groundless.

Bao Yuanqian thought in his heart, if this person is not Geng Bingwen and is accused of being a deer as a horse, then where did Geng Bingwen really go? Why did Zhu Di fake this fake Geng Bingwen, could it be related to the Mu family? He immediately shook his head, and said in his heart that the affairs of these magnates were not considered by himself alone.

Without waiting for him to think about it, Xiao Yi said with a straight face: "Even if I haven't said it today, you two haven't heard it." If you talk nonsense, not only will your reputation be ruined, but you will even be implicated in me! ”

"Yes, yes."

..........

Bao Yuanqian had nothing to do in the inn, and the brothers were also bored. They also stayed in Yingtianfu for almost a month, and on that day Zhu Di returned to the palace and several people were in good spirits, thinking that Zhu Di would summon a few of them when he returned to Beijing, but there was no news in a row.

Xiao Yi came yesterday, and he went back to the palace to ask for a decree. He told everyone that the Son of Heaven had known that several people had arrived at Yingtianfu to wait for the announcement, but this month in the central capital was tired, and he was quite tired and chose another day to announce it.

Rao is Bao Yuanqian is quite determined, and he also feels that Zhu Di's fight is also a little bigger. But the Son of Heaven doesn't see you, no matter how anxious you are, you have to hold back, and several people have no choice but to continue to wait.

In the past few days, the murder of Qiu Yue, who was full of wind and rain in the city, seems to have been deliberately pressed down. Since Zhu Di returned to Beijing, the market has returned to normal, and no one has searched for the assassin anymore. I don't know what Qiu Fu thought when he learned about this?

"It's really that the emperor is not in a hurry, he is in a hurry to die as a eunuch!" Bao Yuanqian threw the sieve and played, laughing at himself.

"It's not necessarily a bad thing." Jiang Wei smiled lightly, "Don't you realize that the Holy Lord is deliberately indifferent to us." ”

"Deliberately?" Bao Yuanqian was already grinding his skin and rubbing itchy, but now hearing Jiang Wei say this made him refreshed.

Jiang Wei mixed a cup of tea and said: "We have made a contribution, and we are the last batch to make an exception and recommend to enter the court, and this matter is known to both the government and the public." As Marquis Wu said, the party struggle is fierce, and both the civil and military factions are open to see what official positions the Holy Lord will reward us. ”

"You're right. @ ”

Jiang Wei said again: "How can the saint not know that the government and opposition parties are fiercely fighting? Now I can't wait for the deliberate idleness, not against us, but to sound the alarm bell for the civil and military factions, and warn the hundred officials not to carry out party disputes in the name of recommendation. ”

Bao Yuanqian seemed to have an understanding and said: "You want to say that the official position given to us by this saint will not be too high?" ”

Jiang Wei said: "So I will joke that day that I will give you a civil official and the idle position is uncertain." ”

Bao Yuanqian said disapprerovingly: "Military merit is just a stepping stone, and what we came to Yingtian is not as simple as military merit." ”

Jiang Wei shook his head and said: "It's not that simple, I have seen a lot of eyebrows these days." ”

"What's the explanation?"

"That day, you just stared at the woman outside the Zhengyang Gate, but you ignored a character among the hundred officials!" Jiang Wei put down the teacup and said in a daze.

"Who?"

Jiang Wei whispered: "Do you remember the Xiangshi who touched your bones that day?" ”

"Gong Yuan!?"

"Exactly! He was also in the queue that day, dressed in civil official robes! ”

Bao Yuanqian gasped, he never expected that this Xiangshi of unknown origin would be a court official!

This at least shows that the civil official group has been eyeing him for a long time, and he pondered what Gong Yuan said when he came to touch his bones that day, but there were three points of warning. Jiang Wei's meaning couldn't be clearer, these civilian-bureaucratic groups have all the means. No matter how much credit you have, if you don't share the same boat with them, I'm afraid that a few words will attack you.

Get a raw deal!

Because Wu Gao is a military general, but he is a martyr and has no merit in welcoming the crime, so he has not been involved in factional disputes for the time being. But these civil officials are still afraid that Bao Yuanqian and his party will favor the military generals' faction and beat themselves up.

"Fuck!" Bao Yuanqian was analyzed by Jiang Wei for this reason, and immediately scolded.

Jiang Wei pondered: "It's just that the civil officials have made an early move, but this military general faction is looking for you for a long time, which is a bit unexpected." ”

He drank the tea and was about to leave, Bao Yuanqian asked, "The sky is getting dark, where are you going?" ”

Jiang Wei sighed lightly and said, "I went to visit Xiaolan, and I haven't visited her since I settled her that day." ”

"Wait."

"What?"

Bao Yuanqian kept him and saw him mention Xiaolan. He has been pondering this matter in his heart for the past few days and doesn't know how to tell Jiang Wei, but finally made up his mind, after all, it is about Xiaolan's safety. @

"Do you know... Liang Guogong of the previous dynasty, Lan Yu? ”

"Sappy?" Jiang Wei shook his head.

Bao Yuanqian said in his heart that what he thought was true, the news in this era was closed, how could Jiang Weijie and the small people in the small city of Biansai know the victims of the struggle for imperial power?

Besides, this Lan Yu is not a great general in this era, and this is the result of the infinite exaggeration of Lan Yu in later generations, and even boasted to the point that Lan Yu is alive and Zhu Di does not dare to appease.

In fact, Lan Yu's fame in the early Ming Dynasty came from two places, one was the brother-in-law of Kaiping King Chang Yuchun, and the other was that he was tortured by peeling the skin of daylilies and was exterminated by the clan.

For the vast majority of his military career, Lan Yu participated in the war as a deputy general and a partial-division assistant. And when it was his turn to become the commander of the first army, he only experienced two big battles.

One of them is to sweep away the remnants of the Xichuan Yuan Dynasty, Yuelu Timur. But history is so funny, as the commander of Lan Yu has not yet reached the rear base camp of the Ming army, the Yuelu Timur army was commanded by Sichuan to make Qu Neng defeated and annihilated, and captured Yuelu Timur alive. This battle was handled by Qu Neng, and Lan Yu was only stained with light.

The second is the great victory of fishing in the sea, but in fact, Lan Yu has been running around in the north for several months in vain, and he can't find the location of the Northern Yuan royal court. Lan Yu was discouraged and prepared to return to the court, but it was Geng Bingwen and Wang Bi, the deputy generals of the left and right, who persuaded them to die and made a military order, and after allowing the two of them to search for three days, Lan Yu had no choice but to agree. And it was these three days that really allowed Geng Bingwen and Wang Bi to find out where Emperor Tianyuan was!

Therefore, Lan Yu wants to rely on military exploits to be known in this era, which is simply a fool's dream.

Bao Yuanqian told Jiang Wei the ins and outs of the Lanyu case, Jiang Wei was speechless for a while, and said after a while: "No wonder she is depressed, I shouldn't have brought her to Yingtian." ”

Bao Yuanqian sighed lightly and said: "It's all my fault, I ignored this matter in the past." It was only when Ying Tian saw Xiaolan's reaction that he thought of it. ”

Jiang Wei shook his head and said, "I don't blame you, you and I just doubt it." Whether it's or not, I have to let Xiaolan tell me by himself. But if this is the case, once the news is leaked, it will bring death to the brothers. ”

What he said is true, Lan Yu was razed by the three clans, if Zhu Di learned that there were still orphans alive in the Lan Yu case, he would definitely kill Xiao Lan to the end, and several of them would also be implicated.

After all, Zhu Di's Jingnan was legitimately succeeded to the throne with Zhu Yuanzhang as the orthodox, and the cases in Zhu Yuanzhang's era were not allowed to be overturned, otherwise it would be disrespectful to Emperor Taizu Gao, and the reason for this Jingjing would be greatly discounted.

He got up and paced uneasily, "If I take Xiaolan away first, I don't want this reward." ”

Bao Yuanqian shook his head and said: "That is a deception, and the names of the two of us can be on the holy decree." Where they go, you can't go. ”

Jiang Wei said: "If you close yourself, it's because I'm negligent." ”

Bao Yuanqian stabilized him and said, "Don't worry, now that Xiaolan is fine, let's not mess with ourselves." And wait for the reward to come down first, and then it's not too late to make a decision. ”

Jiang Wei sat down slowly, he understood that Bao Yuanqian's words were reasonable, after all, Xiaolan's identity was still unknown, so it was in a hurry to make such an arbitrary decision. In addition, it has not been exposed now, and it is suspicious to leave rashly.

Just as the two of them were talking, there was a knock on the door, and Bao Yuanqian opened the door to look, only to see that it was the official who managed the inn.

The little official said with a smile on his face: "Don't blame the nobles, there are guests looking for them." ”

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"Guest?" Bao Yuanqian looked downstairs and saw a man standing tall looking at himself on the second floor, smiling lightly.

The man was tall, well-proportioned, and less than thirty years old. @*~~ Although he was wearing a cloth shirt, he couldn't hide the murderous look between his eyebrows, and he looked like a man in the army.

"Let him come up." Bao Yuan instructed and then turned to Jiang Wei and said, "Old Jiang, you just said that you are a military attaché." No, Cao Cao Cao arrived. ”

The two of them sat upright in the room, and in a moment the man in cloth was already standing in front of the door.

"Presumably the two of you are the people nominated by Wu Hou?"

"Yes, please come into the house for a while."

The man closed the door and entered, and immediately pushed Jin Shan, and said like a jade pillar: "I am the secretary left behind by Fengyang, Wei Qing." ”

"Wei Qing?"

Bao Yuanqian was in a trance when he heard this name. He vaguely remembered that there was indeed a Wei Qing in the early Ming Dynasty, and this Wei Qing was not Wei Qing of the Han Dynasty. He looked at the Wei Qing in front of him with a handsome face, not weaker than Jiang Wei at all, but a young and pretty general with a jade face.

The three of them introduced each other, and Wei Qing took out a letter from his arms and said, "Don't misunderstand, Wei is not a lobbyist but a messenger." ”

Bao Yuanqian took out the letter and took a look, but it was Zhu Rong, the king of Qi.

"King Qi? Zhu Rong? Both were a little unfamiliar with the name.

Wei Qing said: "His Royal Highness the King of Qi was imprisoned in Fengyang because he held an army during the puppet dynasty. Now that Jing is in trouble, the saint went to Fengyang this time to worship his ancestors, and he also made a special trip to bring His Royal Highness King Qi to the heavens and restore his fiefdom. ”

The two of them read the content of the letter and couldn't help but be a little frightened. It turns out that this Qi King Zhu Yu has a great background, and the letter said that his wife Wu is the sister of Wu Gao, the Marquis of Jiangyin! The words in the letter were vague, as if there were a few people doing things for him.

Since this Zhu Yu sent Wei Qing to send a letter to win over, that should be the meaning of the military attache group, no wonder this military attache group did not react earlier. It turned out that he was waiting for Zhu Yu to return from Fengyang, and to win over himself and others as Wu Gao's sister-in-law.

But this matter is by no means so simple, this Zhu Rong is Wu Gao's sister-in-law, but Wu Gao did not mix with the military attache in one go, but let himself have insight into the situation in the DPRK and China.

This shows that this Zhu Yu is quite unreliable, at least in Wu Gao's eyes. Then you have to be careful, you can't get on the boat in a daze because of Zhu Rong's letter.

"I see, since the king of Qi personally wrote a letter, I am flattered." Bao Yuanqian played Tai Chi, "It's just that the saint has not been summoned yet, and his fame has not been decided for a long time, so I am afraid that this letter will be postponed for a few days." ”

Wei Qing said bluntly, and the three of them sent Wei Qing away with a few words.

Jiang Wei looked at his back and said, "Fengyang stayed behind.... This King of Qi is good at winning people's hearts, but he was imprisoned in Fengyang in the past, but he was able to make a wide range of officials, and let the left-behind secretary of Fengyang deliver letters for him. ”

Bao Yuanqian didn't pay attention to Wei Qing's official position, but Wei Qing's person.

He didn't meet Wei Qing, the general of the Han Dynasty, but he met Wei Qing of the Ming Dynasty. Now both the civil and military sides have thrown olive branches, and the choice is in their own hands.

It's just that he was caught by the civil and military, and Zhu Di was deliberately watching the fire from the other side, and several of them were really under pressure.