Dong Qichang noticed that Zheng Haizhu's eyes were different.

This little woman, hearing the word "Yang Lian", obviously reacted more than hearing the name of Wang An, the great eunuch of the inner court.

Dong Qichang asked, "What? Miss Zheng is familiar with Yang Lian?"

Zheng Haizhu was moved, and Kan Kan covered up: "When I accompanied Miss Han to Suzhou to learn embroidery, when there was a flood and drought, I listened to the people of Changshu reciting their Yang Lian, the county governor of the county, and when he was in office, he always went to the field and water canal to visit. Therefore, Yang Zhixian was the first honest official in the merit examination and went to Beijing to become a speech official. Dong Gong just talked about the military department, so I guess that this official Yang Lian is Yang Lian of Bizhi County."

[In view of the general environment,

Dong Qichang nodded, and continued to add Yang Lian's background concisely.

Zheng Haizhu listened calmly, but his mind was full of the scenes of Yang Lian's torture depicted by later historians.

In another five years, Yang Lian, the backbone of the Donglin faction who impeached the eunuch party to death, will be framed for accepting bribes and imprisoned in the edict controlled by Wei Zhongxian's lackeys.

If ordinary torture is not enough, the skin is brushed with iron wire, every rib in the chest is broken with a copper hammer, the body is pressed with a cloth bag full of soil, and the iron nail is knocked into the left ear and the right ear is pulled out.

Rao is like this, Yang Lian still did not bend into a move, and after writing the blood book "Knife cut the east wind, laugh and laugh", he was finally killed in prison by the eunuchs.

The power system of the Ming Dynasty, regardless of the warlord military power on each side in the later period, the core of the court, is composed of the power of the king, the power of the ministers, the power of the eunuchs and the power of the officials, the king tries to use the latter three to check and balance each other, and benefit himself, the idea is not bad, but it is a pity that the heir has a high ability, and when he encounters the emperor who is dim and weak, the situation will become, and the latter three powers sometimes engage in each other, and sometimes unite to engage in the emperor together.

Therefore, in the past few years, Zheng Haizhu intends to integrate the latter three powers, or at least, make friends with the figures in these three groups.

For example, her very blue-eyed Ma Xianglin's father-in-law, Zhang Quan, a squire of the military department, did not die in Liaodong as the original process of history, and is expected to enter the cabinet.

Zhang Yanke, who is like his male best friend, and Zhou Zuo, the governor of Fujian who serves as a staff member, is also Zheng Haizhu's optimal ability to enter the cabinet. After the Battle of the Ming and Dutch Seas, every six months, Zheng Haizhu asked his nephew to send a ceremony to a merchant in Shaoxing, thanking Shang Zhou Zuo for supporting the sailors in the Minhai area and asking the Songjiang Firearms Factory to buy guns.

In the two factions of eunuchs and speech officials, Zheng Haizhu, who has a God's perspective, firmly fell in love with Liu Shimin and Huang Zunsu, and after having a lifelong friendship, the current friendship is stable.

Unexpectedly, this time I could be recommended by Dong Qichang to meet the more heavyweight figures in the eunuchs and officials, Wang An and Yang Lian.

Such an opportunity should be seized.

"Dong Gong, Wang Gonggong and Yang give two advices, how do I prepare for the gift?" Zheng Haizhu humbly asked.

Dong Qichang looked kind and kind to his friends, and said warmly, "I'm ready for you." The prince is good at calligraphy and painting, and the old man has visited a landscape of Ni Zhan, and you can give it to the prince."

"Ah, thank you Gong Dong, I will go to Songjiang tomorrow and order someone to send the silver ticket to the Dong Gong's mansion."

"You don't have to see outside, it's not counting Ni Yuanzhen's size, you can just give a small half, 1,300 taels."

Zheng Haizhu secretly took a breath of cold air, and the two hundred combined guns were gone. Dong Qichang, an old Jianghu, although he is not a villain who kills people in the country like the barnyard and the wild history, but he is really good at settling accounts, which is equivalent to allowing himself to sponsor half of his gift investment in the name of worshipping the mountain and pulling relationships.

But after all, it is the prince's great companion, and the level of this ceremony is not low, and Ni Zhan's painting is worth giving away.

In this way, he had to think about how to fight Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family, and he didn't want to ask them to work together to kill Wang An a year later.

I only heard Dong Qichang say again: "As for Yang Lian, he is a full Donglinmen man, self-sustaining and upright, worried about the life of his family and country, and he doesn't look at rare antiques, gold, silver and jewelry. In this way, you go north with the old man's boat, and the journey will take more than ten days, and you will drive the Ming army in Fushun

Chasing the Tartars, fighting Hongyi in the Fujian Navy, and your training in the Chongmin Reclamation Wasteland, all talked to the old man, and the old man drew it, titled Mingxing Several Scenes, and gave it to Yang Gong."

"Ah, wonderful, wonderful." Zheng Haizhu praised happily, "The younger generation will also offer the money to polish the pen, please Dong Gong smile."

Dong Qichang waved his hand: "Miss Zheng is a real person, and the old man doesn't see you.

Zheng Haizhu accompanied him, and said in his heart, it was indeed a scallop that wanted to applaud when he heard it, and the gift pinched the main theme, and he also sold his own paintings by the way, anyway, he was idle during the trip.

Dong Qichang is really shrewd, but he is shrewd and frank, and he doesn't treat the people who make the deal as fools, but shows you the hole cards kindly, which is also quite interesting.

……

A few days later, Cao Xu, the guest of honor of the prince of Lu Fan County, came to the Yanzhou Wharf of the canal with only a personal servant.

The three craftsmen of the treasure house recognized that it was Cao Yibin who stepped on the boat, and they were so frightened that they knelt down and kowtowed.

Cao Xu made a rude gesture and said humbly and easily: "A few masters, we will be in the same boat through thick and thin in the future, not only on the boat of this canal, but also on the boat going to Zhancheng."

The craftsmen were silent in panic for a moment, but their eyes were full of doubts.

The days of Zhong Mingding's food are something they dare not think of in their dreams, Cao Yibin said that if he doesn't want it, he won't want it?

Zheng Haizhu waved them to go to the cabin to put their luggage, turned to Cao Xu and said, "If the guest of honor wants to change his mind, it's still too late."

Cao Xu said, "I'm even more afraid that Madame will change her mind now."

He also said, "Madame will call me Cao Steward from now on, just do it."

Zheng Haizhu suddenly sighed in his heart.

Cao Xu's appearance reminded her of Wu Bangde.

In this world, no matter what life, every moment, there is a brave and beautiful life that comes to an abrupt end, and another life breaks free from the gorgeous but barren cage and goes to heaven and earth to pursue the word "break".

Zheng Haizhu smiled and said to Cao Xu in a wistful tone: "Steward Cao, I am in a hurry to rush to Beijing, and I can't go south to lead you to see Gu Jiakangli. I have written to Zhenjiang, and my little nephew Shoukuan will meet you at the pier and accompany you to Songjiang."

Cao Xu asked calmly, "I have no intention of asking Madame what I have to do, but I only ask, can Madame come back before the sea ship leaves Songjiang?"

"I don't know," Zheng Haizhu smiled, and said, "If you don't have time to rush back, you will go to sea first, to Taiwan, and my brother-in-law Yan Xuanfu may be able to receive you and send an interpreter and sailors to Champa with you." But this is thousands of miles of waves, whether in the sea or on the shore, it is changing rapidly, and there must be a quasi-head. If Yan Xuanfu can't accompany him there, you have to go by yourself, and the only one you rely on is my family in Songjiang. How, do you dare to go?"

"Dare," Cao Xu said without hesitation, and pointed to the suitcase underground, "There is no need to hide it from Mrs. at this time, since I saw a sea ship when I went to Dengzhou to visit my brother, I have always longed to go to sea. In this box, there are records of Gong Zhen, Fei Xin and others that I found, they were all entourages when they followed the eunuch Sanbao to the West, and the writings are incomplete, but they are also precious."

Cao Xu motioned to his entourage to open the box and took out two apparently repaired ethereal books, which Zheng Haizhu recognized, one was written "Western Fanguo Zhi" and the other was "Xingcha Range Rover".

Cao Xu changed his slow and calm attitude, and said with a little excitement: "If you say that you are a guest of honor in the palace, what is good is to ask for some treasures from the inner court, which is always more than the Confucian scholars outside. Madam, this Fei Xin, was the military general of the Three Treasures Eunuch Fleet, he wrote very clearly, from Fujian to the sea, Zhang 12 sails, tailwind ten days and nights, you can go to the city of Zhancheng, its country has a port near the sea, called Xinzhou. When the treasure ship arrived at the city, the chief came to greet him, wearing a golden crown on his head, and gold bracelets on his arms and ankles, riding an elephant, and hundreds of Tibetan soldiers behind him, and those Tibetan soldiers ......."

"Steward Cao," Zheng Haizhu smiled and interrupted him, "I think you know more about Champa than my righteous brother Yan Xuanfu."

Cao Xu was stunned for a moment, and then was stunned.

After dealing with him a few times, he always felt that when the woman in front of him talked to him, there was a faint coercion, but it was more arrogant than the royal mansion, but in fact, it was strong and capacious

Slow, even more nervous, I never thought that she would also praise people.

The boatman came to report, and it was his turn to get out of the gate.

Zheng Haizhu stepped over the strings of the boat, arrived at the shore, turned around and said goodbye to Cao Xu, and walked towards Dong Qichang's northbound boat.