Zheng Haizhu is not complacent about the current stage victory.

After seeing Zhu Youxiao's unconcealed pride, Zheng Haizhu interrupted Cao Huachun's flattering words that hung on his lips like rice, and said to the young prince, "Your Highness, it's far from the time to drink celebration wine. In fact, this time, Zhang Juzheng raised the knife that Lord Long Live told us to move forty or fifty years ago, and he did get a lot of silver for the household, but what happened later?"

Zhu Youxiao listened to Lu Xiangsheng talk about Zhang Juzheng's reform all the way, but he also somewhat understood the reality of "the death of people and the rest of the government", and at this time he settled down and asked, "Master Zheng, what will we do after we return to Beijing?"

"Don't be in a hurry to return to Beijing first," Zheng Haizhu inspired Zhu Youxiao, "Your Highness thinks, what else can Lu Di do?" Who else can I meet?"

Zhu Youxiao glanced at Lu Xiangsheng and hesitated, "Master Zheng, do you still want to visit the Qi Party Sect Master Qi Shijiao after all?"

Zheng Haizhu secretly thought: After all, Zhu Changluo is not a son of heaven like Zhu Yuanzhang, so Zhu Youxiao is not Zhu Di, the young man has never seen cruel blood, and his thinking is still not open, and he is limited by the number of Zhao Nanxing's ministers, so he only thinks about party fighting.

Zheng Haizhu then shook his head and said, "What is there to fight in pen and ink lawsuits and partisan verbal wars, it is in vain. Your Royal Highness, if the decrees of the imperial court are to be implemented locally, we must grasp two points, one is to avoid the joint efforts of many forces here and the imperial court, and the other is that if the literature is not good, you have to come to the military. So, next, we're going to Dengzhou and meet the governor of Denglai, Tao Langxian."

Zhu Youxiao suddenly had a new momentum.

Not because he was familiar with this Tao governor, but because when he was on the canal boat, Master Lu mentioned the Denglai sailors and the firearms of Dengzhou City.

He originally thought that Master Zheng was in a hurry to return north and perform his gong to the Son of Heaven, but he never thought that there was still the second half of this exciting and interesting journey, and he could see the scene of the water battle that Master Lu talked about.

What's even better is that Wang Yaliang, the governor of Shandong, sent Wang Song to Jinan to listen to the examination of nuns and monks on the grounds that "people from the Ministry of Rites should be present", and Zhao Sixian of Taichang Temple also knew each other very well, and offered to take the ritual music team back to Beijing first, so as to save travel money for the imperial court.

In this way, the people in front of him are all their own people like Master Zheng, Master Lu and Cao Banban.

A few days later, the eldest son's car drove to Dengzhou City.

Tao Langxian, the governor of Denglai, led a group of civil and military officials to greet him outside the city gate.

This Sipin Wenchen, whose ancestral home is Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province and lived in Susong when he was a teenager, was the first governor of Denglai of the Ming Empire in history.

At this time, Zheng Haizhu changed the outcome of the Fushun Campaign, and Zhang Quan, who was the squire of the military department at the time, understood Nurhachi's ambition and strength, and invited the imperial court to set up the Denglai Governor under the Shandong Governor to control Dengzhou and Laizhou's general army, and Dengzhou Governor Tao Langxian was two years earlier and sat in the position of Denglai Governor.

After Tao Lang first took the wind for the emperor's eldest son and his entourage, the next day, according to Zheng Haizhu's arrangement in advance, he asked the Dengzhou general soldiers to accompany Zhu Youxiao and Lu Xiangsheng to the seaside city defense to see a strange situation.

In the governor's office in Penglai City, Zheng Haizhu followed Tao Lang first and entered the small living room behind the public office to discuss matters.

accompanied by the officers under the Taurang Xianbiao battalion, Cao Xuan.

Cao Xuan is the brother of Cao Xu, the guest of honor of the Lu Palace, who was promoted to the governor of the standard battalion guerrilla last year, and this message was also mentioned by Cao Xu when he recommended himself and asked Zheng Haizhu for a future after leaving the palace.

Zheng Haizhu and Cao Xuan had already met yesterday, and first of all, they naturally asked whether the letter brought to Songjiang by Cao Xutuo's fleet had arrived at Cao's house in Shandong. After Cao Xuan nodded, his next reaction was also very polite, and even compared his younger brother with the soldiers who followed Zheng He to the West in the past, saying that it would be better if his younger brother could start a family and stay in the city of Zhancheng.

Zheng Haizhu has a spectrum in his heart, the old man and eldest son of the Cao family seem to be understanding, not only does she not blame the woman for taking her youngest son who already has a guest of honor as a partner, but also realizes that Cao Xu, who died of the wife of the county lord, went to the overseas state far away from the Tiangao Emperor to have the freedom to continue the bloodline of the Cao family.

Zheng Haizhu had already helped King Lu find out the Smelling Fragrance Sect

In the forty-fifth year of the assassin's Wanli, he accompanied Zhu Yipai to Denglai to entertain Tao Langxian, and Cao Xuan naturally did not hide the interests of the Cao family and Zheng Haizhu from his boss Tao Langxian.

Tao Lang first took Zheng Haizhu's three or four doors to climb the friendship of the eagle falcon, and when he heard that Cao Xuan's younger brother had also become this woman's subordinate, he valued Cao Xuan more and more.

"Mrs. Zheng, don't look at the complement on Cao's guerrilla's chest, it's not as good as the general soldiers of Dengzhou and Laizhou, but I don't dare to talk about it to the outside world, and the wind and grass in the ten miles and eight towns are intimate, and it has to be Cao's guerrilla tent."

There were no outsiders in the house, Tao Lang first said very directly, which means that the official said that he could control the generals of the general army, but Denglai had only set up a governor for a year or two, and the warlord's arrogant generals still only regarded the higher-level Shandong governor as their boss, and they were not very bird-like governors.

Therefore, to fight a tough battle at the moment, it is mainly necessary to rely on the governor's own standard battalion. You Zheng Haizhu have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, what do you want to do in Denglai, and which step to take, Cao Guerrilla has to listen together.

Zheng Haizhu also went straight to the point and said to Tao Langxian: "I understand what the military gate said. I also gave the military gate a secret, this time from Yanzhou to Tai'an to start clearing the land, Denglai will not be able to escape. Lu Di gentry, the foundation is not shallower than our Nanzhili, if the big tigers of Denglai are hard to bar the court, the standard camp of the military gate, can they be stopped?"

Tao Lang first faced the envoy of Banzai Ye, a close envoy, and did not want to waste time on fake politeness.

"Mrs. Zheng, whether you can handle it or not, it depends on how much grain and silver the imperial court allocates to our Denglai standard camp."

Zheng Haizhu nodded: "It's this reason. Junmen, I will tell the Lord Banzai that the overcollected land after Shandong clears the land cannot only be used for the expenses of Liao and a few towns in the north, and this autumn I will have to give you Denglai a post of 2,000 battalions. Denglai guards the Dengliao Sea Road, and if Liaodong continues to fight, the imperial court will have to count on this sea route to transport military rations there, besides, the military gate is a Jinshi born in the humerus Wenchen, how can he eat empty salaries like those arrogant generals at the border pass."

Tao Lang first returned to the essence, but the arrogant bones were also a few taels, and immediately said: "That's nature, how can I, Tao Langxian, do things that are greedy for ink, and insult the lintel of the Tao family!"

"There are more virtuous and capable ministers like Tao Gong in the imperial court, why not be afraid of the rampant construction of slaves," Zheng Haizhu hurriedly put on his high hat and said, "But there is one section, I still have to remind Tao Gong that the bowls of the two chief soldiers of Denglai should be put first." The meaning of the saint is also that the rice should be eaten one bite at a time, and let those gentlemen and outsiders pay for the silver first. The generals, even if they occupy a few acres of land, can be regarded as the court's reward for guarding the country."

Zheng Haizhu said, glancing at Cao Xuan, who was sitting below.

Although he mentioned the general soldiers who were not in the same system as himself, Cao Xuan, the general's grim complexion, was obviously relaxed.

Tao Langxian even smiled a little: "Okay, this official understands, since the imperial court has already done something and has not done something, the trouble of paying silver is determined to be solved. We eat the court's money, how can we be soft eggs in front of those powerful gentlemen, isn't it?"

Cao Xuan got up: "The officers in the camp are healthy, listen to the dispatch of the military gate, and Denglai."