Chapter 169: Killing people to silence

How Wang Dengku gave Hong Niangzi to Master Zhang, the detailed process probably doesn't need to be described - it's just that the official has power, the merchant has money, the merchant seeks power for money, and then buys power for money; then the grass-roots people I saw that Master Futai was alone, and his clothes and tea were short of people to serve him. My cousin, my cousin, was ugly, his hands and feet were dull, and his family was poor. If Master Futai didn't dislike him, he would take him as a maid, and he would not have to pay a salary or rest time. He would give her a little left when eating, and give her a little bed when sleeping; then Master Zhang, who could not sleep alone for a long time and was as clear as Bao Zhenglian and Hai Rui, refused again and again, and had to accept it reluctantly - there was a lot of nonsense, boring and boring, so I would no longer waste time to describe it in detail here.

After taking Hongnie back to the governor's office, Master Zhang arranged her next door to his room without blushing. When he was taking Hongnie to settle his pitifully small luggage, Master Zhang pretended to say to Hongnie: "Miss Hong, you can live here in the future. My room is next to you. I will call you if you have anything to do. The bedding and pillows in this room are brand new. I will take you to buy a few sets of clothes and necessary daily necessities tomorrow, and give you two taels of silver every month. If you have any questions, please ask your brother Shitou. Don't worry, I will treat you well, just treat this place as casually as your home."

As he said that, Master Zhang naturally held Hongniang's little hand, thinking about whether to play with Light Genji, or to push the little beauty down now. Mr. Hongniang blushed and pulled her hand back, lowered her head and said softly: "Thank you, Lord Zhang, if you have any questions, please tell me if you want me." Master Zhang was displeased when he heard this, and waved his hand and said, "Don't call him a wise man, unfamiliar, like Shi Tou, call me Young Master." As he said that, Master Zhang shyly hugged Hongniang's slender waist, and he thought of pressing Hongniang on the bed.

"Yes, young master." Hong Madam is a born acrobatic. She twisted her waist and escaped from Master Zhang's clutch. She shrank to the side and blushed and said in a low voice: "Big... Master, how many days will it be in...? I... me."

"After, it will take a few days in a few days." Master Zhang didn't want to use force against a thirteen or four-year-old girl - in the 21st century, this was a heavy sentence. After giving the Hong Niang a few words to rest for a while, Master Zhang planned to go back to his room to rest. Before leaving the house, Master Zhang suddenly remembered something and quickly turned around and asked, "Miss Hong, your cousin gave you to me, what should you do with your parents? If I remember correctly, it seems that your father was there to dissuade you when you were entangled by my fucking brother? Also, what are your relatives in your family?"

"I... my family is poor." The Hongniangzi hesitated for a while before he whispering in a low voice: "My father said that there is no future in selling arts, and he often doesn't have enough food. The years in the north have been bad these years. If this continues, I'm afraid I will starve to death. When we were worried, we happened to meet our distant cousin. When the cousin heard about my family, he asked my father to work in his horse shop, and took me by his side as a maid, and then... I gave me to you. My... I... I have no one in my family except me and my father."

"Oh, so that's it." Master Zhang suddenly realized and said casually: "Okay, you can rest. When you are used to living here and are willing to continue living, you say to me, I say hello to Manager Wang and call your father to Jimen. Anyway, I lack some people to work here." The Hongmao lowered her head and thanked her, and Master Zhang then left.

He gave his beautiful and lovely "cousin-law" to Mr. Zhang. With this relationship, Wang Dengku and his son ran to the governor's office and became diligent. He either came to see his cousin-law or invited Mr. Zhang to drink and have a meal all day long. Master Zhang reciprocated his favor and ordered hundreds of dairy cows and sheep from Wang Dengku, preparing to milk cheese, and trial-made marching dry food. He also allowed Wang Dengku to open branches in Gubeikoubian City and Xifengkoubian City, which he directly controlled, and promised to purchase war horses, cattle and sheep needed by Jimen in the future. Both parties were very happy and the relationship quickly got closer.

The business of hundreds of cattle and sheep and two branches obviously could not satisfy Wang Dengku's appetite. What made Wang Dengku feel even more dangerous was that the people who sent to monitor Li Wanting found that the relationship between Fu Zhi, the military supervisor of Jimen, and the Fan family business was getting closer and closer, and they even led Li Wanting into the Jimen firearm warehouse once. What this meant, Wang Dengku can imagine the danger of Wang Dengku. In an anxious state, Wang Dengku simply gave up his plan to fish for a long line, and brought some silver notes to the governor's office again, preparing to test Master Zhang's real tone.

After entering the Governor's yamen from the side, Mr. Zhang was not in the yamen. Fortunately, Wang Dengku often came here these days and was very familiar with the servants in the yamen. After stuffing a little bit of silver, Wang Dengku went directly to the backyard of the Governor's yamen on the excuse of visiting his cousin's yamen. He found the Hongnie who was doing needlework in the room. While asking her about what Mr. Zhang had said recently and did what Mr. Zhang had done, he was waiting for Mr. Zhang to return. But unfortunately, Mr. Zhang was busy with official duties and rarely stayed in the backyard, so Mr. Hongnie knew very little and had little value.

Just as Wang Dengku was waiting to be drowsy, hurried footsteps and heavy sounds of closing the door came from the room next door. Wang Dengku was excited and was about to go over to pay his respects to Master Zhang, but Fu Zhi's sarcastic duck voice came from the room next door, "Tanhualang, are you so anxious to come here, is there anything?" Hearing this voice, Wang Dengku quickly pricked up his ears, and at the same time made gestures to silence the Hongniang and eavesdrop on the conversation between the two giants of Jimen.

"What's the matter?" Master Zhang's voice was filled with anger and he asked angrily: "Eunuch Fu, I heard that you seemed to have brought outsiders into the firearm warehouse of Jimen last night. Is there anything wrong?"

"Tanhualang is very well-informed. It's not bad. Our family has brought people into the firearm warehouse, so what?" Fu Zhi replied with a sneer. Master Zhang slapped the table suddenly and shouted: "So what? The firearm warehouse is the most important place in Jizhou City. Even if I don't dare to go in and out casually, you actually brought outsiders and a woman into the firearm warehouse. You have the courage!"

"Who said that our family brought outsiders into the gunpowder depot?" Fu Zhi asked with confidence: "The people we brought in were Lord Lu Wanling and his wife. Can this be considered an outsider? Speaking of relationships, it seems that Lord Futai, you and Lord Lu have a better relationship, right?"

Master Zhang was speechless and yelled after a while: "Why did you take them in? What did you do in the firearm warehouse? Also, since you brought outsiders into the firearm warehouse, why didn't you report to me in advance?"

"Our family brought Mr. Lu and his wife into the firearm warehouse, of course, to let them visit the storage status of Jimen Firearm Warehouse." Fu Zhi was obviously prepared and said with a stern voice: "Jimen has a firearm warehouse, and Liaodong also has a firearm warehouse. Is it wrong to represent Liaodong officials to learn how to store firearms from our family? Lord Lu also praised our firearm warehouse, saying that whether it is moisture-proof, waterproof or fire-proof, it is better than the firearm warehouses of Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan! If you don't believe it, you can ask Lord Lu for your own! Also, our Jimen Supervisor is directly responsible to the court and the Sili Supervisor. Who will bring in the firearm warehouse? It seems that there is no provision of the Ming Dynasty law. Our family needs to ask Lord Futai, right?"

The room next door was silent, and it was obvious that Master Zhang was forced to say nothing. Wang Dengku was secretly happy in Hongniu's room and asked in a low voice to Hongniu: "Hong girl, is the relationship between this eunuch and Zhang Haogu so bad?" Hongniu lowered her head and did not speak. Wang Dengku was a little angry and shouted in a low voice: "Little girl, I'm asking you! Don't forget that your whole family is in my hands. If you don't speak again, your parents and your two younger brothers will suffer!"

"They are not very good in their relationship." The queen finally spoke and said in a low voice: "I have only been here for a few days. They have had a quarrel twice. The first time was that Eunuch Fu asked Mr. Zhang for a sum of money. Mr. Zhang refused to give it, and said that he did not owe Mr. Fu, so he started arguing. The second time, it seemed that Mr. Zhang asked for something from Mr. Fu, but Mr. Fu refused to give it, so he started arguing again."

"What do you want?" Wang Dengku asked. The Hongniang shook her head and replied, "I don't know, they didn't explain it clearly, and I can't guess it."

"Idiot." Wang Dengku cursed in a low voice, and was about to ask again. In the next room, Master Zhang shouted again, "I'm the last name Fu, don't think you're a military supervisor! Don't think I really don't know, don't know what you're doing behind your back! Don't forget that Jiu Qiansui is my real father. I just want to say hello to him and want to wipe your military supervisor's position. Isn't it just a matter of one sentence?"

"Okay, Master Futai can go and complain." Fu Zhi said with a slight smile: "Our family also reminds Master Futai, our family is a military supervisor, and he has a secret spy in the East Factory. Master Futai, what do you plan to do? Do you think our family doesn't know? Our family advises Master Futai, it's best for everyone to have money to eat together, eat alone - it's easy to eat, but it's troublesome if you can't get it out! Also, our family is not the kind of person who eats alone. Just follow the promise and follow the previous rules and you will have 40% off your money. Master Futai will not lose your money. But if Master Futai wants to eat alone, or is greedy and want to take more... Humph! Our family is not a vegetarian!"

"What did I eat alone?" Master Zhang asked guiltily. Fu Zhi sneered: "Forget it, Master Futai, do you think our family is so stupid? I don't know that the beautiful maid in your family was given to you by Wang Dengku, the shopkeeper of Maxing in Zhangjiakou. You often meet Wang Dengku quietly these days. Don't you want to discuss business with him? Humph, what kind of military practical exercises? If our family handed over the new muskets to the Futai practical exercises, it is probably like last time that dozens of new muskets will disappear during the drill? I'm afraid this time, there will only be more?"

"Fuck! Get out, get out of here!" Master Zhang was furious and roared loudly. Fu Zhi sneered loudly, "If you don't need to chase Master Futai, our family will have to leave. Don't worry, as long as Master Futai, don't make trouble, our family will give you a 40% discount to Master Futai." After that, hurried footsteps sounded again next door, and gradually moved away.

"Oh, I understand." Wang Dengku suddenly realized, thinking that no wonder the little castrated dog Zhang Haogu was both greedy and lustful. It turned out that he had long colluded with the Jimen Army to resell arms and make money, but Jimen Army to divide more, and the little castrated dog was less, so the little castrated dog had a strange intention, using the excuse of military drills to cheat weapons, then reported the loss and disappeared, and then quietly sold the firearms to eat alone - this kind of thing was very common in the Ming army. Not only officers secretly sold weapons and firearms, but soldiers also often did this. At least 80% of the weapons and firearms from Wang Dengku were lost in this way. After a big loss, he soon discovered that the master Zhang was doing something wrong with it, so Fu Zhi stuck the firearms warehouse and forced Zhang Haogu's little castrated dog to share the money according to the previous rules of June 4th.

"Okay, it seems that the big business that Zhang Haogu wanted to do with me was probably a firearm, and maybe even those new muskets!" Wang Dengku was secretly happy. The Hongmao next to him was so aggrieved that she almost cried. She had long admired Master Zhang's reputation and was rescued by Master Zhang once again. It was a lie to say that she had no good feelings for Master Zhang. However, what Hongmao saw and heard by Master Zhang these days made Mr. Hongmao heartbroken. She never dreamed that the hero and talent in her heart were actually such a person?

"Madam Hong, Madam Hong, are you here? Come and hammer my legs." At this time, Master Zhang shouted and opened the door next door. Madam Hong wiped away the tears of grievance from the corners of his eyes and was about to go over to serve him according to the order, but Wang Dengku gestured to keep her in the room. He gently pushed open the door and touched him quietly.

In order to facilitate service, the room of Hongniang and Master Zhang had a door directly accessible. He gently pushed open the door. Master Zhang was lying alone and half-lying on the Grand Master's chair. Wang Dengku quickly entered the room, closed the door with his backhand, and gently walked to Master Zhang to kneel down on his knees, and said respectfully: "King Caomin Dengku, come to Master Futai." Hearing this voice, Master Zhang's body was shocked and he jumped up and asked: "Shopkeeper Wang, when did you come?"

"Caomin has arrived half an hour ago. He has been waiting in Hongniangzi's room for Lord Futai to return." Wang Dengku answered honestly. Master Zhang was shocked again and asked in a low voice: "Then I was talking to Eunuch Fu here just now, and you heard it all?"

"Caomin heard it." Wang Dengku did not hesitate and replied frankly. Before he finished speaking, Master Zhang's expression had changed drastically. He subconsciously clenched his fists, his eyes turned rapidly, and his fierce and vicious look was obviously considering whether to kill someone to silence him. Wang Dengku observed his expression and hurriedly kowtowed and said, "Please rest assured, Lord Futai, Caomin can swear to the sky and never leaked these words word and half. If he violated this oath, he would ask Caomin to heaven to strike five lightnings and die without a place to bury him!"

"Swear if it works, then there will be few living people in this world." Master Zhang said gloomyly, and then shouted outside the room: "Come, come on! Zhang Shitou, you turtle, come on, come on."
Chapter completed!