Chapter 177: The Rape of the Poisonous Father and Son

Wei Zhongxian was indeed waiting for Master Zhang in the secret room. Seeing that Master Zhang was being led in by the eunuch in charge, Wei Zhongxian immediately smiled and asked Master Zhang, "What's wrong? I'm afraid that Cui Chengxiu and Feng Quan will join forces to deal with you?" Master Zhang replied with a wry smile: "It's really impossible to hide anything from his own father. That's right. Although Lord Cui has never said anything to the child, Feng Quan's boy is really too dark. If the child doesn't say hello to Lord Cui in advance, he might have believed Feng Quan's slander that day and created a gap with the child."

"Don't pay attention to them. If we have our family to decide for you, we will never dare to stumble on you if we have lent them a hundred courage!" Wei Zhongxian waved his hand and snorted coldly: "Even if our family saw the last time about the King of Kings, Cui Chengxiu said that everyone would not accept it. Feng Quan said that he would visit the news and volunteered to go to the King of Kings to spy on the news of our family - he said that our family really didn't know that he was using this opportunity to contact King of Kings and arrange a way out for himself? With this, our family can see who the two of them and you monkeys are the most loyal to our family!"

"Thank you for your praise, I am ashamed of you." Master Zhang's face was shy, but he was really proud of his desperation in the case of King Xin. He said hypocritically: "Actually, the child is not afraid that they will join forces. With their own fathers, they will not be able to move a hair no matter how capable they are. The main reason is that as the adopted son of the father, he does not want to take the lead in creating internal conflicts in the father's faction, which makes his father upset and gives others an opportunity to take advantage of."

"The monkey is sensible. If Cui Chengxiu and Feng Quan both understand this truth, our family can worry less." Wei Zhongxian sighed with relief, and asked the maid to prepare tea and seats for Master Zhang, and drove all the others in the secret room out. Finally, he asked: "Tell me, why didn't you tell me your strategy to quell the Shaanxi rioters in front of Cui Chengxiu and Feng Quan? What is your specific strategy?"

"The reason why the child is unwilling to speak out his strategy in front of Lord Cui and Lord Feng is not because he is afraid that they will leak the secrets and make the thieves prepare for the thieves." Mr. Zhang honestly explained: "The main reason is that the child's strategy is too horrifying. If they spread it, it will be bad for their own father and their reputation."

"Oh, where is your strategy terrifying?" Wei Zhongxian asked curiously. Master Zhang replied respectfully: "The child's strategy is actually very simple. Since my godfather cannot take out the money and grain to help the hungry people in Shaanxi - then don't just provide relief!"

"Don't provide relief? Let all the hungry people in Shaanxi starve to death?" Even Wei Zhongxian's evil hand was famous in history, and he was shocked by Master Zhang's proposal. Master Zhang did not answer directly, but said tactfully: "Dad, I wonder if you have ever heard of poisonous arrows used by Tatar cavalry? Before the Tatar cavalry went to the battlefield, he liked to put the arrows of bows and arrows in horse manure and stir them a few times, so that the arrows would bring poison juice. Our Ming soldiers were caught in the arrows.

In the future, experienced veterans, when they saw the wound flowing and black, they would use a knife to dig out the piece of meat, revealing the blood without poison, and apply it with golden sores. Although it hurts a little and the blood flows more, the wound heals quickly and there will be no future troubles in the future. However, those inexperienced recruits were afraid of pain and bleeding, and they did not dare to cut out the bad meat. As a result, more and more bad meat and the poison is getting stronger and stronger. In the end, even their lives had to be spent on this originally small wound."

Although Master Zhang’s hint was obscure, the treacherous and slick Wei Zhongxian could understand it. After pondering for a long time, Wei Zhongxian asked word by word: “How can this piece of poisonous bad meat be cut off?”

"Corpse and block! Don't let the thieves run around!" Master Zhang said in a silence: "The heavy troops are stationed in Shanxi, set up defenses along the Fen River to block the thieves' road to the east! The north is the important area of ​​Datong. Although it is not enterprising enough, it has enough self-restraints, so there is no need to worry too much in the north; on the south, transfer Baigang troops to Hanzhong, as long as you guard the three passes of Dasan Pass, Ziwu Valley and Chencang Road, the thieves will not want to go south to Sichuan! Another heavy troops are transferred to guard Tongguan, and the road to the thieves' entry into Henan will be cut off."

"The encirclement is so big?" Wei Zhongxian took a breath and asked in surprise: "The seven prefectures and six guards in Shaanxi are all broken and cut off. Most of the three prefectures in Shanxi have to be cut off. Is it too much? Is this necessary?"

"It's a little bigger." Master Zhang said slowly: "But these places are the hardest hit areas of famine. Nearly tens of millions of hungry people, the court can't help but comfort them even if they do their best. The thieves will only kill one group after another. Instead of being slaughtered by the thieves, it is better for the hero to cut off the bad meat and cut it off in one breath! Block the road of the thieves and let the thieves make the thieves rush on this bad meat. When they are almost done with internal friction, it will be much easier for the thieves to comfort and provide relief."

"This is a way to block the treacherous thieves' scattered roads and let the thieves kill and set fire in Shaanxi. Famine and war. When the hungry and disaster victims die, our family will go to comfort and provide relief, and the money and food will naturally be much less." Wei Zhongxian nodded secretly. After a little calculation, Wei Zhongxian asked again: "What about the medicine for cutting off such a large piece of meat? What medicine should be used to heal the wound?"

"Sweet potatoes and time are medicine." Master Zhang peeked at Wei Zhongxian's face, "As the saying goes, sharpening a knife will not delay the chopping of wood. With time, children can concentrate on training the slave-slaughtering army, first solve the trouble of the Jiannu Tatar in the north, and then calmly turn around and completely eliminate the thieves. With time, you can promote the cultivation of sweet potatoes in the north. One acre of grain field can only harvest more than 300 kilograms of wheat a year, but one acre of dry land or even one acre of mountainous land, two or three thousand a year will be harvested. One acre of dry land, or even one acre of mountainous land, will harvest two or three thousand acres of a year.

It is easy to get kilograms of sweet potatoes, and potatoes and corn crops, which are all high-yield grains that are drought-resistant and high-yield. It is easy to earn thousands of kilograms of grain per acre. As long as you have two or three years, you don’t even have to travel thousands of miles from Jiangnan to Shaanxi. Just half of the grain from Shanxi and northern Zhili can easily soothe the remaining hungry people in Shaanxi. In addition, the long-term drought in Henan and Shandong can also easily achieve self-sufficiency in grain and completely eliminate the hidden dangers of hungry people's riots."

"Is it really possible?" Wei Zhongxian asked in confusion: "Dog Potato can produce more than 2,000 kilograms per mu of land in Linqing, Shandong, but can other governors in the north do it? And what corn and potatoes you mentioned? You have just started to test planting in Shandong, so you dare to conclude that the yield per mu of kilograms?"

"I can't tell you that I came here more than 300 years later, right?" Master Zhang was a little worried. After hesitating for a moment, he replied: "I'm not sure, but this is always a hope. And even if this method doesn't work, your father will be less stressful when you recruit food from the south to Shaanxi to release grain relief, right? So the child thinks that we should take this bet!"

"Your bet is really a big deal, it's millions of lives!" Wei Zhongxian snorted coldly. However, Wei Zhongxian was originally a gambler. He was forced to bet his life after losing money. He entered the palace to be a eunuch, and then he bet on the eldest son of the prince who was neglected by Wanli in the palace, which won a huge fortune. Due to the gambler's personality, Wei Zhongxian was not so disgusted with Master Zhang's astonishing proposal. After repeated calculations for a long time, Wei Zhongxian finally gritted his teeth and snorted: "Okay, anyway, our family can't give out so much food to appease the hungry people in Shaanxi, and the thieves in Shaanxi cannot be quickly quenched. Our family will be with you! Our family will go to the palace to ask for an order tomorrow. The dog potato seeds that have been distributed to various prefectures in the north must be forced to plant. If anyone dares not plant, our family will want his head!"

"Dad, if you win this bet, your child is sure that your ancestral temple will be at least tripled!" Master Zhang said flatteringly: "And every household will also offer your immortal tablet to you in the halls of every household."

"But if we lose the bet, our reputation will be ruined for thousands of years!" Wei Zhongxian snorted coldly and took a few idioms. Master Zhang smiled awkwardly and said, "In addition to blocking the treacherous roads, the anti-treasures within Shaanxi must also be stepped up. Before there is enough food to appease the people, it is impossible to rely on the Shaanxi army to eliminate the treacherous thieves, but they can also play a role in weakening the treacherous power and not allowing the treacherous thieves to settle the peace and calm the public opinion of the government and the treacherous people. It is beneficial for us to accumulate strength and eliminate the treacherous thieves in one fell swoop. Therefore, the child believes that the candidates in the positions of the three-sided governor and the governor of Shaanxi are very important, and the selection conditions are very strict."

"What are the requirements, let me tell you." Wei Zhongxian asked. Master Zhang replied in a deep voice: "First, they are not the personal father's confidant and direct descendants, because their anti-rebellion and suppression of thieves is destined to fail, and they are destined to become targets for criticism and criticism by censors. If they get too close to their own father, they will easily get angry, so they must select non-direct officials. If necessary, their own father can also push them out as scapegoats and use their heads to appease all officials. Second, these two people cannot have too poor abilities. At least they must be able to fight, organize local people to train new troops, and eliminate treasons, so they can also give them some power appropriately. It doesn't matter whether they listen or not. As long as they go to consume the treason, when they are almost exhausted, you can go and pick peaches."

"Isn't our direct descendant, and I can fight?" Wei Zhongxian smiled and said, "There are many such people in the court. Monkey boy, you said, who should our family be the governor of the three sides, and who should be the governor of Shaanxi?"

"The three-sided governor, who is more qualified to serve as a member of the three-sided governor, except for Sun Ge Lao who retired and returned home?" Mr. Zhang had been holding back this bad guy for a day or two. As early as when he had just crossed over, Mr. Zhang was so determined to protect Xiong Tingbi, just wanted Xiong Tingbi and Sun Chengzong to guard Liaodong and the other to fight Li Zicheng, and to hide behind to enjoy the blessings. Now Xiong Tingbi is his father-in-law, so of course Mr. Zhang would not let him go to Shaanxi without food and assistance to make trouble. As for

As for Sun Chengzong - he doesn't have a beautiful daughter to marry Master Zhang, so Master Zhang doesn't have to pay attention to whether Sun Chengzong is in Shaanxi. So Master Zhang advised in a sinister manner: "But Sun Ge was a man who was the governor of Liaodong. He was afraid that he would be a three-sided governor whose power was far less than that of Liaodong's governor. Therefore, the child suggested that he be the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, whose power was comparable to that of Liaodong's governor. The censors and censors in the court could not find a reason to be wrong."

"Finish!" Wei Zhongxian agreed grinned, "This old man, when he was the governor of Liaodong, he gave us a lot of anger and expression. Now our family should let him suffer a little." After that, Wei Zhongxian asked again: "Where is the governor of Shaanxi? This position is also very important. Almost all the people in the court point to you to serve."

"About the governor of Shaanxi, I want to ask my father to promote a person as a person. Although his reputation is not good, I have had contact with him in Jiangnan and knew that he was a rare talent and was just right to take this position." Master Zhang hypocritically recommended. Wei Zhongxian said happily: "Who is there? There are not many people in this world who can make you praise me."

Master Zhang calmly replied: "Liangzhecheng announced the left senator of the political affairs - Hong Chengchou! The child believes that the candidate for the governor of Shaanxi is the only one!"

"Hong Chengchou? I seem to have heard of this name?" Wei Zhongxian was stunned at first, and then said with a grim smile: "I remember that this year, Zhejiang Governor Pan Ruzhen submitted a letter to build a temple for our family on the shore of West Lake. All officials at the Zhejiang Prefecture level and above signed their names on the joint memorials - but he didn't sign it! Our family still has no time to deal with him. Taking this opportunity to let him suffer some trouble in Shaanxi, it's his best!"

"Dad dad is brilliant." In the secret room, a pair of vicious father and son who were colluding with each other quickly laughed. While Master Zhang was sneering, he muttered in his heart, "Old Master Sun Ge, Hong, don't say I won't give you a chance. The difficulty of suppressing the uprising of the peasant in Shaanxi is much smaller than in history! At least, you don't have to worry about Chongzhen, who killed the minister, pulling you back than killing chickens. Old Eunuch Wei's heart is dark and vicious, but he knows the truth that the emperor is not bad at hungering soldiers, and there is also a way to get money and food for the front line. There is still a little guarantee of how much your military salary, food and grass can be shown. Whether it can be shown depends on your own."

"Today, you recommend Sun Ge Lao as the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu." After a little calculation, Wei Zhongxian ordered: "The emperor is very nostalgic. If you recommend his teacher Sun Ge Lao to come back, the emperor will be happy. Let you do this favor. As for Hong Chengchou, we recommend it to our family, and we have a good reputation for not avoiding revenge."
Chapter completed!