Chapter 203: Around the world

The day after Feng Quan and Zhangjiakou discussed secretly in Niutiao Hutong, Ma Shiying quietly made Master Zhang’s appointment in a remote restaurant in the capital for a secret talk. After both of them sat down, Ma Shiying said to Master Zhang straight to the point: "Tanhualang, I'm really sorry. I asked you out today to tell you something. The official will have to go back to Datong tomorrow. I can only ask you all the remaining things in the capital."

"So quickly?" Master Zhang asked in confusion: "The 60th birthday of Nine Thousand Years is here a few days. This is a great opportunity to please Nine Thousand Years. Why are you willing to leave now?"

"It was Jiu Qiansui who asked Xiaguan to go back." Ma Shiying replied honestly: "Shaanxi-Ganxi Governor Sun Gelao sent Tangbao. He was preparing to launch a major offensive on Fugu County, the old thief in Shaanxi. The Ministry of War Department was worried that the main force of the thief was attacked and fled to Shanxi or Datong. It suggested that the defenses of these two places be strengthened. Jiu Qiansui asked Xiaguan to go back to Datong to prepare immediately. He also said that I would not need to participate in the 60th birthday, just give him a military merit as a congratulatory gift."

"Brother Yaocao is indeed like me, and they are destined to be killed in the battlefield." Master Zhang smiled bitterly and comforted him: "But this is not a good signal. The rioters may wander to Datong. Jiu Qiansui let the governor of Datong, Governor Xuanda and Governor Xuanda, your three immediate bosses are not needed. You can call you back to Datong organization to fight against the enemy. This proves that your position in Jiu Qiansui's mind is already very important. If the governor Xuanda is really replaced this time, your hope will definitely be great."

"Thank you, Tanhualang Jiyan, I hope this can be done." Ma Shiying sighed, not very confident about this - the governor and governor of Xuanda were replaced together, which was based on the fact that Mr. Zhang took over as Governor of Xuanda and Wei Zhongxian deliberately paved the way for Mr. Zhang. Now Mr. Zhang is determined not to go to Mr. Xuanda. Whether Zhang Suyang, who did not abandon the city and fled like Zhang Pu, would be replaced? It is a matter of two things.

"After returning to Datong, Brother Yaocao, you should take care of yourself. Be careful of the open spears of the rioters on the battlefield, and be more careful of hidden arrows on the battlefield." Master Zhang instructed: "Especially your personal soldiers, they are responsible for protecting your safety, and taking care of your food, clothing, housing and transportation. Therefore, you must be more careful. You must use the most reliable person - the group of profiteers in Zhangjiakou, which is rich in money, and it is hard to guarantee that they will not buy your personal soldiers." As he said that, Master Zhang took out a handful of silver spoon from his arms and handed it to Ma Shiying, and said with a forced smile: "Brother Yaocao, you and I have acquainted each other, and there is nothing to give you. I use this silver spoon myself. Now I give it to you. When you eat and drink water, remember to use this silver spoon to test the poison."

"Thank you, Tanhualang." Ma Shiying took the silver spoon with both hands, and his voice was so moved that he was a little choked. Master Zhang sighed again, patted Ma Shiying's shoulder, and said in a deep voice: "Brother Yaocao, since ancient times, evil has not suppressed justice. Even if the traitors and tyrants in Zhangjiakou can be free for a while, it is not that they will not be reported. Before the time comes, sooner or later, we will deal with them, and God will deal with them! What you have to do now is to protect yourself and protect your useful body, so that you can settle the accounts with those tyrants."

"Thank you, Tan... Hualang, I will protect myself." Ma Shiying finally shed tears and said sobbingly: "Tanhualang, you should also pay attention to the hidden arrows behind you. You are the God of War in the Ming Dynasty. No one can defeat you on the battlefield, but in the officialdom, many treacherous ministers hate you to the core, and they are thinking about how to defeat you day and night. It's like Feng Quan, whenever he has the chance, he will rudely shoot cold arrows behind you!"

"Brother Yaocao reminds me that I don't know that I have many enemies in the officialdom." Mr. Zhang nodded and snorted coldly: "As for Feng Quan, I have never taken him seriously. I haven't started a war with him yet. It's because if he falls, I will become Cui Chengxiu's opponent, so I have to keep him as a shield." After that, Mr. Zhang smiled bitterly and added, "But fortunately, Jiu Qiansui still trusts me very much now. With him protecting me, no one can touch me for a while."

"Yes, although Jiu Qiansui did not allow Tanhualang to touch the unscrupulous merchants in Zhangjiakou, he also arranged an important position for Tanhualang to be the governor of Min Town." Ma Shiying wiped his tears and said happily: "To be honest, just by talking about oil and water, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang is many times more fat than the governor of Xuanda. If someone asked someone to choose, at least ninety-nine out of a hundred people would choose to go to Fujian and Zhejiang. Only officials like Tanhualang who really wanted to do something practical for the court and the people would give up their weight and gain weight. They only wanted to go to Xuanda. Jiu Qiansui arranged such a fat man for Tanhualang, which was also a kindness to Tanhualang."

"Maybe that's the case." Master Zhang continued to smile bitterly, looked up at the scenery of the capital outside the window, and said in his heart in a depressed mood: "Is the old eunuch Wei really in a hurry to drive Ma Shiying back to Datong because of military affairs? Ma Shiying left, I want to deal with the traitors and locust merchants in Zhangjiakou, but there is no right-hand man. Ma Shiying is in Datong and will fight alone again."

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Master Zhang thought he was still trusted and favored by Wei Zhongxian, and this idea seemed a bit too optimistic. At least, while Master Zhang and Ma Shiying had already come to Wei Zhongxian's house. In front of his lord Cui Chengxiu, he stabbed Master Zhang hard in the back, and told Wei Zhongxian the matter of Master Zhang asking for help from the royal party and the queen to secretly act as governor of Xuanda. Wei Zhongxian was indeed furious and shouted with a blue face: "Is this news true? That little monkey boy Zhang Haogu actually dared to ask others for his back?"

"The news is absolutely true!" Feng Quan replied firmly: "If Jiu Qiansui doesn't believe it, you just need to pay a little attention to the Queen's recent actions to know the true or false. Bei Zheng is certain. In a few days, the Queen will blow the wind in the emperor's ear, encourage the emperor to bypass Jiu Qiansui and directly put Zhang Haogu in Xuanda to be the governor."

"Bang!" Wei Zhongxian smashed a teacup to pieces, and for a moment he really believed Feng Quan's words - Master Zhang was salivating at the position of Governor Xuan Da, and Wei Zhongxian had long known it! Cui Chengxiu said silently and never jumped out to go against Feng Quan as before, and proved it for Master Zhang. After all, Master Zhang's strong rise has seriously threatened Cui Chengxiu's position as the number one think tank of the eunuch party. Especially in the Xinwang incident, Master Zhang completely replaced Cui Chengxiu, planned all plans to overthrow King Xin for Wei Zhongxian, and gained Wei Zhongxian's absolute trust and greatest favor. If Cui Chengxiu was not jealous, then he would be really a saint. Moreover, if Master Zhang went to Xuan Da, Cui Chengxiu's wealth would be greatly threatened, and Cui Chengxiu would be even more unlikely to push Master Zhang to that position.

Seeing Wei Zhongxian being furious and Cui Chengxiu silent, Feng Quan felt even more secretly happy and took the opportunity to get into trouble and said, "Jiu Qiansui, in fact, I thought Zhang Haogu was unreliable. As early as when he went to Jiangnan, he had already been flirting with Zhang Weixian's niece, hooking up with him and becoming a traitor, revealing his intention to betray Jiu Qiansui. Later, Jiu Qiansui's favor to him became more and more, but he did not want to repay him, but instead acted as a mighty man outside.

Relying on his minor merits to bully his colleagues at will, he is arrogant and domineering, and ruining your reputation. This time he returned from the northern expedition to Tatars. Nine Thousand Sui, you are busy with government affairs and only a few days later from his reward. He thought that Nine Thousand Sui was deliberately leaving him alone, thinking that Nine Thousand Sui was jealous of his achievements in the northern expedition to Tatars, so he deliberately did not give him rewards and promoted him. He became rebellious and could not wait to surrender to Zhang Weixian's party..."

"Slow down!" Wei Zhongxian suddenly interrupted Feng Quan's fanning flames and asked in a deep voice: "You said that little monkey Zhang Haogu thinks that our family is deliberately leaving him alone and jealous of his military achievements, so he deliberately does not reward him for promotion?"

"Nine Thousand Sui, this is obvious." Feng Quan said with a fluttering mouth: "Zhang Haogu defeated hundreds of thousands of Tatars with an army of eight thousand. This record is simply comparable to the great victory of Liang Duke (Lan Yu) in the fishing sea. Zhang Haogu was proud of his merits and targeted such important positions as the governor. After he returned to the capital, Jiu Thousand Sui, you have not given him a reward for various reasons, and you did not agree to let him become the governor as an extreme minister. Of course, you would have such an idea." Speaking of this, Feng Quan pretended to turn to Cui Chengxiu and asked, "Cui Zongxian, do you think so?"

Cui Chengxiu peeked at Wei Zhongxian's face first, and found that Wei Zhongxian's eyes were rolling around, his face became more angry, and he secretly thought, "That boy Zhang Haogu wants to be the governor of Xuanda. He told me personally that he also asked me to help him speak in front of Jiu Qiansui. Jiu Qiansui has never said that he planned to award Zhang Haogu any official position in the past few days. So, there are only two reasons at present. One is that Jiu Qiansui is really jealous of Zhang Haogu's military achievements, so he wants to suppress him.

To suppress his momentum; secondly, the people in Zhangjiakou have already sent the silver to Jiuqiansui through Feng Quan. Jiuqiansui agreed not to send Zhang Haogu, the little plague god, to harm Zhangjiakou. - These two reasons, no matter which one, I will suppress Zhang Haogu now, which is a chance!" Thinking of this, Cui Chengxiu finally spoke and said carefully: "Jiuqiansui, if the situation is really as Feng Tangguan said, Zhang Haogu might really be a bit resentful."

Now it was Wei Zhongxian's turn to turn the mung bean eyes to calculate. He first looked at Feng Quan with a flattering face, and then looked at Cui Chengxiu who was calm. Wei Zhongxian suddenly slapped the table and shouted: "You two, listen to our family. From now on, we will closely monitor Zhang Haogu's little monkey's every move. Once he finds that he has any abnormal movements, report it to our family immediately! Did you hear it?"

"As for the order of the Hu-Jiang," Feng Quan and Cui Chengxiu bowed and agreed. Feng Quan tentatively said in his heart ecstatic: "Nine Thousand Sui, Bei Yi has another idea. No matter what, Zhang Haogu is still of great use to Jiu Qiansui, so Bei Yi suggests that Jiu Qiansui can issue a little warning to Zhang Haogu and make him restrain himself."

"How to warn?" Wei Zhongxian stared at Feng Quan and asked. Feng Quan said sinisterly: "After Jiu Qiansui, among the few current governors of the Ming Dynasty, only the governor of Xuanda, Zhang Puzhang, has expired and is about to resign and rotate, so Zhang Haogu set his sights on this position. Bei Zhi believes that it is better to give the candidate for the governor of Xuanda now and let Zhang Haogu die! In this way, it is equivalent to sending a warning to Zhang Haogu that if he stops the horse, everything will be easy. If he is obsessed with it and further betrays Jiu Qiansui, then Jiu Qiansui can also..."

"The method is good." Wei Zhongxian nodded slowly, pointed at Feng Quan and Cui Chengxiu and asked: "Then what do you think is the most appropriate person to let him take over as Governor Xuanda?"

"Governor of Liaodong!" Feng Quan and Cui Chengxiu answered in unison. Before he finished speaking, Feng Quan and Cui Chengxiu looked at each other again, and thought to himself that you kid had taken his benefits. Wei Zhongxian snorted coldly, "Governor of Liaodong? His Ningjin defense line has not been completed yet, and he also wants to be transferred to the position of promotion?"

"After nine thousand years old, the imperial court's one or two silver dollars in the city repair funds were not allocated to the governor of Liaodong. The governor of Liaodong built Jinzhou City to be able to block the two large-scale attacks of Jiannu. This is not easy." Cui Chengxiu said with a tough bullet: "Besides, he recently won a big victory in Liaodong, and used a surprise attack to capture Haizhou Fortress east of Sanchahe. This proves that his military talent was not inferior to Zhang Haogu, but he had no chance to expand. As the governor of Xuanda, he had to defend Tatars in the north, block Jiannu in the west, and guard the capital in the east. This position is crucial, and only the current governor of Liaodong, who is both civil and military, can serve as the governor of Liaodong."

"Yes, when it was proposed that the Liaodong Governor decentralize power and let the Liaodong Governor decentralize power outside the pass, it was actually just one of Zhang Haogu's protection of his father-in-law Xiong Tingbi..." Feng Quan followed suit. Unexpectedly, Wei Zhongxian suddenly interrupted and said, "Slow up, what did you say just now, the governor decentralize power?"

"I said that the governor and governor were decentralized. Do you have any questions about Jiu Qiansui?" Feng Quan replied in a daze. Wei Zhongxian's mung bean eyes quickly turned, finally showed a smile, and nodded and said, "It's nothing. Our family just suddenly remembered something, so you continue."

"Weizhi believes that the so-called decentralization of power by the governor is actually just a strategy of Zhang Haogu to preserve his father-in-law Xiong Tingbi, and all the responsibilities of the Liaodong Governor's defeat outside the pass are entirely selfish." Feng Quan secretly looked at Wei Zhongxian's face and said with a careful word: "So in the past two years, the Liaodong Governor who directly blocked the Jiannu has been burdened by the decentralization of power and has never had the opportunity to show his strengths. Weizhi dared to suggest Jiu Qiansui to give Liaodong Governor a chance to make his own moves." Speaking of this, Feng Quan said more carefully: "And the Liaodong Governor is also loyal to you. Not to mention the construction of a ancestral temple for Jiu Qiansui in Ningyuan City, this time, the Liaodong Governor still sent an envoy from Ningyuan to offer a generous gift to Jiu Qiansui."

"Great gift? How generous is it?" Wei Zhongxian asked without blushing. Feng Quan looked at Cui Chengxiu first, and saw that Cui Chengxiu didn't speak, so he attached it to Wei Zhongxian's ear and whispered: "80,000 taels of silver in the silver!"

"So much?" Wei Zhongxian was a little surprised. Feng Quan smiled flatteringly and nodded, saying that it was true. If Feng Quan offered the eight locust merchants a price not 100,000 taels, it would be true, and it would be true. It was not bad at all.

"Okay." Wei Zhongxian finally nodded and said with a smile: "When our family's 60th birthday, ask his envoy to send the gifts to the mansion."

Feng Quan was overjoyed and quickly agreed. Wei Zhongxian and Cui Chengxiu and Feng Quan discussed things for a while, and soon threw the two of them in the hall of the back hall to take office. He turned around and entered the secret room behind him and whispered to the little eunuch who served in the secret room: "Go and call Song Jin from the East Factory here. If we have something to do, we have to tell him. Remember, don't disturb anyone." The little eunuch took the order and left, Wei Zhongxian knocked his legs and sat on the recliner. While asking the maid to hammer his legs, he murmured: "The governor and governor and governor and governor to separate his power..."

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In the next few days, in the last ten days of Wei Zhongxian's 60th birthday, the vortex of the vortex of the position of governor of Xuanda became increasingly turbulent. With the joint efforts of the royalist party, the elderly eunuch party and the eight locust merchants in Zhangjiakou, the eldest son of Zhangjiakou, Zhang Xin, who was originally the most favored by officials, was squeezed to the edge and was almost destined to be kicked out of this battle. Zhang Xin, the fat son of the current governor of Xuanda, jumped up and down in the capital, giving gifts everywhere, and spent money on the flow of money.

, but it has always had little effect and is also destined to be kicked out of the battle; Wang Xiangqian, Yan Mingtai and Zhu Xieyuan, who were once considered by Wei Zhongxian, were also eliminated without knowing the parties involved; other civil and military officials who were peeping at this position completely died of this idea when they saw that even Master Zhang was kicked out of the game. Only the current governor of Liaodong, with Wei Zhongxian's acquiescent and condolence, gradually surfaced...

"It's almost done!" Huang Yunlong, who went out to inquire about the news, just returned to Niudi Hutong, and immediately danced and said to the other six locust business reports besides Fan Yongdou who was not present: "Today alone, more than 30 memorials recommended by the current governor of Liaodong as governor of Xuanda were sent to the cabinet. In addition to yesterday's memorials, more than fifty officials have recommended him! Another better news is that Zhang Haogu's little mad dog went to visit the old eunuch Wei today, and was rejected for the first time! Feng Laoqiegou said that this is likely a signal that the old eunuch Wei was preparing to attack Zhang Haogu's little mad dog, and we asked us to strike while the iron was hot and move again, and find a few more censors to impeach Zhang Haogu's little mad dog!"

"There is still this?" The six major locust merchants were overjoyed and shouted in surprise: "If you can directly defeat Zhang Haogu's little mad dog, that would be great. This little mad dog fell down. Let's see who dares to make things difficult for us in the future!"
Chapter completed!