Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Real Hammer
At about two o'clock in the afternoon, Chang Yu decided to go to the palace, he wanted to see if Li Guozhen had sent the silver.
Zhu Cihong's mood is still good, he had a very good time last night, as Chang Yu expected, Wu Mengming should have made an appointment to come to the prince's mansion yesterday, and the prince confessed according to Chang Yu, and as soon as he revealed it, this money-greedy ghost was happy to join the gang, all kinds of routines and various trusts, and he gained a lot last night.
But!
Li Guozhen has not sent the silver yet!
This made Chang Yu a little unexpected, and a little angry, is it a fart when he is paralyzed?
"Let's go, smash it!" When Zhu Cihong heard this, he immediately became energetic, and after a little change, he drove out of the palace with a group of guards from the prince's mansion and Chang Yu.
"Wu Mengming said yesterday that he should be called into the palace, do you know what's going on?" Chang Yu was a little curious in the car, because the intelligence leader usually entered the palace when something big happened, could it be that there was an accident on the thief's side.
"The father and the emperor took him to the west...... Zhu "Ci Hong talked eloquently, it turned out that Chongzhen transferred Xuanda heavy troops to Taiyuan to intercept the intruding army, but the old problem is in front of him, that is, the silver must be in place, otherwise no one will buy it in the white strip, even if he whips the past, he has no heart to sell his life.
If it was placed before, Chongzhen could be worried to death, but fortunately, the trick that the clever prince came up with helped him raise more than 500,000 taels of silver, and he had recovered more than 200,000 yuan in cash, which was enough for the cost of this troop transfer, but a new problem came out again, who to send the money.
In the past, this work was done by Jingying, but now he has lost trust in Jingying, in addition to the prince's dream, there is also a serious shortage of pay in Beijing, and he can't let this gang escort go halfway to divide it, and he can't help it when he encounters a thief attack, after all, there are indeed many thieves in the west, and even if he is more serious about it, it is very likely that the escorted officers and soldiers will be reversed.
So I thought about it and thought about it, only the knife I trusted the most, the embroidered spring knife, and the brocade guard.
So that's what happened, Chang Yu was silent for a while, and suddenly said, "Prince, how about I go to escort?" ”
Yes? Zhu Cihong was surprised: "This ......" He was so surprised.
"You know that I have trained a eunuch army of more than 200 people, if I go to escort the first to train the soldiers, and the second can also go to the front line to inquire about the news, to see the real situation, kill two birds with one stone, do you think it is feasible."
Zhu Cihong was slightly stunned, nodded and said: "It is feasible, but how to tell my father that it is a capital crime for you to train soldiers privately, if my father knows that I am afraid that I have two hearts, it is even more involved, and you have always wanted to do things quietly behind the scenes, if you go to the salary, I am afraid that you will show your face."
Chang Yu also frowned when he heard this, what Zhu Cihong said was indeed a trouble, Chongzhen was famous for his suspicion and serious illness, in history, with Gong Yonggu's henchman, he once proposed to train some people to prepare for future troubles, and he was rejected or even scolded at a critical moment to send the prince to Nanjing, and his suspicion can be imagined.
"If you pretend to be a Jinyi guard, Wu Mengming can operate this matter, and he will definitely not refuse."
Chang Yu proposed again. Zhu Cihong nodded slightly: "You can discuss it again."
"Then what happened to Li Guozhen's entry into the palace yesterday, why hasn't he been withdrawn until now, the emperor's move is too ......" Chang Yu just wanted to say something indecisive, but suddenly thought that it was a big rebellion for the prince to say this, so he quickly stopped, but Zhu Cihong didn't seem to realize it.
"Father is now looking for a reason to deal with him, now the situation is panicked, the slightest carelessness will cause chaos in people's hearts, so you can't just rely on a dream to investigate directly, there must always be empirical evidence, besides, he is not a big evil person in your dream, just a mediocre person who surrenders to the enemy."
Chang Yu sighed for a long time, mediocrity is a mistake for the country, at this time, Chongzhen was so indecisive really surprised him, just like saying that a person knows that his limit is coming, and it is ridiculous to be so slow to be afraid of wolves and tigers.
Although he is dissatisfied, he can also understand Chongzhen's difficulties, after all, he has never played politics, and he doesn't know how deep the water is, but he knows that the cabinet has long been disobedient to him, and in a nutshell, no one listens to him and is waiting for the change of master.
In front of Li Guozhen's Earl's Palace, the atmosphere was a little abnormal, even a little solemn, more than 20 guards walked back and forth in front of the palace with knives, staring at the pedestrians, frightening passers-by to detour.
What do you mean, do you want to repay the debt and find someone to stubble? Chang Yu raised his eyebrows from the window of the car, and then glanced at Tang Po Angel next to the car.
Tang Potian immediately understood, and walked over with more than a dozen guards.
"What for?" As soon as he arrived at the house, he was stopped by those guards, but when he saw Tang Potian and the others' clothes and tones, they were quite polite.
"Begging for money" Tang Potian said with a wave of his hand, and a few people behind him were about to knock on the door.
The guards immediately surrounded and blocked a few people, in their opinion, although the other party was a bit of a background, but who was the biggest in the capital, of course, was the boss of the Beijing camp.
"Presumptuous" Tang Potian was furious: "Do you know that Lao Tzu is from the palace, don't die?"
The guards immediately changed color, although they saw just now that they belonged to the emperor's personal guards of the twenty-six guards, but they only thought that the boss of a certain guard and Li Guozhen had Liang Zi and was not afraid.
But listening to Tang Potian's words is very meaningful, if you can say that you come from the palace, it is not just an ordinary rotating guard, and the only people who can be on duty in the palace 24 hours a day are the Han general of Jinyiwei and the fork and knife circumference of the five military camps.
"This big brother Jinyiwei's?" The guard, led by a shy, asked with a shy smile.
Tang Potian snorted coldly: "Tang Potian, the avant-garde officer of the government army, with a sword."
cough cough cough, the guards were suddenly shocked, to say that the emperor's personal guards are the most well-equipped and the most capable of fighting the four guards of Xiangteng, the closest to the palace is the Jinyi guard and the fork knife hand of the five military camps, but there is also a guard is the royal intimate little padded jacket, there is the avant-garde of the government army, also called the person with a knife, is the emperor's personal guard, the folk call the guard with a knife, and there are only forty guards with a knife, and the Tang Potian in front of him who is not good-looking is one of them.
Tang Potian said this directly, which is equivalent to showing that he is a royal person, can he not let these soldiers be afraid, but besides, there are more than ten murderous guards standing next to the carriage not far away, and it is very likely that the person in the car has a great background.
The guard immediately coaxed: "Donald, wait a minute, I'll go in and give a briefing" The first person said and turned around to enter the mansion.
"Don't work hard" Tang Potian heyed, a few guards around him already understood, casually pushed away the guards blocking in front of him, rushed to the door of the mansion and kicked up.
The guards stood by in panic.
After a while, the family opened the door and wanted to close the door as soon as it opened, but was kicked open by several guards, and then rushed in.
Tang Potian coldly swept the guards in front of the mansion, snorted coldly, and then turned his head to look at the carriage.
"Let's go, go in and spread fire" Chang Yu straightened his fur hat for Zhu Cihong, and lifted the scarf up, revealing only a pair of eyes, and then the two jumped out of the carriage and walked straight into Li Guozhen's mansion surrounded by the guards, and the guards on both sides were dumbfounded.
"Now the emperor always has an excuse to withdraw him" Before entering the gate, Chang Yu glanced at the guards and smiled, Zhu Cihong was stunned at first, but immediately realized, smiled and nodded: "Real hammer, he can't run away"
As mentioned earlier, the Ming Dynasty **** to the root, not only the local army, but even the Beijing camp and even the emperor's personal guards are virtuous, not only lack of empty salary, but also public and private use, many of them were taken away by the nobles to be a family and even coolies to open up wasteland and cultivate fields.
As the governor of Beijing, Li Guozhen is naturally close to the water, and spares no effort to call how he wants, although this is an open secret outside, but at this moment it was seen by the royal people with their own eyes, and Chongzhen was trying to find his stubble, it was really as Zhu Cihong said, a real hammer!
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