Chapter 6 Take the lead in planting pox and enter Beijing to see the driver

Before leaving the kiln, one of the things Zhang Zhimu did was to take the lead in going to Zhang Bingchen's health center to plant cowpox.

Zhang Zhimu first mobilized Xiaoqing and Xiaohu to plant cowpox together.

Zhang Zhimu asked Xiaohu: "Xiaohu, you are a boy, are you brave?" ”

Xiaohu puffed up his chest and said, "I'm brave! ”

"Be brave, do you dare to go with me tomorrow to plant cowpox."

"What do you do with cowpox?"

"After planting cowpox, you don't get smallpox. You see that there are a lot of people on the street who are pockmarks, that is, they have smallpox, and they are not left behind. Zhang Zhimu explained.

Xiaohu said, "If you want to go, I'll go with you." ”

Before Zhang Zhimu asked Xiaoqing, Xiaoqing said, "Uncle, I'll go with you tomorrow to plant cowpox." ”

Zhang Zhimu raised his arm and said: "You see, after planting cowpox, it leaves such a small scar, but you will never get smallpox again in your life, do you think it's worth it?" ”

Xiaoqing and Xiaohu both nodded and said, "It's worth it." ”

Huang Yukun saw that the two children trusted Zhang Zhimu so much, and nodded with satisfaction. Huang Yukun is about to give birth and can't go to plant cowpox.

Zhang Zhimu took Xiaoqing and Xiaohu, and mobilized Yang Yulin and her office to go to Zhang Bingchen's health center to plant cowpox. At the scene, he also invited Fan Jinfu, editor-in-chief of "Yaogang Weekly", and others to come to the scene for interviews. After Zhang Zhimu introduced the benefits of cowpox to them on the spot, he was the first to take the lead in planting cowpox in full view. Xiaoqing was very brave and the second was planted with cowpox, and then Xiaohu also got cowpox. At the scene, Fan's Jinfu also rolled up his sleeves and planted cowpox. Yang Yulin and her beauties also rushed up to finish planting cowpox, and everyone present also began to plant cowpox.

When Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He heard about this, they also rushed to plant cowpox. In this way, the matter of planting cowpox began in the kiln. In the end, Zhang Zhimu stipulated that the students in the school must be uniformly planted with cowpox, and no one is allowed to fall.

The teaching building of Yaogang College has not yet fully started, but the dormitories have been built, and Zhang Zhimu instructed that the students can be gathered together first and the school will start first. At the beginning of the school year, Qin Peng was invited to organize some experienced officers to conduct military training for the students. Not only should the students experience setting fire, but also let Li Wei organize a mortar show for his classmates. Let them have a little military knowledge. The most important thing is that there are many students whose home conditions are not good, so they will make up for everyone's food first. It is also necessary to organize everyone to plant cowpox together.

Zhang Zhimu also stipulated that no matter what kind of background the students had in the past, they should participate in the construction of the school in the school. Let them know how the school was built, so that they will know that the school is not easy to come by. I have to wait for Zhang Zhimu to come back and combine the opening ceremony.

Lu Bingyi also very much agreed with Zhang Zhimu's approach, he said: "It's no problem to start school right now, the teachers and logistics staff of the teaching have already been organized." They prefer to start school earlier. Let the students familiarize themselves with the environment before class, and the students should also get acquainted with each other. After all, this was the first such school in the entire Ming Dynasty. I've been looking forward to the day of school. ”

The caravan led by Zhang Zhimu and Lu Chengxiang set off on a misty morning, and there were a total of ten glass carriages and more than a hundred steel spring carriages in the caravan. After leaving Yaogang and heading south through Xiurong, the caravan joined a group of men and horses led by Gonggong Li outside Jinyang City as agreed. Give up a glass carriage to Gonggong Li, and the team headed all the way to the east.

In order not to attract attention, this time Gonggong Li's people and horses are also in civilian clothes.

The team stayed overnight all the way, passed the Niangzi Pass, and came to the Jingjing Pass (Tumen Pass).

In fact, strictly speaking, the section from Niangzi Pass to Tumen Pass is counted as Jingjing Pass. If it is specifically referred to, the Jingjing Pass refers to the Tumen Pass.

Zhang Zhimu asked Yang Yulin in the car: "Do you know which battle was the most famous battle fought at Tumen Pass in front of you in ancient times?" ”

Yang Yulin smiled and said, "You, don't test me." I've been here a lot more often than you. When I was walking with my father, I came here a lot. I've heard my father talk about it many times. This is the place where Han Xin's 30,000 horses defeated the Zhao army's 200,000 horses in a backwater battle, aren't you talking about the famous Battle of Jingjing? ”

"Looks like you know a lot, huh?"

"Humph! This is the only way for Shanxi and Shaanxi to lead from the ancient post road to North China, and it is the 'thoroughfare of the three provinces'. After a while, you take a closer look at those gatehouses, and there are also the words "Three Provinces Thoroughfare", "Jin-Shaanxi Thoroughfare" and "Tumen Pass". Every time I pass by here, my father has to test me. After Yang Yulin finished speaking, she asked very seriously: "Alas! Do you say that people really have souls when they die? ”

"There should be!" Zhang Zhimu responded and asked again: "Why do you ask about this?" ”

Yang Yulin took Zhang Zhimu's arm and said, "If there is, my father will definitely see me with you." ”

"Isn't your father angry when he sees you marrying me as a second wife?"

"No, I know my father likes people like you the most. I'd rather be a heroic concubine than a mediocre **. Yang Yulin tightened Zhang Zhimu's arm and said.

Suddenly, Zhang Zhimu felt that the entire convoy had stopped for a bit of a long time. Zhang Zhimu just wanted to ask what was going on. Liu Yun brought the horse over and said, "Mr. Zhang, it's a little troublesome." ”

Last time, after Zhang Zhimu and the others fought with the general soldiers of Zhongshu Province, they returned to Shanxi from Jingjing. At that time, the defenders of Jingjing Pass didn't know what was happening, so they quickly let Zhang Zhimu and them go. By the time the general army sent someone to inform the defenders to intercept Zhang Zhimu and them, Zhang Zhimu and they had already passed the pass and left. In this battle between the general soldiers of Zhongshu Province and Zhang Zhimu, not only did some soldiers die, but also their heads were knocked off. The soldiers guarding these matters knew that after they found out that it was the Yaogang caravan coming, of course they would not let it go. Especially now that we all know that the people of Yaogang are very rich, this fat sheep in hand must not easily slip away from their hands, besides, so many brothers who died can't die in vain.

The soldiers on the Tumen Pass saw a large group of men and horses coming from a distance, and they had already informed the officers and soldiers guarding the gate, and these officers and soldiers had understood something, and found that the caravan was planted with the banner of the Huwei Dart Bureau, and knew that it was the Yaogang caravan. They immediately notified the 100 households on duty.

When the caravan came to the front of the pass, Liu Yun, who was at the head of the front, stepped forward and explained: "We are a caravan from Yaogang, and we have a bronze medal from the emperor, please make it convenient for the military master." ”

The hundred households who heard the report of the soldiers and came out said with a smile: "Hehe! I have heard that you kiln people are very powerful, and you hurt many of our brothers last time. I heard that you are rich and oily. ”

Liu Yun endured and said, "Master Jun, we have a bronze medal. If you don't let you go, you'll be seen as complicit. Please think twice. ”

"Don't fucking come with me, here Lao Tzu's words are holy decrees. Today you pay more money, Lao Tzu is happy, maybe I will let you go, if you are not happy, I will make you a spy and hang you on the city gate. "Hundred households are not inferior.

Liu Yun said: "Then the military master, you can point out the way!" ”

"Alas! That's pretty much it. It's easy to get on the road. Each of you shall pay one tael, a horse five denarii, and a chariot ten taels. Don't you kiln men have silver? It's nothing, is it? Baihu said proudly.

After listening to Liu Yun, Zhang Zhimu was happy. At this time, Gonggong Li also got out of the car and came over, Zhang Zhimu said to him: "What's the matter, someone dares not to take the imperial bronze medal seriously, and dares to stop us from entering Beijing to see the driver, we will directly take this pass down!" We have money to give to the victims, and we won't give it to them. ”

When Gonggong Li heard Zhang Zhimu finish speaking, he also laughed angrily and said, "Zhang Dongjia, look at what you said." I am with you, and I let you suffer this grievance. It's time for my face to be in the crotch of my pants. Why bother you to make another move. Wait a minute, I'll let these bunnies come over and pay you back. Saying that, Gonggong Li turned around and walked towards the front of the pass.

The hundred households in front of the gate, and a few officials and soldiers in front of the gate, there were talking and laughing waiting for the kiln people to come and send silver. I saw a thin old man coming over in front of me with a few people. The hundred-household team said to the old man who came to the front, "Want to understand? Then hurry up and pay the money, otherwise it will make me unhappy if it is late, and it will not be difficult to say. ”

The old man asked with a smile on his face: "This military master, you don't abide by the royal law of the Ming Dynasty, and you don't recognize the bronze medal given by the emperor, so you recognize the silver, right?" ”

The hundred households were unhappy when they heard this, but he himself suddenly felt very strange, how could he not lose his temper, seeing the old man's smiling face, he suddenly felt a little chill all over his body, and felt that behind the smiling face there was a faint chill that penetrated people, and this chill could only be felt by people like them who were in the army, this was a murderous aura. But these hundred households are still too shallow, and they feel that they can't be frightened by a thin old man, so they shouted: "Bold, Lao Tzu left a way for you not to go, don't blame Lao Tzu for being polite." ”

The old man who spoke had come to the hundred households, and suddenly looked up at the close, the hundred households did not understand, thinking that something was wrong, and also looked up and followed the old man's gaze to look up, just half of the head of the forehead, the hundred households who had been in the army for a long time understood that they had been fooled, and they were just about to reach out and pull out the knife in their waists. But it was too late, and his head hadn't come back yet. He felt a chill on his neck, and he knew that his head could not be saved. After a moment, I suddenly saw my standing body and understood that my head had left my body.

This old man was Gonggong Li, he came to the hundred households and drew his gaze at the same time, and cut off his head. In fact, with Gonggong Li's skills, even if these hundred households are prepared, they can't dodge this knife. Gonggong Li swung his knife and cut off the heads of hundreds of households at the same time, dodging the blood that spurted out. casually took out a waist card and shouted to those frightened officers and soldiers: "Jinyi Guard is here, go and ask you to come down!" ”

The officers and soldiers were afraid of the people of the Jinyi Guard, especially this person dared to kill the hundred households as soon as he made a move, and then shouted to see the garrison, these officers and soldiers did not dare to speak, and hurried back to ask for the garrison.

After a while, the garrison sweated profusely, and when he saw Gonggong Li, he hurriedly saluted, obviously the garrison knew Gonggong Li.

It turned out that after the hundred households got the news of the kiln gang caravan, some people saw that the hundred households went down, and they were afraid that something big would happen, so they hurried to inform the garrison, and the garrison knew that it was not good to hear it, he knew that the kiln gang people could not afford to provoke it now, this stunned green hundred households were usually used to it, and they did not extort the past merchants, if they really offended the kiln gang people this time, it was not easy to do. When he got the letter, he hurried to the door. Otherwise he wouldn't have come so quickly.

After hearing what had happened, the garrison said, "Thank you, Gonggong Li, for removing this scourge for us." In this way, I prepared a little wine to ask Gonggong Li and Zhang Dongjia for their guilt, and thank Gonggong Li for taking action to eliminate the harm for us. ”

Gonggong Li said: "Come on, we still have important matters, don't you pay compensation to the Zhang Dongjia in the past." We're in a hurry. ”

The garrison was really obedient, came to Zhang Zhimu's car, and made amends to Zhang Zhimu. Zhang Zhimu hurriedly got out of the car and politely said, "Don't, adults." ”

Then he turned around and asked Lu Chengxiang to take out a piece of silver and said, "It's all a misunderstanding, let's bury someone!" ”

The garrison hurriedly thanked him. Zhang Zhimu said: "We are in a hurry and have important matters, otherwise Gonggong Li would not have taken action for you." Let's be polite to past merchants in the future. It's not easy for everyone. We won't talk about today's events, so you should assume that it never happened. ”

The garrison hurriedly thanked him, he knew that Zhang Zhimu and they would not have a good fruit to eat if they stabbed the matter here to Beijing. Ordinary people sue it, no one cares, the kiln gang people are not ordinary people, the former general soldiers of Zhongshu Province are all planted in the hands of the kiln gang people, not to mention that they are a garrison

Leaving Tumen Pass, the caravan reached Zhengdingwei (Zhengding County, Shijiazhuang) and then turned to Hengshui. After staying in Hengshui for a day, Li Zhi arranged the affairs of the family, and here Zhang Zhimu and Lu Chengxiang broke up. Lu Chengxiang also wants to run the business of Zhongshu Province, and he also has an important task is to buy cotton, because the kiln gang is now in demand for cotton, Lu Chengxiang not only wants to buy cotton this time, but also establishes a long-term relationship with the local government to purchase cotton.

Bidding farewell to Lu Chengxiang, Zhang Zhimu and others went all the way north to Hejian Mansion, then to Bazhou and Langfang, and then came to the outside of Beijing. Zhang Zhimu and the others did not live in the inn of their own intelligence department, but lived in an inn elsewhere. Of course, Li Zhi and the others will definitely go out in the evening to contact the intelligence officers there. Because Meng Si'er had already led a team of people here a few days ago.

After staying here, Gonggong Li and Zhang Zhimu said: "Zhang Dongjia, I will go to the city to report, you, just wait here, and I will come out to pick you up immediately if there is a letter." ”

After saying that, Gonggong Li took his people and left.

To say that Emperor Chongzhen is really a hard-working emperor, he rarely enjoys himself, and his hair is gray in his twenties. This time, he announced that Zhang Zhimu came to see the driver secretly, but he was really helpless, and he really wanted to borrow silver. Now the Ming Dynasty is asking for silver everywhere, but Henan, Huguang and other places in the imperial court have fallen into the hands of thieves, and it is impossible to collect the silver. Where it was not occupied, there was also a severe drought for many years, and the people who were exploited could no longer squeeze out the silver. The ministers of the imperial court deliberately gave Emperor Chongzhen a problem, they said: "Now the people of Yaogang are loyal to the imperial court, they are rich in oil, the emperor can let Yaogang lend the court a little silver first, and then return it to them with interest." The kiln people should be sensible and follow this matter. ”

In fact, the emperor knew in his heart that these ministers were deliberately giving themselves problems. The people of Yaogang recently defeated Li Zicheng's navy in the Yellow River and pacified the water bandits in Wuluo Lake. I feel embarrassed in my heart. In such a situation, if you let yourself borrow silver, you are actually asking for silver. It's purely hard for yourself. They're just looking at jokes. borrowed silver, it is the kiln gang favored by the emperor, and the silver should be taken out, and the silver is also spent by everyone; If you can't borrow it, the kiln people don't give the emperor a son, and the loyalty of the kiln people is fake.

But now, the emperor is also suffering from internal and external troubles, and it is really difficult to do without silver, there is no way, after thinking about it, he can only borrow silver from this Zhang Zhimu. But it is not a glorious thing for the emperor to borrow silver after all, so he announced that Zhang Zhimu secretly entered Beijing, and Emperor Chongzhen wanted to borrow silver from Zhang Zhimu in person, and Emperor Chongzhen had long wanted to meet this mysterious Zhang Zhimu. is this Zhang Zhimu, who can always help when it is critical. If it weren't for the fact that he really didn't have any money on hand, he should never have borrowed money from others. Emperor Chongzhen himself knows that the so-called borrowing of silver is to ask for silver. I borrowed money like this, and I don't know if I can pay it back.

After the secret decree of Zhang Zhimu entering Beijing was sent, Chongzhen has been waiting for Zhang Zhimu's news. When he learned the news that Zhang Zhimu would come to Beijing immediately after marrying his daughter-in-law, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but be happy, and said in his heart: "If you don't come to Beijing immediately, there is such a reason, it's really extraordinary." ”

finally waited for Gonggong Li to send a message that Zhang Zhimu had come outside Beijing, and Emperor Chongzhen began to play cautious. He thought to himself that if I summoned this Zhang Zhimu immediately, would it seem that I, the emperor, were too identious. But I'm still in a hurry. I endured it for one day, and the next day I ordered Wang Gonggong and Li Gonggong to go out of the city to pick up Zhang Zhimu together.

This prince has not seen Zhang Zhimu for a long time, and when he heard that Zhang Zhimu had arrived, he was more anxious to see Zhang Zhimu than Emperor Chongzhen.

Chongzhen didn't summon Zhang Zhimu immediately, Zhang Zhimu was not in a hurry, and used the evening time to secretly meet with the personnel of the Beijing Intelligence Department. This greatly touched the intelligence officers here. They didn't expect Zhang Zhimu to risk his life and arrange to meet them. Their worst enemy here is loneliness, and they are careful not to talk nonsense here. There are not many people of their own, and when they see Zhang Zhimu's excitement, they can't express it. Of course, Zhang Zhimu also understood all this, and encouraged them and said: "Everyone hold on for a few more years, and it would be good if we were stronger." At that time, no one will dare to take care of you even if you walk on the street and call me a kiln. ”

I introduced the recent development of the kiln to everyone, and also drummed up everyone's energy. Zhang Zhimu told Li Zhi to reward the brothers who insisted on going outside. This is certainly more encouraging.

Wang Gonggong and Li Gonggong drove out of the city as soon as the city gate was opened.

Seeing Zhang Zhimu, Wang Gongle's little face twitched, and said, "Oh, Zhang Dongjia wants me to die." ”

Zhang Zhimu also said: "Don't say anything nice. If I hadn't come to Beijing, I wouldn't have seen you have any information. ”

The prince said, "Oh, the conscience of heaven and earth. I don't think you can help it, without the emperor's words, how dare I take a step. You are a free body, so you can't go to the capital to walk around? ”

Zhang Zhimu said with a smile: "I'm coming quietly this time, I'm afraid that those adults who hate me will eat me." ”

The prince knew that Zhang Zhimu was telling the truth, "Alas, people! If you are famous, some people will be jealous, and there is no way. Stop gossiping. I will never forget the good things that Zhang Dongjia brought me. ”

Zhang Zhimu smiled and said, "I don't know you yet, don't you just like that bite?" This time I brought you ten jars, enough for you to drink for a while! ”

"Oh, it's still Zhang Dongjia who knows that he feels sorry for me." The words that Wang Gonggong rubbed his hands happily made Zhang Zhimu feel a little goosebumps.

Zhang Zhimu led people to follow Wang Gonggong and Li Gonggong into the city, and first came to a secret mansion to rest. During the day, there was something going on, and it was inconvenient for Zhang Zhimu to enter the palace when the personnel were mixed. It was not until the ministers all retired from the court and the palace was quiet that Emperor Chongzhen could see Zhang Zhimu.

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