With the heavy task of exchanging arms for war horses, Lu Gengyu and Ma Wei led a group of people to Dengzhou on a cargo ship full of guns and artillery. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, Dengzhou was no longer the rebel nest that was overwhelmed by dark clouds and the lives of the people were in danger at any time, and it gradually regained its former vitality. Xie Sanbin didn't say anything else, he still had the ability to do things, and in just a few months, he took care of the devastated Dengzhou City in an orderly manner, and vaguely regained the shadow of the original northern town.

The people of the Guanning army were more active than the Qiong navy, and they arrived two days ago. Knowing that Xia Nan's subordinates were coming, Xie Sanbin gave his party a lot of face, and personally came forward to receive them at the governor's yamen, and at the same time sent someone to notify Guan Ningjun's people to come over. Before Guan Ningjun's people arrived, they enthusiastically accompanied Lu Gengyu and his party to talk.

Lu Gengyu is a serious magistrate, so it is not a problem to deal with this kind of scene. Although he has a stubborn personality and is upright, it does not mean that he is not familiar with human feelings, and he can still cope with the welcome and delivery of officialdom. Ma Wei and the rest of his entourage were either not good at dealing with the four rank masters, or their status was low, and the burden of entertainment was handed over to Lu Gengyu.

Xie Sanbin told them enthusiastically: "I know about this deal between your general and the Guan Ning army. According to the rules, war horses cannot be bought and sold privately, and unless the war horses of the Guanning Army are used for their own use, they will be under the control of Taifu Temple when they reach the boundary of Shandong. ”

Lu Gengyu has been a county magistrate in a remote place for a few years, and he doesn't know anything about the horse politics of the imperial court, and he was a little surprised when he heard this: "May I ask Futai, are the horses in Shandong under the control of Taifu Temple?" Can we make a deal in another place? ”

Xie Sanbin smiled: "Where can you change to?" In addition to Shandong, the horse administration in Gyeonggi, Beizhili, Henan, Liaodong, Pingliang, Gansu and other places was also managed by Taifu Temple, and the horses raised and purchased were not only supplied to the Beijing camp, but also deployed by the military department. Like you, it is unruly to buy Mongolian war horses through Liaodong, and then transfer them to Shandong, bypassing Taifu Temple. However, now that Ma Zheng is in abolition, many rules have long been observed, and the Taifu Temple is just a mud bodhisattva ornament, and no one has raised war horses in the Ming Dynasty. As long as your deal is not made public, even if it is known, it will only turn a blind eye, and no one will bother to complain to the military department or to the saint to visit you. You just have to do it with confidence......"

Lu Gengyu breathed a sigh of relief: "I see. ”

"In fact, not only Ma Zheng, but also firearms such as bird guns and cannons are also under the unified management of the Ministry of War, and if the Guan Ning Army wants to purchase firearms, it can only apply to the Ministry of War according to the rules, and the Ministry of War will report to the cabinet in turn, and then order someone to build it, and then allocate it to the Guan Ning Army. There is no reason for a military town to build firearms privately and then sell them to another military town. ”

At this time, Lu Gengyu seemed to understand a little, he drew inferences from one another, and asked tentatively: "As long as no one goes to the Ministry of War to complain, let's make a deal quietly?"

Xie Sanbin stroked his beard and smiled: "Rules are dead, people are alive!" ”

At this time, Guan Ningjun's people came, and they were actually Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui, father and son. The two of them came in with anticipation to take a look, Xia Nan didn't come, and the two people who came didn't know each other at all, it was estimated that Xia Nan sent his subordinates casually. Wu Xiang was fine, with a smile on his face, he couldn't see his joy or anger, Wu Sangui was young after all, and his face was not good-looking immediately.

Wu Sangui went from a guerrilla to a general at a young age, and with his back to the big tree of Guan Ningjun, it was a matter of time before he became prosperous, and he was very arrogant, except for the face of Nangao, who was the same age as himself and took charge of the summer, the rest of the people did not pay much attention to it, let alone a few unknown people.

He squinted at Lu Gengyu and the others, and asked slowly, "You are General Xia's subordinates, didn't he come himself?" Our Guan Ning Army has a lot of sincerity, my father and I personally escorted the war horses all the way to Shandong, and General Xia didn't show his face, and the spectrum was too big, right? ”

Lu Gengyu heard the other party's dissatisfaction and wanted to say something, but he didn't know how to answer so that he could not be humble or arrogant, after all, he had not joined this system for a long time, and he didn't understand many things, so he was afraid of saying the wrong thing.

Xie Sanbin saw that the atmosphere was a little unfriendly, so he started a round: "Qionghai Town has just been built, and there are many affairs, so it is understandable that Mr. Xia may not be busy......

Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui were stunned when they heard this, Qionghai Town, the general soldier? In this era, communication was not developed, and the holy decree of the imperial court reached Lingao, but the news about the opening of Qiongzhou had not yet reached Liaodong through the Di newspaper, and the Guanning army did not care much about everything outside Liaodong, and Wu Xiang's father and son had been on the road to transport war horses for the past two months, so they didn't know all this until now.

Seeing the expressions of the father and son, Xie Sanbin reacted, and the two of them didn't know the feelings. He explained: "The Qiongzhou battalion has made meritorious contributions in the first few months of exterminating the Japanese in Zhejiang and the red hair in Fujian, and in the summer Nan has been appointed as the chief military officer of Pingnan by the imperial court, hanging the seal of the general of the dragon and tiger, adding the right governor, and opening a town in Qiongzhou, named Qionghai Town. ”

Wu Sangui was stunned, and there was something wrong in his heart. There is no harm if there is no comparison, the other party is not a few years older than him, but the speed of this promotion is like playing chicken blood, he was originally in his twenties and became a general, and he is also a young man, but he is nothing compared to Nan this summer. When Shandong put down the rebellion before, he was a guerrilla, and the other party was a general, and after the war, he finally caught up, good guy, a general soldier suddenly appeared, and it was the kind that was equal to his uncle Zu Dashou, not a miscellaneous general soldier.

Wu Xiang's eyes lit up, the smile on his face became more, and he said with a smile: "General Soldier Xia is young and promising, and he can't take the time to come, so it's the same for sending his subordinates down!" Anyway, the terms have been negotiated, and it is nothing more than handing over the money with one hand and delivering the goods with the other. "In these years, many friends and many roads, in the summer, the guns and cannons in the south are powerful, and the promotion is fast, it is worth making efforts to make friends, and some face problems are all floating clouds.

Seeing that Guan Ningjun had no opinions, Xie Sanbin said: "Both sides are old acquaintances who are side by side with Ben Fu to quell the rebellion, Ben Fu can't help with other things, provide you with a place for exchange, and you can still do it afterwards to entertain you with the friendship of the landlord." You are busy first, and when you are done, this Fu will set up a banquet to entertain you. ”

Wu Xiang and Lu Gengyu both thanked him: "How dare you work to raise Taiwan?" ”

"It should be, it should be." Xie Sanke was angry and left on the pretext of handling official business.

The two sides don't talk nonsense either, and go directly to the place where the horse is closed to trade.

The place of the horse is in the stable in the south of Dengzhou City, which was originally the place where the Dengzhou garrison raised war horses, and it was once the garrison of the cavalry general Kong Youde, and now Dengzhou is in ruins, and the battalion soldiers are in the process of rebuilding, and the stable is empty, and it was temporarily used by Xie Sanbin to the Guanning Army.