Chapter 307: The Night Emperor 2
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If the veterans of Dongfang Port saw this scene, they would probably be a little surprised, it turned out that whether it was the Beiyu 068 incident or the attack on the Beishang detachment, in the end, it turned out that the forces of Dongchang were behind it, but for Wei Zhongxian, this was a great wrong. In order to serve the emperor more, he authorized the commanders of the Dongchang to take the initiative to arrest and other activities that he felt was a threat.
The enemy is far away, and Sun Cha receives the lonely enemy grandson
Of course, the power of Dongchang does not lie in the power of this group of eunuchs, but in another force of the Dawu Dynasty - Jinyiwei, Jinyiwei is a military and political intelligence agency directly under the emperor's direct jurisdiction, not only engaged in collecting military information from the outside world, plotting against enemy generals, etc., but also carrying out reconnaissance, arrest, interrogation and other actions on the speeches and actions of the following ministers and officials, so that the hundred officials are in awe of them, and dare not speak out. Most of the successive emperors of the Wu Dynasty have such a sentence, "Factory Wei is a family", which means that whether it is Dongchang or Jinyiwei, they are all units directly under the direct jurisdiction of the emperor himself, and they are all surnamed Zhu, but in the past they were not as close as they are now - the emperor is now in the hands of Wei Zhongxian, in order to get the favor of the emperor, Jinyiwei commanded Tian Ergeng to also join the "eunuch party", but all the ministers who did not obey Wei Zhongxian's orders were mostly arrested by Jinyiwei on charges of fabrication, so even if Jinyiwei's power was far greater than that of Dongchang, But it has always been under the direct control of Dongchang and has become one of the banners under Wei Zhongxian.
If you talk about Jinyiwei, the elders will naturally think that the relationship between Dongfang Port and Jinyiwei should be good, because the relationship between Jinyiwei Beihai Qianhu Qianhu Cen Min and the Senate is now quite harmonious. But the problem is here, Cen Min is not a member of the eunuch party, to be precise, he is actually very favored by Wei Zhongxian, but he is not willing to "sell himself and take refuge" like Tian Ergeng, so Wei Zhongxian sent him to Beihai through Tian Ergeng, hoping to make him change his mind.
Although both Tian Ergeng and Cen Min understood Wei Zhongxian's "hard work", but the other thousand households who were also Jinyiwei didn't know much about this, and with Cen Min being "exiled" to Anbei Beihai at the end of the world, they all thought that Wei Zhongxian was going to take this opportunity to get rid of Cen Min. Therefore, the last time the northbound detachment was preparing to go to Beijing, Cen Min and Liu Chuanzhi each wrote a document to inform the officials along the way of the itinerary and purpose of the northbound detachment. In addition, more than a dozen fans and stall leaders in the Beiyu 068 incident were all killed in the attack of the militia of Champonggang, and they regarded the northbound detachment as a thorn in their side, not only did they not take more care of the northbound detachment along the way, but pursued the northbound detachment together with the Dongchang spies who followed all the way, and finally succeeded in severely invading the northbound detachment at the junction of Xiangyang and Xinye.
"Qin Wuyang!" Wei Zhongxian's mind suddenly popped up with this name, he still remembered that not long ago, this stall leader was sent from Hubei to the capital to personally report to him that the team that was emitting a strange smell from the soles of his feet, and he also sent a lot of items used by that team, from weapons to vehicles, all of which exuded a strange aura to the outside. "Give me the stall head Qin Wuyang I saw not long ago!"
"Yes!" One of the little eunuchs hurriedly took the order and left, and the remaining few little eunuchs were still searching for information about the port of the East in those pieces and documents.
Wei Zhongxian slowly recalled the situation that Qin Wuyang had reported to him before, the group of strange people were all wearing a kind of cardigan - this was the same as the soldiers in those pictures, he also sent some strange things, such as belts, shoulder straps, bullet boxes, and other things, and also presented a strange short knife, this short knife seemed to be able to be mounted on some long stick, the short knife as a whole seemed to be cut from an iron rod, and three grooves were cut in the round knife body, but this kind of knife was not like a knife at all, Not only is the tip not sharp at all, but on the contrary, it seems to be a little blunt. He recalled, Qin Wuyang introduced to him the use of this strange short knife, most of those people had a long stick, and this short knife could be directly put on the long stick, and it could be used as a spearman. This kind of short knife doesn't seem to be threatening, but the effect when fighting is diametrically opposed to its unsightly appearance, anyone who is poked by this kind of bayonet will basically lose their combat effectiveness and die quickly, although Qin Wuyang doesn't understand what the reason is, but he can guess that it is related to the strange appearance of this knife, and after escaping back, he used this knife to find a few pigs for testing. I don't know if I don't try, I scared Qin Wuyang half to death when I tried it, this kind of bayonet design can be described as immoral to smoke, as long as it is poked in the abdomen, it is basically a serious injury, the wound is weird, blood is flowing, and I can't cover it. And afterwards he also checked the strange wooden sticks left at the scene, these wooden sticks are basically the same size and length, at one end of the stick are the same strange structure, such a structure can happen to be combined with this short knife, installed in the tip of the stick will not fall, must be pressed on a small button on the handle of the short knife to remove the short knife, that is to say, the spears they encountered in the previous battle are basically such a combination of wooden sticks and short knives.
"Ahh In his dream, he looked at the huge spindle-shaped heavenly palace in the sky again and again, and fired arrows like a torrential rain at himself and the fans around him, and the grass around him became like a hedgehog in an instant, densely filled with arrow tails, and one after another fans were shot one after another in a frightened shout, or rolled in the screams, or fell directly to the ground without saying a word and were shot several arrows. Qin Wuyang sat on the bed, his body was already soaked with cold sweat, and at this time he felt cold and biting, so he had to lie down again. The lantern outside the window was blown and shook in the cold wind, and the dim candle shadow projected on his body through the window paper showed a miserable light, making him feel a chill from the bottom of his heart.
"Knock knock-" There was a gentle knock at the door, which made Qin Wuyang's nerves, which had not had time to relax again, tense up again, and picked up a few flying knives on the small chair by the kang, and shouted in a low voice, "Who?" ”
"I'm from the celebrant eunuch, and the nine-thousand-year-old lord let you go!" Although the voice at the door was sharp, it was very clear, "I'll go now!" Qin Wuyang hurriedly replied, and at the same time went to get his clothes, but then there was a tingling sensation from his right thigh.
Only then did he think of the injury on his leg at this time, fortunately, those arrows were standard arrows temporarily and urgently processed by the Military Work Committee of the Senate, this kind of arrow has no barbs and no bleeding grooves, basically one goes in and one comes out, the penetration is strong but there is no stopping power, because of this, Qin Wuyang escaped alive from the arrow in his right thigh, otherwise he would have been shot dead at the scene. He gritted his teeth, quickly put on his clothes in pain, and walked towards the celebrant with the support of the two fans.
On both sides of the road leading to the celebrant were high palace walls, and the golden tiles on them had long been covered with thick snow, and only the red palace walls could be seen standing on both sides. Some eunuchs and palace maids on the road are wearing thick robes, and they are busy cleaning the snow on the ground, and the sky is still snowing with goose feathers at this moment, and the north wind is blowing, raising the snowflakes all over the sky, and the faces and heads of the palace maids and eunuchs passing by have been covered with snowflakes, and they are busy clearing the snow while shivering with cold. Not far away, a group of palace guards lined up in a column to walk towards this side, the leader of the people are carrying a gas dead wind lamp in their hands, this kind of lamp is very expensive, it is a small box made of pig iron, the outside is polished with crystal, and then inlaid on the four sides of the box, an oil lamp is placed inside, the small door of the box is closed after ignition, and there are air holes at the bottom and top, which can ensure that the oil lamp burns normally inside, but it will not be blown out by the strong wind outside. Because it is very difficult to polish crystal, the shape of these crystal mirrors is often irregular, so most of the craftsmen use their skills to inlay these crystal mirrors as much as possible, and where there is no glass, they are carved or inlaid with other things on the iron sheet to supplement, so each of these dead wind lamps is a work of art, and the cost is even more expensive, if it is not in this imperial city, I am afraid that no one can afford such a lamp, let alone use it for night patrols.
The palace guards of these two columns walked over, and the palace maids and eunuchs who were cleaning hurriedly stood aside and waited for them to pass, these guards walked to their side and stopped, checked the waist cards of the palace maids and eunuchs, and corresponded with the names on the record book one by one, and then walked to Qin Wuyang and the two fans.
Qin Wuyang waved his hand impatiently at these guards, revealing the stall head waist card on his waist, and when the guards saw it, they hurriedly saluted him and turned to leave. "Stall, at this time today, what is the matter with the nine thousand years old summoning you?"
"I don't know," Qin Wuyang shook his head a little helplessly, "Those of us who are slaves and maids, of course, are doing things for the emperor and the nine thousand years old, since the nine thousand years old summoned me over, then I have to go over immediately?" ”
"It's just ......" The two fans hurriedly agreed, in fact, they were quite uncomfortable, you must know that the news from outside the palace at this time is not good news, who knows if something annoyed the nine thousand years old, if you really pull the head of the stall to ask the cut, what if you pull the two of them to accompany the cut?
"Okay, don't turn over the few of you, there should only be those two letters," Wei Zhongxian waved his hand a little impatiently, making the little eunuchs stop searching, "You guys come here, who can write?" ”
The two little eunuchs hurriedly saluted Wei Zhongxian and said, "Slaves and maids will." Wei Zhongxian nodded, "In this way, you copy out these words written on them for me, this is too small, I can't understand it." As he spoke, he threw a few pieces of paper on the table to the two little eunuchs, "Hurry up!" ”
"Yes!" The two little eunuchs hurriedly took the pieces of paper, hurriedly opened the four treasures of the study next to them, and used ink to grind the ink in the inkstone.
Originally, the documents printed out by the Senate were in simplified Chinese, but Gu Qingqian talked a lot about business with the people of the Wu Dynasty, and she knew that the people of the Wu Dynasty could not understand this kind of simplified Chinese documents, so she specially drew a traditional Chinese version of the letter with a plotter, and then drew several pairs of propaganda posters drawn by the elders such as "The People's Army Suppresses Bandits" and "The Chinese Navy Sweeps the China Sea" There is an intuitive understanding.
"Allow the Dongfang Port Chinese to be stationed in the Anyun area, allow the Chinese to recruit workers in Wuguo, and allow the immigration of Annan Province......" Wei Zhongxian walked over and took the letters copied out by the little eunuch and looked at them, the conditions on them seemed to make him feel a little confused, "What do these people want?" Came to Annam a few years ago, settled there and established the city, and now has raised an army? Why didn't Annan Jinyiwei report it at all? ”
"Factory father, there is also Dongfang Port here!" A little eunuch shouted beside him, and everyone looked over, and the little eunuch held a piece of music in his hand and handed it over with both hands. Wei Zhongxian was stunned for a moment, the pile of recitals was basically a few months ago, how could it also say Dongfang Port? Could it be that I was dazzled and missed? He couldn't help but walk over and pick it up with some suspicion.
Unfolded to take a closer look, it turned out to be a piece of land from the Mingzhou Mansion of Guangdong Province, a group of Chinese from Dongfang Port leased a piece of land in their hands, located at the mouth of the Pearl River in the south of Xin'an County, Mingzhou Prefecture, to dock cargo ships to load and unload goods. "Lending?" Wei Zhongxian couldn't help but smile slightly, he knew that a group of Maidno people had rented another chassis at the mouth of the Pearl River, which also belonged to Xin'an County, and they established a city there, called Morning Star, but it was still managed locally by officials stationed in the Wu Dynasty, but what about this group of Chinese? Will the Wu Dynasty be allowed to send officials? In addition, the rent for renting Morningstar is 1,000 taels a year, so how much will these Chinese pay for renting that place called Xiangdao for a year?
He took a closer look and almost exclaimed, "One thousand four hundred taels a month? He was already frightened by such a high rent, the difference between a thousand taels a year and a thousand four hundred taels a month was very big, the former couldn't even reach one-sixteenth of the latter, and that place on Xiangdao was so valuable?
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