Zhu Yuncai found Li Xin, the marquis of Zhenju, in the mountain of wood and pig iron yards, and he did not understand how the dignified Marquis of Zhenyu could work for these timber and pig iron in person. But he didn't ask about such things, and only made a brief report to Li Xin respectfully.

"Good job! Take a look, look at this mountain of wood and pig iron! Li Xin pointed to the piles of wood and pig iron in the field, and his voice was obviously a little excited. It's because of your rapid progress that you have got these materials! ”

Zhu Yuncai was quite puzzled by this, and he didn't know where to start. But Li Xin didn't let his question stay in his mind for a long time, and quickly explained the origin of these pig iron and wood: "These are all transported by the Ministry of Industry!" Xiong Mingyu softened! It's all your work! ”

It turned out that this was the case, Zhu Yuncai looked down on Xiong Mingyu even more, and he was also a member of the imperial court, how could he be so undignified? If the husband dies, he will die, can he earn his life by groveling so much? It's ridiculous.

He looked at the Zhenyu Marquis's face that was still a little excited, and he was a little disapproving, but it was just a military port and some captured ghost sailing ships, was it worth it?

Suddenly, a soap subordinate from the Ministry of Industry came to the dock and came to Zhu Yuncai under the guidance of the soldiers of the three guards of the military port.

"Zhu Shilang, the ministry is looking for you everywhere, saying that he wants you to go back to preside over the affairs of the ministry!"

This made Zhu Yuncai surprised, the ministry in Soap Li's mouth is Xiong Mingyu, this person let himself preside over the ministry affairs, is it a show of goodwill?

"Got it! Go back, the official will be there later!" After all, Zhu Yuncai's job is the right waiter of the Ministry of Industry, although he used to be a waiter who was excluded by others without a trace of authority, but he still had to go to the ministry every day to sit in the hall and order.

He lightly sent the soap li away, and waited quietly to listen to the instructions of the marquis.

Li Xin didn't say much else, but pulled the topic to Xiong Mingyu. "Xiong Mingyu's actions are also considered to be quick! Tell me what we should do with this person! ”

Zhu Yuncai pursed his lips, "Of course, it is to chase the poor man by victory, and beat the surnamed Xiong until he can't turn over!" ”

Li Xin shook his head, "Just thinking about moving a book right now may not be beneficial to us!" ”

"Xiong Ming is evil when he encounters corruption, if he doesn't deal with it, wouldn't it be conniving at him?"

Zhu Yuncai's voice was a little intense, but Li Xin asked rhetorically: "How many officials in the world are not greedy, and how many are honest?" I Li Xin can't guarantee it, do you dare to guarantee it? One sentence made Zhu Yuncai speechless, and he couldn't understand the mind of the Marquis of Zhenyu.

"In today's last days, the world is in chaos, and corrupt officials and thieves are small, just like the weeds after autumn, burning a stubble and emerging a stubble. Knock out one or two corrupt officials, there is no benefit to the shape of the book, the Nanjing Ministry of Industry has no Xiong Mingyu, there will be descendants to make up, since Xiong Mingyu knows the current affairs, you might as well keep him for a few days, even if you are guilty of meritorious service! ”

Li Xin's words made Zhu Yuncai feel that he had clearly captured the context of the Zhenyu Hou's thoughts, it was originally to crack down on lawlessness, but it was only for my use, the so-called poor Kou Mo Chase, applied to the officialdom, there was this explanation. But he is not optimistic about Li Xin's plans, and manipulating Xiong Mingyu, an old fritter who has been in officialdom for more than 30 years, is tantamount to seeking skin with a tiger. It is not known if it is not done well, it will attract the backlash of the other party.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuncai knew that Li Xin would not adopt his opinion, but still bluntly admonished: "Xiong Ming met this person with a treacherous mind, if he didn't take this opportunity to punish him according to law, he was afraid that he would ...... in the future,"

Li Xinyi waved his hand: "Let's talk about the future in the future!" But he suddenly changed his words again, "Xiong Mingyu and Wei Guogong are inextricably linked, do you know?" ”

Zhu Yuncai's heart was awe-inspiring, before he came here, he was prepared that Li Xin planned to carry out the final blow to Xiong Mingyu, but he deliberately concealed the news that Xiong Mingyu went to find the Duke of Wei's mansion, because he was afraid that the Marquis of Zhenyu would retreat after learning about it. Who would have thought that the Marquis of Zhenyu would have known about it a long time ago, and he couldn't help but blush. In all fairness, he is selfish, because as long as Xiong Mingyu is removed, no matter who the Nanjing Ministry of Industry will send to act as Shangshu in the future, as the right attendant of the Nanjing Ministry of Industry, he is already the largest official in the Ministry of Industry, and he will inevitably be in charge of the affairs of the Ministry of Industry in an all-round way.

And Li Xin didn't seem to have the idea of completely defeating Xiong Mingyu at all, which Zhu Yuncai never imagined, Xiong Mingyu deliberately targeted Li Xin more than once, and even hit almost with one hit a few times. However, this marquis of the town was able to endure these grudges, and it made him seem rational and almost incomprehensible.

Zhu Yuncai was speechless about this, of course he didn't dare to say that he knew, but he couldn't say that he didn't know, he believed that his lies could not be concealed from this shrewd and insightful marquis. He didn't dare to raise his head and look directly at the gaze of Li Xin, the Marquis of Zhenyu, who was looking at him, so he could only lower his head. But he could feel those hot eyes scanning back and forth over him.

Time seemed to freeze under this silent glance, and a layer of fine beads of sweat gradually formed on Zhu Yuncai's forehead, which made him feel an inexplicable pressure, which made him almost breathless.

"Wei Guogong confronted the rebels in the Taiping Mansion, if Xiong Mingyu is moved at this time, in case Wei Guogong is deeply involved with it, and then affects the entire war situation, how can the loss of the imperial court be made up for by getting rid of one or two corrupt officials?"

Li Xin's voice seemed to be gradually turning cold, and Zhu Yuncai's ears gave him this intuition. It turned out that the Marquis of Zhenyu temporarily let go of Xiong Mingyu not because he was afraid of Wei Guogong, but this concern was greatly unexpected by himself. This also made him feel embarrassed, and compared with the Zhenyu Hou's single-mindedness for the public, those little selfishness has also become a shameful existence.

"That's it! You go to the Ministry of Industry, Xiong Mingyu is now showing favor to you, in the future, as long as Xiong is a day in the Nanjing Ministry of Industry, you will be in charge! ”

……

On the Yangtze River, Popov carried the standard musket of the Three Guards, and the broad-bladed Yanling knife pinned to his waist, listlessly conducting routine patrols within his patrol range. Now he is an unofficial soldier in the Three Guards, and is only responsible for patrolling and guarding along the Yangtze River with the Three Guards.

Popov's patrol range is three miles from east to west, and although it is not long, it has to go back and forth every day, which adds up to thirty miles. This is already the sixth round-trip, and with only four more round-trips, his mission for today will be completed.

In order to go back to rest earlier, Popov dragged his stump leg and sped up. Suddenly, he felt as if he had heard something unusual from the dense grass by the river, and he quickly slowed down, and at the same time motioned to his companion, who was three paces away from him, to face Nunu by the river.

The patrol soldiers worked in pairs, and Popov was paired with an auxiliary soldier recruited by Ying Tianfu locally, named Zhang Fu, who was an honest man, and at first he was even a little afraid of this blonde and blue-eyed ghost. However, after a few days of patrolling with him, he also got used to this very talkative ghost. However, the level of this ghost's Chinese is very poor, and the two of them often guess with each other, and they don't understand each other's meaning when they are sweating profusely.

In the end, the two of them changed their routines again, basically you say yours, I say mine, there is a lot of chicken and duck dialogue. However, Zhang Fu quickly understood Popov's stubborn expression.

Popov lit the arquebus on his shoulder, clamped it to the arquebus, held the musket in a standard position with both hands, and slowly moved towards the grass on the lower riverside. And Zhang Fu was still not used to the musket in his hand, so he gently pulled out the Yanling knife on his waist, and followed Popov step by step to approach the grass on the river beach.

"Don't move! What for? ”

Popov finally quickened his pace abruptly and came to the edge of the grass on the riverbank, condescendingly. He had learned this sentence from Zhang Fu for several days, and it finally came in handy today. There were two people lying on their stomachs in the grass on the slope of the slope that gradually lowered towards the river. One was an old man with gray hair and beard, and the other was black and looked like he was about thirty or forty years old.

The two of them were startled by Popov, but seeing that the other party was a blonde and blue-eyed overseas ghost, they had a tendency to scatter their souls. The middle-aged man with black hair and beard didn't think about it, and ran wildly, while the old man was weak and couldn't run at all, and he had a posture of sitting still.

Popov ran away when he saw that the other party saw him, he was definitely not a good person, according to what Zhang Fu taught him, then he was a spy. Where would he show mercy, he immediately raised the muzzle of the gun, roughly aimed and pulled the trigger.

It's not that Popov doesn't want to aim carefully, but the accuracy of the smoothbore gun is so poor that if you don't put a row of guns, you just want to hit a person who is running fast with a single shot, the odds are about the same as if it doesn't rain in the sky and it rains gold.

With a dull explosion, flames and white smoke burst out of the muzzle, only to see that the middle-aged man had fallen to the ground. At this time, Zhang Fu had already rushed over with a knife, and went to the middle-aged man who fell to the ground to take a closer look, and Popov's shot actually hit the man's buttocks.

Zhang Fu joined the auxiliaries, and musket shooting was a necessary training, so he naturally knew that the accuracy of the musket was extremely poor. And Popov was ten paces away and hit with one shot, which is really shit luck. So he gave Popov a thumbs up!

Seeing the thumbs up high, Popov laughed, dragged the stump and kicked the white-haired old man lying on the ground motionless.

"What do you do?"

Who knew that the old man's appearance made Popov stunned.

"If you want to kill, you have to listen to it!"

The old man closed his eyes tightly, and after saying only one sentence, he never said a word again. And Zhang Fu carried the middle-aged man's left foot and dragged the man who was shot in the ass and walked over, not caring about his screams and cursing at all.

Popov's Chinese is not good, and the task of simple interrogation naturally falls to Zhang Fu.

"This is the territory of the Three Guards, where are you spies, recruit from the truth! Be lenient in confession, strict in resisting! ”

The last sentence is an interrogation speech specially made up by the Marquis of Zhenyu for the patrol soldiers!