Lord of the House: Chapter 17 Secret meeting

In the dead of night, the hooves of horses galloping past seemed like spring thunder rolling in Tianshui Alley. The rider jumped off the horse, tied the reins to the hitching post indiscriminately, walked up the steps and grabbed the big copper ring "bang bang bang". The doorman heard the sound of hooves in the hall and got up to check. At this time, he asked, "Who is it?"

"Jinhai urgent letter, did the Prime Minister fall asleep? The chief executive ordered to wake up the Prime Minister..."

The vermilion gate opened "squeaky", and the old guard Zhang Cheng poked his head out. The white stubble was a little messy. They all said that the prime minister was a seven-rank officer in front of the gate. Zhang Cheng was a real scholar. Looking at the angry lantern that was picked out by the eaves, he could see the appearance of the person who came, and said, "It's Geng Lantou. The prime minister is waiting for Jinhai's letter..." He instructed the servant to bring the horse in to feed the food and bring it with him. People go to the inner palace.

Zhang Xie is the right servant and the secretary of the middle school. He is also the second minister in name. However, because Chen Xinbo is only the servant of the left and not the servant of the door, he has the name of the prime minister but has no power of the prime minister. Zhang Xie was the prime minister of the Great Yue Dynasty at this time.

It was only the first month of the year, and the cold weather had not yet subsided. The charcoal fire in the large copper basin with the head of the beast in the middle of the Westinghouse was burning vigorously. Zhang Xie, who was fifty or seven at the time, was sitting at the sandalwood table beside the brazier, writing a memorial with a pen. , he heard the sound of horses' hooves outside the building in the courtyard, and the pen in his hand stopped for a while, and it was his second son Zhang Ximin who stood there respectfully and waited for him to write the memorial...

Unlike Tang Haoxin who was not virtuous the second time, Zhang Xitong’s second sons, Zhang Xitong and Zhang Ximin, were both born as jinshi. In the current dynasty, they had the reputation of “a family of three jinshis, the father’s champion and his son Tanhua”. The second son, Zhang Ximin, was admitted to the Jinshi a little later, and he has not yet had the opportunity to serve as a Hanlin. He is actually an important assistant of Zhang Xie in Beijing.

Zhang Xie looked tired and thin, slightly long and narrow, with sparse long beard under his chin, wearing a lake blue jacket, and when he heard footsteps entering the yard, he calmly put down the pen in his hand, sighing inwardly. Thinking that after seeing through Tang Haoxin, the students he likes and the emperor he is loyal to are eager for him to die, so he should resign in frustration, even if he hides to watch the good show here. But he never thought that he would save the dead, this crisis is far from dissipated!

Zhang Cheng came in with a messenger, Zhang Xie read the seal under the candlelight and the lacquer was correct, so he ordered Zhang Cheng: "Colonel Geng came all the way to deliver the letter, I'm afraid I'm hungry and tired, call Chen Lan up and give it to Colonel Geng. The official fried two good dishes and warmed a pot of wine, I wrote a reply, and I have to trouble Colonel Geng to rush to Jinhai."

When the people from Jinhai saw that Xiangye still remembered him, he even asked the private cook to get up in the middle of the night to cook for him.

Only then did Zhang Ximin take the letter from his father, and scolded: "This pig herder really dares to speak, where will the Ministry of Household squeeze another one million taels for him! After Liang's occupation of Shandong, it may not be He's a master who doesn't eat meat!"

"No matter how broken the imperial court ship is, Liang's family has not been able to jump out, and Lin Fu is even more incapable of jumping out. What the imperial court can give him, the luxury family can't give it, is it possible that he can still learn from Cao Cao while occupying the big **** in Chongzhou. Can't get home?" Zhang Xie took the letter and threw it into the brazier...

"Don't let the sage know about this?" Zhang Ximin asked.

"What do you know, do you know that the businessmen in Jinhai are threatening the court to increase the fee, or do you know that Lin Fu pretends to be filial, sneaks in Jinhai, and has bad intentions?" Zhang Xie asked back, looking at his second son Zhang Ximin for a while, then shook his head. He shook his head and said, "Let the sage know, then you can only transfer the Beijing camp to Jinhai to arrest Lin Fu for the crime of deceiving the king and disobedience - Lin Fu will not easily go to a luxury home, but it does not mean that he will be forced into a desperate situation. I will never go to a luxury family. Tang Haoxin will die if he dies, but it makes us sleepless."

"Do you want to do what he wants?" Zhang Ximin asked in surprise.

"I will write a letter, and you will take it to Jizhou to see Li Zhuo..." Zhang Xie said.

"Will Li Zhuo come forward? Will it be useful for Li Zhuo to come forward?" Zhang Ximin asked two consecutive questions.

"You will know when you go. The Sage doesn't know Tang Haoxin, and I don't understand? The Sage doesn't know Li Zhuo, and I don't understand? Li Zhuo's tricks can hide from others, but can't he try to hide from me?" Zhang Xie laughed He smiled, sat down, took out a piece of paper from the purple-gold box, picked up a pen and ink to write a letter to Li Zhuo first, feeling that he was going to lose a piece of meat this time, his heart ached, he wrote a good letter and said, "Oh, After this period of time has passed, I will clean up this stubby!" He asked his second son, Ximin, to take a carriage to Jizhou immediately, and then wrote a letter to Huang Jinnian, asking the people from Jinhai to rest for a while, and then prepare a horse to go back to Jinhai.

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Li Zhuo set up a large camp in Jizhou.

Since Zhang Xie set up the General Consultant in Jinhai and was fully responsible for the food and grass transshipment in the towns and Beijing Camp, the Jibei Army all withdrew from Jinhai and assembled to the north. There was no direct connection between the Jibei Army and Jinhai. Gao Zongting didn't know the news of Lin Fu's secret arrival in Jinhai until late at night, but he didn't rush to report it, and only went to report it after Li Zhuo got up in the morning and went to work.

"He's not too late, cough..." Li Zhuo was not surprised by the fact that Lin Fuqian went to Jinhai, he coughed violently and grabbed his clothes tightly.

"Mr. Tang's death is too abject. He shouldn't come to toss it, it's not in his temperament," Gao Zongting squatted down and turned the charcoal fire in the brazier, "Li Shuai thinks Huang Jinnian and Zhang Association will react?"

"How can you react? How dare you try to pick up the holes they poked out?" Li Zhuo said angrily, Tang Haoxin's death made his heart aches, and he hated Zhang Xie, who was stealing the phase, but how could the sage trust him, He even asked his son Zhang Xitong to serve as the long history of Prince Ning's mansion. "Zhang Xie didn't dare to make things bigger, but he would do everything possible to cover it up. Lin Fu couldn't see through this and could easily come to Jinhai? Just let them go!"

Gao Zongting also sighed slightly. The imperial court used Liang's father and son to go out of Shandong, which not only aroused contradictions, but also threatened to quench their thirst. Tang and Gu Ruo may become a couch, and the Liang's father and son's ambition is even more obvious. People in the palace, people in the palace, listen to others telling lies a hundred times and believe it. With Tang Haoxin's lessons learned, Gao Zongting couldn't help worrying about Li Zhuo's future fate.

No matter how strong the loyalty and trust are, they can't resist the accusations of villains that have accumulated over time. Perhaps when the situation in Yanbei has improved a little, it is necessary to persuade Li Shuai to retire.

When the sun climbed up the treetops, Zhang Xie’s second son, Zhang Ximin, left Beijing with a letter and entered the Jizhou camp. Gao Zongting took him to see Li Zhuo.

After reading Zhang Xie's private letter in the middle of the night, Li Zhuo pondered for a moment - he had absolutely no affection for Zhang Xie. He was leading the army in Jibei, and he always felt that Zhang Xie stretched out an invisible hand to squeeze his neck. He handed the letter to Gao Zongting and said, "You go to Jinhai. Since Zhang Xiang agreed to increase the foot fee by two points, the merchants who want to come to Jinhai will not be unprofitable..."

For half a year, Gao Zongting also wanted to see Lin Fu, so he agreed without hesitation, and went directly south to Jinhai with Zhang Ximin from Jizhou.

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Falling asleep to the sound of the waves and waking up again, but more comfortable than living on a boat for days on end.

Knowing that Huang Jinnian wanted to negotiate, Lin Fu didn't care. Lin Xuwen and Sun Shangwang were on the shore to deal with it. Even if he was filial piety in Chongzhou, he naturally couldn't show his face directly, and the last layer of skin had to be reserved for the court. After he got up, he practiced swordsmanship for half an hour, took Xunniang to breakfast and spent another half an hour wandering around the island in the middle of the night, but he was about to eat lunch. Just arrived in Jinhai to see him.

Others can refuse to see, but Gao Zongting cannot.

"Mr. Gao is not a particular person, so just prepare the luncheon casually," Lin Fu instructed Sun Shangwang, "Send our boat to pick it up and see if Zhang Ximin has the guts to come here... If he doesn't have the guts, it doesn't matter. Nice talk."

Neither Huang Jinnian nor Lin Xuwen showed up, but Gao Zongting and Zhang Ximin came by boat to break the waves.

After going to the island, Gao Shouting thought to himself: Jinwei Island is the Yongye Field granted by the title of Lin Fu, which is a private property under Lin Fu's name. It was a bit too solid. I thought that almost half of the money Lin Fu had obtained from the Jinhai Food Road in the past six months was probably invested in this small island that was only 1,400 paces a week, right?

This matter is confidential. If you want to come to the sage, you don’t want to hear the news of their secret deal with Lin Fu. Zhang Ximin came to Jinhai to hide people’s eyes and ears. Except for Huang Jinnian, Zhang Wendeng and other two or three people, no one knew that he and Gao Zongting came to Tianjin. ocean.

Zhang Ximin went back to Jinhai twice in the past six months and recognized Sun Shangwang. Seeing the young man in green shirt standing beside Sun Shangwang and smiling at Gao Zongting, he knew that he was Lin Fu. He thought that his father was right. Li Zhuo and Tang and Gu Zao had a flirtation with each other. Unexpectedly, Gu Wuchen and Li Zhuo were facing each other in Jiangning, and he really deceived many people, which relieved the pressure of Li Zhuo going north to Jibei a lot.

"I can't go over to pick up Mr. Gao to the island in person, Lin Fu is rude," Lin Fuzuo said, looking at Zhang Ximin, he didn't show any courtesy to the father and son of the Zhang family who forced Tang Haoxin to death, seeing that he and Zhang Xi had the same appearance Xiang Xiao just raised his eyebrows and said, "There is only a thin banquet on the island, and Xiao Xiang Ye doesn't see it in his eyes, but you can take a look at the scenery on the island, and Mr. Gao and I will talk about things after eating. "

Zhang Ximin endured the cooing empty stomach, and said proudly, "Please." She really stayed on the pier tremblingly and looked at the scenery, and secretly greeted the ancestors of the Lin family.

Gao Zongting smiled slightly, and regardless of where Zhang Ximin was drinking the northwest wind, he went straight to Saibao with Lin Fu.

He used the famous donkey meat from Hejian Mansion to cook, prepared six plates, a bowl of soup, and warmed a pot of wine. Lin Fu and Gao Zongting sat down to drink and talk, with Sun Shangwang to accompany him.

"How is the situation in the north?" Lin Bie asked.

"Every day, there are documents submitted to the sage to ask the sage to urge the commander to send troops," Gao Zongting shook his head and sighed, "the sage did not approve, and sent these documents to the Jizhou camp every once in a while. The supervisor is under a lot of pressure. Looking at this situation, there is not much patience left in the Holy Spirit."

"In the battle of Chentangyi, the eastern prisoners drew 150,000 troops. The officials in the court thought that five years had passed, and the Donglu people could only draw 150,000 troops, and they all gathered on the western front to encircle Datong. Lin Fu sighed slightly, "Five years have passed, the situation has changed a lot. In the past, the East Hu people were simply unable to organize a war on the western front~www.mtlnovel.com~ Now that they can encircle Datong, they are afraid that the five Hu Hu in Yanbei will be seven or eighty thousand. Ding Du has attached Donglu..."

"In the case of the Marquis of Jingbei, the eastern part of Liaoning was lost; the defeat of Chentangyi lost the western part of Liaoning. Nearly one million people in Liaodong and western Liaoning could not be moved back to the customs. Last year, 300,000 to 400,000 people were kidnapped," Gao Zongting said. Said, "The officials thought that as long as the supervisor led the troops north out of western Liaoning, the abandoned people who had been left behind would welcome them and cooperate with each other. The supervisor argued that the people's hearts of the two Liaos might not be available, but they were slandered with ulterior motives. Some people said that It sounds even worse..."

"The last time the bandits broke the border, there were many Liao people who were looted and returned with great rewards. This year, a considerable number of Liao people joined the siege of Datong for greed for money or for the sake of war, not to mention those rebel generals who surrendered. Died - some officials in the court always can't see these facts, it's no big deal, if you can see it clearly, the situation will be like this!" Lin Bie said with his voice pressed.

"You can't come to Jinhai just for the shipping fee..." Gao Zongting asked, "The commander believes you won't be a thief, so let me come here."

"When Zhang Xie and the Liang family intervene in the Jinhai grain road, it is destined to be a mess. Don't believe it, you will see it in two or three months. At the critical moment, I must ensure that the northern army will not be disturbed by grain. Who will be the emperor of the Yuan family? , I don't care whether I support King Ning, but I can't let the Donglu people enter the customs and ride on the heads of the Han people," Lin Fu said, "I want to build a fleet of distant seas from Chongzhou, bypassing Shandong to the Jinhai Sea, They are short of money. Zhang Xie and Huang Jinnian allocated a large amount of rice grain to the grain merchant's private warehouse for huge profits.

"Zhang Xie's private letter to the commander-in-chief gave the reserve price of two cents of silver. I don't think it would be a big problem for you to knock him three cents of silver." Gao Zongting said. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter