The First Gongsheng of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 347 My "friend" is unusual

When Tang Yin walked out of the Martial Arts Hall, he lost all energy, as if he was about to jump into a fire pit.

According to Zhang Zhou's request, before his trip to Liaodong, he had to arrange and arrange his "errands", that is, to write a plan report and explain in detail what he was going to do to the emperor. .

"Bohu, why do you... look like this?"

Tang Yin suddenly saw Xu Jing, and Xu Jing also found out that something was wrong with him.

Tang Yin said: "I'm going to Liaodong."

"This is a good thing." Xu Jing looked envious.

Originally, Xu Jing was counting on Tang Yin to take him to fly, but now that Tang Yin was going to Liaodong for a big event, Xu Jing didn't seem to feel that Tang Yin was being used by others.

Tang Yin asked: "Do you want to go with me?"

"This... I wonder if Master Zhang agrees?"

Xu Jing wanted to go, but he was afraid that Zhang Zhou would not allow it.

Tang Yin wanted to tell Xu Jing that he was going to be an envoy to North Korea, and even mentioned that Daming was planning to use troops against Jianzhou Wei and other ministries, but he also thought that Zhang Zhou would not allow him to leak it beforehand, so he sighed and said: "Southerners are already suffering in the north. This year's cold winter is a bit uncomfortable, let alone Liaodong, which is even more bitter and cold? You should not go there."

Tang Yin had good intentions.

You, Xu Jing, are going to Liaodong with me, and you may also go to North Korea with me. This is a matter of wearing your head on your trouser belt.

Xu Jing misunderstood Tang Yin's meaning, he said: "Could it be that Bohu thinks that I don't have the ability to help you?"

"Hehe." Tang Yin smiled wryly, "If you are willing to go with me, then I will help you find a job in the team, but don't complain after you pass."

"It's okay, it's okay. How much time is left to prepare?" Xu Jing was very excited.

Having work to do was a gift to him.

The worst thing I fear is being left out.

Tang Yin said: "I will leave tomorrow after I face the saint."

"Miansheng?" Xu Jing was even more envious when he heard it.

Going to Liaodong on business, you can still meet the emperor. Right now the emperor doesn't even see his courtiers, which also means that Tang Yin is likely to be summoned by the emperor alone.

"Brother Bohu, you have really met a noble person. You can go there and don't forget me, brother. We need to support each other in the future. I met you at Weimo. This kind of friendship is incomparable to others. I will go back right away." Pack up, we will set off for Liaodong tomorrow."

Now Xu Jing wants to try his best to climb up to Tang Yin.

It is a bit difficult to directly climb up the big tree of Zhang Zhou. Before, it was impossible to seek refuge with Wang Shouren, but now he had to use some simple methods to get closer to Tang Yin.

In fact, Xu Jing looked down on Tang Yin from the bottom of his heart before. He felt that Tang Yin was far from Zhang Zhou and Wang Shouren in terms of ability and fortune. Willing to help him.

In the end...we were comrades in the same trench, brothers who had gone through thick and thin together.

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Ministry of Rites.

Xie Qian, who was invited, met Xu Qiong.

Xu Qiong told him that Zhu Youtang had a woman outside and was pregnant.

"Really?" Xie Qian was so surprised that he couldn't even sit still.

Zhu Youtang has been on the throne for 12 years. This time, this cowardly emperor overturned Xie Qian's cognition once again.

Xu Qiong said: "Yu Qiao, do you know why I told you this?"

"Ugh!"

Xie Qian breathed heavily, and after sitting down, he turned his head to the side, feeling a sense of melancholy that he could not bear to look back on.

In the first year of Hongzhi, Guo Yong, the left young supervisor of the imperial horse supervisor, wrote to the emperor to choose a concubine to enrich the harem, and Zhu Youtang, who had just ascended the throne at that time, also agreed.

It was time for Xie Qian, who was a student of the Imperial Academy and also the teacher of Zhu Youtang, to oppose it: "The system of the six palaces should be prepared. And the worries of three years, how can we forget it? The mountain mausoleum is not yet completed, forgive the cloud It's still new, why did this happen so suddenly?"

It means that even if the matter of the Sixth Palace should be there, but you have not yet fulfilled your three-year Dingyou, so you are thinking about concubine giving birth?

on this matter.

It is obvious that the traditional faction represented by Xie Qian is demanding the new emperor who has just ascended the throne from the perspective of a "sage".

At that time, Zhu Youtang was newly ascended to the Great Treasure, and he was alone and alone. There was almost no one in the court who could help him. Even the whole palace was still a group of old people left by Emperor Chenghua. He grew up in fear, and the only thing he could rely on was Xie Qian, a group of teachers represented by the Donggong lecturers, can also see how much Xie Qian's words have affected him.

Then Zhu Youtang really did it...not accepting a concubine.

What Xu Qiong probably meant was to remind Xie Qian.

Time has passed. You were the one who hindered the emperor from accepting the concubine at the beginning, but now you are the one to break the ice and persuade the emperor to accept the concubine. How about you?
"Yu Qiao, the empress has not had any dragon heirs in the past few years. Your Majesty is anxious. Even the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager have repeatedly inquired about the Ministry of Rites, and asked the Ministry of Rites to request Your Majesty to open the Six Palaces. However, Your Majesty has been Everyone is against this, but I don't know why His Majesty's mood has changed a lot this year, and it is probably related to Zhang Bingkuan's frequent entry into the palace..."

"okay!"

Xie Qian stretched out his hand and interrupted Xu Qiong's earnest words, but in fact it was more like long nonsense.

You, Xu Qiong, want to persuade me to come forward, so you don't need to find so many reasons.

What's going on, I know better than you.

I am not blind.

Xie Qian said: "I can come forward on this matter, but the matter of requesting a performance should be requested by the Ministry of Rites or Taichang Temple, especially with the help of luck and human relations. If they can't be connected, everything will be difficult to justify."

This means that even if we want to bring up the old things again, we have to find a way.

It can’t be said that the emperor repeatedly issued decrees not to allow the concubine to be mentioned anymore, but now the emperor wants to accept the concubine, so we just let us make a memorial...The emperor promised happily, and there is harmony between the monarch and his ministers. What will people in the world think?
Oh, where are you monarchs and ministers singing oboe here?
There must be "things happen for a reason".

It must be because the metaphysical sect headed by Qin Tianjian and Taichang Temple have grasped some kind of secret, discovered the connection between the secret and human relations, and realized that the emperor should obey the destiny and accept a concubine at this time, so as to open up branches and leaves for Daming , and then Balabala said a lot... The result is that the emperor obeyed the destiny and agreed to accept the concubine...

That's the normal process.

Xu Qiong smiled wryly and said, "Does it have to take so much trouble?"

Xie Qian said, "Don't you think it's unnecessary?"

Xu Qiong was about to say that the emperor changed his mind, he broke his original promise not to accept concubines, and now the bad guys let us be the ones, why?
Besides, after accepting the concubine, is it really good for those of us who are officials?

He said that the emperor accepted more concubines and had more sons for the stability of Daming, but in fact, apart from Zhu Youtang's old grandmother and the trusted eunuchs around him, did others really care about this matter so much?

It doesn't matter if you have children or not, even if you don't, it's fine for you to adopt him.

Anyway, it's not impossible in the future. You've been dead for more than ten years, and we can give you an adoptive son. What is impossible for us?

"Then... is that the person who is looking for Taichang Temple?" Xu Qiong didn't argue with Xie Qian too much.

Xie Qian got up and said: "The Ministry of Rites and Taichang Temple have been around a lot, you should talk about it, or go to Qin Tianjian to correct Wu Hao, he seems to be a little bit unhappy, you just go to mention something."

Xu Qiong wanted to say, why didn't you go?
But looking at Xie Qian's attitude... Xu Qiong understood instantly.

I want to use Xie Qian as a spearman, but Xie Qian's status in the court is obviously higher than Xu Qiong's. How can a high-ranking one be used by a low-ranking one?

With Xie Qian's cunning and cunning, a casual backhand smash seemed to give him Xu Qiong's advice to ask the people from the Qin Tianjian to talk about God's will, but in fact it was Xie Qian who threw the problem to him instead.

Now it's not you, Xu Qiong, who is in the early stage, so it must be!

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The next day.

Zhu Youtang still did not go to court.

In the palace, Zhu Youtang met with Zhang Zhou and Tang Yin. This "research martial arts hall job"... Tang Yin himself doesn't know what this position is for.

In short, the official has changed from the sixth rank to the fifth rank.

But there is no post for a member of the staff...

It seems that he is a Beijing official who has been promoted by one level, and his status feels much higher in an instant, but Tang Yin knows that he is half-assigned to a place, and Daming's rule is that Beijing officials will be promoted by at least three official levels. up a level...

"Tang Qing's family, when you go to North Korea as an envoy, you will hold a scepter and a letter of credence. In name, you will go to canonize the son of the vassal of North Korea as his son, and at the same time discuss with him about sending troops together." Zhu Youtang said, "This trip will be very hard for you. You will arrive in about a month, and you will go to Shenyang halfway. As for the specific matters, Lai Guogong will explain to you."

Tang Yin clasped his hands and said, "I accept the decree."

Zhu Youtang smiled and said: "Bingkuan, I think you have a good vision, and this Tang Yin can be regarded as a pillar. Judging by his energy, he should be qualified for this job, and it should be no problem to make meritorious deeds."

Tang Yin wanted to ask something, but suddenly realized that he was in Qianqing Palace, and the emperor didn't ask him, so he had no right to ask.

Zhang Zhou asked the question for him: "Your Majesty, after Master Tang's affairs are completed, should he stay in North Korea and cooperate with North Korea to send troops? Or let him return to Shenyang to assist Lu Zhongcheng and others to send troops?"

"This...Of course, don't rush to come back."

Zhu Youtang's words almost frightened Tang Yin so much that his legs went limp.

Zhang Zhou picked him up from the side and said with a smile, "Master Tang, this is His Majesty's admiration for you. If you stay in North Korea, you will be equivalent to the Ming Dynasty's envoy. You will be in control of all the troops sent by the Li Dynasty. You're going to be a prisoner."

"That...that..."

Tang Yin was at a loss for words.

Zhang Zhou asked: "By the way, Mr. Tang, who else are you going to bring to North Korea? I have asked His Majesty for instructions, and I will send you a mission team of 200 people, equipped with new-style firecrackers. As for artillery... I give you five light cannons to ensure that you can arrive safely. You have to bring back as much as you want.”

When Tang Yin heard this, he was afraid that I would leave the artillery and firecrackers in North Korea?

It was Zhang Zhou who asked the question, but Tang Yin replied respectfully to Zhu Youtang: "I found my former friend, now Xu Jing, who is Ju Ren, and went together."

"Okay." Zhu Youtang said, "I will let the governor of Liaodong, and send a few people to cooperate with you, also for the convenience of discussing the deployment of the march. As for Xu Jing... Although he had some misbehavior during the imperial examination before , but in the end he also has the heart to serve Daming, if his trip to North Korea can be successfully completed, I will give him a reward as appropriate."

Tang Yinben thought that the emperor would directly give Xu Jing some kind of official.

I heard that only after completing the mission can you be promoted.

Tang Yin felt a pity for Xu Jing...but thinking about it again, why is there such a pity?You volunteered to go there on your own initiative, and it was not the emperor or Zhang Bingkuan who came looking for you. Even if you recommend yourself, it depends on your ability.

If you have the courage to be promoted to rank, then Daming's official position is too worthless.

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After Zhang Zhou and Tang Yin faced the saint together, they followed Xiao Jing to the outside of the palace.

"Is everything packed?" Zhang Zhou asked with a smile.

Tang Yin said: "It's okay."

He actually wanted to say, I am in the capital, almost a loner, and I haven’t even brought my mother-in-law here... Tang Yin’s only daughter was born after the rebirth, that is to say, now he has only one who is critical of him. Apart from his wife in Jiangnan, he is actually a loner.

Of course, Tang Yin hasn't reconciled with Xu Xian's wife yet.

Tang Yin's love life in his whole life was very unsatisfactory.

But in the Ming Dynasty, it was a group of male chauvinists, and there was no such thing as harmony, and there was no love between men and women, and they probably just lived together.

Tang Yin belonged to the heartless kind, so he didn't feel much about it.

Zhang Zhou smiled and said: "Then I will arrange a few more people to accompany you. You know Liu Gui who has been to the grassland before. He is now a hundred households of Jinyiwei, and he will bring a few people to listen to your orders. He can also use artillery. He may be able to help you."

"Ah."

Tang Yin didn't have any idea about who would go with him.

Anyway, it wasn't Zhang Zhou who accompanied him personally, other people...is there any essential difference?

"Then I won't send you off. After leaving the city, you will be accompanied by more than 1000 soldiers from the Beijing Camp, accompanied by people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Ministry of War. Anyway, your mission is different from theirs. Do it well!"

No matter what words of encouragement Zhang Zhou said, Tang Yin couldn't lift his spirits.

It was precisely because he was bitten by a snake for ten years and was afraid of well ropes, this time he felt that he was tortured by Zhang Zhou. Zhang Zhou said that he broke the sky, and Tang Yin also regarded Zhang Zhou as a model of villains.

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Everything is laid out.

Zhang Zhou did not send Tang Yin out of the city, but Tang Yin's trip to Liaodong attracted much attention in the court.

In the eyes of others, Tang Yin went to Liaodong to mediate the conflict between the soldiers of Jizhou and Liaodong. Jurchen and other tribes launched a merciless purge.

Zhang Zhou went to see Ning Tong.

This time, he brought Xiao Jing with him.

It was Zhu Youtang who ordered Dongchang, headed by Xiao Jing, to strengthen the security of Ning Tong's yard, but the main inner circle protection was still done by the people arranged by Zhang Zhou.

The reason why Zhu Youtang made such an arrangement was also because he felt that a reconciliation had been reached with his wife, and it is reasonable to say that his wife should not kill her again.

"Sir, after you go in, you can talk... Just pretend that our family is not here, and you can give orders if you have anything to do."

Xiao Jing was cautious.

Zhang Zhou said with a smile: "Your Majesty asked Eunuch Xiao to come, there are other arrangements, right?"

Xiao Jing looked embarrassed and didn't answer.

Zhang Zhoudao: "Actually, Your Majesty also said that Eunuch Xiao came here not only to ensure the safety of the surrounding area, but also to pave the way and arrange for His Majesty to visit the little nobleman occasionally. After all, it is impossible for this person to enter the palace in a short period of time." .”

"Yes Yes."

When Xiao Jing heard it, the emperor didn't hide anything from Zhang Zhou, so what else is there to hide?
He also understood now that it was impossible not to tell Zhang Zhou if the emperor didn't tell them something.

Things that seemed confidential to them were nothing but commonplace to Zhang Zhou.

After all, the emperor didn't even trust the queen so much, but he respected Zhang Zhou very much, what kind of friendship is this... Xiao Jing couldn't understand.

"However, if His Majesty wants to come, it will be a bit troublesome to arrange it. My idea is to rent the surrounding yard and open it up by the way. In the future, this place can be used as the maiden's home of the little nobleman. What does Eunuch Xiao think?"

"Listen to you, listen to you."

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As the two talked, the carriage had already stopped at the door of Ning Tong's shop.

This time, someone came over to say hello in advance, and Ning Tong closed the shop in advance, until someone went up to knock on the door, and Ning Tong came over to open the door in person.

"coming?"

Ning Tong didn't care about Zhang Zhou.

She looked Xiao Jing up and down, because Xiao Jing was only wearing ordinary clothes, she just frowned.

The two met before, but Ning Tong couldn't remember where he met...

"He is?" Ning Tong asked.

Zhang Zhou said: "Miss Ning, this has nothing to do with you, I will bring a friend to visit Miss Xiaolian."

"Ah."

Only then did Ning Tong invite the two of them in, but when she saw a burly man coming in behind her, she immediately became unhappy and stretched out her hand to stop him.

The one who was stopped was Mu Bin, commander of Jin Yiwei.

Fortunately, Mu Bin knew who this person was, otherwise he would have to use the knife on the spot.

Zhang Zhou said with a smile: "The people I brought, let them come in together, just to meet Miss Xiaolian, so that I can have some business with the people behind me when I turn around."

Ning Tong was dissatisfied and said, "What kind of place do you think this is? You said that you are not allowed to contact outsiders, but now you bring men to disturb us? Are you deliberately trying to ruin our reputation?"

When Xiao Jing heard this, he quickly argued: "Madam An Bian, calm down."

The sound made Ning Tong's body tremble instantly.

This is clearly a eunuch.

She also instantly remembered that this was the old eunuch she had seen in the theater, so she didn't say anything immediately.

"Eunuch Xiao, do you think it's okay here?" Zhang Zhou didn't hide anymore.

Xiao Jing sighed: "It's okay, it's okay."

"What does Commander Mou think?" Zhang Zhou looked at Mou Bin again.

Mou Bin said: "The humble official is willing to listen to the orders of the Duke."

"Well." Zhang Zhou nodded, "The two houses next to it are temporarily sold. It should not be too difficult for Jin Yiwei to come forward, but we should try our best not to let the wind out, so as not to attract people's attention here. We also need to strengthen the guards. , to prevent assassins from coming."

"Yes." Mu Bin took the order.

Ning Tong, who was still very proud before, now looked like a good girl, and stood behind Zhang Zhou, as if she was relying on Zhang Zhou's prestige to protect her.

(End of this chapter)