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Chapter 318 The dog is about to die?
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On the sixth day of June in the tenth year of the Ming Dynasty, it is an auspicious day for everything.In this peaceful, sunny and smooth day, thousands of people in Lutai Town, Xi'an Prefecture, Shaanxi, singing and dancing, helping the old and the young, came to the farmland outside the town with joy and excitement to welcome the Ming Dynasty. Uncle Wu Qingbo, governors of the five provinces, Minister of the Ministry of War, Prince Shaobao Zhang Haogu, Mr. Zhang, and more than 99 civil and military officials from Shaanxi and Gansu who accompanied him, warmly welcome Mr. Zhang Haogu to personally participate in and preside over the first ceremony in Shaanxi and Gansu. Batch sweet potato field harvesting work.When the flag of Mr. Zhang Haogu appeared on the scene, there was thunderous cheers and firecrackers in the farmland. Countless Ming people shed tears of excitement. [-] years old" slogan resounded through the sky.

"I'm so excited, Mu Laoqi is almost [-] years old, and it's the first time I see such a big official to help our people harvest crops! Qingtian, Daqingtian!" said Mu Laoqi, an ordinary farmer in Lutai, representing countless farmers. Say.

"Master Zhang has lost weight again. Although it doesn't affect his handsomeness at all, I still feel sorry for my slave family." One of Mr. Zhang Haogu's enthusiastic fans, the former girl Ruchun from Xi'an Cuihong Academy represented countless Zhang Haogu. That's what a female fan of Mr. Gu said.

"Folks, have you noticed? Mr. Zhang's shoes are still the same pair from last year, just patched. Mr. Zhang hasn't been willing to buy a new pair of shoes for more than a year. It's too clean!" A sharp-eyed commoner shouted excitedly. When I got up, there was a burst of praise and emotion, and the sharp-eyed commoner added in his heart: "Okay, I got five cents again!"

"Master Zhang, you are indeed a good official, and I can't match you." Sun Chengzong, the governor of Shaanxi who had already been overtaken by his disciple Hong Chengchou, sighed sullenly from the bottom of his heart.

"Is it the welcome ceremony arranged by that bastard? You light so many firecrackers now, how much more will you order when the grain is harvested? Is there so much money in Shaanxi and Gansu that there is no place to put it?" Master Zhang Haogu said in a low voice.

At three quarters of the hour, under the personal leadership of Mr. Zhang Haogu, more than 15 civil and military officials picked up hoes together with Mr. Zhang Haogu, rolled up their trousers and went down to the field, digging carefully along the roots of potato leaves, and soon , Master Zhang Haogu was the first to dig out a dog potato the size of a bowl... oh no, a sweet potato the size of a bowl.Amidst the warm applause and cheers, Mr. Zhang Haogu personally peeled off the yellow soil on the sweet potatoes, revealing the bright red and tender red potato skins. Under the command of the adults, Zhang Shitou, the captain of the personal army, took it to the weighing pan and weighed it, and immediately shouted: "One catty is 99 taels!" There was another warm applause and cheers at the scene, and "Long live the emperor, long live, long live!" Long live" and "Eunuch Wei is nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years old".

About an hour later, all the first mu of sweet potato fields in Shaanxi-Gansu territory had been harvested. After loading baskets and scales, Mr. Zhang Haogu personally announced a number that made the people of Shaanxi-Gansu extremely surprised and wept bitterly. One mu of sweet potato field harvested sweet potatoes this year, 1000 catties!" Hearing this unbelievable figure per mu, the people of Shaanxi and Gansu who had been planting wheat and millet for a lifetime felt incredible at first, and then the atmosphere in the field reached its climax in an instant, "The emperor The slogans of "Long live, long live, long live" and "Eunuch Wei is nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years old" sounded like a landslide and tsunami. It expresses the gratitude of the people of the Ming Dynasty to the Son of Heaven, the court of the Ming Dynasty and the Supervisor of Rites of the Ming Dynasty.

"Zhang Qingtian, Zhang Shennong!" I don't know who took the lead and yelled, and the voices of Shaanxi and Gansu people thanking Mr. Zhang Haogu echoed in the field, "Zhang Qingtian! Zhang Shennong! Zhang Qingtian! Zhang Shennong! Zhang Qingtian , Zhang... ah——!"

There was a sudden change at the scene. Mr. Zhang Haogu, who worked hard for the country and the people, and dedicated himself, suddenly tilted his body and slowly fell on the pile of sweet potatoes piled up in front of him. The cheers on the scene also turned into shock. Shouts and screams, seeing countless officials and soldiers jumping on Mr. Zhang Haogu, and the crowd of onlookers also flocking to Mr. Zhang Haogu, a good minister of the Ming court and a good parent of the people of the Ming Dynasty, is heartbreaking. The crying voice slowly echoed, "Master Zhang, Zhang Qingtian, you can't have an accident, you can't have an accident—!"

On the seventh day of June in the tenth year of the Great Ming Dynasty, after falling ill for the third time and fainting at work, Master Zhang finally couldn't bear it any longer, so he had to accept the kindness of the Ming court and hand over the government affairs of Shaanxi and Gansu to Hong Chengchou, the new governor of Shaanxi and Gansu. , I accepted the imperial physician's suggestion to recuperate, and decided to lead part of the army back to Daming capital for recuperation.When the news spread, there was a sensation in Shaanxi and Gansu. Hundreds of thousands of people flocked to Xi'an to express the respect and love of the people of Shaanxi and Gansu to the master of Qingtian, Young Master Zhang. The young master's longevity tablet, I sincerely wish the master of Qingtian, the young master Zhang, to recover as soon as possible, and return to Shaanxi and Gansu to implement benevolent governance.When Young Master Zhang set off to return to Beijing, hundreds of thousands of people from Shaanxi and Gansu saw each other off, choking with grief, and there was only one slogan repeatedly called out, "Zhang Qingtian, take care, come back early!"

The impact of Young Master Zhang's resignation due to illness is far more than that. The very few Shaanxi-Gansu rebels who are stubbornly fighting are more excited and happy, but it is a pity to know that the person who took over the position of Young Master Zhang as a full-time thief is actually a thief who is still in front of Young Master Zhang. After Hong Chengchou and Hong Yanwang on the road, these rebels quickly withered down, and sweet potatoes and potatoes in Shaanxi and Gansu have begun to be harvested. Let the people take a reassurance, the situation in Shaanxi and Gansu has gradually and completely stabilized, the remaining space for the activities of the Shaanxi-Gansu rebels is shrinking day by day, and the hope of a comeback is becoming increasingly slim.

Different from the people in Shaanxi and Gansu who were mourning their concubines and the rebels in Shaanxi and Gansu who were excited and excited, Jiannu and Shanzong's secret agents had mixed feelings about this news. However, he was full of doubts, for fear that he would be uncomfortable if he did not engage in conspiracy and tricks. Young Master Zhang was playing tricks again, planning to use some fake sickness to fool others, especially when he found out that the three thousand wolves who escorted Young Master Zhang back to Beijing to recuperate from the slave army After the cavalry, Jiannu and Shanzong's secret agents were even more terrified—although the three thousand slave slaughtering troops were only a quarter of the strength of the slave slaughtering army, they were ravaged by Master Zhang, a scheming, treacherous and sinister plague god. In his hand, it is more than enough to step down Ningyuan and block the Jiannu army.In timidity, without asking Ningyuan and Liaoyang for instructions, Shanzong and Jiannu's espionage leaders in the Central Plains have issued death orders-at all costs, we must find out the true condition of Young Master Zhang!

To find out the real situation of Young Master Zhang, it is easier said than done, not to mention that most of the soldiers and running dogs around Young Master Zhang are the tenant children of the Zhang family in Linqing. Loyalty to the old Zhang family is difficult to be bribed and may not be reliable—basically none of the roles that can serve as a personal soldier for Young Master Zhang can make Jiannu and Shanzong fully believe their words, and they may be used as counterinsurgents. It was tricked.It is difficult for Jiannu or Shanzong's secret agents to get close to the temporary camp of Young Master Zhang's team. The slave slaughter army trained by Young Master Zhang is both stern and loyal to Young Master Zhang. Jiannu and Shanzong want to infiltrate the Ming army It's a fool's dream to inquire about the real situation of Young Master Zhang in the camp.

Of course, Jiannu and Shanzong's meticulous work is not vegetarian, if it is hard, you can use it softly, such as dressing up as Ming people to watch the excitement, approaching the Ming army camp, eavesdropping on the conversation of Ming army soldiers, and see if you have any luck. Encounter dead rats; there is also the investigation of the number of appearances of Young Master Zhang, the number of times of medication, secretly collecting the drug residue left by Young Master Zhang's team, and judging Young Master Zhang's condition by identifying the ingredients of the medicine.The most amazing thing is that Yuan Chonghuan's younger brother Yuan Chongyu, who was lurking in the pass to collect information for Shanzong, even bought Bao Qimo, the Henan inspector, through his business partners. A well-known doctor in Henan went to Master Zhang's camp to get his pulse and directly observed his condition.And the doctor's return made Yuan Chongyu completely relieved - judging from the pulse condition, Young Master Zhang was indeed seriously ill this time, and it was indeed a disease caused by overwork.

After repeatedly confirming the case of Young Master Zhang to the doctor, Yuan Chongyu quickly sent his confidants to get in touch with Yuan Chonghuan through a secret channel, reported the truth to his brother and asked for credit, but Yuan Chonghuan never thought that Yuan Chongyu would write back and scold Yuan Chongyu bloody and scold Yuan Chongyu for doing things. Inadvertently, on such a major matter that is critical to the survival of the Shanzong, he dared to bet all his bets on a Mongolian doctor who didn't know the details of his background. He really didn't know how to write the dead word!After scolding, Yuan Chonghuan ordered Yuan Chongyu to go to Beijing secretly with Young Master Zhang, continue to try to find out if Young Master Zhang was seriously ill, and casually inquired about the recent adjustments made by the Ming court.Yuan Chongyu had no choice but to lead his confidantes to sneak in disguise, chasing Young Master Zhang's ass all the way to Daming capital.

According to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, when the governor-level official of Xinjiang came to Beijing to report on his duties, the soldiers and horses of the five cities would send people to martial law at nine gates, evacuate the crowd, and welcome the official of Xinjiang to enter Beijing. Our young master Zhang is already the biggest governor of Ming Dynasty Of course, the soldiers and horses of the five cities did not dare to be perfunctory. On June 28th, at noon on June [-], Master Zhang's team had just arrived at Lugou Bridge, and the soldiers and horses of the five cities in Beijing had already driven out the people next to Chongwenmen. , lined up to welcome the return of Young Master Zhang, a big celebrity in the imperial court.At the same time, what surprised the soldiers and horsemen of the five cities was that those court officials who had just finished the early court also ran to Deshengmen to welcome Young Master Zhang. Household Minister Feng Quan Feng Cifu.Even Li Qifeng, the Governor of Water Transport in Tongzhou, made a special trip from Tongzhou to the capital to flatter him, and even brought a famous doctor who was said to be a famous doctor to Young Master Zhang.

Just after noon, the team of Young Master Zhang finally appeared on the official road outside Deshengmen. The brothers Liu Ruozai and Yu Huang were the first to worship side by side, and first rushed forward and shouted: "Third brother, third brother, the eldest brother is here to pick you up, is your body better?" "Third brother, the second brother is also here, I heard that you are seriously ill, so quickly ask Second Brother to take your pulse."

Young Master Zhang, who was seriously ill, of course did not ride on the horse, and could only lie in the car and drive. Seeing Liu Ruozai and Yu Huang rushing, Zhang Shitou, who was guarding the car, hurriedly said loudly: "Master, your elder brother Liu Ruozai, Mr. Liu Master and Yu Huangyu are here, and I will help you out to meet them." As he said, Zhang Shitou got into the car, and quickly helped out the dying Young Master Zhang from the car, which surprised Liu Ruozai and Yu Huang. I haven't seen him for just over a year, but Young Master Zhang has lost a lot of weight. His handsome and extraordinary face was so pale and emaciated. If it wasn't for Zhang Shitou's help, the outline of his facial features could still be recognized. Liu Ruozai and Yu Huang probably wouldn't have imagined that the dying patient in front of him, who seemed to be dying at any time, was the third brother Tanhualang who we were proud of and made all the enemies of Ming Dynasty fearful.

"Brother..." Eldest Young Master Zhang only mumbled two words, and immediately bent down and coughed violently.Liu Ruozai and Yu Huang were dumbfounded at first, then rushed up to help and pat their backs to help them cough, and said together distressedly: "Third brother, why are you so sick?" "Stone, I remember that the Tiangong sent to Shaanxi and Gansu The Imperial Physician reported that the third brother's illness has improved a bit, why did he become like this all of a sudden?"

"It's the young master who doesn't love himself too much." Zhang Shitou said with tears in his eyes: "Young master analyzed that Jiannu might send troops to attack Shanhaiguan in August, and was in a hurry to return to the capital to prepare for the battle, so he forced us to march in a hurry. It took more than 30 days, and the young master only walked for 20 days, but the road was bumpy, and the young master fell ill again."

"Third brother, don't you want to die?" Liu Ruozai scolded angrily, "You are so sick, what are you still hurrying to do?" Yu Huang couldn't help but reprimanded: "Third brother, although you are much older than us, Too much, but you call us brother, we are going to teach you a lesson today! Look at you, you are so disfigured now, and you are walking so fast, do you really want your brothers to cry for you? Let Mrs. Zhang, are the white-haired and the black-haired?"

"Ahem, ahem, ahem, ahem——!" Eldest Young Master Zhang couldn't answer the scolding of his elder brothers at all, and the cough became more and more severe, as if he might faint at any time.Seeing this scene, many officials present with different intentions couldn't help being elated, and sighed that you, Zhang Haogu, have today. See if you can steal the limelight from others in the future?Li Qifeng, the Governor of Water Transport who was mixed among the officials, was also secretly happy, and hurriedly asked the doctor he had brought with him in a low voice: "Look quickly, does it seem like you're pretending to be sick?"

"Absolutely not pretending to be ill." The doctor Li Qifeng brought, who was actually sent by Fan Wencheng and Yuan Chonghuan, replied in a low voice: "Look at his eye sockets, they are sunken. There is no way to pretend this kind of illness. His pale face and coughing sound are definitely not fake, looking at him like this, he might be suffering from tuberculosis."

"Consumption?" Li Qifeng's eyes lit up, he was so excited that he almost cheered on the spot.But just to be cautious, Li Qifeng said in a low voice: "Come with me, I will find a way for you to feel his pulse." As he spoke, Li Qifeng pushed aside the crowd and stepped forward, pretending to be nervous and shouting: "Zhang Shaobao , Zhang Shaobao, how are you feeling now? General Zhang Shitou, this old man knows that Zhang Shaobao is seriously ill, so I brought him a doctor, let this famous doctor show him."

Young Master Zhang coughed worse and worse. Of course, Zhang Shitou, Liu Ruozai and others would not refuse Li Qifeng's offer to recommend a doctor. The doctor from Liaodong took the opportunity to take Master Zhang's pulse. After touching it a few times, the doctor immediately concluded, "The pulse is thin and weak, the kidney pulse is almost imperceptible, the kidney yin is deficient, the fire is hyperactive, it must be tuberculosis, and it is absolutely impossible to pretend." Thinking in his heart, the doctor Nodding slightly to Li Qifeng, the gloating ecstasy in Li Qifeng's eyes was fleeting, and he hurriedly asked nervously, "Han Langzhong, what is Zhang Shaobao's illness? Is it serious?"

"Back to my lord, please forgive Xiaosheng for speaking bluntly, Mr. Shaobao's disease is a tuberculosis caused by exhaustion!"

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Although Wei Zhongxian insisted on his own identity, he did not go to meet his son outside Desheng Gate in person, but chose to stay in Weiran Hutong and wait for his son to come to kowtow, but what happened outside Desheng Gate, there are still eyeliners who are in Weiran Hutong at any time Wei Zhongxian reported it. When the eyeliner reported to the attendant that Master Zhang was suffering from incurable tuberculosis, Wei Zhongxian almost went crazy, jumped up and shouted: "What? Tuberculosis? Is there a mistake? A few days ago , Didn’t the imperial physician sent to Shaanxi and Gansu say it’s just a common lung disease? How did it turn into tuberculosis? It’s the pulse of those bastards who went to see him, our family is going to chop him up! Tear him up! Chop him up!”

"What? Brother Zhang is suffering from tuberculosis?" Wei Liangqing, who has become the head of the country, also screamed, "Could it be a mistake? Brother Zhang will also suffer from tuberculosis with the body of the six daughters that night?"

"Back to the ancestors, this servant has seen with my own eyes that Tanhualang is indeed very sick." The little eunuch who sent the letter replied dejectedly: "And after the doctor finished his pulse diagnosis, Tanhualang passed out again. I sent it to the alley of Prime Minister Wen, and I guess I will have a way to kowtow to my ancestors today."

"Monkey boy, do you really want our white-haired man to give a black-haired man?!" Wei Zhongxian slumped back on the chair, and some tears flickered in his cloudy old eyes.Wei Liangqing also wiped away his tears, choked up and said: "Brother Zhang, I was counting on you to escort my grandson to the throne, why did you become so ill?"

"Old ancestor, do you still want to send someone to look at Prime Minister Wen's alley?" the little eunuch asked timidly.Wei Zhongxian didn't answer, stood up after a long while, gritted his teeth and said: "Prepare the sedan chair, let's go to see the monkey cubs in person! Also, bring all the old wild ginseng at home." Wei Liangqing also showed his loyalty and stood up. Said: "Father, I'll go with you. Brother Zhang is doing this for our Wei family. I have to go and see him no matter what, and do my best."

"Stop, who is it?" At this moment, a guard shouted suddenly from outside the door, and another voice replied vaguely: "I have a token, and I want to see Nine Thousand Years." The guard shouted again: "Ling Bring the card! Where did you get the token? Why have I never seen you before?"

"What happened?" Wei Zhongxian asked angrily.The eunuch who guarded the door replied respectfully: "Going back to the ancestors, a man came and went straight to the backyard with the token from the mansion that you gave him at nine thousand years old, but the people in the mansion have never seen him, and they are interrogating him for the token. history?"

"Is there a token from my mansion? I've never seen it before? Who is it?" Wei Zhongxian was a little confused, and asked curiously, "Bring him in."

"Yes." The little eunuch outside the door agreed, and a moment later, a man in black with a sharp wooden bamboo hat from Dongchang was led into the back hall of the Wei Mansion. Seeing the sallow face that he had seen but felt extremely kind, Wei Zhongxian was taken aback for a moment, and then his heartbeat accelerated suddenly.Only Wei Liangqing asked stupidly: "Boy, who are you? How dare you break into the back hall of Nine Thousand Years Mansion? How many heads have you grown?"

The man in black didn't answer, but just lifted the bamboo hat on his head, stared blankly at Wei Zhongxian, with tears in his eyes, two lines of tears rolling down his sallow face involuntarily, and finally he knelt down slowly to Wei Zhongxian.And Wei Zhongxian was already in tears, stepped forward and hugged the black man's head to his waist, patted his head and cried, "Monkey boy, you really scared our family to death! It's getting longer and longer!" It's so exciting, even your own father dared to lie. These days, our family has never been worried about you. Just now I heard that you have tuberculosis, and our family almost cried to death for you. You monkey boy, you are not filial! Not filial You monkey bastard!" Cursing and slapping, Wei Zhongxian cried out.

"Father, there is nothing I can do about it." Young Master Zhang sobbed and said, "If you don't lie to your father once, how can Jiannu and Ningyuan's gang of rebels fall for it? But no matter what, it's a child's fault if you let your father worry about it." I deserve death, please punish my father..." As he spoke, Young Master Zhang couldn't help crying, "Father, you've lost weight and you're getting old."

"Monkey boy, aren't you much thinner?" Wei Zhongxian lovingly took Master Zhang's hand, choked up and said, "Look at your wrist, it's almost skinny. Our family wants you to take care of yourself. Why don't you take care of yourself?" Don't listen? Don't listen? Are you really going to piss off your own father?"

"The child is not filial..." Young Master Zhang cried loudly, struggling to kowtow to Wei Zhongxian. Suppress the thieves earlier and lighten the burden on our family. For more than a year, you haven't had a good night's sleep or eaten a good meal. You monkey bastard is the most filial son in the world.... "

"Father...!" Young Master Zhang couldn't help himself, and couldn't help crying with Wei Zhongxian.Only Wei Liangqing, who was next to him, became more and more baffled the more he looked at him, and couldn't help asking: "Father, who is this guy? When did I come out with another brother? Brother Zhang is still waiting in the alley of Prime Minister Wen. He is so seriously ill, we may not see him if we go late."

In any case, after the news that Young Master Zhang was seriously ill and dying was finally confirmed accurately, even Fan Wencheng and Yuan Chonghuan, who were the most suspicious, were overjoyed and changed their minds about sending troops to attack Shanhaiguan in August. Erhachi made a suggestion, that is to wait and see for a while, and wait until Young Master Zhang dies, and then send troops to attack Shanhaiguan.Huang Taiji, who has the most strategic vision and strategy among the Jiannu army, also agrees with this suggestion, thinking that the most terrifying thing for the Jiannu army is not the new-style muskets and heroic fighting of the slave-killing army, but the impressive young master Zhang. Unpredictable conspiracies and tricks, as well as superb and amazing genius military mind, so as long as Young Master Zhang is alive, he may still pose a fatal threat to the army of founding slaves. The best way is to wait until Young Master Zhang dies, without the backbone. The morale of the Ming army was drained, and it would not be too late to attack Shanhaiguan.

I am afraid that even Young Master Zhang himself did not expect that in Liaodong, the person who most hoped that he would not die in a hurry was probably not the Han people in Liaodong who had been tortured by Jiannu, but Nuerhachi, the biggest leader of Jiannu!After receiving the news that Young Master Zhang was seriously ill and had returned to the capital, Nuerhachi's first sentence was to shout, "Send troops immediately! I can't let that little mad dog die like this. I want to stand upright on the battlefield!" Defeat him, avenge my Shengjing, my soldiers and people!"

But it is a pity that including the most reckless Mangurtai, he refused to listen to the old man's orders this time. A dozen of his sons stood up to oppose it. Nurhachi, who was also dying of illness, had no choice but to He could only say: "Well, let you go, but after taking Shanhaiguan, when negotiating with the Manzi court, the Manzi court must hand over the body of Zhang Haogu's mad dog. I can't kill his people. If I can't whip his corpse, I won't rest in peace—!"

(End of this chapter)