Back to Daming to be a genius

Chapter 168

Liu Ruozai, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, impeached Jimen Supervisor Fu Yi for allegedly stealing and selling arms, which soon caused an uproar in the capital!All civil and military officials in the capital know that Liu Ruozai is not only the number one scholar in the Yi Chou Division in the fifth year of Tianqi, but also the most popular person in front of Wei Zhongxian and the best young man in the court. Always entrusting his parents and family to his care, Young Master Zhang fired a cannon at the emperor's younger brother, and he did not hesitate to stand up and use the cannon as a cannonball!It can be seen from this that the relationship between him and Young Master Zhang is so good that words cannot describe it!From this, it can be deduced that he impeached one of the Jimen supervisor Fu Yi who was in charge of monitoring Young Master Zhang. The veracity of the impeachment charge may have yet to be verified, but there must be a shadow of Young Master Zhang among them!
Knowing that Liu Ruozai impeached Fu Yi under the instigation of Young Master Zhang, anyone with a little experience in power struggles in the court will understand that the relationship between Young Master Zhang and Fu Yi is likely to be in dire straits, and those who have nothing to do with themselves are of course the choice Be wise and protect yourself, so as not to cause trouble to your upper body.The court officials who favored Young Master Zhang did not say anything, and immediately went up to the table and fired at Fu Yi, demanding that the Supervisor of Rites severely punish this big scum among the eunuchs!Wei Zhongxian, Song Jin, the deputy admiral of Dongchang, and the others also panicked. They were both surprised and puzzled by this matter. Wei Zhongxian, who had never been too cold to the stubborn Liu Ruozai, even summoned Liu Ruozai overnight, questioned him face to face about the reason, and tortured the truth of the matter. Fake.

"Nine thousand years old, the news in this memorial is indeed the news sent by Mr. Zhang to the lower officials, and the lower officials have come forward to impeach Eunuch Fu." Liu Ruozai replied neither humble nor overbearing: "As for Mr. Zhang, why didn't you go up yourself? I didn't report it to Nine Thousand Years, and I don't know the reason. The only thing I know is that Mr. Zhang left Jizhou to go to Gubeikou on October [-]th, and that night, Fu Yigong secretly opened it. He went to the Jizhou Firearms Depot and transported some things out of the city, and after Mr. Zhang returned to Jizhou, he asked Fu Eunuch to take out the inventory account and open the firearms depot for reconciliation, but he was refused by Fu Eunuch."

"Did Zhang Haogu send someone to tell you all this?" Wei Zhongxian asked.Liu Ruozai nodded and replied: "Nine thousand years old, that's true. I don't dare to say anything false."

Wei Zhongxian was stunned again, and after pondering for a long time, Wei Zhongxian waved to Liu Ruozai and said, "Go back first, let's think about it and see who we send to Jizhou for inspection." Liu Ruozai agreed, and just about to leave, he turned around He bowed and said: "Nine thousand years old, if you don't mind, I am willing to go to Jizhou to check the firearms inventory and find out for the court."

"Nine thousand years old, I am also willing to go to Jizhou for inspection." Cui Chengxiu, who was next to me, also volunteered to stand up and said: "Regardless of whether the inventory of the Jizhou Firearms Depot matches the book, the official will definitely judge it impartially." , Cui Chengxiu sneaked another glance at Feng Quan next to him, Feng Quan noticed Cui Chengxiu's malicious gaze, and couldn't help but snorted in his heart, "Why do you look at me? It's not my fault. You like to check it out. Go check it out." , anyway, Fu Yi is not Lao Tzu's person."

"Okay, then you..." Wei Zhongxian originally planned to let Cui Chengxiu and Liu Ruozai go to Jimen to inspect together, but when the words came to his lips, Wei Zhongxian suddenly felt moved again, and changed his words: "Forget it, all the officials know that you two are Friends of Zhang Haogu, the little monkey boy, you go to investigate this matter, if all the officials are not convinced, you don’t want to go.” Then, Wei Zhongxian pointed at Feng Quan and ordered: “Feng Quan, you go and give it to our family. To investigate the truth of this matter, we must report it truthfully.”

"I'm going?" Feng Quan was a little dumbfounded, thinking that I have a grudge against that brat Zhang Haogu, I went to investigate Jimen's affairs, and there are not many gossiping and unconvinced people?Wei Zhongxian nodded, waved his skinny old hand and said: "Yes, you go, go home and prepare, and leave for Jizhou tomorrow." Feng Quan had no choice but to salute and agree.Over there, Liu Ruozai and Cui Chengxiu were also looking at each other. They didn't understand what kind of medicine Wei Zhongxian sold in the gourd, but they didn't dare to say anything, so they had to follow Wei Zhongxian's arrangement.

Full of questions, Liu Ruozai, Feng Quan and others left first.After the outsider left, Yang Liuqi, who was equally puzzled, hurriedly asked Wei Zhongxian: "Old Taishan, how can you send Feng Quan to this matter? It's not a day or two that Feng Quan and Zhang Haogu have had a grudge, so send him to check. In this matter, I am afraid that he will cover up Fu Yi and report a conclusion that is unfavorable to Zhang Haogu. Originally, Zhang Haogu suffered a small loss, which is fine, but those new muskets are indeed ridiculously expensive. Old Taishan, you are gritting your teeth Take money from the emperor's inner treasury to equip the Jimen army. If Fu Yi really sold the new muskets secretly, and Feng Quan concealed the matter for him, then the trouble will get worse. gone?"

"If Fu Yi really uses a new type of musket." Wei Zhongxian said slowly: "With the temper of that little monkey Zhang Haogu, even if Fu Yi refuses to open the firearms store for inspection, the little monkey will definitely smash the firearm. Ku forcibly inspected, and found that the new muskets were really missing. That little monkey boy didn't even dare to ask for an order, so he killed Fu Yi directly—with our family backing him, he needed it in the Ming Dynasty Who are you afraid of? So our family is sure that there is not a single new-style firearm missing from the Jimen Firearms Depot!"

"Then why did he spread the word and let Liu Ruozai, the same year, impeach him?" Yang Liuqi became more and more confused.Wei Zhongxian smiled and replied: "Why? The monkey boy is in the dark again! He deliberately instigated Liu Ruozai to impeach him, just to create the illusion of throwing Jimen's new musket and attract some people to take the bait, so he can take advantage of the opportunity. Our family sent Feng Quan to investigate this matter because everyone knew that Feng Quan had a bad relationship with the little monkey cub. Even if Feng Quan found out that the new musket was not lost, the civil and military officials in the court would not believe it. Whether Quan took the benefits of the payment, or intentionally caused trouble for Zhang Haogu, the little monkey—the loss of Jimen's new musket will become more and more troublesome and spread more and more."

"Oh, so that's the case, Lao Taishan is really clever." Yang Liuqi suddenly realized, and muttered dissatisfiedly, "Zhang Haogu, since he wants to ask Lao Taishan to help spread the fake news, it would be great to send someone to send a letter to explain it. Why did you let Lao Taishan guess this riddle? And why did he let this rumor go, why didn't he tell the cause and effect?"

"You don't understand." Wei Zhongxian sneered, and said slowly: "Our family obeys the arrangements of the little monkey boy, so he is the head of the Ming court! The little monkey boy knows that our family will see through his intentions , I also know our family's trust in him, and I don't want our family to think that he is assigning our family, so I didn't send someone to explain, and in the end, I will give our family a surprise."

Wei Zhongxian was able to grow from a bankrupt farmer to today's nine thousand years old. Of course, it was impossible to rely on luck alone. The development of the situation was completely predicted by him. The next day, he sent Feng Quan to Jizhou to investigate new muskets. After the incident of the loss, there were indeed complaints in the court. Everyone muttered that Wei Zhongxian was neglecting the military situation. He knew that the new musket was of great importance, but he sent Feng Quan, the opponent of Young Master Zhang, to investigate the matter. There will definitely be tricks.And Feng Quan also felt the pressure, and took the initiative to ask the imperial court to send Xu Eryi, the head of the Ministry of Industry, to go to Jimen with him to investigate, and to make clear his attitude-there is a famous stabbing Xu Eryi. As a shield, the voice of public opinion questioning the survey results will naturally be much smaller.It's a pity that Wei Zhongxian flatly refused, so Feng Quan had no choice but to go on the road obediently and go to Jizhou to investigate the theft of a new type of musket.

Two days later, Feng Quan arrived in Jizhou, but Young Master Zhang was not in Jizhou City—nonsense, the Jiannu army and the Oba army were approaching the Karami Grassland, so of course Young Master Zhang went to Xifengkou to deploy defenses and build defenses. Nu and Obama's army suddenly attacked.Therefore, the ones who welcomed Feng Quan with great fanfare in Jizhou city were of course Jimen Supervisor Fu Yi and Jizhou Bingbei Sun Zhijin.And Feng Quan, who knew that Young Master Zhang was not easy to mess with, felt even more headache, so he could only read the imperial decree in public and announce the purpose of his trip. Chi Gao, yelled loudly: "Who is slandering our family? Our family is loyal to the emperor and Jiuqiantui, how could we do such a thing? Our family wants to meet him in front of the emperor and Jiuqiantui!" Theory, let him return our family's innocence!"

"Eunuch Fu, don't be in a hurry." Feng Quan, who was on this unlucky job, smiled wryly, put down the imperial decree and said: "The pure will be clear, and the turbid will be turbid. As long as you have a clear conscience, Mr. Fu, you don't have to worry about those despicable villains." The shameless slander, I, as the imperial envoy of the investigation, will naturally return your innocence. How about this, Mr. Fu, you can take me to the Jimen Firearms Depot to count the number of firearms, and then get the entry and exit bills of the Jimen Firearms Depot. Come out, this time I brought four experts from the household department to check accounts, and within a day, I can find out whether the Jimen firearms are missing or not."

"This..." Fu Yi showed embarrassment, and after exchanging glances with Sun Zhijin, Fu Yi said with a smile: "Master Feng, don't be in a hurry right now? It's getting late, Master Feng please come to our room first It’s not too late to check the warehouse tomorrow.”

"It's getting late?" Feng Quan looked up at the sky wonderingly, and found that the sun hadn't even risen to the middle, apparently it wasn't even noon yet.Feng Quan suddenly understood - there must be something wrong in the Jimen firearms warehouse!But Fu Yi and Sun Zhijin rushed forward together, nodding and bowing their heads, inviting Feng Quan and his party to have dinner in the government office. Go to your own home to accompany the banquet.

Lu Wanling and his wife had already arrived at the Jimen Supervisor's Mansion. Seeing Feng Quan's arrival, Li Wanting rushed up to greet her and greeted her. It is the sister-in-law of the shopkeeper of the Ningyuan branch of the Fan family business. Feng Quan, who is the secretary of the household department, naturally came to his senses again, and vaguely guessed the whereabouts of Jimen's new musket after it was lost.Sure enough, at the banquet, Fu Yi not only did not mention a word about being wronged and slandered, but instead took out a heavy package and said to Feng Quan with a smile: "Master Feng came from afar, and our family has not prepared anything." Hospitality, a little local product of Jimen, Mr. Feng will bring it back to taste something new, a small gift, it is really not a respect."

"This..." Feng Quan was extremely troubled. Originally, he should have come to investigate Fu Yi this time, and it was only natural that he should eat and get some Fu Yi, but the fact that Fu Yi committed a crime this time was too great. In the middle, Zhang Haogu's little mad dog was involved. Even if Feng Quan wanted to help him hide it, he had to consider the consequences, right?So even though the heavy package was held in front of him, Feng Quan, a famous corrupt official in the Ming and Qing dynasties in history, dared not stretch out his hand.

"Master Feng, if Eunuch Fu is kind enough, why don't you refuse?" Seeing that Feng Quan refused to accept her, Li Wanting hurried out to act coquettishly, and encouraged Feng Quan to accept it - anyway, Lu Wanling was already drunk again.Feng Quan hesitated for a long time, but finally couldn't suppress his greed, and reached out to take the package.Unexpectedly, Feng Quan just picked up the package with one hand, but the package almost fell to the ground under the weight. Obviously, the package was full of shiny and heavy silver!Feng Quan couldn't help but smiled wryly, and said, "Eunuch Fu, your gift is too heavy, but your business is too heavy. It's really difficult to be an official."

"Master Feng, you are the Minister of the Household Department and the imperial envoy handling the case. Could it be that you can't help the villain with such a trivial matter?" Fu Yi changed his tone and begged.Feng Quan was noncommittal, just calculating nervously, and Li Wanting posted it up again, rubbing Feng Quan's arm with her towering chest, her eyes were watery and charming, and she said softly: "Master Feng, you have a lot of adults, so please help me!" Eunuch Fu this time, Eunuch Fu is a rare good man, don't you really have the heart to see death without saving him?"

Feng Quan still didn't speak, and paid him a wink at Sun Zhijin, Sun Zhijin understood, got up and went to the back hall to bring another package, and said with a smile: "Master Feng, this is a little souvenir for the lower officials to respect you, don't you?" Please accept it with a smile, Mr. Feng." Seeing the same heavy package, Feng Quan hesitated for a long time, and finally said: "Eunuch Fu, the fire prevention work of this Jimen firearms depot is still doing well?"

"Okay, okay." Fu Yi patted his chest and said: "Lord Feng, don't worry, the servant is responsible for keeping the firearms. The fire and moisture protection of the firearms store is all arranged by the servant, so it is guaranteed to be safe."

"This is the best way. You must be careful with the fireworks. The gunpowder is full of gunpowder in the arsenal. When it catches fire, it will ignite. If it ignites, there will be nothing left." Feng Quan hinted at Fu Yi again, and then said: " How about this, Mr. Fu, you open the firearms store tomorrow, and the official will return to Beijing to reply to the decree after personally checking that it is correct. You will definitely be innocent. But after the official is gone, you must continue the work of 'fire prevention', Mr. Fu."

"My servant understands." Fu Yi said with flattery on his face, and he understood: "Master Feng's kindness in teaching, I will never forget it."

"It's good that you know." Feng Quan snorted coldly, thinking that I took a big risk for you this time, is Zhang Haogu's little mad dog so easy to provoke?Muttering to this point, Feng Quan glanced at Li Wanting, who was almost sitting in his arms, and said in his heart that when he went to bed with you bastard tonight, he must ask you how many new guns Fu Yi sold, and How much silver has been sold? If Fu Yi has enough silver in his hand, I will definitely have to knock out some more!
Feng Quan only stayed in Jizhou for two days before leaving for Beijing. After returning to the capital with a full load, Feng Quan reported to the court that there was no truth about Fu Yi's guarding and stealing. A good eunuch who was loyal to both the Ming court and the Ming emperor, Liu Ruozai's impeachment of him for stealing and selling firearms was completely out of thin air, spreading rumors and making troubles.I never thought that after Feng Quan's memorial was handed over to the court, there would be an uproar in the civil and military affairs of the whole court, and almost everyone had two words written on their faces - don't believe it!Including Zhang Weixian publicly accused Feng Quan that the loss of the new musket was a matter of great importance, how could a hasty investigation be perfunctory?And the official censor jumped out to play, saying that we had heard rumors that the new muskets lost in the Jimen firearms depot had been scattered outside the pass, and now Jiannu and Mongolian Lin Dan were all eyeing these muskets, and strongly demanded to resend them Official verification.

"If you want to investigate, go and investigate. As long as you can get to Jizhou before all of the Jimen firearms depot is burned down, then you may be able to find out something." The censor Yanguan, who was clamoring wildly, paid attention to it.But what Feng Quan didn't expect in his dreams was that on that night, Feng Quan was suddenly called to the Wei Mansion by Wei Zhongxian, and Wei Zhongxian asked Feng Quan directly: "Boheng, the money that Zhang Haogu little monkey asked you to bring to our family What, where did it go?"

"Zhang Haogu asked Beizhi to bring money to Jiu Qiansui? No? I didn't even see Zhang Haogu's face when Beizhi went to Jizhou this time?" Feng Quan was dumbfounded.Wei Zhongxian directly took out a letter, and said slowly: "Who said there is no? Our family just received a letter from the little monkey boy. Our family's 58th birthday is coming soon. He entrusted Fu Yi to let you bring it to our family." Thirty-five thousand taels of silver, and 5000 taels of gold, as a congratulatory gift—and I also gave you 200 taels of silver for your hard work, so why didn't you give one of the money to you?"

"Ah?!" Feng Quan almost didn't cry, knowing that this time he was slapped hard by Young Master Zhang again!In desperation, Feng Quan had no choice but to quickly say: "I've given it to you, I've given it to you. I originally planned to wait a few days for Nine Thousand Years' birthday to come, and then I will give Nine Thousand Years a surprise. I'm going home right now." Go pick it up and arrange for someone to deliver it to Jiuqiantui."

"That's good." Wei Zhongxian nodded in satisfaction, and then hummed to Feng Quan: "Feng Quan, it's not that our family said you and arranged for you to run some errands, you just walked around in the firearms warehouse and then slipped away. You are really daring to come up with the idea of ​​destroying corpses and eradicating traces! Is it because our family arranged an errand for you before, and you are also so perfunctory to our family?"

"I don't dare, I know I'm wrong, I know I'm wrong, I won't dare again." Feng Quan hurriedly kowtowed for mercy, and then asked with a sad face: "Nine thousand years old, what the hell is Mr. Zhang trying to do? ..., but he made a fool of him!"

"If I don't teach you a lesson, will you be as loyal to our family as Zhang Haogu, little monkey boy?" Wei Zhongxian snorted coldly, "Little monkey boy is not like you. Forget our family in the back of your head! Little monkey cub shares our worries while not delaying state affairs, if he has something good, he will think of our family first!"

"Yes, yes, I will definitely learn more from Tanhualang after I am humbled." Feng Quan agreed with a sad face.Wei Zhongxian pointed to Feng Quan's nose again and said: "Remember, no one can say anything about this matter. All officials criticize you for covering up and paying for it. No matter how wronged you are, let our family bear it! If our family hears the news, Watch your head!"

Anyway, Feng Quan, who already hated Young Master Zhang to the bone, hated Young Master Zhang to the bone again this time, but the news that the new musket in Jizhou Firearms Depot was missing spread like wildfire, spreading wildly.After the news spread to the Mongolian grassland, Mongolian Lin Danhan, Jiannu Yuetuo and Horqin Oba all turned red-eyed, believing that the new muskets were all in the hands of the Wang Dengku Chamber of Commerce, and they all issued an ultimatum to the Wang Dengku Chamber of Commerce!Or, sell all the new muskets to yourself, the price can be negotiated!Or, let's grab it ourselves!As a result, it was natural that the armies of the three families fought on the Harqin Grassland.In the end, Lin Dan's army lost to Horqin Oba and the Jiannu coalition forces, and withdrew from the battle with hatred-but killed one thousand enemies and self-destructed [-], and Jiannu and Horqin troops also died many people.

They worked together to beat Lin Dan away. Basically, the Jiannu army wearing a pair of pants and Horqin Oba began to sit down and discuss how to divide the new muskets. After discussing and discussing, the most powerful Jiannu army took 200 pieces, and Horqin Oba If you take a hundred pieces, the price is [-] taels of silver each—but you have to owe a part of it, and Huang Taiji has already prepared craftsmen through the eight major locust merchants in the Qing Dynasty, and imitated them as soon as they got the real ones.The remaining [-] will be given to Dalai Taiji of the land snake Harqin Grassland.Unexpectedly, Fan Yongdou jumped out to protest strongly again, declaring that he bought the muskets from Jimen, and demanded that the founding slave army snatch the muskets and return them to him!However, Wang Guohua and Wang Yaohua brothers denied it categorically, and refused to return the muskets no matter what they said.

After several days of tense negotiations, after repeated mediation by Horqin Ouba, the Fan family and the Wang family finally reached an agreement. After the 540 muskets were sold, the two families would each get half of the money, allowing Fan Yongdou to protect his capital and suffer a small loss. , Let Wang Dengku make a lot of money. Although Fan Yongdou was unwilling, but because the goods were in Wang Dengku's hands, he could only knock his teeth out and swallow his blood, and reluctantly agreed to this condition.And Wang Dengku, who is relatively weak, also accepted the condition with satisfaction after receiving the business and protection promises from Jianu and Horqin. But with thick thighs, it is not bad to earn 10,000+ taels of silver in one transaction, and the Yangzhou salt merchants did not make such a profit.

The contradictions in all aspects have been settled, and the next step is to pick up the goods, but after the Wang family brothers led the Jiannu soldiers and Tatar soldiers to dig out the new-style muskets buried in the mountains, what happened next was so complicated that it is not a pen and ink I can describe it.In a word, on the mountain near Daji that day, all the snowflakes accumulated on the trees were shaken off by scolding and noise...

"Fake! It's all fake!"

"Where's the goods? Where's my goods?"

"Old Wang, you bastard, you are still not satisfied with half of it, how dare you lie to us with a fake gun?"

"Fart! Ah, I see! Fan Mao, you bastard, no wonder you promised half of it, so you dropped the bag after getting the goods! Let me just say, you can't bear to drink wild wine If you keep it and drink it, will you do this kind of loss-making business?"

"Could it be that the Alxa tribe dropped the package? They put the goods on the road to fight chickens, but no one has been watching them!"

"Dalai Taiji, you seem to have sent someone to search this area?"

"You barbarian, dare to play with our Dajin army? If you don't hand over the musket today, I will never end with you!"

(End of this chapter)