Nanming Engineer

Chapter 316
Listening to Ma Jixiang's oral instructions of Yongli's will, Wang Yingxiong was stunned. He knelt on the ground with his eyes wide open and his mouth open at a loss. There was no movement for a while.

Ma Jixiang frowned: "Governor Wang, have you not received the order yet?"

Seeing that Wang Yingxiong seemed to be turning a deaf ear and was still kneeling, Qu Shixu coughed heavily and stretched out his hand to push.

Wang Yingxiong just woke up like a dream, kowtowed twice on the ground, and groaned, Quan Chong accepted the order, and then asked with a bitter face as if swallowing a fly: "Master Shoupu, Commander, how difficult is the emperor's will!"

He licked his lips, raised a finger and waved it again and again: "It's easy to announce the decree to Jiang Guan. As long as Wang Huan can fight to Shanxi, he will have the opportunity to do it. The difficult thing is to control the silver mine and spy on the enemy who killed the captives." The formula, these two are Wang Huan's lifeblood, and the security is heavily guarded. The production of the captive bombs is carried out by the Kuizhou Military Bureau, and no one can enter that place except for internal personnel equipped with waist cards; As I said, don’t come close to idlers within a radius of ten miles, otherwise you will not be guilty of murder, although this humble minister is Wang Huan’s superior and is in charge of the military affairs of the three provinces, but it involves Wang Huan’s fundamentals, I’m afraid I’m powerless.”

Hearing these words, Ma Jixiang and Qu Shixu's expressions were a little ugly.

Qu Shixuan leaned back in the chair, frowned slightly, and said coldly: "Governor Wang, that's not what was written in the memorial you submitted to the cabinet. You said that Wang Huan was picked by you and treated him like a father raising a son. With all kinds of support and all-out help, this son was allowed to deal with the current situation. The relationship between you is like that of Xun and Zuo Liangyu back then. Even if Wang Huan had no one to control him, he would listen to you. Wang Huan and Zuo Liangyu In comparison, Liangyu is extremely obedient to the imperial court. As his benefactor, Shangguan, can’t you do these two things? In name, Kuizhou and Shizhu Propaganda Envoy are your territories.”

Ma Jixiang also looked at Wang Yingxiong with a half-smile, and asked sternly: "Could it be that Governor Wang has some scruples in his heart, and he refuses to serve for the court as an excuse? Mr. Wang, don't forget that even though the governor is away, your family Xiao Ke still stays in Zhaoqing City, Jin Yiwei can't kill Wang Huan, but it is still possible to kill some family members."

Wang Yingxiong's body trembled suddenly, as if he had shrunk a little. He curled up on the chair and looked at Qu Shixu and Ma Jixiang in fear. Sheng described a lot of Wang Huan's achievements for himself, so that everyone from Yongli to Manchu civil and military thought that although Wang Huan was strong, once he left Wang Yingxiong, he would be a reckless man.

It's like Lu Bu is fierce, but if he doesn't listen to Chen Gong, he will be ruined.

That's why Emperor Yongli thought about it. After all, civil servants are more reliable than generals. Only by holding Wang Huan's foundation in Wang Yingxiong's hands can he avoid creating the next domineering Li Chengdong. Otherwise, imperial authority and prestige will always be a joke.

But the fact is that Wang Huan is the one who helped Wang Yingxiong to the altar. Others don't know it, but Wang Yingxiong himself knows it very well.

He can't control Wang Huan, let alone go to the Longevity Valley, no one else can enter that place, without Wang Huan's permission, no outsider will be allowed in at the main roads and checkpoints.

At this moment, Wang Yingxiong was very annoyed, but no one would believe what he said. Wang Huan's appearance was too sudden, as if he appeared from the ground. As soon as he appeared and became known, he took Sichuan cleanly, and then stationed troops in Hanzhong to recover Gansu. According to common sense, this is impossible. Even the proud son of heaven cannot make such a transformation from a commoner to a powerful one. Moreover, Jin Yiwei's secret report also mentioned that this Wang Huan is a refugee who fled from Yangzhou to Sichuan. This added infinite credibility to Wang Yingxiong's memorial.

Although Wang Huan is smart and brave, there is no doubt that he was cultivated with the single-handed support of Wang Yingxiong.

"No, no, no! How dare the subordinate refuse to the emperor? No, no, but, this, I..." Wang Yingxiong was sweating profusely, hesitating but couldn't speak, wanting to justify but didn't know how to say it , kept touching his forehead, his flustered eyes wandered around, like a child who did something wrong, in a hurry, he forgot that he was also a first-rank official, how could he call himself a lower official in front of Qu Shixu and Ma Jixiang.

Such a person as Qu Shixu, with a glance, he knew something was wrong, his brows furrowed deeper, he pondered for a moment, and said: "Master Wang, could it be that what you played earlier is all fake?"

Wang Yingxiong was overjoyed in vain, and was about to raise his head and nod, but heard Ma Jixiang continue to say coldly: "The emperor has read your memorial, and that's why you have this oral edict. If you write it falsely, you are deceiving the emperor! I, the emperor, have read it. Definitely play it to the emperor, the emperor will take it easy, my lord, you have to think about it!"

Facing the two men's staring eyes, Wang Yingxiong's desire to confess suddenly collapsed. This posture seemed to be that once he said that he was a puppet of Wang Huan in the court, and he did nothing but rely on his clinging to Wang Huan. The consequences of coercion must be the end of the head falling to the ground and being punished angrily by Emperor Yongli!

Wang Yingxiong's brains turned sharply, thinking about all sentient beings, and finally an idea suddenly flashed in his mind, which made him make up his mind, and the old bureaucrat's thick skin and acting talent that had been immersed in officialdom for many years were immediately brought into play.

He slowly raised his head, wiped the cold sweat from his brow, and said resolutely and resolutely to Qu Shixu and Ma Jixiang: "My lords, I am deeply favored by the emperor, and I am far away from the town. How could I report false things? To fool the court? Absolutely not, the two adults can rest assured."

What he said was so sincere and sincere that others couldn't believe it, Qu Shixu looked at him suspiciously, and asked puzzledly: "If that's the case, why can't Wang Huan let you know the details of the silver mine and the extermination bomb? I've heard that Mieludan is extremely powerful and unsurpassed in defeating the enemy, and Wang Huan should reveal it to him."

Wang Yingxiong sighed and said in a low voice: "Master Shoupu, Wang Huan is a man with outstanding talents and lofty ambitions. He is indeed a hero for a while, but he is aloof and narrow-minded and cannot bear to see that others are not as good as him but have higher power than him." My lord, just imagine, I went with Jiang Quan on the expedition with the intention of conferring a title on him as a Duke. He must know that although Jiang Quan has many sick soldiers and generals, to be fair, he is not necessarily more powerful than Wang Huan, and Jiang Quan's new attachment will How could he be willing to accept the title of Duke when Wang Huancai was just an earl? How could he be willing to hand over the profits from the silver mines and the formula for destroying captive bombs to the court? This is something I am not willing to do, and it is not easy to do. "

After all, he still shook his head in embarrassment, hesitant to speak but stopped.

The meaning of this is very clear, unless Wang Huan is given an official title, otherwise this matter will not be easy to handle.

Qu Shiqi and Ma Jixiang looked at each other, dubious.

Believe it, Wang Yingxiong’s words are contradictory, I don’t know which one to believe him; Believe it or not, what he said is reasonable, in today’s generals outside the town, it’s not that he doesn’t cry when he doesn’t see a coffin, and he doesn’t scatter eagles when he doesn’t see a rabbit. Lord?The imperial court did not give him food and salaries, and secondly, he did not give him aid. The empty edict was long gone by the time people rushed to listen to the order. All that the imperial court had was tossing around It's just an official hat, if you don't give it, Wang Huan can be forgiven for not listening to Wang Yingxiong.

"I see, it's true. If Wang Huan saw Jiang Quan's edict on ennobling him, he would indeed be resentful." Qu Shichen muttered, stroking the beard on his chin a few times. He said to Ma Jixiang: "The emperor has no Are you going to give Wang Huan some kind of seal?"

Ma Jixiang spread his hands together: "Wang Huan was only granted the title of uncle a few months ago. He is not yet 20 years old. If he is given the title of Marquis again, many people will hate him because of jealousy, and the emperor will not risk the public opinion of his officials." Grant him a nobility."

Qu Shixu shook his head and said awe-inspiringly: "The times are extraordinary. Wang Huan sits in two provinces and has many tigers and wolves under his command. Although Governor Wang can still restrain him, given time, when he grows further, he will definitely be much more terrifying than Li Chengdong and his like. , give him a few hats, what does it matter? I will attack the Emperor on this matter tomorrow, and I will definitely convince the Emperor before I leave."

It has to be said that this comment was very pertinent. Wang Yingxiong looked at Qu Shixu in admiration. Although he only met Wang Huan once, this head shop accurately judged Wang Huan's future prospects.

"Your Excellency is wise, I admire you!" Wang Yingxiong said to Qu Shixu.

Qu Shixu frowned and looked at Wang Yingxiong again. To be honest, he didn't have a good impression of Wang Yingxiong. The mutual understanding made him faintly feel that Wang Yingxiong's initial reaction tonight was the real reaction, and Wang Huan might have already left. Under the control of Wang Yingxiong and the court, it became a foreign town that was even more free than Li Chengdong.

As the first shop, the concept of the supremacy of civil servants is deeply rooted. From the bottom of his heart, Qu Shiqi doesn't think much of those rude and domineering generals who only recognize money but not people. The Ming Dynasty has suppressed martial arts with literature for hundreds of years. Except for the few civic officials who came from military ranks, military generals would treat civil servants of the same level with the same respect as they would a superior official, but in their own generation, all of them have turned down, Qu Shixu felt deeply ashamed.

But now it seems that the shame can only be hidden in the heart. In troubled times, the fist is the biggest, and the scheming of the civil servants is no fart in front of the butcher's knives of the big soldiers.

Therefore, in Qu Shixu's heart, he had a strong desire to build a strong army that obeyed the orders of the imperial court. Although the wealth of the Ming Dynasty was exhausted, Qu Shixu withheld a batch of silver from the taxation of Guangxi, the old base, and built an army of tens of thousands of people for his confidant Jiaolian. But the strange thing is that when the money was poured down in batches, people were recruited, but they were not worth it at all. The armored Ming army was armed with steel knives and birds, but they couldn't even beat the rest of Li Zicheng's troops who fled to Guangxi. Lost the city, lost the land, and lost all face, in the end it was up to He Du and two people from Huguang to appease the bandit army.

After this incident, Qu Shiqi had already lost confidence in the Ming army, but Wang Huan's sudden rise made him feel strange. Wang Yingxiong's men had already been beaten to the mountains of Guizhou, so how could they suddenly become an invincible army? , So he inquired secretly, and the news of the extermination bomb reached his ears.

Although he didn't see the extermination bomb with his own eyes, the vivid description of the people who heard the news was enough to fascinate him, so holding this artifact in his hand and arming his team became a very important thing for Qu Shixu.

"My lord, you and I are both high officials of the imperial court. People who are relied on by the emperor should serve the country and the king, and do our best faithfully." Qu Shiqi turned to Wang Yingxiong sincerely and said, "I will go to Jiangxi. Although the soldiers are few, I will not hesitate In half a step, I hope that my lord will also do my best to bring Kuizhou's wealth and military equipment under the control of the imperial court. This is not only to add wings to the country, but also for the sake of Wang Huan, so as to prevent him from becoming impetuous when he is young. , listen to other people's slander, and become the next Li Chengdong."

Ma Jixiang interrupted and said: "What Master Zaipu said is very true. Although Wang Huan is now the eagle dog under Lord Wang, I don't know what will happen when his wings are full in the future. Zuo Liangyu was also the leader of Hou Xun's army back then. Later, it became a scabies that could not be removed by the imperial court, and it is not a habit to trace the source!"

Wang Yingxiong agreed repeatedly and humbly accepted the teachings of the two. Qu Shishu and Ma Jixiang said a few more words before they started to greet each other for dinner and drinking. Although Wang Huan's affairs were not arranged smoothly, as soon as Li Chengdong left, they seemed to have dispersed. The smog in Zhaoqing City was the same, which made Qu Shixu whet his appetite. He clinked glasses with Ma and Wang again and again, and drank very much.

After having a good time that night, the three of them said goodbye to each other, went back to their homes in sedan chairs and horses.

Wang Yingxiong drank a lot, but after he graciously sent Qu Shixu and Ma Jixiang away, he staggered into his sedan chair. As soon as the curtain of the sedan chair was closed, his face, which was flushed with alcohol, sank suddenly. , brows were furrowed, eyes were shining, and there was still half a hint of drunkenness.

"These fools in the imperial court actually want to attack Wang Huan, but they don't know that it is hard to win people's hearts and easy to lose them!" Wang Yingxiong rubbed his temples bitterly and said to himself: "Li Chengdong is scary, Wang Huan is even more scary than him, want to silver mine , If you want to destroy the captives, don’t you want to touch Wang Huan Nilin? Qu Shixu is crazy!”

He shook his head and patted his thigh: "Forget it, this city of Zhaoqing can't stay any longer. The emperor is surrounded by these guys who are more than successful than they are. They will be finished sooner or later! I will make preparations tomorrow, and I have to send my little secret to you." Go to Sichuan to keep peace."

(End of this chapter)