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Chapter 147 Off-court battle

As the general manager of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the usual purchases no longer require Ma Yongcheng to come out to negotiate in person, but today's sale is a little bigger, the largest 'chengji' satin Zhuang in Beijing has always been supplying the silk needed by the palace, but yesterday It suddenly came out that due to the increase in freight, a 10% price increase was required.

The discount that Ma Yongcheng collected from this year was more than two thousand less a year, and the old horse was so angry that the real master behind this store was Cheng Guogong Zhu Gang, Ma Yongcheng was rich and powerful, and he was really afraid of it. He fell out with him, so he got on the sedan chair early in the morning and rushed to 'Cheng Ji', trying to explore Zhu's tone.

Ma Yongcheng got out of the sedan chair and walked into the store with a shelf. He was Cheng Ji's biggest customer. Although the store was heavily crowded, the boss did not dare to neglect and greeted him into the inner room with a smile.

Ma Yongcheng would raise Erlang's legs on the official hat chair and take a sip of the tea. Pi Xiaorou said with a smile: "It's not a day or two for us to do business with you as a shopkeeper. How do you say the price changes? Anymore?

Let's say, your batch of silk should be brought back by Master Yang's official ship in the factory, right? Let's calculate it for you. I am afraid that the freight rate has not only not increased, but also saved at least fifty thousand two. Where does this sudden price increase start? I wonder if it means the grandfather Zhu, or is it your own proprietor's claim? "

Cheng shopkeeper accompanies with a smile and said, "Why do I have the courage to be an old man? Since the queen queen and the two concubines entered the palace, Ma Ye has taken care of more and more business in our shop. Raising prices indiscriminately? "

He lowered his voice and whispered: "The price increase is just a guise. In fact ... Someone wants to see Lord Ma, so that's why he said that it's hard for him to take a trip, but the younger one doesn't feel good about it."

Ma Yongcheng glanced at Cheng Zhang, who put a note in his palm. Seeing that there were three thousand and two silver tickets, all of a sudden the face was full of joy, and he laughed and said: "Look at you, if you have something to say, you won't get it. If you don't look at your face, our family will not dare to face Grandpa Zhu. Ha ha ha, whoever wants to see me, to worship in the palace is also easy to handle. Our family nodded. But we can say that the ugliness is in front, it is for the ladies, if the things are too much It ’s better not to come to the fore, "

"Hahaha, Grandpa Ma, I wonder if I can get it?" Yang Ling walked in with a smile as she picked the curtain.

Ma Yongcheng was surprised, Huo Di stood up. The tea was spilled all over, he cried in surprise: "Yang ... how are you ... are you still in Jiangnan?"

Yang Ling waved his hand to the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper understood, and said: "The two lords are talking slowly, and the old one goes out to greet the guests."

As the shopkeeper came out of the room. Yang Ling's face sank, and he smiled coldly to Ma Yongcheng: "I'm in Jiangnan? If I go back a few days later, I can only wait to collect the corpse for you, Ma Yongcheng. You are dead, you don't know Is a big disaster coming? "

"Where has Yang Ling arrived?" Fan Ting asked a fan in front of him, there was a sense of excitement in his expression.

Zhang Shou listened to Fan Zi's reply and couldn't help but startled: "Tianjin Guardian? He is going to stop at Tianjin Guardian? Damn, he landed the official ship to the Inland Sea, why didn't he report it early? Fan Gonggong, what do you mean Yang Ling Is it possible that ... He is already alert to our whereabouts? "

Fan Ting laughed and said: "The inner factory also has eyes and ears. It would be really strange if it didn't even notice it, but what about that? This stupid man, he has no foundation in the DPRK, and the only reliance is on the emperor. Quickly returning to Beijing to beg for help from the emperor, but he still fought against the suspects in the east and west.

Dai Yi pretended to sip tea. There was a little panic in my heart: "What the **** is Master Yang doing? Did Wu Dadu not pass on my message to him? I already said that Jinyiwei was colluding with Dongchang. He ran to Jinyiwei's hometown, wasn't he looking for death? Yeah. Yang Ling is not so stupid ... ".

Seeing his solemn face, Zhang Shou couldn't help but ask: "Duke Dai also feels something wrong?"

Dai Yi was shocked and said: "Yes, a person is in danger. The first reaction is to find the most reliable and best able talent to help him. He travels east and west, what does he do to go to Tianjin Wei? "

Zhang Shou shook his head and lightly gave a high-five. A stall walked in, and Zhang Shou asked: "What abnormalities have the people sent to monitor the mighty palace have found?"

The stallman replied respectfully: "When I returned to Lord Zhang, there was no movement at all. The humble job not only paid more attention to the expressions of the people in and out of Yang's house, the people in Yang's house, etc., even the vegetables and meat that Yang's house bought were also sent to inquire daily. If Yang Ling returns to his home, even if he covers up well, there will not be any clues about Yang Fu from above and below. "

Zhang Shou nodded and pondered for a moment: "Whether he returns to the house or not, if he comes back to Beijing with a golden cicada, he will definitely go to the palace to see the emperor, and those sent to the nine gates must be vigilant and pay attention to everything that goes into and out of the palace. People. Also, I asked the little cubs around the emperor to remind me to be very careful, no matter who the emperor saw or said, they must return in time. "

"Yes", the stall responded, and hurried out.

Wang Yuezheng leaned half on the Kang head, and when he was older, his mental head was not good. At this time, he had dozed off for a while.

Old Wang Yue rubbed his eyes and sat up tremblingly: "Look at you like a big enemy, isn't Wang Qiong killed by him? Now the upper and lower courts should have gotten the news, and someone will be on his side. When the first emperor was there, he listened most to the admonishment of the hundred officials. The current emperor is young, he has no idea, and he can hold the mountain and press it to play the book? As long as the will of the emperor, Yang Ling has not caught it yet. . "

This prince was incompetent, incompetent, and unambitious, but it was for this reason that he was entrusted with great responsibility by Emperor Hongzhi. He treats people generously and never authoritatively. With his nominal leader on the top, Fan Ting and Zhang Shou can only live in harmony. There is no dispute with each other, so these people have great respect for him.

After listening to Wang Yuedi's words, Fan Ting chuckled and said, "I can't help being cautious, my lord, the emperor can't compare with the first emperor. The first emperor was only two late in the early dynasty, and he was reprimanded by the hundred officials. But what about the emperor today? Jing Yan stopped, noon dynasty stopped, love was gone as early as possible, hundred officials admonished like snowflakes. He ignored it, left ear entered right ear, when did he care about it? "

He narrowed his eyes slightly and said with a smile: "As for the hundreds of officials in the central government .... Only some nerds at the Imperial Envoy and the Hanlin Court really believed in what it means to eliminate evil and maintain justice.

Those long-time official traitors really care that they cannot influence or control the emperor. They think that the correct national policies and policies are likely to be abolished because these emperors are willing to obey the new darlings, but these new people, but they Disdain to make friends. I had to find a way to remove them. "

Zhang Shou smiled and said: "It is precisely that, among the internal servants, it is not just the eight tigers who lead the emperor's pleasure, although Yang Ling is extremely flattering and has not achieved much success. But they have not made a big evil. Mo Qinghe, Yuan Xiong and others?

The outer court was so deliberate here because they found that Yang Ling was not their fellow traveler, and the emperor could no longer be controlled by them. The eradication of Yang Ling and the Eight Tigers was not because they were too aggressive, but sent a signal: let those who have ambitions to exclude civilians and affect the emperor far away, let the emperor see their power, and obediently press them To be a 'good' emperor.

The knowledge of Li Rong and He Dachun is far less than that of Fan Ting and Zhang Shou. After listening to these analyses, they were very impatient. Li Rong said: "No matter what their purpose is, as long as they are consistent with our goals. Now Yang Ling is in charge. Tax supervisor. What do we eat and drink? What do we drink? Lao Fan is better there. I can always get some benefits on a piecemeal basis. But I am getting tighter here, as long as I clean up this little animal earlier. "

Fan Ting sneered: "Short-sighted! Do you still not understand? If we are supplemented by a hundred officials, let the emperor's purpose cut off Yang Ling and the Eight Tigers, then the outer court will be noisy, and the emperor will They are completely in their hands.

Yang Ling and the Eight Tigers became our role models. We became a knife after they used it. You can enter the warehouse at any time and put the horse into Nanshan. If ... Yang Yang died in our hands first ... it would be different ".

He Dachun will know this. Can't help saying: "In this way, no matter whether the outer court please please please come down. We must all get rid of Yang Ling and the Eight Tigers first."

Fan Ting nodded: "Exactly, the court used us, why did we not use the court, without their intimidation and support, we are good at killing Yang Ling and the Eight Tigers, we must be careful of the emperor's punishment, but now there is no such worry. .

You see, as soon as the news of Wang Qiong ’s killing entered Beijing, even the three academicians could n’t help but irritate the Hanlins. They wanted to wait for the best opportunity to do it again, and the majestic place became the biggest killer. Heroes. But the hundred officials who had been instructed by them behind them wanted to push them to kill them immediately. Hahahaha ... ".

Wang Yue laughed with pride and suddenly startled: "Fan Ting, isn't Wang Qiong the place you killed?"

Fan Ting saw that everyone looked at him with suspicious eyes and could n’t help but change his color and said: “Father, this is what our grandfathers said in this room. If it ’s going to spread out, it ’s worth it? If I have the courage to assassinate Wang Qiong, then Instead of sending someone to assassinate Yang Ling directly, why should we use the power of the outer court to deter the emperor from committing crimes? "

Wang Yue said with confidence: "That's good, that's good, this kind of thing must not be done, if they get the slightest handle to the outer court, they will not be as good as us in copying and spreading things. Ting's unfamiliar internal supervisors were all classified as Li Guang's party, hey! The tidy one is called clean. "

At this moment, a stall hurried in and said: "Yang Gongzhu, the fourth set of Tanma passed back the urgent report."

Fan Ting moved: "Let me see it!"

He opened the bulletin seal and looked at it in a hurry. He sneered: "Yang Ling was not stupid. He actually used the plan of repairing the road and secretly crossing Chen Cang. The news just came. After half the boat trip, his official ship docked at midnight. . Over forty people went down to the capital to take the dry road, and now they have reached the boundary of Cangzhou. "

Li Rongji asked: "Are you sure, have you ever seen Yang Ling himself? Will it also be his suspicion?"

Fan Ting hesitated and said: "Yangling is sitting on an eight-ji car, which is a bit slower than riding a fast horse. Tanma has never seen Yang Ling get off, but I even take a rest and buy food in the towns along the way. Our people are indeed I heard someone in the car telling me to stop. The spectators who follow me are naturally respectful and natural. If you randomly find a **** and pretend to be, those who have left the barracks shortly afterwards will be unruly and will not show their feet. "

Dai Yi was shocked in his heart. He took the letter and looked at it, saying for Yang Ling: "That's not necessarily, I heard that Yang Ling has a good way to manage the army. In Haining, the resistance to Japan was one hundred, and the military discipline was strict. With his strict order, who dares to let go at random because there is no factory supervisor in the car?

One thousand households and two hundred households in Yang Ling's most trusted side are all suspicious. If he really abandoned the boat and got in the car, how could he not bring his cronies around? "

Fan Ting smiled and said, "The maidservant who has always been in the same way is also in the car. I heard that the beautiful maidservant has a warm relationship with him, and usually goes in and out of his room at night. The little car sedan can only sit and lie down. , Shoulder to shoulder, is he willing to let his beloved woman and other men wear their ears for more than ten days? "

Dai Yiwen couldn't help being dumbfounded. He Dachun said anxiously: "Isn't it so good? Now that Wang Qiong is dead, Yang Ling is already pointed out by the thousands of officials. The hundred officials in Beijing and China no longer dare to dare to defend him. Now they can quickly send someone to intercept and take advantage of others. He got rid of it best! "

Zhang Shou's eyes flickered and said: "It is absolutely suspicious, and it seems to be more suspicious. Since he did this, he has clearly been aware of our actions. He was born as a showman. Return to Beijing by escort?

In my opinion, people still have to send them, but Zhang Xiu also asked him to return to Tianjin to prepare early. The nets on both sides can always catch his big fish. As for Jingli ... Give it to the 100 officials of the DPRK and China to toss. "

In Bazhou, Hebei, there are many thieves near the place of the emperor.

Thirty or forty rides escorted an eight-ji car to gallop in the wilderness, at this time the sky is twilight. The horses were all breathing hot. Obviously, I didn't know how many roads I had traveled overnight, and the wild countryside was covered with reeds. It's just a lot sparse than Luoyantan.

The car was not big, and it was bumpy during the swift movement, but the seats were covered with thick mattresses. Although the shaking was endless, it did not disturb people. Gao Wenxin and Cheng Qiyun in a menswear sat opposite each other.

Cheng Qiyun wears the same clothes as Yang Ling. The facial features modify Sven Yinglang. A pair of arrows and eyebrows are like beautiful jade. Looking from a distance, she looks like Yang Ling. A fish oil lamp hung from the roof. There is a magnetic chess board between the two. The two are playing chess on the cloth, and they have already played 214 hands.

Gao Wenxin insisted on going first. Both sides started with Xingxiaomu. At the beginning, Gao Wenxin was still steadily playing enough battles. Unfortunately, the middle disc saw a big dragon in the other party in the middle of the disaster. A big dragon, the result of the big dragon is full of vitality, and he has only looked at the eyes and has not considered other things. The big dragon has not been strangled and has been lost everywhere.

Gao Wenxin saw that he had collapsed completely, the black chess in the lower left corner had no roots, and the live chess above was under pressure. Although he could take a stroke on the right, if he made it bigger, the big dragon struggling in the middle of the game would be transformed into Qi Yun Swallowed, there is really no strength to beat, after a long while, I have to push the scale to admit defeat.

Gao Wen boasted that he was brilliant in chess, but he went all the way north to fight against Cheng Qiyun for dozens of rounds. He never won a round, and he was really discouraged.

Cheng Qiyun smiled with pride: "Life is like chess, you have to look at the long-term. I see girls playing chess, and every time they take the pleasure of killing dragons, it is actually the appearance. Playing chess is to win the game, not to be fast. .Your chess skills are not low, but you have not considered them all, and often make a good move at the cost of the next move, but have lost the book because of the end. "

Although Gao Wenxin was not ashamed of what she had done in the past, she also glanced at Yang Ling, but there were only two people in this car, and she was not always stiff.

What's more, Cheng Qiyun's secret to go northwards for bait is all for Yang Ling, and she is also responsible for monitoring her. So she was polite to her on the surface, but she hummed in disapproval after listening to her instructions, and she did not answer. She gently thumped her sore waist and leaned on the cushion.

Cheng Qiyun smiled slightly and said, "Go into the town ahead and rest. Yesterday we suddenly passed the town and couldn't walk fast overnight. If there are followers, they should have thrown them away."

at this time. Just listen to someone in the distance shouting: "Stop, inspect the Yamen for private salt dealers, stop and dismount, present on the road, accept the inspection!"

The two of them leaned forward, the wheels creaked, dragged a long mark to stop on the road, and lifted up the thick curtain of the car. A cool wind blew in, and had brought a bit of chill in the fall.

The sunlight that bloomed in the early morning seemed to cast a layer of frost on her white jade's flawless pretty face, and Cheng Qiyun said scoldingly, "Who?"

A gray-robed man with a bow in his back carried the horse rein, and ran to the car to lean down and whispered: "Adult, it's the salt inspector from the inspector general. Are we handing a waist tag to let them walk or stuff some silver?"

Cheng Qiyun heard a flash of cold light in her eyes, and suddenly became suspicious. Mo Qinghe is responsible for the taxation of tea, rice, salt and rice. She knows these tax collectors very well. Most of the private salt sellers are desperate. Those tax collectors bullied the common people. It was almost early in the morning to go to the wild and set up a field inspection to ban private salt?

She pushed open the car door and looked at the outside with her waist. She saw more than ten tax officials standing in front of the reed bushes ten feet away. They were standard tax officials dressed and dressed in sticks and weapons. Prohibited, but probably so many people, only one passenger sedan. Unlike salt sales grounds, some people even throw knives and sticks on the ground.

Cheng Qiyun let out a slight sigh of relief. She turned her head and just wanted to say a few words to her opponent. Her eyes flashed coldly. She turned her head horribly, and her eyes were directed at the reeds. There were two more flashes of light in the reeds.

Cheng Qiyun immediately stooped back into the sedan. Mouth shouted: "Be careful in ambush, turn your head to the west. Go to Baiyangdian via Baoding." The voice did not fall, the two sharp arrows had hit Tuk Tuk on the board beside her, so terrified that Qi Yun stood unsteady, fell to the side of Gao Wen's heart, and sat there for a certain amount of time. It just turned pale.

Although she has a general style, after all, she has not really experienced the battlefield, and the two arrows have passed by. She was surprised first, and then she was afraid.

Gao Wen hurriedly rushed over and pulled up the car door. He was screaming and screaming outside, the horse roared, the car whirled, and the two women fell together, and then ran westward.

Fortunately, Cheng Qiyun cried early, the forty people she brought out were originally pro-armies, and they were the best at guarding and counterattacking. When she heard her call, they had raised bows in their hands. Zhang Gong shot arrows in the reeds to suppress the ambush. The dozen or so 'tax officials' holding swords and guns in front of them couldn't keep up with Kuima and did not threaten them, so they ignored them.

Just a moment of effort, this man quickly disappeared into the vast sea of ​​reeds. The reeds rustled loudly and came out of more than sixty people. A hat was thin, wearing a pure blue military uniform, and tied with a small ribbon white official boots. Looking at The haze of the car and horse disappeared.

A fake tax collector, Zhang Huang said: "Qiu Tantou, the humble office listened to them saying that Ben Baiyangdian was gone, shall we pursue it?"

Qiu stalled his head and glared at him: "Into the reed tent, can you still see people, where to chase? Hum, there are also Tianluodi.com, let his surname Yang go."

The fake tax official said: "Just before shooting a few, but the arrow fell on the ground. It seems that the fans in the inner factory are wearing gold silk soft armor. See if their equestrian and archery are extraordinary, can the people over there deal with it? "

Qiu Dangtou said with a smile: "The closer to the capital, the more people we have. This time, 20,000 horses were sent to block all roads on the Jingdi Avenue. However, even if his surname is Yang Di, he knows that he is the Longhetan Tiger Cave. Can you break through? Just these few people, and then there is a fart, ha ha ha ha ... ".

The horse team traveled for more than ten years, and Cheng Qiyun had already recovered. She took a map and looked at the map for a while. Then she opened the curtain and said: "Stop traveling, go back to Xiaozhuze, take a rest, take the Yumatai."

Gao Wenxin looked at the picture and said, "While walking further and further west, will they be suspicious?"

Cheng Qiyun said: "Carefully, they will assume that the adults are in the car. There are thousands of people entering the Jingdi Road. It is not easy to talk about blocking the road. If the Dongchang got the news, we had to continually transfer people out of Jingli. The more you do, the better your adults will act. They dispose of soldiers and pose no threat to us. If things are impossible, we turn around and go back to Shijiazhuang. "

Gao Wenxin looked at what she said, she seemed to be fascinated by this sense of arrogance and power. Do not stop looking at her with a strange look.

Cheng Qiyun said that she was dancing with a frown, and after seeing it, she saw her weird look, and she felt stupefied, "What do you think I do?"

Gao Wenxin asked: "Do you like this feeling?"

Cheng Qiyun asked back: "What's wrong with this?"

Gao Wenxin took a breath and sighed softly: "No woman in this world has come out to do things. How long can you be an official? When you are fifty or sixty, what are you going to do? No men, no children, you Have you lived your entire life on cold money and power? "

Cheng Qiyun looked at her blankly, a trace of fear gradually appeared in her eyes, as if something that should be grasped was only now alarmed by its loss. But this confusion only appeared for a moment, and she regained her past shrewdness and cunning.

She said to Gao Wen that she smiled and said: "I know that you have always been wary of me. The more talented and ambitious I am, the more you will be afraid. You are worried that I will make great efforts today to get Master Yang Trust, I ’ll get to the point. And then I have unscrupulous thoughts, and even ... I will deal with Master Yang like Mo Qinghe in the future, so I persuaded me to be a woman as soon as possible, right? "

Gao Wen looked at her coldly. There was no sound.

Cheng Qiyun sighed softly and looked at Gao Wenxin with a provocative look, lips with a lonely smile said: "I have been acting, and I have been acting since I was sensible, like others, and The same is true of Mo Qinghe. Why did he treat him as my person? I should be loyal to him only because he hangs the brand 'My Husband'? "

Gao Wenxin asked: "So what is your loyalty to my lord? Is it also a play?"

Cheng Qiyun's teeth were slightly exposed, and her eyes brightened abruptly. Canran smiled with a bit of sweetness and sweetness in her smile, a pair of sword eyebrows portrayed like a man, still showing the water-like tenderness uncontrollably.

Gao Wenxin couldn't help but lowered his eyes and didn't look at her. Can this woman be as charming as a man?

Cheng Qiyun's tip of the nose wrinkled gently, just like the spring wind blowing the ripples in the blue waves, and the smiling lips blew to Gao Wenxin leisurely. Tiredly said: "The slave family is selling lives for adults. Do you say I am acting?"

Gao Wenxin just felt it for a while, and now he regrets it. This woman takes life as a play. Taking drama as life, telling the truth is true and false, who can see her true meaning, if she speaks the words seriously, forcing her to stop thinking, if it is not good for the master at this time, would n’t it be crying? That's too late?

So she had a good idea, and she deliberately said: "Huh! Are you beautiful? My grandfather won't be able to see it."

Cheng Qiyun smiled grimly. How could she not see the girl who was worried and upheld about her sweetheart? Ugh! Since I was young, is it not one ...

"When I was young?" She glanced at Gao Wenxin quietly, thinking thoughtfully: "Am I really old? As she said, how much youth and beauty I have for me to kill, Yun'er and Ling'er will marry someone sooner or later , When I grow old, a lonely person ... ".

At that moment, there was a horse hissing outside the car, and someone shouted: "Master Chang, someone in front of you is blocking the road. They are the sons of Dongchang, only two, eight, fourteen. Do you want to kill them?"

Cheng Qiyun regained the cruel expression that looked life-threatening, and she whispered: "If you don't stay, kill!"

Poor these dozens of fans are not the main force of the East Factory at all, but only the outlying personnel sent to the nearby towns, temporarily guarding these trails that are unlikely to be passed by just in case.

Early in the morning, Chief Officer Zhao Sier received a strict order from Beijing and was forced to drill out the hot quilt of the pretty widow Luo. He led people to this wild mountain road, scolding his reprimands, and ignoring the horseshoes. Lei, a whistle horse suddenly emerged from the reeds. The two sides were so close. The man in front of him shouted loudly and the cold and unrelenting "one without reservation" in the car heard. Clearly.

Zhao Sier fought a chill. He had just raised the nine-ringed bull-ear machete. A black horse had rushed to him. A murderous face stared at him on the horse's head.

Knife light, like a roll of horse training, the head of the person flew into the air, a chamber of blood splashed on the horse's belly, and the black horse's four hooves had galloped on his body.

This was slaughtered on the ground, the fans who had fled into the reeds on both sides were beheaded by the group of deaths on horseback, and the last two fans were stunned and screamed wildly towards the bare gravel hillside on the left. And go.

The horses were difficult to climb there, but the bowstrings were striking. In a moment, the two became sharp like a hedgehog. The body fell down, and the shaft of the arrow fell into the stone gap. It actually supported it and never rolled downhill.

Thirty fast horses in front of the car rushed past without a pause, like a gust of wind.

When the sedan came over, Zhao Si'er's broken and crumbling body had been stomped into the fertile soil by the large horseshoe of the bowl, flush with the ground. Gao Wenxin didn't see the tragic situation. She only saw the two blood-stained "thorns" on the hillside and couldn't help feeling sick.

The car curtain was hurriedly pulled down by her, and Cheng Qiyun dismissed her mouth in disapproval, and said: "If you fall into their hands, it is not just as simple as death. What will happen to you can be imagined. Change it today. Would you not make the same order? "

Gao Wen said angrily: "If you kill, you will kill. Why are they so cruel? They are soldiers brought by the master. I know they are not so ruthless. Did it come from your advice?"

Cheng Qiyun's eyelids sagged, understatement: "Of course it is! Because the official wants to stand up."

She stretched out a slender white jade finger like a sallow, and made a circle on the cowhide map, saying lightly: "I want to turn this place into a battlefield to attract as many people as possible from the capital. I fled when I was over. I killed when there were fewer people. "

She smiled softly, leisurely fascinated: "However, the battlefield that decides the victory or defeat is not here, but in the Beijing division. Master Yang, it must be more exciting at this time ...".