It was already daybreak, and the red candles were still burning in Ningbo Haifen Guard Geng Zhenwu's room.
From time to time, a woman's charming smile could be heard coming from the room.
"If I catch this card, you guys are going to show off your unique skills!"
Geng Zhenwu sat on the Grand Master's chair with his chest open, grinning widely.
Then with his big hand like a leaf fan, he picked up a mahjong tile made of jade and rubbed it on the pads of his fingers.
"Hiss!" Geng Zhenwu's expression was particularly wonderful. He was obviously smiling, but his eyebrows and beard were all tangled together, making it difficult to separate them.
Sitting in front of him, playing mahjong with him, were actually three plump and graceful beauties.
In front of the three women, the money was piled high, so they must have won a lot.
In front of Geng Zhenwu, there was no money, but there were many women's intimate clothes.
I have a pity for the man in charge of coastal defense, a fourth-grade garrison master. What he lost was money and what he won was clothes.
The three beauties, while winning money, their clothes are also getting thinner.
"Well!" Geng Zhenwu rubbed the cards and smiled, "This card is really big, I can't keep my bellyband!" As he said, he clicked a card and pushed it away with his big hand, "Look, it's all clear in front of the door.
Two cakes! Hahaha!”
Immediately, amidst the resentful laughter and curses of the three women, they danced and laughed, "Haha, take off!"
At this moment, there was a knock on the door.
"Who is it?" Geng Zhenwu suddenly became unhappy.
Outside the door was his own soldier, his voice a little urgent, "Sir, someone from the Chief Secretary is here!"
"Chief Secretary?" Geng Zhenwu's eyes suddenly widened, "I am in charge of the Governor's Office of the Fifth Army. What are those civil servants who are suffering from the plague coming to me for? Who are they?"
"Promote and inspect the envoy, Lord Jingqing!"
Geng Zhenwu's heart skipped a beat. Although in the Ming Dynasty, there was still no distinction between civil servants and military officers. As a military man, he was under the control of the Governor's Mansion of the Fifth Army and the Ministry of War, so he didn't look down on those civil servants.
However, the rank of the Inspector-General of a province is several levels higher than his. Moreover, he is in charge of the province's punishment, prosecution and other matters. When he thinks about the shit under his butt over the years, he can't help but feel a little nervous.
"Is he seeing me?" Geng Zhenwu scratched his head with his thug, "He's going to change my clothes!"
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In the front hall, Jing Qing was already waiting impatiently.
In Z, he and Tie Xuan wanted to destroy everything with their own hands, remove all obstacles to the New Deal, and break the aristocratic family's monopoly on the local economy, people's livelihood, and career.
He Guangyi came to Z, and Jing Qing secretly went from Hangzhou to Ningbo. On the surface, He Guangyi went to arrest people, but secretly Jing Qing acted as the mediator.
Either don’t do it, or do it step by step, and do it in a way that makes people unable to guard against it.
"Hiss!" Jing Qing, who was pacing the ground with his hands behind his back, showed displeasure.
Coastal defense is so important, but this garrison master doesn't even get up in broad daylight.
At this moment, footsteps came from outside.
Immediately afterwards, the burly Geng Zhenwu came in.
"Damn, the scholar who suffered the plague, it's like I owe him money!" Geng Zhenwu thought to himself after making eye contact.
"Wu Fu! Wu Fu!" Jing Qing cursed in his heart.
Then, Geng Zhenwu handed over his hand again, "But Jingjiancha? He is in the Ningbo Coast Guard Defense, Geng Zhenwu!"
This is today's Ming Dynasty. Military officers do not need to be polite when meeting civilian officials, even if they are higher than their own rank. It is not like the middle and late Ming Dynasty in later generations, when civilian officials had military power and treated military officers like domestic slaves. Not to mention that he was a fourth-rank guard.
, even those who participated in guerrilla warfare would kneel down and kowtow when meeting the seventh-rank censor.
"I am none other than Jing Qing, Geng Shuibei. I have taken the liberty to come here because I have something to ask you!" Jing Qing said quickly.
"Aren't you looking for trouble for me?" Geng Zhenwu was happy in his heart, and his face became a little more easy-going, "Jing Jingcha, please take a seat!"
"Don't sit down!" Jing Qing said anxiously, "I came to you to ask you to mobilize troops!"
"Ah!" Geng Zhenwu was full of confusion, "Jing Jingcha, you asked me to mobilize troops from a humble position?" He said, laughing, "You, Jingcha, don't have the power to mobilize troops from a humble position, do you? Although we are officials in the same dynasty, we can't.
They don’t belong to each other. It’s like being born to the same mother, but not the same father.”
"Stop talking such dirty words to me!" Jing Qing shouted loudly, and Geng Zhenwu swallowed the rest of his words directly.
At this time, Jing Qing took a few steps forward and stared into the other person's eyes, "Tell you, I am giving you an opportunity. If I were not in a hurry, I am afraid that the opportunity will be wasted. I directly asked Commander Wei Ding of Hangzhou to send troops, how could it have happened?
Looking for a little guard from you!"
Hearing this, Geng Zhenwu became angry, "Oh, then Jingjingcha went to find Ding Zhentai. He is a humble official with no more than two thousand soldiers."
"Do you know that the Zhou family in Ningbo Prefecture smuggles contraband?" Jing Qing still stared into his eyes, "I think you know, you are on the Coast Guard, and they can't get around you when they do those shady transactions.
!”
"This" Geng Zhenwu immediately felt guilty. What the other party said was the truth. Over the years, he had collected as much as 80,000 yuan from the Zhou family, if not 100,000 yuan.
"Don't slander anyone!" Geng Zhenwu frowned and said loudly, "Jing Jingcha, you civil servants like to blame others. Not to mention that I confiscated the money, even if I did, it wouldn't be your turn to take charge of it!
"At this point, he snorted, "Although the humble position is just a guard, the humble position is also the queen of meritorious service!"
"Hmph!" Jing Qing snorted coldly and said angrily, "The Zhou family is a Japanese!"
Suddenly, Geng Zhenwu stood stunned on the spot.
In the early years, Japanese pirates invaded the Ming Dynasty's coastal areas from time to time, burning, killing and looting. For this reason, the imperial court was angry and closed the trade with the Japanese for a time. To this day, Ningbo Prefecture does not allow the Japanese to go ashore.
Trouble with the Japanese is a serious crime of confiscating one's family and annihilating one's clan!
"Jinyiwei has taken control of the Zhou family's merchant ship, and the horns and tendons are sold to the Japanese on board. What are these things for? You, a military attache, know better than me!" Jing Qing said angrily, "Moreover, on their ship, they even captured
We saw several Japanese armed with knives. The Japanese resisted and killed one of the imperial guards! I want to ask you, are the Japanese armed with knives Japanese pirates?"
"Now the commander of the Jinyi Guards is leading a team, disguised as a merchant ship of the Zhou family, to catch all the Japanese. I have informed you, but you have repeatedly shied away! Geng Shou, are you still considered a military general of the Ming Dynasty? Since you are a hero, don't you think
ashamed"
boom!
There was a loud noise that startled Jingqing.
Geng Zhenwu's face was full of ferociousness, and he slapped the palm leaf fan on the coffee table with his big hand, causing the table top to shatter on the spot.
"Japanese pirates?" Geng Zhenwu's eyes were bloodshot, "Why the hell didn't you tell me earlier!" As he spoke, his eyes were red as if he was about to cry, "My second uncle died in the hands of Japanese pirates!"
"Sending troops?" Jing Qing continued.
After a shout, Geng Zhenwu stood up and shouted to the outside, "Come here, beat the drum for me, the three-way drum. There are 1,382 people in the army. If there are any who can't do it, the Dharma will be rectified on the spot!"
"The warships have raised their sails, and I have prepared the artillery and crossbows."
"My personal guards are all wearing armor and are ready to fight with me!"
"Tell brothers, the Japanese pirates are here. One head and five silver coins. If you don't want to live, you will die!"
"Yes!" The soldiers outside heard this and ran away.
A moment later, drums and bugles sounded outside.
I saw Geng Zhenwu angrily walking into the back hall, kowtowing three times to a memorial tablet. Then he picked up a two-handed Daguan knife as high as a person from the shelf and came out like a murderer.
"This warrior is quite high-spirited!" Jing Qing thought to himself.
"Hehe!" Geng Zhenwu looked at him and sneered from between his teeth, "I have collected a lot of money from those businessmen over the years. But the Japanese pirates, even if they are given a gold mountain, I will kill them!"
Jingqing held up his hand and said, "Geng Shoubei's righteousness comes first!"
"My second uncle, my second uncle died in the hands of Japanese pirates!" Geng Zhenwu shouted, "Come here, follow me to kill the Japanese pirates!"
Jing Qing followed closely behind, "Geng Shoubei, I will go with you!"
"You?" Geng Zhenwu said disdainfully, "Jing Jiancha is just waiting here!"
"I am not helpless!" Jing Qing said loudly.
After the three-tone drumming, the garrison camps came out in full force, and several speedboats galloped against the wind on the sea.
Geng Zhenwu stood at the bow of the boat, his eyes burning.
Jing Qing was wearing a long robe and stood beside him.
"Just now, after Geng Shoubei said he was a meritorious official? Do you dare to ask your ancestor?" Jing Qing asked from the bow of the boat.
"So the Duke of Si is a humble grandfather!"
"Disrespect, disrespect!" Jing Qing said quickly.
Geng Zai, the Duke of Si, became a loyal man in his family. He died in battle generously, and his only son Geng Tianbi also died in the battle while chasing Japanese pirates in the eighth year of Hongwu.
This Geng Shoubei is Geng Zaicheng's great-nephew.
"Hurry up!" Geng Zhenwu shouted, "Roll the boat and follow me to kill the Japanese pirates!"
