Chapter 302 Detailed discussion on a moonlit night
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Ma Xianglin walked side by side with Zheng Haizhu. After listening to her analysis, he was silent for a moment and said: "Ye Gong is serious. The emperor is generous enough to spare my life so that I will not be separated from my mother, wife and daughter."
Zheng Haizhu heard what he said sincerely and said, "That's fine if you think so."
The twilight was closing in, and the mist was getting thicker. The few guards in royal robes following behind them began to sniff, even though they were wrapped in fur collars.
However, Zheng Haizhu had no intention of going down to the city wall. Instead, he turned back to the Jin Yiwei and said, "You guys wait here. I have something to say to General Ma."
Two figures, one tall and one short, continue to move westward.
Arriving in front of the female wall facing Wengcheng, Zheng Haizhu stopped, pointed to the vast sky and earth, and said: "I just asked the postmaster. A few dozen miles to the northwest is the administrative center of Xuanfu Town, where are the Governor's Mansion and the General Military Mansion.
Less than a hundred miles to the northwest is Zhangjiakou. Between Zhangjiakou and Yehuling, the frontier fortress, there are three or four military forts."
"Yehu Ridge?"
"Well, it's the place where Genghis Khan wiped out the Jin Kingdom's elite." Zheng Haizhu turned to the right and said, "Xianglin, look to the northeast. Two hundred miles away is the Kaiping Guard that retreated south during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong. Therefore, Ye
Huling and Kaipingwei are like horns to each other, guarding a large section of the border between Xuanfu Town and Beilu, and Zhangjiakou is right on this border. But Zhangjiakou is now a tangled dock for Shanxi merchant leaders.
We have to find a place in the grassland to the north."
Ma Xianglin was from Sichuan. Even though he had been stationed at Shanhaiguan in the east for a while, he was still very unfamiliar with the terrain of Xuanda Bei Fortress and the distribution of military fortresses.
But what made him even more confused was the hidden meaning behind Zheng Haizhu's words.
"What do you mean by looking for a place to the north?"
"The new tea and horse trading market has opened," Zheng Haizhu turned around and stared at the general who looked confused, "Xianglin, Zhu Qianjue has a dirty and vicious heart, but when he came to talk to me, some of his words were right. In this court, the virtuous ministers are
There are a few, but there are more dead people. We can't trust those who are high in the temple, especially in the later years, for fear that the party struggle will become more intense. We have to keep saving money ourselves. Do you remember General Mao Wenlong Mao?
Although he had a good relationship with the commander-in-chief Zhang Chengyin, after he arrived in Dongjiang Town, the imperial court never paid him enough. He successively recruited young men from Liao and raised them like servants. At least half of the expenses were
His son took it from the dividends of our Haoming Trading Company."
Ma Xianglin realized something: "You want me to be Mao Wenlong of Xuanfu Town?"
"Yes," Zheng Haizhu said resolutely, "otherwise? If I really come up with a way later and get the emperor to return the Shanhaiguan cavalry to you, even if Governor Cui and Mr. Zhao pay for you, the imperial court will definitely pay it.
Is that enough? You and Zhang Mingshi are both people who have been sentenced to prison. The troops of the Qi family army in Korea and Jizhen worked so loyally and fought for their lives, but they were still slandered by the imperial censors as "asking for pay" as "making trouble for pay"
’, what’s so difficult about them using pen and knife to you two?”
Ma Xianglin sighed deeply.
He put his forearm, which was covered with cowhide armor, on the city wall, and his eyes fell on the urn city below the main city.
The Wengcheng in the night was as quiet as a big well.
But in Ma Xianglin's view, the dark Wengcheng seemed to have turned into a shooting range with blazing sunshine in an instant. The Qi family soldiers who walked into the shooting range unsuspectingly and were waiting for pay from the court were captured by the same soldiers under the bright sunshine.
The Ji Zhen soldiers of the Ming army shot him to death with one arrow after another.
Zheng Haizhu felt Ma Xianglin's depressed mood for hurting others, so he softened his tone and said, "Let's not talk about the past. Before I came back to Xuanfu this time, I used Yang Lian to lead the way and visited Ye Xianggao and asked him about the title.
This is a handwritten letter to Governor Cui. It is just a greeting and encouragement, but at least it allows Governor Cui and I to meet and talk to the boss. Xianglin, my suggestion is that you and Zhang Mingshi, it is best to go to Yehuling and
Between Wanquan Youwei and the military fortress near Zhangjiakou, we will first take root. At the same time, I have to find a way to persuade Governor Cui to open a new wharf between Yehuling and Kaipingwei in the east, further north than Zhangjiakou.
Let’s save military pay.”
Ma Xianglin's eyes left the pond-like urn city and returned to Zheng Haizhu's face.
What rises in the sky is a crescent moon, which cannot illuminate the faces of people on the ground.
But Ma Xianglin knew that the woman's demeanor was just like that on the boat in Yuegang, calm and high-spirited.
She has never underestimated the dangers of the world and the court, but she will not indulge in verbal criticism like those who are defeated in the officialdom and on the battlefield.
The current situation that makes many people angry and discouraged seems to be nothing more than fog and ravines to her.
Fog barriers can't stop gulls from flying across the sea, and ravines can't stop war horses from galloping across Liaoyuan.
"Okay, I'll follow your arrangements." Ma Xianglin said to his trusted friend.
Suddenly, he remembered something, and his face that had just relaxed a little became solemn again.
"Azhu, that Eunuch Wei, do you want to use him as a helper?"
Zheng Haizhu said calmly: "Yes, I will have to run around on errands from now on, and I need the help of sophisticated internal officials. But Wang An is about to be promoted to the Chief of Ceremony, and if I use his cronies who are known to both the inner and outer courts,
It will become a lever for officials to criticize Wang An."
Ma Xianglin said: "Of course I won't comment on your plan. I just want to ask you, did this person enter the palace as an adult?"
"Yes, he said it himself. He was nearly 30 years old when he entered the palace. What's wrong?"
Ma Xianglin hesitated for a moment, but finally said bluntly: "I doubt that he is a real eunuch. Adult men are castrated in different ways than boys. I also heard what Cui Wenjing from Hebei said. If there are eunuchs in Baoding, if they are six or seven years old,
For a boy who is 6 years old, the family members will crush the yang pills little by little, and the yang will naturally not grow long. But if the boy is an adult when he enters the palace, the yang pills and the yang must be removed together. I had a lot of trouble with Liu Shimin before.
Secretly, he always carries scented pills with him to cover up the smell of urine, because his urine leaks from time to time."
Zheng Haizhu said: "Liu Shimin's body is indeed heavily incense, but Wei Jinzhong's body also has a scent."
"But when we were on the road yesterday, in the field, I ordered the tooth soldiers to follow him secretly once, and he peeed standing up."
Zheng Haizhu's heart moved.
Sure enough, as he had guessed, Wei Zhongxian might indeed have retained some male physiological functions as recorded in later unofficial histories.
If the eunuch's entire penis is cut off, the urine will lose its passage, and the way of excretion will be the same as that of women, who have to squat to urinate. If a eunuch still urinates standing up, it means that he should still have a complete penis.
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Seeing Zheng Haizhu's thoughtful look, Ma Xianglin said sincerely: "I know you have never looked down upon eunuchs like we men do. Even Liu Shimin, at the last moment, was still a bit human. But this
Wei Jinzhong, I think he is different from Liu Shimin, he looks like a rat, I am worried..."
"You're right," Zheng Haizhu interrupted him, "Wei Jinzhong is indeed a rat. Although Liu Shimin has been deceiving me for so long, he and Wei Jinzhong are two different people. Don't worry, Xianglin, I know it well. But you tell me today