After a while, Sun Chengzong turned to Zhong Jinwei and said: "This matter has been around for a long time and involves the interests of all parties. You have also seen the wide implications of this murder case. If anyone reports this matter, there will be countless refutations.
The memorial will be presented to the emperor. I was attacked by them a few years ago and had to go home to take care of my old age. If you hadn't done it this time, I don't know whether I would still be in Gaoyang now."
After Zhong Jinwei heard this, he didn't know what to say. He understood that if he were in Sun Chengzong's position, he might not be able to maintain the situation in Liaodong while fighting various people.
Fortunately, I traveled directly to Emperor Chongzhen, was honest with him, saved his life by chance, and the contents of my prophecies came true one by one, so I gained his trust.
In fact, another reason why Zhong Jinwei gained the trust of Emperor Chongzhen was that he had no intention of seeking profit for himself, and even donated his profits to the court. Moreover, he did not want to be an official to deal with other people, and was willing to make suggestions behind the scenes.
He had his own abilities but was not weak, and helped Emperor Chongzhen solve one problem after another. This made Emperor Chongzhen even more disappointed in his other ministers, which made him even more dependent on Zhong Jinwei.
It is precisely because of the above reasons that Emperor Chongzhen's trust in Zhong Jinwei gradually deepened, until he has full trust today.[
Sun Chengzong suddenly became energized, and said with a bit of excitement in his tone: "This time, the case of assassinating you has led to such a large-scale murder case. Although they were pardoned in the end, it can be regarded as giving them a chance."
When he said this, he looked at Zhong Jinwei and said: "After the reform of the imperial supervision system, I have some confidence in the subsequent official administration of the Ming Dynasty. Speaking of which, I have to thank you!"
"Thank me for what?" Zhong Jinwei didn't understand what Sun Chengzong meant and looked at him doubtfully.
"I've been given an extra salary, haha..." As soon as Sun Chengzong didn't suppress his voice, his laughter spread far away, attracting soldiers in the roadside camp to look over.
Zhong Jin Weiyu secretly thought that Mr. Sun would still be short of this amount of money?
In fact, it is not about the amount of money, but the attitude. After more than 200 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty finally began to care about the welfare of officials, so that officials could feel the grace of the court and naturally feel happy.
For example, a company organizes employee open activities and allows employees to bring their families to play together, but the employees have to pay for the family members' meals in the canteen. A meal in the canteen only costs about ten yuan, but in the eyes of the family members,
Whether your company pays ten yuan or not has completely different feelings.
Sun Chengzong slapped the horse's butt and made the horse trot. He said loudly: "If you get more salary, you will have to do more things. Let's go!"
Zhong Jinwei looked at Sun Chengzong's back and thought that old man Sun was really kind. At that moment, he also caught the horse's belly and chased after him.
They came to the northwest corner of the camp, a venue used for artillery practice.
A group of people were already standing inside. Seeing Sun Chengzong and his party passing by, they quickly came over to greet them.
"Li Fengjie, Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and Wang Zunde came to see our troops and supervise the army." The first two half-old red-robed officials signed up to see them. When they saw Sun Chengzong and his party, someone else had already introduced the identities of Sun Chengzong and Zhong Jinwei, so the two talked.
No one was missed.
Sun Chengzong turned over and dismounted and said, "Thank you for your hard work."
Zhong Jinwei then turned over and dismounted, looking at the two people in front of him. He had never heard of the names of these two frontier officials, and he was a little bit worried before that it would take so long for these two people to escort the cannon from Guangzhou to Bejng.
Now when he saw these two people, who were all dressed in dusty clothes, especially the one on the left, who had a bad face and seemed to be sick, he felt a little sorry for his previous thoughts.
After the two parties had met with each other, Li Fengjie immediately introduced a Westerner who was following them: "This is Xi Lao from Gongsha, Fo Langji, the musketeer, craftsman, and Western leader who came to the capital this time.
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The Westerner was of medium build, about forty years old. He had stayed in Macau for a long time, so he knew Chinese. Now that Li Fengjie was introducing him, he quickly stood up and saluted: "Portuguese Captain Sirao of Gongsha is here to supervise our troops."
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Upon hearing this, Zhong Jinwei confirmed: "Are you a Portuguese professional soldier?"
Sirao from Gongsha knew that this young man was a high-ranking official in the Ming Dynasty and did not dare to neglect him. He quickly replied: "Yes, Lord Supervisor of the Army."
"Silao of Gongsha is your Chinese name?" Zhong Jinwei thought this name was too confusing.[
Hearing Zhong Jinwei's question, he felt a little embarrassed. He touched his big nose and explained: "My name is Gonzago, Deixeira, Kari. People in your country call me Silao of Gongsha."
"Oh, Gonsa is your first name, right?" Zhong Jinwei knows that in the United Kingdom and the United States, the first name comes first and the last name comes last. He doesn't know if it's the Portuguese name, so he can't confirm.
Gonzago was slightly surprised. He didn't expect that there were people far away in the capital of the Ming Dynasty who knew about Portugal's habits. He nodded and said: "Yes, Lord Supervisor of the Army."
Li Fengjie and Wang Zunde were also a little surprised that the young supervisor knew about it, but Sun Chengzong was not surprised at all. Zhong Jinwei had returned from overseas, so it was not surprising that he knew the names and habits of overseas people.
"Lead the way and see how the artillery goes." Sun Chengzong ordered after seeing Zhong Jinwei finish asking.
Gongsahao immediately turned around and led the way. Li Fengjie and Wang Zunde accompanied Sun Chengzong and Zhong Jinwei in the past.
The artillery has already been placed on the gun emplacement, and there are Portuguese gunners standing next to each gun. There are even a few gunners with yellow skin but wearing Portuguese military uniforms.
These cannons are all red cannons, which are cannons on Portuguese warships. They are about three meters long, thin at the front and thick at the back, with front sights and rear sights. They are the same as what Zhong Jinwei saw when he visited the museum in later generations, which made him a little disappointed.
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Zhong Jinwei wasn't interested in this kind of primitive artillery, so he didn't step forward to take a look.
But Sun Chengzong was different. His eyes shone like a carpenter seeing Lu Ban's work. While asking some questions, he walked forward to touch the cannon body and looked back and forth.
Zhong Jinwei looked at Sun Chengzong's bumpkin appearance, and thought to himself, if he brought a war movie from later generations when he traveled through time, and let Old Man Sun see the war scene of thousands of artillery fire, I wonder what his expression would be like.
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Sun Chengzong didn't mind the trouble, and looked at each cannon carefully. Because he had told Marquis Zhongxing about the quality of the artillery when he first came here, so after reading it, he wanted to express his thoughts to Marquis Zhongxing next to him.
.I didn’t expect to turn around and didn’t find Zhong Jinwei. I looked around and asked, “Where is Marquis Zhongxing?”
Li Fengjie, who was following him, saw Sun Chengzong looking for Zhong Jinwei, and quickly pointed it out to him: "The supervisory army is staying over there and has not come over."
Sun Chengzong looked in the direction of Li Fengjie's finger and found that Zhong Jinwei was really staying at the very beginning, chatting with his guards and not paying any attention to these red cannons.
"Young people are so lazy that they don't even come over to check out the artillery. What a shame!" Sun Chengzong sighed with emotion.
Several people on the side also had the same idea as Sun Chengzong, thinking that Zhong Jinwei was too lazy to leave. Although they did not show contempt for Zhong Jinwei on the surface, in their hearts they almost despised He Nai for today's young people.
In addition to despising Zhong Jinwei like everyone else, Gongsar was also a little happy. The lazier the high-ranking officials in the Ming Dynasty were, the more they would rely on themselves.
Sun Chengzong took the lead and walked towards Zhong Jinwei, preparing to speak to him.
Zhong Jinwei was still chatting with Gu Baichuan and did not look here. However, Li Laosi saw Sun Chengzong and his group approaching, and quickly reminded in a low voice: "They have all finished watching."
Zhong Jinwei looked up and greeted with a smile: "Master Sun, have you finished checking?"
"I've finished reading it, why don't you go and take a look? This artillery piece was purchased directly from Macau's Folang Machinery." Sun Chengzong meant that this artillery piece was imported, so wouldn't it be a pity if you didn't go and take a look?