"Your Majesty, Commander, is you personally carrying out this task again?" Seeing Wang Zheng, Xiao Chen walked up with a smile.
"The matters ordered by Master Ziyi are related to the crime of kidnapping the prince and others. As for the control of the guard army, I came here personally." Wang Zheng said hurriedly.
"Your Excellency, you have worked hard and devoted yourself to serving the court. You have done everything yourself. The Ming Dynasty has a military attaché like you who is in charge of one side. You are not afraid that the Ming Dynasty will be unstable." Xiao Chen smiled and praised the other party's actions.
"If you have a salary from the imperial court, you should do things for the imperial court." Wang Zheng bowed hurriedly, as if he was facing the imperial court.
"Are all entrances and exits strictly guarded?" After finishing his polite remarks, Xiao Chen asked in a low voice.
"Control them all. I think the guards have a lot of soldiers, and the captains from Dongchang who came to Baoding City, a total of about fifty, went in to arrest them. If there are few people in Dongchang who resist, I'm afraid they will suffer a loss. So,
We mobilized manpower just now, went in and disarmed their weapons, and we just finished it." Wang Zheng said in a low voice.
"Disarmed their weapons? Why didn't you just take them down, Commander?" Xiao Chen was startled.
"It's Dongchang's credit for taking them down. How could Daning Dusi steal the limelight? Besides, you must have your own deep meaning in doing this. I just need to help. The rest should be done by yourself." Wang Zheng hehe.
A smile.
Xiao Chen shook his head, with a hint of helplessness on his face.
This old fox must have realized that he just wanted to kill the guards. He took off their weapons and let Dongchang kill people directly. This painstaking effort was really not easy.
Facing the gate, Xiao Chen waved his right hand, then took Wang Zheng and went to chat under the shade of a tree.
"Sir, how many troops does our Daning Dusi have now?" Xiao Chen casually brought up the topic.
"After moving to Baoding, apart from the troops staying near the Great Wall, there are less than 20,000 people here in Baoding including family members. With the development in the past few years, there are probably 60,000 to 70,000 people in total." Wang Zheng said with a smile.
"Sixty to seventy thousand people, the food, clothing, housing and transportation alone are a big deal. Can the fertile land allocated by the imperial court be enough to run the entire capital?"
"It used to be more than enough, but now as the population continues to increase, food is a little bit insufficient."
"As the population increases, the distribution of land should also increase accordingly. I will command your Excellency to write a document about this matter and report it to the Ministry of Household Affairs. When I see the Emperor, I will also go and talk about it. A Dusi is responsible for the defense of one side.
If you don't have a full stomach, if there is a war, you won't have the strength to pick up weapons, how can you win the war?" Xiao Chen said with a smile.
"Your Majesty is absolutely right." Wang Zheng nodded, "The matter of increasing the land is imminent, and I have reported the materials to the Ministry of Revenue. However, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue went to Huailaiwei with the emperor to participate in hunting activities, and my report has not been processed yet.
Approval."
"How can this be done? How can we delay the meal matter for no reason? Otherwise, you can write another note, and when you return to Beijing, I will ask His Highness the Crown Prince to submit it directly to the Emperor. This way, the speed of approval should be much faster."
"Really?" Wang Zheng was overjoyed, and saluted Xiao Chen with both fists in his hands, "You have solved the land problem of Daning Dusi, and you are the benefactor of Daning Dusi. Everyone in Dusi will definitely not forget your efforts.
Help.”
"Look," Xiao Chen glared, "Sir, you have helped Dongchang a lot, so I just helped you, and you are so polite? We are our own people from now on, don't say such disrespectful things."
"Yes, yes, I won't say such unreasonable things. I have collected a lot of old wines. When you are not busy, sir, how many bowls can we have at Daningdusi?" Wang Zheng asked tentatively.
Although drinking can't accomplish big things, drinking can bring two people closer together. If the purple-clothed captain is willing to go to Daning Dusi to drink a few bowls of wine, it means that he is not joking, but really regards Daning Dusi as one of his own.
"No." Xiao Chen shook his head.
Wang Zheng was disappointed. It turned out that what Master Ziyi said was completely different from what he was thinking. He kept saying that Da Ningdu was a minister of his own people, but he even refused to come to have a bowl of wine. This was not a visit to one of his own people. This was just taking advantage of Da Ningdu.
It's just the company's strength.
I thought so in my heart, but couldn't show any disappointment on my lips.
"Sir, don't you drink alcohol?" Wang Zheng found a step for himself.
"No, I'm not a heavy drinker, but if I drink one or two pounds a day, it's not a problem." Xiao Chen said softly.
"What do you mean, sir?" Wang Zheng pretended to be confused and confused.
If you don't want to go, don't say that you can drink, but you have to slap me in the face so nakedly. After all, I am also a second-grade military attache of the imperial court, guarding a part of the imperial court's territory.
There has been no war in the past few years, and the emperor seems to have forgotten Daning Dusi and rarely mentions it. But you can save some face for me. At least, there is a commander from Daning Dusi watching next to you.
"I feel that the commander is a bit stingy, so I don't want to go." Xiao Chen said with a straight face.
"Stingy? How do you say this?"
"My lord has collected a lot of old wines. Just hearing these four words, I can't help but salivate. But you said you went to drink a few bowls of wine. How can a few bowls satisfy your craving? If you drink
"I'm not having a good time, and I'm not willing to continue bringing out the wine, so it's better not to go." Xiao Chen said seriously.
Wang Zheng grinned with a wry smile on his face: "So you are afraid that you will run out of wine?"
"Yes." Xiao Chen said slowly, "If you say you want to drink a few bottles, I will definitely go back. And I will bring a few key people from the East Factory with me."
"Easy to say, easy to say." Wang Zheng burst out laughing, "Not to mention a few key people, even if I bring all the Dongchang captains in Baoding City, I can take care of the wine in my collection."
"Really?" Xiao Chen's face showed a joyful expression, "A gentleman's words are hard to catch up with. Sir, please don't say I'm greedy when the time comes."
"It's enough, it's definitely enough. Just keep your heart in your heart and just let it go and drink." Wang Zheng's face was bright.
After doing this for a long time, Master Ziyi was joking with himself, making himself so nervous that he didn't know what to do.
No matter how high the official rank or position of the other party was, or how old he was, Xiao Chen raised his arm and put it on Wang Zheng's shoulder: "Come on, let's go sit down by the roadside and you tell me.
, What delicious meats are there in Daningdusi? For example, rabbits, geese, etc..."
Looking at the actions of the two men, the commander of Daning Dusi on one side didn't know what to do for a while.
I was worried just now that Dongchang had killed more than a thousand people from the Baoding City Guards. If the court pressed for further questioning, Daning Capital would also be blamed.
Look at the way he is arm-in-arm with the commander now. Even if Daning Dusi doesn't want to bear this matter, he has to bear it with Dongchang.
In the courtyard, bursts of heart-rending screams came out.
Some were wailing for a long time, as if the pain in their bodies had been tortured. Some were just letting out a sharp scream, and before they could understand whether the scream was a man or a woman, it stopped suddenly and there was no sound.
Obviously, he met a neat "executor".
The Daning Dusi soldiers guarding the walls listened to the continuous screams inside and smelled the fresh "bloody" smell coming from the courtyard walls. Even though they had been baptized by the war back then, they couldn't bear it.
All the residents frowned.
In the yard, there was no sound of any hand-to-hand combat. What occasionally came out was the sound of a sharp blade being swung rapidly, followed by a "pop" sound. You didn't need to think about it, but you knew that the sharp blade had cut into the flesh.
Occasionally there was a sound of "caracara", and based on the sound of their own marching and fighting, the soldiers knew that it was either beheading or chopping off limbs.
All sounds and smells did not disturb the conversation between Xiao Chen and Wang Zheng.
"I have two pigeons. If you go, I will ask the kitchen to roast the pigeons for you."
"The squab is too small. Otherwise, I will bring two big geese."
"No, there are a lot of big geese in Daningdusi's breeding farm. Roasted squab is a good thing. Although there isn't much meat, it's delicious."
"Really, if it's really delicious, I'll raise some pigeons in Dongchang later. Your Highness has suffered a lot these days. If you have time in the future, you can come to Dongchang to roast the pigeons, and we'll send them to His Highness when you're done."
"I'm afraid it's difficult to enter the East Palace?"
"With this, there is no place in the palace that cannot be visited, let alone the East Palace."
Xiao Chen smiled and waved the purple plum blossom order around his waist a few times in front of Wang Zheng's eyes.
