Wang Pu in the late Ming Dynasty

Hou Sui listened to these words, looked at Wang Pu carefully back and forth, and was shocked in his heart, and secretly wondered: "How can this young man have such a sophisticated means of buying people's hearts, just born with a different understanding than ordinary people, the Wang family is by no means an ordinary martial artist, yes, he was born in a noble family, and his knowledge should not be weak. "

"The saint said that you recovered Jizhou, and its credit could have been returned to Beijing to Lubu to win, why did you delay the movement. Hou Sui calmed down his mind and asked with Yan.

"Well, I have a foot disease and can't walk. Wang Pu sneered in his heart, and secretly wondered: Trick me into going back, so that I can be delayed.

"Shhh Hou Sui's cheeks twitched, but what he planned was very big, and his heart was strong, and he pressed the anger in his heart, still remained silent, and said kindly: "According to the report, there is an outbreak of smallpox plague in the Xianghe area in the south. "

"Huh?" Wang Pu was taken aback, almost fell on his head, and asked, "Is it serious?" "

"It's not very serious, smallpox, as long as you have a cowpox, you won't get it again after you have a fever. Hou Sui pretended not to care. But there was a sentence in my heart that I didn't dare to say it openly, and secretly thought: "Only people with a solid family will plant cowpox for their children, and the officers and soldiers are all from poor people, recruited from the countryside, and the largest Qin Wang army in the Ming Dynasty, Ma Shilong, Zuo Liangyu and Cao Wenzhao's troops are all finished." "

"That's right, my Shenjia camp has been planted with cowpox, and I am not afraid of smallpox. Wang Pu nodded and said, he had heard of a very large-scale plague at the end of the Ming Dynasty in his later life, and after crossing to the Ming Dynasty, he was very careful to prepare for epidemic prevention, such as using apple mold to produce penicillium, extracting suspected impure penicillin, and some people in the army were born with tuberculosis, and there were cases of curing after injection, but occasionally allergies were used to cure people to death. In addition, a large number of banlan roots were hoarded and carried with the army.

"The imperial court ordered you to go to Zunhua as soon as possible and work with the Guanning army to exterminate the stubborn criminals in the corner of the city. Hou Sui gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice. In fact, the emperor sent him to Jizhou, one is to persuade Wang Pu to go south to the Xianghe, the officers and soldiers stationed there have already made a camp because of the plague, and the birds and beasts are scattered in the night, and the city is empty at this moment. However, Hou Sui was still determined to make a correction, and took it upon himself to deceive Wang Pu into Zunhua.

"Oh, why shouldn't you go south? "Wang Pu is suspicious, you are such a big official as the head of the household, are you just here to deliver a message, the court bosses are so idle.

"The enemy in the south has been eliminated, and there are Zuo Liangyu and other generals in charge, what are you doing when you go. Hou Sui said angrily.

Wang Pusi thought about it, but he still couldn't figure it out, the imperial court sent a household department to come over, and the things mentioned must be very difficult to do, otherwise why bother to do this, with Chongzhen's person, there is no reason to give him such a high-standard treatment for no reason, a few days ago, he was still threatening to stop the military salary of the Shenjia battalion, and after a few days, this became reasonable, polite, and without the shape of a faint king, this is too abnormal.

He stared at Hou Sui deeply, paying attention to the dodging eyes of this old horseman, and suddenly realized in his heart, and secretly thought: Yes, maybe this plague is fake, yes, the army in the south of Xianghe has already been beaten by the East Captives, and now the ones that can be taken out and displayed are all temporarily recruited miscellaneous troops, maybe Zuo Liangyu, Cao Wenzhao, these living treasures are afraid that the imperial court will send people to review the army, and when they see the flaws, they will come up with a desperate plan to make a plague, and then tell the imperial court that the elite of the department has been completely damaged by the epidemic, and the gods have unknowingly covered up a major crime of defrauding the king。

A conspiracy drama appeared in Wang Pu's mind, and the more he thought about it, the more suspicious he became, Hou Sui was Zuo Liangyu's backstage, and he must have participated in the inside story. Secretly: "Well, Hou Sui doesn't know, Zuo Liangyu's heads of merit were all bought from me, don't want to hide it from me." Then I was secretly proud in my heart.

"Okay, but the court will make up for the arrears for half a year. Wang Pu took the opportunity to put forward conditions.

"Well, the official should do his best in this matter, but the court also has difficulties. Hou Sui's words were very false, but Wang Pu didn't care too much about him for the sake of him being the boss of Donglin.

"Three days later, I will send a batch of baggage from Yanmen to this place, please allow my department to open again in three days. "Song Yang's sea ship finally arrived in Dengzhou and sent a batch of new weapons, such as self-propelled guns mounted on four-wheeled carriages, with which the march would not be dragged down by artillery in the future, and it would be easy to travel more than fifty miles a day.

"Why didn't the baggage sent from Yanmen report to Bingbeidao, bastard. Hou Sui finally couldn't help but be angry, this is okay, put it aside a few decades ago, the crime of privately transferring military horses is not an exaggeration to destroy the clan, it can be called a major case of rebellion.

"The Shenjia Battalion does not have a history of supervising the army at the moment. Wang Pu spread his hands and smiled helplessly. According to the military system of the imperial court, where the army is mobilized for more than 100 miles, the superintendent of the army must submit documents to the local military preparation road, and send fast horses to the imperial court, and in case of war, it must be urgent for 500 miles.

"Party strife is wrong for the country. Hou Sui listened to Wang Pu's words, ashamed, and couldn't help but sigh selfishly, now the parties in the court are attacking each other, and they actually forgot to give Wang Pu's Shenjia battalion a supervising army in their busy schedules, how ridiculous is this, the Shenjia battalion is in Jizhou, only two hundred miles away from the capital, and there is a flat river in the middle, no danger or hindrance. In case of an unspeakable rebellion, Wang Pu led people to attack the capital ....... The more Hou Sui thought about it, the more frightened he became, his back was sweating, and he secretly thought: "Fortunately, Zhou Yanru's henchmen did not find this mistake and omission, and they must make up for it in time." "

"In this case, it may be good, in the past three days, you have dredged the streets of Jizhou City for me, and now the filth in the city is piled up into a mountain, and it is overwhelming, and you send someone to transport this filth out of the city to bury it. Hou Xun sank for a moment, thought about it, and thought about the most important thing to see the Shenjia Camp at the moment, and sent an errand to them to be busy.

"This, instructed the fighting man to take out the garbage for the people in the city, just afraid that they would mutiny. Wang Pu was very embarrassed, the Shenjia Battalion was not a people's army, and Daming did not have such rules.

"If you don't clean up these filths in time, what if there is a disease, and besides, you have received a lot of silver from the local rich family, and it is a merit to take out a little good deed. Hou Xianhe said with a smile with an expression that you understand.

"Okay. Wang Pu nodded after hearing this and said, he has not received any money from others, but he has eaten a lot of food from the locals these days, and the Gu family's house is said to be rebuilt by wealthy families in the city, so this debt will naturally be counted on his head. He secretly wondered: "The modern people's army often joins the front line of disaster relief, and this practice is good for maintaining the sense of honor of military personnel and is worth emulating." "

The Beijing division is warm, the skirts of the city are long and thin, the shops are full of goods, the families of the Beijing officials are competing for purchases, and the carriages are flowing, as if they want to chase back the Dragon Boat Festival that they did not miss. The courtyard of the government office is clean and clean in the past, but the layers of high walls and deep fortresses can not hide the joyful sound, and the seasonal fresh fruits sent from the south are put on the bookcase, and they are worried about their stomachs all year round, dipped in water and put their faces into their stomachs. If it weren't for the plague of the Raushzi, this would also be a tireless Jiahua who writes poetry anywhere.

Liu Daoyu, the head of the Yunnan Qing Officials Division of the Household Department, had a splitting headache, and his immediate boss, the Hubu Shangshu Hou, sent an urgent document from Jizhou, ordering him to immediately transfer the detailed records of all the customs clearance vessels on the canal from Cangzhou on the Yellow River to Tianjin in the past two months, and submit them to the Shushu Hall within five days. This urgent like a fire-like document is really making people want to cry without tears, even the seasonal fresh fruit is not fragrant, the official system of the Ming Dynasty is very outrageous, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is under the jurisdiction of the Yunnan Qing Bureau, and the governor of Caoyun performs his duties. It is said that this is because there are few things to do in Yunnan, and the yamen has always been idle, so they use this errand to fill the gap and divide the effort.

Liu Daoyu didn't believe this statement, if he wanted to say that the idle yamen,

Guizhou, Liaodong and Gansu, which could lose to Yunnan in the slightest, why they didn't take this unlucky errand, he did not hesitate to speculate with the greatest malice, and thought that Hai Rui wrote the world-famous law and order in this office, and scolded the emperor, and since then this yamen has inexplicably added an unknown errand. Emperor Daojun really wanted to vent his anger, the fat water of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal entered the belly of the governor of Caoyun, and he did not overflow with any dregs, but he sent him all the cumbersome and boring massive documents, this must be a personal vendetta, but my lord, why am I innocent, it is a disaster for Hai Rui.

"I heard that Qian Qianyi is not only dismissed from office, but even his fame has been taken away, and his life is over. An official said coldly in the pile of papers: "There are ominous people in Jizhou, and they will be harmed, we took this errand, I am a little unsure in my heart, and I always think about something." "

"What could happen?" asked another official.

"Immortals fight, mortals suffer. "

"Don't talk nonsense, if this word gets out, wait carefully for the ministry to come back and tear you up. Liu Daoyu scolded angrily, but he was secretly furious in his heart, thinking: Hou Butang is the backbone of the Donglin Party, he went to Jizhou and the party henchman Wang Pu didn't know what to discuss, this errand was done, offended the former celebrity Zhou Yanru, I am just an idler, good things can't be my turn, bad things shouldn't be smashed on my head.

"We are the most powerful yamen with the most power, and this errand is extremely difficult to do, and we will inevitably be reprimanded afterwards. The more Liu Daoyu thought about it, the more he felt that this errand was strange, and his heart suddenly became a mess, so he had the intention of slacking off.

"What Director Liu said is extremely true, there are too many things, too complicated. The official who spoke at the beginning understood it, muttered quietly, and frequently glanced at the officials around him, and everyone realized that he would rather be scolded by his boss than this errand could not be done.

Five days later, Hou Sui returned to Beijing, although he was annoyed that the officials of the Yunnan Qing Officials Division were all waste, but at this moment he had no intention of getting angry, swallowed the stuffiness in his chest, and entered the palace to meet the emperor.

"Okay, good, Hou Aiqing really has a humerus and did the right thing. Chongzhen held up a secret fold in his hand and praised: "This time to Wang Pujunzhong, he obediently left Jizhou to go east, to solve my worries, and more wisdom to adapt, to correct the mistakes of the previous plan, Wang Chengen, this eunuch, actually forgot to report that the Shenjia Battalion had already prepared to prevent smallpox, and almost caused evil consequences." After saying that, Wang Chengen, who was standing on the side with angry eyes, was busy kneeling down and clasping his head.

"The slave is guilty, the sin is not forgiven, last year, the superintendent of the imperial history Huang Dahu had already had a secret performance, said that Wang Pu went to Tongguan to help defend, cowardly along the way, avoiding rotten remains for fear that it would not be far away, vain to say that the plague caused the army to be in danger, when the detour was wrong, and did not dare to enter the Tongguan Pass, the world sneered, and the Son of Heaven was mighty. At that time, the slave pig brain and dog brain were stunned and didn't understand it, thinking that there was nothing wrong with it, and they didn't think deeply, so that they missed the state affairs. "

"The ruler is guilty, he is not thoughtful, and his sin is not forgiven. Wen Tiren also hurriedly knelt down. At the beginning, he gave this plan, and Hou Sui, the backbone of the Donglin Party, came forward, and forced Wang Pu to go south to Xianghe with the emperor's order, and punished him with the plague.

"That's it, it's good to know your mistakes, not to make an example. Chongzhen sighed and said, he didn't have the intention of asking about the guilt, but he just said that, although this plan was advocated by Wen Tiren, he nodded his head because of a moment of negligence, and he couldn't be wrong with himself, so he had to grieve Wang Chengen.

"The saint was angry, and the minister thought that Wang Pu's method was worth emulating, and planted cowpox for each soldier to prevent the army from contracting smallpox again, and asked His Majesty to issue a clear decree to send it to various military towns to promote this policy. Zhou Yanru bowed and spoke.

"What Aiqing said is very true, Wang Chengen, you have listened carefully to me, and you must not make mistakes again. Chongzhen bowed his head and turned back to Wang Chengen and scolded him.

"The minions obeyed. Wang Chengen hurriedly knelt down and saluted.

"Lord Hou,

Yanru has a question, I implore Lord Hou to ease his doubts. Zhou Yanru suddenly bowed to Hou Xun again, and the latter hurriedly returned the salute.

"Shousuke-sama is serious, please advise. Hou Sui's face turned pale and replied, this time there is only one person missing from the imperial secret, Xu Guangqi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, this seems to be a bureau of two peaches killing three soldiers, provoking him and Xu Guangqi to fight among themselves.

"You mentioned in the recital that you went to Wang Pujunzhong and persuaded him verbally. Wang Pu was arrogant and rude at the beginning, and later listened to your words, so how did you make him obedient. The court persuaded him to return to Beijing to offer his victory, this guy, this guy actually said that he had a foot disease and couldn't walk, hum, the Donglin Party has a good way to eat Wang Pu, so don't hide it and let the saint be anxious. Zhou Yanru's words were carried with a gun and a stick, and his intentions were sinister.

"Annoying, hateful. Chongzhen recalled this shameful past, and suddenly his blood surged again, and his cheeks flushed.