The Reborn Duke of Ming Dynasty

Now, through the documents signed by Yang Bo, Minister of the Ministry of War, and Yang Bo personally brought the imperial decree and documents to meet Zhu Heng, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, the [-] exported arms are in the process of being manufactured at a leisurely pace.

Although this matter is very convenient for anyone who wants to inquire about it, it is still very well kept secret. Among Jin Yiwei, Zhang Fan's subordinates are naturally able to control themselves Their mouths will not spread it everywhere, and Zhang Fan and Yang Bo will naturally not disclose this matter. Therefore, although outsiders can easily find out, they have no idea about this matter at all. For things that you don't know, there is naturally no need to inquire.

As for the Ministry of Industry, those craftsmen and supervisors have been working for the court for many years. The most basic point is that they don’t care about what they are doing, don’t say anything, just keep their heads down and work. What kind of trouble, as long as it is not caused by yourself, then nothing will happen, and what happens to other weak people has nothing to do with them.

Now, the only person who may leak this matter is Zhu Yijun, the emperor. After all, Zhu Yijun is only ten years old now. After a decision is made, one is usually very excited. In case one slips one's mouth, it is not impossible to say something inadvertently.

Zhang Fan naturally understands this, so he and Zhu Yijun deliberately explained it kindly, and Zhu Yijun was obviously more interested in keeping some little secrets in his heart, so he naturally agreed to Zhang Fan's offer. Require.

But now, there is one more person who knows about the matter, and that is Zhu Heng, Minister of the Ministry of Industry. If you want to talk about Zhu Heng, he was a Jinshi in the 11th year of Jiajing, magistrate, head of the Criminal Ministry, deputy envoy of Tixue, chief envoy, governor, etc. He has done all the official positions, and he can be regarded as a person who has gradually risen through his seniority and political achievements. He is also a man of duty, and he has a lot of experience in regulating rivers.

Zhu Heng has been an official for decades, and he has always been an official at the lowest level. Speaking of which, he is clear about all the affairs in the court, including those infighting, conspiracies and tricks. Now, Yang Boqian He came to him to do this matter. Although he couldn't fully understand what it was for, he could still guess that there was a big difference.

However, Zhu Heng didn't say a word about this. After all, no matter what Yang Bo's purpose is, he has an imperial decree in his hand, no matter how this imperial decree came from, and regardless of Yang Bo's daily life. Anyway, in a word, no matter how bold Yang Bo is, he has not yet dared to forge the imperial decree.

In short, in Zhu Heng's view, since this imperial decree has been stamped with a jade seal, it is true and effective, and he has no reason to refuse. Besides, even if something goes wrong in the future, he only needs to pass this imperial decree It's okay to take it out, and the rest of the nonsense has nothing to do with him.

Therefore, Zhu Heng, who got the imperial decree, neither asked Yang Bo anything, nor did he plan to withhold it privately and ask the superiors for verification. Moreover, Zhu Heng did not find any assistants at all this time, but directly found the craftsman below, and asked When they gave the order, the head craftsman was also an honest man, but he just casually asked why he still made those obsolete muskets, Zhu Heng also brought up a lot of irrelevant topics. to prevaricate him.

In short, things are proceeding step by step now, and the secrecy measures are really well done.

After this matter is settled, Zhang Fan will start to wait for the action after the musket is manufactured. Wang Meng has already found the dead ghost, and he does not know where he brought a death row prisoner. He is a bandit in the green forest, and he has a lot of ability and reputation in the Jianghu, but because he didn't know what he got, he went crazy, and even planned to rob the official bank that was being transported.

The result is conceivable, the accomplice died on the spot, and he was also caught by an arrow, but due to some other reasons, he was handed over to Jin Yiwei, and now he is so conveniently captured by Wang Meng. turn up.

This person has committed such a crime, even if there is no trial, he still cannot escape death. Fortunately, he was considered acquainted before and did not resist much. He made a deal, as long as he could do what Wang Meng and others asked, although he would still die, after his death, his family would get a lot of money.

This deal is naturally a good deal, after all, he is doomed to die no matter what, and now he can still "use his remaining heat" to earn a settling fee for his family, so he is naturally happy.

As for Zhang Fan, he didn't ask anything about this matter, or he didn't want to ask.

In short, the preparatory work has been completed.

Now, Zhang Fan is once again at leisure. Now, I don't know whether it was Zhu Yijun who proposed it on his own initiative, or Zhang Juzheng requested it. In short, the present Jingyan has changed again, and has become a series of small Sutra feasts. , and for Zhang Fan, although he didn't know whether it was a good thing for Zhu Yijun to speak so frequently, or whether he could listen to it, but at least, for Zhang Fan, he had more time to spare every day.

And in the free time, there is nothing else to do except to deal with the things in Jinyiwei. After all, even Jinyiwei has countless things happening every day, but it is not really necessary for Zhang Fan to deal with it himself. not much.

So after this period of time, Zhang Fan was free again. If it wasn't for Zhu Yijun's summons, he wouldn't even need to go to the palace now except for the early court.

Originally, during this period of time, Zhang Fan planned to inquire about the affairs of the Southwest side, but there is no news from the Southwest side. It is not that Zhang Fan sent them, but now Zhang Yong and Wang Xin have been infiltrated. There is no news about the people inside the two villains, and now those people have gained great trust from the two.

Just last month, Zhang Fan arranged an "accident". The matter was very simple. It was "it is said that" the court had a batch of silver. No, it could not be said to belong to the court, but to an official. In short, Anyway, the source of this batch of money was somewhat "unrighteous", and Zhang Fan's people informed Zhang Yong and Wang Xin of this news.

For the few newcomers who have just entered their forces, it is understandable that they want to express their feelings eagerly, but Zhang Wang and Zhang Wang will naturally have doubts about the news they said. It's just a newcomer, and it doesn't look like he has any background, but now that he has said such news, it will naturally make people feel suspicious.

However, I have to say that God also helped this time, and this time happened to be when these rebels were short of money.

Speaking of it, this is not a coincidence. Back then, Zhang Yong, Wang Xin and others followed Wei Yinbao in the rebellion. However, Wei Yinbao's purpose was very simple. The local ethnic minorities had been oppressed by the Han ruling dynasty for many years. And what Wei Yinbao wanted to do was actually to seek justice for them.

It's just that Wei Yinbao's original intentions were good, but after the development, he could no longer control the city and conquer the territory.

As for Zhang Yong and Wang Xin, when they first followed Wei Yinbao, their purpose was to be as simple and beautiful as Wei Yinbao, but the so-called lack of people's hearts, when Wei Yinbao's "career" gradually grew, the organization's internal affairs would naturally become more complicated. There will be disagreements, Wei Yinbao will naturally stick to his own point of view, but his subordinates will not. Zhang Yong and Wang Xin are representatives of them. After seeing that they have laid a foundation, they want to stop. It's done, but Wei Yinbao's appeal was too strong at the time, and they had no ability to disobey it.

If you don't have the ability to go against Wei Yinbao head-on, then go from the side. In fact, what they call the side is just doing some small tricks to enrich their own pockets and the like.

When Wei Yinbao was killed by the court, Zhang Yong and Wang Xin escaped, but they did not bring much money with them in a hurry. If they did nothing, they would just sit and eat. Therefore, the two of them decided to Get back to your old business, make another rebellion, and then rely on your qualifications with Wei Yinbao to gather some people, and then earn a lot of money.

But obviously, these two people had some skills in the early stage. Under the surreptitious actions, even Dongchang and Jin Yiwei didn't notice anything, but when Zhang Fan's people broke into them, they found that they were actually in chaos.

Now, their money is almost spent, and there are so many people, the usual petty robbery is no longer enough.

At this time, Zhang Fan "sent" them such a generous gift, and they stopped worrying about it.

In the end, the silver came into their hands smoothly, and Zhang Fan's people gained further trust.

But that's the end of the matter. In the next few months, the news from Southwest has never stopped, but there is nothing new.

For this reason, Zhang Fan also had to temporarily put aside the matter there.

But at this moment, there is another reason, that is Zhang Fan's own family situation, but in fact, everything in the Zhang family is very good now, the two children are growing up healthily, Luo Linger is pregnant again, only two Personally unhappy, Yingyue and Zhaoxue.

But Yingyue was not in a hurry, but Zhaoxue couldn't sit still anymore.

Regarding this, Zhang Fan originally planned to pretend that he didn't know anything, but at this time, his father-in-law Chen Wenchuan came,