Chapter 207 The failure of the picture is the appearance of the dagger
Sun Chuanting could not refute Chen Cao's words, and just lamented: "It's a pity that I am a scholar. I have been taught to be loyal to the emperor and patriotic since I was a child, but now..."
Although Lu Xiangsheng was transferred to a military officer, he was a scholar after all, so he comforted him: "Brother Boya, don't sigh. There are many capable people in our Ming Dynasty, but the court cannot use them all."
When Tang Yannian saw that Sun Chuanting was so virtuous, he immediately felt a little unhappy: "Master Sun is very worried. After learning that the Duke has regained control of the Dingwu Army, I am afraid that Master Sun alone may have lost weight in the whole army..."
"Yan Nian..." Tang Kainian frowned and glared: "Why don't you apologize to Mr. Sun?"
Just as Tang Yannian was about to hand over his hand, Sun Chuanting said with a wry smile: "Master Tang is right. Since the father-in-law withdrew the general troops, the military expenditure of our Dingwu Army has plummeted, and the food is naturally much worse."
Chen Cao laughed, solved the embarrassment in the tent, and then sat on the commander's throne: "Everyone must also know that I have taken command again after a few years. The governor-general's southern army went north, and the slaves are now constantly sitting on the throne. , threatening the security of the country and the country. Fortunately, with His Majesty's permission, we will not take charge of the military force, so we will not say any official words;
This time on the northward journey, there was only one mission, which was to protect the flanks of the army so that Governor Yuan's army could break through the Shuangtaizi River mouth and penetrate directly into Liaoyang. "
"Sir, the Navy is now under Zhao Tianlin's command. How are we going to Liaodong?"
Now Zhao Tianlin's reputation in the Dingwu Army is very bad. After all, Zhao Tianlin's life was given by Chen Cao back then, but now that guy has become a young man.
Chen Cao smiled and was not angry at all: "Don't forget, I still have a flagship Dingwu and three sea-going ships with three thousand materials. Even if I don't have these ships, the shipyard in Shanghai County has been completed and the three thousand ships have been built." The three-masted soft-sailed warship made of high-quality materials can be built and launched within a month. I am still afraid that Zhao Tianlin will stumble me?
Now that the official document from the imperial court has been issued, I am temporarily in charge of the deployment of the Jiang Navy. It is now my turn to take charge of Zhao Tianlin, hehe..."
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In the yamen of the Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Army, Chen Cao was preparing official documents for the handover. Although the matter was a bit cumbersome, the process was still necessary. After all, this time Chen Cao was once again in charge of the military governor-general of the Southern Army, so it stands to reason that he could continue to deploy garrison troops.
In the public room, Chen Cao happened to meet Feng Kelie who was on duty, so he walked in with the official documents. When Feng Kelie saw Chen Cao coming in, he stood up and handed over his hands: "Dong Liang is so elegant..."
Chen Cao laughed and patted Feng Kelie on the shoulder. Then he sat across from Feng Kelie's desk. He looked around with a sly look and said, "Song Ninghou, how do you feel when you assassinate someone?"
Feng Kelie was shaken, and then said with an unkind expression: "Dong Liang, I don't know what you mean?"
"Hi..." Chen Cao smiled and patted Feng Kelie on the shoulder, then said nonchalantly: "I'm not asking you to do it, just tell me how you feel when you send someone to assassinate you. .”
Feng Kelie's face was solemn and righteous: "Duke Liang, we are all hereditary lords of the dynasty, how can we do such a thing?"
"Isn't your face red?" Chen Cao stared at Feng Kelie up and down like a monkey, and then said: "I thought people would blush when they lie..."
Feng Kelie stood up with a grunt and said seriously: "Dong Liang, if it is a business matter, please let me know. If it is a private matter, we only have business contacts and can discuss it elsewhere."
Chen Cao became serious now. He stared at Feng Kelie for a long time, then leaned on his chair and looked at him seriously: "Do you remember what you said when I drank with you that night?"
Why didn't Feng Kelie know that he said, "There are still three kilograms of nails in the broken ship"? How could he not remember Chen Cao's final intention at that time.
"After drinking, you left first, and when I left in the middle of the night, I was assassinated..."
Chen Cao had a murderous look in his eyes. He lowered his head and leaned against the table with his head slightly upward. This expression and actions scared Feng Kelie back.
"Seventeen assassins lurked on both sides of the road and attacked me while I was drunk. It's a pity that they failed."
Chen Cao put away his sinister expression as he spoke, and then returned to normal and looked at Feng Kelie: "The Jin Yiwei carefully investigated and found that these are from the military, and these people are still accustomed to using firearms, their hands can prove everything;
Over the years, I, Chen Cao, have been attacked three times. The most serious one was on the way to Tianjin. I almost died in Tianjin that time. If I, Chen Cao, were not so lucky, I am afraid that the Ming Foreign Trade Group would be in the hands of your lords now. . "
Feng Kelie stared at Chen Cao closely, feeling a little scared: "My lord, what exactly do you want to say?"
"The Jinyi Guards inspected various guard posts and town soldiers in Southern Zhili, but found no soldiers missing or dead, so I sent the spies to Jiubian, because the assassins can only come from Jiubian, and there is no way to trace them;
After all these years, my efforts have finally paid off. The Lord who stayed behind in Nanzhili has raised many servants in his home, and not all of these servants are from the family..."
As Chen Cao spoke, he kept looking at Feng Kelie with a smile, and then stretched out his hand to signal Feng Kelie to sit down: "The local government does not dare to take care of your lord's affairs, so when recruiting servants who stay behind, most of them like to use guard soldiers who have retired from the frontier army. , preferably those who have been on the battlefield;
Including Wei Guogong, there are a large number of border army servants in the noble families of Nanzhili. These people are indeed good at personal force, and the people who assassinated me were these retired border soldiers. "
Before Feng Kelie could speak, Chen Cao laughed, then lowered his head and looked at Feng Kelie as if nothing had happened: "I was assassinated right after I spoke to you that night. At that time, I was very popular in the eunuch party, and Wei Zhongxian was determined not to touch me. , and although the Donglin Party has some small grudges with me, they are not strong enough to recruit these border troops as their main means of assassination;
Even if there were, the number would not exceed ten...
Also, do you know why I say these things? "
Chen Cao turned to look outside the public room, and then looked at Feng Kelie with a stern look: "Because Wei Guogong came to see me in person early the next morning. In fact, he didn't come to see me. His real purpose was to see me. Is it life... or death..."
After Chen Cao finished speaking, he raised his eyebrows, and Feng Kelie froze in his seat. Chen Cao stared at Feng Kelie, then raised his eyebrows, and leaned against the chair and looked at the painted beams with disapproval: "At that time, you all knew that I, Chen Cao's defense is very tight. If you want to send people, you can't even enter my mansion. But only if Wei Guogong comes in person, I will not stop him, and he can really see me;
However, in order to find out whether Chen Cao is still alive, the Donglin Party, the sworn enemy of the Eunuch Party, specially sent Fu Shan to my house to treat me. The intention is also obvious. In short, whether it is the Donglin Party or not, , regardless of whether they are nobles from Southern Zhili, they are actually wary of me, Chen Cao;
After all, I am just a sycophant who got promoted by relying on the eunuchs..."
Feng Kelie was breaking out in cold sweat at this moment. His hand unconsciously reached under the table, where he hid a dagger. Moreover, he learned from Xu Hongji that Chen Cao had been carrying a short blunderbuss on his body and was also wearing a gold silk armor. , the defense cannot be said to be lax.
Chen Cao naturally didn't see Feng Kelie's actions. Even if he did, he would not take it seriously. How could a hereditary noble be his opponent? "Oh... after all, I am a lord of the sycophants. I want to integrate into the big city of Nanzhili." Circle, it’s really not easy..."
Feng Kelie never finished speaking. After sighing, Chen Cao looked at Feng Kelie again harmlessly: "Do you know why I am telling you this?
Because those assassins were personally sent by you, Song Ninghou, but you were short of time and did not mobilize firearms for them. Instead, you simply thought that I was drunk and only had Zhao Xin by my side. Seventeen of you were enough to kill me, Chen Cao. Kill on the spot;
It's a pity that what you didn't expect is that I actually have a musket on me, and the musket can still fire under the heavy rain..."
Chen Cao smiled slightly: "If you had equipped them with firearms, I would have been dead by then, and you wouldn't have had to worry..."
Only then did Chen Cao see Feng Kelie's right hand under the table, and he smiled and said: "Take out your hand. Even if I, Chen Cao, don't have a firearm on me, with my skills, it will be easy to kill you Song Ninghou. Today I will come and fight in a friendly way." Your words prove that I will never do anything to you;
Just feel at ease..."
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Feng Kelie let out a long breath, put his hand on the table, then tremblingly picked up the tea cup and took a sip: "As a member of the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion, the Duke really thinks that we can't mobilize muskets?"
Chen Cao raised his brows and said to be reasonable, if Feng Kelie bit him and it was not him, he really couldn't do anything about it, because what he said before was all his guess. Although it was combined with some actual evidence, it could not prove that it was Feng Kelie. and Xu Hongji’s methods.
So all Chen Cao could do was to deceive Feng Kelie. If it weren't for him, he would have been able to leave this expedition without worries. However, the situation is different now.
"Oh, then why don't you use muskets? Those dead soldiers have been proven to be masters of firearms."
Feng Kelie said with a wry smile: "Wei Guogong temporarily stopped them and asked them to go without firearms..."
"Oh..." Chen Cao said in a longer tone: "So that's it. No wonder the Duke asked me to let it go. I see, it seems that I, Chen Cao, wronged the Duke..."
Having reached this point, Feng Kelie simply asked bluntly: "Chen Cao, do you really want to rebel?"
Chen Cao waved his hand with a righteous look: "I said, I will not cause rebellion against the Ming Dynasty..."
Chen Cao stood up and faced the door, then turned to look at Feng Kelie: "But the world of the Ming Dynasty must change its master, otherwise the people of the world will always live in dire straits, and sooner or later they will be replaced by slaves... "
