Chapter 187: A chicken

The chief assistant Wen Tiren may not have any skills in this "Ren". This "Wen" is famous in the court and will not easily offend people. This memorial will soon be at the Silijian and the Imperial Horse Supervision.

When the eunuchs saw that this was not Lao Liu's nephew. The children of such a good person had to help. After asking, it turned out that some time ago, Li Meng taught Liu Zeqing a lesson, which made the other party suffer. The superiors immediately made a decision, and they performed recklessly once - sent it back and handed it over to the Shandong local area for their own disposal.

It doesn't take too much time to pass the documents back and forth, but when the document returned to the Shandong Governor, the group of people were in a dilemma, thinking, why didn't you delay for a few days halfway, but they didn't want to ask the Shandong Yamen to trouble the two military leaders in their territory, and they were not willing to, letting these two people be famous for their thorns.

It’s better to suppress it first, and wait until the limelight passes and both sides’ anger fades away. It’s not until March that the document was transferred to Li Meng. At the same time, it seems to be a lot of extravagance, "Please refer to Li to inspect it yourself."

With this sentence "self-pickling", the whole document becomes like a joke.

If it were in the past, Li Meng would have to endure it in a quiet voice, or to think of a way to find the place in private, but at this time he found the master and wrote a memorial, which was also an expedited method to send it to the capital, saying that his official guarded Laizhou Prefecture, and Dongchang Prefecture was separated from Qingzhou from this place, so how could he cross the border?

Moreover, General Liu's soldiers were always known as strong, but in just over ten days, more than 4,000 soldiers and horses were killed and injured and dispersed. With such combat power, if the Henan thieves came from western Shandong, wouldn't they go straight in? At the end, it was said that if General Liu felt that he was not in a strong position, although there were few soldiers in Jiaozhou camp, he was willing to take into account the righteousness of his companions and assist in the guard.

This memorial was circulated quickly. Although the memorials of the generals and generals should have passed through Emperor Chongzhen, the emperor was busy with all kinds of things and naturally did not care about such "small things". Soon, according to the procedures of the day, it was quickly sent to Liu Zeqing.

This time, it was not a self-discipline. The Ministry of War blamed heavily on the top, and four thousand soldiers were killed and injured and dispersed. Why didn't you report it before? How to manage the army?

At the confrontation in the court, Liu Zeqing never expected that he would be defeated. Seeing the reprimand of the Ministry of War, he was very harsh. Although he was angry, he hurried to ask people everywhere to spend money to clear the relationship.

Li Meng won a little victory in this conflict, but he didn't take this matter to heart. In Li Meng's opinion, it was really irrelevant.

The author of this memorial was written by Juren Zhou. Since Li Meng mentioned the general, Zhou Yang's attitude towards Li Meng suddenly became a little warm. As the position of general, he was always guarding the general. Shandong was just three generals and two generals.

There is only Li Meng who guards a mansion like this, and this is the power of a general. If you can be an aide to such a person, you may be the county magistrate of the herdsman in the future. Moreover, the two sides have already had a relationship and have talked about many topics of great rebellion, and their relationship is relatively close.

Although Li Meng is currently at the third level and has jumped to the position of a general, he is a private salt dealer and a captain of eunuchs, and literati are afraid to avoid it. However, some things outside of military affairs do need to be managed by a relatively knowledgeable literati. Zhou Juren appears at the right time.

At present, Zhou Yang has officially listed on the monthly salary lists calculated by Master Ning and Luo Xi, with the titles "Counselor" and "Senator". After seeing this name, Li Meng was amazed. He really didn't know how he came up with these.

It has been more than two months since Rossi came over to ask for a family dinner to welcome the spring. It was about to be March, and Li Meng was still free.

The so-called idleness means that you can handle government affairs in the mansion more time and don’t have to go out to work hard. The Dunglas was a coach and smiled. The military pay was high and the status was noble. Thousands of people under him were studying hard with him. Not to mention that they were in a down-and-out life in Nanjing, even when they were a mercenary in Spain, they might not be so happy.

However, this person's character is indeed very average. For example, Luo Zhuo had reported to Li Meng several times in private that Denggras redeemed a woman in a brothel in Jiaozhou, kept her at home, and often went to the gambling shop run by Zhang Butcher to make money, etc. Fortunately, the professor was very attentive.

Li Meng had asked this foreigner to see his musket. After Deng looked at the range and power, he said that it was almost the same as the heavy smoothbore gun in Spain. As for the details of the structure and the firing posture, he honestly said that he had used the musket, but he was not very familiar with it. On the one hand, he didn't use it much, and on the other hand, he rarely paid attention to these things when using it.

After knowing that it is similar to the power of the heavy smoothbore gun, Li Meng was relieved. China's firearms were at a dead end in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Since it was almost the same, it means that his path here has not been wrong.

The priest Federer's side, after the illness caused by physical weakness recovered quickly after living conditions improved, the priest was extremely quiet and prayed in his own yard every day. This restrained and self-control behavior made the people who inspected the houses in the Salt Administration quite liked.

Su Anqi is six years old this year. At this age, Li Meng finally found out three months after bringing the child back. Although Master Ning is greedy, he likes Su Anqi very much. Every day, he sees that as long as Xiao Anqi finishes morning class and prays, he will definitely send someone to bring him over.

When handling official duties, he taught children's writing knowledge. With his recommendation, Su Anqi entered Li Meng's study as Li Meng's book boy.

There is a confidential place, and ordinary people will not put it in. Li Meng always sorts out himself because he is not going to let the maid clean up in the room. The young people in the Jiaozhou Camp system are all busy with military affairs. With such a child, not only will he be interested in leaking secrets, but also will continue to cultivate them, and in the future, he may be a confidential talent.

Li Meng had a rare time to sit in the study. The shop in Jining sent a letter saying that it was mid-February, and the amount of green salt coming from Henan had almost doubled. This time the goods requested by the other party were mainly medicinal materials, and he tried to ask for credit.

Although the fragrant salt shop in Jining tried its best to meet the other party's requirements according to Li Meng's requirements, a large number of medicinal materials were purchased. The local yamen runners in Jining and the Jinyiwei who were staring at the dock would definitely notice something. It took a lot of effort to satisfy one-third of the other party's dosage.

The seller of Qingyan must be a little dissatisfied, but he still got the medicinal materials and left Jining quickly. Xiangyan Shop was a little nervous, so he wrote to ask.

Li Meng's answer is very simple: It doesn't matter. If you can sell favors, you can sell it. If you can't, it doesn't matter. In fact, what he is most interested in recently is the letter sent by the Zheng family in Nanjing, which says that items such as saltpeter are mentioned. If Li Meng needs it, they will buy a large amount of them from Luzon and Westerners, and they can use sea salt to discount it.

Although this transaction is profitable to both parties, the Zheng family has always wanted to establish a good relationship with Li Meng after they have learned from Nanjing. After knowing Li Meng’s needs, they have always helped to handle it with sincerity. This saltpeter is one of the bulk materials for trade between Western ships and the Ming Dynasty, but because for maritime merchants, the profit of such heavy items is too low and no one cares about it is true.

With the strength of Zheng's family dominating the sea, it is really easy to do this. As for saltpeter, it is not for the manufacture of gunpowder, Li Meng wants these gunpowder not to be used to make firecrackers. What does a general who guards Laizhou Prefecture want to do with such a large number of firearms? No one asked at all.

The servants outside informed him that after Fengmeng Town's blacksmith leader Guo Dong and his wife asked for a meeting. After Li Meng agreed, he suddenly felt a little strange. It would be fine if Guo Dong came to ask for a meeting, but why did he still bring his wife with him?

Speaking of which, Guo Dong has a high status in the craftsmen in Liaodong, and his wife is also leading the craftsmen and the female relatives of the Bing Ding family to do some housework in the house of Li Meng.

But after all, there is a difference between men and women. These women usually serve Mu Yunyao and Zhao Neng's mothers, or wash clothes and cook. Li Meng tried his best to avoid meeting them, and he always avoided suspicion.

After entering, Guo Dong and his wife kowtowed respectfully and greeted each other. The couple pulled back from the verge of starvation. Now, although one of the couple is still a craftsman and the other is a servant, Guo Dong also has hundreds of craftsmen under him, and he has several thousand taels of silver every month. Even if he is Ma Gang, Zhao Neng would politely call him "Master Guo". The people below are usually called "Uncle Guo". His wife's status is similar to that of Luo Xi, and they are both managed the internal affairs and logistics system of the Jiaozhou Camp system. The couple worked, but their children were also served by servants.

Think about it a few years ago, I fled all the way from Liaodong to Dengzhou, and then from Dengzhou to Jiaozhou City. I was almost completely desperate in Jiaozhou, but I was taken in by Li Meng, who was still an ordinary person. In recent years, I have experienced a lot of life. Guo Dong's family is naturally devoted to Li Meng.

Guo Dong stood up and said respectfully:

"Yesterday, according to the instructions of the adults, I conducted an experiment on the fuse and the fuse. If the fuse covers the plug in the bamboo tube, it can be opened and blown a few breaths. If the cover is opened, it will be better than the fuse burning for a long time."

Every time I see Li Meng talking about weapons, Guo Dong feels that he has never lived in vain in his life. In Liaodong, have he ever seen a Qian Zheng treat him so politely?
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