The seventh year of the Ming Dynasty was destined to be an uneasy year. In the bloody political struggles in the court, the eunuch party was defeated by Donglin in a very short time. Before Wei Zhongxian was issued an edict by Emperor Chongzhen and sent to Fengyang, Zhongdu to guard the imperial tomb, the Ming officials once again saw the shamelessness of the Xuanwei envoy in the Beijing yamen of the Ponucheng and the Ponuhou Mansion in charge of Chu Tianshou. When Wei Zhongxian's position was in danger, he used the gold tickets for the Ponucheng to win three million taels of silver that Wei Zhongxian had saved.

The Xuanwei envoy of the Ponucheng Xuanwei not only exchanged for real gold and silver from Wei Zhongxian, but also dared to collect all the Tibetan silver of the eunuch party. During the chaos in the capital, the silver cart from Xizhimen to Zhangjiazhuang was never stopped. At this critical moment when the eunuch party was in danger, everyone knew that the gold ticket of the Ponucheng was better to carry and hide than gold and silver, and exchange for the gold ticket of the Ponucheng became the best choice to escape the search of the Jinyiwei. Yin Guangju Yinlou was extremely considerate to prepare these corrupt eunuch party officials who were about to fall, and the steel box of gold and silver boxes with codes made the best locksmiths in the Ming Dynasty feel angry.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Xuanwei envoy department of Ponucheng, which had extremely high commercial reputation, specially prepared subway boxes for these corrupt officials. Corrupt officials who exchanged more than one million taels of silver could immediately give a special iron box for free, and corrupt officials who exchanged hundreds of thousands of taels of silver had to pay a hundred taels of silver to buy it themselves. The Xuanwei envoy in the north and south of Ponucheng and Yin Guangju Yinlou still played tricks on gold and silver notes. The silver notes they prepared for corrupt officials of the eunuch party specially recorded the gold and silver notes number sections, and who exchanged for how much money the Ponucheng Xuanwei envoy department had clearly seen it at a glance.

The stainless steel box that holds gold and silver notes for corrupt officials is a high-tech product of this era created by Ponu Hou Zhang Ping'an. This kind of iron box can only be opened three times. Generally, after demonstrating the method of opening it to the eunuch party corrupt officials, they will hand over the gold and silver notes to them and put them in the iron box. After the corrupt officials opened it themselves twice, Ponu Cheng Xuanwei's envoy will send them out. The extremely dark-hearted Zhang Dashuai made a mezzanine in this iron box. Once the iron box opens it for the third time, it will ignite the white phosphorus on the bottom wax seal.

Although the bottom layer of the iron box is not enough white phosphorus to burn the gold and silver notes in the box, the poisonous smoke produced by the white phosphorus will poison the person who opened the iron box. When the eunuch party was panicking, it was very normal for eunuch party officials to commit suicide. What is abnormal is that eunuch party officials committed too much suicide, which aroused everyone's suspicion. In the impression of the Ming officials, the eunuch party officials were extremely caring for their lives, but now they all became so fierce. This mystery was not revealed until Li Kuilong, the left censor of the five tigers of the eunuch party, was arrested by the Jinyiwei.

The Jinyiwei found out that Li Kuilong had exchanged 200,000 taels of gold from Yinguangju Yin Building and hid under the floor of the study. After Jinyiwei found this iron box in Li Kuilong's study, he could not open it no matter how hard he fiddled with it. Fortunately, the Jinyiwei's interrogation method was very effective and forced Li Kuilong to open the iron box himself. However, after Li Kuilong opened the iron box easily, a ball of flame rushed out of the iron box, not only burning the gold box in the box, but also burning Li Kuilong to death, and poisoning several Jinyiwei's captain Lishi present.

After receiving the news, the corrupt officials of the eunuch party were all frightened to death. Now they deeply realized the sinister face of Zhang Ping'an of the Ponuhou. This shameless Ponuhou Zhang Ping'an controlled the mentality of not daring to report the officials after suffering losses. He boldly put a trap on these corrupt officials and made the corrupt officials dirty money. Zhang Dashen's plan to rob corrupt officials this time also made Xu Yian admire him. The corrupt officials of the eunuch party simply gave money to the yamen of the Ponucheng Xuanwei envoy. In this way, the Ponucheng Xuanwei envoy took the extremely low-cost gold ticket paper and exchanged real money for the money.

Looking at the account book reported by Chu Tianshou of Yin Guangju Yinlou, the Xuanwei Envoy Office of the North and South Zhili Zhili robbery, and the corrupt officials of the eunuch party in the Ming Dynasty were ignorant of more than 4 million taels of gold. This huge amount of money was even Xu Yian, who saw a huge amount of silver passing by in front of him every day, could not help but be amazed. According to the news from the inside of the Jinyiwei, the Jinyiwei searched the total amount of dirty silver in the Mingyiwei's eunuch party was only more than 1 million taels of gold. Emperor Chongzhen was still lamenting that the eunuch party was too corruption.

As the Jinyiwei recovered the stolen goods, the new commander Luo Yangxing also wanted to make a contribution in front of the emperor. He personally went to Zhangjiazhuang outside Xizhimen to meet with Xu Yian, the leader of the Ponu Army. Luo Yangxing was in his thirties, and the black and thick balls that were as majestic as military generals had to add a little bit of heroism. There were a pair of sinister eyes in the wrinkles that were inconsistent with his age, and the thin lips under the straight nose bridge foreshadowed him to speak well. Luo Yangxing, wearing a Qilin official robe, brought three trusted households and a hundred ten Jinyiwei lieutenants to the gate of the Xuanwei envoy in Zhangjiazhuang early in the morning.

Xu Yian, who received the news, welcomed Luo Yangxing and his party outside the gate accompanied by Chu Tianshou, the manager of the Ponu Hou Mansion. Luo Yangxing looked at the tall courtyard wall of Zhangjiazhuang from afar, and felt quite touched. Zhang Ping'an, a marquis of Ponu Hou, was not old and made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty. The two enemies outside the Ming Pass, the East Lie Jurchens and the Mongolian Tartars, were beaten by the Ponu Army led by Ponu Hou and had no power to fight back. In the fifth year of Tianqi, he entered the pass to wipe out the two rebels in Shaanxi. The court commended this greatly.

Luo Yangxing knew that Zhangjiazhuang was actually a military fort. The Ming Dynasty had extremely strict control over muskets and armor. Generally, the guards of nobles and servants had customized armor and muskets, and no one could pass away at will. However, at the beginning of this year, after the Marquis of Ponu sent the head of the Ming Dynasty's enemies Nurhaci, Emperor Tianqi issued an edict to commend the merits of Ponuhou and allowed the guards of Ponuhou's mansion to retain three thousand armors and muskets. Therefore, Luo Yangxing came to the Xuanwei envoy to the yamen of Ponucheng this time, and did not dare to force him.

What's more, the Jinyiwei was almost guarded by the Xuanwei envoy in the past few years, and was so devastated that he dared not to touch anyone in the Xuanwei envoy in the Ponucheng. The commander of the Jinyiwei envoy was also a little afraid of the powerful combat power of the Xuanwei envoy in the heart. This was the first time Luo Yangxing saw the protective wall of the Xuanwei envoy in the Ponucheng so close. This guard wall, which was six feet high and two feet wide, was definitely a violation of the rules, although it was lower than the city wall of the capital. The Ming Dynasty and the people knew that Zhang Ping'an, the Marquis of Ponu, liked gold the most and was not very interested in purchasing land, but this Mr. Ponucheng in Zhangjiazhuang, asked for an order to purchase 5,000 acres of land.

Ponuhou bought land not for planting crops but for hoarding goods. Luo Yangxing walked all the way from the capital, and there were continuous fleets of trucks on the official road. Just when Luo Yangxing was still a hundred feet away from the Xuanwei envoy of the Ponucheng, he saw a luxurious and comfortable six-wheeled carriage. The carriage was dragged by two strong horses and eight Xuanwei envoys of the Ponucheng, protecting it to the capital. As the highest commander of the Jinyiwei Guard, Luo Yangxing certainly knew that the carriage was Yang Lian, the former left-level censor of the Ming Dynasty.

Luo Yangxing also respects Yang Lian very much. His respect comes from the emperor's attention to Yang Lian. It was this Donglin boss who recently contacted his old subordinates in the capital that Emperor Chongzhen had the strength to crack down on the eunuch party. With the fall of the eunuch party, Emperor Chongzhen was preparing to use Yang Lian, but Yang Lian was determined not to be appointed as the Ming Dynasty when the eunuch was eunuch. He told Emperor Chongzhen that the Ponu Hou Zhang Ping'an was unpredictable, and he was both righteous and evil in his work, and he only valued his own interests, and his desire for money can be described as greedy. In order to obtain money, Zhang Ping'an, the Ponu Hou, can join forces with his enemies shamelessly.

During the memorial, Yang Lian even analyzed the actions of Ponuhou over the years. He told Emperor Chongzhen: To say that Ponuhou not only has no opponents outside the pass, but once Ponuhou is dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has no general who can fight with him for the time being. Judging from the performance of Ponuhou Zhang Ping'an in recent years, in addition to having conflicts with the Liaodong Zu family and the Liaodong Governor Yuan Chonghuan at that time, he was fighting with Wei Zhongxian's eunuch party. For Emperor Tianqi, Ponuhou still respected him from the bottom of his heart.

After all, Zhang Ping'an, the Marquis of Ponu, is only seventeen years old this year, and his mind is not fully mature. If ten or twenty years later, if Zhang Ping'an, the Marquis of Ponu, is unable to control his ambitions or bewitched by his subordinates, who knows whether he will covet the territory of the Ming Dynasty? Yang Lian also proposed that he would stay with Zhang Ping'an, the side of Ponu, to educate Ponu, loyalty and patriotic with Confucianism. For the former Donglin officials who were still in the Xuanwei envoy of the Xuanwei envoy of the Ministry of Ponu, the Ming court could give additional sermons to enhance the status of these Ming officials. In particular, Yang Lian also mentioned in the memorial that these serene officials did not need the Ming Dynasty to pay the money, but when the civil yamen of Ponucheng Xuanwei envoy of the Ministry of Ponucheng, the stingy Emperor Chongzhen was even more happy.

Yang Lian's approach of thinking about the future of the Ming Dynasty really moved Emperor Chongzhen. Originally, Emperor Chongzhen planned to grant Yang Lian the title of Earl Yang Lian again refused. In the end, Yang Lian only accepted the position of Ronglu Dafu (the first rank) granted by Emperor Chongzhen. Therefore, when Yang Yangxing approached Yang Lian's carriage, he quickly got off the horse and gave way to salute. After Yang Lian saw this, he opened the carriage window and bowed to Luo Yangxing to salute. After Luo Yangxing got on the horse again, he came to the screen wall of the Ponu Hou Mansion and dismounted again to salute Xu Yian, who was greeting him.

When Luo Yangxing saw the strange screen wall of the Ponu Hou Mansion, he smiled bitterly in his heart. The screen wall of the Ponu Hou Mansion was very strange. In order to ensure the safety of the gate of the Ponu Hou Mansion, the Ponu Hou Mansion connected the screen wall with the courtyard guardrail and made the terrain of the urn city. Originally, this violation was too much, but it could not stand it. This was the imperial edict issued by Emperor Tianqi, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty could not impeach this matter at all. What made Luo Yangxing laugh and cry was that there were two stone sculptures outside the urn city. Originally, Emperor Tianqi issued an edict to allow the Ponu Hou Mansion to build two seven-foot stone lions, but Zhang Ping'an, a ruling of the Ponu Hou Mansion, said that the placing stone lions in the marquis's house was too unruly, and the lion was changed into a stone-carved grassland wolf.
Chapter completed!