Chapter 639 Sending Bell

Chong Ben sneered at these comments on the streets and alleys, but there were more and more rumors, from ambiguity to nose and eyes. When they really wanted to say that, officials in the middle of the government also began to secretly communicate about this matter in private.

If it is really like the rumor that the Beijing camp is about to usher in a big change, it is not a small matter. Whether the Beijing camp pattern is stable or not is related to the stability of the whole Ming Dynasty. The change of the Beijing camp pattern is not a casual matter, but a long-term affair.

Under the boiling public opinion, the regiment camp was also in a mess. Some marquises were worried that the position of the matter would not be guaranteed, so they went to find out where Xu Guangzuo, the Duke of Ding, made Xu Guangzuo, who had sneered at it, also panic. When the marquis talked about the details of the streets and alleys, Xu Guangzuo was also a little worried.

Lose one million taels of silver and lose face, that's all. If you lose the regimental governor, it will be the biggest failure in your life.

Therefore, Xu Guangzuo decided to inquire about Zhengde's tone. One day in the early morning, Xu Guangzuo requested a separate meeting. In the imperial study, Xu Guangzuo got the opportunity to meet.

Zhengde sat on the warm couch in the imperial study, drank hot tea, and dispelled the fatigue brought by getting up early to the court. After announcing the appointment, Xu Guangzuo bent down with a big box and bent down to get in. He knelt down and said, "The old minister knocked on the emperor. Long live the emperor."

Zhengde waved his hand and said, "Get up and give someone a seat."

Zhang Yong, who accompanied him, moved the stool and said with a smile, "Mr. Xu, please sit down."

Xu Guangzuo nodded and said, "Thank you, father-in-law."

Zhang Yong pointed to the box in Xu Guangzuo's arms and said, "What's in the box? Why does our family listen to the ticking sound? Is there a little beast hidden in it?

Xu Guangzuo quickly put the wooden box on the table, opened the lid of the box and said, "A acquaintance in the south brought a novelty from the Nanyang vassal state, called a self-ringing bell, which is said to be used for the time. I looked at the novelty of this thing and brought filial piety to the emperor."

As he spoke, Xu Guangzuo picked up the things in the box and put them on the table. He hooked the small hole below with a copper spoon-like thing in his hand. He gently touched it with his hand, and the copper spoon shook back and forth.

Zhengde got up with great interest and looked at it. He asked with a smile, "Is this the self-ringing bell?" I've heard of this thing for a long time, but I haven't seen it, but I don't know how it can report the time?

When Xu Guangzuo saw Zhengde's interest, he was immediately refreshed and smiled and said, "Your Majesty, there are numbers on the disk. This is the Western timing method. Our heavenly dynasty counts the hours, which is divided into 12 hours a day. Their Western vassal states are 24 hours a day, that is to say, one hour for us. It's worth two hours for Westerners.

Zhang Yong was stunned and said, "Then after a day, won't they have two days? In the same way, we are in our prime at the age of 40, and Westerners are about to enter the earth at the age of 80?

Zhengde laughed and scolded, "Do you settle accounts like this? Our hour is just their two hours. Their time is shorter. Ours are long, do you understand?

Zhang Yong suddenly said, "So it is."

Xu Guangzuo rolled his eyes. He knew that Zhang Yong deliberately joked about these words and made Zhengde happy. This was also a means of flattery, and he was so smart that there was no trace. Xu Guangzuo ** coincided with the half of the time when he sounded the bell. The door of the small box above the bell suddenly popped up, and a colorful bird popped out of it. He looked up and cried ten times in total, and finally shrank his head back into the box.

"Your Majesty, I called ten times, which is ten o'clock in the morning of Western time, which is half hour."

Zhengde smiled and said, "It's pretty good. Let it go. Grandpa Xu has a heart."

Xu Guangzuo was overjoyed and held it in Zhang Yong's hand. Zhang Yong smiled and said, "Mr. Xu spent a lot of money. I imposed a sea ban on the Ming Dynasty. I'm afraid the Western gadgets made by Mr. Xu are all smuggled goods in private. This is not very good."

Xu Guangzuo was shocked and scolded that he didn't notice this, which made Zhang Yong catch his sore foot. Fortunately, Zhengde didn't seem to care and waved his hand and said, "There is no need to make a fus about a little thing. Xiao Yongzi, where did you send this self-sounding bell to the empress dowager and show it to her? Tell the empress dowager that I will accompany her to eat at noon today.

Zhang Yong answered and went out with the self-ringing bell in his arms.

"sit, sit down, husband, sit down." Zhengde saw Xu Guangzuo bowing and standing, so he smiled at the stool.

"Thank you, Emperor." Xu Guangzuo arched his hand respectfully and sat on the stool with half his buttocks.

"If my husband doesn't come to see me, I also want to talk to my husband these two days." Zhengde took a sip of tea and said lightly.

Xu Guangzuo's brain buzzed, and his heart was frightened. He was busy to stabilize his mind and pretended to be nothing had happened: "Oh? What can the emperor do for the old minister?

Zhengde smiled and said, "It's about the regiment camp. I... I feel that the current combat strength of the regiment camp is worrying, and I have to make some changes, otherwise I am really a little worried. Duke Ding, the Beijing camp is the elite of the Ming Dynasty and my last support. In my opinion, the regiment camp in the Beijing camp is the biggest problem now, and I don't need to say more about its combat effectiveness.

Xu Guangzuo rolled down from his stool and knelt down and kowtowed: "The old minister deserves to die. The old minister is incompetent. The matter of the regiment camp is the old minister's responsibility. The old minister, please resign as governor. The old minister asks the emperor to be punished."

Zhengde came forward and helped him comfort him and said, "You misunderstood me. How can you completely blame you for taking over the regiment camp for only a few months? However, in this Beijing camp competition, I also saw that some people's minds were not on leading the troops for me at all; therefore, what I originally wanted to discuss with you was the adjustment of the official positions of some marquises in the regiment camp. If the regiment camp is put in their hands again, I will be really worried.

Xu Guangzuo's heart is slightly relaxed. It seems that this time it is not aimed at himself.

"Are all the rumors outside true?" Xu Guangzuo said.

"What rumors?"

Xu Guangzuo said, "The government and the opposition are discussing the restructuring of the Beijing camp, saying that the emperor intends to transform the Beijing camp and transfer the foreign army to Beijing Yunyun, which performed well this time."

Zhengde looked at Xu Guangzuo and said, "Do you believe these words? Knowing that it is a rumor, as an important minister of the imperial court, you will also believe in rumors? I'm a little disappointed. The reform of the Beijing camp is casually said. This is a whole-body matter of the previous one, and the pattern of the Beijing camp is an ancestral system. Even if I want to change it, I also have to make a public decision in the court. Did you come to see me for this today?"

Xu Guangzuo quickly waved his hand and said, "No, no, the old minister just hasn't talked to the emperor alone for a long time, so he came to talk to the emperor."

Zhengde nodded and said, "It's almost the same. You have to pay attention to what I told you. Some people in your regimental camp must move their seats. The combat effectiveness of the regiment camp is not good. If you want to improve your combat effectiveness and change your style, you must learn from Shenshu Camp. Song Nan's Shenshu camp is well trained and has excellent combat effectiveness. I have decided to ask Jiang Bin and Xu Tai to wait for three people and transfer them to the regiment camp to take charge of the two regiment camps. You don't have to cover up any of the incompetent people in your regiment camp. In a few days, you can put a list for me to show me.

Xu Guangzuo was shocked and asked tentatively, "Is this... Lord Song's advice?"

Zhengde frowned and said, "Song Nan didn't say that I transferred his left and right hands, and he refused. However, I plan to listen to his opinion on the replacement list. When you put it up on the list, I want Song Nan to help me decide, because I believe that he can see which regiment's soldiers are the weakest, that is, the most incompetent general. "

Xu Guangzuo was speechless. It was nothing to replace the two marquises with the style of the regimental camp, but it was very unexpected to promote Admiral Jiang Bin and Xu Tai; moreover, the candidates for the regimental camp needed Song Nan to participate in the decision, which was unreasonable in itself.

Xu Guangzuo didn't believe that this was not Song Nan's idea. This is obviously Song Nan's plan to take this opportunity to further extend his hands and feet into the regiment camp. Zhang Lun, Gao Hu and Jiao Zhengtai have come together with Song Nan in the 12th regiment camp. Coupled with the two regiment camps, it has gradually become a five-Year Plan, and the situation has become quite dangerous. Urgent.

Xu Guangzuo felt that this matter was not just his own business. He wanted to inform Yang Tingyu and others of the cabinet and ask for help. But before that, he needs to consider the issue of requesting a recall list, which is a big problem. It's not good for anyone to mention it. It's really troublesome.

Xu Guangzuo chated with Zhengde restlessly. When he saw that Zhengde was no longer interested in talking, he immediately left the palace and hurried away.

Zhengde greeted people to change his clothes and was ready to go to the back garden for a walk. Zhang Yong came back with the self-ringing bell with a sad face. Zheng De asked in astonishment, "What's wrong? Didn't you want you to play this for the Empress Dowager?

Zhang Yong stamped his feet and said, "Your Majesty, you have cheated the maidservant. The Empress Dowager rewarded me with two big mouths."

Zhengde was surprised and said, "What's going on?"

"What did you send this to the maidservant?"

"Self-ringing bell, what's wrong? Ouch... At the end, the Empress Dowager must think it's unlucky..."

"Yes, the empress dowager was so angry that she slapped the maidservant's mouths. If it hadn't been for the Empress Dowager Ma's pull, the Empress Dowager would have tied the maidservant to reward the whip; Xu Guangzuo, what's the intention to send, what's wrong with, and what's the intention to go to the palace to send to the end?"

Zhengde listened to Zhang Yong's muttering and was also unhappy. He frowned and said, "Throw that thing into the yard and hit it with a hazel. The Empress Dowager must have thought that I was disrespectful to her. I quickly went to explain. If you smashed that thing, I will come and explain it to the empress dowager for you."

Zhang Yong answered and went out with the self-ringing bell in his arms. In a short time, there was the sound of smashing things outside, mixed with the cooing sound of wooden birds.