Chapter 48
When Yang Ling heard that Wu Qianhu was coming, he knew that there must be something important, so he did not dare to neglect it at the moment. He hurriedly said goodbye to Guan Shouying and rushed to the front hall. Two thin and energetic young men stood straight outside the small office of Yicheng. Yang Ling just thought it was Wu Jie's entourage, and did not take it to his heart. He stepped straight into the door. He saw that Wu Jie was still wearing a green robe and sat on the chair, but his face was very different from his leisurely expression last time.
Yang Ling's heart skipped a beat. There was obviously something important about Wu Jie's appearance. Could it be that something went wrong with the Jinyiwei? When Wu Jie saw him coming in, he immediately stood up. Seeing that the little official who was passing the message was also following Yang Ling, he hurriedly said, "Mr. Yang, please go to the inner hall to talk!"
When Yang Ling saw this, he waved his hand to let the minor official leave. He closed the door and followed Wu Jie into the inner room anxiously. He was about to meet with the officials, but Wu Jie turned around and fell to the ground: "Secretary Wu Jie, pay homage to Yang Ling, the commander of Jinyi's personal army, Lord Yang Ling!"
Yang Ling was startled and helped Wu Jie up in a hurry, and said with a fog on his face: "Mr. Wu, what are you saying? What Tongzhi, this is this."
Wu Jie smiled and bowed, "Congratulations, Lord Zhang, the Admiral Jinyiwei, admired Lord Yang's talent and knowledge very much. He has ordered Lord Yang to be appointed as the General Master of the Jinyiwei, and was promoted to the fifth rank. The subordinate officials went to Beijing to work for the office. I will come here to notify Lord Yang according to this order."
Speaking of which, Wu Jie was from a fifth-rank Qianhu, only half a rank lower than him, so there was no need to perform such a great courtesy. However, Yang Ling is now an official in the capital and has entered the center of the Jinyiwei. He is just 18 years old and has a bright future. How dare Wu Jie not try to curry favor with him?
"Ah?" Yang Ling was even more confused. He was confused by the news. He had no idea what kind of official Tongzhi was, but he understood the fifth grade. After a while, Yang Ling said, "Mr. Wu, why did this suddenly transfer me to Beijing to become an official?"
When Wu Jie heard this, tears almost came down: "Ask me, who should I ask? I'm a hereditary Jinyiwei. I have been through thirty years to become a thousand households. Among the Jinyiwei who has been selected and promoted step by step, some of them have achieved this level, but they have made a lot of contributions throughout their lives. Who knows which ancestral tomb of your boy has emitted smoke? I'm so unfair!"
But he didn't dare to say this, and quickly smiled and said, "The officials received the order and set off overnight to come from the capital. I don't know the details. I think the dust doesn't hide the jade, and the jade is shining with eyes. The great talents are outstanding and outstanding. How could the court lose talents? Hahaha."
Wu Jie smiled, took out a piece of paper from his sleeve, stuffed it into Yang Ling's hand, and said, "I'm going to the capital to buy a house and buy land, and visiting colleagues. I will definitely spend some money. The subordinate will give Cheng Yi a thousand taels. Please accept it with a smile."
When Yang Ling heard that it was a thousand taels of silver, Wu Jie said seriously: "Your Majesty doesn't have to worry. The lower-ranking officials have been traveling outside the border all year round. It's a bit harder. However, in order to protect their identity, they often do private sales of medicinal materials, leather, salt and tea with foreigners. With the protection of the Jinyiwei's identity, silver and money come easily. This little money is nothing. It's just a little bit of the intention of the lower-ranking officials. If the higher-ranking officials don't accept it, the lower-ranking officials will be in a dilemma."
He said without waiting for Yang Ling to refuse, he stuffed the silver bill into his sleeve, and said reluctantly: "Secretary and the Lord have been quite close since they met. When the Lord enters Beijing, the Lord can only go to the Lord's Mansion to pay their respects every year when he returns to Beijing to report his duties.
Alas! Xiaguan is old and has been traveling around for many years, and his legs are inconvenient. The adults will be highly valued when they enter Beijing. At that time, I hope that the adults can speak a few words for Xiaguan. Xiaguan’s relatives are all in Beijing and run several pharmacies. If Xiaguan can be transferred back to Beijing, Xiaguan will be able to reunite with his family.”
Yang Ling thought to himself: This Wu Qianhu seems to be unsatisfied in the capital. Otherwise, there are many people in the capital who are highly powerful, so there is no need to follow my path. However, I, a minor official, was promoted to a hundred households. It can also be said that the Jinyiwei was inexplicably promoted to Tongzhi in order to invite favors in front of the emperor, and now it is too strange to be promoted to Tongzhi for his military achievements."
Wu Jie returned to Beijing this time because he wanted to transfer back to Beijing. He went not only by one way, but these people have been officials for many years and have formed factions, and paid the most attention to the trend of personnel changes in the court. Before Yang Ling was young, the Supreme Head of the Jinyiwei ordered his promotion to Beijing. Of course, the future is limitless. If you don’t have a good relationship now, who cares if you add icing on the cake in the future?
Yang Ling thought about it and asked again: "Mr. Wu, I still have the identity of a postmaster, so I don't need the Ministry of Personnel to transfer the order? When will I enter Beijing?"
Wu Jie was stunned and said, "Sir, I am ordered to come quickly to issue a seal of orders, but I have never mentioned the schedule of the adults to enter Beijing. Oh, by the way, there are two Jinyi lieutenants who came with me, who were sent by the Beijing area to escort the adults. You can ask them."
Yang Ling received the order and the two came to the outer hall. Wu Jie opened the door and called the two young men in. The two were of the same height, with clear eyes, and looked very smart and capable. They had known the appointment of the capital, and as soon as they entered the room, they clasped their fists, knelt on one knee, and bowed to Yang Ling: "I am not a good job, Liu Biao, Yang Yiqing pays homage to Lord Tongzhi."
Yang Ling was not used to being worshipped like this, so he hurriedly stepped forward and helped the two of them up. After asking carefully, the order they received was to protect the adults from their clothes all the way back to Beijing and meet Lord Zhang again. As for the time when they returned to Beijing, Lord Zhang had specially instructed that someone from the lieutenant generals of Beijing would come to greet them recently and ask them to wait. At the same time, they should not notify the local government of the promotion of the tutor.
Yang Ling and Wu Jie looked at each other and looked at each other in surprise. You should know that the identity of the Jinyiwei is divided into three types. One is a person who is in the yamen, whose identity is open and who is a core member of the Jinyiwei; the other is a semi-public like Yicheng, everyone knows that he has this identity, but no one will point it out. He is an external staff member of the Jinyiwei; the third is Wu Jie, who acts as a private identity, and outsiders must not know his true identity, but is actually a secret detective of the Jinyiwei.
Yang Ling became a Tongzhi and entered the capital as an official, so he had an open identity, but now he was not allowed to notify the local area. There must be a lot of information in the capital. There is a special person coming to greet him? At this time, Wu Jie even expected that Yang Ling must have found a big backer in the capital, and his attitude became more and more respectful. As for the two lieutenants, Yang Ling's personal soldiers, they were very happy to see this adult so young.
There are many descendants of the Jinyiwei, the heroes and Xunqing, who have passed down from all generations, and they are all hereditary official positions. However, these two people were selected from the Jinyiwei from the people. This is like someone with a bachelor's degree and you graduated from a technical secondary school. Even if your work ability is stronger than others, you will encounter many obstacles to promotion. The adult who serves now is so young and has a great future. At the same time, he is in the civilian department like himself, so he naturally has a great chance of promotion.
Yang Ling sent Wu Jie away and arranged for Liu Biao to stay in the inn first. Thinking about his current fifth-rank official and a powerful Jinyiwei, he felt a sense of joy after being confused. He couldn't help but go straight to the backyard happily, wanting to tell the young lady the news.
Men in love are like children. Of course, they want to let the people closest to know about things that are glorious. Yang Ling walked excitedly to the fourth courtyard and saw Ma Lianer turn out of the yard and throw it out with a basin of water. She wore an apron, wrapped her hair in a white chew, half-rolled her sleeves, and two jade arms that looked like lotus roots. The weather was still cold, because she was exposed to water for a long time and was so cold that she was rarely seen as a cloth dress, hairpin and skirt, which was unique.
Her eyes were red, as if she had cried for a while. When she saw Yang Ling coming, Ma Lian'er was shocked. She didn't want him to see her now in a mess. She turned her head and went into the yard. When Yang Ling saw her, she remembered that she had just heard of Bidusi's concubine, so she hurriedly chased her. Ma Lian'er flashed into the yard and saw Yang Ling coming in immediately. Now she was really anxious, so she quickly picked up another wooden basin on the ground and entered the room in a panic.
When was Ma Lian'er so afraid of seeing people? Yang Ling became more and more curious and followed into the house without thinking. Ma Lian'er was angry and shy, and thrust into the wooden basin on the table, turned around to cover it in front, and said in panic: "What are you chasing me?"
Yang Ling spread his hands and said helplessly: "Why are you running away if you are fine? What's the shameful thing in the basin?"
Ma Lian'er's face turned red, she gave Yang Ling a look in anger, and spat: "You want to care? What kind of dog are you me and take the mouse!"
She pulled the tablecloth over the wooden basin with a red face, walked to the kang and sat down, curled her legs, hugged her knees with her hands, put her chin on her knees, and looked at Yang Ling and said, "What are you chasing me? Do you have anything to say?" Yang Ling noticed that she was wearing a pair of white bow shoes, which was worn for her father. Her legs were curled up, her pants were stretched, and behind her straight legs was a beautiful semicircle that seemed like a compass was painted behind her straight legs.
Yang Ling glanced at it and felt it was exciting. He didn't dare to look at it anymore. He turned his eyes back to the wooden basin covered with the tablecloth, and realized that what she had just washed might be the main waist, breast belt and other women's close-fitting clothes. Women were too shy about these things, and even the young lady was avoiding them when she washed and hung these close-fitting things. No wonder Ma Lian'er ran back like a cat's tail. He wanted to rush to put away the things.
He sat in the chair opposite him and pondered for a moment, "I heard that Brother Ma came this morning?"
Ma Lian'er glanced at him meaningfully, and said with a slightest lips: "Have you met him?"
Yang Ling blushed and said embarrassedly: "How do you know?"
Ma Lian'er's eyes rolled, and a strange smile flashed, and she said, "I heard you saw him this morning."
Yang Ling smiled bitterly and said, "Is it still a fuss? Why don't you know how to worry? I heard that your brother is going to force you to marry Lord Bi?"
Chapter completed!