Chapter 669 The city on the sea
..Tai
"How is it impossible? Don't forget how Yangming Gong got the Xinjian Bo." Lin Run sneered: "Since Zhengde Dynasty can produce King Ning, why can't this dynasty produce King Yi?" As he said, he gave a brief text to silence: "According to the regulations, the Yi Prince's Mansion was originally entitled to 2,000 flag guards, but according to investigation, it has been as high as 14,650 recently! The Yi Wei Department's entitlement was originally entitled to 6,600. Now it is more than 6,600! The originally 2,600 armed forces to protect the rights and interests of the royal palace are already more than enough, but now it has expanded to more than 20,000. Is there no place for King Yi's money to spend?!"
Lin Run's question made Chen Si unable to refute. After a while, he whispered: "It is impossible to impeach a founding prince without ironclad evidence."
"This is exactly what I am concerned about." Lin Run said, "And I don't know that the emperor has those people around him, who are from the same group as King Yi, so I can't report it rashly." Speaking of this, his face darkened and he whispered: "These information is exchanged for several people with kindness and ambition, and I can't let them down. It must work with one blow!"
He looked at him silently and said in a deep voice: "Say, what do you want me to do?"
"Help me report these situations to the emperor. Please beware of your precautions early, and you must not have any accidents. Otherwise, my Ming Dynasty will be in trouble!" Lin Run bowed deeply and said, "Please! Brother Zhuyan!"
Chen Si quickly supported him and said in a deep voice: "Brother Ruoyu, I understand your hard work!"
"So, did you agree?" Lin Run said happily.
Silently smiled and said, "You are the only one good person in the world?"
"No, no, that's not what I mean," Lin Run laughed and said, "Brother Zhuoyan is a good person among good people."
After discussing with Chen Mo for a night, Lin Run said goodbye to Chen Mo early the next morning. He wanted to go to Henan first to monitor King Yi's movements. Chen Mo held his hand tightly and said, "Brother Ruoyu, be sure to pay attention to safety. If you can't do anything, don't force yourself to stand up. Don't forget that you are not the same person. You are fighting!"
Lin Run nodded solemnly and said, "I will not sacrifice myself until I am sure.
"The implication is that when I have to be absolutely necessary, I will not cherish myself.
"Take care!" said silently a little hard.
"Take care too." Lin Run smiled casually and said to Abi: "Det's the boat!"
Zaibi's silver bell-like voice rang again: "Mom, the boat is on!"
The bamboo fence was supported, and the boat broke through the water, left the dock, and walked further and further towards the north. Silent waved his hand, watching the boat disappearing on the vast Grand Canal, but still looked at the river and fell into deep thought. "One one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one
After a long time, Chen Shu came to his senses. He said to Sanchi, who was standing quietly behind him, "Let's go. Let's go to Suzhou."
Sanchi asked in a low voice: "Sir, why don't we go after the Southern Tour?" Coincidentally, Susong's big families were also unwilling to go to the emperor, and their techniques were more skillful than those of Yangzhou people. After the Chinese New Year, several hunched bandits were reported to be rekindled. Sister Yuan was so scared that she did not dare to bring Suzhou into the Southern Tour route. The fleet went directly from Wuxi to Taihu Lake, and then from Huzhou to Hangzhou, avoiding the Susong coastal line from Susong.
"I have already taken leave." Chen Si looked at him indifferently and said, "It should look like a holiday."
Sanchi knew that he had made the adults unhappy, so he quickly shut up.
After all, he was an old brother who had been for many years. His silence could not make his heart cold and he whispered: "The Jinyiwei in Jiangbei is no longer useful."
Sanchi's expression was moved when he heard this, and he said in a deep voice: "Sir, don't explain, I'm not sure about it." He smiled silently and tolerantly, "I don't blame you. I've been so shocked in Beijing in the past few years. We have to tighten the string again."
"Yes!" Sanchi replied loudly.
Chen Si and his guards walked between the road with the emperor and went east to Suzhou. When they arrived in Suzhou, it was dark, and they were mooring at night on Fengqiao outside Hanshan Temple. It was raining heavily at night, and it was dark as dark as ink. The lights on the passenger ship in Silence were always lit. If anyone could see through the rain curtain, he would see the shadows shaking in front of his window. It seemed that several groups of guests were visiting. The heavy rain in the sky became a good assistant for the guests to hide their whereabouts.
The next day, the sky cleared and the sun shone on the pier. But by the ancient Feng Bridge, there was no trace of the silent clutch, and few people even knew it. This decorator of Suzhou's glorious today had come quietly and left quietly; but the few people who had seen him could testify. He was concerned about this place at all times, and he was always secretly guarding the beauty here. Because this is Suzhou, a beautiful city like ink painting, a place where germination was born.
Standing silently at the stern of the boat, looking at the hazy city outline in the distance, with reluctance in her eyes, Sanchi and others were puzzled, "Sir, since you miss Suzhou so much, why don't you go and take a look?"
Silently held Lan Feng's hand and said softly, "My actions, in the eyes of this big businessman, have a unique meaning, can you do whatever you want?" He said, looking at Dongfang and said, "Sometimes, in order to get more attention in a certain place, I have to be more favorable to one or the other."
The clutch sailed away by the wind. On the second day, he arrived outside a young city and said that the city was young. It was not an exaggeration at all, but looking at the city wall, gate tower, arrow girl, and lookout tower, they were all brand new. They had not been eroded by the years. Just like it was built yesterday, there were two thick and powerful big words on the scrotum on the main gate of the city, saying, "Shanghai... There seems to be a line of small words on the side, but the distance is too far to see clearly.
On the wide waterway leading to the city, there were cargo ships that were not expected to be in line. The merchants on the ship were polite, but they were rarely anxious and cursed, as if they were used to it. The silent clutch also lined up for a while, and then heard the merchants who were coming to the ship shouting: "Hey, the young master on the passenger ship. You have gone the wrong way. This is the waterway for cargo, and the one in the west is the one who left."
Looking back at his back in silence, he had been waiting for more than a dozen ships, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Do I have any choice now?" The merchants were amused by his funnyness and laughed out loud."
The laughter narrowed the distance between each other. It was still early. At the greeting of the merchants, he stepped on the boat silently and went to the other party's boat to drink tea and chat with them and said, "I heard the accent, are you from Huizhou?"
"Young Master is so good at hearing." The merchants smiled and said, "We are the tea merchants from Huizhou. There is also a flaunting addition: "Hu Dashuai's fellow countryman."
"Haha, I've been silent and laughed, "What's the money you guys have come to this Shanghai city?"
"Hi, look at what you, the young master, said." The people laughed, "If we tea merchants don't sell tea, can we still sell tea eggs instead?" Then they burst into laughter.
Chen Si laughed and shook his head after laughing, "What I mean is that I heard that Huizhou's tea is famous all over the country, and they are waiting for customers from all over the country to collect it, and they can also be sold at a good price. Why do you want to go far and go and transport the tea to sell it yourself?"
"Ha. The young master is not an amateur. The young man among the Huizhou tea merchants replied with a smile: "Yes, our tea is indeed not worried about selling. But they collected it from us and transported it here for only a few hundred miles, and it is all waterways, and the price is more than twice as expensive. When we are lazy, the big head makes people earn. It is better to work harder and make a big head by ourselves. There are older Hui merchants. Maybe they think the young people are too straightforward, so they add on the side: "In fact, it's not all for money. The main reason is that some people use inferior tea to pretend to be our Huizhou tea and smash our signboards. So our authenticity is to show off the town and town atmosphere so that those Westerners know what the real Maojian is." His words attracted a lot of praise from fellow villagers. It is obviously much more capable than the young man.
Ban Mo asked again: "You really do it, is it convenient to be in Tongbu, Shanghai or Suzhou?"
"Of course it's convenient for Shanghai. Hui merchants smiled and said, "Although our merchants need to walk a little more Wuhongjiang, this sea dock has much stronger throughput than the river dock. If you negotiate a business in Suzhou, you may have to wait for eight days before you can load the goods away. This is much more powerful, and you can get goods in at most two or three days. And there are fewer rules here, as long as you pay taxes according to regulations, the government will be very convenient for you to make a large bank.
"Oh, can the Suzhou government still make things difficult for merchants?" Chen Mo said in surprise.
"It's hard to make things difficult." Hui merchants shook their heads and said, "But you know, the old yamen has many rules and many gods to manage, but it's not as refreshing as this Shanghai city, which is easy to worry about."
"Don't there be an official in Shanghai?" Dun asked silently: "I heard that the Shanghai county magistrate is not from the right path. Do those cunning veterans obey him?"
"I am convinced, I am simply obedient." When the Shanghai County Magistrate, the Hui merchants immediately became energetic and said, "This county master usually looks kind and even funny, but when he becomes cruel, he will definitely kill people without blinking an eye. He is very smart. When doing things under him, who will not be trembling? Who dares to do anything wrong?
Chen Si said with interest: "Is it really that powerful?"
"Of course, I don't believe it and tell you how he suppressed those bad-hearted clerks." He heard them say: "When they first took office, the clerks thought that the county magistrate was young and from a prison, so they should be easy to bully, so they brought a pile of miscellaneous business cases and submitted them to him quietly."
"What's the result? When it comes to the Shanghai County Magistrate, his silence was extremely high, as if someone was talking about his own family, and asked with concern: "How is he dealing with it?"
"Not really." The merchants said vividly: "The county magistrate looked squinting, and did not ask the right and wrong, and nodded. "Yes, yes, then he would say: "Don't deceive me, otherwise you will be in trouble in the future. You seem to not understand politics very much, and you are afraid that others will think he doesn't understand."
"Now, those clerks who committed crimes despise the county magistrate from the bottom of their hearts: "It's really a fool" and have no ability." So they became more and more evil, making Shanghai County shattered and complained to the merchants. The normal trade county was greatly affected. Others complained to the county magistrate, and he just ordered people to write a paper and hand it over, and then sail to you. The following article, the deputy official model who was asked to ask for it and asked for it. "But no one thought, one day a month later, the county magistrate announced to the officials to whom they belonged.
He preached: "Everyone gathers in the lobby of the county government. I want to read the decree of Hu's ministry! This year, a young businessman told the story vividly. Although he had already spoken the same plot less than twenty times, he felt very happy every time he said: "The Shanghai County officials who were not sure of the reason came to the lobby and knelt down to listen to the decree of the Southeast Governor. He then listened to the county magistrate's remarks: "Now, all the officials in Shanghai County will be given to the Shanghai County Magistrate to fully manage the officials. If the officials who are affiliated with him have done illegal things, they have the right to arrest and interrogate them directly, and report them after the case is concluded!"
"As soon as the decree was announced, all the illegal officials were shocked. They could not have imagined that the young county magistrate would be able to ask for this authorization from General Hu. They did not expect that the young man was so able to bear it. He would read the imperial decree after they realized their true colors." The young man said with a look of grace: "After the decree, the county magistrate Shen immediately went to the hall. All the officials were worried and nervous. But the county magistrate cheered up. He was not as depressed as he had been a few days ago. He heard him slapped the arson and said sternly: "Where is the clerk of the sixth room?
"The Little One" obviously also is the favorite of others, and merchants will come to pretend to be the clerk on trial.
The young man learned from the voice of the county magistrate, "Then he saw the county magistrate Shen lower his face and said, "A month ago, you made fraud in the county government accounts and embezzled 3,000 taels of official silver! In the past month, he used his power to extort for two thousand miles, right? Then he said the amount of money that each person embezzled, which shocked the six clerks to no avail. He immediately kowtowed like pounding garlic and begged for mercy.
"This, why do you know this well?" Then pretended to be a trial: "Sir, please spare me, we won't dare to do it next time
"What have you done long ago? I heard the sigh of County Magistrate Shen sigh: "I am already saying ugly words in front of you, and it is your business if you don't listen. I am a rough man and can't stand too many cumbersome trial procedures. But what I can conclude is that it is enough to kill you eight times based on the amount you encroached on. The young man imitated County Magistrate Shen and pointed to a merchant pretending to be a minor official and said, "You should take off your clothes first."
"Why take off your clothes?" Shen Mo asked softly. If he was asked to punish these minor officials, at most he would send them to Xu Hai's ship and be a first-class ocean sailor.
But the county magistrate Shen was obviously more ruthless and harsh. The young man said, "The clerk who was pointed at by his finger had to take off his clothes obediently, and then be supported by four thick yamen runners with water and fire sticks. He stopped his limbs, raised them in the air, threw them high into the air, and then fell to the ground. After a few times, the clerk bleed in seven orifices and fell to death.
Then the other five died. But the magistrate Shen did not give up and immediately ordered the corpse market to be displayed. The corrupt officials in the hall were frightened and trembled all over, fearing that they would suffer the same fate. They all clamped their tails to be human. As a result, all the bad habits disappeared and the face of Shanghai County was completely renewed.
The merchants were so interested in saying that they were silent but were very surprised because the Shanghai county magistrate in these people was too far apart from the person he remembered!
The merchants saw him silent and thought that it was the young master who was sympathetic. They felt that County Magistrate Chen was too cold-blooded. As soon as they were older, they said seriously: "Young Master, you are kind-hearted and well-educated by everyone. You may think that killing people is wrong." After a pause, they asked him, "I wonder if you have heard a saying, "Your name is a car and boat shop, and you should be killed without guilt! What they are talking about is that people who are engaged in these five industries are all scoundrels like hobs, and they are all sluts. If you kill a few to suppress them, don't expect these people to be obedient."
Qi Mo smiled and said, "I'm not such a pedantic person."
"That's good, that's good. The hospitality merchants laughed and said, "In fact, Chen County is very easy-going. Sometimes they come to patrol the wharf and chat with us all. Sometimes they teach us to sing. "Sing?" Chen Si said curiously: "What songs are you singing?"
"Call, what kind of birds do you love?" the merchants said with a smile.
"Love bird?.Silence blesses the soul.
"Yes, it's that bird." The merchants nodded and said, "It's weird, but it sounds pretty good. By the way, how do you know it's the bird?"
"Nonsense" smiled silently and said, "It was what I taught him back then."
As they spoke, the boat finally entered the city next to each other. Then they saw thousands of sails gathering on the dock in Shanghai, covering the sky and the sun, the merchants were noisy and sweating profusely. It was clearly a scene in the center of a commercial port.
The silent heart became even more enthusiastic, but he had no time to take care of these scenes for a while. He couldn't wait to say goodbye to the group of talkative Hui merchants. After asking for directions, he went ashore to go to the county government office, and shouted in his heart: "Brother who has been away for a long time, are you okay?"
Chapter completed!