Chapter 370 Return

After talking about Yang Jisheng's incident, Chen Si asked Zhao Wenhua again and said, "I heard that the man died suddenly, and he died very strangely."

"I sent someone to kill him." Lu Bing said lightly, as if he was talking about something that was not his own: "The stomach is broken, and he will leave a name in history." He also said: "You don't have to worry about others, and you will not have less trouble after returning to Jiangnan."

Silent nodded and smiled bitterly: "I'm driving the ducks to put them on the shelves, and I can't just hold on."

"You have to be careful and don't leave it there." Lu Bing said: "Water/pirates, wealthy clans, stern parties, and clear streams, all of them are enough for you to drink."

"Let them all come." Chen Silent smiled: "If there are too many lice, you won't bite it."

"Okay!" Lu Bing picked up the wine glass and said, "I've done this glass and I'll do it for you!"

Silently raised his glass and touched him, drank it all, and then heard Lu Bing say, "Although you are an official, those people will not follow the rules with you. Open and hidden arrows and plotting everywhere is inevitable. It is not possible to rely on the army alone." He said, "I have already transferred Zhu Shisan and the Qianhu of the Jinyiwei of Nanzhili. He has set off to Suzhou... If you have any questions, please look for him."

"Thank you, senior brother," Chen Mo said happily: "This is really a timely help."

Lu Bing said: "The last time I confiscated Zhao Wenhua's house, the old rules are the same. The house is scattered. The big head is handed over to the treasury, and the little head is divided by the brothers themselves... There are 800,000 taels, 50,000 taels, and the people below are divided, and then 50,000 taels are taken out to take care of the eunuchs in the palace, and the bull-nosed Taoist priests and others. Everyone has some sweetness. In this way, no one has any gossip... I have left 200,000 taels for the remaining money, and you can take 500,000 taels."

After silently thinking, he refused and said, "I will not receive any reward without merit. What do I want your money?"

"How can you be considered to be unpaid without merit? You took Zhao Wenhua down, and you should take this money." Lu Bing said patiently: "Don't worry, the account has been clean, and Zhao Wenhua's whole family has also been destroyed. These silver no longer exists in this world."

Chen Si just shook his head, and Lu Bing was so angry that he cursed: "Do you want love?" Then he stood up and took a nanmu box and handed it to him, "You are going to get married, I can't eat your wedding banquet, so let's use this as a gift."

When I opened the box silently, I saw a dark golden vest. I touched it with a silk and hairy texture, which had a metal texture and was slightly heavier.

"This is my family's treasure armor. It can block bows, arrows, and bullets. It is also warm in winter and cool in summer. It is a rare good thing." Lu Bing said: "But I don't need it now. You will inevitably encounter danger when you go there, so I will give it to you... I will never refuse this, right?"

"How can I give it to someone by the treasures I passed down from my senior brother?" Chen Mo continued to refuse.

"Just take it," Lu Bing stared at him, "You don't need a good thing, just a piece of waste."

"Okay," Chen Si nodded finally and said, "I will borrow it for a few years first. I will return it when someone in your family goes to the battlefield."

"How can I get the things I gave out? "Lu Bing shook his head and said.

"Senior brother said that, no matter how good the thing is, it's a waste if you don't need it." Silently smiled: "I won't always use this thing, but your family is worth a lot."

"Let's talk about it then." Lu Bing nodded and said, "Put it away."

It was already night after returning home from the Governor's Office. He talked to Ruohan in silence. He took it out like a treasure, showed it to her and said, "Come here with scissors, I'll poke it and try it to see if it's really invulnerable to swords and guns."

Ruohan smiled and took it for him. Chen Si then held the soft armor in one hand and poked it on the armor with a scissor in one hand. There was only a muffled sound, and the scissors were blocked outside and could not enter the slightest.

Ruohan smiled and said, "It must be true. Can Lu Taibao still give you fake goods?"

Chen Shun's face was strange, put down the scissors, rubbed the soft armor with both hands, listened to the movement inside, and looked around inside and out. He ordered Ruohan: "Tear down the inner part." He said that, and handed the armor to Ruohan, and he got up and closed the door tightly.

Ruohan opened the inner corner as he spoke and saw several thick official tickets. The denomination of the top one was 8,000 taels of silver. He paid the ticket as soon as he saw it, but he recognized the ticket but refused to recognize the person.

She let out a light "huh" and took off the entire silk. Then she saw the dense official tickets, which were as thick as two books. After counting them, it was a full 500,000 taels... She handed the stack of money to Chen Si without saying a word.

He also clicked the silence and said in surprise: "It's not that he had forgotten it when he sewed it inside."

Ruohan picked up the box, reached out and touched it, uncovered the silk that was padded in the box, and an envelope suddenly appeared in front of the two of them.

I picked it up and looked at it. I didn’t look up, and I didn’t sign it. I only said in five words: ‘It’s for you.’

"What is this for?" Ruohan said softly.

"Didn't you see it? Give it to me." Shun Si put down the stack of silver notes, crossed his hands on his chest and said, "But why did he give me so much money?"

"It's better to send it back to him tomorrow." Ruohan said softly.

"My senior brother has entered the palace now and will not come out for half a month. Even if he wants to send it, he can't take it back." Chen Si shook his head and said, "You sew it back and keep it in first."

Ruohan stopped talking and sewed the letter and the official ticket back into the treasure armor. He heard silently: "Wait a few years later, we will meet again and return the original item."

"This is the best." Ruohan Zhanyan smiled and said, "We have to make money by ourselves, we can't get rich by relying on these."

Silently hugged her soft waist, and a hot kiss was printed on her lips, and he laughed: "Others who keep honest rely on integrity depends on integrity; but I rely on my wife."

"All the parents of the family are all in the family, and they are not in a good shape yet." Ruohan leaned gently on his shoulder and said.

"Haha, I am easy-going," said silently, and a pair of thief hands walked on Ruohan with a look of disgust, and said soulfully: "I won't leave tonight."

Ruohan's face turned red immediately, and she moaned: "Okay."

"Is that true?" Chen Si looked overjoyed and sat upright.

Ruohan took advantage of the situation to hide aside and giggled and said, "You go to sleep here, I'll go find Rou Niang."

The silence immediately collapsed and said with a sad face: "You really have to bear it..."

Ruohan had already walked to the door, and looked back at him and threw a ban on him. Qiubo of the soul said, "I have been waiting for a year, and there is still the last month, so you can definitely hold on."

"It's really...it's hard to sleep with you, it's harder than to the sky." Silent screamed, lay on the bed and hugged Ruohan's quilt, and sniffed deeply and said, "It's so fragrant..."

Ruohan looked at her husband who was not in a good state, and her face was filled with a happy smile.

At noon the next day, Chen Si came to Xu Jie's house as promised. Compared to the grand Grand Governor's Mansion, the Xu Mansion seemed a little shabby. The small courtyard that was three times before and after was not as good as the Li Ben family. It was very hard and simple... It made people unable to believe that this was the mansion of a first-rank official.

When officials see the residence of the Tang Shifu, they will definitely be respectful, but the silence comes from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. I know a large number of Susong officials. Wang Yongji and Wang Chonggu told him that Xu Ge's hometown is the largest landlord in Songjiang, monopolizing more than one-third of the local cotton supply. Even in Jiangsu, his future jurisdiction, there are hundreds of hectares of mulberry gardens, accounting for one-fifth of the supply of silkworm cocoons.

You should know that the cotton cloth in Songjiang and the silk in Suzhou were the most famous goods of the Ming Dynasty and have always been coveted by both home and abroad. The Xu family controlled a considerable proportion of raw materials, and the wealth of their family must be much greater than that of Zhao Wenhua... Comparing the residential conditions of the Xu and Zhao families, Chen Si had to sigh that Xu Ge Lao was really a big bun...

Today, Mr. Xu Ge was wearing casual clothes at home, like a teacher in a bookstore, kindly pulling silent into the quiet back hall. The dishes on the table were quite sumptuous, showing the host's sincerity in the host's reception - in addition to a few exquisite small cold dishes, there were a plate of yellow mud snails, a bowl of Dongpo pork, a bowl of sauce pigeons, a plate of malan heads, a basket of crispy fragrant ribs, a plate of rosy eel paste, braised padding, eight treasure duck, and stir-fried chicken feather dishes.

There are good dishes and of course good wine. A bottle of Shaoxing Huadiao has been around for ten years. It is filled in a porcelain pot and warmed in a basin. The pot is accompanied by shredded ginger and plum blossoms. Just by hearing the previous one, the warmth of meeting an old friend in a foreign land is permeated in people's hearts.

Xu Jie smiled and said, "This is your teacher's mother who cooks by herself, and her skills are not easily revealed. If I hadn't heard that Wen Kuixing came today, I wouldn't have such a good treat."

Chen Si looked flattered and said, "My wife is in love with her wrong person, and her mentor is joking." Then he poured wine respectfully for Mr. Xu.

"Fill yourself, too," Xu Jie laughed and said, "The wine in the north is too strong, so we southerners still drink Huadiao."

Respectfully respectfully, Xu Ge Lao had a glass of wine and said in a silent smile: "The student once ate Songjiang cuisine. This dish is fresh, sweet, delicious and elegant, which can make all ordinary people dumb."

"I'm still an expert," Xu Jie smiled and said, "Then do you know which dish in Songjiang is the most important."

"Yes..." One of the plates was silent and said, "Is this yellow mud snail?"

"That's right." Xu Jie smiled happily, "If the yellow mud snail is not soaked well, don't say it's a dish. Try it quickly."

I didn't refuse when I was silent. I tasted a few yellow mud snails that melted in my mouth. I felt the aroma was rich, the taste was mellow, the salty and fresh, and the aftertaste was lingering in the tongue. I couldn't help but praise it in Songjiang's words: "The eyebrows were so fresh that they took off!"

This praise made Mr. Xu, who had always been quiet, danced and poured wine for the silent oneself, and said with a smile: "The northerners who have come to my house to eat say that Songjiang cuisine is good, but there is a small snail that is so untreatable that it is so strange that it is raw. Mr. Xu also asked me to taste it every time, treat it as a treasure..." He only heard him say seriously: "So, then I will learn my lesson from now on. If I invite northerners to dinner, I will not serve this fairy dish, and I will waste my resources." As he said that, he burst into tears.

Silence naturally laughed.

The yellow mud snails opened their appetite, and a cup of Huadiao was in his stomach. Mr. Xu asked him to try a few chopstick dishes in silence. It was indeed full of taste, which made people easily show the owner's sincerity.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors, Mr. Xu opened the conversation and said, "This time you went to the south. He was originally the prefect of Hangzhou, but Mr. Yan proposed to let Tang Ruji, the top scholar in the previous subject, be the position of the top scholar in the previous subject. Your Majesty was not able to refute his face, so he changed you to the prefect of Suzhou." He said with a smile, "But you don't have to worry. It is said that 'there is heaven and Suzhou, and there are Suzhou and Hangzhou', which shows that there is no difference between the two places. Moreover, Hangzhou has a governor, a governor, a governor, and an inspector. Four mothers-in-law care about you and a daughter-in-law. It is better to be able to let go in Suzhou."

He nodded silently and echoed a few words softly... This is all a matter of being done. Xu Jie couldn't just take it out and stir-fry it, so he must have other intentions.

Sure enough, he heard Mr. Xu turn his head and say, "But you can't be smooth sailing in Suzhou... Some people in the court now regard the errands you want to do as big fat meat, and they must eat them hard; and for those Fujian and Zhejiang maritime merchants, you are like smashing their treasure pot, and they will definitely not sit back and wait for death."

He nodded silently and said softly: "Governor Lu also reminded the students of these words."

"But you don't have to be too pessimistic, because most people still support the opening of ports." Xu Jie reduced pressure for him: "As far as I know, maritime merchants monopolize smuggling and wantonly lowering prices have long caused many people to complain. Since I heard that the court was about to reopen the market, most people have stopped trading with maritime merchants and waited for you, the great savior, to rescue them... You have to contact these people more, try to unite them as much as possible to resist pressure from all sides."

Seeing that Mr. Xu, who believed in "A hundred words are worse than silent", was abnormal and taught him tirelessly. He listened quietly while thinking about the other party's intentions... For an old politician like Mr. Xu, "to show his diligence for nothing, either being traitor or steal." This sentence is by no means slander.

In Shen Mo's opinion, the reason why he is like this is at least two meanings. First, the teacher-student relationship between the two has broken the bones and the tendons. Mr. Xu wanted to use this action to imply his position in his heart and had achieved the goal of completely capturing himself. Furthermore, from the original meaning of this sentence, we can realize that Mr. Xu was vaguely pleading for Su Song's wealthy families... The so-called "unity" means giving them privileges.

But no matter what, he showed gratitude on his face and said to Xu Jie: "Thank you for your advice."

"Haha..." Xu Ge Lao smiled and said, "I'm just talking about it on paper. What will happen in detail? You have to go to Suzhou to explore it yourself."

Nodded silently and said, "Students have been prepared to welcome open and secret arrows when doing such a storm. But staying away from the capital, they will inevitably be worried about slander and ridicule, and are worried about being attacked..."

"You don't have to worry about this, because the Yan Party supports the opening of the maritime ban." Xu Jie said: "And my Ming Dynasty government will remain stable for a long time..." As he said that, he found a report for Chen Si: "This is posted by the Cabinet today, and you have not seen it yet."

When I opened the silence, I found that it was the first grade of Yan Ge Lao for nine years... In other words, he had served as the chief minister for eighteen years, and Yan Song said: "The old national examinations are used to study, and those who have been in the nine years of salary do not report the reinstatement. Moreover, I am the head of the court ministers. After nine years of experience, I have no merits. I should all avoid it by year. It turned out that I asked to retreat to the mountain as required.

He said silently that it would be great if this old guy really retreated, but everyone knew that it was impossible. Next, Emperor Jiajing's honor was praised, praising him for being loyal, diligent, and cautious, and having long been a long time to praise him. He refused to give him a feast at the Ministry of Rites, and gave him a son to be the servant of the Secretariat.

Xu Jie said with a faint bitterness on his face: "See, although Mr. Yan Ge is in his 80s, he is still stronger and stronger, and does not seem foolish at all. Your Majesty still relies heavily on him." He said, "Among the six ministers, Wu Peng, Minister of Personnel, and Minister of Works, Yan Shifan, are the confidants of Yan Song, and the Minister of War, replaced Yang Bo, who was resigned by veteran Xu Lun... This old man is nearly 70 years old and has only thought about retirement safely, so all generals and generals are promoted and demoted, and the advancement of troops will be followed by Yan Shifan's command."

"As for Zhou Yan, the left censor of the Censorate, Fang Dun, the Minister of Revenue, Wang Jiao, the Minister of Justice, and others, although they were loyal and dedicated to the public, they had never had any affair with the Yan Party, they were just like to agree with him and protect themselves." Xu Jie sighed in a desolate sigh: "The Yan Party's power is naturally a great harm to the court, but it is an opportunity for what you want to do."

As he said that, he looked at the silence and said, "You have to seize this opportunity and make a real name, so that the Maritime Service will become a place for money and food for the Ming Dynasty. At that time, no matter how the political situation changes, you can sit firmly on the Diaoyutai."

"The students have been taught." Sinister stood up and said in a serious manner.

Two days later, I bid farewell to my friend in Beijing in the same year, and silently walked onto the official boat heading south with my family guards, with my destination in Shaoxing, my hometown for a long time.
Chapter completed!