The officer walked into the office room with his arms full of charcoal, hunched over, and said attentively: "Sir, Yao Qianhu got some good charcoal from Taicang. Can you please add it to the basin now?"
Yue Yunhong, the magistrate of Chongming County, held up his mink fur collar, his eyes fell on a piece of newspaper on the official case, and said coldly "Hmm".
While the officer was carefully adding new charcoal, another officer hurried in from the direction of the court hall in the front yard and reported at the door: "Sir, what lady from Songjiang wants to see you?"
Only then did Yue Zhixian raise his head, squinted his eyes, and asked, "The one who brought a bunch of country bumpkins from the Northeast to farm the land?"
"Back to me, sir, that's the woman. The second master is talking to her."
Yue Zhixian said lazily: "Call in."
Then he said to the officer who was adding charcoal: "Go away, stop doing it. You don't have to let outsiders take advantage of this good charcoal to keep it warm."
Both officers responded and left.
Yue Zhixian rolled his eyes, skillfully pulled out the "National Beauty and Heavenly Fragrance" that had just been banned from publication by the imperial court from under a pile of official documents, turned around and stuffed it back into the locked treasure chest behind him.
On the other hand, he cursed in a low voice.
"National Beauty and Heavenly Fragrance" was originally a widely circulated erotic story. After it was banned, Yue Zhi County had a hard time getting it. I didn't finish reading it all night last night. When I read it today, I was ready to finish the last few chapters.
When he read sentences such as "Crushing plum blossoms with a skillful hand, splitting lotus pods and cutting off the roots", "The beautiful girl in the romantic field, the general in the cloud and rain tent" and other sentences, he was in high spirits and was in awe of the case, but his life was interrupted, and he was simply murderous.
It’s all there.
When the county magistrate led Zheng Haizhu in, he saw Yue Zhixian buried in a table of documents. He sighed with emotion: "My lord is so busy with official duties, so you must take care of yourself. In the past two years, for some reason, half of the spring plowing has passed, and the weather has not returned yet."
It’s so cold that people are trembling.”
Yue Zhixian did not respond to him, he just tidied up the official document a few times, raised his face to Zheng Haizhu, showing a plain and sincere expression: "Mrs. Zheng, the leather goods you brought from Liaodong are really good.
I am a Qingshui Yamen and cannot afford good charcoal to burn. It has been cold in spring these past few days, so I rely on this fur collar to keep warm. Wrapped up in my official uniform, I am a bit out of character and will make Madam Mingtang laugh."
Zheng Haizhu now has a sixth-grade imperial order, and her reasoning is slightly higher than the county master in front of her. Besides, this is not the front court, so she was not polite and sat down on the armchair next to the flower stand.
"As long as it's warm, it will be much more convenient after Songjiang is opened and closed. When I recruit more Liao people to come over, I will load more old ginseng on the ship to supplement the first and second masters."
Yue Zhixian and the county magistrate looked at each other, the smile on their faces faded, and they leaned forward slightly, with an expression of "sincerely speaking" written all over their faces.
"Mrs. Zheng, you are new here, and you have acquired good land in the county. In the past few days, County Magistrate Yang has asked the official to inspect your place often, for fear that the unruly people in the green leather gang might cause trouble. Isn't that right, Magistrate Yang?
ah?"
Yang Xian Cheng cooperated: "That's not true. My own tenants were beaten when they were fighting for water canals. I didn't even bother to go back and take a look."
Zheng Haizhu chuckled: "First Master, Second Master, my fields are not abandoned land, they belong to Yao Qianhu. Which green leather gangster in Chongming County dares to disturb it? Besides, Yao Zongwen, Yao Qianhu's younger brother, now
He is a celebrity in front of Mr. Fangge. If ordinary people don't know about it, how can the two masters not know about it? In Chongming, I am afraid that only a person as upright and loyal as Grandma Tang would dare to go out and seek bad luck for Yao Qianhu."
"Hey, madam, you are so powerful. You have touched the bottom of our Chongming within a few days."
Yue Zhixian clicked his tongue and curled his lips in flattery, but his heart was filled with fire.
You're a troublesome woman who can't get married, and you're going to beat around the bush and accuse me of being unfaithful and bad?
Yue Zhixian continued to behave miserably, and modified his tone to become more helpless: "Well, when Mrs. Zheng said this, she was not just asking for help, but also knowing the difficulties of my official. Mrs. Zheng, you are Su Song's Donglin civil servant
The person recommended to this county, Yao Qianhu, is backed by people from Zhejiang. The Donglin faction and the Zhejiang faction fought from Chaotang to Nanzhili. Please tell me, what should I do if I am caught in the middle?"
Zheng Haizhu stared at him: "What should I do? Isn't the master doing a good job? It's like doing Tai Chi, and the hot potato has been pushed to me."
The county magistrate of Yue County was chatting, and the county magistrate Yang continued to compliment: "Madam, you are magnanimous and magnanimous. She is not like a martial artist who only uses thunder. Then Granny Tang has not come to the county government office to make trouble in the past few days. I heard that she has not gone to Suzhou Mansion again. I will definitely
It was Madam who comforted me properly."
Zheng Haizhu said seriously: "I am not appeasing Grandma Tang, but respecting her. You two gentlemen, decades ago, Duke Tang was here. He rushed out with a big sword and killed the invading Japanese pirates, thus ensuring the safety of Chongming."
, thinking of this, I am willing to offer my grandma a descendant of Tang Gong who dares to pray for the people at such an age, even if she is asked to enshrine her as a Bodhisattva in Zhuangzi.
The descendants of the Chongming veterans who have returned, there are a total of thirteen households with forty people, my Zhuangzi will take them in."
When Yue Zhixian heard this, he did not feel relieved immediately.
It is said that this woman surnamed Zheng is not a fuel-efficient lamp. She comes from a business background and is unwilling to suffer anyone's losses.
Yangxian Cheng also thought that there was no such thing as such a good thing. Most likely, the conditions would have to be negotiated later, and she would not be able to ask the county to falsely claim farmland for her and allocate some farmland for the families of the veterans to plant.
Zheng Haizhu did want to make conditions, but he didn't want to use the imperial court's land in vain.
"Two gentlemen, apart from Yao Qianhu's coastal defense armaments in Chongming County, is there a Japanese village in Nansha? It was originally under the jurisdiction of General Chongming. During the reign of Lord Jiajing, the person in charge of the village was a general-level officer.
Military Master?"
Yue Zhixian didn't know why she asked this. He rolled his eyes and pretended to remember: "Hey, it was like decades ago. When I took office, I heard Yao Qianhu talk about it. But Nansha that
Isn't it near Madam Zheng's village? Is there any camp there?"
Zheng Haizhu pursed his lips: "After Longqing was switched off, the Beiwa Village was gone, and the general was transferred back to Taicang. However, this battalion soldier position and the small number of five hundred troops are still in Chongming County, right?"
"Ah, uh, yes, we have this troop quota."
Yue Zhixian still looked confused, but Yang Xiancheng seemed to have realized something.
"Mrs. Zheng wants to support her family, so she needs this amount of soldiers?"
Zheng Haizhu nodded simply: "How did I get this order? I helped the imperial court fight two major battles against foreign aggression. In exchange, the imperial court's frontier army and navy asked my firearms factory to order guns.
, the two gentlemen also know it, and without bragging, if I were a gentleman, I would probably have been promoted to General Manager Qian. Now, I am in Chongming, and since the position of Qianhu is already occupied, I want to get one for my nephew.
It is also difficult to handle a thousand households. Besides, Yao Qianhu will not want to cause trouble for me in the future. I have to support my family. Wouldn’t it be good for my family to use the number of soldiers in Nansha Camp?"
What Zheng Haizhu said was about the difference between military households and camp soldiers in the Ming Dynasty.
Military households are a concept under the guard system and are hereditary from generation to generation. Chongming is located at the gateway to the East China Sea. There was a guard post at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Military households worked in the fields during peacetime and defended in wartime. Today's Yao Qianhu is the head of the guard post.
, he didn’t train diligently, but he was very active in occupying the fields.
The camp soldiers do not have the concept of "household registration", let alone hereditary. They are recruited from all over the country, which is the main source of the camp soldiers. The famous Qi family army is the camp soldiers.
Yue Zhixian squinted his eyes and murmured to himself, Damn Niang, there are really going to be two tigers on this broken mountain in Chongming, and one of them is a tigress.