Today is a rare refreshing day during the plum season in Jiangnan.
The sea breeze chasing the vast blue waves from the west blew away the heat.
Qi Jin, the deputy commander guarding Jiangnan, sat under the plum tree and drank three glasses of wine. Fang slowly stood up, walked to the grave of his adopted son Wu Bond, and patted the tombstone: "My child, you and Lao Wu are waiting for me in the sky.
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The old general turned around and saw Zheng Haizhu's eyes filled with sadness and guilt. When the word "Mrs. Zheng" came to his lips, he changed it to the previous title.
"Girl, when Bond spotted you and left his schoolbag to follow you, I told his grandfather when he was offering incense that the child would choose his own path, and no matter how dangerous the situation is, nothing could stop him. Those of us who came from the military know best.
, live a good life, it will be lost if you say no. You don’t have to worry about me blaming you."
Zheng Haizhu was grateful for the blessing and discussed: "Master, do you want to find a cute baby from the Wu family and adopt him to Bond and Amei's lineage? He will live in Chongming and I will take care of him."
Qi Jin waved his hand: "If you advise Bond to stay with the old Wu family, I would nag him a lot when this brat was alive. He always said that he only wanted to be with Amei's child. Now he can't contradict him anymore.
It’s me, I can’t go against his will. Forget it, don’t think about what is going to happen.”
Zheng Haizhu said "Okay" and led Qi Jin to an unfinished house.
"Mr. Sir, this place faces the sea, is open and spacious, and overlooks the farm barracks. It makes you feel lonely. I will build a Martyrs' Shrine. The memorial tablets of several old heroes who died in Chongming in the anti-Japanese war will be erected in it. Bond
So does."
The corner of Qi Jin's mouth twitched slightly: "If you are serious about it, it is not in vain for him to have a relationship with you. Now that we have this place, there is no need to worry about the funeral arrangements after his death. There is no need for an heir."
The white-haired general squinted and saw a group of young men carrying wood for beams and pillars under the command of Carpenter Hu. Under the shade of a tree, beside a stone table, stood an old woman, instructing a young man who looked like a scholar to write.
The old woman was Grandma Tang. She had a cheerful temperament and walked over to greet Qi Jin in a bold manner.
Qi Jin also learned about Granny Tang's origins from Zheng Haizhu's mouth, and he held his hands with respect and said: "Grandma, when I was young, I heard from my adoptive father about the heroic feats of my ancestor Tang Gong in resisting the Japanese in Chongming."
Granny Tang sighed: "Mr. sir, the Japanese pirates are no longer making trouble now, but the Tatars in the north are getting more and more arrogant. No matter how troublesome the Japanese pirates were back then, they were just like mad dogs, taking money and food in their mouths and running away. But the Tatars actually know how to use spies to come.
Stealing French firearms and defrauding guns and small cannons, this is not the behavior of ordinary robbers, they are coming for the Ming Dynasty."
"Mother-in-law is insightful," Qi Jin solemnly agreed, "Nurhaci's ability to hook up with a Han guard general like Li Yongfang shows that this chieftain has great ambitions and many strategies. Although the battle of Fushun was a complete victory, I did not dare to be petty.
Mrs. Zheng looks down at Beilu, too."
Zheng Haizhu nodded and called out to the Confucian scholar standing behind Tang Po.
Qi Jin looked at this young man. He was thin and fair, somewhat similar to Lu Xiangsheng, but the Hu brocade robe on his body was worth a lot at first glance. He estimated that this man was probably a son of a wealthy gentry like Master Gu.
While Qi Jin was still crying, the young man actually picked up his robe and knelt down without hesitation regardless of the wet mud.
"Junior Shen Tingyang, pay homage to Mr. Qi."
"Hey, you, a young man, don't have to pay such a big courtesy."
Qi Jin quickly raised his hand to ask the other party to get up.
Although the deputy commander-in-chief was already a high-ranking military officer, Qi Jin still felt a little uncomfortable accepting the kneeling of a scholar like a scholar.
Shen Tingyang said calmly and generously: "Master, our Wusongsha Boat Gang can safely sail down the lower river on weekdays. It's all thanks to the master's ability to manage the army. Not to mention the juniors, even my father should kowtow when he meets the master."
Thank you."
"The Sand Boat Gang?" Qi Jin thought for a while, "I heard from my boys that they are doing water transportation from river to river?"
Shen Tingyang replied humbly: "Exactly."
Zheng Haizhu and Qi Jin explained: "Mr. sir, I also came to Chongming and learned that the Shachuan Gang is the livelihood of the local Shen family. It is rare to have a young master in Tingyang, and he is definitely not one of those dandy sects. He has already passed the examination and became a scholar. The Shen family
There is also fertile land in the South Island, close to our Zhengjiazhuang. One of Tingyang’s distant relatives’ daughter married one of our Liao residents, and Tingyang came over for a wedding banquet, and actually fell in love with our Zhengjiazhuang and wanted to be my guest.”
Qi Jinhe was experienced in the world, and after listening to a few words, he estimated that according to Zheng Haizhu's habit of wining over local snakes, Zheng Haizhu would go to the young master of the Shen family in Chongming, even if he didn't take the initiative.
Find him.
Qi Jin then glanced at the words "Zhongmartyr Shrine" written in different styles on the stone table, but each had its own charm. With a tone of fun, he joked: "Young Master Shen, Mrs. Zheng's ability is far more than just managing your Chongming."
This territory. If you want to be a guerrilla in her praise painting, you can't just rely on good handwriting."
The Shen family is both business and Confucian, and Shen Tingyang's knowledge and character are far above those of ordinary Confucian students.
In addition, he truly respected Tang Yicen, Qi Jiajun and other bloody men from the bottom of his heart, so he sincerely listened to the instructions to the best of his ability, nodding his head constantly, showing full respect for Qi Jin.
Zheng Haizhu observed from the sidelines and saw that the atmosphere of Qi Jin and Shen Tingyang's first meeting was good, so he changed the topic to the serious business they were about to do.
"Master, Tingyang did something this time, which really helped me a lot. Master, please move to the village at the foot of the mountain, and let's talk while walking."
Tang Po also said kindly to Shen Tingyang: "Young Master Shen, go ahead. The few inscriptions on the plaque of the ancestral hall are enough."
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At nearly noon the next day, in front of the Qianhusuo Gongshe near Yaopi Port on the North Island of Chongming.
Yue Zhixian and Yangxian Cheng stepped down from the sedan chair respectively.
Qi Jin and Zheng Haizhu were already waiting in the scorching sun with their entourage. Magistrate Yue quickly stepped forward while wiping his sweat, and said in a coquettish voice: "The sea water flooded a section of the way. I am late, ah ah ah this
Really."
Yangxian Cheng also cooperated with his superiors and blamed Zheng Haizhu: "Why didn't Madam lead General Qi in first?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Zheng Haizhu smiled at him and looked at Yue Zhixian: "It is not my barracks and guardhouse. How can I dare to enter before the county magistrate has arrived?"
In the past few months, Yue Zhixian would have already cursed "Tai Na Niang" countless times in the local dialect, but today, no matter how disobedient the tigress named Zheng was, he would not mind.
Not only don't I mind, I actually want to thank Tigress again.
At noon more than a month ago, when Huang Zunsu, a Donglin sect member from Songjiang Prefecture, came to the Chongming County Yamen on official business, Magistrate Yue, who was looking at an erotic novel, rolled his eyes at him.
Although Songjiang is a prefecture and Chongming is a county, Chongming and Songjiang have no subordinate relationship. As a sixth-grade general magistrate in Songjiang, what qualifications do you have to control whether Chongming is causing Japanese pirates or spies.
When Zheng Haizhu made no secret of his anger and questioned whether his weapon had been sold by Yao Qianhu to a few Shandong businessmen who claimed to be surnamed Huang, reports came from Anji Yuan that the guard had been killed.
After his death, several people locked up in the courtyard ran away. Yue Zhixian and Yangxian Cheng suddenly realized that something bad was going on.
The two old foxes, the first and the second, did not need to exchange words. They both denied knowing that Yao Qianhu had sold the muskets to the Jurchen spies, and righteously invited Huang Zunsu to go to Beidao with them to check the number of muskets. They were both imperial officials.
Bear witness to each other.
Yao Qianhu, who had always been fearless, used North Korea-China relations and the help of Yue Zhixian to snatch the first batch of arms from Zheng Haizhu. Where he could not hold back, he changed hands and asked the Tong family, who was pretending to be a merchant, to load the weapons onto the ship from a private port.
Faced with several civil servants who came to investigate and accuse Yao Qianhu, Yao Qianhu naturally couldn't even bring out a fire door.
Yao Qianhu understood that the most important thing for Yue and Yang, who had not yet received their share of the profits from this batch of arms, was to protect their positions and lives at this time, and they would never wear the same pair of pants with him again.
Songjiang and Chongming were sent to the Suzhou Military Preparatory Road. Yao Qianhu was still fighting in a corner. He was determined to smuggle out his gun and sell it, and it was smuggled out and sold by a few military households who liked to gamble. It fell into the river. He never knew Shandong.
Merchant.
Not long after, the Shachuan Cao Gang of the Shen family in Chongming jumped out to identify that their sandboat collided with a sea-going ship from Liaodong near Taicang. A guard ship flying the Yao flag came from nearby and forcibly suppressed it.
The subordinates of the Shen family and Yao Qianhu claimed that the owner of the Liao ship was "Boss Huang" and that the ship was equipped with huanghuali furniture.
At the same time, the military households in the guard station who had been oppressed by Yao Qianhu for a long time also complained that Yao Qianhu had obtained a lot of ginseng and mink skins this year.
Nowadays, the memorial to impeach Yao Zongwen in the capital is like snowflakes. Because the queen has passed away in April, the emperor is seeing the impending impeachment. Zheng Guifei forces the emperor to make herself the queen. The first assistant Fang Congzhe instructs his minion Yao Zongwen to take charge of the matter. Donglin
Pai Ziran stared at Yao Zongwen and started fighting.
Suzhou Bing Beidao thought that the prince would be able to join the Zhengtong faction soon and stand with the Donglin faction, which would be much safer than standing with Fang Congzhe and Yao Zongwen. He then looked at Yao Qianhu, a member of the Yao family, and ordered him to either find out the second one.
The two men surnamed Huang have Shandong from Liaodong Shipping Company to testify, or they will plead guilty.
Yao Qianhu's skills were so poor that he finally gave in after Xingye sent his legitimate son to flee.
While Zheng Haizhu was here, he did not choose to report Yue, and Yang and the others took advantage of Yao Qianhu.
In exchange, Chongming County reported that the military households in the Qianhu Station on the North Island would be assigned to Zhengjiaying on the South Island by Qi Jin, the deputy commander-in-chief of Zhenjiang who was stationed closest.
At this moment, everyone entered Qianhu's mansion.
Before they could sit down, the Shen family's iced sour plum soup was brought in. Shen Tingyang respectfully led a few fresh and smart servants to serve him, while a few old and weak servants from the Qianhu Office stood blankly in the courtyard.
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Yue Zhixian and Yang Xiancheng looked at each other calmly, knowing in their hearts that although Zheng had disgraced Wu Bond this time, it was not an exaggeration to say that it was a blessing in disguise.
There is one more tigress on the hilltop.
Qi Jin took a sip of sour plum soup and said calmly: "In Yue Zhixian County, the imperial court has always followed the rules. Military households are military households, and camp soldiers are camp soldiers. I have been fighting for a lifetime, and even if I get a horse, I still have to abide by the court rules.
I think so, you are reporting to Governor Yingtian with the tone of a county official, saying that since there are many guard posts in Susong and Chongming, and there are troops in Chongming, it is better to turn this guard post in Beidao into a private household and increase the productivity of the land.
The income can also be used as taxes for Chongming. Those who are young and strong can be recruited as soldiers by Zhengjiaying in Nandao as appropriate."
Yue Zhixian breathed a sigh of relief.
In the short term, this plan will not only cause him no loss, but will also expand the county's harvest. In the long term, will Zheng become more powerful and become those generals in Liaodong? Well, a woman, no
As for, not really.
Yue Zhixian then smiled slightly, turned his fat face glistening with sweat to Zheng Haizhu, and said in a passionate voice: "Madam is loyal to the court, and it is a blessing for the people of the island to have Madam's battalion soldiers stationed in Chongming!"