Chapter 367: Letter of Response from Hangzhou Jinming Bureau
Chapter 367 A letter asking for help from Hangzhou Jinming Bureau (posted in the third update)
Author: sunny
Chapter 367 A letter asking for help from Hangzhou Jinming Bureau (posted in the third update)
This was a secret message sent by Tan Zhen, the enshrining officer of Jinming Bureau in Hangzhou and also a good friend of Liang Shicheng.
The content of the letter was full of complaints and complaints, and the objects of his complaints were from the directors of the Suzhou Yingfeng Bureau: Zhu Chong and Zhu Meng's father and son.
After all, he, Tan Zhen, was also a close eunuch of the official family, and could be regarded as a confidant.
I thought that after I came to Hangzhou under the orders of the officials, I could follow the example of my predecessor Tong Guan.
There they ate and drank, scraped the land and collected all kinds of rare treasures for the officials in exchange for their favor.
But in the end, when he got there, he realized that imagination is beautiful, but reality is cold.
Originally, in my impression, the offices of the eunuchs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which should have been magnificent, looked so poor and dilapidated, almost like a poor and dilapidated house owned by Te Niang.
Tan Zhen, who had just arrived, directly asked the officials in Hangzhou Jinming Bureau and found out.
The original office space of Hangzhou Jinming Bureau has been forcibly occupied by Zhu Chong, Zhu Meng and his son, the heads of Suzhou Yingfeng Bureau.
He also claimed that Hangzhou Jinming Bureau was originally the territory of Zhongguan Tong Guantong, and that the father and son acted under Tong Guan's orders.
As a result, an officer of Hangzhou Jinming Bureau was kicked out of the vast and splendid Hangzhou Jinming Bureau. Now, it has become an important place for Suzhou Yingfeng Bureau to intervene in Hangzhou and collect rare treasures.
stronghold.
This made Tan Zhen, the eunuch who was appointed by an official to go to Jinming Bureau in Hangzhou, very angry.
Although Tan Zhen was very afraid of Tong Guan, an old driver, the problem was that the vicious dogs around Tong Guan were so excessive. If he did nothing, wouldn't it be a disgrace to the official family?
I decided to go to the door in person to ask for an explanation. The first thing I wanted to do when a new official took office was to burn the heads of the Zhu family and his son and take back the territory.
What he didn't expect was that Tan Zhen did meet Zhu Meng. This guy was so arrogant and domineering that he didn't take him, the eunuch of the palace, seriously at all.
He even threatened that if he didn't stay in that shabby house and be a transparent person, he would dare to ruin the big thing he had done under the orders of Tong Guan and Cai Xiang.
Even if I chop you up first, it's not impossible.
To be honest, Tan Zhen, who has been in the palace since he was a child, this is the first time in his life that he has seen a bastard who dares to be so arrogant and unreasonable in front of him, and dares to shout and kill him, a dignified eunuch.
Tan Zhen was unwilling to give in and went to Hangzhou and even local officials in Suzhou, hoping that they could help.
As a result, the officials in Suzhou and Hangzhou were either perfunctory or indifferent.
Being pushed too hard by myself, I simply pointed out that the Zhu family and his son were indeed cared for by the powerful eunuch Tong Guan and the traitor Cai Jing.
Zhu Meng even contributed a lot of good things to the palace because of his arrogance. The officials were very satisfied and specially gave official positions to the Zhu family and his son.
As a result, the Zhu family and his son became more and more arrogant and domineering in Suzhou and Hangzhou.
Even the officials in Suzhou and Hangzhou avoided the notorious father and son, so why would they want to provoke them?
In desperation, Tan Zhen was angry and frightened, so he could only write a letter back to Bianliang, Tokyo, asking for help from his boss, Liang Shicheng, hoping that the other party could find a solution for him.
Even if they couldn't afford to offend Cai Jing and Tong Guan, they would at least change their positions for him, so that the great eunuch in the palace would not dare to fight back after being insulted by outsiders. It was really aggrieved for Tai Te's mother.
Seeing this, Liang Shicheng couldn't help but his face gradually darkened. He never thought that his right-hand man, Tan Zhen, was originally ambitious and prepared to do something in order to win the favor of officials.
But we had just arrived in the world-famous Suzhou and Hangzhou, and we encountered such a big problem. What should we do?
Go find Tong Guan and ask for an explanation? This idea flashed through Liang Shicheng's mind and was immediately thrown away.
What a status Tong Guan has now. Together with the treacherous Prime Minister Cai Jing, one is called the Prime Minister and the other is the Prime Minister.
Among the officials and officials who served him in the palace, they were still ranked behind Yang Jian, and he could not offer any benefits in exchange for Tong Guan.
Could it be that your little brother is asking for help from you, but you can only persuade him to be patient, and it is better to dig a hole in the ground to bury yourself. If the other person comes to you provocatively, you can just kneel down and lick him?
The gloomy Liang Shicheng walked slowly in the house, raising his head from time to time, thinking about how to solve this problem.
But his godson stood aside honestly, not daring to say a word.
"Liang Min." After a long while, Liang Shicheng slowly spoke.
"What are your orders from godfather?"
"Go and take down the box, and come with our family to meet Yang Da."
Liang Shicheng pointed to the eye-catching sandalwood box somewhere in the room and said, "It's not a big skill."
The father and son left here and went straight to find Yang Jian.
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"I've seen Yang Da..." Liang Shicheng saluted Yang Jian respectfully after seeing Yang Jian walking towards him.
Yang Jian raised his hand to support him and looked at Liang Shicheng, who was far smaller in stature than his own and looked like a frail scholar.
"You don't have to be so polite. You came to visit our house, but what's the matter?"
Hearing Yang Jian's question, Liang Shicheng glanced around subconsciously. Yang Jian immediately understood and led Liang Shicheng into the house to sit down.
Liang Shicheng then cleared his throat and talked about the reason why he came.
"Our family remembers that maritime trade was very prosperous in the Song Dynasty, which brought a lot of taxes to the court. Now there are shipping companies in Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Mingzhou (Ningbo), and Mizhou (Qingdao).
I heard before that some ministers in the court asked the officials to set up a shipping department in Hangzhou. I wonder what is going on now?"
After hearing Liang Shicheng's words, Yang Jian was slightly stunned and looked at the Liang person in front of him, speaking meaningfully.
"Why, brother, you can't stay in the palace any longer. Our family won't make it difficult for you."
"Yang Da, you are wrong. Our family does not have such thoughts. However, Yang Da, you must also know that our family and Tan Zhen entered the palace in the same year. They have been old friends for so many years."
"Since he has an idea, how can we not help him..."
Looking at Liang Shicheng, who sounded very sincere in his tone, Yang Jian narrowed his eyes and raised his silvery eyebrows.
"Why, didn't Tan Zhen go to the Jinming Bureau in Hangzhou? He was a fat clerk. It was there that Tong Guan made his fortune.
He is not willing to do such a feng shui treasure land?"
This is the third update. I have to rush again tomorrow, but at the very least there will be two updates. Please rest assured.