The 2nd time, Lihe worker, Baylor pressing Fantai, exploring the world and taking a shower
Yinxiang ate two pieces of iced watermelon and lay on the couch for a while. He was drowsy when he suddenly heard someone talking in the courtyard. Then, when the curtain rang, Yinxiang sat up and rubbed his hands.
Eyes asked: "Is it the fourth brother who is back? - Oh! It's the fourth brother! I also said that when you come back and ask them to call me, did you just come back from the river?" He pushed the watermelon plate.
"I won't eat it." Fourth elder brother Yinzhen said as he sat across from him. Looking at Yinxiang wearing a coarse short coat, he smiled and said, "It hasn't been this hot since the beginning of summer. You are a prince and you don't care about civil affairs. Why bother?"
Are you going to suffer for this?" After saying that, he poured two cups of herbal tea, handed one to Yinxiang, used the lid of the bowl to poke the floating leaves on it, and took a slow sip.
Yinzhen is twenty-seven or eighty years old, has two mustaches, is very neatly dressed, has bottomless black pupils and a face as white as a silver plate, giving him a calm and steady look. Yin Xiangbi
He was nine years younger, and since he had lost his mother since childhood, he relied on his fourth brother to take care of him. In front of Yinzhen, Yinxiang was somewhat childish. He saw that Yinzhen was still wearing a four-piece dragon coat and a dongzhu hat on a hot day.
, Yinxiang couldn't help but smile and said: "I have never seen Fourth Brother shirtless. What are you afraid of? You are not a girl!"
"Nanny Xie said the same thing, but I'm used to it, and I don't feel comfortable being shirtless in the room. This was all done by Teacher Gu Badai since he was a child, and there's nothing I can do about it." Yinzhen stood up as he spoke.
He smiled and said, "I don't think you have anything important to do. I still want to see He Yifei." Yinxiang said with a smile: "There is nothing important. I saw something ridiculous today and I wanted to make it happy for my fourth brother. Wait.
You can ask the river worker about it first."
Yinzhen smiled and nodded and returned to the upper room. After a while, Yinxiang heard the summons, "Master Beile, please ask He Yifei to come over to speak." He saw a second-rank official through the door walking into the upper room holding a notebook in his hands. Yinxiang shook his head
I bought a bamboo lounge chair to the patio courtyard, lay down at the west door of the hall, shook a banana fan, and enjoyed the coolness with my bare feet in the courtyard. Yi Cheng had already ordered someone to bring a coffee table and put a plate of ice cubes for him to use.
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Things in the upper room were very complicated. He Fantai was in charge of the province's people, finance and government. He just talked about how many migrant workers were used for river construction and canal work, how much money was spent, and what expenses were incurred. It was enough to make a meal. Yinzhen just listened.
, occasionally stood up and walked around without saying a word. Yinxiang was listening without interest, but he heard Yinzhen Lengding ask: "That's all? You've been thinking about it for a long time, and you just used these empty words to try to prevaricate me?" He Fantai said: "
The fourth master knows clearly that this section of the river cannot be repaired by the province alone! After collecting the provincial fire cost this year, the people below are already complaining. If we take another one million at once, we really can’t fix it. Fourth master, you can take care of the household.
If you pluck a hair from the household, you can mobilize seven or eight hundred thousand."
"You've given up on this!" Yinzhen sneered, "I told you to find a salt merchant, but you told me to find the Ministry of Revenue. Can you hide the trick you played from me? - You don't want to be a salt merchant.
Where are you going to deduct the fire fee? In the end, you still cheated the court! Thirteenth Master and I have been here for half a month. I know very well about your family background. You can't hide it from us! Even if there is a little shortage, just tell these salt merchants
Go and ask for it! I think it is just and just to ask them to shed some blood!"
He Yifei smiled apologetically and said: "How dare any student disobey the fourth master's order? No, it's like squeezing a pustule. One hundred salt merchants only donated 30,000 yuan!" Yinzhen angrily threw down the silver donation post,
Throwing it on the ground, he frowned and thought about his thoughts without saying a word.
"Don't be angry, Fourth Master!" He Yifei saw that his face was not kind, so he hurriedly tried to persuade him, "They have always been like this, and they still have respect for Fourth Master! If you look to the salt merchants, they are plucking the feathers from the iron rooster! Today's article
Prefect Fengming also told a public case. Shi Shilun came to Tongcheng to receive the seal. The day before, he summoned more than 20 salt merchants and asked them to exchange money to build the academy. In the end, they only donated more than 140 taels of silver. Shi Shilun was also strange.
Today we arrested several smugglers of salt and let them go in court without asking any questions. Ren Mingyu and other fifteen salt merchants went to the prefect Wen to file a complaint. The salt merchants have roots in the province and in Beijing and cannot be offended.
Ah!" Yinxiang couldn't help being startled when he heard this, but he heard Yinzhen say: "These salt merchants are so ignorant of praise, good! You put out a sign from the feudal government office and block the water transportation. You need toll money to cross the road, and you need bridge money to cross the bridge!
We have to ask these bastards to scrape together 1.4 million silver! You write the rest and I will report it to the emperor!"
"this……"
"What's so difficult about this?" Yinzhen asked, "When the Yellow River bursts, the bridges will be gone, the roads will be gone, and the water transportation will be cut off. How will they transport salt!"
He Yifei said hurriedly: "It's not that the vassal is in trouble, I'm afraid it will cause trouble. I beg Fourth Master...to give me a word to strengthen my slaves' courage..." "Okay!" Yinzhen said, and wrote a few lines without hesitation.
The letter was handed to He Yifei, "Listen, I have made the decision on this matter. I am not a person who cares about the sand in my eyes! If there is a flood this autumn, you don't need to ask for an order. Just follow the example of Yu Chenglong, the former governor of river control, and put on the yoke himself and go to Beijing.
Come see me. Do you hear me?”
"Cha!" He Yifei kowtowed hurriedly, "Remember!"
"Go down and do your errands!"
When Yinxiang saw He Yifei bowing and stepping out, standing under the eaves and wiping his sweat, he sat up straight, greeted him with a banana fan, and shouted: "Old He, come here!"
"Thirteenth Master!" He Yifei had met Yinxiang several times and knew that although the two princes who came to Anhui had different personalities, they were both very loved by Emperor Kangxi. He hurriedly came over to say hello to Yinxiang and said with a smile:
"Thirteenth Master, are you enjoying the cold? This place is no better than Beijing. It's like a fire cage in the summer. I just transferred you from Shaanxi..." Yinxiang waved his fan and said with a smile: "Pull it down! I didn't ask you to come and help me.
Fan yourself to cool off! Let me ask you, how do you deal with Shi Shilun's matter?" He Yifei didn't expect that Yinxiang would ask about this trivial matter, so he laughed and said, "Why, the Thirteenth Master is concerned about the salt policy?"
Shi Shilun let a few private salt dealers go, but they were captured by the Ren family and sent to Wen Fengming. I haven't asked them yet. I'll let them know after I ask them."
Yinxiang couldn't help being surprised. Obviously, he didn't expect that this salt merchant had such great power in the local area. He actually dared to take people privately and complain to the authorities after a case that the government had solved! After thinking about it,
He sneered and said: "Old He, when you go back, tell that man named Wen! - Tell him to let him go! Tell him not to care about the case that Shi Shilun has solved. Shi Shilun is a member of your Thirteenth Master's family, and also the Fourth Master's.
Student! You weigh it, okay?"
"Shi Shilun is a well-known upright official, and I have no intention of embarrassing him." He Yifei said with a smile, "The Thirteenth Master didn't listen to what the Fourth Master just said, the river workers' silver has not been recovered yet! The money has to come from the pockets of these salt dogs.
You can't pay for it without giving any face..." After saying that, seeing Yinzhen walking out, he said again, "Do you think so, Fourth Master?"
Yin Zhenyuan heard Yin Xiang say that Shi Shilun was his "disciple" and his "student". He found it funny and walked out to listen to the excitement. Seeing He Yifei asking himself, he said coldly: "I think you are stupid, Thirteen
I’m also an imperial envoy! Can’t you even make the decision on this matter?”
"Listen, Lao He." Yinxiang was not as serious as Yinzhen. He patted his thigh with a fan and said with a smile: "Shi Shilun is both an upright official and a subordinate of mine. If he lets someone go and you arrest him again, it's not a matter of sweeping him away."
My face? You can't hold any of those people in custody. If the salt dog is causing trouble and refuses to pay, then what is your water and fire stick for? Go back, peel off your dog skin, and take a bath.
, wake up and do as I told you. If the salt merchants don’t obey, they will go to the Fourth Archway in Beijing to find the Fourth Master, or I can do it! Get out of here!” After hearing this, He Yifei no longer dared to object, and kept saying “No” and agreed.
Withdrew.
Only then did Yinzhen ask with a smile: "Shi Shilun is the son of Shi Lang, Marquis of Jinghai. Where did you get this disciple? Besides, why did you drag me in again and force me to accept this student?" Yinxiang stood with his boots on.
He stood up and said with a playful smile: "I won't regret accepting this student to look after Fourth Brother. Fourth Brother, you have evil spirits. You said you were my own disciple. I was afraid that they would look down upon you and look down upon you, so I climbed up a big tree like yours."
" Then he told me everything he saw and heard in Tongcheng County Yamen today.
"No wonder you stopped He Yifei and nagged him so much!" Yinzhen laughed happily and said, "Shi Shilun can be said to be like father, like son! When Shi Lang conquered Taiwan, he didn't even buy into Li Guangdi's account, which was even worse.
He killed the Fujian general Laita and raised a son with such a weird temper!" He sighed and said, "Yes! The disadvantages of the salt policy do not lie in these small dealers carrying burdens on their backs, salt roads, salt
Shang Cai is the coward of the salt administration. The jackals are in charge, how can I ask the fox?" He said, looking thoughtfully into the distance and saying nothing. Yinzhen has such a temperament, he is said to be a cold person.
, sometimes he talked and laughed happily, and spoke eloquently; he was said to be cheerful and cheerful, but sometimes he sat silently all day without saying a word. Therefore, the civil and military officials in the DPRK neither dared to offend the crown prince's confidant nor dare to offend him easily.
To please your children, you actually respect ghosts and gods and keep them at a distance.
After half a day of thinking, Yinxiang asked again: "Fourth brother, have you been working on the river all day today?" Yinzhen sat uprightly on the chair where Yinxiang was lying just now, slowly shook his fan and said:
"I checked the river work in the afternoon and went to Fang Bao's house in the morning. Fang Bao is a well-known scholar in the country. It is a pity that he suffered such a big loss following Dai Mingshi. Fortunately, Nian Gengyao, who came to take the person with the order, actually
He is really a slave under my sect. I saw that he ordered Wen Fengming to confine more than a hundred members of the Fang family in four houses, and several of them were heated to death. Buddha is compassionate, this is too much. I reprimanded him
Nian Gengyao said a few words, except for the main offender Fang Bao, no one in his family is allowed to be harmed!" Yinxiang knew that Yinzhen had converted to Buddhism, so he couldn't help but smile and asked: "What crime did Fang Bao commit?"
Yinzhen glanced at Yinxiang and said coldly: "The "Nanshan Collection" written by Dai Mingshi contains lies that slander the Qing Dynasty and miss the Ming Dynasty. In "Ode to the Black Peony", he actually dared to arrogantly mock our dynasty:'
Seizing Zhu is not the right color, and the alien species is also called the king.' I read the Di newspaper before and found that this person had already rectified the Dharma in West City, Beijing. Fang Bao wrote a preface to his book. It seems that the person who wrote the preface was also Shui Duomian
It's hard to live a young life!" Yinzhen paused for a while and then said slowly, "There is a drama within the drama of this case! Fang Bao can only be regarded as having some involvement, and he is not guilty of a serious crime. In fact, he was brought down because he posted a post to the Fantai Yamen.
I offended the former magistrate Qian and offended the salt lord here. This time he was brought to Lao Ba and something big happened. We can’t stay in this place for long. Let’s take care of things in the next few days and we have to return to Beijing quickly!” “Lao Ba!”
"It refers to the eighth son of the emperor, Yinhu. Among the twenty-four sons of Kangxi, only this "eighth master" is the most popular. Needless to say, he is the first-class in knowledge and appearance. He is elegant, generous and benevolent.
He was steady and magnanimous, and even served as a minister at home and abroad. Everyone admired and admired him. Prince Yinreng was a coward and coward, and Kangxi had expressed his dissatisfaction with him several times. If he really collapsed because of this matter, not only Si'a
Brother Yinzhen, even the third elder brother Yinzhi, the thirteenth elder brother Yinxiang, these people who are called "*" will definitely step on the feet of this "eighth master". Don't even think about having an happy life in this life.
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Yinxiang has always been bold, bold and uninhibited. After hearing what Yinzhen said, he couldn't help but turn pale.
"You don't have to worry." Yinzhen said with a smile, "The car has its own way to the mountainside, and the boat will go straight to the bridge! It's just that our prince is too unsatisfactory. If he is really weak, he can still be treated.
He had a disease. Sometimes he was so impatient that he didn't follow the rules! For example, last time, the emperor was too slow in arranging military rations for him. After saying a few words to him, he took it out on Narsu, the king of Pingjun, and the majestic prince received ten lashes from him.
, which made the emperor even more unhappy. Alas..." He breathed a sigh of relief and said with emotion, "I don't want to think about these things anymore. Anyway, if the sky falls, there will be someone taller to hold it up. Let's talk about everything back to Beijing."
A few days later, Yin Zhen and Yin Xiang set out to go north. Since they had to take advantage of the cold weather, neither of them wanted to show off, so they each rode a horse and pretended to be going to Beijing to take the exam. They only took four people with them.
Gao Fuler, the steward of Baylor Mansion, and the rest of the people followed behind with carriages and horses. On the evening of the third day, they saw a dark village lying sideways in the distance. Gao Fuler pointed on his horse and said: "Ahead is Jiangxia Town!
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Yinxiang originally thought that Jiangxia was a big town, and it must be densely populated with people, shops, and commercial ports. Unexpectedly, he took a look, but it was not the case at all. It was such a big town, with green trees whirling among the green halls and tiled houses, and the scenery was beautiful.
It was very spectacular. Gao Fuler walked around the town for half a day, then came out and clapped his hands and sighed: "Two gentlemen! Back then, the villain ran a single gang here, but within ten years, this town became unrecognizable. Now there is no one in the town.
The shops have all become the residence of Liu Ba's family! We can't even find a place to live! Could you please tell me, should we go to the Shili Temple in the east to rest?"
"Liu Badu!" Yinxiang suddenly remembered what Brother Zhang Wu said under the melon shed in Tongcheng, and couldn't help but be startled. He actually had such a large property and occupied such a large town as a residence! Just by moving the original shop,
How much money is this? Seeing that Yinzhen was silent, Yinxiang said: "Fourth brother, since he is a wealthy family, he must be willing to do good things. I think it doesn't matter if we just ask for a night tonight!" Yinzhen rode on the horse for a whole day.
, I felt sleepy early in the morning and didn't want to run any more, so I told Gao Fu'er: "Wouldn't it be annoying for a large group of us to seek accommodation? When you go to the back and find our people, you can go with them to Shili Temple to get a head start."
Your Thirteenth Master and I are going to stay in the town. You will pick us up tomorrow, and the others will meet up at Lijiazhai and leave together. I can’t ride a horse, so you ask them to buy a bamboo chair and a sedan chair. I will go to Lijiazhai
We'll change the village to a sedan chair. That's it, go ahead!"
Gao Fuler felt a little inappropriate after hearing this. But he knew that Yinzhen always said the right thing and no one dared to reject it, so he agreed and left.
The two brothers dismounted and crossed the Zhai River. When they entered the village to take a look, they found that there were still traces of the town inside. However, a wall was built on the west side, with the original main street as the boundary. Half of the houses in the east area were demolished, and the rest seemed to be newly built.
The warehouses are neatly arranged in rows. There is a "Qi Si Feng" lamp not far from the "street". There are dozens of servants on duty, some guard the warehouse and some are janitors. They are very neat and orderly.
Yinxiang couldn't help but sigh: "Fourth brother, I'm afraid your village in Tongzhou doesn't have such a powerful faction, right?" Just as he was talking, three villagers came in front, glanced at the two of them, and asked:
"Where did you two come from? What's the reason for coming to Liu's house this morning and evening?" Yinxiang said with a smile: "We are going to Beijing. We missed our hotel. We want to stay overnight and leave tomorrow morning."
"These are all Liu Baye's houses. There are no shops." Chang Sui said in a nonchalant voice, "Fifteen miles to the east, there is a Shili Temple. You can go there." Yinxiang said with a smile: "Okay.
It’s just convenient. You can’t be the master, so take us to see your Mr. Liu. How about it? We don’t owe you a penny for rent or food!”
"They want to see the Eighth Master!" The Changsui couldn't help but smile, and turned around and said to the two people. The two people also smiled. One said: "We are five or six floors away from the Eighth Master! We can only ask the Eighth Master's housekeeper.
The slave's slave replied. It's so easy for you to see Master Ba!"
Yinzhen couldn't help but glance at Yinxiang. Obviously, he didn't expect this wealthy family to have such a great style. Just when he was helpless, an older man smiled at the leader and said: "Seeing that these two are both scholars,
He's not a thief, why should he be so serious?" The leader said: "There are plenty of empty houses, and a hundred people can live in the two courtyards. But you didn't listen to Mr. Wu, the eighth master has a distinguished guest tonight. Ren
The Jiaofang girl that the old man bought in Jiangnan also lives in the west courtyard, how can we keep a male guest?" He pondered, looked at the sky and saw that it was already dark, and felt that it was too much to force the lodger to the wilderness at this time, so he said
"Let's do this, Old Wangtou, you take the two of them through the west courtyard and live in the yard next to the Zhang family's old tomb in the north - if you two are not afraid of ghosts, you can live there - go to the Zhang family's old tomb
To the north, we are close to the official road, so it will be more convenient to hit the road from there tomorrow."
"What kind of ghost are we afraid of!" Yinxiang couldn't help laughing, "If it's a male ghost, catch it and let it fan us to keep cool; if it's a female ghost... we are lonely among the guests, so we just want to play with you!"
The leader smiled and said: "Well, Bodhisattva bless you that two female ghosts will haunt you tonight - Lao Wangtou, you can take them with you!" After that, he smiled and led the patrol.
Yinxiang walked behind Lao Wangtou, passing through one courtyard after another. Some were brightly lit, some were dark, and there were still a few restaurants, tea shops, and medicine shops in the past. You could vaguely see Jiangxia in the past.
The prosperity of the town. Yinxiang couldn't help but ask: "What's your master's name? He's so rich? Buying this town is almost like buying a city!"
"Our head of the family is the in-law of Mr. Ren Bo'an in Jingli, and his name is Liu Badu." Old Wangtou said with a sigh, "This money is all the betrothal gift for my aunt, totaling two million taels of silver! I am originally a farmer here.
, I had no choice but to sell the land to others, and I had no choice but to work as slaves for them." Yinxiang said with a smile: "Your family master is quite interesting, how did you choose such a good name for such a good man, but he was named Liu Badu!" Lao Wang
The head said: "The ancestors of the family owned a foreign goods shop, and also did business in silk, satin, and porcelain. He donated a Taoist platform and served as the prefect of Shiqi. The seven in front of him are all sisters, and he is the only one. I'm afraid he won't be able to keep it.
That’s why it had such a strange name.”
Yinzhen was walking in front, listening and thinking, and asked: "Who is Mr. Ren, the person you were talking about just now? Why does he buy so many Lefang women? My father is doing business in Beijing, why haven't I heard of him?
Where is this Mr. Ren!" Old Wangtou said in surprise: "Master Ren is very popular in Beijing and can do a lot of things. As long as you two pay attention, you can definitely find out. I heard that the girl from Lefang was given to the ninth elder brother.
Mr. Jin, who returned to the Ministry of Industry, and Mr. Meng Guangzu of the third elder brother's house, all lived here with Mr. Ren's letter. At that time, the town was not ruined, and the pomp and momentum... tsk tsk..." He
I just smacked my lips, but I couldn't describe it.
In fact, Yinzhen knew very well that the ninth elder brother Yinzhen was the eighth elder brother's most caring, the Ministry of Industry Minister Jin Chengyu was from the eldest elder brother, and Meng Guangzu was the disciple of the third elder brother Yinzhi. It's just that these people are different.
, how come they are all connected with Ren Boan? Just as I was thinking about it, I heard Lao Wangtou say: "We are in the west courtyard. Here lives the Lefang girl purchased by Master Ren. Let's not talk and go quietly. It is the old tomb of the Zhang family.
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Three people led two horses into the west courtyard. They saw that the rooms were all flickering with candlelight, but there was no sound in the courtyard. Occasionally, the sound of washing in the room could be heard, but no one spoke. After passing through the east corridor, and then from
Exiting the north gate is the Zhang Family Cemetery. Lao Wang let out a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "We're finally here!"
Before he finished speaking, he heard a bang on the door of the east room along the corridor, and suddenly the door opened. Then a basin of bath water poured over him. Yinxiang jumped back in shock. How could he get out of the way when he was caught off guard?
I was drenched from head to toe. A woman's voice scolded: "Hu! You are so insulting! You pestered me again and again along the way! We have rules in music, and we have to sell our songs and not our bodies. This is what we have said before!"
A woman is taking a shower, why are you wandering around here, going left and right?" With that said, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old woman jumped out from the east room door, with wet hair, wearing floral trousers, and
She was wearing a white kaner, with a few freckles on Guazi's face. Her pretty brows were filled with anger, and her snow-white arms made her look really fresh. The woman came to Yinxiang and was about to scold him again when she saw that she had made a mistake.
He was stunned for a moment and didn't say anything. (To be continued)
