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Shen Jin came back from the shore and walked to the cabin of Shen Hong and his wife, a little hesitant. Guo Shi was pushing the door out, and when he saw Shen Jin's face was strange, he said, "But what did you ask?" ”

Although there are still a few days to go by water from Songjiang, due to the developed traffic of the canal, the news of Songjiang is becoming more and more detailed.

Shen Hong's face was haggard, his cheeks had been suffocated, and he looked at Shen Jin's gaze, full of worry. Seeing that he would arrive in Songjiang in a few days, Shen Jin knew that he couldn't hide it for a few days, so he pondered and said: "I heard that the prefect's yamen has obtained empirical evidence, and it is true that the children of the Shen family are familiar with the Japanese. Second Brother Qi is also one of the people who were arrested. The people of Songjiang were full of righteous indignation, and they were all worried about settling accounts with the Shen family, and they also besieged the old house of the Shen family's clan last month, but it was the prefect's yamen who did not cause a riot. ”

It's not a secret, the person who sent the letter to Beijing mentioned it before. However, the nephew Mo Ruomu, Guo Shi did not believe that Shen Qi would really collude with the Japanese Kou. It's just that the people are ignorant and easy to be taken advantage of. can teach the three sons to become talents, and Shen Hong and his wife are not fools and fools.

"Someone must be behind it, otherwise it wouldn't have come to this point. The Shen family is a charity home, and every winter they give food and distribute to help the poor and orphaned, and many people are grateful. Shen Hong frowned.

Guo sneered: "Shengmien and Doumien, they may not all be confused." When the Japanese went ashore and the people's property was robbed, they could not and had nowhere to settle accounts with the Japanese invaders, so they naturally hoped that someone would come out to bear the losses. The Shen family is wealthy and well-known, so they are not the right people. Whether it was intentional or not, this Zhao prefect pushed out the Shen family, and it was not the prefect's yamen who resented and complained. ”

Shen Jin couldn't help but worry when he heard this. Shen Li is a Hanlin official, and the people who come into contact with him are all benevolent gentlemen, Shen Rui is still a teenager, can the two of them deal with the slippery prefect?

Shen Hong also thought of this, and sighed: "It would be nice if the second room brother was still alive." ”

Guo shook his head and said: "Master, don't underestimate the sixth brother, although he is a Hanlin official, he is not a nerd who doesn't know the world, and there are two brothers, Rui Ge'er and Quan Ge'er, how much can he help." ”

The older generation of the Shen family is in the office, except for Shen Yuan, who is the supervisor of the country in Jinling, and he is a small official like the fourth room master, who really has no weight, and if you want to talk about the future, you have to look at the children of the jade generation. Shen Li and Shen Jin are two champions, one is in the prime of life and the other has just reached the crown, both of which have a good future; There are also Jinshi Shen Cheng and Shen Ying of the same generation, Shen Qi and Shen Quan of the same generation, and Shen Rui, Shen Zhu, Shen Bao and others of the same generation, Shen wants to treat the Shen family as a soft persimmon, I am afraid that he will underestimate the Shen family.

Listening to the conversation between the husband and wife, Shen Jin had already returned to his heart like an arrow, thinking about the day he would arrive in Songjiang.

On the official ship anchored not far away, a middle-aged eunuch watched the sunset in the distance and turned back to the cabin. In the cabin, a civil servant in his thirties was standing under the lamp, looking at the map spread on the table.

"The Lord in charge has looked at the map of the Yangtze River for two days, what can you see?" The middle-aged eunuch said.

The civil official pointed to the small island at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and then pointed to the Taihu Lake, which is connected to the waterway, and said: "If you want to raise boats and soldiers, you should not be outside, but here." ”

The middle-aged eunuch changed color when he heard this, and looked closer and said, "Isn't it a wolf?" ”

The Japanese are foreign enemies, since the founding of the country, there is always a rebellion in ten or eight years, although it is annoying, but the Japanese are small overseas countries, and the Japanese are islands among the Japanese people, the number is limited, even if it is a scourge, it is only a small scabies; If the people of the Ming Dynasty dare to go ashore and plunder the place, it will be an earth-shattering event.

"These days, after checking the records of the Japanese rebellion over the years, the location and number of times the Japanese went ashore were counted, and it was found that most of the Japanese raided the coastal places, but most of them plundered villages or markets outside the city, and it was the first time that they went directly into Songjiang Prefecture to rob rich families and rob gold and silver. In addition, the number of missing persons reported by the Songjiang prefect's yamen is also much higher than in the past. You must know that the Japanese are on the sea, and it is taboo for women to get on the boat, even if the Japanese went ashore in the past, most of them were raped and killed, and there were few such large-scale looting. Such a big scruple of offending a sea ship is not like what a real pirate can do, so there is a possibility, it is not a real pirate, and it is not a sea ship, and naturally there is no rule that women are not allowed on board. The civil official pointed to the high file next to him and said.

The middle-aged eunuch looked at the file and praised: "No wonder before the adults left Beijing, they went to the military department to transfer these out, and I was still an adult to find out the Japanese strongholds on the sea from the inside, but I never thought that I could find out anything else." ”

Although one of the two is a eunuch, he came out of the inner study and has a lot of connections with civil officials; This civil official is a civil official, but he is not sour and rotten, and blindly looks down on eunuchs, so the two of them are also compatible along the way.

In this way, both of them breathed a sigh of relief, one was sending an errand for the first time, and they just wanted to do it beautifully and satisfactorily; One is because he has a relationship with the Shen family, and wants to investigate the truth of the "rebellion" and help the Shen family.

Songjiang Mansion, He House, Study.

Sitting under the light, He Xisheng picked up the pen, but he didn't know how to put it down. The matter of the "rebellion" had already been written in a letter to the family, and someone was sent to the capital, and the rest could not be left on paper.

What the hell should I say? It is said that the so-called "rebellion" is strange and related to the He clan? Or is it that the He family is being targeted, and the He family is used as a springboard to annex the Shen family.

Hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land and more than 100 shops, this is the Shen family's industry in Songjiang. He Xisheng has been thinking about revitalizing the He family over the years, and one day he will be better than the Shen family, so he pays more attention to the Shen family, so he knows more about the Shen family's wealth than ordinary people.

Although the He family is an old family in Songjiang and settled in the Shen family earlier than the Shen family, their development is always inferior to the Shen family. For this, the He family has been haunted by several generations, so He Xisheng has been thinking about the Shen family's industry several times. But the memory is the worry, but it is just the worry of biting the next piece and biting the next piece, and the whole annexation only appears in He Xisheng's dream.

Besides, there is a person who doesn't know what power holds the handle of the He family, and the He family is still thinking about annexing the Shen family at this time, I don't know who will go cheaper? He Xisheng has been the head of the family for more than ten years, and he is well-informed, so he naturally knows that it is not a good person to kill and rob such a method, and the He family cooperates with him, which is tantamount to seeking skin with a tiger. It is the Shen family that is calculated today, and tomorrow it is impossible to say that the He family will become fat on the board.

It's just that He Xisheng noticed it too late, and he only thought that it was really the Shen family's disciples who were not good and attracted foreign thieves, so he wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob, but he didn't expect that after two months, the sneaky things were revealed.

He Xisheng put down his pen and took Shen Li's post. Shen Li and the He family have no personal relationship, and if they can take the initiative, they must also be aware of the wrong. Whether to continue to watch from the sidelines or choose to pull the Shen family is a difficult decision. If the eldest brother is there, Hesse will hand over the choice; But entering the city is thousands of miles away from Songjiang, even if it is too late to ask now, the Qin mission is about to come down, and the He family must decide whether to help the Shen family or not.

"The Shen family has produced several champions, jinshi, and a number of talents; The younger generation of the He family only has two jinshi, two lifters and three talents, and one of them still has a disagreement with the Yanzhi...... "He Xisheng has to admit that in terms of upbringing, the He family is indeed inferior to the Shen family. Due to Shen Cang's illness, now is the time when the Shen family's officialdom is at its weakest, and if the younger generation of the Shen family grows up this time, it will be even more uncontrollable.

Whether it is He Xisheng, who is keeping vigil in Songjiang, or He Dongsheng, who is an official in the capital, they all know this truth, so they will "take advantage of the fire to rob" after the accident in the Shen family, and they did not expect that "the praying mantis catches cicadas, and the yellow finch is behind".

He Xisheng's brows were furrowed, and he still didn't make a decision.

The lights are flickering, and it's a sleepless night.

In the guest room of the sect, the light shines through the window, and several figures in front of the window are talking.

Shen Hai had already finished inquiring from his friends, and he couldn't wait for a while, so he came over to inform Shen Li and Shen Rui.

"It's Zhao Xianzhong's staff, I heard that it is a person from Yangzhou, surnamed Yan, not an old person around Zhao Xianzhong, but took Zhao Xianzhong's recommendation letter in the same year. I only came to Songjiang a few years ago, because I wrote a good hand, and my character was brilliant, I was valued by Zhao Xianzhong, plus I had a reputation for being a person, and I was treated by unusual staff. He is a fellow countryman with the old Huang Pan of the government punishment room, and his export is extremely generous, and he often eats and drinks together. Shen Haidao.

The road to the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty was difficult, and Mengsheng entered the child's life, and a hundred entered ten; Children are born into talents, and 100 into 10; Show talent into the promotion of people, still a hundred into ten; If you raise people to enter the Jinshi, it is not a hundred into ten.

Although the ratio of candidates to the middle list in each spring festival is around 10 to 1, this is the proportion of candidates who are out of the field, not the total ratio of people and jinshi. The people who fell into the first place participated in the Spring Festival again and again, and the first three hundred people had to compete. How many people have gray hair, and it is also hopeless for the top three. Therefore, either from the ministry to make up for the small officials, or to go out as a staff member, it has also become the two major ways out for people who are unwilling to return to their hometowns to keep their jobs.

But whether it is for the officials or the staff, in the final analysis, it is only for one purpose, and that is silver. Thousands of miles of officials are only for money, otherwise the roads are far away and the transportation is inconvenient, and no one wants to suffer the crime of traveling.

This Yan Juren is from Yangzhou, which is richer than Songjiang, and he is extremely generous, no matter how you look at it, he is not here for money.

Shen Li and Shen Rui glanced at each other, and they both understood that Ning Wang should probably be this person.

Shen Rui remembered something and said: "I got the news from Brother Jin before, saying that Uncle Sifang told Big Brother about a family affair in Yangzhou, and the other party seems to be surnamed Yan and is a salt merchant in Yangzhou. ”

"Salt merchant? It is such a coincidence, Yan Juren is also a salt merchant, and his family is rich, so he only said it for the sake of increasing his knowledge and preparing for the spring festival two years later, so that Zhao Xianzhong will be more and more important. Shen Hai said, his face became more and more solemn, and he tapped the table with his fingers and said: "The sect room, the third room, the fifth room, and now there is a fourth room, and the few rooms that the Shen family can get hold of will be wiped out." If it was really King Ning, did he really want to subdue the Shen family, or did he want to uproot the Shen family? ”

The situation is more complicated than imagined, you must know that it was a few years ago that Shen Yuan of the fourth room began to be a scholar in Yangzhou, and since the two families talked about marriage, it was also after Shen Jinzhong Xie Yuan at the earliest, that Yangzhou Haoshang took the initiative to mention the marriage with a scholar who was not in the stream. In that case, things seem more complicated.

The atmosphere became more and more solemn, and the corners of Shen Rui's mouth twitched.

said that King Ning was against Thaksin, and he believed that Yan Juren had bad intentions towards the Shen family, but if it was said that King Ning had been eyeing the Shen family for a long time and began to plan last year, it would be too much. The Shen family is just a place of wealth, and it is not enough to attract King Ning to worry about it thousands of miles away. Even the reputation of Shilin is also here, and it is true that Songjiang people are outstanding and spiritual, but Jiangxi is also a big province that produces talented people and scholars, and there are also many eunuchs.

"Maybe it's just a mistake!" Shen Rui said bluntly: "King Ning calculates a few points against the Shen family, but he still can't understand it; But this Yan Juren has no kindness to the Shen family, if he is really a son of a salt merchant in Yangzhou, the grievances are also right. Although Uncle Sifang had promised to marry before, after Brother Jin won the first place, Uncle Sifang regretted his marriage again, offending the Yan family. ”

As for the reason for regretting the marriage, needless to say, it was because he had received the hint in Shen Jin's letter, knowing that Li Ge valued Shen Jin, and the eldest granddaughter of Li Ge's hometown to be married, looking forward to becoming an in-law with Ge Laofu, and a mere salt merchant naturally couldn't get into Shen Yuan's eyes.