Shen Xi had no time to stay in Fuzhou City for a long time, after all, the itinerary to Quanzhou had already been decided, and the problem of Zi Qian could only be solved later.

Twenty people were transferred with Ma Jiu, plus the previous team, there were more than thirty people in the group, and it was finally a bit of a bad trip.

From Fuzhou to the south, after the Min River, it is a very difficult journey for the eastern generation of Mindong, along the way through the mountains and mountains, many people need to get off the carriage and walk, Shen Xi these people with smart legs and feet also said that even Lin Dai did not complain much, only Liu Jin complained there for a long time.

“…… Fuzhou and Quanzhou are both seaports, so you can't go there by boat? ”

"Gonggong Liu, the rules of our Ming Dynasty, you can't go to the sea with an inch of sail, don't you know?" Shen Xi said with a smile.

"That'...... The road to the beach should be smoother, right? Liu Jin continued to look for trouble.

Shen Xi said: "Under the sea ban, the coast has long been overgrown with barren grass, and the path is difficult to identify. Besides, even if there is a road and there are bandits and robbers everywhere, Gonggong Liu still don't ask for trouble. This is Fujian, far away from the capital, even if you are a soldier, you may be robbing in disguise, let alone a local tyrant or a bandit from a foreign domain. ”

Liu Jin obviously didn't know much about the complex situation and terrain along the coast of Fujian, he had lived in the palace for a long time, how could he know the sinister nature of this land of poor mountains and bad waters? In his eyes, going to a place like Fujian to be an official is actually no different from being assigned.

Hurry up and hurry, and finally enter the boundary of Quanzhou Mansion.

Originally, I was going to enter the city on February 11, but it rained a little that day, the roads were muddy, and the vehicles were difficult to travel.

As a result, as soon as the party settled down, there was an official errand from Quanzhou Fucheng. There were more than ten people in the official mission, and after entering the post station in the rain, they asked loudly: "Lord Qincha from Jingshi has arrived?" ”

Shen Xi looked down from the stairs of the wooden building, and was very respectful when he heard the title, so he didn't know if "Qincha" was talking about him.

I only heard the post man at the post station reply: "Lord Shen and Gonggong Liu have stayed, and they are preparing dinner at this time." ”

"That's good, we'll take over the affairs here for the time being, you just have to wait for the good messenger." In a word, a large number of people entered the post station.

It turns out that there are not only officials in this business, but also cooks and servants, who look very professional.

Liu Jin was tired for a day, and he wanted to lie down and squint for a while, but when he heard the noise downstairs, he walked out and looked at Shen Xi: "Shen Zhongyun, what did they say?" ”

Because the other party is a Hakka accent of the generation of eastern and southern Fujian, Liu Jin can't understand it at all after living in the north for a long time.

Shen Xi said: "It seems that it was sent by the Quanzhou local government, go, go down and ask." ”

Before Shen Xi and Liu Jin went downstairs, the people below had already greeted them, and the official who had just asked saw Shen Xi with surprise on his face: "This must be the thirteen-year-old high school champion, and now you are Lord Shen Xi Shen of Zhan Shifu's Right Chunfang Right Zhongyun and Hanlin Cultivation, right?" ”

The investigation is really detailed!

Shen Xi looked at this person carefully, he was about thirty years old, but he didn't look like an errand runner in the yamen, his eyes were bright, and the corners of his mouth seemed to be smiling, and at first glance he was similar to a master or a secretary.

Shen Xi asked, "Your Excellency?" ”

The man hurriedly replied: "The villain's surname is Leng, the name is not enough to worry about, we are the errand of the Jinjiang County Ya, I heard that Lord Shen was ordered by the emperor to run an errand, and Hengzhi County specially ordered a few small people to come to greet you, I am afraid that your taste is not used to it, I also specially brought a few cooks, both southern and northern dishes." ”

Shen Xi was slightly stunned, and looked at it again, someone was carrying vegetables, fish, meat, melons and fruits to the inn, and the other party seemed to be very caring!

However, if there is nothing to do, it is either a traitor or a thief, and the Jinjiang County Commander is so enthusiastic that he must ask for help.

"No merit is not rewarded, thank you for the kindness of Hengzhi County for this official, I have traveled far away, although I have done it as an imperial errand, but I dare not work in the place." Shen Xi Road.

The official surnamed Leng said: "My lord, I want to thank you, and I will go to the city tomorrow to tell Hengzhi County in person." But this matter ...... In fact, it was sent by the prefect's yamen, and our Hengzhi County is purely acting according to orders, so you don't have to be too restrained, just let me wait for a good life to serve. Come on, make tea for the two adults. ”

Shen Xi could see that something was not quite right.

Back in the room, Shen Xi called Liu Jin, Mi Lu, Song Laoyue and Song Xiaocheng, saying that they were discussing the matter of entering the city tomorrow, but in fact, they were discussing what the purpose of these people was.

Mi Lu smiled and complimented: "If you are courteous, you must ask for something, and the villain will look at it...... Didn't this Hengzhi County know that Lord Shen was a lecturer in the East Palace, and he could often admire the face of the son of heaven, and wanted Lord Shen to help him say things in front of His Majesty? The so-called Zhixian is attached to Guo, and the three lives are unfortunate, or the Zhixian of Quanzhou is not so easy to be, right? ”

Liu Jin felt a little uncomfortable when he heard this, how close am I to the prince, I can see the emperor every three or five days, and the gift is not given to me, but to Shen Xi, a foreign minister?

Shen Xi did not dare to agree.

The county of Fujian is really not good, the peaks and mountains here are towering, the hills are continuous, the river valleys and basins are interspersed in the meantime, the mountains and hills almost account for more than eighty percent of the total area, known as "eight mountains, one water and one field". Nowadays, high-yield crops such as corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes have not been introduced, and the Ming court has banned the sea, and the people are poor.

The Ming Dynasty in the three coastal port cities of Ningbo, Quanzhou and Guangzhou, set up the city shipping division, although the Hongzhi period because of the nuisance of the pirates and pirates, the shipping is not very developed, but at least this is the bridge link with the southwestern countries, until the first year of Jiajing, because of the intensification of the nuisance of the pirates, Quanzhou and Ningbo two treaty ports had to be closed, leaving only one in Guangzhou.

So far, Quanzhou is still a big city in Fujian Province that can compete with the provincial capital Fuzhou, and even surpasses it. Jinjiang County is the capital of Quanzhou Prefecture, although the magistrate of Jinjiang County is attached to Guo, but there are a lot of ways to make money, can you complain and want to transfer to other places through the relationship?

Even if you want to move around, you won't come to bribe a six-grade Hanlin official, and it is the right way to go to Nanjing City or the capital with the silver.

Shen Xi's eyes were grim: "In any case, after entering the city, you must not accept gifts, nor can you accept banquets at will, otherwise everything will be handled by law!" ”

One sentence made Liu Jin very dissatisfied. Liu Jin sneered: "Shen Zhongyun has made a fortune by himself, and he is ready to cut off other people's wealth?" ”

In the past, no matter how big or small, Mi Lu and Song Laoyue were on Shen Xi's side, but this time they didn't approve of Shen Xi being so strict. Follow Qincha to Quanzhou for thousands of miles, isn't it just to be able to get a cup of soup and get some oil and water after arriving at the place? It's good now, as soon as Shen Xi came up, he put on the posture of a clean official, and the people below are not allowed to collect some hard-earned money.

Shen Xi said: "If you want money, I have it here, but if you collect money that shouldn't be collected, don't even think about going back to the capital, it is estimated that once you arrive in Beijing, it will be a skin cramp, you can weigh it!" ”

Shen Xi is not alarmist, he is afraid that the reason why the local government will be courteous is that the fleet of the Buddha machine people has caused trouble and wants him to carry the black pot.

Historically, after the Portuguese arrived in Asia, they could destroy many countries and establish vast colonies, when they heard that there was a place called Daming, which was simply a paradise on earth, they naturally wanted to do no business and plunder by force, but they obviously underestimated the strength of the Ming army.

The Portuguese saw that they could not do it, so they began to spend a lot of money to bribe the magistrates, and as they expected, the Ming officials were insatiable, and after receiving the money, they did things, and directly sent the letters of state that the Portuguese hoped for trade between the two countries to the capital.

The Portuguese were not going to wait for the imperial court to send them to the court, they plundered the population on the southeast coast for a generation, burned and plundered, and the magistrates collected the money, turned a blind eye to the evil deeds of the Portuguese, and only hoped that these foreign vassals would leave early.

Historically, the Portuguese have been virtuous in this way, although the Portuguese who came to Quanzhou now seem to be a little earlier than Shen Xi remembers, but it is expected that there will not be much deviation in the style of acting.

I am afraid that now that the Portuguese have bared their fangs, it will be too late for the magistrate to find out that these people are jackals, so he wants to bribe Shen Xi to expose the matter, which is a typical behavior of deception.

Sending Liu Jin and the others, who were not good-looking, away, Shen Xi secretly speculated: "If what I expected is not bad, after entering the city, the magistrate will definitely make a false accusation and use various means to deceive me, so that I will go back to the emperor with my head covered and empty-handed." ”

That night, the official mission of Jinjiang County took care of Shen Xi, the Qin mission, and the tea was the best Wuyi mountain tea, and the delicacies were placed on a large table, many of which were rare delicacies from the mountains and seas. Shen Xi thought to himself, if he sent a few more women in the evening, the treatment would be the same as that of the emperor's patrol.

Shen Xi was full of vigilance here, but Liu Jin was not defenseless, it was rare that he finally met an "acquaintance" magistrate along the way, he felt that he was sorry for the bumps in the road if he didn't enjoy it.

On the morning of the second day, Shen Xi and his entourage, under the guidance of the officials of Jinjiang County, went all the way to the outside of Quanzhou Prefecture.

Before entering the city, the local officials have come out to greet them, not only Heng Shaoyuan, the prefect of Jinjiang County, but also Zhang Lian, the prefect of Quanzhou Prefecture, also came out to greet him in person, and there are fifty or sixty officials at the prefectural and county levels, plus the officials who opened the road and closed the streets, and the people who watched the onlookers, almost tens of thousands of people gathered at the north gate of Quanzhou City.

Shen Xi smiled bitterly, the more the other party behaved so solemnly, the more tricky it became.

"The lower official Zhang Lian, led the officials of Quanzhou Mansion to greet Lord Qincha." Zhang Lian took the initiative to step forward and salute Shen Xi, and almost kowtowed and knelt.

Shen Xi got out of the carriage and helped Zhang Lian up: "Governor Zhang's mansion is very polite, I am only a sixth-grade official, but you are a fourth-grade official, and you are the sole leader, why are you so polite?" ”

"How can a local official be mentioned with the close ministers of the Son of Heaven? You are an envoy of the Imperial Mission, and the political envoy will arrange for the subordinate officials to cooperate with you throughout the whole process, and there must be no mistakes...... Lord Qincha, please take the official sedan chair and enter the city with the lower officials? ”

Shen Xi hesitated for a moment, thinking that it was better to observe what state it was before speaking, so he immediately refused: "No need, just get off and take a car into the city." ”

Zhang Lian was a little surprised, looking at Shen Xi's gaze a little complicated, and immediately smiled: "Then the lower official is driving a horse for Lord Qincha." ”

Shen Xi saw that this Zhang Lian was going to pretend to be a grandson to the end, and he had to be courteous, but since he knew that it was a trap, Shen Xi felt that he couldn't let him get his wish, so he immediately put on a straight face:

"The official rank of Governor Zhang's mansion is above me, if you ride a horse for me, where is the imperial court system? If I am included in a book by the imperial historian, I am afraid that I will not even have to be an official when I return to Beijing! ”

Hmph, aren't you complimenting me, I'll just take the rules of officialdom to talk about things.

Although most of the Beijing officials will be promoted to three levels of appointment, but now I am indeed much worse than you, I will say this part, if you still insist, it is sincere to make trouble for me.

Sure enough, Zhang Lian was a little uncertain about Shen Xi's attitude, so he had to give in obediently.

Even if Shen Xi was in the carriage and rode into the city normally, but because of this incident, the government made too much noise, and the people along the way knew that this was Qincha's car, and the road would be congested wherever he went.

The onlookers along the way pointed and pointed, and when they knew that it was the champion of the province who served as the envoy, their faces were all proud and proud.

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PS: The third update is here!

After getting up today, Tianzi felt uncomfortable, he kept sweating, dizzy, and had a splitting headache at noon.

Rest for the night and see how it goes tomorrow...... Let's look at it and give some tickets! (To be continued.) )