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Cangwu County, the capital city, is located on the side of the Xunjiang River, surrounded by mountains and rivers, but it is a small border town that is almost desolate in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

The prosperity of the city is not even as good as that of Ninghua County, let alone a big city on the bank of the Tingjiang River in western Fujian such as Tingzhou Prefecture and Changting County.

The bustling area of Cangwu County is only two streets, and after noon, the shops are closed one after another, and there is hardly a pedestrian on the street at dusk.

As soon as Shen Xi came out of a big city like Beijing and Fuzhou, and arrived in Cangwu County, it was as if the times had suddenly gone back five hundred years. When it got dark, Shen Xi and Tang Bohu went around the two streets before they found a wine shop that was open for business, not a two-story building, but a simple bungalow to sit down and eat, similar to the small tea house in the capital.

“…… Shen Zhongcheng, you are really harmful, take you down to this poor place of mountains and bad waters, you can take a look...... This is a liquor store? What is the appearance of this table and chairs, and the wine and food...... Hmm, the wine is also mixed with water, this is half a catty of wine to half a catty of water, right? ”

Tang Yin was very honest in the second half of the journey, and it was also Shen Xi who killed Zi Qian's subordinate "Yan Lao Er" on the spot to give him too much shock, thinking that he owed Shen Xi a hundred taels of "debt", and he didn't go back to Suzhou, so he had to reluctantly come to Wuzhou with Shen Xi to have a look.

Scholars pay attention to reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles, Tang Yin is a person who likes to travel south and north, he himself has traveled to famous mountains and rivers, and he has the right to go out to play in the mountains and rivers while paying off debts.

As a result, he was "abducted" by Shen Xi to a poor countryside such as Cangwu County.

Shen Xi couldn't help but speak, you Tang Yin has no food to eat in Suzhou City, drink wine on credit, and have been mixed to the point of being so poor, follow me all the way to entertain you with wine and food, and give you a fortune, do you really think this is out to enjoy life?

However, Shen Xi still wants to give Tang Yin some face, no matter how he says it, he is a great talent in Jiangnan who will be praised by later generations, and he is used to being arrogant, so he always has to coax some.

"Brother Bohu, although this place is not as prosperous as the land of Gusu in the south of the Yangtze River, you should think so, we now have food to eat and clothes to wear, but the people who have been attacked by bandits along the coast are separated from their wives and have a home that they can't return to, isn't it much happier than that? Come, come, I'll toast you. ”

Shen Xi raised his wine glass, and he felt a little bitter in his heart.

It looks very good, from the five-rank official to the three-rank official, and become the governor of the three provinces, with a high position, but this kind of life is really not as good as staying in the capital as a noble Hanlin official, at least living carefree every day, working six days a month, in case of wind and rain or the bear child is sick and emotional, you can also take paid leave, and after returning home, there are wives and concubines to serve, and there is a little girl Yin Wen to pinch the waist and beat the legs.

It's good now, come here to endure hardship, no matter how big the official is, is there a fart? Now I feel like I have been sent to serve in exile in a bitter cold land.

Tang Yin shouted loudly: "Change the wine, change the good wine, don't mix the water, and ......rest when you get drunk."

Since they had all come to this remote place to suffer with Shen Xi, Tang Yin wanted to get himself drunk directly, out of sight and out of mind.

What Tang Yin said was Wu Nong's soft language, but what he spoke locally was the dialect of the border between Guizhou and Guangdong, and the two sides couldn't understand what to say. Even Shen Xi can't help it now, in such a small place, it's really not easy to find a few people who speak official words.

In the end, even comparing and guessing, a little "good wine" finally came up, saying that it was a good wine, but it was a little less water, and it still tasted dull.

Shen Xi said: "Brother Bohu, it seems that I will go out tomorrow to hire a few scribes and come back to take care of the affairs of the yamen." ”

Tang Yin shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Shen Zhongcheng, dare to ask you, what is there in the yamen that needs to be taken care of now?" ”

Shen Xi was stopped in one sentence.

This poor yamen does not take any official documents on weekdays, and his errand is not to stay here to see the government office, but to quell the bandits on the southeast coast. He was able to send official documents to the localities in the name of the governors of the three provinces, but it was only in the nature of notices, because the governors and yamen did not have the right to directly govern the local state capitals at higher levels, and if they wanted to do things, they still had to go through the yamen of the three departments of each province, and Wuzhou City was far away from the residence of the political envoys of the three provinces.

In general, the Liangguang Governor's Office was set up in Wuzhou Mansion, just to facilitate the nearby dispatch of troops to fight against the Liangguang rebellion, but the problem is that Shen Xi is not here to be the Governor of Liangguang to quell the local border people's rebellion, but to pacify the coastal bandits, so it is quite unreasonable for him to stay in Wuzhou.

It's a place near mountains and rivers, but not by the sea.

It is better to move your permanent seat to the capital of Guangzhou, but this is not in line with the regulations of the imperial court.

Shen Xi thought to himself: "Since this ghost place can't stay, then I'll wait for my family to come, and then bring people to Guangzhou Mansion City together." Since then, I have been on a business trip and have been stationed in the city of Guangzhou, and the imperial court can't always let me stay in Wuzhou to 'remote control' to exterminate the bandits, right? ”

Tang Yin was greedy for a cup, even if it was diluted wine, he would get drunk after a few jars, and he went to the thatched house a few times on the way.

After nightfall, the wine shop was about to close, Shen Xi was about to settle the bill, the wine shop shopkeeper came over, and said in a not very pure official dialect: "The two of you don't listen to the accent like the locals, I want to remind you that it is best not to go to the street after nightfall, in the past few months, there have been many road robberies in the city." ”

"Huh?"

Shen Xi narrowed his eyes and asked, "Robbing the road in the city?" Does the government care? ”

The shopkeeper sighed: "Alas! The mountain is high and the emperor is far away, and the people here are fierce, how can the government manage it? Besides, there are not so many people in the yamen to maintain law and order in the city, and basically no one comes out to patrol the streets after dark, so it is better to ask for more blessings. ”

Shen Xi couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly.

It is really miserable that the people of this land are mixed up to the point of asking for more blessings for themselves.

Shen Xi himself is a member of the third rank of the imperial court, but he doesn't even have a soldier who can be mobilized, and the court doesn't allocate him to guards, Jiang Liwei and Yu Niang took someone to escort him over, and just let it go, if he was robbed on the way back, it would be really a whine.

"Brother Tang, let's go."

Shen Xi didn't talk too much nonsense, he came for a few days, anyway, he had already seen that this Wuzhou Mansion City was not a place for people, so he should set off for Guangzhou as soon as possible, which is the largest city in Lingnan, and it has been a prosperous place in all dynasties.

Shen Xi took Tang Yin and walked on the street of the Huidu Fu Yamen, there was not even a figure along the way, he couldn't see that this was a city at all, the road was not very smooth, and the spaciousness even the two carriages needed to slow down, and it was estimated that even the carriages rarely passed by on weekdays, let alone the carriages staggered by.

Shen Xi went to some towns and villages in Fujian and Guangdong in later generations, and at that time he still felt that he was poor and remote, but compared with the cities of this era, even the small mountain villages were more prosperous than here, at least the small mountain villages could still see a few small buildings with two or three floors from time to time.

After walking for a while, I finally arrived outside the Governor's Yamen, and suddenly a few people walked this way.

Shen Xi looked carefully and noticed that these people were carrying lanterns, indicating that they were not robbers.

There were five or six people coming, and the man carrying a lantern in his early forties, with a thin build, was the majority in areas where Lingnan nutrition could not keep up.

"This is the new Governor?"

The other side has already asked, and the accent sounds like a person from western Fujian. Shen Xi thought to himself, could it be that the merchants from western Fujian heard that their fellow villagers were serving in Wuzhou and came to visit?

Shen Xi didn't answer, because he hadn't figured out the identity of the other party yet, and if Shang Yingkui came to take revenge on him, admitting it would be tantamount to killing himself.

"How many?"

Shen Xi didn't reply with a western Fujian accent, but asked with a northern accent.

"We are specially sent by the second master of the family to give gifts to Lord Shen, Cangwu Sun's family. Yamen...... It's not easy to get in, this ...... My lord, I wonder if you can give me an introduction? ”

The other party listened to Shen Xi not with a western Fujian accent, and Shen Xi was not the new governor, but a subordinate official or staff brought by Shen Xi.

Shen Xi made a gesture of "please", took the group of people to the outside of the yamen, knocked on the door, and there was a sound of rustling inside, and soon someone came out to open the door.

The man with a western Fujian accent entered the gate, and through the dim light of the lantern, he could see the dilapidated courtyard clearly, and couldn't help sighing: "Where is this where the governor should live...... My lord has specially prepared a yard in the city, I don't know if I can go in and spread the word, please let the governor come out and go to bed? ”

When Tang Yin heard this, his eyes widened: "Go to bed, where to sleep?" Can you have food and drinks? ”

The man smiled: "Of course, good wine and good food, high beds and warm pillows, I don't dare to slack off you." ”

Shen Xi thought to himself, it's really polite!

This old man of the Sun family found someone to give gifts, and he also knew his background, and found someone with a western Fujian accent to come to contact, and even prepared another courtyard for him.

Shen Xi shook his head: "No merit will not be punished." ”

Because Shen Xi's tone was full of majesty, and then looked at the person who opened the door standing respectfully behind Shen Xi, the man quickly knelt down: "The villain has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, and he doesn't recognize Lord Dufu." ”

Several of the attendants behind him who carried gifts also hurriedly put down their burdens and knelt down to salute.

"No need to be polite, your lord, why do you want to invite this official over?" Shen Xi asked.

The man's expression was a little sad: "My eldest master...... Doing business in other places, making friends with some people in the government, but unexpectedly the official forgot his righteousness, and actually detained my lord, my second lord had no way, and pleaded with the government, but no one was willing to help, and now I heard that the governor has arrived, so I want to ask the governor to help...... Say and. ”

Only then did Shen Xi know that he was here to ask for gifts.

This old man of the Sun family may be a local businessman, but he offended the people of the government and was seized by the government with the goods, such a businessman's family is a flourishing family, and the people in the family have no choice but to continue to go through the door of the government, but the officials are guarded, who will offend their colleagues for a few businessmen?

The Sun family really had no choice, and heard that there was a "big official" in Wuzhou City, and the dead horse was regarded as a live horse doctor, so he came to intercede and wanted to ask Shen Xi for help.

"Let's go in and talk."

Shen Xi said, "When the official arrives in the place, he should not interfere in local affairs, but the official will also maintain local law and order, and if he can, he can help." ”

What Shen Xi thought was that in this place where birds don't, it was rare for someone to ask for help.

Just learn about the division of local forces from the mouth of the merchants, and then try to establish good relations with people from all walks of life such as the local government, the gentry, the merchants, and the common people.

When you arrive in an unfamiliar environment, the first thing you should think about is how to fit in.

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