Chapter 299: After many years of leaving home, the boss returns

After Yu Tianxi's seven-year layout, Lin'an City has now more than doubled in size, and both the periphery and the city appear to be organized and orderly. Straight streets divide the city into neighborhoods, with new neighborhoods spawning outside the tall walls around the factory district, which is complemented by tiles that serve as commercial and entertainment districts. Millions of people live in these newly built houses, while their humble houses within the city walls are either resold or vacant.

Zhao and Quan lifted the curtain of the closed carriage and glanced around a few times, the jealousy in his heart kept rolling, making him snort coldly, slamming the curtain and leaning heavily on the back of the seat.

He is a distant branch of the clan, and because of his remote relationship, he no longer has any titles. Fortunately, the family still has some assets, since his grandfather's generation has used the status of the imperial family in Quanzhou to do business, and his generation has accumulated a huge amount of wealth. But he was still not satisfied with this, he felt that since the world belonged to the Zhao family, then as a member of the Zhao family, he naturally owned a part of it.

Like those factories and restaurants that make thrilling money, as well as those shipping and shopping malls, which were originally royal industries, they should be handed over to the royal family to manage, and the clansmen surnamed Zhao should be able to get a piece of the pie all over the world, but now these industries are controlled by outsiders, not to mention that the surname Zhao can't interfere, even those dividend incomes are not used to subsidize the livelihood of the clan.

This made Zhao and Quan crazy with jealousy, like him, there were countless people in the Yuanzhi clan of the Son of Heaven who were dissatisfied with this, especially those who were poor and arrogant, and they had to say behind their backs that the Son of Heaven was too "harsh" to his relatives, and too lenient to those who begged for it.

Thinking of this, Zhao Youquan sneered, these guys are also a little unlucky.

The carriage passed through the city gate, went up the royal street, turned into an alley, and stopped in front of a long courtyard. Zhao and Quan got out of the carriage and looked around, it is said that the Son of Heaven has a secret spy department under the Ministry of Justice, specializing in investigating all kinds of changes in the country, but the affairs of the clan, they should not be able to interfere, even if they want to interfere, there is nothing to be done - although the difficulty of Jingkang has greatly destroyed the clan in the north, but after the southern crossing, the royal clan, especially the distant branch, has grown rapidly, and thousands of people have gathered in Quanzhou alone, not to mention Lin'an. Judging from the genealogy, the entire Great Song Dynasty royal family is less than 100,000. No matter how powerful the secret spy department is, it is impossible to spy on all these 100,000 people.

Therefore, Zhao and Quan looked around not to prevent people from the secret spy department, but to see if there were any people they were familiar with. He frowned slightly when he saw another carriage parked next to him and the coachman saluting him.

"This guy came early...... Yes, every time there is something to make money, he is like a cat smelling fishy, impatient. ”

Zhao and Quan thought as they stepped through the door.

There are still many people like him in the gate, there are more than ten of them, all of them are distant royal clans, and they are not eligible to obtain the title of knight, but they have earned a lot of wealth by relying on the identity of this royal family. However, in the past few years, everyone's business has been affected without exception, and the industrial production has made their original advantages of relying on clan status disappear, and they cannot compete with those merchants who have steamships by relying on commerce alone.

Seeing him come in, everyone was in a cold noise, because of the same clan, few must be described according to the generation, Zhao and Quan are the same generation as today's son, and the generation can only be regarded as small, but he is rich in wealth, and there are many among these people, so it is inevitable that some people will ridicule each other, and he just doesn't know.

"How is Uncle Sixteen's business doing recently?" He walked through the crowd and quietly came to a man in his forties, and asked with a smile.

"TOEFL, TOEFL, and Quanxian's nephew should be good recently, you are doing that sea trade in Quanzhou, and you think you have made a lot of money recently?"

Zhao Xihu, who was called the sixteenth uncle by Zhao and Quan, smiled very amiably after hearing his words, but Zhao and Quanquan couldn't wait to break his face - he was the one who couldn't compete for the fleet in Quanzhou's sea trade and had to come to Lin'an to find an opportunity.

He didn't expect that he had just asked Zhao Xihu how his business was recently, and he also heard that his Luo Weaving Workshop had finally closed down and deliberately provoked.

These clans didn't come together to discuss some conspiracy, and they didn't have the courage to do so. Zhao and Quan listened to everyone gossiping for a while, all saying that their livelihood is difficult now, and they should petition Zongzheng Temple. But when it comes to it, everyone is impassioned, but there is no one to pick the lead. Zhao and Quan were restless when they heard this, thinking about the prosperity of the factories and merchants they saw on the road, and couldn't help but shout: "It's better to get up and go, you have all discussed here five or six times, and now there are so many things outside, and the momentum has also been created, so there is only a petition to enter the Zongzheng Temple, this matter is not illegal and not exceeding the rules, what is there to be afraid of?" ”

"Speaking lightly, why don't you go and hand over this petition?" Zhao Xihu sneered.

"I'm a junior, among the people here, seven or eight out of ten are higher than me and Quan's first generation, and there are even characters from my uncle's great-grandfather's generation, which round will I come out?" Zhao Youquan sneered: "If I come out, the Great Sect will accept this matter, but which one will preside over it?" The official family of the Son of Heaven is the most generous, and if the people still love him, how can he embarrass us? Here today, if there is no more discussion, and the brothers and nephews are still causing trouble outside, sooner or later we will have to be escorted to the main division of the foreign sect, if it is just a redemption and derogation, if it is removed from the court training, who can bear it? ”

Everyone heard that the faces of the outer sect were changed, and now the outer sect is divided into Quanzhou and Fuzhou, which is not a strange place for them.

"It's rare to make sense with Quan Xian's nephew." Zhao Xihu had always been at odds with Zhao and Quan, but this time he stood on his side for the first time, he pondered for a while, and then looked at everyone: "Although the official family is benevolent, they are very angry about disturbing the people, and everyone has created a momentum, and then they will still restrain their children, don't really cause any trouble, if it violates the law, then it will ......"

When he just wanted to say the words "it backfired", there was a sudden commotion outside the door, and then, a large group of palace guards broke into the door, Zhao Xihu's face changed greatly, and everyone in the room was silent.

"According to the order of the Queen Mother, many clans colluded without authorization, disturbed the people's livelihood, and ordered the front division of the palace to arrest and arrest it." The leader of the guards shouted coldly: "All the sects are of the blood of the Heavenly Family, please cooperate, do not resist the decree, so as not to lose the dignity of the Great Song Dynasty." ”

Hearing the word "Queen Mother", everyone is in their hearts, if Zong Zhengsi comes forward, it will be easy to do, and they have someone in Zongzheng Division, they will definitely be able to get the news first, which is also the reason why they dare to make trouble everywhere and create public opinion that Zongzi's livelihood is gone, but the Empress Dowager Yang, who is resting in the deep palace, forgets, if the Queen Mother Yizhi bypasses Zong Zhengsi to deal with them, they can only be said to be self-defeating this time.

The report of this incident was quickly presented to Zhao and Ju, the reason is very simple, it is nothing more than that the children of the Yuanzhi clan have seen the rapid development of the Great Song Dynasty in recent years, and many people who have invested in factories and businesses have made a fortune, and the competitive advantage they originally obtained by virtue of the privileges of the clan is not worth mentioning in front of the other party's management and production technology advantages, so they were greedy, and wanted Zhao and Ju to share the fruits of industrialization with them.

"I have a share in this dragon chair, and they want to come." Zhao Heju complained to Empress Dowager Yang: "Zong Zhengsi knew about this, but he pretended not to know, and he coveted the family wealth I earned. ”

Empress Dowager Yang is already dying, and she has moved significantly less in the past two years, and when she heard Zhao Youju's complaints, she just shook her head, muttered for a while, and then persuaded: "Official, after all, you can't write two Zhao characters in one stroke, and you haven't made any big trouble, just admonish it - Your Majesty is making money every day, and you should also consider these clansmen, and don't take some irrelevant industries with them." ”

"Queen Mother, I'm afraid this matter is difficult to do." Although he fiercely opposed this in his heart, what Zhao Heju said was still very tactful: "The so-called greed is not enough to fill the desire, I gave them once, and with their means, they will come again for the second and third time...... We can't have any hardcore crops in the Great Song Dynasty, and raise a group of people who are useless except howling, this is not to help them, but to harm them. ”

Empress Dowager Yang nodded slightly, she didn't have so much energy to take care of this idle matter, in the past few years, she has completely ignored the government affairs outside, except for Zhao and Ju's harem women to accompany her to gossip every day, it is the Yang clan who comes in to chat with her, and occasionally goes around Lin'an, and last time she took a train to Huating, but she was so sick and dizzy.

The turmoil caused by this clan came to an end for the time being, and all the clans involved in this matter were punished, Zhao Youju did not spend more energy on this matter, no matter how wise he was, he could not imagine that there would be a follow-up to this matter.

The turmoil in the clan is a very distant thing for a small person like Lin Yuhui, and no matter how bold the clan is, they don't dare to make trouble on the railway. As the earliest railway in operation in the Great Song Dynasty, the Lin'an-Huating Railway is currently the busiest section, especially the personnel exchanges, which are busier than any of the other railways. Now this railway in addition to the northwest to Jinling, after Lin'an also extended to Qingyuanfu, Lin'an is not a good port, so now in and out of Lin'an sea goods, half of the landing from Qingyuanfu by the railway, the other half is from Huating transshipment.

This B-word 106 train, is a passenger train from Qingyuan to Lin'an and then to Huating, Lin Yuhui has now been promoted from a road inspector to the stationmaster of Qingyuan Station, he still retains the style of the past, every day to personally inspect the tracks, on the platform to send each train out of the station, for fear of the slightest mistake.

There are a lot of people who take this train today, probably because at the end of the year, according to the tradition of the Song people, they have to rush home to worship their ancestors for the New Year. Lin Yuhui swept the garbage thrown by the passengers into the garbage can, wiped his sweat, but found that an old man came to him at some point.

This old man is still in good spirits, he is a little thin, he should be seventy years old, slightly hunchbacked, when he stared at Lin Yuhui, Lin Yuhui felt as if he had been seen through. The old man twisted his beard, coughed slightly, and then asked, "This little brother is invited." ”

Lin Yuhui is also over thirty years old, and being called "little brother" makes him a little unhappy, but looking at the old man's gaze, the unhappiness in his heart was unconsciously suppressed: "What advice does the old gentleman have?" ”

"This ...... in Qingyuan Mansion When was the train station built? The old man asked.

Lin Yuhui was slightly stunned, and then pointed to the stone tablet next to him with a smile: "Old gentleman, please take a look." ”

The old man hadn't paid attention to this stele before, and after turning around and looking at the column of words "Great Song Qingyuan Mansion Railway Station, Yanhuang Fifth Year and June Standing", he nodded slightly.

"The old gentleman is from Qingyuan Mansion?" Lin Yuhui remembered the old man's accent, so he asked tentatively, the old man nodded, and Lin Yuhui said again: "I think I haven't come back for many years, right?" ”

"It's been seven or eight years...... the old man sighed, and patted the stele gently: "The young man who left home and the eldest returned." ”

Lin Yuhui was about to talk to the old man again, but he saw a few strong men next to the old man come up and said to the old man respectfully: "Old man." ”

"I know, I just ask......" the old man said impatiently, and the strong men looked embarrassed, but it was difficult to stop them.

Lin Yuhui was secretly surprised in his heart, these strong men were very respectful to the old man, but it seemed that they were restraining the old man's actions at the same time, and he didn't know who this old man was and what it had to do with these strong men.

"This little brother, the old man returned to Qingyuan this time, but he just passed by in a hurry, and he didn't even settle down in his former residence before he came to your station...... How long has the little brother been in Qingyuan, can you ask the little brother about something? The old man asked again.

Lin Yuhui glanced at those strong men, and those strong men had no intention of stopping them, so he nodded: "Old man, it's windy here, if you want to ask, why don't you go into the waiting room?" ”

"No defense, no defense, the old man's body is quite tough." The old man smiled, and then asked a lot of details, such as how many new factories have been opened in Qingyuan Mansion over the years, how many people have been gathered, how many roads have been built, and what the big families in the city have done, he asked very carefully, most of them are not known to Lin Yuhui, obviously, this old man is too much to know about the affairs of Qingyuan Mansion, so he will interrogate so carefully.

The two talked for a while, and as the time approached, the bell in the station rang, Lin Yuhui looked at it, and then said to the old man: "Old man, the No. 106 car is about to leave the station, and there are still things to do in the late life, so I can't accompany you anymore, please forgive me." ”

"Thanks, that's a tuck." The old man thanked him, and then said with a smile: "The old man is going to take this train, and he also took the train when he was begging......"

"Ahem!" A strong man coughed, and the old man glared at him, but he kept his mouth shut, stopped talking about the matter of begging, and turned away. All the strong men left with him, only one stayed, looked at Lin Yuhui and said, "Don't tell others about this old gentleman, understand?" ”

Lin Yuhui just frowned, but the man handed over a cardboard booklet, Lin Yuhui saw the seal of the "Military Intelligence Department of the Great Song Guards" on it, and immediately nodded: "I understand." ”

The Military Intelligence Department of the Great Song Guards is a military intelligence agency directly under the Son of Heaven, and Lin Yuhui has also been to Liuqiu, and he has heard of this organization built by Li Yunrui.

The man took back the pamphlet and left, Lin Yuhui looked at his back, and he was even more suspicious in his heart, who was that old man?

At this moment, one of them asked in his ear, "What did the old man ask you?" ”

Lin Yuhui turned around, but saw a familiar face, although this person didn't know him, he had seen this person more than once. He immediately saluted respectfully: "Governor Mengdu." ”

The person who appeared later was Meng Xisheng, who returned to the Great Song Dynasty from Xilan.