Chapter 997: Overnight in Thornton Harbor

Shen Xi's attitude is clear, and after a few words, he is righteous and strict, and he is loud, and he sums it up a little, if you want me to play with you, there is no door. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

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Originally, I just went to Quanzhou to stay for a day to rest and recuperate, but now it seems that this place can't stay longer for a day, and I have to go on the road tomorrow morning, otherwise I don't know what happened when I die.

Wu Sheng was stunned by Shen Xi's words, and after thinking about it, Shen Xi's logic was rigorous and irrefutable, but he also knew that this was just Shen Xi making excuses.

"Your ......, my lord"

Wu Sheng wanted to continue to persuade, but Shen Xi didn't give him a chance, slapped the coffee table, and shouted: "Come on, send off guests!" ”

Shen Xi didn't want to listen to Wu Sheng and the Quanzhou gentry anymore, if he listened any more, maybe he would really get to the point where it would be difficult to ride a tiger, and he would be forced to play with these people.

In fact, where the city is located, it has nothing to do with the governors of the three provinces, to put it bluntly, it is a question of where to unload the goods of the Francophone and where to buy the goods, the merchants in Fuzhou City make money, and the profits of the people of Quanzhou Mansion have no impact on Shenxi, anyway, they are all trading with the Ming Dynasty.

The reason why the imperial court moved Quanzhou City to Fuzhou was not only because Fuzhou was the location of the Fujian political envoy, but also because Fuzhou had the convenience of the Minjiang River, and the water transportation conditions were much better than those in Quanzhou.

Fujian Province is crisscrossed by mountains, and there is not much difference in comparison with the land route.

Wu Sheng's face was full of disappointment, but seeing that Shen Xi looked like he didn't eat oil and salt, he could only get up and say goodbye and leave with the gentry of Quanzhou Mansion.

It happened to be sunset, and Shen Xi was in a bad mood.

I was sleeping soundly, but I was disturbed by the arrival of these people, and I was looking for someone to play this bad thing together, so that no one felt angry.

Shen Xi was ready to leave with his troops and horses early the next morning, even if the officers and soldiers had opinions, they would have to stay up for a few more days, and wait until they arrived in Fuzhou City to rest for a few more days.

Since Quanzhou to Fuzhou, the road is relatively smooth, there is no need to worry about the invasion of bandits, even if there is a small group of bandits, they have long fled when they heard that the official army has arrived.

Shen Xi came out of the official post hall, Jing Yue stood in front of the backyard door, and asked Shen Xi with some puzzlement: "My lord, the Quanzhou government asks you to jointly play and move the city department back to Quanzhou, this is a great thing, why don't you allow it?" ”

Shen Xi glared at him: "Are you from Quanzhou?" ”

Jing Yue was stunned for a moment, then shook his head.

Shen Xi said angrily: "Since you are not from Quanzhou, you should say less things that do not fit your identity." Where did the imperial court set up the city, and was it the military that should interfere? Besides, how do you know that it is a good thing that the city is located in Quanzhou? Could it be that being located in Fuzhou will have an impact on the life of your family? ”

Jing Yue thought about it carefully, where the city division was located, he couldn't fight with him, he just felt that his position was higher than before, and his sense of responsibility was high, so he expressed his views on government affairs in a timely manner, explained his views and positions, and sought others to correct them. But Shen Xi came up and gave him a slap in the face and warned him to keep to himself.

The setting of the City Ship Division does not involve Shen Xi's own vital interests, and there is no need to act on his behalf at all. Don't think that the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, whether it is the eunuch guarding the eunuch or the brocade guard, or supervising the imperial history, there are always people who have heard about it, and it will not be long before the situation will spread to the capital and be known to the emperor.

Shen Xi waved his hand and said: "The army will not spend the night in the city tonight, before it closes the gate after dark, all of them will go out of the city to Thornton Harbor and camp with the naval army...... Tomorrow morning, the whole army will set off and go north to Fuzhou! ”

"My lord, the soldiers learned that they were all drying their bedding for a day, and their clothes were washed and not yet dried, so they pulled them out......" Jing Yue's face was full of embarrassment, because his own clothes had just been washed and hung up, and they were immediately put away, not to mention that it was difficult to carry, and it would be difficult to dry the clothes tomorrow morning.

Shen Xi didn't talk too much nonsense with Jing Yue, he knew that the strong dragon did not suppress the head snake.

Once there is a conflict of interest between the two sides, no matter how strong the soldiers and horses are, no matter how confident Shen Xi himself is, he will not dare to mess around, but it is best to leave the place immediately.

If there is a small conflict between the military and the people, it will be considered that the army is disturbing the people, and the imperial historian will impeach the general of the army, and finally fall into the conspiracy and calculation of the local snake.

The best way is to can't afford to hide, it's a waste of time to deal with you, it's better to go, wait until you get to Fuzhou City to rest for a few more days, and after resting, you can go to northern Fujian and southeast Zhejiang as soon as possible to start a war, end the war early, and go home early to accompany your wife and children.

Jing Yue had no choice but to go and convey Shen Xi's meaning.

Shen Xi made up his mind to go out of the city, but no one dared to stop him, even if Wu Sheng, the prefect of Quanzhou, wanted to set up some traps to make trouble for Shen Xi, he had to wait for him to go back and discuss with his staff, subordinates and gentry.

Shen Xi did not ride a horse, but went out of the city in a carriage. The line of thousands of people stretched for a long time, and only after the carriage passed the city gate cave did Shen Xi open the curtain and look out.

This place is very familiar to Shen Xi, and after beating the Franc Man, he returned to the city from this city gate with prisoners and captures. Three years have passed in a blink of an eye, and many things have happened during this period, things are wrong, Lin Dai and Xie Hengnu entered the door one after another, the eldest son Shen Ping was born, Hui Niang was rescued by him and followed him, and even he went to the northwest to escape from death......

"My lord, it seems that someone in the city has chased him out, how to deal with it?" Jing Yuele turned his horse's head, went to Shen Xi's carriage, and said something to the window.

Shen Xi looked out of the window, and sure enough, there were fast horses following from the direction of the city gate, and there were only two horses. Shen Xi said: "Ask someone to stop, ask for the reason, come over and communicate!" ”

"Yes, sir."

Jing Yue personally led people forward, and after a while, Jing Yue rode back to catch up, "My lord, it's someone from the Quanzhou Mansion, they said that the Wu Governor's Mansion held a banquet for you in the Mansion, and I don't understand why you suddenly left the city." ”

Shen Xi said: "When a certain commander is outside, everything should be given priority to military affairs, and no disturbance should be made to the locality...... Send someone to inform you, and say that the official has thanked the Wu prefect for his kindness, but the matter of quelling the bandits cannot be delayed, and the official always pays attention to the local bandits in Quanzhou, and if there is a change, he will send troops to suppress it at any time, and he will not show mercy! ”

Jing Yue was inexplicable: "My lord, didn't you say it before, there are no big bandits in this Quanzhou place at all, why ......?"

Shen Xi looked at each other coldly.

Jing Yue lacks political acumen, in fact, Shen Xi's purpose in saying this is not to show that there are bandits in Quanzhou, but to warn Wu Sheng not to use his crooked brains, the three armies do not dare to make a move against the local government in Quanzhou, and they really want to anger Shen Xi, as long as he says "peace bandits", he can take over the local defense, casually say that Wu Sheng is implicated in the bandits, come to the first cut and then play, the local government has no room for resistance at all.

"Follow the words of this official and pass it on!" Shen Xi Road.

"Yes, sir."

Jing Yue walked away in a huff, and the longer he followed Shen Xi's side, the more he found that his brain was not enough, but fortunately, Shen Xi was now like him, and he was dedicated to making meritorious contributions, so Jing Yue also saved himself from using his brain to think about the meaning of doing this.

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Shen Xi was stationed in Thornton Harbor that night, on the one hand, to gather people and horses by sea and land to avoid the dispersion of the fleet and land troops, and at the same time to prevent accidents.

But this kind of contingency is just that Shen Xi is vigilant.

With Wu Sheng's old and frail appearance, he moved a little crooked mind to compliment him, and let Shen Xi and him jointly play it, but he didn't dare to encourage the gentry and the people to confront him with the official army.

But even if Wu Sheng is not courageous, Shen Xi has to guard against others who may take the opportunity to instigate trouble, this is where Zhang Lian's party is located, and only Zhang Lian was punished by Shen Xi at the beginning, and there are not a few people who are related to Zhang Lian's interests.

That night, Shen Xi was reading the official document in the big tent of the Chinese army, and someone reported that "Cai Zhenshou" had sent someone to meet him.

"Cai Zhenshou?"

Shen Xi thought about it carefully, and then remembered that the so-called "Cai Zhenshou" was Cai Lin, the eunuch of Yongningwei.

At the beginning, Shen Xi was ordered to go south, and soon after returning from Quanzhou Mansion, he killed a horse gun from Tingzhou, and used Quanzhou Wei to command Wang He's soldiers and horses to take down the prefect Zhang Lian and others. Later, Shen Xi learned that Eunuch Cai was not helping Zhang Lian to speak at all, but was afraid of provoking fire and burning, and after being coerced and lured by Shen Xi, Eunuch Cai immediately fell to Shen Xi, and even drew a charge on Zhang Lian's crime and fell into the well.

After that, Wang He was promoted to Huguang to command the envoy to serve as the commander of the capital, and the future is limitless, while Cai Lin was aggrieved, he was an old eunuch, he didn't know a big character, and Yongningwei did not send troops at all in the battle with the Francophile, and he did not get an inch, so that Cai Lin is still nesting in the remote place of Yongningwei.

Cai Lin came to give Shen Xi a gift, on the one hand, to show his closeness, and on the other hand, he wanted Shen Xi to help, so that he could be transferred back to the capital, or go to some relatively wealthy places.

"My lord, the messenger is outside, do you want to meet you?"

Jing Yue asked, and Shen Xi was reading Cai Lin's letter at this time.

Cai Lin didn't dare to come to see Shen Xi in person, which was completely different from his attitude when he was in a hurry to Quanzhou Wei to denounce Shen Xi.

At that time, Eunuch Cai regarded Shen Xi as a messy boy, and wanted to cure Shen Xi's crimes from the position of a superior. But now the situation is diametrically opposite, Shen Xi has become Shangguan, for Shangguan passing through his own town, Eunuch Cai did not dare to leave his post without permission to avoid being made a fuss, so he could only write a letter with his eyes and send a "thin gift" by the way, in order to get Shen Xi's gift.

Even if Shen Xi doesn't see him, he hopes to ask Shen Xi, the "old man", to help him say a few more kind words.

Shen Xi shook his head slightly after reading the letter. Cai Lin is not very literate and cannot write a complete letter, so he can only ask someone to write it according to his paraphrase, so that this kind of letter is no longer an ordinary private letter, but an official letter...... How dare Cai Lin openly mention bribery and solicitation in the official letter?

"The messenger is gone!"

Shen Xi instructed, "Let the messenger bring a message back for the official, tell Cai Zhenshou, the court will remember his hard work in guarding the side, and on the day the official quells the bandits in the southeast, he will be recorded in the credit book." ”

Empty promises, Shen Xi didn't say much detail, the credit book seems to be very important, but it is just a casual one. Along the way, the chief of the guard and the eunuch guarding the town, everyone has a share, and they are not in vain. (To be continued.) )