Chapter 447: What Qinghe Sees and Hears (2)

When you enter the door of the warehouse, you will be greeted by a lobby. In the lobby, except for a row of counters separated by wooden fences the thickness of a baby's arm, there are only a few stools, a few bonsai pots and a screen painted with landscapes.

Zhang Yunwen walked to the counter, knocked lightly on the counter, and asked in a low voice, "What about your boss?" ”

The guy behind the counter glanced at Zhang Yunwen, but said with a slight smile: "I'm sorry, guest officer, our warehouse here is full, if you have large goods to store, you have to wait for seven or eight days!" ”

When Zhang Yunwen heard this, he smiled faintly: "I'm not here to store the goods, I heard that you have a treasure here, I want to take a look?" ”

As soon as he heard this, the guy was stunned for a moment, and then said respectfully: "We have a lot of treasures here, and there are things that can see people moving thousands of miles away, I wonder if the guest officer knows what this is?" ”

Zhang Yunwen had a strange look on his face, and after a while, he said softly: "TV, it's TV!" ”

The guy immediately got up, hugged his fist at Zhang Yunwen and said, "This guest officer waits, the villain will come when he goes!" ”

It didn't take long for a middle-aged man in a gorgeous brocade dress to come over. When the middle-aged man saw Zhang Yunwen, he stepped forward and saluted: "It turned out that the shopkeeper Zhang was here, and the shop was shining!" Come on, please! ”

Zhang Yunwen asked suspiciously as he walked inside, "What, do you know me?" ”

The shopkeeper smiled: "The villain has seen the dean in Chang'an!" ”

Passing through a screen, splitting two beaded curtains, and bypassing a corridor, we came to the backyard of the inn.

Standing in front of a two-story building in the backyard, the shopkeeper chuckled softly: "Dean, this is where my Qinghe stronghold handles intelligence!" ”

Under the guidance of the shopkeeper, Zhang Yunwen entered the small building.

After sitting down, drinking tea, Zhang Yunwen whispered to the shopkeeper: "How long have you been in Qinghe?" ”

The shopkeeper replied respectfully: "My subordinate was sent here to manage the Beizhou Investigation Institute for ten years, and it has been eight years now!" ”

Zhang Yunwen said with a smile: "Eight years, it's not a short time!" Presumably you are also clear about the situation in this Beizhou, come, tell me about the big and small things in this Qinghe! ”

"Uh, what does the Dean want to hear?"

"The various families of Qinghe!"

After hearing this, the shopkeeper pondered for a moment before he said slowly: "In the entire Beizhou, there are a total of 9,782 households, of which half are families. Among the families, the Cui family has the largest population, although most of the Cui surnames are side branches, but the Cui family has a great influence on them. Under the Cui family, it is the Zhang family, and under the Zhang family, it is the Fang family, which is the home of Fang Xuanling and Fang Xiang. Under the Fang family, there is the Sun family, which is the home of Lord Sun Fujia. There are also the Song family and the Li family, although no one in these two families is an official in the court, but when it comes to the county, they are almost the same as the Zhang family. Well, these families are the main families in Qinghe County, and the rest of the surnames are just small surnames, compared to these families, they are far behind! ”

Zhang Yunwen nodded: "Eh, you talk about the personnel, financial resources, influence and so on of these families next to each other!" ”

The middle-aged shopkeeper pondered again and said, "Let's talk about the Cui family first." This Cui family is one of the five surnames and seven families in the world, and its prestige among the people is really unimaginable. As you can know, when Zhou Shi took office that year, he went to visit Cui's house on the second day, and waited outside his door for half an hour before entering the house. And this Zhou Thorn Shi is a member of the Zhou family in Chuzhou, Huainan, and this Zhou family is not also a first-class family in Huainan. This shows the influence of the Cui family! ”

Just said this. Zhang Yunwen said: "Then this week's assassin Shi listens to the Cui family's words?" ”

As soon as Zhang Yunwen said this, the middle-aged shopkeeper knew the meaning of Zhang Yunwen's words, and immediately smiled: "Although Zhou Tingshi is extremely polite to the Cui family and various families, if the order of the court and the interests of the family conflict, Zhou Tingshi will coordinate on the side and try his best to mediate the conflict between the two sides." ”

Zhang Yunwen nodded again and again when he heard this: "Okay, I already know about this matter, you still talk about the family!" ”

"In the entire Cui family, there are two people who serve as county magistrates and three who serve as county magistrates. Among the women, Cui Hongluan married Liu Wei, the assassin of Dingzhou, Cui Lingyue married Gu Chengping, the Simen Lang of the Criminal Department of the Central Dynasty, and one married Yu Shi Luo Xuan. The other person is the wife of General Cheng Cheng, and the other person is the princess of Li Yuanxiang, the king of Jiang'an. Among the rest of the daughters, most of them were married to county orders and sons. The shopkeeper said lightly.

Zhang Yunwen was stunned when he heard this, thinking that this family really deserves its reputation, just looking at the scale of this woman's marriage, you can know how powerful it is. There are both literature and martial arts, both officials and scholars. Everyone knows that these gentlemen may become officials one day. And what surprised Zhang Yunwen the most was that Cheng Biting Jin's wife turned out to be a woman from the Cui family. As for the princess, Zhang Yunwen didn't know.

This Cheng Biting Jin is not a civilian background in the romance of later generations, he is a real family, his great-grandfather name Cheng Xing, is the Northern Qi Yanzhou Sima, his ancestral name Cheng Zhe, is the Northern Qi Jinzhou Sima, his father's name Cheng Lou, is the Northern Qi Jeju Dazhongzheng, Tang gave the envoy Yingzhou Zhujung, Yingzhou Thorn History.

It can be seen that the families of this world are in the same spirit, refer to each other, and are closely combined in various ways. And marriage is just one of them.

I took a deep breath and listened to the shopkeeper continue to speak.

"There are a total of 3,200 hectares of land in the entire Qinghe County, of which the Cui family occupies 925 hectares. In the rest of the counties, the Cui family also occupies more than 1,400 hectares of fertile land. His family alone owns more than one-tenth of the land in the entire state. The shopkeeper said lightly, "The Cui family will divide these lands with their side branches for planting, and when there are outstanding talents in the side branches, they will increase the number of land and attract talents." In this way, the Cui family has continued for a hundred years. ”

Listening to the shopkeeper, Zhang Yunwen kept nodding: "Well, what about the Zhang family?" ”

"The Zhang family now has Zhang Wencong as the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, Zhang Wenjun as the commander of Yunyang County, and some children have served as small officials of the outer nine streams. And among the women, there are two princesses, one is a first-grade fate, two are third-grade, and three are fourth-grade! ”

Hearing the string of numbers spoken by the shopkeeper, Zhang Yunwen gasped, this Zhang family is too strong, just relying on the net woven by a woman is amazing!

"The fertile land occupied by the Zhang family is slightly inferior to the Cui family, but it also accounts for one-tenth of the entire Beizhou!" The shopkeeper continued, "In addition to these two, the Fang family, where Fang Xiang is located, and the Sun family, where Master Sun is located, also collect fertile land and set up shops, and the fertile land controlled by these families in the entire Beizhou accounts for half of the fertile land in Beizhou!" ”

Land annexation, land annexation, this is a common cause of peasant uprisings in all dynasties.

Later, the shopkeeper talked about the situation of other families in Qinghe next to each other. After he narrated, Zhang Yunwen realized that the teacup in his hand was empty.

Putting down the teacup, Zhang Yunwen got up and said to the shopkeeper: "Okay, I came here today, I came to understand the situation of this family, and now that I understand, then I will go first!" Zhang Yunwen said politely, "You have been in Qinghe for eight years, and I have seen these achievements, and after I go back, I want Lin Ran to show you your merits and mention you to the top!" ”

When the shopkeeper heard this, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and saluted: "Thank you for your cultivation!" ”

Zhang Yunwen smiled, turned around and left the room. The shopkeeper hurriedly followed out and led the way beside Zhang Yunwen.

When he walked to the door, Zhang Yunwen first asked the shopkeeper to go out to see the situation and see if there were any suspicious people on the street. After the shopkeeper confirmed, Zhang Yunwen Shi Shiran left.

returned to the courtyard where Li Shimin stayed, but found that Li Shimin was no longer in the courtyard. After asking, I learned that Li Shimin also went out with a few personal soldiers.

Look at the sky, it's almost evening. Zhang Yunwen did not go out again, but returned to the room assigned to him to rest. He knew that the various families of Qinghe would definitely feast everyone tonight. So, he now sits in his room and waits for dinner.

Sure enough, when Zhang Yunwen fell asleep in a daze, I don't know how long it took, he was woken up by a voice from outside: "General Zhang, General Zhang!" ”

Zhang Yunwen got up suddenly, pushed open the door, and saw a soldier with a hundred horsemen standing outside the door, calling for himself.

"General Zhang, the housekeeper of the Cui family is here to invite General Zhang to the banquet!" The soldier said.

Zhang Yunwen yawned long: "What about Your Majesty?" ”

The soldier said, "Your Majesty and the Rank Lords have already taken the lead!" ”

Zhang Yunwen asked softly as he walked out, "What's the matter, we went to the banquet, what are you eating?" ”

Seeing that Zhang Yunwen cared so much about his soldiers, the soldier was moved, and immediately said: "General Zhang, please rest assured, we also have wine and meat to eat." The Zhang family of the Cui family sent more than a dozen cooks to come over with pigs and cows and wine, so that I could eat and drink to my heart's content! ”

"Oh, that's good!" Zhang Yunwen said with a smile, "It's okay for you to drink, but don't miss the important matter of guarding Your Majesty!" ”

"I will never forget it!" The soldier immediately said categorically.

Zhang Yunwen chuckled. When I got out of the courtyard, I saw a white-bearded butler of the Cui family and a carriage. Zhang Yunwen was not polite, hugged his fist to the housekeeper, and got into the carriage.