"If the Ministry of War comes to ask you next, others will certainly be in trouble, but for Lord Ji, it will just be a mess." Sun Yuanhua said with a smile, "Teacher Xu, don't forget, our Lord Ji is a senior apprentice of Old Inspector Sun. Those civil officials in the Ministry of War are all bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, and if they don't look at the face of the monk and look at the face of the Buddha, they will not embarrass Lord Ji no matter what. ”

When Xu Guangqi heard this, he couldn't help but pat the table and laughed: "Reasonable, reasonable, it's really true." can tell this truth, you have been in the Qiu Baxing army for so many years, and it can be regarded as not in vain. ”

Sun Yuanhua didn't have time to be humble, but Ji Qingwen asked in surprise: "What?" Was this Lord Sun originally a general? Dressed as a scholar, I didn't even see it. ”

Sun Yuanhua hurriedly said: "I'm not a general, but I just helped do some things on the Liaodong front, so I know a little about military affairs." ”

Xu Guangqi said to Ji Qingwen: "Lord Ji is well-informed, he must know about the battle of Ningyuan, the death of the enemy chief of Jianzhou, Nurhachi, right?" ”

Ji Qingwen searched in his mind and said, "I've heard of it, it is said that he was killed by Yuan Chonghuan's artillery." ”

Xu Guangqi nodded with a smile and said, "It's not so much that I was killed by Inspector Yuan, but that I died under the artillery of my brother Sun Xian." The artillery of Inspector Yuan's division in Ningyuan City was actually installed and debugged by Chuyang (Sun Yuanhua's character), if he didn't have his assistance, how could Inspector Yuan kill the enemy chieftain? ”

Sun Yuanhua said humbly: "I'm just doing my best for the country." This time, the emperor summoned me to Beijing, maybe he wanted to appoint me to serve in Liaodong again! ”

Ji Qingwen listened, frowned and said, "It should be right." I once heard the emperor say that he would send Yuan Inspector to Liaodong to take charge of the army, and the plan was to recover the lost territory in Liaodong within five years......"

"Five years?" Sun Yuanhua immediately exclaimed, "Five years to recover Liaodong? How is this possible? Don't you know that the Jurchen forces have already been established and have a faint scale of state-building, and our army has no field combat capability, so it can only encroach on and compress its living space step by step, and it takes the strength of one or two generations to eliminate it. Within five years, he just suppressed the arrogance of the Jurchens, and he actually wanted to recover Liaodong within five years...... Who is the author of this slander? Kill! ”

Ji Qingwen sighed: "What I heard with my own ears was said by Inspector Yuan himself...... After coming out of the emperor, Teacher Sun also taught him a few words for this, but Inspector Yuan spoke with confidence, maybe ......"

Speaking of this, Ji Qingwen couldn't say any more, sighed and fell silent.

Xu Guangqi hurriedly took over the conversation and said with a smile: "Today was originally just a farewell to the Tang sect before the old man and Chuyang (Sun Yuanhua's character) entered Beijing. But I didn't expect so many things to be done in a flash. The old man saw that the person who benefited the most today was the owner of Zheng, except for Lord Ji. The old man sees that it is not early, everyone is already hungry, why don't the owner of Zheng spend some silver taels, and invite us to eat a good meal, so that we can fill our stomachs and then go to Beijing, how about it? ”

Zheng Zhilong got the supply of Suzhou weaving Yamen royal silk today, and he was about to make a lot of money and make a fortune.

And Ji Qingwen went back and forth to Changshu today, and he didn't eat well on the way, he was already so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back, and he hurriedly said: "Good idea, good idea." Deyue Tower is on Guanqian Street, and we will go and eat him now. ”

As he spoke, he handed the telescope in his hand to Zheng Zhilong.

Zheng Zhilong said: "Seeing that Lord Ji can't put this thing down, I'll give it to Lord Ji." Oh, the table clock here, Father Tang still has some disdain, so I'll give half of it - six for adults, and adults will play with them, and it's good to reward people. I'll send someone to the yamen of the weaving mansion later. ”

After a few more words, they got up and walked out of the small courtyard rented by Tang Ruowang and went to the "Deyue Tower".

Ji Qingwen was just about to step forward, but was gently pulled by Xu Guangqi, and only heard him say: "Lord Ji, Lord Ji, although Father Tang Ruowang and Zheng Zhilong's ship owner are not bad, but after all, one is a foreigner and the other is a sea coward, and there are some confidential things, in front of them, they still have to be reserved." The so-called 'if the king is not secret, he will lose the country, and if the minister is not secret, he will lose his body', you should pay more attention. ”

These words were really thinking about Ji Qingwen, and Ji Qingwen was also very moved when he heard it, so he quickly turned around and said, "I remember what Lord Xu said." ”

He suddenly thought of something again, and said: "The transaction with Zheng Zhilong is indeed to raise military salaries for the treasury, this survey was issued by the Ministry of Rites, and Qian Qianyi is going to serve as a waiter of the Ministry of Rites...... Lord Xu is an enlightened person, and I hope to contain Qian Qianyi for me in the court. ”

Although Xu Guangqi didn't agree, he showed an extremely solemn expression on his face, and said: "Then I will entrust my two books "Geometric Original" and "Agricultural Administration" to Brother Xian. ”

So a few people had dinner in the "Deyue Building", and during the banquet, Ji Qingwen discussed with Zheng Zhilong the handover means of silk and silver, and everyone returned happy.

When Ji Qingwen returned to the weaving yamen, he dragged Li Yan, Duo Jiugong, Huang Degong, and Xing'er, who had just gone to bed, from the bed, and arranged for the transportation of silk tomorrow.

After several discussions among them, they felt that this matter should involve the military and political affairs of Songjiang Prefecture after all, and it could only be done quickly, not slowly, and it was best not to have anything to do with outsiders, so as not to leak the news.

However, the tribute silk produced by the Suzhou Weaving Yamen is of good quality and sufficient weight, a piece of silk weighs 20 catties, and 500 horses are 10,000 catties, and it seems that there is no way to transport it in one day.

Li Yan was still resourceful and came up with an idea: tomorrow morning, he would gather all the craftsmen and weavers under the weaving yamen, and there were more than 300 people, which was enough to carry and escort the silk.

The means of transportation, weaving yamen have big carts, but there is a shortage of horses, which need to be temporarily purchased and rented in Suzhou City. However, Suzhou is a prosperous city, as long as there are silver taels, the matter of horses is not difficult to solve.

So the discussion was decided, and everyone divided labor and cooperated-Ji Qingwen and Li Yan commanded and counted the number of silk satins in the center; Let Song Yingxing inform Ge Sheng, and call all the weavers to gather in the weaving workshop; Duo Jiugong was quite familiar with the city of Suzhou and was responsible for raising horses; Huang Degong was responsible for running errands, informing weavers throughout the city to get up and run errands; Apricot immediately lights a fire to cook and prepares as much dry food as possible for use on the road.

So they went about their duties and acted at once, and when the time came, all the weavers who were able to move were gathered in front of the storehouse of the weavers.

There was also news from Duo Jiugong, saying that he was afraid that buying horses everywhere would be too loud, so he borrowed twenty horses from a familiar dart board, and a dart master would send the horses over later. Ji Qingwen suspected that the origin of these dart masters was unknown, so he asked Duo Jiu Gong to reward them with some silver, let them put down their horses and leave, and choose someone among the weavers who could drive the carriage.

After the order was decided, Ji Qingwen looked up and saw that the weavers in the weaving workshop were all in a state of mind and sleepy-eyed, so he said loudly: "Everyone, everyone, it was my fault to pull you out of the warm quilt in the middle of the night, but there is an important thing I want to do with you." ”

Ge Sheng, who was among the weavers, had received Ji Qingwen's great favor and was quite popular among the weavers, so he asked, "My lord, what is the matter?" Can you tell us about it? ”

Ji Qingwen nodded, and concisely told everyone the end of the matter and the task of this trip, and added: "As long as the matter is done this time, Lord Ben will have tens of thousands of taels of silver in his account." If nothing else, I will reward each of you with twenty taels of silver, which is counted as two days' wages. But if anyone leaks the news and stirs up this matter, see how Lao Tzu kills him! ”

The weavers in Suzhou City are much smarter than the tenants in Xi'an City, and they heard the benefits and disadvantages in a few words, and immediately someone echoed: "Yes, that's right, which one dares to leak the news, if you don't do it, we will do it ourselves!" ”

Ji Qingwen nodded and said, "It's good that everyone knows." If this trade route is opened, it will not be a matter of one or two days, and everyone will have money to spend all their lives with me; If it doesn't work, next year Lao Tzu will step down and go back to his hometown! ”

Speaking of pleasure, Ji Qingwen "snorted" and scolded: "Which bastard spoils my good deeds, Lao Tzu kills his whole family!" ”