After reading the titles and abridgements of these articles, Ji Qingwen couldn't help but sigh - it turned out that on the Internet in later generations, those grandiose and bluffing "title parties" actually had ancestors in the Ming Dynasty!

After reading the titles and abridgements of these unworthy bullet chapters, Ji Qingwen's anger actually calmed down, and he said to Li Yan with a smile: "The people who wrote these impeachment articles must have been two Jinshi and well-educated. It's a pity that so many sage books were read by them into the dog's stomach, and finally turned into a dog's fart and released it, which really stinks. ”

Li Yan's desire to gain fame in the field was not extinguished, and he was unwilling to follow Ji Qingwen to insult these officials, so he changed his words and said: "I was going to persuade Brother Ji to read these articles, just treat it as a mess and don't take it to heart." Seeing Brother Ji so free and easy, I was relieved. ”

Ji Qingwen said with a straight face: "But these people are like a large group of flies, 'buzzing' around you, arguing endlessly, although the bite doesn't hurt you, but it's enough to disturb you......"

Li Yan continued: "This is also a helpless thing, Emperor Shizong (Jiajing) and Emperor Shenzong (Wanli) are also miserable by the officials. Even the old minister Zhang Jiangling (Zhang Juzheng), who was a first-hand minister, was attacked so much that he almost resigned and killed himself......"

Ji Qingwen said: "Actually, if you are serious with these people, you will lose." What is there to argue with the speakers, there is a master surnamed Zhou on my side who said that if you squeeze a fly, you have to squeeze its belly, pull out its intestines, and then use its intestines to strangle its neck and pull it hard, and then pick up the knife and drop it - guess what? The whole world is clean. ”

"What does Brother Ji mean......" Li Yan asked.

"The meaning is very simple, as long as there is a knife in hand, then whatever the flies do to mess around, they can be treated as if they are barking at rabid dogs." Ji Qingwen replied, "The emperor has opened his mouth and asked me to recruit a team to practice, so I want to send the knife to me." In my opinion, the most important thing now is to recruit the team as soon as possible, so that we can escort the silk and silver taels in the future, and we will no longer have to worry about the harassment of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce. The Suzhou Chamber of Commerce has been subdued by us, so these officials who speak for the Chamber of Commerce will naturally shut up! ”

This is really a plan to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and draw wages from the bottom of the kettle, Li Yan, as a scribe, although he felt that this plan was a little rougher, but he couldn't find any thorns, so he said: "This is indeed a clever strategy." However, looking at the meaning of the letter of Inspector Sun, it seems that it is a little difficult to weave the yamen to bear the military expenses. ”

Ji Qingwen's intention to organize the army was very resolute, and he calculated: "Now I have more than 40,000 but less than 50,000 taels of silver in my hand, and I can take out 30,000 taels and use them at any time. In addition, we still have 500 pieces of silk in our warehouse, and now I have a survey in my hand, and if I sell these silks to Zheng Zhilong, I can exchange them for 300,000 taels of silver, and when I pay off the raw silk and various materials in Huzhou at the end of the year, I will be able to leave 200,000 taels. I just don't know how much it costs to raise a soldier in the Ming Dynasty......"

Li Yan frowned and said: "I used to study hard, and I always thought that silver and military affairs were trivial affairs. But I didn't expect that there was such a big knowledge in it. However, I thought that since we wanted to raise troops, or whether it was expensive but not too expensive, we would do what we could, recruit about 200 people first, and then expand the recruitment when the training has improved and the money has been accumulated. ”

This is said very properly, Ji Qingwen even claimed that it was, and said: "There is also the letter from Teacher Sun asking me to find the descendants of the Qi family, and I don't know where to find such a person?" ”

Li Yan shook his head and smiled, "Brother Ji, what's wrong?" Don't forget, there is now an extra Li Yuanyin by your side. He is the commander of the Jinyi Guard, his ears and eyes are very clear, and assisting Brother Ji in training is also one of his own jobs, so he naturally works hard. Brother Ji asked him to go and search, but it wasn't easy? ”

When Ji Qingwen heard this, he immediately grinned and said, "Good idea, good idea, it's better to let Li Yuanyin go out and find something to do than to stare at me all day long." I will ask him to visit the descendants of Qi Jiajun tomorrow. ”

Although Ji Qingwen knew that it was Jinyiwei's ability to investigate other people's whereabouts, he didn't expect that Li Yuanyin's work efficiency would be so high - he ordered Li Yuanyin to explore the whereabouts of the descendants of the Qi family army in the morning, and the news of the descendants of the "Qi family army" had already come in the evening, and even the name, place of origin, and residence were investigated clearly.

Ji Qingwen was very happy to hear the news, and forgot the identity of Li Yuanyin's spy leader for a while, and made an appointment to go together tomorrow to find the former guerrilla general of the Qi family army called "Chen Wenzhao".

Listening to Li Yuanyin's information, Chen Wenzhao is now in Yiwu to make a living from mining, and Suzhou to Yiwu has nearly 600 miles of road, fast horses have to travel for two days, so Ji Qingwen made an appointment with Li Yan, Li Yuanyin and Huang Degong, and set off early the next morning, as for the affairs of weaving the yamen, it was handed over to Song Yingxing and the more than nine guilds to handle.

The next day was a sunny day, and the sun hanging high in the sky early in the morning drove away a trace of cold breath in the winter in the south of the Yangtze River.

Ji Qingwen dressed neatly and took a horse with Li Yan, breathed a breath of slightly chilly air, and set off to meet Li Yuanyin, who had agreed to be in Xumen in the south of Suzhou, and then went south together, passing through Hangzhou, and then going to Yiwu.

However, before Ji Qingwen really set off, he was blocked in the yamen.

I saw twenty or thirty people standing densely at the entrance of the weaving yamen, although these people did not carry weapons in their hands, and they seemed to have some minor injuries on their bodies and faces, but their attitude was very resolute - they just didn't let Ji Qingwen go out and leave.

This is strange, Ji Qingwen himself is the weaving commander, how can there be a reason that he is blocked in the weaving yamen and can't leave?

Thinking that he had an urgent matter to do, Ji Qingwen became angry on the spot and scolded angrily: "You are all crazy? Lao Tzu is an official of the imperial court and a minister of the Qin mission, and he dares to block my drive, is there still a royal law in Suzhou City? ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a woman's voice came from the crowd: "Wang Fa? Of course, there is a royal law in the city of Suzhou. I think you're preparing to abscond in fear of crime, that's why you sent someone to block you here! ”

"!" Ji Qingwen said angrily, "What sin do I have to fear? Why don't you hurry up and flash the way for me, I have important things to do. ”

The familiar woman's voice sounded in the crowd again: "Running for your life is of course an important thing." But I can't let you do it, sir...... Hum! I'll call you an adult for now...... Or let me stay in the yamen! ”

Oh, what a breath!

Ji Qingwen had more or less guessed the identity of the person who came from his voice, so he asked: "It turns out that Miss Shen Shenbi is here, since you are here, why hide your head and show your tail, if you have something to say, we will make it clear in front of the gong and the drum on the opposite side." ”

In ancient times, women only had a surname but no name, so some women who had read books would give themselves a "character" in order to be called - for example, the word "such as" in Na Liu was the "character" she gave herself. As for Miss Shen's word "Shen Bi", she also took it herself.

After Ji Qingwen inquired about the "word" of this Miss Shen from Ge Sheng, he also specifically asked Li Yan about the origin of the word "Shenbi" - it was from the sentence "Long smoke is empty, the moon is thousands of miles, the floating light is golden, and the still shadow is sinking" in Fan Zhongyan's "The Story of Yueyang Tower" in the Northern Song Dynasty.

But said that Shen Shenbi was a woman after all, and was named by Ji Qingwen, embarrassed to hide behind others anymore, and finally leaned out and said: "Since the adults already know my identity, they naturally understand my intentions, so please go back to the house and don't move around at will." ”

Ji Qingwen looked at it, but saw that Shen Shenbi was small and exquisite, with a pair of big round eyes flickering, a frozen red face and fleshy flesh, and a small red cotton gown, which made her whole person look extremely cute--the "Miss Shen Family" who almost pushed Ji Qingwen to a dead end a few days ago was completely incompatible.

Ji Qingwen saw that although Shen Shenbi's appearance and temperament were not as beautiful as Zhou Xiuying of the White Lotus Sect, and not as heroic as Liu Ru, she was also a first-class beauty, not comparable to a little girl like Xing'er.