After a day of drinking, Ji Qingwen and the others began to work intensely again.

After the Suzhou weaving mill obstructed his sale of tribute silk, Ji Qingwen was afraid of any more accidents, and paid more and more attention to the care of the warehouse.

He asked someone to clean up a hut next to the storehouse, and let Huang Degong stay in the storehouse day and night. Thirty capable young men were selected from among the artisan households under the jurisdiction of the weaving yamen, divided into three shifts to guard the treasury day and night, and were paid according to the standard of one tael of silver per day.

In order to prevent many dreams at night, he sent Duo Jiugong to Nanjing immediately, invited the governor of the river, and asked him to immediately send the silver taels and the silk and silk collected through the canal to Jingshi.

According to the practice of previous years, the tribute for weaving the yamen was not paid until the end of November or the beginning of December, but now it is only the middle of September, at least two months in advance.

Therefore, when Zhang Jiude, the governor of the river, heard the news, he felt a little incredible, but when he heard that the Suzhou Weaving Yamen was going to send a total of 200,000 silver and more than 800 pieces of silk to the Jingshi this time, he immediately realized that the matter was too big to make the slightest mistake.

So Zhang Jiude ordered three big boats, personally led the team, and immediately set off from Nanjing, and rushed to Suzhou through the Yangtze River and canal.

In Suzhou City, Ji Qingwen had already counted the silk and silver to be tributed, and he could immediately send it to Beijing when Zhang Jiude arrived.

However, Zhang Jiude was cautious, and he had to recount the huge amount of silk and silver taels with the people he brought.

Ji Qingwen boasted that the items he paid tribute were definitely not short of two catties, so he was very solid in his heart, and specially accompanied Zhang Jiude to recount the silk and silver taels, and then signed a handover document with him, asking him to immediately load the ship and set off, and send the tribute to Beijing.

Prior to this, Ji Qingwen had already asked Li Yan to write a chapter and a letter on his behalf, and after it was tightly sealed and stored, he sent a 600-mile expedited courier and sent it directly to Beijing.

Naturally, it was written to Emperor Chongzhen.

In the recital, Ji Qingwen reported his performance of duties for more than a year to the emperor in detail, and put forward two requirements: first, ask the emperor to order the immediate arrest of the former weaving admiral Guo Jing, and hand it over to the Yamen of Yousi to review his crimes; The second is to approve the weaving yamen to recruit a certain number of soldiers to escort silk and silver.

The other letter was addressed to his teacher, Sun Chengzong.

In addition to explaining the things mentioned in the chapter in more detail, he also talked in detail about Qian Qianyi, Zheng Zhilong, and the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce that he came into contact with in Suzhou during his year in Suzhou. In particular, he emphasized that Qian Qianyi was not a selfless and upright gentleman, and hoped that his teacher Sun Chengzong would find an opportunity to persuade Emperor Chongzhen not to reuse this so-called Donglin leader.

Because it was sent to Beijing in an expedited manner of 600 li, Ji Qingwen's two documents were placed in the emperor's Qianqing palace and Sun Chengzong's study in just three days.

These two people also attached great importance to Ji Qingwen, and immediately drafted a holy decree and a reply letter, but they did not send it to the post station, but sent a brocade commander to send it to the Suzhou Weaving Yamen Mansion in person.

When this senior officer of the Jinyi Guard rushed all the way from the capital to Suzhou to weave the yamen, Ji Qingwen was not in the yamen, and only one more than nine dukes were guarding the yamen.

Because he was carrying two important documents, Jinyiwei did not dare to slack off, and immediately called Duo Jiugong to pass Ji Qingwen back to the yamen to receive the order.

At this time, Ji Qingwen had just landed on a major event, and he was temporarily a little relaxed about the things in the yamen, and he was renting a small boat and taking Xing'er to raft on Jinji Lake outside the city.

Although he didn't know that this brocade guard carried important letters, he knew that the brocade guard was the emperor's cronies, eyes and ears, and he was by no means able to wait for leisure.

So Ji Qingwen hurriedly rowed the boat to the shore, didn't care about drying his shoes that were wet in the lake because he was in too much hurry, and rode a fast horse to Suzhou Weaving Yamen.

returned to the Yamen, but Ji Qingwen was overjoyed, it turned out that the commander of the Jinyi Guard was none other than Li Yuanyin, who was familiar with him.

Although Li Yuanyin is the current Jinyi Commander Luo Yangxing's cronies, he is still a man and a good person, so Ji Qingwen has a very good impression of him, and he greeted him as soon as they met: "It turned out that Commander Li was here, and he lost his welcome, and he lost his welcome." I don't know what advice I have from this little yamen? ”

Li Yuanyin smiled with a smile on his face and said humbly: "How dare you, Lord Ji Suzhou has made many achievements in less than a year, and even among the Beijing teachers, it is like thunder and reaches the sky." No, the emperor sent me down to deliver the decree, and brought a letter from the old superintendent Sun Chengzong, which must be of great use to Lord Ji. ”

Only then did Ji Qingwen know the purpose of Li Yuanyin's trip, and a heart hanging in the air suddenly fell to the ground, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

At this time, Li Yan, who heard the news, also rushed over.

Li Yan is the son of an official eunuch and knows some of the rules of officialdom, and after a few words of greeting with Li Yuanyin, he asked: "Since Commander Li has come to Suzhou, then he and Lord Ji naturally want to fulfill the friendship of the landlord." Let's hurry up and get down to business first, and then talk about it after receiving the holy decree. However, we are only shallow in our studies and do not know the rules for receiving orders, so we also ask Commander Li to bother to arrange it, so as not to commit the crime of disrespect. ”

Li Yuanyin was able to achieve the official position of Jinyi Wei commanding affairs, so he naturally knew the priorities, so he personally arranged for the weaving yamen to clean the hall, set up a case and set up incense, and repelled idle people, etc., and then read the holy decree to Ji Qingwen.

The decree is written very simply and clearly, and the main purpose is to praise and encourage Ji Qingwen's work in the past year.

After all, Ji Qingwen is a modern person who has crossed over in his heart, born in New China and grew up under the red flag, he has no interest in the empty words of praise of the feudal emperor.

On the contrary, Li Yuanyin, who was in charge of announcing the decree, became excited, held the holy decree in both hands and handed it to Ji Qingwen, and said: "The emperor praises Lord Ji so much, it can be said that it is unique in the court. Even Inspector Yuan, the emperor has been complaining about him recently, saying that he doesn't want to make progress, and there is not much progress on the battlefield! ”

This is an important officialdom dynamic, Ji Qingwen chewed and digested it after listening to it, and then said humbly: "This is all the emperor's wrong love!" ”

Li Yuanyin said with a smile: "Lord Ji is too humble. Did you ever write to the emperor and ask the saint to punish the former weaving admiral Guo Jing? ”

Ji Qingwen did clearly mention this matter in the recital, so he replied: "There is such a thing, blame this Guo Jing for going against me everywhere, and almost ruining the major affairs assigned to me by the emperor, otherwise I would not have impeached him explicitly." I don't know how the emperor plans to punish this gelding. ”

Li Yuanyin said with a smile: "It seems that Lord Ji's news is not well-informed enough, before coming to Suzhou, he has been ordered to correct Guo Jing on the spot!" ”

When Ji Qingwen heard this, he was quite proud.

Li Yan was shocked and asked, "What?" Guo Jing is also a five-grade official, a former minister of the Qin Mission, and he killed him like this? ”

Li Yuanyin nodded and said: "I remember what the emperor said himself: 'Guo Jing is so hateful, he can't stay in the world, the vicious dog will bite if he doesn't get rid of it, and he doesn't need to hand it over to the Yamen to make a decision, just kill it with a knife'." With the emperor's words, then Guo Jing naturally has only one way to die. ”

Li Yan had some prejudices against eunuchs and eunuchs, and when he heard that the emperor would simply execute Guo Jing like this, he was so happy that he praised it again and again.

Ji Qingwen heard the news, but there was a chill on his spine - you must know that he and Guo Jing are both weaving commanders, the difference is just that one has a "handle" in the crotch and the other does not, the emperor can get rid of Guo Jing with a word now, so when he wants to get rid of himself, it is just a matter of one sentence.

In history, wasn't even Yuan Chonghuan, who Chongzhen relied on very much, also killed in Chongzhen's thoughts, and used the extremely cruel punishment of Ling Chi?

Thinking of this, Ji Qingwen's face was depressed, and he was speechless.

After all, Li Yuanyin was born in Jinyiwei, and when he saw Ji Qingwen's strange expression, he asked, "Lord Ji, what's wrong with you?" Could it be that you think it's too cheap for this Guo Jing? ”