Chapter 263: The Disease of Mustard Church

In the tenth year of Jiajing, the reign of the Jiajing Emperor reached an unprecedented level of stability and strength, and those ministers who tried to challenge his authority were overthrown to the ground. No one dares to say anything about "the king and the scholar rule the world together", everything is under his control.

Lu Bing, as the most trusted courtier of Emperor Jiajing, was also becoming more and more popular, and it was in this dynasty that a very small number of Jinyi guards in the Ming Dynasty commanded the situation of overpowering the commander of Dongchang. The current Lu Dutang is not a young character who was moved when he saw thousands of taels of silver in the past, as long as he said a word, people who gave silver, beautiful women, and fields would flock to him, and the people who gave gifts would not feel sorry for how much silver they gave, but worried that they didn't have the opportunity to give it.

Of course, 30,000 taels of silver, no matter what, is a large amount, for Lu Dutang, who is born with love money, it is enough to make his old man (in fact, he is just in his early thirties at this time) smile or be in a happy mood.

"Your family is quite comfortable in Dengzhou, right?"

Lu Bing asked with a smile, Wang Qinian knelt on the ground and did not get up, this is also where the etiquette lies, in front of Lu Bing, an official at the top of the imperial officialdom, there is no power for him to stand up or sit down, Wang Qinian replied respectfully:

"Master Mengdutang is worried, my family often misses Lord Dutang in Dengzhou, so I tell the little one, we must not forget to be filial, my family also has a greeting letter......"

In today's terms, it means that the two sides of the guest and the host had fruitful talks in a friendly atmosphere, and Wang Qinian sent 30,000 taels of silver and various expensive gifts, as well as a large number of flattering and flattering words, and this kind of scene will occur two or three times a year.

Nearly 80,000 taels of gifts are sent into the Lu Mansion in Wang Qinian's hands every year, although Lu Bing's appetite for money is getting bigger and bigger, but this kind of silver is still in the top ten in terms of the number of gifts given in a single transaction every year, so Lu Bing comes out to meet every time he receives gifts, after all, Jiang Feng is also a big man.

After the two sides finished the politeness, Wang Qinian gave a congratulatory speech again and then said goodbye and left the house, the reception place was in addition to Lu Bing and the staff in the house, an old gentleman with a gray beard looked polite, but if you are familiar with the details of the Lu Mansion, you will know that this old gentleman is not so knowledgeable in appearance, the old gentleman's surname is Liao, his full name is Liao Guquan, and he is a broken talent in Henan when he joins Jinyi Weizhi.

relied on his own brains and strategies in Jinyiwei, and in the end, he actually got a position of a thousand households, and later because Jiang Bin's case was affected, he was cut to the people. But this person is extremely proficient in the affairs of Jinyiwei, and he can be regarded as a rare think tank in the martial arts yamen like Jinyiwei.

After Lu Bing took office, he knew that he was a military attache of the palace, and it was difficult for him to quickly control such a large organization as Jinyiwei, so he hired this old gentleman to be a master at home. Liao Guquan can also be regarded as a grateful newspaper, very hard to give advice, to Lu Bing very helpful, in Beijing there is also a saying, called 'Lu family mind, relying on a mouthful of ancient springs", that is to say, Liao Guquan is Lu Bing's strategist.

Seeing Wang Qinian walk out of the door and have his own housekeeper in the house to send it off, Liao Guquan coughed, first bowed to Lu Bing, expressed respect, and then said:

"Lord Dutang, Jiang Feng shielded maritime merchants in Dengzhou, and bought and sold illegal salt in Shandong and Huangping, is it too arrogant and domineering, every time you treat each other like this, will it be ...... in the future?"

Liao Guquan is an old man, he also knows that some words are not necessary to be said so thoroughly, the other party can naturally listen to and understand, Lu Bing is also a human spirit, nodded when he heard this and said:

"It's really a bit excessive, but Liao Weng, when Jiang Feng was in the capital, he was a high-flying and domineering man, and he also had some military exploits in recent years, killing the Japanese and exterminating the rebellion of Chen Deaf, which is all a real credit, and naturally there is some pride in it."

These words were clearly a tribute to Jiang Feng, and there was no mention of any illegal salt and sea smuggling, Liao Guquan groaned there and picked up the tea bowl and took a sip, feeling a little dissatisfied with what Lu Bing said, and was about to refute it out loud, Lu Bing continued:

"Now the money that our house earns, this Huifeng Lou also accounts for a share, and the silver they pay filial piety every year is also a lot, this is a good field, every year a large amount of silver grows out, if you check him, wouldn't it be less income."

As soon as these words came out, Liao Guquan over there couldn't help but sigh, thinking that his Dutang was good at everything, but he was too greedy for these blockages, but he still had to be reminded:

"Lord Dutang, the sea ban and private salt are strictly forbidden matters by the laws of the imperial court, if they are not lifted out, it will be fine, if they are lifted out, there must be an unclear relationship between the adults!"

"What are you afraid of, Huang Jin's old guy's younger brother is still trafficking in illicit salt with Jiang Feng, if you want to investigate, the private transactions between those commanders and Mongolia on the nine sides are even enough to be a rebellion, not to mention the Jinyi guards under my command, Huang Jin's master of ceremonies and supervisors is pressing. Who knows? ”

Liao Guquan was about to speak, but Lu Bing over there burst out laughing and asked with a smile:

"Liao Weng, that Jiang Feng is in Shandong, that is, 8,000 military horses, this amount of manpower, are you still afraid that he will not be able to go to the sky?"

Although it was a laugh, it was obvious that he was already a little dissatisfied with Liao Guquan's worries, Liao Guquan sighed secretly in his heart, but he also thought that Lu Bing's words made some sense: Eight thousand soldiers and horses are even if they are the Yue family's army, what can they do. Maybe I'm too worried.

At the moment, Liao Guquan didn't say much, just stood up and said goodbye on the grounds that it was getting late, Lu Bing sent a family member to send the old gentleman away, and he also stood up politely to make a gesture of sending, and the servants in the Lu Mansion all knew that Lu Bing had the habit of sitting alone in the main hall for a while before dinner, so no one came to disturb.

The rhythmic sound of tapping on the table sounded above the main hall, and after a while, Lu Bing's self-talk came:

"You'd better be careful."

The chief eunuch Huang Jin scolded in his heart, the Dongchang spies he secretly sent to Dengzhou were besieged by strongmen in Hebei, and all the money he brought was looted, but this matter was completely carried out by him in private, and it was not easy to take it to the table to explain.

Now he didn't dare to tell others about his seizure of the fold, not to mention how many people were staring at the position of the chief eunuch, not to mention the meanness of Emperor Jiajing, this kind of seizure of the fold caused the ministers of the imperial court to be slaughtered in Nanjing, and he would definitely not care about the so-called affection of his cronies for many years, and it would be light to cut it with a thousand knives, and then again, it had nothing to do with this matter.

Although it is a close time to the slaughter of Manmen, the connection between Jiang Feng and this matter is only like this, and this connection is also a relationship that is forcefully pulled, there is no justified evidence, and if it is really investigated with great fanfare, his cousin Huang Ping and Jiang Feng have partnered to traffic illicit salt and monopolize the salt transportation in a province, and it will probably be extremely troublesome to pull it out.

I thought that there would be any evidence to come up with this time when Dongchang Fanzi went to Dengzhou for a secret investigation, but there was no result, but he was attacked by a strongman in Beizhili, speaking of which, at this time, only Jinyiwei had a national spy network, and Dongchang's power was more often in the capital and around.

But when Huang Jin followed Lu Bing to borrow a secret agent, he was politely and resolutely rejected by the other party, should he treat this incident as if it had never happened?

After Dengzhou was on full mental alert for nearly half a year, Jiang Feng finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, the four barracks in Shandong and the Dengzhou battalion were all on full alert. However, except for dozens of Tie Ding who participated in this matter, and Zhang Liang, who stayed in Dengzhou, no one knew why they should be on guard.

However, several other large battalions were on guard in accordance with Jiang Feng's orders, and they were all desperate drills for their subordinates, and those green forest cottages that did not obey orders in various places became the targets of their training, and after more than half a year, they were already quite elite soldiers.

Now Jiang Feng's fleet has twelve gunboats, all of which are six or seven guns, more than 200 tons of displacement of the improved version of the Fu ship, these ships except for the two in the private port, the other ships are used as armed merchant ships at sea to trade, and now Laizhou's Linjia Island is gradually more than the private port of Yantai Mountain began to undertake more smuggling business port tasks, the private port of Yantai Mountain is now Jiang Feng and Monk Li's merchant ships can stay in the private port of Dengzhou, and now there are many shipwrights in the dock of the private port in full swing of shipbuilding, There are even some whites with high noses, blue eyes and blond hair, naturally the more people you see, the better, the current Monk Li is not the embarrassment he was when he first met Jiang Feng, there were less than twenty ships at that time, and now there are nearly fifty or sixty big ships, but Jiang Feng's fleet size is about the same as him, but there are more than a dozen gunboats.

Jiang Feng walked out of the dock fort in the Thousand Households of Yantai Mountain, and walked towards the workshop under the mountain, in this area, he was absolutely safe, and he was accompanied by a few guards. Halfway up the mountain, he suddenly saw a steeple wooden house with a European style, and a wooden cross on the roof, Jiang Feng couldn't help but turn his head and ask the entourage around him:

"Aren't those foreigners all arranged in the newly built houses of thousands of households, why are they also here?"

The guards behind looked at it a few times and said suddenly:

"My lord, this was only repaired yesterday, and the place allocated by Steward Zhao is a temple for those foreigners to believe in religion."