Chapter 213: Monk Li of Hangzhou

Although Kou Xiaosan is a standard foreign population, his status in his group in Yangzhou City is still very good, his brain is flexible, and he can see everything accurately. And because he was born in a good family, he eats very well and keeps up with nutrition, so his strength is not small, and he doesn't suffer in fights.

Now in this small gang, there is a vague leader, and I have to say that sometimes creativity is the key to success.

Kou Xiaosan has a good friend in Xinghualou, a maid named Shiyu, and the two don't know when they walked together. Every few days, the two of them just look for a place to hang out together. For example, on this day, the two of them rolled together in Kou Xiaosan's house.

Young men and women are naturally dry firewood, and they can't care about saying anything when they meet, after the passion, Kou Xiaosan tiredly hugged his good look, and boasted quite proudly:

"If we hadn't seen the opportunity quickly, I'm afraid we would have become a fool who offended the political envoy by now."

Before waiting for the woman next to her to say anything, she suddenly heard someone knocking on the door outside, and Kou Xiaosan whispered to the good friend on the side:

"Let's ...... it through the back door"

Before the words were finished, the wooden door was kicked open, Kou Xiaosan's good friend Shiyu shrank into the quilt with a scream, Kou Xiaosan was already staying there, looking at the few people who rushed in, there was Xu Lao Er in the west of the city, and he could be regarded as the leader of the party.

I really can't figure out the other party's intentions. The body was still naked, and it was not easy to come out, but there was a dry smile and asked:

"Brother Xu, what is the matter with coming to my brother?"

Xu Lao Er, who had a fierce face at the beginning, had a smile on his face, turned back to the two people behind him and said with a smile:

"Two masters, this is that Kou Xiaosan."

In the inn where Liu Shunhua lived, Kou Xiaosan and Xu Lao Er knelt in front of Jiang Feng, and Jiang Feng said leisurely:

"Come over to the two of you, one of you has a brighter head, and the other has a handle in my hand to hold it, help me inquire about something."

Kou Xiaosan and Xu Lao Er glanced at each other, and they couldn't understand what was going on, and it took so much effort for the two of them to inquire about what was going on.

If it weren't for this episode of besieging the inn, Liu Shunhua, Zhejiang's political envoy, would have gone to Hangzhou along the canal the next day, but at Jiang Feng's insistence, he stayed in Yangzhou for a few days, and the banquets of officials at all levels in Yangzhou were indeed a little unavoidable.

On the afternoon of the next day, Jiang Feng went to visit an old man in a rather remote manor in the north of Yangzhou under the guidance of Kou Xiaosan, and was directly rejected that afternoon.

On the third day, the shopkeeper of the Daping unexpectedly received 20,000 taels of silver and a letter returned by Jiang Feng, and in the afternoon of the same day, the shopkeeper of the Daping led the way to visit the old man, with the largest ticket number in Yangzhou Mansion - the shopkeeper of the Daping led the way and guaranteed, and some things were easy to do.

The old man reluctantly received Jiang Feng and his party, and Jiang Feng talked in the manor outside the old courtyard for an afternoon before leaving.

On the fourth day, under the congratulations of the officials and nobles in Yangzhou, Liu Shunhua's ship went south to Hangzhou to take up his post.

Lin'an in the Southern Song Dynasty, which is now Hangzhou, is already the richest and most prosperous place in the world, after the Yuan Dynasty until now, although it is a frequent war disaster between the change of dynasty, but Hangzhou has not been affected by any major impact, and it is well protected.

According to reason, this is the southern end of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and there are other canals leading to all parts of Zhejiang, and the distance from the sea is also close, to Suzhou Mansion, to Songjiang Mansion is convenient and abnormal, so Hangzhou has been a prosperous place in the world since the Song Dynasty.

However, when Jiang Feng was in Beijing, after listening to the guests of the restaurant chatting, he heard them talk more about the prosperity of Suzhou, Yangzhou, and Nanjing, but no one talked about Hangzhou.

There are basically no waves in the canal, the boats are very stable on it, Jiang Feng sat on the deck and looked at the scenery on both sides of the riverbank, and felt very comfortable for a while, although Yang Shi and Liu Shisan one were on the seaside, and the other grew up by Weishan Lake, but the beautiful scenery in the south of the Yangtze River still gave them a great shock, and they all stood on the deck and looked at it stupidly.

Jiang Feng noticed that the busy boat boss couldn't stop looking at the sun in the sky, looking quite anxious, he was in a good mood here, and explained with a smile:

"Boatman, let's not be in a hurry, just enter the city before dark!"

The boss of the ship already knew the identity of this person who was sitting cross-legged on the deck without manners, although he was young, he was already the rank of the commander of the guard, and he couldn't afford to offend, so he said with a smile at the moment:

"My lord, I'll estimate the time here, if we can't enter the city when we apply for it, we can simply rest for a night in the nearby prefecture and county before going."

"Why"

"Hangzhou City will close the water gate and the surrounding city gates after the time is now closed."

Shen Shi, that is, around three o'clock in the afternoon, Jiang Feng was very surprised, and when he was about to ask, the boatman with a long penny on the side scolded:

"It's all those damn ghosts!!"

In the second year of Jiajing, Ningbo and the surrounding prefectures and counties were poisoned by the Japanese invaders, and the various military horses of the Ming Dynasty were really unbearable to fight, and often dozens of Japanese soldiers could be arrogantly shouted and scolded in front of a big city with more than 100,000 people, and the soldiers and civilians in the city closed their doors.

In such cowardice, the arrogance of the natural Japanese coarse is getting deeper and deeper into the hinterland, Hangzhou is not near the sea, and now it is actually necessary to close the city gate early to take precautions, and these people under Jiang Feng have not experienced it except for Liu Shisan. The rest of the Iron Ding had killed the Wako on the beach.

As soon as they heard that Hangzhou City was actually afraid of being like this, these fearless young men all showed a very disdainful look, and Jiang Feng knew what they were thinking when he saw their expressions. He didn't say anything, but just told the boatman to hurry as soon as possible, and the person on the boat was the political envoy, and he didn't expect to be allowed to enter the city.

is lucky, he entered Hangzhou between Shen Shi, and Liu Shunhua naturally had someone go to the yamen to report here.

Jiang Feng and the others went to find the inn by themselves and settled down, although the street is also the style of a big city, but compared to the prosperity of Yangzhou, it is much worse, but this is normal. Hangzhou because of the invasion of the Japanese invaders, the city gate is open for a very short time, the ancient city is relying on the distribution of materials to ensure his prosperity, now this semi-martial law state, there will be what prosperity can be said.

Not to mention welcoming Liu Shunhua to take office, officials at all levels were in a hurry, and after Jiang Feng and his subordinates rested for a night, they no longer followed Liu Shunhua, who did not need protection. Jiang Feng's identity is here, so naturally he can't be lazy, and Jiang Feng is also invited to participate in the preparation of the banquet in the evening.

After politely refusing, he asked the official of the political envoy Yamen for the way, and Jiang Feng took a few of his subordinates and said that they wanted to go out for a walk.

The deserted Hangzhou is also much more prosperous than the lively Dengzhou, and there are many things to see on the street, but Jiang Feng's purpose is not these, he led a few people to hire a big car and went directly to the destination.

Jiangnan water town, Hangzhou city river is naturally a lot, Jiangfeng's destination is somewhere in Hangzhou Xicheng, Hangzhou Xicheng many rich and noble families are here, almost everyone's mansion is quite exquisite garden, in the woe disaster is not blazing when the scourge of the Japanese is not blazing, retired officials and many rich people are choosing to live in Hangzhou, now the choice is in Suzhou and Yangzhou.

Wealthy people naturally don't care about this industry, so when Hangzhou began to be deserted and dilapidated, many people moved directly to safer and more prosperous places. Therefore, some people in Jiangfeng were pulled here by a cart, and the surroundings were quite depressed and deserted.

It reminded Jiang Feng a little that the residence area of those officials in Jingshi was sparsely populated. Large families all have guards and porters in front of their doors, but the street where Jiang Feng is located is empty except for one household that is watching. When Jiang Feng and the others appeared on the street, the guards standing on the street had obviously seen them, and immediately turned around and ran in.

Picking up the address he got somewhere in Yangzhou, Jiang Feng confirmed it again, and the family standing at the door with the guards seemed to be the purpose of the trip. When he walked to the door of the house, there were no longer two guards standing at the door, but more than a dozen men with serious expressions, who were there watching Jiang Feng send the carriage away, with very unkind expressions.

"What are you doing here?"

The words were very blunt, and this accent was quite strange, not the accent of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but Jiang Feng felt that there was some familiar feeling, and Yang Shishi on the side gave the answer:

"Master, it's very similar to those people in the Xia family, it's from Fujian!"

Jiang Feng nodded, and from the accent, he was even more sure of the purpose, stepped forward and said with a kind smile:

"Qiu Shugang from Yangzhou introduced me here to see Li Yuanwai, and I would like to ask a few brothers to report it."

The dozen or so people standing on the top of the steps discussed with each other in a whisper, one person walked into the mansion, but the others didn't want to get out of the way at all, Jiang Feng suddenly felt that these men standing at the door were quite similar to the iron men under his command, and they all had a taste of blood.

Not long after, more than a dozen people came out of it and surrounded a tall big man, this big man was quite powerful, with a shining bald head, looked Jiang Feng and his entourage up and down, his face sank completely, and he said coldly:

"What, are a few officials going to come and get me Monk Li?"