After being taken away by the envoys of the governor's yamen, Wu Xiang did not sleep all night and wrote a confession. [Full text reading. 】

After seeing it, Hai Rui had a more comprehensive understanding of the siege of Qixia Temple by the Shenji Battalion, and realized that Huang Bingwen's arrest of Chen Yuanhua, Xuande Zhenren, Wu Xiang and the two Japanese was all to forge a chain of evidence, frame himself for conniving at lawbreakers, and finally drive himself out of Yingtianfu.

But Hai Rui is very confident, just as he said in Qixia Temple, he knows how this feudal official got it, and it is impossible to achieve the goal with Huang Bingwen's indiscriminate methods, but he doesn't know that this Dongchang criminal officer has secretly extended his claws to Pang Shangpeng.

Because he knew little about the situation of Xuande Zhenren, Hai Rui sent someone to invite the former "national teacher" to touch his details, but Xuande Zhenren was scared to death, and finally, accompanied by the Elder of the Moon Sky, he came to the governor's yamen.

Hai Rui did not pursue the fault of Xuande Zhenren, but only reconfirmed Wu Xiang's confession, Xuande Zhenren promised that he would never associate with Huang Bingwen again in the future, and would follow Elder Yuekong across the ocean to spread the civilization of Chinese Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism to the four seas.

Since the Tang family's weaving workshop had not yet opened, Elder Yuekong thought that Xingji Qianzhuang was unwilling to lend money to Tang Jing, so he took the opportunity to ask about it. Hai Rui said: He had already transferred the deed and title deed of the Tang family to Pang Shangpeng, and Tang Jing could go to Xingji Money Village at any time to receive the money.

But Tang Jing hit Wu Xiang's idea, wanting to cheat the huge amount of money in Wu Lian's hand, and then find Pang Shangpeng to get back the deed and title deed mortgaged to the yamen......

Seeing off the two elders, Hai Rui Weifu came to Tang's house for a private visit, and accompanied by Mrs. He and Zhu Hui, knocked on the door of the study.

As soon as Tang Jing saw Hai Rui coming, he quickly knelt on the ground and shouted, "Lord Hai, I am guilty......"

Hai Rui waved his hand to him and sighed deeply, Tang Jing hurriedly got up and gave up his seat for Hai Rui, and when the maid offered fragrant tea, Zhu Hui closed the door.

"Tang Jing, this official has already read Wu Xiang's confession, do you know what he did with the 700,000 taels of silver you gave him?" Hai Rui asked.

At this time, Tang Jing lowered his head in shame and replied, "I really haven't thought about it. Lord Hai, I know that I am wrong. ”

"Originally, Wu Xiang's house was going to be confiscated." Hai Rui said angrily: "Before this official had the evidence of Wu Xiang's crime, I didn't expect it to be bought by you, not asking whether your silver was left by your ancestors or Xu Kun's, just saying that the silver was in the hands of Wu Xiang, plus he himself still had a lot of money, all of it was given to Huang Bingwen, so that he could take it to the capital to bribe, and almost overturned the case for Cai Dezhong and drove the old man out of Yingtianfu!" Regardless of whether this silver is the hard-earned money of the people in Jiangnan, Tang Jing, have you thought about it? If the old man loses his official position and resigns, will you live in this deep mansion compound, will you still be so at ease? ”

He sighed and asked, "If Huang Bingwen broke into the mansion that night, they found Luo Amin and sent her to the Forbidden City as the mother of the main palace, official, do you think Luo Amin will be grateful to us?" ”

Finding that Tang Jing was silent, Hai Rui stroked his beard and replied: "What Madame said is extremely true, if Huang Bingwen, Wu Xiang and others catch the Luo sisters, for the old man, it will be much more serious than the matter of Shangshu's impeachment of the first emperor, at least he will be sentenced to a summary decision." ”

Then, Zhu Hui said: "Although the emperor read the secret letter of the Ryukyu Kingdom and learned that Luo Amin had married a pirate leader, perhaps the emperor has lost his heart to her, but the hundreds of pirate leaders sent by Lin Feng along the coast are still investigating the whereabouts of the Luo sisters, so we still can't take it lightly. ”

"Lord Hai, we can't afford to enjoy this mansion, and after the Luo sisters leave, I'd rather move into the market to live."

"As an official, keep one party safe. Now it seems that the country and the people are safe, but in fact, the people's grievances are boiling and turbulent. Since Yan Song changed rice to mulberry in the south of the Yangtze River, the gentry have been powerful and wantonly annexed land, and too many landless peasants have no way to make a living. Look at the brother of the Yue'er girl, you will know, now, he seems to have become the leader of the underworld forces in Jinling, the old man has been looking for him for a long time, but he has not been able to catch him, these people are easy to be used by bad people, leading them to good is good, misleading them to do evil is evil. Although it is said that the south of the Yangtze River is a rich place, the old man, the governor of Yingtian, is not easy to be! ”

Tang Jing was deeply touched by these words, got up and waved Hai Rui, and replied with a solemn expression: "Hai Daren's pure teachings have made Tang feel ashamed. Today, I finally understand the hard work of the adults, for the iron bull and those scoundrels, if you can give them a proper job, it is to lead them to good. Tang is incompetent, do some meager efforts, I quickly set up the weaving workshop, recruit more workers, so that they have a family and a business, and have a skill, which is a great good deed. ”

"Good! It is worthy of being the founding meritorious service of the king of Xiangwu Donou. If you have such a mind, in Hai's view, you can also be regarded as a pillar of the country. Hai Rui praised.

After a moment of silence, Tang Jing asked: "It's just that I have reported the license of 'Jihu Collar Weaving' to Gonggong Liu of the Weaving Bureau, and I haven't given a reply yet. ”

"What do you mean by a machine collar weaving?" Zhu Hui asked.

"The official silk weaving industry of our Ming Dynasty was subordinate to the Weaving Bureau of the Inner Government and the Weaving and Dyeing Bureau of the Ministry of Industry. In order to match the number of pie weaving with the output of the weaving mill, there is a machine household collar weaving system. Tang Daguan, the Weaving Bureau does not issue you a license, you can go to the Ministry of Industry Bureau under the control of the Governor Yamen to lead the weaving, although it is not as profitable as the Weaving Bureau, but the surplus produced, you can sell overseas. Hai Rui replied.

"Good idea." Zhu Hui listened, with joy on his face, and praised loudly, "Elder Moon Sky intends to cross the ocean and Xuanhua the four seas, and the required funds are settled, if we can sell our own silk weaving overseas, it will take less than two years, and we will have the ability to recruit sailors and build an ocean-going fleet......

Before Zhu Hui finished speaking, Tang Jing was furious and scolded: "You know a P!" Back then, Zheng He went to the West to devote the power of the country, and spent tens of millions of taels of silver, which of us had the ability? You guys are so whimsical! ”

"Leave that to be the moment." Mrs. He persuaded: "Lord Hai, then it is decided, the slave maid has been spinning and weaving since childhood, and the work of weaving and dyeing the collar is naturally not a problem, and assisting my family to manage the printing and dyeing workshop, recruit workers, treat craftsmen well, and hand over the business of overseas trade to Elder Yuekong, which can be described as a great joy." ”

Finding that Tang Jing was about to shoot again, Hai Rui sank his face and replied, "Okay! That's it, the yamen has transferred your house deed and title deed to Xingji Money Village, and the shopkeeper Pang can give you money at any time, so hurry up and set up the printing and dyeing workshop. ”

The tearful Tang Jing asked tentatively: "Lord Hai, building a weaving workshop, recruiting craftsmen, and preparing raw materials, I'm afraid that 500,000 taels of silver is not enough, see if you can ask the shopkeeper Pang to be accommodating?" Lend me 700,000 taels is about the same. ”

At this time, Zhu Hui found that Hai Rui's face was embarrassed, and he turned to Tang Jing and asked, "Uncle, is there still some silver in Taicang Huangdu Port?" ”

When Tang Jing heard this, his face suddenly changed, and he scolded in his heart: Damn the enemy! Worried that he would expose the matter of the 300,000 taels of silver, he hurriedly replied: "You stinky boy, you don't understand anything!" I want to borrow more money, hoping to make our family's weaving workshop larger, so that I can raise Sichuan transportation expenses for Elder Yuekong. ”

So, Zhu Hui replied with a smile: "Uncle, if you really need silver, maybe I can help you out, and you don't have to embarrass Lord Hai anymore." ”

Hearing this, Tang Jing's heart was shocked, could it be that Wu Lian's huge sum of money had already reached his hands? also followed with a joy and reprimanded: "At a young age, talk a lot all day long, what do you know?" Even if you are skinned, deboned and boiled in oil, how much can it help? ”

"As long as you really need to run a weaving workshop, please tell my aunt about it." Zhu Hui replied.

At this time, Tang Jing immediately realized that Wu Lian's huge sum of money must be in Zhu Hui's hands, it seems that this kid is very distrustful of himself, and he is still playing tricks with me, hehe, if you don't take out all the money in your hand, I will live for nothing at such an age! Thinking of this, he suddenly smiled again.

In the end, Hai Rui urged: "In this case, let's quickly select a site and prepare for opening." ”

In that year, Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was called the emperor in Jinling, the country name was Daming, the year name was Hongwu, the Dafeng generals were princes, and the Taishi Supervisor was set up in the Purple Mountain to observe the celestial phenomena, and the first Taishi Ling was the famous Liu Ji and Liu Bowen.

In the second year of Hongwu, Taizu ordered Liu Ji to build a city, make up the new palace in the sun of Zhongshan, build more than 50 miles of Beijing, there are 13 city gates inside, and 18 city gates outside.

Shence Jinchuan Yifeng Gate, Huaiyuan Qingliang to Shicheng, Three Mountains Treasure Connecting Ji, Hongwu Chaoyang Dingtaiping.

Later, move to the three mountains to fill the birds, uphold the ancient system to expand the Beijing division, divide the whole city into a number of closed "li", as a residential area, commerce and handicrafts can only be opened in the "city", the city and the city ring with a high wall, set up the door and the city gate, in the east from the Dazhong Bridge, west to the Sanshan Gate (now the West Gate of the Water), south from the Jubao Gate (now the Zhonghua Gate), north to the North Gate Bridge (now the north of the Pearl River Road), set up 18 workshops.

Nowadays, Shuntianfu was changed to Yingtianfu, and the boundary between Li and City was not so obvious, however, Tang Jing took a lot of painstaking efforts in site selection, and finally, he bought the old site of a weaving workshop outside the North Gate Bridge, and began to add looms, dyeing vasks and other equipment, recruit workers, purchase raw materials, under the protection of Zhu Hui and Song He, Tang Jing was busy until the Qingming Festival, and the "Tangji Printing and Dyeing Weaving Workshop" was finally opened.

During this period, Huang Bingwen was not idle, he couldn't take care of the idea of fighting Tang Jing for the time being, and regarded dealing with Pang Shangpeng as the first priority.

Because Pang Shangpeng is usually very cautious, Tie Niu and the others have been following him for several days, but they have never found a chance to start. For this reason, Huang Bingwen asked Liu Gonggong of the Weaving Bureau for help, although this big eunuch was powerful in Nanjing, and his subordinates had countless minions, and he spoke better than he sang all day long, but he just didn't lend someone to use it.

Chen Qianhu, a brocade guard who once cooperated with Huang Bingwen, is a cautious old fritter, although Huang Bingwen promised him heavy benefits, and even promised to help him become an official and become a knight, but Chen Qianhu always left and did not help with things.

Since the eunuch of the Shenji Battalion was beheaded by Hai Rui in Qixia Temple, everyone knows that Huang Bingwen not only did not say a word of justice to this unlucky man, but even fell into the ground, saying that he had been bribed by Shen Qi in private. Therefore, although Huang Bingwen was under the banner of his godfather Huang Jin, he was ordered to go south to Jinling as the chief criminal officer of Dongchang to investigate the treasures hidden by pirates, and brought a lot of Dongchang fans from the capital, but they were not familiar with the place in Nanjing, and at the moment, except for the evil forces such as Tie Niu, he really had no one to use.

Just when they were at a loss, the people sent to Ningbo came back, and although they didn't catch Chen Yuanhua and Zhang Gou'er, they brought back Li Ledger.

It turned out that after Chen Yuanhua returned to Ningbo, he knew that he could not do business this year, and he was worried that his family in Hirado, Japan, would receive 300,000 taels of silver from the Yamen of Yingtianfu, so he hurriedly posted a notice and returned all the money raised with full interest, and then immediately returned to Japan with Zhang Gou'er.

Li Jifang was brought back to Nanjing, and found that Xinglong Qianzhuang had been changed to Yangji Qianzhuang, and its scale and momentum were larger than Xingji, although he did not agree with Huang Bingwen and Tie Niu and others, but he could not resist the temptation of promising a high salary, and finally moved.

Then, Li Jiaofang learned that the big shopkeeper of Qian Zhuang was Yang Gongzi from a wealthy family in Beijing, and his grandfather's official position was higher than Pang Shangpeng's original rank, so he was even more confident. He believes that as long as he works hard as a bookkeeper, he will definitely be able to do a better job of Yang Ji than Xingji, and even thinks about the shares of Yang Ji Qianzhuang. Therefore, he threw down his luggage and immediately followed Huang Bingwen to the store and began to preside over the business on the spot.

The spring breeze Li bookkeeper warmly received customers, and Huang Bingwen, who was silently observing on the side, couldn't stop nodding, but he also knew that through normal business competition, he couldn't shake the status of Xingji at all, and he couldn't change the situation of silk weaving procurement this year.

Li was invited to the study by Huang Bingwen, he mistakenly thought that his business ability had impressed the owner, and he seemed quite ambitious, and just said a few words about the grand blueprint of the business, he began to ask for the shares of the bank.

So, Huang Bingwen smiled slightly, and immediately agreed, and then, he put forward several sets of plans for the winning strategy he planned, and told Li Ledger without concealment, so that this bookkeeper who only knew how to make money in business was dumbfounded.

In the evening, the mournful Li Ledger packed his luggage, walked out of Yang Ji Qianzhuang, and returned to Xingji Qianzhuang to find Pang Shangpeng, preferring to be a little guy here than dealing with people who don't know how to do business.

At this time, Pang Shangpeng was about to go out to run errands, and he met with Li Ledger in a hurry, so he asked Liu Ledger to be responsible for receiving him.

Because he was immediately faced with the purchase of raw silk, Liu Shufang was also very busy, although Li Jifang was his master, and now he inevitably looked down on him, entertained him for a light meal, and sent him home to wait.

Li Jiaofang didn't expect that his little apprentice was so snobbish, so he decided to talk to Pang Shangpeng in person, but he went for several days and didn't see the big shopkeeper.

On the day of the Qingming Festival, it was drizzling early in the morning, and Li did not have an umbrella, so he came to Xingji Qianzhuang in the rain.

With the development of the raw silk procurement business, all the guys in the store went out to do business, Liu Jiaofang saw that the master was drenched like a soup J, and suddenly felt compassion, and there were no outsiders in the store at that time, so he left him to chat.

The rain outside is getting heavier and heavier, just when the two of them are drinking tea and chatting together, suddenly a big deal came, Liu Shufang did not dare to slack off, called two guys, first sent the customer to the living room of the inner courtyard, but at this time it was not appropriate to blow the master away, Liu Shufang left a guy to accompany Li Shufang, let him sit in the store for a while, waiting for lunch.

Li Shufang knew that Liu Shufang would not say good things about himself to Pang Shangpeng, and he didn't expect to eat this lunch, but he was quite interested in the deal he was negotiating, so he quietly came to the inner courtyard under the pretext of going to the thatched house, and hid under the window behind the living room to eavesdrop, at this time, he suddenly found that Pang Shangpeng's study was not locked, and he was originally looking for Pang Shangpeng, so he pushed the door open.

"Old shopkeeper, pitiful, pity me, I'm old, young and old, how can I live without a salary?"

At this time, Pang Shangpeng's servant came over, and when he saw that the former bookkeeper had returned, he said politely: "Mr. Li, I don't know when the master will come back, this big Y day, let's sit down for a while." ”

"When will the master come back?" Li asked.

"Maybe I'll be back tomorrow, you can wait a little longer."

The servant let him into the study, made him tea, and Li Tent picked up a book and chatted with the servant while drinking a small cup of tea.

Li Jiaofang chatted and read, and found that the book in his hand was very interesting, a monkey made trouble in the Heavenly Palace, hehe, and Marshal Tianpeng teased Chang'e unsuccessfully, and went down to the wrong place to cast a pig, giving birth to the appearance of a pig, named Zhu Bajie......

While the servant was out to bring water, Li put down the book, went to the desk and rummaged through the pile of manuscripts, only to see that it was written: The twenty-second Hui Lian'er secretly expected to be loved. Sister Chunmei is idle......

I changed a few more pages casually, and the title was "Jing Ji Yuan Night Drama Jiaozi. Hui Xiang angrily scolded the prosperous woman", Li Ledger continued to turn back, all of them were Y words......

Emperor Taizu Gao's real name is Zhu Chongba, everyone knows this, thinking of this, Li Shufang suddenly felt a shock: Pang Shangpeng dared to hide anti-books privately, ****!

It seems that Lord Huang is still clever, so to speak, hehe, the great work has been done!

Worried that Liu Ledger would be suspicious if he couldn't find him, Li Ledger drank the cup of tea unhurriedly, thanked the servant, said that he would go back to the store to find Liu Ledger, and got up and left Xingji Money.

(End of chapter)