Tang Jing thought that he had done Hai Rui and Pang Shangpeng a great favor, and every day under the pretext of poor working capital, he pestered Hai Rui to ask the governor Yamen to continue to guarantee him, and then borrowed 200,000 taels of silver from Xingji Qianzhuang. [No pop-ups. 】

After careful consideration, Hai Jui agreed, but put forward a condition, requiring that the silk produced by the Tong Kee Weaving Workshop should not only be handed over to the Ministry of Industry, but the surplus would be handed over to the master and apprentice of the Moon Sky Chief, and the profits earned would be used to support their voyage to the New World.

The two sides signed the paperwork, and Tang Jing, accompanied by Zhu Hui, came to Xingji Qianzhuang to handle the loan. There was nothing to say along the way, and when passing through Wangfu Lane, Zhu Hui suddenly felt sad, dismounted at the place where Qingyang committed suicide, and bowed his head in silence......

Tang Jing urged the horse to come to him and said, "Virtuous nephew, people can't be resurrected after death, let's mourn." ”

Zhu Hui rubbed his red eyes, turned over and got on the horse, the two continued to walk side by side, and when they arrived at the door of Yang Ji Qianzhuang, he finally couldn't bear it anymore, threw the stirrup off the saddle and got off the horse, pulled out the embroidered spring knife and flew over, kicked a few times at the closed door, and shouted loudly: "Huang Bingwen, you get out of here!" ”

"Stinky boy, don't look for trouble." Tang Jing hurriedly persuaded.

At this time, a young man peeked out of the crack in the door and said, "This son, our money bank is temporarily closed, please come back another day." ”

Zhu Hui flew up and kicked the door open, grabbed the guy's collar, and shouted angrily: "Let Huang Bingwen get out!" ”

The young man was frightened into a puddle of mud, and replied tremblingly: "Childe, we don't have Huang Bingwen here...... here."

"Killing people to pay for their lives, paying off debts, you don't need to cover up for this dog officer." Zhu Hui said, and was about to break in, and met the smiling bookkeeper.

"Please calm your anger, how much silver have you saved in the bank?"

Finding that Zhu Hui wanted to be rude, Tang Jing hurriedly stopped him and said reservedly: "Regardless of whether Qian Zhuang is still doing it or not, let the shopkeeper come out and speak." ”

The bookkeeper stepped forward and replied, "This official, the shopkeeper is not at home, and he is a guest at the governor's house." However, please rest assured, even if we close down, Yang Gongzi will not owe the money and not pay it back. ”

Of course, Zhu Hui knew that Yang Gongzi lived in Hai Rui's mansion, but he didn't believe that Huang Bingwen was not there, and his face was still full of anger at the moment, and he said loudly: "Hurry up and let Huang Bingwen get out and speak." ”

"Don't get me wrong, there is indeed a Master Huang from the capital who has lived with us for a few days, but he has already left with his subordinates. Please rest assured, don't look at Yang Ji Qian Zhuang has not been open for a long time, no matter how much silver is owed outside? As soon as Yang Gongzi came back, all of them were returned. ”

Regarding the past that Huang Bingwen once defrauded Wu Xiang, Zhu Hui and Tang Jing both knew that maybe Huang Bingwen took advantage of Yang Gongzi's absence to take away the money from the bank, it is not impossible, but I don't know where they went?

Tang Jing didn't want to cause trouble, and then persuaded: "Virtuous nephew, let's go, the shopkeeper is a distinguished guest of the governor's family, and he won't rely on us." ”

If Huang Bingwen and others hide in the dark, it will be even more dangerous, just as Hai Rui said, the storm that should come will definitely come, and if you want to dodge, you can't dodge, after pondering for a moment, Zhu Hui put away the embroidered spring knife, breathed a long sigh of relief, and asked calmly: "May I ask where Huang Bingwen is now?" ”

"They've been gone for days." The bookkeeper replied: "People are big officials, how dare the little ones ask nonsense?" ”

In this case, there is no need to embarrass these two guys, so Zhu Hui and Tang Jing left Yang Ji Qianzhuang and continued to walk forward, and suddenly found that the outside of Chaotian Palace was very lively, and all kinds of sedan chairs were parked at the door, and a group of people were surrounding to watch the excitement, gossiping and talking......

"What did this complainant do if he didn't go to the governor's yamen, why did he go to Chaotian Palace?"

"In the past, people used to say, 'The entrance of the yamen is open to the south, and there is no reason to come in without money'. Since the big man of the sea came, we should be in Tianfu, and I changed it, because I was rich and unreasonable, I didn't come in, hehe......"

"What I said is that since Master Hai is in charge of Yingtianfu, the poor sue the rich, and there is nothing that cannot be won."

"In this way, these fat-headed and big-eared rich men have come to Qingyi Zhenren to complain, to see if the real person can persuade Master Hai, or directly play him a ......"

……

The two led the horses, passed through the bustling crowd, and came to Xingji Money Village to explain their intentions, and the men led them into Pang Shangpeng's study.

This study room has not yet been cleaned up, and the messy books and account books are piled up into a hill, Pang Shangpeng beckoned them to sit down, and the servants came over to offer fragrant tea.

Tang Jing said straight to the point: "Shopkeeper Pang, my weaving workshop has opened, I should really thank you!" Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed, and some working capital is needed. ”

At this time, Pang Shangpeng stuffed a few books in his hand into the cupboard, turned around and sat down, and said happily: "Congratulations to Tang Daguan!" I hope you will remember the teachings of the saints. Meng Ziyun: The people are the way, those who have constant production have perseverance, and those who do not have permanent production have perseverance. There is no perseverance, and there is no way to do it. and to be caught in sin, and then to be punished thereby, is to disregard the people. ”

Handed the signed documents to Pang Shangpeng with both hands, Tang Jing said: "Pang's shopkeeper is reasonable, borrow your auspicious words, Tang will not dare to slack off, and will definitely do his best to live up to expectations." Nowadays, when people reach middle age, they regret the absurdity of their youth, and now they understand: opportunistic and never return to the way of a gentleman. ”

"Tang Daguan, there is no need to say that, the world is bustling, all for profit, and the world is bustling, all for profit. This is the nature of human beings, and it is not the way of the world after all. Pang Shangpeng said and sighed deeply.

"Shopkeeper Pang, when we passed by Chaotian Palace just now, we found that many big families went to find Qingyi Zhenren to complain and complain, and there were many people who were talking about it, do you know what happened?" Zhu Hui asked.

"You just found out today?" Pang Shangpeng shook his head helplessly, and replied without worry: "Since the day of the triage of the three halls, there have been people fanning the flames in Chaotian Palace, and there is a tendency for mountains and rains to come and fill the building. ”

"Could it be that it's aimed at Lord Hai?" Zhu Hui judged that the cause of this incident may be related to Huang Bingwen.

"It's not easy for Haida! The rich people are insatiable, the officials and businessmen collude, and the landless peasants have no way to make a living, and there is no homeless people in the world to make a living, and there is no homeless people to make a living in the world, resulting in homeless people everywhere. If it weren't for the people of Haida to restrain the gentry and the strong, in a few decades, half of the south of the Yangtze River would be in danger! Pang Shangpeng replied with emotion.

Tang Jing listened to it and said: "Although our dyeing workshop is not big, it can accommodate hundreds of people to work, which can be regarded as a thank you for the kindness of Hai Daren." ”

Pang Shangpeng continued: "No matter how good the silk weaving cloth is, someone must be able to afford it. It's not about exploiting the people of Limin, if we can have a few more Tao Zhu Gong, the whole world has our business, everyone can communicate with each other, so that everyone can live and work in peace and contentment, this is the fundamental way to solve the problem. ”

"To be honest, it's not easy to go to sea to do business." Tang Jing shook his head and sighed.

Zhu Hui did not think so, and did not hide his opinion: "In my opinion, Westerners generally send missionaries to do business overseas, and then open ports for trade, through educating people's hearts and colonizing overseas. In Sakai Town, the most prosperous town in Japan, they organized merchants to spread Christianity through the 'Crowd Association' for the purpose of long-term stability and sustainable business. This method is very clever, and Wang Zhi and Xu Hai, who only know how to fight and kill, and are vainly self-defeating, how can they be compared with it? ”

Pang Shangpeng nodded and praised: "Elder Moon Sky has great wisdom, he has already seen the problem, and has a deep understanding of the situation of maritime merchants and pirates in my Ming Dynasty, it is he who persuaded Lord Hai to let me lend you some more silver for expanding production, the surplus produced, and give the long teacher as funds for apprenticeship, sail to the new continent on the other side of the ocean, and promote my Chinese civilization, no matter where the Xuanhua mission goes, our Ming Dynasty merchant group will follow wherever it goes, and compete with Western missionaries, and its merits are no less than Xuanzang and Master Jianzhen." ”

Although the three of them chatted very speculatively, the time was not early, and Tang Jing urged Pang Shangpeng to prepare silver for him.

So, Pang Shangpeng took out all the documents, checked them carefully, and shouted: "Pang Gui, take the banker's ticket." ”

After a while, Pang Gui brought a brocade box, handed it to Tang Jing, and said, "Tang Daguan, please order it." ”

Tang Jing opened the brocade box, only to see that it was full of colorful tickets, he borrowed an abacus, carefully calculated, exactly 200,000 taels.

If this is 200,000 taels of white silver, how good it would be! Even if you borrow it, it's nice to look at!

Thinking of this, Tang Jing, who was unwilling, asked awkwardly: "Shopkeeper Pang, I'm afraid you're not going to be able to make this banker's ticket, right?" It's too troublesome for me to buy things outside in the future, pay monthly money to the hired workers, and get you to redeem them. ”

"Tang Daguan, in Yingtian's ten prefectures and one state, these small-denomination Zhuang tickets are the best, you will know as soon as you try." Pang Shangpeng said, picked up a thousand taels of silver, and replied confidently: "If you are bearer below a thousand taels, just say this one, a year later, if you take it to the money village to exchange for silver, you can get one thousand and five taels, how about it?" ”

Tang Jing suddenly had a bad idea, he had 300,000 taels of silver in Huangdu Port in Taicang, if these Zhuang tickets were not spent, and they were exchanged for a year, wouldn't they make a lot of money? So, he didn't say anything more, and said goodbye to Pang Shangpeng with Zhu Hui.

The two came to the outside of Chaotian Palace and found that the sedan chairs of the big families had already left, and there were still many people who watched the excitement and did not disperse.

Zhu Hui got off his horse, came to the front of an old man and asked, "May I ask this old man, what happened to Chaotian Palace?" ”

"Don't you know about the afterlife? We have a big family in Jinling City, and we are almost all here. The old man replied.

"What are they doing here?" Zhu Hui asked curiously.

"In the past few days, I have heard that all of them have received a letter of extortion, threatening these wealthy gentry to divide the land in the countryside to tenants and homeless people, otherwise someone will come to their house to pick quarrels and provoke trouble, alas......" said the old man, sighing deeply.

Hearing this, Zhu Hui was taken aback, and hurriedly asked: "In that case, why don't the wealthy gentry go to the government to complain?" ”

"Childe doesn't know, this must be the secret instigation of Lord Hai, who would dare to go to the government to complain?" The old man replied.

After the triage of the three halls, Hai Rui began to be busy with important tasks such as dredging the Wusong River project, and even if he had spare time, he would not do such indiscriminate things. Zhu Hui guessed that it must be Huang Bingwen's Y trick secretly carried out by taking advantage of Hai Rui's absence in Nanjing, but he still has a question, how can a truly honest person with high morals be easily manipulated by Huang Bingwen?

Thinking of this, Zhu Hui couldn't help but ask, "So, what problem can Chaotian Palace solve?" ”

"In the past, Chaotian Palace used to be the palace of Taizu, but now it is a royal dojo, I heard that Qingyi Zhenren can directly meet today's saints, which rich person does not worship real people as teachers?"

At this moment, Huang Bingwen was in Chaotian Palace, sitting opposite Qingyi Zhenren......

In order to receive the gentry who complained about Hai Rui, Qingyi Zhenren has been busy for several days, and he has tried his best to persuade those fat-headed and big-eared veterans not to believe rumors and not to cause trouble; However, there is a lot of resentment in Hai Jui's favoritism towards the poor.

"Huang, the criminal officer in charge of the lowly East Factory, visited the master."

Qingyi Zhenren meditated cross-legged, waving his hands to whisk the dust, and replied: "Lord Huangzhang Criminal Officer doesn't need to be polite, please use tea." ”

"Thank you, Master!" Huang Bingwen took a sip of tea, and then asked, "May I ask how the master has felt in the past few days?" ”

"Tao Te Ching" cloud: Governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh. It's not easy for Haida! ”

"Hehe, Hai Rui, a person who has been tested in the township, can become an important member of the imperial court and take charge of Yingtianfu, which is really a miracle."

"Amitayus blessed Heavenly Venerable, Hai Daren has his own merits."

"Yes, Hai Rui regarded himself as a clear stream, and he once wanted to learn from Na Bigan, impeached the former emperor for no reason, and trapped the former emperor for being unkind and unjust, but fortunately, the former emperor did not fall for him; Now, in terms of punishing his heart, he invites pets and betrays his bereavours in front of today's saints, which is really punishable. However, the ignorant people regarded him as the blue sky, and no one in the government and the opposition dared to compete with him, and Hai Jui secretly connived at the homeless people and provided shelter for pirates and pirates. ”

After hearing this, Qingyi Zhenren stared at Huang Bingwen, shook his head expressionlessly and said, "Please don't forget your words!" ”

"The humble post was ordered by the factory to investigate the case of the demon king Jin's junior brother and the southeast coast. Xia Guan has evidence to prove that Xuande Zhenren colluded with pirates and pirates, and when investigating this case, Hai Rui always obstructed for no reason, resulting in repeated setbacks in his humble position. ”

Suddenly, he mentioned the Demon Dao King Jin who was Ling Chi, Qingyi Zhenren was very unhappy and asked, "Do you still suspect that this palace is harboring Wang Jin's disciple?" ”

"How dare you, how dare you! I want to ask my master for a small favor, and there is a cow Taoist priest under my humble position, so I ask my master to accept him as a disciple, and let him travel to the coastal area as a monk, secretly investigate the pirates and pirates in the south of the Yangtze River, and ask my master to make it convenient. ”

"Amitayus longevity, the poor road has long ceased to accept apprentices."

"This matter has a lot to stake, please look at the master's sake, give the lowly help, and send a degree of Chaotian Palace." Huang Bingwen pleaded.

After pondering for a moment, Qingyi Zhenren replied: "Poor Dao has seen this Niu Daoist, although he has a loyal appearance, but he hides a bit of cunning, and I am worried that he will take advantage of the palace and do some illegal things. ”

Huang Bingwen was anxious, straightened his waist, and said decisively: "I am willing to guarantee him." ”

As a royal dojo, the weight of Chaotian Palace is naturally self-evident. Qingyi Zhenren cautiously asked, "How do you guarantee it?" ”

So, Huang Bingwen took out the waist card of the East Factory, found a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and wrote a letter of guarantee, to the effect that if there was any wrongdoing by the Niu Daoist, Huang Bingwen, the criminal officer in charge of the East Factory, would be responsible.

In this way, Huang Bingwen put his waist card and letter of guarantee in Chaotian Palace, Tie Niu got the degree, and immediately became a Niu Zhenren who was worth a hundred times, and went to Yingtian ten mansions and one state with vigor, and connected with officials, businessmen and gentry, and collectively impeached Hai Rui.

According to the plan, Tie Niu should first go to Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture to visit Xu Jie, with the signature of the former cabinet first assistant university scholar, this impeachment letter is completed, when passing through Zhenjiang Mansion, Niu Zhenren wants to try it with Chaotian Palace, so he goes directly to the prefect here.

As soon as the prefect of Zhenjiang heard that the real people of Chaotian Palace were coming to worship, he immediately put on his official uniform, solemnly welcomed out of the mansion gate, and invited Tie Niu into the living room. So, Tie Niu took out the degree of Chaotian Palace, showed it to the prefect, let the idle people and others avoid it, and explained the intention straight to the point.

This prefect has long been dissatisfied with Hai Rui, and now with the support of the Royal Dojo Chaotian Palace, he agreed very happily, he personally went out to Zhang Luo, and soon completed the joint petition of Zhenjiang Mansion.

Niu Zhenren opened the flag victoriously, said goodbye to the Zhenjiang prefect with confidence, and hurried straight to Suzhou......

It's the end of the year, I've been a little busy lately, and I'll start adding more tomorrow, I wish you all a Merry Christmas!

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