Chapter 50: Accidents
According to Wu Weizhong and Han Dahu's meaning, Wang Zheng's ability to go this time was already the result of asking someone to find a relationship, so naturally he couldn't bring anyone else there.
After receiving the news, Wang Zheng didn't say much, he didn't want to take Dong Youyin and Huang Yang to them, this time it was not to see the scenery, not to mention that they still need to preside over Wang Zheng to rest assured.
The sun has just appeared, the autumn cicadas are still singing, the sky is bright, standing in front of the camp, Wang Zheng explained the matter to Dong Youyin, Huang Yang, and Deng Heizi respectively, and only left with peace of mind after seeing the three of them nodding.
The camp of Wendeng camp is three miles away from Wendeng County, not far from Ninghai Prefecture City, and it is not far from Wu Weizhong and his family to ride a horse, and they will arrive in less than two hours.
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When Wang Zheng arrived in Ninghai Prefecture, it was already morning, and the city gate opened relatively early on this day, and there were rarely a few more guards outside the city patrolling, and many people were queuing.
When a general saw Wang Zheng and his party, he greeted him from afar, hugged his fists and smiled.
"It turned out to be Wu Zhentai, and the state city is now very lively."
This goalkeeper naturally knew what Wu Weizhong was here for, and while talking, he took Wu Weizhong's horse and walked to the other side.
After a while, a small gate leading directly into the city came into view, and at this time, there were many homeless people waiting to enter the city on the other side.
Wang Zheng asked, "What about those people?" ”
This person looked up and down at the general Wenyan, hey, why does this person look so familiar?
"It's you!"
Suddenly, this one always looked very surprised.
"That day, you took more than 100 people to fight off more than 1,000 water thieves, and you actually became a thousand presidents at such a young age, tsk..."
Listening to the general explanation, Wang Zheng knew that he had just passed through the side door.
Today is the auspicious birthday of the new governor Wang Dele, and there is an endless stream of people who go to the state to attend the banquet early in the morning, including some people with status and status, these people are not here to squeeze together with these stinking chaotic people.
To put it bluntly, this side door is a special passage for the powerful.
As Wang Zheng, he is not qualified to pass through this side door alone, and this time he is also stained with Wu Weizhong's light, but to be honest, Wang Zheng doesn't really care about this kind of thing.
The north of the city is full of rich people's houses, in addition to the extreme majesty, in terms of decoration of the state government yamen is not inferior to these houses.
At this moment, a column of servants and maids is standing outside the state administration yamen, and their task is to wait for the arrival of people to greet them with a smile, and the person who starts is the most eloquent, is the porter this time.
Beside them, the red wooden door, which had always been closed, was also wide open, and people in various gorgeous robes and costumes carried all kinds of gifts, and kept coming in the door.
It was only morning, and the large courtyard of the state administration was already full of domestic servants and guests who were busy working everywhere.
"Yo~, Qi Dong's house has arrived, please come inside, Zhizhou has been talking about you all day long!"
It turned out that this person was called Qi Lai, and he was the largest Confucian merchant in Ninghai and Wendeng.
Compared with the Jin merchants in the Central Plains, the biggest business of the Confucian merchants near Jiaodong was not cloth, cattle, sheep and livestock, etc., but more or less involved in the business of going to sea and selling their lives.
Compared with the previous few stable and profitable, although there is less stability in going to the Wa country, it can make huge profits in a short period of time.
The reason why Qi Lai was able to become the largest maritime Confucian merchant in Ninghai was not unrelated to his ability to have some relationship with the Zheng family.
"Isn't this the shopkeeper Hao, please hurry up, Zhizhou is waiting for you!"
After Qi Lai, another businessman-like man swaggered forward, this person was called Hao Sicheng, his round figure was wrapped in a big yellow silk robe, he didn't even pay attention to the porter's words, and walked into the door proudly with his short legs.
Don't look at this Hao Sicheng is a fat pig-like person, his background is not small compared to Qi Lai, he is an 'old bustard' on the surface, and he is the owner of the relatively large Qinglou in Ninghai, but he doesn't like to be called the owner.
After a long time, people called him the shopkeeper when they saw him.
The east side represents the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Hao Sicheng's face is full of hatred when he mentions Tartar, which is also related to his childhood experience.
I was stunned, but the porter didn't have the slightest embarrassment, turned around and smiled at another person who had just come over, and saw that this person was a martial artist, and the smile on his face dissipated half, and he just said a few words without hesitation.
As soon as I looked up, it was still a group of martial artists.
It's just that these two leading martial artists are too big, and they can't afford to be provoked by a small porter like him, so he stepped forward without hesitation and said with a smile.
"Wu Zhentai and Shourong are here, please hurry up, please hurry up, Zhizhou was still talking about the two of them earlier, saying that they will definitely come this time, and they must be very happy to have arrived in Zhizhou."
Compared with the domineering of the literati, Wu Weizhong and Han Dahu seemed to be a little alike, and nodded towards the gatehouse before entering the door.
"Zhentai and Shourong, you can be counted as coming, and there is no way to come to the small ones."
"Oh? What happened? Hearing the eagerness in his words, Han Dahu was a little surprised.
Wu Weizhong nodded as he walked, and also said, "Yes, is there something wrong?" ”
The person who spoke just now was Wang Dele's most trusted old servant Kong Zheng, and he said with some embarrassment: "There are some accidents, but they are not very big, this morning Zhizhou suddenly decided not to meet the guest alone..."
Han Dahu's brain was very bright, and when he heard this, he immediately thought of something, and his eyes widened: "Damn, you dare to play this Shourong?" Collect the money and don't do anything? ”
"Let him finish his sentence." Wu Weizhong also stared at Kong Zheng.
"Ahem... Zhentai and Shourong don't worry, there are a lot of guests here today, Wang Zheng still has a chance to see Zhizhou, but he just wants to meet with other people, can he attract attention... I don't care about this little one..."
"That's all I can say... Zhentai and Shourong must forgive me! ”
After speaking, Kong Zheng ran away.
"What do you mean by this birdman, I'm not halfway there, see you with the others? Didn't you say that you would let Wang Zheng talk to this Wang Dele alone? Han Dahu kicked a pair of bull's eyes, and he was really taken lightly by that Kong righteousness.
Wu Weizhong also didn't expect that what he said before was good, but now he said that he would change his face.
This back and forth thing is a bit complicated, in retrospect, doing this has already offended Han Dahu and Wu Weizhong, and if Kong Zheng can do this, there must be someone with a bigger background behind him to exert pressure.
even forced Kong Zheng to make a choice, which can also be heard from Kong Zheng's words.
So what kind of person could make Kong Zheng rather risk disobeying the general army and garrison than offend?
Thinking of this, Wang Zheng looked around the courtyard, and suddenly found that Qi Lai was staring at his side, and quickly moved his gaze to the side, and saw the round Hao Sicheng smiling at him.
Looking at the smiling and greeting people around him, Wang Zheng only saw the illusion of hypocrisy and prosperity, and smelled the hypocrisy and conspiracy hidden in the air.