That night, the three cavalry teams set off from the Xiuguo Mansion, but Chen Wen was still the same, after dinner, read a book, and went to rest, preparing to continue to meet those who needed to be met tomorrow. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the same time, in an inn in the south of the city, Wang Fu, a merchant from Quzhou, was tossing and turning, unable to sleep.

A month earlier, he had set off from Quzhou for Jiangxi, and when he arrived at Guangxin Mansion, the siege of the fortress was still underway. He had never seen Chen Wen, and he had no contact with the staff members who accompanied him, and after hearing that Li Ruixin had already set off with his army, he went directly to Nanchang -- the Ming army had defeated Hong Chengchou, and Jiangxi was empty, and since he had set off, he must have gone to attack Nanchang, the provincial capital, and this was not what he thought at all. Even if it's not, it's just a matter of finding a place to wait, and the Ming army will definitely kill it.

After packing his bags, Wang Fu took the donkey cart he had bought in Changshan County and embarked on the road to Nanchang. Cautious along the way, but still bumped into two routs, forced to throw away the donkey cart to get rid of his life, and finally rushed to enter Nanchang, which had been recovered by the Ming army, two days before Chen Wen arrived here.

I thought that by virtue of the original fate, I would be able to meet the marshal of the Ming army as long as I waited a few days, get the official endorsement of the Ming army, and purchase military supplies for the Ming army, so as to get the first pot of gold. Unexpectedly, the marshal surnamed Li was so busy that his feet did not touch the ground every day, not to instruct this Ming army to attack this county seat, but to instruct that Ming army to attack that county seat.

In fact, even if this were not the case, he might not be able to be interviewed. Jiangxi's recovery is imminent, and he is not the only one who sees this huge business opportunity.

When he was in Guangxin Mansion, he had met a few merchants who did not know each other well, but the military campaign continued, and even these merchants with good connections were hitting a wall. In recent days, when the military operation came to an end, these businessmen quickly gained the endorsement of the government by virtue of the cooperation with the Ming Army in Zhejiang in recent years, opened warehouses in Nanchang, and went down to various counties and towns to sweep away the goods stranded by the war, including his idol - the youngest son of Mr. Zhu!

In the past few days, I have found all the ways I can find, but I am either busy in this waste, or I simply forget about him as a person, and there is no way at all.

Seeing that those merchants, even some of whom were one step behind him, could quickly start trading, but he could only sit here, Wang Fu seemed to be scratching his heart with a hundred claws, how could he sleep!

After tossing and turning for a long time, the night was late, but after thinking about it, it must not go on like this. lit the oil lamp, turned out the last prayer post, and pondered for a long time before he waved his pen.

"Huizhou grass people Wang Fu, worship."

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Early the next morning, Chen Wen began to meet with Guishun, Anyway, and the captured Manchu civil and military generals.

The first batch of people who need to be met today are civil officials from several Raozhou Prefectures. Raozhou, east of Poyang Lake, was the last target of the Ming army in recent months. Chen Wen paid attention to Raozhou, not because it was the shipbuilding and waterway transshipment center of the Nanchang shogunate, but because of Fuliang County, the capital of Raozhou, where Jingdezhen was located.

Jingdezhen, formerly known as Changnan, is famous for its abundance of porcelain, hence the pronunciation of "China". Today's name was given by Song Zhenzong, and it has been used ever since. In later generations, just like Shanghai County was to Songjiang Prefecture, it swallowed up Fuliang County, which once belonged to it, with a town, and merged the former Leping County by the way. And Chen Wen pays attention to the porcelain in Jingdezhen and the imperial ware field.

"If you return to the country, the imperial weapon field was built in the Hongwu period, and it has always been the eunuch who served as the pottery official. Now, it is the banner man of the Internal Affairs Office who is in charge of management, and when Wang Shi recovered the capital city of Raozhou and marched along the Changjiang River to Fuliang County, those guys had already fled. ”

"I see."

Eunuch, Chen Wen doesn't have it in his hands, let alone the Internal Affairs Office, as for handing it over to the country, it is only the treatment of things dug out of the ground, and he doesn't plan to return it to the Yongli Imperial Court just like that. Not to mention whether it fell into the hands of Yongli in the end, or in the hands of Sun Kewang, it was only said that it was the Imperial Weapon Field that was handed back this time, and tomorrow they would reach out and ask for something else, counting on those fighting dogs, it was better to come at their own pace.

"What's the scale now?"

Hearing this, Fuliang Zhixian subconsciously wiped the sweat on his head, and then replied cautiously: "If you return to the country, there will be chaos in the past few years, and the loss of artisan households is more serious. This year, the Imperial Court issued an order to abolish the craftsman service system in the Imperial Arsenal and change to a hired recruitment system, and the output has recovered. But those Tartars of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are tyrannical and exceeding, and as far as the students know, there is really not much recovery. ”

It stands to reason that the Imperial Instrument Field is not under the management of the Fuliang County Government, which is the case in the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty. At this time, the county order was nothing more than afraid that Chen Wen would be angered by this bad news, but he didn't dare to hide it, so he said it over and over again, and finally handed over the black pot to the uncle of the Internal Affairs Office, but he didn't wronged them.

What kind of beating thing is the Manchu Qing Dynasty's internal affairs office, Chen Wen has heard a lot in later generations. An egg is only a few pennies on the market, and the Internal Affairs Office dares to report dozens of taels of silver to the emperor. Daoguang and Guangxu didn't mention anything, Qianlong was a good person, and he was played by these minions, and even the ministers around him had to lie, and he barely managed to cope with eating four eggs early and saying that he had eaten four eggs as broken eggs.

Others, as for tens of thousands of taels of silver to build, and thousands of taels of silver are needed to maintain the kitchen for making soup, and the clothes are torn and patched, and the weight is more expensive than making them, there are too many jokes to mention.

Now think about it carefully, what salt class, what kind of luck, compared with the profit margin of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, are particularly scum. This is the most fertile oil and water sector in China's history, and there is no one!

Chen Wen was very satisfied with the county's answer, and the specific situation had to wait for the investigators to come back, and he was not in a hurry to arrive, so Chen Wen turned to ask about some things in local administration. It's just that Chen Wen asked the magistrate of Fuliang, but the magistrates of several other counties were a little anxious.

Raozhou is a prefecture and seven counties, the prefect Zhang Daocheng and the prefect of Poyang Town, Hao Zongfu, are members of the Nanchang shogunate, officials appointed by Hong Chengchou, these two guys are naturally going to run away. Of the other six counties, only one fled, and the others sat here, waiting for Chen Wen's preliminary assessment. Is it a mule or a horse, what is the starting point next on the side of the Ming army, today can be said to be very important, but Chen Wen has been chatting with Fuliang Zhixian until now, and the others did not ask a word, telling them how not to be in a hurry.

After a while, Chen Wen asked almost the time, and the person was a little tired. Looking at the other civil officials, he planned to end the interview with a few casual questions, and then continue to meet with the next group of personnel after a short rest. Unexpectedly, as soon as he opened his mouth, the magistrate who was sitting at the bottom of the door really lifted his spirits.

"I would like to inform Guogong that Dexing County, where the students are located in recent years, is rich in gold, silver, copper, lead and other mineral deposits, and I sincerely ask Guogong to increase the amount of mining to the heart of the people of Dexing County!"

The shameless feudal bureaucrats who sold the natural resources of other countries in order to seek good fortune and did not hesitate to destroy the natural environment will surely be reviled by future generations. However, this favor also really touched Chen Wen's heart, so much so that he chatted with the magistrate for a while before ending this meeting.

Next, Chen Wen met with several groups of various figures, had lunch, and it was not until the afternoon that it was the turn of Cai Shiying, the governor of Jiangxi of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Qin Jiazhao, the envoy of Jiangxi, to take prisoners.

Cai Shiying and Qin Jiazhao were still on the way here, meeting different people, etc., and they had to put on different styles and postures, and Chen Wen also felt a little tired when they came and went back and forth like this. Stretched, turned his head and asked, "Who are the people in the next batches?" ”

Hearing this, the staff member in charge flipped through the booklet, and then said to Chen Wen: "Back to the Duke of Guo, the next wave is a few local gentry in Jiangxi, and there is also a monk among them. ”

"Oh."

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Since being captured by the Ming army, Cai Shiying and Qin Jiazhao have been locked up in a cell, Cai Shiying is from Jinzhou, and Qin Jiazhao is from Liaoyang, to put it bluntly, they are both from Liaodong, and their families and clansmen are now either in their hometown or in Beijing, and they are always inextricably linked. And they, who were officials in one place at the beginning, fell together again, and their friendship in the cell also quickly climbed.

These days, the two have always been together to strengthen each other's loyalty, so that their families and clansmen will not be exiled to a ghost place like Ningguta, or even beheaded all over the house. Today, they can finally see with their own eyes what this old opponent who has tormented them for several years looks like, Qin Jiazhao is okay, Cai Shiying is quite interested. Especially when he thought of being able to scold Chen Wen in the hall, it is estimated that the news was transmitted back to Beijing, and Shunzhi had to give him, a loyal minion, a loyal martyr or something, so as not to affect the safety of the family.

The more she thought about it, the more Cai Shiying looked forward to this meeting. After a while, stepping into the courtyard of Xingyuan, Cai Shiying fixed his eyes, but a tall military general with a python robe and jade belt walked out happily and came straight towards them.

"Hehe, if you descend to greet you, you want to make this official submit to you, dream!"

glanced at Qin Jiazhao, and the two clearly saw the same idea as themselves in each other's eyes, and then nodded solemnly, secretly encouraging each other.

The military general strode over, the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and Cai Shiying could even think of what was going to happen next - nothing more than walking to him, bowing his hand, begging for their forgiveness, and even untying the ropes on their bodies with his own hands, and then scolding the soldiers for not knowing how to count the numbers, and inviting them into the lobby.

Cai Shiying is used to seeing these things in the court and in the play, and even he has used them. Eating bran and drinking thin chaff in prison before, it was nothing more than a stick, and the next courtesy was the sweet jujube used to attract people's hearts, coming and going is nothing more than such a thing, and it is impossible to make him grateful. And now, the only thing that worries Cai Shiying is this Qin Jiazhao, who was born in Gongshi, has not seen too many big scenes, if his head really drops as soon as his head is hot, then wouldn't their Qin family be finished.

I wanted to open my mouth to remind, but after thinking about it carefully, whether the family surnamed Qin died or not had nothing to do with their old Cai family. Seeing that the military general was getting closer and closer, Cai Shiying, who always wanted to put out the posture of the feudal official, didn't say much at first glance, so as to give this military officer a surprise attack.

In an instant, the military general came to the front of the two, but Cai Shiying suddenly found that this person's eyes did not look at them at all, but pointed straight to the courtyard gate. When he was in front of him, he passed by, and he didn't even pay attention to them.

"Guogong said, he doesn't have time to see these two guys today, take them back."

The staff said that they would leave, and the words were not said to them, but to the two personal soldiers who escorted them. And when the two pro-soldiers heard this, they grabbed the ropes on their bodies and dragged them directly on the way to and fro, like leading horses.

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In the gatehouse of Xingyuan, there were a group of people waiting to be received, and those who could wait here were not prisoners such as Cai Shiying, but these were all local gentry and former officials in Jiangxi, and they quickly chatted with each other.

Willing to come to pay respects in person, in addition to politeness, it is nothing more than asking for something, and it is impossible to explain that the army is not. Even they knew that Chen Wen was more strict with the local gentry in Zhejiang, and it was not at this time that he was dissatisfied. After all, people's hearts are separated from their stomachs, and it is a big taboo to talk shallow and deep.

Chatting and chatting, they quickly got to the current situation. Now in the south, the territory of the Manchu Qing has begun to be less than that of the Ming army, and the remaining occupied areas are even more separated, and they are about to be cut off from each other.

The situation is very good, and naturally there is no shortage of praise for Chen Wen, and the high hat is worn up one by one, as long as it is left to press the bottom of the box, wait until you see Chen Wen taking it out. But at this moment, a tall figure rushed in at once. In his heart, he scolded the martial artist for not paying attention to etiquette, but after a closer look, the person who came came was dressed in a python robe and jade belt, tall and tall, and the momentum of looking down on all living beings was even more like the kind of big man who was in a high position and regarded human life as a mustard.

Before they came, they had already heard that in the Ming army in Zhejiang, there was a national duke, five counts and a number of generals with seals, all of whom were figures with real power. Among them, it is naturally headed by Xiuguo Gong Chen Wen, which is beyond doubt. And among this group of people, there seem to be a few who have been given python robes, but it is not clear which one it is for a while.

Since this is the case, everyone can't care about this faux pas, and hurriedly bows their hands, not asking who it is, and then talking about the etiquette. Unexpectedly, as soon as the man entered the door, he was the first to bow his hand, and then asked, "Dare to ask which one is Mr. Song, who is the new arrival." ”

As soon as these words came out, a person who was not very conspicuous when he was chatting just now came out of the crowd from among these jinshi, and replied to the general: "Mr., I really dare not take the word sir, dare to ask the general." ”

"So-and-so is Chen Wen." (To be continued.) )