"The city boss raises Yang Tong, see Lord Admiral!" When Yang Tong heard that it was Zhou Chong, he immediately hurried to the front hall, and when he saw Zhou Chong, he had heard about Zhou Chong before, and he had also guessed in his heart that the other party was likely to be the reason for such a change in the city, and now it seems that this is indeed the case.

"Yang Tiju doesn't have to be polite!" Zhou Zhong looked Yang Tong up and down before he spoke. I saw that this Yang Tiju had gray hair and a very thin figure, as if he could be blown away by a gust of wind, but his spirit was excellent, and he was extremely respectful when he saluted Zhou Chong.

"Thank you, sir!" When Yang Tong heard Zhou Chong's words, he straightened up and said, and at the same time lowered his head and stood under the hall, looking like he was a subordinate, although in terms of authority, their city division was not under Zhou Chong's jurisdiction.

"Yang Tiju, why did Admiral Ben only see you and this old official, the other officials of the City Division, after Admiral Ben came in?" Zhou Chong looked at the lobby and saw that there was no place to sit, so he simply stood and asked.

"This ......" Yang Tong hesitated when he heard this, and replied honestly, "Lord Qiyu, the City Department is usually only responsible for receiving the tributary missions of the Japanese State, and this year is not the year of the Japanese tribute, and there is no official business in the department to deal with, so most of the officials in the department did not come!" ”

Zhou Chong had already learned about this from Wu Shan before, but now that he heard Yang Tong personally say it, he was still a little angry in his heart, and he commanded with a deep face: "Yang Tiju, this admiral orders you to immediately gather the officials of the city department, there is an imperial order to announce!" ”

Hearing Zhou Zhong say the words "Imperial Order", Yang Tong's eyes also flashed with a fine light. There was no hesitation. immediately agreed, and ran out of Lu with the old official to find someone. However, Yang Tong, who was too excited, didn't notice. Zhou Chong was still standing, and he forgot to move a chair for Zhou Chong, so when he summoned all the officials of the City Shipping Division, Zhou Chong was still standing in the lobby.

In fact, officials are officials with formal grades, who have a record in the Ministry of Officials, and officials are managers recruited by officials to facilitate the operation of the yamen, which are equivalent to temporary workers in later generations. The work is tiring, and it is not yet an official government establishment.

In fact, there are only four official officials in the Yamen of the City Ship Division, in addition to Yang Tong's promotion, there are also two deputy promotions, as well as an official, these four people are the core system of the City Ship Division Yamen, and the others are all small officials. Among them, the promotion is in charge of the overall situation, the two deputy promotions assist him in handling affairs, and the officials are the management of the paperwork and some coordination affairs between the minor officials.

Yang Tong is promoted. He also knew the character and habits of his subordinates very well, so he quickly found the other three officials and brought them to the city. It's just that when Zhou Chong saw these three people, he couldn't cry or laugh.

I saw that the person walking behind Yang Tong was a middle-aged man about forty years old who was disheveled, covered in fat powder, and even had a woman's lip print on his neck. But even if he was so embarrassed, this middle-aged man still had a sleek smile on his face, and at a glance, he knew that he was an old oilman in the officialdom.

Compared with this sleek middle-aged man, the other middle-aged man in his thirties standing behind Yang Tong was even more unlikely, because this person was now drunk like mud, and the smell of alcohol on his body was so smoky that he couldn't even stand up, and he had to rely on the old official to stand up reluctantly.

The last person is quite normal, he is a middle-aged man in his forties, but he is not wearing an official uniform like Yang Tong, but he is wearing a loose civilian clothes, with a kind smile on his slightly chubby face, he doesn't look like an official, but like a businessman.

"Yang Tiju, who is this person, why is he drunk like this?" Zhou Zhong pointed to the drunk middle-aged man and asked, the other two were just that, but this person not only didn't come to the city, but he was also drunk, which simply didn't take his own official identity as a thing at all.

"This ......" I saw Yang Tong hesitate for a moment, and said with some embarrassment, "Lord Qiyu, this is the deputy who has just been transferred from our city department, named Tang Yin, a person from Suzhou, may feel that the city department has no future, so he borrowed wine to drown his sorrows, this is not to blame him, when the official was first transferred, he also couldn't think about it, and he was drunk every day." ”

Although Yang Tong didn't like this newly transferred deputy promotion, the other party was his subordinate after all, so he didn't forget to excuse him after the most difficult words, which made the other two officials look at his boss a little differently.

"Hmph, as an official, even if you are dissatisfied with the arrangement of the imperial court, you can't be so slack, come on, drag him out of the court for me to get drunk!" Zhou Chong snorted coldly and said, in his previous life, what he hated most was this kind of slack official, so now he doesn't have a good face for this drunk Deputy Tang Tiju.

However, as soon as Zhou Chong's words fell, the name of this Tang deputy lifter suddenly flashed in his mind, and he was shocked at the moment, and hurriedly called the two Jinyi guards who pounced on him and said: "Wait, Yang Tiju, what did you say the name of this deputy lifter just now?" ”

Yang Tong saw that Zhou Chong was angry and was a little anxious, and he wanted to persuade but didn't dare to persuade, and now he saw Zhou Chong suddenly ask the name of Deputy Tang Tiju, and hurriedly replied: "Lord Qiyu, Deputy Tang Tiju's name is Tang Yin, he is a famous talent in Suzhou, known as poetry and painting, but he was accidentally involved in a case when he was young, and he also ruined his future. ”

"Sure enough, it's him!" Zhou Chong was also very surprised at this time, he didn't pay attention to the name Tang Yin just now, he just felt familiar, but now he heard Yang Tong's introduction, coupled with the other party's experience, which made Zhou Chong more sure of the other party's identity, it turned out that this person was Tang Bohu, the famous first genius in Jiangnan.

Thinking of Tang Bohu's reputation in later generations, Zhou Zhong couldn't help but feel a little close, but what he couldn't figure out was that Tang Bohu in history seemed to have been robbed of his fame because of the fraud case in the scientific field, and he could no longer participate in the imperial examination.

Seeing that Zhou Zhong was silent, Jinyiwei, who was going to sober up Tang Bohu, was also a little overwhelmed, so he could only ask Wu Shan for help with his eyes, and Wu Shan had to ask softly: "My lord, do you want to sober up this Lord Tang?" ”

"Huh? This ......" Zhou Chong hesitated when he heard this, Tang Bohu was one of the people he wanted to see most after coming to the Ming Dynasty, and he also admired the other party's talent very much, and he also heard his father-in-law Wang Lun say that he knew that Wang Lun and Tang Bohu had forgotten to make friends, and he was still the younger generation of the other party, although Tang Bohu was a little slack as an official, but it was understandable.

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhong also had to sigh, the Central Plains region is a personal society, and even he is not exempt from vulgarity, so I saw him open his mouth and instruct the two brocade guards: "You two help Lord Tang to the backyard and wash his face with cold water, and by the way, get something sobering for him to drink, and wait until he wakes up and then come to see me!" ”

Seeing Zhou Chong's attitude change after hearing Tang Yin's name, Yang Tong and the others were a little surprised, but soon they figured it out that Tang Yin was originally a great talent in Suzhou, and Zhou Chong was from Songjiang, not far from Suzhou, so he must have heard of Tang Yin's fame, so it was so. It's a pity that they don't know what to do, and what Zhou Zhong cares about is not Tang Yin's current fame, but the fame of the next few hundred years.

The two Jinyi guards are also very shrewd, and the Admiral Zhilu Dao attaches great importance to this Tang Yin, and at the moment he lightly carried the person to the backyard and sobered him up according to the method Zhou Zhong said, but if they were to dispose of it themselves, the means of sobering up would not be so gentle, and it might even be very violent.

Next, Yang Tong introduced the remaining two officials to Zhou Chong, among which the shrewd-looking middle-aged man was named Li Lian, who, like Tang Bohu, was also one of the deputy promoters of the City Division. As for the slightly chubby middle-aged man's name is Qian Yuan, he is an official of the City Division, although his official position is not high, but the affairs he manages are very complicated.

After getting to know the officials of the City Shipping Division, because Tang Yin hadn't woken up yet, Zhou Chong and Yang Tong chatted with the three of them about the City Shipping Division, such as how many officials were in the Division, how to receive the Japanese envoys in the past, and so on. In contrast, that shrewd Li Lian was also transferred from outside like Tang Bohu, so he was not very familiar with the affairs of the City Division.

After chatting about some miscellaneous things, Zhou Zhong suddenly thought of a question, and immediately asked: "Yang Tiju, when the Admiral came, I saw that there were a lot of merchant ships in Ningbo Port, and a large number of merchant ships entered and left the port every day, and I also saw officials collecting taxes. ”

Hearing Zhou Chong ask about this matter, Yang Tong and Qian Yuan both showed helplessness on their faces, and said to Zhou Chong with a bitter face: "Lord Qiyu, although our Ming Dynasty has implemented a sea ban, but what is the situation of the sea ban now, everyone also knows it, originally the tax of ships coming and going from Ningbo Port should be under the jurisdiction of our city's shipping department, but in fact, as early as many years ago, the tax revenue in Ningbo Port has been taken over by the governor's yamen, and we can't intervene at all!" ”

"Oh, Ningbo Port is a seaport, and the tax revenue has always been in the management of the Municipal Shipping Department, what power does the governor's yamen have to interfere?" Zhou Zhong asked with some puzzlement, although the officialdom pays attention to the crushing of people at the level of officials, but each yamen has its own authority, even the governor can't overstep his authority, right? (To be continued......)