Chapter 772: The Officials (II)

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"Oh," Zhang Fengqing said in her heart, knowing that it was not so simple, but quickly returned to normal: "My lord, please speak......"

"All smuggling of the Mongols must stop." As soon as the silent words came out, the atmosphere in the flower hall suddenly became solemn. Although the smuggling trade between the Jin merchants and the Mongols had been a well-known secret for a long time, no high-ranking official had ever uncovered their ugly scars in the presence of the Jin merchants, because this would be regarded as the most serious provocation by the Shanxi clique and would be subject to devastating retaliation.

But now, Lord Shen, who has always been kind to people and a good gentleman, has unceremoniously committed this taboo, how can he not make Zhang Yang and the others change their faces? Yang Mu was young and vigorous, and when he heard this, Huo De stood up, glared at Shen Mo and said, "What do you mean......"

Before the words fell, he was pulled hard by Zhang Fengqing, and scolded him in a low voice: "Hugh is rude to adults, since our family has done it, others will say it." Having said that, it also brings anger.

Shen Mo lowered his head and flicked the corner of his robe, and he didn't look at Yang Mu, who was puffing up, and said to Zhang Fengqing: "This is a prerequisite, and if you don't agree, you can't talk about it." ”

"My lord, aren't you afraid that the Huilian will be affected by our number?" Zhang Fengqing's white face turned slightly red.

"Huilian can obtain the right to issue notes by itself." Shen Mo smiled faintly and said: "There are only stupid cows, not dead men." ”

Seeing him so tough, Zhang Fengqing sighed secretly, and said that he had made a mistake, and he lowered his posture at the beginning, wouldn't he have fulfilled the strength of the other party? couldn't help sighing, stood up and arched his hand: "My lord may have misunderstood, I took the liberty to come this time, but it is just my personal meaning, and it does not represent anyone else." After a pause, he said in a tone that was neither humble nor arrogant: "We have been showing weakness to the king, not cornered, we have our own solution, but we have always thought: 'cooperation is two benefits, division is two harms', this line has just hit the road, the sea and the sky in front of us, can accommodate our two families, why bother to be like before, have to fight to the death?" Wouldn't it be better to make money together? ”

"If Lord Shen treats our kindness as a donkey's liver and lungs," Seeing him say and speak, Yang Mu was angry in his heart, and let out cruel words: "Then it's all because the two of us haven't been here this time, let's ride a donkey to read the account book, and see if you Shen Butcher doesn't have to eat hairy pigs."

Seeing that one of the two of them was singing with a red face and the other with a white face, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "Then let's fight to see who killed the deer."

"Farewell" Yang Mu couldn't be excited, brushed his sleeves and turned away.

Zhang Fengqing came with great hope, but he didn't expect it to be an unhappy parting, he couldn't help but sigh, and bowed to Shen Mo and said: "The ministry is clear, open the door to do business, pay attention to a low-key fortune, really want to make trouble, and make all the private goods hidden in the dark clear, which is not good for any of us......"

"I know," said the silent bow, "my sincerity has long been clear, and now is the time for you to show it." ”

"I can't do this under the circumstances," Zhang Fengqing sighed and said, "I have to go back and ask the owners." ”

"I've been waiting for good news for a long time." Silent got up to see off the guest.

"Adults, please stay ......"

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When Zhang Fengqing returned to the Yang Mansion, Yang Mu, who entered the house first, had already told his father what had happened. So as soon as he entered the house, Yang Bo laughed loudly: "What, I'm not wrong, how can there be a pure shopping mall in the Ming Dynasty, in the final analysis, it has to be solved by a set of officialdom." ”

Zhang Fengqing changed color slightly when she heard this, and said with a wry smile: "Who knows what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd in Shen Jiangnan, and he actually made such an unbelievable request." ”

"Scholars mislead the country, that's what they say," Yang Mu sneered on the side: "Doing business with the Mongols is betraying the country?" If there is no Jin Shang to reconcile from it, the iron cavalry of my answer will be wreaking havoc tenfold, with the shrimp soldiers and crab generals of the Ming Dynasty, how can they resist it? I'm afraid half of the country will be lost. ”

Listening to his son's shameless words, Yang Bo felt very uncomfortable, but he knew that this was a common argument within the Jin merchants, and it was inconvenient to scold him in front of Zhang Fengqing, so he could only cough dryly and said: "For my father, I want to talk to your second uncle about something, you go out first." Yang Mu somehow touched his father's moldy head, so he had to retreat.

As soon as he left, Zhang Fengqing sighed lightly and said: "Doing business with the Mongols is always criticized, and some people even say that the Mongols plundering the mainland are actually working for the Jin merchants, so we have no argument, so the Jin merchants have always had a bad image, and no one wants to have too much to do with us." ”

Yang Bo waved his hand, and said in a low voice: "Shanxi is densely populated with poor people, and it is difficult to make a living. If you are not allowed to do business with the Mongols, these people will be the first to suffer, how can they harm their own villagers because of Shen Jiangnan's words? This matter should not be mentioned again."

"Alas......" Zhang Fengqing sighed again, in fact, he himself hated smuggling with the Mongols, and thought that Shanxi people could build ships and open factories like Zhejiang merchants and Fujian merchants, and make money in a bright and bright way, instead of sticking to the old road and earning that kind of traitorous money. It's just that Jin Shang is the most conservative group of people after all, and ideas like him are purely alien, and they can only find themselves bored when they say it.

Emotions are emotions, and problems have to be solved. He suppressed his thoughts in his heart, and said strongly: "What are your old plans, just listen to them." ”

"In addition to Shen and Zhang, there is another one who can help you," Yang Bo said with a smile: "It's their teacher." ”

"Elder Xu Ge?" Zhang Fengqing frowned and said: "That old gentleman has a dark heart and thick skin, and eats our dry stocks every year, but he never refuses to help at all." ”

"Xu Huating is known for his reputation, and it is useless to just send money, unless it is directly sent to him," Yang Bo said lightly: "You sent the dry shares to his hometown in Songjiang, and Xu Ge was so happy that he pretended to be confused." ”

"What do you mean by being old?" Zhang Fengqing asked respectfully.

"Ziwei has been fed for two years, right?" Yang Bo said something else.

"Uh......" Zhang Fengqing was a little distracted before nodding and said, "Yes, the family is helping him Zhang Luo to follow the room." ”

"Duke Xu has a girl who has just grown up, and it is said that her talent and appearance are all top-notch," Yang Bo said leisurely: "If Ziwei can get this good match, it will be a great luck." ”

"That's a good feeling." Zhang Fengqing thought about it for a while, and then understood what he meant, if he could really marry the Xu family, all the problems would be solved. But after a moment of thought, he looked at Yang Bo again and said, "I heard that last time, eighty percent of it was Xu Ge Lao who was behind his back, so that your old achievements fell short." ”

The corners of Yang Bo's mouth twitched, and he spit out a breath of turbid air and said: "One yard is one yard ......" said and sneered: "Xu Huating married his own granddaughter to Yan Song's grandson back then, and still delayed him from attacking the Yan family?" Obviously, Yang Bo has not forgotten that shameful humiliation, this account will have to be settled sooner or later.

Zhang Fengqing said strangely in his heart: "The so-called marriage, is it just to save a momentary emergency, or is it a plan to delay the army?" ’

"No matter what, if you earn Xu Jie's daughter-in-law for nothing, we will all make sure that we don't lose money." Yang Bo stroked his thick beard, laughed loudly and said, "This matter will be handed over to me, and Ming'er will go to Xu's house to propose." ”

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Chessboard alley, in the study of Shen Mansion.

"Ministry, the villain thinks that this time Sunrise is still sincere." A lean-looking and well-dressed man whispered with some regret: "It seems that they should not be rejected in one mouth." "He is Chai Shouli, the owner of the Beijing Huilian, and he has just been hiding behind the screen, and he has already heard the request of the Risheng Long.

"Brother Chai," said silently and pleasantly, "There are some things that cannot be discussed in business, but must be considered from the overall situation." ”

"Yes......" Since the adult said so, Chai Shouli had no choice but to respond.

"Don't worry, I promise, as long as there is such a thing as authorization to issue money." said silently: "There will be no shortage of your Huilian." ”

"That's a good feeling." Chai Shouli became happy and said: "We must not let Sunrise Long monopolize it, otherwise we will never have a bright day." ”

Shen Mo smiled, but he sighed secretly in his heart: "This Chai Shouli's vision and mind are a cut worse than Zhang Fengqing. ’

At this time, Shen Mingchen came in from outside, and Chai Shouli retired with interest. After he retreated, Shen Mingchen smiled and said, "My lord, those people outside have a great tendency to set up camp." ”

Yu Yin smiled bitterly: "I don't know when I can disperse, if it goes on like this, what kind of system will it become?" ”

"It's okay for others to say." Silently rubbing his brows and saying, "Those lords and clans are really difficult to deal with. After all, he is the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and it is said that there should be a scarcity of carriages and horses in front of the door, and the reason why the door is so popular now is actually because of the promulgation of the "Clan Regulations" and the "Xun Old Regulations".

The silence of these two decrees is not unfamiliar, because he also participated in the drafting of the Ministry of Rites when he was a waiter. These two decrees, which were aimed at reducing the burden on the imperial court, have been implemented in several provinces since January of the 45th year of Jiajing, and as long as they pass the year-end reexamination by the cabinet, they will become laws and decrees that have not been easy to achieve for many years, and must be implemented for the whole country for a long time.

However, the two decrees, one is to reduce the expenditure of the clan and the other is to crack down on the traitors and pawns of the villages, which will naturally have an impact on the interests of those clan lords. One of them is to arrange for the children of the side to cry in front of the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites all day long, so as to annoy the silence and no longer support those damn regulations.

"I told them that this matter is useful to find Xu Ge Lao. But they said that Xu Ge had not been home for more than half a month. Shen Mingchen scolded with a smile: "Lord Shoufu hid in the Forbidden City and didn't come out, but he used Lord Shoufu as a shield. ”

"Let's talk to them again." Shen Mo said lightly: "You just said that although the Zongren Mansion is subordinate to the Ministry of Rites, the money, grain and land involved in these two regulations are under the control of the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Rites does not count what it says." I couldn't help but despise myself in my heart, because this method of kicking the ball between the yamen in his previous life was really hurtful, and he generally wouldn't use it. But there is no better way to do these lazy parasites, so just use them.

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Shen Mingchen went to rub his tongue with those people, and he couldn't get any results for a while. Hengzhu couldn't go out, so Shen Mo walked in the front yard, and the reason why he didn't go back to the backyard was because Ruohan was angry with his two sons, and then he was angry with him, the father, and he didn't talk to him for several days...... It turned out that the two fart children whose milk hair had not yet been cleaned had fallen in love without a teacher; What's even more infuriating is that their love object turned out to be the same girl, which made Ruohan feel extremely embarrassed.

Speaking of which, I have to blame those demons for this matter, in order to refine the elixir for the seriously ill Emperor Jiajing, hundreds of pairs of boys and girls must be gathered, and as a result, people with children are frightened, and all the children are sent out of the capital, and the neighbor of the silent family also has a teenage daughter, because Ruohan and his wife are kind, so they take the child to live at home for a few months to avoid the eagle dog of the demon road.

Sure enough, no one dared to come to the Shen family to spread wildness, and the little girl was naturally safe and sound, and she was not arrested in the palace. Who thought about it, but he took away the souls of a pair of living treasures of the Shen family...... It turned out that after a few months, the three of them ate and lived together and studied together, which was called an inseparable and unguessed one, and they actually had a deep relationship. When the turmoil passed, people came to pick up her daughter back, and Ajihe was very reluctant to part with her, so he took the little girl with him...... Ran away together.

If it weren't for the help of the people from the Pacification Division, the three pink-carved boys and girls would have been abducted and trafficked.

caused such a big disaster, it is natural to have a good meal to clean up. Ruohan thought it was a child messing around, so it would be fine to send the little girl back. But who knew that the two children didn't think about tea and dinner, couldn't even read books, and lost their souls.

When Shen Mo went home, Ruohan naturally complained, and Shen Mo was surprised and said, "Why did they take other people's little girls to run away?" ”

"That's not called running away." Ruohan emphasized: "They say it's called elopement. ”

"Elopement......" Shen Mo almost fainted, "Where did you learn these words?" ”

"I saw it in an idle book." Ruohan said indignantly on the side: "Now that the world is declining, the bookseller is unscrupulous, and he sells some small talking books, and he is brought into the house by the scholar. "If it weren't for the search, she would still be in the dark.

"Uh...... It is also normal to have a crush on the opposite sex during adolescence. Looking at the children's immature faces, Shen Mo scratched his head a little and said, "But they are only ten years old, so they should not have reached adolescence yet." Said with relief: "It's the pure friendship of the children, since they can't be separated, let them continue to be together." ”

"It's your son here, of course it doesn't matter," Seeing that he still didn't care like this, Ruohan was about to go crazy: "But the girl's daughter is already twelve years old, how can she marry in the future if she can mix with your two sons?" ”

Aji and Shifen, who had been kneeling on the ground without saying a word, raised their heads when they heard the words and said, "Be a daughter-in-law for the child......"

Ruohan almost turned his back on his anger, glared at Shen Mo and said: "If you don't care about your son anymore, you will become two little hooligans" After speaking, he brushed his sleeves and went out, if he didn't leave, I was afraid that he would really be stunned.

took his daughter-in-law away, looked at a pair of twin sons silently, and said with a wry smile: "You are young, the fetal hair has not been cleaned, what daughter-in-law do you want?" ”

"Light the lamp and talk." Ajidao. Shidao: "Blow the lamp as a companion." Then the two of them said together, "Comb my pigtails tomorrow morning." ”

"Where did you hear all this?" Shen Mo cried and laughed: "Besides, there is only one girl, but you have two, and you can't tell the difference?" ”

"Let's go together." The two children said as a matter of course.

"That's not going to work." Shen Mo shook his head and said: "Monogamy, the way of humanity, only one of the two of you can be with her." He said with a serious expression: "No matter who becomes, the remaining one will be lonely, do you want your brother to be lonely?" ”

"How is that a good ......" The two children were really wrapped around by him and fell into a tangle.

Shen Mo thought that the entanglement would be over for a while. Then, after a few days of hard thinking, the two children were really happy again.

Shen Mo felt a little proud, and said to Ruohan: "This trick for the husband is quite clever, right?" ”

Unexpectedly, when the child was called over and asked, the two little ones actually told their parents that they had already discussed that they would marry the girl for a year, and then divorce Aji to marry, and so on year after year, they would be able to accept it.

was so angry that Ruohan went straight away, and when he woke up, he said cruel words to Shen Mo, and if he didn't treat the two children, he wanted to go back to the house to sleep...... Of course, neither can the Rou Niang room.

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No, the dignified Lord Shen and Shen Butang have been sleeping in the study for several days, and they are used to wandering around the front yard.

Thinking in his heart, how to sort out the housework, unconsciously, Shen Mo walked to the guest room of the east courtyard, and before he reached the gate of the courtyard, he heard the sound of someone fighting inside.

This made him a little angry, and the more chaotic he became, the more uneasy he became, and he couldn't help frowning.

Seeing that the adults were unhappy, the two guards hurriedly rushed in, and their scolding voices rang out: "Bold, dare to commit murder in Shangshu Mansion" and then there was a fight.

Shen Mo wanted to walk in and take a look, but the guard quickly stopped him and said, "My lord, it's dangerous."

"Dangerous ghost, this is in my house" silently pushed him aside and walked to the door to watch.

I saw the two who had just entered, a total of five guards, besieging a big man. You must know that the silent personal guards are all elites who have survived a hundred battles on the battlefield, and now the five of them have joined forces to fight one person, and it can be a draw. Take a closer look, isn't that the Li Chengliang he picked up? ——

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Thirty-four degrees in Hangzhou, seventeen degrees in Qingdao, I caught a cold directly after coming back, I hope it will get better tomorrow and update more.