Chapter 13: Uncle Shen's Inference

Wu Jin shouted excitedly: "Lao Hong! ”

Several people were stunned all of a sudden, it turned out that Wu Jin recognized these people as the brothers he was on the ship when he was a seaman, he was rescued from the sea by them in a plane crash, and stayed together for half a year, and the bearded man led by him was Hong Qixiong, who went to the academy with him and broke Huangfu Zhuoyu's leg.

They also recognized Wu Jin, "Ha! It's no Jin. ”

They rushed up and hugged Wu Jin excitedly, and the feeling of meeting an old friend in a foreign country was the most gratifying.

Wu Jin gave Hong Qixiong a punch in the shoulder, "Why are you kid here?" What about the ship? ”

Hong Qixiong said with a smile: "This is Ma Laoer's home, he married his daughter-in-law, let's have a glass of wine, no, I'm going back!" Our boat is right on the banks of the Yellow River. ”

Hong Qixiong was also very happy to see Wujin, and pulled him away, "Go!" Let's go to the Cuihua Courtyard to talk and ......"

At this time, he saw Chen Ying and Yu Hailan behind Wu Jin, and he was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help scratching his head in embarrassment, "Wu Jin, these two are ....."

Wu Jin estimated that they were the daughters and apprentices of Boss Chen of the Phoenix Society, and they would scare all these people who ran away from the sea, so he laughed embarrassedly twice, "They are my ones.... Hehe! You get the idea. ”

"Oh!" Everyone suddenly realized, and there was jealousy and envy in their hearts, Wu Jin actually married such two beautiful girls, still black and white, blessed!

It's not good for everyone to mention going to Cuihua Courtyard again, but Wu Jin has a wishful thinking in his heart, if they let their boat send him to Luojing, wouldn't it be even more foolproof, he immediately pulled Hong Qixiong aside and asked him, "Where are you going?" ”

"Let's go to Heyin to pick up a ticket, and then go to Donghae County."

Hong Qixiong was also a little strange, "Brother, aren't you in Weiyang County?" Why are you here again? ”

"Don't mention it, I'm in trouble, I want to charter your boat to Luojing, is that okay?"

Hong Qixiong showed an embarrassed expression on his face, "We have no problem, it depends on whether the owner is willing or not, we took two days off to come out, and he is still not happy!" ”

Wujin knew that Zhao Chuandong recognized money and didn't recognize people, as long as he gave him money, he was willing to go to Luojing and Nanyang, so he was relieved, patted Hong Qixiong and smiled: "Then there is no problem, if he doesn't recognize money, I will give him as much as he wants." ”

Hong Qixiong came here, nominally drinking happy wine, but actually wanted to find a girl, he found a few prostitutes last night, and he was going to go back, but when he heard that there was a county academy to open a temporary courtyard here, he was tempted, but he didn't expect to meet Wujin, he glanced at Chen Ying and Yu Hailan, and knew that it was impossible today, so he nodded helplessly: "Then let's go!" We're going to hire some wagons, and we're going. ”

Wu Jin was overjoyed, he hurriedly came back and smiled at Chen Ying and Yu Hailan: "These are my brothers when I was a seafarer in the past, and we will take their ship into Beijing." ”

"But you can!"

Yu Hailan looked at him with a smile, "But what did you say to them just now, who are we yours?" ”

Wu Jin scratched his head and snorted, "This..... Hurry up with the right, from the right! ”

Chen Ying gently pulled Yu Hailan's hand and whispered, "Senior sister, it's okay." ”

Yu Hailan glanced at her, "You dead girl can't ask for it, why doesn't he say I'm his sister?" ”

Chen Ying's face turned red, and she pinched Yu Hailan with a twisted expression, "Senior sister, what are you talking nonsense?" ”

Wu Jin secretly thought: "This is not the time to **, you have to leave quickly, so as not to have too many dreams at night." ’

At this time, several crew members hired three carriages, Wu Jin beckoned the two women to get into the carriage, and everyone crowded into the other two carriages and headed north.

......... Luojing, also known as Luoyang, is named because it is in the north of Luoshui, Luoyang is the political center of the Central Plains Dynasty since ancient times, its strategic position is extremely important, it is called the Central Plains in the strategic pattern of the world, Luoyang and the Central Plains, and the Central Plains and the world.

Three hundred years ago, the Wuzhou Dynasty's expedition to the north of the general Huangfu Tieli was in Luoyang yellow robe, founded the Daning Dynasty, built the capital Yongjing, sealed Luoyang as Tokyo, forty years ago, after the change of Jin'an, the Daning Dynasty officially moved the capital to Luoyang, Yongjing changed to Xijing.

After 300 years of peace in the Daning Dynasty, Luojing has become the treasure of heaven and prosperity, with a population of more than 2.5 million, surpassing Yongjing and becoming the largest city in the world.

In Luojing Chengfu Fang, which is located in the north of Luoshui, named after the Chengfu Gate close to the east city, Chengfu Fang is also the place where the royal family and the powerful are concentrated, and the mansion of Uncle Shen Guo covering an area of nearly 100 acres is located in the north of Chengfu Fang, backed by a huge artificial lake Xintan, and the house is built with the lake view, as if the lake view has also become a part of his mansion.

Uncle Shen's full name is Shen Qin, he is just thirty-nine years old this year, but his face looks old, giving people the feeling that he is in his early fifties, he is tall and fat, a fat eagle hooked nose is unforgettable, and he feels very kind when he laughs, but if you look closely, you will find that there is a cunning and coldness in his kind smile that is difficult to hide.

Shen Qin is a Ming scholar who has been in the industry for 14 years, successively served as the chief bookkeeper, the county order, the history of the assassin, and the military department, he himself has deep qualifications, plus his sister Shen Qinyu has been canonized as the queen, Shen Qin has become a very powerful relative, he worships the door under the servant, the household department is still the book, the governor of Yongzhou, the title of Wu Guogong, and holds the financial power of the Daning Dynasty.

He has a lot of titles, some people call him Uncle Shen, some people call him Shen Shangshu, and some people call him Shen Guogong, but he prefers others to call him Uncle Shenguo, so that he feels that he is very close to the emperor, emphasizing that he is the emperor's relatives.

During this time, Uncle Shen Guo was quite uneasy, after the financial power of Donghai County was taken away by Su Hanzhen, the prince's henchman, his attention was focused on whether Donghai County's Donggong tax silver would enter Beijing, more than a month ago, he got the information that Shi Xuyuan, the magistrate of Donghai County, was about to enter Beijing.

Uncle Shen knows very well that this batch of millions of tax silver is important to the prince's surname, in this month, the 20,000 troops of the East Palace Liurate Mansion will reach the payment period, but the prince still has a gap of 700,000 taels of silver, if the military salary cannot be paid, it will seriously shake the morale of the army, and the prince has to return 10,000 of the troops to the military department, so that the prince's Liurate Mansion will be reduced to 10,000.

This is the iron system of the Daning Dynasty, the prince has his own army, as the supreme emperor, Uncle Shen knows that the emperor's heart has not been very comfortable, the reason is very simple, one center is called 'loyalty', and two centers are called 'suffering', especially for military power, but the emperor is helpless, he can't break the rules of this iron tablet in Taimiao, and he doesn't want to break it, so he will take some small actions, that is, let the military department take over the East Palace army, the beautiful name is called: 'trusteeship', that is, the name remains the same, the establishment remains the same, but the crown prince has no command.

For the emperor, this is a trick to weaken the prince's military power, and for his uncle Shenguo, this is an important step to seize the East Palace step by step.

Since getting the news of Xu Yuan, Uncle Shen immediately deployed four interception lines, one is the Cao River interception line, he ordered his henchman, the samurai leader Fang Jun to lead five hundred Chu Wangfu warriors to the Cao River line, the second is the Yangtze River interception line, and ordered Wang Chengfu, the governor of the Jiangling Navy, to lead the Yangtze River Naval Army to intercept the Yangtze River in the name of patrolling, and sent a hundred spies to assist in finding out the news.

The third line is to intercept at sea with the help of the Yellow Sea pirate Baisha Society, and the sea line is also his weak link, he is not strong enough, so he can only rely on the Baisha Society, and the fourth line is the Yellow River line, which is led by his other henchman, Shao Jingyun, the embroidered internal guard general, to lead three hundred embroidered clothing guards to attack, and is assisted by various internal guard battalions along the Yellow River.

In the past two days, Uncle Shen Guo got a lot of news, Baisha Society failed to intercept, and King Qi successfully attacked and detained the silver ship near the mouth of the Daqing River, in these news, what surprised him was that the Phoenix Society was secretly helping the silver ship, what does this mean, this shows that the prince and Phoenix will collude, at least there is some kind of relationship between them, just as he and Baisha will have a relationship.

This information was an unexpected gain, and it also surprised Uncle Shen secretly, but now what gave him a headache was that he had just received the latest information, and the fifty boxes of silver intercepted by King Qi turned out to be Japanese lead, fake silver, and the people who escorted the silver also escaped from the barracks, and the military ship they were on was found in Jiyang County, but the people were missing.

After pondering for a long time, Uncle Shen Guo couldn't make up his mind, so he asked his staff, "Mr. Cao, what do you think of this information?" ”

Uncle Shen's staff is called Cao Jianguo, a native of Yongjing, born in the Ming Dynasty, about thirty years old, so thin that only a handful of bones remains, leaving three long beards, Uncle Shen's staff has more than a dozen people, but he trusts this Cao Jianguo the most, Cao Jianguo just finished reading the information sent, he pondered for a moment and said: "The first thing I can be sure of is that they brought silver tickets, not silver in kind." ”

Uncle Shen nodded, "I was a little strange at the beginning, I didn't need a silver ticket, why did I bring a million taels of silver on the road, now it seems that they used the golden cicada to get out of the shell, and played the king of Qi, it must be a silver ticket, the key is where did they enter Beijing from?" ”

Cao Jianguo raised his head and squinted his eyes and thought for a moment, "If you continue to walk the Daqing River, your surname may not be big, and it is the sphere of influence of the King of Qi all the way, and he has shown up in the water camp again, it is too dangerous, I suggest that this line can be eliminated first." ”

"Hmmm! Agree with the advice of the gentleman, and then what? ”

"Then there are two roads, either go south and take a detour by land to Luojing, or take the Yellow River on the opposite road, and cross our people, these two roads ......"

Cao Jianguo thought about it again, and then said decisively: "I think it's the latter, they must be taking the Yellow River?" ”

"Why?" Uncle Shen asked puzzledly, "Why is Mr. so sure?" ”

"Because they took the waterway from the beginning, it shows that the leader among them has a soft spot for water, and his subconscious will let him choose the waterway again, so that he will have a sense of security, and secondly, their original plan is to take the Yellow River, which means that the Yellow River will be received by the prince's people, and I think they are reluctant to give up the prince's reinforcements."

"Makes sense, sir!"

Uncle Shen Guo also suddenly became enlightened, and he immediately ordered: "Order Shao Jingyun to lay a net on the Yellow River for me, and I must intercept the tax money!" ”

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(To be continued)