Yang Ling went out of Beijing this time with 300 guards, all of whom were brave and good soldiers in the pro-army camp, each with a short dagger and a short dagger, and 300 people were divided into three teams, each with a chain crossbow, a short gun and a longbow, unless there was an army riot, otherwise with these 300 people, no one would want to hurt Yang Ling a cold hair.

At this time, the guards personally selected by Wu Jie, the head of the inner factory, Yang Ling is the soul of the inner factory, and the future of thousands of people up and down is tied to Yang Ling, how dare Wu Jie be careless?

If it weren't for Yang Ling, who felt that he was too excited, Wu Jie really wanted to equip his ship with a thousand men and horses, and set up a few cannons.

Three hundred people were enough to carry two huge ships, but the third huge ship was carrying the goods transported to the south by the wealthy families in Beijing. There are so many princes and nobles in Jingshi, these big families have hundreds of people at least and thousands at most, how much land can be outside Yanjing City to support them? These families have long been secretly engaged in commercial trade, and often use their family power to take official ships with the wind.

Two days before Yang Ling set off, Zhu Heyi, the son of Zhu Gang, the Duke of Chengguo, and Xue Huan, the concubine, came to the door and asked him to take the goods on his behalf, and when he arrived at the local family of the Chengguo Mansion, he received it. Cheng Guogong had helped Yang Ling a lot, so he sent his son with confidence, expecting that Yang Ling would definitely be able to sell him this face.

And Xue Huan since the female official of Princess Ningqing's mansion was beaten to death, the new female official has learned from the past, and she didn't dare to make things too difficult for their husband and wife, and the two of them interrogated the servants in the mansion, and they already knew that Yang Ling was partial to help them, and they were extremely grateful to him in their hearts, so they took his downwind boat to make a profit, but the main thing was to express gratitude and cling to friendship.

Yang Ling naturally agreed, and was inspired by this to think of his plan to win over the powerful in Beijing, Yang Ling took the initiative to hint to the honorable ministers in Beijing that he could help them carry goods, and even the two brothers Shouning Hou and Jianchang Hou were cheeky to send five carts of northern specialties that were in short supply in the south because of the huge profits that could be brought by a trip to the south of the giant ship.

Yang Ling didn't make any trouble at all, and accepted it all, and the Zhang brothers were quite grateful to him when they saw him so disregardful. Of course, Yang Ling has his own selfishness, and the more people's interests are tied to him, the more helpful it will be for his future plans, and these people can also become his protective umbrella because of this, and it will be of great benefit to him to get in touch with these imperial relatives and ministers.

Now the officials of the imperial envoy seem to be hibernating, and there is no movement all day, but Yang Ling is not careless, he has kept an eye on it, and has reported the matter to the Son of Zhengde in advance, and frankly said that he has also transported some goods, and the money earned will be used to bring some rare things in the south to the emperor to show his heart.

Zhengde didn't know that Yang Ling was so "insidious", and he was naturally very happy to hear his confession. Yang Ling dragged the emperor into the water and became the leader of the smuggling syndicate, and he also settled down, so that he was not afraid of someone stabbing him in the back when he left Beijing.

Yang Ling's banner was the first to take charge of the tax supervision department, and he was ordered to inspect Nanzhili. The three big tax eunuchs of Jiangnan Province didn't know much about the corruption of ink, but Yang Ling had guessed that someone must have sent a message to inform the three eunuchs that they were afraid that the three great eunuchs who were like the emperor in the local area had already prepared for it, and how to deal with them properly, and Yang Ling, who didn't know anything about the details now, had no clue in his heart.

The trip to Jiangnan was more complicated than the court struggle in Beijing, where he lived both people and land, and the three eunuchs who had guarded Jiangnan for many years must have had many eyes and ears and intertwined forces. Yang Ling did not forget how a dignified princess was bought by a small female official and played with by the servants of the mansion.

Therefore, he didn't dare to wait until he arrived, so that the three eunuchs had already prepared, and the secret agents he sent had already rushed to Jiangnan at night to monitor the whereabouts of the three eunuchs.

Gao Wenxin stood aside and quietly looked at the pensive Yang Ling, with a straight nose, angular lips, straight and handsome eyebrows, and a well-proportioned body.

He has a temperament and eyes that are very different from those of his peers, but when he thinks of Yang Ling's embarrassed blushing appearance when he acupuncture for him, Gao Wenxin's lips couldn't help but bloom with a smile: Yang Ling's embarrassment swept away her discomfort, and now acupuncture has become a traditional program for her to appreciate the embarrassed expressions of the majority of the inner factory governors.

Thirty miles of waterway, with the speed of a giant ship, can be reached in a short time. Yang Ling stood on the bow of the boat and saw the Xinggong Wharf from afar, and there were several smaller boats on the wharf that were slowly leaving. A short walk up the stone steps of the pier is a beautiful palace.

Along the canal, a palace must be built every other day for the emperor to leave Beijing to visit Nanjing as a lodging place, the Son of Heaven went out on patrol, of course, he could not just find a house to live in.

However, although the palace along the way costs a lot of money, it is necessary to send troops to garrison it, and there are servants in the palace to take care of it, and the annual maintenance cost is extremely amazing, but it is of no use at all.

Except for the Yongle Emperor who lived here in the past, the later emperors were all bound by the system he had formulated to show the majesty of the Son of Heaven, and they committed suicide and lived in the Forbidden City as a canary all their lives.

People often say that the shore of the land is not the king's land, but this king has no right to patrol his country. The palace is so vacant, built and repaired, repaired and repaired, and it has been placed for more than 100 years. There are several post houses built not far from the palace, and the royal and local palaces, the envoys, and ministers all use the wharf here to stay and stay here.

Yang Ling turned around, and Gao Wenxin immediately restrained the smile on the corner of his mouth when he saw it, and humbly lowered her graceful swan-like neck. Yang Ling's eyes were sharp, and he had already seen the smile on the corner of her lips, this big girl had never dared to talk to him and laugh and be naughty before, but since she was allowed to treat her illness, the sincere and fearful and respectful eyes she had when they first met were now gradually gone.

Sad, so nostalgic for the past, Yang Ling always felt that her smile was a little different from the past, but he was helpless: women, those who are far away are inferior, and those who are close are disrespectful. shows a butt all day long and makes people touch it, where does he still have the dignity to pretend to be a big man.

Yang Ling snorted secretly, and said to Gao Wenxin: "Go, pack up your belongings, and get ready to get off the boat."

"Yes, sir!" Gao Wenxin agreed, and was about to turn around, when he heard a bang, the hull shook violently, Gao Wenxin fell into Yang Ling's arms with a sigh, Yang Ling was already standing unsteadily, and she pounced again, and the two of them suddenly fell into a ball.

There were also many fans on the boat who didn't pay attention to the fall to the ground for a while, but as soon as their bodies fell to the ground, they immediately jumped up, and with a "sonorous" sound, they pulled out their bright knives and threw themselves to the side of the boat and shouted: "Who dares to attack the factory governor's ship?" ”

At this time, five or six fanzi also held knives behind their backs, surrounded Yang Ling and the others in the middle with meat shields, and looked around cautiously. Yang Ling was secretly shocked in his heart: "Could it be that Dongchang sent someone to plot against me?" He nervously shouted, "Don't panic, let's see what's going on?" ”

Gao Wenxin threw himself into Yang Ling's arms, and was shocked to find that Yang Ling's hand was pressing on her towering and full breasts, and he couldn't help but be angry and ashamed. She opened her eyes a little annoyed, Yang Ling was facing the sky and was putting on the prestige of the factory superintendent, not only did he not have the slightest reaction to her embrace, it seemed that even that hand, he didn't realize that it was pressing on the girl's drumming chest, and Gao Wenxin's heart suddenly rose again for no reason.

This dumb man ate it in vain, Gao Wenxin hated the root of his teeth, but he didn't dare to make a noise, and got up from him in a hurry. At this time, the big ship had stabilized, and a hundred households stood on the lookout to see the situation below, and the nervousness disappeared, and then shouted: "Blind your dog's eyes, why don't you know how to give way?" And don't look at who's on the boat, disturb the adults, I want your head."

As soon as the voice of the hundred households in the inner factory fell, he heard a voice twice as loud as him under the boat shouting in Shandong dialect: "I said that you are a mother, I have broken my skin when I arm the pendulum, and I am in pain, why are you blind and confused?" Yes! I'm a mother, what about the Heavenly Master? Where did Zhang Tianshi fall? ”！

His voice was really loud enough, Yang Ling heard it clearly, as soon as he heard Zhang Tianshi's three words, he also frightened him, he quickly got up, ran to the side of the ship to look down, only to see that the stern of a two-size-smaller brig had been smashed to pieces, the river was pouring into the cabin, the back end had begun to sink, and the front was warped.

A few black-iron tower-like boatmen were running around the boat in a panic, looking around for something, and for a moment they couldn't see who was cursing. I saw a thin, sven-clad scholar holding the mast and shouting: "Don't look for it, the Heavenly Master has fallen into the river, go down and fish!" ”

A boatman seemed to be a leader, and he slapped him on the thigh and shouted, "Old man [***], hurry up and get out of here!" Several big men didn't even bother to take off their clothes, and they went into the water with a "tom".

A few boatmen were in the water from the stern, and the high bow could not be searched for a while, Yang Ling lay on the bow of the boat to see clearly, and saw a strand of hair floating under the water surface of the bow, and hurriedly shouted: "In the bow, in the bow, hurry, who knows the water?" Go down and save people! ”

Although the fan on the boat is a northerner, there are a few good water surnames, and they hurriedly lost the Pu knife, jumped into the water, and after a while, two people with good water surnames came up, Yang Lingxi said: "Found the heavenly master?" ”

The man was wearing a cyan robe, the Dao crown had disappeared, his long hair was spread out, covering his face, and he seemed to have fainted. A fan wiped the water on his face and said: "My lord, this person is a woman, not a heavenly master."

Yang Ling's heart jumped when he heard this, he had heard that there was a cult Taoist priest who used women as a furnace to practice what to collect yin and supplement yang, could the dignified Zhang Tianshi also be this way?

Several boatmen with very good water surnames heard this greeting, and swam over one after another, and a fierce man plunged into the water, and after a while, three zhang away, finally a boatman dragged a man in a green robe out, and shouted: "In this mud, in this mud!" ”

Yang Ling didn't have time to think about it, and hurriedly asked someone to put down the rope, first tied up the unconscious Zhang Tianshi and the female Taoist priest and pulled them up, and then got everyone else up, at this time, Commander Dezhou Wei Liu on the dock in the distance also saw the two boats collide, and hurriedly rushed to the rescue by boat in person.

Knowing that the little Taoist next to Zhang Tianshi was a woman, it was naturally inconvenient to rescue her in front of people, so Gao Wen hurriedly asked someone to carry her into the cabin and rescue her himself.

Commander Liu arrived on Yang Ling's boat, and the big gift was also saved, and he hurriedly saw Yang Ling, and the two of them gathered around Zhang Tianshi, who was pale and unconscious. Legend has it that Zhang Tianshi is omnipotent in heaven and earth, and his magical powers are very big, and he is of rank in the Immortal Palace, but he didn't expect this river dragon king to give him face, and he was forced to fill him, Yang Ling and Commander Liu squatted aside and watched Fanzi squeeze his abdomen for him, and his mouth continued to overflow with streams of water.

After a while, Zhang Yanshuo, the real person of Zhengyi Sect Zhixuchong, Jing Chengxian Hong, and Zhang Yanshuo woke up quietly, and Yang Ling and Commander Liu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw it.

Xiao Zhenren opened his eyes, and seemed to feel that it was a bit embarrassing for the Heavenly Master to fall into the water, and he had to press and press a few boatmen to save his life, and he was confused and didn't see the person in front of him clearly, so he laughed and said: "Poor Dao has already calculated that there should be a catastrophe in the middle of September, but it should be said today, hahaha."

Yang Ling touched his nose and secretly cursed in his heart: "This magic stick!" ”

He suddenly remembered that there was also a pretty little Taoist girl named Fu Bao in the cabin, and he couldn't help but add: "This silver stick!" ”

In the dark of night, Zheng Baihu walked into the cabin and saw that the factory supervisor was playing chess with Zhang Tianshi, and he was busy standing and bowing and waiting. Yang Ling frowned, stared at the chessboard in front of him, and muttered for a long time, as if he was undecided.

Zheng Baihu took a sneak look, and suddenly found that the tall and beautiful maid of the factory governor was standing behind the factory supervisor, leaning slightly and seemed to be looking at the chessboard with interest, but the slender jade hand was quietly marking on the adult's back.

Gao Wenxin's onion-white fingers were unpleasant to draw on Yang Ling's back, and there were not many strokes, Zheng Baihu saw it clearly, it was a "cannon two flat one", as soon as the girl finished the stroke, she saw the factory superintendent's eyebrows raised, as if she had just thought of a good move, she picked up the cannon and slapped it on the ground, and the chess was decisive and neat, and she was confident.

Zheng Baihu secretly sweated, and hurriedly turned his eyes to avoid embarrassment for adults, but in a blink of an eye, he saw the short and thin middle-aged scribe who had been for more than thirty years standing beside Zhang Tianshi with a smile, and one hand was actually writing on the back of the Heavenly Master.

Every time Gao Wenxin won Yang Ling's stinky chess basket in chess, she was happy for a long time, and it seemed that Yang Ling was very proud of something to bow to him, and asked her to deliberately lose to Yang Ling to make him happy, so she refused. But this way, seeing Yang Ling repeatedly defeated at the hands of Zhang Tianshi, this big girl felt uncomfortable, it felt like her own child beat herself, what are you doing outsider? , so he simply helped Master Yang cheat.

Zhang Tianshi, who was killed for a few days in a row, his chess skills improved by leaps and bounds after learning from the pain, Gao Wen expected that it was the Liao Liao steward next to him who was secretly helping him, and this time he also competed with him, and it turned out to be Yang Changdu and Zhang Tianshi fighting, and the little maid and Liao steward were secretly fighting.

Gao Wenxin saw the move taken by the other party, and immediately wrote "Ma two retreat four" on Yang Ling's back, and the corners of his mouth showed a happy smile, "Double horse drinking spring"! The sneak attack was successful, and if you take three steps in a row, you will definitely be able to kill the other party, Zhang Tianshi's army was suppressed by artillery and could not be withdrawn.

Steward Liao stared at it for a long time, looked at Gao Wenxin and sighed slightly, and then there was no sound. Zhang Tianshi understood, and said with a smile: "I lost!" ”

Yang Ling glanced at Gao Wenxin, Gao Wenxin blinked, Yang Ling smiled, and then asked Zheng Baihu, "What's the matter?" ”

Zheng Baihu pretended not to see the eyebrows between the adults and the pretty maids, bowed down and said, "My lord, the ship has arrived in Shanghai Town, is it anchored here tonight?" ”

"Oh? Arriving in Shanghai? Yang Ling was surprised, and hurriedly opened the cabin curtain to look out, only to see that the sky was full of stars above, and the bottom was desolate, and there were some restaurants scattered along the river, but there were few residents in the distance, and there was no resemblance to the city in his impression. Yang Ling couldn't help but be disappointed: "This is Shanghai? ”

Steward Liao also thought that the factory supervisor was shabby here, and said with a smile: "My lord, although this town looks a little desolate, the wine and food are also unique, why don't we stop the boat and go down for a walk, and also relieve the fatigue on our bodies."

Yang Ling said: "Okay, get off the boat and go." He glanced around and said to Zhang Tianshi, "Sister Ling, please go with her to have some wine and food."

Zhang Tianshi shook his head and said, "She said that she was not very comfortable today, so don't pay attention to her, and I will bring her some food when I come back."

After the emperor's wedding, Zhang Tianshi stayed in Beijing to visit relatives and friends, how many relatives and friends of the Chengguo family were, each family went to a banquet, and it took more than half a month, plus the heavenly master rarely came to the capital, these relatives and friends inevitably asked him to help look at feng shui and look at the face, which took almost two months.

Wu Jiyuan, a wealthy man in Wuzhong, sent his housekeeper to accompany him before he went to Beijing, and implored the Heavenly Master Jingshi and his entourage to go to Suzhou to pray for the old lady of the Wu family. More than 100 years ago, when Zhu Yuanzhang suppressed Buddhism the most severely, the incense on Longhu Mountain was bleak, and it was difficult to cross, and the Wu family secretly sent people to donate sesame oil money to help hundreds of disciples of Longhu Mountain tide over the difficulties, which can be described as the great benefactor of the Heavenly Master.

The predecessors of this mountain and a mansion had such a relationship before, and the little heavenly master was very gracious, so he had to come with him, but he didn't expect that he was hit by Yang Ling's big ship just after he sailed out of the Dezhou Xinggong Wharf, and Yang Ling also felt sorry, so he simply invited them to come with him on the official ship.

Fanzi shouted to the boatman to sail to the shore and moor, put down the pedals, and a few people got off the boat and chose a small shop. This small shop is really unique, and the hotel is actually a small wine boat, moored by the river and gently rippling with the waves.

At this time, at this time, the most important flavor is, of course, crab eating. Steward Liao asked the diligent boat lady to warm two pots of wine, and said with a smile: "The west wind rises, the crab feet are itchy, and now the autumn is crisp, it is the season to eat crabs, Lord Yang, Heavenly Master, please taste the flavor of this place."

Eat female crabs in September, eat male crabs in October, the boat lady serves a large plate of female crabs, Yang Ling used to eat crabs, they were all chopped open and picked with chopsticks, where do you know what skills and methods? Seeing that Zhang Tianshi and Steward Liao were eating the whole crab in an orderly manner, they didn't feel a little hesitant.

Gao Wen was thoughtful, and saw that the old man's demeanor was different, so he immediately took a crab obediently, opened the crab bucket, broke off a crab leg, quickly picked off the crab sac and gills, and used the crab tip to remove the hexagonal heart and foreintestine, and picked the white, tender and fresh crab meat into the bowl, and presented it to Yang Ling: "Master, this thing does not need to be dipped in ginger vinegar, the original flavor is rich and mellow, please taste it."

Steward Liao looked at such an informed and interesting girl, and couldn't help but admire: "The flowers in the good night are explained, and the wine is full in the quiet night, the adults are very good at three flavors!" ”

Although Steward Liao's words were compliments, they made Gao Wenxin's identity a little warmer, and Gao Wenxin felt a little light when he heard it, and he couldn't help but blush and be a little angry.

Yang Ling saw it and hurriedly changed the topic and said: "I just played chess, but I forgot to drink tea, and now I feel quite thirsty, boatman, make a pot of tea?" ”

Gao Wenxin listened and said softly: "Master, although this crab is delicious, it is a cold thing, and it is good to ask the boat lady to send a bowl of brown sugar ginger soup to drink it after a while, it is to quench your thirst and replenish your body, or don't drink tea."

Steward Liao smiled and said, "My lord is a northerner, so he doesn't like wine but tea?" It doesn't hurt to drink less", he said and carefully took out a cloth bag from his arms, and said with a smile: "The little one invites the adults to taste this excellent tea, just this bag of tea is less than one tael, it costs four taels of silver, or I asked for seven or eight to get it, hehe, but there is a good thing with a price!" ”

As he spoke, he called the boat lady and asked her to bring the cup, pinched a handful and put it into the cup one by one.

One tael of silver is enough for a farmer's family to live for a year, and these two taels of tea cost four taels of silver, or is it obtained by a trust relationship, so how much money does it cost to buy normally? Yang Ling was shocked when he heard this, and asked unconsciously: "What kind of tea is this, it is so expensive?" ”

Liao steward said: "This is the dragon well before the rain in the West Lake, don't hide it from the adults, the small ones have also saved some furniture in the Wu Mansion, but even if the small ones spend money, it is difficult to find such a good tea."

Yang Ling remembered that in later generations, it seemed that Longjing tea was all over the streets, could it be that there is very little planting now and there is an imbalance between supply and demand, so it is so expensive? Infected by Yu Yong, he is now also a businessman, and when he heard that there was a lucrative industry, he immediately paid great attention to it.

Yang Ling immediately said with joy: "Is this thing too little planted or is it difficult to plant?" Steward Liao is a native of Suzhou and Hangzhou, is it difficult to buy it? ”

Steward Liao said with a smile: "Even the local rich businessmen in Hangzhou, they can't ask for it, hehe, Mo Qinghe Mo Gonggong sent someone to sit in the tea garden every time, and a penny of tea is not allowed to flow out. Think about it, who still drinks it? ”

Mo Qinghe? Father-in-law Mo, who is in charge of the tax supply of rice grain and tea? Isn't this just one of the three town guards and eunuchs who he came here to investigate? He is only responsible for taxes, and even if this tea is tribute tea, it should be supervised by the prefect of Hangzhou, how did he directly send someone to take over the tea garden?

Yang Ling was suspicious in his heart, his face was impassive, and he pretended not to care and asked, "Shouldn't Longjing tea supply be managed by the Hangzhou prefect?" It turns out that Father-in-law Mo also has the right to supervise. ”

Steward Liao said proudly: "The tea garden produced by Longjing Benshan tea is produced in several mountainous areas of Xianrenchong, Huangxijian, Wumeijian, and Mengdu Bay, and there are only so many acres of mountainous land in total, and the annual output cannot be three or four hundred catties, which is not enough as a tribute." The Longjing on the market are all products of several counties near Hangzhou, and the taste is much worse if they are pretended to be Longjing mountain tea.

Father-in-law Mo was worried that someone was making huge profits, selling tea privately, so he sent his people to supervise these tea gardens, even the prefect of Hangzhou was not allowed to touch, and now every year before the best rain Longjing is enshrined in Beijing and several palaces according to the emperor, and the tea produced on April 8 is allowed to be sold by Hangzhou Mansion to collect taxes. My nephew is a close steward under Grandpa Mo, knowing that I drink tea well, and begging Grandpa Mo for good words, Grandpa Mo only took out a little bit, although this is not the best imperial tip, but it is not much different, please taste it."

Yang Ling smiled faintly, not caring much in his heart. Listening to what he said so mysteriously, as if it is difficult to find in the world, I did not drink the best pre-rain tea of the tribute emperor Jian'er in the East Warm Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace, which is a higher grade than your tea, but these words naturally have no need to show off to Liao Steward, he took a cup of tea without caring about it, uncovered the lid, and saw the water color clear under the light, the color was emerald green, there were a few pieces of tea leaves floating inside, a faint fragrance floated out of the heart and spleen, the fragrance was elegant at the beginning, and felt that the fragrance was endless, although not strong, But like the fragrance of flowers and plants in the Sanchun Field, it lingered for a long time.

Although the tea leaves in this thick cup of ugly water are the same as the best sparrow tongues in the palace, the aroma is not comparable at all, Yang Ling held the teacup in his hand, and he was stunned.

(To be continued)