The huge fortune ship gradually approached the dock, and the situation on the dock was also reflected in everyone's eyes.

Pang Gang had never seen such a strange scene, hundreds of large and small cargo ships of all colors were neatly docked on the dock, and although there were many people moving on the dock, none of them were loading and unloading things or preparing to leave.

It wasn't until Pang Gang's fleet docked that an inspector with more than a dozen soldiers stood on the dock and nodded and greeted him, the leader of which was Huang Laosi, who was preparing to block Pang Gang's oil and water on the river just now.

Although Huang Laosi returned to the dock one step faster than Pang Gang and others, when he answered the yamen, he couldn't find a leader in the yamen.

When Huang Laosi saw this situation, although he was so angry that he scolded his mother, he had no choice but to hurry to the dock with a ticket of brothers, ready to make friends with this sudden fleet.

Huang Laosi stood at the dock and waited for a while, and the first huge fortune ship docked on the dock, and its huge body compared the surrounding cargo ships.

"Head, what kind of ship is this, why is it so big?" One of his subordinates asked curiously.

Huang Laosi squinted his eyes and pondered for a while before saying, "I don't know, but I think that the Eight Achievements are the great fortune ship or treasure ship of the Yongle Dynasty, and only that kind of ship can have such a big size." ”

"Head, there's someone on board." At this time, the soldiers on the side saw a long and wide plank sticking out of the boat, and they all reminded him.

As soon as he saw the scarlet official robe that the arrivalman was wearing, Huang Laosi knew that a big man was coming.

"My mother, it's a big official who came down!"

Huang Laosi hurriedly led the crowd to greet him, regardless of 3721, he knelt down and kowtowed: "The villain sees the adult!" ”

I only heard the official say aloud: "Everyone is exempt, get up." ”

After Huang Laosi and the others got up, Huang Laosi stepped forward with a smile and asked diligently: "Dare to ask where the adults are from, what are the noble things to do in Hangzhou, and stay for a few days, the villain is good to register for the adults to make a good record." ”

When Huang Laosi spoke, the named and fully armed sergeants also got off the boat, and they held bird guns one by one, and quickly surrounded the young official and Huang Laosi and others, and looked at Huang Laosi and others with solemn faces, and the bird guns in their hands emitted a dark light in the sun.

Facing the aggressive gaze of many murderous sergeants, Huang Laosi only felt that his legs and stomach were spinning, and his mind was also thinking quickly about where this master came from, but he knew very well that no matter what kind of immortal the person came, it was not something that his small deputy inspector could afford to provoke.

Just when Huang Laosi's heart was beating faster and faster, he heard the official in front of him say loudly: "This official is the commander of Qingzhou, the general of Dingyuan, and the general of the East Road, Pang Gang, this trip to Hangzhou is for official business, as for He Gong'er, there is no need to know." ”

Huang Laosi didn't have time to wipe the cold sweat off his forehead, and said with a smile: "The adults are smiling, how dare the villain ask the adults, just so that the adults can know that today is the birthday of the governor, and the slightly headed and faceless characters in Hangzhou have gone to the governor's yamen to celebrate his birthday. ”

"Oh, it's the governor's birthday?" Pang Gang looked at the dock a few times in surprise before asking, "No wonder the dock is so quiet today, have these people all gone to the governor's yamen to celebrate his birthday?" ”

Huang Laosi said with some disdain: "My lord said that he was joking, where are those who sell illicit goods qualified to go to the governor's yamen to drink, they can only send gifts to the yamen and then go to the restaurant in the city to drink." ”

"Ugh!" Pang Gang couldn't help but be a little speechless when he heard this, daring to feel that these gift-givers are not qualified to enter the governor's yamen.

Huang Laosi saw that Pang Gang had an unhappy look on his face, and thought that Pang Gang was a little dissatisfied in his heart, so he hurriedly laughed and said: "Of course, if an adult goes, then he will definitely be able to enter." ”

Huang Laosi said this, Pang Gang was even more depressed in his heart, feelings in your eyes, Brother Tangtang, a third-grade general, General Dingyuan, if you go to celebrate your birthday, you can only barely get in, it is estimated that even if you go, you can only squat in which corner and drink with those five- or six-grade petty officials, and Lao Tzu will only take a hot face to stick to his cold buttocks.

Thinking of this, Pang Gang pursed his lips and was about to beckon everyone on the ship to get off the boat and find an inn to stay in first, but Huang Laosi said attentively: "My lord, the governor's yamen is lively today, those high-ranking officials and lords in Hangzhou City, those big salt merchants and grain merchants are inside, you are going to be lively." ”

"Hmm!" Pang Gang, who was about to walk away, stopped when he heard this, turned around and asked, "Are those salt merchants and grain merchants in Hangzhou City also in there?" ”

"Not really!" Huang Laosi looked surprised, "Those old men have the ability to reach the sky, sometimes even the governor has to give them some face." ”

Pang Gang's heart became lively as soon as he heard it: "As the saying goes, it's better to choose than to bump, since all the people in Hangzhou City have gone to the governor's yamen today, then I might as well go there, at least I can get acquainted with my face, and I will have to go door-to-door to visit after I say it." ”

At this time, Huang Laosi wanted to say something more but was stopped by Pang Gang, he took out two ingots of silver from his sleeve and handed them to Huang Laosi and said with a smile: "Okay, the official knows, and I have worked hard for you today, you take the brothers to drink a glass of wine with this bit of silver, and by the way, take care of the official, don't let those ships that are close to the official." ”

Although there were sailors watching the ship for twelve hours, Pang Gang still thought it would be more convenient to have a local snake gang to line it up.

Huang Laosi took the silver with both hands, and as soon as he got his hands on the silver, he knew that this was ten taels of silver per ingot, but he didn't expect to meet a noble person today. , with a smile in his eyebrows, he couldn't stop nodding and said, "Little Lord Xie rewards, may the Lord be blessed and healthy!" Get promoted and get rich! Rest assured, there are villains who are making sure that they don't let the villains get even a step closer to the adults' boats. ”

Pang Gang saw Huang Laosi's sworn appearance, and couldn't help but laugh in his heart, this Huang Laosi knew at a glance that it was an authentic soldier, expecting this kind of person to look at the boat and not know when he would even take the boat to be stolen, he was really too lazy to pay attention to him, Pang Gang waved his hand, and Huang Laosi quickly left the dock with a lot of interest.

After leaving Pang Gang for dozens of steps, a soldier quietly asked Huang Laosi, "Head, do we still have to report to the inspection lord?" According to the villain, this huge person in Qingzhou seems to be very simple. ”

Huang Laosi was annoyed when he heard this, stretched out his hand and gave the soldier a burst, and scolded: "You stupid, who are you going to report to now, the inspector is drinking in Wanhua Building." Besides, even if he reports to the inspector, what can he do with that adult? You can figure out this kind of thankless thing, why did I, Huang Laosi, recruit you as a fool in the first place.

After scolding the soldier, Huang Laosi said to more than a dozen of his subordinates vividly: "Okay, everyone also saw it just now, that huge man gave us a reward of twenty taels, and everyone will come to me to receive a tael of silver later, and I will lead everyone to Cuihualou to drink the rest of the money." ”

"Thank you, Lord for the wine!" When all the soldiers heard this, they all became excited, and they followed Huang Laosi out to find happiness.

After Pang Gang watched Huang Laosi and the others leave, he took Li Xuezhu and dozens of personal soldiers, brought some gifts from Qingzhou, and went to the yamen of the governor of Hangzhou.

Hangzhou is the provincial capital of Zhejiang, and there are dozens of large and small yamen in the city of Hangzhou, such as the governor's yamen, the prefect's yamen, the salt transportation yamen, and the inspection envoy's yamen, but the most powerful yamen is undoubtedly the governor's yamen.

Governor, which began in the Ming Dynasty, is also known as Futai. It is a minister who inspects the military and civil affairs of various places, and his official rank is equivalent to that of the current provincial governor or secretary of the provincial party committee.

Although at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang had already established a provincial-level political system with the three divisions of capital, cloth and press. However, since the Xuande and Orthodox dynasties, the expansion of the power of the civilian clique and the decline of the status of the military clique have broken the balance of the three divisions. The intensifying social contradictions have also caused the three divisions to be divided and ineffective. For the sake of social stability, the imperial court had to appoint a governor to manage local affairs in a unified manner, which also reflected the desire of the ruling group to adhere to the principle of centralization and decentralization.

Today is the 50th birthday of Wu Yadong, the governor of Zhejiang, and the ancients had a saying that they knew the destiny of heaven at the age of 50, so the 50-year-old birthday is a big day for Wu Yadong. A flowing water table was set up in it, so that the guests could eat at any time of the day, but there were only some subordinates and stewards to greet them, and as for the governor, of course, they greeted those high-ranking guests in the governor's yamen.

Today's governor's yamen is very lively, and there is a long line of sedan chairs parked in front of the door, and there are dozens of them in a rough count. Hundreds of palanquin bearers sat on the side of the road smoking dry tobacco pouches and chattering, nothing more than bragging about whose old man was big, who had more money, and whose woman was beautiful.

And in the depths of the inner courtyard of the governor's yamen, it is very lively with people coming and going, hundreds of maids and servants are busy inside, starting from the garden of the inner courtyard, dozens of tables of banquets have been set up, and they have been lined up in the hall in the inner courtyard, of course, the people who can enter the hall are at least officials of the same grade as the governor or important gentry in Hangzhou, and the grandfather and grandson of the Yan family who hurried back from Hangzhou City are also awe-inspiring.

(To be continued)