Retreating from the door of the small courtyard, a familiar feeling greeted him, Chen Xin stepped in, feeling a little strange in his heart, in fact, he had only lived here for less than a year, and he had also gone to sea and Beijing in the middle. But every time he comes here, he feels very cordial, and whenever he comes to Tianjin, he has to live here, and this time Dai Zhenggang and a few people lived in Zhou Laifu's courtyard.

Followed by their original left neighbor Jiang Wang, this person sells incense in temples such as Chenghuang Temple and Guanyin Pavilion on weekdays, not as good as Zhou Laifu, he is an honest pimple, rarely takes the initiative to talk to people, but he never refuses when he should help, and his popularity in Erdao Street is very good. After Zhou Laifu moved to Wendeng, Jiang Wang helped to keep the keys to these two houses, and he usually came to clean them up occasionally. ""The fastest update, full text hand-typed

Chen Xin sat down at the stone table, there was no change in the courtyard, except that the corner of the simple kitchen had collapsed, and the small tree by the thatched house had grown up, and the branches and leaves were very luxuriant.

Wang Mafu took two guards to check on each house, and by the way, the bed inside was tidied up, Jiang Wang stood stiffly next to Chen Xin, this neighbor has not seen him for a long time, and now he is a big man in the world, he is indeed a little nervous.

Chen Xin beckoned him to sit down, and said with a smile: "I haven't been here in this house for a long time, it's rare that Jiang Wang has cleaned up the inside so cleanly." ”

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After Jiang Wang sat down, his nervousness decreased slightly, and he bowed slightly, "What a villain should do." ”

"How are sister-in-law and son-in-law?"

"It's all good."

Chen Xin smiled and took out a small bag and said: "When we first arrived at Erdao Street, we owe it to you and Laifu to help us get a foothold in the two outsiders. ”

Jiang Wang hurriedly stood up and shook his hand, and Chen Xin stuffed it into his hand. "This is for my brother's sister-in-law and nephews and nieces, and Brother Jiang will look down on me as a neighbor if he refuses to excuse himself."

Jiang Wang took it. As soon as I touched it, I knew it was some silver, and I didn't know whether I should kneel down and thank you. After all, this person is a court official.

Chen Xin invited him to sit again, and then asked Jiang Wang, "Brother Jiang used to sell incense in the City God Temple, how is the business now?" ”

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"Brother Jiang, don't be polite, just because I'm a former neighbor, if there is any difficulty, you might as well tell me, now I still have some affection."

Jiang Wang bowed down and said: "Thanks to the kindness of adults, no one dares to bully the people on these two streets when they go out now." The people from the Qing Army Hall heard that it was from Jingdongfang. Generally not embarrassed, everyone knows that it was the Wendeng camp that repelled the Tartars, otherwise those Jiannu were planning to come to Tianjin, so everyone thought that the adults were good. The villain sells some incense, and the business has always been like that, and he can support the family. ”

"Oh, that's a good feeling, as long as the neighborhood is good, I'm relieved." Chen Xin nodded slightly, knowing that it was someone from the Intelligence Bureau who spread the news. It can also be regarded as an advertisement for Wendeng, when Jiannu occupied Luanzhou, Tianjin was in a good news, but in fact, Jiannu did not plan to continue southward at that time. But the common people don't know about it. With the Wendeng battalion's record in Gu'an and Luanzhou, this kind of statement is easy to believe.

Jiang Wang was a little more relaxed now, and he took the initiative to say to Chen Xin: "The neighbors in the neighborhood follow the adults." are all rich and noble, and Zhou Shifa is now a military attaché. Laifu, Lao Cai, and Deng Keshan are all out, even the former Lu You. Now I can also take care of my clothes in an orderly manner. There are several descendants in the neighborhood who went to Dengzhou to join Zhou Shifa and Laifu, and they also want to have a future. ”

Chen Xin nodded and said: "This is also in exchange for their own serious work, I just let them do their best." Brother Jiang has been doing business all year round, if you are willing to come to Dengzhou, when the time comes, you will go to our shop branch, they will report to me, and they will arrange a place for Brother Jiang. ”

Jiang Wang bit his lip and replied in a low voice: "Thank you, my lord, but the villain is used to it in Tianjin, and after staying for a long time, the people who put on the incense are all familiar, and they come to the temple every month to buy incense from me, and the surrounding neighbors get along well, the villain still wants to ...... I want to"

Chen Xin hurriedly smiled and said: "Brother Jiang's own decision is that I am not forcing Brother Jiang to go to Dengzhou, but Tianjin is not far from Beijing. ”

Jiang Wang honestly agreed, stood up and said goodbye: "Lord Chen, the pots and stoves in this house have not been used for a long time, and there is no firewood, the villain will go back to the house to boil some water and send it to the adult. ”

Chen Xin stood up and sent him to the door, just opened the door, a black shadow flashed in front of him, Chen Xin was startled, his head quickly deviated, and after a sound of flapping wings, two chicken feathers floated in front of him.

When he came back to his senses, he saw a group of people in front of him, holding chickens, ducks, pork, salt eggs and other things in their hands, all of them were former neighbors, and they all had some restrained smiles on their faces. The one who took the lead was Tan Shunlin, the chief soldier, who was a little stunned when he saw Chen Xin, and asked loudly: "Lord Chen, do you still recognize me?" ”

Chen Xin laughed and said, "Of course I know, Mr. Tan is my parents." ”

Tan Shunlin roared excitedly: "There is a big man in our Erdao Street, and he is a great man who killed Jiannu, and our neighborhoods have a face when they go out." The neighbors always talk about Lord Chen and Lord Liu on weekdays, and it is rare for Lord Chen to come back today, so our neighbors have made some hearts, please don't dislike them. ”

Chen Xin bowed to the crowd, "Under Chen Xin, thanks to the help of the neighbors, there is today's Xiaocheng, and I returned to Tianjin today, thanks to the neighbors who still remember this."

I took some gifts, and invited all the neighbors to go to the restaurant outside for dinner, and show a little gratitude. ”

Tan Shunlin turned his head to take a look, and then said to Chen Xin: "My lord, there are so many chickens, ducks, meat and eggs here, why don't we set up a few more tables of flowing water seats, just in front of this door, just like when you came here that day, everyone is not afraid of curfew, you can drink happily." ”

Chen Xin clapped his hands, he had eaten countless reception banquets along the way, and he was a little upset about eating, drinking, and socializing recently, but there was no resistance here, he laughed loudly: "Then do it according to Tan Zongjia's wishes, you neighbors have produced so many ingredients, and my brother has packed wine and cigarettes!" ”……

Chen Xinwan was dry when he arrived that day, although he drank some low-alcohol distilled spirits, he still got drunk. Dai Zhenggang and others tried their best to block the wine, and they didn't fight so many neighborhoods. On the second day, he slept until the third pole of the sun.

Even Wang Ting's attempt to drink flower wine woke up, and Chen Xin and the others had not yet arrived. He had to send someone to urge, and finally set off for Beijing before noon, stopping twice in Hexi and Tongzhou on the way, the general army of Tongzhou was still Yang Guodong, he and Wang Tingqian and Chen Xin were old acquaintances of Denglai, and received them warmly.

Chen Xin took a look at the Sihai Trading Company in Tongzhou again, there is Yang Guodong's care here, and it is also doing very well, most of the goods in Jizhen and Liaozhen are sold from here. It also bought some goods from the north and sold them to the south, one of the most important of which was war horses. There is a lot of smuggling at the border of Jizhen, and the most scarce in Mongolia are spices, pepper, cigarettes, and tea, all of which happen to be available to trading companies all over the world.

Chen Xin in the goal of Sihai Trading Company, relatively reduced the requirements for profit margins, but deliberately emphasized that the Tongzhou branch needs to complete the war horse procurement index, whether it is a horse from a border town or a horse from Mongolia, there are excellent stallions can also add performance points.

By the time Chen Xin came to inspect, the Tongzhou store had already bought more than 200 war horses this year. is being sent to Dengzhou one after another, Chen Xin casually looked at the remaining war horses, at least fifty of them were military horses from Liaozhen, and the horses had imprints on them. Even the wooden parts of the saddle have the mark of Liao Town, and the shopkeeper said that the merchants of the border town collected them from deserters, and most of the deserters came from several battalions of the defeated Changshan Army.

Chen Xincai didn't bother to care which battalion it was. As long as it is a war horse, it will be accepted, and the war horse purchased by the merchants of Tongguò is close to thirty-one taels. With some commercial conditions, it can be reduced to early twenties. This price is about the same as Guan Ningjun's buying of horses, but there are a lot of kickbacks and fake accounts in Guan Ning's silver, and many horses are not real war horses. The Mongols generally kept the best horses for their own use, sold the middle ones to merchants, and sold the worst ones to the Ming armies.

Now that Chen Xin has money and urgently needs to expand his cavalry, silver is not a big problem. Tell the shopkeeper to collect more horses, and collect more stalks and nights in border towns.

After two days of delay on the road, Chen Xin finally followed Wang Ting to the long-lost Beijing Division, and ended the long journey of more than 20 days.

This year, because of the battle of the Daling River, many people in Beijing were worried that Jiannu would enter the Kou, and they went south to avoid the military disaster, and the business was much worse than the original.

The group entered the city from Guangqu Gate, and then went to Qipan Street through Chongwen Gate, Chen Xin, a military attache like Chen Xin went to the military department, and Wang Tingtry to go to the official department, the two said goodbye on Qipan Street and ran their own errands.

The Ministry of War was the place where Chen Xin speculated back then, Qian Yuanke was the director of the Wuxuan Division at that time, followed the success of the speculation, stepped on Wei Zhongxian's corpse and got the emperor's trust, and now he is no longer in the Ministry of War.

However, Chen Xin doesn't need acquaintances now, he first met Zhou Shifa who was standing in front of the door, and after making sure that there was nothing unusual about the Beijing Division, he went to the door to report his name in, and the people of the military department immediately received him attentively, and even the squire came out, and after reporting here, he waited for the emperor to receive him, and the military department was very efficient in doing this, it is said that Chen Xin and Wang Ting's trial was not for a long time, and the emperor was in a hurry.

As soon as Chen Xin stayed with the squire for a while, the Ministry of War contacted the Ministry of Rites to usher in the ceremony, and on the second day, he wanted to come to teach Dai Zhenggang and others to learn the etiquette of the palace.

Chen Xin and the others set the training time, and accompanied by a director of the military department, they went to Qipan Street to find a better inn, waiting for the emperor to summon him.

As soon as he sat down less than a quarter of an hour, Chen Xin heard an argument at the staircase outside, and when he went to the door, it was a guard and a rather handsome middle-aged man talking.

Zhou Shifa, who pretended to be an ordinary guest, led a few people to observe in the corridor and controlled the location of the stairs.

The middle-aged man politely said to the guard: "This brother, I know that General Chen is here, please make a convenient report." As he spoke, he found a piece of silver of about ten taels.

The guard took a step back and said loudly: "I Wendeng camp military regulations, except for military salaries, you are not allowed to accept anyone's money, you want me to report, but you refuse to say your name, you don't give me convenience." ”

The man lowered his head and paused, seemed a little strange, and finally raised his head and said: "Please inform me, just say that it is a friend from Liaodong who came to the meeting, and he is surnamed Wu Minglianghuan." ”

Chen Xin was slightly stunned, then remembered the information from the Intelligence Bureau, immediately walked out of the door, and said to the man: "It turned out to be General Wu of Liaozhen, and I have admired it for a long time." (To be continued.) )

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