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Chapter 842: Nanjing Hairui

Qin Cha transits, all kinds of people and so on always have to come forward to greet each other, feast and drink to catch the wind, it is also a full etiquette, but the destination is not here, if Qin Cha is not willing to meet, all parties are also happy to be idle. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Wang Tong and his cadres got off the boat in Dantu, and then changed into chariots and horses to Nanjing, and his every move was watched, but only the officials who should come forward to receive him came forward, and the rest of the people arrived as if they did not have this Qin messenger.

Wang Tong also likes this attitude of respecting and staying away, and he also doesn't like the correspondence of officialdom, not to mention that this is not a welcome move.

Others can stay away, but a few Jinyi guards and thousands of households on this side of Nanjing City can't stay away, Wang Tong got off the boat in Dantu, and they hurriedly went out of Nanjing and waited for them in Longtan.

Longtan is the point between the city of Nanjing and Dantu, and the officials in the north go south from the canal to Nanjing, and go to Longtan to greet them, which is a very grand etiquette.

For this, Wang Tong doesn't think so, he is the leader of the Jinyi Wei system, and these thousands of households in Nanjing are originally subordinates, so it is natural to greet them with great gifts.

Different from the respectful and respectful of the thousands of households in Beijing, the respect of the three brocade guards who came to greet them in Nanjing is more reflected in the situation, and the feeling of being separated by a layer is very obvious.

When he arrived in Nanjing, Wang Tong did not live in the accommodation arranged by the government, but found an inn in the city by himself, chartered the inn, and a group of people and horses lived in it, which was naturally regarded as a joke by the nobles and officialdom of Nanjing, who had been rich for nearly two hundred years.

The eunuchs guarding Nanjing, the Wei State Mansion, and the bigwigs and officials who are qualified or should come to the banquet all sent people over to make a post, to give Wang Tong a clean wash, everyone secretly how it was secretly, the etiquette on the surface still had to be maintained, and it was also expected, Wang Tong refused these banquets after expressing his gratitude.

The banquet of several Jinyi Wei thousands of households in Nanjing, this is the exchange within the Jinyi Wei system, Wang Tong agreed, but he also said that he would do official business first, and then make arrangements for time.

Nanjing Taiping has been rich for so many years, and the prosperity in the city is better than that of Beijing, Wang Tong has contracted this inn in Nanjing City is not the best, but it is already grand and spacious enough.

At night, the heat in Nanjing finally subsided a little, if most of the places in Beijing are quiet at this time, but in Nanjing, Wang Tong can still hear the sound of silk and bamboo from nowhere, which makes people always have an inexplicable emotion.

The shopkeeper and the guys in the inn were all beaten away, and the left and right silver was enough, and they were happy to take the money for nothing, except for Wang Tong's personal guards, the only local Nanjing was a few shopkeepers of the Sanjiang Commercial Bank, who were responsible for internal and external contact.

As with other places on business trips to Nanjing, Jinyiwei always had to provide a few guides for the send, but these people couldn't even enter the door, just waited outside for orders.

A single courtyard of the inn was cleared out and used as Wang Tong's residence, but after arriving in Nanjing, he did not idle on the ship, and went into the city during the day to rectify a little, and began to work busily.

"Master Hou, Feng Bao died of illness half a month ago, and when he was dying, he only said one sentence, and this life is not wasted."

Wang Tong was busy in the house, and a shopkeeper of Sanjiang Commercial Bank came into the house and said, Come and see how Feng Bao is, this is really what Emperor Wanli told him in private.

For this great eunuch who has controlled the political situation of the Ming Dynasty for nearly 20 years, Emperor Wanli is hateful, respectful, and afraid, and complex emotions are intertwined.

But when Feng Bao was in charge of the government, if Emperor Wanli and others did not come out, after Emperor Wanli drove Feng Bao out of Beijing, although he missed it, he blocked all the news, and he was afraid that he would be soft-hearted and recall people, and any news about Feng Bao on the Nanjing side would not be reported to Beijing.

This time, I asked Wang Tong to ask by the way, which can be regarded as the end of a thought, but I didn't expect that this was also a coincidence, Feng Bao had died of illness half a month ago.

Although Feng Bao did not have the pampering and pampering of Jingshi in Nanjing, no one would abuse him, and several big eunuchs in Nanjing and Fengyang were all his protégés, and Emperor Wanli's will was clear that Feng Bao would live idle in Nanjing.

But power is the elixir of youth, Feng Bao, who has held power for so many years, suddenly lost power, leaving the heart of power, the gap in mood can be imagined, after arriving in Nanjing, he has been sick, and it is not surprising that he died of illness.

Wang Tong, who heard the news, was stunned for a while, a very familiar person, whether it is an enemy or a friend, or even a passerby, passing away like this always makes people a little empty, Wang Tong's brain flashed back to those dealings with Feng Bao, Feng Bao helped him a lot after all.

"Use the report of our Jinyi Guard, and use the fast horse to pass it to the Jingshi, Your Majesty also needs to know."

The shopkeeper bowed down and agreed, turned to go down, Wang Tong sat there silent for a while, then shook his head, exhaled, and said in a loud voice:

"Bring the files of the three thousand households in the city"

Yu Qingguo, Zhang Liansheng, Meng Xianhui, these three people have detailed records in the Jingshi Jinyi Wei Yamen, but after coming to Nanjing, they have to corroborate and supplement with the relevant personnel of the Sanjiang Commercial Bank.

"Yu Qingguo is a general in the Wei Mansion, Long Qingnian followed the previous old Duke to Luzhou Mansion to suppress bandits, made war exploits, and saved the life of Xu Zhitao today, so he was released and promoted, and now he has this position, and now this Yu Qingguo is the most effective leader of the Jinyi Guard in Nanjing."

Liu Saburo has a strong ability to summarize and analyze, and he presided over the training of the security army in Tianjin Wei, and dealt with people from all walks of life, so that his ability was strengthened.

"Zhang Liansheng and his family have been working in Jinyiwei for generations, and the lowest is not lower than the general flag, when there was chaos, his father and uncle were in Zhejiang over there, and his uncle died over there, Zhang Liansheng's father lost an arm, and made such a feat, plus it is a generation of military households, so he also got this position, but this Zhang Liansheng has no power in and out of the city, it is said that some businessmen from small households give him a supply, Zhang Liansheng himself has a cloth village in the city, and there is a vegetable garden outside the city, He usually spends much more time on this than on business. ”

Hearing this, Wang Tong's expression did not change, whether it was Yu Qingguo or this Zhang Liansheng, it was no different from the Jingshi, and the thousands of households in Jinyiwei on the Jingshi side were not like this.

"Meng Xianhui's side is different, no one in his parents and ancestors was on an errand in Jinyiwei, he was in the second year of Longqing, when Jinyiwei recruited a good family, he made up for it when Jinyiwei recruited a good family, and it is not clear who is behind this person, but he came in as a soldier, and he arrived at the position of a thousand households in the fifth year of Wanli."

The promotion within Jinyiwei, a school captain wrestler, no matter how strong his ability is, if he has no background, it will be until the general banner and a hundred households, this Meng Xianhui actually reached the position of a thousand households smoothly, which is very rare.

"That's what it says on the file, after I came, my subordinates specially asked in detail, and we can't tell our local eyeliner, judging from the case handled by Meng Xianhui, I can't tell who he is biased or not, and I can't see the relationship between him and others."

After Liu Saburo finished speaking calmly, Wang Tong stretched out his hand and patted the table, and said:

"After all, we are short of manpower in Nanjing, and the news cannot be reached, but these three people are not too important people, I just suspect that the Xu family in Songjiang is so powerful, and the hand is so long, and the three thousand households in Nanjing are under the jurisdiction of Nanzhili, and there will be no one without them."

Liu Saburo nodded, hesitated and said:

"Master Hou, except for two people in the local trading house who have the duty of stalking and detective, the rest of the people are all in business, it is really not easy to find out what these days, I can only strengthen my strength in the future, but I am afraid that things will be delayed."

Wang Tong waved his hand and said indifferently:

"There's no delay, it's almost too late sooner or later, has Hai Rui's post been over?"

"The post has already been handed over in the afternoon, and Lord Hai said that he would greet Hou Ye in the yamen in the morning."

Although the grade of a Nanjing right capital imperial history is not high, but Hai Rui is a famous minister in the world after all, his age and qualifications are here, and his reputation is too prosperous, vaguely there is some meaning of the first person in a hundred years, the leader of the Qing official, such a character, if Wang Tong lets the other party come to the door, although the procedural rules are like this, but he will definitely be scolded to death by speech, an arrogant and unknown so-called can't run, it is normal to come to the door to meet.

"Haigang Peak Hai-sama?"

"Hou Ye, don't you think it's like a lower official?"

I really don't think it's like it, after Wang Tong saw Hai Rui, he really couldn't believe that this person was the world-famous upright Hai Rui, who looked like he was just an old and thin old man.

In this era, the officials and the common people were very big in terms of appearance alone, the officials were full of meat and fishy, knew how to maintain, and were generally slightly fat and ruddy, but if Hai Rui was not wearing the official robe of the right capital imperial history, it would seem that he would be a farmer who had worked in the fields for many years and worked hard for half his life.

His face is pockmarked, and it is dark, he is slumped, although his beard has been trimmed, but the withered yellow makes people feel uncomfortable, the only thing that makes people feel a little different is Hai Rui's eyes, such eyes, Wang Tong has only seen in one kind of human eyes, that is, the eyes of the strongest and most death-oriented warriors of the Huwei Army.

With this firm gaze and gaze, the rickety and thin old man in front of him suddenly became Hai Rui, the upright minister. "Don't hide it from Lord Hai, Ben Hou really doesn't think it's like it."

The two sides looked at each other and smiled, but the atmosphere was much more relaxed, and after sitting down, Hai Rui said straight to the point:

"Master Hou, the fundamental reason for going to Beijing this time is not the performance of the lower officials, right?"