The most convenient way to get from Jiujiang to Jinan is of course by water: first go east along the Yangtze River to Yangzhou, then go north along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in Yangzhou, and then take the land route into Jinan after arriving at Jining Mansion. The update is the fastest and most stable, dìng to read novels, and it is recommended to go to the eye to read the book

Li Yuntian's return to his hometown this time can be described as a huge momentum, plus Yahuan, domestic servants and others, a large group of huhulala, because there are too many people, so Chen Bozhao deliberately found a big boat.

At this time, it is midwinter, the off-season of Cao Yun, the boats coming and going on the river are scarce, and the scenery on both sides of the river is bleak, without the noise of summer.

When they arrived in Yangzhou, Zheng Wanrou's eldest brother Zheng Boxin was waiting on the dock early, and everyone had been on the boat for several days and happened to rest in Yangzhou City.

The Zheng family has a vast house in Yangzhou City, Zheng Gui after more than 20 years of hard work, is also a famous medicinal material merchant in Yangzhou, has a lot of family business.

After Zheng Gui returned to Baishui Town, Zheng Boxin's affairs in Yangzhou were in charge of Zheng Boxin, and now that Li Yuntian is here, he naturally wants to do his best to be a landlord, and at the same time, he is also in contact with his brother-in-law.

As the richest place in Daming, although it is winter now, the streets of Yangzhou City are still crowded, bustling, and a prosperous and lively scene.

Speaking of which, in addition to the green calyx, Zhou Yuting and Chen Ningning are no strangers to Yangzhou City.

Before Emperor Yongle moved the capital to Beiping, Jinling has always been the imperial capital of the Ming Dynasty, Zhou Yuting has come to Yangzhou City many times to play, and Chen Ningning has studied the piano in Yangzhou City for three years, and is naturally very familiar with Yangzhou City.

This time I went back to Shimen County to naturally bring gifts to relatives in the family, and Yangzhou is an excellent place to buy gifts, so not only Zhou Yuting, Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou, but even Green Calyx gritted his teeth and took out private money for purchase.

Green Calyx was born in an ordinary place and has always been by Li Yuntian's side, where is there any spare money, Li Yuntian wanted to help her secretly, but Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou lent her a lot of money in private, so that she would not be shy in her pocket.

On this morning, Li Yuntian played with Zheng Boxin in the study slowly, he was not interested in accompanying Zhou Yuting and them to go shopping, he really didn't understand what there was to visit in those shops on the street, which made the women linger and enjoy it.

They have been in Yangzhou City for three or four days, and according to the plan, they will be ready to leave tomorrow, and if the road is smooth, they will reach Jining Mansion on the banks of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in seven or eight days.

"Eldest young master, aunt, no, the young lady was arrested by the servants." Just when Li Yuntian was about to defeat Zheng Boxin in one go, a servant of the Zheng family ran in in a panic.

Li Yuntian couldn't help frowning slightly when he heard this, and the chess pieces that were about to fall in his hand stopped in mid-air, and turned his head to look at the domestic servant.

"What's going on?" Zheng Boxin asked with a look of surprise.

"Someone was waiting for Miss ** in the gold shop, Miss Zhou beat them, but I didn't think that those people called the servants and arrested the young lady." The servant gasped and said as he wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Quick, prepare a sedan chair and go to the government office!" Zheng Boxin didn't have time to think about it, so he got up and ordered the subordinates on the side.

"The eldest young master, it wasn't the people from the government who arrested them, they were arrested by the people from the Yandao Yamen." When the servant who reported the news heard this, he hurriedly said.

"Salt Road?" Li Yuntian was quite surprised, the errand of the salt road was only responsible for salt affairs, when did he start to intervene in local affairs.

"Miss, what do they have to do with salt?" Zheng Boxin was also stunned, and the hands of the people in Yandao were too long.

"They received a report that Miss and the others were family members of the salt lord, so they were brought to the Yandao Yamen for interrogation." The servant looked at Zheng Boxin anxiously, "Young Master, hurry up and think of a way, those Yandao people are ruthless and can do anything." ”

Li Yuntian understood now, it seems that those guys who have taken care of Zhou Yuting and others are salt merchants and have a close relationship with Yandao, so they let the people of Yandao give them a head.

The operation of Yandao is independent of the local government, subordinate to the household department, and has nothing to do with the local government.

"Miss Zhou didn't identify herself?" However, what made Li Yuntian curious was that Zhou Yuting had so obediently let the people of Yandao take it away, and he was suddenly surprised in his heart, and couldn't help asking.

The servant shook his head when he heard this, they had actually shown that they were from the Zheng family, and they had legitimate business, and it was impossible for them to have anything to do with the salt lords, but those servants of the Yandao Yamen didn't pay attention to it at all.

As for Zheng Wanrou and the others being Li Yuntian's concubines and belonging to the official family, since Zhou Yuting did not make it clear, naturally no one dared to reveal it to the outside world.

Seeing this, a smile appeared at the corner of Li Yuntian's mouth, it seems that Zhou Yuting has not been by his side for this time, her brain has opened up, and she knows what it is easy to please God, and the more the guys in Yandao make it difficult for her, the worse the consequences will be.

"Brother-in-law, what should we do?" Zheng Boxin was in a hurry, he knew that the people in Yandao had always been arrogant, and when he saw Li Yuntian actually laughing, he asked suspiciously.

"Report to the officer!" Li Yuntian's eyes flashed, and he said in a deep voice, "It's not good for us to come out to ask for people from the Yandao Yamen, so there will only be people who trouble the government officials." ”

Zheng Boxin nodded thoughtfully, he understood what Li Yuntian meant, but he didn't know why Li Yuntian did this, as long as he told Zhou Yuting's identity to those people in Yandao, those people would definitely send people out respectfully.

Of course Li Yuntian knew this, but in this way, the sullenness in Zhou Yuting's heart could not be vented, wouldn't he go to the Yandao Yamen in vain.

"What for?" When Li Yuntian walked to the drum erected outside the door, a servant guarding the drum greeted him and asked expressionlessly.

Although the government must be promoted to ask questions after the drumming, it is not easy to beat the drum, the government usually guards the officials in front of the drum, and only the heavy cases or cases that the county government cannot handle can be drummed, otherwise those trivial cases will also come to the drum, and the government will not be annoyed to death.

Moreover, those officials can also make things difficult for the main person and take the opportunity to get some oil and water.

"This official is the magistrate of Hukou County, Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi, and there is a case to report." Li Yuntian glanced at the official and said expressionlessly.

"It turned out to be the magistrate of Hukou County, adults don't have to beat the drum, please go to the official office with the small one." Hearing Li Yuntian's words, a middle-aged official who was standing at the door of the government office and chatting with people immediately greeted him, and made a gesture of invitation to Li Yuntian and Zheng Boxin, who was following Li Yuntian, with a smile on his face.

Li Yuntian is just a county magistrate from other places, and he can't fight with Yangzhou Mansion, so there is no need for the middle-aged official to be so polite to Li Yuntian.

However, the middle-aged official has been working in the government for more than ten years, and he is a sophisticated man, seeing that Li Yuntian can sit on the throne of the county magistrate at such a young age, then he is either a jinshi or a tribute student, and his background must be profound, and his career is unlimited in the future, so he may not be able to serve in a prosperous place like Yangzhou in the future.

For a young official like Li Yuntian with a great future, if he can take advantage of the situation, he may be able to achieve some benefits in the future.

On the east side of the prefect's lobby, there is usually one magistrate, and sometimes two magistrates, who are in charge of investigating the prison and assisting the prefect in managing the criminal law and the code system.

Because Yangzhou Mansion is the richest place in the world, it leads three states and seven counties, so there are two magistrates, one sits in Yangzhou Mansion, and the other inspects the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Yangzhou Prefecture, and rotates the execution.

Today's official on duty is surnamed Gao, his name is all over the world, he is in his forties, he has a big belly, and he has a rich face, and he is sitting in the back hall of the official office leisurely drinking tea, and after learning that Li Yuntian has something to report to the official, he feels very strange, and gets up to the front hall to greet him.

Except for the officials of Shuntianfu and Yingtianfu, who are from the sixth grade, the officials of the other prefectures are all the seventh grade, which is the same grade as the magistrate, as a colleague at the same level, and it is the highest position in the magistrate's county, according to the etiquette of the officialdom, Gao Sihai naturally wants to greet it.

Another pusher of the Tuiguan Bureau, that is, Wang Tuiguan, who has close contacts with the Zheng family, went to inspect the states and counties below, otherwise Zheng Boxin would go directly to Wang Tuiguan, and there would be no need to be so troublesome.

After seeing Li Yuntian, Gao Sihai couldn't help but be taken aback, he didn't expect that this Hukou County magistrate would be so young, like that middle-aged official, he immediately knew that Li Yuntian was either a jinshi or a gongsheng.

If it is a lifter, the age must be after the age of thirty, which lifter is young and let the Jinshi go to the county without taking the exam? It's a self-destructive future!

Jinshi can become high-ranking officials and dignitaries such as ministry officials and feudal officials, while people can usually only serve as middle and low-level officials, and the two sides are not at the same level at all.

Therefore, Gao Sihai's attitude towards Li Yuntian was more polite, because of the relationship between Zheng Boxin and Wang Tuiguan, he also knew Zheng Boxin, and after knowing that Li Yuntian was the uncle of the Zheng family, he couldn't help but feel that the Zheng family had climbed into a good family.

After some greetings, Gao Sihai invited Li Yuntian into the back hall of the Tui Guan Office, of course, ordinary people are not qualified to enter the back hall.

After taking a seat in the back hall, Li Yuntian made his intentions clear, saying that he had received a report from the servant that someone was harassing his concubine and fiancée in the gold shop, so he asked Gao Sihai to send someone to check.

Gao Sihai understood what was going on as soon as he heard it, there were many children of powerful people in Yangzhou Mansion, and Li Yuntian's concubine and fiancée must be young and beautiful, so it was natural to be **, this kind of thing is not uncommon in Yangzhou City.

It's just that Gao Sihai doesn't understand a little, if he encounters this kind of thing, Li Yuntian can solve it by himself, as long as he shows his identity, presumably those powerful children will not embarrass the family members of Zhengqipinzhi County.

Since Li Yuntian came to report to the official, Gao Sihai naturally would not sit idly by, so he sent Zhang Bantou from the government to investigate the gold shop and mediate in the middle, so as not to cause a big incident.

"My lord, Miss Zhou and the others were taken away by the people of the Yandao Yamen, saying that they were suspected of having an affair with the salt owl!" About two cups of tea later, when Gao Sihai was chatting with Li Yuntian and Zheng Boxin over tea, Zhang Bantou hurriedly walked in, arched his hand to him, and said in a deep voice.

"What?" Gao Sihai, who was holding the teacup, was stunned, his face was full of surprise, he didn't expect that the people from the Yandao Yamen would intervene in this matter, and he also arrested Zhou Yuting and others. One