Chapter 415: Dealing with the Ling Family
Huang Shi and Hu Guang quickly returned to the office, and after closing the door, the two of them sat down in front of and behind the desk.
After Hu Guang sat down, he saw Huang Shi directly pouring water into the porcelain cup with a hot water kettle, so he opened his mouth and said with a smile, "Brother Huang, don't you Fujian people love to drink tea the most, why do you only have boiled water here to entertain us." ”
"Hehe, those who love tea are from southern Fujian, but I am from Fuzhou." Huang Shi laughed, this kind of regional misunderstanding is not only Hu Guang, but also friends from other provinces he knows, they sometimes ask Lao Huang, do you also speak Taiwanese in Fuzhou, Huang Shi was interested in explaining a few words at the beginning, and then he was asked too much, and he became numb, and when someone asked, he would also "uh-huh" should mean twice.
"Brother Huang, let's ...... this time" After taking a sip of water and talking a few more words, the conversation between the two people officially entered the topic, Hu Guang made a description of the details of his trip to Fuzhou, although they had already made a report through the QQ-style radio station in front of Wen Desi, but after all, it was only an explanation of the outcome of the matter, and now Hu Guang is talking about the details of these things.
After talking about how to let Master Gao "kill" the process, Hu Guang then talked about how to deal with the maritime merchant Mi Ling, the head of the Mi family, the Mi family's fortune is not in this generation, the earliest originated from Mi Ling's father opened a framing shop called "Mi Jiazhou", he framed calligraphy and paintings for the literati, so he gradually became famous in Fuzhou City.
Because this calligraphy and painting mounting is a special process that accompanies the creation and development of calligraphy and painting, in the two Jin Dynasty eras, calligraphy and painting mounting entered the initial period, but at that time in the selection of materials, styles and techniques were not perfect. By the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was an initial development of calligraphy and painting mounting, and the mounting style of scrolls was produced.
Then in the Tang Dynasty, large-scale paintings with the themes of figures, landscapes, and buildings flourished, and the painting and calligraphy mounting industry was greatly developed, resulting in two new mounting styles: hanging scrolls and albums. The history of the five dynasties is very short, but the art of painting has made significant progress and has had a profound impact on later generations. During this period, the creation of large-scale paintings became possible due to the expansion of the silk canvas format. Some of the works became the decoration of the screen, and later generations may have framed and collected them in the form of individual works during the repair of the screen.
The famous calligraphers and painters of the Song Dynasty emerged in an endless stream, so the mounting of calligraphy and painting also developed by leaps and bounds. The emperor of the Song Dynasty was very fond of calligraphy and painting, and set up the Hanlin Library in the court to serve painting; At the same time, a workshop for framing calligraphy and painting was set up to formulate the format of framing calligraphy and painting. At this time, the calligraphy and painting mounting process entered a mature stage, and the style of mounting had a new development, resulting in the famous "Xuanhe Binding" hand scroll.
With the development of silk weaving technology, fabrics with various textures and patterns provide a rich material basis for the mounting of calligraphy and paintings, and are widely used as mounting materials. However, the famous calligrapher and painter Mi Fu believes that silk is more wear-resistant than paper, and the friction between the two in the process of unfolding and rolling up calligraphy and painting is easy to lead to wear and tear of calligraphy and painting. Therefore, he advocated the use of paper to frame calligraphy and painting, and his view had an important impact on the preservation of calligraphy and painting in later generations.
The Ming Dynasty was an important period for the development of painting in China, and the mounting of calligraphy and painting also entered a golden age of development. The emperor of the Ming Dynasty used the Renzhi Hall as the imperial painting academy and set up an institution specializing in the mounting of paintings and calligraphy. At this time, a group of literati who were proficient in poetry, calligraphy and painting also appeared in the Jiangnan area, and literati painting had a great development.
In this context, with Suzhou as the birthplace, "Su mounting" began to rise and was widely respected, and the scene of "Wuzhong under the whole world" appeared in the mounting of calligraphy and painting. In terms of calligraphy and painting mounting style, the original handscroll, album and other mounting styles are more complete, and the hanging scroll has been basically finalized and began to be popularized. In terms of mounting theory, Zhou Jiaxuan's "Decoration Chronicles" became the first special work in Chinese history on the theory of painting and calligraphy mounting.
Due to the different regions where they are located, the tools and materials used, as well as the differences in mounting styles and techniques, different genres and styles have been formed. Therefore, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, "Beijing mounting" and "Su mounting" appeared, and together they became the two main schools of Chinese painting and calligraphy mounting. "Beijing mounting" is simple and solemn, stressing anti-dryness and anti-cracking; "Su mounting" exquisite craftsmanship, exquisite materials, pay attention to mildew prevention, mothproof. Even today, these two schools still influence the framing of Chinese paintings and calligraphy.
Mi Ling's father belonged to the school of "Su mounting", he was personally experienced, skilled, and serious and dedicated, so his calligraphy and painting mounting can better express the artistic charm of literati painting, so that calligraphy and painting can be preserved for a long time, and naturally it will become famous in Fuzhou Mansion, which has saved a lot of literati connections for the Mi family, which has provided great help for the development of the Mi family in the future.
The Fuzhou Intelligence Station led by Wen Desi, although the focus is on Master Gao, but as the No. 2 target, Mi Ling, his action rules naturally have to be arranged to find out, fortunately, Mi Ling's warehouse and mansion are not in the city, and it is very convenient for them to track.
Mi Ling's warehouse is also in Hekou Port, two or three miles away from the South Gate, but it is a bustling place during the day, and his house Xiahang Street is not very far from here, and the walking distance between the two places is about twenty minutes.
Mi Ling sat in a sedan chair every time he traveled, and there were originally four or five thugs on both sides of the sedan chair, but since the news came a few months ago that Jiang Xunjian, who had worked closely with him, had broken down his family, he was more careful when he traveled, and he put a lot of good guards around him, maybe he was faintly aware of his danger.
It's just that although he has done all kinds of precautions, but after many months, there has been no new news coming out, the Jiang family's extermination case is like an isolated case, like a small pebble thrown into a small pond, except for the ripples in the front, the ripples behind gradually calmed down, and only the files required to be investigated in various yamen remained.
If it weren't for Master Mi being Jiang's "nest family" inspecting them, maybe even he would have forgotten about this matter like others, but as the days went by, and nothing else happened, he also put down his guard, after all, this is Fuzhou Mansion, and his mansion is close to the "Rouyuan Station" at the mouth of the river, and there are a group of thugs in his home, so he can't help but relax his vigilance with some fearlessness.
After the completion of the first target action, Hu Guang asked the soldiers to have a good rest, while he discussed the action against the second target with Wen Desi, Jin Tashan, and He Yu.
At that time, Wen Desi proposed at the meeting whether to attack Mi Ling on the way from the door of his house to the mouth of the river, because although Hu Guang did not bring a big knife and spear this time, they brought another magical magic weapon in the upper realm, "electric baton", which is definitely a good equipment for killing people and plundering goods, he had used it in Jiangjiazhuang at the beginning to a few families who wanted to escape, this kind of "short stick" that is not noticeable at all can be used when they are close to the target, and it can definitely finish those thugs, and they may not be able to react.
However, Hu Guang vetoed this plan, because they did it during the day, and the noise was too big, and their total manpower was only 6 people, which was less than the other party's manpower, and once they started in the daytime, the pedestrians on the road became eyewitnesses to the scene, and there were only three directions for their retreat, one was to retreat to the city to hide after arresting people, the second was to escape from other directions outside the city, and the third was to quickly leave on a sailboat at the mouth of the river.
However, the former means that the four doors of the government will be closed tightly, and there will be a turtle in an urn; If you go in other directions outside the city, you should also worry about the danger of being overtaken; Although the road to the estuary is closer, there are sailors stationed on the riverside, and they may face their encirclement and interception after getting on the boat.
"Then you can only go to his house to tie people up, and you can't catch people in the warehouse during the day." After listening to Hu Guang's opinion, Jin Tashan made this suggestion.
"That's all there is to it." After thinking about it again, Hu Guang nodded helplessly, in fact, there is no other better way, and only by digging out the quilt at night can avoid the real and the false.
Because there are more people in the Mijia warehouse during the day, in addition to the thugs and guards he raised, there are also the guys and guests of the warehouse, Hu Guang and they have no chance of winning, as long as one of them escapes the net and runs to the street at the mouth of the river to shout, they can only give up their efforts, but there will be attrition and casualties.
And the next night, there are many convenient benefits, this is outside the city, there are no walls and gates, there is no curfew and no husband, it is easier to get close to the target's residence, and it is easy to hide and transfer after success.
Although the Ling family's mansion was not as easy to infiltrate as Master Gao's house, Hu Guang and the others still had their own methods, and this time they also brought the eight-armed flying machine used in the last attack on Jiangjiazhuang, which was a good helper for scouting the terrain and printing maps.
At night, after dark, when the eight-armed aircraft flew up from the intelligence station and flew down the street to the outside of the city, although someone heard a slight buzzing sound from the sky, they didn't understand what it was, and after looking up at it, they stopped paying attention.
The aircraft flew very fast, and Hu Guang and Wen Desi controlled it through the camera and flew to the top of the Ling family's mansion in a few minutes, and took several pictures of the floor plan at an appropriate altitude.
Because there are computers and printers in the intelligence station, Hu Guang copied these floor plans into the computer and printed them, although it was late at night when they were taken, but because the eight-armed aircraft used a low-light infrared camera, the quality of this floor plan was not bad, and the specific details of the Ling family's house could be clearly seen.