"Dad, did he say what he was doing in Yangzhou?" Li Yuntian also felt quite surprised, for no reason, the other party gave him such a large sum of money as a bride price. Where to chase novels, go fast, and go fast

"The congratulatory gift is a very ordinary envelope, with the words 'Yangzhou Lu Dezhong Congratulations' written on the cover, and there is nothing in it except the silver ticket, which was found by the people in the account when sorting out the congratulatory gifts received a few days ago." Li Chengming shook his head, he had long wanted to ask Li Yuntian, but he pressed it and decided to wait for the New Year.

"It may be someone from the Yangzhou Salt Merchants Association." Li Yuntian pondered for a moment and said.

Li Yuntian is not familiar with the place in Yangzhou, he has no friends, and the person who can afford a congratulatory gift of 20,000 taels is definitely a businessman, and the official eunuchs are full of food and support to show off their wealth to him.

The only merchants he dealt with in those days in Yangzhou were people from the Salt Merchants Association, so the person who sent this amount of money was a salt merchant.

"Salt merchant?" Li Chengming was stunned for a moment, and looked at Li Yuntian with a frown, "Didn't you have a holiday with them, why did you send you such a large sum of silver?" Do they want to frame you? ”

"Maybe it's trying to befriend me." Li Yuntian thought for a while and replied with a smile, "It's just 20,000 taels of silver, and he thinks too highly of me." ”

Li Yuntian was only the magistrate of Hukou County, so he couldn't help those salt merchants at all, and there was no entanglement of interests between the two sides, so it was unreasonable for them to send money to bribe him.

It's just that Lu Dezhong's handwriting is too big, and he took out 20,000 taels at once, and he dared to give it away, but Li Yuntian didn't dare to accept it, which was obviously beyond the scope of the gift money, and the two of them had never known each other in their lives, so he had no reason to accept such a large sum of money.

"Cast a long line and catch a big fish!" Li Chengming said thoughtfully, it seems that Lu Dezhong has taken a fancy to Li Yuntian's development potential in his career.

"Dad, no matter what his intentions are, this money is too hot, I think it's better to hand it over to the imperial court." Li Yuntian felt that the 20,000 taels of silver were very tricky, and looked at Li Chengming with a slight frown.

"That's fine, it's a curse to keep it in your hands." Li Chengming nodded, these 20,000 taels of silver don't pose any threat to Li Yuntian now, but when Li Yuntian is proud of his career in the future, this money will become a sharp blade that can stab him at any time.

"Dad, after I think of the capital, I will discuss with my father-in-law to see which yamen it is better to give this money to." The so-called fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders, 20,000 taels is not a small amount, even if Li Yuntian hands it over, then he must hand it over to the right place, which not only avoids future troubles, but also allows the yamen who got this silver to appreciate it, which is very knowledgeable.

"That's fine, your father-in-law has been in the capital for many years, and he will definitely be able to give you a good idea." Li Chengming bowed slightly, agreeing with Li Yuntian's approach.

After the Lantern Festival in Lijiazhuang, Li Yuntian rushed to the capital with Zhou Yuting, Lu Cao and others.

He will stay in the capital for a few days, first, to meet the friends who have made good friends with Zhou Zheng in the capital, and secondly, to visit his mentor Yang Shiqi and get together with his fellow Jinshi before leaving for Hukou County.

Compared with when he came out of Hukou County, there was one more person in the accompanying team, Yahuan Qiuqing beside Grandma Li Yuntian.

Qiu Qing was sold into the Li family at the same time as the green calyx, but she was assigned to the old lady, and the green calyx was assigned to Li Yuntian.

The people who can go to the old lady's side naturally have a unique feature, in addition to being delicate and sensible, Qiu Qing has a good relationship with the green calyx, so after the green calyx came back this time, Qiu Qing begged the green calyx to take her away.

It's not that she doesn't want to stay with the old lady anymore, but she really can't stay anymore, Li Yuntian's brother-in-law is a gentleman, who often harasses her and does things to her, and people in their forties and fifties want to take her as a concubine.

Because the uncle is the youngest brother of the old lady, and because the mother died early, the uncle was brought up by her, and the two have a deep relationship, so although the uncle acts a little absurd, the old lady opens one eye and closes one eye, as long as he can't make too much trouble, he will go.

During the Chinese New Year this year, the uncle who drank wine actually touched Qiuqing's room at night, and almost wanted to occupy her body, but fortunately, there was a girl ring outside the door who passed by and shouted, saying that there was a thief in the courtyard, which frightened the uncle and ran away with his clothes.

Qiuqing is only seventeen or eighteen years old this year, which is the same age as flowers, where is she willing to follow an old man like my uncle who is almost half a hundred years old, and in a panic I went to the green calyx to cry about the grievances in my heart.

Green Calyx felt sorry for Qiu Qing, so she asked Li Yuntian to beg the old lady to ask Qiu Qing to come over to be her companion and find her a good family in the future.

Li Yuntian knew that what happened to Qiu Qing was very common in big families, like Qiu Qing, a girl who had been sold in since she was a child, was bullied by any master, who made her a subordinate.

Since the green calyx is Qiuqing Qiuqing, and he doesn't want to see the half-hundred-year-old man of the uncle's uncle harm Qiuqing, so Li Yuntian went to the old lady, saying that the green calyx was lonely in the field alone, and hoped that Qiuqing could be her companion.

Of course, the old lady knew why Qiu Qing wanted to leave, for Qiu Qing's sake of serving her for so many years, so she let her go and handed over the deed of sale to Li Yuntian, so that Qiu Qing escaped the clutches of her uncle.

Before leaving, the old lady specially told Li Yuntian that if she couldn't take Qiu Qing as a concubine, she would find a good family to marry, and it could be seen that the old lady was still reluctant to let Qiu Qing go.

This more or less embarrassed Li Yuntian, in the eyes of outsiders, it seemed that he had taken a fancy to Qiu Qing and wanted to take her in, but fortunately, Lu Cao found Zhou Yuting in advance about this matter, and Zhou Yuting naturally agreed, otherwise he really couldn't say it clearly.

As a dowry, Zhou Zheng bought a set of yards in the capital and gave them to Zhou Yuting, so that Li Yuntian also had a place to stay in the capital.

The courtyard is very large, the owner is a civil official in the capital who is three products, and it is also the meritorious service of following the Yongle Emperor Jingnan, last year Zhishi returned to his hometown to retire, and Zhou Zheng's Houye Mansion is on a street, the two sides are not far away, Zhou Zheng learned that he sold the house Zhou Zheng bought it.

Obviously, as a second-class jinshi from the two lists, Li Yuntian will definitely be an official in Beijing in the future, and it will be convenient for the two families to move around in the future.

Li Yuntian knew that the yard that Zhou Zheng bought for him was very large, and when he arrived at the house, he knew that it was not ordinarily big, not only a pattern of a few in and a few out, but also a small artificial lake in the back house, surrounded by courtyards by the lake, the environment was elegant, and the scenery was absolutely beautiful in spring.

After arriving in the capital, Li Yuntian and Zhou Yuting went to the Houye Mansion to greet Zhou Zheng and his wife as soon as possible, this is Zhou Yuting's real return, Zhou Yuting's brothers and sisters-in-law and sisters-in-law in the capital all attended the family banquet.

Among the younger generation of the Zhou family, Li Yuntian is the lowest in terms of grade alone, and Zhou Yuting's brother and brother-in-law are both military positions above the sixth grade, and he is just a positive seventh grade.

However, Li Yuntian's grade of the seventh grade is the heaviest, and it is the real sword and real gun of the imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty, which is undoubtedly hundreds of times higher than the martial arts obtained by Zhou Yuting's brother and brother-in-law because of the Yin Teaching.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to go to the Hou Ye's Mansion, Li Yuntian privately told Zhou Zheng about Lu Dezhong's congratulatory gift of 20,000 taels, and asked Zhou Zheng to help him get an idea to see which yamen to donate this money to, so that he would not directly hand it over to the imperial court, which would not only not get any benefits, but also be easy to be attacked.

But donating money to a certain yamen is different, not only will you lose a favor, but once someone uses this as a lever to attack him, then that yamen will definitely have to help him speak.

"What are you going to do?" Zhou Zheng was very pleased with this, thinking that Li Yuntian was not fascinated by these 20,000 taels of silver tickets, where is this a congratulatory gift, in his opinion, it is completely a sharp dagger, if Li Yuntian accepts it, it will become a big disaster in the future.

"Father-in-law, my son-in-law wants to donate this money to Jinyiwei, I don't know if my father-in-law can recommend it on my behalf!" Li Yuntian had already thought of a countermeasure and said in a deep voice.

"Jin Yiwei." Zhou Zheng nodded when he heard this, "It's okay, I have a lot of friendship with Saihazhi, you give him this favor, and no one will dare to take the 20,000 taels of silver tickets in the future." ”

The full name of Jinyi Wei is "Jinyi Pro-Army Command Envoy", ranking the head of the twenty-two pro-military guards directly under Emperor Yongle, formerly known as the "Gongwei Division" set up by Ming Taizu, and later renamed "Pro-Army Governor's Mansion", which governs the Yiluan Division and is in charge of the emperor's honor guard and guards.

In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, the pro-army Governor's Mansion and the Yiluan Division were abolished, and the Jinyi Guard was replaced, and Ming Taizu was ordered to strengthen the centralization of power and control the civil and military officials, and specially ordered them to be in charge of the prison, giving them the right to patrol and arrest, and set up the Department of Suppression and Fu, engaged in reconnaissance, arrest, interrogation and other activities.

At the end of the Hongwu period, Ming Taizu abolished the Jinyiwei, ordered the Jinyiwei torture equipment to be burned, and the prisoners were transferred to the Criminal Department for trial, and the inner and outer prisons were all under the three law divisions for trial.

However, after Emperor Yongle succeeded to the throne, Jinyiwei was restored, and the Beizhen Fusi of the capital specially handled the edict, which made Jinyiwei officially on the stage of history, and its authority became increasingly important and became an inseparable part of the history of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Yuntian returned to the capital this time, there are many things to deal with, one of the most important things is to have a good relationship with Jinyiwei, he is a small field Zhengqipinzhi County naturally has no way to climb Jinyiwei, but he has a Hou Ye as a father-in-law.

Several commanders of the Jinyi Guard are honored with honors like Gonghou Bo, and they are also nobles of Jingnan, Zhou Zheng must have a good friendship with the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Sai Hazhi, so he also took the line of the Jinyi Guard.

gave the 20,000 taels of silver tickets to Jinyiwei, and if anyone dares to take the silver tickets to talk about things in the future, there will be no need for Li Yuntian to make a move, and Jinyiwei's people will also "invite" him over for tea.

At this moment, Li Yuntian couldn't conclude that Lu Dezhong gave him such a large congratulatory gift, so he had to be careful, he could be regarded as leaving a killer feature, once the other party wanted to attack him with this, then he could also use Jinyiwei to counteract. One