Chapter 273: Xiong Wencan's Small Moves

Two months passed in the blink of an eye, and it was the middle of July in the blink of an eye, during which time Yu Xiaotian took the opportunity to inspect the places under his control, and ordered all his subordinates to suspend all raids and attacks on land, and all withdrew to their temporary berths to stand by.

The coastal area of Fujian, which has been chaotic for more than a year, has been completely quiet at this point, but before Xiaotian received the holy decree, the sea wolf did not immediately evacuate the various territories along the coast, and only waited for the imperial court to seal it before it could officially fulfill the contract.

After Yu Xiaotian and Xiong Wencan made an agreement, Li Yi immediately secretly sent Xiong Wencan 50,000 taels of silver as Xiong Wencan's expenses to open up the joints for this matter.

Xiong Wencan unceremoniously accepted the silver, immediately wrote the fold by himself, and sent his cronies to immediately send the fold to the Beijing division as quickly as possible, and ordered the family members left behind in the Beijing division to start moving around to give gifts and open up various joints.

After all, this matter is not a trivial matter, Zhao'an is a huge man, and he actually wants to throw out the post of general, which is still an extremely rare thing in Daming, if someone deliberately obstructs this, then this time Xiong Wencan's plan to recruit an will probably be in vain.

Therefore, Xiong Wencan didn't dare to slack off at all, adjusted enough silver taels, and sprinkled it in Jingshi, and finally dredged all kinds of joints and approved his recital.

Immediately, the imperial court also drew up a holy decree and sent it to Fujian together, and under the day and night of Xiong Wencan's cronies, the holy decree and the approval of the imperial court were sent back to Fujian.

At this time, Yu Xiaotian was already waiting for the news in Gaopu in Weitou Bay, and after the holy decree was sent to Fujian, Xiong Wencan immediately arranged for someone to accompany the eunuch who announced the decree to be sent to Quanzhou Mansion.

When the eunuch arrived in Quanzhou Mansion, someone had already sent the news to Yu Xiaotian, and Yu Xiaotian did not slack off this time, and immediately set off for Quanzhou Mansion to listen to the seal.

Now the matter of Yu Xiaotian's acceptance of Zhao'an has long been spread, so although Yu Xiaotian has not heard of the seal, but in essence, he has already been whitewashed as a thief, so he swaggered into Quanzhou City, naturally no one will stop him, but the prefect of Quanzhou, and he will personally go out of the city to greet him like a waiter.

In the past, a civil official like the prefect of Quanzhou would definitely not give such face to the generals, even if they were the third-grade officials, the prefects were only from the fourth grade, because of the habit of emphasizing literature and suppressing military forces in the Ming Dynasty, even if the military generals were of a higher grade than the civilian officials, they would never dare to be presumptuous in front of the civil officials below their rank.

In the past, many times, once a military general provoked a civilian official, even if the civilian official's rank was lower than that of a military general, the civilian official would order the military general to be taken down on the spot and beaten on the spot.

Therefore, the military generals of the Ming Dynasty are very similar to the military generals of the Song Dynasty, these days are quite sad, when they see the civil officials, they bow their heads first, and never dare to be arrogant in front of the civil officials, even if they are characters like the generals, they did not dare to be arrogant in front of the small magistrate before.

But now Yu Xiaotian is different from other generals, because he is a well-known evil god in Fujian, and now except for Xiong Wencan, he really doesn't give other people's face, and those civil officials have no way.

What's more, now Yu Xiaotian wants to stay on the territory of Quanzhou, so that the Quanzhou prefect is bitter about this, he dares to be polite to other generals, but he never dares to dictate to Xiaotian, even for Xiaotian's subordinates, I am afraid he does not dare to treat them easily.

So this time, when it was learned that the eunuch came to Quanzhou to give Yu Xiaotian the decree, the prefect of Quanzhou made all preparations early.

And this time Yu Xiaotian came to Quanzhou, not only did he come by himself, because this time, in addition to him, also included his wife Lan'er, who was also named Mrs. Decree, so this time he also came to listen to the seal.

After a long toss, Yu Xiaotian finally arrived at the yamen of Quanzhou Mansion, and at this time, the eunuch had not yet arrived in Quanzhou Mansion, and many people were constantly passing on the news to know where the eunuch had arrived.

So waited until the afternoon, the eunuch Shi Shiran arrived in Quanzhou Mansion, and there was a burst of chickens and dogs jumping up and down Quanzhou Mansion, and the prefect took Yu Xiaotian and others to the north gate to welcome the eunuch and his party into the Quanzhou Mansion.

And this eunuch came from Beijing, and he was still counting on walking slowly along the way, although he was just a nameless eunuch in Beijing, but after all, this time he was an expatriate, and he wanted to take advantage of this opportunity.

But Xiong Wencan's side is really urgent, after they left Beijing, they took the waterway, almost did not stop along the way, first went south to Yangzhou Mansion, and then arrived in Hangzhou by boat, and landed in Hangzhou and turned into a vehicle.

finally arrived in Fuzhou, Fujian, and before he rested for a while, he was urged to rush to Quanzhou Mansion again, so that the idea of this eunuch wanting to fight the autumn wind along the way was completely shattered, basically he didn't get any benefits, and he was tired enough.

Don't look at Yu Xiaotian's fame in Fujian, it is well-known, but in Beijing, who knows who he is! Especially these eunuchs with eyes above the top, they will not take Yu Xiaotian in their eyes, so Yu Xiaotian has already offended this guy to death before he saw this eunuch.

Since this eunuch saw Yu Xiaotian at the city gate, he hadn't looked at him at all, and his face was about to come out of the water, so he didn't give Yu Xiaotian a good face at all.

Yu Xiaotian didn't know where Lu Dao offended this eunuch at first, as if he owed this guy a few hundred taels of silver and didn't pay it back, and he couldn't figure out what was going on for a while.

Fortunately, someone next to him secretly whispered to him, and he suddenly realized, so after announcing that the eunuch entered the Quanzhou Mansion, Yu Xiaotian immediately sent someone to quietly stuff the eunuch with a few tickets issued by the Sea Wolf Money Village.

The so-called meeting ticket is actually a kind of silver bill that can be exchanged for silver taels at any time in a private bank, which is a bearer check that can be exchanged for the equivalent of silver taels at any time from the merchant who issued the bill.

And Yu Xiaotian, in line with the attitude of not offending people, made a very bold move, and stuffed the eunuch with two thousand taels of silver at once, which greatly exceeded the amount that the eunuch originally expected.

Eunuchs like them can be said to have gone to the sea in the capital, although it is a fat difference to be able to get out of the errand to proclaim the decree, but even if it is such an errand, it also needs to be dotted up and down, sometimes in case of encountering a guy who does not know each other, he may run in vain and even have his own money, even under normal circumstances, the person who receives the decree is more generous, and he can take out a few hundred taels of silver to pay respect, which is already good.

But Yu Xiaotian took out two thousand taels of silver at once, and also gave him a set of quite exquisite glass tea sets, this thing is really valuable on the market now, if you sell it in the capital, it can at least be worth a few hundred taels of silver without any problem, this time this eunuch is happy, this has greatly exceeded his original expectations, and finally feels that this trip is worth it, of course, this face can no longer be calm.

So he didn't waste any more time, and after tidying up his clothes a little, he quickly took out the holy decree in his hand, walked out of the back hall, and shouted to Yu Xiaotian, who was outside: "Yu Xiaotian listens to the ......."

At this time, the prefect of Quanzhou had already prepared various incense cases and other supplies on behalf of Yu Xiaotian, and when the eunuch came out, he hurriedly beckoned Yu Xiaotian to come forward to listen to the seal.

Fortunately, before Xiaotian came, someone had already introduced all kinds of etiquette to him, and realized the rehearsal, otherwise such a pomp and circumstance would make a fool of Yu Xiaotian on the spot.

Under the loud voice of the eunuch who announced the decree, he read it aloud: "Fengtian carries the emperor's edict ......" and read it for a long time.

Yu Xiaotian was dizzy when he heard this, and then he listened to it in a daze, in fact, this kind of holy decree is a seal, which is regarded as the official appointment letter of the imperial court to him, and by the way, Lan'er is also named the lady of the third grade.

So Yu Xiaotian after listening to the seal, kowtowed to thank the saint, and the eunuch handed over the holy decree to him with a smile on his face.

But what made Yu Xiaotian unhappy was that in addition to his edict, this time Jingshi actually brought the appointment of his subordinates.

According to Xiong Wencan's request, this time the imperial court not only sealed Yu Xiaotian, but also gave various appointments to his generals, which was a bit unexpected by Yu Xiaotian.

When he was negotiating with Xiong Wencan, he did not mention the appointment of his generals, and he originally planned to make a separate decision after recruiting An, but he did not expect that Xiong Wencan would take this opportunity to directly bypass him and appoint some of his generals.

It wasn't until he learned that the eunuch had arrived in Fuzhou that he learned from Xiong Wencan's subordinates.

At that time, Yu Xiaotian was quite shocked when he heard about this, but he immediately figured out the trickiness of this, so he was furious on the spot and almost overturned the table.

Although Yu Xiaotian didn't dare to claim to be intelligent, at least he was not stupid, and he quickly figured out that the reason why Xiong Wencan did this was actually very simple, that is, to divide his subordinates and provoke the relationship between his subordinates and him through such means.

This incident made Yu Xiaotian extremely angry at the time, and he almost decided not to accept Zhao'an anymore, and simply broke up with Xiong Wencan, but after calming down, he still dispelled this idea.