The next day, Zhang Guizhang, one of the leaders of the Wanping County government service team, said goodbye to his wife with tears, and stood gloomily at the bottom of the lobby steps, waiting for the county to set off together.

Passers-by who came and went saw Zhang Bantou and all looked at him sympathetically. Yesterday, the news that Xinzhi County was going to Xichang to recover the silver deduction had spread in the yamen, and everyone also knew that Zhang Bantou had become a person who followed Zhixian into the tiger's den.

The county officials are very self-aware, they may be able to show off their might in front of the people, but they are lowly servants, and they are nothing in front of the truly powerful shili. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a cheap life, and it is not even as good as the common people.

I don't know how long I waited, Shi Shiran, the county magistrate, appeared on the platform at the entrance of the lobby, looked down condescendingly, but only saw Zhang Gui waiting alone. couldn't help frowning and asked, "Why are you the only one?" Aren't you the head of the team? Where are your men? ”

Zhang Gui knelt on the ground and replied with a bitter face: "My lord, I ordered the little ones one by one yesterday, but I guess they all asked someone to take leave this morning, and none of them have come so far." ”

Fang Yingwu was extremely dissatisfied: "As the saying goes, raising soldiers for a thousand days is used for a while, how do you usually discipline people as a team leader?" ”

Zhang Gui couldn't answer this question, and when he bowed his head to confess his guilt, suddenly Lou Tianhua ran over from behind in a panic, came to Fang Yingwu's side, and reported breathlessly: "The proprietor!" The sedan chair driver was all gone, and he asked the doorman and said that he had escaped! ”

"What?" Fang Yingwu was furious, this was simply an extreme contempt for the dignity of the county! "On the Ming Law, how should evasion be punished?"

Lou Tianhua looked embarrassed, "This is not clear. Stay down and flip through it."

Fang Yingwu shouted: "No need to turn it over!" When the official came back from the West Factory, he sent someone to detain the four sedan chair drivers. The flail is on display for three days! And then all for hard labor! ”

Lou Tianhua responded, and then said: "The top priority now is to go outside and hire a sedan chair first." Otherwise, the proprietor would be too undignified to travel. ”

In this way, Fang Yingwu sat in a hired sedan chair, followed by Lou Tianhua, Fang Yingshi, Wang Ying and other entourages, as well as Zhang Gui, a servant. Originally, if there was a group of officials to follow, there would be no need to bring so many private entourage.

However, he said that Fang Yingwu went to the West Factory this time and did not greet Wei Ying, the manager of Qianhu, in advance. He felt that Zhang Gui's ability to observe words and emotions was not bad, and if he arranged the double reed acting in advance, it would be easy to be seen through. So they act in their own colors, and they are what they are.

In Fang Yingwu's thoughts, the results of going to the West Factory to ask for money are nothing more than several. The first outcome. That is, the most haode result, that Wei Ying looked at Wang Zhi's sake, bleeding to repay the money;

In the second result, Wei Ying's attitude was acceptable, but she refused to pay back; In the third result, Wei Ying turned her face with herself and still refused to pay back.

But Fang Yingwu was sure, no matter what, Wei Ying would not touch a single hair of himself, he knew that Wang Zhi had an unusual relationship with him. In other words, it is not a problem to get out of the house by yourself.

If you can't ask for money directly, you can also write a letter to Wang Zhi, who has already arrived in Xuanfu, for help, so that you can always gain something. Actually, that's enough. If you can ask Xichang for money and come back unscathed, Zuihou can recover a part even if it is only a few hundred taels, it is already a very long-faced thing.

Since it will not suffer anyway. Therefore, Fang Yingwu did not ventilate with Wei Ying in advance, and relied on on-the-spot performance.

The group went from the north of the city to the vicinity of the Lingji Palace outside the Xi'an Gate. The hired sedan chair driver didn't know where to go at first, but only then did he hear that the ultimate goal was the West Factory. Hurriedly scared that he didn't want money, and slipped away.

Fang Yingwu was helpless, so he had to walk Zuihou for a mile. When Wang Zhi, the governor of Xichang, was in the capital, his behavior was strange and unpredictable, and it was very difficult to see, but the location of the Xichang yamen was fixed, and it was easy to find a place.

If it was for private matters, Fang Yingwu would definitely not want to come to the West Factory with great fanfare, so as not to get into the reputation of colluding with the West Factory, but if it was a business matter, it didn't matter.

Passing through the deep alley and coming to the gate of the West Factory, Fang Yingwu reported his identity to the doorman, and after a while, he was invited in.

Lou Tianhua and the others were left outside the door, and Fang Yingwu only took the official Zhang Gui in, and he had a bit of a single knife to go to the meeting. Fang Yingwu was as calm as Master Guan Gong, but it was a pity that Zhang Gui was too far worse than Zhou Cang, walking on the Yamen Yongdao of the West Factory, Zhang Bantou's body trembled at a frequency that was almost visible to the naked eye.

When he arrived at the door of a side hall, Zhang Gui was left to guard outside the threshold, and Fang Yingwu talked with Wei Qianhu inside.

It is said that Wei Ying, a thousand households in the West Factory, was originally a small person, but because of fate, he would be appreciated by Wang Zhi, the eunuch of the Imperial Horse Supervisor and the Governor of the West Factory, so he rose all the way up and became a thousand households in charge of the daily affairs of the West Factory. When Wang Zhi was not in Beijing, Wei Ying was in charge of the West Factory.

Wei Qianhu has seen a lot of big scenes, and he really doesn't look down on the little Zhixian in his eyes, but as Wang Zhi's confidant, he knows that Fang Yingwu has a lot to do with Wang Zhi, but it is not clear what kind of specific it is.

So when Wei Qianhu heard that Fang Yingwu was coming, he ordered him to be let in. It's just that Wei Qianhu's attitude is relatively cold, and he may have subconsciously regarded Fang Yingwu as a competitor, an opponent competing for the position in Wang Changdu's heart.

Fang Yingwu didn't care about Wei Ying's thoughts, on the one hand, because of the spirit of the scholars, and on the other hand, probably in his heart, he didn't regard Wei Ying as an equal object at all.

In Fang Yingwu's heart, the equal object is Wang Zhi, Liu Mian, Li Dongyang, and maybe his own father, what is Wei Ying, a villain?

After the guest and host sat down, Fang Yingwu asked: "I took over Wanping Zhixian in Xia, but I found that the warehouse was empty of three thousand taels. According to the investigation, the cause came from the West Factory, does Lord Wei know about it? ”

Wei Qianhu frowned and said, "I don't know." ”

Fang Yingwu further asked: "This official has indeed investigated carefully, and someone has pointed out that these three thousand taels were taken by you, Master Wei, how can you say that you don't know?" ”

Wei Qianhu laughed a few times when he heard this, "I don't know which one said it?" Why don't you ask him to come here and confront him face to face? ”

Fang Yingwu lowered his voice and could only let the two of them hear, "Mingren doesn't say secret words, today the official is here to get this silver back, for the sake of Wang Gong, I also ask Lord Li to repay one or two as appropriate." ”

Wei Ying slapped the case and reprimanded: "Lord Fang, don't be embarrassed!" Do you really think that my West Factory is a tiger with a stack of paper? ”

This shouting and reprimand made Zhang Gui outside hear it clearly, and if he didn't escape, he would die! Zhang Bantou was so frightened that he almost rushed to the head of the courtyard to seize the door and escaped, but his legs were too weak to walk, so he could only stand with his hands on the pillars. (To be continued......)

PS: Today's mental state is very bad, so let's write so much, forcing it to write will only make the wonderful story bad. Suddenly, I heard a colleague say that tomorrow is the Qingming Festival holiday, and then I realized that I am still an office worker with a holiday, but unfortunately in order to update, the holiday is equal to nothing, and it is really a tearful every festival.