The next day, according to the agreement, Fang Yingwu went to the city to visit Ning Shigu in the Yamen of the Zhejiang political envoy.

As for the gift, Fang Yingwu casually bought a delicate folding fan, and then copied a poem by himself, which he has always done. Not only is the price cheap and abundant, but it also looks elegant and not tacky, and at the same time, it can also make a name for himself in poetry, which can be said to kill multiple birds with one stone - anyway, the stomach has enough stock.

As the capital of Zhejiang and the top three metropolises in the southeast, Hangzhou certainly has a very large number of government offices in the city. The more well-known ones are the three divisions, Hangyan Dao, Hangzhou Prefecture, Qiantang County, Renhe County, as well as the procuratorate, the weaving bureau, the health office and so on.

Most of these offices are concentrated in the middle of the western half of the city, between Yongjinmen and Qingbo Gate. The density of yamen in this place is extremely high, it can be said that there are three steps and one yamen, and five steps and one office, which is almost built one after another.

Fang Yingwu entered the city from the Wulin Gate, and walked south along the street while inquiring, and when he walked more than half the way, he suddenly saw a crowd of people at the street in front of him.

When I got closer, I found that this was near the Hangzhou Weaving Bureau. In the middle of the street, there was a fire, and there were some things scattered on the ground, and dozens of people were pointing around.

Fang Yingwu curiously pricked up his ears to listen to others' discussions, it turned out that there was a conflict here just now, and in the melee, a silk transport car of the Weaving Bureau was damaged and burned.

Fang Yingwu continued to the south after seeing the excitement, and the Yamen of the Political Envoy was more than a mile south of the Weaving Bureau.

Passing through the archway on the street, Fang Yingwu walked to the gate of the Political Envoy's Office, but saw the senior Ning Shi Gu Ning Ya who was going to visit today standing next to the stone lion. Keep looking around.

Seeing Fang Yingwu, Ning Shigu stepped forward and greeted, "Brother Fang Xian." Foolish brother has been waiting for a long time! ”

Being able to go out to greet you is an over-spec treatment, let alone waiting outside the gate in advance. Although Fang Yingwu thinks highly of himself, he also knows his own proportions. Therefore, Ning Shigu's gift really flattered Fang Yingwu, "How can you dare to wait here for a long time?" Kill me too! ”

Ning Shigu waved his hand and said: "You really misunderstood, just now there were dozens of villagers who wrote here to make trouble, I was worried that you would not be able to enter, so I came out to take a look." ”

Someone is actually making trouble here in the political envoy department? However, it is said that the world has been peaceful for a long time, and the local atmosphere in Jiangsu and Zhejiang has gradually been liberated, and the things that make trouble have been heard from time to time. But at present, it is generally just the county government at the bottom of the trouble.

In Fang Yingwu's memory, in the Wanli period, there were people who made trouble with political envoys and governors, but the folk customs in the Chenghua Dynasty should not have reached this point.

Therefore, he was very surprised, and asked in a very ruling class tone: "Who is Diaomin?" How bold! ”

Ning Shigu sighed and said, "It's a long story, so I won't talk about it today." ”

The two exchanged a few words at the door, and when they were about to enter the door, a servant suddenly came back from outside and reported to Ning Shi Guyu: "After the people were persuaded to go. The little one followed them secretly, and saw them go north out of the city.

But when passing by the Weaving Bureau, the group of Diao people clashed with the people who transported raw silk from the Weaving Bureau. I heard that the people from the weaving bureau were too domineering, and the carriage hit people. angered the people, the two sides beat each other in the street, and burned the vehicles of the weaving bureau. ”

Fang Yingwu couldn't help but ask, "Where have these people gone right now?" ”

The servant looked at Fang Yingwu. looked at Ning Shigu again, and then replied: "Burn the silk car." And they knew that they had caused trouble, so they scattered and fled. Can't catch up. ”

Ning Shigu didn't have a good impression of Diao Min who came to make trouble in the Yamen, but he didn't have a good impression of the Hangzhou Weaving Bureau, which was capable of exploiting and apportioning, and muttered in a low voice when he heard this: "Dog eats dog." ”

Fang Yingwu smiled secretly, this Ning Yanei is a straightforward person. But then his heart moved, and through this muttering, it can be seen that Ning Yanei has no good impression of the Weaving Bureau? Then he said: "I dare to ask, what is the relationship between the domain and the Weaving Bureau?" ”

Ning Shigu said truthfully: "Those eunuchs in the Weaving Bureau are good at knocking on the bone and sucking the marrow and disturbing the people, and the local governments and counties are also unbearable. My father repeatedly persuaded him, but fortunately he was able to stop one or two. ”

Could this really be a coincidence? Fang Yingwu, who has been trained in conspiracy in recent years, habitually frowned and thought for a moment, and after waking up, he said to Ning Shigu: "Senior Ning still quickly told the boss that you should be careful about today's things, I think there is something strange in it!" ”

Ning Shigu was puzzled, he didn't see anything strange, if you want to say that there are strange, Diao Min and the people from the Weaving Bureau are also a group fight. However, the people of the Weaving Bureau are used to being domineering, and the carriage hitting people has angered a group of Diao people who are angry, and it is normal to be attacked by a group.

"Who is the weaving eunuch of Hangzhou today?" Fang Yingwu asked again.

Ning Shigu replied: "I heard that it is woven by Suzhou and Hangzhou, the chief governor of the palace officials, and in Hangzhou, it is woven by Li Yi, the eunuch of Zhejiang Town, who is also in charge of Hangzhou weaving. ”

Fang Yingwu reminded: "If I am the eunuch Li, I will definitely play a book to the Son of Heaven, impeach Boss Ning and stir up a popular uprising, which will cause disaster to the Weaving Bureau and cause losses." ”

Ning Shigu was not a stupid person, and he immediately woke up when he heard this. If Eunuch Li really came to do this, his father might really have to eat a reprimand.

There are so many things to do in local affairs, and no one can be foolproof, and it is not uncommon to be afraid of problems. But when it affects others, it is incompetence and fault, especially the burning of the property of the Weaving Bureau, which is equivalent to Bixia's industry in a sense.

"I'm afraid it's not just Eunuch Li!" Fang Yingwu threw out another sentence that Ning Shigu didn't quite understand.

Ning Shigu had a question mark on his face, and he didn't know what Fang Yingwu wanted to say.

Fang Yingwu looked at no one around, and then pointed: "Assuming that today's events are not coincidences, there must be a series behind it!"

Although the duty of the town guard lieutenant is to secure the people, he is not a pro-people official after all, but just a eunuch who checks and balances the local government. Therefore, if the eunuchs in the town guard want to find a group of Diao people to make trouble with the political envoys, they must need the secret help of the yamen in other places. That's the most worrying thing! ”

Ning Shigu was amazed by Fang Yingwu's imagination. Fang Yingwu's words imply that there is collusion between the magistrate and the town guard eunuch, so there are these things today? If this is the case, then we must be vigilant. Their target was obviously their father, and today's events might be just the beginning.

Invite Fang Yingwu to the flower hall. He instructed the servants to serve tea, and invited the guests to accompany him to talk. Then he bowed his hand and apologized: "Foolish brother will come when he goes." Looking at Fang Xian's brother Haihan. ”

It didn't take long for Ning Shigu to come back in a hurry, pulling Fang Yingwu and walking out, "Father asked Brother Fang Xian to come over and speak. ”

Fang Yingwu smiled bitterly, he only came today to pay a courtesy visit to Ning Shi Gu Ning Yanei and thank him for yesterday's events. I didn't want to alarm Ning Liang, the political envoy of Zhejiang Zuobu, but it turned out to be not low-key.

The emissary, the nominal supreme governor of a province, especially before the advent of the governor with full powers. But because of the power of the former political envoys, it was too powerful. Out of the principle of checks and balances, Emperor Taizu divided the political envoys into left envoys and right envoys.

Today's Zhejiang political envoy Si Zuo Bu political envoy Ning Liangning is also an official with quite distinctive official experience.

His biggest feature is that he has been a political envoy in Zhejiang for more than ten years, and such officialdom qualifications are very rare in the Ming Dynasty. Serving as a political envoy in a province for more than ten consecutive years is likely to be unprecedentedly unique, especially in the Ming officialdom, a system that attaches great importance to balance.

As early as the early years of Chenghua, Mr. Ning was promoted to the right political envoy of Zhejiang, and he was promoted to the political envoy of the left cloth in the eleventh year of Chenghua. And then it has been until now that it has been fifteen years of Chenghua

Officialdom rumors (in fact, it is the truth): Mr. Ning can have such a special experience. It is all thanks to the blessing of the former prime minister and the auxiliary businessman. It is precisely because of the trust and strong support of the Minister of Commerce that Mr. Ning can be a political envoy in Zhejiang.

After all, Zhejiang is the hometown of Shang Xianggong, and on the issue of the appointment of officials in Zhejiang, the imperial court will generally give Shang Xianggong face. This can be regarded as a hidden benefit and an unspoken rule.

If you can be an official in one place for more than ten years, it is enough to turn an outsider into a soil emperor. Especially eleven years after Chenghua, due to various reasons, the imperial court dismissed the governor of Zhejiang. In the absence of a governor, Mr. Ning, the political envoy of Zuobu, became the real number one in command of Zhejiang officialdom.

It is said that this is also after the matter of Lord Ning's promotion to governor was stirred up. The compensation given by the Prime Minister of Commerce made him a governor who was not a governor. So officialdom also has a quip. Lord Ning Liang is the closest to the governor among the magistrates in the world.

However, for such a big person, Fang Yingwu really didn't have any intention of visiting, and when he passed by Hangzhou when he went north last year, he didn't go to see Ning Liang.

This is not hypocritical and hypocritical, nor is it deliberately showing arrogance, the reason is very simple, because Master Ning is too old.

Mr. Ning was the same year as Shang Xianggong, and he was an orthodox jinshi for ten years, and now he has been more than thirty years. The prime minister of business has already become a minister, and there are almost no more people active in politics at that time, so Mr. Ning has obviously entered the twilight of officialdom.

For young people who value long-term benefits, Mr. Ning does not have long-term investment value.

First, like his grandfather Wang Shu, although he is also an old man, he is a historical celebrity, Fang Yingwu knows that the old man Wang can stand up to the Hongzhi Dynasty and become a secretary.

However, if he is Mr. Ning, Fang Yingwu has no impression, which means that Mr. Ning will end here, and retirement is just around the corner.

Second, this kind of old bureaucrat in a high position is well-informed, and he cannot be fooled by small profits and small righteousness, and most of them pay a lot of attention to it, and they often have to spend a lot of money if they want to make friends, and the cost performance is very poor. If you invest too much, if the old man will die in two days, won't you lose all your money?

Third, although Mr. Ning is in the high position of the political envoy in Zhejiang, after all, he has never entered the DPRK and has not held an important central position, so he has great limitations and has little influence on the whole country. In other words, resources such as protégés and former officials probably won't either

Fourth, Fang Yingwu has a bit of a foundation, and he is very calm. Therefore, there is no need to let go of any opportunity as before, and all possibilities must be seized. Now, even if he doesn't make friends with Boss Ning, he doesn't feel pity.

However, the analysis is the analysis, since Mr. Ning, an old high-ranking official with a relationship, took the initiative to invite him to meet, Fang Yingwu would not deliberately refuse to see him, and he still had to do what he should do, which is also the basic kung fu of dealing with people. (To be continued......)

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