This day is a rare refreshing weather in the plum season in Gangnam.

The sea breeze chasing the vast blue waves to the west blew away the heat.

Qi Jin, the deputy chief soldier guarding Jiangnan, sat under the plum tree and drank three glasses of wine, Fang slowly stood up, walked to the grave of his righteous son Wu Bangde, and patted the tombstone: "Child, you and Lao Wu are waiting for me in heaven." ”

The old general turned around and saw Zheng Haizhu's eyes filled with guilt, and the words "Mrs. Zheng" came to his lips and changed to his former title.

"Girl, when Bond recognized you back then, and threw the bookbag and walked with you, the old man explained to his grandfather when he was incense, and the road that the child chose by himself could not be stopped. We are from the army and know best, a good life, it is said that if you don't have it, it will be gone. You don't have to worry about the old man blaming you. ”

Zheng Haizhu was grateful for the blessing of the earth and discussed: "Master, do you want to find an eye-catching baby from the Wu family, and inherit it to the line of Bond and Amei." I live in Chongming, and I take care of it. ”

Qi Jin waved his hand: "If you persuade Bond to leave a legacy for the old Wu family, when this stinky boy is alive, I will nag a lot." He said every time that he only wanted to be with Amei's children. Now it is impossible for him to contradict Lao Tzu anymore, and Lao Tzu is even more difficult to disobey his wishes. Forget it, don't think about anything that can't be continued. ”

Zheng Haizhu said "yes" and led Qi Jin to a house that had not yet been completed.

"Master, this place faces the sea, the momentum is open, and it overlooks the Grange barracks, and I don't feel lonely. The younger generation wants to build a martyr's shrine, and the tablets of several anti-Japanese heroes who died in Chongming in the past will stand in it, and so will Bond's. ”

The corners of Qi Jin's mouth twitched slightly: "You have a heart, it is not in vain for him to have a relationship with you." Now that you have this, you don't have to worry about the memorial after your death, so why do you need an heir. ”

The white-haired general squinted, but saw a group of young men under the command of Carpenter Hu, carrying beams and pillars of timber, and under the shade of the tree, an old woman stood beside the stone table, pointing a young man who looked like a talent to write.

The old woman is Grandma Tang, she has a hearty temperament, and she came over to greet Qi Jin.

Qi Jin also knew the origin of Grandma Tang from Zheng Haizhu's mouth, and also bowed his hand with respect: "Mother-in-law, I heard my father-in-law say when I was young, so that the ancestor Tang Gong fought against the Japanese in Chongming. ”

Grandma Tang sighed: "Master, now that the Japanese are not fierce, the Tartars in the north are rampant. No matter how much trouble they made back then, they were just like mad dogs, taking money and food in their mouths and running away. And the Tartar actually knows how to use spies to steal firearms, cheat guns, and small cannons, this is not the style of ordinary robbers, this is where I came from the Ming Dynasty. ”

"Mother-in-law is insightful," Qi Jin solemnly agreed, "Nurhachi's ability to hook up with a Han guard like Li Yongfang shows that this chief is ambitious and strategic. Although the battle of Fushun was a complete victory, the general did not dare to underestimate the northern captives, and so did Mrs. Zheng. ”

Zheng Haizhu nodded and called the Confucian who stood behind Tang Po.

Qi Jin looked at this young man, thin and white, somewhat similar to that Lu Xiangsheng, but the lake brocade robe on his body was worth a lot of money at a glance, and it was estimated that this person was about the same as Young Master Gu's son of a rich gentleman.

Qi Jin was still dripping, but the young man had already lifted his robe, and knelt down without hesitation, regardless of the mud and wetness.

"Senior Shen Tingyang, meet Master Qi."

"Hey, you don't have to make such a big gift in your next life."

Qi Jin hurriedly raised his hand and asked the other party to get up.

Although the deputy chief soldier is already a very high level in the military rank, Qi Jin still feels a little awkward to accept the bow of an imperial civil official like Xiucai.

Shen Tingyang said generously: "Master, our Wusongsha Boat Gang, we can sail safely in Xiajiang on weekdays, thanks to the master's good management of the army, don't say it's a junior, it's my father, I should kowtow and thank you when I see the master." ”

"The Sand Boat Gang?" Qi Jin thought for a while, "I heard the dolls under him say, but do the transportation from the river to the river?" ”

Shen Tingyang humbly replied: "Exactly." ”

Zheng Haizhu and Qi Jin explained: "Master, I also came to Chongming, and I realized that the Shachuan Gang was the livelihood of the local Shen family. It is rare to have a young owner in Tingyang, and he is by no means one of those gentlemen, who has already been tested for his fame. The Shen family also has fertile land in the South Island, close to our Zhengjiazhuang. A daughter of Tingyang's distant relatives married our Liaomin, Tingyang came to drink the wedding wine, and he fell in love with our Zhengjiazhuang and wanted to be my guest. ”

Qi Jin is so old in the rivers and lakes, he only listened to a few words, and estimated that according to Zheng Haizhu's habit of being good at entrapping and connecting with the head snake, the young master of the Chongming Shen family in front of him, even if he didn't take the initiative to vote, Zheng Haizhu would go to him.

Qi Jin then glanced at the words "Martyrs' Shrine" on the stone table, which had different strokes but each had its own charm, and quipped with a tone of fun: "Young Master Shen, Mrs. Zheng's ability is far more than the boundary of your Chongming. You want to be a guerrilla of her praise painting, but you can't just write well. ”

The Shen family is also a businessman and a Confucian, and Shen Tingyang's insight and heart are far above ordinary Confucianism.

In addition, he sincerely revered Tang Yicen, Qi Jiajun and other bloody men from the bottom of his heart, so he sincerely listened to the teachings to the fullest, kept his head down, and showed twelve points of respect for Qi Jin.

Zheng Haizhu observed it from the sidelines, and saw that Qi Jin and Shen Tingyang had a good atmosphere when they met for the first time, so he brought the topic to the serious thing he was going to do.

"Master, Ting Yang has a move this time, but it really helped me a lot. Master move to the village at the foot of the mountain, let's talk while walking. ”

Tang Po also said to Shen Ting: "Shen Gongzi, you go, the inscription on the plaque in the ancestral hall is enough." ”

……

At noon the next day, Chongming North Island, in front of the Qianhu Office near Yaopi Port.

Yue Zhixian and Yang Xiancheng walked down from the sedan chair respectively.

Qi Jin and Zheng Haizhu were already waiting in the scorching sun with their entourage, and Yue Zhixian was busy wiping his sweat while walking forward quickly, and said guiltily: "The sea has flooded a section of the road, and the official is late, ahhh ”

Yang Xiancheng also cooperated with his boss and blamed Zheng Haizhu: "Why didn't Madam lead Mr. Qi in first." ”

Zheng Haizhu smiled at him and looked at Yue Zhixian: "It's not my barracks guard, how dare I enter before the county has arrived?" ”

If it was a few months ago, Yue Zhixian would have scolded "Demolition of Na Niang" in the local dialect many times, but today, no matter how disobedient the tigress surnamed Zheng is, he will not mind.

Not only did I not mind, but I would like to thank the tigress again.

At noon more than a month ago, when Huang Zunsu of the Donglin faction in Songjiang Mansion came to Chongming County with tolerance, he saw that Yue Zhixian was looking at Xingtou, and rolled his eyes at him.

Although Songjiang is a prefecture, although Chongming is a county, but Chongming and Songjiang have no affiliation.

When Zheng Haizhu unabashedly arrogant posture and asked if his Heji Gong was sold by Yao Qianhu to those Shandong businessmen who claimed to be surnamed Huang, there happened to be a report from the Anji Academy, the guards were killed, and the few people locked up in the courtyard ran away, Yue Zhixian and Yang County suddenly realized that the big thing was not good.

The two old foxes, without having to string words, both denied knowing that Yao Qianhu had sold the machine to the Jurchen spies, and righteously invited Huang Zunsu to go to Beidao to check the number of guns, and they were both court officials to witness each other.

Yao Qianhu, who had always been fearless, through the DPRK-China relationship and the help of Yue Zhixian, grabbed the first batch of arms from Zheng Haizhu, and where he could cover it, he let the Tong family, who was pretending to be a businessman, load it onto the ship from the private port.

In the face of several civil officials who came to Xingshi to ask for their crimes, Yao Qianhu naturally couldn't even take out a fire door.

Yao Qianhu understood that Yue and Yang, who had not yet received the profit of this batch of arms, were the most important thing to protect their positions and lives at this time, and they would definitely not continue to wear a pair of pants with him.

Songjiang and Chongming put the eucalyptus on the Suzhou military road, Yao Qianhu trapped the beast and still fighting, insisting that the machine was smuggled out and sold by a few military households who like to gamble, and fell into the river, and he never knew any Shandong businessmen.

I don't think it didn't take long for the Chongming Shen family's sand boat Cao gang to jump out and identify that their sand boat collided with a sea ship from Liaodong near Taicang, and the Weisu military ship with the Yao character flag came from the left and forcibly pressed the Shen family, Yao Qianhu's subordinates said that the owner of the Liao boat was "Boss Huang", and the ship was equipped with Huanghuali furniture.

At the same time, those military households in the guard who had been oppressed by Yao Qianhu for a long time also complained that Yao Qianhu had obtained a lot of ginseng mink skins this year.

Now, the impeachment of Yao Zongwen in Beijing is like snowflakes, because the queen has passed away in April, and the saint sees that the big line is imminent, Zheng Guifei forced the saint to crown herself as the queen, and the first auxiliary party instructed the minion Yao Zongwen to take the lead in this matter, and the Donglin faction naturally stared at Yao Zongwen.

Suzhou Bingbeidao pondered that the prince would soon ascend to orthodoxy and stand on the Donglin faction, which was much safer than standing Fang Congzhe and Yao Zongwen, so he wiped his face at Yao Qianhu, a related household of the Yao family, and ordered him to either find a second Shandong surnamed Huang with a Liaodong sea ship to testify, or confess.

Yao Qianhu's donkey skills were poor, and after sending his son-in-law to flee in the starry night, he finally relented.

Zheng Haizhu did not choose to sue Yue and Yang for taking the benefits of Yao Qianhu here.

The quid pro quo was that the military households of the Thousand Households in Chongming County and the Thousand Households in the North Island would be taken over by Qi Jin, the deputy chief soldier of Zhenjiang who was closest to the station, and the Zhengjiaying of the South Island would be appointed.

At this moment, everyone entered the house of a thousand households.

Before he could sit down, the Shen family's iced sour plum soup had been sent in. Shen Tingyang respectfully took a few refreshing and clever family servants to serve, and a few old and weak handymen in the Qianhu Institute stood in the courtyard in a daze.

Yue Zhixian and Yang Xiancheng looked at each other quietly, and they both understood in their hearts that although the surname Zheng had damaged Wu Bangde this time, it was not an exaggeration to say that it was a blessing in disguise.

The hill of the tigress, no, there is one more.

Qi Jin took a sip of sour plum soup, and said: "Yue Zhi County, the rules of the imperial court have always been, military households are military households, battalion soldiers are battalion soldiers, the old man has fought all his life, and he still has to abide by the rules of the imperial court." I think so, you played to the governor of Yingtian in the tone of a county parent official, and said, since Su Song's generation of guards is lined up, and Chongming has battalions, this guard in Beidao is better to be converted into a private household, and the output of acres can be used as a tax in Chongming. In the meantime, they are young and strong, and they can be recruited as battalion soldiers by the Zhengjia camp in the South Island as appropriate. ”

Yue Zhixian breathed a sigh of relief.

In the short term, this plan will not only have no loss for him, but will also expand the harvest in the county. In the long run, will the surnamed Zheng support the army and become those generals in Liaodong, cough, a girl, no, no, no.

Yue Zhixian smiled slightly, turned his fat face with oily sweat to Zheng Haizhu, and said with emotion: "Madame is loyal to the imperial court, and Chongming has Madame's battalion soldiers stationed there, which is a blessing for the people of the island!" ”