Chapter 12 Mine Supervisors and Tax Collectors
Compared with the scenery of returning to his hometown a few days ago, the team of the Zhang family is obviously much deserted today.
The soldiers who opened the road in front of them were still the soldiers of the neighboring county guards, and there were only three people left in the gang that day.
Wei Liangchen noticed that there were two carriages coming, the one in front was needless to say that it was definitely the carriage of the Zhang family, but the one in the back didn't know whose it was.
Liangchen estimated that Zhang Bing was going back to the palace after visiting relatives, so he didn't think much about it, he had ready-made golden thighs to hold, and there was no reason to compliment a nobody in the palace, so he turned his head and drank tea.
This tea is really cold, but it is not tea leaves, but a local grass called golden flower. This kind of grass is used to make tea after drying, and some people in the south like to use dried lotus leaves to make tea and drink a reason, which can relieve the heat.
Several other guests in the shop also noticed the movement on the village road, and they looked around and turned away.
These people are just people who pass by here to rest, not people nearby, and they don't know what the old man of the Zhang family is.
Liangchen thought that Zhang Bing would let the carriage go straight to the official road to the county, and would not stop at this small tea shop to rest. No, that Zhang Bing was a casual person, and he was also considerate, and he saw that the few guards who borrowed to support the façade were a little tired, so he greeted everyone in the car and asked everyone to drink a bowl of tea in the tea shop before leaving.
"Thank you, Grandpa Zhang!"
The leader of the guards who led the team was a small banner, surnamed Zheng, who happily took a piece of broken silver thrown by Zhang Bing, and took a few of his brothers into the tea shop with a big grin. You don't need a piece of broken silver to drink tea, and the extra money is the reward of Father-in-law Zhang.
The carriage behind saw that it had stopped, and it also stopped. A person got out of the car, and this person Liangchen recognized that it was Wu Dezheng, who was working as a secretary in the sixth room of the county.
"Grandpa Zhang, slow down!"
When Wu Dezheng jumped out of the carriage, Zhang Bing was also about to get out of the carriage, and he hurriedly ran forward and took a hand. Zhang Bing smiled and nodded slightly.
When Liangchen saw this scene, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, thinking that although Wu Dezheng was not admitted to Xiucai, his talent was not low, and now he was working in the sixth room of the county, how could he be regarded as a character. His father, Wu Fuzi, is a famous talent, and it stands to reason that Wu Dezheng should also have a bit of a backbone. No, in the face of a eunuch who worked as a supervisor in the palace treasure banknote department, Wu Dezheng said in such a low voice, if his father knew, but he didn't know how to feel.
After thinking about it, Zhang Bing had been in the village for a few days, and Wu Dezheng was also there, so there was no reason why Wu Fuzi didn't know what his son was doing. Thinking like this, most of Wu Fuzi's tall appearance is not true. Maybe in private, the father and son may have a virtue.
It is the nature of human beings to tend to be inflammatory.
Liangchen felt that he seemed to be much taller than the Wu family's father and son, but he soon became deflated and a little funny, because he himself was not this kind of person? Knowing that his second uncle was Wei Zhongxian, he was in a hurry to recognize his relatives, what is the difference between this and Wu Dezheng settling a eunuch?
The eldest brother doesn't talk about the second brother, Wei Liangchen really has no qualifications to laugh at Wu Dezheng.
Seeing so many guests coming, including the military master, the old woman of the tea shop couldn't help but panic, hurriedly took out a stack of large bowls and put them down on the table, and then carried the teapot and poured water one by one.
The stack of big bowls must not be very clean, Zheng Xiaoqi's gang doesn't care, Wu Dezheng frowned, took two bowls to the side of the tea shop and washed them with water in the bucket, and then poured tea for Zhang Bing himself.
Zhang Bing took a rag from his sleeve and wiped it on the bench. In her gestures, she is very feminine.
This appearance made Liangchen very disgusted, because Zhang Bing, like his second uncle, was castrated into the palace after adulthood, so in terms of body shape, Zhang Bing is very strong.
Let's ask, if such a strong man makes a little woman-like move, can a normal person react when he sees it?
However, there were many people in the tea shop, but no one dared to show the slightest look of disgust on their faces.
There were two guests who saw the military master of the guard, and the other seemed to be the husband in the palace, and in the spirit of not causing trouble, he got up and hurried out of the shop. In the tea shop, only Wei Liangchen and an old man sat there and continued to drink tea.
I don't know if it's because they don't disturb the people, or because of the presence of Zhang Bing's father-in-law, Zheng Xiaoqi's gang has nothing else except for being louder. It's not like what was shown in the TV series of Liangchen's previous life, where the military masters entered, there was immediately a dramatic conflict.
Or like the online novel he once wrote, there is no conflict to force the conflict, and there is no difficulty to force the difficulty, anyway, change the way to make the military master and the protagonist conflict.
Everything is calm, everyone drinks their own tea, the river water does not interfere with the well water, and it is peaceful.
Wu Dezheng was drinking tea and talking with Zhang Bing, and the two didn't notice Wei Liangchen, who was sitting silently on the side.
Half a bowl of tea in the stomach, the stomach was comfortable, Liangchen rushed to the county, and was about to get up to settle the bill, just about to move, but inadvertently heard Zhang Bing seem to say the word "mine supervisor".
These two words made Wei Liangchen's heart move, and he subconsciously continued to make the appearance of drinking tea, but his ears were erected high, and he wanted to know what Zhang Bing was talking about.
It's a pity that although Zhang Bing and Wu Dezheng didn't care about the other people in the shop at all, what they said had a lot to do with it, so their voices were not very loud.
Liangchen barely heard a few words, to the effect that Wu Dezheng said that he had discovered a mine and wanted Zhang Bingbao to go up and ask him to open the mine, and then they would make a fortune together.
Emperor Wanli opened a mine supervisor and sent taxes to increase the inner treasury, and the good ministers knew, but the specific situation was not clear, and he didn't know much about how to operate.
He wanted to listen to a few more words, but the voice of the people was not loud, and he couldn't lean over. Simply, he got up and dropped a small flat coin, and walked out of the tea shop with his burden on his back.
The mine supervisor and tax envoy is a major event, but it is a major event for others, and the wealth is also someone else's, what does it have to do with him Wei Liangchen.
When Liangchen got up, Zhang Bing glanced at him, but only at a glance.
After coming out of the tea shop, Liangchen continued to walk north. There are still more than 20 miles away from the county seat, gritting your teeth, walking for more than an hour, you will definitely be able to go.
Gradually, there were more people on the official road, and from time to time horse-drawn carts or ox-carts passed by. The sun is also getting higher and higher, and the sun is hot. It didn't take long for Liangchen to sweat.
After walking about two or three miles, Zhang Bing's carriage caught up from behind. Liangchen ducked under the tree on the side of the road, and watched the guards panting and following the carriage forward.
"Wei Liangchen?"
Someone in the second carriage suddenly shouted. Liangchen was stunned for a moment, and found that it was Wu Xiuzhi who called him.
"Who is this man? Look at something familiar. ”
In the carriage, Wu Dezheng asked the coachman to stop, poked his head out, and looked at Liangchen suspiciously.
"Big brother, he is Wei Liangchen, my father's former student."
"Wei Liangchen?"
Hearing his sister say this, Wu Dezheng suddenly had a little impression, he glanced at Liangchen and shook his head slightly.
Needless to say, Wu Dezheng must know Wei Liangchen's past, and he also knows that he asked someone from the Taifu Temple Horse Factory to break his leg, so he looks down on this young man in his hometown.
"Where are you going?"
Wu Xiuzhi lifted the curtain with one hand and put the other hand on the car window.
"I'll go to the county."
The eldest brother is here, and the good minister doesn't dare to talk nonsense.
"Oh."
Wu Xiuzhi nodded, and looked at the burden on Liangchen's body again.
Liangchen was overjoyed in his heart, thinking that this girl would invite herself to take the carriage for the sake of the people in the same village, so that she would save a lot of physical strength, but Wu Xiuzhi directly lowered the curtain.
"Big brother, let's go."
In the carriage, Wu Xiuzhi was not willing to take Wei Liangchen a ride at all. Wu Dezheng didn't want to pick up the "bad" boy in the village, so he patted the car door and motioned for the driver to drive to follow Zhang's carriage.
The coachman flicked his whip, and the carriage suddenly drove forward, leaving Wei Liangchen with an embarrassed face.
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