Guangzhou is a place of trade in the Qing Dynasty. The most serious place for piece smuggling is also to smoke crows. The place where the atmosphere is the most prosperous, but where the house is solid, smoking crows. Six or seven out of ten, Lin Zexu is strictly forbidden to send representatives, in favor of severely punishing crow smoking. Filmmaker, if the imperial court sends Lin Zexu to Guangzhou to ban smoking, what will happen?

The military and political officials and the businessmen present were all nervous, Deng Tingzhen glanced at Yi Zhicontentment, and asked in a deep voice: "Why do you say this?" ”

Although the atmosphere was depressing and dull, all the military and political officials in the hall were content to have dealings with each other, but they were not stunned, and only after a little muttering did he speak: "Two foreign ships in Tianjin seized the smuggling crows. There are more than 130,000 taels, which shows that Tianjin crows. The scale of smuggling is large, and it can also be known that the land of Gyeonggi smokes crows. The prosperity of the film, the emperor's thunder and anger, it is really expected.

This ban on smoking in Tianjin is actually the work of the Governor of Zhili, Lord Qishan, why did the emperor urgently summon Lord Lin, the governor of Huguang, to Beijing? Obviously, the dispute between the strict ban and the relaxation of the ban has been seen, and the emperor is in favor of the strict prohibition and urgently summons Lord Lin to Beijing, just for one point, and it is strictly forbidden to crows. Slice!

Where is smoking banned? It can't be Tianjin, judging from the emperor's strict rebuke of Guangdong, Lord Lin must have come to Guangzhou to ban smoking. ”

This thing is simple, everyone just didn't think about it, listening to Yi Zhi's contentment, one by one couldn't make a sound, Deng Tingzhen gathered everyone today, it was for the ban on smoking, Daoguang reprimanded him sternly, although he did not condemn the crime, but it made his heart tremble, he knew very well in his heart that if he did not make some achievements, it would be a matter of time before he was condemned.

After a slight groan, he said, "Crow. The film has been banned repeatedly, and it is certainly difficult to escape the blame of this department. But the merchants such as the Green Camp Sailor and Er are the first to bear the brunt. I call you all here today. It is to counsel against crows. Piece of things. ”

After a slight pause, he said in a deep voice: "Guangdong Navy Admiral Guan Tianpei." ”

"The end will be." Guan Tianpei hurriedly got up and bowed.

"From now on, the Admiralty Office will be stationed in Shajiao, and additional sailors will be dispatched to patrol ships to strengthen ocean surface inspections, closely monitor and control Haikou, and not let a single smuggling fast crab enter Humen. On the other hand, maritime patrols should also be stepped up in the waters around Chaozhou and Huizhou to strictly prevent smuggling foreign vessels from heading north. ”

"The Last General's Order." Guan Tianpei hurriedly bowed and said.

"Governor Yiliang, Guangzhou Governor Zhuerhanga."

"The lower official is here." Yiliang and Zhuerhanga hurriedly got up.

"The whole city. Strictly search all the crow sellers in the city. Filmmaker! In conjunction with the prefectural and county officials, we will strictly control the hoarding and selling cellars of all prefectures, counties, towns and villages, strictly investigate all ships stranded in inland rivers and inland oceans, especially boats carrying smuggled fast crabs, prohibit any inland ships from going to sea, put an end to their entry and exit routes, and clear the source of trafficking! ”

Yiliang and Zhuerhanga hurriedly bowed down and said, "Give the official an order!" ”

Deng Tingzhen glanced at a few people and said sharply: "Whether it is a local official or a sailor officer, they dare to engage in malpractice and dereliction of duty. Ventilation and leakage, collusion in secret. All will be dismissed and investigated, and will not be tolerated. After speaking, he looked at Yu Kun, the superintendent of Guangdong Customs.

Yu Kun dared to sit still, quickly got up, bowed and waited, Deng Tingzhen glanced at him, then looked at the merchants, and said in a cold tone: "Crow. Smuggling, flooding to this point, you and other merchants have an unshirkable responsibility, the headquarters can trust you, but the people of the world can't trust you, how to actively cooperate with the strict prohibition of crows. Piece, wait until you go back and draw up a charter. ”

It was the first time that Yi Zhizhen had seen Deng Tingzhen speak so violently, and he secretly thought that he had seen his true color today, so Deng Tingzhen pointed at him, "Yi Zhizhen." ”

After a pause, Yi Zhifen hurriedly bowed down and said, "The lower official is here." ”

From now on, "Xiguan Daily" will make every effort to promote the crow. The harm of the film, the necessity of smoking ban, cooperate with the imperial court to ban smoking. ”

"Order." Yi Zhishu hurriedly bowed and said.

Out of the Governor's Mansion, Wu Shaorong, the chief merchant of the Thirteen Lines, hurriedly stopped Yi Zhixing, and reluctantly smiled: "Your Excellency the Governor actively cooperates with the merchants to strictly prohibit crows. film, we have neither power nor soldiers, how to cooperate? Contentment has always been wise, and it is also expected to give advice. ”

Yi Zhixiang smiled and said: "This is not simple, some people give people, no one pays money, and then the business is well-informed, especially the movements of foreign businessmen." ”

"Contentment means to provide foreign crows to the government. Information on the filmsellers? Wu Shaorong looked left and right and said, "How will you do business in the future?" ”

At this time, he was still thinking about business, and he was really a talent, so Yi Zhizhi said with a smile: "First keep the head of Xiang Shang, and then think about business." ”

Under the pressure of Emperor Daoguang's stern reprimand, all the officials in Guangdong took active action and launched a huge anti-smoking campaign in the whole province of Guangdong, and in just three days, more than 1,000 crow traffickers were arrested in the city of Guangzhou. filmmaker, and then in Nanhai, Panyu, Gaoyao, Dongguan and other counties and cracked and destroyed a large number of reselling crows. In the cellar of the piece, a group of giant dealers such as He Laojin and Ou Kuan who opened the cellar were captured.

Wujia Garden, Yanhui Building.

Wu Bingjian looked at Yi Zhizhi and asked, "Can contentment really conclude that the imperial court will use Lin Zexu as a messenger to come to Guangzhou to ban smoking?" ”

"You shouldn't be mistaken." Yi Zhishu said a little strangely: "Is there anything wrong with Lin Zexu coming to Guangzhou?" ”

After being silent for a long time, Wu Bingjian said: "If the imperial court sends Lin Zexu to come to Guangzhou to ban smoking, it is enough to show Daoguang's determination to ban smoking, and the Thirteen Lines are afraid that there will be trouble." ”

Wu Changqing said curiously: "Lin Zexu came to Guangzhou to ban smoking, what does it have to do with the Thirteen Lines?" ”

Wu Bingjian said in a deep voice: "Lin Zexu is from Fujian. ”

Lin Zexu is a native of Fujian, this Yi Zhizhi naturally knows, what's strange? As soon as he thought about it, he thought that the Wu family and the Pan family were both from Fujian, but even so, what could it mean? He was about to ask in detail, but Wu Bingjian sighed, "Great future, why bother wading in this muddy water?" ”

Is this Lin Zexu? Yi Zhixiang was a little strange, glanced at Wu Changqing, and motioned for him to ask, but Wu Bingjian actually got up and paced out, looking at him like that, he seemed to be full of worries.

Yi Zhishu couldn't help but ask softly: "The old man has an old relationship with Lin Zexu?" ”

"I haven't heard of it." Wu Changqing shook his head and said, "It's not a good errand to come to Guangzhou to ban smoking, Lin Zexu is the governor of Huguang, will he come to Guangzhou?" ”

"Will come." Yi Zhi's contented tone is firm. But I was a little worried. But don't fan his little butterfly wings. If Lin Zexu doesn't come to Guangzhou, it will be a bad thing.

Baoding Mansion, Baigou Station, Ansu County.

Baigou Station is between Baoding Mansion and Beijing Division, only 200 miles away from Beijing Division, only dozens of miles away from Baoding Mansion, it is the necessary post station for the southern provinces to go north to Beijing Division, the scale is not small, there are more than 10 large and small courtyards alone. There are a lot of officials who go north and south every day, and Xiao Zhengyuan is busy ushering in the send-off every day, although he is tired, but he is willing to be gluttonous, very simple, although Yicheng is a small official who is the last to enter the stream, but it is a real fat shortage.

"Yicheng, where is Yicheng?" A middle-aged man shouted, "How can you arrange a small courtyard for our master Zhentai?" What about the compound due north? ”

Xiao Zhengyuan knew that it was more difficult for these foxes and fake tigers to wait than the officials, so he hurriedly stepped forward with a smile on his face and said, "The two compounds in the north have been set early. Please take care of me, uncle. ”

"Who?" Chang Sui said casually: "Higher rank than our master?" ”

Xiao Zhengyuan didn't say anything, but quietly stretched out a finger. The chief was startled and said in a low voice: "Yipin master? ”

Nodding, Xiao Zhengyuan smiled and said: "Uncle, you are more considerate of the difficulties of the small ones, the compound is empty, how dare the small ones be wronged by Lord Zhentai." ”

The chief was not interested in listening to his ramblings, so he took out a small ingot of silver and stuffed it into his hand quietly, and said, "Which adult?" ”

When the two taels of silver arrived, Xiao Zhengyuan immediately said simply: "Governor of Huguang, Lin Zexu, Lin Butang." ”

"Lin Butang can't live in two compounds, who else?"

"Uncle forgiveness." Xiao Zhengyuan said with a bitter face: "I really don't dare to say it, which adult has told me not to leak it." ”

The Chang Sui decisively took out a small ingot of silver, but Xiao Zhengyuan simply pushed back the silver on hand, this time, the Chang Sui immediately realized that the other person was afraid that he was higher than Lin Zexu, and immediately realized that there was an article in it, and the two first-class adults met by chance in this small station, which may be almost too small.

He knows very well, don't look at the post station is inconspicuous but it is also officialdom, although this place is small, but it is the most sensitive, the lower is down-to-earth, the upper can reach the sky, the beacon fire military information, official information, the public opinion of the people, and even the inside story of the palace may be heard in the post station, and after receiving the silver ingot, he did not hesitate to take out a silver ticket of ten taels and stuffed it over.

This time, Xiao Zhengyuan was not hypocritical, glanced at Ma Li and put the silver ticket into his sleeve, then stepped forward, and said in a low voice: "Wenyuan Pavilion University Scholar, Governor of Zhili, Qi Shanqi Zhongtang, Qi Zhongtang is a micro-service, and the uncle is considerate if he doesn't publicize it." ”

Zhengbei compound, the main room, two large pots of charcoal fire will burn the whole room warm, only in his early fifties Qi Shan crooked on the kang to pretend to sleep to recuperate, he returned to Baoding from Beijing, arrived at Baigou Post at noon, asked Lin Zexu to rest in Baigou Post today, and deliberately waited here.

He resigned from Beijing, naturally understood Daoguang's intentions, and was worried about it, he did not object to the ban on smoking, but opposed to severely punishing crow smoking. filmmaker, Lin Zexu went to Guangzhou, if it was severely punished for smoking crows. The filmmaker, I'm afraid it will be out of control, and now the treasury is empty, and it can't withstand the toss.

The sky gradually darkened, and Chang followed in and reported softly: "Master, Lord Lin has arrived." ”

"Hmm." Qi Shan opened his eyes, then turned over and sat up, glanced out the window, and said, "Please." ”

Hearing that Qi Shan lived across the wall, Lin Zexu rushed over after a little washing, and when he entered the room, he saw Qi Shan slowly coming up, he hurriedly stepped forward and said with a smile: "Qi Zhongtang." ”

"Lord Lin came so fast." Qi Shan smiled back, and then stretched out his hand and said, "Please take a seat." ”

"Qi Zhongtang, please." The two politely sat down, and Lin Zexu said with a smile: "Qi Zhongtang seized the smuggling crow in one fell swoop in Tianjin. The film is 130,000 taels, which is really gratifying. ”

Qi Shan waved his hand and cut straight to the topic: "The emperor is urgently summoned to Beijing, can Shao Mu know the reason?" ”

"The will of heaven is unpredictable, how dare you speculate on it."

Qi Shan didn't go around in circles with him, and said: "After the Tianjin case, there was another big case in Jingshi that caused a sensation in Beijing, and nobles such as Prince Zhuang Yishi and Fuguo Gong Puxi gathered in a nunnery to smoke crows. film, was caught red-handed by officers and soldiers. The two cases occurred one after another, and the saint was furious and deliberately wanted Shao Mu to go to Guangzhou to ban smoking. ”

Although he had long expected that Daoguang would summon him to Beijing to ban smoking, he thought it was a large-scale anti-smoking campaign across the country, but he didn't expect to send him to Guangzhou to ban smoking, and he immediately asked: "What about other provinces?" ”

Qi Shan said: "Crows are strictly forbidden. film, focusing on Guangzhou. ”

That is to say, other provinces can't help it? Lin Zexu was a little puzzled, "Strictly rectify Haikou and clean up the source." 'Not Qishan's claim? Why don't you let Qishan go to Guangzhou, but let him go to Guangzhou?

Qi Shan saw his doubts and said slowly: "The smoking ban in Guangzhou is a very important matter, and it must not be lost, and it must be Shao Mu to go." ”

"Is this divine will?" Lin Zexu said in a deep voice.

"Not bad." Qi Shan nodded and said, "I tried my best to go to Guangzhou, but the saint didn't allow it, saying that smoking is prohibited in Guangzhou, and it is necessary to do so." ”

Hearing this, Lin Zexu's heart sank, the difficulty of banning smoking in Guangzhou is well known, thirteen lines and crows. The piece is smuggled with inextricable connections, but the thirteen lines are Daoguang's money bags, and besides, now there is a silver shortage, the silver is expensive and cheap has reached the point of no return, Guangzhou's foreign trade is inexorable, all the governors are rarely in favor of closing the country, cutting off absolute foreign trade, and banning smoking, and constantly absolute foreign trade, how difficult!

Seeing that he was silent, Qi Shan added, "Now that the treasury is empty, Shao Mu knows that smoking is prohibited in Guangzhou, and you must not provoke lightly." ”

Lin Zexu said disapprerovingly: "Yu'er is a small country, and you dare to fight with me **** Shangguo?" Not to mention the fact that Western countries are tens of thousands of miles away. ”

Qi Shan also thought that this was unlikely, and groaned slightly, so he said: "Guangdong smokes crows. The popularity of the film is the highest in the country, and the punishment of serious crimes for smokers is quite worrying, and it is hoped that the young will be cautious and cautious. ”

Lin Zexu had nothing to do with him at this time to discuss and debate the anti-smoking propositions and measures, nodded slightly, and asked: "Guangzhou is a ban on smoking, does the saint mention the money soldiers?" ”

Qi Shan shook his head slowly, there is money and soldiers, what is so difficult about banning smoking in Guangzhou? Is it your turn? Just because the treasury was empty, Daoguang didn't want to mobilize troops and horses, and didn't want to pay the silver, so he asked Lin Zexu to go.

There is no silver, and there are no soldiers and horses, how to ban smoking in Guangzhou? Lin Zexu couldn't help but be stunned, speechless for a long time, there was no silver, how to mobilize the enthusiasm of the soldiers and horses of the Guangdong Green Battalion to ban smoking? Moreover, the Cantonese crow. The flood of films has been so far, and it is not unrelated to the Guangdong green camp, can the Guangdong green camp be used, not to mention the two said, this has no money and no soldiers, and goes to Guangzhou to ban smoking with bare hands? This errand is not feasible, and must be shirked!

Qi Shan is also puzzled by this, he doesn't understand what medicine is sold in Daoguang gourd, he says that the ban on smoking in Guangzhou is a matter of great importance and cannot be lost, but he does not pay for silver, nor does he give soldiers, can he give Lin Zexu the title of Qincha, he can go to Guangzhou to complete the errand of banning smoking? (To be continued.) )