Chapter 300 Who is in charge of Yangzhou
Above the officialdom, the actor will change. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info but the patterns and results are different.
In the same way, everyone can read Di Bao, but what they see is different.
Shen Zhixian saw that Mr. Sha was about to seize the power to rectify the salt law and dominate the officialdom of Yangzhou. So I sent my master to show my goodwill.
The fact that the Zheng family and Mr. Sha did not deal with each other is now known all over the city. The rumors about Mr. Sha's collusion with salt merchants were still released by the Zheng family and Luo Xiucai.
The arrest of Zheng Wenzhi and the retrial of old cases in the past can show favor on the one hand, and win official reputation and reputation on the other hand.
Jia Huan replied with a smile, "I myself would like to go together." First, though, I'd like to ask Mr. Sha what he means. The Zheng family is very majestic, and Huang Xiucai and I have been forced to hide in the branch office for several days. ”
Master Li smiled, "Then I'll go back and wait for news from Jia Xiaolian first." ”
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In a few days, it will be the beginning of winter. It's getting colder. Yangzhou is still prosperous in the city. On the afternoon of the first day of October, the wind was cold. A servant of the Zheng family was guarding the tea shop not far from the main entrance of the Provincial Office, his eyes fixed on the people coming and going at the entrance of the Office. Since the end of September, the eldest young master was abused in Pingyuan Hall, lost his temper at home, and sent them to guard the office, which is the fifth day. He was in charge of staring at the front door. As long as the two targets of the stalk appear, the eldest young master will send someone to arrest these two people to vent his anger.
When the servant of the Zheng family was drinking bitter tea in the tea shop, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he saw a half-old young man wearing a blue straight jacket and a square scarf, dressed as a scholar, and walked out with a master in his fifties talking and laughing.
"That's him!"
The servants of the Zheng family stood up excitedly and followed Jia Huan and Master Li to leave the branch of the Provincial Office. Then, when a companion went to keep an eye on him, he quickly ran back to Zheng's house to report the news.
Most of the gardens in Yangzhou are other industries of salt merchants. The residences of the salt merchants were usually located in the city of Yangzhou. The Cheng family is no exception. In the afternoon, Jung was drinking with friends at home. As the eldest son of a big salt merchant, he is destined to inherit this family business in the future, and Zheng Wenzhi has no shortage of friends. During the banquet, the discussion was also about the recent salt law and rumors.
Jung Wen-sik is in his thirties and has a round face and a rhinoplasty. Looking closely, he looks dignified, but a person in his thirties has the arrogant and frivolous temperament of a gentleman on his face. The first impression is not too good. At this time, he hugged a beautiful woman sitting on his lap, burped, and said to his friends: "Don't look at the day when the surname Jia was in the limelight in Pingyuan Hall, and scolded Luo Xianggong away, but I want him to kneel on the ground and beg me." ”
A young man with a long face joked: "Brother Zheng, what do you say? ”
Zheng Wenzhi said disdainfully: "Yang Yunzhi has already written to impeach Sha Dashen. So, don't look at him hiding in the branch office now, wait a few days, I can make him look good. Scold me, hehe, there are buildings in the city that accept rabbits, right? ”
The exquisitely furnished living room burst into laughter. The beauties are coquettish. Someone said, "That's a famous scholar." Another said, "What are you afraid of?" This is what the big husband does, revenge, and happy life. The arrogant and triumphant atmosphere in the hall rendered the afternoon time. It's as if it's an ordinary afternoon, talking about ordinary things. However, is it possible to lift people casually?
At this time, a blue-clothed servant walked in quickly and reported beside Zheng Wenzhi: "Uncle, that person surnamed Jia just came out of the branch of the Daoist Office. ”
Zheng Wenzhi's eyes flashed, he sneered, waved his hand, the living room quieted down, and said loudly: "Brothers, that kid surnamed Jia came out of the turtle shell. I'm going to ask you to watch a good show today. Come with me. ”
"Good!" More than a dozen of Zheng Wenzhi's friends all applauded loudly, all of them excited. There was a cacophony in the living room, as if some kind of good show had reached a high tide. The sound of a dozen people crashed against the roof like boiling water.
Jung Wen-sik laughed.
At this moment, "Bang! A loud noise came from outside, audible even from across the many houses.
The living room immediately fell silent. It's as if everyone has poured a basin of cold water on someone's head. It's cool!
More than a dozen sons, literati, and helpers looked at each other and looked at Zheng Wenzhi. The smile on Jung Wen-sik's round face had not disappeared, and he froze like this. The anger in his heart erupted, the expression on his face was gloomy, and he gritted his teeth and roared, "What's the matter? ”
None of the Zheng family servants in the living room could answer this question. The servant of the organic spirit point wanted to go out to inquire about the situation, and then he saw a man in charge of the costume running in, "Uncle, the big thing is not good, you run quickly!" ”
Zheng Wenzhi stepped forward angrily and grabbed Steward He's neckline, "What the hell is going on?" ”
Steward He cried: "The Shen County Order of Jiangdu County brought more than 20 officials and team leaders to arrest you and Aunt Qiong. It was said that it was to review the old case. Break the county order! ”
Zheng Wenzhi's eyes darkened for a few seconds in an instant, and a cool breath surged in his heart, and his anger quickly subsided. The Qiu family's extermination case was tried in the hands of Shen County's order. The Zheng family entrusted the relationship, and the case was closed. Why did you turn it out again?
After listening to the words of the more than a dozen people in the living room, they all froze like wood carvings, and they didn't know who shouted, "Run!" "As soon as they did it, they wanted to abandon Zheng Dashao and run for their lives. However, the sound of dense footsteps came from outside, and a few of them were knocked to the ground by the officials who rushed in. A crowd poured in. Surrounded the people in the hall.
A moment later, several of the principals walked into the living room. Led by Shen Zhixian, who was wearing a seven-grade official uniform, about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, with a white face and sword eyebrows, a solemn face, his eyes swept over everyone, and finally fell on Zheng Wenzhi, who was dressed gorgeously.
Zheng Wenzhi was completely arrogant, and stepped forward with a smile, "Shen Xianzun is here, is there any misunderstanding?" ”
"Heh, you're thick-skinned."
Zheng Wenzhi saw Jia Huan standing beside Shen Xianling at this time, and his eyes widened suddenly. He just wanted to bring someone to tie up Jia Huan, however, what is the situation now? Jia Huan brought people to his house to tie him up?
"Take it away!" Shen Zhixian waved his hand indifferently, and several officials stepped forward, tied up Zheng Wenzhi, and dragged him out. The remaining fox friends and dog friends cried and rushed to the officials to push them out.
Another team of officials went to the backyard of the Zheng family to search for Sister Qiong.
Jia Huan looked at the layout of the Zheng family, it is indeed a wealthy family, and the furnishings and usage are all high-quality. Zheng Wenzhi did the evil things, Master Li had already told him on the way here.
In the autumn of the eighth year of Yongzhi, Zheng Wenzhi was preparing to sell salt in Yizhen County and went to Hankou, because he heard that the daughter-in-law of the Qiu family, Sister Qiong, was as beautiful as a flower. After seeing it secretly, he instructed his salt to kill the small salt merchant Qiu family's more than a dozen mouths, and swallowed thousands of salt from the Qiu family. Collect it in the house.
The black materials given by Brother You'an are still substantiated. This kind of typical scum, it's not a pity to die!
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After all the prisoners in the hall were taken away, Shen Zhixian took everyone to the main hall of the Zheng family to sit for a while, waiting for the result.
Shen Zhixian leaned his body slightly, and said to Jia Huan: "Let Ziyu see the joke." There are so many people under my rule who have lost their conscience. And I was deceived by the county officials, and it is only now that I have discovered new clues through the rumors in the city. ”
Jia Huan is very mellow in terms of human feelings, and praised: "The Ming Mansion is fair and strict, which is the blessing of the people of Jiangdu." ”
Jia Huan followed Shen Zhixian to Zheng's house to "raid the house", of course, he was not bored and deliberately pretended to be forced in front of Zheng Wenzhi. Although Zheng Wenzhi smeared him and forced him to live in the branch office for four or five days, he was very dissatisfied.
However, with Jia Huan's heart and means, of course he will not be so superficial. He originally planned to wait until Mr. Sha took control of the salt law, and then settled the old accounts and new accounts with Zheng Wenzhi. At that time, there were many ways to concoct the Zheng family.
Jia Huan came over today, mainly as a bridge between Shen Zhixian and Shasheng.
There are two meanings, one is Jia Huan's influence in Jiangnan Shilin. His seat teacher is Fang Wang. This is what Shen Zhi County needs. Second, Shen Zhixian needs Sha Dashen's official support. Raiding the home of a big salt merchant, even if it's just breaking in and taking a few people without saying hello, is a big deal.
Shen Zhixian laughed.
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At the beginning of October, Shen County, the main hall of Jiangdu County, broke into the home of Zheng Yuanjian, a big salt merchant in Yangzhou, and took Zheng Wenzhi and his concubine Sister Qiong to the county government for interrogation. The tragedy of Yongzhi's eight-year annihilation surfaced.
This caused an uproar in the city of Yangzhou. There was applause, and there was cursing. Zheng Yuanjian was the leading figure of the Jin merchants among the salt merchants in Yangzhou.
In the midst of this turmoil, Liu Xun arrived in the capital according to the imperial history's recital on the reform of Yangzhou's salt law. On October 6, an official document from the imperial court arrived in Yangzhou: the imperial history of Yangzhou Salt Patrol was abolished, and Li Kangshi, who was appointed to patrol the Huaiyang Branch, rectified the salt law and allowed the trial implementation of the salt law general commercial system.
The officials, gentry, and salt merchants in Yangzhou were in an uproar. I thought it was the Sha University that got the power to rectify the salt law!
The situation is clear.
Yang Yun, of the Lianghuai Salt Transportation Division, impeached Sha Dashen, who guarded the road in Huaiyang. However, after Sha Dashen's recital was made public, it was impossible for Yang Yunenvoy to oppose the abolition of the Yangzhou Salt Patrol Imperial History.
And the so-called soil in the city that "the city is full of wind and rain, and the people are suspicious" has long since ceased to exist - the rumors have been extinguished by Jia Huan. Liu Yushi, who came to investigate the local views on the general commercial system of the salt law, reported it truthfully. In this way, shouldn't there be Sha Dashen, who initiated the reform of the salt law, to grasp the power to rectify the salt law?
As a result, it was Li Xundao who became the banner of Yangzhou officialdom.
At the same time, there is also a gossip circulating in the officialdom of Yangzhou, and the teacher of Shen Xianling and Li Xundao are fellow villagers.
The voice in Yangzhou City, which was violently attacking Shen County's order, suddenly became much quieter overnight. The reason is unknown.
Outside the city of Yangzhou, in a restaurant at the wharf, Yangzhou prefect Jiang Fuzun discharged the pomp and circumstance of traveling, sedan chairs, flags, left and right officials, etc. The sun is getting more and more centered. The morning sun floats on the river.
Jiang Fuzun wore official clothes in the restaurant, chatted with Master Wei, and sighed: "The cranes and clam are fighting, and the fishermen are profiting." ”
Master Wei smiled, "The princes of the temple are so muddy!" It's unfair to Sha Dashen. It's a slap in the face. ”
Jiang Fuzun laughed, "There are many times when there is injustice in officialdom. Who made Sha Dashen have no one in the center? I went back and went to visit Li Xundao. ”
While he was talking, a servant came in and said, "Master, Liu Zhizhi is here." ”
Jiang Fuzun shook his official uniform, "Let's go!" ”
The power structure of Yangzhou was set, and Liu Xun also wanted to leave Yangzhou. Avoid being impeached by the imperial history colleagues and be obsessed with the wealth and gentleness in Yangzhou City. Today, Yangzhou officialdom saw off Liu Xun at Dongguan Wharf. (To be continued.) )