From beginning to end, this brocade-clothed guard Baihu, who was called Lao Hang, did not glance at the door, and when he was done, he turned around and entered the house again.

Wang Tong shook his head violently, took a step back and looked at the main entrance, then looked left and right, looked back at the guy who led the way, and asked:

"This is Tianjin's Jinyi Wei Qianhu station?"

This kind of slack appearance, there is not even a guard in front of the door in Bai Yueli, but there is gambling money all night inside, it is really hard to believe that this is Jinyi Wei Qianhu.

Jingshi's style of Jinyi Wei is already very lax, but the rules are still there, I thought that I would see something different when I got to the place, but I didn't expect it to come to this point.

The guy also saw that Wang Tong's face was not good, and replied cautiously:

"The aborigines who live in the villain Zhang Guantun, this yamen has been here for a hundred and twenty years, how can the small one recognize the wrong place."

He had already got the reward in his hand, and he was thinking in his heart to hurry up, this young master's face was too ugly, and it was hard to guarantee that he would send fire to others. After speaking, he wanted to leave, but was grabbed by Wang Tong and forced to ask:

"Last night, I saw the appearance of your shopkeeper who had to pay the silver in advance, did these people take it for nothing!?"

The man was stunned for a moment, then nodded, and said in a whisper:

"It is common for the uncles of Jinyiwei not to give money or give less money, and then all the families have learned to be obedient, and all the uncles of Jinyiwei take care of the business, and they will not be entertained if they don't give enough silver."

Hearing this, Wang Tong's face became even more ugly, and he waved his hand irritably, and the guy ran away as soon as he was amnesty.

Wang Tong walked around in front of the door, garbage was everywhere, not to mention the pungent smell at the root of the wall, Tan Jiang, who was standing behind, saw Wang Tong's ugly face, and couldn't help but step forward and say:

"The lord has been in Beijing all these years, and he has not seen it in the locality, the small one has walked so many places, and the yamen of the Beijing division has some rules, and the Son of Heaven has to take care of his face at his feet, and the emperor is far away from the heavens, so it is not uncommon."

Wang Tong shook his head and said in a deep voice:

"This yamen doesn't have a yamen, did you hear what the guy said just now, you don't even dare to come hard to eat and drink for nothing, you don't do things well, you have a bit of wild surnames and barbarism, what is this look like now, this virtue, even those wastes of the five cities of the Beijing Division are not as good!"

After speaking, he strode into the courtyard, and the few people who came with him looked at each other behind him, and they were quite crying and laughing, they all shook their heads and followed up.

The courtyard door didn't even have a door panel, just such a frame, it was really ugly, Wang Tong and his party walked up the steps while dodging the filth in the courtyard.

The front room looks okay, I don't know whose broken bedding was hung on the window to block the wind, and there is a dirty cotton curtain on the door.

Standing outside the house, you can hear the shouting inside, Wang Tong frowned and opened the curtain, opened the door, a pungent and unpleasant turbid smell gushed out at once, Wang Tong breathed a breath, almost vomited, such a smell remembers that when I was a child, the winter train station was there, but after coming to this era of no pollution, I rarely experienced it.

"Damn, hurry up and close the door, the cold wind is pouring in!"

There was a shout and scolding inside, Wang Tong and several people behind him walked in and closed the door.

No one looked back to see who came in behind them, and under the dim light of a few dim oil lamps, a dozen men in shabby flying fish suits gathered around the table intently, and one of them shook his fists and threw them down.

Hearing the jingle sound, a man jumped up from the bench beside the table and laughed:

"Lao Tzu is the biggest, give money and give money, haha, good luck, good luck, I'll pull a three-foot cloth for my mother-in-law today!!"

At this time, the Jinyi Wei man, who was facing Wang Tong, noticed the group of people who had just come in, looked left and right, muttered a few words, and everyone stood up.

It was almost a night of gambling, everyone was in a daze, and the light in the room was dim, so everyone rubbed their eyes to see the brocade clothes and thousands of robes on Wang Tong's body.

"You are the newly appointed Wang Qianhu, Lord Wang?"

Someone asked in a whisper, but Wang Tong's originally gloomy face showed a smile, and nodded kindly, dark also has dark benefits. No one could see the change in Wang Tong's expression clearly, and everyone saw that the boss admitted his identity.

The people in the room stood up in a noisy and bowed down unevenly, shouting in their mouths:

"The subordinates saw the Lord of the Thousand Households and kowtowed to the Lord of the Thousand Households."

The voice was weak, and there was nothing respectful, after kowtowing, before Wang Tong could say that please, a group of people stood up directly, Wang Tong was even more unhappy, but the smile on his face became heavier and heavier, and asked kindly:

"The rule of our pro-army is that you can only go back to rest on the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, and today it is only twenty-five, why are there so few people, and they are all patrolling the streets?"

When he asked, someone laughed out at the time, and Sun Dahai, who was already angry behind him, immediately became furious, and he was about to scold when he stepped forward, but Wang Tong raised his hand to stop it, and continued to say kindly:

"What? Is this question wrong? ”

The laughter stopped immediately, and several people looked at each other, but Lao Hang, who was convenient to go out, stepped forward and bowed down to report:

"My lord, on this cold day, the brothers have nothing to do, so they all went back to find some work for the New Year."

"What if there is an errand? What to find some work for the New Year? Isn't there a military pay? ”

The Jinyiwei of the Beijing Division is paid nine or ten times a year, and everyone has a gray income in their own station, so they can barely get by, Wang Tong thought to himself that the yamen in this place is not as good as the Jingshi, and they all say that the Jinyiwei is infinitely majestic outside, how can it be so miserable.

Someone moved the oil lamp forward, and they all saw the appearance of Wang Tong's half-grown child clearly, and then heard Wang Tong ask this question, and some people couldn't help but have a look of contempt on their faces.

Nahang Baihu forced out a crying face, and said in a mournful voice:

"My lord, we have only paid four military salaries in five years in Wanli, who is not a big family, how do you live this day, my lord, you just came to take office, so you will give the arrears of military salaries to the little ones!"

Hearing the words of these hundred households, the surrounding Tianjin brocade guards suddenly realized that they pleaded in unison:

"Please Lord Wang send our arrears of military salaries first!"

The oil light line was insufficient, but it was enough for Wang Tong to take their expressions into his eyes, Wang Tong sneered in his heart, but asked in his mouth:

"It's all about my own brothers, and this official has to worry about it, I don't know how many brothers we have in this Tianjin!"

A thousand households are full of 1,000 people, but this is not a soldier, there is no military land to cultivate, dry food and silver, most of the Jinyi guards are dissatisfied, each thousand households have about four full 100 households, and the rest are dissatisfied, Wang Tong originally thought that Tianjin would be different, and it seems that he should ask for insurance first.

"Don't tell you that there are two hundred and forty-five people in total, three hundred households."

"So few !?"

Even if Wang Tong's mentality was good, he was still taken aback after hearing this number, and Sun Dahai behind him had already roared out and said loudly:

"Damn it, even if you eat an empty amount, even if you eat fifty percent, you can actually eat seventy and a half in Tianjin, this ......"

"This brother, you have to speak with your conscience, look at the clothes we are wearing, and then look at the size of the gambling on the table, if you can eat this seventy and a half of the vacancy, who is still nesting here!"

Sun Dahai just finished speaking, someone was unconvinced to refute, Wang Tong stretched out his hand to stop the senseless quarrel, he also saw the bets on the table, all of them were some copper coins, I couldn't see a few pieces of silver, the money rolling on the entire gambling table could have ten taels of heaven, in addition to the hundred households in Hang, Wang Tong also saw the other two hundred households, the reason why these two people did not see it at first glance was because they were wrapped in a broken leather jacket and tied with a hemp rope around their waists, saying how sloppy they were.

Looking at the dark and sluggish appearance of gambling, presumably not to sing bitter tricks in front of themselves, a few people over there saw Wang Tong groaning, and thought that the crying poverty on their side had already had an effect, that Hang Baihu took a few steps forward, and said with a hippie smile:

"My lord, your new official has taken office, and the brothers are waiting for the silver for the New Year, you might as well send down this arrears first, and the brothers can do things in a down-to-earth manner."

Taking your own money to pay the official's salary is the most taboo thing, and no one will think of your goodness, Wang Tong is not stupid, just smiled and shook his head and said:

"The official still has to go to the steward to talk about the salary, and now the payment is ...... there."

Seeing that Wang Tong was not in the trap, the leaders of these brocade guards in Tianjin were deflated, and they all sat back listlessly, at this time Wang Tong was still standing there, no one paid any attention to it, but Wang Tong was not angry about the behavior of such a supreme official, but continued to ask:

"How did Wang Damin, the predecessor of this official, fall off his horse?"

As soon as this name was mentioned, Nahang Baihu spat directly at the ground and scolded:

"This old boy is ruthless to himself, he came to Tianjin Wei as an errand, did not get a penny, lost a lot of money, in July I don't know which door is crazy, to go to the Cao boat to investigate, the bamboo pole of those boats is also casually knocked, as a result of the Nanjing young eunuch's boat, was beaten up, back here, and was caught by the military preparation road Yamen to hit the board, on the ground face is lost, we are small, it is difficult to mix, so there is no toss, now he himself fell down and returned to the capital, leaving us poor and angry."

"Lord Wang, listen to everyone's advice, if you have a way, change places and be on an errand, or go back to Beijing to become a teacher, don't stay in Tianjinwei."

A few people over there sat down while talking, and someone actually grabbed the dice again, even Tan Jiang had anger on his face, but Wang Tong said kindly:

"Thank you for saying so much, at noon tomorrow, the official will be in the Xingcai Inn outside the city, and call all the brothers of our thousands of households, first, to recognize people, and second, to help you in the future."

(To be continued)