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Although the eunuch guarding Nanjing is majestic, after all, he is not as high as the commander of the imperial horse eunuch, and everyone understands this account. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Chu Zhaoren has been in Nanjing for several years, and the Nanjing Military Department Shangshu and the Nanjing garrison have always been respectful to him, but there is not much contact, the Nanjing Military Department Shangshu is the highest status civilian official in the Nanjing system of the Ming Dynasty, and the Nanjing garrison is the hereditary family of the Duke of Wei as usual, and there is no need to sell too much face to him.

But this time after the will of the palace, Chu Zhaoren immediately felt the difference, and the Nanjing Military Department Shangshu and the Nanjing garrison both politely congratulated him, and gave a gift.

This etiquette and gift are not a great thing, but this gesture makes people feel a lot of emotion, in the past, many wealthy businessmen in Nanjing City had such and such a relationship with high-ranking officials and nobles, and they maintained a superficial respect for the Chu eunuchs.

Nanjing has opened the door to Chu Zhaoren's promotion this time, after all, there are only a few people who can honor and disgrace, and Chu Zhaoren is obviously not among these few.

In addition to being extraordinarily proud, he also made such and such promises to the person who gave the gift, but Chu Zhaoren also summed up a truth from the fall of his predecessor.

The person in charge of the palace is the Empress Dowager, to be precise, the Empress Dowager Cisheng, not the Empress Dowager Rensheng, not Gonggong Feng, not the Son of Wanli.

Back to the inner court, just be polite to the Son of Heaven and others, but you must be respectful to the Queen Mother to ten points, in addition to this, the eunuch Zhang Whale who is the eunuch of the Imperial Horse Seal is naturally respectful, and the eunuch Lin Shulu has a lot of people in his hands, so he should be careful.

Chu Zhaoren, the new admiral eunuch, was thinking about these things along the way, and his personal entourage had already gone to Jingshi with a large number of gifts to inquire first.

There are thousands of miles from Beijing to Nanjing, and even if the news is urgent for 600 miles, it will take about ten days to arrive, so I don't know much about things in the north.

But one thing I know, that is, today's Tianjin Wei is prosperous and different from the past, and it is not inferior to Jiangnan, if one person says, Chu Zhaoren just thinks that it is an exaggeration that he has never seen the world, but before leaving, many people came to visit, but they all praised it in unison.

This made Chu Zhaoren curious, and he thought that he must get off the boat when he thinks of Tianjin Wei, he also has a nephew and two cousins, if it is really as prosperous as he said, it is better to settle there, now that his status is different, who does not sell some face in Tianjin Wei.

After the boat passed Jining Prefecture, the degree could not get up quickly, walking slowly, at the end of July, it also arrived in Tianjin Wei, Chu Zhaoren did not want to get off the ship to live, this building ship is a large ship specially requisitioned by Nanjing from Yangzhou, it is said that it is a few salt merchants, the ship is big, the decoration is luxurious, it is very comfortable in it, Tianjin Wei is a small place, there may not be a better inn and station rest than this.

Instructed in advance, the boatman began to control the ship when he left Linqing, and stayed for one night at a place five miles away from Tianjin Wei, and arrived at Tianjin Wei when the sun rose on the second day, which was also the time for the Chu eunuch to play during the day.

Unexpectedly, the fleet had just arrived in Tianjin, so it stopped moving, the sun had already risen, Chu Zhaoren had just gotten up from the bed, and several women accompanying him waited for him to put on his robes.

The eunuchs who are guarding outside have a trend, so they like to find beautiful women to be accompanied by fake wives, although it is inhumane, maybe some psychological comfort is unknown.

The women who served Chu Zhaoren were not ordinary women, but when the eunuch Chu left Nanjing, a certain businessman bought a few women on the Qinhuai River and sent them over, and they were indeed able to serve people.

Dressed and groomed, Chu Zhaoren stopped moving the boat now, and when he entered the territory of Beizhili, Chu Zhaoren had a trace of eagerness in his heart, always looking forward to the boat going faster.

Although I was going to Tianjin Wei for a day and a half today, I didn't want to be delayed on the road for too much time, so I sat on a chair and rinsed my mouth with green salt, and asked, "Why didn't the boat leave?" ”

The voice was not loud, but the outside immediately asked layer by layer, and after a while, a little eunuch raised his voice outside:

"Back to the words of the ancestors, I heard the boatman say, the ship has to line up to pass the card when the ship passes through Tianjin, and now it is the time when the ship is long, and it has to line up every morning, but the card is fast here, and the ancestors don't have to wait long to pass!

"Just this Tianjin Wei's rules are ......"

Eunuch Chu snorted coldly, and went to the front of the boat to have breakfast, the chef of Bantu is also an expert, and he really enjoys it on this boat.

After eating two bites of breakfast, the boat moved upside down, but it didn't take much effort to stop again, and there was a noisy sound outside, Chu Zhaoren didn't care too much, and was about to go out for a walk after drinking tea, but he didn't expect the noise to be louder, and it was the movement in front of his ship.

Chu Zhaoren's brows furrowed suddenly, the fleet of more than fifty ships, his seat ship was in the center, and the front and rear were ships loaded with gifts and subordinates, in front, it must be his own business, just about to ask, he heard the stairs of the ship's building clanging, and someone ran up below. "What are you doing, the ancestors are still resting, don't break in!" "Father-in-law Chu, the card here in Tianjin wants to check our goods and collect our taxes!!"

The man was about to come up but was stopped by the little eunuch outside, he was in a hurry, and he couldn't help but roar outside, as soon as he heard this, the little eunuch who was blocking outside didn't dare to speak, but Chu Zhaoren, who was sitting in the cabin, frowned, and said after sinking:

"Have you reported our name?" returned to his father-in-law's words, and reported it, but Tianjin Wei and these dogs did not let go. ”

When I was a eunuch in Nanjing, the people up and down were respectful, needless to say, since I was promoted to the eunuch of the imperial horse eunuch, I went to the south and Shandong into the Hejian Mansion, who was not careful to flatter along the way, who did not know that this father-in-law was going to enter the central hall, if he was accidentally offended, people said a few crooked words, maybe there was a fold in the palace, and when the official position was not guaranteed, he would be imprisoned if he didn't get it.

Chu Zhaoren didn't understand, how did he get to Tianjin Wei, there were people who didn't know what to do, the one outside listened to no movement inside, and just about to ask, he heard the sound of slamming the table and heard a scream scolding inside: This Tianjin Wei really doesn't know the rules!! "You useless bastards, the ship with our things, dare to let irrelevant people come, get down, get down!!"

Eunuch Chu walked to the balcony leaning out of the front of the ship, and saw that there were many soldiers on his ship wearing brocade clothes and guards arguing with his own family, and immediately became angry, and slapped his hand on the railing and scolded loudly.

The eunuch's voice was sharp, he raised his voice and shouted, and the people below immediately looked over, and were looked at by everyone, Chu Zhaoren was even more angry, and shouted: "Look at what our family is doing, quickly drive people down, Niu Qianwei, you are our family's guard chain, is this the kind of guard?" ”

The eunuchs guarding Nanjing have the responsibility of supervising the army and guarding the imperial city of Nanjing, and the eunuchs guarding the eunuchs must at least grasp a team of pro-soldiers under hundreds of people, Chu Zhaoren is the eunuch of the imperial horse supervisor this time, and he is also a military officer, so he brought the pro-soldiers from Nanjing together, and they were also on the ship.

There were a few guards on each cargo ship, and when they heard the anger of the eunuch Chu, a big man in a thousand clothes on the ship in front of him turned around and asked, "Father-in-law Chu, these people look like the fans of Jinyiwei, this" ......

hesitated, but the words were very clear, some local tax cards are just helpers, scoundrels and gangsters, these people will fight, but Tianjin Wei is wearing a flying fish suit, a real official, everyone is an official, and you have to think about it before exercising. "Push it down, drive it down, it's the emperor who is in our house, do you want to let these miscellaneous people check it!!" This inquiry made Chu Zhaoren even angrier, and he shouted from above.

The pro-soldiers who are the eunuchs of the town are used to being arrogant and domineering on weekdays, and when they hear the master speak like this, how can the pro-soldiers of each ship be polite, they are the elite who have been trained all day long with full pay.

Originally, the tax collector on the ship and the soldiers guarding the ship were arguing, and the two sides were facing each other, but this time they moved, the tax collector was no longer an opponent.

They were either apprentices in some tents, or former soldiers of Tianjin Jinyiwei, who had no ability to fight, and as soon as the two sides moved, many people were pushed directly from the boat, and fell into the water like dumplings.

The water in the canal is not deep, and they all came over in small boats, one fell into the water, and his companions hurriedly came up to salvage, and the matter was not too big, it was just a few bruises and swollen places, and they were just embarrassed.

Seeing the embarrassed appearance of these tax collectors, the eunuch Chu and several women beside him who were watching from the balcony on the bow of the boat were all laughing, and the boats on the river all looked sideways. "Just you fish and shrimp, you dare to come to fight our family's idea, I really don't know whether to live or die, open the boat, open the boat!!"

Chu Zhaoren said a few words disdainfully, and then looked at the shore from the balcony, this look was really taken aback, compared to the last time he left Beijing to take office, this side is indeed very different......

Those tax collectors docked, and a few days ago they met to discuss, leaving people to collect other people's taxes, and at the same time sending people to ride horses to tell Zhang Shiqiang in front.

The tax collection on the side of the Bairi Canal is usually Zhang Shiqiang's side, don't look at him now he is only a hundred households, but he doesn't have to do everything himself, but the hundred households Hang Bridge is not so lucky, everything outside has to be stared at, but Zhang Shiqiang has to make the decision.

Zhang Shiqiang was looking through the account books there, and walked in quickly outside Hangdaqiao, and said directly when he entered the door:

"Brother Zhang, our tax collectors in the two miles downstream have been beaten!"

As soon as he heard this, Zhang Shiqiang immediately stood up from his position and asked eagerly:

"How are we? Who is so bold!?

The sons and daughters swung a few times and were beaten into the water, and the beaters said that they were the new eunuchs of the Imperial Horse Supervisor...... Lao Zhang, are we ...... this?"

Hang Daqiao was a little flustered, but Zhang Shiqiang interrupted his words with a nail \{$ hinge:

"What's not, close the gate first, hurry up and invite the adults!!"