Chapter 136

Lin Jian came into the room, saw that Shen Rong, Yuan Jinqiu, and Zhao Shuhan were all in Zhang Yubo's mansion, and said with a smile: "Brother Yubo probably won't be stingy with giving me a glass of water and wine to drink!" You're welcome, immediately walked to the table and sat down, beckoned Shen Rong and the others to sit down around the table, and said, "I haven't seen Lord Shen for many years, and I just entered Jiangning City today, and it is also a pleasure to be able to drink at the same table with the old people......

Zhao Hu's clothes and armor were not removed, and he stood by Lin Bin's side with a sword, and the Huaidong Tiger Ben guards were also standing in the outdoor courtyard.

Including Zhang Yubo, he didn't expect Lin Lian to visit late at night, although he made up his mind not to climb the wealth of Huaidong, but let Lin Lian break in so directly, he was also caught off guard - Lin Lian's expression was the same, but Zhao Hu looked at them and Shen Rong's eyes, obviously thinking that they had a plot with Shen Rong.

Lin Lian visited Zhang Yubo's mansion late at night, Shen Rong was also surprised and suspicious, but seeing Zhao Hu's expression and Lin Lian did not shy away from letting him know about the visit to Zhang's house, Shen Rong thought that Lin Lian's visit was probably unexpected by Zhang Yubo, he was at the right time, even if there was any misunderstanding, it was exactly what he wanted.

Shen Rong said: "Farewell to Luoma Lake, I really didn't expect to see Peng Chenggong again, but Peng Chenggong came to look for Master Zhang late at night, it shouldn't be as simple as just a glass of water and wine, so Shen Rong is inconvenient to stay and disturb." ”

Lin Lian's eyes swept over Zhao Shuhan and Yuan Jinqiu, and saw that Zhao Shuhan and Yuan Jinqiu wanted to speak and stopped, and had no intention of advancing and retreating with Shen Rong, so he could know that Shen Rong was squeezing Zhao Yuan and the others when he said this, so as to deepen his misunderstanding.

Lin Tie lifted the placket of his robe to the side, stilted his feet, and said, "Since Lord Shen and I have no old relationship and are unwilling to stay and drink a glass of water and wine with us, then please do it!" "Shen Rong will be driven away immediately.

Yuan Jinqiu and Zhao Shuhan sat still, and Shen Rong had no face to stay and say goodbye.

After Shen Rong left, Lin Lian picked a clean cup, filled the tin pot, took a sip, frowned, and asked Uncle Zhang: "This wine is from Uncle Yu's sister-in-law's house?" ”

"......" Zhang Yubo nodded, remembering that when he first met Lin Lian, he went to Song Wusao's mutton shop to drink, and Lin Mengde was present at that time, and he also met Qian Xiaowu and Lai Wu in Zeng Laoguo's mansion that night, but he didn't expect that in the past few years, Lin Jian still remembered the taste of wine in Song Wusao's mutton shop.

Lin Jian said the old feelings, and Zhang Yubo was speechless.

Zhao Shuhan and Yuan Jinqiu also knew about Song Wusao's mutton shop, but at this time, they could only sit down in a muffled voice, and they didn't know where to start - Huaidong soldiers and horses had already controlled the whole city of Jiangning, and Lin Tie invited the Queen Mother and King Hailing to Jiangning at a critical moment, and coerced the Queen Mother to make the intentions of the princes like lice on the head of a bald man, which could not be clearer.

For many years, Zhang Yubo, Zhao Shuhan, Yuan Jinqiu and others did not support Huaidong to stand on its own as a feudal town, and now the situation is like this, just thinking about hiding far away, who would have thought that Lin Jian would run to the door by himself?

"To this day, I still remember the fried lamb eyelid meat with leeks at Song Wu's house," Lin Jian was not afraid of the cold field, and said with a grin, "It's not interesting to sit here and drink, I invite Yubo, Shu Han and Jinqiu to go to Song Wu's sister-in-law's house to drink mutton soup, maybe you can eat the crispy lamb eyelid meat again in this cold night, which is called heartwarming......"

"Tieqian Lane has been burned down during the rebellion, the restaurant has long been turned into ashes, and Song Wu's sister-in-law and her family inhabit the alley temple of Tieqian Lane, and only some old wine is taken out and sold to old customers!" Zhang Yubo said.

"Let's just go, if you want to come to Song Wu's sister-in-law, she will always sell me some face and make a lamb eyelid meat for us!" Lin Jian didn't care, he just wanted them to go out with him. Zhang Yubo and they had no choice but to pull Lin Lianqiang out.

The curfew in Jiangning City will continue for a while, and those who have no job are forbidden to walk at night.

Out of Zhang Yubo's Mansion, except for the guards patrolling the street, there are no pedestrians on the street, but the eaves along the street are crowded with homeless people, but it is forbidden to walk around at will. On cold winter nights, the homeless people have no bedding to protect themselves from the cold, but people are crowded to keep warm.

Seeing the stubborn armor guards here crowding a few people over, they didn't dare to make a noise; The crying of those frozen and hungry children in the arms of their parents is endless, especially in the cold night of the long street......

There are many houses that have been burned down by arson in Jiangning City, and there are not a few intact houses left in Tieqian Lane, and there are broken walls all over the eyes. The residents whose houses were destroyed and those who could not join their relatives and friends were crowded into a Taoist temple at the end of the alley.

The Taoist temple is not big, there is only one big hall, the main hall and the side courtyard are crowded with refugees, and the soldiers who accompanied the guards have already woken up and avoided them in panic. There is a towering ginkgo tree in front of the main hall, the branches are horizontally oblique, the leaves are withered, and the cold moonlight leaks down from between the branches and shines in the courtyard in front of the hall.

Lin Lian, Zhao Shuhan, and Yuan Jinqiu were waiting under the ginkgo tree, Zhang Yubo ran in to find out Song Wu's sister-in-law from the refugees, and the abbot of the Taoist temple also ran with him - in this Taoist temple, Zhang Yubo is a rare nobleman, who in Jiangning City today can not know and not know about Pengcheng County?

The news spread here that Pengcheng County ordered a night visit to Hanguan, and the left and right suddenly became lively. If it weren't for the guards and guards suppressing the scene, if it weren't for the people's natural alienation and fear of officials, the refugees in the Taoist temple would probably have squeezed forward. At this time, more people were only crowded in the corridor and under the eaves of the door to look this way.

Fifth sister-in-law Song still vaguely looks like she met a few years ago, but her wrinkles are deeper.

"Adults want to eat fried lamb eyelid meat, but where can the workers get the mutton from at this time?" Fifth sister-in-law Song came over and knelt down, and said with a sad face, looking afraid, afraid that she would offend the adult by saying something wrong.

"When the soldiers were in turmoil, Song Wu's sister-in-law and his man wanted to protect the store and discount the legs of the rebels, but at this time he was lying in the haystack in the corner of the courtyard and couldn't move, and his two sons were forcibly conscripted to be people's husbands, and their whereabouts were unknown...... "Zhang Yubo couldn't guess the intention of Lin Lian's visit tonight. Since ancient times, it is not uncommon for a humble gentleman to be humble and a man of power, Lin Jian held great power at this time, and the abolition of the emperor was in his thoughts, how could he say that he could confidently guess Lin Bin's mind?

"Fifth sister-in-law Song, don't panic, you go and prepare the cooking materials, how many meat sheep can I lack you? The iron pot should be a big one, and I took the liberty to visit late at night, disturbing everyone's rest, and inviting everyone to drink a bowl of mutton soup, which is considered a crime for someone in Lin! The guards brought chairs, and Lin sat under the ginkgo tree.

As Lin Jian spoke, the guards who had been ordered to go to the barracks earlier had already pulled more than a dozen pieces of mutton in a carriage. Lin Jian wanted to go to Tieqian Lane late at night to eat mutton soup, in addition to mutton, spices and iron pots were ready to be dragged over, even the fire head was pulled out and the four people listened to Hou's dispatch, and there was no need for Song Wu's sister-in-law to do it, only let her call the fire head next to her, and immediately set up an iron pot under the ginkgo tree, chop wood, wash it, chop it, put it in the pot, and burn the mutton soup......

Just in front of the blazing earthen stove, setting up a long table, Lin Jian invited Zhang Yubo, Zhao Shuhan, and Yuan Jinqiu to sit down, and said: "We are friends in cloth, I came into the city today, you avoided it, I don't blame you." In other words, I had a poor relative who suddenly developed and returned to his hometown with great strength, and I didn't bother to pay attention to it. I came to look for you late at night, and I didn't mean to show off my might, but what questions do I have to ask you? ”

Zhang Yubo, Zhao Shuhan, and Yuan Jinqiu looked at each other, not knowing what kind of question they wanted to ask when they made such a big move in the cold night.

"Mencius said: the people are the most important, the society is secondary, and the monarch is light," Lin Jian said lightly, "Uncle Yu asked for the people's life, and Xuzhou went to work alone in danger and dealt with thieves; Shu Han has been in the office for more than ten years, not attached to the powerful, although he does not have power, he still writes books; Jin Qiu is mad in the world, a hypocrisy but a true temperament - I ask you: What do you think when you read this sentence in the Confucian classics? ”

"In ancient times, the imperial system and the power of the monarch were determined, and if the material resources of the world were collected to support one person, it was for great selfishness; Do the world's material resources, to secure the community, to support the people's livelihood, is it for the great public," Lin Jian continued to ask, "What you think in your hearts is private or public?" The emperor sent Xie Chaozhong to recruit Zhexi, but Chen Xiang blocked him. In terms of the emperor's negative spirit, this world is his own world, and death is also his own world. I ask you: Is this world a world of one man, or a world of people? ”

Zhang Yubo and the others asked Lin Jian silently, and Zhao Hu stood aside with a knife, feeling like a tongue twister.

"Just as Peng Chenggong said, it is true that the people's livelihood is not supported and the society is difficult to settle down," Zhang Yubo pondered for a long time before asking, "If you want to be friends of Qin and Han, Qin lost its deer, and the heroes chased it, did the deer get treated well?" "Questioning Lin Tie's mind between words may not be much purer than that of the seizing power in the past?

Lin Jian laughed and said: "Speaking of the allusions of the Qin and Han dynasties, I think of a ballad I heard, and I read it to you......"

Zhang Yubo and the others are all talented people, and they don't know what songs Lin Jian wants to recite at this time to meet the situation.

"The peaks and mountains are like gathering, the waves are like anger, the mountains and rivers are like Tongguan Road, looking at the western capital, hesitating, sad Qin and Han Dynasty meridians, the palace and thousands of rooms have made the soil, Xing, the people are suffering, dying, the people are suffering......"

There was a rhyme of Yuan Song in the world, listening to Lin Lian's thoughts, Zhang Yubo and them were just rumors of country ballads, and the more they pondered, the more they felt that they had a taste.

Lin Jian stood up and said: "Above the temple, there are big private things and big dukes in the dispute, and it is difficult for me to argue my innocence. But today, along the way, you have all seen and heard with your own eyes and ears all over the city. If you are asked to exercise authority, abandon your own selfishness, and choose your own public affairs, it will not be a difficult task! ”

At this time, Zhang Yubo already knew the intention of Lin Tie's visit tonight, the temple needed to be reorganized, and Lin Tie asked them to abandon their selfishness, that is, to tell them not to get involved in the whirlpool of imperial power struggle in the future; If they choose their own business, it shows that they will not be hindered from doing something practical to support the people's livelihood......

The mutton soup was cooked, and after Lin Jian drank a bowl to warm his body, he left, giving a large pot of mutton soup and the rest of the mutton to the hungry people who were disturbed in the cold night; Zhang Yubo, Zhao Shuhan, and Yuan Jinqiu stayed, looking at each other, relatively speechless, not knowing what their fate would be in the future.

Returning to Chen Yuan, the sky was already white, and Gao Zongting, Song Fu, Lin Mengde and others did not sleep, and they were still discussing in the public hall.

Seeing Lin Lian walking in, Lin Mengde asked with a smile: "Why is the lord in the mood to run to Zhang Yubo to drink mutton soup......

"Shen Rong rushed to Zhang Yubo's mansion before me, probably the queen mother's meaning. Judging by their appearance, I shouldn't have talked much about it before I passed," Lin Jian untied the cold and said, "I want Zhang Yubo to be the Yin of Jiangning Mansion, and there shouldn't be much resistance from the Queen Mother's side......"

Jiangning is the imperial capital, and Yin Xing, the governor of Jiangning Mansion, but his authority is far beyond the reach of ordinary prefects.

Lin Jian had considered using Lin Mengde as the governor of Jiangning Prefecture, and also used it to quickly restore order in Jiangning City and counties, but the defense and governance power in Jiangning City were concentrated in the hands of Huaidong, which was bound to make it difficult for others to feel at ease, which was not conducive to the rapid stabilization of the situation. With Zhang Yubo, first, Zhang Yubo's understanding of Jiangning City is not under Lin Mengde; Zhang Yubo's neutral stance can also make it easier for others to accept this arrangement; Moreover, Zhang Yubo's temperament is trustworthy, even if he opposes Huaidong, he will oppose it in the Ming Dynasty, and it is not easy for Empress Dowager Liang and Shen Rong to win them over

Lin Mengde was quite regretful, he also wanted to be the Yin of Jiangning Mansion, but thinking that he was the Yin of Jiangning Mansion, the resistance was too great, so he didn't say anything......

Lin Jian asked again: "Can the eldest and the second uncle go to Jiangning the day after tomorrow?" Did any news come first? ”

Lu Wenzhuang led his troops to withdraw from Qiupu West on the third day of the first month, Lin Xuwen wanted to go down the river from Chizhou, but it was very fast, Yue Lengqiu would not leave Lin Xuwen in Chizhou for no reason at this time, but Lin Xuwen would come to Jiangning together after meeting with Lin Tingli.

The reorganization of the court can be said to be under the control of Huaidong, but the arrangement after Lin Xuwen returns to Jiangning is also a headache - Lin Xuwen cannot serve as the first assistant, otherwise he will be equal to Lin Jian in name, and Huaidong will weaken the political affairs hall, which will also weaken Lin Xuwen.

Song Fu and Gao Zongting discussed this matter with Lin Xuan, and the two of them thought that Lin Xuwen's position in the political hall should not be moved, and the first assistant would be given to others to fight for balance in order to show balance, but Lin Xuwen would be asked to concurrently lead the household department to exercise financial power - this arrangement has not been discussed with Lin Xuwen, and Lin Xuan does not know whether he is happy or not.

In addition, it is also necessary to solve the status of Lin Tingli, Lin Zonghai and the Dongyang Mansion Army, which is also difficult for Lin Jian - it is impossible for Lin Tie to have no problems with the internal struggle for power and profit before the external contradictions have been resolved.

It is not so easy to straighten out these things one by one.