Liu Yue'er washed up and went to the front first, and saw Zhao Hu and Chen Enze boxing in the yard in the cold weather with only their gowns, seeing that they were sweating beads on their foreheads, they were really not afraid of the cold at all, Lin Tie and Zhou Pu sat on the handrail of the corridor and talked, seeing that Lin Tie had a shiny unsheathed knife on his knees, and his clothes were quite thin, Liu Yue'er thought to herself that Lin Tie didn't practice reading or read when he got up early, and what was he doing with a knife in his arms?

"Are your feet better, and the crutches still work?" My son and I were busy until midnight. Zhou Pu saw Liu Yue'er walking out on crutches and asked with a smile.

Liu Yue'er thought that it was just Lin Tie who asked Zhou Pu to help her, but she didn't expect Lin Tie to also join hands until midnight and thanked: "Yue'er, thank you Gongzi and Master Zhou." ”

"What's the matter!" Zhou Pu waved his hand disappreciatively, "Your foot is injured, you don't have to get up early to prepare breakfast for us in the past two days, let Zhao Hu or Enze do it in the future." ”

Liu Yue'er glanced at Lin Tie in surprise, she thought that today's breakfast was made by Zhou Pu and them, but she didn't expect that Lin Tie got up early in the morning. She didn't say it, she just thought it was a secret between her and Lin Lian, and she couldn't explain this kind of thought herself.

"In the past two days, you should lie down and rest more, and don't move around at will." Lin Jian asked Liu Yue'er to go back to the room to rest, yesterday I saw her looking into her room in front of the window, and she had some doubts, it seemed that she was too careful.

Send Liu Yue'er away, Lin Jian told Zhou Pu about the meeting with Su Mei yesterday, and with Su Mei's three thousand taels of silver at the bottom, there is no need to rush the remaining forty good horses. talked about Qian Xiaowu again, Lin Jian asked Zhou Pu to go in person to confirm that Qian Xiaowu was indeed loyal and honest, and would not be Qingfengxing's secret stake.

Before noon, Lin Jian took Zhao Hu to lead two horses to the Jiangning Ministry and the Jiangdong Xuanfu Envoy Yamen to join the army, Liu Yue'er was inconvenient, so Chen Enze stayed and guarded the house.

The local officials of this dynasty are divided into three categories: chief officials, adjutants, and subordinate officials according to the weight of their powers, and the chief officials and adjutant officials of the prefecture and county are all officials sent by Beijing, such as the prefect, the prefect, the general judge, the same zhi, the county cheng, the teaching and other official positions, or by the emperor's relatives or selected by the officials, the Jiangning officials can only stare and watch, and the local government can not intervene; The local officials of the prefecture and county are selected by the local propaganda envoy and the yamen. In order to take care of the face of the Jiangning Officials' Department, the subordinate officials of the prefectures and counties to which Jiangdong County belonged were selected by the Jiangning Officials' Department and the Jiangdong Xuanfu Envoy Yamen from among the children of the local Xun clans, the Jiangning Guozi Prison Supervisors, and the meritorious and famous people and talents.

As a matter of fact, after the Jiangdong Xuanfu Envoy Department and the Jiangning Ministry of Officials moved from the imperial capital to the north, they had been arguing endlessly over the personnel powers of local subordinate officials, and now it has become a common practice that the personnel authority of the Jiangning Ministry of Officials is limited to the selection of local officials in the 12 counties of Jiangning.

If Lin Jian wants to get any official and half a position, he needs to cast his body in these two yamen and wait for selection.

is the first among people, and he has the qualifications to be an official, but he does not necessarily have an official to do. There are hundreds of official records accumulated on the case of Jiangning's officials, but only a few people are talked about in the annual vacancies of subordinate officials in the 12 counties of Jiangning Prefecture, and there are many monks and few porridges, so it is by no means easy to obtain an official and a half position. Jiangdong Xuanfu Envoy is better, but Lin Jian doesn't want to leave Jiangning, so he can only find an official position in Jiangdong Xuanfu Envoy, Jiangdong Inspectorate and Jiangdong Governor's Mansion in Jiangning's direct yamen, and the chance is even slimmer than throwing himself into Jiangning's official department.

Whether it is the Jiangning Ministry or the Jiangdong Xuanfu Envoy Yamen, Lin Jian has no way, so he will leave after throwing himself in.

I couldn't ride a fast horse in Jiangning City, and after the two yamen walked, Lin Jian and Zhao Hu rode a horse to the dustpan alley, and it was past lunch time.

Lin Jian and Zhao Hu led the horse into the front yard, looked at a carriage parked in the yard, felt strange, saw Chen Enze come out to help him lead the horse, and asked, "Are there guests?" "I thought that it was impossible for Gu Wuchen's family to enter the city so quickly, and besides, they didn't know that they would settle here on the first day they entered Jiangning.

"Xiucai, it's my ......"

Lin Jian looked up and saw Lin Jingzhong walking out of the guest room with a middle-aged man. The middle-aged man cut his hands behind his back, stood in front of the corridor and said loudly to Lin Lian: "I received a letter from Shanglinli, and I have been counting the days when you arrived in Jiangning, Jingzhong came over today, and I knew that you had arrived in Jiangning......"

"Why are you here?" When Zhao Hu saw Lin Jingzhong, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and eagerly walked over and stretched out his fist to punch his thin little body.

"There is a shipload of goods shipped to Jiangning, the Seventh Lady asked me to come with the ship to have a long experience, I only arrived in Jiangning yesterday," Lin Jingzhong said, and it is also thanks to the Seventh Lady that she has real power in the clan, otherwise there will be no chance for him to go to Jiangning to see the long-term knowledge, he asked Lin Jian again, "Why don't you go to the warehouse to find Uncle Mengde after you arrive in Jiangning, and you have a house here first?" ”

In addition to Su Mei, Xiaoman, and the four ladies, Lin Jian is not without acquaintances in Jiangning City, and the middle-aged man in front of him is an acquaintance, he is Lin Mengde, the big shopkeeper of the Lin family in Jiangning Warehouse.

Lin Mengde was only in his early forties, burly, with a broad face and thick eyebrows, and wore a leather gown over his long shirt on a cold day. His blood relationship between the Lin clan and his family is not close, but he has a lot of ability to deal with people, and he has won Lin Tingxun's trust in doing things in the clan.

When Lin Jian went to Jiangning to participate in the township examination before, Lin Mengde took care of his daily life, and after the township examination, Lin Mengde also claimed to pay him twenty taels of silver without authorization, even if he was not very close, he was also a familiar person.

"Uncle Mengde," Lin Jian also greeted Lin Mengde affectionately, "The official ship is going slowly, we only arrived in Jiangning yesterday, and we stayed overnight in Chaotianyi before we missed him in Jingzhong." Coincidentally, I just arrived in Jiangning yesterday, and when I walked to the first pawn shop, I fell in love with this house, and I thought that I would wait for two days to be stable and then go over to ask Uncle Mengde for peace......" and asked, "Oh, by the way, how did Uncle Mengde and Jingzhong know that I live here?" ”

"Don't dare to be, you are now a man," Lin Mengde said, squinting and smiling, looking at Lin Tie, thinking that Shibei for three days, when he was impressive, this is really not false at all, and explained with a smile the reason why he could find it, "Xiao Ji Pawnshop Cai Dong Xiao Mi is our fellow Dongyang countryman, he has opened a pawnshop in Jiangning for a few years, I met him in Dongyang Hall this morning, and he mentioned you...... The matter of you swearing not to be with Du Rong in Chaotianyi the night before was also spread in the Dongyang Hall today, I came to see you, and Xiao Mito asked me to confess for my recklessness last night. ”

"How big can it be," Lin Jian smiled, "I don't know if he and Uncle Mengde are friends, otherwise what if this house is returned to him?" He didn't mind in his mouth, but in his heart, he scolded Xiao Mi so bloody.

In these years, whether it is going out to do business, or going out to be an official, leaving the homeland, often not getting the news of the hometown for several years, if you meet a fellow villager in a different place, hear a few words of the hometown, you will be unusually cordial, enthusiastic, and have any difficulties with each other, you will also take the initiative to help each other, and then become a township party force.

Dongyang businessmen and eunuchs in Jiangning also gathered under the name of Dongyang Guild Hall, Lin Lian also wanted to go to Dongyang Guild Hall another day to get acquainted with the township party, so as to find some help for gaining a foothold in Jiangning, but unexpectedly, on the first day of coming to Jiangning, he almost gave Dongyang Township the party a pit, how could Lin Lian have a good impression of Xiao Mi.

"Find yourself to eat first, in order to wait for you, Jingzhong and I are hungry," Lin Mengde said aloud, "Be casual at noon, say that the day after tomorrow will wash the dust for you in the Dongyang Hall, you will have a foothold in Jiangning from now on, Dongyang Township Party, you can't help but get acquainted; The housewarming banquet should choose another auspicious time......"

"Don't dare to be, Uncle Mengde is going to kill Lin Lian......" Lin Lian said humbly.

After finding a restaurant to eat and drink for an hour, Lin Mengde still had something to do, and made an appointment to leave first after washing Lin Jian in Dongyang Hall tomorrow, and Lin Jingzhong followed Lin Jian back to Dustpan Lane.

Back to the dustpan lane, the flat forehead that he ordered to do yesterday was hung under the eaves in the afternoon, Lin Jingzhong looked up and saw the big gilded characters on the flat forehead "Jiyunju", and said to Lin Jian when he entered the courtyard: "Uncle Mengde seems to be enthusiastic, but he is actually here to test your underwater." ”

"I know," Lin Jian said, "Shiliang County and Jiangning are only two or three hundred miles away, and he should be able to know what happened in Shanglin from the exchange of letters...... He was afraid that I would come to Jiangning to replace him. ”

It is said that Lin Mengde is a generation older than him in the Lin family, and he is the head of the Lin family in Jiangning.

Lin Jingzhong saw that Lin Lian was thoughtful, and it seemed that he didn't need to remind him of anything, so he took out a letter from his arms: "The letter that the Seventh Lady asked me to bring to you, I will stay in Jiangning for three days, and I will go back with the ship the day after tomorrow, if you have anything to say to the Seventh Lady, I will bring it back to you." ”

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The ruts rolled over the stone streets, and the rumbles and sounded.

Lin Mengde sat in the carriage, leaning on the cushion on his back, and looked at the withered winter trees on the side of the street with a slight frown, thoughtful.

Lin Mengde was worried that Lin would come to Jiangning to take his place.

Although Shanglindu is the foundation of the Lin family, Jiangning is the most important foreign port of the Lin family. Although it can't be compared with a big business like Qingfeng Bank, Jiangning Lin Ji firm has more than 10,000 taels of cash.

In such a position, if Lin Mengde is willing to let others take his place, it will be a fool's heart; Lin Mengde knew very well in his heart that the Lin family did not have a better position waiting for him than Jiang Ning.

The head of the family, Lin Tingxun, suffered a stroke and was breathless, and the power of the clan was scattered in the hands of the seventh lady, the sixth lady, the second lord Lin Tingli, the second son Lin Xuzong and Lin Zonghai. Even though Lin Mengde thought in his heart that the Seventh Lady had no heirs and it would be difficult for him to really gain a foothold in the Lin family, he knew that the Seventh Lady nominally held the greatest power in the Lin family, and it was not impossible to get the support of the clan elders by assigning Lin to Jiangning to take his place.

Lin Mengde didn't know what happened to Lin Lian, and he didn't know that Lin Lian came to Jiangning because he made it his own way, and the Seventh Lady's love for Lin Lian was a well-known thing in the clan, and he thought in his heart that the Seventh Lady did not leave Lin Lian in Dongyang to help her gain a foothold in the Lin Clan, but let Lin Lian come to Jiangning with his uncle Gu Wuchen, which must have a deep meaning.

After many temptations just now, Lin Mengde was also sure that Lin Jian did have the intention of basing himself on Jiangning.

This kid is just beginning to show his edge, he is no longer the cowardly erector of a few months ago, he insists on seizing power, what should I do? Lin Mengde has been bothered by this headache, and he even suspects that everything that happened in Shanglin is manipulated by the Seventh Lady behind the scenes, and that woman is really powerful.

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