Chapter 2: The icing on the cake
(The second shift, it's early in the morning, what about the red ticket?) )
The Gu family has children, and the new aunt can't stay in the house overnight unless he has a rich family......
The house that Lin Jian bought in Jiangning City two years ago is still there, which is his private business in Jiangning, and he led Zhao Hu and other nearby escorts to live in Jiyunju in Dustpan Lane.
Jiyunju is not the original scale, Lin Jian will Jiyunju south of the three houses together, into an area of six or seven acres of deep house compound. The size of the house is secondary, the key is that it is no longer ugly with the cypress garden where Su Mei lives, just separated by a courtyard wall, and a secret door is opened.
Usually, Zhou Blind lives here with some good hands, in case Su Mei and Siniangzi are in urgent need......
Only let Zhao Hu and Zhou Blind follow, Lin Tie went through the secret door to Baiyuan, the four ladies were already waiting in the garden, and when they saw Lin Tie and them coming, they said anxiously: "The Marquis of Yongchang came to the door at night, lived and drank tea, said something boring, and had not left ...... yet."
"Let's go over together," Lin Jian said, "Can this secret door be hidden from others, can it still be hidden from Yuan Guizheng?" He guessed that Yuan Guizheng was waiting for him to come back here, and walked directly to the front building and the place where Su Mei met guests, and did not hide his whereabouts.
Yuan Guizheng had many guards guarding downstairs, and suddenly saw Lin Lian, Zhao Hu, and Zhou Blind coming out of the back garden with knives, and they all nervously drew their knives and shouted: "Who is coming?" ”
"Hehe, it turned out that Lord Lin was here," Yuan Guizheng heard the footsteps of walking in the back garden, and knew that Lin Tie was coming, and he didn't take the shelf, and the person had already pushed open the window on the second floor and looked down, scolding Suihu, "You are all blind, killing the Eastern Prisoners, killing the Kou soldiers, killing the Jinghai Metropolitan Supervisor Lin who is soft and famous all over the world doesn't recognize it, how do you follow me to do things on weekdays?" ”
"I didn't know that the Hou Ye was here, Lin Jian came uninvited, and there was a lot of trouble." Lin Tie made a way, even if Lin Tie was knighted as the county prince, he was still several levels away from the Marquis of Yongxian County, who returned to the government of Yuan, and the number of etiquette still had to be done.
"I guess Lord Lin is going to come over to visit Miss Su, so I will disturb Miss Su here early in the morning to practice the piano, if you want to say that it is me who is an uninvited guest," Yuan Guizheng said with a smile, and motioned for Lin Lian to come upstairs to speak, "Nearly half a year has passed, it is not easy to get together, Lord Lin will come up and talk." ”
Lin Lian Deng climbed the stairs and saw that Yuan Jinsheng was also indoors, thinking that his speed back to Jiangning was not slow.
Su Mei sat behind the piano platform, bowed with her eyebrows, and said, "Su Mei will make tea for Lord Lin, Hou Ye, and Young Hou Ye?" "So I left first, leaving a place for Lin Jian and Yuan Guizheng to talk secretly.
"As soon as Jinsheng returned to Jiangning, I reprimanded him, and I hope that Lord Lin will not think that Jinsheng is young and ignorant......" Yuan Guizheng said.
Speaking of which, Lin Jian and Yuan Jinsheng are the same age, but they have not ranked who is older and who is younger in the month, but in Yuan Guizheng's mouth, Yuan Jinsheng has become a junior.
Lin Jian smiled slightly and said, "Master Hou is too worried, I don't think Jinsheng has done anything wrong." Before he came to Jiangning, he asked people to refuse Yudong Gongzhuang's donation of military funds under the pretext that military funds could not be privately granted by the ministers.
"Although my family and the Queen Mother are relatives, but Yu Dong's affairs can only be helped, and Miao Shuo has to be in charge of everything, Miao Shuo is still a little capable of managing money, so the Queen Mother uses him," Yuan Guizheng didn't care whether Lin Tie believed it or not, he first made a heartfelt appearance, and said, "The ministers are not allowed to privately marry the ministers, the status of Lord Lin is not what it used to be, and it is also necessary to be careful." However, everyone is also concerned about the defense of the Jiangkou, once the Jiangkou cannot be defended, let the Kou soldiers break into the Yangtze River, the trouble will be big. The so-called rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the husband, is it possible that it has become some taboos, and we really want to push away the responsibilities that we should bear? At this time, the country is only difficult, and my bones are also involved in killing the enemy, but I can still be thrifty and donate some gold and silver to reward the thief and general, Lord Lin don't refuse me. ”
"This, this, isn't Master Hou embarrassing me?" Lin Jian said hesitantly.
"What's so hard about it?" Yuan Guizheng said, "If you don't speak, I don't speak, who knows about this?" ”
Lin Jian said secretly: If you don't say anything at this time, when you use me, will you still say nothing? The inner court was surging and fighting fiercely, and the emperor obviously had the means and strength to suppress at this time, and the Liang family was in turmoil in northern Henan, so Lin Jian was of course unwilling to completely tie himself to death on the chariot of Yuan Guizheng and the Empress Dowager Liang at this time.
Lin Jian said: "If the Hou Ye is really sincere, the county division of military funds such as gold, silver, grain and grass can be donated, in this Jiangdong County, it is not the Jiangdong Left Army to defend the land and the imperial army." Besides, I received three warships from Yudong in front of me, and I was already a little favoritism. Of course, the Hou Ye does not need to worry about the safety of Yu Dong, Yu Dong Palace Village is the private land of the old man of the Queen Mother, and the local government has the responsibility to defend it, and the Jiangdong Left Army is left in Shengsi, and it will not retreat lightly. No matter what Yuan Guizheng said, he insisted on not accepting a single cent of silver from the Yongchang Marquis Mansion.
Yuan Guizheng was helpless when he saw that Lin Jian was not in the water, so he and his second son Yuan Jinsheng said goodbye first.
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"As long as he is still greedy for Su Mei, he is not afraid that he will be able to jump out of the palm of his hand; What's more, he also took that little slut over. Yuan Jinsheng was in the carriage, thinking of Lin Lianshui's inability to splash in, he was very annoyed, and said viciously.
"The small one is just a cheap slave, it was originally filled into the goods of the Jiaofang Division, and it is not a trick to be small," Yuan Guizheng sighed and said, "Su Mei is the main master, but if he doesn't bite the hook, what can he do?" Although he is greedy, he is also greedy, otherwise he would not have come back from the Gu family and climbed over the wall to meet in Baiyuan, but when it really came to a critical juncture, would he be reluctant to sacrifice a woman? Yuan Guizheng also knew that Yu Dong's things were messed up, and he couldn't blame his son, after all, Miao Shuo was still in charge over there, and when he said it, it was too late to change it on the spot.
Besides, Liang Chengyi was also there at the time, who would have thought that in the naval battle that followed, Lin Jian would defeat the main fleet of the luxury family's northern line without any suspense? The most important thing is that many people think that Lin Tie's fame in Yannan is mostly lucky.
Fortunate? There are so many lucky things in the world.
The Chongzhou boy case can be concealed quietly for two years, and he did not forget to set up a set for Yue Lengqiu before he was stabbed, including the Jiangdong Left Army returning to Chongzhou to garrison and taking root in Chongzhou, all of which have been planned for a long time - this is the real talent of the plan!
In the future, if there is an elite army in Chongzhou that can be transferred at any time to respond, what major event cannot be done?
It is the most effective thing to send silver when Lin Tie is holding the belt of his trousers, and Lin Tie will not accept it, but the bad thing is that Miao Shuo is too stingy, and the six thousand taels of silver are still dragged and not sent in time, so Zhang Yan directly hit a rake, forcing Lin Tie to directly refuse to donate six thousand taels of silver.
Now that the special purpose of rewarding merit has arrived in Jiangning, in addition to adding officials to Lin Tie, he also divides the land and salary, showing his grace, which is rare in recent years, Lin Tie's hands are not so tight, and there is room for choice, how can he easily take the silver here?
Yuan Guizheng felt sorry in his heart, and it was too late to take regret medicine, not only could he not use Lin Jian as a confidant, but also prevented him from beating him upside down, and Yudong Gongzhuang was almost in the encirclement of the Jiangdong Left Army.
"It's not impossible to donate silver to the county division," Yuan Jinsheng pondered, "If you can't donate silver directly, we can donate warships, and we can also go to the Jiangdong Left Army, although the effect is far less than directly stuffing silver, but we can also raise his appetite first, I'm afraid I'm afraid that my appetite will be raised......"
"For the time being, it can only be like this, take tens of thousands of taels of silver, it's good to stabilize him first, the key is to have enough confidence in ourselves, Lin Bin, we can only count on him to be icing on the cake, we can't expect him to send charcoal in the snow." Yuan Guizheng said that he also had to admit that after moving the capital to Jiangning, the Lin clan represented by Lin Jian would be extraordinary, even if they remained neutral, it was very necessary.
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After Yuan Guizheng and Yuan Jinsheng left, Lin Jian plucked the strings twice at will on the soft couch, and pulled out some piano sounds out of tune, which sounded sonorously in the empty night.
Although Jiangning is not like the fire pit in the north in winter, the brazier in the wing room is burning loudly, and the inside is also very warm.
Lin Jian rode a horse for two days and rushed over, his shoes and socks were soaked in sweat and then dried, he was still a little damp, and it was cold when he rested, and he could only endure it in the Gu family, and rushed over to meet Su Mei, and he didn't change a pair, at this time he took off his shoes and stretched his feet on the brazier, and there was a sour smell in the room.
"It's really sweaty feet, and I don't care if other people's noses can stand it or not," Su Mei said angrily, "I'll help you take it off and dry it on the stove shelf outside...... "Reach out to take off the stinky cloth socks for Lin Lian."
"Don't, it's not good for others to see it," Lin Lian retracted his feet and said, "Bai Yuan is the eyes and ears of Yuan Guizheng, I just want Yuan Guizheng to not see through the Tao here, so that we can coerce him, not let him coerce us......"
"That's up to you......" Su Mei lightly covered his nose with his hand, and seemed to get used to the smell, and put his hand down with a smile, and sat down with Lin Jian to talk.
"The water in the inner court is deep," Lin Jian said with a slight sigh, "The two kings of Yan and Lu are both the heirs of Emperor Delong, and the two of them succeeded to the throne, and the Su family case still has no chance to be revealed." Although the possibility of the Liang clan supporting Emperor Qingyu is very small, we can only wait - the situation in this world is chaotic, and whether the Yuan clan can hold the throne is half and half. ”
"Although the civil unrest in the north is very noisy, and the people's army is often hundreds of thousands, but the old and weak follow it, women and children follow it, and there are less than one or two people who can fight, and there is a lack ......of soldiers and armor, and there are few supplies, so it seems that it is not difficult to suppress it.
"It is not difficult to extinguish the civil unrest, but if the people cannot eat enough, the civil unrest will not stop. If the foundation is not damaged, it is impossible for the luxury family and the Dongyu to gain power. Li Bingbu also saw it thoroughly, and in his private letter to me, he intended to ask me to lead the troops to the civilian chaos. In this way, if there is no silver and no food, and the fields are annexed by the local wealthy families, the expedient measure is to suppress it ruthlessly, but this is only an expedient measure. Those rogues who mess up and kill places are also hateful, but think that most people are nothing more than thieves for the sake of food. I can't save the people from fire and water, but I can't take such a 'war merit'," Lin Jian said, "I'd better stay and fight with the luxury family." The Jiangdong Left Army must be trained to be elite soldiers, and it cannot be bullied by soft eggs, so that the luxury family can be regarded as a whetstone. ”
Liu Yue'er, Xiaoman, and Yingsleeve don't care much about state affairs, military and politics, and there is always such a barrier between them and Jun Xun, and Jun Xun is also younger, growing up in a deep house, of course he will not tell Song Jia all the details, but he can completely relax in front of Su Mei, and there is no need to discuss current affairs on guard.