Chapter 43: Trapped in a Cage
When the plum is yellow and rainy, Chongzhou has been rainy for several days, and the clouds are endless, and the night rain is in his ears, Han Zai is very upset, looking at the beautiful girl's snowy body lying on the gorgeous brocade forging, and he is not very interested, just casually playing with the red cherries on the snow-like peaks, thinking about his thoughts, and regardless of the beauty on his side with her legs overlapping and squirming, she is already very.
Before Han Zai came to Chongzhou, he was full of ambition and triumphant, thinking that it was his turn to soar and soar, so he got this beautiful difference, and at the beginning of getting off the boat, he gave Lin Jian a dull stick, and it took him half a month to really understand what it means to be trapped in a cage.
Chongzhou city was destroyed, the county government was temporarily set up in the north mountain gate of Zilang Mountain, the official market was destroyed, and it was not able to build it for the time being, and there was a grass market set up by the Jiangdong Left Army in the east foot of Jiangdu nearby, plus the grass market of the township community and the foot traders who walked the countryside and alleys can meet the most basic commodity exchange needs of the people.
This kind of inconvenience has no substantial impact on the ordinary people who do not enter the city once a year.
For Han Zai, who is accustomed to the prosperity of the smoke willows in Jiangning City, coming to Chongzhou is like coming to a wild land.
Don't say anything about the luxury of the feudal building, the white building and other luxury places to sell gold, don't say Chen Qingqing, Su Mei and other gorgeous appearance, don't say Xixi, Dengwen Society and other places of vulgarity, Chongzhou at this time, there is not even the most inferior prostitute, there are two simple tea shops and wine sheds in Beishan Gate, but the crowds inside are all mud legs, three or four coppers and a bowl of candle wine can be drunk for half a day, how could Han Zai go to this kind of place to find some fun? The city was destroyed and thousands of people were killed, where are there still a few people in Chongzhou at this time who are poetic, elegant, and happy?
Han Zai is a special envoy to comfort and pacify, and he has the authority to control the place, but only Lin Lian, Wu Meijiu, and Xiao Baiming should be responsible for him, and the officials below don't need to pay attention to him.
Han Zai regarded Wu Meijiu as a group with Lin Lian, so he naturally would not trust Wu Meijiu, although he had been close to Xiao Baiming for half a month, but through Xiao Baiming, he could not interfere in local affairs, and in essence, he, the special envoy for consolation and pacification, had not played any role at all in the past half a month.
It is said that there are many mediocre officials in this world, and doing nothing is the norm in officialdom, and what achievements you want to make will not be treated well by your colleagues, but how could Gu Wuchen allow him to occupy a pit in Chongzhou and not?
Han Zai thought to himself that if the situation in Chongzhou dragged on for another half a month and there was no movement, Gu Wuchen would find Yue Lengqiu and Wang Tian for a showdown, and then his situation would be much more difficult.
He wanted to find Wu Meijiu to come over and talk about it again, but thinking that Wu Meijiu would inevitably reach out to ask for money when he came over, Han Zai was a little afraid to see him.
"Xiao Dujian is here!" Family member Han Qing knocked on the door and reported outside.
Han Zai's expression perked up slightly, Xiao Baiming was still a person with ideas, patted the woman's fat/buttocks on his side, and asked her to serve her and dress her.
The beauty that Xiao Baiming gave him is indeed **, but no matter how ** the beauty is, it will be boring to be locked up in the house and play around for half a month. I knew that if I brought a few more beautiful maids from Jiangning, I could play more tricks, and my life would not be so difficult. However, when he set off from Jiangning, he was hesitant and satisfied, and he threw the beautiful maid in Jiangning as a thing of depressed will, and at this time he regretted wanting to take a few beautiful maids over, and he was afraid that Yue Lengqiu and Wang Tian would know about it, leaving a bad impression that the plaything was demoralized.
Xiao Baiming changed into a lake-blue scribe's clothes, saw Han Zai come out, stood up and saluted, and said indignantly: "Lord Han, you have to make the decision for Ninghai Town, the Jiangdong Left Army is really riding on our heads to pee and now......"
"It's dark out there, what's going on?" Han Jae asked.
"Lord Han, you stand in the courtyard and look east!" Xiao Baiming didn't care about the gaffe, grabbed Han Zai's sleeve and pulled him to the corridor.
Han Zai looked up to the east, outside the courtyard wall, a big lamp was lit in the direction of the ferry grass market, and the lights seemed to be a full moon in the Feifei night. It is only two or three hundred steps high from this garden, and you can clearly see the headlights placed on the tall tower erected by logs.
"What's going on?" Han Zai felt that it was a little strange that such a headlight was suddenly erected in the direction of the ferry, but he didn't understand why Xiao Baiming said that this was the Jiangdong Left Army riding on their heads to pee and, "It's the swineherd's hands and feet, what does he want to do?" ”
"The light of that lamp can shine on the camp gate of the military cottage, Lord Han, what do you say the swineherd wants to do?" Xiao Baiming was also a little breathless, the Jiangdong Left Army monitored the military cottage during the day, and he could bear it, after all, the camp gate of the military cottage was only three hundred steps away from the ferry, and he couldn't stop the Jiangdong Left Army from sending people to the ferry, but this lighthouse was erected, and any movement in the military cottage at night could not be hidden from the eyes of the Jiangdong Left Army, so how could he bear it?
Han Zai was also slightly stunned, he couldn't understand how the headlight could shine so far, but it could really shine on the camp gate of the military cottage, wasn't there any movement in this courtyard, and it all fell in Lin Lian's eyes? This forest binding is really deceiving!
"Wu Zhixian asks to see!" Family member Han Qing came in to report again.
"What is he doing at this time?" Han Zai was puzzled, Wu Meijiu had been hiding from herself for most of the past half a month, and even if he had to come over, he was mostly reaching out to ask for silver.
Anyway, Han Zai couldn't keep Wu Meijiu out of the door, and he didn't let Xiao Baiming avoid it, and directly invited Wu Meijiu in.
"Ah, Xiao Dujian is also here with Lord Han," Seeing that Xiao Baiming was also here, Wu Meijiu was slightly stunned, and said to Han Zai, "Lord Yu, Lin Dujian sent someone to inform the county when it was dark, saying that the Jiangdong Left Army was going to set aside a piece of land near the ferry to build a water camp military village, and the construction would start in the next two days......"
"Smack!" Xiao Baiming punched the pillar hard, and scolded hatefully, "This swineherd is also too deceitful!" ”
Han Zai also knew that Lin Bin's move was very excessive, and he built a lighthouse in shallow water three or four hundred steps away from the military cottage camp gate, and it was just a surveillance, at this time, the direct water camp military village was built here, and when this military village was completed, if Lin Jian was willing, he could completely block the warships in Ninghai Town in the military cottage and couldn't get out. To say that building a lighthouse is not to ride on the head to pee and, this is even more excessive than riding on the head to pee and.
Han Zai asked Wu Meijiu with a gloomy face: "Is it a little inappropriate for the Jiangdong Left Army to do this?" What did the county really do to his wishes? ”
"The county can't allocate the cost of building a military village, but it can't prevent the Jiangdong Left Army from building a military village in Chongzhou," Wu Meijiu said stubbornly, "but the humble official felt the need to inform the adults, so he rushed over to disturb the adults' rest." ”
The Jiangdong Left Army was stationed in Chongzhou, and it was useless for Han Zai to carry out the yamen of the Jianghuai Governor's Mansion by choosing a suitable location to build a permanent military base. It is said that the local government has to share a part of the cost, and at this time, the county does not want to give money, what can Wu Meijiu do to stop it?
"Whose land is that?" Han Zai asked, "The Jiangdong Left Army can't forcibly occupy Mintian to build a military village, right?" ”
"After the city of Chongzhou was broken, the county's field registers were burned to Donghai Kou, and now some of them are copied and sorted out, which is very messy. It is not clear who owns the land at the ferry, but the Lin Du Supervisor claims that he has the title deed of that land," Wu Meijiu said, "There is no complaint from the bitter master, and it is inconvenient for the lowly to go to the Lin Du Prison Envoy to check!" Wu Meijiu knew in his heart that Chongzhou County's most complete land and household registration information at this time was in Lin Lian's hands, which was precisely one of the most urgent things Lin Jian did when he first arrived in Chongzhou, but he couldn't admit it in front of Han Zai, otherwise it would just make him particularly incompetent, and it would make Han Zai suspect that he was in the same group as Lin Jiao.
"Maybe it's the Terada ...... of Guangjiao Temple" Xiao Baiming was much more familiar with the nearby situation than Wu Meijiu and Han Zai after all, he gave Han Zai a look and asked him to take Wu Meijiu away first.
Han Zai saw that Xiao Baiming wanted to speak and stopped, knowing that he didn't trust Wu Meijiu, so he said to Wu Meijiu: "I know about this, tomorrow I will go to the Lin Du Prison Envoy to negotiate, he has a title deed in his hand, it is not unseemly...... You go back first. ”
Wu Mei bowed for a long time and retired, and she was also hesitant in her heart.
Whether he wants it or not, he has already been involved in the factional struggle involving Zhang Yue and Gu Tang, and if he can't leave Chongzhou, the land of right and wrong, he will fall deeper into it.
Although Tang Haoxin and Gu Wuchen were at an absolute disadvantage whether they were in the imperial court or in Jiangdong County, Han Zai, as a cronie recruited by Yue Lengqiuxin to Chongzhou, was obviously distrustful and hostile to him. Wu Meijiu knew that he had fallen into this step, and he had calculated for Lin Xuan, but when he really had to make a choice, he had no other choice......
Wu Meijiu patted his head lightly, and said secretly: Now I can only take one step at a time, and it is not time to make a choice; The party struggle is full of blood, and it is naturally good to be an official and make a fortune safely.
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"What does Eunuch Xiao have to say to me in private?" After Wu Meijiu left, Han Zai asked Xiao Baiming.
"The swineherd caught the bandit case in his hands, listed it as a top secret military aircraft, and did not let the adults interfere, it would definitely not be the swineherd who was loyal to the court and wanted to fight against the East China Sea Kou alone," Xiao Baiming's expression softened under the lamp, and said, "As far as the humble knows, the Guangjiao Temple is quite prosperous in Chongzhou, and there should be a lot of incense and silver in the temple." After the adults came to Chongzhou, they could see more than half of the two? In addition to the incense and silver, Guangjiao Temple also has a lot of land. ”
"Terada?"
"That's right, it's Terada! Seeing that the swineherd is so tightly grasping the bandit case, I am afraid that the number is not a few! Xiao Baiming said, "The land occupied by the swineherd to build the Shuiying military village should be the temple field of Guangjiao Temple, so the title deed is likely to fall into his hands, and he is not worried that the sufferer will come to the adults to shout grievances!" ”
"This swineherd is really hateful, he obviously reaped a lot of benefits, and he sent people over every day to ask for silver." Han Zai scolded hatefully, "But the evidence of the bandit case is conclusive, and the matter is very involved, the swineherd does not let the local government interfere in the bandit case, and he has been dragging it out and not closing the case, and there is nothing to do with him." How can I pry his hand open? ”
"Your Excellency has the responsibility to supervise the construction of the new city," Xiao Baiming said, "Your Excellency uses this as an excuse to ask him to spit out Terada, which should be owned by the government, to see how he pushes it?" ”
"It's also a strategy," Han Jae pondered for a moment and said, "But you have to calculate it carefully!" ”
At present, raising funds, requisitioning land, and building a new city from the local government are Han Zai's biggest burden in Chongzhou, and if he can't open the situation in Chongzhou for a long time, he will use Gu Wuchen as a handle to impeach. If Lin Jian refused to spit out Terada, he could put the blame for delaying and failing to build the city on his head, and let Yue Lengqiu and Wang Tian directly put pressure on Gu Wuchen.
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The next day, Lin Jian saw that Han Zai directly requested that all the fields belonging to Guangjiao Temple be taken over by Chongzhou County and requisitioned to build a new city in the official letter from the special envoy Guan Fang who was covered with a consolation and pacification, and threw the official letter to Lin Mengde, and said with a smile: "This Han Zai is really dull enough, if I hadn't given such an obvious hint, I don't know how long it would take the bait, I almost lost my patience......"
"It's a hook!" Lin Mengde laughed and asked, "What should we do now, call Han Zai's official letter to Chongzhou County, and let the news spread from there?" ”
"That's fine!"