Chapter 39: The Envoy Arrives

(The first update, ask for a red ticket)

Spring sleep was late, Yue'er woke up, listening to the sound of rain outside the house, she felt that the bone frame was soft and weak, owing her body, seeing that Lin Lian was sleeping soundly, she reached out and gently stroked the stubble on his chin, leaned over and kissed him lightly on the cheek, and saw Lin Lian's body move, so he lay down and closed his eyes and pretended to sleep.

Lin Jian opened his eyes, his muscles and bones were comfortable, and he saw that Yue'er was still sleeping sweetly, and the thin quilt slipped down a little, revealing a small piece of snowy skin under his neck, which was very dazzling and charming in the morning light. Lin Jian raised his arm, and the thin quilt slid down again, revealing a pair of round and delicate objects, a little red on the top, and a slight halo mark, all so delicate......

Yue'er could feel Lin Lian's burning eyes staring at her chest with her eyes closed, she couldn't help but feel ashamed, pretending to be lazy when she first woke up, pulled up a thin quilt and covered her neck, and only exposed her beautiful face with picturesque eyebrows and eyes and clear skin like the moon and autumn, opened Qiubo's beautiful eyes, and looked at Lin Lian: "What time is it......?"

"Whatever...... Lin Lian turned sideways, touched his hand into the quilt, pressed it to her chest, couldn't hold the plump and delicate jade/peak, so he concentrated on twisting the cherry.

Yue'er couldn't stand the teasing, and there seemed to be juice oozing out of the heart of her legs, and she said straight in her mouth: "It's time to get up, don't miss the business......" Seeing Lin Lian's hands sliding down against his waist again, the calluses on his palms slid through the satin-like skin, picking his heart crispy and numb, and he still wanted to be favored, but his body couldn't bear it anymore, so he could only change his mouth and beg for mercy, "Yue'er can't stand it, why don't you take Xiaoman into the room and let her serve you?" ”

"Bah, bah, bah......" Xiaoman was taking hot water and came in to serve Lin Jian and Liu Yue'er to get up, hearing Liu Yue'er say this, her pretty face turned red and whispered, "It's not enough to listen to the mosquitoes for half a night, just came in to serve you, and you have to listen to such dirty words," Seeing Yue'er burying her face with her hands, her neck was red as if she was drinking, she put the water on the table and said, "I put the water here, I won't serve you......" Without giving Lin Yue a chance to entangle her, she turned around and walked out first.

Xiaoman came in at this time, it must have been reported that there was something in the front house, and Lin Jian didn't dare to be greedy, so he sat up and looked for clothes at the foot of the bed.

Liu Yue'er endured the softness of her body, put on a shirt to get up, Lin Jian said, "You sleep for a while......

"How can there be any reason why you are still asleep when you get up?" Liu Yue'er said, "I'll wait for you to scrub your body, the matter of the front house may not be so urgent......" Wet the sweat towel to scrub Lin Bin's body, but her clothes were draped diagonally, revealing a large area of white skin, which made people's blood boil, making the meat peg under Lin Bin's body stiff and straight, and it couldn't be softened, Yue'er also endured the shame to scrub there, and her soft hand couldn't hold the more and more hard as an iron pestle.

Seeing Yue'er half-squatting and washing there seriously, the red little mouth was facing the meat pestle, and the aroma of Rulan was spit out, Lin Lian's heart fluttered, and he felt that Yue'er's red lips were extra attractive, and he pressed the back of her head with his hand, and pressed it down, to press it.

Yue'er was puzzled, and glanced up at Lin Lian, her eyes full of doubts.

"Open your mouth and swallow that!" Lin Jian said.

"Ahh Yue'er's face was flushed, she stretched out her hand and slapped the meat, and scolded, "Where did you come up with a lewd idea?" The concubine body will not be practiced for you. Leaving Lin Jian there, she picked up her clothes and went back to the room next to her to clean up.

Lin Jian had no choice but to dress and wash himself.

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Yue Lengqiu's actions were very fast, and Lin Jian delayed until the 19th to send the news back to Jiangning, and on the 22nd, Han Zai, the senator of the Xuanfu Envoy Department, arrived in Chongzhou in the name of the Xuanfu Envoy to comfort and appease the special envoy, and expressed his condolences to Chongzhou on behalf of the Xuanfu Envoy.

Yue Lengqiu also understood in his heart that Lin Tie was ranked from the fifth rank, the ministry was listed as the sixth rank, he was knighted, and he held the military power, no matter how he sent someone to serve as the magistrate of Chongzhou, which was the seventh rank, it was not enough to contend with Lin Tie in this small corner of Chongzhou.

What's more, the county official can only be appointed temporarily by the local government, and in the end, it is the official department who selects and appoints him, and the candidates are not completely controlled by the local government.

The position of senator is the senior civil official of the Xuanfu Embassy, and he is listed as the fifth grade. When the local area suffers from disaster, it is not a special case for the Propaganda and Pacification Department to send personnel to comfort and appease the local area and temporarily control the local military and political power. It is said that it is temporary, but how long this time will be is under the control of the county department. Even if the Ministry of Officials formally appoints county governors, county officials and other official seal officials in the future, whether to revoke the special envoy for consolation and pacification is still up to the county department to decide, which is also a more commonly used means of local power struggle.

In Yue Lengqiu's opinion, only by such an arrangement can Lin Tie be suppressed a little, and Lin Tie will not be able to stretch his tentacles to the place.

Han Zai not only represented the Xuanfu Embassy, but also represented the Governor's Office to inquire about Ninghai Town's presence in Chongzhou Water Camp to avoid the enemy's war, which can be regarded as the Governor's Office's official acceptance of Lin Bin's impeachment submission. In this way, at least he can resist the questioning of the military department for the Ninghai Town Water Battalion, and it is also a compromise method for Yue Lengqiu to be cautious about Lin Lian's impeachment of the Ninghai Town Water Battalion.

Lin Jian was not interested in going to the ferry to pick up Han Zai, but he drove Zhao Qinmin and Gu Siyuan to Chongzhou by boat with Han Zai. Even Lin Lian didn't treat Zhao Qinmin very well in his heart, but he and the Tang family and the Gu family couldn't have a rift for outsiders to see at this time. He had breakfast and asked Han Zai to wait at the ferry for a while, before taking Cao Ziang, Lin Mengde, Sun Jingtang and others to transfer a battalion of soldiers to set off to meet them at the ferry, and meet Wu Meijiu, Li Shuyi, Hu Zhicheng and other Chongzhou County officials at the ferry.

Han Zai's official ship arrived first, and he had been waiting for almost half an hour.

Donglu Ferry is on the north side of Junshanzhai, which is the shallow water sandwiched between Junshan and Chongzhou land, and it is also the most important water and land wharf on the bank of Chongzhou River; In addition to this, large official ships can be berthed at the South Cliff Wharf of Zilang Mountain nearby.

"Lin has delayed an urgent matter, and he is late to greet him, I hope that Lord Han and adults have a large number, don't be surprised!" Lin Jian changed into a crimson official robe and saluted Han Zai, who was talking to Wu Meijiu on the dock.

Han Zai was thirty-seven or eighteen years old, with a slender white face, a few strands of goat's beard, and also wearing a crimson official robe, blue-black stiff wings, and a small figure.

His grandfather Han Wenxi served as the deputy minister during the Yongzhan period, and was regarded as a generation of famous ministers.

In the past two years, the Chu Party has gained a firm foothold in the center, and most officials have changed their courts and defected to the Chu Party. After Tang Gu and Zhang Yue split, the vast majority of officials in the Chu Party stood on the side of Zhang Xie and Yue Lengqiu, and in Jiangning, because Gu Wuchen was closer to the Dongyang Township Party, and because some of the methods he had used in Jiangning before were too drastic, Yue Lengqiu attracted a group of people as soon as he came to Jiangdong.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that many officials in Jiangning also saw the possibility that the imperial court would move the capital to Jiangning, which made those speculative officials abandon their previous positions and sharpen their fists and prepare for a piece of the pie.

The day before Han Zai came, Gu Wuchen sent a messenger to send his information to Chongzhou quickly, so that Lin Jian could deal with it calmly.

Han Zai waited for Lin Jian at the dock for most of the hour, and waited until Zhao Qinmin and their boat arrived at the ferry, and then saw Lin Bin's figure, how could he have a large number of adults in his heart? Looking at Lin Tie, seeing Lin Tie come to greet him with five or six hundred soldiers, he said with a smile: "Lin Dujian is busy with military affairs, and this official is also clear, if I blame you for this little thing, it seems that this official is narrow-minded and inconsiderate of the difficulties of his subordinates......"

Han Zai treated himself as a subordinate in his words, and Lin Jian didn't mind, seeing that there were still two or three hundred people on the dock who were the guards brought by Han Zai, he asked with a smile: "I take the liberty of asking, I don't know how much relief money Lord Han brought from the Xuanfu Envoy Division......"

"Governor Yue and Lord Wang are both worried about the Chongzhou military disaster, in addition to the 10,000 taels of silver allocated by Hailing Mansion before, this time specially sent the official to bring 20,000 taels of silver relief silver," Han Zai raised his head and said, "This is still the first payment, when this official has inspected Chongzhou, according to the situation, he can send another relief silver to the Xuanfu Envoy ......"

"Thank God," Lin Jian said ecstatically, "The 3,000 soldiers of the Jiangdong Left Army are still waiting to be fed, fortunately, Lord Han, otherwise the 3,000 soldiers of the Jiangdong Left Army would really be hungry...... In addition, Chongzhou County has distributed pension silver and relief grain in the past few days, and borrowed about 10,000 taels of rice grain and silver from the Jiangdong Left Army, and is also waiting for Lord Han to come over. Lin asked Lord Han with a trembling heart, where is the silver, Lord Han, you have come from afar, it is very hard, we can do it ourselves! ”

"Lin Lian, you are so bold, do you want to hijack this official?" Han Zai's face turned pale, and then he realized that Lin Jian had brought five or six hundred soldiers over, and it turned out that he was not here to greet him, but he came to grab the silver.

As soon as Gu Siyuan, Zhao Qinmin, and Zhao Jin's father and son got off the boat, they saw Lin Jian with his generals to rob Han Zai's silver, but they just stood aside and didn't speak, watching Lin Jian make things difficult for Han Zai there. Han Zai thought that the official university level would be able to eat and live in Lin Bin, but it was really a wrong idea, Lin Zai's position made it clear that Han Zai didn't give money, so he didn't want to enter Chongzhou.

"Lord Han, what are you talking about, do you think I'm tricking you?" Lin Jian asked Han Zai with a sideways face, his face was as cold as frost, and he pointed at Wu Meijiu and said, "Lord Wu is also here, you can ask Lord Wu, Chongzhou County should pay the salary of the Jiangdong Left Army and return the borrowed silver, but is it more than 20,000 taels of silver?" Everything can be checked in detail, if Lin is greedy for a tael of silver, he is willing to tie up his hands and take Lord Han to the Governor's Mansion to punish the crime! ”

Wu Meijiu is a grass on the wall, which side of the wind is strong and which side is down, there is no conflict of interest with him, he didn't want to offend on both sides, so he hurriedly became a peacemaker, and said: "Lord Lin, Lord Han, take a break." They all complained and didn't explain clearly, if you want to be angry, send them all at me! Lord Lin, Lord Han has just arrived, and he doesn't know the situation, you always have to wait for Lord Han to take a breath, take a sip of tea, rest his feet, and then mention the matter of silver......" and said to Han Zai, "Lord Han, maybe the humble position was not explained clearly in the submission to the county secretary. The Donghai Kou attacked Chongzhou, and the county warehouse was robbed, and it was indeed borrowed money from Lord Lin, so he barely survived the difficulties until Lord Han came over. It is also strange that the humble duty opened a sea mouth in front of Lord Lin, saying that when the relief money came, he would return the loan immediately, which made Lord Lin a little anxious - all this was resentful of the humble duty. ”

The city of Chongzhou was broken, and the civilian casualties were not concerned, but the soldiers and officials who defended the city and countryside were also wiped out, and Lin Lian, Hu Zhicheng, Li Shuyi and others insisted on compensating for these casualties first, otherwise the work of recruiting the next township soldiers and officials would not be able to continue.

The Jiangdong Left Army was willing to borrow the pension silver, but Wu Meijiu did not insist on not borrowing, and all the pension silver was only sent yesterday, but he didn't expect Lin Jian to take this to Han Zai at this time.

It is said that the standard of bereavement is not high, but the life of the poor is cheap, and if they can get this bereavement pension, they can be regarded as a worthy death. In addition, the standard of providing relief to the damaged people in the city is of course much lower, but in any case, the people have only seen the government scraping money, when have they ever seen the government really help the people? Naturally, he was grateful for the benefits that Lin Jian and the Jiangdong Left Army brought to Chongzhou County, and naturally it also made Wu Meijiu's reputation in Chongzhou rise sharply.

Wu Meijiu was a little flustered at first, but when Li Shuyi brought the detailed account to him, he found that the county treasury had accumulated a deficit of nearly 30,000 taels of silver.

Speaking of which, the city of Chongzhou was broken, and the casualties were mostly concentrated in the city, and the township was not greatly affected, so that the aftermath work was carried out quite smoothly, mainly to elect officials, compensate for the casualties, and rebuild the city.

Wu Meijiu knew at this time that Lin Bin's methods were old and spicy, and before Han Zai came over, he rushed to finish the by-election and pension in the next few days, leaving a large deficit waiting for Han Zai to fill it, but he also sat on the same boat with Lin Zai...... Could it be that Han Jae would believe that he was coerced before?

Speaking of which, Wu Meijiu didn't expect that Yue Lengqiu would arrange a consolation envoy to come over to suppress Lin Bin, otherwise he wouldn't be at the mercy of Lin Tie in the past few days, and when he wanted to break free, he found that he had fallen into it.

Han Zai's face is ugly, the official is useful, he has silver in his hand, and a soldier is the uncle, he brought 20,000 taels of silver over, and only with 20,000 taels of silver in his hand can he have the right to speak, where can he dare to give all the silver to Lin Tie easily?