Chapter 53: A Gentleman Is Not a Weapon

The next day, Lin Tie changed into the royal crane picture Zhu Zi official clothes, the waist was inlaid with gold and silver rhino horn jade ornaments, cowhide waist sheath, and the head was covered with a double straight wing black gauze crown, surrounded by more than 100 guards, from the Donghua Gate into the city, first went to the Dongcheng Zangjin Bridge Gu Mansion to meet his mother-in-law Gu Wuchen and his wife.

There are more than 20 princes and ministers in Jiangning City who are qualified to wear purple, but most of them are the six ministers of Jiangning who kicked to Jiangning to guard the mausoleum or the dignitaries with very high titles and no real power, and there are only a few ministers who really hold the power of wearing purple.

Jianghuai Governor Yue Lengqiu counted one.

King Yin of Jiangning Mansion is good at calculating.

Jiangdong Xuanfu made Wang Tian count one.

Jiangdong is counted as one of the envoys and the imperial history of Jiangning Zuodu.

Jiangning Military Department Shangshu Cheng Yuqian is counted as one.

Gu Wuchen, the squire of the Jiangning Military Department, is counted as one.

The former Luzhou town guard, Jiangdong governor and Huinan system envoy Deng Yu is one.

Compared with the above-mentioned people, Lin Jian is only twenty-four years old, although the official rank is not above the third grade, but the accumulation of military merits, political achievements, and the royal purple clothes, it is really a giant in Jiangdong County, and it is particularly dazzling.

Lin Lian's face is handsome, there are two or three scars on his cheeks that have not yet disappeared, and his figure is slightly thin, but even if he is wearing civil official uniforms, riding on a blue-black high-headed horse, surrounded by many armored horsemen, he is still like a peerless blade, even if it is hidden in the sheath, it can make people feel the invincible edge.

Over the years, the war has continued, and several counties have been ruined, but Jiangning has always been far away from the war, and it is a gentle township and safe haven for the rich and noble. It is precisely because of the continuous war that more wealthy and powerful eunuchs from other places have dragged their families to Jiangning to avoid disasters, looking for a sense of security that may not exist at all, which has also made Jiangning City more and more deformed.

It is human nature to chase and envy power, and Lin Tie walked through the streets surrounded by more than 100 horsemen, which naturally caused onlookers from the people in the alleys. The little daughter-in-law and the eldest girl were even more excited, and groups of people came over to watch.

Although this envoy is notorious in the eyes of Shizi Qingliu, he is definitely the dream man of countless ladies; Jiangnan's first talent, champion Chen Mingzhe is also dwarfed.

Regardless of the fact that this young envoy has long been famous, timid voyeurism, bold staring at each other, and even worse, frequently throwing away his eyebrows. If the eyes of the envoy were inadvertently swept over, he would be even more excited, and he couldn't help but scream.

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Yuan Jinsheng looked at the cavalry passing through the street downstairs through the window, looked at the excitement on the street, suddenly thought, and thought to himself: Who would have thought that an ordinary person who he didn't care about four years ago would rise like a star, and as the second son of the Marquis of Yongchang, he handed over a letter of worship to ask for a meeting, but he still had to wait in line.

After waiting for the cavalry to pass for a while, Yuan Jinsheng regained his mind, and Wang Chao, the son of Wang Xueshan, the son of Fan Ding, and the young wealth of the Eastern Domain, who was sitting at the same table with him, were also thoughtful. In addition, there was also a young man who looked out the window with disdain at the little daughters-in-law and big girls who were suffering from nymphomania, and sneered: "Promote an illiterate blacksmith to be an official, there is really no stupid thing in the world that this swineherd can't do!" ”

This young man is not an outsider, he is a classmate and friend of Chen Mingzhe, the former champion of the criminal record, and Yu Bijiang, the son of Yu Xinyuan, the Jiangdong Inspector.

Yu Bijiang and Chen Mingzhe are in the same subject, Chen Mingzhe is too strong, too rigid and easy to break, so he asked for leave to return to his hometown to avoid the fierce party struggle in Beijing, and Yu Bijiang has been staying in the small wing of Beijing. The three-year period of serving in the Hanlin Academy is about to expire, and Yu Bijiang is taking leave to return to Jiangning Province this time, and in fact, he is also transferring back to Jiangning to carry out activities.

The matter of moving the capital has always been carried out in secret, and those who know its secrets certainly know that the status of the six departments of Jiangning has undergone subtle changes compared with the past, and it is no longer purely an empty shelf without real power, and the status of the Jiangning Metropolitan Procuratorate has also been greatly improved.

Nowadays, wars are frequent, and the risk of being an official is extremely high; Instead of intrigue in Yanjing, it is better to come to Jiangning and steadily accumulate qualifications as an official. Besides, in Jiangdong County, the Wu Party forces still have to occupy half of the world, and there is an old man Yu Xinyuan covering, what is Yu Maojiang doing if he doesn't return to Jiangning to be an official?

Gu Siyuan went to Qingzhou to serve as an official and lead the troops, and he had already left Jiangning's circle of sons; Chen Mingzhe also stayed in Haiyu for the past two years, and has not officially debuted, Yu Bijiang returned to Jiangning at the beginning, and became the core figure of the young generation of Xixi Institute in a short time.

Yuan Jinsheng, Wang Chao, and Fan Zhimei were the top figures in the circle of Jiangning's sons, and Yu Bijiang came to Jiangning, and they had a hot fight with them within a few days. I had nothing to do today, I made an appointment to drink tea, but I didn't expect to meet Lin Jian passing in front of the teahouse street.

Yu Bijiang also boasts of being a young talent, except for Chen Mingzhe, he has never admired others in his life, seeing Lin Lian first entering the city, the momentum of the limelight completely overshadowed his edge, of course there will be dissatisfaction in his heart.

These are secondary, and more importantly, the various policies implemented by Lin Tie in Huaidong, especially the large-scale promotion of the rough village husband to become an official, have directly and violently impacted the political privileges and status of the scholar Qingliu.

Ge Fu was promoted to an engineering officer, and Dong Yuan was born as a son to serve as the Xuanfu envoy of the two Zhejiang, these can be used as special examples, as the beautiful talk of the wild relics, which is accepted by everyone and talked about with relish.

Lin Jian wantonly promoted the rough village man as an official in Huaidong, and he committed a big taboo.

If this situation develops, the temple is full of rough villagers, and these scholars who have worked hard and studied hard in the cold window, and have entered from the science and road, what is there to speak of?

Although Fan Zhimei did not have the idea of rebelling against Lin Bin, but the resentment against Lin Jian would not disappear, and when she heard Yu Bizhuang's words, she felt a sense of bosom friend, and echoed: "Now the Huaidong Military Division is taking the lead in making some money, if the official is not good at being an official and governing the place, but he opens a pawn shop to put in the money and take food from the people, the way of the world is really going to change......"

Although Lin Jian only arrived in Jiangning yesterday, the matter of Qianzhuang had already spread among the Dongyang Township Party a few days earlier. The restaurant run by the clan in Hekou is also one of the places where the party in Dongyang Township gathers to talk about things, and they have long known that the Huaidong Military Division wants to gather people to run a money bank.

"A gentleman is not virtuous, but he is going to spoil the swineherd!" Yu Bijiang shook his head and sighed.

Yuan Jinsheng picked up the teacup, sipped the tea, and did not echo Yu Bijiang's whining words with Fan Zhimei.

According to the information obtained so far, Lin Jian wants to convene people to set up a money village in Huaidong, in addition to issuing tickets for grain merchants, the main thing is to put money in the seal for profit. This incident spread in the clear stream of scholars, but it was just another joke on Lin Bin's head, but it was by no means something that could be despised simply with a sentence of "gentlemen are not instrumental".

Although many people regard themselves as gentlemen, and usually feel dirty when they even talk about silver, how many pawn shops in Jiangning City are secretly not involved with the official family? How many of those people in Jiangning City put money in India without the support of official figures?

Fan Zhimei said it with disdain, but in fact, a large part of the income of the Yongchang Marquis Mansion and the Fan Mansion was to release money and open pawn shops.

Unlike other families who secretly find agents to do it, Lin Jian wanted to do this with great fanfare in Huaidong, in fact, the impact among the Qingliu scholars was not as strong as Lin Lian's wanton promotion of the rough village man as an official in Huaidong.

Yuan Jinsheng thought about other thoughts, drank tea, threw down a silver coin as tea money, and found an excuse to leave first.

Yuan Jinsheng returned to the Hou Mansion and looked in when he passed by Wangcui Garden, where his father lived every day. Hou Fu engaged in Zhou He came over and said, "Little Hou Ye, where have you been, Hou Ye is asking me to look for you everywhere?" ”

"What is my father looking for me?" Yuan Jinsheng asked.

"Jinsheng is outside?" Yuan Guizheng happened to be in the pavilion in the west corner of the courtyard, listening to the sound of talking here, and asked.

"It's me," Yuan Jinsheng walked into Wangcui Garden, stood in front of the steps, gave Yuan Guizheng a salute, and said, "I've seen my father, what is my father looking for me?" ”

"Is there a reply from Lin Lian?" Yuan Guizheng asked.

It was rare for Lin Jian to return to Jiangning, and he didn't know how many people were vying to meet him. Naturally, he handed the prayer post over the house first, and waited for Lin Jian to reply to the post before he could know if there was a chance to see it; There are also people who send their family members to wait for a response at the place where Lin Jian stays.

Although the Marquis of Yongchang returned to power in Jiangning City, even if he sent a post, he might not be able to see Lin Tie others.

Yuan Guizheng was also worried that his face would be refuted and he would become the laughing stock of Jiangning City, so he asked Yuan Jinsheng to hand over the prayer post first to test it.

"There has been no response. I was just in the Yuanfu Building when I saw Lin Jian walking through the street to Gu's house, and I didn't have time to pay attention to those prayers for a while. Yuan Jinsheng said.

Yuan Guizheng looked at the clear sky outside the cornices of the outer courtyard wall, and said lightly: "Tang Haoxin is dead, isn't it a good thing!" ”

Yuan Jinsheng knew why his father felt this way, they had the opportunity to maintain a close relationship with Huaidong, but two years ago, Miao Shuo, the eunuch in charge of Yudong Palace, was too stingy and ruined things.

At that time, Lin Jian led the Jinghai Sea Battalion in the East China Sea to fight against the East China Sea Kou forces controlled by the luxury family, and Miao Shuo was willing to take 6,000 taels of silver to fund the army, which was like sending a Huazi, which caused the relationship between the two sides to weaken.

This is not the main thing, but the main thing is that the families joined forces to force Tang Haoxin to death in Shandong, the Liang family benefited the most, and the Yongchang Marquis Mansion was originally a force of the same line as the Queen Mother and the Liang family - the rift between them will be difficult to bridge.

When Tang Haoxin died, Lin Jian only occupied one county in Chongzhou. Although it has already been revealed, compared to the importance of Liang Jiamou Shandong, he naturally has no time to care about how Lin Jian feels about Tang Haoxin's death.

After Tang Haoxin's death, Lin Jian made a series of responses and counterattacks in Chongzhou, so that everyone knew what it means for a newborn calf to dare to bully a tiger!

In the name of filial piety, Lin Jian secretly sneaked to Jinhai, and forcefully forced the Liang family, Zhang Yue and other Chu party forces and Zhang Yan and Hao Zongcheng's imperial party forces to bow their heads together on the matter of salt and silver to protect grain. The salt and silver grain guarantee is a success, and the Dongyang forces led by Chongzhou say that they will take out seven or eight hundred thousand taels of silver every year, which is something that no one thought of in advance.

In the first battle of Huaisi, the Liang family did not take much advantage. Chen Hansan recruited Yue Lengqiu to block the pace of the Liang family's southward expansion, and Gu Siyuan, with the assistance of Huaidong, led an elite army into Qingzhou to curb the Liang family's eastward expansion. Lin Jian officially took office as the envoy of Huaidong and officially became one of the few giants in Jiangdong County and even in the southeast region.

If it is said that forcing Tang Haoxin to death, so that the Liang family has the opportunity to occupy Shandong and the northern region of Zhongzhou, it is a benefit; But pushing Lin Tie to the opposite side and giving Lin Tie the opportunity to rise strongly in Huaidong is the biggest mistake.

"The matter has come to this, it is useless to worry about it," Yuan Jinsheng said, "as long as Su Mei still has a status in his heart, it is not without a chance to ease relations." Besides, Tang Haoxin's death, the Liang family benefited the most, and there was no direct conflict of interest with us, and Lin Jian couldn't plant all his resentment on our heads. My greeting post may not work, but the eldest brother is quite interesting with him, why don't you let the eldest brother send the greeting post over to try? ”

"That son of a, if you could listen to me honestly, you wouldn't have had to work so hard all these years of planning!" Yuan Guizheng said hatefully, thought of another matter, and asked, "What do you think of Huaidong's establishment of a money bank?" ”