Daming: From the end of Hongwu

Chapter 123 121- You don't seem to be having a good time recently

Among the caravan crowd, Zhen Wu found the leader steward. He squinted his eyes and looked at it for a few times, remembering the steward's appearance in his heart before turning his eyes away.

Then, as if he had done nothing, he laughed a few times and chatted casually with the shopkeeper again.

Unexpectedly, after chatting for a while, I heard a familiar name from the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper sighed: "Speaking of which, it's a pity that Zhang Qi and Zhang Qianhu are really a good official. He has always been upright and selfless. In the Manwei Office, he is the only one who is serious about attacking these caravans. Others More or less with authority..."

Speaking of this, the shopkeeper suddenly stopped, looked at Zhen Wu warily, then tossed a towel, pretended to wipe his counter, and added in his mouth: "Hey, why am I telling you this?" , I just listened to other people's nonsense, so I can't take it seriously, I can't take it seriously."

Zhen Wu couldn't help smiling: "Brother, don't worry, if you say something casually, I'll just listen casually, with the left ear coming in and the right ear coming out, and nothing left in my heart."

"I won't talk about that, it's boring."

"Don't mind me, I've loved listening to these things since I was a child, and I'm just getting excited. Don't tell me you didn't mean to hang me up."

Zhen Wu then leaned forward, and said in the shopkeeper's ear: "I know what my brother is worried about. Don't worry, I won't spread the word after hearing it. If you are really worried, why don't I scold your commanders first?" ? We are definitely a family."

The shopkeeper squinted at Zhen Wu, and seeing Zhen Wu's face, he really just wanted to listen to the story, not someone from the guard, and would not trouble him afterwards, so he asked, "Do you really want to hear it?"

"That is required."

Zhen Wu sensiblely took out a few pieces of broken silver from his bosom, which would probably cost several hundred cash if exchanged for copper coins, and then he slapped it in the shopkeeper's hand and said, "Well, make us some good dishes and send them up in the evening, brother Look at it and do it, as long as it is not unpalatable."

The shopkeeper immediately squinted his eyes happily, and took the money without any trace: "Then I will tell you about it."

"Our Tieling Guard is not too far from the capital, but it's not too close. The most important thing is that we guard the checkpoint to Tai Ning Guard. Many caravans want to make a trip from us. This will make it easier for those officials. They only need to turn a blind eye and close one eye, and the white money will fall into their pockets, and they are not responsible for this matter. If someone really pursues it, these soldiers will become ruthless and go directly to the grassland to catch up Killing all the people, not to mention wealth and goods, maybe you can still get credit."

Zhen Wu's eyeballs widened instantly, what a guy, what a guy, he had been in business in his previous life, and although he knew some unspoken rules, he had never seen someone who got rich like this and got promoted.

"Then there are still people who dare to open up relationships and go to business?" Zhen Wu asked

"Why not? These days, there are only those who are afraid of being poor, not those who are afraid of making money."

It seems reasonable.

Zhen Wu pouted at the caravan outside the inn, and asked, "Then what about the caravan? If something goes wrong, we can't kill people to silence it, right?"

The shopkeeper glanced at Zhen Wu, as if saying that Zhen Wu was an idiot.

Then, the shopkeeper said: "Didn't these people tell you, the backstage is the commander, and nothing will happen. You should know that our Tieling Guard commander is not afraid of anyone in the entire capital."

"Isn't this Commander Zhang Quan also related to the Duke of Liang?"

The shopkeeper lowered his voice a little more and said: "I heard someone mentioned it, it seems to be the adopted son of Liang Guogong, we don't know whether it is true or not."

Zhen Wu nodded, thinking in his heart, it's Lan Yu again, this person is really a powerful person.

The shopkeeper went on to say: "Let me tell you this, Zhang Qiqianhu who I mentioned to you just now, remember, he always checks these caravans ruthlessly, just checked a batch a few days ago, but look, this merchant Before the team came, Zhang Qiqian was accused of using power for personal gain, and was temporarily relieved of his errand, waiting for investigation at home."

"Hey, why don't you ask him to rest for a few days so that he can take the goods?"

The shopkeeper nodded: "I guess that's what it means, or it's such a coincidence."

Zhen Wu turned his head and glanced at the caravan outside again, and couldn't help but sigh, these days, anything can be played out.

The next moment, Zhen Wu thought of something.

"Brother, I have another question."

Zhen Wu frowned worriedly and said, "Is this Zhang Qiqianhu you mentioned, Zhang Qiqianhu from Qinghe Pass?"

"Hey, do you know him?" The shopkeeper looked at Zhen Wu unexpectedly.

Zhen Wu was speechless for a moment, and couldn't help being a little disappointed in his heart. This help has not been used, so it collapsed?

"You don't really know each other, do you?" The shopkeeper's expression became more and more suspicious.

"It's just something I've heard. You should be able to tell. I like to ask questions."

After hearing this, the shopkeeper nodded in relief.

……

When going to sleep at night, Zhen Wu couldn't sleep, all kinds of messy thoughts were flying in his mind, this is the year of Hongwu, the emperor who killed the most powerful emperor, but there are still these bullshit things in this world.

Smuggling, accepting bribes, killing people, framing colleagues...

After thinking about it, Zhen Wu slowly fell asleep.

It's just that in my dream, I seem to see a group of businessmen being slaughtered in cold blood by the soldiers guarding the frontier.

And Zhen Wu, who was on the sidelines, didn't even know who was right and who was wrong.

In the next few days, while Zhen Wu and the others rested and adjusted in Tieling Guard, they stopped by to inquire about some of the situation here, and held a meeting at night to share with each other what they had learned.

Gradually, Zhen Wu learned more and more about the situation here.

It's just that they didn't find out the whereabouts of Chahan and the others.

Zhen Wu was not discouraged or surprised at this point. Zhang Quan, commander of the Tieling Guard, if he was Lan Yu's adoptive son, then Chahan's territory in the Tieling Guard could be said to be unscrupulous, and it would be easy to hide his identity.

A few days later, Zhen Wu saw that they couldn't find anything in Tieling, so he planned to go to Qinghe Pass to see if Zhang Qi could help.

So, without further delay, everyone rode to Qinghe Pass that day.

Qinghe Pass can be connected to Tai Ningwei. After arriving at Qinghe Pass, Zhen Wu asked others to go around at will, and he went to Zhang Qi's house by himself to inquire about it.

Before meeting Zhang Qi, Zhen Wu thought that Zhang Qi was such a serious person, otherwise he would not be praised as upright and unselfish.

Unexpectedly, after seeing it, Zhen Wu was shocked.

First of all, age. He looks like he is in his twenties, at most 30 years old, with a white face and short beard. Not only does he not look like a thousand householders, but he looks more like a scholar.

He was also taken aback when he saw Zhen Wu.

But after Zhen Wu introduced his identity, Zhang Qi quickly led Zhen Wu into the study.

The second is character.

As soon as Zhang Qi entered the study room, Zhang Qi smiled and began to boast: "You can't go wrong when you come to me. No one in a hundred miles knows my name, Zhang Qi. If you have any difficulties or need any help, feel free to tell me, as long as it is not that kind I will take care of the difficult things for you."

Zhen Wu looked at him and didn't speak.

Zhang Qi raised her eyebrows: "You don't believe me?"

Zhen Wu still didn't speak, he really wanted to believe it, if he didn't inquire about something before he came, he would be absolutely delighted to hear Zhang Qi's words now.

But he asked.

However, Zhang Qi still doesn't know it.

"What kind of expression do you have? I can tell you that Qinghe Pass cannot be separated from me at all. I deal with hundreds of things all day long. If you were not sent by His Royal Highness King Yan, I would be as busy as a cup of tea." I can't leave it to you, you think I'm idle when you're like this now?"

Zhen Wu finally couldn't help but sighed.

"Before I came, I asked about it."

Zhen Wu tried his best to be expressionless, making him seem to have no other intentions, and then continued: "You seem to be having a hard time recently."

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