Daming Yinghua

Chapter 223 Kicking Yao Qianhu away

Today is a rare refreshing weather in Jiangnan Meiji.

The sea breeze coming westwards chasing the vast blue waves blows away the heat.

Qi Jin, the deputy general guarding the south of the Yangtze River, sat under a plum tree and drank three cups of wine. Fang stood up slowly, walked to the grave of his adopted son Wu Bangde, and patted the tombstone: "Son, you and Lao Wu, wait for me in the sky." .”

The old general turned around and saw Zheng Haizhu's sorrowful eyes filled with guilt. When the word "Mrs. Zheng" came to his lips, he replaced it with his old title.

"Girl, when Bond spotted you back then and threw away his book bag to follow you, the old man explained to his grandfather when he was offering incense that the child chose his own path, and even the treacherous storms couldn't stop him. Those who were born in the army know best , Take a good life, if you say nothing, it will be gone. You don't have to worry about the old man blaming you."

Zheng Haizhu thought deeply of Fuli, and discussed: "Master, do you want to find an eye-catching child from the Wu family to adopt Bond and Amei's line. I will live in Chongming, and I will take care of it."

Qi Jin waved his hand: "If you want to persuade Bond to leave a queen for the old Wu family, I have nagged this brat a lot when he was alive. He always said that he only wants to have a child with Amei. Now he can't contradict again I'm done, and I don't want to go against his will. Forget it, don't think about whether to adopt or not."

Zheng Haizhu said "Hello" and led Qi Jin to an unfinished house.

"My lord, this place faces the sea, the grandeur is open, and it overlooks the Grange barracks, so I don't feel lonely. The younger generation will build a martyr's shrine, and the tablets of the old heroes who died in Chongming in the past will be erected in it. Bond So is it."

The corners of Qi Jin's mouth twitched slightly: "If you have a heart, it is worthwhile for him to have a relationship with you. Now that you have this place, you don't have to worry too much about the memorial service after your death. Why do you need an heir."

The white-haired general squinted his eyes, and saw a group of young men under the command of Carpenter Hu, carrying beams and pillars of wood. Under the shade of a tree, beside the stone table, stood an old woman, instructing a young man who looked like a scholar to write.

The old woman is Tang Apo, she has a bright and cheerful personality, and she walked over to greet Qi Jin in a bold manner.

Qi Jin also learned about Grandma Tang's origins from Zheng Haizhu, and cupped her hands respectfully, "Grandmother, I have heard from my adoptive father when I was young that the ancestor Tang Gong fought against the Japanese in Chongming."

Grandma Tang sighed: "Sir, the Japanese pirates are not so violent now, but the Tartars in the north are rampant. No matter how noisy the Japanese pirates were in those days, they were just like mad dogs. They ran away after grabbing money and food. But the Tartars actually know how to use spies to come Stealing firearms and deceiving guns and small cannons, this is not the way of ordinary robbers, this is coming for our Ming Dynasty."

"Mother-in-law is insightful," Qi Jin echoed solemnly, "Nurhachi's ability to hook up with a Han general like Li Yongfang shows that this chieftain is ambitious and has many strategies. Although the battle of Fushun was a complete victory, the general did not dare to take it lightly. Look at the northern captives, and so does Mrs. Zheng."

Zheng Haizhu nodded, and called the Confucian scholar standing behind Mrs. Tang respectfully.

Qi Jin looked at the young man, he was thin and fair, somewhat similar to that Lu Xiangsheng, but the Hujin robe on his body was very valuable at first glance, he reckoned that this man was probably a son of a wealthy gentry like Young Master Gu.

Qi Jin was still muttering, but the young man had already lifted his robe and knelt down without hesitation regardless of the wetness of the mud.

"Junior Shen Tingyang, pay my respects to Mr. Qi."

"Hey, you young man, you don't have to do such a great gift."

Qi Jin hurriedly raised his hand to ask the other party to get up.

Although the deputy commander-in-chief has a high rank in the military profession, Qi Jin still feels a little awkward when he accepts the imperial civil servants like Xiucai to kneel down.

Shen Tingyang said generously: "Master, our Wusong Sand Boat Gang can safely sail down the river on weekdays, all thanks to the master's ability to manage the army, not to mention the younger generation, even my father, and we should kowtow to thank the master when we see him .”

"Shachuan Gang?" Qi Jin thought for a while, "I've heard from the children under my command that they do water transport from river to river?"

Shen Tingyang replied humbly: "Exactly."

Zheng Haizhu and Qi Jin explained: "Boss, I also came to Chongming, only then did I know that the Shachuan Gang is a local Shen family's business. It is rare that Tingyang is a young master, and he is definitely not a dude. There is also fertile land in South Island, which is next to our Zhengjiazhuang. A daughter of Ting Yang’s distant relatives married our Liao people, and Ting Yang came over for a wedding, and he fell in love with our Zhengjiazhuang and wanted to be my guest.”

How old Qi Jin is in the Jianghu, just listening to a few words, he estimated that according to Zheng Haizhu's habit of being good at beckoning and cooperating with local snakes, the young master of the Shen family in Chongming in front of him, even if he didn't take the initiative to vote, Zheng Haizhu would go look for him.

Qi Jin glanced at the words "Martyr's Shrine" written on the stone table with different strokes but each with its own verve, and jokingly said, "Mr. This piece of land. If you want to write a guerrilla of her praise, you can't just write it well."

The Shen family is both a businessman and a Confucian, and Shen Tingyang's knowledge and disposition are far above ordinary Confucian students.

In addition, he truly respected Tang Yicen, Qi Jiajun and other bloody men from the bottom of his heart, so he sincerely listened to the teachings to the fullest, kept nodding his head, showing [-]% respect to Qi Jin.

Zheng Haizhu observed it from the sidelines and saw that the atmosphere between Qi Jin and Shen Tingyang was good when they met for the first time, so he turned the topic to the serious business to be done.

"Master, Ting Yang's actions this time really helped me a lot. Master, let's move to the village at the foot of the mountain. Let's talk while walking."

Tang Po also said kindly to Shen Tingyang: "Mr. Shen, you can go, the engravings on the plaques in the ancestral hall are enough."

……

Near noon the next day, in front of the Qianhusuo Office near Yaopi Port, Chongming North Island.

Yue Zhixian and Yang Xiancheng got off the sedan chair respectively.

Qi Jin and Zheng Haizhu had already waited with their entourage in the scorching sun. Yue Zhixian was busy wiping his sweat, and stepped forward quickly, pleading guilty: "The sea has flooded a certain distance, and my officer is late, ah, ah! Really."

Yang Xiancheng also cooperated with his superiors and blamed Zheng Haizhu: "Why didn't Madam lead Qi Zongbing in first?"

Zheng Haizhu smiled at him, and looked at Yuezhi County: "It's not my barracks and guards. How dare I enter before the county lord arrives?"

If it had been a few months ago, Yue Zhixian would have scolded her in the local dialect for "destroying that mother" countless times in his heart, but today, no matter how disobedient the tigress surnamed Zheng is, he won't mind.

Not only do I not mind, but I really want to thank the tigress again.

At noon more than a month ago, when Huang Zunsu from the Donglin Sect of Songjiang Mansion came to the Chongming County Government Office on a business trip, Yuezhi County, who was reading pornographic novels, was looking at him, and rolled his eyes at him.

Although Songjiang is a prefecture and Chongming is a county, there is no affiliation between Chongming and Songjiang. You, a six-rank general judge in Songjiang, have no right to control my Chongming for Japanese pirates or spies.

When Zheng Haizhu made no secret of his aggressive posture and asked whether his blunderbuss had been sold by Yao Qianhu to those Shandong merchants who claimed to be surnamed Huang, Anjiyuan came to report that the guard had been killed. After death, several people locked up in the courtyard ran away, and Yue Zhixian and Yang County Cheng suddenly realized that something was wrong.

The two old foxes, the principal and the deputy, both denied knowing that Yao Qianhu had sold the blunderbuss to the Jurchen spies, and righteously invited Huang Zunsu to go to Beidao together to check the number of blunderbusses. Be a witness to each other.

Yao Qianhu, who had always been confident, snatched the first batch of arms from Zheng Haizhu through North Korea-China relations and the help of Yuezhi County. Wherever they could cover them, they let Tong's family, who were posing as merchants, load them on board from a private port.

Facing the several civil servants who came to Xingshi to question him, Yao Qianhu naturally couldn't even get a fire door out.

Yao Qianhu understands that Yue and Yang, who have not yet received the distribution of this batch of munitions, are at this moment the most important thing to save their seats and lives, and they will never continue to wear a pair of pants with him.

Songjiang and Chongming presented the case to Suzhou Bingbei Road. Yao Qianhu was desperate to fight, and insisted that the gun was smuggled and sold by a few military households who liked to gamble, and fell into the river. .

Not long after, Cao Gang of the Shen family in Chongming jumped out and pointed out that their sandboat collided with a sea ship from Liaodong near Taicang, and the guard ship with the Yao flag came from the left and forcibly suppressed In the Shen family, Yao Qianhu's subordinates said that the owner of the Liao boat was "Boss Huang" and that the boat was equipped with huanghuali furniture.

At the same time, those military households in the guard who had been bullied by Yao Qianhu for a long time also reported that Yao Qianhu got a lot of ginseng and mink this year.

Today, the impeachment of Yao Zongwen in Beijing is still like a snowflake, because the queen has passed away in April, and the emperor sees that the emperor is about to come, Zheng Guifei forces the emperor to make herself a queen, and the chief assistant Fang Congzhe instructed the minion Yao Zongwen to take the lead in this matter. Donglin Pai Ziran stared at Yao Zongwen to fight.

Suzhou Bingbeidao pondered that the crown prince would be able to join the orthodoxy in just a few days, and he was much more secure than Fang Congzhe and Yao Zongwen when he joined the Donglin faction, so he wiped his face at Yao Qianhu, who was related to the Yao family, and ordered him to either find the second The two surnamed Huang from Shandong, who owned the Liaodong Seaship, testified, or pleaded guilty.

Yao Qianhu's Qian donkey skills were poor, and after Xingye sent his son-in-law to flee, he finally relented.

During this time, Zheng Haizhu did not choose to sue Yue and Yang for taking advantage of Yao Qianhu.

The exchange condition was that Qi Jin, the deputy general of Zhenjiang who was stationed closest to Zhenjiang, appointed the Zhengjiaying on the South Island to take over the military households of the Thousand Households Office in Chongming County.

At this moment, everyone entered the house of Qianhu.

Before they could sit down, Shen's iced sour plum soup had already been brought in.Shen Tingyang respectfully led a few fresh and bright family servants to serve, while the old and weak handymen in the Qianhu Office stood in a daze in the courtyard.

Yue Zhixian and Yang Xiancheng looked at each other calmly, knowing in their hearts that although the surname Zheng had damaged Wu Bangde this time, it is not an exaggeration to say that it was a blessing in disguise.

The mountain of the tigress, no, there is one more.

Qi Jin took a sip of sour plum soup, and said calmly: "Yuezhi County, the court's rules have always been that military households are military households, and battalion soldiers are battalion soldiers. I have fought all my life, and I have to obey the court's rules. Look at it like this, you guys, in the tone of a county's parents and officials, made a statement to Governor Yingtian, saying that since there are many guards in Su Song's generation, and there are battalions in Chongming, it is better to turn the guard in Beidao into a private household, and the output per mu It can also be used as a tax for Chongming. During the period, the young and strong can be recruited as battalion soldiers by the Zheng family camp in Nandao."

Yuezhi County breathed a sigh of relief.

In the short term, this plan will not only cause him no loss, but also expand the county's harvest.In the long run, will the surnamed Zheng be able to gather troops and become those generals in Liaodong? Cough, a bitch, no, no.

Yue Zhixian then smiled slightly, turned his sweaty and oily face to Zheng Haizhu, and said with emotion: "Madam is loyal to the imperial court. It is a blessing for the people of the island to have Madam's battalion soldiers stationed in Chongming!"

(End of this chapter)