Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 76

Suspicious in his heart, Li Dana came to the Yangzhou branch of Detai Bank with fifty silver notes.

The Mr. Station Cabinet of Detai Bank told him categorically: "Your banknote is fake! Oh, what you did is quite real."

Li Dana was furious!There is actually a liar who cheated his salt?This is really like breaking ground on Tai Sui's head!He, Li Dana, started his career by cheating and abducting.

Li Dana returned to Sifang Teahouse and did three things.The first thing is to send his subordinates to hunt down Fatty Feng and the two so-called "merchants" throughout the city.

The second thing was that he asked someone to send an invitation card to Wang Zhenhao, Deputy Envoy of Lianghuai Salt Transport, asking him to come to the banquet at night.

The third thing was that he asked someone to send a letter to Lv Da, the governor of Nanjing Jinyiwei who stayed in the yamen, asking him to send dozens of capable brothers to Yangzhou.

Jinyiwei has Fusi Yamen in the south and north towns in Beijing.Nanjing is the capital of Liuzhou. In addition to the six remaining departments, there is also a Jinyiwei left behind in the yamen.

Although Nanjing Jinyiwei is not as powerful as Beijing's Nanzhen Fusi and Beizhen Fusi, it still bears the name of Jinyiwei anyway.On the ground in Zhejiang and South Zhili, Nanjing Jinyiwei still has some residual prestige.

Nanjing Jinyiwei stayed in the yamen and set up a town governor.The official position is four grades.Today's left-behind town governor is a man named Lu Da.This person was originally from a hundred households under Jin Wanguan, the third eldest son of Fusi in Beizhen.Four years ago, he was sent to Nanjing as an envoy.

Hundreds of households from Beizhen Fusi were able to serve as Zhenfu envoys in Nanjing, which shows that the status of Nanjing Jinyiwei is far lower than that of Beijing Jinyiwei.

At night, Sifang Tea House.

Wang Zhenhao, Deputy Envoy of the Lianghuai Salt Transport, arrived as scheduled.

This Deputy Wang is not Yan Song's person, but a disciple of Gao Gong, a general of Yu Wang's party.

The Deputy Envoy of Salt Transport, the official name is "Tongzhi of Lianghuai Salt Transport".Although he is the deputy of the Salt Transport Envoy in name, he actually has no power at all.In the Yan Yun Yamen, it is just a dispensable decoration.As a fourth-rank official, he does not have the real power to be a sixth-rank salt transport judge or a seventh-rank salt transport judge.

Yan Song knows how to be an official and even a man.He knew that his party members' long-term control of the Lianghuai Salt Transport Yamen would dissatisfy the government and the opposition.Therefore, he took the initiative to give the vacant position of deputy envoy of salt transport to the members of Yuwang Party.

When Fushi Wang entered Sifang Teahouse, Li Dana had already prepared a banquet.

Li Dana filled the wine for Vice Envoy Wang, and said, "Master Wu has been convicted and imprisoned. Lord Yan Maoqing is new in office, and it will take more than a month for the handover. The former officer has been imprisoned, so you, the deputy, will naturally have to do it for you." Handover. Heh, for more than a month, you have always had the final say on the matter of the Yanyun Yamen!"

Deputy Wang smiled wryly: "You mean my daughter-in-law of a thousand years has become a mother-in-law? Forget it! My mother-in-law can only be a month at most. Oh, what is enough for?"

Li Dana took out a 5000 taels of silver note from his sleeve, and handed it to Deputy Envoy Wang: "There are many things that can be done in a month. This is 5000 taels of silver. Please help me with a small matter."

Deputy Wang pushed the bank note back to Li Dana: "Don't tell me! My boss Li! I dare not take your money! I don't even have a single coin in my hand. The 200 million dan salt coins left over from last year, Wu Didn’t your lord sell it to you long ago? This year’s Yanyin, I can’t move a piece of it until the new salt envoy finishes the handover. After the handover, you can go to that Lord Yan Maoqing.”

Li Dana smiled: "What I beg you to do is not to throw salt at you!"

Deputy Wang said with a smile: "This is really strange! Who in the entire Yangzhou city doesn't know about you, Boss Li? Of the ten thousand things you do, nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine are related to Yan Yin."

Li Dana said: "This matter is indeed related to Yanyin. I would like to ask you to issue a notice for me to invalidate 53 dan of Yanyin! All numbers from C [-] to D [-] are invalid."

Deputy Envoy Wang was shocked: "The 53 tans of salt papers are voided? There are 53 copies of the [-] dans of salt papers! If the businessman who took the salt papers finds out, they won't be able to go to Beijing to sue the imperial court?"

Li Dana said: "The person who took this batch of Yanyin did not dare to sue. Because he is a liar! He used a fake bank note to cheat and buy 53 dan of Yanyin from me!"

Deputy Wang said in surprise: "There is such a strange thing? You boss Li is such a shrewd person, how could you fall into this trap?"

Li Dana smiled and said: "I'm ashamed. Someone in my Sifang teahouse was eating inside and out. The collusion between inside and outside made a cover for me. I got in without paying attention. Don't worry, you always cancel these batches of salt. , no one will trouble you! A liar, how dare you do harm to the imperial court's fourth-rank officials? It's just right for him to jump out! I'm looking for him!"

Deputy Wang asked: "I have to have a reason to invalidate more than 5000 salt quotations, right?"

Li Dana said: "You are from the top two ranks. You have written beautiful articles. You can chew on the words and chew on the words. Isn't it ready to find a reason? This matter will be entrusted to you when you grow old!"

After finishing speaking, Li Dana pushed the bank note in front of Deputy Envoy Wang.

Deputy Wang struggled a bit, and stuffed the banknote into his sleeve: "Okay! It depends on your boss Li——and your boss's face! How is your boss recently?"

Li Dana smiled and said: "My boss is his official in the capital, and the money from the south of the Yangtze River flows into his pocket like water. What can he do wrong? Oh, old man Yan Ge, Lord Yu People from Mr. Lu and Eunuch Lu are all true Buddhas! My boss wants to worship everyone. This is a bit hard."

Deputy Wang smiled wryly: "That is, Ding Wang's "Hundred Officials Records" was set on fire by He Laoliu of Jinyiwei. Otherwise, more than half of the officials in the Jiangnan officialdom will lose their heads. Your boss's Yanyin business , it will not be possible in the future.”

Li Dana said: "What Deputy Wang said is true! My master must have set up a longevity tablet for He Laoliu at home every day, and kowtowed every day to offer incense! Do you think it's strange? He Laoliu burned so much For the important things, the emperor didn't mean to blame him at all. Instead, he rewarded him a lot and sent him to the south of the Yangtze River to search Lord Wu's house. Hey, our boss said that the work of raiding the house in Jinyiwei is very oily. Yes! I know Master Wu’s family background, there are always several million taels of silver. Then He Lao Liu can get a few 10 taels of income by just flicking his fingers on the account of the house, right?”

How did Li Dana know that the one who came to cheat him into buying the salt in his hand was He Laoliu from Jinyiwei's Thirteenth Taibao!

Deputy Wang asked in a probing tone: "I said Li Dana, is your boss in the Jinyiwei yamen with He Laoliu? How did I hear..."

Li Dana quickly interrupted Deputy Wang's words: "Don't tell me! My Lord Wang, stop talking here. My boss doesn't allow me to reveal his identity easily. I can only tell you that he is an old man in the capital. Officer, the power is not low."

(End of this chapter)