Lord of the House

After exiting from the flower hall, Lin Bie frowned. He didn't expect this to happen. He knew that the lady of the Xiao family was a hot hand, but Mrs. Gu insisted on him next, and he couldn't let it go.

Lin Fu thought that there was still half a bowl of rice to eat, and went back to the aft cabin. Everyone else had finished eating and left, only Zhou Pu was sitting there waiting for him, Lin Fu smiled wryly at him: "Put one on Hard work, Mrs. Gu's house is very strict, and the lady of the Xiao family has no place to live in the Gu family's house, so I have to take her back to be a cook..."

"Can you help with the laundry?" Zhou Pu laughed heartlessly, he used to squat on a bench when no one was there.

"It's specified to add extra money," Lin Fu picked up his leftover rice bowl and ate it coldly, discussing matters with Zhou Pu while eating, "Looking at this itinerary, the Gu family will be staying in a post house outside Jiangning City. In the past few days, choose a good day and auspicious day to enter the city. We can’t spend time with them in the inn. You and Enze will ride to Jiangning first. If you can find Siniangzi and Su girl, you will say something. After the boat arrives at the inn, Only then can I say goodbye to the Gu family, it should be dark by then, Zhao Hu and I will not be able to enter the city, we will stay in the inn for one night, and we will join you when we enter the city tomorrow..."

"Sure, Enze and I will leave first..." Zhou Pu nodded in response.

Lin Fu swept the leftovers from the table, and a servant came in to clean up. He and Zhou Pu walked out of the cabin.

General servants can only move at the stern of the boat and wait for orders. Yang Pu and Ma Chao disappeared. They thought they came to listen to Gu Wuchen's orders. Liu Xilin went ashore and came with his cavalry. Lin Fu squinted at these Dongyang mansion. The cavalry subordinate to the Bing and Ma Division looked undisciplined, but they were not as sullen as the general government army. The three-day journey was quite difficult, but they did not see those soldiers complaining and their morale was low. Lin Fu said to Zhou Pu: " It looks very rare…”

"Shen Rong, the prefect of Dongyang Mansion, is quite famous, and Mr. Qin mentioned him," Zhou Pu said. He had sharp eyes and knew that the cavalry led by Liu Xilin was a well-disciplined and capable elite, "Mr. Qin said that the court Some people called on the court to revive the local government army, and in the south, Shen Rong, the prefect of Dongyang House, and Dong Yuan, the prefect of Weiyang House, were the representatives. Rong and Dong Yuan can't shout too loudly now, but there should always be some achievements under the rule."

Lin Fu looked at the figures of the cavalry among the ancient willows on the shore, thinking that the so-called "sinking" is difficult to rise.

It is said that this prefectural army belongs to the military and horse divisions of the local prefectures. It supervises grain, taxation, water supply, and all kinds of forced labor required by officials and private individuals. All of them are dispatched. In fact, they are no different from miscellaneous soldiers. How can they not be weak? ? A little bit of rectification can only barely maintain law and order in the city, and the bandits in the countryside can only be handed over to the township soldiers to suppress and suppress, which also caused the rise of local tyrants.

Lin Fu also pays attention to researching current affairs these days. He knows that Shen Rong and Dong Yuan's strategy to revive the government is to recruit local township soldiers to fill in the military divisions of each government, so that the township soldiers with stronger combat power can replace the old weak and tired. However, the tyrants from all over the country have become inexorable, how can they easily hand over the village soldiers and village braves with the nature of private soldiers to the government?

At this time, the frontier was in endless wars, people in the Central Plains were rising, and big gangsters were also running across the region. If the local government forced the incorporation of rural soldiers, it would inevitably intensify the contradictions and add chaos. This is precisely what the imperial court did not dare to take risks at this time.

Lin Fu shook his head slightly, even if Shen Rong had the ambition to revive the government's army, the Liu Xilin he found was considered a general, but if he was not given time, his achievements would be limited.

"What is Lin Juren watching here?" Gu Siming walked over from behind, put his hand on Lin Bing's shoulder cordially, and said, "Lin Juren, I'm asking you to discuss something, you have to promise me."

The news in the countryside was blocked, Gu Siming didn't know what happened in Shanglin a few days ago, he just thought that Lin Fu was the Lin Fu he had heard before. He relied on Gu Wuchen's close nephew, and usually he didn't let Lin Fu go. In his eyes, Lin Fu saw that his attitude suddenly became eager. He didn't expect him to ask him for something, and asked, "What's the matter?" She looked a little worried, thinking that it might have something to do with her.

"Let's talk to the side," Gu Siming took Lin Bie's shoulders and pulled him to the side of the boat, "I heard that my aunt sent the Xiao family's wife to you, I will discuss with you, and after I arrive in Jiangning, no one will take care of me. , can you give me the wife of the Xiao family? I came out of Shiliang County with forty taels of silver by my side, and I'll give you half."

Lin Fu looked at Gu Siming's triangular eyes, he was young, his face was waxy, with a pointed chin and monkey cheeks, which really made Xiao Jialiang's little lady's mind, and said: "Master Tang, you look like I don't know. Any kind of person?"

"I knew you were funny enough..." Gu Siming smiled happily, "Don't you just want to go to Jiangning to find a good background? Don't worry, I will definitely say something nice for you in front of my uncle."

Lin Fu waited patiently for Gu Siming to finish his promise, and then said with a smile, "Do you think I will somehow exchange the kindness of my wife for you for these twenty taels of silver?"

Gu Siming was slightly startled, looked at the playful smile on Lin Bing's face, and changed his face: "You know what's wrong! You wait, my uncle and aunt will treat me as a nephew or you. I have fought with my Gu family for dozens of times. This year's Lin family disciple!" The humiliated one walked away.

Lin Bie shook his head slightly, thinking that a beautiful woman is a disaster.

Seeing Gu Siming getting into the cabin, the lady of the Xiao family came over, bowed her body and saluted, and said in a low voice, "Thank you, Young Master Lin for taking in the slave family..."

"Since you're not happy to be the cook, why are you still on the boat?" Lin Fu asked inexplicably.

"How can I take care of myself in any matter?" The lady of the Xiao family complained, "I rushed back to my parents' house to live in, but fortunately, I still have some use to help me in the tea hotel, so my parents, brothers and sisters will still be kind and sweet. - The magistrate sent someone to send 22 taels of silver over, saying that he would send 20 taels of silver every year. As long as I serve as a cook for the Gu family, does Young Master Lin think I can still stay in Shiliang County?"

Lin Bie sighed slightly. It turns out that the three taels of Yueyin are just Liang Zuoren's open mouth to increase his leverage in Gu Wuchen's mind. Twenty taels of silver can buy a good-looking girl these days, not to mention forcing the little widow to be a concubine? Thinking that after Gu Wuchen brought the little lady of the Xiao family into the house, Liang Zuoren no longer needed to give money to the lady of the Xiao family every year.

"Ms. Xiao, since Liang Zuoren is willing to pay the wrongful money, let him pay the wrongful money," Lin Fu said, "Well, after you go to Jiangning, I will prepare a small yard for you, and you can live with the four of us. It's inconvenient, then I will trouble you with the chores of cooking and cooking on weekdays..."

"I had known that Mr. Lin was a righteous gentleman, and the slave family would thank Mr. Lin for righteous adoption. The chores such as washing and cooking are all within the slave's family." The lady of the Xiao family was worried, her beautiful face was radiant and even more beautiful, she hesitated. After a while, he said in a soft voice, "The slave family's maiden name is Liu, and the cheap name is Yue'er. Master Lin can just call the slave family's cheap name..."

"I can't believe that you and Deputy Lieutenant Liu are the family..." Lin Fu said with a smile, after a thousand years, it may not be anything for men and women to rent together. He planned to prepare a yard for Liu Yueer for nothing else, just to do It was shown to Gu Wuchen. Lin Fu could see that Gu Wuchen's thoughts about Liu Yueer were not broken, and he knew that Mrs. Gu was there. Gu Wuchen should not think about taking a concubine in this life, but no matter what, he put on a self-cleaning attitude, which made Gu Wuchen feel in his heart. I like it, and I have another thought. Being able to rely on the big tree Gu Wuchen in Jiangning will make many things much more convenient.

Liu Yue'er stood at the bow of the boat and talked to Lin Fu. At this moment, many people knew that this beautiful little widow was going to be a cook with Lin Fu. All of them were envious, and they looked at Lin Fu with envy. Again.

At this moment, a fleet of ships approached from the north. The ship was full of cargo and had a deep draft. The leading ship had a flagpole on the bow and the triangular flag of the Wufeng Escort Bureau. The fleet also noticed that this was an official ship, and the dart flag Halfway down from the flagpole to show respect.

The head of the bow deck is relatively open, and there are two rows of warriors with knives on their waists, which are truly majestic.

Zhou Pu said towards the dart flag: "This is the largest **** shop in the four counties of Jianghuai, not only the house of the governor of Jiangning invites Wufeng's martial masters to serve as guardians, but also officials from Jiangdong, Lianghu and other counties to Yanjing. The silver and tax silver will also be transported by Wu Feng..."

Lin Fu laughed, thinking that Zhou Pu and the others had been frustrated when they played Wufeng Escort. Jiangdong is the main export destination of Yanjing’s grains, but occasionally due to the Huai River and the river bursting in autumn, the river is blocked, or the river is shallow due to severe drought, and the grain cannot go north in time. For the delivery of grains to the capital, a trip usually involves the delivery of several hundred thousand taels of silver ingots to the capital. Lin Fu thought that Zhou Pu and the others were too bold. If the hundreds of thousands of taels of tax and silver were robbed and the road from Jiangdong to Yanjing was cut off, the government could specially send tens of thousands of troops to encircle and suppress them.

At this time, the fleet guarded by the **** agency approached, and there was a young man in brocade standing on the bow deck of the pilot boat. He probably saw the lacquer plate with gold and black heads on the bow of the boat, and shouted to this side: "On the boat is the deputy commissioner of Jiangdong Inspector Gu Gu. grown ups?"

The boat is parked here, UU reading www.uukanshu. It was impossible for the fleet to stop suddenly. Listening to someone calling Gu Wuchen's name, Yang Pu's son, Yang Shi, got out of the cabin to see what happened. The bow of the boat was already more than half the length of the boat, and the young man in brocade stretched out half of the boat's side to greet him loudly: "Yang Shi, it's me, I thought you guys arrived in Jiangning early! Can Si Yuan and Jun Xun also be on the boat? Forget it, it's inconvenient for me to stop the boat here, let's meet in Jiangning."

Lin Fu thought that this young man might be a family friend of the Gu family, otherwise he wouldn't call Miss Gu's boudoir name directly.

This brocade-clothed youth is probably also the son of an official. This Jiangning was originally a place where all the eunuchs gathered and the rich and nobles gathered. The prefects of other places were middle-level officials from the fourth rank, but the governor of Jiangning was a senior official of the third rank. He was on the same level as the Jiangdong Xuanfu Envoy, Jiangdong Inspector and Jiangdong Admiral. The Jiangning House, the envoy, was separated from the jurisdiction of the Jiangdong Xuanfu Envoy, and its civil affairs, prisons, supervision and other affairs were directly responsible to the central institutions such as the Six Ministries and the Three Courts of Jiangning. This is probably the only place where the out-of-power officials who have been squeezed out of Jiangning to be guards of the mausoleum can save some face in front of the political opponents of Yanjing. In addition, the military garrison of Jiangning Mansion is not under the jurisdiction of the Jiangdong Admiral Mansion, and a second-rank Jiangning garrison general is appointed. To say that the town army is still somewhat elite in the Jianghuai region, it is probably the 30,000 garrison army under the jurisdiction of the Jiangning garrison general. In addition, Jiangning garrison generals usually have the title of Jiangning Military Minister, which in turn has the right to control the Jiangdong Admiral's Office. Generally speaking, only Jiangning Military Minister and Jiangning garrison are regarded as the head of Jiangdong's ministers. It is rumored that the court is likely to let Li Zhuo, the governor of East Fujian, who has made contributions to the Jinan luxury family, sit in Jiangning and serve as the garrison general of Jiangning and the title of Minister of War of Jiangning.

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