The Reborn Duke of Ming Dynasty

It has been several days since the door official was killed. Although the deceased was killed by a special thing like a silver needle smeared with poison, this incident did not cause much trouble. After all, many things are There is no way around it.

Not to mention that Zhang Fan just heard about Liang Chao and Li Yang's situation, and came to the conclusion that the enemy hired someone to do it; it was Wang Dezhao, the local prefect who was supposed to manage the matter, who sent out the yamen After several unsuccessful investigations, he gradually put the matter on hold. This is not because Wang Dezhao is too irresponsible, but because he really has no clue about this matter after so many days, and the deceased The fact that Zhang Fan died from a poisonous needle was only known to Zhang Fan and the three or four people in Wang Dezhao’s yamen. , and there is no trace of the word "poison" written on it.

This can be regarded as Wang Dezhao's selfishness of not wanting to cause trouble, and the people below didn't say much about it, because in fact, the court government is not too willing to intervene in such matters that may involve people in the world. It didn't make a lot of noise, basically no one would take the initiative to make trouble. It once happened because a magistrate in a certain place was holding on to this kind of thing, and was even about to find the murderer, but the official suddenly The incident of being silenced for a while, and the murderer was never found after that, so whether it is Wang Dezhao or the arrester in the yamen, whether it is honest or greedy, basically they don't want to ask about this kind of thing.

The money escorted from Zhejiang has been counted by the people sent by Zhang Fan in the past few days, and now the number has come out. Compared with the total amount, such a small amount of unexplained loss is already very small, so Zhang Fan didn't want to make any more fuss about it, and he even gave 1 taels to those who escorted the money over. The terracotta warriors were used as a reward, which made the head of the hundred households who led the team even more grateful.

After the silver was counted, it started to be shipped as ordered by Zhang Fan, because the amount of silver was too much, and now there is still silver from Fujian that has not been shipped yet, and the silver here has already been loaded for several times. One hundred boxes, people who don't know the situation, thought it was something that Zhang Fan brought to the dignitaries in Beijing or something else, but this number is too much, and people who know the situation like Liang Chao , I was really amazed to see this, because there are too many.

Because of the rush of time, Jin Yiwei hired a lot of porters to carry these boxes, even those young and strong porters, it took three or four to carry a box, which made these porters guess what was inside these boxes In the end what is installed.

Because Yangzhou is the intersection of the Yangtze River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, it is very prosperous, but because of the Longqing switch incident a few years ago, cities near the ports such as Songjiang and Suzhou have become more in demand for labor, so even Many local porters in Yangzhou went there to look for work, but now there is such a large amount of work that needs manpower, and Zhang Fan who needs manpower is also the imperial envoy of the imperial court, and the situation a few days ago, So as soon as Zhang Fan asked to pick up husbands, Wang Dezhao looked impatient and hurriedly gathered the porters in the city. But after the people came, Zhang Fan heard from Liang Chao's report that there were still not enough manpower, and the progress of the transfer was very slow. So he asked someone to talk to Wang Dezhao again.

When Wang Dezhao heard this, he didn't dare to be negligent, so he hurriedly thought of a way, but almost all the porters in Yangzhou City were found by Zhang Fan, and there were no idlers anymore. If they were recruited temporarily, some of them might just want to earn a living. It would slow down the progress instead, and Wang Dezhao had to think hard about this matter. Fortunately, the master in his yamen gave him an idea and asked him to go to Suzhou to find someone.

When Wang Dezhao heard this, he was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly sent someone to tell the prefect of Suzhou about this incident. Then the prefect of Suzhou was also involved in this incident of Liu Shan's corruption. Now it seems that Wang Dezhao came with Zhang Fan's intention Man, how could he dare to be negligent, so he hurriedly asked the yamen servant to find a porter and send him to Yangzhou. Fortunately, the sea ship has returned to Yangzhou for many days, and there is no important work. In addition, Zhang Fan is willing to come to Yangzhou for these people from other places. The porter's treatment is really good, so no one complains.

So, these more than 100 people rushed to Yangzhou after a whole day's journey. Although they were required to start working immediately, fortunately, Zhang Fan had ordered them to provide good food in addition to full board and lodging. , so there is no objection to this request.

For the sake of fairness, Zhang Fan’s price is that no matter how many people carry a box together, a box is one penny, and let them divide it. In this way, it can be said that the enthusiasm is high. The porter didn’t come out because of difficulties at home. Naturally, this kind of physical work is to earn more money, so everyone is playing their lives to carry the boxes, but Liang Chao, the supervisor, also got Zhang Fan's order, and these porters work hard, but This summer, the weather is hot, but there must be no fatalities, so Liang Chao, for the sake of fairness, ordered all the porters to come down every two hours to rest before going to work. Some people boiled a lot of mung bean soup for the porters to relieve the heat. After so many years, some people were tired and weak, but no one really suffered from heat stroke.

These porters are also full of praise for the treatment here, but they are also very contradictory and want to delay for a while. After all, the conditions here are so good that they may not be able to eat here at home on weekdays. things; but I slowed down, but I was afraid that other people would carry a few more loads, and I would get less wages.

But to say a thousand words and ten thousand, the most practical thing for these people is to get the money in their hands, so after thinking about it, these porters still worked hard, no, this is not much These days, all these boxes are almost finished moving.

Liang Chao recently supervised the work here. Although he didn't say how much he felt, he did see a lot of things. He had heard that the common people worked very hard, but now he saw with his own eyes that these porters worked hard for those who were working for him. Although he didn't have much sympathy for working so hard without much salary in his eyes, he still had some thoughts.

These days, the bored Liang Chao would chat with porters as long as they were resting. After a lot of understanding, Liang Chao never put on a high-ranking official air, but he seemed much more approachable, which also allowed him, the supervisor, to gain the trust of these people. They have been living outside for such a long time, and they have good eyesight. They can tell that Liang Chao's status as a supervisor is not ordinary, but they still chat with him about some gossips, which may be a kind of trust. Behave.

Today is the last day. Seeing that there are still dozens of boxes to be moved, those local porters just now learned that there will be work for them to come in a few days, but there are not so many. The rest of the work was left to those colleagues from Suzhou, so that these people who came from afar could bring more wages back, and those Suzhou porters who learned that they would not be able to come next time did not appreciate it any more. I feel sad not to have such superior working conditions. After all, although all of them who live at the bottom all dream of having a lot of money, they still understand the reality very well, and they don't want too much extravagance.

"Okay, okay, let's take a break first." Liang Chao saw that the sun was not too early, and it was almost noon. He asked the porters to stop for dinner in Chinese, "There is not much left, and we will move after eating." It's not too late,"

The porters also listened and came over to get the food.

Liang Chao has been living here for the past few days. Because the weather is too hot, he no longer pays attention to it, and wears very different clothes. This also invisibly increases the distance between him and these porters. Not very afraid of him.

"Brother Liang, it looks like we can finish it this afternoon," a banner squatted next to Liang Chao with lunch, and said to him.

"I said you kid, you are thinking about wages." Liang Chao obviously knew him very well, and said in a slightly joking tone, "Don't worry, I'll have someone pay you wages after all the things have been moved up. Someone will remember how much work anyone has done, and you are indispensable for a single job."

"That's good, that's good," the porter also laughed twice, but there was no embarrassment on his face, after all, these people are very practical, "Oh, I said Brother Liang, what's going on here? What the hell is it?" He asked the most curious thing.

"Silver, it's all silver," Liang Chao told the truth in a joking tone.

"Brother Liang, don't make fun of me, don't do it if you don't want to say it," the porter said angrily, "Forget it, anyway, I won't have anything to do here soon, I have to go home as soon as I get the money,"

"Why, the family is waiting for the money to be used," Liang Chao was not polite. He really cared about these people these days.

"No, it's just..." The porter was a little embarrassed, but he said it anyway, "My brother-in-law is dead,"

"Oh, sorry," Liang Chao said after hearing this.

"Oh, my mother-in-law asked someone to bring me a letter this morning, telling me to go back quickly," the porter also said with a sigh, "you said that this person is only in his early thirties, and he is still a door official, anyway, he still has a lot of money every month. How can this be?" I suddenly had a heart attack, and it’s gone if I say nothing.”

"Oh, this is also..." Liang Chao was about to say something encouraging, but suddenly stopped, and said in shock, "What did you say?"