Lu Ming

Chapter 190 Detour
A pleasant conversation can shorten the time, especially when both parties have mutual interests.

So when Song Jia finally waited for "Cao Chuan" to return from Fuya Back Street, it was already 11 o'clock in the middle of the night.

In just a few hours, Xiong Qi, who was leading the way, seemed to have a much better attitude.Not only did he diligently help Cao Haizhu to draw up the sedan chair curtain, but he also hung a lantern with the words "Governor's Yamen" on the sedan head.

Ever since, Song Jia and his party returned to the other courtyard safely. The patrolmen they met along the way did not step forward to question after seeing the lantern.

After returning to the house, Song Jia, who had already predicted from the time someone stayed in the yamen and Xiong Qi's attitude changes before and after, that the summit should have a good effect, heard Zhang Dongdong's good news as expected.

That night, radio waves not only shuttled over the city of Fuzhou, but also traveled across the ocean, and the people who traveled as far away as Dayuan and Hangzhou also received good news at the same time.

Early the next morning, Huang Ping was summoned by Xiong Wencan.

Huang Juren, who had already learned the main points of last night's talk from the radio, was not stage frightened in front of Lao Xiong at this moment, and talked freely: with a seemingly fair attitude, a seemingly fair comparison, and a seemingly fair evaluation, he will make the old Xiong go without a trace. Zheng Hei made a pass.

The old Xiong suffered because he hadn’t been connected to the Internet of the later generations, and he was not very familiar with these bright and dark routines, so he accidentally fell for it. After listening to Huang Juren’s unique style of strategic analysis, the old Xiong finally decided, Tonight, we will continue to receive the senior officials.

This time there are two protagonists: Lao Xiong not only wants to meet Cao Chuan, but also wants to meet Cao Chuan's general: Sha Zhengming.

When Huang Ping came out of Lao Xiong's study room, his whole body was in a state of ecstasy—the "card position" plan persisted from Hangzhou to this point, and the biggest hurdle has just been passed!
Xiong Wencan's ability to consider meeting generals proves that he is already planning specific actions after the recruitment.This is a transition from the strategic level to the tactical level - if the old bear still has relatively serious concerns about appeasement of the transmigrated forces, he will not meet the opposing generals.

Just like a girl, the most important thing is not sex, but the first inconspicuous holding hands; the seemingly unimportant holding hands is the key link to decide whether you can finally have sex.

After Huang Zanhua came out of Lao Xiong's study, he saw that it was still early, so he went home first.

Huang Ping did not live in the yamen because Mr. Huang brought his family with him and he had some ulterior secrets.

The house in the yamen was dilapidated and old, and at most he would be allocated a small courtyard, which was too difficult to use—Huang Ping, among other things, had to have large and small study rooms.

So Mr. Huang, who was not short of money, bought a three-entry house near the yamen at a high price.

He took the servant and the chief follower out of Fuya, and within a short walk was his own yard.After the master returned home, he went straight to the back house, greeted his beautiful wife hastily, and then went to the small study in the side courtyard.

The servants in the family knew the taboos of their master, so no one dared to bother him at this time.Leaving the young man guarding the hospital door, Huang Ping went into the study and took out the car radio from the locked cabinet, then put on the earphones and started calling.After connecting the Fuzhou Station and the other hospital soon, Huang Ping spent 5 minutes reporting the content of the match with Lao Xiong in the morning, and then turned off the locker and left.

After Master Huang finished his ulterior motives, he felt relaxed.After going back to the inner house, I talked to my wife for a while, and then ordered the maid to take out a box of Anji white tea that my father-in-law entrusted not long ago to pack.

It was already around 10 o'clock in the morning, and Mr. Huang saw that the time was about the same, so he said that he would not go home for lunch, and then staggered to the chief secretary's office in a sedan chair.

The chief secretary's yamen is not far from the Futai yamen.In Fuzhou City in the Ming Dynasty, the government offices were basically located in the area north of Maoying Bridge and west of Jianchi.Huang Ping took a sedan chair all the way, and walked not far south from the Futai Yamen. After passing the Weiwujun Gate, there was the Chief Secretary Yamen.

Seeing Huang Juren who Shi Shiran came down from the sedan chair, the door of the side door quickly put on a smile, and went forward to say hello: "Master Huang is here!"

Huang Ping nodded, took out a piece of silver and threw it over: "Is Master Fang here?"

"Yes, yes, the master is in court."

"Oh, I haven't paid the price yet. Well, you can do whatever you want, and I'll go."

Leaving the long entourage chatting in the porter, Master Huang led a servant and walked straight to the back office.

The current Zuo Buzheng in Fujian is called Cai Shanji.

Cai Shanji was born in Wucheng, Zhejiang (later Deqing). During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Cai family was a prominent family in Deqing.

Cai Shanji, together with Fei Zhaoyuan and Pan Shilin, was once called "the true and honest official in Shaozhong", and his family has a long history.

As for Huang Ping's cheap father-in-law, Mr. Zhong, he and Cai Shanji belonged to family friends. Since Cai Shanji's father, Cai Hualong, the two families have known each other.

After Huang Ping came to Fuzhou, relying on Master Zhong's letters and his big-footed wife, he easily got the status of a god-nephew from Mr. Chief Minister.

And Cai Shanji also has a good impression of Huang Ping, a young man with extraordinary conversation: Not everyone can get the job of praising paintings by Xiong Wencan's side. He himself has more than a dozen staff members, and there is a big difference between them.

Huang Ping stopped all the way to the middle gate: Lao Cai is still working in the main hall, and it is not convenient to go to the back house at this time.So he went to the gazebo, where there were often a few Qing players playing chess.

Sure enough, there were people in the gazebo.

After playing chess for half an hour, and finally waiting for Lao Cai to get off work, Master Huang hurriedly intercepted the boss on the way, offered a bag of tea from his hometown, and then followed Lao Cai to the back house to have a meal.

Cai Shanji is more than 50 years old this year, with a handsome appearance.Since the first wife is in Deqing's hometown, there are only two concubines in Fuzhou to accompany her.Seeing his god-nephew came today, Lao Cai set out a few dishes and sat alone with Huang Ping.

At this moment, Huang Ping finally had the opportunity to apply eye drops to Lao Cai.

The chief envoys of the Ming Dynasty had quite a lot of power, which was somewhat similar to the position of senior officials in later generations-although the official position of the chief envoys was lower than that of the governor, each had jurisdiction, and it was not a purely superior-subordinate relationship.

This situation will gradually evolve in the Qing Dynasty: the chief envoy will become the direct subordinate of the governor.

And Cai Shanji is now the Fujian Zuo Buzheng, it can be said that one person is under one person and above ten thousand people.Except for Lao Xiong, the secretary in charge of the army, other civil policies must be approved by Lao Cai.

Therefore, Lao Xiong's recent high-secret action of recruiting the cross-travelers had greeted Lao Cai in advance-he had to ensure Lao Cai's cooperation in civil matters after the recruiting.

Huang Ping came to reveal the news today.

First of all, Huang Ping revealed the process of recruiting during the meeting.

Secondly, Huang Ping increased the difficulty of recruiting a little bit.In other words, Huang Ping "inadvertently" exaggerated Zheng Zhilong's chances of winning a little bit, and narrowed the advantage of the crossing crowd by a little bit.

In this way, from Cai Shanji's ears, Zheng Zhilong and Cao Chuan's recruiting parties seem to be divided in fours and sixes at present-the cross-travelers have an advantage, but the advantage is not great.

Well, at this point, Huang Ping knew that the heat had come, so he didn't say any more. After eating and drinking, he left in a hurry.

As for Lao Cai, before the old man could think about it clearly, that afternoon, a certain force's trump card came: General Manager Xu Xinsu, who had disappeared for many days, came to ask to see Lao Cai.

As a local snake/big distributor in the Zhangquan area, Xu Basong and Cai Shanji, who once served as the magistrate of Putian County and the prefect of Quanzhou, are quite familiar.

Not to mention the filial piety in daily life, that is, Xu Xinsu has bonded with the Allied Forces and Zheng Zhilong many times to make films, and there is also Cai Shanji's acquiescence and support behind this.One must know that the most plundered by Zheng Zhilong's bandits is the area around Quanzhou, Lao Cai's territory.

Xu opened the way with the total money, presented the gift list, and soon met Lao Cai.

The next moment is to hold the thigh and cry.Xu Bazong's task today is to sell miserably.

Mr. Xu not only told the full story of the tragedy of his family's escape to Fuzhou, but also told Lao Cai that now that Zheng Zhilong's gang has gained power, they wantonly plundered the coastal areas, especially the Quanzhou area where Lao Cai used to be the prefect. Sleeping boys and sleeping girls scrape the ground seventeen or eight feet. In short, the dogs are now pulled by Zheng Yiguan.

As for this time period in history, Lao Zheng is expressing goodwill through various channels, including going ashore to rob without hurting people, and giving money to poor ghosts. Of course, Mr. Xu didn't know about it.

After Lao Cai appeased Mr. Xu, he sent him back first.

Then Lao Cai fell into deep thought.

Mr. Xu reminded him of his cry when he was about to leave: "All the people in Zhangquan are ruthless. The Zheng family is ruthless. Mr. Fang Bo must not let this beast be caressed. I have nothing to stand for."

Speaking of which, the relationship between Cai Shanji and Lao Zheng is still very deep.You know, Zheng Zhilong's father, Zheng Shaozu, was the treasury official of Cai Shanji, the prefect of Quanzhou, who was in charge of the warehouse.

However, no one could have imagined that the son of a humble treasury official would bring so much trouble to Fujian official circles in the future: especially the prefects of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, these two positions were the most important.

In real history, after Xiong Wencan came to Fujian, Cai Shanji finally assisted Xiong Wencan to appease Zheng Zhilong.No way, the same sentence: everyone has no choice.

And Cai Shanji, who came from a famous family, once snubbed the grassroots Zheng Zhilong when they met, and used his tricks to fool the old Zheng, no doubt, he deeply hated this person in his heart.

Cai Shanji sat in the hall, thinking for a long time.

When he finally combined the information provided by Huang Ping at noon with the words Xu Xinsu cried out, Lao Cai naturally made a decision at this moment: "Come here, prepare the sedan chair, and go to the Yamen!"

In the afternoon of the same day, Fujian Left Chief Secretary Cai Shanji, dressed in a formal red official robe with a flag in front of the way and his own soldiers behind him, paid a formal visit to Governor Xiong Wencan.

"I don't know what Boda (Cai Shanji's word) is here for?" In the main hall of the governor's office, Xiong Wencan, who was also in official robes, asked behind the screen.

"My lord, that Zheng Zhilong owl is inherently capricious and capricious. Now that he is powerful, and the treacherous people from Fujian and Guangdong follow suit, he must not be tamed."

Xiong Wencan: "."

(End of this chapter)