marquis of jingan

Chapter 48

Master Lu's words are very meaningful.

To put it bluntly, it is to take Shen Yi to meet people, and tell those Jiangdu high-level officials by the way, this kid is covered by my surname Lu, and before you touch him in the future, you must first ask someone Lu.

In this case, in the future when Shen Yi created nursery rhymes, the people from the government would not go directly to Shen Yi himself, but would first go to Master Lu to understand the situation, and then Master Lu could protect Shen Yi behind him.

In fact, this is the way a master treats his apprentices. That is to say, although there is no name of master and apprentice between Shen Yi and Master Lu, there is already a master and apprentice.

Even Shen Qilang, who has been a man for two lifetimes, was a little moved at the moment. He sat opposite Lu Anshi, bowed his head respectfully to Master Lu in front of him: "Thank you, sir."

Lu Anshi closed his eyes and rested his mind, and ignored Shen Yi.

Shen Yi didn't speak any more, he just opened a corner of the curtain and looked at the scenery outside the carriage.

Ganquan Academy is very close to Jiangdu City, and not too far from the Yamen of the Jiangdu Prefect. In addition to the carriage, it took less than half an hour for the carriage to stop at the gate of the Jiangdu Prefect's Yamen.

After the carriage came to a complete stop, Shen Yi got out of the carriage first, and then turned around to help Mrs. Lu. Lu Anshi shook his head slightly at Shen Yi, and said, "I'm not yet seventy or eighty years old, so I don't need to be helped."

Saying that, Master Lu got out of the carriage by himself, looked up at the magistrate's yamen in front of him, put his hands behind his back, and walked towards the yamen.

Shen Yi held the disciple ceremony, followed the old man with his hands down, and also entered the magistrate's yamen.

After entering the magistrate's yamen, Shen Yi couldn't help but look around.

This is his first visit to the magistrate's yamen.

The original Shen Yi had only been to the Jiangdu county government office, and was beaten like a dead dog in the county government office, and almost lost his life there.

As for Chen Qing's case, the ultimate influence was limited to the Jiangdu county government office, and it had almost no impact on the government office.

Compared to the food price incident this time, Chen Qing's life seemed so insignificant.

After entering the magistrate's yamen, two small officials soon led Lu Anshi all the way to the side hall in the backyard of the prefect's yamen.

This is the place where the government office meets guests. At this time, Ma Yuanwai and other five grain merchants who are the representatives of Jiangdu grain merchants have arrived early. Respectfully saluted: "Master Lu is here."

Lu Anshi nodded slightly, with a calm expression.

The chubby horseman looked at Lu Anshi, and then at Shen Yi behind Lu Anshi, the expression on his face froze.

Obviously, he recognized Shen Yi.

After all, not long ago, Shen Yi got entangled with his son Ma Jun because of a murder case, and now it's only been about a month, and Ma Yuanwai will naturally not forget it.

However, the expression on his face froze for a moment, then he squeezed out another smile, and bowed his head to Lu Anshi in authentic Jiangdu dialect: "Master, we are all from Jiangdu, this time you are going to replace us from Jiangdu." It's up to you, don't let the two foreign officials bully us at will."

Lu Anshi looked up at Yuanwai Ma, and then looked calm: "Master Ma may have misunderstood, this time it was an imperial envoy from the imperial court who was interrogating, and Lu was only invited to attend, and did not have the right to make decisions for Master Ma."

The horseman smiled and said in a low voice: "Master, you have always just heard and heard. With you here, the imperial envoys in the capital would not dare to turn black and white, and ignore the truth."

Speaking of this, Yuanwai Ma paused, and continued to whisper: "Master, Mr. Ma knows that you don't care about property. If you help me with this matter, after this matter, I will invest together to expand Ganquan Academy..."

Hearing this, Master Lu raised his head and looked at Yuanwai Ma with a half-smile: "The expansion of the academy is a lot of money. If Master Ma was willing to pay for the expansion of the academy, why didn't he follow the government's arrangement and send the food The price has been lowered? At the beginning, the food price was reduced by a few pennies, and even if it lost money in the end, it should not cost more than expanding the academy?"

"People say that businessmen are after profits. Why did you come to Mr. Ma's place? You can't even figure this out?"

"gentlemen."

Ma Yuanwai slightly lowered his head and said: "It's true that businessmen seek profit, but when things get to that point, it's not just a little money. If we talk about donating money, my Ma family will give porridge outside the city to help the poor one year. The price of rice has dropped to one penny, ten catties, one hundred catties, and the Ma family may not be able to bear it if it is sold for a few months, but..."

"Ma just can't see these foreign officials bullying us Jiangdu people!"

The horseman said in a muffled voice: "We Jiangdu people, are we the kind of people who are obedient and obedient?"

These words are righteous.

But Master Lu narrowed his eyes and sneered in his heart.

It sounds good on the surface, and what they say is for Jiangdu to stand out. In the final analysis, the people behind it want to use this matter to make a fuss. If this matter is not manipulated by the people in the capital behind the scenes, the prefect of Jiangdu should not talk about suppressing food prices. If half of the Ma family's property is taken by force, the Ma family will kneel on the ground and dare not fart!
However, it is impossible to say such words in the open.

Master Lu smiled politely, and said lightly: "Master Ma, Lu will remember how and what the imperial envoy of the imperial court will ask today. I have really wronged you. We are fellow villagers. Nor will it turn a blind eye."

"Thank you, master."

Ma Yuanwai bowed his hands repeatedly to Lu Anshi: "Thank you, Master..."

Just as the two were talking, a clear voice came: "Mr. Lu is here."

It was the voice of Prefect Chen.

When Lu Anshi turned his head, he saw Chen Yulian came together with Yue Zheng, the judge of Dali Temple, and Zhang Lu, the inspector of the censor.

Mr. Lu turned his head, glanced at the three people, and then bowed his hands: "I have met Chen Fuzun, Zhang Yushi, and Yue Pingshi."

Standing behind Lu Anshi, Shen Yi also bowed his hands together with his husband.

The three officials all noticed Shen Yi standing behind Lu Anshi by coincidence, and then looked at Lu Anshi. Chen Yu and Chen Zhifu hurried forward, helped Lu Anshi up, and said, "Mr. Seniors in the examination room are also seniors in the officialdom, how can they salute us?"

Yue Pingshi and Zhang Yushi also echoed.

Among them, Yue Zheng from Dali Temple has the closest attitude towards Lu Anshi. With a smile all over his face, he first stepped forward to salute Lu Anshi, and then said with a smile: "My Qian Shaoqing from Dali Temple was born in Ganquan Academy. Calculated, it should be about the same age as Master Lu, so Yue can still have some relationship with Ganquan Academy."

This kind of "relationship" is really far-fetched, but Yue Zheng is now an "imperial envoy", and Lu Anshi is not good at refusing his face, so he just slightly bowed his head and said: "Qian Shaoying of Dali Temple, who was in the academy with Lu Studying, he and I are considered classmates, but he will enter school two years later."

Dali Temple Shaoqing Qian Jun, courtesy name Shaoying.

Hearing this sentence, the smile on Yue Zheng's face became even brighter, and he said with a smile: "In this way, tomorrow Yue will go to the academy no matter what, so that when he returns to the capital, he can also have a relationship with Qian Shaoqing." Talk about the old place of Jiangdu, the old people of Jiangdu."

Obviously, this Yue Pingshi wanted to flatter his leader.

Master Lu didn't bother to pay attention to him any more, but looked at Prefect Chen and asked, "Master Chen, what's your statement today?"

Chen Zhifu looked calm and confident, he looked at several grain merchants not far away, and said lightly: "Sir, sit down, there are imperial envoys, the whole story of this matter will soon be revealed. .”

(End of this chapter)