marquis of jingan

After the report went up, Shen Yi patted his ass and went home.

After all, the leader has been notified in advance, no matter who sent these things, it is unlikely to have a particularly large impact on Shen Yi, unless His Majesty the Emperor is a suspicious character like Boss Cao.

But in this case, even if Boss Cao is here, there is a high probability that he will not doubt Shen Yi.

After dealing with this matter, in the next few days, Shen Yi was not idle.

After all, in more than ten days, he will continue to travel south to make contributions.

Since you want to make contributions, you can't go there with a blind eye. You need to know the current situation of the anti-Japanese army in advance, and what's going on with the Japanese pirates.

More importantly, when will the warship that Master Shen is thinking about be launched.

Calculated according to the pre-planned construction period, by this spring, the three warships in the Wenzhou Prefecture Dockyard will be launched, and then Master Shen will be able to drive the boat and happily chase Japanese pirates on the sea.

Of course, it is still during the New Year's Eve, and the warship factory in Wenzhou Prefecture has also shut down, and it will not resume work until after the Lantern Festival, so it is useless for Shen Yi to be anxious.

In addition to learning about the situation from the Anti-Japanese Army, the most important thing for Shen Yi was to write letters to the two Dibao Division branches in Taizhou Prefecture and Guangzhou Prefecture.

Ask them about the latest intelligence developments.

It is worth mentioning that after the Japanese pirates along the coast were defeated by the anti-Japanese army several times in a row, the internal whole has been greatly shaken.

After all, when the overall environment of the pirate industry is not good, those Han pirates must want to get out of this industry.

However, this industry is not very easy to get out of the whole body, because once caught, it will be the end of the whole family.

With few exceptions.

Under this premise, if someone tells these confused young people who urgently need to change their careers, as long as they can provide a little bit of information, they will be able to give a good citizen status when the Japanese pirates are wiped out in the future, and guarantee that they will not settle accounts afterwards. Undoubtedly very large.

Therefore, under this premise, Di Baosi has already infiltrated several Japanese pirate groups to a considerable extent. Among other things, as long as Shen Yi wants to move them, he will be able to find the hiding places of these water mice.

After working at home for several days, the time came to the ninth day of the first lunar month in the ninth year of Hongde.

That afternoon, Xu Fu's younger brother Ding Man sent a letter in person, saying that someone wanted to invite Shen Yi to Cuiyun Tower for a banquet.

Xu Fuming's superficial identity is Eunuch Gao's nephew, because of this level of identity, Xu Fu has now deliberately avoided the Shen family, and he has no intersection with the Shen family on the surface.

Then he asked Ding Man to come over to invite Shen Yi now, there is a high probability that it was not his intention.

After Shen Yi received Ding Man's message, he nodded and agreed without any hesitation.

In the evening, Mr. Shen put on a light blue jacket, left Shen's house, and walked towards Cuiyun Tower.

When he reached the first floor of Cuiyun Building, Shen Yi looked around.

Business is very good.

The first floor is basically full of people, and the private room on the second floor is also full of people.

This Cuiyun Building was originally a decades-old signboard in Jiankang City. When it was on the verge of bankruptcy, it was bought by Xu Fu. Some of his advertising methods have been marketed, and he even spent money to advertise in the mansion newspaper, so that now, he has become one of the best restaurants and restaurants in Jiankang City.

As soon as Shen Yi walked into the Cuiyun Tower, Ding Man, who was wearing a navy blue jacket, walked up to Shen Yi with his head down, and bowed slightly: "My lord, follow me."

Shen Yi nodded slightly, and followed Ding Man up the stairs. When walking on the stairs, Shen Yi caught a glimpse of the younger sister near the counter.

Xiaomei is the youngest among Xu Fu and the other six, and also the most favored one.

Shen Yi smiled: "Why did you let the younger sister manage things here?"

Ding Man walked in front to lead the way, and lowered his head when he heard this, he said, "Young Master, I don't know, this store... the elder brother has already given it to the younger sister."

"It's just that my younger sister is a daughter's family, and it's not convenient to show her face in public, so she only comes here occasionally to look at the accounts, not here to manage the accounts."

Shen Yi was taken aback for a moment, then said softly: "Xiao Xu is really generous."

While talking, the two of them had already gone up to the second floor. Ding Man hesitated for a moment, but still bowed his head and said, "Brother said, I don't want my little sister to work with us anymore, and I want her to find a good man to marry, but my little sister refuses to die." , The two have quarreled several times in private."

Ding Man was very respectful to Shen Yi, stood on the side of the aisle and lowered his head slightly, and said, "If you are free, my lord, it would be great if you can persuade him..."

At this time, he had already stopped at the door of a room, and it was obvious that he had arrived at his destination.

Shen Yi glanced at her, smiled and said, "Who are you persuading?"

Ding Man shook his head in confusion: "I don't know either."

"We don't want to be separated from the younger sister, but we feel that what the elder brother said is right..."

Shen Yi patted Ding Man's shoulder and said with a smile: "Then among the five of you, can't one of you marry a younger sister?"

As he said that, Shen Yi looked left and right at this rather luxurious Cuiyun Tower, and clicked his tongue: "Such a heavy dowry, the dowry of princes and nobles is nothing more than that."

Ding Man blushed, lowered his head and did not speak.

The few of them grew up together since they were young, and they are like relatives to each other. Before Shen Yi said this, Ding Man never thought that there was such a way to go.

Shen Yi glanced at Ding Man, didn't talk to him again, but turned his head and reached out to knock on the door.

In fact, he also understood in his heart that the reason why Xu Fu wanted the younger sister to marry was not just because the younger sister was old enough to marry, but because he wanted the younger sister to break away from their group and live a peaceful life. .

After all, people like Xu Fu, although they started the imperial merchants now, they seem to be in a good position, but their fortunes may turn down at some point, and the family business established in the past few years may be wiped out overnight at any time .

But for these things, these six young people who depend on each other need to decide how to go.

After Shen Yi knocked on the door, a familiar voice came from inside.

"Come in."

It was the voice of eunuch Gao Minggao.

Master Shen opened the door and walked in. Just as he was about to salute Gao Ming who was already seated, he saw Eunuch Gao waved his hand lightly, then pointed to the seat opposite, and said, "There is no need to be too polite, just take your seat."

"There's been a lot going on in the palace recently, so let's make a long story short."

Shen Yi sat down as he said, without speaking.

He knew in his heart that this high eunuch was probably busy with the affairs of the Yue Palace.

After taking his seat, Shen Yi reached out to add a cup of tea to Gao Ming, with a slightly nervous expression on his face: "Eunuch Gao, is there any news about the matter entrusted by the lower official?"

"Ah."

Gao Ming took out a few sheets of paper full of words from his arms, placed them in front of Shen Yi, and said flatly: "In the past few days, the inner guard has checked in detail the gifts of unknown origin in your house. "

"Those silver bone charcoal came from a large kiln in Hu Qiyan's capital that specialized in making imperial charcoal. The cart that was sent to Mr. Shen's house was obviously sold by Northern Qi merchants to Jiankang. The last buyer was A small vendor in Dongshi Street, he was entrusted to deliver this cart of charcoal to your home, and he received more than 80 taels of silver from it."

"80 taels..."

Shen Yi couldn't help sighing: "I'm really willing to spend money..."

Gao Ming glanced at him, and continued, "This merchant from Dongshijie didn't spend any money to buy this batch of charcoal..."

Shen Yi took a deep breath and stopped talking.

Eunuch Gao said calmly: "And the vase at Master Shen's house came from Xishi Street, and was also entrusted to Master Shen's house."

"The origin of this bottle can no longer be found, but..."

Gao Ming looked at Shen Yi with something strange in his eyes.

"However, if the painting at Master Shen's house is authentic..."

Shen Yi was drinking tea, when he heard that he put down his teacup and looked at Gao Ming: "Eunuch Gao, how about the real work?"

Gao Ming was expressionless: "Although we can't find out where it came from, it is said that this authentic work of Li Boshi's "West Garden Map" appeared in Yanjing a few years ago..."