The days when I ransacked the house in Jinyiwei

Chapter 224 Quanzhou Lin Family
Zhang Cai is indeed the person Chang Feng likes.The work efficiency is extremely high.

Coupled with the blessing of Jinyiwei's pervasive intelligence network, within two days, Zhang Cai found out the source of Japanese goods for the two uncles.

At noon that day, Chang Feng was playing chess with Fatty Xu in the guard room.

Fatty Xu showed a sad expression while playing chess.

Chang Feng asked, "What's wrong with you? You're listless, as if you haven't woken up."

Fatty Xu replied: "My old man's health has been deteriorating in the past few years. He had diarrhea last night. I waited for the old man to sleep until you."

Duke Ding Xu Yongning is 61 years old and in poor health.Suffering from severe diabetes, fate is not long.

If Xu Yongning dies, Fatty Xu will become a serious Duke of Ming Dynasty, a top nobleman.

Chang Feng put down the chess piece in his hand: "If I have time these days, I will go to your house to visit the old man."

At this moment, Zhang Cai came in front of the two of them, and bowed his hands respectfully: "Excuse me, Master Chang, Master Xu is playing chess."

Chang Chang stared at the chessboard without raising his head: "Have you found out the result?"

Zhang Cai replied: "My lord, it is the Lin family of Quanzhou Haishang who supplies the Deshengchang Commercial Bank."

Chang Feng looked up at Zhang Cai: "The Lin family?"

The Lin family of Quanzhou, a well-known maritime merchant family.

There is a folk proverb in Fujian: "Quanzhou sea, Quanzhou sea, the Zhu family's world and the Lin family's wealth."

Since their ancestors assisted Zheng He in his voyages to the Western Seas, the Lin family has been chartered by the imperial court since the Yongle Dynasty to engage in maritime trade with countries in Southeast Asia.

During the reign of Emperor Xianzong, Quanzhou maritime merchants were attacked, and many Quanzhou maritime merchants were arrested or killed.All family wealth was confiscated.

It is said that the huge wealth confiscated was just used for the military expenses of Chenghua Liting and Beijian Grassland.

Strangely, the Lin family was safe and sound, and was not attacked by the court.

Not only that, but the imperial court's crackdown on the rest of the maritime merchants was actually helping the Lin family.Let the Lin family dominate the Quanzhou family.

According to folklore, the wealth of the Lin family is worth less than half of the national treasury.

Naturally, the Lin family would never be able to amass so much wealth just by relying on the limited Southeast Asian trade permitted by the imperial court.

The unclear smuggling trade with Japanese pirates is the real source of income for the Lin family.

Chang Feng said: "The Lin family should send someone to handle affairs in Beijing, right? Arrest them."

Zhang Caidao: "Master Chang, I have received reliable news. Lin Sheng, the head of the Lin family, will enter Beijing in a few days."

Lin Sheng, only 17 years old.Due to his father's early death, he became the head of the Lin family at the age of 13.

Businessmen from Zhejiang to Fujian would not call Lin Sheng "Boss Lin" when they saw him, but "Big Boss" to show respect.

The Lin family has a rule, every three years, the main family will go to Beijing for business.As for what to do, only God knows.

Chang Feng threw the chess piece back into the chess pot: "That's good. Let's not arrest people for now. Let's wait for Lin Sheng to come to Beijing, and I will meet this 'big boss' instead."

In the afternoon, Chang Feng came to the cabinet to be on duty.The cabinet has just suggested that Emperor Hongzhi change the post of Sichuan chief envoy.Chang Feng came to talk to them about sending people to Chengdu to search their homes.

After the business talk, Li Dongyang said: "It's hard for you to come to the cabinet. Have a cup of tea before leaving."

Chang Feng smiled and said, "Thank you Li Cifu for the tea."

Chang Feng sat drinking tea with the three elders.

Da Huyou Xie Qian said: "Everyone, I just got a joke. It's really funny. Let me tell you."

Xie Qian likes to tell jokes the most.His jokes often have deep meaning.On many things, he can always point out his position by telling jokes.

Xie Qian said with a smile: "In winter, a young bird was so cold and hungry on a tree branch that it passed out and fell to the ground."

"The little bird was about to freeze to death on the ground. It was too late, but it was soon. A strong cow came over."

"Don't get me wrong, everyone, the strong cow didn't trample the bird to death. Instead, it stopped on the bird and pulled a bubble of smelly and steaming cow dung."

"Crack, the cow dung is impartial, and it just fell on the little bird."

"The strong cow left after pulling the dung. It was a blessing in disguise, and the little bird was warmed by the heat of the cow dung and woke up."

"Little bird is so happy. Wow, I really deserve to die!"

"It was thumping happily in the cow dung and chirping."

"Since ancient times, blessings and misfortunes depend on it, and misfortune lies on the blessings."

"The little bird narrowly escaped death, and was so happy that it fluttered and sang. The movement attracted a weasel."

"The weasel ate it."

This is a bad joke that isn't funny.

Li Dongyang asked: "Is this the end?"

Xie Qian nodded: "It's over."

Chang Feng was thoughtful: "Xie Ge's jokes are always full of meaning. I wonder what the meaning of this joke is?"

Xie Qian laughed and said: "This joke tells us that if we are in a cesspit, it is best to shut up and don't mess around."

cesspit?

Chang Feng frowned slightly, and thought to himself: What is Xie Qian implying to me?
Officials in the capital always like to laugh at themselves. The officialdom of the Ming Dynasty is a big cesspool.Few people can emerge from the mud without being stained.

What Xie Qian meant was to tell me, who is in the cesspit of officialdom, to shut up and stop messing around?
That's weird, I haven't bothered about anything lately.Could it be.
Chang Feng thought of one thing: Xie Qian's native place is Yuyao County, Shaoxing Prefecture, Zhejiang Province.

Yuyao County is close to the sea.Government affairs are under the jurisdiction of the Yamen of the prefect of Shaoxing.In terms of business, it is under the jurisdiction of the Ningbo Municipal Shipping Department.

Could it be that the Xie family was also involved in maritime trade?Xie Qian is hinting to me, don't worry about the smuggling by sea merchants?
Weird.I asked Zhang Cai to investigate the source of the smuggled goods, which is a secret known to a limited number of people in Jinyiwei.

How did Xie Qian know?Did someone give Xie Qian a chance?
Li Dongyang said suddenly: "Brother Xie's joke is more like a fable, it is really full of philosophical thoughts."

Liu Jian also said: "This is a joke that only smart people can understand. At this moment, all the people sitting in our duty room are smart people."

"Presumably, everyone can understand. Right, Chang Feng."

Chang Feng pretended to be confused: "Ah, I am a dull person. A fool who failed to even take the five-subject examination."

"Xie Ge was always the top scholar in the 11th year of Chenghua. His jokes and fables are incomprehensible to stupid people."

Chang Feng has passed the Hongzhi Three Years, Hongzhi Six Years, Hongzhi Nine Years, Hongzhi 12 Years, and Hongzhi 15 Years five times in a row.

Sun Shan lost his name again and again.

The fourth trial three years ago was the closest he was to Bagong.It was only one rank short.

This spring, he entered the Gongyuan again.It is still famous as Sun Shan.And this time, he missed "many, many laps".

Chang Feng thought that he was not good at learning after he failed the first few times.

After failing for the fifth time, Chang Feng began to suspect that the examiners deliberately let him fail.

Behind the examiners stood the civil service group.Since the imperial examination fraud case three years ago, Chang Feng has been in the same situation as the civil official group.

If the butcher of Jinyiwei has the honor of a Jinshi, he can be transferred or concurrently hold an important civil official position. With the trust of Emperor Hongzhi, Chang Butcher will become a serious threat to the civil official group.

Li Dongyang and Xie Qian looked at each other and stopped talking.

Changfeng will not ask for trouble.The three elders stopped talking, he couldn't just stay in the value room.

Chang Feng got up: "Three elders, I will take my leave."

In the evening, Chang Feng returned home.

Fatty Xu followed Chang Feng to the Chang Mansion to fight the autumn wind.

Chang Ponu is practicing arm strength with two stone skewers in the front yard.

Fatty Xu laughed at him: "I said nephew, your arms are not strong enough. I can lift these two twenty-jin stone skewers with two fingers."

Chang Feng scolded: "How much fat are you? How much is a broken slave? How dare you tease your nephew who is not half as heavy as you are."

After a while, the dining room opened.

Old Taishan Liu Bingyi is getting old and has gray hair.But he is very similar to Ma Wensheng, he grows stronger with age, and grows stronger with age.

Last summer, Chang Feng bought a maid aged twenty-eight to take care of his daily life.

Taking care of three and taking care of two, the maid was taken care of by Liu Bingyi and put on the bed.

In his rare years, Liu Bingyi actually made the servant girl's belly bigger.

Chang Feng made arrangements and asked Liu Bingyi to take the maid into his house and make her his concubine.

Liu Xiaoyan saw that she was going to be an older sister at the age of 37.Unfortunately, the concubine had a miscarriage when she was six months pregnant.

Otherwise, Chang Feng would have an extra brother-in-law or sister-in-law.

The family had dinner happily, talking and laughing.

Chang Feng regards Fatty Xu as his half brother and the most trustworthy person in the world.

While chatting, he turned the topic to business: "The number one maritime businessman in the southeast, the head of the Lin family in Quanzhou is coming to Beijing. I plan to go and meet him."

Fatty Xu said: "The Lin family in Quanzhou is very famous. I've heard of it a long time ago."

Liu Bingyi frowned: "How come the Lin family in Quanzhou sounds so familiar?"

Chang Feng asked: "Old Taishan, did you deal with the Lin family when you were an official?"

Liu Bingyi said: "That's not true."

After a while, Liu Bingyi slapped his head: "I remember! Miao'er, go to my bedroom and bring me the list of congratulatory gifts I received when I accepted you last year."

Liu Bingyi's concubine is named Miao'er, and she looks like a water spirit.In the words of later generations, he is a typical white and thin boy.

Not long after, Miao'er brought the gift list.

Before Miao'er was pregnant, Chang Feng felt that he couldn't be sorry.The concubinage ceremony is done like a continuation ceremony.

With Chang Feng's face, many officials and nobles from the capital came to send congratulatory gifts, and Liu Bingyi's old disciples also came to congratulate him.There are hundreds of names on the gift list.

Liu Bingyi had a hard time looking through the gift list.

He put the list of gifts in front of Chang Feng, and pointed with his finger: "Look. Wang Younian, the procurator of Beizhili, congratulated Mr. Liu on behalf of the Lin family of Quanzhou, and presented a Nanyang coral as a present."

Chang Feng frowned: "The Lin family even gave our family a gift?"

Chang Feng didn't know that no matter which high-ranking official in the capital had a wedding or funeral, the Lin family could always find a related official to give gifts on behalf of congratulations and sacrifices.

Its huge relationship network in officialdom can be seen.

Fatty Xu said: "Be good. The mouth of the eater is short, the hands of the grabber are short, and the legs of the sleeper are soft."

"The Chang family accepted the gift from the Lin family, your hands are going to be short."

Chang Feng ordered his servants: "Find out that coral plant. When the Patriarch of the Lin family enters Beijing, I will return it to him face to face. There is no relationship, what gift did he give?"

Let's say that after three days, Jin Yiwei Changfeng was on duty.

Zhang Cai reported: "Master Chang, Lin Sheng has come to Beijing. He lives in the Fujian Chamber of Commerce in the west of the city."

"An official in the capital wants to give a businessman a reception banquet. The reception banquet is tonight."

Chang Feng sneered: "Oh, for scholars, farmers, businessmen, merchants are the last. When the great grandfather established the country, merchants were not even allowed to wear silk."

"When a businessman enters the capital, the officials in Beijing are going to give him a welcome banquet. What a big show!"

"Send more eyes and ears. Keep an eye on him."

At this moment, a voice came from outside the duty room: "Who are you looking at?"

Then Qian Neng, the governor of the East Factory, led his adopted son Qian Ning in.

Chang Feng hurriedly cupped his hands: "Duke Gong."

Qian Neng sat on the chair: "Who did you say you were going after?"

Chang Feng replied: "Focus on a sea merchant who knows nothing about the world and is suspected of smuggling. Oh, this person's surname is Lin."

Qian Neng's complexion changed: "Are you talking about Lin Sheng, the head of the Lin family in Quanzhou?"

Chang Feng nodded: "Yes. Have you heard of him?"

Qian Nengdao: "I've heard of it! Even though Lin Sheng is young, he is only 17 years old, but he is a very kind person."

"Last year he donated 8000 taels of silver to Zhongguantun."

There were [-] eunuchs in the imperial palace of the Hongzhi Dynasty.

Not everyone can achieve the prominent positions of eunuch, young supervisor, and supervisor.

Most eunuchs spend their lives doing nothing in the palace.When you are old, you are still a fireman or something.

Eunuchs are servants who serve people.There are no idlers in the palace, they will leave the palace when they get old.

People who have lost their roots are not welcome by the old family.They lived in Zhongguantun in the capital for the elderly.

Zhongguantun is the nursing home for eunuchs.Of course, it later changed its name to a name familiar to the world: Zhongguancun.

Chang Feng was surprised: "The Lin family donated money to Zhongguantun?"

Qian Nengdao: "Since the first year of Hongzhi, the Lin family has donated silver to Zhongguantun every now and then."

"Boss Lin is coming to Beijing. Tonight there is a reception banquet at the Fujian Chamber of Commerce. I have to go to the banquet and thank him in person."

"You said you were going to keep an eye on him? How did he recruit you?"

Chang Feng's heart skipped a beat: Oh my God, do the Lin family have friendship with Duke Du?
Chang Feng had no choice but to perfunctory: "I heard that many Beijing officials are going to the Fujian Chamber of Commerce tonight. I am afraid that there will be trouble, so I sent someone to keep an eye on it."

Qian Neng said: "The great virtuous man came to Beijing, everyone go to meet him, what kind of trouble can happen. Don't send anyone."

"Jin Yiwei's eyes and ears are on him for a while, and those who don't know think that the factory guard is going to touch him."

Chang Feng cupped his hands: "Yes. By the way, Dugong, last year my family took a concubine in Mount Tai, and the Lin family gave me a gift. I will go with you tonight, and thank the head of the Lin family. What do you think?"

Qian Neng picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea: "Okay. There is no harm in getting acquainted with a great virtuous person. I will lead you there."

Qian Neng is a "good man" every bite, and seems to have a close relationship with the Lin family.

Chang Feng guessed that in addition to donating money to Zhongguantun, the Lin family should also be filial to Qian Neng on weekdays.

Qian Neng changed the subject: "That's right. If you go to the Fujian Chamber of Commerce tonight, you can meet one of my seniors."

Among the eunuchs in the palace, Xiao Jing and Qian Neng had the most senior qualifications.

Chang Feng's reaction was extremely fast, and there was probably only one person in the world who could be called an "old senior" by Eunuch Qian.

My God, did that person come to Beijing?

Chang Feng asked: "Grand Du, the old man you are talking about is the one who guarded the mausoleum of the great grandfather in Yingtian?"

Qian Neng said with a smile: "It's him. I haven't seen him for many years. He has a good relationship with your godfather."

Chang Feng suddenly remembered that when Chang Tian was a child, he went to Yingtian with his godfather Huai En, and he had seen that person.

That person is, the legend among the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty, the first governor of the West Factory, the nemesis of the grassland Tatars, and the titan among the eunuchs——Wang Zhi.

(End of this chapter)