Brocade clothing as the country

Chapter 400
Although the guarding eunuchs in Nanjing are majestic, they are not as high as the eunuchs who are in charge of the horses and admirals. Everyone understands this account.

Chu Zhaoren has been in Nanjing for the past few years. The Minister of the Nanjing Military Department and the Nanjing Guard have always respected him, but they have not had much contact with each other. The Xu family's hereditary inheritance does not need to sell too much face to him.

But this time when the order from the palace came down, Chu Zhaoren immediately felt different. The Minister of the Nanjing War Department and the Nanjing Garrison both congratulated politely and presented a gift.

These etiquettes and gifts are nothing extraordinary, but this gesture makes people feel a lot of emotion. In the past, many wealthy businessmen in Nanjing had some kind of relationship with high-ranking officials, and they only maintained superficial respect for the eunuch Chu. As soon as the decree of this promotion came, they all sent heavy gifts one after another.

Everyone in Nanjing opened the door for Chu Zhaoren's promotion this time. After all, there are only a small number of people who can not be shocked by honor or disgrace, and Chu Zhaoren is obviously not among the few.

In addition to being extremely proud, he also made promises of one kind or another to the person who gave the gift, but Chu Zhaoren also summed up a truth from his predecessor's fall.

The person who decides in the palace is the Empress Dowager, to be more precise, the Empress Dowager Cisheng, not the Empress Dowager Rensheng, not Eunuch Feng, or the Emperor Wanli.

Back in the inner court, it’s enough to be polite to the emperor and others, but you must be very respectful to the empress dowager. In addition to this, the eunuch Zhang Jing, the eunuch in charge of the imperial horse supervisor, must be respectful here, and the supervising eunuch Lin Shulu A lot of people fell, so be careful.

The new admiral and eunuch Chu Zhaoren had been thinking about these things along the way, and his entourage had already brought a large number of gifts to the capital to make some inquiries.

The capital is thousands of miles away from Nanjing, and it will take about ten days to deliver the news even if it is [-] miles urgently, so I don't know much about the things in the north.

But one thing I know is that today's Tianjin Wei is not as prosperous as it used to be, and it is not inferior to Jiangnan. If someone said it, Chu Zhaoren thought it was an exaggeration because he had never seen the world, but before he left, many people came to visit , but they all praised in unison.

This made Chu Zhaoren curious. He thought that when he thought of Tianjin Wei, he must disembark and have a look. He also has a nephew and two cousins. If it is really as prosperous as it is said, it is better to settle there Excuse me, now that my status is different, no one in Tianjin Wei will show some face.

After the water boat passed Jining Prefecture, it couldn't speed up and walked slowly. It arrived in Tianjinwei at the end of July, and Chu Zhaoren didn't want to get off the boat to live. It is said that it was used by several salt merchants. The ship is large and stable, and the decoration is luxurious. It is very comfortable inside. Tianjin Wei is a small place, and there may not be a better inn than this one to rest.

As instructed in advance, the boatman started to control the speed of the boat when he left Linqing, and stayed at a place five miles away from Tianjin Wei for one night. When the sun rose the next day, he arrived at Tianjin Wei just in time. time to play.

Unexpectedly, the fleet just arrived at Tianjin Wei, and they stopped still. The sun had already risen, Chu Zhaoren just got up from the bed, and the accompanying women waited for him to put on his robes.

The eunuchs guarding outside have a habit, they like to find a beautiful woman to be a fake couple to accompany them. Although it is inhumane, there may be some psychological comfort.

The women who waited on Chu Zhaoren were not ordinary women, but when the eunuch Chu left Nanjing, a businessman spent a lot of money to buy a few women on the Qinhuai River and sent them over. They really knew how to serve people.

After dressing and washing, Chu Zhaoren found that the boat was not moving, and when he entered the territory of Beizhili, Chu Zhaoren felt a faint urgency in his heart, always looking forward to the boat going faster.

Although today I will go to Tianjinwei for a day and a half, but I don't want to waste too much time on the road, so I sat on a chair and gargled my mouth with green salt and vomited, and asked:
"Why didn't the boat leave?"

The voice was not loud, but the outside immediately asked layer after layer, and after a while, a little eunuch raised his voice outside and said:
"Going back to my ancestors, I heard from the boatman that you have to queue up to pass the card when you pass by Tianjin Wei. Now is the season when there are many boats, and you have to queue up every morning, but the cards are fast here, and the ancestors don't have to wait long to pass!"

"It's just that Tianjin Wei has so many rules..."

Eunuch Chu snorted coldly, and went to the front of the boat to have breakfast. The chef on board is also an expert, and he really enjoyed himself very much on this boat.

After two sips of breakfast, the boat started to move, but it stopped after a while, and there was a noise outside. Chu Zhaoren didn't care too much. He planned to go out for a walk after drinking tea. Thinking that the noise was louder, and it was the movement in front of his own ship.

Chu Zhaoren frowned suddenly. There are more than 50 ships in the fleet. His ship is in the middle, and there are ships carrying gifts and people in the front and behind. In the front, it must be his own business. He heard the sound of the stairs in the ship building again, and someone ran up from below.

"What are you doing, the ancestor is still resting, don't rush in!"

"Grandpa Chu, Kazi here in Tianjin wants to check our goods and collect our taxes!!"

The man wanted to go up but was stopped by the eunuch outside, he was anxious and couldn't help roaring outside, upon hearing this, the eunuch who stopped outside did not dare to speak, but Chu Zhaoren who was sitting in the cabin frowned, In silence, he will speak:
"Have you reported our family name?"

"If you go back to your father-in-law, report it, but Tianjin Wei and these dogs are still relentless."

When I was the guarding eunuch in Nanjing, it goes without saying that the people from top to bottom were respectful. Since I was promoted to the imperial horse supervisor and admiral eunuch, I went to Nanzhili and Shandong to enter Hejian Mansion. Knowing that this father-in-law is about to enter the central government, if he accidentally offends him, and if he utters a few words in a crooked manner, there may be a report in the palace, and the official position will not be guaranteed at that time, or he will be sent to prison for punishment.

Chu Zhaoren didn't understand why there were people in Tianjinwei who didn't know what was going on. The man outside heard nothing happening inside, but when he was about to ask a question, he heard the sound of thumping on the table, and he heard screams from inside:
"This Tianjin Wei really doesn't know the rules!!!"

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"You useless bastards, you dare to let irrelevant people come up on the boat containing our things, get rid of it, get rid of it!!"

Eunuch Chu walked to the balcony protruding from the front of the ship building, and saw many soldiers in Jinyiwei arguing with his family on his ship, he immediately became angry, and slapped the railing with his hands and cursed loudly.

The eunuch's voice was sharp, and when he raised his voice, all the people below looked over at once. After being watched by everyone, Chu Zhaoren became even more angry, and shouted:

"Look at what our family is doing, drive people out quickly, Niu Qianwei, you are the leader of our guards, is that how you guard them?"

The guarding eunuch in Nanjing has the responsibility of supervising the army and guarding the imperial city of Nanjing. At the very least, the guarding eunuch must hold a team of hundreds of soldiers. Bring the soldiers from Nanjing, they are also on board.

There were several guards on each cargo ship. Hearing the eunuch Chu's anger, a burly man on the ship in front turned around and asked:

"Eunuch Chu, these people seem to be the sons of Jin Yiwei, this..."

He hesitated, but the words were very clear. In some localities, the tax checkers are just helpers, rogues and gangsters. These people beat them up, but Tianjin Wei is wearing flying fish suits. They are real officials. Everyone is officials. , This must be considered before doing it.

"Get out, get out, our family is the emperor's messenger, do we still have to let these bastards come to investigate!!"

This inquiry made Chu Zhaoren even angrier, and shouted from above.

The soldiers guarding the eunuchs are used to being arrogant and domineering on weekdays. Hearing what the master said, how could the soldiers of the ships be polite?

Originally, the tax collectors on board the ship and the soldiers guarding the ship were arguing, and the two sides were tit-for-tat, but when they fought, the tax collectors were no longer their opponents.

They were either accountant apprentices or former soldiers of Tianjin Jinyiwei. They had no fighting skills. When the two sides made a move, many people were pushed off the boat and fell into the water like dumplings.

The water in the canal is not deep, and they all came here in small boats. One fell into the water, and his companion hurried up to salvage it. The matter was not too big, it was nothing more than a few bruises, and he was in a state of embarrassment.

Seeing the distressed appearance of these tax collectors, the eunuch Chu who was watching from the balcony at the bow and the women beside him burst out laughing, and the boats on the river all looked sideways.

"Just you fish and shrimp, you dare to come here to play against our family. You really don't know how to live or die. Let's sail, let's sail!!"

Chu Zhaoren said a few words in disdain, and then looked towards the shore from the balcony. He was really surprised when he saw this. Compared with the last time he left Beijing to take office, this place is indeed quite different... "

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Those tax collectors approached the shore, and several leaders met to discuss it. While leaving some people to collect other people's taxes, they sent people on horseback to tell Zhang Shiqiang who was in front.

As usual, Zhang Shiqiang is responsible for collecting taxes on the side of the Bairi Canal. Even though he is only a hundred households now, he no longer needs to do everything himself, but the Baihuhang Bridge is not so lucky, and he has to watch everything outside. , but Zhang Shiqiang is still in charge of making up his mind.

Zhang Shiqiang was looking through the account books there, walked in quickly outside the Hang Bridge, and said directly after entering the door:
"Brother Zhang, our tax collectors have been beaten two miles downstream!"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Shiqiang immediately stood up from his seat and asked eagerly:

"How are we? Who is so bold!?"

"Your sons were beaten a few times, and they were beaten into the water. The one who beat them said it was the new eunuch who was appointed as the imperial horse supervisor...Old Zhang, are we..."

Hang Daqiao hesitated, but Zhang Shiqiang cut him off firmly:

"What is it, close the gate first, and hurry up to invite your lord!!"
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