Brocade clothing as the country

Chapter 538 Stop abruptly, the sea is uneven
Eating snacks made according to Western methods, and listening to the eunuch Zhang Cheng, the supervisor of ceremonies, reading the memorabilia of the officials, Emperor Wanli was extremely happy this afternoon.

Zhao Jinliang, who has always been prudent, didn't pay attention to what the memorial was reading. He kept looking at the silver plate on the desk, which contained various pastries, which were different from the cakes in the dim sum shop. The colors looked fresh, and the taste was now Still echoing in the mouth.

After Zhang Cheng finished reading the memorial, he looked up at Emperor Wanli and Zhao Jinliang who stood beside him. Emperor Wanli was very happy. Zhao Jinliang stared at the dim sum and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Today, these two seemed to be growing up.

After reading the memorabilia, Emperor Wanli closed his eyes for a while, as if he was reminiscing about the acrimonious memorandum just now, then tapped his fingers on the table, and asked:
"Zhang Banban, is this the only book that the Supervisor of Rites submitted?"

Zhang Cheng replied yes, Emperor Wanli took a piece of square cake with chopsticks and put it into his mouth. After finally refreshing his mouth, he threw the chopsticks on the silver plate. The smile on his face was gone, and he asked a boring question. road:

"Zhang Banban, don't lie to me? If you say that Mr. Zhang is such a great book, Daban will definitely call back."

"Long live my lord, my maidservant is in charge of writing in the Supervisor of Rituals. The memorials submitted by the Secretary of General Affairs and other parties must be recorded at the Supervisor of Rituals. Without the approval of my maidservant, Tian Yi from the clerk would not dare to send it back. Look at it." When it came to Zhao Shiqing's booklet, the slaves also immediately looked up the papers of the past few days, and said that Zhang Ge only had this book."

"Oh?"

Emperor Wanli subconsciously asked a question, then fell silent, and after a while, he said in a deep voice:
"According to the report from the Department of Public Security, these few things are those Qingliu who have the most grievances... The people from Nanjing will take the lead to play it. This is also the old rule, but why didn't Qingliu on the capital's side keep up with it? , as far as I know, there are some people in the high school of the capital who are resentful..."

Zhang Cheng felt that the words were wrong, so he quickly took a few steps closer and said earnestly:

"Long live God, with the implementation of the whip law, the tax, silver, grain and fodder collected by the treasury have increased several times. It is the most prosperous time in the country's century. .”

When he heard "Great meritorious service", Emperor Wanli narrowed his eyes, then smiled and picked up the chopsticks thrown on the silver plate, and said leisurely:

"It's only a booklet. I'm going to join in the fun with it. I'll give it to the queen mother to have a look, and then hand it over to Mr. Zhang. Let him handle it himself!"

Zhang Cheng shook his head, bowed with a smile and said:

"There is nothing more holy than Long Live Lord, and this servant will do it now."

"Xiao Liang, arrange a sedan chair and go to Concubine Zheng's side... These scholars, do you really think that I don't understand that Mr. Zhang's doing these things ruined their official career, ruined their wealth, and ruined them to blackmail Shangguan?" The way to do these activities, and don't look at the current situation, reading and reading will spoil your brain."

After finishing speaking, he got up and walked out, took two steps, turned around and picked up a round cake from the silver plate, threw it in his mouth, and said vaguely:
"Let the Imperial Dining Room make a copy and send it to Concubine Zheng."

Zhang Cheng accompanied Emperor Wanli out of the door and got into the soft sedan chair. He watched the sedan chair go away, stood there for a while, shook his head and laughed, and turned his head to see Zhao Jinliang holding the box to follow. He patted Zhao Jinliang on the head, warmly said in a voice:
"Let the Imperial Dining Room make an extra portion for you, remember to pay the price before eating, don't make so much scum in your mouth."

Zhao Jinliang wiped it with his hand, thanked him with an embarrassed smile, and trotted all the way to the imperial dining room.

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Rumors of the Qing Dynasty usually started gradually in the capital, and then a certain Qingliu from the Six Departments of Nanjing went up and down, and the rumor officials of the Qing Dynasty in the capital echoed it one after another.

The government and the public are all talking about it, from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Imperial Academy, the Imperial Academy to the Sixth Ministry, from the seventh-rank officials all the way up, until the nobles in the palace and the big shots in the court find something that is beneficial to them from this chaotic attack, and use the opportunity to push or stop it. Turn public opinion tide into political struggle.

This time Zhao Shiqing, the head of the Nanjing Ministry of War, went up to rectify the current affairs, and what he said was the policy of the chief assistant Zhang Juzheng. Combined with the public opinion of the capital some time ago, everyone felt that it was the eve of the storm.

Unexpectedly, everything came to an abrupt end. After Zhao Shiqing published this memorial, the public opinion in the capital suddenly fell silent, because the public opinion in the capital, which was full of resentment by a whip, suddenly fell silent.

It takes courage for a sixth-rank or seventh-rank official to go to the court to fight against the current number one minister. If everyone doesn't work together, he is a bold lunatic who wants to gain fame and fame.

It's not that no one wants to follow Mr. Zhao's actions, but in the matter of Duoqing, the top five Qingliu were either demoted or assigned, and some were beaten with a board so that their lives would be worse than death. This lesson is too great. If it is too scary, who will stand up and bear the consequences, and there is no situation where the law does not blame the public.

In the capital in May, everyone knew that there was this memorial from Chief Zhao of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, but there was no movement from top to bottom. According to the news that came out, this copy was privately given to Mr. Zhang Ge.

There was also news from Zhang Ge's old mansion. After Zhang Ge read the scriptures, he just smiled lightly and said casually, "Let's deal with it when the Jingcha handles it!"

The so-called Jingcha is the procedure of the Ming court to evaluate Beijing officials. It is held every six years, with promotion, demotion, and even removal of official positions. The ninth year of Wanli is the year of Jingcha.

Those who have figured this out are a little more cautious. Li Youzi, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, was helped up by Mr. Zhang Ge. For the sake of official positions, it is better for everyone to keep their mouths shut for the time being.

It seemed that there was going to be a huge wave, but I didn't expect it to be just a small wave, quickly and silently.

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"Goddamned bastard, out of the hundred and ten folks brought out, there are less than ten left this time, and the goods of the seven ships have all been robbed!!"

A Cantonese ship with more than a thousand materials was moored beside a fort on the Haihe River. An obese sea merchant was sitting there crying loudly. There was blood oozing.

Wang Tong rode his horse past the warehouse, and just seeing this scene, he turned his head and looked around. Although there was no one around to watch the excitement, there were quite a few people poking around on the street and on the roof. He frowned and ordered:

"Go and drive away these idlers around, isn't there still a shortage of people working at the port?"

The soldiers who followed immediately turned their horses and began to order with the security guards. This was the first time that a foreign merchant ship had been hijacked since the Tianjin Wei Port was established, so it was natural to come and see it.

Wang Tong is in the Haihe area, and the security forces usually have 200 people to maintain law and order. Hearing the sound of chickens flying and dogs jumping behind him, all the people who watched the excitement were driven away.

Dozens of people who looked like people on board were sitting or lying around the merchant, many of them were injured, and three of them had broken arms and were lying unconscious on stretchers.

Haihe inspector Tangshan was leading the way in front of Wang Tong's horse. His face turned dark when he saw the embarrassing scene, and he stepped forward and cursed:

"Old Liang, the doctor has invited you and provided you with meals. You have brought people here to make a miserable appearance. You are discrediting me!!"

After being scolded by Tang Shan in a rough voice, that old Liang immediately choked up his voice, and Gu Zibin, the shopkeeper of Sanjiang Commercial Company, also rode to follow him, and whispered in Wang Tong's ear:

"Master, this Liang is afraid that the insurance company will not pay, so he makes such a miserable appearance."

"...Your mother, you and the rest of you are well packed, you are not recuperating in the inn, what happened when you came out..."

Tang Shan pointed at his nose and shouted, the fat man nodded there with a mournful face, obviously afraid of Tang Shan, Wang Tong had already dismounted, came over and asked:
"You are Liang Daocheng?"

Seeing Gu Zibin and the surrounding leaders surrounded Wang Tong, Liang Daocheng moved quickly, knelt down on his hands with a plop, and cried out:

"I beg Mr. Wang to make the decision for the villain, the villain is miserable at sea this time..."

Wang Tong didn't know this person, but this person did know Wang Tong. Wang Tong stared at Liang Daocheng who was kneeling on his hand, and said:
"If you have something to say, you don't need to look like this. What the insurance company should give you will not be less than a penny. Let your injured subordinates go back to take care of them, and don't bother to get sick."

Wang Tong spoke in a cold voice, but Liang Daocheng didn't dare to act rashly, he quickly agreed and asked someone to arrange to send it back, but Wang Tong turned his head and whispered to General Tan:
"Order someone to interrogate alone, and find out the details!"

General Tan nodded and went away. Tang Shan found a clean place in a nearby warehouse, and Wang Tong asked Liang Daocheng there:

"How about casualties?"

"...More than 300 people followed the seven boats to the sea. This time only 52 people followed to Tianjin Wei. Others saw no less than a hundred people dead, and the rest did not know whether they were dead or alive. The villain bought this Guangzhou ship last year and ran away. Quickly, desperately drove off the boarding pirates, and then ran out."

The so-called sea merchants are not good people. The people they brought to the sea were quite brave and desperate. There were so many people in seven ships, and they were eaten by pirates. These pirates were not ordinary gangsters.

"What goods are you trafficking?"

Asked this, Liang Daocheng hesitated for a while, and said:
"The villain trafficked cotton cloth..."

Liang Daocheng was from Jiading, Suzhou Prefecture, and he went to the neighboring Songjiang Prefecture to sell cotton cloth to the north. The cotton cloth woven in Songjiang was high-quality and cheap, and it was sold to the north by sea. People in the capital and Fucheng were willing to wear this Songjiang cotton cloth instead of If you are willing to use local homemade cloth, there are profits, but it is really meager.

However, Liang Daocheng's answers were all quite satisfactory, and he didn't see any problems. Wang Tong nodded, and when he checked with the person who arranged the interrogation with Tan Jiang, he could pay the compensation.

The wooden house next to the warehouse has its windows open. Wang Tong can see the outside, but when he glances at it, he sees a black flag on the mast of Liang Daocheng's ship. There are three white horizontal stripes on the black flag, and he is puzzled. asked:

"You bought Sanshuiwang's flag? How could you still be robbed?"
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