Daming primary school students

Chapter 905 The Beginning of Jiajing’s 21 Years

The 21st year of Jiajing is coming, and the eve of New Year's Day in the first month is New Year's Eve.This time may be the most deserted New Year's Eve since Qin Dewei crossed over.

Except for Mrs. Li, the family members are not around, at most there is Li Chengliang, a half-hearted relative.

Qin Zhongtang sighed unceasingly, probably because of the ups and downs of the officialdom, for the reunion of thousands of families, he had to go out of town and endure the loneliness and loneliness of his supervisor, Zhejiang and Fujian.

After much deliberation, he thought that on this New Year's Eve, if he still wanted to be lively, he could only watch the New Year's Eve with the members of the shogunate.

Among the members of the current shogunate, people from Jiangnan like Tang Shunzhi and Wang Shizhen, whose hometown is not far from Hangzhou, only a few days away, have asked for leave to go back to their hometown for the New Year.

And Chen Feng, who has a close relationship, was sent to Ningbo, and he was still angry about not coming to Hangzhou for the New Year. ,

As for the people recruited locally in Hangzhou, they must also go back to their own homes. There is no reason to give up their own homes and accompany Qin Dewei to celebrate the New Year.

So after looking around, Qin Zhongtang seemed to have no choice but to call Wu Chengen along.

"If there is nothing else to do tomorrow night, let's watch the New Year together!" Qin Zhongtang greeted Wu Chengen, who was still on duty in the contractor's room, in an amiable and approachable manner.

Wu Chengen was stunned, and said a little embarrassedly: "Student, I already have another appointment, and I want to celebrate the festival with Xu Wenchang."

Qin Dewei said in surprise: "Isn't he from Shaoxing? The distance is so close, and he didn't go home?"

Wu Chengen said sympathetically: "He said he has no home anymore, so he won't go back."

Regarding Xu Wenchang's life experience, it is still worthy of sympathy. After Qin Zhongtang sighed, he suddenly asked suspiciously: "Why did you two get together? Where are you going to spend the holiday?"

Wu Chengen laughed "hehehe" a few times, he doesn't need to explain it clearly, he is a man who understands.

As the saying goes, there is heaven above, and Suzhou and Hangzhou below.As a prosperous metropolis, Hangzhou City naturally cannot do without the business of Qinlou Chuguan, and the grade is not bad.

It's quite fashionable, ready to have a New Year's Eve carnival?Qin Dewei couldn't help reprimanding: "Now is the period of national mourning, entertainment is prohibited!"

Wu Chengen explained: "They didn't open for business, they just got together with friends and friends to celebrate the festival together! Could it be that because of the national mourning, they can't even celebrate the Spring Festival?"

Qin Zhongtang persuaded again earnestly: "The shogunate gave you a high salary of 50 taels of silver, not for you to spend it all on drinking and drinking!

It's fine if you go by yourself, and you can also lead Xu Wenchang to go with you, so you don't have to worry about spoiling the young people and leading others astray! "

Wu Chengen looked at Mr. Qin in astonishment. When he failed in the Nanjing provincial examination and was discouraged, which 13-year-old boy sent himself to the old Qinhuai courtyard to enlighten him, and opened the door to a new world?
"Why don't you go with me, teacher?" Wu Chengen thought about it for a long time, and felt that the crux might be here, so he tentatively asked.

Qin Dewei shouted again: "How could I mess around with you! What are you thinking about?"

Now is the period of national mourning, and his identity is too eye-catching.If someone reports impeachment, there is no other way out but to resign.

Wu Chengen secretly sighed a few times, at this time, Teacher Qin was a bit like "the older you are, the less courageous you are".

After finishing work today, Wu Chengen met Xu Wenchang, and walked out excitedly, preparing to go to the reserved New Year's Eve Carnival.

The two of them walked to the alley outside the gate of the shogunate, and suddenly heard someone calling: "Little brother! Little brother!"

Wu Chengen turned his head to look, only to find that the person shouting was an old man in his fifties, and he couldn't help being suspicious.

He must have recognized the wrong person, or called someone else. Wu Chengen was about to leave, but the old man chased him and blocked his way.

Before Wu Chengen said anything, Xu Wenchang who was beside him suddenly went up to meet him, and said in a cold voice to the old man, "Why is brother here?"

The old man said to Xu Wenchang again: "It's hard to find you for my brother!"

Wu Chengen was taken aback. He looked at Xu Wenchang, who was twenty years old, and then at the 50-year-old man opposite him.

There is such a big age difference between these two, it is said that some people believe that they are father and son, but they are actually brothers?
Xu Wenchang turned his head and said to Wu Chengen: "Senior Wu, let's go first! I'll have a few words with my brother."

Wu Chengen didn't mind and said: "It's okay, let's talk later. If you really can't go, I will go there by myself."

It turned out that Xu Wenchang's life experience was indeed quite miserable. He was the son of his father in his later years, but his father passed away a hundred days after his birth, and when he was young, his biological mother was kicked out of the house by his aunt.

After Xu Wenchang finished the cross talk with Qin Dewei in Nanjing, even his aunt died, and then Xu Wenchang followed his elder brother Xu Huai all the time.

Xu Huai is more than 30 years older than Xu Wen, and the two brothers have no relationship at all. Xu Huai himself is not very rich, so he doesn't treat Xu Wenchang very well.

So when Xu Wenchang followed Xu Huai, he lived under the fence and had a very bad life.

Later, Xu Wenchang couldn't bear it anymore, and ran away from home in a fit of anger, and went north to join Qin Dewei.

Fortunately, he was taken in by Qin Zhongtang, and the treatment he gave was not bad, so Xu Wenchang finally had a few days of comfortable life.

The shadow of childhood is too profound. In Xu Wenchang's heart, he doesn't want to recognize his relatives for the time being, and he just treats himself as a loner.

Unexpectedly, Xu Huai took the initiative to find her today, especially at the end of the year when the family should be reunited.

Although Wu Chengen didn't know the inside story very well, he could probably guess it from the looks of it. In fact, it was the story of "the rich have distant relatives in the mountains".

The relatives who treated Xu Wenchang in the cold in the past, now that they heard that Xu Wenchang had developed and become a key figure in the southeast shogunate, they came to him again.

Xu Wenchang didn't avoid Wu Chengen either, and impatiently said to his eldest brother, "What are you doing here?"

Xu Huai said with a smile: "I waited at home with the lights left and right, but I didn't see my younger brother coming home for the New Year, so I came to have a look."

Xu Wenchang still said very coldly: "No need, you and my brothers are already separated, and we should live our own lives!"

Xu Huai pretended to be angry and said: "Little brother, what are you talking about? You haven't even married, so what are you talking about?
Could it be that now that you are well-off, you don't want to recognize your poor relatives? "

Xu Wenchang's temperament belongs to the extreme love-hate kind, so he immediately said: "So what if you don't recognize me? Didn't you also want to recognize me as a little brother?"

Xu Huai jumped up and said, "Xu Wei! You really don't want to recognize your relatives! It's really been a waste of raising you for several years!"

In order to avoid Xu Wenchang's embarrassment, Wu Cheng'en didn't want to listen to the conversation between the two brothers, so he stood a little further away.

Not long after, I saw Xu Wenchang coming over and said in greeting, "Let's go!"

Wu Chengen asked: "Aren't you with your brother?"

"Just do whatever you want!" Xu Wenchang said angrily.

Wu Chengen inexplicably remembered a sentence that Qin Zhongtang often said: Today you love me and ignore me, tomorrow I will make you unattractive.

Then he said with concern: "Then are you okay?"

Xu Wenchang replied: "What can be the matter?"

Regarding other people's family affairs, as an outsider, Wu Chengen couldn't say anything, but he sincerely praised: "I just think that your father is in good health."

Xu Wenchang: "."

Wu Chengen really admires it, as can be seen from the age difference between the brothers. When Xu Wenchang was born, Xu Wenchang's father must have been old, and he could still have children.
When the two were about to turn around and leave, suddenly Xu Huai from behind shouted again: "Xu Wei! Don't you want to know the whereabouts of your biological mother?"

Xu Wenchang stood still immediately, as if he had been cast in a body-holding technique, and was in a state of confusion for a while, wondering whether he should talk to him or not.

When he was young, his biological mother was kicked out of the house by his aunt. This was Xu Wenchang's biggest childhood shadow.

Wu Chengen sighed, it seems that this New Year's Eve carnival may only be attended by himself.It's also very good, the two beauties I booked can all be my own.

Qin Zhongtang didn't know what happened to his subordinates, so in the end he could only drag Mrs. Li through the most deserted New Year's Eve.

But starting from New Year's Day, the desertedness no longer exists. After all, this is the shogunate, and the owner of the shogunate is a scholar of the Martial Arts Hall!
As long as the entire city of Hangzhou is related to official characters, how could it be possible not to come to the shogunate to pay New Year's greetings?

For general courtesy New Year's greetings, just throw a post at the door.But if you want to pay New Year's greetings to Qin Zhongtang, you must be present in person to show respect and sincerity.

As for whether Qin Zhongtang can see it or not, that is Qin Zhongtang's business.

In this way, the 21th day of the first lunar month has passed, and the [-]st year of Jiajing's New Year festival is over, and people's production and life are gradually switching from the festive state to the normal mode.

The members of the shogunate also gradually returned, and all work began to operate again.

Xu Wenchang's main job in the shogunate was intelligence collection and analysis. At the beginning of February, he took the latest summary of the situation and reported to Qin Zhongtang:

"The township soldiers in Ningbo Mansion have been formed, and the number is [-], which just reached the upper limit stipulated by the imperial court."

Qin Dewei was quite surprised and asked: "It's so fast?"

He originally thought that it would have to wait until February to form the township soldiers of the wealthy clan in Ningbo, but he didn't expect that the gang of wealthy clans could be so impatient.

Although the combat effectiveness of the town soldiers is definitely not very good, but the formation speed is indeed lightning fast.

You know, several months have passed since Qi Jiguang and his son went to Yiwu to recruit soldiers, and they are still training and grinding.

Xu Wenchang analyzed casually: "First, Ningbo had already formed a township soldier, with a certain foundation, and it was not completely from scratch;
Second, the big locals in Ningbo do have money. As long as they have money, they can do things easily, and the recruitment speed is of course fast. "

Then Xu Wenchang went on to say: "Now these township soldiers are guarding the main water and land routes leading to Ningbo from the inland in the name of preparing for the Japanese defense.

Then, in the name of strictly preventing people from passing through the Japanese, they strictly inspected the business travellers, as long as there are large quantities of goods such as silk, tea, and porcelain, they will definitely be made things difficult.

If it is light, one-tenth of the points will be drawn, and if it is serious, all will be confiscated!Therefore, the channel for the delivery of goods from the mainland to Ningbo has encountered huge obstacles, and the merchants have already complained!
Moreover, news came from Yan Shifan that the number of ships released has also dropped sharply recently. In the final analysis, the number of ships that have been led out to sea has also decreased because of the reduction in cargo. "

The goods were all blocked at various bayonets in Ningbo Mansion by the local soldiers, so of course there would be fewer people who could be transported to the seaside and then boarded the ship.

Qin Zhongtang sneered a few times, and said sarcastically: "These people can really do it. I gave them a chance to form a village soldier. They don't want to protect their family and serve the country, but they are used for personal gain!"

Xu Wenchang said: "They are not stupid, there is no big problem in name, after all, the officers and soldiers of the guard station can only guard against the coast and the city of Ningbo, and the inland direction needs to be supplemented by rural soldiers.

What's more, the township soldiers guarding the water and land checkpoints are in the name of preparing for Japanese defense against bandits, and there is no problem with this. "

Qin Dewei asked in detail: "Then what name did they use to divide the goods? Who gave them the power?"

Xu Wenchang looked at the information and reported: "Whenever a large amount of goods is shipped to Ningbo, they must ask the owner of the goods to explain their whereabouts.

But Zhongtang, you also know that in the actual situation, the merchants dare not tell the whereabouts of the goods at all, and they cannot publicly explain how the large quantities of goods are digested in Ningbo.

So this is an opportunity to take advantage of, and they will confiscate or take points for the goods on the charge of common knowledge.

And they openly stated that all these confiscations and points are to be used to maintain the township team!

So from the beginning to the end, at least on the surface morally, they can stand up. "

Qin Dewei continued to sneer: "In the name of being prepared to defend against pirates, can you do whatever you want?"

Xu Wenchang reminded: "On the official level, it is really not easy to condemn and reprimand them. Their behavior is indeed in line with the imperial court's will! If Zhongtang wants to make a fuss, he can only find another way."

Qin Dewei turned his head and told Li Chengliang on the other side: "Go and send the order, the officers and soldiers of the Standard Battalion are ready to go out, and they will be ready to go to Ningbo Mansion within three days!

In addition, 2000 troops were drawn from the nearby guards to go with them to build momentum! "

The work of the shogunate is divided into many aspects, and most people are only responsible for one aspect, and they don't know much about other aspects. This is also Qin Zhongtang's intention, to prevent leakage of secrets.

So Xu Wenchang was secretly a little surprised when he heard this, Qin Zhongtang planned to go out on a large scale and directly wipe out the local soldiers?
Then Qin Dewei said: "I need someone to go to Ningbo Mansion first, but there is no suitable candidate, and the rest of the people are loyal and even gentlemen."

Xu Wenchang suddenly remembered something: "My elder brother and nephew have recently arrived in Hangzhou and asked me to help find some errands."

"Tell me the truth, how is their character?" Qin Dewei asked with a half-smile, "Are they available?"

Xu Wenchang felt that this was a test, and after thinking about it, he gritted his teeth and said, "My elder brother has the temperament of exalting the high and trampling the low, and Yi Xiaoren's self-satisfied face is very vain, and it will be brilliant if you give it some sunshine!"

In any case, you can't cheat Qin Zhongtang, just do whatever you want.

If relying on concealment means, even if it is a fluke for a while, it will only arouse Qin Zhongtang's fury and resentment in the end.

Qin Dewei laughed "haha" a few times, but shouted, "Isn't this the talent I need?"

Xu Wenchang: "."

Qin Zhongtang didn't seem to have a fever, so why did he still have a fever and talk nonsense?

　5555, please bear with me for a while. The current situation of masks is like this recently. I am in the pioneer area, and everyone in the family is like this. How can I have the energy and mood to conceive carefully.But everything is fine today, my family has survived this time, and I can spare more energy to conceive tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)