Daming primary school students

Chapter 907 Magic Beats Magic
Today Xu Wenchang and Qin Zhongtang talked in secret for a while, only to feel that the three views were ruined, and he left the shogunate government office in a trance, and came to a small hotel two intersections away.

His older half-brother Xu Huai, who is more than 30 years old, lives in this small hotel.

Xu Wenchang and Xu Huai have no brotherhood, otherwise they would not have run away from home and joined Qin Zhongtang.

But unexpectedly, after Xu Huai heard that Xu Wenchang had become Qin Zhongtang's confidant, he would still find him.

Since Xu Huai came here a few years ago, he has been refusing to leave, and he has refused to disclose the whereabouts of Xu Wenchang's biological mother. It is clear that he wants to get some benefits from Xu Wenchang.

Even though Xu Wenchang is extremely talented, he is only 20 years old after all, and his talent is not in the world. He really can't cope with his brother who is like a rascal.

Moreover, the elder brother obviously wanted to take advantage of the privilege of the shogunate to do something for personal gain, and although Xu Wenchang was a close confidant of Qin Zhongtang, he was still too young to be ashamed to do such a thing.

But Xu Wenchang, who is self-sacrificing, never expected that Qin Zhongtang would force him to use his power for personal gain today!
After entering the house, Xu Huai said dissatisfiedly to Xu Wenchang: "I have been waiting for more than a month, why are you still unable to get things done?

It is said that you are Qin Zhongtang's confidant, is it not true?Even if you are not a close friend, just because you work in the shogunate, you should be able to help me a little. "

Xu Wenchang said angrily: "I hired you an errand! The shogunate will hire you as an official!"

The previous generation of the Xu family was an official, and this generation is all educated. Xu Huai is no exception, and he can serve as an official.

Xu Huai was overjoyed when he heard the words, is there such a good thing?Originally, I just wanted to get some errands and make some money, but I didn't expect to directly enter the system.

Xu Wenchang didn't bother to say to Xu Huaiduo, "There is a dispatch coming soon, and I have also asked Zhongtang for instructions, and I will send you to do it!"

"What errand?" Xu Huai rubbed his hands excitedly and said, anyone who knows how to do this knows that only when there is an errand, there is profit.

Xu Wenchang replied: "Appoint you as a commissioner to inspect the soldiers in the prefecture and township of Ningbo! Eliminate unqualified soldiers!"

So Xu Huai became even more excited, this is all real power!This time Hangzhou did not come in vain, what a dreamlike result!

It can also be seen from this that Xu Wenchang is definitely a confidant with Qin Zhongtang, and he can be bolder and make more money.

After thinking about it, Xu Huai said hypocritically again: "Don't worry, I will handle my errands seriously and will never embarrass you."

Xu Wenchang stared straight at Xu Huai, and said the most contrary sentence in his life: "If you don't want to make money, what are you going to do?"

Xu Huai was stunned for a moment, and responded with both surprise and joy: "As the saying goes, brothers work together to cut gold! With your words, I feel relieved!"

Then he couldn't wait to ask: "In order to avoid long nights and dreams, when do you think we will leave?"

Xu Wenchang really didn't notice Xu Huai's face, so he turned around and replied: "I will go to the shogunate tomorrow to complete the formalities, and I can leave the day after tomorrow!"

Exactly as Xu Wenchang said, Xu Huai spent the most dreamy two days in his life, joined the shogunate in the blink of an eye, and became an inspector in the blink of an eye.

The word commissioner is said to have been invented by Qin Zhongtang. According to Xu Huai's understanding, it is equivalent to the "imperial envoy" sent by the shogunate.

I heard that even Yan Shifan, the son of the chief assistant of the dynasty, from the fifth rank, was only a commissioner in the shogunate.

But Mr. Yan's commissioner was the fattest commissioner, Xu Huai didn't dare to think about it, he would be content to be a commissioner inspecting village soldiers, especially in a place as fat as Ningbo Mansion.

So Xu Huai took two official ships and a dozen or so guards, played the name of the shogunate, and set off on the road in high spirits.

Enjoying the preferential treatment at the posthouse along the way, he felt that he had lived for more than 50 years and finally looked like a human being.

It was not until before departure that Xu Huai revealed the whereabouts of Xu Wenchang's biological mother. It turned out that she had been living as a slave in a wealthy family in Shaoxing Prefecture.

Originally, Xu Wenchang thought that it was at a critical time, and he thought that he would look for his biological mother after this month.

But after Qin Zhongtang learned about it, he let Xu Wenchang take leave and asked him to go to Shaoxing Mansion to pick up his biological mother, so that he could have a family relationship with his flesh and blood.

Qin Dewei knew that the reason why Xu Wenchang became insane in history was largely due to the constant encounters with family misfortunes since childhood.

Therefore, I hope that finding the biological mother who was kicked out of the house ten years ago can reverse Xu Wenchang's fate. Travelers must do some good deeds.

The organizational form of the township soldiers in Ningbo is a bit different from that of the official army, with 100 people as a team and 500 people as a general.

The [-] township soldiers were divided into six main teams and thirty A teams, and the leaders of each team were of course members of major families.

With the addition of these [-] township soldiers, the confidence of the major families suddenly increased inexplicably. With force as the backing, it feels different.

Sometimes when I think about it, I am really grateful to the pirates. If there were no pirates making trouble, how could the imperial court allow these big families to form village soldiers?
The Zhang family had a son, Zhang Qishu, who was originally a toothman in Sanjiangkou and made a living by exploiting merchants. Unfortunately, he was not good enough to mess with the goods of the shogunate and the son of Yan Shoufu, and was severely injured in the end.

After the injury recovered, all the smuggling channels were taken away by the shogunate and Sanhaiwei together, so he couldn't be a toothman.

Fortunately, the local government began to recruit more rural soldiers. Relying on the Zhang family's background, Zhang Qishu also became a leader, leading a hundred rural soldiers to guard the inner canal waterway between Cixi County and Ningbo Fucheng.

In Zhang Qishu's eyes, although he used to be a Yaman and is now the leader of the village soldiers, his occupations are different, but the things he does are similar.

Isn't it all blackmailing merchants and exploiting property? How much difference can it make?It's just that it used to be in the name of an intermediary fee, but now it's in the name of preparing for Japanese anti-piracy.

Whoever makes Ningbo a treasure land, merchants from other places want to sell goods to Ningbo, so they have to accept the rules of these local wealthy families!

The only thing that makes Zhang Qishu have doubts is that the number of merchants and goods has begun to decrease recently. I don't know if it is the result of fishing in the dry lake after the villagers blocked the way.

But these problems are not what Zhang Qishu, a small boss at the grassroots level, needs to worry about. He believes that the bigwigs of the major families will think about it.

Although the spring in early February was still a bit chilly, it was already much better than the cold winter. Zhang Qishu sat in the sun, dozing off lazily.

Behind him is a post station and a small town, and all merchants and pedestrians passing by will usually rest here, and they will arrive at Ningbo City at noon after tomorrow's departure.

Suddenly, two township soldiers in charge of looking out woke up Zhang Qishu, "A fleet is coming! There seem to be quite a few cargo ships!"

Zhang Qishu shuddered, please wake up immediately, the presence of a cargo ship means that money has come in again.

Immediately Zhang Qishu came to the edge of the river, and sure enough, he saw seven or eight boats docking, but the first two boats were different from the others.

When I got closer, I saw the signs of "Shogunate" and "Patroll" on the two ships.

This made Zhang Qishu "thump" in his heart. The last time he was unlucky, he encountered goods from the shogunate. Could it be that it happened again this time?

"Forget it, let's go!" Zhang Qishu greeted the soldiers, turned around and left, pretending not to see him.

But someone on the bow shouted "Stop", and then some people got off the boat, among them was an old man in his 50s, wearing a short wing scarf unique to officials, and wearing a green robe imitating official uniforms.

Zhang Qishu was very surprised, he didn't go to others, but others took the initiative to find him?He looked at the old man again, wondering if he was an old official from the shogunate.

Seeing this old official walk up to Zhang Qishu, he asked arrogantly: "Are you the town soldiers guarding here?"

Zhang Qishu nodded and asked, "Who are you?"

The old official immediately showed a ticket, and signaled to Zhang Qishu arrogantly: "I am Xu Huai, the commissioner of the shogunate, and I am ordered to patrol Ningbo as a local soldier! Stand up and obey the order!"

Zhang Qishu looked confused, this kind of inspection usually sent someone to call the front station to notify, how could he arrive as soon as he said it?

Seemingly seeing Zhang Qishu's doubts, Xu Huai snorted coldly and said, "If you don't notify in advance, what you're going to do is to prevent deceit! Now you immediately gather the township soldiers, and I will personally inspect it!"

Zhang Qishu looked at it again and again, and judged that the ticket was not fake, and there were supporting documents from the shogunate.

So although he was in a daze, he still gathered the township soldiers on duty. There were about six to seventy people, standing crookedly in several rows.

Xu Huai frowned and said, "Isn't a hundred people making one? Why are there only these?"

Zhang Qishu rolled his eyes, too lazy to answer.

The township soldiers were established with the money of local big families. What does it have to do with your shogunate?Letting you take a look at it is considered cooperative work, and you still want to criticize?
Or are you a little broken commissioner, really taking yourself seriously?

After Xu Huai glanced around for a few more times, he suddenly shouted at Zhang Qishu: "I think your team is unusable, so we should eliminate them all! Let's disband now!"

Zhang Qishu subconsciously asked back in astonishment, "If you say weed out, do you mean weed out?"

Xu Huai replied: "This is the order of the shogunate inspector! How dare you disobey?"

Then Xu Huai turned around and left, Zhang Qishu chased after him and asked, "What do you mean?"

Xu Huai stopped in his tracks and responded to Zhang Qishu: "If you don't want to be eliminated as a team of township soldiers, you can pay three taels of silver per person, and 100 taels for 300 people! Before I leave tomorrow, you just hand over the silver."

Zhang Qishu was furious, what joke?The formation of the township soldiers is already paid out of their own pockets, and I still have to give you money?

"There is absolutely no such reason!" Zhang Qishu protested.

Xu Huai sneered and said, "If there is no money, all will be eliminated! This is the opinion of the shogunate commissioner!"

Zhang Qishu pointed angrily at the several cargo ships behind the two official ships and said, "Is this what the Commissioner should do?"

"Bah!" Xu Huai spat at Zhang Qishu directly, "How I act is something that you, the leader of a small town soldier, can talk too much about?
Aren't these merchants afraid of being blackmailed by your local soldiers, so they voluntarily followed our official ship?
Speaking of which, I would like to thank you town soldiers for your rampant domineering, otherwise these merchants would not have given me money and would have followed me. "

Zhang Qishu's anger was rising, he had never seen such a disgusting old thing!
Could it be that the shogunate sent such a thing out just to disgust the place?

A strong dragon doesn't overwhelm a local snake, and it's not a strong dragon!Is it true that a broken commissioner who is not even an official can handle people from the four major families at will?

After thinking about it in his mind, Zhang Qishu warned Xu Huai: "It's not up to you to decide whether to eliminate or disband! Commissioner Xu had better stay here for a few days to see if the Ningbo government is willing to disband this team of township soldiers!"

Xu Huai rolled his eyes and said contemptuously, "What? The little townsman still wants to detain this commissioner?"

Zhang Qishu waved his hand and asked his soldiers to surround Xu Huai: "It's not detaining, but I just ask you to stay, and then I will ask the higher authorities for instructions to solve the problem!
And I suspect that you are smuggling goods, all the same!The following cargo ships may be evidence, and need to be investigated one by one!

This is also the responsibility of our town soldiers to guard Guanjin, even if the shogun Qin Zhongtang came in person, he would say the same! "

Xu Huai violently pushed away the soldiers beside him, and shouted: "Here is the ticket for the shogunate, who dares to stop me!"

When the two sides were confronting each other, someone suddenly exclaimed: "It's on fire! The official ship is on fire!"

Everyone turned their heads to look, and they saw that the shogunate commissioner's ship was already on fire.

Xu Huai, who had only enjoyed such an official ship treatment once in his life, became impatient, grabbed Zhang Qishu by the collar without thinking, and cursed: "You bastards, how dare you burn the ship!"

Zhang Qishu was in a daze for a moment, only feeling that this scene seemed familiar.

The last time I burned the shogunate's official ship in front of me, this time I burned the ship in front of me!

Damn it!Is this bullying honest people?Don't bring another way?

Xu Huai slapped Zhang Qishu hard across the face again, and shouted: "The ship is burned to detain me. Just wait, the shogunate will definitely cut you to pieces!"

A slap woke up Zhang Qishu from his momentary confusion.

The evil fire in his heart could no longer be suppressed, Zhang Qishu didn't think about anything, he grabbed Xu Huai backhand with his self-defeating backhand, and was about to hit him with his fist.

Xu Huai probably didn't expect that the other party would actually dare to attack him, a shogunate commissioner. Could it be that the shogunate's signboard can't scare people anymore?
Then he shouted in horror: "Wait a minute, if you pay another 200 taels, I won't care about burning the boat!"

Pay you for paralysis!Zhang Qishu's mentality was about to explode, and he punched him hard.If you don't kill you old bastard, you won't be able to understand your thoughts!
A dozen or so guards brought by Xu Huai hurried forward to rescue them, but local soldiers also surrounded them.On the one hand, the equipment is excellent, and on the other hand, there are many people, and immediately a scuffle broke out.

In the end, the township soldiers had the upper hand because of the large number of people, and many commissioner guards escaped after they couldn't beat them.

The shogunate commissioner Xu Huai was old and weak, and he was no match for Zhang Qishu at all. He had already been beaten to death, and fell to the ground motionless.

Someone nearby applauded and applauded, "Excellent! In ancient times, there was Zhang Yide who whipped the supervisor angrily, but now Zhang Qishu angrily beats the commissioner!"

Zhang Qishu recovered from his self-defeating and wanton venting, looking at the half-dead Commissioner Xu, his heart suddenly felt cold.

Two days later, Qin Zhongtang ordered Ningbo Mansion to disband all the township soldiers on the spot!
Another day later, Qin Zhongtang personally led thousands of troops to set off from Hangzhou City, advancing by land and water, heading east in a mighty way, aiming at Ningbo Mansion!

(End of this chapter)