Emperor Ming Dynasty

Chapter 184
The breeze is coming, and the water waves are not happy.

On the Yangtze River in October, the waves are undulating, but the waves are still the same. Fishing sailboats follow the waves, carefully avoiding large merchant ships.

And the big ship full of goods, with bulging white sails, went upstream, constantly looking at the sights on both sides of the strait, thinking about the business route.

In the era without railways, water transport was the most convenient way, and the Yangtze River, which has no dry season, is a golden waterway.

From the Han River in Xiangyang to the Yangtze River, it happens to meet in Wuchang Prefecture, and it doesn't take a day's work.

"Among the colorful clouds of Chaoci Baidi, thousands of miles of Jiangling will be returned in one day!"

Zhu Yixi couldn't help but sigh with emotion as he blew the river wind.

"His Royal Highness is careful to catch a cold."

Sun Xuan'er tied the cloak gently for him, gentle and clingy.

She was reluctant to take the position of personal bodyguard, especially the frequent contact with King Hanyang at a negative distance, which made her want to stop.

"En!" Patting her hand, Zhu Yixi looked at Hanyang, Wuchang, Hankou, and the three cities, which were built along the river.

he couldn't help laughing
Hundreds of years later, Hankou, Wuchang, and Hanyang became Wuhan.

"Your Highness, Wuhu Lake is more than two hundred miles away, why don't you rest in Wuchang City?"

Chen Dong stayed at a distance, and when he realized that the atmosphere was beginning to normalize, he approached carefully and asked.

However, Wuhu, which belonged to Wuhan in the future, now belonged to Huangzhou Prefecture. When it connected to the Yangtze River, it became the largest shipyard under King Hanyang.

Sun Xuan'er on the side, habitually holding King Hanyang's hand, didn't care about the guards' stares.

"Let's get off in Wuchang!"

Zhu Yixi nodded, and said casually, "As the governor of Huguang Province, I haven't been here for long!"

"It should be more lively than Xiangyang!"

Sun Xuan'er said obediently, her temper changed from usual.

Looking at it, Chen Dong always felt a little uncomfortable.

"Then, Weifu, or Yijia?"

With his head down, Chen Dong kept talking, this aunt has changed her temper.

"Let's take it lightly. We've always been quiet, so why expose it?"

Zhu Yixi waved his hand indifferently.

In order to paralyze Zuo Liangyu, he not only allowed to visit Zuo Menggeng, but even showed that he was willing to bleed profusely for the title of King Yu.

Sun Changzhou carried 100,000 taels of silver, apparently for the sake of strength, but actually for the establishment of an intelligence network.

Jinyiwei in Nanjing had a foundation, and with the help of Wu Bangfu, the commander of punishment in charge of Beizhen Fusi who had fled to the south, it had been rebuilt.

So it must be targeted.

This inspection of the Donghu Shipyard is for the sake of the navy, breaking through the key points of Jiujiang in one fell swoop and threatening Jiangnan.

After receiving the edict of King Hanyang, several ships began to dock.

"Why are there so many people?"

Looking at the hundreds of people, Zhu Yixi waved his hands: "A dozen or so people are behind you, and the rest wait for the opportunity, within a hundred feet."

"As ordered!"

The guards in short and brown clothes responded one after another.

And our Hanyang King is dressed in white silk, like a rich man.

Leading Sun Xuan'er, who was disguised as a man, with his left hand, followed by guards dressed as domestic slaves, leisurely entered Wuchang City.

The guards didn't even raise their eyes, and they paid the entrance fee, who cares so much.

Mossy city walls, old city gates, garbage-filled moats, and broken and dirty streets in the city.

It is very different from Xiangyang.

This is the difference between big government and small government.

If you can do it, do it, and do less money-consuming and labor-intensive things.

However, as the thoroughfare of the nine provinces, Wuchang City is more prosperous, crowded with people, and business travelers are everywhere. Even if it suffers from a military disaster, it will recover very quickly.

Walking in Wuchang City, Zhu Yixi felt a little fresh.

Xi'an is dry and indifferent, Hanzhong and Nanzheng are narrow and humid, Xiangyang is sparsely populated and cramped, but Wuchang is the representative of prosperity in the south.

There are many shops in the streets, the roads are occupied by a large number of illegal structures, and the shouts of dialects spread all over the streets and alleys.

From time to time, mules and carriages passed by, leaving behind a lot of dung, and then a group of beggars emerged at the entrance of the alley, flocking to put it into a wooden barrel.

This is not cleaning. They don't even look at the crumbs of melon rinds in the streets and alleys, they are just manure.

However, Zhu Yixi, who was born at the bottom, even saw those glaring eyes through the gap.

Or beggars, local ruffians, and greedy eyes kept sweeping across him, but the more than ten Kongwu powerful servants behind them made them have to give up.

The waist is bulging, and the waist knife is hidden. Anyone who sees it will be terrified.

After a while, Zhu Yixi lost interest, pulled Sun Xuan'er who was watching the fire, left the street, and sat down in an inn.

"Master, it's busy, why come to the inn again?"

Sun Xuan'er said reluctantly, her two long legs were close to her side, her hands were intertwined, coquettishly, she kept rubbing against each other.

"What's there to see?"

Zhu Yixi shook his head and said: "You can see everything by relying on rushing. If you see too much, you will get tired of it."

This time, Sun Xuan'er cast her eyes down and looked around with full interest.

The clerk at the side has sharp eyesight, and he has long seen her disguised as a man, serving wine and food in a dull manner.

Wow, a dozen or so people occupied three or four tables nearby.

Facing the window, Zhu Yixi kept pouring gossip into his ears. After sorting it out carefully, he knew what was going on in Wuchang City today.

It turned out that there was a land dispute in Wuchang Jiangxia (attached to Guo) City.

However, when Zhang Xianzhong occupied Wuchang, the Jiang family was a big family in Jiangxia, so they had to leave their hometown and go to Anqing Mansion to live temporarily.

As King Hanyang regained Huguang, the Jiang family returned.

However, as soon as he returned to Jiangxia, he immediately realized that his family's shops and fields had been swallowed up by those tribesmen.

Unfortunately, Jiang Wenhua, the head of the family, died of illness when he was living in Anqing Mansion, and he had no brothers, leaving only his wives and concubines with more than ten people to depend on each other.

Now, the cousins ​​and clan members became more and more aggressive, not only occupying the family property, but also asking their wives and concubines to leave the house, and even occupying the dowry dowry.

"Hey, isn't this a typical eater?"

"Who said no!"

"However, isn't there someone in the Jiang family?"

"What are a few daughters? They are young, what are they?"

"No, I heard that a concubine of the Jiang family is still pregnant, maybe it's a boy, isn't there hope?"

"Nowadays, it's very lively to report and push officials!"

After listening for a while, Zhu Yixi became more and more curious about it.

Tuiguan, that is, the assistant and second official of a government, is in charge of criminal names, praise and calculation codes, and is a seventh-rank official. He is a rare official selected by the Ministry of Officials.

Together with the county magistrate, it is called inference knowledge, and the three ways of Jinshi, tribute, and miscellaneous flow are used together.

For example, Shi Kefa once served as an official in Xi'an Prefecture.

The push officer can not only directly take over the lawsuit, but also needs to review the cases in the underlying states and counties.

After the county magistrate hears the case, it will be reported to the pusher of the prefecture for review.

If the crime is below the rod, it will be punished directly.

Cases above the crime of staff need to be reported, that is, reviewed by the procuratorate and the patrol censor.

Death penalty cases must be reported to the central government for further review by the Ministry of Punishment, Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple.

The importance of promoting officials can be seen.

(End of this chapter)