"parking!"
Someone in the carriage walking on the road shouted.
The servant who was following the carriage quickly stepped forward, stood under the carriage window, and asked respectfully: "What's the matter, sir?"
"Have Dongzhu Xu and the others left?" Yang Yuqian's voice came from the carriage.
The servant next to the carriage looked at the street behind him, and then said: "Dongzhu Xu and Dongzhu Li's carriages have left. I am afraid they have reached the street in front of them now."
"Since they are all gone, we won't go home yet." Yang Yuqian said in the carriage, "Take the seal and pay five hundred taels of silver to the account and take it to the garrison government office. I'll wait for you there, sir." .”
After speaking, he took out a palm-sized cloth bag and handed it to the servant outside along the car window.
The servant took the cloth bag, turned around and ran towards the front of the car.
"Go to the garrison mansion." Yang Yuqian told the driver.
The driver waved the whip in his hand to drive the animals, and the carriage moved slowly.
Lingqiu is a lower-class county with a small county seat, and Huzi Banner's management of Lingqiu only operates Xujiazhuang outside the city and several nearby villages, which makes the county even more depressed.
Soon the carriage arrived at the gate of the garrison on another street.
"Sir, we've arrived at the garrison." The coachman stopped the carriage, took a wooden stool off the shaft and placed it on the ground to use as a foot rest.
"Yeah." Yang Yuqian hummed in the carriage.
However, others did not get off the car.
The coachman didn't rush him, he just stood aside respectfully and waited.
After almost half a stick of incense, the servant Yang Yuqian sent home ran over panting from a distance with something in his arms.
Next to this person, there was an older middle-aged man.
Two people came to the carriage. One of them, a middle-aged man who was also the Yang family's butler, gasped and said, "Master, I brought what you asked for, a total of five hundred taels of silver."
As he spoke, he took the things from the servant's arms and put them on the carriage.
Yang Yuqian lifted the curtain and put away the cloth bag containing the seal. As for the silver in the other cloth bag, he did not touch it, but stepped out of the carriage.
The housekeeper hurriedly stepped forward to help.
"Take the money and follow me in." Yang Yu said without looking back, and walked towards the garrison in front.
The housekeeper turned around, picked up Yin Zi from the carriage, and followed Yang Yu step by step.
"Excuse me, please go in and tell me. Yang Yuqian asked to see Zheng Shoubei." Yang Yuqian took out a piece of broken silver and stuffed it into the hands of the guard outside the gate of the Guards Mansion.
The guard who took the silver weighed it and said with a smile: "Dragon Master Yang, please wait a moment. I will go in and report it to you."
After saying that, he turned around and entered the garrison.
After a short time, the guard came out and said flatteringly: "Mr. Yang, please come in and I will take you to see the great master of the guard."
"Thank you." Yang Yu bowed his hands towards the other party.
The guard walked aside to lead the way for Yang Yu, and the housekeeper followed the two people step by step, holding a bag containing silver.
Several people came outside the back Yamen, and the guard leading the way stopped.
He said to the soldiers guarding the door: "Dongzhu Yang is here."
"Come with me!" the soldier said expressionlessly and walked into the back office.
The guard who brought Yang Yu over stepped aside.
Yang Yuqian took his housekeeper and followed him into the back office.
As soon as he entered the room, he saw a person sitting on the main seat. He understood that the person should be Zheng Shoubei, who had just taken office. He immediately stepped forward, bowed deeply to the person, and said: "The local squire Yang Yuqian has met Mr. Zheng Shoubei." .”
Zheng Shuqi, who was sitting on the main seat, raised his eyelids and glanced at Yang Yuqian, and said calmly: "Mr. Yang came to see me, but what's the matter?"
"I know that the eldest guard has taken office, so I specially prepared a small gift, and I hope the eldest guard will accept it." Yang Yuqian waved to his butler.
The steward stepped forward and handed over the bag containing the silver.
Zheng Guang, who was standing next to Zheng Shuqi, walked over, took the bag from him, opened it, took a look, and then nodded slightly to Zheng Shuqi.
Zheng Shuqi looked at Yang Yuqian and said enthusiastically: "Dr. Yang is so polite. Please sit down quickly. Someone will come and serve tea to Dongzhu Yang."
"Thank you, sir." Yang Yu thanked him before walking to the empty seat beside him and sat down carefully.
The servants of the garrison mansion brought Yang Yuqian a cup of tea.
Zheng Shuqi smiled and said to Yang Yuqian: "I have just taken office not long ago, and I haven't had time to meet the local squires. I will rarely need Dongzhu Yang to introduce me to me in the future."
"It's your honor." Yang Yu bowed.
At this time, Zheng Shuqi's chief attendant also put the cloth bag in his hand under the table beside him.
Zheng Shuqi picked up the tureen on the table, took a sip of tea, and said: "Dr. Yang has followed Tiger Flag to open an iron yard in Dongshan in the past few years. He must be doing very well in business. I heard that Tiger Flag has made a lot of money. , now we are making armor and casting cannons, which is quite a feat.”
thump!
Yang Yu, who was sitting next to the chair, knelt down, knocked his head on the ground, and said sadly: "Please help me, Mr. Guard!"
"Mr. Yang, please get up quickly. How can we even begin to help?" Zheng Shuqi put down the tureen in his hand and said to the attendant beside him, "Hurry and help Mr. Yang up."
Changsui stepped forward and reached out to help Yang Yuqian.
However, Yang Yuqian did not get up, but faced Zheng Shuqi and said: "The Yang family's iron yard in Dongshan was forcibly taken away by the tiger-character flag a few years ago. Unfortunately, the tiger-character flag was so powerful that the Yang family had to surrender. The world I only thought that the iron yard in Dongshan still belonged to the Yang family, but in fact it has long become the property of the Tiger Flag."
"Also, this is the first time I've heard of this." Zheng Shuqi stroked his beard.
Yang Yuqian said: "I don't dare to guard the lord at the end of the term. As long as the lord sends someone to Dongshan to inquire, he will know that everything I said is true."
"I believe what Dongzhu Yang said. I have already heard about the arrogance and domineering behavior of Tiger Character Banner." Zheng Shuqi said, "However, it is useless for me to believe this. Dongzhu Yang should understand that I am just a guard of Lingqiu. There are some things you can’t control.”
Yang Yuqian pressed his hands on the ground and said hurriedly: "I still have some small property in my family. As long as I can prove the innocence of the Yang family, I am willing to give it to the master of the defense."
All he wants now is to be able to lose money and avoid disaster.
If he could keep the Yang family, he would be willing to hand over most of the Yang family's property.
The Yang family is just a squire's family in Lingqiu. Without Lingqiu, it is nothing, and there is no good relationship in the officialdom.
Regarding such a major event as the Tiger Flag rebellion, the county officials who were closely related to the Yang family were of little use. Only the powerful officials in Datong could save the Yang family.
