In the words of later generations, Yan Paner weaved a community of interests from top to bottom.
The entire community of interests is protecting the Lin family's smuggling trade.
In this community of interests, everyone from the cabinet ministers to the county government officials seemed to be pawns in Yan Pan'er's hands.
It just seems.
Chang Feng settled You Jingwu at home and came to Liu Bingyi's bedroom door.
The candles in the bedroom were still lit. It seems that Liu Bingyi got ten thousand taels of silver for nothing tonight, and he was so happy that he couldn't sleep.
Chang Feng pushed the door open and went in: "Old Taishan, you haven't slept yet."
Liu Bingyi said perfunctorily: "Ah, I took a nap at noon. I was sleepy after walking at night."
Chang Feng sat on the chair: "You are old and have no shortage of money, why did you want to board the Shuangmu Society's pirate ship?"
Liu Bingyi was stunned: "You know?"
Chang Feng sighed: "Oh, Old Taishan. Jin Yiwei knows half of the things in heaven and everything on earth."
Liu Bingyi did not deny it: "There are many people in Beijing who take the Lin family's money, even the elders take it. If I don't take it, I won't take it for nothing."
"I am old, have no power, and have limited income. I must save some property for my good grandson Zhuangzhuang before I die."
Chang Feng picked up the teapot on the table, poured a bowl of tea, and took a sip: "The elder you are talking about is Xie Qian, right?"
Xie Qian's entire family was involved in the smuggling trade, and there are historical records available.
During the Jiajing period, Xie Qian's descendants were too deeply involved in the smuggling trade and shared the spoils unevenly with the Japanese pirates (some say Portuguese pirates), so they were wiped out by the Japanese pirates. This is belated retribution. Naturally, these are all things for later.
Chang Feng sighed: "Oh, my old Taishan. That little widow of the Lin family is so spermy that she looks like a monkey when she grows hair. How can she give you money for no reason?"
"She's using you to drag me down."
Liu Bingyi retorted: "It has nothing to do with you. I said hello to my disciple Gujiu in the southeast and took care of the Lin family."
Chang Feng said: "Old Taishan. The tea gets cold when people in the officialdom leave. Why are the current officials in your disciples' hometown giving you the honor of becoming an official?"
"Isn't it because you have a son-in-law who has the final say in the factory guard?"
Liu Bingyi was speechless. He knew what his son-in-law said was true.
Chang Feng said: "In six years, you have received a total of sixteen thousand taels. Give me all the banknotes."
Liu Bingyi felt a little distressed: "You want to retreat?"
Chang Feng replied: "I'm afraid it's not that easy to refund the money. I'll try my best."
Liu Bingyi had no choice but to open the bedside table and take out a box with a copper lock.
He opened the brass lock and took out a wad of silver notes from the box.
Chang Feng took the banknote and put it in his sleeve: "Old Taishan. It's inevitable that someone will use you to drag me into trouble in the future."
"Listen to my advice. The money at home is enough. Don't take more money than you should."
Liu Bingyi felt guilty at this moment, and he said: "Xian son-in-law, I have caused trouble for you."
Chang Feng comforted Liu Bingyi: "This is actually not a big trouble. I will just find a way to remedy it."
The next day, Chang Feng led You Jingwu to Jinyiwei.
He summoned the heads of Jin Yiwei.
Chang Feng said: "This You Jingwu You Qianhu will work as an errand in Fusi, Beizhen. He died for his country's loyalty, so you should take good care of him in the future."
Qian Ning immediately expressed his position: "Master Chang, don't worry. We will treat your nephew as a brother."
Shi Wenyi echoed: "Yes, yes."
Chang Feng said: "That's all. You should disperse first. Jingwu stays."
Everyone left, and only Chang Feng and You Jingwu were left in the room.
Chang Feng said: "Being on duty in Jinyi Guard is different from leading troops along the coast. When you first join the guard, you should talk less, listen more, see more, and learn more. Do you understand?"
You Jingwu held up his hands: "Understood. Uncle Chang, when will we avenge my father?"
"The maritime merchants bribed the Japanese pirates and attacked the city and killed the generals of the guards. This is a serious crime of collaborating with the enemy and treason. It is under the jurisdiction of the Jinyi Guards."
Chang Feng said: "Revenge must be avenged. But I haven't thought of a way yet."
Fatty Xu walked in.
Chang Feng said: "Today is the second day of the Lunar New Year, you should stay at the elephant training center."
Fatty Xu said: "Don't mention it. Governor Qian called me here. He gave me an inexplicable errand."
Chang Feng asked: "What's the errand?"
Fatty Xu replied: "Let me bring a hundred men to protect the little widow of the Lin family in the Fujian Chamber of Commerce."
"Duke Qian said that if the Lin family's widow makes any mistakes in the capital, he will dismiss me from my post."
Chang Feng was shocked: Eunuch Qian must have guessed that I might use secret tactics to deal with Yan Paner.
So he ordered Fatty Xu to be responsible for Yan Paner's safety.
If I do it, my best friend will be punished.
Eunuch Qian is making a statement to me - Chang Feng, don't touch a hair on Yan Pan'er.
Thinking of this, Chang Feng told Fatty Xu: "Take Jingwu to his check-in room."
After Fatty Xu and You Jingwu left, Chang Fengku sat for an hour, thinking hard. In the end, I still haven't figured out how to deal with Shuangmuhui.
Anxious, he left Jinyiwei and walked along Liubu Street to relax.
After walking around for a while, he entered the Ministry of War.
My friend Wang Shouren is in charge of the Ministry of War. In the past few years, Chang Feng found that Wang Shouren was becoming more and more wise.
Whenever he encounters difficulties, he always likes to talk to Wang Shouren and ask Wang Shouren to help him come up with ideas.
Chang Feng came to the door of the lobby of the Ministry of War. The current Minister of War is his old acquaintance Liu Daxia. He always entered and exited the Ministry of War as if he were entering his own home.
In the lobby, Wang Shouren was discussing military affairs with Ma Wensheng and Liu Daxia.
Although Ma Wensheng has been in the civil service department for a long time. But whenever the imperial court wanted to use troops, Emperor Hongzhi would seek the advice of this veteran civil servant.
Therefore, Ma Wensheng is also a frequent visitor to the Ministry of War.
In the lobby, a map of Ningxia hangs.
Two old men and young man Wang Shouren were having a heated discussion about the military strategy used by Ma Wensheng to quell the bandits in Guyuan in the fourth year of Chenghua.
It is no exaggeration to say that the three of them looked like they were quarreling.
Wang Shouren pointed to the map and said: "Ma Laobu Tang, at that time there were 300,000 people in Xiji, Haiyuan, Longde, and Pengyang, and there were at least 50,000 young people."
"Why do you want to sit back and watch Jingyuan fall? Why don't you organize the young people to defend Jingyuan City?"
Ma Wensheng's nose was so angry that he said, "Didn't I tell you! It would take half a month for the main force of the Ningxia border army to arrive. What can I do if Jingyuan falls?"
"Minzhuang? Those are farmers and have never touched a knife handle. Sending them to the battlefield is tantamount to sending them to death!"
Wang Shouren shook his head: "I disagree with what you said. Your opponents are all the four rebels, and they are also a group of unscrupulous people and ruffians who have never touched a knife."
"The Manchurian rebels burned, killed, and looted in Ningxia, committing all kinds of evil. The people are deeply disgusted by it. The people's support can be used!"
"If we can gather the people from all over the country to defend Jingyuan City, this battle can end at least two months early."
The discussion turned into an argument, and from an argument into shouting matches.
A small sixth-grade chief actually dared to question the military strategy of the Heavenly Official of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, which made him blush.
In fact, Wang Shouren's point of view was called "people's war" in later terms. A few years later, during King Ning's rebellion, he would practice these four words.
Chang Feng watched them quarreling for two whole hours.
Finally, Ma Wensheng walked up to Wang Shouren. Almost face to face, they gritted their teeth and said, "I'm wrong, okay!"
Wang Shouren smiled and said, "You were wrong."
Ma Wensheng took a sip of tea and calmed down. Only then did he see Chang Feng standing at the door of the lobby: "Hey, Chang Feng, you're here."
Chang Feng smiled and said: "Ma Laobu Tang, please calm down. Shouren is a young man. Young people don't know the importance of what they say."
Wang Shouren said, "Brother Chang, what you said is wrong. The Ministry of War discusses military strategies and does not distinguish between right and wrong, only right and wrong."
Ma Wensheng said magnanimously: "Wang Shouren is right. I did have problems with the use of troops back then."
"Oh, by the way, Changfeng, why do you come to the Ministry of War?"
Chang Feng said: "Nothing's wrong. Come to Shouren to have tea and chat."
Liu Daxia said: "You guys go to the Martial Arts Department to have tea! I'm afraid he will make Ma Laobu Tang angry to death."
Ma Wensheng glared at his old friend Liu Daxia: "Am I so short-tempered?"
Chang Feng and Wang Shouren went to the Martial Arts Department and sat across from each other to drink tea.
Chang Feng said: "Brother Shouren. I have met a terrible opponent."
Wang Shouren gave Chang Feng more tea: "Oh?"
Chang Feng said: "A businessman, or a businesswoman. Weaving a huge network of relationships in the court."
"This network of connections is protecting her illegal business."
"From the first-grade civil servants to the seventh-grade county magistrate, she treats them all as pawns."
"This businesswoman killed one of my bosses. I wanted to avenge him, but because of the big net behind her, I couldn't do it."
Wang Shouren took a sip of tea, thoughtfully.
After a moment, Wang Shouren said: "That's not right."
Chang Feng asked: "What's wrong?"
Wang Shouren said: "No matter how rich a businessman is, no matter how smart his skills are, he is still regarded as an inferior person by officials."
"How can officials be willing to be pawns of businessmen?"
"Is there a possibility? The businessmen are the chess pieces! The chess players are the officials!"
Wang Shouren's words awakened the dreamer!
Wang Shouren is indeed a wise man. As long as you give him an overview of anything, he will be able to tell you the key point.
Chang Feng did think wrong.
In the words of later generations, Yan Pan'er was just a white glove and a chess piece for Xie Qian and his gang.
She was never a chess player, just a chess piece.
The real chess players are those civil servants, eunuchs and noble families who profit from the smuggling trade.
The so-called chess pieces are dispensable and can be abandoned by the players at any time.
Chang Feng patted his head and said, "Good advice, Brother Shouren. I was confused."
Chang Feng already had an idea in mind.
If Yan Paner threatens the interests of those chess players. Will the chess players protect her? The chess players would probably remove her from the chessboard without hesitation.
He's just a businessman, does he really think of himself as the big boss behind the scenes who controls all the officials?
Chang Feng stood up happily: "I have to go back to the guard to handle the case. It's my birthday in three days, so remember to come to my house for a drink."
Wang Shouren smiled and said, "Okay. I'll bring a few pot helmets to serve you drinks and food."
Chang Feng returned to Jinyiwei. I saw Fatty Xu still sitting in the check-in room.
Chang Feng asked: "Why don't you go to the Fujian Chamber of Commerce to protect the little widow?"
Fatty Xu said: "She's nothing. It's such a big deal to be protected by a prince."
"I have sent a hundred robes to the Fujian Chamber of Commerce. Just go and take a look at them in the evening."
But Chang Feng said: "Don't. That little widow is very charming and has an appetite for you. It's really like waves, waves after waves, one wave after another."
"She likes to sleep with powerful people. You see people who want to seize the dukedom. How can she not make secret glances at you?"
"You will be disrespectful when the time comes. Treat her well for me and take it out on me."
Chang Feng said that Fatty Xu was moved.
Fatty Xu stood up: "Okay. I'll go to the Fujian Chamber of Commerce."
Chang Feng said: "If you sleep with her, she asks you to be a shareholder of Shuangmu Society. Don't refuse."
But Fatty Xu said: "Probably not. She has such good ears and eyes. We brothers are famous for wearing a pair of pants in the capital. Does she know?"
"How could she let me enter the Shuangmu Club and pry into her secrets?"
Chang Feng said: "You are wrong. What she wants to do most at the moment is to drag my close relatives and friends into trouble."
"In short, whether she gives you a body or money, you just accept it all."
Fatty Xu was confused: "Don't hurt me, Fatty."
Chang Feng smiled and said: "After so many years, when have I ever harmed you? Why don't you be more quick about getting money and sex? Go ahead."
Fatty Xu clapped his hands: "Okay! The widow is good, she can do everything. I will die of exhaustion on her bed, please remember to collect the body for me."
After Fatty Xu left, Chang Feng returned home and found Lao Taishan Liu Bingyi.
Chang Feng asked: "Old Taishan. When will Yan Paner's dividend meeting be held? Can you go in?"
With a son-in-law and a son-in-law, Liu Bingyi has nothing to hide from Chang Feng: "In eight days, he will be at the Fujian Chamber of Commerce."
"I can get in. But she has given me dividends for the past three years. I originally planned not to join in the fun."
Chang Feng asked Liu Bingyi in detail about some details of the Shuangmu Meeting. Liu Bingyi knew what he knew and told Chang Feng without reservation.
In the afternoon, Chang Feng called Zhang Cai, Basha and You Jingwu to the house.
Chang Feng said: "I have already figured out a way to deal with Shuangmuhui and avenge Brother Tianjue."
"But it requires a dangerous move. Do you dare to take risks for me?"
Zhang Cai hurriedly expressed his loyalty: "If it weren't for you, Mr. Chang, I would still be an inconspicuous little flag. To serve you, I will not hesitate to go through mountains of swords and seas of fire."
Basha is relatively honest and not good at talking: "I am the same."
You Jingwu said: "A son who does not avenge his father is a useless person. Let alone taking risks, even if you let me die, I will not hesitate."
Chang Feng clapped his hands: "It's done! Listen to me."
Chang Feng explained this and that.
In the evening, Chang Ponu returned from the East Palace. In his hand he held a rare golden conch.
Chang Feng asked casually: "Where did it come from?"
Chang Ponu replied: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince rewarded it. A Fujian businessman brought a bunch of rare things from the sea to the East Palace as tribute."
Chang Feng frowned: Yan Paner actually reached out to the East Palace? It's absolutely impossible to get rid of this woman.
Chang Feng has made up his mind. The principle of doing things this time is: only destroy the Lin family in Quanzhou, and leave the network behind her untouched.
That network of relationships is too vast. He couldn't move even if he wanted to.
Killing the Lin family can be regarded as revenge for You Tianjue.
If a person's power is limited, he should make a compromise choice.
Chang Feng's choice was right.
The way to achieve the goal is to let Yan Pan'er threaten the interests of the entire network.
At least create the illusion that Yan Pan'er threatens the interests of those powerful people.
To put it bluntly, it is still Jin Yiwei's old profession, framed.
Chang Feng stretched and stared at the sky. He felt much better now that he had figured out a way.
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