Chongming Dongsha, county government.
The servant walked into the office room with his arms full of charcoal, hunched over, and said attentively: "Sir, Yao Qianhu got the good charcoal from Taicang, can you please add it to the basin now?"
Yue Yunhong, the magistrate of Chongming County, held up his mink fur collar, his eyes fell on a piece of newspaper on the official case, and he said coldly "Hmm".
While the officer was carefully adding new charcoal, another officer hurried in from the direction of the courtroom in the front yard and reported at the door: "Sir, that lady from Songjiang wants to see you."
Only then did Yue Zhixian raise his head, narrowed his eyes, and asked, "The one who brought a bunch of hillbillies from the Northeast to farm?"
"Back to me, sir, that's the woman. The second master is talking to her."
Yue Zhixian said lazily: "Call in."
Then he said to the officer who was adding charcoal: "Come on, don't do it. You don't have to let outsiders take advantage of this good charcoal to keep it warm."
Both officers responded and left.
Yue Zhixian rolled his eyes, skillfully pulled out the "National Beauty and Heavenly Fragrance" that had just been banned from publication by the imperial court from under a pile of official documents, turned around and stuffed it back into the locked treasure chest behind him.
He cursed in a low voice.
"National Beauty and Heavenly Fragrance" was originally a widely circulated erotic story. After it was banned, Yue Zhi County had a hard time getting it. I didn't finish it all last night, so I'm going to finish reading the last few chapters today.
When he read sentences such as "Crush the plum blossoms with a skillful hand, split the lotus pods crookedly and cut off the roots", "The beautiful girl in the romantic field, the general in the cloud and rain tent" and other sentences, he was in high spirits and applauding the case, but his life was interrupted, and he was simply murderous. It’s all there.
When the county magistrate led Zheng Haizhu in, he saw Yue Zhixian buried in a table of documents. He sighed with emotion: "My lord is so busy with official duties, so you must take care of yourself. In the past two years, for some reason, half of the spring plowing has passed, and the weather has not returned yet." It’s so cold that people are trembling.”
Yue Zhixian did not respond to him, and only tidied up the official document a few times, then raised his face to Zheng Haizhu with a plain and sincere expression: "Mrs. Zheng, the leather goods you brought from Liaodong are really good. This is the Qingshui Yamen and we can't afford good charcoal to burn. It's been cold in spring these days, so I rely on this fur collar to keep warm. Wrapped up in my official uniform, I'm a little out of place, and I'm going to make the dignified lady laugh."
Zheng Haizhu now has a sixth-grade imperial order, and her reasoning is slightly higher than the county master in front of her. Besides, this is not the front court, so she was not polite and sat down on the armchair next to the flower stand.
"It's good to be warm. It will be much more convenient after Songjiang is turned on and off. When I recruit more Liao people, I will load more old ginseng on the ship to supplement the eldest and second masters."
Yue Zhixian and the county magistrate looked at each other, the smile on their faces faded, and they leaned forward slightly, with an expression of "sincerely speaking" written all over their faces.
"Mrs. Zheng, you are new here, and you have good land in the county. In the past few days, County Cheng Yang has asked the official to inspect your place often, because he is afraid that the unruly people in the green leather gang will cause trouble. Isn't it right, County Magistrate Yang? ah?"
Yang Xian Cheng cooperated: "That's not true. My own tenants were beaten when they fought for the water canal. I didn't even bother to go back and take a look."
Zheng Haizhu chuckled: "First Master, Second Master, my fields are not abandoned land, they belong to Yao Qianhu. Which green leather gangster in Chongming County dares to come and cause trouble? Besides, Yao Zongwen, Yao Qianhu's younger brother, now He is a celebrity in front of Mr. Fang Ge. If the ordinary people don't know about it, how can the two masters not know about it? In Chongming, I am afraid that only a person as upright and loyal as Grandma Tang would dare to go out and seek bad luck for Yao Qianhu."
"Hey, madam, you are so powerful. You have touched the bottom of our Chongming within a few days."
Yue Zhixian clicked his tongue and curled his lips in flattery, but his heart was filled with fire.
You're a troublesome woman who can't get married, and you're going to beat around the bush and accuse me of being unfaithful and bad?
Yue Zhixian continued to show his misfortune, and modified his tone to become more helpless: "Well, when Mrs. Zheng said this, she was not only asking for an apology, but also knowing the difficulties of my official. Mrs. Zheng, you are Su Song's Donglin civil servant The person recommended to this county, Yao Qianhu, is backed by people from Zhejiang. The Donglin faction and the Zhejiang faction fought from Chaotang to Nanzhili. Tell me, what should I do if I am caught in the middle?"
Zheng Haizhu stared at him: "What should I do? Isn't the master doing a good job? It's like doing Tai Chi, and he just pushed the hot potato to me."
The county magistrate of Yue County was chatting, and the county magistrate Yang continued to compliment: "Madam, you are magnanimous and magnanimous. She is not like a martial artist who only uses thunder. Then Grandma Tang has not come to the county government office to make trouble in the past few days. I heard that she has not gone to Suzhou Mansion again. I will definitely Madam comforted her well."
Zheng Haizhu said sternly: "I am not appeasing Grandma Tang, but respecting her. You two gentlemen, decades ago, Duke Tang was here. He rushed out with a big sword and killed the invading Japanese pirates, keeping Chongming safe. , thinking of this, I am willing to offer my grandmother a descendant of Tang Gong who is still daring to ask for life for the people at her age. Even if she is asked to be enshrined in Zhuangzi like a Bodhisattva, I am willing to do so. Those The descendants of the Chongming veterans who have returned, there are a total of thirteen households with forty people, my Zhuangzi will take them in."
When Yue Zhixian heard this, he did not feel relieved immediately.
It is said that this woman surnamed Zheng is not a fuel-efficient lamp. She comes from a business background and is unwilling to suffer anyone's losses.
Yangxian Cheng also thought, how can such a good thing happen? The conditions will most likely be negotiated later, and there is no chance that the county will give her a false report of cooking land and allocate some land for the families of veterans to plant.
Zheng Haizhu did want to put forward conditions, but it was not for nothing.
"Two gentlemen, apart from Yao Qianhu's coastal defense armaments in Chongming County, was there originally a Japanese village in Nansha? It was originally under the jurisdiction of General Chongming. During Lord Jiajing's reign, the person in charge of the village was a general-level officer. Military Master?"
Yue Zhixian didn't know why she asked this. He rolled his eyes and pretended to remember: "Hey, it was like decades ago. When I took office, I heard Yao Qianhu talk about it. But that in Nansha Isn't it near Madam Zheng's village? Is there any camp there?"
Zheng Haizhu pursed his lips: "After the Longqing switch was switched off, the Japanese village was gone, and the general was transferred back to Taicang. However, this battalion position and the small number of five hundred troops are still in Chongming County, right?"
"Ah, uh, yes, we have this troop quota."
Yue Zhixian was still confused, but Yang Xiancheng seemed to have realized something.
"Mrs. Zheng wants to support her family, so she needs this amount of troops?"
Zheng Haizhu nodded simply: "How did I get this order? I helped the court fight two major battles against foreign aggression. In exchange, the court's frontier army and navy asked my firearms factory to order guns. , the two gentlemen also know it, and without bragging, if I were a gentleman, I would probably have been promoted to the rank of General Manager Qian. Now, I am farming in Chongming. Since the position of Qianhu is already occupied, I want to get one for my nephew and nephew. It is also difficult to handle a thousand households. Besides, Yao Qianhu will not cause trouble for me in the future. I have to support my family. Wouldn’t it be good for my family to use the troops of Nansha Camp?"
What Zheng Haizhu said was about the difference between military households and soldiers in the Ming Dynasty.
Military household is a concept under the guard system and is inherited from generation to generation. Chongming is located at the gateway to the East China Sea. There was a garrison at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Military households worked on their fields in peacetime and defended themselves in wartime. Today, Yao Qianhu is the head of the guard station. He is not diligent in training, but he is very active in occupying acres of land.
There is no concept of "household registration" for camp soldiers, and they are not hereditary. They are recruited from all over the country, which is the main source of camp soldiers. The famous Qi family army is the camp soldiers.
Yue Zhixian squinted his eyes and murmured to himself, Damn Niang, there are really going to be two tigers on this broken mountain in Chongming, and one of them is a tigress.
(End of chapter)
