On the way from Beijing to Yangzhou, Zhang Ning's wallet was stolen when he was staying in the hotel. Fortunately, the horse was not lost by the store. Sure enough, it was not so simple in ancient times, and there were people who could eat any bite of food.
I arrived at Yangzhou City hungryly, and the sun had already set in the west. The shadow of riding alone in the ancient city was stretched to a long time, and it was indescribable.
He did not go back to his residence and did not go to the Yangzhou Prefecture Office. He went straight to Biyuan, where he could eat and drink freely and had good tea and food, and he could eat and drink all his life.
It’s not even dinner time, so it’s good to go to the tea room with the plaque for spring to taste tea and get rid of the dust. It’s just the time. The spring of the 22nd year of Yongle has arrived and flowers are about to bloom.
The adults are back.
The slim beauty named Miao Ge looked at him and greeted her, and a spring breeze blew into her face.
Then she still fiddled with the tea sets and did trivial matters, and she seemed very quiet without saying much.
After all, it’s better to stay where you have been, at least you don’t have to pay attention to whether your wallet will be stolen.
After a while, the owner of Biyuan, Xie Jun and another person also came in to greet him. The other person was Zhang Ning's first meeting and looked at him.
This person is in his prime at the age of thirty or forty, tall and thin. In fact, he is quite burly and does not look thin, but the flesh on his face looks dry, like an old branch, as if there is no moisture at all, so he feels very thin.
The dress is normal, and it is just a common sage, but Zhang Ning's first feeling is that this person is probably an old bachelor, which is a kind of intuition that having a woman at home will not make him look so awkward.
Zhan Zhuli.Xie Jun pointed at him and introduced that the messenger of Mr. and the person in charge of protecting safety were not under Xie's control, only Mr. can take care of him.
Zhan Zhuli bowed and said: I am not good at vocational education and see Lord Zhang.
No need to be polite.Zhang Ning nodded, letting him remember that he was the one who was very good at drinking that Xie Jun mentioned last time.
The tea is brewed, and there is ready-made spring water today.The beauty smiled and brought the tea plate, looking at Zhang Ning with a smile, saying, "Last time, Lord Zhang tasted Dongting tea, and this is the same today."
Both Zhang Ning and Xie Jun smiled kindly to the beauties. After all, in the eyes of men, beauties should be treated more kindly.
Zhan Zhuli turned a blind eye and said to himself: I heard that the person who stabbed the adult in the back in the crime corruption case was your classmate Ma Wenchang. What kind of holiday does he have with you?
It seems that there is no holiday. I guess I was too ostentatious before and others were dissatisfied.
Zhang Ning said casually.
I thought to myself that I only knew about Ma Wenchang when I went home. How did Mr. Zhan know about this far away in Yangzhou?
Just now Xie Jun said that Mr. Zhan was only under his control, but now it seems that he has to take care of me in the opposite direction?
Well, this person is a messenger. When delivering the message, he happened to call me a report in front of Shangfeng.
Xie Jun echoed and sighed: The hearts of the world are sinister.
Zhang Ning pretended to be relaxed and smiled: The same thing is the same thing, it is the state of mind to taste tea.People in the world have good intentions and bad intentions, but who don’t have them?If you don’t like it, just worry about it, and your mood will be bad. Let’s have tea.
Please.Xie Jun nodded in praise, turned to see Mr. Zhan tilting his head and drinking it all, and couldn't help but laugh and scolding him for wasting good tea.
Zhan Zhuli smiled and said: I can sing wine for any reason, but I really ruin this tea when I drink it, haha.
Zhang Ning sipped it carefully and found that the fragrance of tea really makes people feel heart-warming. He really has little knowledge of this, but the difference between fine tea and coarse tea is too obvious.
He put down the teacup and said seriously: I saw Shangfeng when I went to Nanjing this time.
Both of them were sitting and listening.
Zhang Ning continued: Shangfeng has explained a new job, and the early goal is Taohua Villa.Taohua Villa itself is a group of private salt dealers who collude with the rebels. The main activity area is in Nanzhili, and its former nest was in Yangzhou.If there is any progress in the early stage, you must not alert the enemy. The further goal is Zheng Qia, the close minister of Jianwen.Shangfeng asked me to preside over the undercover investigation in Yangzhou. We must first draw up a plan. You two are familiar with each other. What are your opinions?
Xie Jun took a file from Miao singer and handed it on both hands: This is a list and identity of the 57 masters under his command. It is a secret copy. Please read it. We only follow the lead of the teacher.
Zhang Ning took it and found a red paper bag on it with the yellow lettering on it. He asked: What is this?
My little thoughts from brothers.Xie Jun smiled.
Zhang Ning said: Are you asking me to accept bribes?
Xie Jun said: What a bribe, it’s just a little etiquette.In the first month of the year, the brothers walked around to greet each other and greeted each other. The gentleman went to Nanjing again. This is a supplement, just a common etiquette.
Since that's the case... Zhang Ning is now penniless and has been stolen on the way. Now that he has a legitimate name to collect money, he can only accept it with a smile. I can't help but give everyone a face. I don't have to be so polite next time. They are all my own people... When it comes to serious business, don't you give me any opinions?
Xie Jun has already expressed his opinion that he is right, and Zhan Zhuli also said: Do whatever you say, I am just an errand runner.
Zhang Ning was silent for a while and read the list casually. These people have various identities funded by public funds, and all of them have something to do with the three religions and other abilities that travel around the world.
After Mr. Hu has been operating this business for 10 or 20 years, the net has been basically spread out.
The land and shops in Taohua Villa have been sealed off by the government. They have to eat and make a living, and sooner or later they will come out to transport private salt.
Zhang Ning thought and said, "Anyway, this matter is perfunctory, so he didn't plan to achieve anything in this position, but he still had to take some action, so we should shift our focus to the private salt industry at present.
The two of them nodded seriously and said: What the gentleman said is very true.
The news was sent to the leaders of various teams in various places, so that they could try to find out the main private salt gangs in the local area, and get the news as soon as possible. When new gang members appeared, they would report it to list it as a key follow-up spy.
After briefly making arrangements for the preliminary arrangements, Zhang Ning didn't plan to spend too much effort. It seemed that there was no big problem: Xie Jun probably didn't pay much attention to the serious business. This guy was dedicated to managing his garden and was concerned about making money. After a while, he mentioned what poetry would do and what kind of famous prostitutes would be like. On the contrary, Zhan Zhuli, Zhang Ning was very suspicious. It was really strange that a person who didn't want money or color had the only hobby of drinking.
Therefore, Zhang Ning planned to write a report first and ordered Zhan Zhuli to send it to Nanjing, and then he went to Taohua Villa after taking the opportunity to play.
In fact, even if someone knows that he goes to Taohua Villa, it’s not a big problem. Zhang Ning was in charge of this matter. Besides, Taohua Villa has been searched by the government, so it’s not impossible to go and take a look.
In short, Zhang Ning mainly judged the situation by intuition, and prepared to win over Xie Jun first and then make the idea of Zhan Zhuli.
The three of them were at the dinner table. As expected, Zhan Zhuli quickly lay down and stopped moving. Only Xie Jun often mentioned the topic of the four talents from Jiangsu and Zhejiang who were going to visit Yangzhou in spring.
Zhang Ning said calmly: Among them, Mr. Su, isn’t he in Nanjing? How could he come from Hangzhou?
Xie Jun immediately asked: Among the four, Mr. Su is the most divine dragon. How did the sir know that he is in Nanjing?
Zhang Ning looked very ordinary and said: Before I returned to Yangzhou, I had a table of wine with Mr. Su, right on the Qinhuai River.
ha?!Xie Jun was both surprised and happy. It turned out that the gentleman knew Mr. Su?
This scene is like two guys having a barbecue and talking about Jacky Cheung coming to hold a concert. One of them said lightly: You said Jacky Cheung Ah, I went shopping with him that day.
Zhang Ning said: Just a familiar acquaintance. He and I have a good relationship with each other and are recommended by me.
Xie Junxi said: That's great, that's great!You don’t know that in order to invite the four talents, I spent a lot of money to accompany countless smiling faces to make friends with the literati and poets in Baoyang Lake. Since the gentleman knows Mr. Su, there will be less twists and turns.As long as Mr. Su gives his husband a face to attend the meeting, the other three people have a good relationship with Mr. Su, it is most likely not difficult to invite him. Mr. Su is so kind to face Miao Ge in front of the guests, and his value is not rising?
Hengyong is very concerned about Miss Miao and has spent a lot of effort.Zhang Ning smiled.
Xie Jun said in front of Miao Ge: Miss Miao is also a member of Biyuan. We are not for one person, but Biyuan!It is necessary to make a reputation and high-end quality, and then those rich and powerful customers will be able to look up to our place and become regular customers...
Zhang Ning nodded and agreed: Since that's the case, I should come forward.When Mr. Su comes to Yangzhou, you say something, I will go over and visit him, he should meet him.At that time, he would send Hengyong's invitation to him, and he would not be able to refuse due to face.
Oh my, it’s really a blessing for us to come to Yangzhou to take office.Xie Jun stood up and bowed.
No need, sit down and talk.
Zhang Ning hurriedly reached out and pressed down, and said calmly, "Biyuan is a good management," and thought that if we don't have to ask Mr. Hu for funds one day, we can be self-sufficient and can do things for the court, wouldn't it be two good?"
Xie Jun said: What sir said is right.
However, Zhang Ning thought it was unlikely that he would completely take out the interests and confiscate it. Otherwise, Xie Jun would not have such high enthusiasm and enthusiasm?He didn't say that the losses were already good.
……
After the social event, Zhang Ning immediately opened the red envelope and saw 200 taels of silver. This ordinary etiquette is really a lot, about 100,000 yuan.
Zhang Ning now has an annual salary of 45 taels in his seventh-rank official, and a salary of ordinary gifts is equivalent to four and a half years.
Zhang Ning put the silver notes into his pocket and kneaded the red envelopes into a ball and threw them away, while sighing secretly.
If you take this money, you don’t have to worry about being investigated and accepted bribes as long as you do nothing wrong with other issues, but it is always not clean.
I arrived at Yangzhou City hungryly, and the sun had already set in the west. The shadow of riding alone in the ancient city was stretched to a long time, and it was indescribable.
He did not go back to his residence and did not go to the Yangzhou Prefecture Office. He went straight to Biyuan, where he could eat and drink freely and had good tea and food, and he could eat and drink all his life.
It’s not even dinner time, so it’s good to go to the tea room with the plaque for spring to taste tea and get rid of the dust. It’s just the time. The spring of the 22nd year of Yongle has arrived and flowers are about to bloom.
The adults are back.
The slim beauty named Miao Ge looked at him and greeted her, and a spring breeze blew into her face.
Then she still fiddled with the tea sets and did trivial matters, and she seemed very quiet without saying much.
After all, it’s better to stay where you have been, at least you don’t have to pay attention to whether your wallet will be stolen.
After a while, the owner of Biyuan, Xie Jun and another person also came in to greet him. The other person was Zhang Ning's first meeting and looked at him.
This person is in his prime at the age of thirty or forty, tall and thin. In fact, he is quite burly and does not look thin, but the flesh on his face looks dry, like an old branch, as if there is no moisture at all, so he feels very thin.
The dress is normal, and it is just a common sage, but Zhang Ning's first feeling is that this person is probably an old bachelor, which is a kind of intuition that having a woman at home will not make him look so awkward.
Zhan Zhuli.Xie Jun pointed at him and introduced that the messenger of Mr. and the person in charge of protecting safety were not under Xie's control, only Mr. can take care of him.
Zhan Zhuli bowed and said: I am not good at vocational education and see Lord Zhang.
No need to be polite.Zhang Ning nodded, letting him remember that he was the one who was very good at drinking that Xie Jun mentioned last time.
The tea is brewed, and there is ready-made spring water today.The beauty smiled and brought the tea plate, looking at Zhang Ning with a smile, saying, "Last time, Lord Zhang tasted Dongting tea, and this is the same today."
Both Zhang Ning and Xie Jun smiled kindly to the beauties. After all, in the eyes of men, beauties should be treated more kindly.
Zhan Zhuli turned a blind eye and said to himself: I heard that the person who stabbed the adult in the back in the crime corruption case was your classmate Ma Wenchang. What kind of holiday does he have with you?
It seems that there is no holiday. I guess I was too ostentatious before and others were dissatisfied.
Zhang Ning said casually.
I thought to myself that I only knew about Ma Wenchang when I went home. How did Mr. Zhan know about this far away in Yangzhou?
Just now Xie Jun said that Mr. Zhan was only under his control, but now it seems that he has to take care of me in the opposite direction?
Well, this person is a messenger. When delivering the message, he happened to call me a report in front of Shangfeng.
Xie Jun echoed and sighed: The hearts of the world are sinister.
Zhang Ning pretended to be relaxed and smiled: The same thing is the same thing, it is the state of mind to taste tea.People in the world have good intentions and bad intentions, but who don’t have them?If you don’t like it, just worry about it, and your mood will be bad. Let’s have tea.
Please.Xie Jun nodded in praise, turned to see Mr. Zhan tilting his head and drinking it all, and couldn't help but laugh and scolding him for wasting good tea.
Zhan Zhuli smiled and said: I can sing wine for any reason, but I really ruin this tea when I drink it, haha.
Zhang Ning sipped it carefully and found that the fragrance of tea really makes people feel heart-warming. He really has little knowledge of this, but the difference between fine tea and coarse tea is too obvious.
He put down the teacup and said seriously: I saw Shangfeng when I went to Nanjing this time.
Both of them were sitting and listening.
Zhang Ning continued: Shangfeng has explained a new job, and the early goal is Taohua Villa.Taohua Villa itself is a group of private salt dealers who collude with the rebels. The main activity area is in Nanzhili, and its former nest was in Yangzhou.If there is any progress in the early stage, you must not alert the enemy. The further goal is Zheng Qia, the close minister of Jianwen.Shangfeng asked me to preside over the undercover investigation in Yangzhou. We must first draw up a plan. You two are familiar with each other. What are your opinions?
Xie Jun took a file from Miao singer and handed it on both hands: This is a list and identity of the 57 masters under his command. It is a secret copy. Please read it. We only follow the lead of the teacher.
Zhang Ning took it and found a red paper bag on it with the yellow lettering on it. He asked: What is this?
My little thoughts from brothers.Xie Jun smiled.
Zhang Ning said: Are you asking me to accept bribes?
Xie Jun said: What a bribe, it’s just a little etiquette.In the first month of the year, the brothers walked around to greet each other and greeted each other. The gentleman went to Nanjing again. This is a supplement, just a common etiquette.
Since that's the case... Zhang Ning is now penniless and has been stolen on the way. Now that he has a legitimate name to collect money, he can only accept it with a smile. I can't help but give everyone a face. I don't have to be so polite next time. They are all my own people... When it comes to serious business, don't you give me any opinions?
Xie Jun has already expressed his opinion that he is right, and Zhan Zhuli also said: Do whatever you say, I am just an errand runner.
Zhang Ning was silent for a while and read the list casually. These people have various identities funded by public funds, and all of them have something to do with the three religions and other abilities that travel around the world.
After Mr. Hu has been operating this business for 10 or 20 years, the net has been basically spread out.
The land and shops in Taohua Villa have been sealed off by the government. They have to eat and make a living, and sooner or later they will come out to transport private salt.
Zhang Ning thought and said, "Anyway, this matter is perfunctory, so he didn't plan to achieve anything in this position, but he still had to take some action, so we should shift our focus to the private salt industry at present.
The two of them nodded seriously and said: What the gentleman said is very true.
The news was sent to the leaders of various teams in various places, so that they could try to find out the main private salt gangs in the local area, and get the news as soon as possible. When new gang members appeared, they would report it to list it as a key follow-up spy.
After briefly making arrangements for the preliminary arrangements, Zhang Ning didn't plan to spend too much effort. It seemed that there was no big problem: Xie Jun probably didn't pay much attention to the serious business. This guy was dedicated to managing his garden and was concerned about making money. After a while, he mentioned what poetry would do and what kind of famous prostitutes would be like. On the contrary, Zhan Zhuli, Zhang Ning was very suspicious. It was really strange that a person who didn't want money or color had the only hobby of drinking.
Therefore, Zhang Ning planned to write a report first and ordered Zhan Zhuli to send it to Nanjing, and then he went to Taohua Villa after taking the opportunity to play.
In fact, even if someone knows that he goes to Taohua Villa, it’s not a big problem. Zhang Ning was in charge of this matter. Besides, Taohua Villa has been searched by the government, so it’s not impossible to go and take a look.
In short, Zhang Ning mainly judged the situation by intuition, and prepared to win over Xie Jun first and then make the idea of Zhan Zhuli.
The three of them were at the dinner table. As expected, Zhan Zhuli quickly lay down and stopped moving. Only Xie Jun often mentioned the topic of the four talents from Jiangsu and Zhejiang who were going to visit Yangzhou in spring.
Zhang Ning said calmly: Among them, Mr. Su, isn’t he in Nanjing? How could he come from Hangzhou?
Xie Jun immediately asked: Among the four, Mr. Su is the most divine dragon. How did the sir know that he is in Nanjing?
Zhang Ning looked very ordinary and said: Before I returned to Yangzhou, I had a table of wine with Mr. Su, right on the Qinhuai River.
ha?!Xie Jun was both surprised and happy. It turned out that the gentleman knew Mr. Su?
This scene is like two guys having a barbecue and talking about Jacky Cheung coming to hold a concert. One of them said lightly: You said Jacky Cheung Ah, I went shopping with him that day.
Zhang Ning said: Just a familiar acquaintance. He and I have a good relationship with each other and are recommended by me.
Xie Junxi said: That's great, that's great!You don’t know that in order to invite the four talents, I spent a lot of money to accompany countless smiling faces to make friends with the literati and poets in Baoyang Lake. Since the gentleman knows Mr. Su, there will be less twists and turns.As long as Mr. Su gives his husband a face to attend the meeting, the other three people have a good relationship with Mr. Su, it is most likely not difficult to invite him. Mr. Su is so kind to face Miao Ge in front of the guests, and his value is not rising?
Hengyong is very concerned about Miss Miao and has spent a lot of effort.Zhang Ning smiled.
Xie Jun said in front of Miao Ge: Miss Miao is also a member of Biyuan. We are not for one person, but Biyuan!It is necessary to make a reputation and high-end quality, and then those rich and powerful customers will be able to look up to our place and become regular customers...
Zhang Ning nodded and agreed: Since that's the case, I should come forward.When Mr. Su comes to Yangzhou, you say something, I will go over and visit him, he should meet him.At that time, he would send Hengyong's invitation to him, and he would not be able to refuse due to face.
Oh my, it’s really a blessing for us to come to Yangzhou to take office.Xie Jun stood up and bowed.
No need, sit down and talk.
Zhang Ning hurriedly reached out and pressed down, and said calmly, "Biyuan is a good management," and thought that if we don't have to ask Mr. Hu for funds one day, we can be self-sufficient and can do things for the court, wouldn't it be two good?"
Xie Jun said: What sir said is right.
However, Zhang Ning thought it was unlikely that he would completely take out the interests and confiscate it. Otherwise, Xie Jun would not have such high enthusiasm and enthusiasm?He didn't say that the losses were already good.
……
After the social event, Zhang Ning immediately opened the red envelope and saw 200 taels of silver. This ordinary etiquette is really a lot, about 100,000 yuan.
Zhang Ning now has an annual salary of 45 taels in his seventh-rank official, and a salary of ordinary gifts is equivalent to four and a half years.
Zhang Ning put the silver notes into his pocket and kneaded the red envelopes into a ball and threw them away, while sighing secretly.
If you take this money, you don’t have to worry about being investigated and accepted bribes as long as you do nothing wrong with other issues, but it is always not clean.