Chapter 445: True and false secret letters from the weaving bureau, try to get back and forth with you
Li Gongde smiled and said, “Let me calculate it. Now I, Li Gongde, is a second-rank official. If you go up, Wang Beiliang doesn’t need to think about it. However, there are not many positions in the capital. Among the six ministers, except for the Minister of Personnel who has only been promoted to half a rank recently, they cannot make any other moves. Well, I guess the fake secret letter should have killed the Minister of Personnel. Maybe it will be even more petty. What is the Minister of Revenue and the Minister of Justice? The official was very curious. Before the letter was opened, what kind of reward was given to the real letter. Zhang Julu was in charge of the Secretariat, and it could not be changed. Huan Wen was promoted to the Secretariat and would not change. Then the only one is the Secretariat. In addition to joining here, it seems that the official can also have multiple Qing ranks of the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet. Li Gongde has a great official addiction in this life, but he really never thought that one day he would be able to become a high position with big figures such as Biyaner and Sun Xiji. “
Xu Hun never said a word when he shouldn’t have spoken.
Li Gongde asked with a smile, “You are not afraid that I will send you and the letter to His Highness the Crown Prince now.”
Xu Hun said calmly, “It’s all dead, so why not die two days earlier?”
Li Gongde stared at his face for a moment, and nodded.
“Thank you Lord Li to let Xu Hun die.”
Xu Hun bowed deeply, opened the door gently, and quietly left the mansion of the military commander.
Li Gongde stood up, walked to the table, stretched out a hand, retracted it quickly as if it was hot, and then slowly stretched out his hand, but he kept stopping a few inches above the two secret letters, his face dark and unclear.
On the second day of the first lunar month, at the intersection of Liangling two prefectures, a team of carriages with dart flags broke into the spacious post road in the north and south directions, following behind the buttocks of the two carriages. It is difficult to predict the danger of driving the darts. As long as you walk on the official road with relatively peaceful life, you must whip up quickly to make up for the time being to carefully delay the darts on the mountain roads and rivers. This horse team under the banner of “Kinmen Escort Agency” has a lot of performance. The escort bosses and escort husbands are the most thirty-year-old men. When the escort team passed the two carriages in front, a car suddenly lifted the curtain, poked out a gray-haired head, and smiled at a escort, “Heroine, do you remember me, do you remember me last time, we drank green ant wine in the roadside wine shop.”
After being surprised, the escort slowed down his horse speed, approached the carriage a few minutes, nodded happily and said loudly, “Remember, why don’t you remember, the young master wrote good writing, Ling Zun was even more righteous, and invited our brothers two big jars of green ant wine and five kilograms of beef in vain. Why, the young master was also walking towards Lingzhou”
Xu Fengnian smiled and said, “No, now I’ve been making a living in Lingzhou Prefecture City. I have to run there after the New Year at home, just working hard. If I remember correctly, there will be a shop a few miles ahead, with authentic wine and meat, and the prices are also fair.It won’t be delayed that you can take the escorts together, and it’s more lively, so I’ll treat you to you. “
The escorts who ran to Beiliang to find a livelihood from Liaodong were a little embarrassed at the moment. The three of them were forced to go desperately by the mad dog named Yuan. The sect had only three of them. The mad dog had a father-in-law who was powerful in the Liyang court. After thinking about it, he felt that Beiliang could not control it. However, although he relied on his martial arts and finally had an iron rice bowl, he was just a escort who had just joined the escort agency. He had to look at the old escort leader everywhere, and he was a little embarrassed for a while. Fortunately, the old escort leader who had a great majesty in the Kinmen escort agency looked at the two carriages for a moment, and laughed loudly: “Since this young master and our brother Dou are old friends, they are friends of our Kinmen escort agency. I know the shop ahead. It is the place where the escort agency will settle down. I don’t dare to let the young master spend money later. We can pay for the wine. No matter how poor the escort agency in the Jinmen will have to pay for it! “
Xu Fengnian did not refuse, and he didn’t need to speak. Xu Yanbing, who was the groom, had already whipped the horse quickly. This detail made the old escort secretly amazed. I don’t expect that this young man with a good family background looked very kind-hearted, and even the escorts were a sensible person.
Two groups of people arrived at the familiar shop that was very “clean” to the escort agency. The shopkeeper had long been familiar with the eating habits of these repeat customers. Without further ado, he ordered the shopkeeper to quickly serve food and wine.
The old rule of this industry is to make more meat, rice, and too little wine. It is a good old rule for the ward to not drink too much. Often, only one or two highly respected and well-behaved old qualifications in the ward team can drink a few sips. Xu Yanbing and Hong Shuwen both straightforwardly did not serve the table, and Hu Yan Guanyin was not hungry. In addition, the woman who was riding in the same carriage got off the car, so she was even more reluctant to leave the warm carriage. So Xu Fengnian, Xu Beizhi and Pei Nanwei sat on the main table with wine. She sat side by side with Xu Fengnian. There was also the old man who led the ward team this time. The head of the dart, Bao Fengshou, and Dou Liang, a Liaodong native who should not be qualified to sit on this table. Pei Nanwei wore an expensive fur sweeping away the snow with a white fox hat. She was wearing a fox fur hat. The woman with a slightly dark skin was set off like a black charcoal in her original outfit, but she dressed like this, but the charm of the skin was better than the snow. The old head of the dart, who had been traveling around the country for most of her life, still took the boss’s efforts to retract her gaze, thinking that he had never seen such a beautiful woman in his life, and the money for this meal was not unfair.
The young man in charge of serving dishes and wine almost knocked the jar to the ground, blushed, and turned around embarrassedly, and was kicked by the angry shopkeeper.
Xu Fengnian, as always, called himself Xu Qi, and had a shallow conversation with Dou Liang and Bao Fengshou, roughly knowing Dou Liang’s situation and the scale of the Kinmen escort agency. Dou Liang was straightforward, but his face was thin, and he did not politely greet Mr. Xu. Bao Fengshou met for the first time, and he was very familiar with each other and started to get along with the Kinmen in Lingzhou Prefecture City.At the escort agency, he must go to Mr. Xu’s mansion to pay New Year’s greetings in person, especially after hearing that Xu Qi’s family lived in Xingzi Street, the eyes of this old man in Jianghu became much hotter. You should know that Xingzi Street is home to the masters and a large number of Lingzhou powerful people. Recently, there is a general named Xu! Although Xingzi Street is very long and there are people who are not officials, since they can live on that street, even if they don’t have the power, they are the richest people in Lingzhou. In jargon, the Kinmen Escort Agency has always been walking on the sparrow archery, which is a small archery with little meat and no oil. The large escort agency is all sow archery, and one archery can make money. If the nobles who can climb to Xingzi Street will be passed on by word of mouth, they will spread the word a few more times. The Kinmen Escort Agency takes advantage of the east wind to raise the banner, even if it is truly developed, otherwise who would be happy to celebrate the New Year on the escort road. Xu Fengnian took the initiative to toast five or six times, but most of them were chatting with Dou Liang, which made Dou Liang, the displaced and stray dog, feel a silent warmth. However, he was not good at speaking, so he ignored whether he was going to be stabbed by the sarcastic sarcasm afterwards, and the green ants in the bowl left no wine left.
After drinking and eating, Xu Fengnian smiled and said, “My ancestors are also in Liaodong, and they are in Jinzhou. Brother Dou can barely meet old friends in a foreign land. It’s rare. When he returned to Lingzhou City, Xu Qi would definitely go to the Kinmen Escort Agency to pay New Year’s greetings first. The other two elder brothers also met them well. If you don’t have a good time today, you will be left alone. You won’t be drunk when you don’t get drunk.”
Bao Fengshou smiled and said, “Young Master Xu must also come to visit. The Kinmen Escort Agency must not be rude. If it is rumored, you will be laughed at.”
Xu Fengnian didn’t know the old escort boss’s small abacus. He was afraid that he “Xu Qi” would be a small family who bragged and didn’t make drafts. He had to look at the mansion in person to be at ease, and he would not expose it. He nodded and smiled, “No problem. If there is anything to escort in the future, since Brother Dou is in your escort agency, I will be specially troubled by your Kinmen escort agency in the future.”
The escort agency still had to rush forward, and both sides said goodbye. Bao Fengshou whispered when he checked out with the shopkeeper, and gave him a few more pieces of silver. Obviously, he knew that Mr. Xu would also have to add food and wine, so the escort agency paid first. Xu Fengnian sat back on the bench and ordered an extra pot of warm and ironed green ant wine, and poured half a bowl of Xu Beizhi and Pei Nanwei.
Xu Beizhi chuckled softly, “Dou Liang’s salary has to be increased after finishing this escort.”
Xu Fengnian refused to comment and changed the topic and said, “Chen Liangxi wanted both salt and iron to rectify the wasteland and fully handle the matter of the canal transportation. One was to compete with local gentry, and the other was to argue with Beijing officials. The local snake crossed the river and dragons were involved. Do you think he could do it?”
Xu Beizhi said calmly, “I don’t know.”