Chapter 271 Three Imperial Envoys
He refused Hu Zongxian's stay, and did not return to Xixi Villa in silence, but lived in the inn with noisy people.
At this time, the inn was full. Fortunately, the inn was an old acquaintance with him and admired the name of Duke Jie Yuan. He asked him to write a plaque and drove away the merchants living in the upper room and flew them out for him to live in... At that time, only 70% of the inns were real officials, while the rest were holding the notes on the above or simply bribing the inn to move into the business trip. This was a tacit secret.
After staying in the inn for three days, the silent report was still not written. This was not because his literary thoughts were exhausted, but after repeated consideration, he felt that he should wait and see the next changes in the court.
Yes, he did promise Hu Zongxian that he would report to the emperor to help him, but he was silent and knew that the matter was of great importance. The so-called "Japanese/strike invasion of Beijing" was just the tip of the iceberg, and there might be a mixed relationship behind it. For a groom who was about to get married, he would never want to get involved at this time. It would be best to be out of the matter.
But what is helpless is that sometimes it is not you who are asking for trouble, but you. After only another day, the imperial edict arrived and ordered him to assist the imperial envoy to thoroughly investigate the whole story of the incident. Now he could not be left out.
Throwing the half-written report into the brazier, sighed silently, and instructed Chen An: "You go back to Shaoxing and tell your home that the wedding will be postponed..."
Another day, Chen Ji was studying in the house, and then he heard the noise outside, and there seemed to be words like "Inspector" and other words. He moved his heart and ordered Tiezhu to go out to watch it, and then he realized that Su Song had arrived at the inspection.
After silent, he put down the book and ordered: "Change clothes and go and visit your future colleagues."
As soon as he was walking on his feet, he heard his personal soldiers coming in and presented a message saying, "Sir, Lord Su Song, the inspector of the inspector, come and visit him."
Chen Si quickly said, "Hurry up and invite you... Oh no, I'll just welcome you." Then he hurried out and saw an official in his twenties or thirties in the courtyard, with a fair face, black short beard and very elegant.
"Su Song is in charge of Wang Yongji, and has seen Jie Yuanlang." Seeing the silent greeting, the official bowed with a smile, his voice soft and clean.
Chen Si quickly returned the favor and said, "I have long admired Brother Runlian's name, and I finally met today. I am so lucky to meet you."
Wang Yongji's name is Runlian, and smiled and said with a smile: "Xie Yuanlang is too famous, just a minor official, where does he get his name?"
A gentleman who is as gentle as jade is always likable, and silence cannot avoid the vulgarity. He cannot help but feel close to him. He quickly let him into the house and invite him to sit down. Wang Yongji refused, so the two of them had to sit down in a silence. Silently ordered tea, and said to Wang Yongji: "Brother Runlian has worked hard all the way, so early."
Wang Yongji smiled gently and said, "Didn't Jie Yuanlang come earlier?"
Chen Si shook his head and smiled, "Brother Runlian, please call me Zhuyan. I was dizzy recently when I heard the word Jie Yuan."
Wang Yongji nodded and said, "Brother Zhuoyan, I received the imperial edict the day before yesterday, afraid of falling behind Zhaobutang, so I seized the time to come." As he said, he smiled and said, "It is said that the old man has an anxious temper."
Silently smiled, "It seems that there is something rumor." At this time, Tiezhu served tea, Wang Yongji took the tea cup and sipped it lightly, "What do you think of this errand, Brother Zhuoyan?"
Chen Si also took a sip of tea and smiled: "I was mistaken for being the Zhejiang inspector, but I was too young and naive. I had already made up my mind to follow Zhao Butang and Brother Runlian. I will do whatever you say I will do."
Wang Yongji smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Zhuoyan is too modest, but he really expressed the voice of our generation." He said, "I'm going to hide it from you, I followed General Yu to suppress the Japanese/pirates..."
The silent face tightened and asked in a deep voice: "Have you caught the living?"
"Catched." Wang Yiji lowered his voice: "A Han man with Japanese hair shaved and Japanese costume was injured by a musket and fell into a coma. When the soldiers took their heads, they found that he was not dead."
"Where is the person now?" Chen Si asked straight up.
"He has been taken into custody by Governor Cao." Wang Yongji whispered: "But I checked his whole body at that time."
"how?"
"The hands had calluses on the mouth, narrow feet, toes together, and the face and body did not have the rust of the sea breeze." Wang Yongji said whispering: "Based on this, I think he is a master on land and should not be a living at sea."
"Well, Zhejiang Hu Zhongcheng also said that there are guides on the shore colluding with them." Nodded silently and said, "Where are the rest of the Japanese/pirates?"
"I also caught two Japanese people, but they were seriously injured and I'm afraid they couldn't save them." Wang Yongji said deeply: "This is a group of desperate people. Unless they are seriously injured and unconscious, they will continue to fight until the end of the fight."
"Brother Yi Runlian, what are these Japanese pirates?" Chen Si asked softly.
"Master Yu said that all these Japanese people held Japanese swords, which is an incredible thing in itself." Fearing that they were silent and did not understand, Wang Yongji also explained: "Although the Japanese swords are of good quality and are all precious swords, the craftsmanship is extremely complex and the price is very expensive. Even in Tokyo, there is only one kind of person who can use them, that is, the samurai of the princes. These people have been practicing martial arts since childhood and specialize in killing people, which is extremely vicious and powerful."
Chen Shu nodded slightly, without interrupting him, and listened to Wang Yongji: "But Mr. Yu said that such people are also extremely rare in Tokyo. It is said that the most powerful prince is called Nobunaga, and his subordinates are less than 1,000." He said incredibly, "This time there are actually 200 such warriors who run to the Ming Dynasty to die. It is really inexplicable."
Chen Si knew that those people were definitely not samurai, because in Tokyo, samurai were all organized and had upper-class people with land and tenants, and they would never leave their families and houses to come to the Ming Dynasty. Those people could only be considered former samurai. After the princes they attached to were defeated, they had no land left, so they had to carry samurai swords and wander around, and there was a very cool name called ronin.
However, although he is a ronin, he is still a rare breed. He gathered 200 at once, and only Boss Wang Zhiwang can do it... However, he will definitely not be willing to do it.
So who did the "good thing" and was really silent, but what he could be sure of was that the master behind this was not the pirates and giant owls, the same reason as above.
The two of them talked for a while, but had no clue, so they had to press down for the time being and wait until Zhao Butang arrived. But after two days, the imperial envoy's ceremonial guard never appeared. Just when the two were a little anxious and couldn't help writing a letter to Nanjing for inquiries, an old man in a civilian came to the post to find them and handed them a famous sect.
When they saw the name above, the two of them quickly changed into their official uniforms and followed the old man out of the station. They twisted and turned to a very inconspicuous inn and saw the equally inconspicuous Shangshu Zhao.
Zhao Zhenji, whose courtesy name was Mengjing and his pseudonym was Dazhou. In the 14th year of Jiajing, he was appointed as the Hanlin editor. After several years of teaching and educating people in the Imperial College, he was promoted to the Censor of the Supervisory Commission and was ordered to be issued to the army. Later, because he offended Yan Song, he was exiled to the court. He was later promoted to the Minister of Revenue and was dismissed and seized his post. A few years ago, he was recommended by his teacher Xu Jie, and the emperor was resurrected, but Yan Song still interfered and was appointed as the Minister of Rites in Nanjing, and was idle.
It was not until Zhang Jing left office that he took over as Minister of War in Nanjing and was in charge of defense in Nanjing and Yingtian Prefecture. Mr. Zhao was an amateur in military affairs, but he still strengthened military discipline training, so that the corrupt Nanjing garrison troops had slightly improved their combat effectiveness and remained vigilant. Only then did the Japanese and pirates suddenly approach the city last month, when the Japanese and pirates suddenly approached the city, they promptly reported that they closed the city gate and were not attacked into the city, causing a great humiliation that unprecedented and no one came later.
But watching the Japanese and gulfs flee far away, the strong-willed old Zhao and his son almost fainted. From that day on, Zhao Zhenji started cursing, from Zhao Wenhua and Yang Yi to Hu Zongxian and Cao Bangfu, they were all deceived by him.
So when he received the imperial edict and ordered him to be the imperial envoy and thoroughly investigate the case, Mr. Zhao was so excited. In the morning, he received the edict and threw down the errand at his job in the afternoon. He only brought an old servant and a guard, and the three of them rode in a carriage, and rushed to Hangzhou in a hurry.
He walked quietly in contemporaneously and quietly entered Hangzhou. He wandered around the streets and alleys for two days. He felt that the situation was almost done, so he appeared and summoned his two deputies to come over. After a simple greeting, Zhao Zhenji said in a deep voice: "You two have been waiting for a long time."
The two of them hurriedly said, "We should wait for the army to be the leader of the ministry."
"What have you gained in the past few days?" Zhao Zhenji was not tall and had a normal appearance, but he had a dignity that was not angry and mighty, which made both of them dare not breathe. Wang Yongji replied softly: "I have analyzed the case with the President Chen in the past few days, but if you are not there, we dare not do anything, for fear of disrupting your deployment."
"Quote." Zhao Zhenji said with a cold face: "Even if I don't come, you won't come out and go around. Listen to the people's voices, so that you can know what you know?"
Chapter completed!