Chapter 12 Mine Superintendent and Tax Envoy
Compared to the scenery of returning home a few days ago, the youngest team of the Zhang family is obviously much deserted today.
The road ahead was the soldiers from the neighboring county garrison, and there were only three people left in the gang that day.
Wei Liangchen noticed that there were two carriages coming. Needless to say, the carriage in front was definitely the youngest carriage in the Zhang family, but I don’t know whose carriage in the back.
Liangchen thought that Zhang Bing was going back to the palace after visiting relatives, so he didn't think much about it. He had ready-made golden thighs to hold, and there was no reason to compliment an unknown man in the palace, so he turned around and had a tea.
This tea is really cold, but it is not the tea leaves, but a local grass called Jinhua. This grass is dried and used to make tea. It is the same as some people in the south who like to make tea with dried lotus leaves. It can relieve the heat.
Several other guests in the shop also noticed the movement on the village road. They looked around and turned around and ignored it.
These people are just people passing by here to rest, not people nearby, so they don’t know who the youngest Zhang family is.
Liangchen thought that Zhang Bing would let the carriage go straight to the official road to the county and would not stop and rest in this small tea shop. Unexpectedly, Zhang Bing was actually a casual person and considerate person. Seeing that the soldiers who borrowed to support the store were a little tired, he greeted him in the car and asked everyone to drink a bowl of tea in the tea shop before leaving.
"Thank you, Eunuch Zhang!"
The leader of the guards who led the team was Xiaoqi, surnamed Zheng. He happily took a piece of silver thrown by Zhang Bing and took a few brothers to the tea shop. He couldn't use a piece of silver to drink tea, so the extra money was naturally the reward of Eunuch Zhang.
The carriage behind saw that it stopped in front of him, and he also stopped. There was a person who got off the car. The man was recognized by the person who was Wu Dezheng, who was a secretary in the sixth house in the county.
"Eunuch Zhang, please slow down!"
When Wu De was jumping out of the carriage, Zhang Bing was about to get out of the car, he hurriedly ran forward and took a hand. Zhang Bing smiled and nodded slightly.
When the Liangchen saw this scene, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Although Wu Dezheng did not pass the imperial examination, his talent and knowledge were not low. Now he is in the sixth house in the county, so he is considered a figure. His father, Master Wu, is a famous scholar. Logically, Wu Dezheng must have some character. Unexpectedly, facing a eunuch who is the supervisor of the Baochao Department in the palace, Wu Dezheng was so humble. If his father knew about it, he would not know what he thought.
Then I thought about it, Zhang Bing was in the village for a few days and Wu Dezheng was there, and Master Wu had no reason not to know what his son was doing. Thinking of this, Master Wu probably couldn't really take his noble appearance. Perhaps in private, the father and son might have a virtue.
To attract the incest and possess the power is the nature of human beings.
Liangchen felt that he seemed much taller than the Wu father and son, but soon he was disgusted and a little funny, because he wasn't this kind of person? When he knew that his second uncle was Wei Zhongxian, he was in a hurry to recognize his relatives. What's the difference between this and Wu Dezheng cursing a eunuch?
If the eldest brother doesn’t talk about the second brother, Wei Liangchen really has no right to laugh at Wu Dezheng.
When the old woman in the tea shop saw so many guests, including Jun Ye, she couldn't help but feel a little panicked. She hurriedly took out a stack of large bowls and put them on the table, then picked up the teapot and poured water one by one.
The stack of large bowls must be not very clean, and it doesn't matter to Zheng Xiaoqi's group of people. Wu Dezheng frowned, took two bowls to the edge of the tea shop and washed them with water in the bucket, and then poured tea for Zhang Bing himself.
Zhang Bing took a plaster from his sleeve and wiped it on the bench. His every move was very feminine.
This made Liangchen feel very nauseous, because Zhang Bing, like his second uncle, was castrated into the palace after he became an adult, so Zhang Bing was very strong in terms of body shape.
Let me ask, if a man with such a strong man makes a little woman-like behavior, can he not react at all when he sees him?
However, no one in the tea shop dared to show a look of disgust on his face.
Two guests saw the military master from the garrison and the husband in the palace who seemed to be in trouble. In order to avoid causing trouble, they got up and left the shop to travel. There was only Wei Liangchen and an old man sitting there and continuing to drink tea.
I don’t know if it’s because of his nature, or because of Zhang Bing, his father-in-law, there was nothing else except that he was louder. It was not like the ones in the TV series of Liangchen in his previous life. There was a dramatic conflict immediately when the military men entered.
Or, like the online novel he once wrote, there will be conflicts without conflict and forced conflicts, and there will be forced into trouble without difficulties. Anyway, there will be different ways to make the military man conflict with the protagonist.
Everything was very peaceful, everyone drank their own tea, the river water did not interfere with the well water, and it was peaceful.
Wu De was talking with Zhang Bing while drinking tea, but the two of them didn't notice Wei Liangchen sitting next to him.
After half a bowl of tea, my stomach felt comfortable. Liangchen rushed to the county and was about to get up to pay the bill. Just as he was about to move, he accidentally heard Zhang Bing seem to say the word "Mine Supervisor".
These two words made Wei Liangchen feel moved, and he subconsciously continued to drink tea, but his ears were raised high. He wanted to know what Zhang Bing was talking about.
Unfortunately, although Zhang Bing and Wu Dezheng didn't care about the others in the shop at all, what they said had a lot to do with it, so the voice was not very loud.
Liangchen barely heard a few words clearly, but the general idea was that Wu Dezheng said that he had discovered a mine and wanted Zhang Bingbao to come up and ask for a mine to start, and then they would make a fortune together.
The good minister knew about Emperor Wanli's mining supervision and taxation envoys increasing the internal treasury, but the specific situation was not clear, and he didn't know how to operate it very well.
He wanted to listen to a few more words, but he couldn't get over because he didn't speak loudly. So he got up and threw down a small flat money, carried a bag and went out of the tea shop.
The mining supervision and taxation envoy is a big deal, but it is a big deal for others. The money you make is also from others. What does it have to do with him, Wei Liangchen?
When Liangchen stood up, Zhang Bing glanced at him, but only took a look.
After coming out of the tea shop, Liangchen continued to walk north. This place is more than 20 miles away from the county town. I gritted my teeth and walked for more than an hour and I will definitely be able to get there.
There were more and more people on the official road, and there were carriages or ox carriages passing by from time to time. The sun was getting higher and higher, making people's body hot. Not long after, Liangchen was sweating all over.
After walking about two or three miles, Zhang Bing's carriage rushed up from behind. Liangchen avoided under the tree on the side of the road and watched the soldiers of the guards panting and following the carriage forward.
"Wei Liangchen?"
However, someone suddenly called out in the second carriage. Liangchen was stunned for a moment and found that it was Wu Xiuzhi who called him.
"Who is this person? He looks familiar."
In the carriage, Wu De was asking the driver to stop, poke his head out, and looked at Liangchen in confusion.
"Brother, he is Wei Liangchen, my father's former student."
"Wei Liangchen?"
After hearing what my sister said, Wu Dezheng suddenly had some impression. He glanced at Liangchen and shook his head slightly.
Needless to say, Wu Dezheng must have known Wei Liangchen's past and also knew that he had asked the man from Taipusi Horse Factory to break his legs, so he looked down on the young man in his hometown very much.
"Where are you going?"
Wu Xiuzhi raised the curtain with one hand and placed the other on the car window.
"I'll go to the county."
The eldest brother is here, so the good minister dare not talk nonsense.
"oh."
Wu Xiuzhi nodded and looked at the bag on Liangchen again.
Liangchen was happy and thought that this girl would invite herself to ride a carriage for the sake of the villagers, which would save a lot of energy. Unexpectedly, Wu Xiuzhi put down the curtain directly.
"Brother, let's go."
In the carriage, Wu Xiuzhi was not willing to take Wei Liangchen's journey at all. Wu Dezheng didn't want to take the "bad" boy in the village, so he patted the car door and signaled the driver to drive to Eunuch Zhang's carriage.
The coachman swung his whip and the carriage immediately drove forward, leaving Wei Liangchen with a helpless look on his face.
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Chapter completed!