The Ming Dynasty's Spokesperson

The banquet at Huizhenlou has ended, but the crowd has not. Dozens of salt merchants are still talking around Mr. Wang.

Originally, most salt merchants did not know Lin Tailai and had no intuitive feelings or personal pain.

But just now Lin Tailai suddenly showed up in front of everyone, talking and acting like a super villain, which put great pressure on everyone.

Moreover, what Lin Daguanren showed was not the kind of little villain who cares about his own selfish interests, but the big villain who wanted to subvert the existing structure and redefine all interests.

This made all the vested interests present feel visceral fear. A series of incidents showed that Lin Tailai was not just a madman who only talked about getting high, but he was really powerful in action.

Although Lin Tailai has left, there still seems to be a terrifying ghost wandering in Huizhen Building. Only around Wang Yuanwai can one feel a sense of security.

The two business gang leaders, General Manager Sun of the Western Businessmen and Zheng Yuanwai of the Huizhou Businessmen, looked at each other and felt that they had lost a lot.

In the nearly one hundred years of business history in Yangzhou City, there has never been an industry figure so highly respected by both Westerners and Hui people.

At this time, Wang Yuanwai was already standing on the chair, ensuring that his voice could be heard by everyone and his expression could be seen by everyone.

"Colleagues! It's not that I, Wang Qing, am so great, but there are some things that only I can say and some things that only I can do!

Because Lin Tailai won't kill me in the short term, at least I won't have any worries for a month! "

Wang Yuanwai's words are very real, but it is because of their realness that they feel believable.

Then Wang Yuanwai continued: "I only want to say two things to you about the future.

First, as long as we unite, we will be able to resist Lin Tailai's disruption to the salt industry!

The salt industry accounts for a large proportion of Taicang's silver, and Huai salt accounts for half of the world's salt industry!

If Taicang's silver plummets due to disruption to the salt industry, no one can bear the responsibility, not even Lin Tailai and his backers!

But the prerequisite is that we must unite. Fighting alone will only result in being eaten by the invaders! "

This sentence can be regarded as a encouragement to everyone and makes everyone realize their own advantages.

Next, I heard Wang Yuanwai say: "Second, we still have to be cautious and don't act rashly for the time being!

Although Lin Tailai said he was temporarily leaving Yangzhou just now, he did not rule out the possibility of luring a snake out of its hole.

So we don’t have to do anything these days, just pay attention to Lin Tailai’s movements, and wait until Lin Tailai leaves Yangzhou clearly!

From now on, if I am in the open and you are in the dark, even if something happens and someone is held accountable by the higher-ups, I, Wang Qing, will bear all the responsibilities! "

"Okay!" Everyone cheered and encouraged Wang Yuanwai, who was strategic and well-controlled.

Facing the fierce dragon crossing the river, the salt merchants finally had a backbone, a guide, and a clear direction for the future.

On the other side, after Lin Daguan left Huizhen Tower, he went directly out of Lijin Gate, boarded the boat and left.

Lin Daguan, who was regarded as the devil by Yangzhou salt merchants, was not lying. He really went back to Suzhou.

He really wasn't playing hard to get to lure the snake out of its hole, but the two women, Mrs. Fan and Huang Wuniang, were about to give birth.

Both of their due dates are from the end of August to the beginning of September. If they don't go back, it will be too late.

For a leader with a huge foundation, the most fearful thing is that there will be no one to follow him.

Therefore, Lin Daguan attaches great importance to having offspring. This time he came to Yangzhou for business and there was no scandal. He was just worried about affecting the mood of the two pregnant women.

He didn't even dare to touch the 400-year-old white oiran who was kept in Wang Yuanwai's courtyard and could only be left for next time.

Feelings are just that, not as important as the heir who is about to come.

Different from sneaking in in a low-key manner when they came, they went through the city with great fanfare and swagger. Lin Daguan left Yangzhou City openly in front of everyone's attention.

Everyone in Yangzhou City, from officials to businessmen, breathed a sigh of relief, but did not dare to relax completely.

There are still 300 Suzhou Guards soldiers stationed in Shuicicang on the other side of the east gate. It seems to have become a base for Suzhou Guards. Lin Tailai will make a comeback at any time.

One day later, the city of Yangzhou received definite news that Lin Daguan had crossed the river and entered Jiangnan.

Ma Yongdeng, the patrol censor who was still staying in Yangzhou City and refused to leave, immediately became active again and summoned more than a dozen representatives of salt merchants with more than 10,000 yuan, including Wang Yuanwai.

Ma Xunjian gave enthusiastic encouragement: "Lin's evil deeds have made you miserable. This court has always been committed to serving the people and is firmly on your side.

If you find any clues or are harmed, you can complain to this court and we will definitely accept it! "

After the salt merchants came out of the inspection court, they talked a lot about Ma Xunjian's attitude.

Most people felt that Ma Xunjian had also been bullied by Lin Tailai, and they shared the same hatred. This channel could be used.

Only Wang Yuanwai said: "This person is incapable of making plans."

Two days later, an imperial edict arrived in Yangzhou City, making a final ruling on the incident in early August.

Ma Xunjian was directly demoted to Guangxi as a postmaster on the charge of "exceeding his authority to cause trouble and risking a military rebellion" and became the biggest victim.

This inexplicable result surprised the entire Yangzhou city.

In everyone's mind, the people most responsible for this incident should be Governor Yang and Lin Zhuangyuan.

And Ma Xunjian was just a supporting character who appeared for less than half a day. He was neither the instigator nor the leader of the incident, but he received the heaviest beating.

Even Governor Yang, who was the first to cause trouble, was only demoted one level and was deprived of his duties as Governor of Fengyang. He was only retained as Governor of Hecao. The punishment was much lighter than that of Ma Xunjian.

No one could understand the political logic here. Even Ma Xunjian himself did not expect that when he was still planning to retaliate against Lin Tailai, he would be uprooted and become the worst one.

I don’t know what others think, but the salt merchants are convinced by Wang Yuanwai’s foresight and respect Wang Yuanwai more and more.

As for Lin Zhuangyuan, he was fined heavily for one year and was exempted from the additional title of director of the department. He was retained as a fifth-rank official of Qianhu to continue to be responsible for supervising the transportation of Suzhou's grain.

The title of Commander Lin was not yet popular, so he became Lin Qianhu again, but there seemed to be little difference. He still did what he was supposed to do, and his actual authority was not affected.

When official Lin received the punishment edict, he was at Jingkou Post.

Seeing that he had changed from the nominal fourth grade to only the fifth grade, Lin Daguan couldn't help but feel strong and look up to the sky with a sigh.

He was demoted after taking office less than two months ago!

After lamenting the unpredictability of the officialdom and the uncertainty in life, Lin Daguan, who was demoted to the fifth rank at the age of nineteen, naturally took the pen and ink from the hands of the guardians and began to write poems on the wall of the lobby of the post house.

"The meaning of the creek hall is sudden, and the heart is not far away. The morning glow is shining in the evening dew, and the water birds are chirping in the morning smoke.

Clouds sit on the trees on the wall, and the wind rumbles on the rocks. Infinite thoughts in the rivers and lakes linger in front of the sand gull. "

With a small poem and five rhymes, it expresses the idea of ​​being frustrated in officialdom and retreating to the world.

Demotion was a huge blow to Lin Daguanren, a rookie in officialdom.

On the way back home along the canal, Lin Daguan's ink marks full of sorrow and anger were left on the most eye-catching places on the walls of the lobby of various inns.

Compared with Lin Daguanren's previous works, the artistic style of these works has changed significantly, fully demonstrating the influence of life encounters on artistic style.

When he arrived at Xishan Station outside the south gate of Wuxi County, Lin Daguan felt inspired again and wrote a poem on the wall, titled "Gengluozi·Original Intention".

"The moon is slanting across the sky, and the stars are sparse and bright, but the autumn night is really eternal! The sound is slow, the drops are cold, and the eyes are not easy to close.

The leaves are covered with frost, and the insects are floating on the ground. How can one get drunk from thin wine? Things in the world, young people's hearts, are clear and deep. "

After finishing writing, the guardians on the left and right put away their pen and ink skillfully, and then Zhang Wu said to Lin Daguan:

"Sit down! I heard that the people in Wuxi are very unfriendly to you. I'm afraid the poems you wrote on the wall here won't last long. They might be shoveled away or painted over in two days."

It was rare for Zhang Wu to put forward reasonable opinions, so Lin Daguan encouraged him and asked: "Then what do you think we should do?"

Zhang Wu turned around and said to Yi Cheng: "The poems we wrote on the wall while sitting in the library are all important works of the Update Society, and they must be kept for at least half a year!

Before next summer, our update society will send people to regularly patrol along the canal.

If the poems on the wall are damaged, it means that you, the Yi Cheng, are enemies of our new society. If you say we will destroy your whole family, you will destroy your whole family! "

Seeing the growth of his subordinates, Lin Daguanren's depressed mood after being demoted was somewhat relieved, and he said happily: "You can teach me."

Continuing forward, we arrived at Xushuguan again today. It's a pity that the ancient people have gone away on the yellow crane, and there are no more royal tax envoys in Xushuguan.

Due to work needs, Wang Zhidu did not go to the prosperous Yangzhou. He continued to be the head of the Ministry of Household Affairs and was transferred to Jiujiang Pass on the Yangtze River as a tax envoy. By the way, he also had a deputy military envoy.

It was the place known as Chaisang in ancient times, and it was also the place where Bai Juyi wrote Pipa Xing. Song Jiang also wrote here "Dare to laugh at Huang Chao without a husband".

Nowadays, the new tax envoy from Xushuguan is named Dong. Official Lin didn't pay much attention to the specific background and met him at the customs office as a courtesy.

Wang Zhidu left a letter to Lin Daguan, which was delivered to Lin Daguan by the newly arrived Dong Tax Envoy.

In the letter, because the place of employment was changed from Yangzhou City, where he expected to have more money and less trouble, and be close to home, to Jiujiang Pass, where pirates are said to be frequent, Wang Zhidu gave a three-page cordial greeting to Mr. Lin. .

Official Lin put down his letter and strolled to the customs office. When he saw the people coming and going, all of whom were paying taxes and doing business, he nodded with satisfaction.

Then he took up a pen and wrote a seven-rhyme poem on the wall of the accounting room, titled "Reply to Wang Shufeng's Letter".

"Walking around in the rivers and lakes, my dream is not peaceful, and my thoughts are lingering in my mind.

Sinful words only feel worried and anxious. Who knows how to avenge the national calamity when being alone and angry.

The Huo food in the mountains is not enough, but the Heyi river is not cold enough.

It is a common thing for a man to be wandering, so I would like to thank you for writing before the ink is dry. "

Dong Shuzhi, who was watching from behind, was speechless. The reply should be written on paper and sent there. How could there be any sense in writing it on the wall?

However, Dong Shushi didn't say anything. We were all educated people and we couldn't burn harps and cook cranes. After all, writing poems on the wall during the journey was elegant.

After finishing writing, Lin Daguan said to Dong Shushi: "I would like to ask the envoy to make a copy and send it to Jiujiang."

This tone is like calling a clerk.

Although Dong Shushi felt that it was "none of my business", he still agreed.

Seeing that Dong Shishi seemed to be a good person, Lin Daguan showed off his dignity and said:

"Don't touch the branch at Mudu Port, but you can do it yourself at Xushuguan and Likou Port."

The tax envoy Dong was overjoyed. Lin Daguan was so generous that he actually handed over most of the shares to himself.

I originally heard that Mr. Lin was in a bad mood and full of negative energy after he was demoted. I was worried that I would be in bad luck as a new official.

Is it because of the heating? I've been so sleepy these two nights, and the coding rhythm is messy.