I am a temporary worker in Jinyiwei, how did I become a powerful official?

Chapter 104: The First Hero to Calm the Political Tide (-word chapter)
There are thirty-six manure roads in the capital, with clear boundaries, orderly manure digging and a price for selling manure. This is called the rules of the manure roads.

Of course, occasionally there will be dung tyrants who want to swallow up other dung channels. This is called "pulling the head dung".

If you pull out the first dung, you will be attacked by everyone.

The "Baihui Sandao" in the south of the city is about ten feet wide and three or four miles long. The water from the tributary of Gaoliang River is used as the power to flush manure.

There is a canal connecting the river and the manure channel. The riverbed is high and the manure channel is low. Therefore, the filth will not backfire on the Gaoliang River.

Lin Shisan estimated that only one thousand civilians would be needed to search all the Baihui Roads in one hour.

He, Doctor Zhao, and Sun Yue brought a thousand laborers to the manure road and assigned them tasks to the labor leader.

Unexpectedly, the leader of the people was unhappy.

The chief of the peasants said, "Please allow me to report this to you, sir. Working in the manure pit is the worst of the worst jobs, and manure workers are the lowest of the lowest classes."

"You asked us to do our best, and we won't say no. But we can't go down the manure road."

Lin Shisan expressed his understanding. As the ancient sages said, "Do not do to others what you do not want others to do to you." Lin Shisan was not happy to jump into the manure.

Sun Yue said: "The peasants are not happy, I will go and gather a group of dung workers."

Doctor Zhao continued, "According to what Brother Lin said, gather a thousand dung workers. Each of them will be paid two taels of silver per hour. We, the Water Conservancy Bureau, will pay for the two thousand taels of silver!"

The Ministry of Works handled more than a million yuan in expenditures each year. It was only a matter of a clerk's pen to enter two thousand taels of silver into the account.

Sun Yue's father, Grandpa Sun, has been making a living in the dung business for decades. Sun Yue is very familiar with the dung foremen and dung tyrants.

Soon, a dung benefactor led dozens of dung benefactors and arrived in front of Baihuisan Road.

The dung foreman was an acquaintance of Lin Shisan. Jiang Tianyang, who had won the pigeon wrapping competition and helped Hu Zongxian find the white feather bow tail, was also a famous person.

It's funny. Jiang Tianyang's four generations were all dung workers. In order to get rid of the smelly dung, he made a decision that went against his ancestors - he joined the pot gang and became a thug.

After the pigeon wrapping competition, he received a reward of 800 taels of silver and became a wealthy man in the capital.

An ancient sage once said: A beggar may pick up a gold nugget, but he only worries about having no cloth to wrap it in.

Jiang Tianyang first spent two hundred taels to buy a courtyard house in Xiazhuxie Street, and left Dafen Lane with his blind mother.

He spent another hundred taels of silver to marry a wife.

As the saying goes, if you sit back and eat, you will run out of money. Jiang Tianyang thought that he couldn't just keep the remaining 500 taels at home.

Use it for business, there are too many swindlers in the business world of Beijing. As a gangster, he knows this very well.

Go buy some land in the suburbs of Beijing. There is a folk legend that the emperor in the palace lacks virtue, so Shuntian Prefecture has been either drought or flood in recent years. I am afraid that I will lose money if I buy the land.

Just continue to be a gangster. Gangsters work hard to make money, isn't it just to wash their clothes after they have money and become a wealthy and good citizen?

After thinking it over, Jiang Tianyang slapped his thigh and said, "Forget it! I'll just do what I know best. Hire twenty dung workers and become a dung foreman. I'll buy two streets of dung pits from the dung tyrant."

Jiang Tianyang finally returned to the manure business. However, he was no longer a low-level manure worker, but a manure foreman who owned two manure pits on the street and earned 100 taels of silver a year.

Jiang Tianyang was surprised to see Lin Shisan: "Lin Xiaoqi? Benefactor!"

Sun Yue next to him reminded: "Now it's time to call him General Lin."

Jiang Tianyang said quickly: "Ah, congratulations to General Lin for his promotion."

Lin Shisan said, "Let's stop talking nonsense. How many dung workers did you bring with you?"

Jiang Tianyang replied: "I only have 20 dung workers under my command. But I heard from Master Sun that this errand is paid two taels of silver for one hour of work."

"The rest of the dung workers are also rushing here. In two minutes, a thousand dung workers will arrive here one after another."

Lin Shisan nodded with satisfaction: "Very good. I will assign you a task."

Lin Shisan explained it to Jiang Tianyang in this way and that way.

Jiang Tianyang nodded: "I understand. We told others that we were cleaning the manure duct. In reality, we were looking for golden turtles."

There will be dung men if there is a big reward. As Jiang Tianyang said, within two minutes, more than a thousand dung men came to Baihuisan Road.

Each of them was given a wooden stick and jumped into the manure ditch, poking the manure with the stick to look for golden beetles.

Lin Shisan said to Sun Yue: "Success or failure depends on this one move. If there is no golden turtle in Baihuisan Dao, your master can only tilt his head back and drink poison."

Doctor Zhao said, "Brother Lin, you are a lucky person. You will surely be able to turn misfortune into fortune and turn disaster into blessing."

Let’s talk about the Censorate.

Zou Yinglong was waiting with a group of imperial censors to kill Lin Shisan and save Shen Lian in the afternoon.

Zou Yinglong said: "That treacherous man surnamed Lin is talking nonsense, playing tricks, and doing evil to you. We are going to kill him this afternoon!"

"With his death, the Yan Party's arrogance will be suppressed. We can take this opportunity to protect Shen Lian and succeed immediately."

A group of censors echoed: "Although we cannot directly impeach Yan Song this time, it would be great if we can kill his lackeys."

"Yes, yes, yes. I heard that lackey is the nephew of Lü Fang, the eunuch. Killing him can also dampen the arrogance of the eunuchs."

This group of censors have regarded Lin Shisan as their mortal enemy.

At the same time, in Yongshou Palace.

Just as Lu Fang was about to enter the palace to sleep with his wife, Chen Hong, the supervisor of the East Factory, walked up to him quickly and said, "Eunuch Lu, Lu Yi and our East Factory have already figured out who tampered with the Taiye Lake and caused the golden tortoise to escape."

The Jinyiwei and the Dongchang were well-known for their efficiency in investigating cases. They had already found the perpetrators in less than three days.

Lu Fang asked: "Who is it?"

Chen Hong replied: "They are the two pet ambassadors of Xiyuan. Lu Yi is torturing them in Dongchang to force them to reveal the mastermind behind the scenes."

Ever since Emperor Yongle established the East Factory to govern the Embroidered Uniform Guard, the Embroidered Uniform Guard has always been the East Factory's subordinate.

However, during the reigns of Hongzhi and Zhengde, a fierce man named Chang Feng emerged from the Jinyiwei.

During the Jiajing period, an even more powerful figure, Lu Bing, emerged from the Jinyiwei.

Therefore, during the reigns of Hong, Zheng and Jia, the Jinyiwei was not only not actually subordinate to the Dongchang, but it even had the upper hand over the Dongchang.

However, Ambassador Hu and Ambassador Cao, who were trying to trip up Lin Shisan, were eunuchs, and the Imperial Guards had no right to detain and interrogate him.

Therefore, Lu Yi cooperated with the East Factory and punished the two of them at the East Factory.

Lu Fang asked Chen Hong again: "Is there any news from Lin Shisan?"

Chen Hong replied: "No news yet."

Lu Fang said: "Alas, I hope this kid is really a person with great fortune, and can find the golden turtle at the last moment and come back to life."

Let's talk about Bai Hui San Dao. Lin Shisan was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. His life was hanging by a thread, it would be strange if he wasn't anxious.

Sun Yue hurriedly shouted into the manure ditch: "Did you find it?"

The dung workers shouted back: "No!"

Doctor Zhao had also lost confidence. He said to Lin Shisan, "Brother Lin, don't blame your elder brother for his bad words."

"You have to plan ahead for some things. For example, do you have friends who can be your wife and children? Tell them in advance to take care of your family."

Sun Yue kept saying, "I, I, I know how to take care of people!"

Lin Shisan remained silent.

At this moment, Jiang Tianyang, who was supervising the dung workers at the side of the dung channel, shouted, "There's something!"

Lin Shisan, in despair, seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw. He quickly ran to Jiang Tianyang.

Jiang Tianyang pointed to the manure ditch in front of him and said, "Lin Zongqi, look, that should be the golden turtle you asked us to find."

Lin Shisan took a closer look and cursed in his heart: You are such a cheap bastard! You don't eat the small shrimps in the Taiye Pond, and you don't swim in the clear water. Instead, you run to this dung ditch and become a dirty and smelly bastard.

Lin Shisan ordered: "Go find a rope and a pole and lift it out."

Doctor Zhao and Sun Yue followed.

Doctor Zhao asked, "Have you found it?"

Lin Shisan laughed loudly towards the sky: "Hahaha, God will not abandon me!"

Doctor Zhao clapped his hands and said, "Ah! Great! Now not only can you save your life, but you can also hold your head high in front of those censors!"

"This is really a case of waiting for the clouds to clear and the moon to appear!"

However, Sun Yue said something that poured cold water on the two of them: "Why is this golden turtle not moving? Did it choke to death on the dung soup?"

If the golden turtle dies, Lin Shisan will still be in big trouble.

He could only pray silently in his heart: You cheap bone turtle, oh no, Grandpa Golden Turtle, Grandpa Golden Turtle. I was wrong, I shouldn't have cursed you in my heart just now.

Please have mercy on me, and don't die! You have lived for more than 1,700 years, what's the point of just one day?

Ten dung workers worked together to lift the more than 300-pound golden turtle to the shore using a shoulder pole and a rope.

Lin Shisan ordered, "Go find some clean water and rinse Grandpa Golden Turtle."

After saying this, Lin Shisan leaned over and looked carefully. The golden tortoise had retracted its head and limbs into its shell, and it was impossible to tell whether it was dead or alive.

Several dung workers poured more than a dozen buckets of clean water on the golden turtle. The golden turtle was finally washed clean of the filth, revealing the words "Wuyin in the early years of the Later Yuan Dynasty" engraved on its back.

Sun Yue was a little anxious: "Master, is it dead or alive?"

Lin Shisan forced himself to calm down, then said, "Go find a non-venomous long worm." Long worms are snakes. Snakes are the natural enemies of turtles.

Soon, Sun Yue got a small long worm from somewhere. The small worm was about one foot long.

Lin Shisan held the small worm in front of the golden turtle's shell and shook it: "If you don't stick your head out, I will put this small worm into your turtle shell!"

"I heard that little worms love to eat turtle meat the most."

It happened in a flash. The turtle's head popped out of its shell. It bit the worm in Lin Shisan's hand, broke it in two, and swallowed it.

Fortunately, Lin Shisan reacted quickly and pulled his hand back. Otherwise, if the golden tortoise bit his wrist, he would have become disabled.

Sun Yue was overjoyed: "Hey! You're alive! You've made it hard for my master to find you, you bastard."

Lin Shisan said quickly, "Bullshit. It is the pet of the Great Pure Daode Tianzun. It is also a wandering immortal. How can you call it a turtle? We should respect it and honor it."

Then Lin Shisan ordered: "Immediately find a cart. Put the golden turtle on it, cover it with a red cloth and transport it to the Taiye Lake in the Western Garden."

"Also send someone to the fish market to buy thirty kilograms of small shrimps. Then go to Rouge Street and buy fifty kilograms of dried flower petals."

Sun Yue was puzzled: "Why buy dried petals?"

Lin Shisan said: "Don't worry about this, I have my own uses."

Emperor Jiajing, his important ministers and censors will go to the Taiye Lake to watch the turtles in the afternoon.

Lin Shisan had already transported the golden turtle to the Taiye Lake at noon.

For the golden beetle, the Taiye Lake was better than the manure tunnel. As soon as it entered the water, it swam away happily.

The barrier net at the west water exchange tunnel has been replaced, so there is no need to worry about the golden turtles escaping.

About half an hour later, Sun Yue came to Taiye Lake with small shrimps and dried flower petals.

Lin Shisan handed the shrimps and dried flower petals to Chen Ju and explained this and that to him.

Everything is ready, just waiting for the emperor to arrive in an hour.

Two eunuchs supported Huang Jin and walked over quickly. Huang Jin asked anxiously, "Did you find it?"

Lin Shisan pretended to be puzzled: "What are you looking for?"

Huang Jin scolded, "You ask even though you know the answer. Where's the golden tortoise?"

Lin Shisan shook his head seriously. "Taiqing Daode Immortal Venerable said that the golden turtle will return to the pond in three days. I'm sure the Immortal Venerable must have nailed it. The golden turtle should be in the pond right now."

Huang Jin laughed and scolded: "You're still bringing this up with me. I'm going to beat you to death, you little monkey."

Lin Shisan took out the bottle of Crane's Beak Red from his sleeve and handed it to Huang Jin.

Huang Jin took it and put it into his sleeve: "This time you will make a great contribution. The great contribution of calming the political tide."

"Okay. I'll wait here with you for the Emperor to arrive."

Lin Shisan and Huang Jin squatted by the Taiye Lake, waiting for the ministers and the emperor to arrive.

At the same time, the Northern Pacification Prison.

Lu Bing also received the news that Lin Shisan had found the golden turtle.

He took out a memorial from the drawer of his desk. The memorial was titled "The guilty minister Shen Lian's confession of guilt". It was written by Lu Bing. Shen Lian was not aware of it.

All memorials submitted to the emperor by Ming officials had to be stamped with the official seal.

The confession and defense of a guilty official is different. The official has already been convicted and his official seal has been taken away, so how can he put his seal on it? So he only needs to press his fingerprints.

Lu Bing, accompanied by two personal lieutenants, quickly walked into the cell where Shen Lian was imprisoned.

Shen Lian said: "Why are you trying to persuade me again? It's useless."

Lu Bing said nothing, but waved his hand. Two lieutenants came forward, one of them grabbed Shen Lian's left hand and smeared ink on his fingers.

The other one pressed his left hand and put his fingerprint on the Taoist robe debate memorial.

Lu Bing said sternly, "Shen Chunfu, listen to me carefully. An imperial decree will be issued today to send you to Baoan to farm."

"The eunuch who supervises the army in Bao'an Town is the disciple of Eunuch Huang Jin. You won't be wronged if you go there."

"Stay in security for a year or two and don't make any more trouble. When the time is right, I will ask the Emperor to employ you."

Shen Lian said: "You choose your own path, not one chosen by others."

"I am seeking death so that the emperor can settle accounts with the Yan Party in the future and add an additional crime of 'forcing loyal officials to death' to the Yan Party."

"Don't hinder my plan to help you get rid of the evil."

Lu Bing cursed, "Stupid! If the emperor really wants to settle accounts with the Yan Party in the future, the Yan Party will have many crimes. Yours won't be the only one!"

"Just listen to me, go to Baoan and farm your land and study your books."

In the afternoon, all the ministers arrived at Taiye Lake, and the imperial sedan chair of Emperor Jiajing also arrived.

The ministers knelt down. The bronze bells in the imperial chariot rang. The ministers thanked the emperor and stood up.

Zou Yinglong was the first to leave the stage: "Your Majesty, Lin Shisan, the chief flag officer of the Northern Pacification Division, pretended to be a ghost and deceived the emperor. He should be executed according to the law."

"How could such a petty villain have the guts to make up such a huge lie in front of the emperor and all the officials? There must be someone behind him!"

"I think we should first hand Lin Shisan over to the Left Temple of the Dali Temple, torture him severely, and force him to confess the mastermind. Then we can execute him!"

As Lü Fang and Huang Jin had predicted, the censors would definitely find a way to get Lin Shisan into the Dali Temple controlled by Xu's party and use torture to force him to make false accusations.

A group of censors echoed: "Please ask the emperor to order the Dali Temple to thoroughly investigate this matter. After the investigation is complete, execute the treacherous ministers to restore order!"

"Your Majesty, I think what Zou Yinglong said makes sense. There must be someone behind Lin Shisan!"

Yang Bo of the Jiang Chen Party could not listen any longer. He came out and said, "My fellow censors, I have made it very clear before. If the golden tortoise returns to Taiye Lake at this moment, it means that it is indeed the manifestation of the Great Pure Daode Tianzun."

"It is still uncertain whether Golden Turtle will return. Why are you so eager to arrest, torture, and kill people?"

The hot-tempered Yan Shifan also spoke up: "You censors claim to be moral gentlemen all day long. May I ask, which moral gentleman is urging the emperor to kill people?"

Zou Yinglong showed no fear in front of the young minister: "A gentleman of morality should do three things: punish evildoers, protect loyal officials, and recommend capable officials."

"Yinglong is not talented. Today I have three things to report to the emperor. First, kill Lin Shisan. Second, release Shen Lian. Third, recommend Wang Bengu as the inspector of Zhejiang."

Yan Shifan cursed, "Great! The truth is revealed. You killed people and protected people. Isn't it just to stir up trouble in the southeast and let Wang Bengu, that rubbish, hinder the great cause of resisting the Japanese invaders?"

Yan Song glared at his son and said, "Shut up."

"Dang, dang" the bronze chimes rang twice again.

Internal Minister Lu Fang said: "You are all pillars of the court. Don't curse like a street shrew."

"Let's see if the golden turtle returns to the pond first."

After saying this, Lu Fang looked at Lin Shisan and said, "Lin Shisan, has the golden turtle returned to the pond?"

Lin Shisan replied: "Taiqing Daode Tianzun has already given the celestial decree. The golden turtle has naturally returned to the pond."

Lu Fang said, "Well, let's stick to the old rules. Twenty small boats. Each boat carries one eunuch, one censor, one official from the Ministry of Works, and one general from the Han Dynasty. They will patrol the pond."

Lin Shisan said, "Wait a minute!"

Zou Yinglong asked, "Why, you little villain, are you feeling guilty? Are you afraid to send people to search in the water?"

Lin Shisan said, "You are wrong, Censor Zou! Last night, the Supreme Lord of Daode appeared in my dream. He said that I, the Great Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, respects heaven and loves the people, and has great kindness to the people. He is a saintly monarch, just like Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing."

"Now that the Holy Lord is here, the world is at peace. The gods in heaven are extremely happy."

"As a wandering immortal, Jin Gui also has great respect for the emperor."

"So today, the golden turtle will not only return to the pond, but will also kowtow to the great Emperor Jiajing in the water near the shore to show respect."

Zou Yinglong was furious: "Three days ago you said that a god possessed you. This time you said that a god appeared in my dream again. You are such an audacious person, you dare to tell such outrageous lies."

"How can you jump up and down in front of the emperor?"

Even Huang Jin, the usually good-tempered Maitreya Buddha, couldn't stand it anymore. He said, "Zou Yushi, who is the one who is jumping up and down? Everyone can see it."

"Why are you so anxious? Can't you first check whether what Lin Shisan said is true?"

Zou Yinglong said, "He said that the golden turtle would kowtow to the emperor in the water near the shore. But where is the golden turtle now?"

Lin Shisan smiled slightly: "You don't know, Censor Zou. The golden tortoise is a wandering immortal. Ming officials must have a ceremonial guard when they travel. The same is true for wandering immortals."

"We need to use dried flower petals to welcome the Golden Turtle Immortal. It respects the emperor, so we have to respect it too."

After saying this, Lin Shisan clapped his hands.

Chen Ju directed twenty eunuchs to carry eight wooden barrels filled with dried petals onto four small boats.

Naturally, everyone only saw the dried petals on top, but could not see the small shrimps underneath.

The golden turtle is about to kowtow to Emperor Jiajing.

Zou Yinglong is about to become the clown of today.

And Lin Shisan is about to become the first hero in calming the political turmoil.

　The two chapters on the 15th are both 5000-word chapters. They are also 1 words. But I can't update at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night. I will update during the day and at night tomorrow. Because the fat author has a stomach flu. His big belly is rumbling, he is coughing, and he has all kinds of big sticky phlegm. I will still ensure that I will update words every day.

　　
　
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