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

Chapter 114: The Good Eunuch Discusses the Situation in Jiangnan ( Words)

Hu Boqi gave Yu Niang to Lin Shisan.

Yu Niang is indeed the best of West Lake. Half an hour later, she rested her head on Lin Shisan's arm and asked, "What job does Mr. Lin do in the capital? Mr. Hu wants to accompany you in person?"

Lin Shisan did not answer: "Guess?"

Yu Niang said, "They are definitely not civil servants. When those civil servants got on the boat, they were talking nonsense. It seemed like they were not on the boat to have sex, but to pay homage to the Duke of Yansheng."

Lin Shisan agreed, "Those people really talk a lot about morality, but they are full of thieves and prostitutes."

Yu Niang smiled and said, "What about you?"

Lin Shisan couldn't say that he was full of thieves and prostitutes. He said, "Ah, I think Wang Yangming, the second sage, is right. Human desires are the laws of nature."

Yu Niang guessed: "If you are not a civil official, then you must be a military official. The military official came to the southeast to fight against the Japanese pirates, right?"

Lin Shisan said perfunctorily: "Well, your guess is almost right."

Yu Niang put on a gauze dress and kowtowed respectfully to Lin Shisan.

Lin Shisan asked: "What are you doing?"

Yu Niang replied: "This is my rule. If I meet a general who is fighting against the Japanese pirates, I must kowtow to him and ask him to kill a Japanese pirate for me."

Lin Shisan asked: "Why is this?"

Yu Niang replied: "I am the daughter of a cloth merchant in Haiyan County, Jiaxing Prefecture. Although my family is not very rich, it is well-off."

"The Japanese pirates landed, broke into my house, and killed all 17 of my family members, even my pug. They robbed all my savings and burned down my house."

"I was able to escape the disaster because I prayed in a nunnery."

"So, every time a general came to sleep with me, I would kowtow to him and ask him to kill a Japanese pirate for me."

Lin Shisan immediately felt sympathy for her. He asked, "Do you know how these new wounds on my shoulders came about?"

Yu Niang asked, "How did it come?"

Lin Shisan said solemnly, "They were chopped by the Japanese pirates. On my way to Hangzhou, I fought a battle with the Japanese pirates when I passed through Huai'an, and I chopped off two beasts with my own hands."

When Yu Niang heard this, she showed admiration in her eyes. She kowtowed to Lin Shisan again: "The summer night is long, Mr. Lin, oh no, General Lin, you are strong and healthy, you should have some fun in the second half of the night."

"You can ask Yu Niang to serve you in any way you want. I won't say a word even if you have to go through Di'anmen."

"In addition, all expenses on the flower boat tonight will not be charged by Yu Niang."

"Yuniang is a woman who cannot go to the battlefield. She is also a lowly person. We can only use this method to support the anti-Japanese war."

After hearing what Yu Niang said, Lin Shisan no longer had any lustful thoughts.

He said, "Yu Niang, get up quickly. Don't worry, everything I do in the southeast this time is to fight against the Japanese invaders."

Yu Niang stood up: "General Lin, may I serve you?"

Lin Shisan said, "Forget it, just take a rest first."

In the second half of the night, Yu Niang treated Lin Shisan as if he were her own husband and served him.

The next morning, Yu Niang and Lin Shisan got up and went down to the dining room cabin. She used her best skills to make a few seasonal side dishes for Lin Shisan, Sun Yue, and Hu Boqi as breakfast.

There were four boat maidens on the boat last night. Yu Niang accompanied Lin Shisan, one accompanied Hu Boqi, and two accompanied Sun Yue.

Sun Yue was so tired that he couldn't open his eyes.

After dinner, Hu Boqi suggested: "Let's go back to the governor's office and take a nap. Then we can go to Leifeng Pagoda in the afternoon."

Lin Shisan said, "I have to go to the Hangzhou Weaving Bureau to meet Eunuch Yang Jinshui."

The three of them got off the boat, and Yu Niang escorted them out of the dock. Hu Boqi and Sun Yue returned to the governor's office. Lin Shisan took the official sedan chair to the Hangzhou Weaving Bureau.

The eunuchs in the Weaving Bureau had two responsibilities: one was to manage the silk industry in Jiangnan and collect money for the emperor's private treasury.

The second is to keep an eye on the movements of officials in Jiangnan for the emperor.

Last night, Yang Jinshui invited four big silk merchants from Jiangnan to drink wine on a flower boat in order to encourage them to donate part of the military pay to support the anti-Japanese war at the front.

Although Yang Jinshui usually acts arrogantly and pretentiously because of his status as a palace official, he is actually a kind person at heart.

Otherwise, Lu Fang would not value him so much.

Yang Jinshui invited Lin Shisan into his inner room.

Yang Jinshui said with a smile: "How much sorrow can one have? Nothing is more sorrowful than a eunuch visiting a brothel. I am sorry to have embarrassed you last night."

Lin Shisan said quickly: "I dare not, I dare not."

Yang Jinshui asked: "My foster father sent me a message saying that you came to Jiangnan to look for the white deer. My foster father asked me to support you with all my strength."

"Once you arrive at the Hangzhou Weaving Bureau, it will be like arriving at our own piece of land. If you have any needs, just let me know."

"I, Yang Jinshui, will help you even if I have to dig holes in the mountains."

Lin Shisan thanked him profusely: "Eunuch Yang treats me so well, I really don't know what to say."

Yang Jinshui said, "You are my adoptive father's nephew, and I am his adopted son. In fact, we are half-brothers. Brothers should not be polite to each other."

There are only advantages and no disadvantages in recognizing a local eunuch as a big brother. Lin Shisan took advantage of the situation and bowed, saying, "Big brother!"

Yang Jinshui called out affectionately, "Second brother!"

The two of them burst into laughter at the same time: "Hahaha!"

Yang Jinshui added: "I heard that you led a hundred Northern Pacification Division comrades in a bloody battle with the Japanese pirates in Huai'an, and more than sixty of them were killed." "If you need help on this mission, I have more than a hundred Dongchang guards, all of whom are masters who can fight ten people at once. You can command them all."

Lin Shisan said, "Not for the time being. I will be going to Zhoushan Islands in a few days. Futai Hu has made all the arrangements and sent a navy warship to escort me there."

Yang Jinshui asked: "Did he let you fly the flag of the Wufeng ship owner?"

Lin Shisan was a little surprised: "Captain Wufeng?"

Yang Jinshui explained: "It was Wang Zhi. Wang Zhi had great power on the sea. No Japanese pirates dared to rob any ship flying the flag of Wufeng Ship Owner."

"We are family, I'm telling you something that will cost you your life. The official ships of the Textile Bureau and the Maritime Customs Office sometimes fly the flag of the Wufeng Ship Owner when they go out to sea, to pray for safety."

"If he can be recruited by Hu Zongxian, then the Japanese threat in the southeast will be largely eliminated!"

Lin Shisan asked: "I've heard that Wang Zhi has great power at sea. I didn't expect it to be this powerful."

Yang Jinshui explained: "He had territory, money, people and guns in Japan. He once called himself the 'King Hui' in Matsujinura, Satsuma Domain, Japan, and named his country 'Song'. The feudal lords and daimyo of Japan didn't dare to say a word."

"If Wang Zhi surrenders, it will be of great benefit to quelling the Japanese invasion. He has been operating the Nanyang route for a long time and has close contacts with Western merchants. Even if he hands over half of his business to the court, the court will still make a lot of money."

"Your Majesty will no longer have to worry about the court's tight finances and lose sleep all day long."

"such a pity"

Lin Shisan asked: "What's the pity?"

Yang Jinshui said: "Hu Zongxian is a practical man. He has been planning to persuade Wang Zhi to surrender in the past six months. But the so-called clean officials in the court are staring at him like black-eyed chickens, trying to accuse him of collaborating with the Japanese at any time."

"Humph! The ones who actually collaborated with the Japanese were actually the Jiangnan nobles! Have you heard of Xie Qian?"

Lin Shisan replied: "Eunuch Yang is talking about Xie Qian, one of the three gentlemen of the Hongzhi period, who served as the second assistant of the cabinet?"

Yang Jinshui nodded: "Yuyao Xie family is a big family. After Xie Qian retired, he concentrated on running the smuggling trade at home."

"Which of the Xie family's nephews doesn't know about Japan?"

"Xie Qian is a very opportunistic person. During the Great Etiquette Incident, he stood on the side of the emperor. Therefore, no one dared to accuse him of colluding with the Japanese."

"In the tenth year of Jiajing, Xie Qian died of illness. In the twenty-sixth year of Jiajing, Xie Qian's descendants did not share the spoils equally with the Japanese pirates. The Japanese pirates landed and massacred his entire clan!"

Yang Jinshui took a sip of tea and continued, "I told you this story because I want to tell you a fact. Those who colluded with the Japanese in Jiangnan were often the aristocratic families with people in the court."

"These high-ranking officials from the aristocratic families are always talking about ancestral rules and the maritime ban that cannot be abolished."

"Oh, in fact, they are the biggest sponsors of the Japanese pirates! Wang Zhi made his fortune by acting as a broker for these people."

"Now Wang Zhi wants to surrender to the imperial court. Those people naturally want to get rid of him as soon as possible."

Lin Shisan sighed repeatedly: "Listening to Eunuch Yang's words is better than reading ten years of books. It turns out that the crux of the Southeast lies here."

Yang Jinshui became more and more excited as he spoke, and he started to curse: "My ancestors of the noisy crows in the imperial court! For their own benefit, they completely disregard the lives of the people in the southeast. They are busy making trouble for the anti-Japanese war."

"If it weren't for those people hindering us, we would have already defeated the Japanese invasion!"

"I just don't understand. Those people were all successful candidates in the imperial examinations. Did they learn the Four Books and Five Classics?"

Lin Shisan followed suit and cursed: "Xu's party is harming the country!"

Yang Jinshui changed the subject: "We can't generalize. Xu Jie still has people who can get things done. For example, Taizhou prefect Tan Lun was promoted by Xu Jie."

"But Tan Lun made great efforts in resisting the Japanese invaders."

"Yu Dayou and Qi Jiguang were Hu Zongxian's men. After the defeat at Taizhou, the censors of Xu's party wanted to drown them with memorials. It was Tan Lun who petitioned to protect them, so Yu and Qi were only detained and not murdered by the censors."

"If you come across Tan Lun during your visit to the southeast, remember that he is trustworthy."

Lin Shisan said: "I remember it."

Yang Jinshui added: "As for Wang Bengu, the inspector in Hangzhou, you have to stay away from him. The entire Censorate stands behind him. He is also a guy who likes to find faults in everything, like a mad dog."

"What he is best at is always being reasonable."

Yang Jinshui truly treated Lin Shisan as his own.

He talked with Lin Shisan for two hours, explaining the situation in Jiangnan, who were trustworthy, and who were cowards.

Lin Shisan benefited a lot. At noon, Yang Jinshui invited him to have a simple meal. He left reluctantly after talking until the afternoon.

In the afternoon, Lin Shisan returned to the governor's office.

Hu Boqi came forward and said, "The helper my father found for you to go to Zhoushan, Chen Lin, is here."

Hu Boqi led Lin Shisan to the living room. Not long after, Chen Lin, who was in his twenties, walked in.

I saw that Chen Lin was wearing the uniform of a naval captain, had a very majestic appearance and dark skin.

Hu Boqi said, "This Captain Chen is from Shaozhou, Guangdong. He has been making a living on the sea with his parents since he was a child. When it comes to sailing on the high seas and fighting at sea, he is an expert."

Chen Lin spoke in a Cantonese accent: "I am Chen Lin, please forgive me. Ah, I just want Lin Chuanfeng to take care of me."

Lin Shisan smiled and said, "Okay, okay."

Lin Shisan turned around and said to Hu Boqi, "Since Captain Chen has arrived, let's set off for the coast tomorrow."

Hu Boqi nodded and said, "You can go to Huating County in Songjiang Prefecture by land, and then board a ship from Huating County to Zhoushan Islands."

"Oh, Xu Ci Fu's hometown is Huating County. You can see how much land our great prime minister has in Huating."

　This book has been renamed "Spring in Brocade Clothes Enters Shanglin"

　　
　
(End of this chapter)