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  Chapter 1057 Geng-character scroll Drunk with a light on to watch the sword emerge (fourth update!)

  It was almost time, and Feng Ziying signaled the tired second daughter to go to rest.

  Today it was Qingwen's turn to watch the night, so naturally she was on duty outside, but Feng Ziying was not free.

  Wang Wenyan just came over.

  As soon as Feng Ziying arrived home, on the one hand, she arranged for Ruixiang to notify Wang Wenyan, and on the other hand, she asked someone to call Ni Er.

  Seeing Feng Ziying enter the room, Wang Wenyan also bowed slightly, "I've seen you, sir."

"Why do you need to be so polite in classical Chinese? Sit down, I came back in a hurry today, and tomorrow the cabinet ministers and the emperor may have to summon me, but this time I am coming back, unlike in the past, even now I have a lot of thoughts in my heart, so I still need to ask classical Chinese to teach me. "

  Feng Ziying was rude and straight to the point.

In the past few months, he has no time to ask about the situation in the capital city. He has focused his energy on Yongping, especially under the pressure of the Mongol military invasion. He has gone all out to train the new Yongping army. For this battle, nothing was mentioned, so everything else was put aside for the time being.

  Wang Wenyan also knew about this situation, so he kept bothering her in the future.

  But this time he was suddenly recruited to Beijing, and the incidents involved are still uncertain, so he must understand the current situation in Beijing and China so that he can make a reasonable response during the dialogue.

   "My lord came back in time. If my lord doesn't come back, I'm going to make a trip to Yongping to introduce to my lord some recent changes in Beijing, especially the changes brought about by the Mongols going south."

  Wang Wenyan held a thick stack of manuscripts in his hand, which seemed to be some intelligence gathering on the recent situation.

"Oh, classical Chinese, although I am busy at Yongping, I have never let go of this side. I also told you to check it out for me. Yongping and the capital are closely related and come from the same line. If it really matters You should report it to me in time."

Hearing some complaints in Feng Ziying's words, Wang Wenyan was also a little nervous. He licked his lips, quickly got up and bowed to apologize: "Your Excellency is to blame. Classical Chinese is a little negligent. It's just that these things happened too suddenly. Before Classical Chinese I was also a little uncertain, it took me some time to verify the evidence, and I was able to make a rough judgment at the end, so it was delayed,..."

"I don't mean to blame Wenyan, but to remind Wenyan that I have Yaoqing to help me in Yongping Mansion, but on the capital's side, only classical Chinese can support the overall situation, so there can be no negligence, and many affairs will ultimately fall to the capital's side Come on, I think you should understand what I mean." Feng Ziying waved her hand, "Okay, let's get down to business, should you talk first, or should I ask first?"

  Wang Wenyan hesitated for a moment, and said: "Let me first report to the adults some recent situations that I think the adults need to know."

  Feng Ziying nodded, "That's fine, you say, follow the priority, let's talk about the important one first."

"My lord has always paid close attention to the things that my lord told me. You mentioned about the situation of Prince Yizhong. Recently, the King of Dongping County and the King of Beijing County have had close contacts with Prince Yizhong, especially the King of Dongping County. I don't have much contact with Prince Yizhong, but it has increased significantly recently, but I don't know if it has anything to do with the engagement of the Jiangnan Zhen family and the daughter of the Mu family..."

Feng Ziying frowned. Jia Rong had mentioned to him that Baoyu of the Zhen family should be betrothed to the daughter of the Mu family, the king of Dongping County, and the concubine Shui Rong, the king of Beijing County, was the youngest sister of Zhen Yingjia, the Zhen family of Jiangnan. The King of Dongping County, the King of Beijing County, and the Jiangnan Zhen family have become in-laws all at once. This Jiangnan Zhen family is still a bit powerful.

"Is there anything else?" Feng Ziying reminded Wang Wenyan when she left the capital for Yongping, to make full use of the power of Ni Second Hand, the focus is on these four kings, eight lords, twelve princes and other Wuxun families who hold military power contacts in.

  Feng Ziying concluded that if Prince Yizhong wanted to start an uprising in Beijing, without the explicit support of the Supreme Emperor, he could only use some special channels to pull the four kings, eight princes and twelve marquises into the chariot.

For example, Mu Tianyan of the Mu family is the deputy general of the Fifth Army Battalion, but this time he was captured because of the Battle of Santunying, and Mu Tianyan's cousin Mu Tianying is the guerrilla general of Xuanfu Town. Followed Xuanfu army into Shuntianfu.

   The guerrilla generals of the Xuanfu army seem to be a little different from the lieutenants in the Beijing camp, but they are not the same in terms of ability and military power.

Compared with Mu Tianyan's mediocrity and incompetence, Mu Tianying is considered a talent. He once went to the Wu Jinshi examination, but because of his status as the Mu family, he was later ordered to quit, but he is quite capable. My father once mentioned that Mu Tianying is one of the few characters among the four kings, eight princes and twelve princes who can bear some of the burden.

   "In addition, the Duke of Qi's Chen family seems to be a little moved. The head of the family, Chen Ruiwen, went out in makeup ten days ago. He went out through the West Bianmen with only two entourages, and returned quietly two days later..."

Feng Ziying was stunned, Chen Ruiwen and Wang Ziteng had a close relationship, but he always thought that the Chen family had always kept a low profile, and Chen Ruiwen's temperament was calm and forbearing, so he shouldn't be involved in these matters, but his brother Chen Ruishi was also trapped in the Santun camp. I don't know how much this stimulated him?

   Going out from the West Bianmen seems to be the most likely place to go to Changping. Could it be that Chen Ruiwen is going to meet Niu Jizong?

Feng Ziying wasn't sure. It stands to reason that even if Chen Ruiwen had a connection with Niu Jizong, it shouldn't be like this at this time. Long Jinwei kept a close eye on these martial arts of them. If Wang Wenyan and the others could find out, Long Jinwei probably wouldn't. Can't find it.

  Feng Ziying shook her head. This situation is also difficult to infer. In case the Chen family has some secret business that needs to be handled by Chen Ruiwen himself, especially in times of chaos like this, it is normal to be careful and conceal it.

   "Well, although the Chen family has suspicions, I don't think that's the right thing to do. Let's observe first." Feng Ziying said again: "Is there anything else?"

   "Jia Jing should have arrived in Jinling."

   One sentence surprised Feng Ziying again, "Has he appeared in public?"

"That's not true. Our people have more contacts in the south, and according to what your lord mentioned, we are targeted, so we still noticed something in Jinling. Later, we found him by following the vine." Wang Wenyan was quite proud, " It is estimated that Captain Long should have no clues yet, but we found clues through the line of Haitong Yinzhuang, and this time Jia Yun made a great contribution."

   "Oh?" Feng Ziying became interested, "How did you find out?"

"Jia Jing had a servant boy who made alchemy in Xuanzhen Temple. He was very young and handsome. He had been with Jia Jing for several years. After the news of Jia Jing's death came out from Xuanzhen Temple, no other clues could be seen, but we Staring at this servant boy, we found that he had deposited three thousand taels of silver in our Haitong Bank, which is universal deposit and withdrawal, so we suspected that he might have left the capital,..."

"... Jia Yun asked the shopkeeper to come up with some advice. We heard that he was going to take a boat to the canal, so we guessed that he was going to the south, so we called Linqing, Yangzhou, Jinling, Suzhou, and Hangzhou. Later, the five hundred taels of silver were taken away from Haitong Jinling, and the remaining two thousand five hundred taels were changed to a fixed deposit. In this way, our people quickly found this person in Jinling. whereabouts, and then crucified him, and naturally found it..."

   "Oh, the Haitong Yinzhuang line was found out?" This is a surprise, maybe this is the earliest Society for Worldwide Financial Bank Telecommunications (SWIFT)?

Feng Ziying felt a little emotional. At present, only Haitong Yinzhuang is able to realize universal deposits and withdrawals in the entire Great Zhou Dynasty, especially when it is located across the north and south. In the circulation of large amounts of money and silver between the capital and Yangzhou, Guangzhou, Suzhou, and Jinling, there are The reputation that is almost guaranteed by the imperial court is undoubtedly the best choice for many merchants.

"Well, by the way, I have to report to my lord. It seems that in the past six months, a lot of money has been deposited from the capital city, but it was withdrawn from Jinling and Yangzhou..." Wang Wenyan hesitated, " Jia Yun mentioned this situation to me, the depositors and withdrawals include not only Jiangnan and Shanxi merchants, but also some unknown people, so it is impossible to deduce in classical Chinese,..."

  The flow of large amounts of funds, from the north to the south?

  Feng Ziying rubbed her chin, stood up, paced back and forth without saying a word.

Although the fundraising for the establishment of Haitong Yinzhuang at that time was borrowed from the name of King Zhongshun, driven by King Zhongshun, many nobles from the clan also entered in, but as far as Feng Ziying knows, most of the noble officials Still holding the attitude of watching with cold eyes, but many royal clans joined in.

Later, although the attitude of merchants gradually became more positive because of the convenience of doing business, the nobles were still very cautious. Small deposits and withdrawals are fine, but large deposits are rare. As well as the Xue family, Jia family, etc. who have ties to the Feng family, they still have a false belief, that is a half-and-half attitude for the time being.

   "When did this happen?"

"There should have been signs of this in February and March, but it was not obvious. Then there was a significant increase in May and June, and it became more prominent in July and August." Wang Wenyan recalled, "Jia Yun still paid attention to this He told me specifically, and Jia Lian also sent a letter from Yangzhou saying that a large amount of money was withdrawn in Yangzhou, and Haitong Jinling had to ship it from Yangzhou because it was not long in the city at that time and the money was not enough to pay. If you don't call Jia Yun tomorrow, I'll bring Jia Lian's letter with you."

Feng Ziying nodded, "I have to talk to Jia Yun and Ni Er, and I will also talk to Brother Liu, but you have to remember that they don't know our thoughts and intentions. I just told them to report some abnormal and difficult situations to you, and you can also ask them about the situation on a regular basis, so in the end, I have to summarize and judge, and you have to come in classical Chinese."

   Target 1500!

  (end of this chapter)