At this time, dozens of big men were walking on the street, which looked very suspicious and successfully attracted the attention of patrol officers.
After struggling for a while, I was able to successfully return to the Lin Mansion.
The area around Dashi Yongfang in the southwest of the imperial city is an area where official residences gather. The density of patrols by the government and army is very high, and the security intensity is the highest in the capital.
This made Lin Tailai feel that living in the core area of ​​such a high-end area is safe, but sometimes it seems not so convenient.
By the next day, Lin Tailai began to plan two things he wanted to do. The first was to provoke the Zheng family and start a fight; the second was to build momentum in the literary world and reduce criticism of the imperial examination.
Immediately, someone was sent to Uncle Ningyuan's Mansion to send a message to Li Rusong, the commander-in-chief of the patrol camp in the capital, and arrange a time for a gathering.
Then he sent people to Dongcheng to greet the fellow villagers and see if there was a chance to launch an elegant gathering together.
Li Rusong replied to the post at noon and planned to meet at Xiyuan Hutong tonight.
With the efficiency of this era, Li Rusong responded and concluded contracts very quickly, and his enthusiasm can be seen from this detail.
There are two main reasons for this. One is that three years ago, Lin Tailai took advantage of the Dayu Mountain Imperial Tomb location incident to help Li Rusong consolidate the holy family and advance to a higher level.
As for Li Rusong, who was a loyal person, he definitely couldn't ignore Lin Tailai.
Second, Li Rusong's father, the famous general Li Chengliang, had been in Liaodong for a long time. He himself was not very clean, and he did a lot of bad things.
Therefore, Li Chengliang was very sensible and often gave generous gifts to Shen Shoufu in order to ask Shen Shoufu to take care of him in the court.
The relationship between Lin Tailai and Shen Shoufu was extremely close, and Li Rusong would definitely be happy to make friends with Lin Tailai.
The full name of Xiyuan Hutong is Jiaofangsi Xiyuan Hutong. Anyone who understands understands it. If you don’t understand, you can ask.
The Li family was very wealthy, so Li Rusong directly booked a place with someone he knew well to avoid being disturbed by irrelevant people.
Both of them arrived quite early, so they didn't rush to let the beauties come up and just sat and talked first.
Li Rusong said first: "I thought you wanted to prepare for the exam with peace of mind, so I didn't dare to disturb you."
Lin Tailai replied: "The imperial examination is not a big problem. I have an appointment with my brother today. In fact, I have something to ask for help."
Li Rusong responded readily: "If you have something to do, just tell me."
Lin Tailai said directly: "During this period, I need to fight with the Zheng family, have fierce conflicts, and create huge conflicts and hatred.
But I know very little about the situation of the Zheng family, and there is no credible channel in the capital to keep an eye on the Zheng family.
I need you to help provide updates and news about the Zheng family from now on, the more the better."
Li Rusong said with a strange expression: "Your idea is quite strange. It seems that you just want to find a reasonable excuse to start a fight with the Zheng family?"
Lin Tailai said: "Three years ago, I had an enmity with Zheng Guotai because of Wu Zhuangyuan's incident. But I can't still use Wu Zhuangyuan as an excuse until now, right?"
Li Rusong didn't hesitate to ask for the details. After thinking about it carefully, he replied:
"Zheng Guotai has not performed much in the past two years. In fact, the current active figure in the Zheng family is not Zheng Guotai. You can't find much clues if you look at Zheng Guotai.
The active figure in the Zheng family today is Zheng Guotai and Zheng Empress' father Zheng Chengxian. This father-in-law has many problems.
As far as I know, Zheng Chengxian behaves rather arrogantly, and often makes friends with eunuchs in the palace, and he recruits mountain men, sorcerers and the like."
Lin Tailai patted his forehead and almost fell into the inertia of his thinking.
The historical Zheng Guotai was active for nearly thirty years. His shadow was behind many of the Ming Dynasty's strange cases, which left a deep impression on Lin Tailai.
So when Lin Tailai thinks about the Zheng family, he always thinks about Zheng Guotai subconsciously, but he ignores that the leader of the Zheng family now is Zheng Chengxian.
So Lin Tailai asked again: "Brother, please help me collect more information about the Zheng family in the near future, so that I can know myself and the enemy, and prescribe the right medicine."
"This is a trivial matter." Li Rusong agreed immediately. It was indeed a trivial matter to just ask for information.
For a governor in charge of the patrol camp in the capital, collecting information in a targeted manner is not a difficult task.
In this way, the guests and hosts enjoyed themselves, and a pleasant night passed.
Tonight, Lin Tailai learned the lesson from last night and stayed overnight in the beauty's house to avoid being harassed by patrolling officers and soldiers on his way home in the middle of the night.
When Lin Tailai came to leave the next day, Zhang Wen, the Zuo protector who was waiting in the wing outside, quietly told Lin Tailai:
"The Li family sent me a box of stuff, saying it was a local product from Liaodong. I opened it and took a look, and the box was full of ginseng."
"Since it is Governor Li's kindness, then accept it!" Lin Tailai said with a dumb smile.
The Li family is really insecure. Will they give out gifts as long as they have the chance?
I've lost my train of thought, and I have no idea if I want to add more. I'll hold it back for a while, and I'll add another update when I've figured out the plot for the next stage, which I hope will be tomorrow.
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Chapter completed!