Wu Zhixiang got off the gangplank and stretched her body. She was very tired from traveling in sedan chairs and boats these days. After passing Jiangxi, she changed boats and headed all the way to Nanjing.
Although taking a boat is more comfortable than taking a sedan, for the convenience of traveling, you have to take small boats all the way. Although the boats in Qiweizhan are as comfortable as possible in terms of structure and layout, no matter their size, it is really hard to stay in the cabin every day.
He was so exhausted. He finally arrived at the Hangzhou Pier today. He said he had to take a break and regain his senses. He would spend a few days in this "paradise on earth".
Wu Zhixiang rushed to Jiangnan from Guangzhou because he was instructed by his father and brother to go to Jiangnan to "build connections." He originally didn't want to leave his comfort zone in Guangzhou and go all the way to Jiangnan, but it was related to his own future. Although he relied on his father and brother's
Guan Guan gained a reputation as a scholar, and for several years he had been eating, drinking, and having fun in Guangzhou, living the life of a dissolute young man. However, as time went by, he became a little tired of it, and wanted to make progress in his official career.
Nowadays, Donglin Party members have great power both inside and outside the government. If you want to advance to the next level in the court, you must try to make good friends with Donglin Party members. Donglin Party officials have always been very interested in supporting "young talents".
Attentive.
Jiangnan is the sphere of influence of the Donglin Party. Many important backbones of the Donglin Party in the past, including several of the Seven Gentlemen who were persecuted to death by Wei Zhongxian, were from South Zhili and Zhejiang. Many scholars who had never served in official positions and retired
Donglin Party officials also gathered here.
As long as you can manage to make friends with these people and obtain their support, it will be of great help to your success in becoming an official.
To this end, he brought a large number of gifts with him; half of them were various local products from Guangdong, and the other half were various foreign goods, most of which were novel "Australian goods". He bought these goods from Pei Lixiu based on his reputation.
Many of them are rare items that are currently in short supply in the Guangzhou market. If Wu Zhixiang hadn't tipped off the Zizihao in the first place, he probably wouldn't have been able to get so many at once.
Because Australian products in Guangzhou have gone through a gap period that lasts for more than half a year, Australian products are like drizzle in the market and they are sold out as soon as they come out. In the past, they were not uncommon and could be bought with a little money.
Small glass mirrors, glassware, Australian small jewelry, cosmetics and other items now have to be ordered before you can pick them up.
Although Wu Zhixiang was a playboy, he was familiar with the officials' children. If it were not for the uneducated, frivolous and arrogant "second generation ancestor", he would be far smarter than ordinary people in terms of worldliness. Although his father and brother have been officials for many years and have a lot of money, they are not
The powerful "big men" are not as good as the ordinary "big gentry" in the countryside. To complete the imperial examination, it cannot be done by just visiting a few "seniors" and sending some money.
Examination fraud is a very risky matter no matter which dynasty it is. Once it is exposed, it will lead to jail time. However, examination fraud is equally rampant in every dynasty and every generation. The high risk makes examination fraud more hidden and shady.
Heavy.
If there is no suitable person to cite it, even if you want to send money, there will be no place to send it, or it will simply be stuffed into a dog hole.
The Wu family is not from Jiangnan, and there are not many connections in Jiangnan that they can use. How to find the right people to help them make connections has become a major problem for Wu Zhixiang.
Qiweizhan's sedan has long been waiting by the Gongchen Bridge. Wu Zhixiang's journey from Guangzhou to Hangzhou was arranged by Qiwei. Although there are no relatives or friends here in Hangzhou, Qiwei has already established relationships with the locals.
We booked a small guesthouse in a temple by the West Lake. The arrangements were very thoughtful.
Wu Zhixiang got on the sedan and drove all the way to the city.
Wu Zhixiang's arrival was immediately reported to Zhao Yingong's desk through Qiwei channels. Because of Wu Zhixiang's actions during last year's counter-encirclement and suppression campaign, he was included in the "watch list" of the Foreign Intelligence Service.
Those included in the "watch list" are mostly Ming Dynasty gentry and rich people who are friendly to the Cross-Travel Group and have certain utilization value. They are not "collaborators with a close chain of interests such as Li Luoyou and Gao Ju"
", but in many aspects showed a friendly attitude towards "Australians" and a willingness to cooperate with the Senate.
Wu Zhixiang was the most "pro-Kon" among the group of dandies who often visited Ziming Tower. In addition, he was "resolute" in resisting encirclement and suppression. Considering his background as a member of the gentry family, the Foreign Intelligence Agency considered further use of him.
his identity and social relations.
The Foreign Intelligence Bureau secretly investigated his background in Guangzhou. The Wu Zhixiang family is from Wuzhou, Guangxi. They were originally landlords, and they were engaged in industry and commerce. The family was wealthy. The official positions of his father and brother were not prominent, and they were typical middle-level bureaucrats. After several foreign appointments,
A lot of money was made again.
Because this family is engaged in industry and commerce and has been operating in the state for a long time, their horizons are much broader than those of ordinary local wealthy people. It is natural for them to be "close to each other" in their political attitude.
Jiang Shan felt that the Wu family could boost their activity. So this time Zhixiang went to Nanjing to find out the news about Donglin Party activities, he immediately sent it to Hangzhou.
Jiang Shan did not require Zhao Yingong to explicitly help Wu Zhixiang, but only told him that there was such an opportunity. As for whether he would take advantage of this opportunity and how to take advantage of it, that was the intelligence agent's own business.
The Foreign Intelligence Service does not clearly specify the activities of intelligence agents. Except for specific tasks in a few cases, it only lists a general work program for intelligence agents stationed abroad. Specific details are arranged without affecting the intelligence station.
Under the premise of own safety and not harming the overall interests, generally no restrictions are imposed.
Do you want to help this young master? Zhao Yingong looked at the daily report sent by Wei Zhan in the study. This person came here for fame. With the current strength of Hangzhou Station, he is very capable of helping people involved in examination fraud.
If you don't catch it, you might get burned, so it's better not to get involved.
Thinking of this, he decided to only send people to keep an eye on him for the time being, and decide the next move based on his local activities.
After making up his mind, Zhao Yingong marked the document with the word "observation" in pencil and put it into the document basket. At noon, Fenghua came to take away the documents and classify them, and then arranged for field personnel to be sent out through Sun Wangcai to handle them.
Zhao Yingong casually picked up another thick document bag, which was taken from the Taoist Priest. Zhang Yingchen rarely met him recently. The "spill dirty water" operation planned by the Taoist Priest personally has been officially launched. Now the Taoist Priest is good,
Fortunately, Zhao Yingong has gained a little fame in the local area.
The Chinese Sigao version of the Old Testament from Lingao Nong was sent to Hangzhou a few days ago. The book was hand-copied by a naturalized scribe - because the Big Library, the Religious Affairs Office and the Lingao Church were not prepared for this book.
Spread. Zhang Yingchen hid in a Taoist temple and secretly read and excerpted "Cannonballs" at night, doing the same job as Bo Yang did back then.
Zhang Yingchen's reputation has become even more prominent since he "combine big medicines" for a certain Jin gentry. Zhao Yingong has never understood how the Taoist master fooled that Jin gentry - there must be no "Viagra" in the medical and chemical reserves of the time traveler. The Indian god
oil or Spanish flies. He kept it a secret. Anyway, Pirates of the Quanzi became famous since then. Rich wealthy Jin gentry owners came to invite him one after another. Zhang Yingchen responded to requests and often visited the houses of Jin gentry. However, he still insisted on staying in the Taoist temple.
He practiced medicine and administered medicine every week - which further enhanced his reputation.
After opening the document bag, Zhao Yingong flipped through it, and it turned out that the document bag was the "black material" produced by Quanzi. Zhang Yingchen's accompanying letter requested the Hangzhou Station to print a batch of pamphlets to be used as a cover to attack the Hangzhou Church.
The Chuanquan Group has done this more than once by using black materials such as unveiling posters for propaganda purposes. At the time, they carried out psychological warfare in Guangzhou and distributed various pamphlets with remarkable results, so Piequanzi followed the same method this time.
Zhao Yingong received the latest news; Huang Zhen had returned from Ningbo. It seemed that he was ready to fight to the death. It seemed that he must have the support of the great monk Yuan Wu of Tiantong Temple. Zhang, the main force in the Hangzhou teaching case, also
With activities all around, it seems that the Hangzhou teaching case will break out soon.
Looking at Zhang Yingchen's enthusiastic expression, Zhao Yingong couldn't help but worry that although this move of throwing dirty water on triggering the lesson plan in advance had the effect of killing two birds with one stone, if it went too far, the Hangzhou church would be hit hard and it might not be able to help at that time.
By myself.
With such worries, he quickly processed all the official documents and letters that were delivered to the safe house yesterday. He also locked the materials that needed to be kept confidential into the safe, put the materials that needed to be destroyed directly into the brazier, lit them on fire, and watched them turn into ashes.
——He will never do these things in Fenghua. Although Fenghua has received training and appraisal from the General Administration of Political Security of Liaoning.
After coming out of the safe house, Zhao Yingong returned to the office where he worked. The astronomy towel was dusty and he looked like a working man.
After spending several months in the south of the Yangtze River, Mei Lin realized that he had never lived a life of warm and fragrant jade. The long-awaited trip to Nanjing passed by in a hurry, not to mention the eight beauties of Qinhuai, not even a decent woman had time to see it. Except for this trip to Nanjing
He is responsible for building and decorating the house on the construction site. Not only is he responsible for building the house, but also the interior decoration and interior furnishings. It is impossible for a large number of furniture and furnishings to be transported thousands of miles from Lingao.
, most of the things that require local sourcing or custom-making in Hangzhou, drawing patterns, and guiding craftsmen to do the work all fall on his head. Because there are so many tasks and the requirements are very complicated, external custom-making is always not satisfactory.
Mei Lin simply asked Zhao Yingong to recruit some craftsmen of various colors, and built a wood processing factory on the land of Phoenix Villa specializing in manufacturing furniture, interior decoration and building components.!