dhibooks Chapter 336 This is Shanghai... County? .
Chapter 336 This is Shanghai... County? .
Maid Wu was also happy to be a little transparent, and took someone to the government office to go through the formalities of taking office. He didn't know the unspoken rules of the officialdom here, so he didn't give it to the Shangguan. , After completing the formalities, he took the people away.
The little official behind him who went through the formalities for him sneered, sooner or later he will regret it!
Wu Youwei took the people back to the post station. This is where a mansion is located, so the post station is very large, and Songjiang mansion is at least within the scope of the fertile land in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is also prosperous, especially under Wu Nong's soft words, Unconsciously, it softens the heart.
Take Wu Youwei to visit Songjiang mansion.
Songjiang Mansion has been placed within the scope of Shanghai in later generations, but that was a few hundred years later. Now Songjiang Mansion is an independent state capital, and because it is close to the sea, there is no shortage of seafood here.
The more than 1 people they came here were all born in the north, and few grew up on the southern seaside. Everything they saw was fresh, so Wu Youwei simply found a seafood restaurant that specializes in seafood, and took people in to make a reservation. With a gesture, he ordered all the seafood that can be seen in the building.
"My lord, we still have freshly arrived squid here, would you like to grill some?" The shopkeeper of the restaurant has already stepped forward to take over the job of the waiter.
"Come on!" Grilled squid!
"My lord, we still have a lot of fresh small yellow croakers in the back kitchen. How about deep-frying them?" The shopkeeper kept recommending: "After sprinkling with salt, if you can't finish eating, take it home and have a midnight snack."
"Yes, yes!" Wu Youwei nodded.
"The big boat went out to sea yesterday, and I came back this morning and caught a lot of wolf fish. The stewed soup is very delicious, do you think?" The shopkeeper smiled and narrowed his eyes.
"Let's stew them all!" Wu Youwei pointed to the full seats: "You can figure out what to do with so many people."
"Okay, I'll make it for you, my little one." The shopkeeper said, "Because you ordered a lot, and you're a customer from afar, so I'll give each table a portion of stewed sea fish in sauce."
"Not bad." Wu Youwei knew that this was the boss's greatest respect.
Don't underestimate a stewed sea fish with sauce. In this era, the plates are very large and the portions are very large. It is not a time when a steak can be sold for 80 yuan, and the sauce needs to be salted and fermented. Wait, we also have to go to the sea to catch the miscellaneous fish in the sea, and the wind and rain of the boat and paddle, Wu Youwei is very satisfied that he can give away a piece for free.
Steamed scallops with garlic vermicelli, pan-fried fatty oyster meat, garlic-flavored sixties, steamed crabs, and the staple food is steamed shrimp dumplings.
Palm-length prawns are placed in steamed dumplings. Once you bite down, a packet of delicious soup will flow out. It is so sweet and sweet that you can't wait to swallow it with your tongue.
There are also delicious seafood porridge, spicy fried razor clams and so on.
Nowadays, with the popularity of chili, not only the north likes to use it to fight the cold, but southerners prefer to use chili to remove fishy smell and improve flavor.
And chili is much easier to use than dogwood. No one can stand the taste of stir-fried seafood!
After a while, the table was full of seafood, and these people let go of their stomachs to eat. Unfortunately, most of the seafood was shell-like. Looking at a lot, there was not much meat.
They almost wrapped up all the seafood, and they were not very hungry after eating the staple food. In the end, they served them with a lot of seafood buns, so they were barely full.
The shopkeeper kept wiping away his sweat. He didn't expect these people to be so good at eating, and he didn't know where they came from, as if he had never eaten it.
Wu Youwei also brought back a lot of dried seafood for Wantong, and asked the cook to boil a small pot of seafood soup for Wantong to drink when he came back.
Wantong came back very late, but his face was very bad.
"Angry?" Others were afraid to talk to Wantong, but Wu Youwei was not afraid, because he knew that Wantong would not get angry with him.
"The general in the guard is such a softie!" Wantong seldom swears, but now he is very angry: "No wonder you said that Japanese pirates are a serious problem."
"What's the matter?" Wu Youwei comforted him while asking someone to bring hot water to wash him.
"That general is not a good officer." Wantong quickly told Wu Youwei
It turned out that at dinner today, he was quite satisfied with seeing the general in high spirits. Later, he went to the latrine on the way, and heard people talking in the aisle, saying that the general knows how to give money, regardless of whether the people live or die.
When the Japanese pirates plundered the village, he led people to walk slowly. When the pirates left the village, he led people to chase them. In order to escape, the Japanese pirates would leave some of the looted property behind. Cheap, of course, these properties will not be returned to the common people, so he will take them all away and put them in his pocket.
After a few times, the Japanese pirates also learned how to behave. They ran away after robbing, and left something when they saw people chasing them, so as to hold back the pursuers, and they could escape into the vast sea.
Moreover, this person has never confronted any enemy head-on since he led the army. Whether it was Japanese pirates or pirates when he came, he was only an afterthought.
The guarding eunuch also complained about this, but he used the money offensive to make the husband shut up.
In addition, he took all three nephews who guarded the eunuch under his command, which was a threat in disguise, and this matter has always been so confused.
"This time, if it wasn't for the fact that the army came, he was afraid, otherwise he wouldn't be so active in treating guests to dinner." The purpose was to get angry with Wantong, and even whimsically wanted Wantong to join him.
Wantong wanted to slash him with a knife and eat at the same table with him?
"Don't be angry, don't be angry, such a person is also a scourge in the army, people will impeach him for dereliction of duty." Wu Youwei quickly persuaded: "Let him eat sand.
"No need." Wantong shook his head.
"No need?" Wu Youwei was taken aback, when did Wantong become so easy to talk?
"You will know tomorrow." Wantong sneered: "How long did it take for Shangzuo to impeach him? He still doesn't understand Jin Yiwei's methods, and he has quick and effective methods to deal with him."
Otherwise, he wouldn't dare to openly collude with Jin Yiwei to join him, oppress the common people, and connive at the pirates.
Wu Youwei was baffled, but Wantong drank the seafood soup and thought it tasted good, and he also drank a lot, because the two of them always felt not full from the seafood they ate, so they ordered a big bowl of shrimp wonton for supper at night.
The next day, Wu Youwei knew what Wantong's "quick and effective" means were.
It is said that the inactive general drank too much wine in the restaurant yesterday, took some Megatron medicine after returning home, and died on the belly of the concubine!
But the real reason is that he drank too much wine and died of drunkenness!
The cause of drunken death would involve all the officials who were present at the time, so it was changed, and the cause of death was changed to improper medicine after drunkenness, and died immediately.
However, the cause of death was not very decent, because the guarding eunuch had a deep resentment towards him and refused to give him a decent way to die.
Catch up with this matter, Wu Youwei and the others don't have to go, but Wantong's men go down to offer their condolences
Wu Youwei asked Wantong at the post station, "How did you do it?"
"He doesn't know how to behave. He dares to threaten the guarding eunuch. He doesn't know how powerful Jin Yiwei and the eunuchs are." Wan Tong said slowly while drinking tea: "From now on, the elder nephew who guards the eunuch will take over here. There was nothing to say. Wu Youwei didn't know much about this, but knowing that the person who didn't do anything was killed by their cooperation, he was very relieved: "The way this person died is really... shameful... "They're here for another day because of the funeral.
The general's son is only two years old, he has eight concubines, and only one eldest daughter, who is six years old.
The widow also despises her husband's actions, but the women's family members do not interfere in foreign affairs. Now that her husband has passed away, the widow simply dismisses all eight concubines and returns to her hometown with her son and daughter and all her belongings.
And Wu Youwei and Wantong also started to go to Shanghai.
Shanghai is very close to Songjiang Mansion, but that is in later generations. Now, Shanghai is just a small county, surrounded by only four fishing villages.
Before seeing the true face of "Shanghai County", Wu Youwei had many fantasies. For a while, it was the prosperous scene of Shanghai after its opening in the late Qing Dynasty, for a while it was a ten-mile foreign market in the Republic of China, and for a while it was a modern international metropolis. bright lights...
As a result, when I saw "Shanghai County", all this came to naught!
It is said to be a "county town", but the city walls are all made of mounds, as tall as a person, and there are not even a patrolling soldier.
There is a faint fishy smell nearby. The people who come and go are fishermen, the women are okay, and the men are almost shirtless.
But the complexion looked good, all the children ran with their buttocks naked, mostly boys, and the little girls were dressed in rags.
Seeing so many people, these people were terrified, and they all hid in the house with their wives and children.
The house is also very dilapidated. It was built by rams with thatched grass. Such a thatched house by the sea cannot withstand a typhoon. The dilapidated fishing boats are moored in the distance, and there are many fishing nets erected. Hold the bamboo shuttle, which is used for weaving and repairing nets.
Seeing this scene, Wu Youwei's eyes were moist: "Is this Shanghai?"
"Hmm." Wantong also frowned.
He knew that Baizhen would not give Wu You any good place, but he never thought that this Shanghai county is so dilapidated that the city wall is so dilapidated that there is absolutely no defense at all.
And in front of the county town, there is a shoal without any shelter. Once the pirates come, they can charge towards the Shanghai county town without even a stop.
What's more, because the water in this shoal is not deep, if you come up from the sea, you can advance, attack, retreat, or defend. If you look at it from the perspective of pirates, this is a good place to plunder at any time.
Wu Youwei walked into Shanghai County with a dumbfounded expression on his face. The county town looked dilapidated from the outside, but inside it was even more... dilapidated.
It seems that at least seven or eight years have not been taken care of.
It is only when you go inside to the vicinity of the county government office that you gain some popularity. There are many houses and people's voices near the county government office, and it is difficult to compare with a prosperous place.
There is only one commercial street with a few stalls, two grocery stores, two grain stores, a cloth shop, and four restaurants.
To put it bluntly, you can see the end at a glance.
The nearby mansions don't look very good, but it's good to see a lot of people coming and going, because when you look outside the city, it's almost a deserted city.
When they arrived, likewise, those ordinary people hid, and their posture was very fast. Wu Youwei kept frowning and never let go. Is this well-trained?Or practice makes perfect?
Hide, people hide so neatly...? .
The county government in the county also disappointed Wu Youwei.
He had seen the county government offices in the capital city, not to mention how well they were repaired, but they were also very clean and tidy.
Daming has such an unwritten practice, that is, never repairing the office space.
Because you have repaired the office so well that it appears that you are rich, then you are suspected of corruption.
So even though it is the seat of the cabinet, it is just a row of serious houses. It is cold in winter and hot in summer, so it is not enjoyable at all.
But it is such a place, but it is the place that officials all over the world yearn for the most.
Anyway, Wu Youwei doesn't yearn for it, he still prefers his own home's warmth in winter and coolness in summer.
As for the county government in front of me, although the shelf is still there, it is dilapidated. One of the gates is missing, and no one is looking at the gate.
Pushing open the door, everyone came in like a diorama, and the weeds inside were green, because it was already May, and the weather near the sea was very hot, and the grass had grown and warblers had been flying here for at least two months.
After entering the gate, it should be the Bell and Drum Tower where the Drum of Resentment is placed, but there is no such thing!
What greeted Wu Youwei and the others was a piece of ruins, and two white-haired, ragged clothes, holding water and fire sticks in their hands... old officials guarding the ruins.