Chen Xi had no time to stay in Fuzhou for a long time. After all, the itinerary to Quanzhou had been decided long ago, and Zi Qian's problem could only be left to be solved in the future.

After 20 people were transferred to Ma Jiu, and with the previous team, there were more than 30 people in the group, and finally there was a bit of an imperial envoy to travel.

From Fuzhou to the south and across the Minjiang River, it was a very difficult journey for the eastern Fujian generation. Along the way, people from many places needed to get off the carriage and walk. Chenxi, who had a nimble leg, said that even Lin Dai didn't complain much, but Liu Jin was there to complain.

“…Fuzhou and Quanzhou are both harbors, so you can’t take a boat to go there?”

"Eunuch Liu, the rules of our Ming Dynasty, that a small piece of sail must not go into the sea, you won't know, right?" Chen Xi said with a smile.

"Then... the road to the beach should always be flatter, right?" Liu Jin continued to make trouble.

Chenxi Road: "Under the ban on sea, the coast has already been covered with weeds and the path is difficult to tell. Besides, even if there is a road, there are bandits and Japanese pirates everywhere, so Eunuch Liu should not cause trouble. This is Fujian, far away from the capital, even those who serve in the army may disguise themselves as robbers, let alone local tyrants or foreign vassals."

Liu Jin obviously didn't know much about the complex situation and terrain along the coast of Fujian. He had lived in the palace for a long time, but he didn't know the danger of this poor mountain and water place? In his eyes, to be an official in places like Fujian, it is actually no different from being exiled.

Hurry up and finally entered the territory of Quanzhou Prefecture.

I was originally going to enter the city on February 11th, but it rained a little that day, the roads were muddy, and vehicles were unable to move. I could only rest in Jin'an Post, a few miles away from Quanzhou that night, and then leave the next day.

As a result, as soon as the group settled down, there were more than ten officials from Quanzhou Prefecture City. After entering the post station in the rain, he asked loudly: "Has the imperial envoy from the capital arrived?"

Chen Xi looked down from the wooden stairs. He was very respectful when he heard the name, but he didn't know if the "inspector" was talking about him.

The postmaster at the post station replied: "Mr. Shen and Eunuch Liu have settled down, and they are preparing for supper now."

"That's good. We will take over the matter here for the time being. You can just serve the imperial envoy." In a word, a large number of people entered the inn.

It turns out that there are not only officials in this industry, but also chefs and servants, who look very professional.

Liu Jin was tired for a day and wanted to lie down and sniff her sleep. When he heard the noise downstairs, he walked out to look at Chen Xi: "Shen Zhongyun, what are they saying?"

Because the other party is from eastern Fujian and southern Fujian, Liu Jin couldn't understand it at all when he lived in the north for a long time.

Chenxidao: "It seems that it was sent by the local government in Quanzhou. Let's go down and ask."

Before Chen Xi and Liu Jin went downstairs, the people below had already come up. The official officer who was asking about it just now saw Chen Xi with a surprise on his face: "This must be the top scorer in the thirteen-year-old high school. Now he is the master Chen Xishen, who is written by the Youchunfang Youchunfang Youchunfang, and Hanlin?"

The investigation is really detailed!

Chen Xi looked at this person carefully and was about thirty years old, but he didn't look like a errand running in the yamen. His eyes were bright and his mouth seemed to be smiling. At first glance, he looked like a role such as a master or a bookkeeper.

Chen Xi asked, "Who is your lord?"

The man quickly replied: "The villain's surname is Leng, and his name is not worth mentioning. We are servants in the Jinjiang County Government. When we heard that Lord Shen was ordered by the emperor to do the job, Magistrate Heng specially ordered a few younger people to come to greet him. I was afraid that you would not be used to the taste, so I specially brought a few chefs, both southern and northern dishes."

Chen Xi was slightly stunned. He looked at him again and saw someone transporting vegetables, fish, meat and fruits to the inn. The other party seemed very considerate!

However, if you show your kindness for nothing, you are either a traitor or a thief. The magistrate of Jinjiang County is so enthusiastic that he must have something to ask for.

"I will not receive any reward without any merits. I thanked the magistrate Heng for my official's kindness. When we arrived here, although we were the emperor's envoy, we did not dare to work." Chenxi Road.

The official named Leng said, "My dear, I'll thank you. I'll tell you to County Magistrate Heng when I go to the city tomorrow. But this matter... In fact, it was sent by the prefect's office. Our County Magistrate Heng is purely responsible for following the order. You don't have to be too reserved. Just let me serve you well. Come on, make tea for the two adults."

Chen Xi realized that things were not right.

When Chen Xi returned to the room, he called Liu Jin, Mi Lu, Song Laoyue and Song Xiaocheng, saying that he was discussing the matter of going to the city tomorrow, but in fact, he was discussing the purpose of these people.

Mi Lu smiled and complimented: "The courtesy must be something for others. Look at it... This magistrate Heng knows that Lord Shen is a lecturer in the East Palace and often admires the emperor's face. He wants Lord Shen to help him talk about the sect in front of His Majesty? The so-called magistrate is attached to the capital, and he has misfortune for three lives, or is this magistrate in Quanzhou City not so easy to be?"

Liu Jin felt a little uncomfortable when he heard this. How close are I to the prince? I can see the emperor every few days. I don’t give it to me, but to Chen Xi, a foreign minister?

Chen Xi did not agree.

It is indeed difficult to be a magistrate in Fujian. Here, the peaks and ridges are towering, hills are continuous, river valleys and basins are interspersed, and mountains and hills account for almost 80% of the total area. They are known as "eight mountains, one water and one branch of fields". Nowadays, high-yield crops such as corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes have not been introduced. The Ming Dynasty banned the sea and the people were poor and destitute. If you want to make money, you can't find a place, but the situation in Quanzhou is different.

The Ming Dynasty established the Maritime Service in Ningbo, Quanzhou and Guangzhou, three coastal port cities. Although the sea transportation was not very developed due to the disturbance of Japanese pirates and pirates during the Hongzhi period, at least it was a bridge and link to trade with the southwest countries. It was not until the first year of Jiajing. Because the disturbance of Japanese pirates intensified, the two trading ports in Quanzhou and Ningbo had to be closed, leaving only one in Guangzhou.

So far, Quanzhou is still a big city in Fujian Province that can match the provincial capital of Fuzhou, and it is even better than that. Jinjiang County is the prefecture of Quanzhou Prefecture. Although the magistrate of Jinjiang County is affiliated with the capital, he has a lot of ways to make money. Can he complain and want to transfer it to another place by using relationships?

Even if you have to walk around, you won’t bribe a sixth-rank Hanlin official and take the money to walk around Nanjing or Beijing.

Chen Xi looked grim: "No matter what, you must not accept gifts after entering the city, nor do you accept banquets at will, otherwise everything will be left to the law!"

One sentence made Liu Jin very dissatisfied. Liu Jin sneered: "Shen Zhongyun has made a fortune himself and is preparing to cut off other people's wealth?"

In the past, no matter how big or small, Milu and Song Laoyue were standing on Shen Xi's side, but this time they did not agree with Chen Xi's strictness. Following the imperial envoy for thousands of miles to Quanzhou, wasn't it just to get some money after getting to the place? Now, Chen Xi took the attitude of an honest official as soon as he came up, and the people below were not sure if they wanted to collect some hard money.

Chen Xidao: "I want money, I have it here, but if I collect money that I shouldn't have, I won't even think about going back to Beijing. I guess it will be a skin and cramps once I arrive in Beijing. You can do it!"

Chen Xi was not an exaggeration. The reason why he was afraid that the local government would show his gratitude was that the fleet of the Foshan Crews caused trouble and wanted him to take the blame.

In history, after the Portuguese arrived in Asia, they destroyed many countries and established vast colonies. When they heard that there was a place called Ming, it was simply a paradise on earth. They naturally wanted to do business without foundation and plunder by force, but they obviously underestimated the strength of the Ming army.

Seeing that the Portuguese were unable to do so, they began to bribe local officials with silver and bribe local officials. As they expected, the Ming officials were insatiable and took the money and did things. They directly sent the letter of nationality that the Portuguese hoped for trade between the two countries to the capital.

The Portuguese would not be content with themselves and wait for the imperial envoy sent by the court. They plundered people in the southeast coast, burned, killed and plundered. The local officials collected silver and turned a blind eye to the Portuguese's evil deeds, hoping that these foreigners would leave early.

The Portuguese have this virtue in history. Although the Portuguese who came to Quanzhou now seems to be a little earlier than Chen Xi remembers, they think there will be no big deviation in their style of conduct.

I was afraid that the Portuguese had exposed their fangs now, and the local officials found out that these people were jackals, so they wanted to bribe Chen Xi and expose the matter. This was a typical act of deceiving the superiors and concealing the subordinates.

After sending Liu Jin and others with bad faces away, Chen Xi secretly speculated: "If what I expected is not bad, the local officials would definitely be ruthless after entering the city, and use various means to deceive me, so that I would go back empty-handed and work with the emperor."

That night, the official officers of Jinjiang County took good care of Chen Xi, the imperial envoy. The tea is the best Wuyi mountain tea. The delicious food is set up on a large table, many of which are rare delicacies. Chen Xi thought, if he sends a few more women to the evening, the treatment would be exactly the same as the emperor's patrol.

Chen Xi was full of vigilance, but Liu Jin was not very cautious. It was rare that he finally met a local official who was "knowing" along the way. He felt that he was sorry for the bumps along the way.

On the morning of the next day, Chen Xi and his party, led by the yamen runners in Jinjiang County, arrived outside Quanzhou Prefecture City.

Before entering the city, local officials had already come out to greet him. Not only did Jinjiang magistrate Heng Shaoyuan come, but also Quanzhou Prefecture magistrate Zhang Lian also came out to greet him. There were fifty or sixty officials at both levels of prefecture and county. In addition, there were almost tens of thousands of people gathered at the north gate of Quanzhou City.

Chen Xi smiled bitterly. The more serious the other party acted, the more difficult the matter was.

"The lower-ranking official Zhang Lian led all officials of Quanzhou Prefecture to welcome the imperial envoy." Zhang Lian took the initiative to salute Chen Xi, and almost kowtowed and knelt down.

Chen Xi got off the carriage and helped Zhang Lian up: "Magistrate Zhang is so polite. I am just a sixth-rank official, but you are a fourth-rank official. Why should you be so polite?"

"How can local officials be brought up with the emperor's close ministers? You are the imperial envoy. The governor and the governor arranged for the subordinates to cooperate with you in the whole process, so there must be no mistakes... The imperial envoy, please take the official sedan chair and go to the city with the subordinates?"

Chen Xi hesitated for a moment, thinking that he would observe what kind of state it was before talking about it, and immediately refused: "No need, just get off the bus and enter the city."

Zhang Lian was a little surprised, and his eyes looked a little complicated when he looked at Chen Xi, and he immediately smiled and said, "That official is the imperial envoy."

Chen Xi saw that Zhang Lian wanted to pretend to be a grandson and insisted on showing his kindness, but since he knew it was a trap, Chen Xi felt that he could not let him do what he wanted, so he immediately looked at him:

"The rank of the prefect Zhang is above me. If you are the leader of me, what is the court's constitution? If you are included in the censor's book, I am afraid that I will not even be an official when I return to the capital!"

Humph, aren’t you complimenting me? I’ll use the rules of the officialdom to illustrate the matter.

Although most Beijing officials will be promoted to third-level appointments when leaving Beijing, I am indeed much worse than yours now. I will talk about this. If you persist, it will be sincerely causing me trouble.

Sure enough, Zhang Lian was a little unsure of Chen Xi's attitude, so he had to give in.

Even though Chen Xi was in a carriage and was normally taken to the city, the government made the matter too fussy. People along the way knew that this was the imperial envoy's carriage, and it would be congested wherever they went.

The people watching along the way pointed and said, and when they knew that the top scholar from the province was the imperial envoy, their faces were full of proud smiles.

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ps: The third update is here!

After getting up today, the emperor felt uncomfortable, sweating and dizzy, and the headache was split at noon. After taking the fin, it would be useless. After a while, it was delayed but it did not improve. I guess I could only have three chapters today!
Chapter completed!