Li Kangfei rushed back to the tax inspection department like a rost. Without saying a word, he went to the horse corridor to lead his war horse, and then flew straight to the city like a flying trip. It took half an hour to ride a fast horse, but he didn't dare to delay for a moment.

The queen of the Ming Dynasty, Princess Zhaohua from the Chu State, suddenly came to Quanzhou. Even a small official like him knew that this was not a trivial matter. Putting aside anything else, just this person's identity is enough to crush people to death.

He rarely rode like this. Li Kang only felt that the inner side of his hips was so painful, but at this time, he couldn't care.

Ningfu is a first-class family in Quanzhou. Ordinary people may think that Hu Yi, the governor of Quanzhou, is the boss of Quanzhou, but a small group of people who truly know the inside story understand who is the real master of Quanzhou.

Ning Zhiwen, the head of the Ning family generation, is the real number one figure in Quanzhou. He has unparalleled wealth. Even if he is placed in the entire Great Chu, the Ning family is also the top group. Of course, this is because the Ning family is hiding its shortcomings. After all, a large part of their money comes from the sea, and this part cannot be revealed. If it is just wealth, the Quanzhou county magistrate has not taken it seriously in his heart. The so-called county magistrate of the family and the prefectural prefecture, and only has money but no power, is a fat lamb who can only be slaughtered by others. In addition to wealth, the Ning family also controls the underground forces of the entire Quanzhou. In the government, the officials infiltrated by the Ning family, the officials who are infiltrated by the iron-clad yamen and the high-ranking officials come and go, but those officials are all native people. Holding these people in their hands is much more useful than mastering a county magistrate.

The troops stationed in Quanzhou and the navy were all fed by Ning's money. More importantly, many people know that at sea, the Ning's family has an invincible fleet. Of course, this is compared with the current Quanzhou navy.

The previous prefect of Quanzhou came from a wealthy family in Chu State and did not understand the form of Quanzhou. At the beginning of his tenure, he set his sights on Ning Zhiwen, who looked like a fat sheep. But when he sharpened his sword and was about to take the knife, he was greeted by pirates. The pirates landed in Quanzhou and swept several county seats under Quanzhou. Before the county magistrates could react, all the county magistrates and officials under his command fought back and wrote to the court, claiming that the prefect of the prefect was against the trend and chaotic. In the central court, several bigwigs suddenly united and launched a fierce attack on his family. Until this time, the ambitious prefect understood the end of the matter. Unfortunately, it was too late for him to understand at this time.

He lowered his head and surrendered. His family lowered his noble head in front of the Ning family, and he himself wrapped it up and returned to Shangjing in shame. His career was in a slump and his future was completely ruined.

The county magistrate Hu Yicai, who served as the county magistrate, obviously learned the painful lessons of his former county magistrate. Before he could go to the yamen, he went to Ning Mansion first and drank with Ning Zhiwen, the chief of the Ning clan, and lived in Ning Mansion for three days. Then he went to the government office with satisfaction and became his county magistrate.

In recent years, the county magistrate Hu has not cared about it at all. The most common thing he does every day is to drink and enjoy it. He often gathers literati and scholars to recite poems and music, and occasionally goes out to inspect. He also calls on everyone to build bridges, pave roads, and save disasters and poverty. The real political affairs were completely abandoned to the officials and officials in the county government.

The county magistrate didn't care about anything, but Quanzhou was not in chaos because of his lazy government. Instead, it became much more prosperous than before. As for the pirates who came to serve in the previous county government, he didn't even see a shadow during his tenure.

The people praised this county magistrate. After all, this county magistrate has done a lot of good things. The officials under Quanzhou naturally liked this boss. As for going to the capital, as long as you see Quanzhou calm and tax revenues have risen steadily, your performance will naturally be excellent, and you will be better every year.

This county magistrate is already the second in Quanzhou. He was originally going to be promoted to the court to go further, but Ning's family was unwilling to leave such an intimate and tactful county magistrate. Hu Yicai himself did not want to go to the capital. With his qualifications, he could only be a minister in the department and be in charge of the sky. It would be like being a romantic and happy here, regardless of his duties and the annual income was even more generous? Now the money he received in a year was a huge amount. As for the salary of the court, well, it could still be used as pocket money.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the county magistrate did not reunite with his family in the government office, but instead took his family to Ning Mansion to greet Ning Bowen.

After the second day of the lunar month, he naturally had to sit in the government office and wait for his subordinates to come to greet him with New Year's greetings. Although Hu Yicai was not in charge of the matter in Quanzhou, if he didn't like that official, then the official would have to go down as far as he could. Who made him a superior official and a close friend with Ning Bowen? As soon as this county magistrate spoke, some officials would have to resign immediately and not do it, otherwise the fate would be even worse.

So every year, the Chinese New Year is the grand festival, and our wife, son and daughter’s birthday, our county magistrate Hu likes it very much, because such a day is also the happiest time for him to receive gifts.

Li Kang had been in Quanzhou for many years, so he naturally knew the habits of this county magistrate, so when he entered the city, he did not go straight to the government office, but went straight to Ning Mansion.

The house in Ningfu in Quanzhou City covers an area of ​​thousands of acres. What this means in the prosperous and populous Quanzhou City is naturally self-evident. The house in Ningfu is more luxurious than the county government office and is many times more grand.

He turned over and dismounted and saw the guard standing at the door with his head raised and chest raised. Li Kang tidied up his clothes, strode over, clasped his fists and said, "Brother, please inform me that Li Kang, the Tax Inspection Department, has an urgent official service to ask for the county magistrate."

The guard rolled his eyes and looked at Li Kang. The small tax inspection department naturally did not put it in his eyes. When Li Kang stuffed a piece of silver into his hand, he nodded: "The county magistrate seems to be having a good time with the head of the family. I can't see it, so I can only pass your words to the housekeeper."

"I'm sorry, brother!" Li Kang bowed and thanked him repeatedly. The Ning family's escort was not something that could be offended casually.

A moment later, a man appeared outside the gate and looked at Li Kang angrily. "Mr. Li, what great official duties can this Lunar New Year's Day do you have? Do you want to come here in a hurry?"

"The second housekeeper, there is really something important to meet the county magistrate!" The person who appeared in front of Li Kang was not the Ning family's housekeeper, but just a manager in the outer house, but even such a person could not afford to be offended by Li Kang.

"Mr. The county magistrate is not available, and I don't have time to report to you." Of course, this foreign resident knew Li Kang, and also knew who he had asked to go to the Tax Inspection Department. The second young master in front of him was about to lose power. He Ying naturally couldn't get better from the backstage of Li Kang, but he was afraid that this official Li Kang, the one who was about to be the end. I don't know how many people in the Tax Inspection Department wanted to go in with their eyes blushed.

In his heart, Li Kang knew that this was not good, so he came to see the county magistrate in the name of official business. His real purpose was probably to meet Mr. Ning! He sneered in his heart that these officials did everything they could to keep their official positions. After being the deputy magistrate of the Tax Inspection Department for several years, they should have made a lot of money. Those who know the truth will get out of their way and can still keep their income for the past few years. If they don’t know the truth, they will probably not be left.

Now Li Kang's performance is naturally the kind of person who is ignorant of the truth. Such a person is naturally not worthy of his contribution to him.

Seeing the second manager leaving, Li Kang was shocked and stepped forward and grabbed him.

The second manager was furious and was about to have an attack. Li Kang lowered his voice and said, "The second manager, there is really a big deal. Zhou Li, General Zhou is back."

Li Kang only dared to say Zhou Li, but not Princess Zhaohua. But Zhou Li was only enough to make the second manager moved. You know, when Zhou Li was still in Ning, he was also unable to reach the top. Zhou Li ran away for no reason, and Master Ning was furious and punished some people very much.

"How dare this one-eyed dragon come back?" The second manager stopped immediately.

"Not only did I come back, I also brought back a three-layer warship, brand new, and many fully armed sailors. It seems that the person who came was not good!" Li Kang deliberately said the matter a little serious. The previous one was indeed true, but there was no such person who came not good. Zhou Li was very kind and okay.

Zhou Li came back and brought the warship with him. The second manager was also Ning Zhiwen's confidant. He had fought at sea back then, so he naturally knew what the third-layer warship in Li Kang's mouth meant.

"Wait." He left a word and ran directly inside.

Li Kang let out a deep breath and finally got into this door.

This time he didn't wait for a long time, and after a moment, someone came out again, but this time it was not the second manager, but the main manager of Ning's mansion.

"Follow me!" The chief manager glanced at Li Kang, spit out three words, turned around and left, and Li Kang quickly followed.

Zhou Li's return like this is naturally a big event for Ning. Although the banquet in the lobby continued, Ning Zhiwen and Hu Yicai had already arrived at a quiet room on the side.

Although these two people are used to the great storms, the news brought by Li Kang still made both of the two people sitting steadily jump up at the same time.

"What? Queen of the Ming Dynasty, Princess Zhaohua has arrived outside Quanzhou Port?"
Chapter completed!