Chapter 199: Hai Rui's Gift
Hai Rui still looked the same, wearing a half-old robe, with a little white cuff and elbows. He walked in straight, and was carrying a small red cloth bag in his hand.
The yellow word "囍" embroidered on the bag is obviously a gift to him.
"My mother told Zhuojing and Han to embroider some insoles for you. Hai'an made some fish incense candles that are only available in Qiongzhou. The bridal chamber was lit at night, and the fragrance filled the room to make fun of it." He did not prepare a gift list, and handed the bag to Zhao Hao, and said, "There is also a cow horn comb... I made it myself."
"Oh, thank you, Grandma, Old Aunt Hai. Zhongcheng is so polite." Zhao Hao quickly took it with both hands and said happily: "I have a great face. I will write it into the genealogy in the future."
"It's nothing. I don't want to be Governor Ying Tian now. The most important thing I lack is time." Hai Rui said lightly: "So you can do something meaningless."
"It's quite meaningful." Zhao Hao smiled embarrassedly.
He knew last month that Hai Rui had just been in office for the position of Governor Yingtian for three years, and the court issued an order immediately, promoting him to the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue in Nanjing and the governor of grain storage.
That's right, it was Zhao Liben's original official position.
The governor was promoted from the governor to the minister, which was generally promoted. Although he was the minister of Nanjing, the governor of grain storage was also one of the few powerful factions in the Southern Six Tribes, and no one could say that he was demoted.
But if you taste it carefully, this is not an official or a master's taste...
In fact, it is not just Hai Rui. Any official who has close contact with Zhao Hao has been memorizing this year.
Needless to say, River Prime Minister Pan Jixun.
Uncle Wu came to Wu in July, and in July, he was impeached by the censor for recommending an inhumane. He lost his official position as Censor Cao Jiang and returned to his hometown to live in Guandai.
When officials in the Ming Dynasty committed crimes, the recommender was indeed jointly and severally responsible, but generally, they were fined and demoted. People were rarely allowed to promote their juniors in the officialdom. Who can guarantee that no one would have any trouble with the person they mentioned? The result of being beaten to death with one stick is that no one dared to recommend them again.
Therefore, the punishment for Wu Shilai was obviously too severe.
The old brother Zhao Jin was transferred from Dali Temple Minister to the Right Minister of Works. Although both of them were third-rank, they fell out of the ranks of the Nine Ministers. The other ones were second, and the most serious thing was that he lost the power to attend the court's proposal, voted for the sacred vote, decided to appoint high-ranking officials above the fourth-rank, and decide on military and national affairs.
Not only did senior officials write memorization, but even Wang Xijue, the backbone of the rising period, were attacked.
Originally, Chef Wang had already opened a store and entered the fast lane for the transfer of Hanlin officials. Moreover, Emperor Longqing finally let go of the prince's entrance examination. The court and the people called him a lecturer as the Eastern Palace, which was the most popular among the court.
Unexpectedly, the situation took a sharp turn. Just last month, the imperial court issued an order, shocking Chef Wang. He was demoted to the Hanlin Academy in Nanjing for the Hanlin Academy for Youyude! He became a leader like Hua Shuyang who had been vain and had been fed for a long time, and had a lot of thought of falling into a cessation pit from the clouds.
It is obviously not accidental that these bad things have appeared so intensively. If the idol father-in-law had not been the second-hand assistant, Lin Run had just taken office and was a senior official of the court, Zhao Hao's core circle of friends would have been completely cleaned up.
Zhao Hao knew very well that this was a blow to him. There was only one person who was capable and motivated to do this.
That is the chief minister of the dynasty and the heavenly official. The most powerful civil servant since the founding of the country - Gao Gong Gao Suqing!
Why did Gao Gong do this? Zhao Hao naturally knew it. Why did he flee from the capital in a hurry? Wasn't it because Gao Gong wanted to set up a shipping yamen and wanted to ask Royal Shipping to give up half of the share?
Zhao Hao would never agree to such a thing. How much did he spend to straighten out the messy situation at sea? How many times did he fight for this? How much money did he spend to die? How could he give up half of his share just by saying Gao Bei?
In fact, reducing half of the share is not the most troublesome, and the most troublesome thing is that everyone has to finish playing this way. The most feared thing in this world is that the power and responsibility are not unified, and only enjoying power but not taking corresponding responsibilities, or only taking responsibility but not enjoying enough benefits, big things will happen in the end!
In the era of great navigation, monopoly is life. If you cannot monopolize, there is only a dead end...
In short, he will never give in. Even if the king of heaven comes, he will not be able to do it!
But Zhao Hao couldn't fight with the unparalleled tall beard, and he couldn't fight with him.
Not to mention the hope of victory is very slim.
Even if you win, you will kill a thousand enemies, lose 800 yourself, or even kill a thousand enemies, lose 1,000 yourself!
Because that would leave a bad impression in the court and the country. The reason is very simple. When the other party is the emperor's teacher, the chief assistant and the minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and there are so many top-notch uniforms, you dare to challenge him. This itself shows that your arrogance and domineering have reached the point of being arrogant and domineering. In this way, no matter who is the emperor or who becomes the chief assistant, you will definitely regard you as a thorn in your eyes!
Thinking about the fact that Mr. Xu was still Gao Gong's superior, but he secretly launched a tide of overturning Gong. He had never been in front of the stage, so he was regarded as "despised by the emperor" by Emperor Longqing. He didn't want to see him again for a day. He knew what his image with Jiangnan Group would be like if Zhao Hao dared to fight even his current full body Gao Gong!
So Zhao Hao thought about it and said that thirty-six strategies were the best way to leave! If you can't afford to mess with me, no one would think I was domineering, right? Moreover, Zhao Hao didn't say anything to death. He asked his father-in-law to tell Gao Gong that he could talk to him when he came back to get married at the end of the year.
Although even the blind man could see that this was a delaying strategy, with Mr. Zhao's status at that time and at that time, and also gave Gao Gong key support in Altan's tribute, Zhao Hao felt that Gao Bei'er would not do it too outrageously...
However, this spring, the Yellow River broke the dike again, and the canal transportation was completely out of the question, which was unexpected by Zhao Hao. This dike broke also made Gao Gong make up his mind and prepare before he could negotiate with Zhao Hao. He wanted to cook the raw rice first, but he didn't believe that Zhao Hao and Jiangnan Group dared to be a car!
So Gao Gong ordered the Qingjiang Shipyard in Huai'an, Longjiang Shipyard in Nanjing and Suzhou Shipyard in Taicang to produce 400 sea ships within one year! He also ordered the selection of sailors with good water quality from the canals to identify wind and waves, as the purpose of future maritime transportation yamen!
But what Gao Gong did not expect was that his actions of putting pressure on Zhao Hao made the canal gurus explode! For a time, it was rumored on both sides of the canal that the court wanted to completely abolish the canal and change the sea transport! This has touched the interests of too many people. The merchants and people along the canal did not agree, because the sea transport was changed, the prefectures along the canal would definitely decline.
Millions of grain peddlers and their families disagreed because more than 10,000 people were transported by sea, and up to 20,000 people were at most, and 95% of grain peddlers would be unemployed!
The Luo Cult also strongly opposed it. Li Chunfang had long warned Gao Gong that the family of Caoding and the people along the canal generally believe in the Luo Cult. The foundation of the Luo Cult is in the canal and Caoding, so no matter from any angle, they will fiercely oppose changing the Cao Transportation Office to the Maritime Transportation Office.
Although Gao Gong kept this in mind, he was still careless. He did not expect Luo's reaction to be so intense.
In this case, even if the shipping yamen offered three times the labor and food silver, no cabin dared to sign up. Working together to make the shipping slaughter is the main theme.
As for the Nanjing nobles, Gao Gong thought at least they would support him and get a share of the pie at sea. But he didn't know that there were hostages in every household on Xishan Island, which one would dare to provoke the Jiangnan Group again? So they also stood on the side of the Caotei and firmly opposed the cancellation of the Caotei.
So in May, the angry Caoguan rushed into the Qingjiang Shipyard and burned the sea ships being built inside. After that, he was still unrestrained, so he snatched the ships built by the Qingjiang Factory, went south to the Yangtze River along the canal, rushed into the Longjiang Shipyard, and set off another fire... It was that fire that caused the new Baoguan Shipyard to be removed from office and investigated by the court. Uncle Wu, the censor of Caojiang, who recommended him, to be implicated and left the country sadly.
In fact, the Caotes wanted to burn the Suzhou Shipyard again, but they were stopped by the Jiangfang Fleet from Wu Shi and did not take him to Taicang.
It has been a quarrel for two months. Seeing that under the leadership of Luo Jiao, the prefectures and counties on both sides of the canal were in a state of rebellion, Gao Gong was reluctant to let the Ministry of Revenue issue a document to clarify that the transformation of canal transportation into sea transportation was false, and the agreement signed by the Ministry of Revenue and Jiangnan Group would not change. The maximum number of sea transportation was transported by sea was 2 million stones a year. After the canal transportation was restored, the sea transportation was reduced to 100,000 stones!
The chaos gradually subsided...
This was the first time Gao Gong had encountered a dusty face since he made a comeback. He had to take some action to maintain his wise and invincible image. But he did not dare to provoke Caoding and Luo Jiao who had just been appeased, so he pointed his finger at Zhao Hao and began to attack senior officials who were closely related to him.
In this way, the government and the people can avoid misjudgment, thinking that his tall beard has become a soft persimmon. Secondly, he has long been very afraid of Zhao Hao and the Jiangnan Gang. If he continues to build a wave of protective umbrellas, it can not only weaken the other party, but also create bargaining chips for the year-end negotiations with Zhao Hao. Thirdly, this can strongly imply that the government and the people that the Caomin rebelled was the Jiangnan Group behind the scenes and smearing their image, laying the foundation for further attacks on Zhao Hao and the Jiangnan Gang.
So of course we have to do it very much!
In fact, Zhao Hao insisted on returning to Nanjing and Suzhou this time, and he also wanted to appease his followers. Let them know that the sky cannot fall and that he has to bear it!
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If these things were in normal times, Zhao Hao and Hai Rui would definitely have to have a good chat.
But now it is obviously not the time to talk about these things. Hai Rui wanted to speak and said, "You are going to get married, I won't be disappointed, I'm going back."
"Hai Gong walk slowly." Zhao Hao nodded and sent Hai Rui to the door.
Hai Rui was about to cross the threshold, but he took it back. He finally couldn't help it and turned around and said to Zhao Hao in a deep voice: "I'll say one thing, the lives of the people in Jiangnan over the past three years have been getting better and better every year. It means that your and my path is not an evil way, and we must never give up halfway!"
"Don't worry, Zhongcheng, I will never allow anyone to change their course!" Zhao Hao focused heavily and gave his promise: "This time he went to Beijing, he would definitely solve the problem of Gao Shegong!"
"Yes." Hai Rui still believed Zhao Hao very much, and said with a look of a sudden expression when he heard this: "I wish you a son soon."
After saying that, he disappeared into the twilight...
ps. I fell asleep for a day today, and I went to bed early and returned to normal updates tomorrow.
Chapter completed!