Guo Zhiyuan secretly scolded this Chen Zizhen is really shameless, turning his face is faster than turning a book, but the situation is stronger than people, so he had to suppress his anger and patiently explained: "Lord Chen, the situation in Dongfan is special, the lower officials in Dongfan opened a mansion and did not ask the court to allocate a penny and a grain, all relying on Dongfan's self-reliance, but it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, let's just say this iron ore, the imperial court has a ban, but the people of Dongfan need to build farm tools for production, and farm tools need iron casting, where does it come from if they don't purchase from the inland?" What should I do if the adults let the officials go down? ……”

Chen Zizhen finally pinched Guo Zhiyuan's weakness, so it was naturally impossible to let go, and waved his hand arrogantly and unreasonably: "What to do is your business, this official is only in charge of the court law, since the court has a ban, then it can't be accommodating!" ……”

Guo Zhiyuan was a little angry when he saw that Chen Zizhen was so arrogant and unreasonable, and raised his voice and said: "My lord, is this trying to ignore the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of Dongfan people? Don't forget, Dongfan is under the jurisdiction of Fujian, if the livelihood of the people in Dongfan is unsustainable and there is chaos, adults are also responsible! ……”

Of course, Chen Zizhen was unwilling to show weakness in front of Guo Zhiyuan's subordinate, so she took the case and said, "Are you threatening this official?" What is your intention in purchasing iron ore and other prohibited materials? Don't you know that you are an official? It is already polite that the official did not directly impeach you with bad intentions to the court, if you are obsessed, you will not blame the official for being ruthless! ……”

Guo Zhiyuan was not flustered because Chen Zizhen's true intentions were exposed, he carefully studied Chen Zizhen's character before he came, knowing that this guy just wanted to be a peace official and ensure that there would be no chaos below, he was so stable that he would make money, so he sneered and said: "If the people of Dongfan start a mess because their livelihood is unsustainable, I am afraid that the lower officials will not be able to suppress it, and when the time comes, I am afraid that if the adults do not impeach the lower officials, the lower officials will also fold and impeach the adults to force the people of Dongfan to oppose them, who do you say the saint will believe?" ……”

Strictly speaking, Guo Zhiyuan's words are indeed a bit rebellious, and he almost said that if you get stuck with Lao Tzu again, you will really force Lao Tzu to reverse, and Lao Tzu will drag you back!

"You...... You! ......" Chen Zizhen couldn't imagine that Guo Zhiyuan was so bold, and pointed at Guo Zhiyuan with trembling and couldn't say a complete sentence for a long time. However, Guo Zhiyuan's words also hit his weakness, if Guo Zhiyuan really rebelled openly, and there was such a twist before the rebellion, with the character of Emperor Wanli, most of them would have beheaded him, the governor, before talking about investigating Guo Zhiyuan's crime of rebellion.

Guo Zhiyuan knew that he couldn't be blindly tough on people like Chen Zizhen, and he had to be soft in the hard, and hard in the soft, so that he could make concessions, so he slowed down his tone and said: "Lord Chen, Guo is deeply favored by the emperor, and his loyalty can be shown to the sun and the moon, and not long ago, he paid 100,000 taels of tax and silver to the imperial court in advance, how could he plot against him?" Dongfan is lonely overseas, relying on the inland everywhere, if the adults can make it convenient, it is convenient for others to be convenient for themselves, and everyone is safe and sound, isn't it good? ……”

Chen Zizhen's face was cloudy, obviously hesitating in his heart, Guo Zhiyuan saw it and hurriedly added fire, lowered his voice and said: "If the lord can open the net, the lower officials and hundreds of thousands of people in Dongfan will be grateful for the kindness of the adults, and the lower officials are willing to take out one percent of the profits of the Dongfan maritime trade business every year to honor the adults and related subordinates, and will never let your hard work be ......in vain."

Chen Zizhen's eyes lit up when he heard this, he had long heard that Guo Zhiyuan had made a lot of money by relying on the sea trade business, which made the officials of Fujian Province all red-eyed, although he didn't know how much money he made, but just looking at Guo Zhiyuan's construction of Dongfan, he didn't ask the imperial court to allocate a penny or a grain, and he paid 100,000 taels of tax to the imperial court in advance, and he knew that it was definitely an astronomical amount, even if it was a profit of one percent, it was estimated that he couldn't earn it even if he was a governor for many years.

Thinking of this, Chen Zizhen completely softened, waved his hand and said: "You have some truth in what you said, since Dongfan is under the jurisdiction of this official, this official can't bear to sit back and watch the livelihood of the people of Dongfan have no livelihood. ……”

Guo Zhiyuan looked at Chen Zizhen's chameleon face and was secretly amused, and hurriedly gave a thumbs up and said: "The adults love the people like sons, dare to do things, the lower officials are out of reach, and the lower officials thank the adults on behalf of the people of Dongfan......"

Coming out of the governor's yamen, Guo Zhiyuan was not in a hurry to return to Dongfan, as the so-called king of Hades is easy to find, and the little ghost is difficult to deal with, although Chen Zizhen is relieved, but the officials below also need to be dealt with, he came this time to bring Baidu and Liu Ruosi, these two people are good at officialdom communication, plus there are silver tickets to open the way, naturally it is invincible, and finally reopened the procurement channel between Dongfan and the inland.

After completing this important matter, Guo Zhiyuan finally breathed a sigh of relief, before leaving, he hesitated again and again and decided to visit Leng Xianning, since he came to Fuzhou and did not see Leng Xianning, but when he went to visit Leng Mansion, he did not see Leng Xianning, Leng Feng, the head of the Leng family, received him, and Leng Feng did not give him a good face for him, the prefect of Wupin, Leng Feng did not give him any good face, obviously he was also very dissatisfied with the involvement between him and Leng Xianning, and directly said that since Lord Guo had already married a wife, there was no need to pester the little girl.

Under Guo Zhiyuan's repeated questioning, Leng Feng told Guo Zhiyuan that Leng Xianning went to Hangzhou to deal with Miaoyifang's business in Hangzhou, but the date of the question happened to be the day after Guo Zhiyuan came to Fuzhou, Guo Zhiyuan knew that Leng Xianning deliberately avoided him, so he had to leave Leng Mansion and return to Dongfan in a daze.

The procurement channel between Dongfan and the inland has been reopened, and Xu Xiake also has good news from his side, he led the prospecting and exploration team to wander around in the Datun Mountains for more than two months, and really let him find a shallow coal vein, although the reserves are not large, but it has finally made a good start, and it has also confirmed that this ancient strange man is indeed talented in this area.

Seeing Xu Xiake again, Guo Zhiyuan almost couldn't recognize him, he now looks like a "wild man", his hair is scattered, and all the clothes on his body are hung into strips of cloth by the thorns on the mountain, according to the guards who entered the mountain with him, this guy is like "crazy" as soon as he enters the mountain, and he runs to a place where there is no road.

Seeing Xu Xiake's appearance, Guo Zhiyuan's nose was also a little sour, the greatest traveler in history was "fooled" by himself to become a miner, and he couldn't figure out whether the immortal masterpiece "Xu Xiake's Travels" would also become "Xu Xiake's Prospecting", and I didn't know whether it was right or wrong for me to do this.