You can't look at people on the surface, and you can't look at things on the surface.

On the surface, Father-in-law Wei is an incomplete man, but inside, Father-in-law is an out-and-out real man.

The grandmother of the Ming Dynasty praised him for being more useful than her husband Hou Er, His Royal Highness Shouning of the golden branches and jade leaves praised him for being stronger than a horse, and Li Xuanzhi, who is expected to become the queen in the future, said that he stood up to the sky, and the concubine Niangniang, who was so popular today, was more satisfied with him than the old man in his own house.

Therefore, it doesn't matter whether you are eunuch or not, your father-in-law never cares about the external things, he only cares about the inside. As long as the Zhejiang Party sincerely unites under his banner in the future, he will definitely take them to fly.

However, in terms of political vision, Father-in-law Wei must praise the four Ming Xiangguo, the old man is very spicy, knowing that he Father-in-law Wei will definitely become the pillar of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

Also, looking at the current provincial outreach, whether it is the mine supervisor tax envoy or the town guard lieutenant official, which one is as young as his father-in-law Wei? Which one has and he is powerful and powerful? Who is as close as his father-in-law Wei and the royal family?

Don't look at the positive title but the sixth grade, but the potential is absolutely unlimited.

What kind of person can you invest casually?

Lao Xiangguo's sentence of pulling the Zhejiang Party is invisibly the greatest affirmation of his Wei father-in-law's identity and value. Lao Xiangguo doesn't want people to go to the tea and cool, he doesn't want the trees to fall and scatter, and he doesn't want to be stepped on 10,000 feet by the Donglin Party after his death, so he really has to lay out in advance, make a good popularity for him and the Zhejiang Party, and make a good incense.

Yao Zongwen is still too young, as Lao Xiangguo said, when he becomes an important minister, he will know that there is no important minister who does not make friends with internal servants.

Although your Zhejiang Party is now a secondary auxiliary, it is Ye Xianggao of the Donglin Party, and the current power of your Zhejiang Party is influential, that is, it is influential in Zhejiang and Fujian, and it can't even be compared with the Chu Party and the Qi Party in Beijing. Which of the celebrant supervisors has a relationship with your Zhejiang Party?

The Donglin Party has the palm print of Master Sun, the East Palace also has the prince's companion Wang An, the Qi Party and the Chu Party have Jin Zhong, and the Kun Party is miserable, but there is also Zhang Cheng to help speak in front of the emperor, and there are also people in the palace on the Xuan Party's side, and you don't have one in the Zhejiang Party. Counting around, it is Sun Long who is hiding in Hangzhou, but Sun Long, a weaving eunuch, can compare with Bingbi's red robe.

Whoever supports whom in the central government, your Zhejiang Party can only be regarded as a local force, and now suddenly parachuted an important member from the central government, an important member with an unlimited future, as the leader of the Zhejiang Party, Shen has always not made any moves, and he is also called a generation of traitors in vain.

Back then, didn't Shen always suffer the loss of the celebrant eunuch Tian Yi.

There's nothing wrong with befriending an attendant, it's just a failure.

You Shen has always looked up to Gonggong Wei, and Gonggong Wei repaid Li in the referendum, so he naturally has to put his heart into the old Xiangguo, and he also looks at the Zhejiang Party differently.

Set the tone, and there is no need to say anything superfluous.

In the end, the date for the joint forces of the three provinces to go to sea to attack Dongfan was September 13.

Before leaving, Gonggong Wei, on behalf of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty and himself, sent his most sincere blessings to the four Ming ministers - "May the old minister always be healthy!" ”

After going out, I remembered that this sentence was not appropriate, and it seemed to be a bit of a curse for the old Xiangguo.

In my heart, I only hope that Lao Xiangguo will survive this year no matter what, at least, he will have to hold on to winning Dongfan and Ryukyu. Otherwise, his father-in-law Wei is really troublesome.

After all, there is a former Shousuke who helps him wave the flag against him, and he can catch up with a hundred imperial histories.

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As soon as the cannon sounded, there were ten thousand taels of gold;

The three armies did not move, and the grain and grass went first.

Father-in-law Wei, who had returned to the Special Administrative Region, did not stop for a moment, and the formation and expansion of the army was a major event, the deployment of the expedition was a major matter, and the preparation of grain and grass was even more important.

All three things involve money.

Without money, it is difficult to get things done.

You have to pay for it when you go out to rob.

Besides, the Ming Imperial Army is a benevolent, mighty, and righteous army, how can it go out and rob it with a vacuum.

The father-in-law first solves the matter of grain and grass.

Jiang Xifeng, who is in charge of the General Staff Department, gave a rough estimate of the figure, and the expedition plans to mobilize more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of the navy and army, so the minimum (six months) needs about 300,000 stone of grain, which does not include seed grain and the need for resettlement of the coastal areas of Zhejiang and Fujian to recruit and reclaim land and the grain of the indigenous people on the island.

Although Jiangnan is an extremely economically developed region, it is precisely because of the developed economy that the price of grain is higher than that of other provinces. Suzhou is a little lower, but it also reaches one tael and one dollar. The price of grain in Nandu is still higher than that in Jiangnan. However, the price of grain in Jiangbei Prefecture is cheaper, and it can be bought for only six yuan in places with less grain per stone, but the price is not cheap when it comes to transportation capacity and manpower.

Where is the real cheap grain now, not in the northwest or southwest, but in Huguang.

The so-called lake is wide and ripe, and the world is full.

After two hundred years of development in the Ming Dynasty, today's Huguang is the real granary of the Ming Dynasty. However, the amount of cultivated land in Jiangnan, which is the most suitable for growing grain, has seriously declined, and more cash crops such as cotton and rape have been planted.

If there is no food, it must be bought, and the father-in-law will never let the officers and soldiers go out to fight hungry. It is unrealistic to purchase such a huge demand for grain from one place alone, so my father-in-law ordered to purchase from the prefectures and counties in Jiangbei and Jiangnan to meet the initial demand. After that, people were sent to Huguang to procure, and this task of purchasing grain was naturally handed over to the merchants who settled in the special zone.

In the words of my father-in-law, this is also a way to participate in the war.

The businessmen who can settle in the special zone, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, have formed a cooperative relationship with the yamen of the maritime special zone in some form, so it is inevitable that they will be given benefits.

Who will get up early to do unprofitable things?

To put it into account, it can be regarded as a war dividend.

However, the minimum cost of purchasing grain alone is about 400,000 taels. And people don't just eat food, they have to have oil, salt, meat and vegetables, according to the dietary standards set by Gonggong Wei for the imperial army, and the logistics expenses alone are 500,000 taels that are a foundation.

Food alone is the foundation, not to mention other expenses.

My father-in-law is really a headache, although he has made a sum of money from North Korea, but excluding the "hush money" for the emperor, the maintenance fee of the North Korean Association and the operating expenses of Phi Dao, he can get less than 100,000 taels in Jiangnan.

If it weren't for the fact that there was a Duanchuan silver mine on the territory of the Xie'an Society, not to mention the affairs of Jiangnan, he would have maintained the military and political expenses of the Xie'an Association and Phi Dao, and his father-in-law Wei would not have been able to earn it for a hundred years by lying with his legs crossed.

Therefore, the father-in-law summoned Zhao Quan, director of the treasure thawing committee in Zhenjiang, and Hu Shihai, deputy director.

Zhao Quan, the director of the committee, is formally established, subordinate to the Yamen of the Maritime Special Zone, and is a civil official, and there is also a Chengzhilang Wen San, whose level is a little higher than that of the county.

Deputy Director Hu has no official position for the time being, but he has been successfully promoted to a member of the three products, and theoretically Deputy Director Hu already has the power of special adviser to the maritime special zone.

This power is very special, in folk terms, when necessary, the Ming Emperor's army can support Deputy Director Hu.