[It's over in a flash, continue to ask for tickets]

"If Zhuang Jichang wins another champion, Shi Jikai's trouble this time will really be not small."

"It's the same every time, I heard Shen Defu say that the last session was even more troublesome, but if you can convict people only by talking about the township, then this will be too child's play."

Strictly speaking, Wang Xingping's words also have loopholes, and it is really common for the court to be divided into township parties in today's court, otherwise what Qi Party and Zhejiang Party rely on to gather people's hearts, but it is not yet time to see the poor dagger on the surface, and the palace has to leave some dignity for each other.

At this time, five days have passed since the release of the examination results, and even though more attention from the candidates has been put on the palace examination ten days later, the arrangement of the chief examiner Shi Jikai taking care of his fellow villagers has made Zhuang Jichang from his hometown of Jinjiang, Fujian Province still spread in the Jingcheng well. Even the newspaper got the Chinese-style list from the inner curtain official a day earlier, and it became a crime for the main exam, which made Shi Jikai's face quite unsightly, especially those non-Fujian candidates who failed the list are rumored that if Zhuang Sheng can still get a first class in the palace examination, then someone will make trouble.

Of course, Wang Xingping, who has an extraordinary relationship with Ma Shiying, naturally knows that there is also the senior brother's Ruan Dacheng and his friend Zuo Guangdou in the same year, and the deeper reason is that he is still going to the first assistant Fang Congzhe, and the political tilt behind this is obviously not that he is a mere pedestrian and a city patrol envoy like Zuo Guangdou can influence, this is not Wang Xingping's identity at this time can be seen deeply.

However, the attack on Shi Jikai has nothing to do with several of his peers and friends this time, Yang Wencong and Yuan Chonghuan are all Chinese-style, and Chen Zizhuang, He Wuzou, and Ye Xianzu who are with them are also on the list, among which Chen Zizhuang's ranking does not seem to be low. In addition, Liu Dalin, who was specially cared for by Gu Ziming, also passed the test successfully this time and became a tribute. However, it was Shen Defu and Qi Biaojia, who was a young talent, that failed to pass the exam and returned home.

"It's a pity that you couldn't participate in this session, otherwise you would have been able to break a record, the youngest Jinshi in the next year, I didn't expect this exam question to be cheaper than Yang Wencong, and I don't know if the next question will be the same as the one we have."

The person who talked to Wang Xingping had a red face and a strong body, which was by no means similar to the Ming Dynasty's Shinong businessman at this time, this person was Gu Ziming, who rushed to the north more than two months later than Wang Xingping, and Gu Dongzhu still couldn't bear his temperament after all, and finally decided to go to Beizhili in person after settling down in Guangzhou.

Wang Xingping said: "There are many things I didn't expect, I didn't expect you to follow us to Tianjin, or by land." ”

Gu Ziming didn't care, "It's also to train the team, and there are so many business opportunities in the north, I still feel unwilling not to take a look in person, and it's good to take advantage of the fact that the merchant ships in the South Seas haven't come out of Guangdong this year." ”

It is only incidental to test the ability of Wantong Dart Bureau by land, but the war between Daming and Jianzhou is imminent, and there is uncertainty which means more business opportunities. Although Gu Ziming can't get the most scarce grain in the north now, he can always do it after an inspection, just like the sales of this wall calendar made Gu Ziming's eyes shine, and a telegram went back next year Fu Xiaofei There will be funds to expand the construction immediately.

Sanya has now become a major destination on the island of Qiongzhou, where it is said that many private ships are now used to supply and trade, and there is no end to the trade. Zhizhou Pan Daxi has now also become a red member of the Qiongzhou Prefecture, and with the help of Fu Xiaofei, not only the bandits and pirates near Yazhou have been eliminated, but even the Li people who had been in turmoil in the past are now very obedient. Pan Zhizhou is naturally closer to Fu Xiaofei, and in the past six months, nearly half of his net worth has been invested in a business in Sanya, and his business is quite good. Tied to the chariot of interests, plus Fu Xiaofei and those missionaries are doing some good deeds and merits in the local area, even if there are occasional conflicts because of the mission, but once they come to the local area, there are many returns, and the original Li people are not at ease, and it is a good thing that there is an outsider to help him suppress it, and the most important thing is that he does not have to pay for his own food, and Sanya still has commercial taxes to pay every year.

Gu Ziming left Guangdong without telling the Senate this time, relying on the support of many capable dart masters around him, but he was still a little frightened along the way, and Wang Xingping waited until Su Zhen found Wang Zunde's mansion to learn that Gu Ziming had arrived in Tianjin.

However, it was not surprising to him that the meeting place was chosen in Tianjin rather than the capital, after all, compared to Beijing in Longtan Tiger's Den, Tianjin Wei at the bottom of the Jiuhe River is more mixed, but it is a suitable place for business and lurking. Originally, there was a governor in Tianjin because of the preparation of the Japanese, but that was 20 years ago, and there was no more after the Korean War. Today's Tianjin Bingbei Road is hung in the name of Shandong because there is no political secretary in the north of the country, and the money and grain are listed by the political department of Shandong, because the government has no subordinate heads, so this place has gradually become a place of 'three regardless', and the management of private commerce and trade is not strict except for the water tariff gate, and the merchants from Liaodong and North Korea can see it in this place, and I believe that with the development of the war in Liaodong, the detailed work of Jianzhou will also notice here sooner or later.

But this Gu Ziming will not be here for a long time, at most he will only set up a joint intelligence bureau point, and Guangzhou still wants him to go back to the town.

"By the way, this Tianjin station is going to be handed over to outsiders in the future? Do you think those guys in the Senate will be able to say yes? Wang Xingping still felt that handing over Tianjin's stronghold to peripheral organizations was a bit of a big deal.

He looked outside the house, those universal dart masters were standing in the courtyard in strong robes, and they looked decent, but there were not one or two traversers sitting here, which really made people doubt the efficiency and safety of this stronghold.

Gu Ziming didn't see a trace of worry, "There is no way, Hu Barong is busy opening up the situation in Songjiang Mansion, and he will not be able to take care of it for a while, and this can only be the case here, as a cabinet for collecting business intelligence, it is not too eye-catching, and the news from Liaodong, North Korea, and Japan is also close to here from the Bohai Sea." ”

"Hu Barong? Oh, I remembered, it was the person who accompanied me to Zhejiang, didn't he go back to his hometown in Huizhou, this person is really reliable? As soon as Gu Ziming said this, he remembered the 'facial paralysis' businessman who accompanied him all the way north from Guangzhou to Zhejiang.

"It's the earliest from the dragon, he followed us when he landed in Brunei, he has an objective understanding of the strength of the Senate, and he has just suffered a setback, and it is the time to use his life with sincerity."

"Frustrated?"

"It's not a big deal, it's just that his family's ancestral grave is flat."

Gu Ziming then diverted the topic and told Wang Xingping about Hu Barong's experience, it turned out that his family had built a tomb temple next to the ancestral cemetery in order to worship the ancestral hall in the Song Dynasty, but as the years went by, his generation had already fallen into the middle of the family, and the tomb temple gradually became a place of incense open to the public. After he left home and disappeared for a long time, the abbot of the temple was even more bold, so he secretly leveled the ancestral tomb of the Hu family and built a Guanyin Hall.

As a result, this time Hu Barong went back and heard about the incident, he was originally full of ambition to punish a few bald donkeys, and set up more than a dozen tables to invite old relatives and neighbors to corroborate, but none of the squires who received the benefits of the temple went to the banquet. In this way, this matter also became the straw that crushed Hu Barong's only trace of loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, and he disposed of the land and property with his family and moved directly to Songjiang with his family.

With such a story, Hu Barong's reliability has also increased a lot, as long as he does things better than before under Gu Ziming, there is not much to worry about.

Wang Xingping also learned a lot of other news from Gu Ziming, such as the fact that this stronghold was only built as a Guangdong guild hall first, and it has not yet been considered as an external cabinet for the dart bureau. The demand for Australian goods in Guangdong is also increasing, Gu Ziming came to the north to investigate business opportunities and raw material channels, and secondly, to prepare for the upcoming Java Island raids, after all, population has always been the most scarce resource in Nanyang, in order to facilitate things, he also took a high relationship in Sanshui County, and now he is also a Ming people.

"By the way, Futai ......" Wang Xingping cared about his business.

"Hehe, do you want to ask the Ye family boy, don't worry, he is very well-behaved, there is Guangzhou Station to help you stare at you, what are you worried about, speaking of which, he is also a talent, your outer cabinet is not doing badly now, and even the Yuan family says that he is capable."

"He did learn a lot from Shopkeeper Ye in the past, and he was also clever and careful."

Gu Ziming looked meaningful, and smiled at Wang Xingping: "A person's efforts are important, but they also have to take into account the process of history, I always feel that this kid seems to have noticed something to be so attentive." ”

He added, "By the way, have you seen all the people I asked you to see?" ”

"Wang An and Xiong Tingbi are both connected, and there are a few relationships that I found myself, which are also somewhat useful."

"Let's talk about these two first, shall we?"

"Eunuch Wang is a loyal person, but it is not easy to see Zhu Changluo, after all, I am only a white body now, and there are still things in front of me, so I have some scruples. Xiong Tingbi is not as arrogant as the outside world rumors, but he will inevitably suffer losses if he acts too principledly, and he still appreciates me. ”

"Your Liao Dongfang is very popular in Beijing, and it is normal for his spleen and stomach, but Xiong Tingbi's temper is indeed very stubborn. The new Tianjin chief military officer is called Wang Xueshu, but I have already done it, and if you have something in the future, you can also use my name to find him. Gu Ziming smiled, he thought about it and said, "By the way, there are also many talents in this Chinese-style move." ”

"Don't worry, Yuan Chonghuan and Chen Zizhuang have been friends all the way from Guangdong, and I take special care of the Liu Dalin you mentioned."

"There's another person in the new Kogons you need to watch out for."

"Which one?"

"Daizhou Town Wuwei raised his son, called Sun Chuanting."

"It's him......" Wang Xingping seemed to have heard it, and secretly remembered the name in his heart.

The two were talking when there was a knock on the door outside.

Gu Ziming came in under the beckoning of a middle-aged man with gray temples, his face was quite vicissitudes, this person Wang Xingping had also seen, he was one of the Korean slaves rescued by Fu Xiaofei from Macau, only this person named Cui Xian who could speak some Chinese was left by Gu Ziming's side to do things.

After entering the house, he leaned into Gu Ziming's ear and whispered a few words, and Gu Ziming's expression suddenly turned grim.

"Is your message true?"

Cui Xian said in stiff Chinese: "This is what a fellow villager who met here before said that his lord is a wealthy merchant in Ping'an Dao, and this news is said to have first come out from Yizhou Mu, and their ship has just arrived in Tianjin early this morning. ”

Hearing this, Gu Ziming didn't talk to Cui Xian anymore, but looked at Wang Xingping.

After a while, he sighed and said, "You should hurry back to Beijing." ”

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