In the early morning, the sky had just revealed a glimmer of dawn, and the air was still wet with morning dew, Yang Cong slowly walked on the empty Chang'an Street, and his heart couldn't help but feel very comfortable.

Less than three years after he left Beijing, he returned.

Originally, he thought that he would have to stay in the northwest for at least five or six years, and even have to personally lead the army to chase down the Tatar cavalry in the Gobi Desert outside the Saiwai, so he really didn't know when he would be able to return to Beijing.

I never thought I would come back so soon.

Of course, he will not be able to stay for a few days when he comes back this time, because the situation on the southeast coast has already eroded, and he must rush over to deal with it as soon as possible.

However, before that, he had to talk to Jiajing well, because he didn't want to work hard to make a wedding dress for others, and he didn't want to be hit by someone's head for some reason.

At this time, his identity is not the same as in the past, and the officials who meet him on the road, whether they know him well or not, whether they are friends or foes, almost all of those who recognize him are extremely respectful.

The right deputy imperial envoy of the Imperial Procuratorate, the squire of the military department, and the governor of Zhejiang, any of these official positions are proper officials of the imperial court, especially the governor of Zhejiang, which can be said to be a super-first-class feudal official, even compared with the six Shangshu.

He hasn't met six Shangshu along the way, and as for Xia Yan and Yan Song, he hasn't seen any of them, which means that the positions he has encountered are basically lower than him, and it is normal for everyone to be extremely respectful to him.

He returned the salute all the way, slowly walked into the imperial city, and greeted the familiar faction bosses one by one, and this early dynasty began.

This time, he didn't prepare any music, the early dynasty was purely for him to order a scene, so he simply stood behind his father-in-law Zhang Yue, lowered his eyebrows, and didn't say a word, and he didn't raise his eyes throughout the early dynasty, as if he was air.

He treats himself as air, others don't treat him as air, and there are always some civil and military officials who participated in the early dynasty who are secretly looking at him, as if they are looking at monsters, especially the officials of Yan Song's party and the maritime tycoons, who all look at him with jealousy when they aim at him one by one.

This guy is not easy to deal with!

Yang Cong recuperated and stood there to rest for an hour, the early dynasty was finally over, and he did not follow the officials who retreated from the court out of the palace, but walked straight to the imperial study.

Lu Ling'er had already "said hello" to him, and he believed that Jiajing should not feel that he was abrupt.

Sure enough, Jiajing heard that he was asking to see him outside, and when the eunuch on duty passed him in, and after the monarch and ministers greeted him, Jiajing said kindly: "Qingfeng, you have worked hard in Shanxi, and you have done a good job, and I am very relieved." ”

Yang Cong hurriedly bowed his hand respectfully and said: "Wechen is panicked, Wechen thank the emperor for his grace." ”

Seeing his attitude, Jiajing was even more satisfied, who as a leader doesn't want his subordinates to be respectful to him, like Xia Yan's "unruly", crazy people don't know who they are, they won't be liked.

Of course, Yang Cong's respect is all pretended, and people in this era will be more or less in awe of imperial power, but he doesn't, it can be said that he is more powerful than Xia Yan in terms of contempt for imperial power, but he hides it better.

Jiajing didn't know that Yang Cong was pretending, he nodded with satisfaction, and then smiled: "If you have merit, you will be rewarded, and if you have a fault, you will be punished, I will not treat every meritorious person badly, these are what you deserve." ”

When Yang Cong heard this, he couldn't help but despise in his heart: "You won't treat every meritorious person badly, Zhu Kun was forced to commit suicide by you!" ”

Of course, he would never say this kind of head-killing words, he pretended to be submissive, and said with a slight regret: "Weichen is ashamed, the northwest matter has not been completed, and I hope the emperor will forgive me." ”

Jiajing said magnanimously: "I can't blame you for this, now that the situation in the northwest has been stabilized, you can be regarded as a great contribution, but the situation in the southeast is more critical, so I have to transfer you to deal with it, how about it, do you have the confidence to exterminate pirates and pirates?" ”

Yang Cong pretended to be embarrassed, and said ashamedly: "This, the emperor forgives the sin, and Weichen feels that it may be difficult to exterminate pirates and pirates." ”

Yes!

When Jiajing heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned, in his heart Yang Cong was a rare official, he originally thought that Yang Cong would be full of confidence in the extermination of pirates and pirates, but he didn't expect Yang Cong to say this.

If Yang Cong can't solve this matter, who else can he send?

There's no one left!

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but say anxiously: "Qingfeng, if there is any difficulty, you say, I will find a way for you." ”

Hehe, this Jiajing is really easy to play, no wonder Yan Song can play him around.

Yan Song, do you think you will play Jiajing, and you will too!

Yang Cong laughed secretly in his heart, and then said solemnly: "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that the most difficult thing to exterminate pirates and pirates is to find their lair, the vast sea, not to mention thousands of miles, if you can't find their lair, how can you wipe them out?" ”

This one!

Jiajing heard this, his head is big, although he doesn't know how vast the sea is, probably there is still cognition, the ancients used the endless to describe the sea, it can be seen that the vastness of the sea, how to find the nest of pirates and pirates on the vast sea?

How could he have imagined that, to put it bluntly, he was just a young man who had never seen much of the world.

He really couldn't help Yang Cong solve this problem, so he could only ask tentatively: "Qingfeng, do you have any way?" ”

Yang Cong pretended to hesitate for a moment, and then gritted his teeth and said: "Weichen has a way, I don't know if to say it." ”

When is this, you still "don't know whether to say it", Jiajing couldn't help but urge: "What a way, but it doesn't hurt to say it." ”

Yang Cong said carefully: "Wechen's method is to recruit An, there are no evil pirates among them, and there are also those who are forbidden to go to sea to do business, Wechen thinks that those who are forbidden to go to sea to do business are not guilty of death, we can try to recruit a group of such pirates, and then use them to find the nests of other pirates and pirates." After all, they were originally in the same league as the other pirates and pirates, and it shouldn't be difficult to find the lairs of the other pirates and pirates. ”

When Jiajing heard this, he couldn't help but slap his hands and praise: "What a way! ”

Seeing this, Yang Cong said embarrassedly: "Your Majesty, this method is not bad, but Weichen is afraid that he will be convicted for this." ”

When Jiajing heard this, he said inexplicably: "The strategy of recruiting peace is accurate, what are you afraid of?" ”

You're going to have a fart!

Zhu Kun's going to clean up pirates and pirates is not what you approve of, but what is the result?

Sometimes the people who are emperors are so easily fooled, because they have no clairvoyance, and they don't have ears, and they can only listen to the courtiers below to report everything, and if the courtiers below unite to deceive, they will not know if they are played as dogs.

Yang Cong pretended to be worried and said: "Your Majesty, you should also know that some people in the court are colluded with pirates and pirates, and if Weichen goes to clear out pirates and pirates, it is equivalent to making enemies with them, and they will definitely try their best to frame Weichen in front of the emperor, and when the time comes, if Weichen goes to recruit pirates, they will definitely frame Weichen for colluding with pirates or even fornicating with pirates, if the emperor is deceived, Weichen will not die and have no place to be buried!" ”

It turned out that this was the case, and Jiajing said categorically: "Qingfeng, don't worry, I believe you, no matter what the courtiers say, I will not be deceived." ”

Hehe, that's good.

When Yang Cong heard this, he couldn't help but be secretly happy, he was relieved to have this sentence, he was not joking, he was really ready to collude with pirates!

Of course, he colluded with pirates to restore peace to the southeast coast, and he would choose a group of pirates who really wanted to do business, and he would not collude with those heinous pirates and pirates, he would only eliminate them all.

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