Yang Cong really didn't expect that he couldn't even get the title of the six Shangshu on a temporary basis for such a great merit in the extermination of the great pirate Chen Sipan, if he wanted to say anything about the cabinet scholar, he really hadn't thought about it at this time, but the title of the six Shangshu on the suspension, he thought that this merit was completely enough.

He also knows that there are no vacancies in the six Shangshu at this time, but there is no need to vacancy in the temporary post, and at the same time there are several military department Shangshu or ritual Shangshu in the Ming Dynasty Hall It is a very common phenomenon, and some of the Shangshu on temporary duty are not to reward those courtiers who have made outstanding achievements.

This matter is really unfair, you must know that Qiu Luan casually boasted about his exploits, saying that he repelled several attacks of the Tartar cavalry in a row, and then rose all the way from the general army to the trilateral general system, and then to the prince Shaobao, the governor of the tripartite.

Qiu Luan's fart, every time T kills and takes the merit, he just hands over dozens of heads, but people can hang up the post of Shaobao from the first rank as a martial artist, and he has won thousands of enemy heads, and even the pirate leader Chen Sipan has been killed, and as a result, he can't even hang the post of a second-grade Shangshu.

Xia Yan and Yan Song are really shameless, they can even come up with such a bad excuse as not having enough qualifications, and Jiajing is also in the water in his brain, and he actually believes their slander.

Sometimes shameless people are like that, no matter how many good things you have, they can always find your shortcomings.

This phenomenon is especially common in later generations, for example, when a company gives an employee a promotion and a salary increase, you are obviously better than others in everything, but you are often the one who swindles and gets a promotion and a raise, and nothing is your turn.

If you want to dig deeper into the reason, you will find that people can always compare you in front of the leader, you work obviously more diligent than others, people will compare your ability with you, your ability is obviously stronger than others, people will say that you are proud of your talents, no matter what, temperament, personality, appearance, etc., no matter which aspect, as long as you have shortcomings, people can find ways to compare you.

Yang Cong had also seen these routines, so he didn't care too much about Xia Yan and Yan Song's obstruction of promotion, he just cursed secretly and passed.

The most important thing at this time is not to hang up the post of the six Shangshu, but to keep the position of the governor of Zhejiang, and manage the southeast well, so as not to turn the tide with the help of Yan Song after he leaves.

Fortunately, at this time, Xia Yan and Yan Song couldn't find someone with more prestige or ability than him to take his place, and with the self-respecting strategy of raising Kou, he finally passed his first term safely.

He then began to use his position as governor to run his business in the southeast.

At this time, the most important thing in the southeast is actually civil affairs rather than military politics, because pirates and pirates will always have a day to exterminate, and at that time, all the assembled guards are estimated to have to unload their armor and return to the field, and the remaining general soldiers, generals and other things will have no authority, and civil affairs will not change because of the extermination of pirates and pirates.

Therefore, he focused on controlling the grassroots officials at all levels of the yamen.

At this time, if you want to control the locality, you must control the grassroots, because the political envoys, prefects, and counties are all rogue officials, and the term of office is generally three years, at most six years, and once the term of office expires, you have to leave, and the small officials in the yamen are different, basically, the small officials in the yamen are all local squires and county officials, and this point cannot be changed no matter who comes to serve.

Yang Cong's method is actually very simple, that is, whoever takes refuge in him, he will appoint whomever he wants, not only appoint others to be the officials of the yamen, but also share the profits of maritime trade with him appropriately.

For example, at this time, the squires and tyrants generally had a lot of land in their hands, and the grain produced in these fields was basically inexhaustible, and many of them had to be sold and exchanged for silver, so that they could buy cloth and porcelain, tea and wine, silk and satin, jewelry and jade and other daily necessities or luxury goods.

The grain output of the fields in the hands of these squires and tyrants is not low, and the reason why the grain price in the southeast is so cheap is because most of the land is concentrated in the hands of these people, and these people naturally want to sell the excess grain in their hands at a good price.

This is easy to do, as long as you take refuge in me and follow me, the grain will be purchased at a high price, at least fifty percent more than the market price, anyway, there is a great shortage of food in Dongying, as long as it can be transported over, it will basically be swept away, as for those who are obsessed and follow the maritime giants, then I'm sorry, you still sell the land to get that meager profit.

His trick is really powerful, who doesn't want the grain in his hand to be sold for more money, more than fifty percent of the profit, a thousand acres is nearly a thousand taels of silver, at this time, the local tyrants and squires in various places who don't have 1,800 acres of land in their hands, follow the governor, you can earn an extra thousand taels of silver a year, and you can also serve in the yamen, and you will have more face when you go out, this kind of good thing is naturally rushed by everyone.

This kind of thing, once the slightest rumor is released, he doesn't need to deliberately publicize it, and the squires everywhere will try their best to sharpen their heads to slap him.

Within a year, most of the squires in the southeast changed their doors and joined his door, so that the purchased grain was also quite terrifying, and even, the entire Dongying market had a saturation trend.

He had already expected this problem, it didn't matter if the Dongying market was saturated, he could also buy horse-drawn carriages, strengthen transportation capacity, and transport grain to the northwest of Daming to sell.

At this time, the Xiaoice River disaster has begun to wreak havoc in the northwest, and the grain in the northwest is getting more and more expensive, although the profit cannot be compared with selling to the east, but the price is more than double that of the southeast, and the Yang family has no problem making a little money through this.

In doing so, he not only attracted the squires in the southeast, but also achieved an unexpected effect, that is, the commercial and trade activities in the southeast became more and more frequent, and the common people became richer and richer.

In other words, what does it have to do with the common people when he buys the grain in the hands of the squire, the money is for the squire, not for the common people.

The reason is very simple, when the squires have money in their hands, their expenses will naturally increase, and most of the daily necessities and even luxury goods they buy are from artisans or ordinary people.

In this way, the situation in the southeast is getting better and better, and both the squires and tyrants and ordinary people are full of praise for Yang Cong.

This Governor is a good man, not only solving the problem of pirates and pirates, so that everyone can live a peaceful life, but also trying to make everyone earn money and live a good life.

Yang Cong's prestige in the southeast is rising, but Xia Yan and Yan Song are becoming more and more uncomfortable, Xia Yan is worried that Yang Cong will use the momentum of the southeast to help Yangming take his power, but Yan Song attaches more importance to the interests of the southeast, that is a profit of several million taels a year, although it is a maritime tycoon who takes the lion's share, but he can at least make hundreds of thousands of taels a year.

This time, it was all taken away by Yang Cong, how can people be willing!