Generally speaking, the first day of the opening of the sea was relatively stable, and there were no fights or extortion in either the south or the north city. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Zhang Yanfang personally dressed up as a subordinate of an ordinary merchant, and let one of his fellow clans pretend to be a merchant who came to buy goods, and the two of them inspected the north and south cities many times together, and found no problems.

In the evening, Zhang Yanfang returned to his own residence in the Yamen of the City Ship Division tiredly. His wife, Zhang, complained: "I don't know how you deserve to be an official." Even when Emperor Taizu was in his time, he had never seen an official so busy, not for a while, but all the time. ”

Zhang Yanfang shouted: "Shut up! The major affairs of the court are also what you can say! ”

When Zhang heard him say this, he immediately stopped talking. Zhang Yanfang, because he has been a husband and wife for more than 20 years, does not want to treat his wife like this, and explained: "Now that Your Majesty has entrusted me with the heavy responsibility of opening the sea, how can I not do my best? ”

Zhang knew that although his husband had been more pragmatic because of the pressure of life on weekdays, he had actually had dreams such as 'three visits to the thatched house'; now although the emperor did not go to the 'three visits to the thatched house' to invite him, and he was only an official of the six grades, it was not considered a heavy use, but he was very courteous to him, so it was natural for him to do his best.

Zhang fetched Zhang Yanfang a basin of water to wash his feet. At this moment, an errand officer from the city department knocked on the door and said, "Lord Zhang, I have something to see." ”

Zhang put down the footwash and went behind the screen. Zhang Yanfang said, "Come in." ”

The servant walked in and said, "My lord, there is a man who claims to be an old friend of the lord, and he wants to see him. ”

Zhang Yanfang asked, "Did he say who he was?" ”

The officer replied, "Not really." ”

Zhang Yanfang said: "Then you go back and tell him, no matter who he is, if he hides his head and tail like this, he will not see the official!" ”

The officer took out a letter and said, "My lord, this is a letter from him, saying that you will know after reading the letter." ”

Zhang Yanfang said on the side: "Since you have a letter, why don't you take it out early?" He took the letter.

Zhang Yanfang opened the letter, just glanced at it a few times, and immediately changed his expression, and said loudly: "Quickly invite this person in!" ”

Then he said, "I'm going to see him!" Then he hurriedly put on his shoes and ran to the front yard.

Zhang Yanfang ran to the front yard, saw that it was indeed the person in the letter, and said to all the errands: "Let's all go down." ”

The servants actually wanted to know who the person who had asked them to personally come out to greet them, but Zhang Yanfang had already given the order, and they didn't dare to disobey, so they all retreated.

When these people went down, Zhang Yanfang smiled and said, "Brother Yang, why are you here?" "This person turned out to be Yang Ren, the head of the household who was appointed by Yun Xi.

Yang Ren also smiled: "Why can't I come to Shanghai County?" Then he said, "After the decree to officially open the sea was issued, Your Majesty is still not very relieved, so let me take a look." ”

"And His Majesty said that if everything goes well, there will not only be Shanghu County, a place where the sea is opened. In the future, a general yamen will be established to govern all the places where the sea is opened. To tell you the truth, I will be in charge of this yamen, so it's better to come to the open sea now, and I don't know anything about the province. ”

Yunxi plans to not only set up this one city, although the establishment of a few has not yet been thought of, but there must be at least one in Guangdong, Liaojian, and at least one in Shandong, Beiping, and Liaodong in the north.

"Third, Shanghu County is going to officially return to Tianfu, and Qingpu County is going to be established soon, and Your Majesty also asked me to supervise this matter by the way."

It turns out that although Shanghu County is to be assigned to Yingtianfu, Songjiang Mansion originally only has two counties, Shanghu County and Huating County. It would be better to abolish the Songjiang Mansion.

Yun Xi originally wanted to abolish Songjiang Mansion and assign Huating County to Changzhou Prefecture. But officials were less supportive.

Yun Xi was afraid of trouble, since the auxiliary officials did not support it, and Yun Xi actually only wanted to open the sea, so he simply divided Shanghu County and Puxi into a separate county and returned to Tianfu; The rest of the places were separated to establish Qingpu County, which continued to belong to Songjiang Prefecture.

A while ago, Zhang Yanfang was also busy with the establishment of Qingpu County, so he smiled and said, "Since Brother Yang is here, then I can rest assured." ”

Yang Ren said: "What? Want to blame me for everything? That's not good, I'm still the head of the household department of the Ming Dynasty, but I am not an official of the Ministry of Officials, nor an official of Ying Tianfu; And you are still in charge of Huzhi County, you still have to do your own things. ”

Zhang Yanfang shook his head and said, "It's really busy!" One is the county's affairs, and the other is the city's affairs, and they are too busy to come. ”

Yang Ren said: "I'll help you get the affairs of the city in the past few days, you go to the county first." ”

Zhang Yanfang smiled: "Then thank you Brother Yang!" ”

The two took another sip of tea, and Yang Ren asked again: "Brother Zhang, how is the situation of this city's first sea opening today?" ”

Zhang Yanfang said: "Today, I personally pretended to be a servant of the merchant and followed around the two cities in the north and south, and also sent the officials of the city department to go out, there was no trouble, and there was no errand to blackmail the merchants, everything was fine. ”

Yang Ren said: "That's good. But don't relax. Today is the first day, everyone does not dare to slack off, and the merchants are also careful not to violate the rules; After a few days of opening the sea, it will not be guaranteed. ”

Zhang Yanfang nodded and said, "I also know this truth, and I won't relax in the future." ”

Yang Ren said: "It's not okay if you don't relax yourself, how many eyes do you have?" Can you keep an eye on the entire city? Or make good use of the people below. ”

"For the people below, you must pay attention to the black sheep who went to the court early to open a vacancy and go back."

"And I also have a letter with you, and then set up a city department in the future, your officials here are all familiar hands, they are mentioned to other city department promotions, and it is even possible to be directly promoted, Your Majesty has always been not particular about background."

"So it's good for Daming that you have cultivated them here."

"And in the future, you will also be the chief official of the yamen in charge of all the city divisions, and the people below are all people who can be trusted, don't you also have to worry?"

Zhang Yanfang said: "I don't dare to be such a big official. You're a tobe servant, and you're the third product. The yamen you lead, what's the matter with the chief officer, it's also the fourth grade. ”

Yang Ren said: "So what? Although you have wasted half your life, it is just that the first emperor does not need you, you have great ability. ”

"Now that the Holy God wants to use you, you can show your talents and serve the country!"

Zhang Yanfang is also enthusiastic, and after listening to Yang Ren's words, he immediately said excitedly: "If Your Majesty treats me as a countryman, I will repay him as a countryman." ”