"I'm afraid your errand is dangerous. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

When Shen Xi told Xie Duo, the priest of the country, who was also a teacher and friend, about his transfer to the place, Xie Duo's first sentence was full of worries about Shen Xi's trip.

Xie Duo has been in the court for many years, and he knows the appointment and dismissal process of court officials very well, and he doesn't understand Shen Xi's "promotion" very well, after all, he is not very clear about Shen Xi's military exploits in Beiguan.

Shen Xi asked: "Then Master Xie thinks that I should resign to the imperial court, so he said that he is not competent, and asks His Majesty to appoint someone else to go?" ”

Xie Duo laughed: "Your Majesty personally consulted your opinion, and it was recommended by the cabinet ministers, Shangshu and Zhan Shi of Zhan Shifu at the same time, can you refuse?" ”

This is the truth, this errand is tantamount to forcibly apportioning Shen Xi's head, and the court promoted him to the right concubine in advance, just to smooth his transfer...... There are two right concubines at the same time.

Therefore, Shen Xi must be transferred externally, and he cannot be refused!

"I don't know if I can teach face-to-face?" Shen Xi said respectfully, "The younger generation is uneasy on this trip, and I am afraid that there is something to worry about. ”

After thinking about it seriously, Xie Duo said solemnly: "If you go to the land of Fujian and Guangdong alone, there will be many thorns and obstacles. If you recruit more people, you may be able to help. ”

One fence with three piles, one hero with three gangs, Shen Xi nodded silently, he very much agreed with Xie Duo's statement, if he went on the road alone, he would not be able to deal with those magistrates when he arrived in the place, and the best way was to find helpers. In addition to having someone who can give him advice, there is also someone who can help him do things, and it is best to be able to be literate and martial......

But such helpers are not easy to find.

Song Xiaocheng and Ma Jiu can be regarded as his right-hand men, but these two people are more than brave, and they are deficient in planning, so it is best to find someone with enough brains to be his staff.

Su Tong and Zheng Qian could have been, in the end, they had a certain amount of talent, but their talents were all educated by the orthodox imperial examination, Wen Tao barely made do, and didn't think about martial arts.

Shen Xi couldn't help but think of a person, and his eyes suddenly lit up, this person should be a good helper, but at this time, this person should still be busy making marriage changes in his hometown.

However, after the divorce, this person is basically busy for his livelihood...... If you want to buy a garden to plant peach blossoms, you might as well follow me out for a few years, so you can be regarded as an "old acquaintance", although you don't know each other.

"Thank you for the mention."

Shen Xi respectfully saluted Xie Duo.

To say that Xie Duo's judgment of things is still very accurate, and he is also old and refined, Xie Duo first realized that local errands are not easy to do, perhaps Xie Duo himself has been a messenger and has visited various places in Lingnan, and he has a deep understanding of this.

As the saying goes, a strong dragon is difficult to suppress the head snake, even if those officials below dare not disagree with you for the time being, but they will set traps for you everywhere, and many of the people sent to help around are adding to the blockade and helping.

You still have to rely on the people you bring with you.

In terms of manpower, Shen Xi can bring Song Xiaocheng, Ma Jiu and the brothers of the Che Ma Gang with him, and even recruit some more people from Tingzhou, after all, with the foundation of the previous Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce, people should not be a problem, but in terms of property, Shen Xi needs to find a way by himself.

At present, the first thing is to fight for the right to sell salt on the southeast coast, even if it does not need too much, but at least it is necessary to ensure that a team of two or three thousand people can be fed.

If you want to suppress bandits, it will involve battlefield battles, two or three thousand regular troops is already the bottom limit, if the number is small, Shen Xi's trip will almost be sent to death.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were many salt pans on the southeast coast.

The salt industry has always been a monopoly of the state, and the imperial court approves a certain amount of salt every year, which is sold to salt merchants by the salt road yamen, and then the salt merchants take the salt to the salt fields to extract salt by themselves, and the income from salt tax is one of the important revenues of the state treasury.

Because of the backwardness of the salt production method, coupled with the serious monopoly of the salt industry, the implementation of the cool law on the private salt crackdown on the people, so that the salt of the Ming Dynasty is very expensive, and the ordinary people cannot afford to eat salt.

Since Shen Xi was responsible for "supervising the law of supervising grain and salt management", theoretically he could supervise the salt industry in Liangguang and Fujian, so it was reasonable for him to approve a batch of salt from the imperial court for military spending.

However, the sale of salt is not only related to the income of the household department, but also an important channel for local officials to make profits, and the imperial court will not easily hand over the right to sell salt to him.

In order to ensure the supply of promises and tax revenue, the Ming Dynasty set up six "Salt Envoy Divisions" and seven "Salt Lifting Divisions" in the main salt producing areas such as Lianghuai, Liangzhejiang, Changlu and Hedong.

The amount of salt approved by the imperial court every year is a certain amount, and Shen Xi can't go to the place to ask for salt from the Yandao Yamen, so he must get the approval from the imperial court before leaving the capital, and the way to go is to go through the channel of the household department.

This required Shen Xi to move between the various yamen in the capital.

For an official who does not have many official qualifications and connections, it is difficult to climb to the sky.

Shen Xi received an errand in March, and he was about to take office in early April, and his time for activities in the capital was already extremely limited. Fortunately, the bad habits of the Ming officialdom are far less blatant than those of the Qing Dynasty, and Shen Xi doesn't have to think about the problem of "don't respect", otherwise with his little family background, just by doing a little bit among the Beijing officials, he can make him lose his family and owe a lot of foreign debts.

Before he took office, there were a few yamen that he had to go.

The Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Households, and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies.

The ministry is the place where officials are conferred, and Shen Xi can't help but visit and express his gratitude. At the same time, Shen Xi received the identity of the Qin Mission, and when he arrived at the place, he would be a member of the military power of one side, and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies also needed to go over. Needless to say, Shen Xi was personally recommended by Liu Daxia, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and he needed some warrants to move the army cheaply in the local area, so he had to pass the Ministry of War.

In the first few yamen, he went smoothly, because it was a routine note, the officials, the governor's office of the five armies, and the military department would not embarrass him, and Liu Daxia even personally received him and explained a lot to him.

However, when he arrived at the household department, Shen Xi was closed.

This is not the treatment given to him by the Ministry of Households, but a rule of the Ministry of Households: The Ministry of Household Affairs does not accept all the governors, governors, prime ministers, and military affairs officials of all places transferred abroad, because the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs know that these people come to the Ministry of Household for nothing else, but to stretch out their hands to ask for money.

In line with the principle that more things are better than less, when you meet those prestigious ministers, you will sit in the hall for a whole day and leave on your own, while Shen Xi, a courtier who has no prestige at all in the capital, simply stops outside the gate and does not let you enter the yamen.

Shen Xi not only couldn't get money and food, but he couldn't even stretch out his hand to Yanyin, which was equivalent to going to the southeast coast empty-handed, and he couldn't recruit people to serve without money and food.

It's a pity that the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce has been completely dismantled by the people of the Fujian Political Envoy Department, and it is simply unrealistic for Shen Xi to get enough money and food from the businessmen to raise donations.

In Shangshu, Shen Xi said that he could raise soldiers, horses, money and food by himself, but in fact things were not so simple, he could only go to the Yamen of the Ministry of War to see Liu Daxia again, and tell the former head of the household department about his actual difficulties, and wanted Liu Daxia to help him turn around.

But the problem is that the relationship between Liu Daxia and the new head of the household department is not very good, mainly because the emperor always likes to compare He Zhong with Liu Daxia, thinking that He Zhong is far inferior to Liu Daxia in terms of ability to do things. Over time, Tong Zhong is not happy, Liu Daxia has the ability again, but he is no longer in the household department, and he always compares us, is it interesting?

In officialdom, they are friends, but behind their backs, they may be enemies, and there will always be inexplicable competition between the predecessor and the successor, and they will compete in secret.

Liu Daxia and Tong Zhong are in harmony, he can't help Shen Xi in this matter, he understands Shen Xi's distress of having no money and food, but he can only let Shen Xi "figure it out by himself".

Shen Xi didn't have a taste in his heart.

The errand I'm going to do now is what you should have done in your old history, and you pushed me to where I am now, shouldn't I help?

Shen Xi touched a soft nail at Liu Daxia's place, so he had to go to Xie Qian's mansion to ask for help, but after two days, Shen Xi didn't even meet Xie Qian, and Xie Qian actually avoided him at this critical time.

Xie Pi sent a message to Shen Xi on behalf of his father: "...... If the gentleman wants to marry my little niece, he should only send someone to complete the steps of the three books and six ceremonies, and the father will explain it, neither will he marry a wife, and the marriage will be simple. My father has been busy with official business recently, and I am afraid that he will not have time to meet my husband. ”

Liu Daxia refused to help, Xie Qian avoided it, and Shen Xi knew that it was useless to go to Ma Wensheng.

On March 26, the imperial court sent Xie Yun'er and Shenmen Zhou's edict to the Shen family as a "pleasant" edict.

The Zhou family got carried away, and after becoming a five-grade fateful person, he was so excited that he couldn't even find the north.

In the eyes of outsiders, it is really unseemly for a woman to show up and walk around the neighborhood when she is holding a banquet in the house.

After handing over the matter almost completely, Shen Xi will teach Zhu Houzhao the last lesson on March 29 as the new right concubine of Youchunfang.

On the sixth day of April, Shen Xi will set off for Wuzhou.

As for whether to take the west road from Jiangxi to Tingzhou, or the east road to the south along the coastal post road, Shen Xi still needs to make a final decision.

Shen Xi's idea is that it is best to take the east road, go south along the official road along the coast, and check the situation of pirates and pirates in Fujian and Zhejiang, as well as Liangguang and Guangzhou, and get to the bottom of it.

But Shen Xi didn't have many people on hand after all, and it was very risky to take the coastal road.

Xie Yuner hopes to take the route from Jiangxi to Tingjiang, and the rich and noble do not return to their hometowns, just like walking at night in brocade clothes. If Shen Xi can return to Tingzhou Mansion as a member of the third grade, it can be said that the scenery is infinite, and she and her husband will return to their hometown and provincial relatives together, as a woman who is dependent on men in this era, the highest honor she has won is nothing more than that.

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