Tang Yin didn't know how to lead troops to fight, and Shen Xi wouldn't go to Qiongzhou Mansion to supervise the opening of the salt farm, so the errands of the two would not be exchanged. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Shen Xi gave Tang Yin a chance to make a name for himself, opening up the salt pan seems to be a little credit, but it has improved the salt production method in China for thousands of years, and sodium chloride is also one of the important raw materials for Shenxi to make soda ash in the future, which is the first step for Shen Xi to open up a business empire in Guangdong Province.

Although Tang Yin cannot make achievements in the imperial examination, he may be able to become the originator of Daming Chemical and open a new era.

Tang Yin didn't know that he was burdened with Shen Xi's sustenance for changing the times, so he looked depressed and went home to see his wife with the wedding gift, and discussed the matter of going south to Qiongzhou Mansion by the way.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, Lu Heng, the political envoy of Zuobu of Guangdong Province, arrived in Guangzhou City.

The first thing Lu Heng did when he entered the city was not to report on his work to the Yamen, but to meet Shen Xi with Shen Xi, the temporary governor of the Guangzhou Post House.

This was a turning point in Shen Xi's tenure as governor of the three provinces.

In the past, the political envoys and the envoys had many obstructions to Shen Xi, the reason was that the power of the local snake was intertwined, and it was difficult for outsiders to intervene, and the imperial court parachuted Shen Xi to the three southeastern provinces as governors, which damaged the vested interests of these people, so they wanted to suppress Shen Xi.

Now Shen Xi has gained the upper hand in Guangdong Province, and the political envoy and the envoy are at the end of the battle with Shen Xi, and the arrival of Lu Heng directly indicates the collapse of the anti-Shenxi alliance, and from then on, the yamen at all levels in Guangdong Province will regard the governor's yamen as the highest administrative and military institution.

With the full support of Guangdong Province, Shen Xi also formally established himself as the highest administrative and military governor in the three southeastern provinces.

Lu Heng is in his fifties and looks polite, but he has made great achievements in governance, and has previously helped Liu Daxia transfer military salaries on the three sides, and has also participated in politics and political envoys left and right in Huguang, Shanxi and other places.

In other words, Lu Heng needs to obtain enough political achievements in the position of political envoy of Zuobu in Guangdong Province to increase his transfer to the capital.

If he does well enough in Guangdong, he can serve as a squire of the six departments after being transferred to the capital, and if he does not do well, he may be appointed as the head of the nine temples, or he may be transferred to Nanjing and serve as the squire of the six departments of Nanjing.

Lu Heng didn't dare to be a little sloppy in the position of Zuo Bu's political envoy.

There is an essential difference between the six squires and the six squires in Nanjing, one is the six officials who often accompany the monarch and hold real power, while the other is the idle man who is transferred to Nanjing for idle dinner. And the key to determining whether he can do a good job as a political envoy of Zuobu is whether he can assist Shen Xi well.

Lu Heng and Xie Qian have always had a good relationship, and when he was Langzhong in the Sixth Department before, he won Ma Wensheng's respect, and later transferred military salaries on the three sides, Liu Daxia favored him, this time he arrived as the political envoy of Zuobu in Guangdong Province, it was Xie Qian, Liu Daxia and Ma Wensheng and others who jointly promoted him.

After being appointed, Xie Qian, Liu Daxia and Ma Wensheng wrote letters to Lu Heng respectively, explaining that he cooperated with Shen Xi, rectified the local officials, and helped Shen Xi exterminate pirates and pirates.

Even if there is no vacancy, after his term as Zuobu's political envoy expires, he may be transferred to the governorship of Henan, the governor of Huguang, etc., or directly replace Shen Xi to supervise Guangdong and Guangxi provinces.

At this time, if he doesn't grasp the opportunity well, when he reaches the age of 60 in a few years, if he doesn't want to go to Nanjing ****** for a leisurely meal, he can only go home to retire.

As soon as Lu Heng came, he admired Shen Xi very much, and praised Shen Xi's achievements in the past six months as a local official, which almost made Shen Xi feel that he had completed what he had to do in half a year and three years, and he didn't have to do anything in the next two and a half years, just wait for his term to be promoted.

Lu Heng seems to be a courtier, but Shen Xi knows that Lu Heng does have many achievements when he was in charge of the local government, and even practical ministers like Ma Wensheng and Liu Daxia respect him, and this person's ability is extraordinary.

Hearing Lu Heng's praise, Shen Xi smiled bitterly: "Lu Fantai should know that this official is just coming to the southeast coast to exterminate the bandits on the order of the emperor, and it is possible to retire after the success......

What Shen Xi wants to express is that my governor is not worthy of his name, and others who are transferred to Guangdong Province to serve as governors must have the title of governor or governor of Liangguang, and the official position should be the right capital of the imperial history, not the right deputy capital of the imperial history...... My superintendent is temporary, and it may not take three years for the emperor to recall me to continue teaching his son, and it won't be of much use for you to scold me.

Lu Heng said with a smile: "Shen Zhongcheng is in Hanyuan, if this time the bandit has made outstanding contributions, it is unknown whether he will enter and exit in the future." ”

Out of the general into the prime minister, this is the highest state pursued for the official, but the Ming Dynasty has deposed the prime minister, even if the general can be, the most is only the cabinet minister, the cabinet minister only has the right to discuss politics, but no decision-making power, there is still a big gap from the real prime minister.

When Lu Heng said this, he actually wanted to say that you have a bright future, let's work together, you will enter the prime minister in the future, and I can also smoothly transfer to the capital, and each will take what he needs.

Some things can't be said too clearly, otherwise they will be true, Shen Xi nodded with a smile: "By the auspicious words of Lu Fantai, this official has been in Guangzhou Mansion for some time, if Lu Fantai has anything to inquire, he can visit at any time!" ”

Lu Heng got up and arched his hand: "Certainly, definitely." ”

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As soon as Lu Heng arrived in Guangzhou Mansion, within two days of his arrival, the political envoy sent people to the Governor's Yamen to discuss the issue of the amount of money and grain needed to pacify the pirates and pirates after the beginning of spring.

Shen Xi was anxious to exterminate the pirates and pirates, and Lu Heng was even more anxious than him.

Perhaps after the end of the battle of Shenxi Kaichun, the credit was earned, and the emperor transferred him back to the capital to entrust him with important tasks, and Lu Heng, as the political envoy of Zuobu, wanted to make enough political achievements to draw water with a bamboo basket.

Since he knew that Shen Xi was going to lead his troops north after the beginning of spring, he had to prepare all the money and food before sending out the troops, so as to show his ability.

If there is a shortage of money and food, it can be transferred directly from the government treasury; If there are no warships, civilian ships can be requisitioned; Obsolete weapons can be used to build a place...... In short, in the past, Shen Xi needed to do it himself, but after Lu Heng arrived, Lu Heng did it for him.

When Lu Heng was serving as the right participant in politics in Shanxi, he helped Ma Wensheng to use troops in the northwest to dispatch money and grain; When he was the political envoy of Zuobu in Shaanxi, he helped Liu Daxia to fight with the Tatars and transport money and grain; This time he came to the southeast coast, in fact, it was overkill, and he was very experienced in how to pick grain from between his teeth, as well as the transportation of people and ships.

Zhang Yuanying, the political envoy of the right cloth, is just a talented Confucian official who can only play conspiracy, while Lu Heng is completely here to do practical things, and the two are different in the starting point of being officials, so they are also very different in terms of official strategy.

Zhang Yuan should think about how to force Shen Xi away, or suppress the Governor Yamen, so that he can justifiably be the highest ground administrator of Guangdong Province. Lu Heng wanted to assist Shen Xi to complete the task of pacifying the bandits and rectifying the local officials, so that he could be transferred to the capital.

Therefore, when the political envoy presented the tax account of the previous year's treasury to Shen Xi's eyes, Shen Xi was still a little uncomfortable, this Lu Heng was simply too intimate, and actually told me how much grain was in each treasury in Guangdong, how much could be transported, how much was to be kept for preparation for famine, how much of the money and grain for the imperial court had to be sent that year, and how much could be advanced......

In the past, Shen Xi couldn't investigate these specific figures, because Zhang Yuanying and Lin Tingxuan were too wary of him.

Lu Heng even calculated an account for him, and Guangdong could provide him with enough money and grain, equivalent to almost 50,000 taels of silver, which was enough for him to spend during the expedition.

Only about half of the grain and materials worth 50,000 taels were transported from the government treasury, and the other half needed to be donated by the local gentry and merchants, and a certain amount of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes needed to be apportioned to the common people.

Originally, the period from the first day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was a day for officials to rest, but as soon as Lu Heng came, the yamen at all levels in Guangzhou had to "work overtime." Subsequently, Lu Heng distributed the amount of money and grain allocated by the political envoys to the treasury of various prefectures in the form of official documents, and asked all localities to send people to collect the grain from the treasury before mid-March and transfer it to Guangzhou Prefecture for the use of Shenxi's army of bandits.

During this period, Shen Xi didn't have to do anything, and even raised flowers and grass at home to accompany his wife, just waiting for the spring to lead the troops and horses to go out to the battle.

Although this is the highest level of life he has always pursued, he has not yet achieved fame now, and he is not used to letting others do everything, and he is not at ease.

Lu Heng is capable, and he is in a hurry, but he is afraid that Lu Heng does not understand the place and underestimates the difficulties, if in the end, the showdown of the government is too much and leads to civil unrest, and Shen Xi and his army of thousands of bandits will have to deal with it.

The political envoy issued official documents to the yamen of various prefectures and counties to collect money and grain, and Shen Xi, the governor of the three provinces, sent the official documents to Gui and Fujian provinces.

Lu Heng adjusted the money and grain of one province, then he transferred the money and grain of the three provinces.

If you want to fight the pirates and pirates, you can only support three or five months of money and food, but you can't be safe, if you encounter a difficult war, can you stop fighting half of the war and wait for the next year's military rations and materials to be re-raised?

It is better to have more than less, and the surplus can be used as a reward for the soldiers after the war.

So much for!

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