Chapter 469: Heading South

At the beginning of April, a grand wedding ceremony was held in the capital to celebrate the marriage of the Emperor of the Apocalypse. At the same time, it is also the main hall where Zhang Yan ascended the throne of the queen, and the people who experienced the pain of the death of the emperor twice seemed to see the dawn of happiness and happiness, and cheered for the birth of the new queen. ==≤≤

Soon after Zhang Yan entered the harem, the head of Zhang in the Huanyi Bureau was transferred to Kunning Palace and reappointed as the head of Kunning Palace.

After returning to the Forbidden City, Manager Zhang felt a lot of emotion, but he didn't expect that he would have to return to the Forbidden City one day, and with such a decent and glamorous identity, he was thousands of times stronger than when he was in the Luan Palace.

Not only that, the Emperor of the Apocalypse promoted the head of Zhang to the eunuch of the celebrant and the eunuch Bingbi, making him one of the most powerful eunuchs in the inner court.

As the saying goes, the trend is inflammatory, with the red top white, with the appointment of Mr. Zhang as the head of Kunning Palace, the eunuchs and female officials in the palace who originally ignored him began to tie up first, making him a hot person in the inner court for a while.

Wang An and Wei Zhongxian naturally wanted to get closer to Mr. Zhang, after all, the affairs of the harem were under the control of the queen, which made Mr. Zhang's identity extremely important.

Regarding the olive branch extended by Wang An and Wei Zhongxian, Manager Zhang naturally accepted all the orders, but his attitude towards the two was completely different, he was false and wrongful to Wang An, and he was trying his best to make friends with Wei Zhongxian.

After all, the enemy of the enemy is a friend, although Wei Zhongxian is now suppressed by Wang An and has no power to fight back, and he has not shown the intention of fighting for power, but Manager Zhang knows very well that Wei Zhongxian, as a close attendant of the emperor, will definitely not sit idly by and watch Wang An run rampant in the inner court, and sooner or later he will attack Wang An.

And as the Emperor of the Apocalypse grew older and his authority increased, Wang An would eventually be replaced by Wei Zhongxian, which was a natural thing.

Manager Zhang hated Wang An very much, if it weren't for Li Hongyu, he would have been cut off by now, and there was no way to untie the beam between the two.

Although Wei Zhongxian didn't have much friendship with Manager Zhang, and he didn't deal with him much, the two had no grievances after all, and Wei Zhongxian didn't fall into trouble with him in the matter of the Luan Palace, which gave the two a foundation to become allies.

Counting Chief Manager Zhang, there are already three major eunuchs in the inner court eyeing Wang An, in addition to Wei Zhongxian, there is also the imperial horse eunuch Chen Shun, and the three of them naturally became an alliance and made secret preparations to deal with Wang An.

After Zhang Yan became the queen, she treated Li Hongyu with courtesy, she was not a heartless person, and she was naturally grateful to Li Hongyu for helping her a lot in the selection of ladies, not only recalling her from the Huanyi Bureau to the Forbidden City, but also deciding to add her as the lady who was the ninth queen candidate.

In addition, Zhang Yan also respects Li Hongyu's talent and character very much, and Li Hongyu's contribution to Emperor Taichang's accession to the throne can be called an example of loyalty, which also makes her treat Li Hongyu, the Ming Dynasty's Tuogu Auxiliary Minister, differently, and thinks that he is the only virtuous minister of Zhongxing Daming.

For this reason, after Zhang Yan entered the harem, he rewarded a lot of tributes to the Li family in Baihe Town, Jiangkou County, Xiangyang Prefecture, Huguang, to show his favor.

Especially Li Hongyu's mother, Zhao, is a mother who is precious by virtue of her son, and was given Zhang Yan as the second grade of the wife, and even the political envoy of Hu Guangbu has to take the initiative to salute when he sees him, which can be described as extremely noble in the local area.

After a toss in the palace transfer case, the Donglin Party, which has the merit of supporting the palace, can be said to have won a complete victory, not only in the palace breaking into the palace to prevent the Empress Dowager Li from taking power, but also the Donglin Party officials who participated in the palace breaking case have been promoted.

Among them, in terms of the two leaders of the palace breaking case, Yang Lian was promoted to the military department in the middle of the matter with the left of the rite department, and the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites was added, and although the official position of Zuo Guangdou did not change, he was given the title of prince Shaobao, and the glory was unlimited for a while.

But Li Hongyu knows very well that no matter how the Donglin Party whitewashes the case of breaking into the palace, they can't get rid of the offense to the imperial power, just imagine the state of mind of the young Emperor of the Apocalypse when he was robbed out of the harem by the Donglin Party, you know that the Emperor of the Apocalypse already has something against the Donglin Party in his heart, and no emperor can tolerate this kind of behavior like a rebellion.

However, because the Donglin Party held the banner of the ancestral motto of "the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics", and supported the enthronement and pro-government of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, although it was not legal, it occupied the moral height, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse had a good impression of the Donglin Party since he was a child, at this time the Emperor of the Apocalypse was still willing to believe that the Donglin Party was dedicated to the public.

But what is the outcome of the matter Li Hongyu already knows that the monarchy and the subject power are always opposites, when the subject power is strong enough, do you expect those high-ranking ministers to be respectful to the monarchy?

Otherwise, where will there be a chaotic situation of factional strife in the court, in the final analysis, it is still the conflict of interests of various factions, each representing different interest groups, is it not as good as the political proposition of the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang as good as the Donglin Party?

Obviously, for the sake of their own interests, the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang and the Donglin Party will also have a life-and-death game in the capital, but all this has nothing to do with Li Hongyu, and after the marriage of Emperor Tianqi, he will set off to the south to start running the Customs Department.

At that time, the people who went south with Li Hongyu also had the horse Ran Xingrang, and Ran Xingrang, as the director of the Customs Department, would sit in Yangzhou as the general office of the Customs Department.

Compared with Li Hongyu, the ambitious Ran Xingrang can't wait to go to Yangzhou to perform his duties and prepare to show his strength in the Customs Department.

Li Hongyu originally wanted Emperor Tianqi to set off for the south after his wedding, but the Emperor of Tianqi was unwilling to let Li Hongyu leave, in his opinion, Li Hongyu was his most trusted and capable courtier.

Therefore, Ran Xingrang took the first step after the wedding of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and rushed to Yangzhou, and now the general office of the Customs Department of Yangzhou has been prepared to be established and needs to have a chief official to sit in charge, so Ran Xingrang, who was idle in the capital, resigned to the Emperor of the Apocalypse and went to appease the situation of the Customs Department.

If it weren't for Li Hongyu's edict from Emperor Wanli to run the Customs Department, and the Customs Department was related to the stability of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Tianqi was really unwilling to let Li Hongyu go, and he was a little overwhelmed by the complicated affairs in the court.

So, in mid-June, Li Hongyu, who had stayed in the capital for two more months, finally embarked on a journey south and rushed to Yangzhou City by boat.

Li Hongyu's southward journey this time is much higher than the last time, the last time Li Hongyu's identity was just compiled by Hanlin, but this time it was not only compiled by Hanlin, but also Zuo Chunfang University scholar and prince young master, and the out-and-out assistant minister of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, this time, the civil and military officials on both sides of the river did not dare to slack off, and respectfully greeted Li Hongyu on the wharf; Li Hongyu was able to occupy a high position at a young age, and his achievements in the future are naturally limitless, and everyone naturally has to go up the pole and seek a way out for the future.

Li Hongyu did not act with great fanfare, did not get off the ship at all, and met with officials at or above the prefect level on the ship, although he did not like the supply of labor and mobilization of the local officials along the way, but it was a kind of etiquette in the officialdom to welcome and send him off, and he could not do anything but accept it.

As for Li Hongyu, he only sees officials at or above the prefect level, this is not only a rule in officialdom, but also for the purpose of keeping his identity secret.

There is a strict hierarchy in the officialdom, and there is a saying that "officials at the top of the university crush people to death", so how can those officials in high positions be seen by lower-level officials if they want to see them?

It is worth mentioning that Li Hongyu naturally sent a big gift to the Emperor of the Apocalypse this time, so that Li Hongyu was also the imperial history of the right capital, and held the "Dragon Singing Sword" of Shangfang to patrol the southern provinces.

Not only that, for civil and military officials below the fourth rank and below the second rank of military attaché, once it is found that they have committed serious crimes, Li Hongyu has the right to cut them down first and then play a case.

With this holy decree of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Li Hongyu has a new temporary new errand "Du Patrol Press", the so-called "Du" is a verb, which means supervision and management, and the folk image calls it "General Patrol Press"

This is not because Emperor Tianqi was too fond of Li Hongyu and gave Li Hongyu such power, in fact, Emperor Tianqi did this in order to contain the Donglin Party and the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang in the court.

After all, there are many officials in the capital who are officials in the south, and the south is also the hometown of the Donglin Party and the Zhejiang Party, Emperor Tianqi hopes that Li Hongyu can become a sharp sword in his hand, and act as a deterrent to the factions in the DPRK and China.

If someone forces the Emperor of the Apocalypse to be in a hurry, the Emperor of the Apocalypse will definitely let Li Hongyu strike at that person's forces, and he will definitely be hit hard under Li Hongyu's thunderous investigation.

It was this holy decree of the Emperor of the Apocalypse that made the officials of the southern provinces, especially the grassroots officials, in awe of Li Hongyu, you must know that Li Hongyu could ask for their heads.

At the same time, Emperor Tianqi asked Li Hongyu to hold the Shangfang Longming Sword to patrol the place, which was also a certification for Li Hongyu to hold the Shangfang Longming Sword, which was tantamount to obeying the will of the Wanli Emperor.

Li Hongyu naturally encouraged the local officials along the way, so that those officials were all submissive and respectful.

If the last time Li Hongyu went south, the magistrates along the way only greeted him routinely, and there was a perfunctory mentality, then this time it was a deep awe from the bottom of my heart.

For no other reason, after the death of Emperor Wanli and Emperor Taichang, Li Hongyu is now much more qualified, so that local officials do not dare to underestimate this young and promising auxiliary minister.

For Li Hongyu's southward trip, the happiest people are naturally those merchants of the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce who have obtained the franchise of overseas trade, and Li Hongyu can sit in the Customs Department as a dignified auxiliary minister, which is enough to show that the Emperor of the Apocalypse attaches great importance to overseas trade, and Li Hongyu, who holds the power of life and death, will definitely be able to tear any obstacle to pieces.

Moreover, the affairs of the Customs Department are being carried out in an orderly manner under Li Hongyu's arrangement, and everything seems to be in order, both the personnel of the Customs Department and the personnel of the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce are conducting intensive training in preparation for the upcoming overseas trade.

In fact, Li Hongyu is more concerned about the customs department of Shanghai County than the general office of the customs department in Yangzhou, and once the new city he planned is built, it will become the world's largest and busiest port, and become a link between the East and the West for economic and cultural exchanges.

Li Hongyu was now very grateful to the Wanli Emperor, and with a stroke of his pen, he gave him Shanghai County, which gave him a great deal of autonomy in the construction of the new city.

According to Li Hongyu's plan, the new city designed by him will be expanded to the surrounding areas with the customs department as the center, until it becomes a magnificent and majestic coastal city.

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