The snow was falling in a hurry, and I silently heard the rustling of footsteps behind me. Before he could turn around, the person behind him whispered: "The teacher ......."

"No doubt." Shen Mo heard that it was Shen Yi, who was about to leave the cabinet, "turned around and smiled at him, "Have you all handed over to Zixin?" ”

, consistently said: "The student has already explained everything to Zixin, I think he is old and stable, and the teacher is at ease." ”

"What is there for him to feel at ease." Shen Mo smiled and said: "What I don't feel at ease is you, this time I went to the household department on an errand, it is not as simple as training, but to go to the battlefield with real swords and guns!" ”

"A whip is a big thing that the master pushes" Shen always smiled with a smile: "The protégé is charged into battle, and it is incumbent on him." ”

"The general died immediately, and the crockpot well was broken, so you didn't let you charge." Shen Mo looked at him and said, "Let me see with my heart, just use my brain to think more, don't be strong." ”

"The student knows" Shen always shrunk his neck and said, "Others will think that it is the teacher's instruction, and they will misunderstand." ”

"......" Shen Mo shook his head and smiled, and did not speak again. Seeing that Shen was always in a daze and stopped, he laughed and scolded, "If you have something to say, it will be difficult to meet in the future." ”

, "Hehe" Shen has always smiled embarrassedly: "It's nothing, I just think, are you polite to Lord Ge today?" I'm afraid that in the future, those old guys will rely more and more on the old and sell the old, and don't take you to heart. ”

"Really?" Shen Mo replied casually, but there was a boom in his heart. Now in the imperial court, there are several old ministers such as Yang Bo, Ge Shouli, Zhu Heng, etc., in terms of qualifications, they are all at the same level as Xu Jie, and they are very old and virtuous. These people can't move away silently, and they can't be overwhelmed, if they come hard, it will be difficult to ensure that the situation is chaotic. Fortunately, he has always been respectful to these old ministers, "After becoming the first assistant, he regarded himself as a junior, which won the support of several old ministers."

Shen Mo is a person who is always a ball of harmony, and he looks like a ball of cotton, but there is a cluster of needles hidden in this cotton, and whoever dares to hold him will have to be pierced with blood. He respectfully offered to a few old-timers, but he was not soft at all on the thorns and rotten boils of the sharp neck and the sword in the mouth and abdomen, and through the personnel adjustment, he let him rise and fall secretly, and the degraded and degraded ones were cleaned up. Only a few conspicuous characters were left, and they all became old loofahs in the autumn wind, hanging there alone, and they couldn't make trouble after all.

In addition, in the past ten years, he has been casually "placing his peers, doormen, and protégés to the imperial court." Before he became the first assistant, his wings had been widely used in the yamen of the capital. At the beginning, even if he didn't make a deal with Empress Dowager Li, he had the ability to turn Feng Bao's game around. However, Shen Ge Lao had a big plan, and only used some small means to kill Feng Baocane at noon, and there was no secret of his own violence at all.

As a result, now, the world obviously didn't see what means he used, but just took away a few-stirring sticks that were afraid of the stability of the world, so that the eighteen yamen responded to every call, pointing to the left and no one dared to look to the right, and its authority was even much higher than the high arch known for its iron fist.

This situation is not easy to achieve" is of course because the emperor is young, and he relies on the first assistant for all state affairs.

But more importantly, it is also silent grass snake gray line, planning very early, and when he sits on the position of first assistant, it is already full of peach and plum, and the water is a matter of course. Good food is not afraid of being late" If he had been the first assistant five years earlier, it would definitely not be the current situation.

However, when the situation is established, it is time to implement the new policy and revitalize the decline, and in the process, Shen Mo clearly feels that those old men will not only not continue to expound the role of stabilizing people's hearts, but will be hindered by political disagreements. Just like today's matter, it took me a lot of words to persuade Ge Shouli not to veto it anymore? If everything needs to be explained like this, then don't do any work yourself.

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"It's okay" Shen Mo shook his head and said: "Yang Puzhou is almost over, and Zhu Heng and Ge Shouli are left, no matter how loud their voices are, they can't hinder the overall situation." Saying that, he smiled at Shen Yiyi: "People say that the prime minister can hold the boat in his belly, can't I even accommodate the two old men?" ”

"Yes" Hearing that Yang Bo was going to die, Shen Yi said with joy in his heart, "Then I have to find something to do for the two bosses, so that they will definitely find something to do when they are idle." ”

"Ge Shouli has already received the task of supervising the new law, and this one thing is enough for him to be busy. Shen nodded his head and said, "As for Zhu Heng, I have written to Pan Jitao and asked him to re-mention the plan for the Jiaolai River project......

, "Hehe" Shen Cheng squinted his eyes with a smile when he heard this: "The teacher is really Jian, and he has a lofty vision." ”

The so-called Jiaolai River project is actually a water transportation project. In September of the fourth year of Longqing, the Yellow River broke in the suburbs, and the river was shallow for 180 miles from Suining to Suqian, and all the grain ships from the south of the Yangtze River were not allowed to go north. This was an unusually significant problem in this dynasty, because the political center of the Ming Dynasty was in Beijing, but the economic center was in Nanjing. All the resources needed by the capital come from the south, especially the four million stone grain every year, thanks to the help from the south. From the south to the north, the only lifeline is the canal, and the canal has problems, the south and the north lose contact, and the whole country is immediately affected. However, the canal is not the kind of safe waterway that people imagine, especially in the north, the Yellow River is a canal, and the canal depends on the bottom of the Yellow River. The amount of water is too large, and the boat is in danger of running out of the bottom at any time: but the amount of water is too small, and the grain ship will have to be stranded halfway.

And even if it arrives safely, there will be two to three percent of the loss along the way, in fact, the world knows which people's pockets go into. It is obviously very dangerous to place the lifeblood of a country entirely on such a waterway full of shortcomings. In fact, everyone knows that the best solution is shipping, try to ask in this era of sail trade is extensive, is it not even possible to do offshore transportation? In fact, the loss of sea freight is only 3 percent, which is far less than that of water transportation. This is obviously not a technical issue, but a political issue that concerns the jobs of millions of people.

Let's say a simple example to know that in the original history, in order to save finances during the Chongzhen period, the national post station was cut down on a large scale, and Luoguo made a post man named Li Zicheng unemployed, and then Emperor Chongzhen moved the post delivery system, "I dare not move the transport, and the danger level of sea transportation can be imagined."

Since the canal was often difficult and shipping was excluded, there was a proposal to shorten the sea distance, which was the Jiaolai River project. The Jiaolai River traverses Shandong, flows from north to south, flows south to Jiaozhou Bay into the sea, and north flows to Laizhou Bay Haicangkou into the sea, which is a natural waterway. If the Jiaolai River can be connected to the Cao boat, the Cao Yun can enter the Jiaolai River from Huai to the sea, from Jiaozhou Bay to the Jiaolai River, and then go to the sea from Haicangkou to Tianjin.

However, with a natural waterway alone, there is no way to talk about water transportation, so some people proposed to dig a new river in the middle to communicate the Jiao River in the south and the real Lai River in the north, which is the so-called Jiao Lai New River.

This suggestion has been sandwiched for a long time, and although it has never been started, it has been inexhaustibly put forward to the court. After the Yellow River burst in Longqing four years and the water transportation was interrupted, this suggestion once again attracted attention.

At that time, Pan Jitao, the governor of Cao Canal Workers, strongly advocated the reopening of the Jiaolai River. However, another water conservancy expert with the same name as him, Zhu Heng, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, is concerned about the problem of water sources. It is difficult enough to dig the watershed between the Jiao and Lai rivers: and with waterways, there must be abundant water, where does the water come from? It's not that the cave is without water, but the amount of water is not enough for boats, let alone sand brushing: when the river is not allowed to wash sand, the sea sand invades the river, but the river is quickly silted up, who is responsible?

Both of them are loyal to the country, and they are both authorities in river engineering, Pan Jitao is young, genius, enterprising Zhu Heng is older, experienced, and stable in holding the country. Therefore, each had a vote of supporters scrambling, and finally the ball was kicked to Gao Gong, who was very supportive, but for the sake of prudence, he still wrote to consult Lin Run, the governor of Shandong. After Lin Run and Shen Mo agreed their opinions, he wrote back to support Zhu Heng.

Gao Gong knew from Lin Run's attitude that he was silent, and Zhang Juzheng also vetoed it, so the matter was finally settled.

Shen Mo himself did not support this project, but now that he asked Pan Ji to tame the book, Zhu Heng would naturally go all out to accept it. However, just to hold Zhu Heng, it is necessary to trigger a protracted war of words, which seems to be a bit of a fuss.

When Shen always had his doubts, Shen Mo only answered him with eight words: "Ming Xiu plank road, secretly cross Chen......

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After lunch, Shen Yi left, and before leaving, he instructed Zhang Yuan, who replaced him, to Ding Ningwan, lest this champion of Longqing for five years be proud of himself and lose his duty. Zhang Yuanchen couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Don't doubt brother, what do you have to worry about?" You don't know how high the status of Lord Yuanfu is in the hearts of our Shaoxing people. If I dare to serve without discouragement, my parents will not be able to get out of the house if I pass it back. ”

Zhang Yuanchen is a native of Shanyin, Shaoxing, a student of Shen Mo in Suzhou Mansion, because of the sake of serving his parents, he only took the Jinshi examination the year before last, and won the champion at once, which is already the second consecutive imperial examination championship of Shaoxing people, and the limelight even overshadowed Jinling, where the world is in the context, and the seven sons of Qionglin, who created this era, especially Shen Mo of Lianzhong Liuyuan, were worshiped by their parents and villagers, and became a mythical figure.

After Shen Yi left, Shen silently told Zhang Yuanchen to take care of his house, and also ordered someone to prepare a sedan chair to go out and go to Zhang's mansion in Shamao Hutong.

Since the defeat last year, Zhang Juzheng has had a serious illness and has been recuperating at home since then. In fact, his illness was not so serious, but he had never made up his mind whether he should go to the official to return to his hometown and say goodbye to the capital, so he simply kept getting sick......

In fact, there was nothing to hesitate about, he was willing to gamble and lose, and from the day Feng Bao was killed, he didn't count on his political life. However, his silence gave him a glimmer of hope...... That wax pill was ironclad evidence of his collusion with Feng Bao, and he returned it to him silently, and the meaning of letting him go couldn't be more obvious.

But Zhang Juzheng will not stay in the cabinet because the other party does not pursue it. He is forty-nine years old this year, and he is about to know the destiny of heaven, how can he bow down and continue to be a grandson? What's more, the current Shousuke is twelve years younger than him, and he can't wait for the day when he boils himself into the grave.

There is only one thing that hooked his mind and kept him from leaving Beijing, and that is "a whip method." Although he was sick, his informant was still well-informed, and since the second half of last year, the news that the imperial court was going to implement the new law throughout the country after the reform of the yuan yuan has been inexhaustibly reaching his ears.

Zhang Juzheng couldn't let go of it immediately, a whip method, that is what he is going to do well with his life! How can you let him go and leave?

Let's say that when the card was not licensed that afternoon, Zhang Juzheng couldn't take a nap in the afternoon, so he flipped through the detailed rules of the new law he had just gotten in the book, shook his head and sighed while reading: "Nonsense, it's really nonsense, if people were so upright, the world would have been the same a long time ago!" After speaking, he threw it aside, paced back and forth in the hall with his hands behind his back, and said to himself: "It's really a sight, this little accountant is actually a man who talks on paper." Then he couldn't help but be moved: "No, I have to go to the cabinet, don't let him mess around like this?" "In the past half a year, he has been bored at home as an otaku, and the cold-faced Zhang Xianggong, who didn't say a word for half a day, has developed the problem of talking to himself and being active, and giving people nicknames.

Just about to let people carry the sedan chair, he stood again, shook his head and said: "No, although people let me go, they will never let me come out again, what if I go to humiliate myself?" After a while, he changed his mind and said: "If you go out, it is small for one person to be humiliated, and it is big to disrupt the law and bring disaster to the country!" ”

Just when he was struggling with himself, struggling with the edge of whether to go or not, You Qi's voice came from outside: "Master, the little accountant is here." ”

"The little accountant is here" Zhang Juzheng was overjoyed at first, and then he was stunned, and shouted angrily: "Dog minion, you actually insulted the head of the dynasty!" ”

You Qi is so depressed, it's you who call people all day long, I just called you so in order to make you happy, why do you blame me now? Co-authored only the state officials were allowed to set fires and forbid the common people from lighting lamps?

In the past half a year, seeing that Zhang Juzheng has become tomorrow's Huanghua, even with the housekeeper is not as afraid of him as before.

Seeing that You Qikou claimed to be "guilty" but had disapproval on his face, Zhang Juzheng snorted coldly and said: "Go back to your hometown tomorrow and wait for the master, I can't afford a big housekeeper like you here!" ”

You Qi was frightened at this time, and knelt on the ground like chaff, kowtowing. @