In the yamen of the governor of Zhejiang, Xie Di sat in the lobby with a smile, just now he had sent invitations to the political envoys of Zhejiang, as well as the envoys, asking them to come to the governor's yamen to discuss Zhou Chong's forcible seizure of the Ningbo Port Tax Office.

For this matter, Xie Di was angry at the same time, but he was a little happy in his heart. On the surface, Zhou Chong didn't care about his face as a governor at all, and directly took the tax office over, which was simply a slap in the face, and even this already marked Zhou Chong's formal tearing of his face, which was much more serious than Zhou Chong's removal from Cheng Quan's position as commander before.

However, there are two sides to everything, although the tax office is in the name of the governor's yamen, but the tax money collected is not Xie Di alone, and the left and right political envoys, the chief and deputy envoys can all have a share. Therefore, after Zhou Chong took away the tax office now, it was not as simple as slapping Xie Di in the face, but also cutting off a financial route for several high-ranking officials in Zhejiang.

It is precisely because of this that Xie Di's heart will be a little happy, in addition to him as the governor of the whole Zhejiang, the remaining officials are about the number of political envoys and inspection envoys, the first two of these three people are in charge of civil affairs, and the other one is in charge of criminal affairs, and they are the highest-ranking administrative officials in a province. Of course, there is also a commander in charge of the military of a province, but the Ming Dynasty is very contemptuous of military duties, so the status of the commander is lower, such as here in Zhejiang, the tax money collected by the tax office does not have the share of the commander, which is also a clear proof that the status of the commander is not as good as that of the political envoy and the envoy.

Although the tax and silver income of Ningbo Port is not as good as that of the former Song Dynasty, there are at least 100,000 silver every year, and a small part of this silver is taken away by others. Most of the others were divided among a few high-ranking officials, such as governors and political envoys. And it's become a convention. After each governor and political envoy and inspector take office, they will get their share, and the officials will get their fair share.

However, now that Zhou Chong has cut off the financial road of taxation and silver, although Xie Di is annoyed, he is more happy, because this marks that Zhou Chong has offended several other high-level officials in Zhejiang. The remaining two are a little repulsed by him, just taking this opportunity, he can not only pull the other two to deal with Zhou Zhong together, but also relieve the tense relationship with them, and maybe even pull them under his own command in the future, and then no one in the entire Zhejiang officialdom will disagree with him anymore.

Thinking of his plan to kill two birds with one stone, Xie Di couldn't help but show a smug smile, now that Zhou Zhong's holy family is long, he doesn't dare to offend easily, such as the last time Cheng Quan was dismissed. Although he had an unshirkable responsibility, he didn't say anything after he learned the news. for he knows the word. With Zhou Zhong's hostility towards himself, coupled with the tough backers behind him, it was useless to say anything, and although their Xie family's hands were long, their influence on the army was extremely limited, so he simply pretended not to know what to do.

But this time it was different, Zhou Chong moved the tax office, which was already considered to be meddling in the local government affairs in Zhejiang, and it also moved everyone's financial route, so Xie Di was in a hurry to gather people and prepare to unite others to make trouble to Zhou Chong, and he could take this opportunity to win back a game and save the face he had lost before.

Thinking that Zhou Zheng was facing the coercion of high-level officials in Zhejiang, I am afraid that no matter how tough he is, he will have to weigh it carefully, which makes Xie Di very proud, and he can't help laughing out loud at the end.

However, Xie Di was proud for a while, but suddenly felt that something was wrong, he sent Lu to invite the people who made them go for a while, and it was time to come back, but why hasn't there been any movement yet?

Thinking of this, Xie Di stood up and just wanted to send someone to take a look, but before he could walk out of the door of the living room, he saw a subordinate who had sent Lu to deliver an invitation card hurriedly ran in and reported to him: "Master, the little one just sent an invitation to Lord Di, the political envoy of Youbu, and told him that Lord Di invited him to come to the house, but Lord Di said that he could not come because of something important, and asked the master not to blame!" ”

"What?" Xie Di was also very surprised to hear that the political envoy of Youbu was unwilling to come to see him, it is said that the news of Zhou Chong's seizure of the tax office should have spread throughout the officialdom of Zhejiang, and the political envoy of Dibu should also get the news, it is related to his interests, no matter what, he should also come to his own place?

Before Xie Di could figure out this problem, he heard another rush of footsteps outside, and then another subordinate who had sent Lu to invite someone ran in, sweating profusely: "Master, the invitation has been sent to the house of Lord Bai, but Lord Bai did not show up, but just let people say that he is not free for the time being, and he will come to visit Master when he is free." ”

"Phew!" Xie Di slapped the table angrily when he heard the news, Zhejiang according to the envoy's surname Bai Mingwei, who was originally very hopeful to succeed the former governor of Zhejiang, but unfortunately he didn't expect to kill Xie Di halfway, which made Bai Wei very dissatisfied with Xie Di, since Xie Di took office, Bai Wei couldn't get along with Xie Di in secret, and now Xie Di took the initiative to show favor to the other party, but he didn't expect Bai Wei to be so faceless, which made Xie Di naturally angry.

However, Xie Di's cultivation skills were not bad, and he quickly woke up from his anger, and at that moment he waved away the two subordinates, turned around and returned to the living room to sit down, and drank a few sips of herbal tea to suppress the anger in his chest. He invited a total of three people, but now both of them have indicated that they will not come, and Xie Di also understands that the other party must have guessed the reason why he invited them, but the other party refused, could it be that both of them are afraid of Zhou Zhong's power?

"This is impossible, although Zhou Zhong is favored by His Majesty, but no matter how favored he is, he is only a commander, and he will not have much influence on local government affairs at all. At this time, Xie Di said to himself, no matter how he was, he couldn't figure out why the other party would refuse his invitation.

"Hahaha~, Brother Yu Ji, you don't have to waste time thinking about this problem, let me tell you directly!" Just as Xie Di's words fell, a hearty laugh suddenly came from outside the hall, and then a tall and thin middle-aged official walked in, and he didn't be polite to Xie Di, and directly found a seat and sat down.

Seeing this middle-aged official come in, Xie Di didn't show any surprised expression, but still frowned and said, "Brother Mian, do you know the reason why the two of them didn't come to see me?" ”

The middle-aged official who came in was surnamed Wang Mingqing, and his name was Mianzhi, and he now served as the political envoy of Zhejiang Zuobu. And it is worth mentioning that this Wang Qing was raised by Xie Di's brother Xie Qian, so he can also be regarded as an official of the Xie family, and the reason why Xie Di was able to gain a firm foothold in Zhejiang officialdom can be said to rely on the support of this Wang Qing.

"Brother Yu Ji, it's not me talking about you, you are too impatient to do things this time, if you had discussed it with me before, I would definitely not have let you invite them, so that you don't have to lose face because of their refusal!" I saw this Wang Qing took a sip of tea and said.

"Oh? Why is that? Shedy asked, puzzled.

"Brother Yu Ji, you may not know Lu Dao, Lord Di and Lord Bai have people in their families who are doing business, and they are all smuggling-related businesses, or transporting goods to Shuangyu Port for direct sale, or organizing people to join in smuggling, and these businesses are the biggest source of wealth for the two of them, plus Zhou Chong has already taken all the smuggling business in Shuangyu Port in his hands, if they offend Zhou Chong at this time, then I am afraid that the family business will not be thought of doing in the future!" I saw Wang Qing say with a flat face, he has been mixed in the officialdom of Zhejiang for more than ten years, and he has long been able to understand the background of various officials, which is also one of the reasons why he stands tall in the officialdom.

"I see, no wonder they don't even want to see me!" Xie Di suddenly realized at this time, he didn't expect that there would be such a complex joint in it, compared to the huge profits brought by the smuggling business, the tax silver was nothing at all, and they naturally would not offend Zhou Zhong because of this.

Seeing Xie Di's appearance, he saw Wang Qing say with a solemn face: "Of course, the reason why Lord Di and Lord Bai don't want to go against Zhou Chong is not only because of the family business, but also because Zhou Chong is now in the Holy Family, and His Majesty's trust in him is no longer under Qian Ning, and even in time, Zhou Zhong is likely to be more favored than Qian Ning, so now they are not willing to take this risk to offend Zhou Chong." ”

Although Wang Qing didn't say it explicitly in his words, he was actually reminding Xie Di that Zhou Chong had a bright future in the future, so he still didn't want to be too stiff with Zhou Chong.

Xie Di naturally heard Wang Qing's persuasion, but he also showed a contemplative look. In fact, he and Zhou Zhong did not have any big personal grudges, it was nothing more than that after Zhou Chong took over Dinghaiwei, it was equivalent to weakening the power in his hands, but this was an order from His Majesty the Emperor, and it was no wonder that Zhou Chong.

However, Xie Di soon thought that the family behind him wanted to master the smuggling trade in Shuangyu Port, but the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce had developed into a major overlord of Shuangyu Port, and Xie Da, who managed the Xie Family Chamber of Commerce, also had two hearts, not only marrying his daughter to Zhou Zhong as his wife, but also treating the Xie Family Chamber of Commerce as his private property, and obstructing the takeover of the Xie Family Chamber of Commerce. The Xie family was suppressed by Liu Jin a few years ago, and their financial resources were also affected, and now they are also very interested in the huge profits of smuggling, so they can't give up no matter what.

Thinking of this, Xie Di sighed secretly in his heart, for the sake of the family, he was afraid that he could only fight with Zhou Zhong to the end. (To be continued......)