Yang Chao's affairs are very difficult to do, because Yang Chao's exploits in rescuing the prince and escorting him all the way south are no less than Wu Sangui's borrowing of the Eight Banners to recover Beijing.

But Yang Chao has been named Zhongyi Bo, and it was Chongzhen himself, the meaning of the first emperor is very clear, it is used to reward Yang Chao for escorting the prince south, now the first emperor has just died, the new emperor has just ascended the throne, and the year name or Chongzhen has not changed, so the decision of the higher Chongzhen Emperor, the civil and military officials feel that it is inappropriate.

But if you don't reward Yang Chao and Wu Sangui, it will be a little inappropriate.

Yang Chao stood in the court, listening to the heated discussion of a civil servant, and felt very funny in his heart, Wu Sangui had obviously defected to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and this group of people actually buried their heads in the sand as if they didn't know, and they were seriously discussing how to seal Wu Sangui's official title.

As for not caring too much about this kind of false name, whether it is an earl or a prince, it is all false, the most important thing is to have strength in his hands, the reason why Yang Chao was able to come to this point, and even forced King Fu to go to Jiangbei to meet the prince, relied on the soldiers in his hands, not some kind of secret decree and other vain things.

You must know that in the original history, King Fu ascended the throne as the emperor, and before the prince case appeared, before the truth was identified, King Fu immediately sent someone to identify it, and publicly stated in the court, "There is a childish son who said that it is the first emperor's East Palace, if it is the son of the real first emperor, that is, the son of me, he should be raised and compassionate and not let him be lost." ”

If it weren't for Yang Chao having heavy troops in his hands and taking hundreds of thousands of people to bluff Jiangnan Wenwu, I'm afraid that King Fu would still take the lead in ascending the throne, and at most come to a son who is "good at raising" Chongzhen and raise him as his own son.

Therefore, Yang Chao did not participate in the opinion of rewarding Wu Sangui at all, and even Yang Chao did not care about borrowing the banner of Pingkou at all. He objected twice on the spot, and found that no one in the court agreed with him, and all of them decided that they should borrow Pingkou. Think it's a good move.

The difference in concepts made Yang Chao choose not to intervene in this dispute, but he felt that some of the politicians of later generations had a high vision. Taizu was able to abandon his previous suspicions during the Japanese invasion of China, and did not issue any policy of "borrowing the day to level Jiang" or the old Jiang to "borrow the day to level the red", and his vision was indeed much stronger than these civil officials of the Ming Dynasty.

However, Yang Chao resolutely opposed sending troops north to unite with the Manchus, but some officials who had always despised the Manchus agreed, and they echoed that they should sit back and watch the captives attack each other and watch the thieves defeat themselves!

Then the minister discussed that he would give Wu Sangui 100,000 loads of grain to Tianjin by sea, and give 50,000 taels of silver to the labor army. At the same time, let Wu Sangui use it to buy the Manchu Qing.

Yang Chao was also resolutely opposed, bluntly saying that Wu Sangui had surrendered, all shaved his hair and accepted the canonization of the Manchu Pingxi King, and the Manchu Dynasty turned a blind eye to this, believing that it was Wu Sangui's strategy to pretend to deceive the Manchus.

This group of sour rot, Wu Sangui is obviously not optimistic about you, people are really taking refuge in the new master, but Yang Chao can't convince them.

However, Yang Chao put forward several beatings, but these civil officials did not have any objection. The first is that Yang Chao is deeply trusted by the emperor at this time, and he also has a good relationship with civil and military officials, and the second is that they don't care about Yang Chao's beating at all.

There are two topics for Yang Chao's performance. The first is to increase the training of 100,000 troops in Xinjiangkou, and the hundred officials agreed, and the emperor allowed him to play, and named Yang Chao as the general training soldier of the Xinjiang Estuary Regiment, responsible for the formation and training of 100,000 battalions of land and water; The second is that Yang Chao asked for the opening of the sea, set up a city ship division in Susong, and collected sea taxes to raise soldiers, and after a fierce quarrel, faced the dilemma of the first two scarcity. Yang Chao also issued a military order, expressing his willingness to support his 100,000 soldiers with sea taxes. After opening the sea, he did not ask the court for a tael of military salaries, and the courtiers agreed.

It is equivalent to Yang Chao gaining the right to raise troops through sea trade.

In other words, Yang Chao gained the power to monopolize the maritime trade of the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, a series of detailed strategies were also discussed. First, Yang Chao dispatched a wave of sailors to camp in Su Songcho to guard against the intrusion of pirates that the civil officials were worried about, and second, Yang Chao sent a civilian official to the city to supervise and prevent all kinds of illicit pirates.

At the end of the discussion, Yang Chao felt physically and mentally exhausted, but he couldn't go home after the next court, the new dynasty had just been established, the affairs were busy, and the communication under the court was equally frequent.

In the Jinchai Building, Yang Chao invited Yang Wencong to a banquet.

Yang Wencong was given the title of the military department, and when King Fu was in charge of the country, his brother-in-law Ma Shiying was promoted to the head of the military department. This time the crown prince ascended the throne, and under the sponsorship of Yang Chao, he was promoted to the left servant of the household department and went to sit in Susong City.

"Congratulations to Mr. Yang!"

"It should be the old man congratulating Uncle Yang."

The two congratulated each other without mentioning it.

Drinking wine, they exchanged some opinions about the court.

In the end, Yang Chao cut to the chase: "The boss is going to Su Song to sit in the city, dare to ask the boss if he may be honest?" ”

Yang Wencong has always been an ally of Yang Chao in officialdom, and he doesn't want this ally to ruin his own affairs because of corruption.

Yang Wencong nodded: "This official is not a greedy person!" ”

Yang Chao nodded, this person is greedy for power, not too greedy for money, but will charge some regular silver.

Yang Chao said again: "I don't know if 10,000 taels of silver a year is enough for the old man's expenses?" ”

The officials of the Ming Dynasty spent a lot of money, including the pomp and circumstance of traveling, and the salaries of hired staff, all of which were paid out of their own pockets, and the salaries of officials were very meager, which was not enough to spend anyway, so corruption became the default unspoken rule of everyone, no one would think that corruption was a kind of moral corruption, except when it was necessary to fight opponents, no one would accuse others of corruption.

Yang Wencong thought about it and nodded, Kedao is Qingshui Yamen, and he can't be greedy for a few dollars in the matter, and 10,000 taels a year is enough.

Seeing Yang Wencong nodding, Yang Chao affirmed in a certain tone: "That's good, this official will ask the imperial court to allocate 10,000 taels of money to the boss every year from the city, and the boss must not be greedy for one or two foreign wealth, otherwise the official will turn his face and deny people!" ”

Seeing that Yang Chao said decisively, Yang Wencong couldn't help but ask in a low voice: "What about the common practice?" ”

I have been an official in Jiangnan for a long time, and I know that the city department that deals with maritime trade must be a yamen with a lot of oil and water, and it is not good to compare it with the Caoyun yamen, so the common practice of filial piety of the businessmen is ironclad and rich, and it is really a little reluctant to ask Yang Wencong to give up.

Yang Chao shook his head firmly: "No! If the boss thinks that 10,000 taels is not enough, you might as well say a number. Corruption is resolutely not allowed! ”

Yang Wencong understood. Yang Chao wanted to use 10,000 taels of silver to buy out all his income except for Yulu.

I have been an official for so many years. In order to climb up, I really haven't accumulated much money. even lost a lot, it was easy to get this fat shortage, but it was really difficult to make people rich.

At least 10,000 taels is not enough to ensure that he is not tempted, Yang Wencong gritted his teeth: "How about 30,000 taels?" ”

Yang Chao was very happy: "Deal!" ”

Then Yang Chao took out a list and handed it to Yang Wencong.

"There is one thing that annoys the old man to be accommodating. The city is newly established, and the boss has to employ people in his hands, and these people are all usable talents. It's enough to be a clerk. ”

Yang Wencong saw the dense list and positions, from the bell runner who checked the goods, to the charge secretary of the house, Yang Chao prepared it for him, which obviously made him a bare-bones commander, put him high, and didn't let him take care of things, so he gave 30,000 taels of silver every year.

Yang Wencong can not be corrupt, but as a supervisor, he will install officials to accept some benefits. It's not a common practice, it shouldn't be considered corruption, but Yang Chao doesn't even give him this leeway. The most important thing is that this is tantamount to setting him up in the air, and he will not become an ornament in the city in the future.

Yang Wencong doesn't care about taking care of things, but he is afraid that if something happens, he will have to take the blame, who knows if this newly established city division will cause trouble, in case there is a sea bandit, Yang Chao, who has a heavy army, will be fine, whether he, the city ship superintendent, will be pulled out and killed, maybe, if there is no own person inside, how can this be at ease?

Although it was Yang Chao who protected him. Yang Wencong still refused to agree: "Uncle, this is not in line with the rules of the imperial court." ”

Yang Chao said with a smile: "The city is new." There are no rules. There is the hard work of the old man, and the official can guarantee the old man. As long as the boss works hard, he will be promoted to another level in three years! ”

When Yang Wencong heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, he was already a squire, wouldn't it be said that he could be a scholar, and it would be enough glory to be a scholar, and he would be a cabinet assistant minister before he died, but he would be in the picture!

He was immediately tempted, as for what Yang Chao said about doing things with heart, what is doing things with heart, it's not simple, isn't it just doing what Yang Chao said.

Yang Wencong's words immediately changed: "Uncle is reasonable, and the lower officials will be reluctant to make it difficult." ”

Ichiboji has arrived!

Insert Yang Wencong to do a furnishing, and then all the people who do the following things are their own people, the city ship division is Yang Chao has the final say, this city ship division is not simple, as the only open city ship division, it is equivalent to the general customs of later generations.

The Ming Dynasty has a lot of power over the import and export of such a scale, the civil officials do not know, but Yang Chao is very clear that in later generations, the General Administration of Customs is directly under the central government, and the director level is equivalent to the minister, which is equivalent to the level of the six Shangshu.

The most important thing is that this import and export involves tens of millions of gold and silver exchanges, and Yang Chao only used 30,000 taels to buy Yang Wencong without interfering, which is not a high cost.

With the City Division, there is also a need for a ship.

Now Yang Chao has more than 90 large ships in his hands, 40 of which were snatched from Liu Kongzhao, and 50 of which were built by Longjiang Shipyard under Shi Kefa's materials, and when Yang Chao went north, they were all built. Yang Chao also had a hundred small boats, which were given by Du Shouchang.

A total of 200 large and small ships, Yang Chao thought that it was far from enough, to control the Yangtze River trade, and at the same time to guard the river defense, Yang Chao felt that not a thousand ships were simply not enough.

There is no ship, but Yang Chao has money, the last time he traded with the Zheng family, he finally got more than two million taels of profits, which should have been given to Emperor Chongzhen, but he had no blessings, and now it is all in Yang Chao's account, and Yang Chao intends to use it to buy a boat.

On the one hand, he asked the shipowners who were doing transportation business in the market to buy, and on the other hand, he asked Longjiang Pass to build a batch of them, requiring them to start the horsepower, and from today all the new ships were delivered to Yang Chao, all of which had to be larger unit sailboats, flat-bottomed shallow boats and the like.

Then he negotiated with the Zheng family again, Yang Chao's current position is stronger than in the past, and the Zheng family accepted Yang Chao's rules without the slightest hesitation, and in the future, the Zheng family's ship can sail to Yang Chao's city port in Songjiang, and they are not allowed to enter the Yangtze River to do business with others.

Until the end of June, Yang Chao was fighting for interests in the court, making deals in the court, playing all kinds of political tricks, going to the court during the day, staying in the Jinchai Tower at night to meet guests, and was too busy to go home, but his mother got angry and sent someone to call Yang Chao, saying that he would not go home after not going home.

Yang Chao had no choice but to go home honestly.

Because his mother couldn't wait, he asked Yang Chao to take a concubine immediately, and quickly give him a grandson, Yang Chao was a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood all day long, which really made the Yang family and his wife afraid, although he didn't want to think about it, but he was really worried about an accident, if there was no grandson, the Yang family would be desperate.

Therefore, it was not only the mother's idea to let Yang Chao take a concubine and have children immediately, but the father was more active.

Take a concubine, who to accept? Naturally, it was Dong Xiaowan.

This made Yang Chao a little difficult, and he really didn't think about how to face this famous prostitute who had already lived in his house.

After being reprimanded by her mother, when she returned to her bedroom, Dong Xiaowan had been waiting for a long time.

The two stared silently for a long time across the round table, Dong Xiaowan didn't dare to look at each other, and lowered her head with a red face.

Yang Chao couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Miss Dong shouldn't be a girl who hates to marry!" (To be continued)

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