Zhao Wei, the prefect of Nanjing Prefecture, walked through the corridor of his own courtyard in a little panic. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The servants who followed in front and behind were all tiptoeing and moving very lightly, obviously not wanting to attract more people's attention.

Zhao Wei originally promoted Changping affairs and the prefect of Jiankang Mansion on Jiangnan East Road, the former Song Dynasty official residence, and seemed to be in an important position, but in fact, those who held this position knew that there were also Jiangnan East Road pacification envoys, Jiangnan East Road transfer envoys, and so on.

Therefore, Zhao Wei's identity and status are very embarrassing, to put it simply, he is actually a transport officer who transports grain and grass to the soldiers stationed in Jiankang Mansion. And Rao is comfortable serving those soldiers, and when they really wait for the Mongolian Tatars to kill, they may not really scream and go to the battlefield, and the possibility of collapse at the touch is greater, so for this drudgery, Zhao Wei would rather not do it.

However, he was originally a talented person, and it was not so simple to really want to find an important position in the officialdom, so he could only stay so aggrieved, at least it is better to have an official than not to be an official.

However, Zhao Wei, the prefect of Jiankang Mansion, did not take office for a few months, and the sky changed, and the Great Song Dynasty, which had returned to its glory and glory because of the victory in Xiangyang, finally disappeared under Ye Yingwu's deliberate release of water and the deliberate surprise attack of the Mongol Tatars.

When a dynasty collapses and the world is in turmoil, it is the time for heroes to display their talents, and it is also the time for shrewd people to speculate. Zhao Wei asked himself if he was a hero, but he was also half a shrewd person, so he quickly knew how to stand in line. Because Jiankang Mansion was not far from Huzhou, where Ye Yingwu was at that time, Zhao Wei's allegiance to Ye Yingwu appeared in front of Ye Yingwu's eyes almost the next day.

Ye Yingwu naturally praised this, and after Zhao Wei was established in the Ming Dynasty, Shi Shiran took office as the prefect of Nanjing. It seems that Zhao Wei is no different from the previous official position of the prefect of Jiankang Mansion, but in fact, everyone knows that this guy has taken advantage.

Although it is still this city, but now the Ming Dynasty has pushed the front line to Heluo, Nanjing City is no longer the front line, and because of the establishment of the Ming capital here, it has gradually surpassed Lin'an, becoming the first economic, cultural and political center in the south of the Yangtze River, and the first state capital in the world.

What's more, for the old ministers of the previous dynasties, few of them were assured and boldly appointed directly to important positions, and most of the methods adopted were to ascend first and descend secretly, and consider them casually for a noble position, but now Zhao Wei is sitting in the position of the prefect of the capital, which is obviously the emperor's trust in him, and even the basic test is gone.

Huang En Shenglong, it is impossible to say that others are not jealous and greedy. This also makes Zhao Wei's own hardships can only be hidden at home. Nanjing Prefect, on the surface, this is definitely a glamorous position, but in fact, the old fritters in the officialdom understand that this position is actually very sad.

The so-called three lives are unfortunate, and the county is attached to Guo; Three lives do evil, attached to the neighboring provincial capital; The evil is full of evil, attached to Guo Jingcheng.

The prefect is like this, and so is the prefect, and Zhao Wei is the guy who was "full of evil" in his previous life. Because you must know that Nanjing is now the imperial capital of the Ming Dynasty and the center of the huge country, not only His Majesty the Emperor is here, but also dignitaries and nobles gathered, and it can even be said politely that when the dynasty will retreat, every official who comes out of the hall can make Zhao Wei tremble three times by stomping his feet, and it can be said that as long as he is careless, he may capsize in the gutter.

So such a worrying job, those old fritters in the officialdom have always avoided it.

Zhao Wei also has a headache in the past few days, and there is more than one, for example, there is a conflict between the government of the Divine Guard Army in the capital and the newly established painting academy of the Hanlin Academy on the land, and the two sides directly roll up their sleeves and fight when the quarrel is fierce. Xiucai met a soldier, and it was unreasonable to explain, let alone fight. Immediately, more than 30 students and officials of the Hanlin Academy were beaten by more than a dozen Shenwei soldiers and ran around the streets, and finally they could only make trouble in Nanjing.

This Hanlin Academy and the Academy have always been in the same breath, and they are in charge of the heavenly veins, and many great Confucians of the present world are here; And the Divine Guard Army is the only garrison in the capital except for the Praetorian Guard, which is responsible for the defense of the whole city in peacetime, and the whole army has just returned from Shandong and Nanyang, and they are all the masters of the murderous Yingye Fuying City. Neither of these two sides can be provoked by Zhao Wei, and the main thing is that he can't afford to provoke the prefect of Nanjing Prefecture, how dare the criminal department really tear up with these two parties, so the criminal department simply ordered Zhao Wei to solve the matter with full authority.

In desperation, Zhao Wei could only drag.

And this case is just one of many headaches.

But these are important, but there is one more thing that makes Zhao Wei even more troublesome. It was the man he was going to see now.

An uninvited guest.

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The Grand Canal of the Sui and Tang Dynasties is divided into four parts, extending from Lin'an all the way to Luoyang, and then continuing northeast to Youyan after crossing the river. However, since the fall of the Tang Dynasty for hundreds of years, the canal has not been properly maintained and maintained. Five dynasties and ten kingdoms were in turmoil, there was no unified dynasty, so those countries were more expected to block the canal to resist the enemy's sailors, to the Song Dynasty, the attention of the water supervisor has always been on the big river, after all, sometimes flowing east, sometimes north, and sometimes seizing the big river into the sea, it is too difficult to serve, and has been threatening the safety of Bianliang.

It's a pity that until the Jingkang Change, the water superintendent did not completely solve the problem of the big river, let alone the canal. When the Song Dynasty crossed to the south, with Huaishui as the front line, it repaired and maintained various canals in Jianghuai, so as to facilitate the communication between the north and the south of the sailors. However, the Central Plains has been in turmoil, and the Tongji Canal from Huaibei to Luoyang and the Yongji Canal from Luoyang to Youyan have basically been blocked and deserted.

In history, in order to be able to connect Dadu with the rich Jiangnan, Kublai Khan ordered Guo Shoujing to command the capital water supervisor to dredge the canal, and it also took ten years of effort to directly divert the Yongji Canal to the south and go straight to the Jianghuai, instead of using the previous canal, which shows that the northern canal has been basically abandoned and difficult to navigate.

At the end of May, in Huaibei, the warm breeze blows slowly in the surrounding desolate fields.

Huaibei is the place where the Song and Jurchen and Mongolia have been at war for a long time, the Song army is strong and goes straight to Shandong, and the north is strong and oppresses Lianhai, it can be said that the two sides have invested a lot of manpower and material resources in this land, but in the end it is still a confrontational situation.

Sailing in Huaibei, there are even more abandoned camps and deer antlers than villages and towns.

However, it is obvious that compared to Huaibei, which was shrouded in murderous and dark clouds before, Huaibei at this time has become much more lively. A large number of Han overseers recruited from the south of the Yangtze River and more Nanyang slaves and prisoners of war from the north arrived in Huaibei one after another, and began to dig and dredge the Tongji Canal from Huaibei to Luoyang.

The most important item of the Ming civil administration is to dredge the canal, but Ye Yingwu does not plan to directly connect Youyan and Lin'an like Kublai Khan at this stage, after all, for Kublai Khan, he urgently needs the wealth of Jiangnan, so it is undoubtedly the best policy to build a canal from Jiangnan to Dadu. But for Ye Yingwu, now Youyan has not been recovered, and the Heluo that he just got in his hands is in ruins, so it is of course the best choice to directly maintain the original canal, so that he can use the economy and wealth of Jiangnan to drive the recovery of Heluo.

After all, even 700 years later, water transport is still one of the cheapest and most suitable modes of transportation for large quantities of goods, let alone in an era when there are no planes or trains. Therefore, in the future, the Ming Dynasty continued to advance northward, and if it was more convenient and faster to obtain grain, grass, and equipment supplies from the south of the Yangtze River, it was more necessary to rely on the canal.

The dredging of the canal is urgent, especially in the context of the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty and the domination of the world. The entire Ministry of Industry naturally put this work in the first place, which is ostensibly a people's livelihood project, but is actually a strategic project, and the treasure ship of Liujiagang has just been launched and debugged for two days, and Guo Shoujing has already led people to the north. After all, water control is his ability to make a fortune, and he is also the only person who can be found by the Ministry of Industry to command the water superintendent of the capital.

Although Ye Yingwu and the Ministry of Industry knew very well that this was too tiring and even unfair for Guo Shoujing, who had been running around, Guo Shoujing did not complain at all. Ye Yingwu could only go with him, he knew Guo Shoujing's character, so he didn't want to force it.

This is a man who can forget to sleep and eat for the prosperity of the country, just like 700 years later, when poverty and backwardness even had to rely on planning and planning. It's just that now, Daming is not poor or backward, but most people want to make it stronger and stand at the top of the world forever.

A huge building ship slowly split the water, and there were four warships of the Jiangfu Navy Division of Daming Zhenjiang on the left and right sides of the building ship. The Zhenjiang Naval Division was originally a small-scale naval division that had to be set up to defend Ye Yingwu's only foothold in the south of the Yangtze River, and later participated in many water battles, but did not expand the scale, compared with the current Nanyang Fleet and the Beiyang Fleet, the warships of the Zhenjiang Prefecture Naval Division have become short and old.

However, soon a batch of brand-new warships launched from Liujiagang were added to the Dazhenjiang Naval Division, and the government and the opposition understood the role of the Zhenjiang Naval Division. This is not only the "port sailor" who defends Zhenjiang Mansion and Liujiagang Shipyard, but also the Praetorian Guard fleet that Ye Yingwu does when he travels. All of the new ships were state-of-the-art clippers and flat-bottomed heavy gunboats suitable for river navigation, and these boats were equipped with the latest naval guns, which were more focused on stability than the initial guns used by the Army Division in the Battle of Chengdu, even at the expense of some of the refill speed.

After all, the Ming Navy is rampant in the world, and all opponents are not at the same level at all, so a more stable and accurate artillery is obviously more in line with the needs of the navy than a faster-firing artillery.

Five large warships headed north, the red dragon flag fluttering in the wind.

Ye Yingwu stretched out his hand to lift the curtain and looked at the hustle and bustle on both sides of the canal, a large number of laborers were struggling to dig the river and build post stations and wharves along the river in the setting sun. Chen Li and Chen Tong knelt on Ye Yingwu's left and right sides and carefully beat his legs, while Qiongluan, who was sitting next to him, peeled off a petal of orange and handed it to Ye Yingwu's mouth.

"If you go further than the Lianhai Sea, you will have to turn to the land route." Zhao Yunshu pointed to the map and said helplessly. Compared with the carriage, which is always rocking and has a small space, it is naturally comfortable to ride on a boat.

"What about Wei'er and Huiniang?" Ye Yingwu asked while chewing on an orange.

"Look at the scenery outside," Zhao Yunshu snorted, "Don't worry, you can't lose the two of them." ”

Ye Yingwu let out a deep sigh.

This time he planned to go north two months ago, and after he ascended the throne, Ye Yingwu began to plan his northern tour. After all, Heluo has sunk for a hundred years, the people are displaced, and the people's hearts are unstable, so they really need a capable person to appease them, but Wen Tianxiang and they are all busy with the reform of the civil service system, and Ye Yingwu finally found that it seems that the entire government and the opposition are the only ones who are idle.

Beihuan Heluo sacrificed to the tomb of the Chinese emperor of the previous dynasty, preached the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty, and appeased the hearts of the army and the people of Heluo. This matter has been elevated to the problem of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and those who want to question and oppose it must first look at their own courage, in this kind of illusory study of the destiny of heaven, it has exceeded the scope of the people and ministers, and since ancient times, the attitude adopted by the civil and military officials has been "Your Majesty, you are happy."

Ye Yingwu went north, and it took three or four months to come and go, so the Emperor Ye Mengding and the Empress Dowager Chen, who had just been on the throne for a month, discussed with Empress Lu Wanyan, and all the concubines who had a skin-to-skin relationship with Ye Yingwu but had no children were pushed onto the boat.

In this regard, Ye Yingwu could only sigh.

I think that when Emperor Yang of Sui went south, the dragon boat formation opened thousands of miles, but they only brought half of the harem. But now Ye Yingwu's five ships have basically installed his own harem. Although Ye Yingwu didn't want to waste a lot of money and food to support so many women in the three palaces and six courtyards, he actually didn't have many of them, and most of them had to stay up until they were thirty years old and released according to the palace rules. But Bibi was still a little sad about the style of Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Yang of Sui.

Anyway, this is the richest era in China for 5,000 years, and the life of the Ming Emperor is too simple and shabby.

Ye Yingwu directly snatched the map from Shu'er sideways, glanced at it casually, and said in a deep voice: "Qiongniang, is there no movement in the capital now?" ”

Qiong Luan nodded: "Not yet, after all, Wen Xianggong's tone has only been released for a day, how can these people have to calculate in their hearts." ”

"The emperor toured the north, the elites of the court and the central government went out to supervise the reform, half of the Praetorian Guards pulled out of the city and the sailors practiced, and there were still young princes in the palace who could be used as puppets······" Ye Yingwu counted them one by one with his fingers, and counted the Chen sisters who beat his legs, but Ye Yingwu looked at the top of his head with a smile, "The good conditions that can be given to them are all here, these guys should not live up to XX's expectations, otherwise there will be no excuse to clean them up when the time comes." ”

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Under the dim light, Zhao Wei looked nervously at the three people sitting in front of him.

They were all wearing cloaks, and they couldn't even see their faces clearly, but Zhao Wei knew very well what the origin of these people was.

The bereaved families of the previous dynasty, the redundant officials who received money and food empty, the former ministers of civil and military affairs who were transferred to inconsequential positions, it can be said that almost all the people who were dissatisfied with this new dynasty gathered together under this dim light, maybe a few years ago they were still looking at each other unpleasantly different parties in the court, but now they are all the same fallen people.

Everyone understands what caused them to lose everything.

The Ming Emperor who was born like a comet also revealed that the reform of the civil service system was about to be implemented in the entire territory of the Ming Dynasty.

The reform of the civil service system, to put it more clearly, is to reduce the redundant officials of various names in the previous dynasty by a large extent, so that all the central and local organs of the imperial court will become more efficient, and in addition, on the basis of the imperial history platform, new supervisory organs will be established at various levels, so as to eliminate the possibility of corruption as much as possible.

This has fundamentally shaken the interests of these people, because it will mean that the black veil hat on their heads may not be long before they are gone.

They don't want and don't want to see such an outcome.

So the people gathered around the table and sat next to the lights.

After a long silence and waiting, the person opposite Zhao Wei said in a cold voice: "Now that Ye Yingwu is not in the capital, Wen Tianxiang and the others are dispatching officials from the Imperial Historical Observatory and the six ministries to disperse to supervise the system renewal and reform of various state capitals. ”

Zhao Wei's pupils contracted slightly.

The other two nodded, and said in a deep voice:

"This is a godsend, and it's the last chance we can grasp now." (To be continued.) )