Chapter 176: Jiangning officialdom has changed

Wu Jin knew what his grandfather was going to say, he gave his wife a look, Su Han hurriedly helped the old man on the other side, and the two helped Huangfu Bailing into the inner room.

Huangfu Bailing asked the two maids to retreat, he sat down slowly, took a breath, glanced at Su Han, and smiled at Wu Jin: "Jiutian also knows?" ”

Wu Jin nodded, "My grandson told her." ”

Huangfu Bailing smiled slightly, "This is good, husband and wife are united and face challenges together." ”

He smiled at Su Han again: "Kid, don't worry, our strength is very strong, and Wujin will definitely succeed." ”

Su Han nodded silently, "I just hope that my grandfather can live a long life and everyone is safe." ”

"That's right, safety is the first thing."

Huangfu Bailing took out a piece of jade pendant and handed it to Wu Jin, "I have some important things here, all of them are relics left by your father, as well as two letters to you and Weiming, as well as the treasure seal of Emperor Jin'an and your father's prince seal, originally I was hidden at home, but I am now old, afraid of being secretly turned over by Xu'er and them, so I have stored it in Ziyun Nunnery outside the city, the owner of the nunnery, Master Yunlin, is my own sister, she is very reliable, with this jade pendant, you go and take everything away." ”

........ After returning from Ziyun Nunnery, the snow fell even more, and clusters of snowballs fell from the sky like cotton wool, turning the sky gray, and no one from the other side could be seen more than a dozen steps away, and the sky became dark, although it was only noon, it made people feel dusk.

The room was very quiet, the charcoal basin was burning brightly, making the room overflow with warm airflow, Su Han was half-nestled by the brazier, slowly flipping through a book, but her eyes moved off the pages from time to time and fell on Wu Jin at the table.

Wu Jin was looking through his father's relics and a pile of letters one by one, and the two treasure seals were contained in wooden boxes, which no longer had any meaning of power, and their only role was to prove Wu Jin's identity.

Wu Jin sighed, stuffed a letter back into the envelope, and he didn't read the other letters, and stuffed them into his skin bag.

"Husband, why don't you watch it?" Su Han asked strangely.

"I don't want to look at it anymore!"

Wu Jin shook his head, "It's uncomfortable to see, my heart is very depressed, I didn't expect that my father would be so pessimistic, in front of him, there was only darkness, and there was no hope in sight." ”

Su Han put down the book, slowly walked to Wu Jin's side, gently leaned his head on his chest, and said softly: "Because your father doesn't have any protection, he doesn't have the coat of King Liang like you, and he doesn't have the two major powers of Plum Blossom Guard and Water Army, he has nothing, just like a worm living in the darkness underground, anyone can pinch him to death, but everyone puts pressure on his shoulders, I think he is very pitiful, husband, you have to be considerate of him, we should go to the grave to worship." ”

Wu Jin grabbed his wife's waist, put his head on her chest, and nodded slowly, "His tomb is at the headquarters of the Phoenix Society on Ryukyu Island, and when the spring of next year begins, we will go to the Phoenix Society to pay homage to him." ”

Wu Jin stood up, took his wife's hand and walked to the door, the two looked at the snowflakes in the sky that were blown into long thin lines, Wu Jin let out a long breath of white air, and said with a smile: "The three big ships have arrived, and we will go home tomorrow." ”

......... Jiangning Mansion is covered with heavy snow, the sky has cleared, people who have been at home for a few days have come out of their homes to enjoy the sunshine after the first day of heavy snow, excited children run and chase in the snow, snowball fights, build snowmen, laughter resounded in and out of the city.

But life still has to go on, the dock began to get busy, one after another because of the heavy snow forced to stop the big ships, began to sail with all kinds of goods, but basically the ship arrived, at this time someone on the dock suddenly shouted: "Boat! Ship! ”

Many people looked at the river, only to see four giant ships lined up, like a mountain peak protruding from the river, countless dock workers have flocked to the shore, pointing to the boat and discussing, many people know that there was such a huge ship moored in the naval wharf, but at this time there were four at the same time, everyone's eyes were full of shock.

Some people who knew the details told everyone that the other three big ships were transferred from the three naval forces of Yongjia, Yanling, and Huiji, and there were four such big ships in the entire Chuzhou naval army.

Zhang Rong, the young man of Jiangning Prefecture, also stood on the wharf, he came to welcome the arrival of these four big ships, which transported 150,000 stone official grain, which was the first batch of official grain in Donghai County and Yanling County, every winter, all counties in Chuzhou had to transport the official grain to Jiangning Mansion for storage, and after the next day's spring, they would be sent to the capital by Jiangning Mansion.

This was originally a matter of the Jianghuai Salt and Iron Transshipment Division, but after the original transshipment envoy Zhang Buyun was transferred, the new chief official had not yet been appointed, so Huangfu Xuande issued an order that Zhang Rong, the young Yin of Jiangning Prefecture, temporarily manage the matter.

Zhang Rong watched the arrival of the fleet with his hands behind his back, he smiled slightly, last time he asked Wu Jin, could he ask him to use the naval warship to transport grain for himself, because the collection of grain in each county every winter is an extremely cumbersome and heavy matter, in the past, it was transported by small boats, the amount was small and many, and it was busy with this matter all winter, and the imperial court was not allowed to hand over this kind of matter to the private transport fleet to solve, it had to be transported by official ships, which was very tiring.

So in Zhang Rong's hands, he began to think about how to reduce this kind of transportation pressure, if the military ship for him to carry out sea and river transportation, this matter became very easy, he could pay a transportation fee, as an additional income for the Navy Mansion, his idea and was looking for income for the Navy Governor's Mansion Wu Jin hit it off, the two immediately decided to use the Navy Army's idle old ships to transport grain.

Today is the first step of their cooperation, and the officials standing next to them also have five or six officials of the Navy Governor's Office, such as Shi Cao Kaifu, their eyes are also full of joy and expectation, because the Governor of Huangfu promised them that at least sixty percent of the freight income of 10,000 taels of silver will be used as the regular expenses of the Governor's Office, which solves their distress of having no source of funds, that is, 6,000 taels of silver, which is 500 taels per month, how can they not be ecstatic.

The big ship slowly docked, and Wujin's ship did not transport grain, this is the command ship of the Chuzhou Navy, which cannot be used to transport goods, but the three big ships behind to transport grain.

Wu Jin got off the big boat with his wife and concubine and a few maids, Su Han and the others got into a carriage waiting next to him first, and Wu Jin walked towards the officials who greeted him.

"Lord Zhang, I'm really sorry that you have to come to greet such a big snow in person!"

Zhang Rong stepped forward and said with a smile: "Now the snow is so easy to stop, and I am suffocated in the yamen, so I came out to relax." ”

The two laughed and patted each other on the shoulder, there were some things that they didn't need to say, they understood in their hearts, Wu Jin smiled and asked, "Has there been any change in the officialdom of Jiangning Mansion?" ”

Zhang Rong saw that Cao Kaifu and the others had already come up, so he said in a low voice: "I'll tell you later." ”

Cao Kaifu and five or six officials from the Navy Army Government stepped forward to salute, "See the governor?" ”

Wu Jin nodded, and said with a faint smile: "It's hard work Cao Changshi, how is the situation of the government now?" ”

"Back to the governor, the government has completely changed, and we have also cleaned out the governor's office and asked the governor to inspect it."

"I'll go."

Wu Jin turned around and pointed to the three big ships, and said to them: "In the future, those three big ships and the other fifty three thousand stone big ships, as the logistics ships of the navy, will be directly managed by the governor of the navy, that is, Cao Changshi is in charge, you go and see it first!" ”

Cao Kaifu was stunned for a moment, "Isn't the logistics of the navy in charge of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion?" ”

Wu Jin smiled and said: "I'm going to talk to Zhou Changshi, and let him return the logistics of the navy army to us, it is estimated that there will be no problem, and you will be ready to be busy." ”

Cao Kaifu was overjoyed, if the logistics of the navy were under their control, it would be rolling money and grain! They were going to turn over completely, and several of the officials were grinning and glenning with joy.

"Go ahead! Go see the boat. ”

Cao Kaifu hurriedly walked towards the big boat with a few officials, and when he saw them walking away, Zhang Rongcai smiled and said: "The will of the imperial court arrived the day before yesterday, in order to quell the crime of chaos and ineffectiveness, he removed Yu Yaojiang from the post of Jiangning Mansion Yin, and transferred Yongjing Jingzhao Yin Han Shunyi to Jiangning Mansion Yin, but this person is famous for being mediocre and greedy, he doesn't care about anything in Yongjing, and the power is in the hands of Shen Ji who stays behind, followed by Shen Yuan's transfer of Guangling County Assassin History, what you never dreamed of is that Shen Qiwu, who had just been appointed as the county commander for a short time, was actually promoted to Shaoyin, It is said that the Manchu officials were in an uproar. ”

Wu Jin said with a smile: "How could I not have imagined that no matter how mediocre Han Shunyi is, he is also the prince's person, so the emperor promoted Shen Qiwu exceptionally, and also to give Uncle Shen Guo a face, I don't know who will take over the county order of Jiangning County?" ”

"It's the original county Cheng Zuo Yundou, who is also Uncle Shen's person, and there is an appointment that you can't think of."

"What appointment?"

"It was Wu Huaming, who was the embroidered guard of Chuzhou, who was transferred back to Beijing and replaced by Huangfu Yingjun, who was also the general of Guangling."

This appointment took Wu Jin by surprise, it was obviously aimed at him, "When did this happen?" ”

"Just arrived yesterday, he has already gone to Guangling, and he is the general of Guangling, if there is a war, he will directly command the five military governments of Guangling County and 10,000 troops, this time he has real power, no Jin, the emperor has good intentions!"

Wu Jin thought of the last time Shen Qiwu told him that the Nanshan faction actually supported the prince, and it was estimated that this kid told the secret, so he was able to reuse it, and Wu Jin couldn't help but sneer.

At this moment, a group of horseback riders galloped towards them, and quickly rushed to their side, only to hear a sharp voice shouting: "Is it that His Royal Highness King Heiliang has returned?" ”

Wu Jin saw that he was a eunuch in a brocade robe, so he nodded and responded: "I am!" ”

The eunuch took a few steps forward and shouted loudly: "The holy decree has arrived, and the heir of the Liang Wang, Huangfu Wujin and his wife will receive the decree!" ”

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(To be continued)