Just when Fu Daquan agreed to Li Quan's conditions and was attached to Li Quan, Jia Shi also heard about Fu Daquan and felt that this Fu Daquan might be a means for him to balance the loyal and righteous army, so he agreed to Li Quan's proposal and appointed Fu Daquan as the Haizhou Soldier and Horse Inspector, so that Fu Daquan became an officially appointed official of the Song Dynasty in less than half a year.

This incident made Gao Huaiyuan very happy, because if Li Quan was unilaterally appointed, Fu Daquan would not be able to get rid of the name of a righteous army, but now with Jia She's approval, Fu Daquan can be regarded as a famous teacher, which is a big gain for him.

The battle of Haizhou finally began to start in March of the sixteenth year of Jiading, under the full preparation of Fu Daquan and the secret support of Gao Huaiyuan, Fu Daquan mobilized a total of 4,000 elite soldiers and horses under his command, and began to storm Haizhou City, and the area around Haizhou City was guarded by more than 2,000 loyal and righteous troops led by Pei Yuan, and the loyal and righteous army was suppressed by many parties, not to mention the lack of troops, and the equipment situation was also very poor.

After a fierce battle between the two sides in the Haizhou area, Pei Yuan's loyal army was no match for Fu Daquan's Flying Tiger Army, and the result was a complete defeat, Pei Yuan was killed on the spot, and the rest of the soldiers were all captured by the Flying Tiger Army, and captured Haizhou in one fell swoop.

As a result, Fu Daquan's Flying Tiger Army became famous in the first battle, becoming a brave and capable army under Li Quan, and even captured a key city in Shandong.

And this battle for Fu Daquan's Flying Tiger Army gained a lot, one is that he captured Haizhou, the original loyal army, and obtained several salt farms in the Haizhou area, so as to obtain a self-sufficient way to buy and sell, and another huge benefit is that he obtained a good port, and since then he has opened up a water channel on the sea, and in the future, he will no longer need to rely on the land channel to obtain Gao Huaiyuan's secret support, eliminating a lot of unnecessary expenses.

The biggest gain is not these, but after Fu Daquan captured Haizhou, he immediately controlled many merchant ships at the Haizhou wharf, and even annexed the naval army of the loyal army in Haizhou to his army, which was a huge surprise for Gao Huaiyuan.

You must know that in this era, in this area, it is not enough to rely on an army alone, other warlords have their own naval armies, so that they can cooperate with the waterway, and Fu Daquan lacked conditions before, and did not have the ability to form his own naval army, this time after eating more than a dozen sea ships of the loyal and righteous army in Haizhou, he can have his own naval army, and in the future, it will be much more convenient to advance and retreat along the coast of Shandong.

So Gao Huaiyuan immediately sent a letter to Fu Daquan, so that he immediately expanded in Haizhou, while recruiting troops and horses, enhancing strength, while using the strength at hand, as much as possible to collect some fishermen along the coast, set up a fleet of his own, starting from Haizhou or Rizhao, going back and forth between Mingzhou and Yangzhou to do water transport transactions, and consolidate the power in Haizhou, vigorously attract investment in Haizhou, and attract merchants from the south to do business there, but must not follow Li Quan's example, harm businessmen, only need to collect reasonable taxes, Regain the prosperity of the Haizhou area as soon as possible.

In order to strengthen Fu Daquan's strength, Gao Huaiyuan specially ordered Jia Qi and Huang Zhen to transfer a group of people to Haizhou to listen to Fu Daquan's account, help Fu Daquan do things, and gain a foothold in Haizhou as soon as possible.

This incident made Gao Huaiyuan secretly busy for more than two months, before he could be regarded as understanding Fu Daquan's affairs, and the rest of the things depended on Fu Daquan himself to lead people to toss in the Haizhou area, to what extent it could develop, Gao Huaiyuan couldn't expect it for the time being, anyway, now that his goal has been achieved, with the ability of the people under Fu Daquan's hands, he believes that it is much more united than the ordinary rebel army, and in terms of training, he is confident that like his subordinates, he is also much stronger than ordinary people, and now in addition to Li Quan, Shandong is now in addition to Li Quan, If the other forces want to swallow Fu Daquan again, it is basically impossible.

So Gao Huaiyuan let go of this matter and turned his attention back to the capital.

Since Gao Huaiyuan arrived in Lin'an City, in addition to doing what should be done, he also did one thing for his father, although Gao Jian has been an official for a long time, but he has not done anything too big, it can be said that the official evaluation is average, but it is just very stable, so for ten years, he has been in Shaoxing as his seven-grade general judge, and has not been promoted.

And after Gao Huaiyuan arrived in the capital, how could he help his father, after all, Gao Jian had reminded him of this matter in his letters many times, thinking of what Gao Jian had done for him over the years, Gao Huaiyuan agreed.

He through the people on the household side, after spending a lot of money, he finally found a chance for his father Gao Jian to be promoted, that is, there was a vacancy in the position of Yangzhou prefect, and he needed to fill such a position, so Gao Huaiyuan immediately notified his father Gao Jian after learning the news, on the one hand, he asked Gao Jian to find someone in the capital to dredge up the relationship, on the other hand, he also secretly helped, and finally after passing some operation, Gao Jian became the new prefect of Yangzhou.

This time, Gao Jian was also dragged up, and suddenly jumped from a seventh-rank official to a fifth-grade prefect, and the success of this matter was not separated from Shi Miyuan, Zheng Qingzhi helped Gao Huaiyuan a lot this time.

Things are actually very simple, after Gao Huaiyuan learned about this, he took the time to invite Zheng Qingzhi to have a meal, it seemed that he was making friends with Zheng Qingzhi, in fact, after several months of contact, Zheng Qingzhi no longer had a bad feeling for Gao Huaiyuan, and the relationship between the two became quite harmonious, in teaching Guicheng, Gao Huaiyuan did help Zheng Qingzhi a lot, often when Guicheng was slacking off or absent-minded, Gao Huaiyuan could come forward to persuade Guicheng for Zheng Qingzhi, Make Guicheng pay attention to his studies again.

In this way, Zheng Qingzhi had a good impression of Gao Huaiyuan, and felt that he was very good at doing things, which reduced a lot of trouble for him, so during the dinner with Gao Huaiyuan, Gao Huaiyuan pretended to be casual and said the troubles of his father Gao Jian.

Shi Miyuan didn't take it seriously after hearing it, he didn't pay much attention to Gao Huaiyuan next to Guicheng during this time, and he hadn't heard Gao Huaiyuan's name mentioned for a long time, and after being mentioned by Zheng Qingzhi again this day, Shi Miyuan remembered that he had said before that he wanted to see Gao Huaiyuan.

So he asked: "If Mr. Zheng doesn't mention it today, the prime minister has really forgotten about him, since these incidents, can that Gao Huaiyuan still be safe after becoming the head of the guard of the Yiwang Mansion?" ”

Zheng Qingzhi hurriedly bowed his head and replied, "Xiangye, please rest assured!" Since this Gao Huaiyuan became the head of the guard, he has been very peaceful, and has never done anything overstepping, and he treats the people in the palace with courtesy, and has won the love of the people in the palace, although this son is not a scholar, but he is also very reasonable, and he is quite cool, and he is very balanced in handling the affairs of the house, so that his subordinates are very admired.

Xiaguan has observed this son for a long time, and did not find that this son has any vices, and in terms of Guicheng, since this son arrived in the palace, his mood has improved a lot, and he can focus on his studies with peace of mind, and now he has made great progress in his studies, and this matter is also inseparable from this person, Guicheng listens to his persuasion very much, and sometimes it is even better than Xiaguan to speak, which can be regarded as a lot of help for Xiaguan!

That's why this time the lower official will mention this person in front of the prime minister again! ”

Shi Miyuan twisted his chin and smiled slightly: "Oh? In this way, Mr. Zheng's acquaintance can only be very optimistic about this person? ”

Zheng Qingzhi nodded and said: "According to the observation of the lower officials, Gao Huaiyuan, a young man, can be said to be a person with no ambitions, some ideas of being rich and peaceful, he is very satisfied with the current state, and he is also quite familiar with current affairs, so it will not affect Xiangye's plan, if Xiangye can personally meet this person in time, presumably as long as he shows favor to him a little, this person will definitely be used by Xiangye!"

There is also the fact that this son is born with divine power, and the palace guards sometimes will learn martial arts with him in the courtyard when I teach Guicheng, and they are not his opponents, no wonder this son can repeatedly make military exploits in front of the army, and it must be inseparable from his divine power! Rather a usable person! ”

After thinking about it for a while, Shi Miyuan nodded and said, "I have written this matter, you can take the time to bring him to my house another day, and let me meet this son!" I'd like to see if this person is a man of the times, as you say! ”

So two days later, Gao Huaiyuan was taken to Shi Miyuan's mansion by Zheng Qingzhi, originally he was not mentally ready, so early to meet Shi Miyuan, but as soon as he saw Zheng Qingzhi this morning, Zheng Qingzhi told him, let him prepare, take him to meet an important person in the afternoon, Gao Huaiyuan thought of meeting someone when he heard it, so he quickly took leave and left the palace, and after returning home, he immediately sent Li Ruohu to Huang Zhen's shop and took a set of quite high-quality glass wine utensils, It was presented in a rather delicate sandalwood gift box and brought back to the palace.

In the afternoon, Zheng Qingzhi asked Guicheng to study painting in the palace, left the palace with Gao Huaiyuan, and drove towards Shi Miyuan's mansion.

Zheng Qingzhi glanced sideways at the gift box that Gao Huaiyuan mentioned, and said with a slight smile: "Huaiyuan seems to have expected where to go!" I actually prepared in advance! Can you tell me, how did you guess that I was going to take you to see Shi Xiangye this time? ”