The three years of Daguan have passed, the New Year is coming, the queen is newly mourned, and everything in the Spring Festival of Zhaofu is simple, and there is no lantern decoration and large-scale purchase as in previous years. But the salaries, bonuses, and benefits of the people in the house are much more generous than last year, but they are faintly worried, the prince has been seriously ill since he came back from Beijing, and they have not seen the little prince who is happy every day for a long time, and only occasionally heard some news from the inner courtyard, saying that the prince's illness is good and bad, and he rarely goes out.

In the Spring Festival of the fourth year of Daguan, everyone finally saw the prince, but it was only two sides, one was when the ancestors were worshipped, when people saw the prince pale and thin, they knew that the rumors were true, and the prince's health was indeed not good; Another time was when the Qin sent a decree in Beijing, and the people in the house knew why the body of the prince of Lu Dao became like this, and knew what happened to the prince of Lu Dao when he entered Beijing, but it was not without good news, although the prince was fined for one year for violating the decree, but he was crowned as the envoy of the national army; Huang Jingchen was promoted to the provincial governor, and was added as an envoy to the Xuanqing Palace; Jianxi, who followed the prince into Beijing, was promoted to the head of the provincial palace, and the guards Pan Long and Xue Bao were awarded the eight-rank martial arts captain, and the rest of the people were from the eight-rank to the righteous school captain, and they all got official status.

Zhao Ta is not in good health, but his brain is not idle, although he has invested a lot last year, he still has a surplus of nearly 500,000 guan, of which the winery has brought him a net income of 300,000 guan; Although the workshop did not make any money, but it has also been fully rolled out and operated normally, and the greenhouse vegetables have expanded the planting area this year, and the income has increased by more than 100,000 yuan, compared to the tens of thousands of land rents.

As for how much money the glass workshop earned, he didn't say, and others didn't dare to ask, anyway, everyone saw that Mr. Huang had a lot of money, and he went to visit relatives and friends without anything. Those old friends in the palace used to say that Tong Guan was generous and generous, but now they have changed their words, and they all say that Huang Du knows that he has money and does not pick it, and no one has ever been disappointed when he opens his mouth, and he will give a tip of five or two taels of silver ingots, anyway, he will not come back if he does not spend 20,000 or 30,000 yuan on a trip back to Beijing!

Just after the Spring Festival this year, he assigned this year's tasks to several stewards, mainly to expand the workshop again, add an iron smelting factory, a textile factory, and build a few waterwheels, and strive to turn pure manual work into semi-mechanization, improve work efficiency, and reach an annual output of 5,000 agricultural machinery, 20,000 catties of refined steel, and 10,000 horses of weaving; Vigorously develop animal husbandry, and by the end of the year, we must reach the level of more than 10,000 pigs, chickens and ducks; strengthen the construction of armor protection, and use agricultural leisure to train farmers; Training and recruiting business talents, making reserves for the establishment of their own shops...

Zhao Ta was tossing and rejoicing here, and the court was also very lively. In the fourth year of Daguan, there was a long drought and no rain in the capital area, and a comet appeared, and the ministers took the opportunity to impeach Cai Jing again. In May, the imperial historian Zhang Kegong played dozens of times in a row, saying that Cai Jing had been an assistant to the government for eight years, and he was good at Weifu, and his power was tilted towards China and foreign countries, and Cai Jing was counted on dozens of charges of disloyalty and misconduct. In the imperial history, Cheng Shi Gongbi also impeached Cai Jing for his crimes. Shi Mao Zhu impeached Cai Jing, saying that his crimes were deep, although he was dismissed, he was still pampered, and he lived in seclusion in Beijing to do evil, so that the heavens and the people condemned each other, and hoped that the emperor would order him to be expelled from Beijing as soon as possible, so as to eliminate the disaster with the anger of the people.

Zhao Ji was forced by public opinion, star changes, natural disasters and other reasons, had to order Cai Jing to be expelled from Beijing, live in Hangzhou, and appoint Zhang Shangying as the left minister, it is also strange to say that on the night of his visit, the comet went but disappeared, and the next day the capital was dry and rained for a long time. The emperor was overjoyed, and personally wrote the two Daewoo of "Shanglin", gave it to Zhang Shangying, and changed the name of the next year to Zhenghe.

After Zhang Shangying came to power, he was determined to be loyal to the emperor, leave a name in history, be a virtuous minister, and specially wrote a poem to express his feelings: Virtue and politics are adjusted to the Tao and leisure, and the edict of the Celestial Dynasty is resigned. Dan's heart hangs like Wei, and the history of the green is shining on the jade wall. In the evening festival, the sun is warm, and the old age is sad and cold. Daping still has his own turtle learning, and he admires and admires the ritual punishment.

He knew that the people of the world hated Cai Jing, and when he established the government, he resolutely corrected his wrong line and changed the ten yuan to the three, making it unprofitable for those who privately minted a lot of money; The salt system of Shenzong was restored, and the salt of the six roads in the southeast was still purchased by the government; The resumption of the general warehouse system has made the transportation funds abundant; Stipulate and buy, convert, and transfer methods to reduce the people's taxes. He also advised the emperor to follow the example of Taizong and Shenzong, not to overhaul the palace, to refrain from extravagance, and to set an example of thrift.

It has been more than 40 years since the struggle between the old and new parties and the struggle within the new party has been complicated, and it is really moving. Officials are deeply aware of the uncertainty of the future in the political whirlpool, and they have all learned to adapt to the situation and steer the rudder when the wind blows. They know that He Zhizhong and Zheng Juzhong are the emperor's cronies, so they have nothing to fear, and Zhang Shangying has no political backers, no henchmen, and is not well versed in power, who is willing to die for him? In addition, Cai Jing has worked hard for many years, and the cadre network is intertwined, and the officials are worried that Lao Cai will make a comeback, so they don't want to do things desperately, and Lao Zhang's reform is not smooth. ,

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Time flies, a year passed quickly, Zhao Ta's career went to the next level, he took advantage of Lao Zhang's good policy, made every effort to develop, completed the goal set at the beginning of the year as scheduled, and also built a restaurant inn on the side of the wharf. Now this small pier has become a large pier. Although the wharf is not a merchant Jia Ruyun, but it is also a ship to and fro, Zhao's silk, agricultural machinery, livestock, shochu attracted a large number of merchants, 'low' taxes, but also attracted a large number of merchants to trade here, has formed a wholesale nature of the trading market, Zhao Ta has decided to immediately launch the real estate project, the construction of shops, warehouses, to meet the urgent needs of the majority of merchants.

Seeing that it has entered May, the weather is getting hot, Zhao Ta's body has already improved, but he still rarely goes out, every day he is either bored in the house to read, or hiding in the back of the martial arts arena to practice martial arts, now not only has grown a lot taller, but also is as strong as a calf, even a stone bow can be easily pulled.

"Lord Wang, you will live in peace, I will be dizzy when I look at it!" Huang Jingchen watched Zhao Ta jump around on a trampoline made of beef tendons, and from time to time he turned his head and shook his head and shouted.

"Alas, Uncle Huang, are you weak and have low blood sugar, tomorrow I will ask Imperial Doctor Wang to get you some ginseng supplements!" Zhao Tan jumped twice on the trampoline, slammed his head and flipped over, and said in front of Huang Jingchen's eyes.

"Lord Wang, I'm old, my eyes are spent, what is low blood sugar?" Huang Jingchen picked up the silk handkerchief and wiped the sweat on Zhao Ta's face and said.

"I don't understand this, I see that your face is full of red light, is it too good to eat on a trip back to Beijing, high blood pressure!" Zhao Ta took a large cup of tea to cool and said.

"What and what, I can't understand what you're talking about, Lord Wang!" Huang Jingchen shook his head helplessly and said.

"Uncle Huang, there is a chance to make a fortune, do you want to do it, let's divide it into twenty-eight when the time comes, and I will pay for you to contribute, how about it?" Zhao Ta no longer talked to Huang Jingchen, sat down and picked up a fan to fan the cold and said.

"I have to ask what kind of business it is, or you will earn me again, this time I sold a set of cups when I returned to Beijing, and I earned less than 10,000 yuan, but you sold it to me for 100,000 yuan, and I ran errands for you in vain!" Speaking of trading, Huang Jingchen is not a layman now.

"Tut, Uncle Huang, you can't see it now for 10,000 yuan, I think I gave you 5,000 yuan of your happy fart, I am grateful!" Zhao Ta pouted and said.

"Cut, I didn't know at that time that you could make so much money, last year a few workshops in the mansion alone earned nearly one million yuan, plus the share of the winery, and the stinky feed factory, you resold the tenants' chickens, ducks, pigs and geese, all of them made no less money, so I took such a little bit from you!" Huang Jingchen said with his orchid finger.

"Uncle Huang, you are content, you know that your monthly salary is only 30 yuan, I will give you no less than 100,000 yuan of public funds a year, not enough, you can't do this transaction, if you don't do it, I will find someone else!" Zhao Ta said disdainfully, now the two of them are not like master and servant together, but like a pair of old friends.

"Okay, I did, but you can't trick me and let me run errands for nothing!" Huang Jingchen made the old face of the prince red, although he knew everything, but it was only in reputation, and he had no real power, and now he relied on the prince to help maintain the relationship in Beijing.

"Okay, it's definitely a big deal, you can divide it into a hundred thousand yuan if you don't say it!" Zhao Ta leaned into Huang Jingchen's ear and said, "Lao Zhang is about to step down, let's take this opportunity to make a fortune!" ”

"Lord Wang, how do you know that Zhang Tianjue is going to step down?" Huang Jingchen was shocked, he hadn't heard of it when he just came back from Beijing.

"How do I know that you don't understand?" Zhao Ta gave him a blank look and said.

"Yes, yes!" Huang Jingchen reacted immediately, the prince has been instructed by the immortal master and can know what will happen next, "Although Zhang Tianjue's political performance in power is mediocre, he will not step down so quickly, right?" He still didn't quite understand.

"Uncle Huang, what do you think of Lao Zhang?" Zhao Ta asked rhetorically.

Huang Jingchen pondered for a while and said: "Zhang Shangying has more than one ambition, the city government is insufficient, the ambition is great and the talent is sparse, he despises his colleagues, and has the potential to give up who he is, although he can speak well, but he loves to talk rhetorically, and he lacks scheming and lack of strategy, just like the prince often said, 'he is a cannon', before the promulgation of the new decree, he often explained it to his colleagues and plates, leaving enough time for the opponent to obstruct and destroy, which makes his work very passive. ”

"Hmmm..." Huang Jingchen used to do some dirty things, of course, he knew a little secret, hesitated and said, "The other one he can't be a man, and the relationship with his colleagues is very tense, although the six consuls of Zhongshu Province are all mediocre, but they are all cronies of the emperor, especially the left minister He Zhizhong, the Privy Council made Zheng Juzhong, Shi Zhengguo did nothing, and he was jealous and jealous, and he was a master of fabricating charges." As soon as Zhang Tianjue came to power, he advocated the restoration of the banknote and salt law in Xining and Yuanfeng, so that the salt money business of the Zheng family and the He family suffered huge losses, and the two would not let him go. ”

"Uncle Huang is right, in fact, his main fault is that he can't make money!" Zhao Ta twisted his fingers and said.

"Does the prince want to help Zhang Tianjue make money to keep his position?" Huang Jingchen perked up and said, this business is a big deal.

"Alas, Lao Zhang is a gentleman, how can he collude with us everywhere to get money, and besides, it is a big crime for the prince to collude with the minister, I haven't lived enough, we can't help him!" Zhao Ta shook his head and said.