Nanjing is too far from Guangxi.

Zhai Zhe knew from the fold that he was born at least half a month ago. But after Zheng expressed repentance, the end of the Guangxi Rebellion was doomed, and it was up to Xu Yiyang to see if he could do it beautifully, so as to settle it once and for all.

Winter is coming.

In the past month or so, Jiangbei's government soldiers and strong men have crossed the Yangtze River and returned to Jiangnan. Li Zhi'an and Yuan Qizhou led their troops back to Yangzhou Prefecture, and Feng Qin led the rest of the troops and horses to garrison near Gaoyou Prefecture, and the war in Jianghuai gradually subsided.

There were two people sitting in the bedroom of the North Park of the Regent's Mansion, and there was no charcoal fire in the house like other Jiangnan wang clans, and the inside of the house was as cold as outside.

A night of steaming ginger soup was placed at the head of the bed.

The day before yesterday, the temperature plummeted, and Zhai Zhe, who has always boasted of his strong body, contracted a cold, and his cough today has improved slightly, and his mind is still a little dizzy.

A large stack of folds was placed at the head of the bed, and Gao Huijun read the book one by one.

Everyone in the world seems to have entered the winter season, and only Shaanxi is still at war. Zuo Ruojun should be very hard, but Zuo Ruo has never complained to him in the song.

Gao Huijun spoke with a Shaanxi accent, but fortunately, the Shanxi accent was similar, and Zhai Zhe could understand it.

After reciting three letters in a row, Gao Huijun reached out and touched the porcelain bowl as white as snow, and said softly: "Lord Wang, the ginger soup is cold, and if you leave it for a while, it will have no effect on repelling the cold." ”

"Bring it"

Gao Huijun picked up the ginger soup and walked to the bed.

Zhai Zhe stretched out his hand to take it, and drank it in one gulp, the hot and spicy taste flowed down his throat, and a wave of heat emanated from the depths of his body, as if opening every pore excitedly.

Gao Huijun stretched out his hands to take the empty bowl on the desk on the side, and took a soft cotton cloth over, wanting to wipe the residual juice from Zhai Zhe's mouth.

Zhai Zhe took the cotton cloth, he didn't like this feeling of being taken care of, it made him feel as if he was seventy or eighty. He is not yet old, and there are still many things to be done.

"Read on"

Gao Huijun retracted his hand like a frightened rabbit, picked up a book and unfolded it, and continued to read it in a soft voice.

This letter was written by Fan Yongdou, who first praised the effectiveness of the imperial court's increase in mining tax and commercial tax, and then told about the increasing scale of workshops in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, such as the weapons workshops in Hangzhou and Nanjing, the cotton spinning workshops in Suzhou, the steelmaking workshops in Taipingfu, and so on, and asked the imperial court to increase the labor tax.

After hearing this, Zhai Zhe covered his mouth and coughed slightly, and said, "Don't allow it."

Gao Huijun put the fold flat on the table, raised her wrist, and wrote down two words with a trembling pen: "Don't" She has a beautiful font, like a slim Jiangnan woman

The letter of approval would be passed down to several scholars, who would soon learn that she was a council member of the Regent.

Thanks to Mrs. Gao for teaching her to read and write during her wanderings, otherwise, how could she get such an opportunity.

The regent is in poor health and still can't let go of the government. But Zhai Zhe did not let Zhai Tianjian accompany him this time, did not let his wife Fan Yi help, and chose his concubine Gao Huijun to help manage the government.

Gao Huijun is like her aunt, Mrs. Gao, with a soft personality, no desire or ability to control zhì, and she gave birth to a daughter, who has no closeness in the court

Choosing her will not bring any psychological pressure to Zhai Zhe.

But he was not expecting the effect of the news spreading outside. The regent has a wife and two concubines, both of whom are already half-aged, only Gao Huijun is young and energetic, and some people immediately speculate whether the Gao family is very favored in the palace.

Zhai Zhe didn't know what the outside world said, and after six or seven days, he gradually recovered and returned to the study to deal with the government.

There are very few recitals from Shaanxi, and each letter is very brief, such as "a certain day in a certain month and a certain place to fight with the captives, if you are killed, and if a certain city is lost, the soldiers are lost." "On those folds, the most arranged are cold numbers, maybe in Zuo Ruo's eyes, those fallen soldiers are those numbers.

Today, Zuo Ruo came to another note, and Zhai Zhe ordered the attendants to select and send it. When he opened it, he saw only a few lines: "...... Recently, the weather has been freezing and the fighting has slowed down a little, but the soldiers have froze to death and the wounded are ,......"

Zhai Zhe breathed heavily in his nose, and after a short period of calm, he still put the song on the ground, and ordered: "Summoning Zongmao, Liu Quan"

Seeing the regent so angry for the second time, the attendants panicked and sent out the order, and the palace guards rode to the mansion of Zong Mao and Liu Quan.

There was nothing to do in winter, Zong Mao and Liu were all in the house, and they came in a hurry after receiving the summons.

Liu Quan arrived first.

When he walked into the study, Zhai Zhe's face was already calm, and he pointed to the fold that he threw in front of him.

Liu Quan picked it up, and after reading it, his face became whiter than the snow on the roof outside.

Zhai Zhe reprimanded: "The situation of the Shaanxi army is special, I have already explained a lot, even if it is purchased in Sichuan, you must send the food and salary, are you counting the money in Nanjing." ”

Liu Quan knelt down and hung his head, and said: "I have carried out nearly 100 caravans into Shaanxi this year, but horse thieves are rampant on Longxi Road, and after October, the Qing Dynasty often sent cavalry to search and arrest, and the trade route was interrupted. ”

"And then, and then you pretend that this thing has not been born?" Zhai Zhe's voice was cold, "Does Zong Mao know?" ”

There was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and the attendant passed the word at the door: "Zong Shangshu asks to see." ”

Liu Quan gritted his teeth and said, "Zong Shangshu doesn't know. The villain has been communicating with Sichuan businessmen, hoping that they can continue to traffic materials to Shaanxi. ”

Zhai Zhe was in a very bad mood today, and scolded mercilessly: "The imperial court and Shaanxi are isolated from Sichuan, and Henan is also controlled by the Qing Dynasty, so I want to let the caravan traffic, is this how you do things for me?" ”

He was rarely angry, Liu Quan knelt on the ground, his palms were cold, and he didn't dare to come out.

Zong Mao walked in slowly, and when he saw the scene in front of him, he stood aside, not daring to speak.

"Zong Mao, look at that performance, if the two of you supply Shaanxi, you can't do a good job, don't come to me in the future."

Zong Mao took the fold from Liu Quan's hand, and after reading it, he knelt side by side with Liu Quan without saying a word.

Zhai Zhe knew that it was difficult to supply Shaanxi from Jiangnan, but no matter how difficult it was, he couldn't ignore Zuo Ruojun. The sergeant died on the battlefield and died as he deserved, but he could not tolerate the soldier freezing to death in the field, even though he knew that it was only a rebel.

"I will let Zuo Ruo do his best to pass Longxi, but from today onwards, you must know that everything I ask for cannot be discounted."

"You have followed me for more than ten years, and you are not as reliable as Ma Shiying. Zong Mao was fined for half a year, Liu Quan, hum, you donate 20,000 taels of silver to come out and sacrifice the army."

Zhai Zhe immediately made a punishment decision, and the two people kneeling on the ground did not dare to have any objections.

"Stand down"

Zong Mao and Liu Quan smiled bitterly as they walked out of the study.

Strictly speaking, this matter is not considered a failure of the household department. It's just that Liu Quan and Zong Mao didn't report to Zhai Zhe in time when they encountered difficulties, so that Zuo Ruo's twists and turns came to the front.

The two of them have been trying to find a way to solve it, but after winter, the weather in the northwest is cold, and no caravan is willing to travel. Zuo Ruo didn't know the difficulties, and suddenly filed a complaint.

The two walked out of the regent palace, and Liu Quanzhi ordered his carriage to go first, and he waited for Zongmao's carriage.

The two sat cross-legged across from each other in the carriage, silent, but they knew each other's reasons for the incident.

Zong Mao was faintly angry and said: "General Zuo is too small-bellied, he is really hard in Shaanxi, but he shouldn't fiddle with us like this." ”

Liu Quan smiled bitterly: "If you leave those three thousand war horses to him, there will be no today." ”

Zong Mao's words were firm, and he said: "The imperial court wants to form cavalry in Huguang, not in Shaanxi. ”

Liu Quandao: "What he said in the performance is pitiful, now we are very passive, and if we want to mention this matter again, I am afraid that we will be treated as a small belly by the prince and deliberately framed."

Zong Mao raised his right hand and said, "No need, I will guarantee good supplies for the Shaanxi army."

It's a long story.

Since August last year, the trade route between Shaanxi and Longxi has been opened, and the imperial court has trafficked a total of 10,000 war horses from the grassland and western Sichuan to Huguang on five occasions and handed them over to Xiao Zhiyan and Che Fengjun.

In mid-August, a caravan led by the Hubu purchased a batch of 3,000 war horses in the Chahar Department in the Hetao grassland, and these war horses were seized by Zuo Ruo after entering Shaanxi.

The household official who accompanied the escort was Li Baolai, a close confidant of Zong Mao, and he was easy to say, but Zuo Ruo resolutely refused to let these war horses go on the grounds that these war horses belonged to the imperial court and the Shaanxi army needed war horses more than the Huguang army.

Li Baolai has followed Zong Mao for many years and knows Shangguan's temper, if these war horses are detained, his head will not be saved. He forced him to die, and even ordered the caravan to stop trafficking grain to Shaanxi.

Zuo Ruo Qianli sent a letter to Zong Mao to be accommodating, but was rejected by Zong Mao and asked him to apply to the General's Mansion. However, Zuo Ruo did not submit an application to the General's Mansion for some reason. The 3,000 horses were not released until the end of September.

That's the end of the matter.

Zong Mao did not mention the matter to Zhai Zhe for a number of reasons. If he took the initiative to report this matter, it would either seem to be suing Zuo Ruo, or it would seem that he was applying for a war horse for Zuo Ruo, and there was a suspicion of collusion between the courtiers and the border generals.

But now it seems that the breath in Zuo Ruo's heart has not calmed down.

Liu Quan is in charge of the Rishengchang and is nominally independent of the household department, but he and Zong Mao are both managing Zhai Zhe's finances, so the relationship between this creditor and the debtor is very quiet

The carriage walked through the bustling streets to the Hubu Shangshu Mansion with the sound of hooves.

Liu Quan was a little unhappy, he took the charge alone today, worried that Zhai Zhe would be dissatisfied with him.

Zong Mao said: "The Zheng clan has surrendered, and the prince promised to swear an alliance with the Zheng clan, and there will be no more war in the south." The life of the household department will get better and better. General Zuo is only temporarily difficult, or just temporarily important, I really don't understand why he wants to be my enemy. ”

"I heard ......," Liu Quan stopped his mouth at the right time. Liu Suifeng is far away in Yunnan, he shouldn't talk much.

"The world is going to be decided" Zong Mao didn't care what he said, he stretched out and said, "The prince is ready to send Zheng Sen back to Fujian." ”

Liu Quan didn't know about this news.

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