Cao Yu asked someone to arrange a table in the welcome building to entertain Lu Tang.

I don't know what day it is today when the welcome building is overcrowded, and it really responds to the meaning of the two words "welcome", welcoming guests from all directions, so lively.

Cao Yu held his hands and asked, "Grandpa Lu, is the food here authentic?" ”

Lu Tang picked out some dried silk with chopsticks and tasted it carefully, and then said critically: "The master of Yangzhou? Although it melts a little bit of Beijing, it is quite authentic. ”

The glass was full of wine, Cao Yu toasted Lu Tang, and he said, "Father-in-law Lu, please." ”

"Please!" Lu Tang drank the wine in the cup in one gulp: "Enough." ”

Cao Yu insisted on chopsticks and smiled: "Don't just drink, eat some food." ”

After running around for days, Lu Tang never ate well all the way, and today he tasted the taste of his hometown, and he couldn't help but eat two more bites.

Cao Alcohol didn't eat either, he looked at Lu Tang with a smile, this person was thousands of miles away and risked being discovered to go to Beijing in person, he couldn't understand what kind of major event Lu Tang had encountered that required him to come in person?

The old god Lu Tang finished the rice in the bowl and took a sip of fragrant tea before saying, "Actually, my ancestors also know about my private return to Beijing this time. ”

"Oh?" Cao Yu twisted the Bodhi string in his hand and put on a wishful look.

"This year's affairs in the south, the whole court should know what the situation is." Lu Tang said word by word: "The torrential rain does not stop, the embankment is in danger, and long live and send people to check the yellow book... The sea is rampant. ”

"Still." Lu Tang paused: "None of this has anything to do with me. ”

The smile on Cao Ol's face froze.

"There are only two things I care about the most." Lu Tang pointed to the table and said, "That's weaving and taxation." ”

The Fran machine people came with Hongyi cannons and silver, and they wanted to make a large business with Daming in silk and porcelain, of which hundreds of thousands of horses were ordered for silk alone.

Suzhou weaving, Hangzhou weaving, Jiangning weaving, the three major weaving bureaus in the south of the Yangtze River have to undertake the weaving task is almost an unprecedented challenge.

Lu Tang came to Beijing this time for this matter.

"If Gonggong Lu is looking for the wrong person for the Weaving Bureau." Cao Alcohol pushed out the envelope full of silver tickets.

Lu Tang pushed it back again, and he copied his hand and said, "Lord Cao, the funds for repairing the river embankment haven't been allocated yet, right?" ”

"It's not dialed down." Cao Yu sneered: "What is Grandpa Lu's opinion? ”

"I don't dare to do it." Lu Tang said: "No one knows the things in the south better than me, and this time I came to Lord Cao to help us both benefit each other." ”

Mutual benefit? Cao Yu sneered in his heart, working with a person like Lu Tang is tantamount to seeking skin with a tiger.

But he said with a smile on his face: "I would like to hear about it." ”

"The three weaving bureaus in the south of the Yangtze River, Huang Gonggong of Jiangning Weaving, Wang Gonggong of Hangzhou Weaving and Suzhou Weaving under my jurisdiction." Lu Tang counted them one by one: "Don't mention anything else, just last year, the prince of Hangzhou weaving blatantly robbed dozens of weavers from my subordinates for his own construction period, which almost caused me to not be able to supply the royal satin last year." ”

Although Lu Tang is not the most prominent one in Nanzhili, he has quite a hand, and Cao Yu doesn't believe that he will be bullied to the head.

"Now to do silk business with the Francois people, the three major weaving bureaus will produce silk, and distribute it equally to our Suzhou Weaving Bureau, this amount will definitely not be less, there are no weavers, how to weave! How to make a difference! Lu Tang clapped his hands: "When the time comes, I won't be able to hand over the silk, and if the business is delayed, won't it cost me my life!" ”

Lu Tang sighed.

"Grandpa Lu wants to...?" Cao Alcohol said, "How is it?" ”

Lu Tang put the wine glass on the table heavily: "Of course, I want to take the opportunity into my own hands!" ”

The same for weaving, Wang Zhan'er of Hangzhou weaving and Huang Shunliang of Jiangning weaving always made a stumbling block, Lu Tang hated his teeth but couldn't help the other party, and now the weaving bureau has received a large order of trade, starting from this matter, he doesn't believe that these two people will not make mistakes!

The meaning of Lu Tang's words is obvious, he wants to get rid of the weaving in Hangzhou and Jiangning, and he sits alone.

Cao Yu smiled and said nothing, but he was disdainful in his heart, this Lu Tang has a really big appetite, and he is not afraid that he will die if he can't eat a bite.

"Governor Cao is mainly able to deal with this matter, and I Lu Tang will answer the matter of appropriation for the Ministry of Household to repair the river embankment." Lu Tang wants to pull the weaving eunuchs of the two weaving bureaus to step down, and he will have to deal with the people of the East Factory.

Cao Alcohol pinched the Bodhi string in his hand and opened his eyes and said, "How do you know that this matter will definitely be our turn to take care of Dongchang?" There is also a west factory in this court. ”

"Who are you? What kind of means are there that others don't know, can I not know? Lu Tang smiled with a little meaning: "You can catch the concubine back then, and now you can kill the West Factory." ”

Cao Alcohol laughed with a smile on his face, but he couldn't help but be wary of Lu Tang, he never mentioned it to others when he was promoted to Bingbi, it seems that Lu Tang has worked him.

"I should come down in this matter, what Dongchang can help will definitely help, and what can be intercepted will definitely be intercepted, and Grandpa Lu will take care of other things."

He said very clearly, Dongchang will help if he can, but if Lu Tang is caught by others if he is not clean, it will not be his business, after all, he is the master of ceremonies and the commander of Dongchang, and he is also the same family in the relationship with the father-in-law of Hangzhou and Jiangning Weaving, and tearing his face is not to give him face as a godfather.

The relationship in the palace is like this, a godfather has a lot of godsons under him, and the care is limited, who can go to what position depends on his own ability, and there is also infighting in the celebrant supervisor, not to mention the same brother under a godfather.

As long as things are not ugly, they can generally be erased, but if they are done too much, it is difficult to say.

In this regard, Lu Tang was very satisfied with Cao Alcohol's attitude, his purpose was quite simple, that is, to seal Cao Alcohol's mouth, as long as he controlled the group of wild dogs in Dongchang, who would dare to say nothing in front of the emperor.

"Gonggong Lu, you are also the one who has been in the celebrant eunuch, I won't talk nonsense about anything else, Huang Shunliang and Wang Zhan'er were much more beautiful than me when they were under the hands of the old ancestor." Cao Yu said: "When the people in the palace see it, they all say that the ancestors love our family the most, but in fact, you know who hurts the most." ”

Lu Tang only smiled and said nothing.

Don't look at the scenery of being on an errand in the palace, in fact, there are cliffs under your feet, and a wrong step is an abyss, and you don't even have a chance to turn back.

Cao Bo's most painful godsons have been released to take up positions such as mine supervisors, salt supervisors, and weaving supervisors, these positions are risk-free and idle, and who doesn't envy them?

Lu Tang, who can do things, first responded to this article, and every year Cao Bonian was good when he was in the palace.

"Father-in-law Lu, don't be too much." Cao Alcohol Road.

Lu Tang squinted his eyes and laughed: "How could it be." ”

It is not easy to get the household department to approve the silver, but Lu Tang made a package ticket, and the household department will definitely sign obediently at the end of May.

He didn't want to reveal too much with Cao Alcohol in any way, so he just let Cao Alcohol wait for the good news.

In this regard, Cao Alcohol still maintains a wait-and-see attitude, relying on others is better than relying on himself, he still starts from the Ministry of Industry according to the original plan, and puts pressure on the Ministry of Household together when the time comes.

This year, the money to repair the embankment must be allocated!