Lin Duan and Jia Song, two young boys who are just in their early tens, have become talented and talented!

When the news came back to Rongfu, everyone was surprised and delighted, except for Mrs. Wang, of course, she was jealous, and now Baoyu was completely suppressed.

In addition, there are also students in the clan study this time, and there are more children who are admitted to the school, which shows the stronger teaching ability of the Jia clan study, which satisfies the clan and surprises relatives and outsiders again.

By the time Lin Duan and Jia Chung came back from the south with their classmates, it was almost the Mid-Autumn Festival.

At the invitation of Lin Ruhai and Jia Min and his wife, the eldest lord's family went to Lin Mansion to celebrate, and when they returned to Rongguo Mansion, they also set up a banquet, so that everyone in the mansion followed Lehe.

Although she sensed the jealousy in Mrs. Wang's eyes, the eldest lord didn't care, how could she still do it in the capital?

After a few days of excitement, Jia Song and Lin Duan went to Guozijian for further study, which made Lian Er a little sour, saying that he had never been to Guozijian, and the previous opportunity was forcibly given to Jia Zhu.

"What are you kid doing, work hard to wait for Zhuo'er to be admitted to Xiucai, and send him to the Guozijian for further study like Lao Tzu, don't show your grievances with Lao Tzu!"

The eldest man was not polite at all, and scolded with a smile and sprayed Lian Er's face with saliva.

Family affairs are quite smooth, but state affairs are a little difficult.

Northern Xinjiang, which has been stopped for many years, rekindled the war in the autumn of this year, and the arrival of several urgent reports at the border gates made the Mid-Autumn Festival atmosphere in the entire capital not very good.

Daqi has not yet reached the point of Wen Tian and martial arts, but many years of peace have consumed the blood of too many people, and they do not have a deep understanding of war.

In particular, almost all the generals who experienced the war during the founding of the country and the later generation died, and the overall combat effectiveness of the officers and troops of the Great Qi Dynasty declined sharply with the passage of time.

This time the border soldiers are the best example, the northern border pass did not have much defense, but the Hu people broke through the multiple passes in one go, almost causing a tragedy of the door being wide open.

Today, when I heard the news, I was so angry that I almost vomited blood, and I revoked the official positions of several guard generals in Northern Xinjiang in a row, and at the same time, there were not a few generals and colonels in Northern Xinjiang who were imprisoned and prepared to have their heads cut off.

While ordering the northern frontier army to make an emergency defense, he hurriedly dispatched Beijing battalion soldiers and horses to northern Xinjiang to support.

But looking at it, there are almost no generals in the DPRK who can stand up to the matter.

The strength of the Xungui family in the court is indeed not small, but after so many years of peace, the battlefield skills passed down by the ancestors have almost been forgotten.

The generals who can squeeze into the court, their own skills are average, mainly because of the strong forces behind them, and they are very good at drilling camps in the officialdom.

As for the Wenchen, there is no need to count on it, the Wenchen of Daqi is not the existence of Niu Bi in the Han and Tang dynasties, and has completely abandoned the model of being able to govern the army and the people on the horse, but concentrating on playing the tricks of the literati, and has completely lost the ability to command the army.

If you really want to choose Wenchen to go to the battlefield, I'm afraid that the ending will be quite bad, it is better to let the military generals from the noble background go out, at least they can still read according to the notes left by their ancestors, not to mention how they can do it, at least they will not cripple the border army.

Fortunately, the nine provinces are under the control of Wang Ziteng who is still patrolling the border passes, and now when we talk about a good general candidate, we can only let the prince rise to the top first, not asking him to have the style of an ancient famous general, but asking Wang Ziteng to stabilize the critical situation at the border.

Thanks to the crazy infrastructure of the Ministry of Industry in recent years, the Beijing camp dispatched 30,000 cavalry vanguard troops, both the speed of the march and the speed of logistics and material escort, which were more than twice as fast as before.

Such a rapid march also shocked the ministers of the court today, and after returning to his senses, there was a series of praises, all kinds of praise for the Ministry of Industry and the eldest lord.

Before, I only felt that the Ministry of Industry was engaged in infrastructure, although it increased the speed of vehicle travel, but the money spent was also expensive, if it were not for the big man to make a traffic money village, to absorb the idle money in the hands of the people to raise infrastructure funds, I am afraid that the Ministry of Industry is unable to put it into action even if it has the heart.

But now it seems that the eldest master's insistence at the beginning was correct, if he hadn't insisted on it and even been impeached many times, this would have raised the level of infrastructure in the Gyeonggi area, and at the same time increased the speed of traffic operation in the Gyeonggi area, and the marching speed of the Gyeongying camp would never have been faster.

At such a critical juncture, a little faster and a little slower is a major matter involving the fortunes of the country.

If the men and horses supported by the Beijing camp go late, the entire northern land will be in chaos, and the energy and cost required to clean it up will not be measured by simple money.

The Beijing camp was dispatched, and the eldest lord and the subordinates of the Ministry of Industry were busy, and now the imperial court saw the benefits of infrastructure construction, so they naturally wanted to repair the official road directly to the border pass area in one go, so as to provide good traffic conditions for future military support.

The old man sat in charge of the Ministry of Works, and the old gods were there, and the huge projects were divided into small tasks in an orderly manner, and then in just three days, the powerful craftsmen in the capital were summoned to subcontract out, and the Ministry of Industry only needed to send enough officials to supervise.

With the enthusiasm of these folk craftsmen, it is believed that it will not be long before all the main official roads from the capital to the border pass can be repaired, so as to achieve the goal of increasing the speed of the march that the imperial court wants.

It's just that although today's speech is about to engage in infrastructure construction, when the household department allocates the project money, it is quite unhappy, which makes the old man very unhappy.

Urging many times in a row, the household department is crying poorly, just the allocation of about three layers of project silver, as for the rest of the time can be in place, the household department said that it sounds good and very fast, but how long is this 'soon' is unwilling to pack the ticket.

Isn't that tricky?

The eldest lord is not a vegetarian, so he went directly to the palace to sue the head of the household, and complained unceremoniously in front of today: "Your Majesty, the household department is too unhappy, and now the project silver that has been repaired to the official road of the border pass has only reached about three floors, is this a white wolf with empty gloves?" ”

At present, the face is dark, and the heart is also surging, and the current border war is the most important thing, and the official road repair project of the Ministry of Industry is related to the speed of support for the officers and troops of the Beijing camp, and there is absolutely no room for any mistakes.

"Call the Tobe Shangshu and let him explain it to me!"

The eldest lord usually doesn't rectify people, but once he opens his mouth and wants to target someone, he is not sure that he will be able to protect it even today.

Although the intelligence network formed by the beggars seems very unstable and fragile today, we have to admit that the role that ordinary can play is still very staggering.

The eldest lord really wants to rectify the person, basically a whole time when he does not miss, and sometimes he is not happy to open his mouth during the court meeting, because once this guy opens his mouth, someone will be unlucky.

Although it is really shameful for some people to have low morality, they don't want the situation in the court to be chaotic today, and a stable court is still very useful.

Hurry, Hubu Shangshu hurried over, and when he saw the figure of the eldest master, he immediately understood what was going on, and he didn't wait for the eldest lord to fight today, and directly opened his mouth and cried poorly.

What household income is getting less and less year by year, why in recent years, natural disasters have continued, the household has taken out too much silver, and the border war that has just broken out How much money has been taken out by the household department, in short, the household department is short of money at the moment.

"Are you really nervous about such a field?"

Today's brows are furrowed, his face is very ugly, and he said angrily: "If I remember correctly, it seems that the income of the imperial court has been rising steadily in recent years, right?" ”

I really think that he is a fool today, since the great lord was in charge of the Soviet Province during the sea trade, the tax in the south of the Yangtze River has been higher and higher year by year, and he does not believe it when he says that the household department has no money.

"Your Majesty, there is a lot of silver on the account of the household, and most of it is the tax silver from all over the country that has not yet been escorted to Beijing, but it will take time for these tax silver to be escorted to Beijing!"

Tobe Shangshu also has a reason to justify, and directly said the most difficult situation at the moment.

The eldest lord is the old god who is standing aside and is an observer, and as for the way of speaking that avoids the important and trivializes the Hubu Shangshu, he is quite disdainful.

How could there be no silver in the household?

I'm afraid that I have other ideas, or I have taken a fancy to the transportation money in the hands of the Ministry of Industry, right?

It's just that this thing, the big man will never give it easily, and the traffic money bank is like the modern Bank of Communications, which is of great significance to the Ministry of Industry and Yamen, and it must not be easily let out.

With the transportation money in hand, the Ministry of Industry and the Yamen can basically get rid of the coercion of the Ministry of Households, and some small and medium-sized projects can be decided independently, without having to discuss everything at the court meeting, and then ask the Ministry of Household Yamen for money and silver just like begging for rice.

The key is that there are great interests involved, every time the household department allocates silver, at least it has to go to the third floor, which is the result of the Ministry of Industry directly asking for silver, if the Ministry of Industry is just a middleman, the household will only deduct more money.

The money that has been deducted will not remain in the state treasury, but will go directly into private pockets.

According to the eldest lord's statement, all the powerful officials in the household department are not wronged, such bad habits of officialdom have continued for many years, and if the eldest lord is incapable, it will be forgotten, but when he has the ability now, he will naturally not tolerate the adulterer.

The Ministry of Industry can raise money to solve the problem of small and medium-sized projects, and the Ministry of Household naturally has to make up for the silver later.

As for the large-scale projects that are of concern today, the household department does not dare to do anything at the top, and there will be a lot of loss of interests all of a sudden, which will naturally cause dissatisfaction and backlash among the household department.

The old man knows this!