Zhang Guoji said: "What we discussed is that not long ago, who was promoted to the right attendant of the Northern Soldiers, is the fourth daughter of a merchant and merchant of the Zhedong Shi clan. ”

The Northern Soldier is the military headquarters of the Beijing Division, which is usually distinguished from the military headquarters of Nanjing, and the military headquarters of the Beijing Division will be called the Northern Soldiers, and there are also times when they are called the main soldiers.

After Zhang Guoji said this, Han Jue also replied with a smile: "Uncle Shang Shi is the protégé of his father, don't worry, the girls of his family are famous in the local area, and they will not insult Enfu's noble status." ”

Shang Ming is Shang Zhou Zuo.

Zhang Gui knows a little bit about this person.

This man had two daughters, and he is indeed famous in history.

A name named Shang Jinglan is the wife of the famous minister Qi Biaojia.

A name called Shang Jinghui, historical records record that Shang Jinghui has national colors, erudite poetry, poetry and Tang Dynasty.

And Shang Jinghui is Shang Zhouzuo's fourth daughter.

Zhang Gui nodded after hearing this, thinking that since it is famous in the annals of history, it should not be bad.

"This is a famous lady, not comparable to those dusty prostitutes in the Qin Lou Chu Pavilion! If it weren't for the grace of the saint and the choice of your sister to enter the middle palace, people like us would not be able to climb high, even now because Yuanfu is the master of others, otherwise, people may not be able to look down on relatives from small families like us. ”

Zhang Guoji said to Zhang Gui: "Don't pick and choose!" ”

Zhang Gui slapped the folding fan into his hand: "I didn't pick and choose!" ”

As he spoke, Zhang Gui glanced at Han Jue and said in his heart: "This is a good move for the Han family to let their son vote under their own door, and let their protégé marry their relatives!" My father would have agreed. A new elite is gradually forming. ”

"It's good if you don't have it."

Zhang Guoji said and instructed: "You must be honest these days, the merchant has not yet entered Beijing, you have to go back to your hometown in Zhejiang first and then take your daughter to the north, don't wait for him to come to Beijing when the time comes, but he learns that you are doing nonsense again, which breaks off this family business, brushes away the good intentions of Yuanfu, and also leaves a gap between teachers and students." ”

"It depends on the dishonesty of some civil officials, but I can't be honest."

Zhang Gui replied.

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Fujian governor Shang Zhou Zuo was on his way back to his hometown at this time, and he was now happy and worried.

The joy is that because his mentor became the first assistant, and now he has been promoted to the right attendant of the military department, crossing a very important threshold on the road to the official career, and finally becoming the official of the sixth department.

You must know that most of the governor-level civil servants can only be transferred back and forth in the governor's office all their lives, and they can only enter Beijing as a court official until their beards are white, and they only become the right attendant of the northern soldiers in a few years, if it is not for someone in the court, it is impossible at all.

But Shang Zhouzuo was worried that his mentor Han Yi showed favor to him first, and it was not without conditions, the condition was that he wanted his protégé to marry his relatives, and asked him to marry his daughter to the uncle of the dynasty.

But he heard that Zhang Gui, the uncle of the dynasty, was arrogant, so he was a little worried that once he obeyed the master's order, he would harm his fourth daughter.

But these days, the relationship between teachers and students is a very important human relationship, and Shang Zhouzuo is not easy to refuse, but because of this, he has also paid special attention to the comments about his uncle Zhang Gui these days.

He already knew through the "Di Bao" that Uncle Zhang Guo came to Jiangnan to recover the levies as the commander of the West Factory, so he specially changed into civilian clothes after entering the boundary of eastern Zhejiang, and went to contact the local people, wanting to understand what Zhang Gui and the West Factory did in Jiangnan.

Shang Zhouzuo was actually very resistant to the fact that the West Factory came to Zhedong to collect taxes, and he was also worried that when these factory guards came to the place, they would rely on the imperial power to expropriate and expropriate them.

Because he has the impression that although eastern Zhejiang is a rich land, in fact, there are already many homeless people starving.

Bureaucrats, officials, and gentry have long forced many state capitals to be barren and even unable to communicate with merchants, and many originally prosperous cities and towns have also declined due to the exploitation of the government.

Therefore, he was worried that after the West Factory also came, it would make eastern Zhejiang even worse, and maybe there would be a large-scale rebellion in the Jiajing period again.

However, Shang Zhouzuo has not yet entered the territory of Zhejiang.

He is still in Fujian and is heading to Xianxia Pass.

But along the way, Shang Zhouzuo had already seen that many homeless people were also heading in the direction of Xianxia Pass, and some of them fell down as they walked.

Shang Zhouzuo was already accustomed to this, and he had seen many such homeless people along the way.

Just like the scene when he came to Fujian to take office.

Shang Zhouzuo still felt a little guilty because of this, and secretly sighed that as the former governor of Fujian, he was actually not good at governing Fujian.

After coming to a county town near Zhejiang, Shang Zhouzuo saw that there were still piles of beggars in this county, filthy everywhere, and very dirty, and some small traders passing by here were being chased and beaten by officials, but some giant businessmen were easily in and out of the county seat, and were not stopped for interrogation.

Shang Zhouzuo felt more and more that his former governor of Fujian was incompetent, and what worried him even more was whether the Zhejiang area with the participation of Xichang would be worse, with more displaced people and ordinary businessmen unable to do business.

At one time, when he arrived at Xianxia Pass, the only way to enter Zhejiang from Fujian, Shang Zhouzuo found that the number of displaced people here had decreased significantly.

"Hey, why aren't there any homeless?"

When Shang Zhouzuo returned to eastern Zhejiang, he found that in the area of Shaoxing in eastern Zhejiang, he could hardly see the starvation of the homeless.

After entering a town, Shang Zhouzuo found that there were a large number of small stalls and vendors, large and small cargo ships gathered along the river, and there was hardly a single official errand in sight, only a checkpoint with a lantern in Xichang was set up at the mouth of the river, and a large cargo ship was paying taxes there.

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Shang Zhouzuo also found at this time that the streets of the Jiangnan town he was passing by at this time were also very tidy, and there were even old women with strips of cloth embroidered with the word "sanitation" between their sleeves to clean the streets.

Seeing this, Shang Zhouzuo simply didn't take the sliding pole anymore, ordered the servant to put him down, walked to the vicinity of the checkpoint where Xichang collected taxes, and asked a merchant: "What are you selling?" ”

The merchant smiled and said, "Back to this master, the grass people sell some oil." ”

Shang Zhouzuo nodded, and asked again: "There is an official school in Xichang here, aren't you afraid that they will be expropriating and tyrannical?" ”

"Back to this master's words, your accent sounds like we are local, but your eyes seem to grow in the field, it is precisely because of the soldiers of the West Factory here that the grass people dare to come here to sell oil, otherwise how dare to come, I am afraid that I will not be able to keep the book that has been exploited by the officials."

The merchant replied.

Shang Zhouzuo felt very strange after hearing this, and asked again: "Why do you dare to sell oil here because the official school of the West Factory is here?" ”

"Because all the officials who come from the county to eat and take cards will be executed by the soldiers of the West Factory for disrupting the commercial order, and the bullies who buy and sell will also be executed by the soldiers of the West Factory for disrupting the commercial order, and the soldiers of the West Factory will also organize people to clean the streets to facilitate our trading, so where there is the West Factory, we are naturally willing to do business."

The merchant replied.

Shang Zhouzuo nodded after hearing this, and asked again, "Where have all the beggars and homeless people here gone?" ”