But speaking of which, I don't know my official university without leaving Beijing.

Basically, as the highest position in the local area, that is, a transfer envoy all the way.

And Wang Youqian's own job is just to be made in the Xianwen Pavilion, and the rank of the four grades is equivalent to Li Hao, which is different from the local feudal officials in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

However, this is also normal, the Great Song Dynasty has always paid attention to strong cadres and weak branches, which is not only reflected in the army, but also maintains this principle in the management of local government affairs.

In each way, there are pacification departments, transit envoys, and criminal prison departments, which are in charge of local military, civilian, financial, and criminal law functions, so the ranks of these officials are generally not high.

Unless it is directly depreciated by the DPRK and China, it may retain the grade and be low.

So don't laugh at the five-grade petty officials in Bianjing, they want to come down to the place, and they are also *** at the road level.

When he found out about Li Hao's arrival, Wang Youqian led the officials forward, accurately found Li Hao, and said, "Wang Youqian, the envoy of the capital transfer on the Huainan West Road in Xia Nai, has met Master Li and his colleagues here.

I and a group of officials from Huainan West Road and Yangzhou were very happy to hear that you were coming, so we came here to greet you."

Li Hao smiled and said, "Lord Wang is too polite, you and I are both from the fourth grade, how can I let you come out to greet you."

If this is to be spread, others may think how arrogant and domineering I am."

Wang Youqian explained: "You are an official sent by the official court to inspect the salt, and you have the emperor's order, so it is also appropriate for us to come to greet you."

Li Hao said, "Lord Wang said this, we are all working for the official family, so there is no difference.

But the next thing really needs your help, so I'll ask you for it first."

Seeing this, a group of local officials hurriedly politely said that they would do their best to help.

After the politeness was over, Wang Youqian said, "It's not too early to see that it's not early, so we won't be blocking the city gate here.

I've already arranged accommodation for you and your colleagues in the city, so why don't you go and settle it down first.

Later, I have arranged a reception banquet, and we can talk about it at the banquet."

Hearing this, Li Hao replied, "There is no need for a residence, you should also know, I am from Yangzhou."

My family's house in Yangzhou has been cleaned up a few days ago, and since I want to stay in Yangzhou this time, then I will go home to live, anyway, the house is quite spacious."

Then he looked at the official behind him and asked, "What do you think, if you are willing to live in my mansion, you can live in the place arranged by Lord Wang, and I will not force it here."

After listening to Li Hao's words, of course, no one was really stupid enough to live in the place arranged by Wang Youqian, and they all opened their mouths to live in Li Hao's mansion.

Seeing this, Wang Youqian was not angry, or this was originally expected by him.

So he continued: "This is my negligence, and I forgot that you are from Yangzhou for a while.

Since you don't need a place to live, forget it, but you have to eat the reception banquet later."

Li Hao agreed this time: "Of course, I just want to take this opportunity to get acquainted with the officials in Yangzhou.

However, the yamen of the transfer envoy is in Chuzhou, and Lord Wang is staying here in Yangzhou, will it affect the handling of affairs?"

Wang Youqian explained: "This is naturally not possible, I have already taken care of urgent matters in advance.

This time I came to meet Lord Li, and I will return to Chuzhou in two days."

Li Hao said: "Then I will rest assured, I am mainly worried that I will miss my official business, Lord Wang, forgive me."

Wang Youqian smiled: "I naturally understand this, the matter of the reception banquet is so decided, and the location is set in Yechun Tower, I think Master Li also knows this place."

Otherwise, you will go back and settle down first, and when the time comes, I will have someone go to your house and invite your lords."

Li Hao naturally agreed, and then took everyone back to his home in Yangzhou.

By the time everyone arrived, Fu Deng had already led his subordinates

Waiting outside the door, but among these people, Li Hao suddenly found a person.

Of course, it wasn't just Li Hao who saw this person, Sheng Hong, who was standing next to Li Hao, and called out his name softly, "Fluttershy."

Li Hao explains, "It's Fluttershy, and my mother met her on the streets of Yangzhou.

Thinking that she had taken care of her aunt for many years after all, she had no credit and hard work, so she took her back to the house to settle down.

I forgot to tell my uncle about this, this is my fault."

Sheng Hong said: "What is this saying, when I let her out of the house, I also sent her a return deed, who she will vote for later, what does it have to do with me."

Li Hao replied, "Uncle has a lot, and the little nephew is relieved."

As they spoke, Fu Deng and Fluttershy greeted them, and Li Hao told them to take someone to settle Sheng Hong and them first.

Since all of them are men, and Fu Deng is leading the way to handle the basic arrangements, Fluttershy just tells the kitchen to prepare some fruit for everyone to temporarily pad their stomachs.

By the way, I brought a plate and came to Li Hao's yard.

At this point, Li Hao asks, "Fluttershy, why did you come to Yangzhou too?"

Fluttershy replies, "The eldest lady said that she was worried about Fu Deng's poor service, so she asked me to come and help.

In addition, considering that I am from Yangzhou, here, some small things may be more convenient for me to do.

So on the fourth day after you left, I also set off for Yangzhou to catch up, and I hurried to catch up, and finally arrived in Yangzhou City, which I had arrived in the first two days."

Hearing this, Li Hao said, "Then you have worked hard all the way, but it's good to come.

There are so many people living in the mansion now, and Fu Deng is not careful in his work, so you can help take care of it.

In addition, don't worry about the Sheng family's affairs, I just told the Sheng family's uncle."

Just as the two were talking, the little guy came over to report that Cai Xiang was looking for him.

Now Li Hao is curious, what is this guy doing here.

Invite Cai Xiang in, and Fluttershy to make two bowls of tea.

After Cai Xiang came in, Li Hao asked, "What, is this a subordinate who treats Master Cai slowly?"

Cai Xiang said, "This is not true, I didn't come to talk about it."

Then he said, "Your Excellency ordered the men and horses of the front division of the palace to separate from us, let us go into the city first to attract attention, and want to hide the men and horses of the front division of the palace in the dark.

This trick is not clever, these officials in Huainan can know our actions well, and even the transfer envoys who are far away in Chuzhou are waiting here in advance.

There are so many people in the front of the palace, and their movements are much bigger than ours, how can this hide these officials in Huainan."

Li Hao explained: "Yes, so I don't have much hope, it's just a try, it's gratifying to succeed, but it doesn't affect us if we fail."

This time, all the officials in Huainan know that we are here to investigate them, and they must have made sufficient preparations, and if they want to deal with them, they naturally need to take a long-term view."

Hearing this, Cai Xiang said, "Since the adults are so prepared, I want to go to the salt field in private in the next two days.

There is such a big loophole in the salt tax, there must be something wrong with the salt farm, and I want to see if I can find any clues from it."

Regarding Cai Xiang's enthusiasm, Li Hao was still very happy and agreed: "Lord Cai is willing to go, that is naturally good, but the salt field must be heavily guarded.

If you don't have a chance, then don't break in, it's better to retreat first, and then we will make plans."

Hearing that Li Hao agreed, Cai Xiang didn't say anything.

Fluttershy's tea is brought up, and Cai Xiang takes a sip and says, "What kind of tea is this, it tastes great."

For this question, Li Hao really can't answer it, there is no way.

Although Li Hao has been here for so many years, he really hasn't made much progress in the tea ceremony, especially this kind of tea that has been decocted, and he can't drink it for a reason.

He motions for Fluttershy to reply, "This tea is from Bianjing."

Cai Xiang couldn't help but taste a few more mouthfuls after hearing this, and said, "The official family is really very fond of adults, and this kind of imperial tribute tea, even if there should not be much in the palace."

Li Hao said: "No matter how good this tea is, when it comes to my hands, I can't drink it well.

Since Lord Tsai likes it, then Fluttershy, you can wrap up all the little dragons you brought with you, and let Lord Tsai take them away."

Fluttershy goes down to clean up, and Cai Xiang says, "That's so embarrassing, a piece of the dragon group is worth two taels of gold, it's not cheap."

After hearing this, Li Hao smiled and said, "Anyway, I didn't spend money to buy it, and I can't sell the things that are given to you, since Lord Cai likes it, I will give it to you."

But don't say anything when you go out, or I won't have so many things to give away."

Cai Xiang laughs when she hears this, and when Fluttershy returns, Cai Xiang leaves with the tea.

As a result, Fluttershy says, "Childe, you're so generous, it's a few dozen dollars a gift."

Li Hao explained: "This thing is not given for nothing, as long as he can help me get things done with his heart, this money is not worth mentioning.

And you think he really wants to be greedy for this cheapness, and people just want me to rest assured."

Fluttershy doesn't seem to understand, but she understands the severity, and goes straight down without asking.

After that, it didn't take long for the people sent by Wang Youqian to arrive.

So Li Hao called everyone out, and everyone went to Yechun Building together.

When everyone arrived, they found that Wang Youqian and they were already waiting outside Yechun Tower.

After receiving Li Hao and them, everyone walked in together.

When he came in, Li Hao found that there was no one inside, and he couldn't help but say, "Lord Wang is so polite, it's just a reception banquet.

Why did you still wrap up all the Yechun Towers, this is too grand, and it cost a lot of silver."

Wang Youqian said: "It's not that I'm afraid of disturbing my colleagues' meals, because the money was made up by local officials and didn't use public money.

And you can rest assured that this compensation is in place, and will never come to take advantage of the people."

Li Hao said, "That's good, you really shouldn't take advantage of the people."

Then they went upstairs, sat down at several tables, and then notified the kitchen to start serving.

While waiting, Li Hao can be regarded as having recognized all the officials.

Soon the delicacies in the kitchen were served on the table one by one, and they were really all delicacies from the mountains and seas, and all kinds of precious delicacies were spread all over the table, which made people can't help but move their appetites.

However, among the people brought by Li Hao, they looked at Li Hao very consciously, such a luxurious delicacy, if it was usually in private, they would eat it.

But before the officials who are about to be investigated, they invite them, so it is important to be particular about whether to eat this meal or not.

And as the officials from Bianjing looked at Li Hao, the officials from Huainan also looked over.

But Li Hao didn't care about this problem at all, after all, just this meal, it was not enough to touch Li Hao.

So he said: "There are so many good dishes, everyone looks at ***, hurry up and eat it, it's not delicious when it's cold."

Seeing Li Hao's movements, Wang Youqian also immediately said, "Yes, yes, everyone hurry up, the food doesn't taste good when it's cold."

Then all the tables started to move together, and during the banquet, local officials frequently came to toast and say hello.

Li Hao also did not refuse to come, until he was almost drunk, so he excused himself to be drunk and stopped moving his wine glass.

At this time, Wang Youqian personally came to toast and said, "If other people don't drink it, you have to drink my wine."

Li Hao replied: "Lord Wang, I'm afraid this is really not good, the rules I set for myself, this wine is enough to drink until you are slightly drunk, and if you drink it again, you will lose your manners.

So when I can, I don't pick anyone, and anyone can drink a few glasses.

But if I drank it

It's almost, and I can't drink it if anyone comes to toast.

After all, there are no rules, and I ask Lord Wang to forgive me."

Hearing this, Wang Youqian said, "Okay, since this is the rule set by Lord Li, then naturally I can't force Lord Li to break it, so I'll drink this cup myself."

Of course, this little episode did not affect the atmosphere on the field, and it was a joy for both guests and hosts.

At the same time, at this reception banquet, it seems that everyone has forgotten about the inventory.

When the food was almost over, and no one proposed any more pastimes, Li Hao took people back to his house.

Seeing that everyone was more or less drunk, Li Hao asked them all to go back to rest first, and the specific matter would be discussed tomorrow.

After everyone left, Li Hao ordered someone to prepare to wash and change his clothes, after all, Li Hao and the others still had to go to the door.

But as soon as they were ready, Cai Xiang and Sheng Hong came to look for it together.

Seeing these two people coming together, Li Hao was very puzzled, after all, these two people were not all the way, so he asked, "Why didn't the two of them go to rest, and now they come to me together, is there something wrong?"

I saw the two of them look at each other, and then Cai Xiang said, "I came here to talk about what happened just now, and I don't know what the specific arrangements are.

But I think that since we are here to check the salt tax, it is best not to get too close to the officials in Huainan.

Otherwise, if the people below can't distinguish clearly, it will be easy for others to win them over, and won't things be more troublesome then?"

Looking at this situation, it is estimated that Sheng Hong should also think the same way, so Li Hao explained: "If he is determined, then no matter what he does, he will not fall over; But if we are not strong-minded, even if I am strictly guarded, as long as the price offered by the other side is high enough, they will choose to sell us.

Of course, if Lord Cai thinks this is inappropriate, then you can also remind them to know their responsibilities."

Hearing this, the two understood the meaning, and they were relieved.

In fact, for the others, these two don't care either.

What they care about is whether Li Hao's position is firm or not.

After talking, the two were about to leave, but at this time, Cai Xiang noticed the clothes Li Hao had just changed in, and said, "Lord Li, this is going out."

Li Hao replied, "Yes, my mentor lives in Yangzhou, and I haven't seen each other since I went north for scientific research.

Now that I'm back in Yangzhou, I'm going to pay a visit."

For this reason, Cai Xiang didn't know what to say for a while, and it was definitely right to respect the teacher.

But Li Hao understands that this guy is probably worried that he is fooling around there when he goes out, and he is afraid that he will not be able to bear the sugar-coated shells of salt merchants and officials in the first place.

On the contrary, Sheng Hong did not doubt this reason, because he knew that Master Qin existed.

After all, Li Hao had a relationship with Ouyang Xiu as soon as he went to Beijing, so Sheng Hong specially asked people to ask.

Seeing that the two of them had no problems to talk about now, Li Hao went out to Master Qin's house.

Of course, in a place that Li Hao didn't know, a group of Huainan officials also gathered together to discuss how to deal with Li Hao.

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