After coming back to his senses, Song Yingxing called the upper-level officials of the Dongshan Prefecture Maritime Safety Bureau the next day and once again carefully inquired about the details of the gold mine incident the year before last.

After the two sides chatted for more than an hour, one of the officials asked: "Lord Song, so the imperial court doesn't know about the gold mine incident at all?" ”

"I don't know, I don't know about the cabinet, at least I haven't heard similar rumors in the imperial court at all."

After the officials looked at each other, another official stood up directly and saluted and said, "Lord Song, there is something that the lower officials don't know whether to say or not. ”

"But it doesn't hurt to talk about it."

"Lord Song, it is obvious that the headquarters did not tell you about a series of events about Jinshan City and the gold mine, and the imperial court did not know about it. So Xia Guan dared to guess: Does Lord Xu mean that this matter is over? ”

Song Yingxing was silent for more than ten seconds, then sighed and said, "Actually, I guessed the same thing. ”

The two sides reached a consensus.

In fact, after calming down and analyzing it, it is not difficult to guess Lord Xu's attitude.

The fact that the previous steward made small moves will only make Dongshan Prefecture, which is already very passive, even more passive, and the cabinet estimates that this time it will not give up easily, and it will definitely hold His Majesty to ask for an explanation. Therefore, Lord Xu resolutely dismissed the previous steward and brought him back to the mainland, that is, when His Majesty wanted to ask for guilt, he directly handed him over and asked for leniency.

Then it was a move to send Song Yingxing to be the new manager of the Maritime Safety Bureau in Dongshan Prefecture.

Song Yingxing and Xu Guangqi, Song Yingxing's personal relationship with His Majesty is something that the entire court knows, so it is a very intriguing thing to let him be the new manager.

Song Yingxing came to Dongshan Prefecture for two purposes:

The first layer is Xu Guangqi protecting Song Yingxing.

Last year, Song Yingxing offended too many powerful people in Jiangnan because of his opposition to the land annexation of the gentry class in Yingtianfu, and there were too many people in the court who wanted to rectify him. Xu Guangqi transferred him to Dongshan Prefecture on the one hand to protect him, and on the other hand, the Maritime Safety Bureau expressed his attitude: I have already punished him, who wants to deal with Song Yingxing, I, Xu Ge, will not be polite.

This layer is also seen by most people in the imperial court, including Song Yingxing himself before arriving in Dongshan Prefecture.

Now it seems that there is a second layer, and that is the gold mine incident.

Logically speaking, gold mining incidents can be big or small.

If the cabinet wants to launch another attack on Dongshan Prefecture, then this is a very useful grip, which is why Xu Guangqi forcibly brought back the former steward last year.

So, as the successor Song Yingxing, Xu Guangqi, who is also a teacher and friend, has to talk to him about the attitude of the Maritime Safety Bureau in dealing with the gold mine incident, but he didn't.

Song Yingxing and the officials of the Dongshan Prefecture Maritime Safety Bureau, who had been thinking about it all night, came back to their senses, and they didn't say anything, in fact, it was a very clear attitude: if you don't tell it, then you will treat this matter as if it never happened, everything in Dongshan Prefecture will not change, and I will resist Xu Guangqi on the side of the imperial court.

First of all, Jinshan City has been built, private trading houses and countless explorers have begun to dig inland to find gold mines based on Jinshan City, and a huge number of people want to generate consumption, these established facts are only good for Dongshan Prefecture, which is like a backwater, and the Dongshan Prefecture Maritime Safety Bureau is naturally happy to see it.

But if you want to enjoy all the benefits brought by Jinshan City, you must bear the responsibility of building the city privately.

Who backs?

Of course, it is Song Yingxing, the manager of the Dongshan Prefecture Maritime Safety Bureau.

If Song Yingxing doesn't want to take this responsibility, then he should transfer all the forces of the Maritime Safety Bureau from Jinshan City back to Yushan City, and all the actions of Jinshan City are the autonomous actions of the private trading houses, and the nature belongs to explorers and has nothing to do with the Maritime Safety Bureau.

In this way, when the imperial court wants to pursue responsibility, the Dongshan Prefecture Maritime Safety Bureau can throw off the responsibility completely.

But is Dongshan State willing?

Definitely not.

In the long run, sooner or later, Jinshan City will become the third city in Dongshan Prefecture with a capacity of 100,000 people.

Whether it is the headquarters of the local Maritime Safety Bureau or the Dongshan Prefecture Maritime Safety Bureau, both sides want to retain the established fact that Jinshan City is under the responsibility.

And Song Yingxing, who is responsible, is a very subtle existence.

Does this have anything to do with him?

It has nothing to do with the fact that he was still in Jiangnan to oppose the land annexation when Jinshan City was established, and no one would have thought that he would become the new director of the Dongshan Prefecture Maritime Safety Bureau.

It's about the former steward who has been brought back home.

However, once the imperial court, or the cabinet, wants to use the gold mine incident to attack Dongshan Prefecture, it will definitely be unwilling to bring down a former steward who has been idle in the headquarters of the Maritime Safety Bureau, and their target will only be the current steward.

And so the subtlety comes in.

Song Yingxing is not responsible.

is the so-called fault of the previous dynasty, why should the officials of my own dynasty bear it?

You are targeting Song Yingxing so much, I suspect that you are attacking him because of his previous investigation of land annexation!

I, Xu Qiguang, have already admitted defeat in this matter, in front of His Majesty, in front of the other cabinet elders, I have already punished Song Yingxing and sent him to that ghost place in Dongshan Prefecture, which they all agreed.

Are you going to break the rules of the court and kill them all?

Your Majesty and the other cabinet elders didn't do this, what are you doing here?

Once any system is formed and the multiple forces constitute a relative balance, the unspoken rules are red lines that must not be touched.

Who doesn't have a family, a student or a fellow villager who is an official in the court?

Everyone will make mistakes, so after the superficial punishment is in place, don't chase and fight hard, people in the system will not let such a person who breaks the rules exist.

What's more, Song Yingxing is a celebrity in front of His Majesty, and half of Xu Ge's disciple is breaking the rules and chasing and beating these two in the face.

In this way, anyone who wants to use the gold mine incident to attack Dongshan Prefecture will only hit the cotton with one punch and has nowhere to go, but will become the target of public criticism.

Jinshan City was just preserved, and the cabinet had nothing to say.

"Lord Xu is really a good means!"

"Yes, yes."

Song Yingxing looked at the joy and admiration on the faces of the officials, and pressed down the small dissatisfaction in his heart with Xu Qiguang's calculation of himself. Everyone has already said that when he returns to the capital, he will be the next chief manager of the Maritime Safety Administration, what else is there to be dissatisfied with?

He is now also the head of the Dongshan Prefecture Maritime Safety Bureau, which is what he should do.

After the two sides discussed the attitude of the Dongshan Prefecture Maritime Safety Bureau towards the gold mine incident, the handover work quickly moved to the next step, but Song Yingxing didn't expect that the next thing was actually related to himself.

"Bird smuggling case?"

"Yes, Lord Song, it was found on the Nanyang-class ship you were on."

"So soon the case has been sent back home?"

"The ghost city attaches great importance to this case, and it happened that Zheng Hejie returned to Fujian from the ghost city for maintenance, so he passed the twists and turns of this case back to Jinmen."

The headquarters of the Maritime Safety Administration, Yamen, is no longer in the capital, but in Jinmen, which is not far from the capital.

Song Yingxing was shocked by the speed of the headquarters, and he had not yet arrived in Dongshan Prefecture, and the approval of the Jinmen headquarters had arrived in Dongshan Prefecture.

The relevant crew members and all the officials of the maritime bureau involved along the way were suspended for investigation, and then the five comptoirs involved in the matter were also copied and ceased to exist.

Song Yingxing, who saw this with the approval of Jinmen, suddenly thought of a question: 5 commercial houses are gone, so what should Liu Yifeng do?