Chapter 405: Senior Brother Mei Feng
Seeing Qiu Wugang's unrelenting scoundrel, Gu Yunji had a headache, but he could only say patiently: "General Qiu, I also want to tell you clearly when the road will be repaired, but if I am not sure, I really can't give you this guarantee."
"Today is my first day in office, and I have not yet figured out many of the circumstances, how much stone is needed to build a road in the swamp pond, how much money is spent, and how many people are requisitioned.
Saying that, Gu Yunji smoothed his breath and said to Qiu Wugang in the gentler tone possible: "Of course, General Qiu led the soldiers to fight bloody battles on the front line to resist the Japanese and protect the people, and it must be a great achievement. As officials of Shaoxing Prefecture, we have the responsibility and obligation to provide you with good logistical support."
"As for the stones for the road, I will definitely write as soon as possible...... No, I personally went to Jinhua Mansion to negotiate with the officials over there, and asked them to give us priority in allocating stones. Before that, please ask General Qiu to be aggrieved for a while and continue to use the boardwalk for a while."
"If you think it's too hard for the soldiers to carry grain and grass, you can leave this matter to the government to do. How about we go and recruit people, and if we don't have any money, we will use the military service, and we will definitely deliver all the military supplies to the camp on time and on time, one by one, and in batches."
Who knew that Qiu Wugang snorted coldly, and said domineeringly: "Who is so rare that you can transport it? It's okay to say that there are knives, guns, artillery, iron helmets and armor in the military supplies, which one is not worth a thousand dollars?"
"I know best my soldiers, I can trust them, but I don't know what kind of people your servants and people are. If something goes wrong, it will be light to be stolen and re-sold, and what if there are evil people who are mixed in, take the opportunity to steal information, and even detain the materials to the Japanese robbers?"
"Transporting supplies is an important task in military operations, and I don't dare to leave it to you, after all, who knows who are in your government? Maybe there are traitors who are connected to foreign enemies inside, otherwise why can't the Japanese be wiped out all these years!"
"You!"
Gu Yunji originally had good intentions, and seriously came up with a way to hope that Qiu Wugang would consider it, but he didn't want the other party to speculate about him so much, his chest breathed sluggishly, and his face was so angry that he was red.
However, after thinking about it, Qiu Wugang's concerns were not completely unreasonable, Gu Yunji had to suppress his anger, and said in a cold tone: "You are a military attaché, and you have to do everything you can to resist the Japanese invaders; I am a civil official, and I also have to think day and night about how to arrange the livelihood of Shaoxing Mansion, you are anxious, I am more anxious than you, but is it useful to be in a hurry?"
"No matter how much you don't, I can only tell you plainly that if you want me to give you a definite time to build the road now, I can't do it. Unless you can bring back the stones for building the road right away, then I'll gather the people and start building the road at once."
"Hey! What do you call that?" As if he hadn't expected Gu Yunji's attitude to be so tough, Qiu Wugang's eyes widened in disbelief, "Building roads and buying stones is what your government should do, why should you push it to me?" I think you're just making excuses!"
"What else do you say about the shortage of raw materials, bluestone is in short supply, I don't believe it, as long as you open the price higher, open him three or five times the price, can Jinhua Mansion sell the stone to you? Shaoxing Mansion has so many taxes every year, it can't even be unable to take out this money, right? You obviously don't want to pay for it!"
Fu Zida really couldn't listen to it anymore, and couldn't help but say, "Shaoxing Mansion has a lot of taxes and a lot of places to use money, why don't General Qiu go and inquire, which state capital is not financially tight?" If you spend all your money on buying stones, what will you do elsewhere?"
"Don't say anything about it, let's just say that if the officials and officials of all sizes in this yamen don't have the money to give them rice, will they let them drink the northwest wind?"
Qiu Wugang was unreasonable: "That's what you think about, do you need me as a military attache to worry about it? I, Qiu Wugang, am the commander of Shaoxingwei, because your government can't build roads, which has hindered the transportation of our materials, of course I have to hold them accountable!"
"Anyway, I can't control the things on the side, so I'll take care of this way! If you don't give me a satisfactory solution today, I won't leave!"
As soon as Qiu Wugang's words fell, a calm male voice came from outside, with two points of brisk teasing: "
Who is such a scoundrel, Lai's government will not leave?"
Immediately afterwards, a man in a red official uniform walked in calmly and calmly. He smiled with his eyebrows and eyes, and he was full of an elegant bookish air, and from the perspective of temperament, he should be a civil official. However, he was tall, broad-shouldered, and outwardly tall and strong in appearance that did not conform to the characteristics of a literati.
Inexplicably, Gu Yunji suddenly thought that Xu Chengyu, who he saw when he first entered Luxi Academy, was also such a tall figure and literati temperament, which left a deep impression on him.
Seeing the comer, Qiu Wugang's arrogant momentum deflated at a speed visible to the naked eye, and after a short time, he shrank into an honest appearance, embarrassed and respectfully greeted him: "...... Your Excellency, why are you here?"
Governor? That Xu Chengyu's eldest disciple, his fellow senior brother, Mei Feng, the governor of Zhejiang?
Gu Yunji was surprised for a moment, and hurriedly stepped forward with Fu Zida to salute, and said respectfully: "Gu Yunji, the prefect of Shaoxing Mansion, has seen the Governor."
Who knew that Gu Yunji bowed down, and halfway through the salute, Mei Feng stopped his movements, helped him up, and said with a smile: "What are you doing with such a big gift, you shouldn't call me Lord Governor, you should call me Senior Brother."
As he spoke, he looked at Gu Yunji and nodded with satisfaction: "Well-the teacher's vision for accepting apprentices is still so high. I knew that as his close disciple and son-in-law, he would be able to become a four-rank prefect in his twenties, and he must have something extraordinary, and this is indeed the case today."
Qiu Wugang and Fu Zida were stunned: "...... Brother?"
"Yes, senior brother." Mei Feng affectionately grabbed Gu Yunji's shoulders and said to the two of them in the gesture of introducing his own child, "This is my little junior brother of the same family, we are both disciples of Xu Chengyu, the former head of the cabinet, the youngest in our division, not to mention the talent, he is also good-looking, the teacher is very good-looking."
"Today, I learned that as soon as my little junior brother came back to the top duty, I came over to take a look. In the future, he will be an official in the government, and he will inevitably deal with you, he is young, you will take care of me more, but don't bully him."
As he spoke, Mei Feng glanced at Qiu Wugang intentionally or unintentionally, and the other party immediately looked away with a weak heart.
Gu Yunji was half-protected by his shoulders in front of him, and he couldn't help but feel a kind of embarrassment of his toes buttoning the ground for a while, and his whole body was awkward.
Listening to Mei Feng's tone, I thought he was an adult in his twenties, and he came to Shaoxing Mansion to take up his post as an official; I don't know that I thought he was only six or seven years old, and he went to elementary school on the first day, and was introduced to the children in the same class by his parents.
Although Gu Yunji knew that Mei Feng was his senior brother and would be very good to him, this was inevitably too protective of him, right? Treat him like a child?