Hai Rui took in the expression on his wife's face and said helplessly.

"The husband hasn't figured it out yet, whether to promise Lord Qincha to go to the Inspectorate to serve!"

"Why not, do you know how many people dream of it? This may be your last chance in life! ”

After Hai Rui's wife, Wang, listened to her husband's words, she was angry and couldn't help but retort.

"Since ancient times, the capital has never been a good place!"

"The water in this capital is very deep, a small wave down, it will end up with a broken family, I'm afraid ......"

After Hai Rui finished speaking, he immediately turned his gaze to his wife Wang, his face full of hesitation.

"But if you miss this opportunity, I'm afraid there will be no hope of promotion! Do you want to be here for the rest of your life, as an obscure county magistrate? ”

"Isn't there a saying that the higher you stand, the farther you see, didn't you say before that you want to help the world and realize your ambitions?"

"Sometimes, only when you reach that position can you be free from shackles and unleash your ambitions! Otherwise, how can you help the world with a seven-grade county? ”

After Hai Rui's wife, Wang, finished speaking, she poured her husband a cup of hot tea, her face full of worry.

And Hai Rui seemed to have made up his mind after listening to his wife Wang's words, and his eyes flashed with an inexplicable light.

For some reason, he suddenly recalled a sentence that Zheng Michang had confessed to him.

"Listen up, you have to be with the light in the officialdom!"

When Hai Rui fell into deep thought, Wang did not bother, but chose to accompany him quietly.

After a long time, I saw Hai Rui come back to his senses and say to himself silently: "Heh, with the light and dust? No! There may be another way to go, and this one, no one has dared to say that they have completed the whole journey throughout the ages. ”

"In that case, let me Hai Rui try it!"

Hai Rui got up from his seat suddenly, his eyes seemed to be burning with flames, and his whole person was full of fighting spirit!

Then, I saw him turn around, his face was resolute, and he said in a deep voice: "Later, I will personally go to the Governor's Mansion to meet Lord Qincha and officially go to the Inspectorate to take up my post!" ”

After Hai Rui finished speaking, he left the room without looking back, and then went to the county office, where he wanted to finish all the remaining official duties.

……

Jiangxi, Nanchang Province.

At this moment, Cao Shunhe, the governor of Jiangxi, was anxiously waiting for news from his subordinates.

A moment later, only a chaotic sound of footsteps could be heard, and his subordinates knelt on the ground, reporting in a deep voice.

"Report to the governor, according to your order, the nearby guard station has sent soldiers from Shanshui to salvage the river near the wrecked ship, but still nothing has been found."

"I didn't find the official salt that sank into the water!"

After Cao Shunhe learned the news from his subordinates, he couldn't help but be furious: "Send more people and continue to find this official!" ”

"The official doesn't believe it, the official salt on more than 20 ships just disappeared?"

"Yes, Lord Governor! The subordinates will go and report your order to the commander. ”

After the subordinate answered, he left quickly.

And Cao Shunhe seemed to have lost the strength of his whole body, and the whole person fell back to the chair weakly.

Just a few days ago on the night, more than 20 large ships responsible for transporting official salt on the government side had an accident when passing through a narrow local river, and several large ships were swept into the undercurrent and sank!

When the government received a distress message and rushed to the scene to rescue, it suddenly found that more than 20 large ships, except for the sunken ones, were all docked intact on the shore.

Not only that, but the personnel on the ship and the thousands of catties of official salt it was carrying were also missing.

Cao Shunhe knew very well in his heart that the whole thing revealed a strange atmosphere.

He was familiar with the river where the incident took place, and it was common sense that the fleet should be able to pass through it safely.

But the fleet responsible for transporting official salt had an accident here!

"Someone, bring the hydrographic map of the neighborhood to the officer!"

Perhaps in order to verify his conjecture, Cao Shunhe commanded.

"Yes, Governor!"

The guards on the side took the order, and soon, a complete hydrological map appeared in front of Cao Shunhe.

"The fleet is in trouble here, and it's an excellent ambush here!"

Cao Shunhe pointed to the place where the fleet had an accident, continued to look around, and came to such a conclusion.

"But there are no more famous bandits around here?"

Cao Shunhe put away the map and fell into deep thought.

After a long time, Cao Shunhe finally sorted out the stakes behind this, and then said to himself silently.

"I see, now that the government's salt ship has capsized, the government's salt reserves have bottomed out."

"The next batch of official salt will not be delivered until at least two months later!"

"And in these two months, if the people want to get salt, they have to spend a lot of money to buy private salt from the salt merchants."

"And this group of salt merchants took advantage of this opportunity to hoard and make huge profits!"

"If something happens to the fleet of the government transporting official salt, it must be planned by this group of salt merchants behind it!"

"If you think about it a little more boldly, it is absolutely impossible to do this with that group of salt merchants alone, that is to say, there are some officials involved in the whole thing, and there are quite a few of them!

"Perhaps, they are sending someone to secretly spy on this official right now!"

When Cao Shunhe thought of this, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and then, he saw him raise his head suddenly.

In a trance, several figures flashed outside the door.

"Whew~"

Cao Shunhe breathed a long sigh of relief and forced himself to regain his composure, and then saw him summon his subordinates and said in a deep voice.

"Take this map down to the official!"

"Yes, Governor!"

When the caller answered, he took the hydrographic map down.

After leaving the room, he did not walk towards the room where the map was stored, but walked away quickly in the opposite direction to his destination.

After looking around, he saw that no one was paying attention, and then entered a room.

"Did he perceive anything?"

From the room, a rather dull voice was heard.

"Report to your Excellency, no, he's been working on this hydrographic map!"

The man said, and respectfully handed over the map in his hand.

"Keep an eye on him, if you make any moves, report to me directly!"

"Yes, sir!"

After the call, he left quickly, and along with him, he also closed the door.

At this moment, Cao Shunhe has roughly guessed his current situation, someone is secretly spying on him!

"No, we have to find an opportunity to get the word out."

"Otherwise, if this group of salt merchants is allowed to come, the people of Jiangxi will suffer!"

After thinking for a moment, Cao Shunhe quickly made up his mind that he would report the news to the imperial court.

"Right now, the official channel will definitely not be able to go, maybe, the official has just handed out the song on the front foot, and the back foot has been stopped!"

"At that time, not only will it not have any effect, but it will also startle the snake!"

"Alas, if only this official could submit the song directly to His Majesty, there wouldn't be so much trouble."

When Cao Shunhe thought of this, he couldn't help but give up on himself.

(End of chapter)