Yuezhou prefect yamen.

"Your Excellency." The master walked into the public house with a letter. Li Mao raised his head, waited for him to approach, and took the letter.

"It was sent by Yue Wang Zhuangzi."

Li Mao paused in his hand, but remained silent, and calmly opened the letter...... After reading it, there was a silence.

"My lord, what does the letter say? Is there something for adults to do? ”

Li Mao shook his head and looked up at this master who had been with him for more than ten years. The two of them first stayed in Luozhou, a poor place where they ate soil, for several years, and then went to Yuezhou, a poor place to blow the sea breeze, and in a blink of an eye, both of them were no longer young, and the ambitions in their hearts seemed to be deeply buried.

"You, do you want to go to Jingshi?"

Going to Jingshi? Master's eyes lit up, who doesn't want to be a Beijing official. Take a step closer, "My lord, are we going back to Beijing to take up our duties?" Is it the Yue Wang who helps to operate? ”

Li Mao shook his head.

Yes? "Isn't it King Yue? Who's that? ”

It was the king of Yue, but it was not for him to return to Beijing to take up his post. "King Yue wants me to go to Lizhou."

"Lizhou?" Lizhou is also much closer to the capital than Yuezhou. It's just, "King Yue doesn't want adults to help him guard Yuezhou?" ”

Adults were able to leave from Luozhou in the northwest and come to this Yuezhou, and it was because of the king of Yue. Yuezhou is the fief of the king of Yue, it is the largest area among the princes, but it is the poorest place, every year due to the wind and various disasters year after year, the harvest is not harvested, and because there are many mountains and few lands, pirates are rampant, and the people live in poverty.

But I didn't expect that after the adults came, Yuezhou has visibly improved in recent years.

Although it is not very rich, the people of Yue can at least afford to eat, are self-sufficient, and do not have to leave their hometowns to earn a living in their spare time, and the granaries of the state and county governments are also fully stocked with grain.

"My lord, Yuezhou is getting better, and King Yue is in a hurry to transfer you out? If others take over and ruin this effort, won't Yuezhou be the same as in previous years? ”

A few years ago, before the adults took office in Yuezhou in the future, the Yue King never received the taxes from Yuedi, which was better, but the Yue King wanted to transfer the adults out at this moment?

Regarding the master's question, Li Mao did not explain much.

He knew in his heart that if it weren't for King Yue's pressure, Yue Di would have become rich a long time ago. The grain produced by Yue Wang Zhuangzi is higher than that of other places, although the people of Yue Wang cover it tightly, but as the highest governor of Yue, he is not ignorant of the situation.

There are also those coastal counties, the seafood, the trade, and the private salt that he can't catch at the source...... Secretly, although it is all the business of sea homeless people and pirates, Li Mao thinks that it is not.

But he didn't want to chase deeply.

"Yanmo, I'll write a few letters, and you can help me secretly send them to Jingzhong."

"Yes."

A few days later, the prefect of Lizhou finished defending himself, and after being investigated by the Ministry of Officials and other relevant departments, it was more important than nothing, but his relatives skillfully seized the people's land, did not advise and did not act, and a dereliction of duty was inevitable. was demoted by two levels, and was relegated to a poor place more than a thousand miles away to become a fellow intellectual.

On this day, the DPRK meeting, in response to the post of the prefect of Lizhou, the DPRK and China exploded again.

The position of the prefect of Lizhou was originally the prince's person, but because the prince's disaster relief was not effective, he was taken down by the people of the king of Qin and replaced by his own people, and now the people of the king of Qin have not been in the wrong place for a few months, and they were targeted by the prince's people, and they were demoted to other counties as the same governor.

At the morning meeting, the people of the two factions wanted to install their own people again, but not only Emperor Zheng, but the courtiers did not agree.

In addition to these two factions, the rest of the sects and factions or other forces wanted to recommend people, and the two factions of the elected people did not agree, so they quarreled again.

On the throne, Emperor Zhizheng swept lightly into the main hall, and his eyes fell on Zhao Guangyuan in the front row.

"King Yue, what do you think? Do you have a good candidate? ”

"Back to the emperor, the sons have been away from Beijing for a long time, and they don't know the situation of the officials in the capital and officials from all over the country.

Jiang Xiang's hand in his sleeve tightened. The prince didn't make a sound, and he didn't let him make a sound, so the secret arrangement could really work? Won't pick peaches for someone else?

The noise below stopped, and Emperor Zhizheng did not speak.

He didn't want to use the prince's people, and he didn't want to use the people of King Qin, but he was not satisfied with the people recommended by the rest. glanced at Zhao Guangyuan leisurely, Lao Qi really has no one to recommend? Jiang Xiang didn't help fight for it?

Emperor Zhizheng rubbed the dragon pattern on the throne.

Xu is the silence of the hall made people panic, and the official servant Lang Zhanting came out, "Back to the emperor, Li Mao, the prefect of Yuezhou, is about to expire, and he can be worthy of this position." ”

When Jiang Xiang heard this, he exploded, "Zhan Ting, what do you mean?" During Li Mao's tenure as the prefect of Yuezhou, he worked diligently, and finally revitalized Yuezhou, which was too poor to pay taxes, and you have to dig people again! Are you a communiqué for personal vendetta? ”

Jiang Xiang's face was full of indignation, and the posture was almost stepped forward to bite Zhan Ting.

The minister of the palace was stunned by Jiang Xiang's attitude at first, and then looked back and thought about his words, oh, Zhan Ting is going to announce his personal vendetta. His concubine Zhan Qingke was rejected by King Yue and could not be a side concubine, which made King Yue hate?

Want to dig the corner of the king of Yue?

Baiguan looked interested and happy to watch the excitement.

As an official of the ministry, it is the duty of the subordinate officials to evaluate and recommend suitable officials to take up posts in various places. That Li Mao, who has been serving in the northwest, has been rated excellent every year, transferred to Yuezhou a few years ago, and has made achievements in Yuezhou, and he is about to expire, this is just a normal transfer. ”

Zhan Ting's words were euphemistic, but everyone heard that Li Mao had been tossing and turning in poor places all these years, that is, there was no one behind him. If there is no one to help operate, you will not be promoted, and you will not be able to serve in other rich counties.

"You're a communiqué vendetta! transferred Li Mao from Yuezhou, who will be the prefect of Yuezhou? The people of Yuezhou have finally lived a good life for a few years, if you break Lord Li's hard work, you can be responsible? ”

"Master Jiang has said it. The post of prefect of Yuezhou has been held by others, and how does Lord Jiang know that the successor will not be able to do well in Yuezhou? The officials of our court have the grace of the emperor and do not dare to derelict their duties. ”

Jiang Xiang snorted, don't dare to derelict his duties? "Then why did Li Mao want to be transferred to Lizhou?"

Zhan Ting was choked for a moment and speechless.

When the prince and the king of Qin heard this, they transferred Li Mao, the prefect of Yuezhou, to Lizhou?

glanced at King Yue, who was unconcerned, and Jiang Xiang, who was about to jump up and run away, the depression of being reprimanded by the emperor this morning instantly dispersed.

The crown prince arched his hand: "Your Majesty, this Li Mao has been loyal to his duties all these years, and he really shouldn't let him stay in a remote state or county, if he can't be comforted, I'm afraid it will chill the hearts of officials all over the world." ”

And the king of Chu saw that Lao Qi was angry, and his heart was even more comfortable, and he seconded, "The prince is right, the emperor, since Li Mao has good ability, I believe that he will be able to calm the grievances of the people of Lizhou against the imperial court." ”

Officials at the bottom seconded the motion.

Lizhou has just been affected by the disaster, the imperial court relief grain has not been able to support the people through the disaster year, a parent official, and connived at his subordinates to seize the people's land, the people of the court to the government has no trust, it is time to send an experienced, capable and honest official to the scene, to help the people through the disaster year, regain confidence in the court.

No one cares if he dug the corner of King Yue's wall.

Emperor Zhizheng didn't seem to care, and soon made a decision and set Li Mao as the prefect of Lizhou. It seems that in order to appease the king of Yue, he did not rearrange a prefect to serve in Yuezhou, but promoted the Tongzhi of Yuezhou to the prefect and sent another Tongzhi to the past.

After the dispersal, Zhao Guangyuan and Jiang Xiang brushed their sleeves away, pleasing some people even more.

At noon, Jiang Xiang and Zhao Guangyuan went to Huixian Tower respectively and entered the private room dedicated to Zhao Guangyuan on the fifth floor.

"Weichen respects the prince with a cup, and the prince's wish comes true."

Zhao Guangyuan picked up the wine glass with a smile, and the two looked at each other and smiled, and drank it all. "I didn't expect things to go this way."

"yes. Weichen was still afraid that something would happen in this, but now that Li Mao went to Lizhou, Fan Ci was also promoted to the position of prefect as he wished. "It's a great blessing.

Jiang Xiang was afraid that after Li Mao left office, the prefect he transferred to would be someone else's power, for fear that Yuezhou would be stared at and ruin the prince's affairs, so it was better to let Li Mao not move.

I didn't expect the prince to say that Fan Ci would be promoted to the prefect, Jiang Xiang still felt that there was little hope, but he didn't expect that not only the prince and the king of Qin, but even the emperor felt that he had dug the corner of the prince, and out of compensation, he did not send the prefect over, but really promoted Fan Ci to the position of prefect.

"There is a fan to stare at Yuezhou, and Yuezhou can continue to develop secretly." Compared with Li Mao, who took refuge halfway, Fan Ci is 100% the person who crosses the king.

"I didn't think that Li Mao still had a relationship with one or two in Beijing, and he also said that Zhan Ting helped to talk about it."

After Zhao Guangyuan finished speaking, the corners of his mouth hooked. Zhan Ting is the father of Zhan Qingke, he refused the marriage of the Zhan family, and the outside thought that he would have a bad relationship with the Zhan family, at least he would not communicate if he did not make a bad deal.

"Yes, Zhan Ting doesn't know if he knows that the prince is wooing Li Mao, if he knows that Li Mao is now taking refuge with the prince, I don't know if he is annoyed or not. Lord Wang, this Zhanting is now a servant of the Ministry of Officials, and he has a lot of power in his hands, are we ...... in private?"

"It would be best if Zhan Ting could win over. But if it doesn't work, just don't do evil. ”

"Yes, Wechen understands. The daughter of Zhan Ting heard that the marriage was not going well, and Wei Chen was ready to help him take a look in private. "If he can find a good son-in-law for him, presumably Zhanting can treat King Yue differently.

At this time, in the welcome building, King Qin and King Chu were also entertaining their staff for dinner.

Several people were also smiling and laughing, raising their glasses to change the lamp, so unhappy.

"Lao Qi's face today is like eating a fly, it's so funny." King Chu laughed, "I just like to see Lao Qi's breathless and helpless look." ”

Some staff members touted: "King Yue's current situation, where can he resist, even if he wants to force Li Mao to keep him and let him serve another term in Yuezhou, no one will help him operate." The minister of the Manchu Dynasty, only one Jiang Xiangken was willing to help him run. It's like the two princes, they don't need to open their mouths, there are countless ministers who will understand, and they are vying to help the prince achieve his wishes. ”

The King of Qin and the King of Chu were comfortable when they heard it.

What if the seventh child was born in the queen's belly, he was sent to guard the mausoleum for ten years, not to mention, and now he finally returned to Beijing, not to mention winning over the important ministers to help him, and he also brought about his own destruction, marrying a folk girl with no background, this is a self-depravity, and it is no wonder that no one is willing to support him.

This family of nobles in the capital, which one is not a human spirit, what do you King Yue have that is worthy of the support of others?

"Whose person is that Fan Ci?" King Qin asked.

Some staff members have investigated Fan Ci, "Fan Ci was born in the Shu family, he has fallen into this family, and he has no relatives in Beijing, and he has been sent to Yuezhou for two consecutive terms. ”

That is, there is no other force behind it.

"Send someone to contact Fan Ci." King Qin spoke lightly.

The staff quickly understood that this was the first strike to prevent King Yue from winning over Fan Ci first. "Yes, the subordinates will immediately send someone to contact Fan Ci."

King Chu was happy and confessed, "Fan Ci has been in that poor place in Yuezhou for so many years, but I am afraid that the wind is blowing enough, bring him more gold and silver, let him help keep an eye on Yuezhou, and then allow him to be transferred back to Beijing in the future." ”

Dig the corner of the wall, who wouldn't, how can it be enough to dig a Li Mao.

The staff listened to King Chu's ridiculous tone, and they also started to laugh. The food on the table became more and more delicious.

A staff member took a bite of meat and ate it fragrantly, "This deep well roast goose is not worse than Huixianlou, it's delicious!" ”

In a word, the room was quiet.

King Qin put down his chopsticks, but King Chu had anger on his face, looking at the roast goose in the deep well on the table, the more he looked at it, the more angry he became, he actually got up and threw it to the ground, and there was a crisp sound on the ground, which scared everyone and didn't dare to gasp.

King Qin glared at him, "What is this for." ”

King Chu looked at the table of delicacies, all of which were made in imitation of Huixian Building, and the shape was similar, but the taste of the food made was not as good as that of Huixian Building. The guests who were pulled over by Huixian Lou did not return, and business became more and more bleak.

No matter how similar it is, it's not the taste of Huixianlou. Even if it is cheaper than Huixian Lou, the guests do not buy it, but in comparison, the guests who have eaten it love to run to Huixian Lou more and more.

The food on this table reminded the King of Chu that he was picking up people's teeth, and the dishes on this table were all stolen from others.

The king of Qin and the king of Chu did not speak, and several staff members did not dare to move.

Seeing that the atmosphere was getting more and more gloomy, a staff member stubbornly persuaded: "The prince doesn't have to be angry with that side, the two princes are people who do great things, and the industry in their hands is not only in the welcome building." On the other hand, the king of Yue is different, he points to the immortal building to make money, if there is no input, I am afraid that the Yue Wangfu will be sold. I don't know when the borrowed money will be repaid. ”

"Yes, yes, and it's still a short time, everyone only thinks it's a novelty over there, and there will be fewer people who will go naturally when the freshness passes."

The staff member who said that the roast goose in Shenjing was only a little worse than that over there also knew that he had said the wrong thing, and he couldn't wait to slap himself in the mouth.

But even if it is the people of the two princes, the food in the Huixian Mansion over there is really delicious, not only he likes to go, but who here has not been there? hooked him several times, but he was reluctant to leave each time.

Plop down and kneel down and beg for mercy, "The prince forgives his sins, his subordinates, his subordinates, he wants to share his worries for the prince, the so-called, the so-called, knowing that the other party can deal with things without chaos, so that he can ......"

There are staff members to help speak, "Lord Wang, the food over there tastes good, everyone has been there, that is, they can know their own shortcomings, so that they can better improve......"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by the king of Chu, "This king is that kind of narrow-minded person? This king can't even tolerate where you go to eat? Do you want to eat only in the Welcome Building? ”

The two staff members knew that they had said the wrong thing again, and they were busy begging for mercy.

was called up by the king of Qin, appeased, and before he could speak, the king of Chu had already shouted outside: "Someone!" ”