Start with the humble bridegroom

Chapter 347 The fifth grade is up!

"Hundreds of thousands of candies." Liu Zhong thought about the total number of candies that Zhang Zhe was going to collect, but shook his head, "I'm afraid these two families can't afford it. Besides, the two of them have long been among the lords. Well, it's absolutely impossible to turn around and sell to Master Ba now!"

"I'm afraid of him!" Wei Po cursed in a low voice, "I'm not afraid of him even if the lawsuit goes to the imperial court! These impeachments are purely slander, my lord can just write a letter to defend myself, and we will all sign it!"

The few people who sat down are now Zhang Zhe's team.

Cao Lingwen officially secured the position of Xiushan county magistrate, Wu Huai was promoted to be a magistrate, Liu Zhong actually took the post of Xueju Yamen, and even Wei Po, who was dismissed from the post of county magistrate because of Yue Tang's death, was also promoted by Zhang Zhe. Temporarily managing the power of the county soldiers, hundreds of county soldiers under him have also been converted into county soldiers.

The Gu family has face in Jiangling City, Zhang Zhe has money in his hand, and the official department also turns a blind eye to the affairs of Zhaoyang County King's subordinates, so it is not difficult to handle these few things. From Jiangling to Chang'an , Zhang Zhe's recommendations went unimpeded all the way.

After Zhang Zhe listened to the discussion of several people, he just smiled lightly.

"These excerpts are actually just probing. Those who are probing are not us who are working in Zhaoyang, but are actually testing the king of Zhaoyang, or the reaction of the imperial concubine. Let's ignore these excerpts. Chang'an There are the county king and noble concubine there, we just need to do things with peace of mind."

Cao Lingwen and the others looked at each other, and it was Cao Lingwen who asked Zhang Zhe.

"My lord, although we are officials of the imperial court, we are actually running Zhaoyang for the county king. If we fall out with the Lu family and the Situ family like this, will it make it difficult for the county king and the noble concubine to behave?"

"Everyone, don't forget who is behind the Lu family and the Situ family." Zhang Zhe didn't care at all, "That's Tai'an County King and Hedong County King. If Ba Ye really wants to be polite with these two, then It's my own bad luck, the prince's bad luck! Therefore, the noble concubine must have a fight with these two families."

"So what if you did it?" The old lady's voice startled Yang Zongchao who was kneeling on the ground. He didn't expect that the old lady would turn him against his older brothers!
"Zhang Xinzhi is your relative, and Huzi's brother-in-law. When he was impeached, he didn't save face for you father and son." Concubine Shentu helped her son up, and at the same time taught him her views, "Zhaoyang The production is already pitifully small. Zhang Xinzhi and a group of people managed to get some sugar goods from the state of Wu, not to run Zhaoyang for you. If you don’t fight for him, who will dare to fight for you in the future? Really follow you?"

"The son discusses the matter as it stands, and only refuted the articles of the impeachment letter, so it won't make those people lose their jobs."

"Since they sent these guys out, they were abandoned sons, and the county king became worried for others, but it's funny!" He Linggu covered her mouth and smiled.

The old lady patted He Linggu, and said to her son in a pleasant manner.

"Silly boy, you want to live your life based on the face of your eldest brother, the prince, so you can't have a good relationship with the other brothers. This matter, I have to go to your father to make a fuss with them. Divided, I can feel at ease for my mother."

"My son also thought of this, but in the end he couldn't make it through."

"Don't use your notebook, but use Huzi's. It doesn't matter if he is a young man with strong words. Your father also knows Zhang Xinzhi's relationship with him."

"Yes, mother!"

Watching her son go away, Concubine Shentu couldn't help but sighed again.

"My son is really not destined to be a prince."

But He Linggu laughed: "That's because God saw that you had been carefree for so many years, and deliberately found something for you to do. If you want to blame it, blame you for having too many happy days. In the other man's house, this is nothing. Eat and drink as you please .”

"Broken mouth!" The old lady gave He Linggu another slap in the face unceremoniously, "You went to Zhuchi Xiaoyuan yesterday, is Miss Mi all right?"

"Yo~!" He Linggu pouted dissatisfiedly, "Ever since you met Sister Mi, the big apprentice in front of you, and the little apprentice with Sister Mi are no longer on your mind! You have been asking Sister Mi all day , good job! You can eat and drink, you can cry and make trouble, you can crawl all over the yard with a stick of incense, and you can enjoy everything you see."

"You're so grown up, and you still eat like a child?" The old lady didn't care about her, "How are you, old lady? I can't see you yet? I'm single anyway, and the most bitter thing is just loneliness. Wan'er It's harder than you, Qianli Acacia is not easy."

He Linggu was so annoyed by the old lady's words.

"You can hurt me. What benefits will you get if you get mad?"

"Well, why is there no benefit?" The old lady said nonchalantly, "You are not motivated. You don't need to worry about major events in your life, and you don't have much progress in your knowledge. Look at Wan'er, her poetic talent is getting better and better nowadays. Look at the words written here. The red lotus root is fragrant, the jade is lingering and the autumn is autumn, and the Luoshang is lightly untied, and the orchid boat is alone, and the eyebrows are lowered but the heart is on the heart. Just these few words, the old lady, I will follow her name forever, how about you?"

He Linggu bit her lip and did not speak, because she already knew that these poems were actually written by that person.But outsiders always want to add names to Meng Xiaowan's head, even Meng Xiaowan can't do anything about it.

"Angry?"

He Linggu raised her brows: "How can it be? I don't dare."

"Take it!" The old lady asked someone to deliver a sandalwood box, which contained a red gold hairpin and a white jade phoenix lock.

Only then did He Linggu laugh, holding these two things and looking at them carefully, especially the jade lock she couldn't put it down: "I know you still love me the most."

"Thinking too much," the old lady smiled, "I'll give you the hairpin, and the jade lock will bring it to Miss Mi for me."

The jade lock flew far away on the blanket, scaring a few servant girls to rush to pick it up, for fear that the eldest sister would accidentally smash the things given by the imperial concubine.

"Look, your girl doesn't care too much!" He Linggu lazily complained to Meng Xiaowan, "But the old lady just wants to give it to your sister Mi, and I won't give it to you if I want it! How can such a young person get it?" Can bear such a heavy thing."

Meng Xiaowan smiled, teased her daughter for a while, and then looked at He Linggu.

"Senior sister, what are you jealous of? The master gave me this jade lock just to make me feel at ease, not to worry about the impeachment of my husband. You have controlled the teacher for so many years, I want to taste it, and it is not enough in my life. Besides, Have you ever used less of the good things I have here?"

"Yes, you are generous," He Linggu casually took off a sky-blue glazed step from Meng Xiaowan's head, "Mine!"

Bai Lu hurried forward, combed Meng Xiaowan's loose strand of hair, then changed hands and put a blood-red coral hairpin on the old lady's head.

He Linggu stared blankly at Xin Buyao on her junior sister's head, and then burst out laughing.

"Okay, your servants have also become cunning, knowing that you can't keep the first step, so they save the best for the second."

Meng Xiaowan also smiled, took off the step and shook it, it was really true.

"But having said that, I didn't expect the one in your family to be so good at doing business? It's hundreds of thousands of catties of sugar, but I received the news that several members of the cabinet are eyeing it."

Meng Xiaowan thought about it for a while, and then decided: "Sugar is an urgently needed material for the imperial court. Could it be that the sugar from Zhaoyang is being transferred to the national treasury?"

"I've also heard it from people. It seems that Grand Master Li has this intention, but Gu Xiang has been at odds with him on the price. Li Xiang said that these are the goods brought by the court officials, and he wants the King of Zhaoyang to buy them himself. Showing respect and dedication, the imperial court will return some rewards, but Gu Xiang said that now that the vassal kings have just been established, the county kings should recognize and protect them once they have income, otherwise it will not be good for the general situation, so Sun Xiang has never made a conclusion."

Meng Xiaowan clapped her hands and laughed: "Senior Sister is indeed a god of ears, but this news is very important." After she finished speaking, she put the Shanhu Buyao into He Linggu's hands.

He Linggu accepted the things unceremoniously, and confessed to Meng Xiaowan arrogantly when she left.

"You write to Nanfang, don't say it's from me."

Meng Xiaowan's letter was not as fast as the imperial court's court mail. When Xie Lun took her family letter southward, the imperial court's urgent court mail of [-] miles was delivered to Zhang Zhe.

The court affirmed Zhang Zhe's achievements.

The tone in Ting Ji also resembled the tone of the old emperor.

Regarding the intentional delay of the errand, Ting Jizhong and the imperial court just gave Haian a slight nod, and it was obvious that Zhang Zhe already knew the idea that Zhang Zhe beat around the bush to give Dong Bian.

From this, Zhang Zhe deduced that Hai'an might have already started to attack.

In fact, the king of Hai'an County also knew that Zhang Xinzhi wanted to defend Zhaoyang County from the gun, but this idea stuck in his heart.Cai Guo's reaction was just as Zhang Xinzhi judged, how much food do you want?[-]% if the price is not good, credit is not impossible, as long as the king of Hai'an County starts with Tuojiang County!
This is a well-planned conspiracy, and everyone in the Hai'an County Prince's Mansion has decided on this opportunity!If this opportunity is missed, it will be the biggest original sin of Hai'an County Prince's Mansion.It can not only solve the food shortage problem in Hai'an County, but also lay out the Tuojiang River and win people's hearts.Knowing that Zhang Xinzhi didn't have any good intentions, Hai'an County has already started to operate quickly.

At the end of the court post, the court rewarded Zhang Xinzhi.

Chengzhi of Shizhong Temple, which was removed before, was added to him again, and the word "administration" in front of Tongzhi of Zhaoyang County was also removed. The first level is for the experience department of Zongzheng Temple to act as an agent for the house of the head of Wuling County. This is for the convenience of him doing business with Wu Guo in the name of Su Mingyan.

In just three months, Zhang Zhe had been promoted to the fifth rank.

Cao Lingwen couldn't help sighing after knowing the content of the court letter.

Master Tongzhi is talented, has a background, and has a strong background, but he rose to the official position very quickly at a young age.

In late April, Xie Lun rushed to Zhaoyang with Mrs. Meng's family letter.

This letter from home is half a foot thick!
Zhang Zhe spent a whole day writing the reply letter, which was a full foot thick, but for the thickest family letter in history, Zhang Zhe chose the imperial court's express delivery and kept Xie Lun by his side.

Xie Lun, Geng Liang, and Gao Deshu all sat at the bottom of Zhang Zhe. This is the study room at home, and they were talking about relatively private matters.

"In a few days, it will be May. Now half of Wu's grain and sugar supply has arrived, and the money for selling snow paper in the county has saved nearly 50 guan. A few days ago, Xu Qian and Han Danian from the palace found They told me that they wanted to organize and train the Zhaoyang Army of the prince. They have prepared fifty guards to serve as officers, and General Xue will also select 3000 people. This time, they will train [-] people. Thinking about it Let the county provide people, money and food, maybe I have a few backgrounds."

Zhang Zhe nodded a few of them: "The three of you are all veterans, and you just took this opportunity to get a serious background."

The three of Geng Liang were overjoyed, they hurriedly knelt down and thanked the Patriarch.

"Don't be too happy too early. He's not a serious military officer. He's just a mixed name. He looks like he's from the eighth rank."

"Patriarch, don't worry!"

Since the family let them go out to be officials, they can no longer call Zhang Zhe the lord, but the patriarch.

The whole of April and May is commonly known as the slack season, but the people in Zhaoyang County live a very fulfilling life.

With money and food, Zhang Zhe once again initiated the project of repairing canals and dams in the whole county.This time he adopted the method of recruitment, and the common people responded one after another.

The understanding of the common people is very simple, it is not a loss to eat food at home, it is better to go to the construction site to work hard to eat, and there is still one meal a day!The wages are still settled every five days, and all they are given are real food.

At first, everyone was afraid that the year would not be good. When they heard that the construction site would not distribute money but food, they all went to the construction site. Village after village ran to the construction site.

And the people in the county also had work to do. Shi Qiao happened to be planning to build the palace of Princess Wuling in Zhaoyang, and bought the old house of the Fang family and some nearby private houses to start construction.Wu Guo made it clear that he didn't want Su Mingyan to enter the country. As far as Wu Guo's prince is concerned, it's only a matter of minutes before Su Mingyan falls in love with him.

When Su Mingyan's palace began to take shape, it was late May, and Shi Qiao, who was too busy, was suddenly notified by the imperial merchants. 2000 million catties of grain and 20 catties of sucrose have been delivered to Zhang Xinzhi, and Shi Qiao should distribute money notes to the imperial merchants.

"How could it be so early?" Shi Qiao couldn't believe it was true.

The representatives of the imperial merchants brought him to something.

"Master Shi, good luck with food, but it is a lot of trouble to transport snow paper and sugar. Fortunately, Master Zhang designed this thing called a wheelbarrow. Our people can push hundreds of catties of things alone, which is very convenient. The handover was delayed until today because of the recent rain.”

Tang Bo went home to visit relatives, and Shi Qiao had no one to discuss with, so he immediately found the Zhaoyang government office.

After the money ticket transaction is completed, the Tuojiang River will start handing over, but there will be more than half a month until Xia Harvest, and the upper and lower Tuojiang Rivers must fall into the hands of the Wu court. He wants to see Zhang Xinzhi.

"Master Shi, don't worry," it was Wu Huai who met Shi Qiao, "We are still collecting sugar from your country for the money we sell the snow paper. My lord said that this business is not yet over, and your country on the Tuojiang River It may not be too late to take over after the summer harvest."

Well?Does this letter mean to vote for my country of Wu? !

After hearing Wu Huai's words, Shi Qiao suddenly had a terrible illusion, and had deep doubts about Zhang Xinzhi's position.

(End of this chapter)