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Chapter 201 Gao Qiu's Flower and Stone Gang
"Gao Aiqing, don't cry! What is it like to cry in the court!"

Seeing Gao Qiu crying, Zhao Ji frowned and said, after all, the court is a serious place, and it would be unseemly to play around like this.

Gao Qiu saw that it was almost done, so he stopped crying, and if this continued to anger the emperor, it would be self-defeating.

"How is my Long Live Mountain?"

Zhao Ji didn't want to bring up the matter of recruiting, nor did he want to ask about the north. Now he wanted to hear something happy, such as how his new garden was progressing.

"Returning to Your Majesty, the construction progress of Longevity Mountain has already passed halfway, and there is only a shortage of exotic flowers and stones."

The old god Cai Jing said respectfully as he left the class.

"Let the bureaus of all localities pay close attention to procurement, and there should be no delay in the construction period!"

Zhao Ji frowned and said, he is the emperor, rich in the world, how can the small garden delay?
"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Cai Jing saluted respectfully and returned to the train.

"Gao Aiqing, you also help to collect some flower stones!"

Zhao Ji still misses this loyal servant all the time, thinking that every time Gao Qiu feeds him the ball, he can't bear it for a while, such a good servant still needs to be treated kindly, let him help Cai Jing get flowers and stones.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Gao Qiu hurriedly thanked him with a smiling face. This showed that the emperor still missed him, and that his family, Zhenglong, was still the emperor's favorite, so he didn't have to worry about others' criticism.

A court meeting just went away, and none of the official matters were discussed, and the emperor and all the officials didn't care.

After leaving the palace, Gao Qiu was about to go back to the mansion, but remembered what the emperor had ordered, and hurriedly sent the bearers to Cai Jing's Taishi mansion.

The gate of the Grand Master's Mansion seemed to have heard of it a long time ago, and they opened the gate directly to welcome Gao Qiu in.

"Teacher Cai!"

As soon as Gao Qiu entered the inner hall, he saw Cai Jing splashing ink on the case, cupped his hands and said, the relationship between him and Cai Jing is not that good. He was born as a rascal and an idler with no connections, and he couldn't talk to those civil servants and generals in the court.

Cai Jing didn't seem to hear Gao Qiu's call, and the pen went ahead, and soon a word was finished.

"Gao Taiwei, how about my word?"

Cai Jing looked at Gao Qiu with a smile and said.

"Taishi Cai's handwriting is naturally excellent!"

Gao Qiu replied with a glance, he is a rascal and an idler who doesn't understand calligraphy at all, but Cai Jing's calligraphy is famous all over the world, and it's always good to praise him.

"Gao Taiwei is here for the matter of Huashi?"

Cai Jing sighed, and originally wanted to use calligraphy to discuss the way of being a minister with Gao Qiu, but Gao Qiu is a wooden fish head and didn't think about that at all.

But Cai Jing was not surprised at all, he and Gao Qiu were two people, Gao Qiu followed the eunuch's flattering route, and he followed the pure treacherous route.

"I have never presided over the matter of Hua Shigang, and I ask Cai Taishi to give advice!"

Gao Qiu replied, Hua Shigang has always been played by people like Cai Jing, and the emperor is very fond of it. If he doesn't do it well, he will definitely be blamed. Serving the emperor is like accompanying the emperor in Cuju, so there should be no sloppy.

"Gao Taiwei, this matter is actually very simple. Hua Shigang has nothing to do with you and me. We can't go to the south of the Yangtze River to collect Hua Shigang. These are the affairs of the Yingcheng Bureau. Now the Suhang Yingfeng Bureau is under the management of Zhu Zhi. He collects After Hua Shigang is completed, Gao Taiwei only needs to select a group of people to go to the south of the Yangtze River and transport them back to Tokyo to hand over the work."

Cai Jing looked at Gao Qiu and said, now he and Zhu Xi are in charge of Hua Shi Gang, and this is also a great help for them to search for the wealth in Jiangnan. never mind.

"It's that simple?"

Gao Qiu was a little surprised, every time Emperor Hua Shigang was very fancy, and it was so easy to make a job?
"Gao Taiwei, these flowers and stones are only strange, and His Majesty still likes them. As long as there are enough flowers and stones, His Majesty will always be satisfied. Not all of them will be put into the Long Live Mountain!"

Cai Jing nodded and said, "Wan Sui Mountain is huge, with a radius of ten miles, but the amount of flowers and rocks transported over the years is not small. Over the years, it is enough to pile up a big mountain. But the emperor likes the new and dislikes the old. If you look at this year's one, you don't want last year's one. But this also gave them more excuses to search for Jiangnan's wealth.

"I don't know how to escort this flower and stone gang?"

Gao Lian asked about the details again, but he had never touched these things before.

"Hua Shigang transports water transport, ten boats form a gang, and is equipped with one envoy, [-] soldiers, [-] Artemisia workers, and [-] boatmen. Hua Shigang from Suzhou and Hangzhou enters the Bianhe River through the Grand Canal and then goes straight to Tokyo... "

Cai Jing told Gao Qiu the details of escorting Hua Shigang, but it was actually no big deal, the road had been opened up long ago, the low bridges along the way had been demolished long ago, and ships could pass freely.

"Thank you Grand Master Cai!"

After listening to it, Gao Qiu was overjoyed. It seems that the flower and stone outline is not difficult. He just chooses a group of envoys to go to Suzhou and Hangzhou when he returns home.

"Send someone to tell Zhu Xi that this time Huashigang should prepare carefully and choose some rare and rare Taihu stones."

Cai Jing asked a confidant to tell him that since Zhao Ji asked Gao Qiu to be in charge of Huashigang, it was to appease Gao Qiu, and they had to do what Zhao Ji was satisfied with.

Back at Diansi Mansion, Gao Qiu was ready to choose the person to escort Hua Shigang.The official handed over the list of alternate Dian Sifu envoys to Gong Gaoqiu for selection.

Gao Lian picked five envoys one after another, and was furious when he saw the documents of the No. 6 envoy.

"This Yang Zhicai lost Hua Shigang and fled in fear of crime. How could he appear here?"

Gao Qiu was furious at the official below. He just looked at such an unlucky person when he took over Hua Shigang. Isn't this a curse on him?

"Taiwei calm down, this list is sent by the Privy Council."

The official said quickly.

"Privy Council? Huh! Call him!"

Gao Qiu knew what was going on as soon as he heard it. The Privy Council was in charge of selecting military officers from all over the world. Yang Zhi must have spent money to manage it, so that he could be a substitute with a guilty conscience.

"Hmph, if you want to be an official, why don't you deal with me?"

Gao Qiu sneered in his heart, Yang Zhi took care of all the members of the Privy Council but he did not respect him as the third Ya Taiwei. People like Yang Zhi deserved to be out of office all their lives, and they didn't even know the way to climb up.

Yang Zhiben was living outside Dianshuai's mansion, and he was overjoyed when he heard Gao Qiu summon him, thinking he had a chance.

"Meet Taiwei Gao!"

Yang Zhi pays homage to Gao Qiu.

"Hmph, you blue-faced prisoner, you waited for ten envoys to transport Huashigang, and nine of them returned to the capital to pay, but you have lost Huashigang, and you didn't come to sue, but you are still on the run. Most of the time you can't catch him. If you want to do something again today, even though you have been pardoned for the crime, it is difficult to appoint him. Go back where you came from!"

In front of Yang Zhi, Gao Qiu drew a big cross on Yang Zhi's document with a vermilion pen, and then threw the document in front of Yang Zhi, which completely cut off Yang Zhi's way to enter the palace.

"Captain!"

Yang Zhi still wanted to defend himself, but the sergeants on the left and right had already come up and dragged him out.

Gao Qiu, who was out of anger, finally felt better, while Yang Zhi looked at the Diansi Mansion depressedly, not understanding why he was kicked out after managing so much, looking at the document that was ticked off in his hand, Yang Zhi could only Sigh and leave.

(End of this chapter)