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Chapter 602: Rewards are generous and trustworthy, punishments are severe and necessary
Wan Shihe's positioning of the Emperor's Party was almost a joke. His positioning was to support all decisions of His Majesty. This was also the reason why no one had joined the Emperor's Party from him in recent years. Since Hai Rui, a gentleman of morality, was still active in the court, Wan Shihe, who did not have much integrity, seemed even more shameless.

Therefore, local officials who are capable of doing things all pay homage directly to the emperor.

Yin Zhengmao, Ling Yunyi, Pan Jixun and others are all unrepentant imperial party members, and they can only exist by relying on the emperor.

Zhou Liangyin had learned to flatter the emperor before he even entered the palace. He himself was a lowly Confucian scholar and had no moral pressure at all. In his view, Hou Yuzhao, who was loyal to the emperor and patriotic, was a weather vane. Hou Yuzhao was very capable, and the reclamation of wasteland in Daning Wei and Liaodong was all being carried out in accordance with Hou Yuzhao's original plan for reclamation.

Today's Hou Yuzhao is even more remarkable. He has proposed a proposition of a Ming Dynasty where all are kings and subjects, which is the general principle of Wang Hua, the current governor of Suiyuan, Liaodong and Beijing.

If ministers like Hou Yuzhao, who are not good at being transport ministers, not good at dealing with human relations, have a pure heart and are clever, also suffer misfortune, then Zhou Liangyin will only take off his disguise and become a despicable Confucian once again.

Even pure ministers like Hou Yuzhao have no room to survive. The Ming Dynasty court must be so rotten that at that time, the only way to survive is to become a lowly Confucian scholar.

Zhou Liangyin sat in Wan Shihe's house for a long time, mainly to communicate on many details of the audience with the emperor. This was the first time Zhou Liangyin had met the emperor in eleven years. Even though it had been so long since what happened that year, Zhou Liangyin was still very nervous.

The place where the emperor chose to meet Zhou Liangyin was also very interesting. It was in the Wuying Tower in Beidaying. After reviewing the troops, the emperor summoned him to meet him.

"Your Majesty, I bow to you. Long live Your Majesty. Long, long live Your Majesty." Zhou Liangyin bowed five times and kowtowed three times during the ceremony.

"No gift."

As soon as Zhou Liangyin stood up, his heart began to beat like a deer and immediately rose to his throat. Of course, he didn't see the beauty, but he saw General Qi looking at him.

Zhou Liangyin was afraid, afraid of meeting Qi Jiguang.

There were two other captains, who were Li Rusong’s younger brothers, Li Rubai and Li Ruzhen.

"General Qi, this is Zhou Liangyin, the Assistant Censor-in-Chief of the Beijing Xingdu Division. He has been reclaiming wasteland in Liaodong for several years." Zhu Yijun introduced the civil servant in front of him to the military generals.

Zhu Yijun personally examined Li Rusong's two younger brothers and found that they were far inferior to Li Rusong, a world of difference between them.

For example, Li Rubai was addicted to alcohol. In Liaodong, he was dismissed from his hereditary position as a thousand households because of his drinking. Later, Li Chengliang had no choice but to send Li Rubai to Beijing to enroll in the Military Academy.

Li Rubai relied on the fact that he was the son of Ningyuan Marquis and that his brother led the cavalry battalion of the Beijing Camp to form cliques and factions in the Military Academy, bullying the common officers who came from poor backgrounds, causing unrest in the whole village. In the eighth year of Wanli, he was reprimanded by Zhu Yijun and thrown into the South Camp to serve as an honorary soldier.

There were two Beijing Camps in the Ming Dynasty. One was the Beijing Camp before the first year of Wanli, which was a group of weak, sick and useless people. It was filled with various military heroes who had been living off the emperor's grace and waiting to die. This old Beijing Camp was located in Daxing County, and they only received salaries but did not do any work.

Zhu Yijun never went to the Nandaying Camp once, and did not even go to visit during the New Year to express his condolences.

The New Beijing Camp was the Beijing Camp established after the first year of the Wanli reign. If a military officer had great ambitions, he had to pass the assessment of elite soldiers and then be selected by the Military Academy before he could enter the Beijing Camp to serve.

He felt that his ancestors had fought in several lifetimes and did not want to achieve anything significant. All he wanted was to walk around with his bird in a cage and eat his salary until he died in the South Camp.

When Li Chengliang went to Beijing to report on his work the year before last, he went to Nandaying in Daxing County specifically, hung Li Rubai upside down, and beat him severely, almost making Li Chengliang sick from anger.

Li Ruzhen, on the other hand, was timid and cowardly, or more specifically, he was afraid of fighting, which was completely the opposite of his elder brother Li Rusong.

As a military general, being afraid of fighting is a sign of incompetence that will exhaust the entire army. After Li Rubai got into trouble, Li Ruzhen was also sent to the Xunying to eat free meals. He didn't even have to report for duty. He just went to the Ministry of War to collect a salary every year.

Li Ruzhen was not hung up and beaten by Li Chengliang because when Li Ruzhen grew up, Li Chengliang was fighting desperately with the Tartars and the Jiannu in Liaodong. Li Ruzhen's character was largely caused by his precarious living environment.

Among Li Chengliang's sons, only Li Rusong was very capable. The others were just ordinary people, and could even be described as idiots. They had no military talent and were too lazy to study. However, Li Chengliang was extremely lucky to have one with military talent.

Li Rubai and Li Ruzhen were suddenly called to Wuying Building today, naturally to see Zhou Liangyin.

Li Rubai was very arrogant. He was not even afraid of his own father. When he was hung on a tree and beaten, Li Rubai was still shouting, "If you have the guts, beat me to death!"

But in front of Qi Jiguang, Li Rubai was as obedient as a quail, and even spoke to him in a gentler manner.

Even if Li Chengliang was angry, he would not beat his son to death, as even a tiger will not eat its own cubs. However, Qi Jiguang was extremely strict in military discipline. With Li Rubai's behavior, he would have been punished by military law hundreds of times under Qi Jiguang's command.

"Your Majesty, I met Censor Zhou once in the second year of the Wanli reign. At that time, he came to Daning Guard, and I was digging white soil from Taotu Mountain in Daning Guard. At that time, Censor Zhou was still a little plump and a little frivolous, not as capable as he is now." Qi Jiguang replied, talking about the grievances and hatreds between him and Zhou Liangyin.

If Qi Jiguang really had resentment in his heart, he would not have taken the initiative to mention the past in front of the emperor. This might seem like reminiscing about the past, but in fact it was letting it go.

Now as the Duke of Fengguo, even if the emperor did not consider the personal feelings such as the teacher-student friendship in martial arts teaching, he had to give face to this Duke of Fengguo who had made great military achievements for the Ming Dynasty, pacified the Japanese pirates in the south, and destroyed the Hu Lu in the north. As long as Qi Jiguang did not mention it, the emperor had to severely punish Zhou Liangyin in front of Qi Jiguang.

The reason why Zhu Yijun decided to hold the audience in Wuying Tower and called Li Chengliang's sons and Qi Jiguang to his side was to settle the original case.

Zhou Liangyin did not make a false accusation. When Qi Jiguang attacked Daning Wei, he did want to be greedy for merit and advance rashly, attacking Quanning Wei to gain the initiative on the battlefield, because at that time Qi Jiguang was not sure whether it would be his last time to go out of the border. The situation in the court was not clear at that time, and determining the route was still the main contradiction at the beginning.

Li Chengliang did criticize the censors harshly at the beginning and used the big tiger to scare them.

Qi Jiguang took the initiative to mention that Zhou Liangyin was a bit frivolous at the time, attributing the despicable behavior of the Confucian scholar at the time to the fact that he was young and ignorant at that time and did not know the sufferings of the border areas.

Zhu Yijun looked at Zhou Liangyin. This was also a hurdle that Zhou Liangyin had to overcome. If he wanted to govern a region and rise to prominence in the future, this matter had to be made clear and have a result.

"Your Majesty, I did not farm for food, did not weave for clothes, and did not understand the intention of the country to revitalize the dynasty. I was disloyal to the king's ambition, and I was stirring up trouble and making trouble. This was an evil act that made my relatives sad and my enemies happy. Military affairs are a matter of great importance to the rise and fall of the country. I should not comment on them if I do not understand them. Fortunately, the country has a wise ruler and no catastrophe has occurred. However, I should still be severely punished to serve as a warning to others." Zhou Liangyin took a deep breath and admitted that his past remarks had brought trouble to the country's revitalization.

At the same time, he also accepted the emperor's punishment and had no complaints.

Zhou Liangyin had been in the border area for ten years. He already knew the pros and cons of what happened back then. The conflict had escalated to the point of fighting, so he had to find a way to seize any possible opportunity, otherwise he would not know when the next chance would come.

Zhou Liangyin could now empathize and understand why the warlike Qi Jiguang wanted to take risky tactics. It was the existence of a lowly scholar like him that made the usually cautious Qi Jiguang intend to conquer the north in one battle.

"I thought Censor Zhou was going to blame me for making you live in the cowshed." Zhu Yijun looked at Zhou Liangyin, his tone full of scrutiny.

His old habit of being naturally wary of civil officials came back.

"I have never lived in a cowshed. I also have official residences in the government office..." Zhou Liangyin was stunned. He didn't know how to respond.

He was in Daningwei, and the government office he lived in was renovated from the Ningwang Mansion! He never said that he lived in a cowshed.

He was an official, and it was indeed hard to reclaim wasteland in the frontier, but who would dare to let him live in a cowshed? If he lived in a cowshed, what would the officials below live in? A pigsty?
"Your Majesty, the past is past. Your Majesty has already punished him. The same thing cannot be punished twice. If I continue to be petty, I will put Your Majesty in a situation where rewards and punishments are unclear. Only when rewards are generous and credible, and punishments are severe and inevitable, will the country prosper." Qi Jiguang made it very clear that he forgave Zhou Liangyin and would not embarrass him in the future. His starting point was to be credible in rewards and punishments.

Rewards should be generous and trustworthy, and punishments should be severe and certain. This sentence comes from Wen Zhong, a minister of King Gou Jian of Yue.

Gou Jian, the King of Yue, worked hard to accumulate national strength. On the eve of attacking Wu, the King of Yue asked: Can we attack Wu? Wen Zhong said: Yes, as long as we can clearly distinguish between rewards and punishments, we can destroy Wu. The King of Yue still lacked confidence, so Wen Zhong asked him to designate a palace.

King Gou Jian of Yue really set the palace on fire and made a promise. If the fire was put out successfully, he would be rewarded as a winner, but if the fire was not put out, he would be punished as a deserter and surrenderer. Three thousand Yue soldiers put out the fire in wet clothes, and no one retreated. After the fire was put out, Gou Jian fulfilled his promise.

Reward generously and keep your promises, punish severely and resolutely, if the monarch can do this, the people will naturally be won over.

"Imperial Censor Zhou, why don't you thank General Qi for his magnanimity?" Zhu Yijun smiled and said to Zhou Liangyin.

"Thank you, General Qi!" Zhou Liangyin said very sincerely. Since he said in front of the emperor that he would not make things difficult for him anymore, Qi Jiguang would never make things difficult for him in the future. Zhou Liangyin believed in Qi Jiguang's promise.

In fact, Qi Jiguang had forgiven him long ago. He was reclaiming wasteland in Daning Wei and Quanning Wei, but he did not have the support of Wang Rulong, the general of Yingchang. As a civil servant, even if he had a lot of ideas, he could not do anything about those horse bandits and Hu Lu. Farming and fighting were always the same. Zhou Liangyin asked Wang Rulong for help, and Wang Rulong chose to support him.

In the 38th year of Jiajing, Qi Jiguang recruited foreign soldiers in Yiwu, and Wang Rulong brought his brothers out. From then on, Wang Rulong followed Qi Jiguang to travel all over the country and fought countless tough battles. Qi Jiguang was unwilling to forgive what Zhou Liangyin had done, so Zhou Liangyin had a hard time and might even die on the border.

Qi Jiguang never advocated pointing the blade inward, which was why court officials in the past thought Qi Jiguang was easy to bully.

Qi Jiguang chose to forgive. Even though Li Rubai and Li Ruzhen had a lot to say, they didn't dare to say it in front of Qi Jiguang. They dared to glare at their father, but they were very honest in front of Qi Jiguang, as honest as Li Rusong.

"You don't understand military affairs. Don't talk nonsense in the future and make yourself a laughing stock. The steam engine uses coal to boil water. According to the censors, digging coal disturbs the earth's energy and dragon veins, so we should burn firewood. But they make it sound easy. Where does the firewood come from?" Zhu Yijun still admonished Zhou Liangyin.

If we really listen to the nonsense of these ignorant scholars, then future rockets should burn coal, and anthracite at that.

Military affairs are very professional and require some talent. If Qi Jiguang had really listened to the censors, the Ming Dynasty would have been conquered by the Tuman Khan long ago.

"I will follow your Majesty's instructions." Zhou Liangyin bowed his head again and accepted the order.

"Lord Wan told you, the master recommended you as the governor of Shanxi. The gold, silver, copper, iron, coal and alkali from Shengzhou and Womagang must be transported at the entrance of Datong in Xuanfu. This place is the strategic point for Wang Ru's rule over Suiyuan. We must not lose it. When necessary, you must also help Governor Pan to prevent chaos in Suiyuan." Zhu Yijun sat up straight and explained the main tasks of going to Shanxi.

With the establishment of the highway, the trade between the Ming Dynasty and Suiyuan must be strengthened, and if any trouble breaks out, the faint trust between the Ming Dynasty and the Hu people in Suiyuan will be broken.

In a Ming Dynasty, we need to be vigilant until a consensus is reached that everyone is the king's subject.

"To be more specific, be careful of a small group of diehard idiots among the Northern Tartars. They will use all kinds of means and under all kinds of pretexts to delay the millennium plan of reconciliation between the Ming Dynasty and the Northern Tartars. It will take at least 30 years for a Ming Dynasty to be invincible with all its people as kings. It will require the ruler and his subjects to be united and the people to work together." Zhu Yijun did not speak empty words or clichés, but spoke directly.

"I obey your order." Zhou Liangyin accepted the order. The emperor asked about many things he had seen and heard about the grassland. Many things that Zhu Yijun had never heard of happened under his rule, such as the widespread farming on the grassland, where beans and barley were grown; not everyone on the grassland could ride a horse, and not everyone grew up on horseback; the importance of iron pots to the grassland people, etc.

"I'm leaving now." Zhou Liangyin finally completed his audience with the emperor. After paying his respects to Qi Jiguang again with gratitude, he left Wuying Tower.

Zhu Yijun said helplessly to Qi Jiguang: "Does General Qi know Song Rendong?"

"I have heard of him. His nickname is Tuxingsun." As the Duke of Fengguo, Qi Jiguang would of course read the official bulletin. Qi Jiguang actually knew Song Rendong of the Xishan Coal Bureau, who invented shield tunneling with reference to the shipworm. He also knew his nickname, Tuxingsun.

Tuxingsun is a mythical figure who is skilled in walking on the ground and can travel a thousand miles a day.

"It's quite fitting." Zhu Yijun nodded. The name was wrong, but the nickname was not. This nickname was indeed suitable. He continued, "Song Rendong fell in love with that prostitute named Li Niang. In Song Rendong's eyes, Li Niang had reformed, but in the marriage fraud case supervised by Wang Chonggu, Li Niang was a liar."

Qi Jiguang's eyebrows were twisted into knots and he said, "Is this case really a wrongful case as Song Rendong said?"

Qi Jiguang certainly saw the great joy that Song Rendong had in suing Wang Chonggu. If he, the Duke of Fengguo, was required to express his opinion, he had only one attitude: wherever your majesty points his sword, the troops of the Beijing camp will go there!
Your Majesty, just give the order to deal with anyone you want.

"That's not the case. The death penalty was reviewed three times. The case was investigated and supplemented three times. The evidence is irrefutable." Zhu Yijun shook his head and said, "There is actually a follow-up to this matter. After the start of work this spring, the woolen cloth factory and the weaving bureaus in various provinces have banned any prostitutes from entering the factory."

"Wang Ci Fu ordered that the government factory was not a place for filth and corruption. These prostitutes used the identities of weavers in the government factory to whitewash themselves, which put the government factory in a very passive position. So Wang Ci Fu made a direct decision and banned prostitutes from entering the factory."

Give these prostitutes a way out, who will give Wang Chonggu a way out? There are many such cases. Have the government-run factories become the background and backing for their extortion?
The reason why Song Rendong trusts Li Niang so much is because she is a weaver in the official woolen factory, right?
"Your Majesty, I think that Wang Ci Fu did have some concerns about this matter, but it did not violate the court's decree to abolish the slave system." Qi Jiguang expressed his opinion. Your Majesty has plenty of reasons to deal with Wang Chonggu. Just pick one of the memorials of the lowly Confucian scholar and you will find dozens of charges against him.

This is not the decree of Wang Chonggu and the court, nor the will of Your Majesty. It goes against the general policy of abolishing slavery and changing production relations.

Zhu Yijun spread his hands and said, "Wang Ci Fu had no other choice. At first, he thought that after severe punishment, the matter would be over, but contradictions arose. After the marriage fraud case in the capital was closed with public beheading, Wang Ci Fu discovered that the official factories and weaving bureaus under the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty had this kind of marriage fraud phenomenon to varying degrees, so the craftsmen in each official factory were upset."

"This kind of emotion is very strong. Those weavers who had turned to good deeds were isolated, abused, pointed at, and criticized to varying degrees. In the Nan Ya Weaving Bureau, there was a weaver who was born into a prostitute family and had been a good woman for seven years. She was criticized in this way and committed suicide by jumping into the river."

"Ugh."

It has been so long since the marriage fraud case came to an end. If no new circumstances had arisen, Wang Chonggu would not have issued such a one-size-fits-all policy. It is not really because of lazy governance, but because he has no better solution and can only do this.

The craftsmen were very emotional, and understandably so, because the reputation of the government factory was damaged, which was equivalent to the reputation of all the craftsmen being damaged. This kind of thing had already happened in the capital, but the court still sat back and watched, which meant allowing this kind of thing to happen. The craftsmen's emotions manifested themselves as discrimination.

Therefore, a response must be made. The only way is to ban prostitutes from working in official factories. If no response is made, the emotions of these craftsmen will get out of control, and if something messy happens again, the weavers who have turned to good works will also suffer greatly.

The result of this is that in the production relationship between prostitutes and nannies, prostitutes have no way out and their bargaining power has been greatly reduced. Nowadays, most prostitutes are sold to charity houses at a young age and are forced to become prostitutes, not voluntarily entering the world of brothels to make money.

"A piece of bad meat makes the whole pot smell bad." Qi Jiguang leaned back in his chair and said helplessly.

When Zhu Yijun and Qi Jiguang talked about this, they were talking about the government-run factories refusing to accept girls who had changed their ways. In fact, they were also talking about Suiyuan. There was a small group of ambitious people among the old captives in Suiyuan who, with various purposes, incited the people to join them in making trouble. In the end, Suiyuan as a whole was the victim.

This is also what Zhu Yijun repeatedly reminded Zhou Liangyin to pay attention to.

Li Yougong was the most active and busiest eunuch in the Ming Dynasty. He came to Songjiang Prefecture with the imperial edict of the Ming Emperor, which punished Shen Shixing by demoting him by three levels. There were some things in it that Shen Shixing needed to know, and some things that Shen Shixing did not need to know.

For example, if Zhang Juzheng suspected Shen Shixing of having problems and wanted to punish him more severely, he had no need to know.

Shen Shixing must know that His Majesty personally ordered the arrest of the legal advisor Dong Wei and brought him to justice to prove his innocence.

Shen Shixing thanked the emperor for the grace, but he was actually quite nervous. Although he had made some contributions since arriving in Songjiang Prefecture, this was indeed a big mistake. Being demoted three levels was not a problem. As long as he remained in the position of Songjiang Prefecture, he could still make contributions.

"Since Your Majesty has the intention to protect me, Governor Shen does not have to worry about the affairs of the court. Everything is under the care of you and Your Majesty. Just focus on your work." Li Yougong's words were somewhat ambiguous, making Shen Shixing think that he was being protected by Zhang Juzheng.

But Shen Shixing was Zhang Juzheng's disciple and had known Zhang Juzheng for more than 20 years. He knew Zhang Juzheng very well. Zhang Juzheng was different from other masters. Zhang Juzheng's style had always been that your contributions were yours and no one could take them away, but no one could take responsibility for your mistakes.

Gao Gong was not like that. When the world was in turmoil, Gao Gong openly protected the people of Jin.

After Shen Shixing received the imperial edict to demote him by three levels, he immediately understood that everything was just the emperor's favor.

"Your Majesty has learned about the Shanghai County Magistrate Yan Shixuan's offense against you from Luo Bingliang and Luo Tishuai. Since there is a conflict, Your Majesty has issued an edict to transfer Yan Shixuan to Hangzhou to be the prefect. This is a promotion. You have also selected a person from Jin to come to Shanghai County." Li Yougong talked about the new personnel appointments and dismissals.

Yan Shixuan was not promoted in name only but demoted in reality. He jumped from a seventh-rank county magistrate to a fourth-rank prefect. This was a leap forward in the officialdom.

It would take Yan Shixuan at least ten years to be promoted from a seventh-rank county magistrate to a sixth-rank assistant judge, a fifth-rank associate magistrate, and a fourth-rank prefect.

The fifth-rank Tongzhi is a very clear watershed. Many people have endured their entire lives without ever becoming a fifth-rank Tongzhi, and were promoted to the fourth-rank Zhifu.

When the official in Shenshi was demoted three levels, someone had to be promoted three levels in a row. Then Yan Shixuan, who defeated the Hailong Gang, was the only suitable candidate.

"It is quite surprising for the court that Yan Shixuan did not accept the bribe from Hai Laosi and even controlled the runners of the county government under his own control." Li Yougong was a little curious about how Yan Shixuan did it.

Before the intervention of the Imperial Guards, the imperial court was not quite aware that Hai Mingyuan was Hai Laosi. After Hai Laosi, as the leader of a gang, defected to the Xu family, he established the Hailong Gang. This Hailong Gang has always been in the hands of Hai Laosi. That is to say, over the years, there have been more or less Hai Laosi's people in the county government.

Sometimes, one cannot avoid taking bribes unless one has high moral character and is upright and righteous. When one is in the midst of a flood, there are many things that are beyond one’s control.

Legal advisor Dong Wei issued card tickets to Yan Shixuan every month, and had Yan Shixuan go to the government office to be scolded. Yan Shixuan could not do anything, and his evaluations were poor, so he was naturally dismissed.

"Yan Shixuan, don't use local clerks and yamen runners." Shen Shixing briefly introduced Yan Shixuan's method. He did not use local people. The local gangs were already very rude, and even the advisers around the governor could be bribed. Yan Shixuan chose to employ outsiders.

In this way, a relative balance is achieved.

"In that case. Let's go to Shanghai County first to announce the imperial edict and carry out our duties." Li Yougong planned to ask Yan Shixuan in person. This was also an experience in struggle. Officials appointed by the Ming Dynasty court had to perform duties in local areas and fight against the local hereditary corrupt officials. This was a compulsory course for officials appointed by the court.

Li Yougong rushed to Shanghai County, which was even more prosperous than Huating County where the provincial capital was located. Because there were no city walls, the Huangpu River was filled with barges. Along the Huangpu River were endless workshops and rows of streets. Various flags were hung on the streets with big words such as wine, residence, house, rice, oil, and meal written on them. Li Yougong rode a tall horse through these streets.

Yan Shixuan was very tall, more than six feet (one foot 31 cm), but very thin, and looked like a shrewd scholar.

"I thank Your Majesty for your great grace." Yan Shixuan kowtowed to thank the emperor for his grace. He was a little surprised that he was promoted three levels in a row. He thought that he had offended Shen Shixing, the man in heaven, and his career was doomed.

In his opinion, he had offended Shen Shixing by not taking the initiative to take the blame for him, causing Shen Shixing to be demoted three levels and serving as governor as a Langzhong of the Ministry of Personnel, which had become a laughing stock of the Ming Dynasty.

The court's perspective is different from Yan Shixuan's own perspective.

But in the end, Yan Shixuan left Songjiang Prefecture and went to Hangzhou to be the prefect. If he did a good job as the prefect in Hangzhou, he might as well think about becoming the provincial governor or even the governor-general.

"It looks like County Magistrate Yan is not ecstatic." Li Yougong was curious. When Yan Shixuan heard that he had been promoted three levels in a row, he was just surprised, not delighted.

"There are still many things to be done in Shanghai. The most important thing right now is the Iron Horse Factory. Once I leave office, I'm afraid Governor Shen will consider Jinshanwei instead of Shanghai County." Yan Shixuan hesitated for a long time and finally told the truth. He said worriedly: "Governor Shen is a gentleman. At least he will not sacrifice public interest for personal gain."

"Shanghai County is still the most suitable place."

There was also competition among localities. Shanghai County, Qingpu County, and Jinshanwei all wanted the Tiema Factory. Jinshanwei, in particular, was a strong competitor since the shipyards were all there.

Shen Shixing was a Beijing official and an imperial envoy of the court. The emperor's orders were above everything else, and he had to complete the tasks assigned by the court as quickly as possible. With the establishment of the Iron Horse Factory and the personnel changes in Shanghai County, Shen Shixing would definitely change his position.

"You've got to think it over carefully. If you reject the emperor's grace this time, it will be extremely difficult to get promoted three levels in a row." Li Yougong had never expected that Yan Shixuan was not ecstatic about being promoted three levels in a row, but was even a little unhappy.

"Who will take over from me?" Yan Shixuan was of course a little hesitant, as this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

"Yao Guangqi, the magistrate of Jimo County, Shandong." Li Yougong told the new candidate for the magistrate of Shanghai County, Yao Guangqi, the son-in-law of Wang Chonggu's younger brother Wang Chongyi, a direct descendant of the Jin Party and the kelp king.

Yao Guangqi had made great achievements, so he followed Ling Yunyi to Shandong to serve as an official. After working for such a long time, he was promoted to become a county magistrate.

"Him? Then I'll go to Hangzhou." Yan Shixuan said immediately, "It's only a few days before Shandong cotton is shipped to Songjiang. He wants to escort the cotton here. Since it's him, there's no problem."

Yao Guangqi is the clan party of Wang Chonggu, the leader of the Labor Party! The clan party that none of the three tribes of Yi can escape from, this iron horse factory will definitely be able to land.

It is more appropriate for people in heaven to fight against each other. Each of them has a strong background. He is just an ordinary Jinshi that Wang Jiaping is unwilling to accept as his disciple. The fight between gods is really embarrassing for him.

"Your Majesty is quite curious about how County Magistrate Yan governs Shanghai County." Li Yougong explained his purpose.

Yan Shixuan thought for a long time and said, "It's easy to answer this question in a few words, but I'd better take Angel to see Shanghai County."

This question seems easy to answer, but it is really difficult to explain it clearly.

(End of this chapter)