Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

Seeing Su Mu's confident appearance, the old secretary was very surprised.

Looking around again, seeing no one else, he bowed respectfully to Su Mu.

Seeing his congratulations, Su Mu was startled, and hurriedly helped him up: "Why is Mr. so generous?"

The old scholar said: "I have been in the Yan Division for ten years, and I have never seen any kind of person. This Yan Division has served as a transfer envoy, and I know who is not a well-educated Confucian who was born as a Jinshi on the two lists. Compared with Mr. Mei, he is not as good. Especially the ability to deal with specific affairs, Mr. Mei is the number one! In the past few days, the situation in the Yan Division is also very clear to me. Other book offices and The husbands all rolled up their sleeves, and they wanted to see Mr.'s jokes."

"But sir, he managed to prop up such a large yamen with his own strength. Such a talent is really shocking, frightening, respectful and awe-inspiring."

"Mr. Gu and the others want to overwhelm you with so many trivial matters, but they don't want to. Not only did you not make a single complaint, but you worked hard to do the job at hand perfectly. admire."

"Mr. Mei probably doesn't know yet, but now your reputation has spread in the Yansi Yamen. Although everyone doesn't say it verbally, they admire you very much in their hearts."

Hearing what he said, Su Mu felt complacent, and said with a smile: "I'm just doing what I'm supposed to do."

He changed his mind: This is probably the so-called raising hope. Gu Run and the others deliberately made things difficult for me, Su Mu, but they didn't want to make my prestige in Yansi even higher.

The old book office suddenly sighed and shook his head: "I heard that Mr. Mei is a farmer. With your talents, it is not difficult to get a reputation. Why do you want to be a soldier, and then join the inspection department with Mr. Wu. Blindly taking shortcuts is not the way of a gentleman. The old man thinks, Mister might as well try the imperial examination to gain a better future."

Su Mu smiled wryly, and said seriously: "I'll talk about the imperial examination later, but not now, Mei has her own difficulties."

The old book office continued to shake his head, not to persuade him anymore.

After listening to the old book office, Su Mu was in a good mood, and the tiredness of the past few days seemed to go with the wind.

When I arrived at Houya, I saw Mr. Wu sitting under an acacia tree in the courtyard, touching a volume and looking at it.The coffee table beside him was also piled up with manuscripts, a full foot high, all of which were the results of Su Mu's work in the past few days.

Seeing Su Mu approaching, the old man slapped his thigh: "Su Mu, your writing is getting more and more sophisticated, and you are doing well. I didn't expect that you are so proficient in economic affairs. It seems that this time you are called Shio, you are right."

Su Mu slandered: Who did not want me to come back then, but since you are an elder, it is inconvenient for me to complain.For Miss Wu's sake, I will bear it.

"Old man, is your illness better?"

"It's much better." Mr. Wu touched his face and said distressedly: "I didn't know how bad this toothache was before. The so-called toothache is not a disease. It hurts really badly. It's because I can't eat well and can't sleep during the day. Tossing in the dark, no matter how strong your body is, you can't stand this kind of pain. By the way, the toothbrush and toothpaste you use have time to send a set, I heard that those things are good for teeth. "

"Okay, Wansheng will send it over later." Su Mu responded, and sat on the chair next to Master Wu.

The two of them didn't have much to say before, but after sitting for a long time, they felt a little cold.

After a while, Su Mu couldn't bear it anymore.

"Old Mr. Wu, I don't know what you ordered Wansheng to come over?" Su Mu asked.

"What else can I do?" Hearing Su Mu's words, the old man had a sad expression on his face: "It's not for the monthly relief of 30 taels, the deficit of 200 million taels has to be made up within half a year. The imperial court Letters came every few days to urge you, and even His Majesty issued two imperial decrees, one of which was more severe than the other. If you say yes, if you don’t show up, I don’t need to be a temporary transfer envoy.”

Su Mu: "Old man, don't worry, the matter will be resolved one day, you continue to talk."

Wu Shiqi said sadly: "You know who Wu is, Su Mu. You don't care about fame and fortune at all. Back then you helped me find a real shortage of officials in Yangzhou in the Ministry of Officials. Wu So I wanted to refuse to do it. After all, I am old and have the temperament of floating clouds and cranes. I just want to be that famous person who roars proudly. It is a hard job to be an official in the court. But, you just use force blindly. Somebody was forced to go to Yangzhou."

Su Mu just wanted to roll his eyes: You don't want to, it's obviously because you've stayed at home for a long time and you're just afraid of being an official.

Mr. Wu: "Actually, I didn't want to do this transfer mission of the Salt Division for a long time. However, for the sake of the people in Cangzhou, in order to let the people eat safe salt, I stayed. It's really determined The people were hit by a disaster again, and the imperial court was still counting on me to send some disaster relief money. It's a pity that Mr. Wu has limited talent. He has been in power for so many days, but he didn't think of a way to get a penny. When he thought of really fixing the people, he would go five Burn inside. Shame on the court, shame on the emperor!"

When the old man said this, he became emotional, and his eyes were slightly red: "Su Mu, what's the use of taking care of your daily affairs these days? Come up with a solution for me as soon as possible, otherwise..."

He slapped the armrest hard.

Su Mu was a little annoyed: "How did it become my business?"

"If you eat the king's salary, you will naturally be loyal to the king."

Su Mu smiled wryly, thinking: How much salary do you give me for a month!

"Mr., it's only 30 taels of silver. It's not a big deal. Although Su Mu is dealing with daily trivial matters these days, he is not idle. He has an idea in his heart."

"You have a way, talk it out quickly." Wu Shiqi straightened up with joy on his face.

Su Mu didn't talk nonsense, he took out a piece of paper from his pocket with many words written on it, and handed it to Wu Shiqi.

Mr. Wu took it over and saw that it was a list with about twenty people in total. He couldn't help asking curiously: "Who are these people? What are you doing with this list?"

Su Mu was so angry that he almost vomited blood: "Mr., these are the largest salt merchants brought by our Cangzhou Changlu Salt Department."

Old gentleman, you are really confused as a transfer envoy, you don't even know who you sell the official salt you produce, it's really speechless.

Mr. Wu: "What did you give me this list for?"

Su Mu: "My lord, please write an invitation to all the people on the list, saying that I, the Changlu salt transport envoy, Siming, will hold a banquet in the evening, and invite them to come over for dinner."

Mr. Wu got angry, and shouted: "It's a waste of public effort to hold a high-level wine meeting. In the current situation of our salt company, it is absolutely unacceptable to go on such a crazy trip."

Su Mu smiled wryly: "Please eat, and it doesn't have to be a banquet, a cup of tea and a few yuan of snacks per person is enough. If it's really not possible, can I pay for it myself?"

"You can pay for it yourself."

"Also...just talking..." Su Mu was even more speechless.

"By the way, what did you invite the salt merchant to do?"

"The 30 taels of silver have to be rescued by them."

"So that's how it is." Elder Wu said thoughtfully, "I will write a post right now."