Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

Seeing Guan Jizong's expression of hesitation on the face of Guanfu Lord, the secretary office felt uncomfortable.

As Guan Zhifu's staff, he was originally a local scholar in Datong Prefecture. Because he was familiar with the local people, after Guan Jizong came to Datong as the prefect, he wrote three letters in a row before inviting him out of the mountain.

Grateful for the kindness of the Lord Fu, this year, he also tried his best to help.

This Tatar invasion, he was also sad to see his father and fellow villagers suffer such a great crime.

In fact, since last autumn, the Tatar grasslands have suffered from severe snowstorms. It is said that many cattle and sheep froze to death.After the Tatars suffered from the disaster, they went south to invade like crazy.

In October of the fifth year of Zhengde, under the leadership of the little prince Dayan Khan, the Tatars led [-] troops into Hetao, robbing tens of thousands of cattle and sheep and returning to the north.

In February of this year, by the time the snow melted, probably the tens of thousands of cattle and sheep had been eaten up.The Tatars invaded again, this time to Shaanxi, and the harvest was very large. They robbed [-] cattle and sheep in total, and countless grains and rice.

With these two robberies, the Tatars were able to successfully survive the disaster in the fifth year of Zhengde.

Probably tasted the sweetness. Judging from the situation today, the snowstorm is bigger than last year.The Tartars are at it again, and they have no intention of leaving.

Moreover, the scale of the Tatars this time is unprecedented, and the total number has reached [-].If the guess is correct, when the Tatars came, they also brought cattle, sheep, old people and children. This is the whole family.

Are the Tatars trying to use Datong as their winter pasture?

At the thought of this, a bad breath welled up in the chest of the book office.

I just hope that the imperial court can send troops to drive this group of parasites and robbers out of Datong Mansion soon.

Seeing that Guan Jizong was in a mess, the secretary reminded in a low voice: "Your Majesty, you still have to borrow some from Datong Town first, and pay for it for a few days. Let's write an urgent letter to the imperial court at [-] Li, please call the imperial court." Send alms money."

Guan Jizong smiled wryly: "To relieve so many victims, each person needs at least ten taels per day, and 2 people are 200 taels. It will take at least half a year until the imperial court sends troops and the Tatars retreat. Then, the imperial court will have to spend at least several hundred thousand taels for post-disaster reconstruction. Two. The military expenditure of the entire Datong town army is less than 10 taels a year, right? You don’t know the people in the household department. If you ask them for a penny, they will see you from head to toe.”

The book office reminded Guan Jizong: "Your Majesty, there is a sentence that I don't know whether to ask or not."

Guan Zhifu: "You say."

The secretary asked cautiously: "I heard rumors that Fu Jun was able to serve as a seal official in Datong Mansion in his old age because he had a great background in Beijing. I will venture to ask today, who is the noble person behind Fu Jun? A person with such ability must at least be a minister of the cabinet, right?"

Indeed, when Guan Jizong came to Datong with wrinkled face and white hair to take office, the whole Datong Mansion was a sensation.It's incredible to be promoted to such an important position at such an age.

Some people guessed that the man behind Guan Zhifu was Li Dongyang.

However, some people said, no, no, how could Li Shoufu promote an official who was not born in the imperial examination, and this person is still so old, this is not Li Dongyang's style.It seems that the backer of the prefect of Guan should be from the palace, maybe it is Zhang Yong who is in charge of the supervisor of ceremonies.

The secretary had carefully asked several times before, but Guan Jizong kept vague and refused to give a positive answer.

This time the situation is urgent, and the book office has to bring up the old matter again.

Guan Jizong smiled wryly and shook his head: "No, no, Su Ziqiao has lost his power now, and he is an ambassador in the Ministry of War. He has no position and no authority. How can he help?"

"Ah... the man behind Fu, Fu Jun is Su, Su, Su Ziqiao..." The secretary stuttered a little, and no one in the world has heard of Su Mu's name.Moreover, Su Mu is young, and he is very likely to join the cabinet in the future, and it is also possible to be the chief assistant.

"Yes, that's him. Back then, I spent a year with Su Mu as a colleague."

Being able to call Su Mu by his first name, it is obvious that Guan Jizong and Su Ziqiao have an extraordinary relationship.The book office suppressed the turmoil in his heart, and said, "Your Majesty, you are right to find Su Ziqiao."

"How to say?"

The book office analyzed: "Su Ziqiao was born in the East Palace, and he is familiar with the cabinet and the supervisor of ceremonies. The former colleagues of the Imperial Academy are now ministers and ministers, at least they are ministers with real power. As long as he says a word, the former colleagues Colleagues don't give him some face?"

"Besides..." the secretary office took a breath, and continued: "Although Su Ziqiao is only a small ambassador of the Ministry of War, and he has been working for more than a year, it seems that he has completely lost power on the surface. But you, Mr. Fu Have you ever thought about it, if the imperial court really wants to depose Su Ziqiao, why not push him to the end and let him be that low-ranking official of the ninth rank. Not to mention retaining his title of first-class earl, he will also be promoted from the seventh rank to the sixth rank. It can be seen that Su Ziqiao still occupies an important position in Father Jun's mind. Just wait for the right time, he will come out again, and once he comes out, he will be a ministerial level or an official of the frontier. You just need to write a letter, and this matter will be done. .”

Guan Jizong patted his forehead: "Yes, yes, what you said just made me see the blue sky through the clouds and mists. I will write a letter right away!"

I was about to find a clean place to write a letter when I was laid off, when suddenly someone shouted: "The grain ship is coming, the grain ship is coming!"

Guan Jizong was startled, and looked intently, but saw more than a dozen large boats coming from the direction of Datong City in the south, all of which were covered with linen buns, and under the flying flags stood mighty and majestic soldiers.

Look at the flag again, but it has the words "Shanxi Metropolitan Commander" embroidered on it.

Who is this sending food here?

Both of them were puzzled for a while, but when they saw the food, they were still extremely happy and rushed to welcome it.

After a while, when the boat docked, a soldier came over and bowed his hands to Guan Jizong: "But Lord Guan?"

Guan Jizong: "Exactly."

The soldier hurriedly bowed down and said: "This is the grain that my family thanked Qianshi for the elder. The elder is now talking to the commander-in-chief in Datong Town, asking the villain to bring the grain first, and then invite the elder to enter the city." Meet him."

Guan Zhifu was overjoyed: "It's Junfu who came, and he was so generous, polite, polite, let's go, get on the boat."

The secretary who fell behind asked the soldier in a low voice: "Which yamen is your family business in?"

The soldier smiled: "If you go back to the master, it is the commander of the Shanxi capital who is in charge of the affairs and thank you naturally."

The soldier also talked a lot, and he wanted to show off: "I want you to know, my master, that my family will probably stay in Datong for a while this time. Isn't this Tatar invaded by the invaders? There is an order from the envoy to ask Master Qian to act as his substitute." The post of Shanxi Xingdu Division is to cooperate with Datong Town to resist the invasion of the Tatars. You know, my master is a student of Su Ziqiao, the number one scholar, and his position is obtained by writing a letter from Master Su."