After sending away Jin Douji, who was full of thoughts of making money, Hong Dashou walked back into the house thoughtfully.

Since Min Tingyu has appointed an envoy to the Qing Dynasty, he will naturally not leave immediately for such a prestigious and earth-shattering job. He first needs to make general arrangements for the disaster relief work in the Yellow Sea and Ping'an Roads. This year's situation looks good. The spring rain has also fallen. When the food is harvested, the place will be calm.

He must contact his family in Lixing's hometown to send him a lot of money, and then he can purchase five thousand kilograms of huge goods from large business groups such as Jing, Lai, Song, Wan, Liu, etc. Especially ginseng, tiger Only large business groups like this can raise money for leather and other things immediately.

It would take at least a month and a half or even more for the official documents from the imperial court and the envoys' ceremonial flags to be sent to Yizhou, enough for Min Ting to handle the goods. It was also enough for Hong Dashou to plan. After all, the opportunity was rare.

Entering the house, she also found that as Hong Dashou’s mother, Mrs. Hong was not qualified to sleep in the main room. She still had to make way for Hong Dashou, the head of the family, and could only sleep in the side room. Now she is giving Hong Dashou Keep the bedding roll.

"Mom, when you're done, go and have a rest early!"

"Wait a minute, I'll bring you a basin of water to wash your face." Hong kept her hands on her hands, obviously she had been doing this kind of work for a long time.

Hong Da Shou doesn't necessarily need anyone to serve him, but the original owner of this body is in his twenties, can't even light a stove fire, and can't touch the spring water with his fingers. For a while, let Hong Da Shou take care of things. Why it really doesn’t work.

It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s that I won’t.

In that case, let's do this for now. Now that I have money, I will go to Ren Yazi in two days and pick two honest people. At least Hong, Mrs. Hong, does not have to boil water herself.

Use a basin of water to wash your face first, and then your feet. It’s not that water is precious, but that there is no need to waste hot water. Firewood is also obtained through hard work by long-term workers in the family, so there is no need to pour it out just after washing your face.

Ms. Hong sat on the floor and watched Mr. Hong wash up.

"Dashou, my mother is a woman, and I don't know much about your business methods. But I still want to ask you, have you joined that Superintendent Min?"

"Not really. The chief supervisor appreciates my Chinese studies and is willing to promote me to his service. I haven't agreed yet."

Hong Dashou wiped his feet with a kapok cloth, thinking about this while wiping. If he received the favor from Superintendent Min, it would definitely pay off in the end, otherwise he would be looked down upon by others.

"Then who is he?" Hong seemed to have thought of something.

"Watch the supervisor doing things, make decisions before taking action, he is mature and prudent, and he is far-sighted. The important thing is that he is not pedantic, he is flexible and willing to employ people."

Hong Dashou thought for a while. From the current point of view, Min Tinghuo is really a very qualified feudal bureaucrat. He has all the feudal morals he should have, and judging from his courage to use a large number of merchants to suppress civil unrest, he seems to know Flexible.

"No, no, no, that's not it. Which sect does he belong to?" Hong shook her head. She realized that she had made a mistake in her statement. What he wanted to ask was, was Min Tinghye from the south or the north? Or from the east or from the west?

"Huh?" Hong Dashou was confused. Hong's political intuition is so sharp? Why did he suddenly ask about the party?

"Our Hong family is not a famous family, and we have no connection with the Hong family in Fengshan. But in fact, when your great-grandfather was alive a hundred years ago, he was related to the Hong family in Fengshan. But our family later fell into decline, and their family Empress Huiqinggong gave birth to King Gongxuan (Zhengzong), so there was no contact for decades."

It turns out that the Hong family has such a powerful relative? So maybe Hong Dashou is the uncle of the current king?

"Our own family followed Duke Quan Zhongzhuang (Quan Li) in the battles, and was awarded officials based on our merits."

“It just so happens that the Fengshan Hong family and the Andong Kwon family both belong to the Westerners’ Party, so our family is also a Westerner’s Party!” [Note 1]

After Mrs. Hong finished speaking, she looked at Hong Dashou. Logically speaking, Hong Dashou should know about this kind of thing, but as a mother, she was always concerned about her son's future, so she had to ask some questions.

"Mom, now the Western party has long since collapsed and is divided into old and young. The Ying Temple was there but was demolished. In the past, most people in the government were divided into two factions."

"What about this Superintendent Min?"

"His in-laws, the current head of state, Grand Superintendent Jin, seems to be of the old-fashioned way, so he should be the same."

"As long as one (blocking) party is fine, that's fine."

When the Hong family heard that Min Tinghye, who Hong Dashou might want to vote for, was from the same faction as the Fengshan Hong family and the Andong Quan family, they were determined.

Don't look at these X parties and X factions splitting up and down. This is the business of the big bosses. The minions in the underground who are waving flags and shouting cannot sit on the wall.

In the Li Dynasty, you must sit up straight. If there is no family power behind you that is strong enough to stay out of the party struggle, don't think about staying out of the party. Even the Confucian scholars in Sungkyunkwan are actually assigned to join the party, so they should not be underestimated.

In the previous hundreds of years of party strife, too many "civilian disasters" occurred, large and small, too numerous to count.

If you want to be an official and want to work for a long time, there must be someone behind you. Always follow the footsteps of your own faction, advance and retreat together, overthrow the enemy party, or be overthrown by the enemy party.

Even though the Hong family is an ordinary middle-aged woman from Tieshan County, Ping'an Road, she actually knows these things clearly. After all, she comes from a double-class household. Everything else has been worn away by the hard work of life, but the political struggle

The thread was always tight. Now that Hong Dashou had not seen anything, she was the first to ask about it.

However, all this is almost a thing of the past. In two or three years, the step-concubine of Yingmiao, Princess Zhenshun, will stretch her legs, and the power in the court will basically be monopolized by her relatives. Sixty years of power politics will soon begin.

, or it has already been opened.

At this time, the imperial court showed some signs of putting aside disputes and promoting development. Although Jin Zuchun could not completely refresh the official system and ensure the survival of the peasants and good people, he at least avoided the fierce party disputes and the widespread civil disaster.

Objectively, it ensured the social stability of the Li Dynasty at that time and alleviated the further intensification of social conflicts.

Nowadays, Li Chao's evaluation of him is relatively positive and very objective. He does not think that he is a treacherous official who wields power, and he has a positive attitude towards his positive influence.

Now that the brutal party strife has largely subsided, Hong's worries seem somewhat unnecessary.

But this is all because Hong Dashou had foresight. If he were an ordinary person, he might really be troubled by such nonsense.

[Note 1]: King Hong Guo Rongbao Fu Zhengzong of the Fengshan Hong family ascended the throne and belonged to the Western Party-Lao Lun Sect-Shi Sect.

The Andong Quan family is more complicated. Quan Sangha, a veteran of the three dynasties of Xiao, Xian, and Su, is a great Confucian scholar of Xing (shielding) Neo-Confucianism. The Quan family was originally a member of the Western People's Party, and this person split into the Laoist School in the Western People's Party.

When he was with the Shaolun Sect, he served as the leader of the Lao Lun Sect.
Chapter completed!