Tong Yangjia and Tong Tuchang ate in Wanghailou very late before they came to the mansion. They didn't take their families when they arrived in Qiongzhou, so Tong Tuchang had no worries and came directly to the back house with Tong Yangjia.

There were still several servants in the mansion. When they saw the new master coming, they hurriedly welcomed the new master.

Tong Yangjia and Tong Tuchang came to the study room of the back house and waited for the servant to go out for tea. Tong Tuchang said, "Uncle II, I think that Tongzhi seems to have some objections to you."

Tong Yangjia has been wandering in the world for more than 20 years, but he can't tell that Lu Shiyuan is dissatisfied. Tong Yangjia said, "Maybe we are here to take over his position."

Tong Tuchang asked, "What should I do? Without the help of local officials, it is difficult for the King of Chu to complete the task on time."

Tong Yangjia said, "Chang'er, the mission of the King of Chu must be completed on time. This is our close friend. We are alone and lonely. If we don't have any credit, how can we fight the Ma family?"

Tong Tuchang lowered his head and refused to speak after being scolded.

Tong Yangjia continued, "Two months, time is very tight. Chang'er, you will go to the city to organize craftsmen to prepare tomorrow."

Tong Tuchang nodded and asked, "Uncle Second, where is that ship? The ships patrolling the sea route have all gone back to pick up the army."

Tong Yangjia said, "Don't worry about this matter, you have to organize craftsmen and set off in three days."

Tong Yangjia thought a lot about it. Among the four counselors of the King of Chu, he was the weakest. The Ma family's power was too strong, and this time it was a good opportunity to come to Qiongzhou. The local officials in Qiongzhou were far away from the mainland and did not know the Ma family at all. They could just take them for themselves.

Tong Yangjia had already made plans and would show up with the Tongzhi Lu Shiyuan tomorrow, and all government affairs were handed over to him. Anyway, his main task in Qiongzhou Prefecture was iron ore. As long as the iron ore was completed, the King of Chu would be happy and it would take a minute to get promoted.

The next day, Tong Yangjia sent his servant to the front to find Tongzhi Lu Shiyuan.

Lu Shiyuan entered the house and bowed, saying, "I don't know what Lord Tong is going to find the official."

Tong Yangjia smiled and said, "This is in the back house. How old is Tong Chi? Just Yuanjia calls me brother."

Lu Shiyuan was surprised to hear Tong Yangjia say this. In his heart, he felt that the new prefect should establish his authority first.

Lu Shiyuan bowed and said, "Since Brother Ziyi is destined, then I'm in Xia Tan Yue."

Tong Yangjia said it might as well, let the servant bring tea and have a heart-to-heart talk with Lu Shiyuan first.

It turned out that Lu Shiyuan was a serious Jinshi, much better than Tong Yangjia. However, Lu Shiyuan was only a three-level Jinshi, and was a fellow villager in Suning, Hebei Province with Wei Zhongxian. Therefore, after passing the Jinshi in the third year of Chongzhen, he was sent to Tianya Haijiao to be the magistrate.

Lu Shiyuan is also very capable in his personal ability. From being grateful to the county magistrate to Wenchang County magistrate, he became the magistrate of Yazhou and finally promoted to the Tongzhi of Qiongzhou. This is also a history of a strong struggle.

When Tong Yangjia heard Lu Tongzhi's struggle history, he couldn't help but sigh. It seems that there are people in the court who are good at being an official. He is just a scholar, and he can become a fourth-rank prefect if he has not been an official for a day. The Lu Shiyuan, who was the opposite, worked as a Jinshi, and had been working hard for almost twenty years before he became a fifth-rank Tongzhi.

After listening to Lu Shiyuan's struggle history, Tong Yangjia said, "My dear brother has a bumpy career."

You have to say this. Lu Shiyuan grinned bitterly.

Tong Yangjia knew that he would talk to him about the main things now. Tong Yangjia said, "My brother, tell you the truth. Brother Yu is going to be able to take the position of this prefect."

Lu Shiyuan thought to himself: "That's more important than that, I'd known. But what does it mean when you said it today?"

Tong Yangjia said, "Do you want to know whose path I'm going?"

Lu Shiyuan was stunned. Logically, Tong Yangjia shouldn't have told him about such a very private matter.

Tong Yangjia didn't care about Lu Shiyuan, who was stunned, then said, "My brother may not know that Brother Yu was originally from Liaodong. When he was in Huguang, he was taken in by a royal family and became his Mr. Xixi. Later, he came to Guangdong with him, and this royal family was named King of Chu."

So that's it. Lu Shiyuan knew about the new King of Chu in Guangzhou. He also heard that the King of Chu made great efforts when the current emperor Zhu Yousong fled. Later, Zhu Yousong became the emperor and was named King of Chu.

This is Lu Shiyuan's deep contempt. Tong Yangjia, a scholar, actually relied on the powerful and disgusted.

Tong Yangjia continued: "Master Lu should know that the price of pig iron in Guangdong has tripled this year, right?"

Of course Lu Shiyuan knew about this. He said: "The Xiaguan knew about this, and even our Qiongzhou Prefecture was implicated. Now, there have been no merchants in the prefecture for half a month to transport pig iron."

Tong Yangjia nodded and said, "The King of Chu didn't know what he got from there. There was a large iron ore in Qiongzhou Prefecture. So he found Feng Jiantai, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and asked Brother Yu to come to Qiongzhou to become an official, that is, to mine this large iron ore."

Lu Shiyuan asked, "Brother Tong, please forgive me for being rude. The prefect is a fourth-rank Huangtang, and Feng Jiantai has no right to appoint and remove him, right?"

Tong Yangjia knew it was time to show off his secrets to Lu Shiyuan, so that he could not suppress him.

Tong Yangjia smiled and said, "Lord Lu, you don't know now. The princess of the King of Chu is the legitimate daughter of the Ma family in Huguang."

This sentence is like a bolt from the blue. I don’t know that the four Jinshis in the Ma family in Huguang were married to the royal family. I didn’t expect that they would marry their legitimate daughter to the royal family. I didn’t expect that Tong Yangjia’s words would shock Lu Shiyuan even more.

"His Majesty the Emperor personally issued an order to marry the legitimate daughter of Qianbutang to the King of Chu as the side princess."

Lu Shiyuan really couldn't figure it out. Qian Qianyi was a great scholar, the leader of the Donglin Party, and a talented man in Jiangnan. How could he marry his daughter to the King of Chu?

Lu Shiyuan also felt powerless. When Tong Yangjia came yesterday, he wanted to give up the challenge for Tong Yangjia. This time, when he heard Tong Yangjia say that his backstage was so strong, Lu Shiyuan felt a little bit powerless.

Of course, although the Ma family is out of date, its reputation in the court is still there. In addition, Feng Jiantai is still the Ma family's uncle. Qian Qianyi, and Lao Qian is now the Minister of Personnel. Not to mention a prefect of Qiongzhou, it is not impossible to even establish a prefect of Guangzhou.

Lu Shiyuan lowered his head and thought for a long time, sighed, stood up and said, "Sir, I'm not doing anything, I'll go out."

Tong Yangjia was a little discouraged when he saw Lu Shiyuan being shocked by him.

Tong Yangjia said, "My brother Yuanjia, sit down first, I have something to say."

When Lu Shiyuan sat down, Tong Yangjia continued, "My brother, don't do this. Brother Yu still has to rely on you to do the errands of the King of Chu. Brother Yu doesn't understand the local political affairs, so in the future, all the government affairs of the whole mansion will be handed over to the King of Chu. I will only care about the errands of the King of Chu."

Tong Yangjia's true confession made Lu Shiyuan's dead heart come alive again. He said, "But the master is the prefect."

Tong Yangjia smiled and said, "I'm not hiding it from my good brother. When my brother Yu came, the King of Chu said that as long as the iron ore is done, the governor may be able to be treated in the future. Is there any other good brother who has not discovered why you have been wasting nearly twenty years and are still circling around this Qiongzhou Prefecture?"

Lu Shiyuanxin said: "Do you still need to ask? There is no one above."

Tong Yangjia said, "Brother, I will help me handle political affairs. Will the King of Chu still not be able to discover my great talent?"

Lu Shiyuan was shocked by Tong Yangjia's words. Yes, he could rely on the King of Chu, and I could enter the King of Chu's eyes after I did it.

But Lu Shiyuan still has a little bit of a literati's reserve in his heart, and he feels that it is not nice to rely on the powerful.

Tong Yangjia is now forty-eight years old and has been living in the world for more than 20 years. How could he not know what Lu Shiyuan is thinking? He feels that he will add more fire to him. Tong Yangjia said, "My good brother is well-read, but have you heard what Deng Wan, a native of Song Dynasty, say, "I should follow you when I laugh and scold you, and I must do it for a good official." This sentence?"

Lu Shiyuan was stunned. Yes, he just had no one in the backstage and had been on this island for nearly twenty years. He is 45 years old this year. If he doesn't seize this opportunity, he may not have any chance.

Lu Shiyuan made up his mind, stood up and bowed, "Adult's words are like enlightenment, and the lower-ranking officials will follow the arrangements of everything."

When Tong Yangjia was happy to see the largest local official in Qiongzhou Prefecture, he said, "Just let me open my mind. I have brought more than a thousand craftsmen and will go to mine in three days. I am familiar with the geography of Qiongzhou Prefecture, so I just happened to ask you to introduce the situation of Qiongzhou Prefecture."
Chapter completed!