I felt that all kinds of things were arranged similarly. In mid-April, Qin Dewei planned to set off to head north.

This time, he only stayed in his hometown Nanjing for more than ten days. It seemed that he didn't have much time, but he was already full of gratitude.

You should know that for the vast majority of Ming officials, entering the official career means selling themselves to the emperor, and only by resigning or dismissing from office can one return to his hometown.

In addition, there are only three situations. The first is that parents have to go home to observe the rules after they die; the second is that they pass by their hometown when they take office; the third is that they are from the capital or Nanjing.

Sometimes, in history books, I saw some officials resigning or being dismissed for no reason, and then regaining again after two years. Maybe it was because of this person's homesickness.

This time Qin Dewei went north and brought Mrs. Gu and his second son Qin Guotai, as well as some property.

In the end, he left his eldest son Qin Guozuo in Nanjing, otherwise he would be afraid that his uncle Qin Xiang would be unable to think about it.

Then before leaving, Qin Dewei instructed his uncle to take the Yuanfeng Money House in Nanjing to be stable and not expand for the time being, and wait until the capital has opened up a new path.

In order to be safe and avoid accidents of encountering bandits on the way, he borrowed thirty strong official guards from the Duke of Wei.

In this way, the team heading north was quite well-arranged, and they loaded more than ten people and objects, which was quite worthy of the identity of a small powerful minister.

According to the old rules, I still set out from Longjiang Pass. Qin Dewei has also walked back and forth several times on this section of the waterway, and is not unfamiliar with it.

However, after departure, something went wrong.

Qin Dewei felt that he was stuffy in the cabin, so he sat on the bow deck while blowing the air while holding a small teapot to taste tea. In front of him was the guard ship that opened the way.

Suddenly, Qin Dewei saw a young man with a fifth-grade beast on his chest coming out of the boat ahead and waved to him.

"Are you surprised or not? Is it unexpected?" Xu Shi'an and Xu Laosan stood on the boat in front and shouted loudly at Qin Dewei.

Qin Dewei: ""

Xu Shian shouted through the water again: "Third Master, I have never left Nanjing. This time I personally escorted you north to see the world!"

After two days of wandering all the way, he arrived at Yangzhou City and lived in the Shui Station outside Nanshui Pass. Then Qin Dewei entered the city.

Mr. Feng Enfeng is here as the salt censor of the Lianghuai River Inspectorate. Since he has passed by, he is bound to visit him. Besides, the restructuring of the salt law was proposed and promoted by Qin Dewei, so he must not ignore the actual situation.

However, when Mr. Qin came to the Yan Yan Censorate, he was stunned and Mr. Feng was not in the official office.

After Mr. Qin revealed his identity, the Literature Office reported: "Mr. Feng led the way and personally led the salt dynasty to the east to arrest private salt dealers."

Qin Dewei was speechless. Very good, very energetic, and very personal characteristics of Mr. Feng.

Qin Dewei was the top figure in the Lianghuai Salt Administration, who personally led a team to arrest private salt dealers on the front line. Qin Dewei didn't know how to evaluate it.

At the third update in the middle of the night, Qin Dewei was sleeping soundly in the luxurious courtyard in the inn when he was suddenly screamed by the vigilant.

A servant at the post station reported in the courtyard: "Mr. Feng, the Censor of the Lianghuai Salt Warrior, is here and is waiting in the lobby of the inn!"

It was noisy at midnight, which was something that Mr. Feng could do! Qin Dewei had nothing to say, and used cold water to force himself to wake up, and then put on his clothes.

Mr. Feng still looks so young, not like a person in his forties at all. The wind and frost accumulated in Liaodong gradually faded away. He said excitedly: "I heard you pass by Yangzhou, I came to visit overnight!"

Qin Dewei yawned and couldn't help but respond: "If I hadn't met me, you would have been the sixth rank at most as an official! It would be a mess!"

The two changed into a more private flower hall, and then Mr. Feng took the initiative to talk about the reform of the salt law. "The original share of Western Merchants has shrunk to 20%, but after the resumption of Sino-French, the share of Western Merchants has now recovered to 60% or 70%.

"This momentum is very good." Qin Dewei nodded and praised.

Opening China and France is to exchange border materials for salt intake. This is the strength of merchants in border provinces such as Shaanxi and Shanxi, so the expansion of Western merchants' share in the salt industry means an increase in border materials.

The expansion of the share of Western merchants from 20% to 60% to 70% means that hundreds of thousands of taels of silver are transported to border towns every year. Looking at the whole country, it is equivalent to transfer payments from southeast to northwest.

After receiving the good news, Feng En began to talk about the question again: "Originally, private salt dealers were all sporadic gangs, and even fought alone.

But now there are a large number of southern salt merchants who have lost their salt intake, and many of them have begun to traffic in private salt, and these people are more fierce than the original small private salt dealers."

Qin Dewei could not completely eliminate this phenomenon, and any reform will have people whose benefits will be damaged.

Qin Dewei could only suggest: "It is better to lose it than to block it. It is better to find a way out to give them a way out and minimize the consequences as much as possible."

Mr. Feng asked very skillfully: "Can you come out?"

Qin Dewei said angrily: "You have to think more about it yourself, don't ask me! This time I will only talk about one thing in general. I remember that the salt marketing area of ​​Lianghuai Salt Industry is Nanzhili, Jiangxi, and Huguang.

Each government is counted as a district, which is specialized by one or several distributors, and then gradually transforms those southern salt merchants into subordinate distribution in the contracted district, which can be regarded as giving them a way out.

You can take the specific regulations of the matter yourself, but remember that the government must take the greatest initiative!”

Mr. Feng remembered something and smiled, "I suddenly felt that you proposed the reform of the salt law, but in fact you and I have suffered a lot of losses!

It turned out that the salt merchant paid the silver in Yangzhou and then could receive the salt guild. Then Yangzhou would send hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to the capital.

For the money bank, this is actually a huge opportunity, especially if you have always dreamed of connecting the north and south. If I am the censor here, I can do my best to help you achieve your wish.

Now that we have changed back to Kaizhong and France, we can only exchange materials for salt transfer in border towns. There is less silver and money circulation in Yangzhou, and there is no need to send a large amount of money to the court. The benefits are much smaller for the perspective of the money house."

Qin Dewei sighed, it would be enough for money, and the time traveler is so enlightened.

No one in this era can imagine the tragic situation a hundred years later, and even more so, the decline of China three or four hundred years later. Although he doesn't know what he can do, he can save it a little bit.

The two of them hadn't seen each other for a long time, and they talked until dawn. Then Qin Dewei continued to rush on his way, but in fact he didn't have much time to delay on the road.

There was nothing else going on. When it was just mid-May, in the enthusiasm of early summer, the young Zhan Shifu, the Grand Secretary of the Zhan Shifu, Zuo Chunfang Grand Secretary and Hanlin Bachelor, and the Admiral Qin Dewei of the Four Elements Hall returned to the capital.

Xu Miaoxuan, the chief wife of the Qin Mansion in the capital, was particularly excited. After hurriedly assisting in settling Gu and Qin Guotai, she took the initiative to pull her husband to bed as soon as it got dark.

When Brother Xu came back after a while, he was promoted to commander of the Jinyiwei and assisted in the Beizhenfusi. He also became the guard with swords in front of the imperial guard in folklore, and could be called the ancestor of the glory and even surpass his ancestors.

Xu Miaoxuan, the sister who was in her own thoughts, had no choice but to reward Qin Dewei with her appearance several times.

Qin Dewei couldn't bear the enthusiasm, so he quickly stopped and said, "Slowly, I'll find someone to call me over, and I'll see you first!"

As a qualified politician, after returning to the capital, of course, you must first understand the current situation, otherwise you will not be able to sleep well.

Not long after, Xu Miaojing hurried over and reported to Qin Dewei about the recent situation.

It turned out that Emperor Jiajing had returned a month ago and went to Changping Dayu Mountain to survey it. Finally, it was confirmed that the feng shui of Dayu Mountain was really not as good as Chunde Mountain in Chengtian Prefecture.

Then, Emperor Jiajing hid in the palace and never appeared again, and the court meeting was even more stopped.

Xu Miaojing didn't care much about this and said casually: "Your Majesty's dragon body has always been not strong, and now he has been working hard for two or three months, so he needs rest."

But after Qin Dewei heard this key message, he knew very well that Emperor Jiajing had finally started the mode of cultivating immortals. I am afraid that cultivating immortals will be the main business in the future, and the emperor will be the side job.

So I shook my head and said, "I'm afraid the story of Chenghua Dynasty will reappear."

What is the Chenghua Dynasty like? Xu Miaojing has been popularized by science long ago. He said in disbelief: "It's not like this, right?"

If the emperor did not attend court or saw ministers, then wouldn’t his job as an official in the palace just be a gimmick?

Although Qin Dewei knew the trend, he could not explain it in detail. He could only let the facts educate him in the future and still had fantasies.

As for the motivation and reason for Emperor Jiajing's turn, it is enough to write this paper.

Simply put, one is a sense of disillusionment. After the male emperor of Ma Bao died of both parents, he was seriously mentally hit, and his mentality was particularly lonely, and he was even more inclined to religious comfort;

The second is frustration. Emperor Jiajing was a very sensitive person. His experience and hearing along the southern tour were not satisfactory, which made him have the idea of ​​working hard for more than ten years in vain. So what else did he do?

Even though Mr. Qin consciously threw dozens of flattery poems and essays to encourage spiritually, it could not conceal the status quo. The current world is not the prosperous era that Emperor Jiajing imagined.

The third is fear, which leads to the extreme desire for immortality, and this desire gradually overwhelms worldly affairs and gains the upper hand in the mind of Emperor Jiajing.

Brother Xu continued to report other matters. The most important thing for him was that during the southern tour, the national teacher Shao Yuanjie died.

After the Imperial Lord returned to the capital, Xu's old Taishan Tao Zhongwen was named "Shenxiao Baoguo Honglie and Propaganda and Lie to the Fa and to the Truth and Loyalty and Filial Piety" and replaced the late Shao Yuanjie to lead Taoist affairs.

In other words, Tao Laodao, Abu, Tao Zhenren officially became the second generation of national masters of the Jiajing Dynasty.

Speaking of this, Brother Xu felt more and more that his brother-in-law was wise and powerful. He could see Tao Zhenren’s potential four years ago. What is his vision?

Xu Miaojing said again: "When Your Majesty went to Dayu Mountain to inspect, the chief assistant Xia Guizhou was late for some reason. His Majesty was furious and condemned Xia Guizhou for being negligent and rude.

Later, His Majesty dismissed Xia Guizhou in anger and recovered the imperial silver medal. However, a few days later, His Majesty's anger disappeared and he asked Xia Guizhou to restore his post.

However, when Xia Guizhou submitted a memorial to thank him, the words angered His Majesty again and was scolded again. The young master was demoted to the young guard."

Qin Dewei had nothing to say about this. This kind of drama will be staged frequently in the next few years. I don’t know whether Yan Song was involved or not.

In fact, how to deal with the triangular relationship with Xia Yan and Yan Song is a great science.

"By the way, be careful. I heard that Secretary Lu has a lot of opinions on you." Xu Miaojing reminded again, "After the reconstruction of the Secretary Zhan Mansion, the staff have gradually arrived, and you are the only one who has not returned to your position, which has led to the delay in opening the mansion. Secretary Lu is very unhappy."

After the reshuffle, the Zhanshi Mansion changed from a virtual official to a real position, which can be said to be a member of the genius Ying Mansion. A large number of scholarly elites were selected, many of whom were from other places.

For example, Luo Hong, the top scholar in the eighth year of Jiajing, re-entered the dynasty from his hometown in Jiangxi, and Tang Shunzhi, Huiyuan in the eighth year of Jiajing, also re-entered the dynasty from his hometown Changzhou, and most people are more familiar with the Tanhua Xu Jie in the second year of Jiajing.

In February, the Zhan Shifu was reorganized. By April, thirty-five new Zhan Shifu officials gathered from all directions, and basically all arrived, but the only one who was absent was a certain young Zhan Shifu.

The Prince's East Palace is the foundation of the country, and the reconstruction of the East Palace's official office is an extraordinary event in the court. Lu Shen, the Secretary of the Zhan Mansion, thought that after everyone arrived, he would hold a grand opening ceremony.

All the staff of the Zhanshi Mansion attended and got to know each other and became familiar with each other. After all, this is a completely new official office, and many people are still unfamiliar with each other.

As a result, after waiting, only the young Zhan Shi and Zuo Chunfang Grand Secretary had not returned to their posts, and a month passed after absent. The establishment meeting of the new Zhan Shi Mansion has not been held for a long time.

If others are absent, Lu Zhanshi will ignore it. But the absence is the only second-in-command of the Zhanshi Mansion, a mascot like Zuo Chunfang Grand Secretary, and is such a special person who is not easy to mess with.

So Mr. Lu couldn't get around, so the more he waited, the more annoyed he became.

When Qin Dewei heard this, he said helplessly: "Oh, it's all formalistic things, why bother paying attention to it? What are they waiting for me for? I don't mind!"

Xu Miaojing looked at Qin Dewei and then, thinking silently in his heart, brother-in-law, you are saying that you don’t mind now, but if they really don’t wait for you and open a house on your back, you might be furious again.

Then Xu Miaojing silently praised himself. He felt that he had made progress again, and he could see that his brother-in-law's words were insincere.

Xu Miaojing still had a lot of news to say, but when he looked up, he found that his sister was standing at the door and glaring at him fiercely.

So Brother Xu immediately stood up and said with his own initiative: "It's getting late, I'm going back to rest. If my brother-in-law has something to say tomorrow!"

After Qin Dewei watched Xu leave, he said to Xu Miaoxuan: "You go to bed first. I want to go to the West Mansion to talk to my father, and Li Jing.

They should be going to Liaodong soon, and I want to hurry up and talk to them. I don’t know how late, so you don’t have to wait for me.”

As the saying goes, the greater the power, the greater the responsibility!

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