During these days in Xiangyang, Yang Ming deliberately gave Du Ruhui the opportunity to get close to him and asked him about everything, and Du Ruhui's answers were also very specific and detailed.
From the brief contact, Yang Ming could roughly tell that this person was a very independent and smart person who had his own way of doing things.
Yang Ming asked him what he thought of the Jingzhou Navy. Du Ruhui saw that Yang Ming valued the Navy, so he directly pointed out that the Navy should either let them die here. If the Navy was to be rebuilt in the future, this gang would
People must be replaced from beginning to end.
The reason is that they have been really poor over the years. Once the maintenance fees are allocated from above, these people know best where to get the money and put it into their own pockets.
If you send people to investigate, no problem can be found, but if you send supervisors, the supervisors will be bribed in the face of huge interests.
So what Du Ruhui means is, don't spend such wasted money, navy ships are no longer worth any investment.
It is true that normal people will definitely not throw money into this anymore, but people like Yang Ming who know the direction of history cannot not pay attention to the Xiangyang Navy.
During the great chaos in the late Sui Dynasty, grandsons such as Du Fuwei, Fu Gong'er, Li Zitong, Zhu Can, Lin Shihong, Xiao Xian, Shen Faxing, etc. were all active in the Yangtze River area.
If Yang Ming can possess a huge fleet to occupy the Han River, he can enter the Yangtze River from Jiangxia at any time, connect the east and west, and then control the entire Yangtze River waterway.
But he couldn't tell Du Ruhui this.
The Xiangyang Navy definitely needs to invest, but when to invest is indeed debatable.
These people are so poor that they even pretended to be bandits and robbed merchant ships. Are you soldiers or bandits?
It can be seen from this that the 110,000 yuan of military pay allocated every year has not been paid at all.
It was impossible for him to let his daughter be someone's side wife, not even Yang Ming.
"Don't worry, Grandpa," Du Ruhui knelt down and said goodbye to Nai's father, then got on his carriage and followed the team.
Du Zha was also in a panic now, walking around the hall, thinking about how to deal with it.
Daxing, Pei Mansion.
Pei Shuying's letter mentioned two things.
Yang Yinjiang dragged her cheeks and looked at Yang Ming opposite through the light.
What she likes most is the time the two of them spend alone together. Even if they don't say a word, she still enjoys it.
Because the Dugu family had little contact with Prince Jin's palace before, but now that Prince Jin has become the crown prince, they still have little contact.
Back in his dormitory, Xu Jing handed a letter to Yang Ming:
But Yang Yinjiang didn't take Pei Shuying to heart, because she was very confident that she could completely control the other person, because Pei Shuying was too down-to-earth and had no ambition.
Originally, he was thinking of letting Zhou Zhongmo take his five teeth and sneak into the navy to get paid, but now it looks like he has to spend his own money.
Du Zha was now panicked and had no courage to leave the city.
In fact, it was not 10,000 guan, but 10,000 guan per year. Du Zha served as governor for seven years and received 70,000 guan.
After thinking about it, Du Zha gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go, my father will follow you out of the city."
Yang Ming nodded and sat down aside. Xu Jing handed over the oil lamp sensibly and put it aside.
Du Ruhui was very grateful, because he guessed that King Hedong was giving him the opportunity to collude with his father in confessing, and he somewhat meant to let his father go.
What's more, after making some insinuations, he discovered that his daughter already had someone he liked, and that person was Yang Ming, the king of Hedong, who had been given a marriage contract by the Holy Queen.
"You don't have to worry about this. Just trust me and come back." After saying that, Yang Yinjiang put the letter away properly.
He said he was afraid of not coming back, but in fact Du Zha knew in his heart that the King of Hedong would not kill him. The Du family in Jingzhao was also from Guanzhong, and the royal family had always been relatively tolerant to the children of Guanzhong.
After three days of sightseeing, Yang Ming made a special trip by the navy station and did not enter. He only asked someone to secretly summon Zhou Zhongmo.
When Yang Ming went back this time, he took the land route and could return to Jiangling in one and a half days.
Du Ruhui sighed: "It's not that serious. It suddenly occurred to me that the King of Hedong deliberately asked me to complain, to test our family somewhat. It depends on whether grandpa is willing to tell the truth. In the eyes of his son, as long as he tells the truth,
This is loyalty, and the King of Hedong will never embarrass me for ten thousand guan."
At the governor's office, Du Ruhui said helplessly: "I'm confused, how much money is this? Is it worth plucking your hair like this?"
Du Zha stood up and whispered: "When we arrive at the General Manager's Mansion, my son must remember to say a few good words for my grandpa. You must also do your duty. You are the eldest son, and our family will depend on you from now on."
Of the 110,000 guan of the Xiangyang Navy, the general manager's office actually gave him only 30,000 guan. He took 10,000 guan and handed over the remaining 20,000 guan to the Hussar Mansion. As for the Hussar General Cai Ju
How much more he would deduct, he didn't know.
After returning to Jiangling, Yang Ming asked Du Ruhui to report to Yuan Wendu. Yuan Wendu would arrange the specific matters, including reporting to the Ministry of Personnel, filing for Du Ruhui and receiving official uniforms.
"What should we do? What should we do? If my father follows you out of the city to see the King of Hedong, I'm afraid I won't come back alive."
In addition, Pei Shuying also mentioned in her letter that since Yang Ming left Daxing, she had gone to the Yue Gong Mansion more than ten times to look for Yang Yinjiang, but the housekeeper used various excuses to get her there.
Pei Shuying has made up her mind that regardless of whether Yang Ming replies or not, she will go to Jingzhou.
Therefore, Pei Shuying suspected that Yang Yinjiang followed Yang Ming to Jingzhou and was not in Daxing at all. Otherwise, Yang Yinjiang would not have missed her.
The Dugu family in Luoyang? If it weren't for the Holy Queen, the Dugu family would be useless. There are no officials in the border areas, and there are no central officials. It would be difficult for such a family to survive for a hundred years after the Holy Queen.
Unfortunately, things went against his wishes. The wealthy families in Guanzhong had stepped down the threshold of his family, but none of his daughters looked down on him. In this life, Pei Ju had nothing to do with his own daughter.
Originally, Pei Ju hoped that his daughter could find a suitable husband to marry before his son got married.
What you said was so pretentious. Yang Ming couldn't laugh or cry. If you don't see me for the rest of your life, will you do any harm to me?
Her younger brother Pei Xuanji and Runan Princess Yang Chan are in love and their relationship is progressing rapidly. They are likely to get married in October.
Du Ruhui hurriedly lifted his father who was kneeling on the ground and whispered: "Master, please go back. It's fine now."
"Hurry up to dinner, I'm very hungry."
After opening the letter, Yang Ming was stunned.
Du Ruhui listened on the sidelines, somewhat panicked, because the money was allocated by the imperial court to the General Manager's Office, and then the General Manager's Office allocated it to the Xiangzhou Prefectural Government, and the Fuyamen allocated it to the Husband's Palace.
In the open space on the roadside, after listening to Du Zha's explanation, Yang Ming nodded and got on the carriage without saying anything.
The team set off.
At the end of her letter, she hoped that Yang Ming could reply to her as soon as possible, saying that if Yang Ming deceived her, she would never see Yang Ming again in her life.
In the process, there are three procedures to go through. As the governor of Xiangzhou, my father knows how to handle it. He must not be greedy. Don't let the King of Hedong focus on him because of this small amount of money.
Yang Ming had already planned to return, and he had no intention of going to the city to ask Du Zha, so he asked Du Ruhui to go back and clean up his time of saluting, and called his father over along the way.
There is no way to pursue this matter, so we can only admit it. At most, after next year's allocation is received, Yang Ming ordered the general manager's office to allocate the full amount of money to the navy.
There is no doubt that in addition to Dugu Feng'er, another major competitor of his has appeared.
"Okay." Xu Jing chuckled and went out to organize things.
She is one year younger than Yang Yinjiang and is sixteen this year. In the Sui Dynasty, both of them were older women waiting to be married.
Yang Yinjiang also laughed and said: "And this is just the navy. How much money has been embezzled in other places? I only heard that the King of Qin loved money, but I didn't expect the King of Han to be the same."
After these vehicles and horses arrive at Jiangling, they will be sent back by the official post in Jiangling.
After Yang Yinjiang finished reading, she held her chin helplessly: "Pei Shuying has a straightforward temper and acts in a fickle manner. If you don't reply to her, she will dare to come to Jingzhou to find you."
Doesn’t it seem that my son has good taste? Why did he fall in love with that boy Li Dewu?
Pei Ju stood outside his daughter's dormitory for a long time, looking at the flickering lights in the house in the distance, smiling bitterly and shaking his head.
On the official road outside the city, the Xiangyang official post received the order and rushed to the outside of the city with 600 horses and four carriages in the post station for the return journey of the King of Hedong.
So, who took the money?
As for food and accommodation, they are in the General Manager's Mansion.
There are many vacant rooms in the front office of the General Manager's Mansion. I'm just worried that no one will live in them, but I'm not worried about not being able to accommodate them.
Therefore, marriages like theirs are not considered early marriages.
Du Zha, the governor of Xiangzhou, Cai Ju, the general of the Huqi Mansion, and Yang Ming do not intend to pursue the case. Such a trend cannot be solved by just one or two people.
This will be easy to handle,
Everything depends on people. As a legitimate daughter, I naturally want to find a good destination for her in this life.
This is a good thing. Yang Ming is very happy. His elder sisters Yang Chan and Pei Xuanji are both fourteen years old this year. Although they are a little early, they are within the normal range.
Du Ruhui, who knows his father better than his son, knew that it was very likely that his grandfather had taken the money.
"Coming from Daxing, you have just gone to Xiangyang, and the letter will be here soon."
In the carriage, Yang Ming and Yang Yinjiang chatted about the whole process. After finishing talking, they couldn't help but smile bitterly:
"This is really a total of 110,000 guan. In the end, the amount that ended up on the navy's head was probably less than 10,000 guan."
It turned out to be a letter from Pei Shuying. After reading it, Yang Ming breathed a long sigh of relief. The fatigue of the past few days was gone and his appetite was whetted.
Grandmother Dugu Jialuo married her grandfather Yang Jian at the age of fourteen. The eldest grandson empress in history married Li Shimin at the age of thirteen.
On the roadside lawn, after listening to Zhou Zhongmo's report, Yang Ming completely agreed with Du Ruhui's statement.
Besides, your brother married my sister, and we will be in-laws from now on, how could we not see each other?
So Yang Ming called Yang Yinjiang and showed her the letter.
This is true for the kings of Qin and Han, but what about the kings of Jin and Shu? I’m afraid none of them are clean.
Yang Ming lowered his head to eat the food and asked, "Then how should I reply to her?"
This kid, King Hedong, is definitely not a creature in the pond.
Since the founding of the Sui Dynasty, the key to the reason why it has never been defeated in the confrontation with the Turks lies in two people.
One is Changsun Sheng and the other is Pei Ju.
Pei Ju is so resourceful that he does not think twice about others in the current court.