【There is another update in the middle of the night】

The next day.

Although Xiangling tried to break free from Jiao Shun's arms as carefully as possible, she still woke him up.

Jiao Shun habitually stretched out his hand and found some slippery place to hold it. He felt sweating on his arms and a little wet in his palms.

"What the hell weather."

He closed his eyes and muttered, "It's less than May, and it's so hot. Will people live in the midday of the tide?"

Xiangling sat on the bed with the quilt in her arms, letting him have sex for a while, and then asked, "Do you have to wash up first and then get up?"

Jiao Shun waved his hand: "I just washed it last night. Don't mobilize me this morning. Just use a wet towel to wipe it for me."

As he said that, he rolled the quilt on his own, barely protecting the vital points, revealing his bronze chest and two hairy legs.

He asked with a half-true smile: "But you want me to wipe it for you?"

If Yu Chuan was waiting in front of him, she would have taken the opportunity to change her morning exercise program.

But Xiangling was an honest man. While taking clothes and pants from the shelf at the head of the bed, covering Bai Shengsheng's body, she said seriously: "How dare you work? When Sister Yuchuan comes back from home, we will take the time to get water and wash it."

Tsk ~

This reminded Jiao Shun that the scene where the mandarin ducks were playing in the water and were about to fly together for a while.

Yesterday, I was so tired that I hung up the battle-free sign. Today I will raise my spirit...

Forget it, now that I am tired all day long, how can I have time to raise my energy?

Besides, if you really have this skill, you should go to the East Mansion first to see if the surprises that Youshi prepared for him can be achieved - as for the mandarin ducks playing in the water, it is a regular program at home, so it will not be too late to do it when you have time to have free time.

Although it was just a wiping, because of Xiangling's care, she never missed a gap from head to toe. After she got dressed and washed up, she also missed the time for morning exercise.

The stupid girl pouted and blamed herself, but she also wrote it on her notebook, preparing to supervise Jiao Shun to make up for today's training volume in batches.

Jiao Shun looked straightforward and loved and hated her. He put her slender waist on her legs, and forced a circle of shallow teeth marks around her eyebrows.

After going to the main hall for breakfast, he asked Xiangling to make some ice to cool off the heat from the treasury for use at night. Jiao Shun then drove out of the back door of Rongfu.

Because I was in the cabinet meeting these days, I passed by the Ministry of Works and did not enter and moved directly outside Donghua Gate.

In front of the door, three tables were placed in the shape of a font. This is where the identity registration and the entry and exit certificates are located. They are divided into the window for the left and right martial arts, and the right martial arts, and the right big shot.

Jiao Shun was registered on the left side, because the enlarged cabinet meeting had already begun on the fifth day. As an "old representative", he was already familiar with it and could face it calmly when he was "seeking up and down" by two eunuchs.

However, although the procedures were completed quickly, his level was not ordered to enter the palace, so it was naturally impossible for him to enjoy a separate guidance service.

Therefore, after completing the registration and inspection of the palace, he waited in the door for a quarter of an hour until he gathered five officials at the meeting. Then he lined up in a long row according to his rank and entered the palace gate under the guidance of the guards with halberds.

In the past, the Dragon Imperial Guards that Jiao Shunjian were basically modern soldiers with guns and live ammunition. It was not until these days that they entered the palace for meetings that they realized that there were also cold weapons.

These people are usually mobile positions, and many of them are descendants of nobles. If Jia Rong makes up for the actual vacancies, she may also be responsible for such mobile positions.

When I arrived at Wenyuan Pavilion, which is where the cabinet works on weekdays, I saw more than ten cases lined up on both sides of the gate, and each case had white paper signs such as "Ministry of Revenue" and "Ministry of Rites".

Jiao Shun found the desk of the Ministry of Works. The bookkeeper on duty had prepared a document bag. Before he could speak, he handed it over. He pointed to the west wing and said, "Sir, please go to the third small hall in the North Side to discuss with the Ministry of Revenue, the Tongzheng Department, and the General Administration of Customs."

Tsk ~

I've been working early this morning.

Jiao Shunchong nodded slightly, then while walking towards the west wing, he opened the kraft paper bag and poured out the documents inside. Several huge words on the homepage immediately caught his eye: "The price of oil transport wooden barrels is inflated, how should I deal with it?"

What does this question seem to have been heard there?

Jiao Shun thoughtfully walked into the third meeting room in the west wing and looked around. Seeing that the blue and green robes inside were not officials of the Ministry of Works, he felt relieved.

Without these things that are dedicated to back-stopping, we should be able to relax our discussions today.

After a few simple and reserved greetings, they each revealed their identities, and the gap was deepened as expected. So Jiao Shun tactfully found a corner and sat down, looking through the topic information on his own.

In fact, the topic today is quite simple. After a certain calculation, the Wuxi people thought that transporting kerosene was troublesome and needed to prepare special oil barrels. If sold according to the price of the Xia court, the profit in the early and mid-term is difficult to meet expectations.

It is estimated that only after kerosene lamps occupy the mainstream all over the world and the cost of crude oil mining is further reduced can they achieve a satisfactory profit.

But the Uxi people obviously can't wait for that long, and they don't have the confidence to dominate this industry for a long time.

Therefore, they demanded a certain price increase, but not to increase the price of kerosene, but to increase the price of wooden barrels - the price of each oil barrel after arriving in Hong Kong is three to four times that of Xia State.

Xia Guo of course believed that this requirement was unreasonable, but the Uxi people insisted that these price differences were calculated based on freight and could no longer be compressed.

Because this is not a big problem, the information provided above is quite limited.

But in order to avoid more embarrassment, Jiao Shun gritted his teeth and looked at it for two quarters of a minute until he almost saw the flowers of those papers. Then someone finally said, "Everyone should have read it almost, so why not discuss it first--Mr. Jiao, what do you think?"

The person who stood up here was the head of the Ministry of Revenue, and the highest official rank among them.

By the way, there were a total of five people attending the meeting, two people in the Ministry of Revenue, one person in the Ministry of Works, one person in the General Administration of Customs, and one person in the Tongzheng Department.

Jiao Shun ranked second among them - although he was at the same level as the officials of the General Administration of Customs, he was a Beijing official of the six ministries, and the other party was newly established as a civil servant - so he was naturally named by the head of the Ministry of Revenue and the first to speak.

Knowing that the other party is most likely to be picky in the school exam, Jiao Shun naturally cannot deliberately hide his weakness.

Immediately, I opened the folding fan generously, and put on a confident posture and said, "In Jiao's opinion, this matter must not be agreed. These Wuxi people have always been more and more aggressive. If the court recognizes their unfair request, I am afraid that these Western barbarians will increasingly test the bottom line of the court."

Hearing this, the Ministry of Revenue Service, who was accompanied by the last seat, immediately objected: "That's right, but you can't affect the compensation negotiations because of these details, right?"

The people from Tongzheng Department also echoed: "Yes, newspapers of all sizes have spread this matter long ago. If such a small matter has made the compensation unable to be negotiated for a long time, both in the court and in the people, I am afraid that it will not be able to explain it."

here we go again!

Every time I speak by myself, I will always be able to sing on the stage.

Jiao Shun has long been used to it, and now said: "Didn't you hear that a thousand-mile dike collapsed from an ant hole? Now, with the remaining power of the Southwest Victory, the court still has to take into account the overall situation and tolerate the Western Barbarians. After the peace talks are reached, should the minor officials below continue to tolerate, or even double the tolerance?"

"The central government is still retreating to him, can the minor officials be straightened up?! Even if the Western barbarians are defeated by then, they will still be honored. My Daxia is obviously a winner, and the people under my command will have to accept the meat of their fish. Wouldn't it be ridiculous?!"

When the head of the Ministry of Revenue who presided over the meeting heard this, he frowned slightly and said, "Is Lord Jiao too alarmist? How could the officials of our dynasty sit and watch the people receive the meat of Western barbarians?"

"Master Li."

Jiao Shun looked at him with a half-step: "Didn't there be fewer things in the past dynasties that clerks have indulged in the barbarians and harmed the people because they were afraid of things?"

"absurd!"

Before the Chief Li answered, the officials from the Ministry of Justice rushed to sneer: "My dynasty is in power, and all the barbarians from all directions are incomparable to each other. All dynasties cannot compare with each other! Lord Jiao's words are probably underestimating the officials and people of our dynasty!"

"If so."

Jiao Shun glanced at him and said, "Then my great dynasty should not have agreed to the unreasonable requests of the Western Barbarians - and according to the situation I understand, the Western Barbarians even entered the port in mid-air before, and there was basically no cargo on the ship, all of which were selling our silk, porcelain, tea and other items to Europe to make huge profits."

"Now that something can be shipped over and sold is already a huge bargain. If the court refuses to buy wooden barrels at the price, will they still come empty-ship? Wouldn't that lose more?"

These words are reasonable and well-founded. People from the Ministry of Revenue and Tongzheng Department will no longer be confused. The representatives of the General Administration of Customs also took the opportunity to express their agreement.

Seeing that the issue finally became formal, I heard that it suddenly became noisy outside.

Everyone looked at each other, and then Chief Li signaled the Ministry of Revenue to go out to investigate the truth. Soon the minor official returned to the hall with a strange face and reported: "There are countries such as Garcia, Gao Ranki, and Kris who jointly submitted a letter to the Honglu Temple to participate in the peace talks, saying that it was to ensure that the Ushi people would not sell off the overall interests of Europe and thus affect the friendly relations between the two continents."

When Master Li heard this, he frowned: "What do these Western barbarians mean? Can you unite and put pressure on our Daxia?"

"I don't think so."

Jiao Shun smiled and said, "I'm afraid it's a rebellion in my nest."

The official looked at Jiao Shun in surprise and nodded, "As Lord Jiao expected, the Western barbarians said that if the court could share some of the benefits from it, they could help us suppress the Wuxi people together."
Chapter completed!