Chapter 384: Third Young Master, let me discuss business with you
"Ah, Miss Zheng! It's been five, six, seven, eight years since we last saw each other. How come you feel like you've taken an elixir and you haven't aged at all?"
Zhang Yanke walked into the private room of the restaurant and said to Zheng Haizhu with a smile, three points smooth and five points informal.
Zheng Haizhu sent the waiter to serve the food, and said lightly teasingly: "It's a good thing I didn't make love with you, otherwise I would have aged quickly."
"Hiss," Zhang Yanke took a breath and sighed to the man sitting opposite Zheng Haizhu, pretending to cry, "Look at your god-sister, you treat everyone else, regardless of gender, like Sanjiutian giving you fur coats.
The ground is too warm, but I, the first financial backer who gave her so much timely help, don’t even have the patience to brush the cat. I’m a young official, come on, let’s have a drink with Brother Yu first. I’ll let you, please.
Good luck."
The young man in the seat is none other than Zheng Zhilong, who went to Japan three years ago to marry a Miss Tagawa family.
Because the historical development of this time and space was changed a lot by Zheng Haizhu, Zheng Zhilong's son Zheng Chenggong was also born two years early, but his current Chinese name is still Zheng Sen, and his Japanese name is "Fusong".
Not only did Zheng Zhilong have an heir of the Tagawa family and gained the trust of several Japanese lords, he also relied on Yan Siqi's fleet and Zheng Haizhu's Haoming Trading Company to establish the "Hirado-Matsujiang-Taiwan" triangular trade route to help Japan
They checked and balanced the Li Dan family, the first generation of maritime merchants, and suppressed the Dutch who tried to monopolize Japan's maritime trade.
Therefore, after the situation opened up, Zheng Zhilong returned to the Ming Dynasty with some of his cronies. After meeting Xu Yilong, who recruited and trained Zheng Haizhu in Chongming, he went north to the capital.
At this time, Zheng Zhilong pursed his lips and did not speak in a joking manner. Instead, he lightly poured wine into the glasses of the three people sitting there.
As one of the first group members to form a lifelong friendship with Zheng Haizhu, Zheng Zhilong certainly knows that the closer the relationship is, the more casual and inappropriate his speech will be.
What's more, this time, at the beginning of the new year, Sister Zheng gave Mr. Yanke a big gift related to his future. The friendship and interests between the two of them became closer.
Over here, Zhang Yanke liked Zheng Zhilong, a young man who was shrewd and capable in Songjiang and brave in killing enemies in the Fujian Sea. He was about to ask him about the customs and customs in Japan when he saw Zheng Haizhu finished his wine first, with a smile on his face.
His familiar "stop talking nonsense" expression.
"Well, Miss Zheng, let's get down to business." Zhang Yanke also lost his playful tone, but still called her Miss Zheng, not Mrs. Zheng, as he had done many years ago.
Zheng Haizhu waited for the waiter who came in to serve the food to leave, then glanced at Zheng Zhilong's men guarding the door, and began to explain to Zhang Yanke: "This time the Beijing inspection will not move the big tigers or the small ants, the main ones will be the four or five.
Most of the officials are mediocre and incompetent, and they only like to quarrel. Although Zhao Nanxing is like this, he is the new leader of Donglin after all. He should go to the Ministry of Rites to be the minister. Anyway, he cannot control financial power, military power, and employment.
Human rights. Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou have good official reputations and deserve the name of "cadres". They are very good in the Metropolitan Procuratorate and are preparing to be future officials in the border areas or ministers of various ministries. This is a story later. Zhou Jiamo, the minister of the Ministry of Personnel
This old Dong Lin joined the cabinet to assist Ye Xianggao. Both of them are moderates, especially Ye Ge. When I went to Xuanda University, he helped me write a letter to Cui Jingrong, the governor of Xuanda University, to recommend him. Okay, now
You should understand why I was so anxious to invite you from Fujian to Beijing to reminisce about old times, right?"
Zhang Yanke worked as a guerrilla in praise painting for three years under the supervision of Shang Zhouzuo, the governor of Fujian, who was also a fellow Shaoxing fellow. His already sharp mind became more and more familiar with the ways of officialdom.
Zhang Yanke met the sharp and sincere gaze of the woman in front of him and said sternly: "You are sure that the position of Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs belongs to Mr. Shang, so he will tell me in advance. But since you know this Beijing inspection well, you must be in the emperor's hands
The emperor, the Supervisor of Ceremonies, and the cabinet can all speak to each other. So, do you still have conditions to negotiate with Mr. Shang?"
Zheng Haizhu glanced at Zheng Zhilong, who was drinking quietly, and said to Zhang Yanke in a calm tone: "Third Young Master, we are not negotiating terms, but being colleagues. This was how I was doing business with my eldest brother, Yan Xuanfu, now in Shaoxing."
The same is true for the Zhang family and the Zhang family. We are all prosperous, but we all have to go all out."
Zhang Yanke took the initiative to take the lotus petal cup in front of Zheng Haizhu and served her soup.
"You tell me, I can remember all your instructions."
Zheng Haizhu said: "First, after Mr. Shang became the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, he asked the Department of Literature and Selection to recommend two people to the court. One was Bi Ziyan, who was currently the Minister of Taipu Temple. He had a close relationship with Xu Dahua, who was from Taipus Temple.
On the other hand, he is a man who has the safety of the Ming Dynasty at heart. The money in Taipu Temple's account was also allocated to Xuanda to buy horses, so he is suitable to go to the Ministry of Household Affairs."
"Wait a minute, Miss Zheng, where is this Bi Ziyan from?" Zhang Yanke interrupted Zheng Haizhu and asked.
"Third Young Master, that's a good question. Bi Ziyan is from Shandong."
"Oh. No wonder." Zhang Yanke nodded.
Shandong has just handed over a lot of land, but it is not all smooth sailing.
Even though the Confucian government gave in first, three or two gentry groups in Laizhou still united. In the name of "entertaining meals", the local officials of the Qing Dynasty imprisoned the people for three days and starved them for three days before letting them go until they were about to die. Tao, the governor of Denglai
Langxian directly ordered people from Biaoying to go to Laizhou and surrounded the house of the Jin gentry who was the leader in the crime. He said that they were conducting a thorough investigation into Japanese smuggling. He forced the Jin gentry to beg for mercy and donate their land, and gave up several servants to him.
The government took him to prison and the matter calmed down.
Therefore, Bi Ziyan went to the Ministry of Household Affairs and did not dare to slow down the pace of clearing the entire Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, the big landowners in other provinces would think that he was secretly trying to release water for Shandong, and the big landowners in Shandong would think that
Bi Ziyan was so stupid that he did not know how to let the Jin gentry from Huguang, Zhejiang and Nanzhili all bleed together.
Zheng Zhilong on the side listened to the conversation between the two attentively, and then sincerely sighed that the two people in the officialdom had their own way of planning, so while he was still confused, they had already reached a consensus with each other.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Just listen to Zhang Yanke continue to ask: "Where is the second person?"
"The second one is called Xiong Tingbi. He is from Hubei. He is a member of the Chu party, but he is also a cadre. Before the Battle of Fushun, when I was in Liaoyang, I often heard Zhang Chengyin, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, and General Mao mention him. In fact, Mr. Xiong
He patrolled Liaodong very early and learned about the military situation. When he returned to Beijing, he also paid for it, and he had a good reputation among military people. Later, because of his involvement in party disputes, he was dismissed from office and returned to his hometown, where he has been idle ever since.
The young master must have understood which yamen he should go to."
Zhang Yanke grinned and spit out two words: "The Ministry of War."
Zheng Haizhu gave him a thumbs up.
Zhang Yanke said: "I heard that these two people, one is from Shandong and the other is from Hubei. Our Mr. Shang is from Zhejiang. If the Literary and Selection Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs recommends people like this, the fools outside will see that they are the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang. Are they joining forces to deal with Dong Lin again, right?"
Zheng Haizhu said with a smile: "You said you are a fool to think this way, why should you care about them? They read like dogs, and only think about party struggle. Every position they look at seems to be prepared for party struggle." Yes. As long as the Master is not stupid and the Supervisor of Ceremonies and the Cabinet are not stupid, that will be fine."
"That makes sense." Zhang Yanke also smiled, and suddenly the corners of his mouth flattened again, as if he had some enlightenment, "I guess besides people, you also want to talk about farmland, right?"
Zheng Haizhu didn't show off: "That's right, in Shaoxing, the Zhang family and the merchants have a deep foundation. They also took the initiative to spit out some of the fields donated by the farmers. Now you don't spit out, and I don't spit out either. The frontier troops are starving to death." Or there may be a mutiny, and finally the Tatars invade, not to mention Shaoxing, even Yangzhou and Hangzhou, they might also be massacred, right?"
Zhang Yanke lowered his eyes, and his face, which was always covered with a slightly slick expression, rarely showed a solemn look.
He had never seen Jiannu, but he had seen Dutch warships and well-dressed bandit leaders in Xiamen.
Across the vast sea, the Red-haired Fans can come to invade the Ming Dynasty, build slaves like the Jin soldiers during the reign of Emperor Jingkang, and want to occupy the country of the Han people. How can they be alarmist?