Jia Lian looked at Qiu Shian with a smile and said nothing.
Qiu Shian then said:
"The emperor has added the title of "Governor of the South of the Yangtze River" to your trip. According to the decree, he will "tour the south of the Yangtze River to appease the soldiers and civilians, return to duty after the incident, and may suspend the dispatch." Although he is also a third-rank official like the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture, this
It is a constitutional title of the Metropolitan Procuratorate that "cleans up the rule of officials and eliminates evil officials". The meaning behind it is not small.
If you want to be promoted to Jiedushi or Observer in the future, you must have a resume from the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
From this we can see that my little brother has a bright future."
Jia Lian quickly became polite and modest, and toasted two more glasses of wine.
Qiu Shian ate comfortably and continued:
"Little brother, you have won the title of "Governor of Jiangnan" this time, so your trip to Yangzhou and Suzhou will become a high-ranking official from the capital temporarily sent to the capital for inspection. In this way, your previous visit to Yangzhou Qing Dynasty will be
The matter of paying the salt merchant is completely justified.
Mr. Lin is the emperor's chosen concubine, and my younger brother is the emperor's chosen Chollima. They are both holy and prosperous people, and they will be indispensable for me in the future.
The emperor's decree even praised the younger brother for assisting the salt patrol in the Huaihe River. Lord Shi Lin discovered the loopholes in the salt administration of the Huaihe River and recovered a huge amount of tax money from the country. This time, the younger brother was specially ordered to personally escort this large sum of money.
When I returned to Beijing, I ordered the Governor-General Water Transport Department to cooperate with the escort. When I arrived in Beijing, the emperor was rewarded with commendations and rewards. This time, I have all my dignity."
After people said so many nice things, Jia Lian naturally couldn't be "shameless" and hurriedly smiled and said:
"It's true that this is the emperor's grace, but it also requires a noble person like Brother Qiu to convey the order, right?
Now that we are in Yangzhou, it is natural for my uncle to be the host.
After returning to Beijing, if Brother Qiu thinks highly of me, he will often come to my house to enjoy the glory. The place next to me is not as good as in the palace, and I can still afford a few glasses of water and wine."
After hearing this, Qiu Shi'an felt that Jia Lian was an extremely "high-minded" person. He was just twenty years old, but he was already shrewd and capable in doing things, spoke impeccably, and was an outstanding person. With such a person, he could meet him in advance.
There is nothing better than establishing friendship.
So I laughed:
"I just love to hear this phrase 'Brother Qiu'. I will inevitably bother my little brother from now on."
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The banquet lasted until the second half of the day, when Qiu Shian stood up and said:
"It's true that when you meet a close friend, a thousand cups are too little, but I still have to rush to the Governor's Water Transport Department to convey the order. I have official duties, so there is nothing I can do about it."
The Yamen of the Governor's Water Transport Department is located in Huai'an Prefecture under the direct administration of Nanzhi. It is the residence of the Governor of Water Transport.
The full name of the Governor of Water Transport is "Governor-General of Water Transport and Admiral of Military Affairs, Governor of Fengyang and other places and in charge of rivers". In addition to managing the administrative affairs of water transport along the canal, he is also in charge of military affairs of water transport. He is a high-ranking official of the second rank, and is even more outstanding.
The famous fat difference.
There are tens of thousands of grain ships under the management of the water transport yamen, and there are hundreds of thousands of boatmen and sailors, as well as water transport officers and soldiers. There are also Changying warehouse, Changping warehouse, reserve warehouse and Zhuang warehouse. It has jurisdiction over warehousing, shipbuilding, and water guard soldiers.
There are more than 20,000 people.
In addition, the Governor of Water Transport also has the armed forces and naval battalions under his personal jurisdiction, which are called "Caobiao", including the left, middle, right, city guard and seven naval battalions of this standard.
Precisely because although the Governor of Water Transport is a civilian official, he can personally lead the troops, the honorific title of the Governor of Water Transport can be "Caotai" or "Cao Shuai".
The person who can be the governor of water transportation must be someone who has the trust of the emperor.
Qiu Shi'an thought about it and felt that he might as well be a good person and do it to the end, so he smiled and told Jia Lian:
"The current Governor of Water Transport is not an outsider, but Gao Qigong, the uncle of Prince Zhongshun.
The emperor himself said: Gao Qigong is a reliable person."
Jia Lian's heart moved.
Reliable person?
King Zhongshun hugged the emperor's thigh with all his strength, so the emperor said that King Zhongshun's uncle was a reliable person, right?
This time, you might as well let me try the depth.
So Jia Lian frowned, lowered his head and said nothing.
When Qiu Shi'an saw this, he knew something was going on, so he asked Jia Lian why.
Jia Lian sighed:
"I'm afraid this trip back to Beijing may not go smoothly."
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But he said that Qiu Shi'an was really a good drinker. He drank more than half a kilo of "Potan Xiang" from Jia Lian, and he didn't even stagger when he walked.
However, after drinking, he was still a little sleepy, so Qiu Shian stopped riding and ordered the Yangzhou magistrate's office to prepare a carriage and drove all the way to Huai'an Prefecture overnight.
Early the next morning, I met Gao Qigong, the Governor of Water Transport, and delivered the order in public. Naturally, a banquet was also indispensable.
At the banquet, Gao Qigong and Qiu Shian exchanged cups and were very affectionate.
The two gradually talked about Jia Lian, and Gao Qigong couldn't help but curl his lips and said:
"This Jia Lian is all the limelight in Jiangnan now.
Before he arrived in Yangzhou, he colluded with the Salt Gang.
In order to protect a salt gang woman who was selling smuggled salt, I killed a Qian Commander of the Cao Army in public.
I have followed the official report on this matter, but the Emperor has left it unaddressed, and there is nothing I can do about it.
But this matter is definitely not over. For such a fanatic, I will have to impeach him sooner or later."
Qiu Shian smiled:
"The emperor has read your book.
It's just that someone is faster than you and handed a copy up one step ahead of you.
It doesn’t make any sense for the emperor to leave it alone, he just doesn’t want to worry about it.”
"Don't want to worry about it?" Gao Qigong's eyes widened immediately, he put down his glass and said:
"At that time, the Jia family had two clans and had a large number of soldiers. When it came to their sons' generation, Jia Daishan and Jia Daihua each held the position of Jiedushi of the Beijing Camp for more than ten years.
Until Jia Daihua died of illness, the Jia family saw that no one in their family was practicing martial arts, so they moved his in-law prince to the position of Jiedushi in the capital camp, where he stayed for more than ten years.
If it hadn't been for the emperor's wisdom, which recently promoted Wang Ziteng to be the governor of nine provinces, otherwise it would have been unclear how long it would have taken for the military power in the Gyeonggi region to be recovered.
Although the Jia family no longer holds military power, their old connections are still there, and the Jia family has always colluded with King Beijing. From the Supreme Emperor to the Emperor, haven't they always used the strategy of suppressing and dividing the Jia family?<
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Why do you want to stop caring about Jia Lian now that you have such a reason to kill someone?"
Qiu Shian pretended to smile profoundly:
"What is a Jia family?
Why don't you just pick your fingers and see what kind of virtues the descendants of the Jia family have.
The emperor doesn't care about that useless thing. When he wants to clean it up, he can just move his finger and it's over.
What the emperor cares about are the people and things that are entangled with the Jia family."
"I'm worried that if the emperor promotes Jia Lian again, the Jia family, which has been suppressed with great difficulty, will be resurrected."
Qiu Shi'an clinked the wine glass in his hand against the wine glass Gao Qigong put on the table, then poured it into his mouth, swallowed it intoxicatedly, and then said seriously:
"If you can't let go of your children, you can't trap the wolf."