When Li Zhi got up this morning and was about to get dressed and go to the second hall, Cui He suddenly said: "Husband, I have one!"
Li Zhi was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Are you pregnant again?"
Cui He nodded and asked, "Do you think it's a boy or a girl?"
Li Zhi thought for a moment and said, "I think it's a daughter, so Huan'er will have a sister!"
Cui He nodded, touched his belly and said, "Girl, be good, grow up well in your belly, and be born well!"
Li Zhi pinched Cui He's face and chatted with Cui He for a while before going to the second hall to work.
After becoming the commander-in-chief, Li Zhi's paperwork work has greatly increased. Before, Li Zhi was only a staff general, and his various paperwork was limited, but now that Li Zhi is the commander-in-chief guarding one side, the paperwork that needs to be processed has increased dramatically. Li Zhi has a sharp increase in paperwork.
Although Zhi has become familiar with classical Chinese in traditional Chinese over the years, he still feels that it is not worthwhile to spend several hours a day processing paperwork.
Li Zhi decided to recruit a group of staff to handle documents for him.
The requirements for the staff were to be good at judging articles and regulations, and to be loyal and reliable. Li Zhi thought about it and felt that the best candidate was Cui He's younger brother Cui Changwu.
Cui Changwu is Li Zhi's brother-in-law and the uncle of his eldest son Li Huan. He is very reliable politically. Moreover, Cui Changwu was selected as a scholar last year. It can be seen that the eight-part essay is good and there will be no problem in handling the documents. If Cui Changwu is the leader and recruits some staff to
, your workload will be greatly reduced.
Li Zhi summoned Cui Changwu and asked: "Brother Wu, would you like to work as a staff member in my shogunate? I will make you the head of the clerical staff, and I will give you a military attache position in the future."
Cui Changwu smiled and said: "My brother-in-law is so kind, so my brother is naturally willing."
After hearing Cui Changwu's words, Li Zhi's face lit up with joy. Cui Changwu agreed to Li Zhi so readily, obviously he had wanted to have sex with Li Zhi for a long time.
Nowadays, the war is in turmoil, and the road to official career is getting narrower and narrower. Although the practice of using civil servants to control military officers is still there, military generals have become more and more domineering. For example, Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong, who suppressed thieves, did not control them at all.
Yang Sichang took it seriously. Instead of continuing to study hard in order to jump over the dragon gate, Cui Changwu might as well follow Li Zhi as a military attache.
Li Zhi nodded, touched his chin and said: "Okay, from now on you will be the ambassador of my shogunate's copywriting department. For ten taels a month, you first take over all the copywriting of the General Military Mansion. If you don't understand, ask me Zheng
Hui can do it."
Cui Changwu was very happy to see Li Zhi appointed him as ambassador when he came up, and said: "I think there are only a few people in my brother-in-law's shogunate. We really need to expand talents in time!"
Li Zhi asked smoothly: "Brother Wu, is there anyone you can recommend to me?"
Cui Changwu nodded and said: "I know a talented hero. If he works in the shogunate of my brother-in-law, he will definitely be able to help my brother-in-law."
Li Zhi said: "What I lack here is talent. Ask him to come, and I will wait for you."
Cui Changwu sang "Oi" and immediately went to call someone.
In the afternoon, Cui Changwu came in with a thin scholar in his thirties. The scholar wore a Japanese sword on his waist. Although he was thin, he had thick eyebrows, big eyes and a beard, and he looked very energetic.
As soon as he entered the second hall, the scholar knelt on the ground and sang loudly: "Student Gao Ligong has met the Taibao Lord!"
Li Zhi took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Mr. Gao, sit down!"
Gao Ligong sat down. However, he didn't dare to push himself up, so he sat on the chair with only half his butt, looking a little reserved.
"Mr. Gao has a great reputation?"
"A student is a student."
"That's it!" Li Zhi said with a smile: "My wife's brother Cui Changwu highly praised Mr. Gao for his great talent. If I meet Mr. Gao today, I must ask Mr. Gao for his advice."
“Students dare not speak nonsense!”
"Mr. Gao, don't be afraid. There are no outsiders here, and nothing you say will spread!"
When Gao Ligong heard Li Zhi's words, he raised his hands and said to Li Zhi: "Since the general asked the students, the students boldly spoke out. The students thought that the current power of the general was like a dragon trapped in a pond."
Li Zhi was stunned and asked, "How do you say this?"
Gao Ligong raised his hand and said: "Now the general has a strong army and strong horses, and he is stationed in Tianjin. Tianjin is the north-south water transportation center, where merchants gather and trade is prosperous. It looks like a blessed land, but in fact it is the place where the emperor pays attention to day and night, just like a pond where a dragon is trapped."
"Now that the situation in the world is ruined, wars are raging, and the general has repeatedly made military exploits. It is the time to appoint people, and the emperor has not yet suspected the general. But how can he allow others to sleep peacefully in the bed? As long as the border security situation is slightly better, the emperor will definitely take care of it.
It is suspicious to have such a strong army in the key place of the capital."
"If the emperor doubts the general, how will the general advance or retreat? How can he strengthen his career? Wouldn't it be a waste of the general's sincerity to be loyal to the emperor and serve the country?"
Although Gao Ligong looked a little nervous, he was very bold when he spoke. He even dared to discuss the emperor's thoughts. If he was not facing Li Zhi at this time but a pedantic official, he would be kicked out.
It's all possible.
Li Zhi smiled and asked, "Mr. Gao, what's the best way to solve this dilemma?"
Gao Ligong handed over his hand and said: "I am willing to help the general take over Xiaoliuqiu in the southeast, open up wasteland and colonize there, and create a situation where we can advance and retreat."
Li Zhi touched his chin and was silent.
Xiaoliuqiu is the island of Taiwan. It was sparsely populated at this time and was called Xiaoliuqiu. There is now a Dutch castle on Xiaoliuqiu and a small immigration settlement of Zheng Zhilong, but in general it is still deserted and in urgent need of development.
Li Zhi said: "Xiao Liuqiu is too far away from Tianjin, so it is inconvenient to go back and forth."
Gao Ligong shook his head and said: "I heard that the general's steam engine ship can reach Hirado, Japan in six days. In this way, it takes ten days to reach Xiaoliuqiu and a round trip in twenty days. How can this be considered far? Even if it is Tianjin and Beijing
The transportation back and forth takes five days."
Li Zhi did not expect that Gao Ligong even knew the information about his own ship. But speaking of it, it was not a secret that Li Zhi's three ships sailed on the route between Taku and Hirado day and night.
Li Zhi pondered and said: "I only have three ships now. If one ship can carry 300 people, the three ships can only transport a thousand people to Xiaoliuqiu a month. When will Xiaoliuqiu be developed?"
Gao Ligong said: "The general only has three ships, but because there are not enough shipbuilders?"
Li Zhi nodded and said: "I only found a group of shipbuilders in Tianjin, and they can only build one ship in two and a half months."
"This is easy. I have gone to sea several times in the past few years. I know that there are many shipwrights in Dengzhou, Laizhou and other places. To build a pointed boat like the Adult Star, you can contact many groups of craftsmen in many places."
If we build two ships together, we can build five ships in three months."
"Your Majesty's recruitment of troops and horses will easily arouse the Emperor's suspicion. But now that the sea ban has actually been lifted, if you build a few large ships in your capacity as Your Majesty, the Emperor will not suspect anything."
This Gao Ligong had traveled across the sea and knew a shipbuilder? He was not a scholar who could only talk nonsense. Li Zhigao glanced at him and pondered the feasibility of colonizing Taiwan.
Gao Ligong said: "If the general is still worried about the shortage of ships, he can buy ready-made merchant ships from maritime merchants and renovate them. As far as I know, Cha Yunke's four ships are parked in the port and cannot be sailed. Another maritime merchant in Tianjin, Zhang Jia,
Our two boats are no longer going to sea because the price of raw silk is too high. You can buy their boats. You can also hire the boatmen on the boats."
"With six medium-sized ships from the Chayunke and Zhang families, five large ships will be built in Dengzhou, and one large ship will be built in Tianjin. In three months, you will have nine large ships and six medium-sized ships. You can transport more than 3,000 people to the small town in one month."
Ryukyu can transport tens of thousands of people a year!"
"When the time comes, we will colonize Xiaoliuqiu and it will become a royal paradise for our Han people." (To be continued.)
