Qian Minglin stood on the high platform, looked at the people who were returning to the city in the distance, and whispered to himself: "I wonder if your Majesty will be satisfied with what I have done after knowing this."
Yes, Yunxi was not in Guangzhou at this time.
On the day of Xu Boyuan's trial, Yunxi had finished handling everything in Guangzhou and ordered Qian Minglin to take good care of the criminals in the witchcraft case. He left Guangzhou the next day, the day before the public execution.
Yunxi did not forget why he came to Guangdong. The purpose of his coming here was to tour the south, not to interrogate these two cases in Guangzhou. Although the witchcraft case has not yet been closed, the details of the Samarkand Kingdom at the Shanghai Shipping Department have not yet been concluded. He didn't catch it, but these were all trivial matters. There was no need for him to stay in Guangzhou now. It was time to leave Guangzhou and patrol other places. If he didn't leave, he would not be able to complete the patrol he had set for himself before the New Year. The target. Of course, after his inspection is over and Annan's battle is over, he will return to Guangzhou to completely solve the witchcraft case.
Moreover, even if he does not rush back to the capital to celebrate the New Year, he must go back before the examination next year. Except for the questions on the Four Books and Five Classics, he must answer all the questions in person. The final list of tributes and the order of the palace examination must also be done by him. Decide.
Moreover, a preparation that he has made in the past few years after taking the throne will also be launched after the conference. He has been preparing for that matter for several years. It is not impossible if he postpones it, and it will be postponed to the next conference; but If you don't have to postpone it, it's better not to postpone it.
After Yunxi left Guangzhou City, he rested that night at Haojing at the mouth of the Pearl River, which was later known as the Macau Peninsula. However, at this time there was nothing here except an inspection department established by the Ming Dynasty. Even this inspection department later became known as the "Inspection Department" in history. Some reasons were revoked, so the Portuguese were able to take advantage of the situation and rent it for a few hundred taels of silver per year. They also obtained the privilege of going to Guangzhou twice a year to do business, which was the only Western country to have.
The next day, on the fourth day of the lunar month, Yunxi came to Hailang Suo, on the fifth day of the lunar month, he came to Shendianwei, and on the sixth day of the lunar month, he came to Leizhou Prefecture. On the seventh day of the lunar month, Yunxi came to Qiongzhou Fucheng on Hainan Island.
"Li Xuliang, the magistrate of Qiongzhou (Li Jiqian, the commander of Jinghaiwei) has met your Majesty. Long live your Majesty!" As soon as Yunxi got off the boat, the two leaders of the officials who were greeting Yunxi on the shore immediately knelt down and said; As the two of them knelt down, the rest of the officials, large and small, also knelt down in unison with shouts of long live. Soon, no one was standing on the entire dock except for the soldiers who were protecting them.
Yunxi got off the boat, immediately helped Li Xuliang and Li Jiqian who were kneeling on the ground, and said with a smile: "My dear friends, you don't need to be polite, get up quickly."
The two of them said a few words of humility before standing up. Then the kneeling people present also stood up one after another.
Yunxi supported a person with one hand and walked towards Qiongzhou City while talking to them casually. Usually this time is a good time for Yunxi to get closer to his ministers, but Li Xuliang was very rigid and did not seem to have any relationship with Yunxi. He narrowed his feelings and just answered Yunxi's words sternly. Under his influence, Li Jiqian did not dare to be too casual and spoke to Yunxi rigidly.
Yunxi was very bored. But he asked for it. When the prefect of Qiongzhou became vacant in the second year of Jianye, Yunxi carefully considered it and felt that although Li Shuli was not his confidant, he was old-fashioned and serious in his work. Although such a person was not close However, at that time, he had already considered the future war against Annan, and believed that Qiongzhou, as one of the places closest to Annan, would play a role in the war against Annan; and even if he did not consider the war against Annan, Qiongzhou would The place is also one of the very important maritime bases, so he wanted to choose someone who could do things in a down-to-earth manner, so he chose Li Shuli.
In addition, Yunxi specially called Li Shuli into the palace before he left the capital to take up his post, and told him to cooperate with the military commanders in the guard station to expand the barracks and port terminals, and even asked him to build a shipyard in Haikou by any means without asking for help.
To build a big ship, you only need to be able to build small ships and repair big ships.
No matter when Li Shuli was appointed as the prefect of Qiongzhou or when he was called into the palace by Yun Xi to give personal instructions, Li Shuli was very calm, without any emotion of sadness or joy.
This is not easy. When he was appointed as the prefect of Qiongzhou at the beginning, countless people gloated about his misfortune: At that time, Li Shuli was the doctor in the Ministry of Rites. Although he was the fifth rank and the prefect was the fourth rank, everyone agreed that the officials in the capital were better than the local officials.
Guigui, he went to Qiongzhou, a remote and remote place, which is equivalent to being demoted; even some famous officials in history would complain a few times when they encountered such things when their official positions were not high - even if they were demoted when they became high officials,
He didn't dare to complain - but he was happy with it.
After he was called into the palace by the emperor to give instructions, everyone was full of envy for him. The emperor personally gave him instructions. It can be seen that this is not a derogation but a great use by the emperor. How can we not envy him?
Therefore, Li Shuli's performance was very rare. At this time, Yunxi looked at Li Shuli's expression that had remained unchanged for almost ten thousand years. While talking to the two of them, he recalled the reports he had seen from the Jinyi Guards of Qiongzhou Prefecture and the local health office.
Seeing that Li Shuli had completed the task assigned to him relatively perfectly, he secretly made a decision: 'When the matter here is settled, I will promote him to the official position of third grade.'
Soon, the group of them had arrived at the gate of Guangzhou City, and Yunxi took the two of them into a carriage and headed to the palace in the city.
After a while, they arrived at the palace. Because it was already late, Yunxi let Li Shuli go down without saying anything to him; but Yunxi kept Li Jiqian behind.
When Li Shuli walked out of the house, Li Jiqian immediately let out a breath. At that moment, Yunxi also let out a breath, and the two of them said the same thing. Hearing the sound of hissing in front of them, the two looked up, looked at each other and smiled.
This small gesture completely resolved the embarrassment between the two of them. Li Jiqian knelt down and saluted Yunxi again, and said: "Your Majesty, Governor Li of Qiongzhou is actually a very good person, and he is unambiguous in his actions. I am here."
After arriving here, I heard from the local Qianhu that the docks, shipyards, and barracks were all built with the help of Qiongzhou Prefecture. Without the help of Prefect Li, they would never be able to have such a scale. Although the money was spent on the health center
There are, but there are no artificial health centers."
"But Magistrate Li is too rigid, and I can't adapt to him."
Yunxi smiled and said, "It's not just you, I'm not used to it either." After he said this, the two of them looked at each other and smiled.
