Promotion Letter for the Chief Executive

Facts have proved that if Ping An does not make a move, it is enough, and once it is done, it is a big deal that requires people to go all out.

Zhao Can joked before that he would be busy with these two things for "a while", but in fact, he was busy with these things for more than two years before he completed his initial goal.

Now the mulberry fish ponds are blowing up in the south of the Yangtze River. After all, for ordinary people, they don't think about how much food the whole country produces and whether it is enough to eat.All they can worry about is their own little family.And there is no doubt that the income of growing mulberry and silkworms and raising fish along with it is much higher than that of growing grain. How can people not be jealous?

What's more, the government did not stop it, but vigorously promoted it. Everyone naturally felt that this must be good, so they followed blindly.

The progress of the Navy is more worrying.Because the slogan to the outside world is to catch precious seafood, the training place was put in the southeast by Zhao Can aboveboard.As the saying goes, it's dark under the lights. Although King Qi will be stared at by people, he doesn't believe that there is really any secret hidden here psychologically, so he doesn't pay much attention to it, which is convenient for Zhao Can.

But because it started from scratch, the current team is similar to the grass-roots team. It is still training the soldiers' adaptability and survivability at sea.Coupled with the external rhetoric, they are not so much a "navy" as an "official fishing fleet".

Many naval soldiers even think so. They are recruited from among the fishermen. They have rich experience in this, like a fish in water, and they have invested a lot of enthusiasm in fishing.

Besides, what made Zhao Can laugh and cry was that the fishermen around did not know how they got the news and what they thought, but they slowly started to go out to sea with this "official fishing fleet".At first, there were only scattered boats, but later the team got bigger and bigger, and now fishing boats from dozens of miles around have come to join.

Anyway, for the vast majority of fishermen, they spend almost all their lives on boats, no matter where they are.

This is not an exaggeration. In fact, there are some people who have lived on the boat since they were born. They have no land or houses on land. Except for getting off the boat to sell fish, they basically don't go to land.They are used to life on the water, and they naturally have no sense of belonging to the so-called "hometown", so they leave as soon as they say it.

After all, for those who live by the sea, safety is the most important thing.And what is more secure than following an official ship?

The fact is exactly the same. After joining the team, when the wind and waves come, the official ship will organize everyone to form a fleet to resist together. Small wind and waves will hardly have any impact or loss, which greatly improves everyone's survival on the sea. The possibility, the income is also richer than before.

So up to now, the navy has made the greatest contribution, which is to pay a lot of seafood to the court.So in the past two years, among the emperor's rewards, there are very few gold, silver and copper items, and they have been replaced with special products such as pearls and corals. From time to time, important officials can still eat fresh seafood from the sea, such as sea cucumber and abalone. .

But recently, Zhao Can has asked them to gradually increase the distance they sail, and try to draw charts, so that they no longer mix with those private fishing boats.Of course, there is no problem leaving a few boats to escort the fishermen.

This kind of work of exploring unknown areas is always full of dangers, so Zhao Can is not in a hurry.After all, it would be a pity if the people who were cultivated with great difficulty were lost like this.Through these tasks to hone them bit by bit, step by step, you can get an elite navy in the future.Even if it takes a little more time for this, it is well worth it.

In comparison, the progress of the shipbuilding side is relatively fast, and it is now possible to build a large ship that can carry thousands of catties.Although it is not particularly large for Ping An, it is completely enough for the current Da Chu.

If it weren't for such a ship, the navy would really not dare to conduct ocean voyages casually.

The last thing is to promote high-quality grain.With the support of the emperor, for the purpose of keeping secret, only a few people know that the seeds have been improved. After all, the fewer people who know secretly, the better.Moreover, the final location of the farm was chosen, not surprisingly, in Hebei and Northwest China. Currently, only military camps are being carried out.

There are many reasons for this consideration.

First of all, civil servants and military generals are two completely different systems. Although they are still related to each other in many cases, they cannot be too close after all.

Moreover, many things in the military are already within the scope of confidentiality. Adding this to the outside world is to prevent people from other countries from inquiring about the news, and it will not arouse suspicion at all.

The last thing is to farm in the Northwest and Hebei, which I have done several times before.When Emperor Taizu was still alive, because Hebei and Northwest were sparsely populated, he thought about immigrating from the densely populated Jiangnan.It was only later that I found out that this approach was too laborious and costly, so I gave up.

Even so, every time there was a famine later on, the imperial court would summon the victims, subsidize large tracts of land and food, and organize these victims to go to the frontier to take root.All this is just to increase the population of these two places, so as to increase the production of the land, so as not to leave it vacant.

Even so, nearly a hundred years have passed, and this problem has not been completely resolved.Later, there were military settlements and civilian settlements, but each time they ended without a problem.

So it was not unexpected that this matter was brought up again suddenly.

In this way, although someone will definitely notice, as long as they don't investigate deeply, they are not afraid of seeing anything.And if you investigate in depth, it is impossible not to disturb the imperial court at all.It will be much easier to try to solve it at that time.

Although there is no way to promote it vigorously for a while, the land occupied by the frontier soldiers is basically a large tract of barren land, and the army has a large population and a strong labor force. If they can reclaim all these lands, it will not be tolerated. underestimate.

These things were many and messy, and for some reason, the emperor finally handed them over to Zhao Can.

So for the past two years, Zhao Can has been busy, and the time spent in contact with the emperor has suddenly increased a lot.In the eyes of other brothers, it is naturally not pleasing to the eye.But they are not Zhao Can, and they don't have a "life and death catastrophe" as an exemption, so when they do things, they will inevitably be tied up.

As a result, not only the emperor, but also many courtiers began to gradually feel that His Royal Highness Chen Wang, who was able to calm down and do things, was the best among the princes.

It's just a pity...

Zhao Can came out of the original hall, looked at the sky outside, and couldn't help speeding up his pace.

He stayed in the temple for too long today.The main reason is that almost all the things in hand have made preliminary progress, so they need to report to the emperor, and at the same time simply arrange the work for the next stage.

Of course, Zhao Can could do these things independently, but it was a matter of attitude for him to report to the emperor.

Apparently the emperor was also very satisfied with his way of doing things, he said a lot of heartfelt words to him today, and even gave him many tips on how to handle affairs.

Some of them faintly revealed the emperor's arrangements for himself in the court after a hundred years.

This was not something that should have been said to him.

Thinking back to what happened in the original palace today, Zhao Can suddenly discovered that the emperor was already old.He began to lack energy, indecision, nostalgia, and even at one point his two statements contradicted each other.Although it was just a small mistake and it happened once, it was caught by Zhao Can keenly.

In the peak period of the emperor, it is absolutely impossible for him to make such a mistake.

Zhao Can had been in contact with him a lot recently, and generally got a feel for some of the emperor's character.He has the suspicion of being an emperor, and his best method is to check and balance.He wouldn't even want his courtiers to know what he was thinking, let alone make a mistake in front of them?Over the years he had gotten used to arming himself to the best of his ability.

Therefore, although such a mistake occurred, although it is still small, Zhao Can has already smelled a little taste from it.

The emperor is old.

However, Zhao Can did not intend to do anything about it, because he himself was also the beneficiary of the elderly emperor.If it weren't for this, even if it was his own father and son, the other party would probably not tolerate what he had done recently.

But Zhao Can thought about it carefully, and at this time in his previous life, he did not receive any news at all.

This is not surprising.

In his previous life, he was fighting for life and death with other brothers at this moment, and he thought he wanted to avoid the emperor's eyes and ears, so naturally he didn't care about what was going on in Benchu ​​Palace.In the end, everyone was really stepped on, and there was an element of luck in it.

Because now Zhao Can knew that the emperor knew everything they did.

In this life, because of the presence of the Imperial City Secretary, there is almost no difficulty in finding out the news. Although the princes are very secretive, their actions are getting bigger and bigger, and it is impossible not to get out of the way.Zhao Can deduced that in his previous life, if he didn't know everything clearly, he still knew the general idea.

After all, these methods were not unused by the emperor back then.

In their previous life, the reason why they knew that the emperor's health was going to die was because of an incident.

Zhao Can braved the cold winter wind and walked to the gate of the palace, his whole body was almost frozen.This year's winter seems to be extraordinarily cold. It started to snow in the capital at the end of October. The cold wind has been howling for the past few days, the temperature seems to have dropped again, and the ground is even more frozen.On both sides of the road was a thick layer of snow swept together, covered with a thin layer of ice, which had been frozen during the previous night.

After leaving the palace gate, there was a carriage from Prince Chen's mansion waiting here.The charcoal basin was burning in the car, and the thick curtain was covered, creating a warm feeling in the small compartment.Zhao Can got into the car, and Xiao Fuzi immediately stuffed a heater over, "Your Highness, warm your hands."

"What day is it today?" Zhao Can asked.

"Return to Your Highness, today is nineteenth. In a few days it will be the Winter Solstice Festival." Xiao Fuzi said.

Zhao Can's brows were frowned, and after a while, they slowly relaxed, "Go home."

I don't know what happened today, but I feel so emotional.Maybe... because I know exactly what will happen next.

November 24, 23th year of Xiping, the winter solstice.

The emperor will go outside the city to offer sacrifices to heaven on this day.This is one of the biggest sacrifices of the year, and there is no room for negligence. The Ministry of Rites has been busy preparing for it since two months ago.

In the past two years, because of the existence of the Ministry of Education, the imperial examination-related things were inevitably handed over slowly in the end, and the Ministry of Rites became more and more marginalized, so they had to work hard to strive for performance in these days.Above the sacrificial etiquette, he refused to let it go.

Therefore, the emperor and all his courtiers had to walk outside the city that day.

The weather is really cold, but you still have to wear court clothes, you can't put on a cloak to block the wind and snow like usual, no matter how thick the clothes are, the wind will blow through you.Standing in the line, Zhao Can felt that his whole body was completely numb, and he couldn't even move forward flexibly.

He raised his eyes to look at the front of the line, and there was a bit of worry in his eyes.

However, the sacrificial ceremony went smoothly until the emperor Luanyu returned to the palace, nothing happened.Zhao Can was stunned for a moment, not knowing whether to be happy or disappointed.

He clearly remembered that on the Winter Solstice Festival in his previous life, the emperor fainted while offering sacrifices to the sky.

Because it was in front of so many ministers, the news could not be concealed at all, and it quickly spread throughout the capital, causing panic among the people, and at the same time inevitably fueling the arrogance of some people.After all, if the emperor really dies, he will naturally have to prepare for that position early.

Even though the emperor came back to life later, he was gradually unable to suppress his ambitious sons, so the court naturally fell into chaos.

However, even if he knew this, it was impossible for Zhao Can to stop it, let alone notify the emperor in advance, so he could only watch it happen.

But the completely different development from the previous life made Zhao Can somewhat enlightened.

However, it is always a good thing.Zhao Can is very confident in his own abilities, and doesn't think that the chaos in the court at this time will bring any benefits except that it will take more time to stabilize in the future.He also doesn't need to fish in troubled waters at all.So that's fine.

However, it turns out that even if there is a slight discrepancy, what should happen will still happen.

Although there was no movement in the palace, Zhao Can got the news from his own people that on the night of the winter solstice, the palace called several imperial physicians into the palace, and cut them all night.

It is needless to say what it is for.

That's not to mention, maybe winter is really not suitable for the elderly to recuperate. When the twelfth lunar month enters and the New Year's atmosphere is getting stronger, the Queen Mother in Shou'an Palace suddenly becomes ill.The illness came on so quickly and violently that the Queen Mother passed away before the palace even had time to send a decree to let all the wives enter the palace to serve the sick.

Although the Empress Dowager had targeted Ping An, Zhao Can did not have any deep-rooted hatred for her.After all, none of her methods worked.Later, Ping An went to Qinzhou from the Bingzhan Bureau, and returned to Beijing with military achievements, explosives, and cement. He became very popular in an instant, and the contact gradually began to transfer from the harem to the court, and the Queen Mother could not reach out.

Because of Xu Wenmei's matter, the relationship between the emperor and the queen mother has never been close. As they grow older, they can't even interfere in outside affairs. The queen mother is just an ordinary old lady.

But even so, her life is a backbone for some people.

For example, Zhao Rong.

He was born of Concubine Zheng Gui, and he was also very favored by the emperor, but in fact, his real backer should be the Queen Mother.Because of her presence, whether it is the Zheng family or the emperor's side, they can all be suppressed, which can be said to be a great help to Zhao Rong.

After all, the queen mother is an elder and a biological mother. Although the relationship is not considered close, the emperor has to listen to her words out of filial piety.On many things, others say a hundred words is not as good as she said one.

In addition, did the emperor fear the Zheng family?Zhao Can thinks there are.But because of the presence of the Queen Mother, it can only be cited but not sent out, and the soldiers do not move.

But now that the Empress Dowager died of illness, it was tantamount to the downfall of this backer.

Before the emperor could open his mouth, many people were ready and ready to reach out to the Zheng family.After all, this timing is too good, it is very likely to bite off a big mouthful of meat from the other party.There are not many such good opportunities, so naturally we must take good advantage of them.

Zhao Can watched all this calmly.

The struggle for the heir apparent in Xiping's final years began at this moment, kicked off.

Because of Zhao Can's low-key performance, no one has targeted him for the time being.Although the emperor occasionally called him into the palace to speak, people were envious and jealous, but as long as they thought that he was a dying person, everyone would not care about it.As the year of birth approached, everyone no longer cared about Zhao Can.The emperor probably got closer to him because of this, right?After all, opportunities are running out.

If they knew that every time Zhao Can entered the palace, the emperor would scold the other sons like shit in front of Zhao Can, maybe they wouldn't be so confident.

Although Zhao Can didn't know what happened on the day of the winter solstice, there must be something wrong with the emperor's body.He understands the emperor's thoughts very well, the feeling of having gone through life and death, and after escaping from birth, feeling grateful and hated at the same time, always wanting to do something to vent, Zhao Can himself has experienced it before .

So comforting the emperor is easy.

And these princes who hit the guns have naturally already been on the blacklist in the emperor's heart.

He has already fought like this before he died, is it because he can't wait to sit in his position?As long as you think about it this way, the relationship between father and son is not as important as the throne.

The leisurely time passed by in a flash, and in February of the 25th year of Xiping, the spring breeze brought warmth, and the flowers in the imperial garden finally bloomed a lot.Zhao Can accompanied the emperor for a walk in the imperial garden. People who had been bored all winter saw the scenery in front of them, and their mood would naturally be much more open.The imperial physician also suggested that the emperor should go out and walk more, so that his body would be healthier.

But for some reason, Zhao Can felt that his complexion was ashen. The emperor, who looked much older after a winter, suddenly felt a little out of place in the imperial garden full of flowers.

Probably the emperor himself also noticed this, and when he went again later, he didn't go to the place where there were flowers blooming.

He was getting old, even though he saw these vigorous plants growing vigorously, he still felt unhappy in his heart.

One day, the two of them turned a bluestone road, and suddenly a small piece of lush plants appeared in front of them, which didn't look very eye-catching.Zhao Can had never seen this kind of plant before, and it wasn't blooming at this time, so he just glanced at it and didn't pay attention.

However, after turning his head, he found that the emperor was staring at the plant in a daze.After a while, the emperor seemed to finally regain his senses, and suddenly asked, "Where is Ping An now?"

Zhao Can was startled when he suddenly heard the name came out of the emperor's mouth.But Zhang Dongyuan stepped forward with a natural expression, "Avoid, it should be on Southwest Road. There are many small clans living there with unique customs. Ping'an seems to be very interested. He has lived there for half a year."

Zhao Can lowered her eyes.It seems that although the emperor never said anything about it, he was actually very clear about Ping An's whereabouts and movements.

The emperor nodded and sighed, "I'm still a little unaccustomed to his absence these past few years." Then he lowered his head and glanced twice, then turned and left, walked a few steps and said, "Ping An will also go out for three or four years. , If you don’t come back again, I’m afraid your heart will be wild, right?”

"The old slave will order someone to pass the decree." Zhang Dongyuan said with a smile.

The emperor reprimanded, "What are you doing so violently? He has been away for so long, and he should have come back."

"Yes. The old slave personally edited a book and sent someone to send it. After reading it safely, I want to come back." Zhang Dongyuan said again.

The emperor nodded and turned to Zhao Can, "I remember that you have some friendship with Ping An."

"Yes," Zhao Can said, "Ping An's brains are flexible, and he always has some unexpected ideas, which are indeed feasible after careful consideration. Such a rare talent is naturally impressive."

The emperor said nothing more.

After Zhao Can returned home, he immediately asked someone to ask what that plant was.Although he is well-read and knowledgeable, after all, he seldom pays attention to such irrelevant things, so naturally he doesn't know about it, Tianshu said, "Master, that's Poppy."

Yu Meiren... Zhao Can suddenly realized that it was so.

That was Xu Wenmei's nickname when she was still singing.I'm afraid it has been many years since no one mentioned it?The emperor is getting old and starting to miss the old man?

However, on this point, Zhao Can and the emperor had the same idea: it was time for Ping An to come back.

Thinking of this, Zhao Can immediately spread out the pen and paper, and wrote a letter to Ping An.

Although Zhang Dongyuan can also write letters, Ping An will definitely come back.But Zhao Can felt that Ping An should prefer to receive his own letters.

Just what to write?

Turning her head to look at the magnolia flowers blooming in the wind outside the window, Zhao Can smiled slightly, and wrote down a line of words: Moshang flowers are blooming, and they can return slowly.