Promotion Letter for the Chief Executive

"What happened?" Zhao Can looked at him helplessly, "Why are you still so startled, without any composure?"

"That's because His Majesty is kind and doesn't care about these things." Ping An explained with a smile, and then asked Xiao Fuzi, "What is it that makes you so happy?"

"Sea ship! Our sea ship is finished!" Xiao Fuzi said, "This time we sailed from Yuanzhou, went down the coastline, and docked at Huizhou. It took less than [-] days in total. No issues with personnel."

Ping An looked back at the map and found that it was not fast to cover this distance in 20 days.What is really valuable is that the crew lived on the ship for 20 days without any problems.

After leaving the land, the scenery on the sea will still make people feel fresh at first, but after seeing too much, it will feel monotonous and dull.And compared to the vastness of the sea, people are so small, even the original big ships will become insignificant on the sea.

Such a situation can make people feel insecure.Especially when the wind and waves are coming and the boat can only drift with the current, the feeling is more obvious.In addition, there are no places to go and no entertainment in Shanghai, and the negative emotions in my heart will be continuously magnified.If the adjustment is not good, it is easy to cause accidents.

Not to mention, the food at sea is limited, even if the ship stores it in advance, it is still not enough.Without green vegetables, the lack of vitamins and certain trace elements is extremely destructive to the body and may even cause illness.

Only when these problems are overcome, can long-distance navigation be possible.Although it was only 20 days this time, it was a pleasant surprise for Ping An.

Because according to his calculations, starting from Huangzhou on Jiangnan Road, it would take about this much time to sail the boat to Southeast Asia.

In other words, Da Chu can purchase food and other materials from overseas to supplement the domestic shortage!

Although both Zhao Can and Ping An feel that the current preparations are sufficient, they are not afraid of [-] yuan, but just in case, this kind of thing cannot be guaranteed that there will be no problem, and it is better to leave some leeway.I didn't expect that the sea-going ship could go on a long voyage at this time, so it happened to be able to help.

So after Zhao Can heard the news, he couldn't help but lose his composure, stood up and said, "Is what you said true?"

"Really, the news was sent by the people below." Xiao Fuzi said, "The man is still waiting at the palace gate, and the servant is here to report the news. Does the master want to meet?"

"See you, of course we want to see you!" Zhao Can said immediately.

When Xiao Fuzi went out to invite people, the excitement that had been suppressed on Zhao Can's face finally showed. He stood up and grabbed Ping An's hand, "The ship is finished! Ping An, I'm so happy! It seems that this time God bless me! , we can’t do anything if we think about it.”

"Congratulations, Your Majesty." Ping An said, "This is only one of the small uses. Sea-going ships can go to sea and bring benefits to Da Chu, and more are yet to come."

Zhao Can nodded, turned around and paced around the hall for a while, finally calmed down his excitement, and walked back to sit behind the imperial case.

Ping An looked at him with a smile on the side.The reason why Zhao Can was so happy was not only because of the great significance of this matter, but also because he was doing it alone from the beginning to the end without anyone else intervening.Although he got the approval of the first emperor, the first emperor didn't ask much at that time.This is completely Zhao Can's power, so the stronger the power, the better.

Soon Xiao Fuzi invited people in.

Probably because of the wind and sun on the sea, the person who came here looked dark, but his body was very noticeable. Seeing Zhao Can, he immediately knelt down and saluted like a bell, "Zhou Da greeted my emperor, long live your majesty! Congratulations to your majesty!" Long live without bounds!"

They were all in the southeast when Zhao Can ascended the throne, so it was naturally impossible for them to come back to watch the ceremony.But just as Zhao Can is proud of them, these people who Zhao Can trained are naturally proud of Zhao Can.Their master's promotion from a prince to an emperor naturally has a lot of benefits for them.

"You don't need to be too polite," Zhao Can stretched out his hand for a little help, and Ping An went to help Zhou Da up, and let him sit on the stool next to him and talk.

"Tell me about the situation of the ship. When will you leave, when will you arrive, and how is the journey?" Zhao Can asked eagerly.

Zhou Da was also unambiguous. Not only did he say it eloquently, but he also took out a document and handed it to Ping An, "Here is a letter from General Zhang to His Majesty. I am afraid that your subordinates will not be able to explain clearly. Your Majesty would like to You know, it’s all there.”

"If you are also clumsy with your tongue, I am afraid there will be no one in this world who can speak." Zhao Can laughed, opened the file and read it.

The records here are more detailed, including sea charts, various hydrology and weather on the road, wind direction, etc., are all recorded. In this way, just looking at the records can simulate the itinerary of this trip.

After Zhao Can read it, he handed it to Ping An.

Seeing this, Zhou Da couldn't help but take another look at Ping An.For Zhao Can to show him such an important thing, not only is it a kind of trust, but it also means that this person understands these things.Ping An was dressed as an eunuch, and Zhou Da didn't pay much attention to him at first, but now he secretly paid attention to him.

After Ping An read it, he smiled and said, "Congratulations, Your Majesty. Next, we will sail the ship from Huizhou to Chongzhou. If there is no problem, we can continue to go south."

"Okay!" Zhao Can was also very happy, and turned to Zhou Da and said, "Did you hear that? Tell your general later and tell him to train as soon as possible. He will be needed in a year or two! This time If you make contributions, the navy will naturally expand, and you don't have to be seen as fishermen."

Zhou Da quickly agreed.Zhao Can thought for a while, then wrote a letter and handed it to him, and then asked Xiao Fuzi to take him down.

After they left, Zhao Can and Pingan looked at each other and said in unison, "It's time to close the net!"

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Gu Wenheng's itinerary in Jiangnan was actually not so smooth.

At the beginning, because he was caught off guard, several corrupt officials were directly caught, and they were directly included in the booklet.But the further you go to the south of the Yangtze River, the more difficult it is to do this kind of thing.

But Gu Wenheng didn't mean to back down.He knew that the emperor sent himself here to deal with this situation.If it is done, it means that you are available.If not, even if he is not abolished by these people, after returning to Beijing, he is destined not to be valued by the emperor, and he can only stay in the Imperial Academy as a book repairer.

Gu Wenheng is a smart person, from the task given by Zhao Can, he can tell that Zhao Can intends to use himself in this direction.As the censor, he is a knife in the emperor's hand, wherever it is pointed, there must be blood!

Not to be afraid of difficulties and to move forward bravely is only the most basic requirement, otherwise how can you become the sharpest knife?

On this day, Gu Wenheng finally entered Yuanzhou City.

This is the state with the most places in the south of the Yangtze River near the sea, and its long coastline makes it the worst-hit place among the floods in the south of the Yangtze River.

Naturally, the corruption of ink here is also the most serious.Because most of the silver and grain for disaster relief were transported here, but according to the reports from the people below, the grain distributed to the victims was pitifully small. As for the silver, there was no shadow of it.

Therefore, this is also where Gu Wenheng mainly works.

It's just that, just as Gu Wenheng imagined, because of the delay along the way, the officials here have made perfect preparations, and it's hard to catch clues for a while.What shocked Gu Wenheng even more was that even he and the people from the Huangcheng Division secretly went out to visit the victims, and the answers they got were what the government wanted Tiaomei to know.

Gu Wenheng, who has also served as an official close to the people himself, knows what is going on in this situation.

The government here is probably worse than what I thought.

Of course Gu Wenheng would not shrink back because of this, but it was not easy to find a breakthrough.Fortunately, he wasn't the only one who was anxious, the other party was also afraid that if he stayed for another day, he would find some flaws, and planned to start from him to resolve this crisis.

So Gu Wenheng was invited to Zhizhou Mansion on this day, and met an unexpected person.

This person is an old friend of his, and also from Jiangnan.After Gu Wenheng left Northwest before, he also served as a parent officer in Jiangnan.At that time, the government office was the hometown of this friend.The other party tried his best to make friends with him and settled many things for him, making it very easy for Gu Wenheng to manage the place.

Accepting such a favor, and the other party treated him so well, Gu Wenheng was naturally grateful, and once promised that if there was any difficulty, he would let him come to him.

Now that this person appeared here, Gu Wenheng suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

Sure enough, after left and right were screened out, this friend immediately confided the "truth" to Gu Wenheng: this Yuanzhou magistrate is his uncle, and the relationship is very close.This time, he was really obsessed with ghosts, so he did something wrong.This friend told Gu Wenheng that he had already persuaded his uncle to change his mind, and was willing to take out all the money and food that was greedy, and only hoped that Gu Wenheng could let this matter go lightly.

Gu Wenheng was very surprised that the other party was so "candid".

But after thinking about it, I understand.The person who spoke was not Zhizhou, but a person who was not in the officialdom at all, and no one else heard it, so this conversation could not be proved at all.Because even if you tell it yourself, no one will believe it.

It's just that in this way, Gu Wenheng couldn't help being a little embarrassed.

It is impossible to appease this matter. The emperor has already received the news, and from Gu Wenheng's own judgment, it seems that this matter also involves a certain important minister in the court, and the emperor is already preparing to punish him. Start with this one!

If I stop now, will the emperor stop after me?Obviously impossible.The emperor will find other opportunities to fight, but he, Gu Wenheng, will never have another chance.

But this old friend has indeed helped him a lot, and the original promise was also very sincere. Now that the other party has confessed the whole thing, if he directly refuses, it would be too unreasonable.And Gu Wenheng is also very clear that since the other party has told this matter to himself, there is actually no room for him to refuse.

After all, this is on the other side's territory.

So after hesitating for a while, he decided to make a fool of himself for the time being.

Because he promised to "think about it", the friend immediately became happy, set up a banquet for him to drink, and sent him out after he was drunk.

It was the same situation for several days, not to mention other people, even Gu Wenheng wondered if he had been assimilated by these people.The people from the Imperial City Department who followed him were also a little unsure whether to report the situation to the higher authorities.

However, the other party's patience is obviously not much. After these few days have passed, Gu Wenheng will be forced to give a definite answer.

Naturally, Gu Wenheng couldn't agree.In the past few days, he took advantage of this opportunity to go in and out of Zhizhou Mansion frequently, but he didn't find anything.As long as you get the evidence, you will naturally not be afraid of these people playing tricks.

It's just that the other party's things are hidden and heavily guarded, so it's obviously not so easy to get them.

After much deliberation, Gu Wenheng came up with a plan of "striking east and west".

After returning to his residence, he invited all the people from the Imperial City Division, and told them that he had been collecting evidence for the past few days, and now that he had the key things in hand, he could start working tomorrow.

They did this all the way, first collecting evidence, and then directly arresting all the chief envoy officials, bringing others up temporarily to be in charge of disaster relief, and distributing supplies and food.Gu Wenheng's authority ends here, as for how to deal with these people next, it depends on Zhao Can's intentions.

The people from the Huangcheng Division had been familiar with it along the way, and they couldn't help getting excited when they heard Gu Wenheng say this.This time it is the magistrate of a state who is going to be arrested!For them, being able to handle such an iron case is very exciting in itself.

Of course, not everyone is so excited about this. The people from the Imperial City Division are always stationed in the area. Although most of them are relatively secretive and can be regarded as spies, there are always people who want to move around on the bright side.In this way, it is inevitable that there will be some contact with the local government.

And money, power and extravagant enjoyment are very easy for a person to indulge in and be manipulated by others.

Besides, these local officials dare to do such a blatant thing, so they are naturally full of confidence.It is naturally not difficult to corrupt one or two people in the Imperial City Department to do things for them, report news, etc.

That's why Gu Wenheng summoned people here to arrange things.The news over there has already been delivered to Zhizhou Yamen.

After Zhizhou heard about this, he was furious, and called his nephew to scold him, "Didn't you say that you and Gu Wenheng had a lifelong friendship, and he wouldn't let you be cornered because of such a thing, he would definitely Do you want to buy this favor from you? Now he is going to do it!"

"Uncle..." The nephew wanted to explain a few more words, but was stopped by Zhizhou, "I also know that you have tried your best, but this matter should be done according to our method, and you don't need to intervene!"

Then Zhizhou ordered his nephew to be guarded, and hurriedly arranged ways to deal with Gu Wenheng.

Since Gu Wenheng is tough but not soft, he is determined this time to keep Gu Wenheng in Yuanzhou.Zhizhou knew very well what would happen to him if the court found out about this matter. The one on the dragon chair never had a benevolent bodhisattva heart.

That being the case, let the court not find out, the dead will never speak.

With this in mind, Zhizhou contacted the local garrison, intending to surround Gu Wenheng and kill him.To be on the safe side, he even sent out half of his servants.

To avoid alarming others, they deliberately chose to do it in the dead of night.As long as it is done cleanly and no one sees it, and wait until dawn to presume that it was done by refugees or thieves, then you can wash yourself out of it.

It's just that after all the people were arranged, Zhizhou was a little worried about whether what Gu Wenheng said was true or not.After all, he has indeed been here several times, and with Gu Wenheng's ability, it is really hard to say whether he has obtained evidence.

Feeling worried, Master Zhizhou immediately lit up the lamps and candles carefully regardless of the night, and went to his study where he kept his letters and other things. He inspected carefully and made sure that everything was still there, so he was relieved.

However, in fact, he didn't know that at this time, someone was following him like a shadow all the time, watching his actions clearly.When he was relieved and was about to go back and wait for the news, he quietly walked into the room, searched out all the evidence and took them away.

That's all, before he left, he deliberately made a big noise and alarmed Zhizhou. When he rushed over, he found that his study had become a mess, and all the important items were missing. check.

This is naturally a strategy arranged by Gu Wenheng.

Although Huangcheng Division's ability is very strong, he always felt a little stagnant during the previous operations, and many criminals escaped early.Gu Wenheng had already sensed that there might be something wrong among his own people.

So this time, he simply used these problematic people to give the news to the other side.

As a result, the attack was directed at himself.

Then he arranged for the emperor to secretly send to his side, and the guards, which no one else knew, went to Zhizhou government office to steal evidence.

In the Zhizhou yamen, which was originally heavily guarded, most of the yamen servants and servants were sent out, and the Xiaoqi guards were arranged by Tianshu alone. With the cooperation of both parties, there is naturally no reason for failure.

It's just that because of his internal response, he retreated steadily and resisted very hard, and he seemed to be unable to hold on.

The opponent's staff surrounded the entire post station and rushed in, while the people from the Huangcheng Division kept trying to stop it.It's just that the number of people is much smaller than the other party, so it is very disadvantageous.Gu Wenheng thought for a while, if this continues, he will never be able to wait for the guards to come back.

"Your Excellency, let's go first!" The two persons in charge of the Imperial City Department stepped forward to persuade him, "You are an imperial envoy, if it is not worthwhile to leave here, you should hurry up and leave with your subordinates, and then plan for the future!"

Gu Wenheng turned to look at them.

He didn't know whether these two people were sincerely doing his best, or they were the internal agents over there who wanted to trick him out and kill him directly.But no matter what, Gu Wenheng couldn't leave here.

Once he left, many things would not be clear, and he could only let the other party make up.If so, he might as well die here, at least let everyone know that he, Gu Wenheng, died here for business.And how many dare to kill people here?

Besides, if someone is killed, the imperial court will naturally not tolerate it. This matter will only continue to be thoroughly investigated until a result is obtained.That would not have cost him his life in vain.

"I can't go." Gu Wenheng shook his head, "They are coming towards me, how can I let everyone stay here to resist, but I run away cowardly?"

After speaking, regardless of the expressions on the faces of the two of them, they pulled out the sword hanging on the wall, opened the door and walked out.

Since he was going to die here, of course he had to pull a few more backs.Don't look at Gu Wenheng's appearance as a frail scholar, but he can't stand it for a while.It's a pity that it couldn't last long, and wounds gradually appeared on my body after a while.

Fortunately, at this time, the guards finally rushed over.As the Royal Guards, although most of the members are the sons of nobles, they are very dandies, but they all have their merits in terms of force. It may not be possible to arrange troops, but they are the best when they fight alone.With them joining, the pressure on Gu Wenheng's side has been greatly reduced, and he can finally quit to take a rest.

Fight all night.

It wasn't until dawn that Gu Wenheng realized that the entire station was almost destroyed.

Fortunately, all of this was worth it. Not to mention the evidence, they also captured several servants from Zhizhou's family!Intending to assassinate an imperial envoy, this crime is not much easier than embezzling money and food, and punished for both crimes, it is impossible for this magistrate to escape punishment.

Although he was injured, Gu Wenheng still insisted on taking someone to the government office.

There was so much commotion last night, so many ordinary people gathered around the post station at dawn. They surrounded Gu Wenheng to the government office, watched him announce his crimes with their own eyes, then arrested Zhizhou, and announced to everyone the food and supplies for disaster relief. The silver and silver will be handed out exactly as they are, and soon they all knelt on the ground, saying that they are the master of Qingtian.

"This is not the merit of the official, but the grace of His Majesty!" Gu Wenheng immediately raised his voice, "You are all citizens of Dachu, and Your Majesty will not give up on you!"

So some people shouted long live, and then they stood up one after another, and lined up at the gate of the government office to receive money and food.

Only then did Gu Wenheng finally relax.As soon as he was relieved, he felt weak all over, his eyes turned black, he almost fell to the ground, but was caught in time, and he was temporarily placed in the government office to recuperate.

After Gu Wenheng woke up, he began to seriously examine the evidence brought back by Xiaoqiwei.

Sure enough, there were letters between Zhizhou and other officials!