rebirth first official

"Snapped!"

A roll of notebooks was slammed onto the ground.

Guo Yulian quickly ran over to pick up the booklet, stepped aside, and carefully looked at Gao Qiang's face.

There were only three people in Xianju Hall, Gao Qiang, Gao Yuanzhao and Guo Yulian, and the rest of the court ladies and eunuchs were sent out.The atmosphere was very oppressive, no one spoke, Guo Yulian felt his back was wet with cold sweat, the sweat dripped down his neck into his clothes, but he didn't dare to wipe it off.

Gao Yuanzhao said: "If this continues, the Zhao family's power may not be able to suppress it."

Concubine Zhao's father, Zhao Kang, was originally the Jiedushi of Fanyang Town and Hedong Township. In the past two years, he has been very close to Liu Qiang, the Jiedushi of Luzhen Town. The Gao family also tried to win over Liu Qiang, but Liu Qiang's attitude towards the two families It's always been right and wrong, and both sides are perfunctory.Pinglu Town is on the edge of Fanyang and Hedong Towns. If the Zhao family wants to use troops, Pinglu Town will be a barrier. If the Gao family can take Liu Qiang for their own use, it will be a threat to the Zhao family, making them dare not act rashly.

There is a son in Liu Qiang's family who has reached the age of marriage and has not yet married. Therefore, in the past two years, the Gao family and the Zhao family have selected several unmarried daughters of the right age from the family and have been proposing to Liu Qiang. Liu Qiang shirks that his son is young , never agreed.But this year...

The note that was thrown to the ground by Gao Qiang was the news that Liu Qiang's son was engaged to the Zhao family's daughter, and it was Zhao Jinyan's younger sister, Zhao Yuying, who was going to marry Zhao Kang's son. Zhao Kang also wrote the note and asked the emperor to give it to them personally. The two married.

The Gao family couldn't help trembling with anger: "Damn Zhao Kang...Damn Liu Qiang! A bunch of shameless things!

The Pinglu Jiedu envoy's engagement to the Zhao family is equivalent to that he has finally stood up and joined the Zhao family in a grandiose manner.In this way, the Zhao family is equivalent to holding the military power of three important towns, and the scenery becomes more and more unparalleled.

Gao Yuanzhao took a deep breath and kept shaking his head: "Queen Mother, in my opinion, Liu Qiang may not be willing. As far as I know, Zhao Kang has been secretly suppressing Liu Qiang for the past two years and constantly sending troops to harass Pinglu. Suppressing the price of goods in Pinglu, pretending to be robbers and stealing Pinglu’s military rations...Liu was forced to marry him because of helplessness...There may be room for change in this matter."

"Turning around?" Gao Qiang sneered: "Where did you hear these words? Did Liu Qiang say it himself?"

Gao Yuanzhao said: "He said it to my eyes and ears."

Gao Qiang said angrily: "Brother, how can you believe what he says? When have you been so naive? Your eyes and ears, I'm afraid Liu Qiang knew that they were your eyes and ears, so he deliberately said these words to us Listen. If he was really forced to do nothing, why didn't he hand in papers to the capital when he was being bullied by the Zhao family all these years? He knew that we wanted to govern the Zhao family a long time ago, but he has been suffering for no reason. If we had known earlier, we would have Don't you take the opportunity to send troops to Pinglu to help him? If he had agreed to marry our Gao family earlier, Zhao Kang would dare to bully him so arrogantly? Now that his marriage with the Zhao family has been settled, he will sell us by saying these words If you don't want to offend both ends, you really treat us as a bully!"

Gao Yuanzhao sighed: "The Zhao family relies on their location in the border area, has no law, and uses everything to achieve their goals! We just want to govern him, and there is no reason to send troops to Fanyang Town! What should we do now! "

Gao Qiang squinted his eyes, and said: "We must not let them get married successfully! Now that the Zhao family is sitting in Fanyang and Hedong two towns, it is already so arrogant. If there is more help from Liu Qiang's in-laws, wouldn't it be more difficult to let our Gao family go?" In the eyes?!"

Gao Yuanzhao frowned and pondered for a moment, then said: "Otherwise, we will draft for the emperor, temporarily prohibit civil marriages, and delay the time."

Gao Qiang said: "Then Liu Qiang has the intention to form an alliance with the Zhao family now, so what if we can delay it for a few months? We have to find a way to solve this matter thoroughly!"

Gao Yuanzhao asked her: "Queen Mother, what good idea do you have?"

Gao Qiang sneered and said: "Didn't you want to ask the emperor to give you a marriage? Then let them go to the capital first, and the emperor will give them a marriage in person in the capital! Just say that by the way, I will give the man surnamed Liu an official, so that he will definitely go to the capital." .”

Gao Yuanzhao was startled: "You want to take this opportunity to detain Liu Qiang's son?"

Gao Qiang said: "The capital city is our sphere of influence, as long as we scare them into the capital, are we afraid we won't be able to deal with them?"

Gao Yuanzhao pondered for a moment, then said, "I'm going to do this when I leave the palace."

Gao Qiang nodded.

Gao Yuanzhao took a sip from the teacup in his hand, suddenly startled, and said, "This is... this is Yunwu tea?"

Gao Qiang didn't know what kind of tea Guo Yulian asked Gao Yuanzhao to buy, so he glanced at Guo Yulian, and Guo Yulian hurriedly said: "Yes, An Guogong, this is the Yunwu tea sent by Li Dudu to pay tribute from Shu."

"Shu land?" Gao Qiang raised his eyebrows, and took a sip from the teacup at hand, "This is the Yunwu tea I drank recently? Did Gao Zhanming send it?"

Gao Yuanzhao said with a smile: "Queen Mother, I'm afraid you don't know that in the palace, Gao Zhanming has spent a lot of thought on this Yunwu tea during this period of time."

"Oh?" Gao Qiang frowned, "What did he do?"

Gao Yuanzhao said: "I heard that he took the tea industry as an official business in Shu, and prohibited the common people from private tea business, and opened up a lot of tea fields to grow this cloud tea. In order to promote this cloud tea, Gao Zhanming gave it to Chaozhong Officials of the third rank and above each sent five taels of tea to ask them to help build momentum. They also made up a lot of legends about Yunwu tea and carried them on golden sedan chairs to build momentum. Now this Yunwu tea is sold all over the country, and it has become a gift between dignitaries and dignitaries. As gifts, the common people are also scrambling for this kind of tea, and it’s hard to find a couple of Yunwu tea.”

Gao Qiang was puzzled, "What is he doing? To make money?"

Gao Yuanzhao said: "Yes, Jiazhou was hit by a disaster a few years ago, and the government spent a lot of money to relieve the disaster. They were poor and white. In order to make money, Gao Zhanming thought of a lot of ways. At the beginning of this year, when the harvest reports from various places were reported, the Jiazhou government was actually famous. The first few! It is reasonable to say that the natural disaster has just been suffered. If there is no strong support from the imperial court, it will take at least five years for the local area to recover. However, Gao Zhanming only took two years to restore people's livelihood, even surpassing previous years. He really It's a capable one."

Gao Yuanzhao had always been jealous of Gao Zhanming because of Gao Huachong's affairs.Gao Huachong and Gao Zhanming had a close relationship in the past, because of the absurd things between him and Tang Xue, Gao Huachong was dissatisfied with him as a father, and he was always unhappy.Gao Qiang was relieved to let Gao Zhanming out of Beijing. As long as Gao Huachong couldn't see Gao Zhanming, Gao Huachong would put this matter aside after a long time. It was a good thing for the relationship between their father and son.He was a little surprised that Gao Zhanming could make such achievements, but after all, there was no enmity between him and Gao Zhanming, and Gao Zhanming was also a child of his Gao family, so it was a good thing for the Gao family that he could make achievements.

Unexpectedly, when Gao Qiang heard the news, he didn't show a gratified expression, but rather disdainful: "He has skills, but it's a pity he didn't use them wisely. No matter how well managed Jiazhou is, what's so special about it! His gaze Too shallow!"

Gao Yuanzhao said: "It's a pity that he is still young. If he has more seniority, he can focus on training. Let him take over as the Jiedu envoy of the frontier and defend the capital. The Zhao family will also be afraid."

Gao Qiang said: "He has been in Jiazhou for more than two years, right?"

Gao Yuanzhao said: "Yes."

Gao Qiang said: "It's time to call him back. It's a good chess piece. It's buried in Jiazhou! You go and see which position is suitable for him in the six departments of the three provinces. He has two years of experience in the local area and has With extraordinary political achievements, assigning him a high position now can stop the mouths of those censors. We are also short of people now, so hurry up and call him back." Gao Zhanming was in Jiazhou, and Gao Qiang originally wanted him to dig Liu Rukang's criminal evidence, so that the Zhao family's forces outside the Zhao family can be eradicated one by one as soon as possible. Unexpectedly, Gao Zhanming has sent them many letters one after another in the past two years, and often scolded Liu Rukang in the letter. None were collected.After a long time, Gao Qiang could see that he must be perfunctory.That's all, Gao Zhanming flexed his muscles in Jiazhou and made Jiazhou rich. This credit is not credited to Gao Zhanming alone; If the Gao family can really catch him, they may not be able to make him step down.

Gao Yuanzhao said: "Yes, then I will leave the palace first."

Gao Qiang nodded: "You go."

Gao Zhanming and Li Jingruo, who were in Jiazhou Mansion over there, didn't know what the two elders of the Gao family were thinking.

Gao Zhanming opened the door and walked into the room. He saw Li Jingruo writing a notebook, so he didn't avoid suspicion, so he went over to read it.

Li Jingruo put his arms around his shoulders, leaned his head against his head, and said, "You came just in time, I was planning to ask the imperial court for your life. Take a look."

Gao Zhanming was already used to Li Jingruo's intimate behavior towards him, so he didn't struggle. He leaned on Li Jingruo and read the memorial, then turned his head to look at Li Jingruo, and raised his eyebrows: "You want to promote me?"

Li Jingruo saw that his face was close to his eyes, so he leaned forward and kissed his lips: "Yes, it just so happens that the prefect of Jiangzhou has been getting worse and worse in the past two years, and he also intends to retire due to illness. Empty, I want you to fill in."

Jiangzhou was also Li Jingruo's territory. Gao Zhanming knew that the former governor of Jiangzhou was over 60 years old, and he had been suffering from serious and minor illnesses for the past two years, which was really embarrassing.Although Li Jingruo is the governor, he is not qualified to directly appoint a high-ranking official like the eunuch. He still has to ask the court for the emperor's approval, and the household department will issue a transfer document. Only then can Gao Zhanming take over as the eunuch.

Gao Zhanming bit his lip.The position of prefect is naturally his dream. He has more authority and can do more things.He still has a lot of things he wants to do. He wants to open shipping and irrigation projects, and build wells and salt wells. His ambition is too big and he has too many things to do. The position of the county magistrate is already a constraint for him. up.During the past two years in Jiazhou, Li Jingruo has supported him vigorously, but such a big project is completely outside his responsibility. Even if he can do it, the final credit will not belong to him, but his The chief takes the credit.He is not a saint. Everything he does is not only for the people of Jiazhou to live a good life, but also for himself. He wants to climb up and get a wider plain, so he can do more want to do.He also can't afford to wait too many years to slowly accumulate. Now that the emperor, the Gao family, and the Zhao family are so incompatible, who knows when it will affect him!

Gao Zhanming looked at Li Jingruo gratefully, but he couldn't hide the worry on his face: "After all, I'm only 20 years old this year, and I've only been a scholar for two and a half years. Anyway, I'm afraid that the position of prefect..."

Gao Zhanming can be said to be the youngest number one scholar and the youngest county magistrate since the founding of the People's Republic of China.Relying on his own ability and the power behind him, he has gone smoothly all the way, and has created several legends.In the previous dynasty, there was a young Yingjie who became the prefect of Yizhou at the age of 30. He has been praised by others, but now he is only 20 years old. Looking at the whole dynasty, the youngest prefect is also 35 years old. In the eyes of those people, 20 years old is just a young man. Children, even many people have not yet entered the army at the age of 20.What's more, his qualifications are indeed too low, and he is not a child of the royal family surnamed Li. It will take six or seven years to be promoted to the third rank.

At his age and qualifications, it is not impossible to jump up to the top, but it is only possible in troubled times, the world is in short supply of talents, various etiquette regulations are useless, and the official ranks are chaotic. This is a good time for young talents to make their debut.But although it is not a peaceful and prosperous age, it is still far from a chaotic one. No matter how you think about it, Li Jingruo's request is unlikely to come true.

Li Jingruo said: "I, the governor, personally plead for your order, and then join the eunuchs from all over the world to write a letter for you, and the people of Jiazhou jointly write a letter for you. It is not impossible to succeed. To be honest, I don't have much to ask for an order. Sure, but not this year, please invite next year, the most important thing is to let the people in the world pay attention to you, let the high-ranking people value you, know that you are a talent, and it is not in vain."

Li Jingruo's words really touched Gao Zhanming's heart.