"Don't Mr. Hu also plan to go to Guangdong? If you go, you may have a conclusion." Yu Qianxin said to guess here, and not go and see it in person. Bai Minghe is arrogant, but he is not a rude person, and he will not ignore people like himself.

Hu Yi nodded: "I just want to ask Mr. Chen what his opinion is!"

Chen Xun shook his head: "Why let me guess. When I go back today, I will write a letter, Mr. Hu, please bring it with me. Then, after meeting with Master Yu at the sea, open the letter and see if I guessed correctly. If I guess correctly, then listen to my words, and the letter will not be written in vain. If I guess wrong, then how about opening the second letter?"

"Okay." Yu Qian agreed with this statement.

Hu Yi also understood that Chen Xun did not want to influence Yu Qian's idea of ​​going to the three northern towns. Once he had preconceived ideas, he would have missed his ideas.

Yu Qian naturally needs some preparations when he set out.

In the palace, Bai Minghe also had another letter in his letter, not for the official or the Emperor of Ming, but for the queen. One was that many words of thanks were all nonsense in Zhu Qiyu's eyes. The next point was that Bai Minghe actually took the initiative to ask to be the marriage envoy of the Chongqing princess.

Why? Why does Bai Minghe want to interfere in such a thing?

Zhu Qiyu couldn't figure it out, just a princess. But this princess was a little different, because her father was still under house arrest in the Nangong. The Chongqing princess, who was born in the seventh year of Zhengtong, is now eleven years old and has time to get married. But when it comes to choosing a marriage, it depends on the age of a woman in the Ming Dynasty getting married.

The Chongqing princess will start choosing a marriage next year, and then get engaged at the age of fourteen and get married at the age of fifteen.

Zhu Qiyu thought for a long time but couldn't figure out what was going on. Why did Bai Minghe want to interfere in this? Is he too idle? Or did he have any ideas, but he only mentioned this in a simple sentence. He didn't even have a reason.

"It seems..." Zhu Qiyu analyzed that this matter has many benefits for him. He always gives himself, the emperor some ways to win the hearts of the people. Marrying his niece is a top-notch thing. Since that's the case... Zhu Qiyu has already made up his mind.

Even if the queen has an idea about this, she has to convince herself.

Queen Mother Sun loves her granddaughter and will definitely not refuse.

After thinking about it, Zhu Qiyu never thought that Bai Minghe planned to use this matter to repay Empress Dowager Sun for accepting Sun Yuanjun as her daughter. If she did not write it in the letter, there must be some reasons why she cannot be explained explicitly.

I promise him first, and then ask when I return to Beijing in the New Year.

On the other side, Guangzhou City. Chunhui Garden.

The Fang family of Guangdong merchants invited a banquet to a white-known crane. The juice contained highly toxic arsenic, at least it was announced to the public by the Dongchang, and the two grandsons of the Fang family also died of arsenic. The Fang family's property was not confiscated. In order to avoid suspicion, all the property was divided into two, and about 30% was used to provide medicine to poor people.

There are 70% of them. The house of Fang’s family is built into a college and has a teaching staff.

Guangzhou city is still prosperous. The businesses that originally closed the store reopened. The business was a little worse, but people's hearts became much more stable. At least the official said that they would not be held accountable.

What happened?

Those who know some basic things make themselves choose to forget, and those who know the inside story also handed over the evidence to Chunhui Garden in order to escape from the crime. As for ordinary people, the price of employment in Guangzhou has doubled, so if you have time to worry about these fights of gods, food and drink in a small family is a big deal.

The books of those large boxes were sealed and handed over to Zhao Fang to arrange reliable personnel for safekeeping.

Bai Minghe and Xing'an and Yang Neng, Jieji boarded a boat from Chunhui Garden to sea, walked around the sea to Lianzhou Prefecture, and then went north to Lingshan. Lingshan was originally a county under Lianzhou Prefecture, and most of them were military households. The county magistrate controlled the people and did not control the army, so Lingshan County was divided into north and south.

To the south is under the jurisdiction of Qianhu, Weilingshan, Lianzhou. To the north is under the jurisdiction of Lingshan County.

It was early in the morning when Bai Minghe arrived in Lianzhou Prefecture. Qian Wuyan, who received the notice, went out of the city to greet him ten miles away.

Qian Wuyan gave a secret to the revelation. After Yang Neng gave a gift, Bai Minghe stepped forward: "Master Qian, the official..." Before Bai Minghe gave gifts, Qian Wuyan shivered all over, and his face was pale and he quickly bowed first: "Master Bai, just let me go. These days..." Qian Wuyan cried.

Bai Minghe then noticed that Qian Wuyan had lost weight, and he had lost a lot of weight.

"From the perspective of being an official, you are actually pretty good. You didn't stick a word to the money for sea defense. You also paid for two ferries and built a stone bridge with a length of fifteen meters. These were made by you before the official came to Guangdong, so your reputation among the people is good, but..."

The Baiming He did not mention the matter of Zhumin, because in the Ming Dynasty, Zhumin was a real untouchable.

Military ranks are cheap, but they are also the most common among the cheap. Children from military households with military merits can also participate in the imperial examinations, but the Zhumin people cannot. Therefore, Bai Minghe is not good at saying anything more to the Zhumin people. It seems that the earliest Zhumin people were all charged with exile. After dozens of generations, they have been unable to turn over.

Qian Wuyan opened his mouth, really didn't know how to respond, so he called himself a lower-ranking official. He was obviously higher than the White-famous He official, but he felt that he would die very quickly.

"How much money did you get last year?" Bai Minghe asked casually.

"This..." Qian Wuyan hesitated a little and secretly looked at Jie Ji, but found that Jie Ji didn't seem to pay attention to him at all. He gritted his teeth and said, "I received 800 taels of silver last year."

Six thousand taels! Bai Minghexin said that it was not much. The silver for a second-rank official in the Qing Dynasty was 28,000 taels a year for the second-rank official, and 26,000 taels. Based on this ratio, a fifth-rank prefect should have at least 3,000 taels a year. Of course, the purchasing power of silver in the Ming and Qing dynasties was also different.

It will also vary depending on the local prosperity and hardship.

For example, Gansu is bitter and Jiangnan is rich, it will be higher than other places.

Bai Minghe was chatting with Qian Wuyan. Those who knew the inside story were naturally the same as Qian Wuyan. Those who were nervous didn't know where to put their hands. Those who didn't know the inside story were full of doubts. Bai Minghe was like this, and why did his master have this attitude?

Someone asked his colleagues around him in a low voice: "Who came from the capital?"

"Worry, that's Lord Bo Bai, the owner of money and grain in Lianzhou!" An official who had seen Bai Minghe replied in a low voice when he experienced the rebellion of Zhumin.

"Ah, money and grain..." The following words were choked in their mouths. Lianzhou's money and grain are the most expensive...

When I got on the boat, eight oarsmen were rowing quickly on each side, and with the help of the power of the sails, it could be at least twice as fast as walking on the land. After walking about twenty miles of waterway, there was a four-oars on the waterway waiting on the waterway, with the banner of the Hepu County Magistrate.

Unlike Bai Minghe, Cheng Kai got on the boat here and greeted everyone Shangguan according to the ceremony. Even when he saw Qian Wuyan, he was very respectful.

Finally, I came to Bai Minghe: "Mr. Bai, let me speak with you."

Bai Minghe nodded and followed Cheng Kai to the bow of the ship. Everyone next to him automatically retreated aside.

"Mr. Bai, if you follow the Ming Dynasty law, Lord Qian can be a death sentence. But if you really go to Dali Temple, you may not be sentenced to a heavy sentence unless Lord Bai uses his influence. After all, the people of Zhu are untouchables, and the matter of collecting pearls is the meaning of the palace. Who dares to cut off the tribute? Long live the decree without an order does not mean that those empresses have no order!"

Bai Minghe nodded silently, but Cheng Kai said it was not unreasonable.

"The final result is probably a demotion of one level. No one will allow anyone who is loyal to him to be asked for a serious crime because of the matter. So whether Lord Bai comes forward or not, there will be someone in the palace. Unless he breaks up, of course, Qian Wuyan is still worth it."

"Where is the change of someone?" Bai Minghe asked.

"Don't Lord Bai know the previous Hepu County Magistrate? In other words, if the agarwood in the warehouse in the capital city was not written with white words, who could have kept it?" Cheng Kai's father was Cheng Jing.

Although the father and son do not recognize each other, Cheng Jing will still tell Cheng Kai some words.

Especially when Cheng Kai comes to a top-notch place like Hepu, he will definitely explain some words.

The white-known crane smiled: "In other words, many people look at my warehouse and their eyes turn green, just like the wolf on the grassland."

Cheng Kai did not laugh: "More serious than this, Chengda's supervision of the internal treasury has already let go of harsh words. Of course, several noble ladies such as Hangzhou sent someone to say privately that even if they exchanged for money, they would have to be eight taels of high-quality agarwood a month. Could these things be known to Long Live?"

"You made sense, but Cheng Gongxuan didn't tell me this. I originally thought there would be some pressure, but I didn't expect that the pressure would be so great!"

Bai Minghe naturally knew who Concubine Hang was. He was the current crown prince's mother, and it was really not much to speak for only half a tael.

Cheng Kai smiled: "Apart from the two top-quality pieces of agarwood in the palace, there were less than a hundred kilograms on the account book when I left the capital. How many concubines were there in the palace with grades? From top to bottom: Empress; Imperial Concubine; Imperial Concubine; Xian Concubine, Shun Concubine, Jing Concubine, Shun Concubine, Kang Concubine, Ning Concubine; Depin, Xian Concubine, Zhuang Concubine, Li Concubine, Hui Concubine, An Concubine, He Concubine, Xi Concubine, Kang Concubine; Zhaoyi, Jie Concubine, talented servant, select servant, lady, etc."

"How many spices are there in the Hepu warehouse?" Bai Minghe asked.

"It's piled up like a mountain!" Cheng Kai gave such an answer.

"Free ship essential oil and send a batch to Beijing first. Just say it is..." Bai Minghe was thinking about the reasons.

Cheng Kai smiled and responded: "Just say it's a new product, please live, the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother, the Imperial Concubine, and the Imperial Concubine commented. 20% of it enters the inner warehouse, and 80% are still placed in the small warehouse in your capital. At least from the moment, even the Queen Mother dares not attack your warehouse."

"Success, that's what you do." Bai Minghexin said that Cheng Kai was the magistrate of Hepu County, which is really the best choice. (To be continued...)

ps: I'm going to take the exam tomorrow, and my nervous hair is trembling a little.

I am so old and want to go to graduate school. Am I crazy?
Chapter completed!