Hangzhou Governor's Office.

After experiencing that mysterious and ups and downs a few months ago, Hou Ruliang, who had given up hope, cheered up again and stared at the letter on the table and frowned and thought hard.

For officials like Hou Ruliang who are from the Three Classes and Jinshi, it is almost a luxury to climb to the position of the Six Ministers of the Ministry. In recent years, when he was in the Liaodong Prefecture, he confirmed that shipping may be the key to changing his destiny.

Although the maritime transportation will bring immeasurable losses to the prosperity of the north and south canals, it will be beneficial to the court and the country.

After being transferred to the governor of Zhejiang, Hou Ruliang seemed to be indifferent, but in fact he has been devoted to studying maritime transportation. He hopes that one day, Xu Jie will support himself in starting maritime transportation.

This will be the most likely way for Hou Ruliang to leave his name in history, and it will also allow him to go further in his career.

After being transferred to the governor of Zhejiang, Hou Ruliang heard bad news first. Suiyuan had too deep a foundation in maritime affairs and could not get into it at all. Among Xu Jie's confidant disciples, Zhang Juzheng, who had the highest status and also supported the most in sea transportation, suddenly turned to Gaogongmen.

However, as Emperor Longqing ascended the throne, Xu Jie and Gao Gong's hand gradually reached into the southeast coast. Wang Bengu, Dong Yikui, Guo Zhong, Fang Fengshi and others took office one after another, Hou Ruliang began to think about it, especially after Hu Yingjia took office as the prefect of Ningbo, fully controlled the business.

But unexpectedly, a sudden change caused a major change in the situation, and Hou Ruliang could not be discouraged. But at this moment, a letter made Hou Ruliang decide to take a risk.

"I'm back." Hou Ruliang turned his head and looked at Master Zhang outside the door, "What do you say?"

"Dongweng, the negotiation has been completed. At noon, the prefect Hu is waiting in his private house."

Hou Ruliang nodded slightly and sighed: "It's hard to be Ke Rou. However, although he was driven to Hangzhou, he was the prefect of Ningbo and was in charge of business for several months and was good at many maritime merchants. The Hu family in Huaiyin is also very strong in maritime trade. If you want to do maritime transportation, you can't avoid him."

Master Zhang frowned and smiled bitterly: "Dongweng, the key is Qian Longquan."

"It's not important." Hou Ruliang smiled and said, "He was the Minister of War to inspect the southeastern sea border. Now the war has been on hold for several months. Even if he can drive the prefect of Ningbo, it will be difficult to reach out to local government affairs, let alone the cabbage transportation is now cut off. Why did Qian Longquan stop the governor of Zhejiang and the prefect of Ningbo carry out the maritime transportation?"

Seeing that the time was approaching, Hou Ruliang left the mansion after lunch, and the blue cloth sedan was circling around the alley and landed at the side door of a small house.

Shortly after becoming the prefect of Ningbo, Hu Yingjia planned to build Hai City in Qiantang County, Hangzhou Prefecture, mainly under the leadership of Ningbo Tongzhi Song Jizu. However, now Qian Yuan is in Zhenhai, Hu Yingjia is driven to Hangzhou to preside over Hai City, and he also has a private house in Qiantang County.

Hu Yingjia, who had been waiting for a long time, welcomed him out, and after some politeness, the two of them sat down in the main hall.

"Can Ke Rou receive a letter from Yuan Fu?"

"The Master has already sent a letter."

"This matter is imperative for both public and private matters, and I also need to ask Kerou for help."

After a brief question and answer, Hu Yingjia slowly said: "The maritime transportation matter seems simple, but it is actually complicated and difficult to do."

"But I will get help from Keru." Hou Ruliang shook his head and said, "The grain transportation is cut off, not only the capital city, but also the northern Zhili, Jimen and other places will be short of food. Now the price of rice in the capital has risen. Yuan Fu wrote a letter to us to prepare for shipping."

"But now it is almost winter, and grain and rice have already gone north with the canal ships, and most of them are blocked near Linqing. Then they return from Linqing, cross the Yangtze River and go south, and go to Zhenhai to go out to sea... Obviously it is not feasible."

"For the sake of the present, I can only mobilize the grain storage in the three governments of Ningshaotai. Remember that Brother Kerou was still inspecting the granary last month?"

Hu Yingjia nodded, "Store enough food, and worry-free storage."

Hou Ruliang was overjoyed. This time, the most important thing in preparing for sea transportation was grain and rice. If there was not enough food, it would be meaningless even if the sea ship arrived in Tianjin.

In recent years, the granaries of the three prefectures of Ningshaotai have long been famous in the southeast. When they set up cities to trade, Tang Shunzhi was afraid of the food shortage in the southeast and vigorously built granaries. He also used various means to urge maritime merchants to return to shipping grain, and successively assisted Liaodong, Fujian and Jiangxi.

Hu Yingjia inspected every granary within two months under Qian Yuan's instructions. Although it was scattered in the three prefectures of Ningshaotai, all Ningbo government offices ordered the construction, and those who guarded the granary were veterans who fought against the Japanese.

"Mr. Jingchuan is really foresighted!" Hou Ruliang smiled and said, "Wang Wufeng is now leaning down and naturally cannot be used. However, I heard that some sea merchants in Zhenhai went to sea to sell goods, not south but north, to North Korea and Liaodong?"

Hu Yingjia's eyes were flashing, and Wang Zhi bowed his head, so he couldn't use it. This was naturally referring to Qian Yuan; some sea merchants went north to sea and were familiar with the route, so they could take on the heavy responsibility of shipping.

In the final analysis, Hou Ruliang tried to bypass Qian Yuan.

Looking at Hou Ruliang who was still calculating the possibility, Hu Yingjia felt a little pitiful... Both of these points were within Qian Yuan's control early.

Thinking of this, Hu Yingjia was unwilling to go around any more. He did not tease the person in front of him, and spoke directly: "I can't get around Qian Zhancai."

"If you don't have money to develop your talents, it will be difficult to make a maritime transportation plan."

Hou Ruliang was stunned, quickly thought about it in his heart, and frowned and asked, "Even if Qian Longquan comes forward in person, should he stop the shipping?"

The reason why Hou Ruliang has confidence lies in three aspects: on the one hand, the price of rice in Beijing is three liters a day, and the sea ships are transported northward. Qian Yuan has no reason and qualification to stop him. On the other hand, the Ningbo prefect Hu Yingjia and himself are both Xu Jie's disciples. On the other hand, Xu Jie's letter was written very clearly, that the sea transportation matters... Qian Yuan or Suiyuan dare not propose it personally, only you, the governor of Zhejiang, have this qualification.

Hou Ruliang has been through the officialdom for a long time, so he can naturally understand this sentence. Qian Yuan has a very high prestige among the southeastern army. The only two naval troops in the Ming Dynasty, Wusong general Lu Bin, the commander of the Wusong naval division, bowed to Qian Yuan. The Liangzhe naval division was simply the founder of Qian Yuan. The sea ships could arrive in Tianjin. If Qian Yuan had the intention to rebel, the navy would be able to be unobstructed.

Whether you will rebel does not matter, the key is whether you have the ability... A smart person like Qian Yuan will definitely not commit this taboo.

But Hu Yingjia said that he could not get around Qian Yuan... Hou Ruliang thought about it and asked: "Does he have the courage to instruct Jing Haibo's subordinates to pretend to be Japanese pirates to rob the sea ship?"

"Will someone Qian do such dirty things?"

Just an understatement, Hou Ruliang stood up as if he was struck by lightning, staring at Qian Yuan who was walking behind Hu Yingjia in a daze.

"You, you..."
Chapter completed!