Eight hundred and seventieth chapters guess
After leaving Xiyuan, Qian Yuan immediately sent someone to send a letter to inquire about the disputes between the cabinet today... He vaguely realized that it was a bit strange.
After dusk, in the side hall of Suiyuan, Qian Yuan, Xu Wei, Sun Jian and Qian Zheng sat around the table to sort out the news collected from various channels... In fact, at dusk, the disputes in the cabinet had spread.
"What's wrong." Xu Wei and Qian Yuan had the same feeling, "What do Xu Huating want to do?"
In comparison, sea transportation is faster and more convenient, but there are not many losses in the near-shore areas. Even if there are losses, it is much less than the losses in the canal transportation.
This is also an important part of Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng's future governance, but the problem is that Gao Gong did not speak much about the cabinet dispute. Instead, Xu Jie and Li Mo were having a quarrel.
Xu Jie led his disciple Hou Ruliang to the front and talked about the benefits of shipping. Li Mo... didn't know whether it was out of public interest or personal grudges, but he just started to fight.
What medicine is sold in Xu Jie gourd?
Qian Yuan, Xu Wei, Qian Zheng, and Sun Jian frowned and thought hard. If the shipping was still carried out, no matter how it was implemented, it would require a large number of sea ships and a guarded navy.
The main gathering places of the Southeast sea ships are in the three prefectures of Ningshaotai. Most of the navy is in the hands of the commander of Taizhou Ge Hao, and a small part is stationed in Songjiang Prefecture under the command of Deputy General Lu Bin of Wusong.
Although Lu Bin faintly joined Xu Jie's disciple, if he wanted to do a maritime transportation, he could not get by the three palaces of Ning Shaotai, nor could he get by Suiyuan.
"If Gaoxinzheng wants to take the shipping route, Hou Ruliang... Xu Huating..." Sun Jian guessed: "Suiyuan and Gaoxinzheng..."
Qian Yuan and Xu Wei both understood this sentence. Xu Jie knew very well that Gao Gong had the idea of replacing canal transportation with sea transportation. Sun Jian guessed that Xu Jie was trying to get Gao Gong to take over.
It was a bit complicated and a little confused. Qian Zheng didn't see it for a while. Xu Wei and Qian Yuan remained silent, and Sun Jian explained in a low voice.
The benefits of Xu Jie doing this are obvious. Li Mo would definitely jump out and oppose the matter when he advocated the shipping of sea transportation, but Gao Gong was a supporter of shipping... Li Mo, Gao Gong's already fragile alliance may be broken due to this.
In the past six months, Li Mo has charged forward and Gao Gong is pressing forward step by step. The two of them have cooperated well in the cabinet at least. Xu Jie, the power of the cabinet chief minister, has been greatly suppressed, throwing a bait... Let Li Mo and Gao Gong's alliance have a gap, which is naturally good news for Xu Jie.
More importantly, if the matter of shipping on the canal for shipping on sea transportation is decided, Xu Jie will probably not preside over it himself... Gao Gong will not give up the dominance of this matter to anyone. At that time, Gao Gong will inevitably have conflicts with Suiyuan, which cannot be avoided by shipping.
After hearing this, Qian Zheng stood there in a daze, looking at his sneer, Xu Wei sneered repeatedly... Finally, Qian Zheng picked up the teacup and drank it indifferently.
"Wolves eat meat, dogs eat shit, they will never change in their next life!" Qian Yuan sighed indifferently.
In terms of political competition, Xu Jie, who had been through Yan Song for more than ten years, crushed Li Mo and Gao Gong without any suspense. If Li Mo had not been against the rules and the special teacher-student relationship between Gao Gong and Emperor Longqing, they would not be Xu Jie's opponents.
In history, when Emperor Longqing ascended the throne, Gao Gong suddenly attacked, but was easily expelled by Xu Jie. The situation in this life was very different, but Xu Jie's methods were still clever.
Xu Wei sneered: "Next, it depends on whether Gao Xinzheng swallows the bait."
Gao Gong has not officially entered the cabinet yet, but is just a rotation as the head coach of Zhilu. In the past six months, he has joined forces with Li Mo in the cabinet, which makes Xu Jie feel very uncomfortable... But at the same time, he has no power to take charge of major affairs in the court.
What a big deal to replace the canal transportation with sea transportation? If Gao Gong takes on this burden and can do it successfully, he will definitely be able to quickly control the government.
But the question is whether it can be done.
Qian Yuan shook his head and said, "Gao Xinzheng is arrogant and difficult to tolerate, but he is not a fool."
"It's hard to say." Xu Wei also shook his head, "Gao Xinzheng is too impatient, otherwise he should have been promoted to the Minister of Rites last year."
Qian Yuan continued to shake his head, "Where is it that easy to ship the sea to replace the canal transportation? One is not good, it will shake the world. Gao Xinzheng will not rashly stab this hornet's nest."
Today, Xu Wei and Qian Yuan had a dispute, and continued to shake their heads, "Haoxin Zheng can make the grain transportation still the same, and make up for it by sea transportation."
"The canal connects north and south, how much cargo goes from the canal south to the southeast coast." Qian Yuan sneered: "If the sea transport is passed, will the DPRK still allocate silver to repair the river channel every year?"
The other three were silent. Although the river was not repaired over the years, it was not until Emperor Longqing ascended the throne this year that he promoted Pan Jixun, the young minister of Dali Temple, to the governor of the river, and the Ministry of Revenue in Nanjing discussed repairing the river, but he still had to allocate some money every year.
From a general perspective, the biggest role of the North and South Canals is to communicate between the north and south. Dezhou and Linqing along the river prospered, and hundreds of thousands of people relied on the river to eat the river.
But in the middle of the court, the role of the north-south canal is the transport of grain and grass from the Central Plains and the southeast to ensure the supply of grain and rice in Jingzhao and even the northwest.
If sea ships can transport a large amount of grain and rice to the northern coast, the canal transport will inevitably decline, and it will be difficult for the court to continue to repair the north and south canals.
Once this happens, let alone those hundreds of thousands of grain workers, even those who rely on the river to eat along the river will not agree... How can the vested interests cultivated by the grain transportation that lasted for more than a hundred years be so easy to deal with?
Qian Yuan once told Gao Gong that if you try to replace the canal transportation with sea, you will have to do anything and be forced to end your life.
Seeing that Xu Wei finally stopped talking, Qian Yuan concluded, "As long as Gao Xinzheng's brain is not broken, he will definitely not be dormant for the time being."
Xu Wei was silent for a while before pointing at the pen and paper on the table, "Hurry up."
"You don't write?"
Sun Yan coughed twice, "Brother Wen's calligraphy is majestic and eye-catching..."
"Magnificent?" Qian Yuan sneered: "I still remember that my brother in the article said that he was using a mess of pen."
Seeing Sun Jing staring at him, Qian Yuan spread his hands, "I can't write..."
Before Sun Yan could speak, Xu Wei sneered: "Indeed, Zhan Cai used his pen like graffiti, which was too easy to be recognized."
"Who wrote it..." Sun Yan, who couldn't help laughing, suddenly stopped laughing, pointed his chest in disbelief, and Xu Wei and Qian Yuan nodded at the same time.
After pondering for a moment, Sun Yan said sincerely: "Actually, when this document is released, outsiders can guess that it must be written by Suiyuan..."
"That can't be put into the demographic!"
"The best style of the museum and pavilion in the text is in compliance with the rules of every stroke. Please give me tonight."
Sun Yan was stunned for a moment, and turned to look, "Uncle Shi..."
Qian Zheng immediately stood up and left with his sleeves.
Qian Yuan had already started grinding the ink, and Xu Wei had spread the paper.
Writing this document for Hu Zongxian was annoyed by Xu Wei, who was impeached by the court, and Sun Jian and Qian Zheng also agreed quite well.
And writing so much... Qian Yuan came up with the idea tonight.
Chapter completed!