When Qian Yuan came to this era, after he was determined to lift the sea ban, the first thing he considered was the introduction of military ordnance, the most typical one was the bird gun.

Although Qi Jiguang's improved tiger squat cannon is very useful, its power is much worse. The several iron cannons and bronze cannons that Qian Yuan bought were mainly set up in Zhejiang Navy and Weiyuan City, which made several Western craftsmen "hired" by Wang Zhi still busy in Kuacang Mountain.

Qian Yuan is not very clear about the details of the flintlock rifle, but he still knows the general principle. Now the workshop in Kuocangshan has developed a preliminary rotary rifle fire, but the ignition success rate is relatively low and does not have much use value.

In fact, the flintlock rifles in history have basically matured until the 1680s, but now the rotary musket fire has begun to equip the army in the West.

Qian Yuan sat in the study and rubbed his eyebrows. What he saw, what he thought, what his colleagues thought, what Shangguan thought, and even what His Majesty thought... it seemed to be the same as the same destination, but in fact it had essential differences.

Or you can pick up a giant like Wang Zhi in the southeast to indirectly control all this.

Tan Qizhi or Qian Hong?

Qian Yuan suddenly smiled and shook his head, not thinking about such a long way. For now, to solve the Southeast incident, especially the transfer of the general in the military... Yang Bo cannot avoid it. Gao Gong mainly relies on the former Minister of War Yang Bo in this regard.

But I don’t know if this gift is enough to impress him... Qian Yuan smacked his lips. This is also an old fox. I guess he could see the loophole he deliberately left last year.

When Qian Yuan's letter was delivered to Yang Bo, Wang Chonggu, who returned to Beijing to report his work, came to pay homage to Zhang Siwei, who was present.

Yang Bo opened the letter and looked at it a few times, handed it to Wang Chonggu, and smiled at Zhang Siwei, "Although that person is too late for you, he may be able to get ahead of you."

"I also serve as the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple. I may be able to join the Sixth Ministry as the Minister of the Secretariat one day." Zhang Siwei had no strange expression and just smiled and said, "But when it comes to entering the pavilion, it depends on when His Majesty will increase the money to the Longquan Hanlin position."

Well, Qian Yuan made a private promise to Gao Gong that he would not return to Hanlin, but if Emperor Longqing gave his kindness, Gao Gong could not speak... In fact, Gao Gong knew in his heart that if Emperor Longqing wanted to balance himself with Suiyuan, Qian Yuan would probably be a Hanlin bachelor in many years.

Xia Yan and Zhang Cong were not from Hanlin, but they were also appointed as Hanlin Bachelor by Emperor Jiajing when they were serving as Shangshu... This was only then naturally that they joined the cabinet as a Grand Secretary.

After a pause, Zhang Siwei suddenly smiled bitterly and said, "No matter Qian Longquan, Uncle Zhang must be before me."

Yang Bo nodded slightly, "It's not your fault... I can only say that there are gains and losses."

Yan Song and Xu Jie fought so fiercely in the past few years. Yang Boding was reprimanded for his filial piety and was reincarnated as the Minister of War and the Xuanfu, but he refused to return to Beijing because he was afraid of being involved in political struggles.

Under such circumstances, Zhang Siwei entered Prince Yu's Mansion and became Gao Gong's absolute confidant, which directly prompted Gao Gong and Yang Bo to become allies.

To Gao Gong, Yang Bo is a natural ally. Although he is famous, he is from the Three-League and Jinshi. He is not like Li Mo. Qian Yuan has been in the Hanlin Academy as a Shujishi... It is not certain if it was the Jiajing Dynasty, but in the Longqing Dynasty, there is absolutely no possibility of entering the cabinet.

For Yang Bo, entering the cabinet was illusory. He was satisfied with being able to sit firmly on the Minister of Personnel, and Gao Gong was obviously interested in promoting Zhang Siwei... This person took the pure path of prime minister.

But who could have thought that Zhang Juzheng suddenly appeared, and Zhang Juzheng who broke up with Xu Jie completely.

Zhang Juzheng has much more qualifications than Zhang Siwei, and because he broke up with Xu Jie, he could only rely on Gao Gong, so he would be recommended to the cabinet first by Gao Gong.

Both Gao Gong's confidant, Zhang Siwei's time to enter the cabinet will naturally be pushed back, maybe even after Qian Yuan... because there are old ministers in the secret residence such as Chen Yiqin, Yin Shidan, and Lin Xuan in front of them.

Wang Chonggu had already read the letter and smiled and said, "As early as the 32nd year of Jiajing, I heard about Qian Longquan's name. I met in Taiping Prefecture in the 34th year of Jiajing. I just had six or seven years..."

Zhang Siwei took the letter and glanced at him and swept it down, his face changed, and he blurted out: "Xu Jin merchant set up a sea ship by himself?"

Qian Yuan returned to Beijing last year and had a secret talk with Zhang Siwei that Xu Jin merchants participated in Southeast Communications business, but a year and a half have passed, and the degree of participation of Shanxi merchants is quite limited. For example, in Zhenhai, they only occupied a few shops, so it is difficult to directly interfere in the sea trade.

Those Shanxi merchants who went south saw Zhejiang merchants and Hui merchants making a fortune, their eyes were already green and they could not form fleets to go overseas. This means that Shanxi merchants could only be channel merchants and their profits were not generous.

Any goods sold on the grassland must be passed through the hands of Shanxi merchants. With this move, Shanxi merchants earn money like mountains and seas.

Can Shanxi merchants not understand the various things in this?

Shanxi merchants are naturally rich, so it is not difficult to buy a few sea boats, but the problem is that Zhenhai and Ninghai have very strict review of commercial documents, and they are transferred from others to buy... Zhejiang merchants and Hui merchants are extremely opposed to Shanxi merchants.

Therefore, Qian Yuan’s conditions are generous.

"I have few talented people and talented people with military strategies. That's fine, but I don't know how Brother Ji taught me with these mental methods." Wang Chonggu couldn't help but complain, "Brother Ji was very rigid back then. Qian Longquan was self-taught, right?"

Wang Chonggu was a Jinshi in the 20th year of Jiajing, and was in the same year as Qian Yuan's teacher Lu Shusheng.

Yang Bo couldn't help laughing, "This piece of fat meat in the southeast... was squeezed clean by Qian Longquan."

Wang Chonggu looked at Zhang Siwei in a daze and shook his head, "Ziwei doesn't have to be discouraged. If it weren't for such a person or such a scheming, how could he have such weight in the court that Yuanfu and Xinzheng would be regarded as great enemies."

Seeing that his nephew didn't understand at all, Yang Bo pointed out, "Last year Qian Zhan returned to Beijing to discuss with you, and Xu Jin merchants participated in Southeast trade... Did he not think of the opposition of Zhejiang merchants and Hui merchants, could not think of the difficulty of Shanxi merchants in gaining a foothold in the Southeast, and could not think of the difficulty of Shanxi merchants in forming fleets to go to sea?"

Zhang Siwei was stunned for a long time before he said bitterly: "At that time, he left room for nothing, just for today?"

"It may not be for today, but today's things can be used." Wang Chonggu explained: "Leave three points of room for everything, and leave a backup..."

Yang Bo sneered, "Do you want Ziwei to guess that it is so difficult for Shanxi merchants to go south... Could it be Qian Longquan's secret command?"

Zhang Siwei fell into an ice cave and said with difficulty: "My third brother wrote a letter and was cheated of thousands of taels of silver by a person-made trap. He was in Zhenhai..."

"Are you reporting to the official?"

"Yeah, I can't find anything..."

"Tang Jingchuan, Sun Wenhe, and Wu Ding'an are all in Zhenhai. The guerrilla Yang Wen and Zhang Yishan are all from Qian's guards." Wang Chonggu was very familiar with the Southeast incident and shook his head and said, "If you really want to investigate, you won't be able to find out any trace."

After a while of silence, Zhang Siwei pointed to the letter placed on the table, "Uncle, then this time..."

"Of course I have to respond." Yang Bo smiled and said, "If you refuse, you will break up with Suiyuan."

Wang Chonggu frowned and said, "Where is Gao Xinzheng?"

"The deployment of the southeastern army is the matter of the Ministry of War." Yang Bo said carelessly: "Guerrilla, the general will not report to the Ministry of War, and the generals... Qi Jimei can stay in Zhejiang, but who is the most famous among the southeastern army?"
Chapter completed!