Chapter 431.

That’s something that’s never been done before.

It can be said that throughout the dynasties, have not seen a scholar just high school, then resigned from the government.

That’s not resignation, that’s not taking the court seriously, all right!

What would happen if word of this got out?

What’s more, this scholar is from the north.

It’s hard to get a Northern Scholar, but he’s run away.

Consequently, everyone did not believe that this was the result of that Ma Yu voluntarily, in all likelihood, it was met with something.

Hu Guang inquired about the situation of Ma Yu’s family.

The sheriff, however, said, “Rather, I have not heard of it; Duke Hu, if he is in sorrow, he should not be so, why should he resign?”

Hu Guang was a bit anxious.

He cherished Ma Yu’s talent, Ma Yu will test, the temple test article, he has seen, written extremely well, originally thought that the future of this person into the Hanlin, if you see not inevitably have to encourage a few words.

Who knows, the bastard resigned.

Hu Guang frowned up and paced back and forth distractedly, and finally looked up at Yang Rong and said, “Lord Yang, what do you think?”

Yang Rong pursed his lips and thought for a moment, “Lord Hu, there must be something strange about this matter.”

Hu Guang raised his eyebrows and said in shock, “What’s fishy?”

“I don’t know.” Yang Rong laughed bitterly, he wasn’t an immortal, he couldn’t calculate this, this was Jin Zhong’s specialty.

Hu Guang’s frown deepened and he couldn’t help but say, “Is he suffering from some serious illness?”

Yang Rong shook his head and said, “This person is young and should not be. I also saw him during the palace examination, and he was alive and well, and did not look sick.”

Hu Guang then looked at the sherpa, “Still not letting someone go and ask about it.”

Sheriff, however, said, “asked is asked, the Ministry of mandarins side is also a bit anxious, after all, this matter is not trivial, but sent people to, but did not find people.”

“Didn’t find anyone?” Hu Guang was shocked, “How could someone disappear for good reason!”

The sheriff then said, “He used to live in an inn, but I heard that a few months earlier, he moved out, and since then, there has been no news.”

Huguang followed up with, “His countrymen and countrywomen, have they not been questioned about them?”

Sheriff said: “have asked, everyone is the same, said that since the move away, it is very little contact, also do not know where to live, occasionally bumped into, ask him where he lives, he did not say.”

Hu Guang looked chagrined and said, “Strange, strange, there are such strange things, this is really unheard of.”

“But ……” The sherpa finished those two words and opened his mouth, but he wanted to speak.

Hu Guang was anxious, and with his hands behind his back, he looked at him fixedly and said, “Tell me quickly, don’t stutter.”

“Yes.” The Sheriff said, “My humble servant has heard some rumors.”

Hu Guang said, “Say it.”

Sheriff see Hu Guang board face, very important look, will no longer dare to hesitate, busy: “I heard a few months ago, the scholar public on some things, very dissatisfied, then also attacked a few times, but since then, the new government is very urgent, and thus his temperament has also changed up, especially the case of Jiangxi Province, the outbreak of the Division of the cloth, he will be more and more reticent.”

Hu Guang raised an eyebrow, “Did he say anything to his fellow yearlings and fellow townspeople?”

The Sheriff honestly said, “Only slammed it a couple of times and moved away after that.”

“Moving out? Just because of this, you want to move away?” Hu Guang pursued, “Is there no other reason?”

The Sheriff then said, “Some of his friends muttered …… privately that they had …… previously also felt that his temperament had changed greatly and was incomprehensible, but now that they had heard of his resignation, they had instead guessed a little bit of the reason. ”

Huguang then asked, “What reason?”

The Sheriff hesitated for a moment before saying, “Think, think may be …… he has long been somewhat dissatisfied with the court, especially the situation in the temple at the moment, so …… resigned… …And the reason why before then to avoid people, no longer deal with fellow townsmen and close friends, it is highly likely that …… he has long been under this determination, once the high school will resign, take this opportunity to express their dissatisfaction with the court. But also afraid of because of their own reasons, and implicate their own fellow townspeople and old friends, so that is why estranged them.”

Once this statement was made, the three cabinet university professors suddenly, their faces became a little complicated, appearing to have mixed feelings.

This is a scholar, a scholar resigned, would have had to make a lot of noise.

If it is really because of the current court dissatisfaction, not even the official, would rather resign, and may even be convicted, but also to give up this good reputation, as well as the beautiful future, this readers of the bones, really rare in the world.

The three cabinet ministers, on the other hand, had different minds.

Yang Rong realized that this could be a new storm.

Scholar are resigned, unwilling to serve the court again, can see that at present, the readers and the court to the extent of the disconnection.

This Ma Yu, I am afraid that it will also soon become famous in the world, just based on its bones, it is enough to make it pushed to the tip of the wind and become a model for the readers.

Hu Guang, on the other hand, is sorry for it, he still still feels that this young man is too reckless, and for this reason, he sacrificed his great future, but he also has to admire his courage.

“With such readers, how can the Way of the Sage be broken?” Hu Guang reddened his eyes and couldn’t help shaking his head and lamenting, “Sticking to his own views and not being moved by fame and fortune, I am not as good as that.”

Jin Youzi has always been silent, at this time also can not help but move, quietly chanting, “Hey …… too bad.”

Yet nothing more was said.

The reason why it was a pity, for the human essence of the Wen Yuan Pavilion, they were able to accept some of the irrationality of the young juniors from the sea, after all, who were all young.

Even if they knew that what Ma Yu was doing appeared to be incredibly childish, deep down, they couldn’t help but seem to be impressed by the courage of this late-born scion.

Thus, all three university professors were silent for a while.

The sheriff, on the other hand, was in a state of sixes and sevens, “What should we do now? Over at the Ministry of Justice ……”

Yang Rong pondered for a moment, finally said, “The Ministry of Appointments side …… act according to the rules.”

“What?” Hu Guang frowned, “Going by the rules, do you accept Ma Yu’s resignation? If that’s the case, won’t it make a fool of ourselves? Lord Yang, please don’t, this Ma Yu may just be confused for a moment, but we can’t let bad people’s future be in jeopardy.”

Jin Youzi also frowned, couldn’t help but say: “This person is new to the career, a moment of thinking, is also a reason, but the Ministry of the Ministry of Justice side, really still need to raise your hand.”

“Say …… this way,” Yang Rong said lightly, “do not accept his resignation, then …… as usual, let him do this Hanlin Academy Cultivation, just …… where is he?”

“This ……”

Hu Guang chagrined stomped his foot and said: “Find, give me to find, he can’t go back to his hometown, must still in the capital. As long as still in the capital, can always find back, as long as you find him, I personally go and talk to him, this person if you listen to the teachings, always be able to return to the heart, he did these things, certainly in my eyes seems to be wrong, the court, there are His Majesty and the Wen Yuan Pavilion and the ministries to worry about. He is young, what does he know about state affairs? But it is and a group of readers hanging out all day long, coupled with the talent is very good, can not help but unrestrained. But no matter what, can not because of a thought, and bad future, ten years of hard study, easy?”

Yang Rong also couldn’t help but be moved and sighed, “Then let Duke Hu be, only on His Majesty’s side, how should I explain?”

Hu Guang said, “I’ll go and say it, anyway, His Majesty has always felt that I’m a confused person, and if I say something wrong, His Majesty won’t guess what my intentions are, at most, he’ll only feel that I’m confused for a while.”

Yang Rong was surprised, “So you actually know that His Majesty knows that you are confused?”

“Yang Gong!” Hu Dang Dang drank, exasperated and wide-eyed, austere and righteous, “Can you say a few words less.”

Young Wing: “……”

Hu Guang took a deep breath, hung his head down and thought about it, and seemed to have some calculations in his heart, and after thinking about what to say, he said, “Go and inform, and say that Minister Hu Guang wants an audience. Other than that ……”

Saying that, he looked to that sheriff: “Quickly go to the Ministry of Appointments, inform the Ministry of Appointments side, within twenty-four hours, to find this Ma Yu to me, as for his resignation, for the time being, first to be suppressed.”

He said, and went straight away in a hurry.

Yang Rong then glanced at Jin Youzi and said, “Why don’t you go.”

Jin Youzi sighed: “If Hu Gong said, His Majesty only thought that Hu Gong has the heart of a red son, you and I two people if you say, His Majesty is only afraid to think that we are playing what calculations, His Majesty’s heart, unfathomable, as a human subject, it is difficult to predict, and therefore …… do not dare to say.”

Yang Rong lowered his eyebrows and mused, “Duke Hu is the one who really has great wisdom.”

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Wingfoot Dockyard.

Here, a seagoing vessel is laying its keel.

The design of such a huge ship is the design of the Fukushima ship that went down to the West China Sea.

This kind of ship is not fast, but the good thing is that it carries a lot of cargo, which is an important style of ordering merchant ships nowadays.

It was drizzling from the sky.

At this time, Ma Yu, wearing a straw raincoat and a bucket hat on his head, came out of this boat dock.

He and Ma San were one in front of the other.

He came out against the wind, pressed his bucket hat, and paced slowly.

At the moment he was sinking his sword brow, contemplating the time when the ship would be ready for manufacture, and beyond that, the possibility of acquiring a new ship.

The historian of Luzon, who has already returned the letter, is quite enthusiastic, especially after hearing about the fleet that Ma Yu is about to build up, and is even more interested.

This time, at least for the fleet’s route to Luzon, it was high time to rest on its laurels.

The chief historian even mentioned the Lu Song envoy in the capital in his letter, so Ma Yu also quietly went to pay a visit.

The communication was smooth, with the Changshi people acting as a bridge on the one hand, and on the other hand, everyone had their own things of interest to each other.

Of course, we all come from bookish backgrounds and communication is very smooth.

At this time, Ma Yu, the heart has been a number, he originally wanted to use these ships, used as in and out of the use of goods, to put it bluntly, is the ship transportation.

But now it’s changed its mind.

Because the more you know about Luzon, the more you know at this time Luzon, for a large number of Daming specialties shortage, especially the local Han people, and Ning Wang’s House, and even includes a number of local natives in the luxury merchants, their own ships, should be the first batch of manufacturing, if you can carry a large number of goods to Luzon, then it is a huge profit.

Now the problem, is this cargo, more than a dozen ships of goods, the value of a lot of money, the cost is amazing, from porcelain to silk, to tea and other Lu Song need the treasures, these need to spend a large sum of silver to acquire.

Ma Yu had calculated that these goods would cost at least seventy to eighty thousand taels of grain silver or more.

However, if it can be safely transported to Luzon, then the value can be at least 300,000 taels of grain silver.

But the purchase of the ship had consumed him, and where was this cargo to come from?

Thinking it over, he was currently having fine talks with a number of merchant houses.

Because he perceived that tea and silk and porcelain and other traditional goods, compared to the current sales of steel, gunpowder and the latest cotton spinning of the Ming Dynasty, in fact, the sales channels are not wide.

This is understandable, now the Taiping Province has begun a new round of construction, mining needs gunpowder and iron and steel, ordnance also need gunpowder and iron and steel, as for the ordinary people’s cotton spinning, but also at the moment the more hot commodities.

Porcelain, tea, silk and other things are different, although sales are still available, but the Ming system of porcelain and tea, silk in the two capitals of the eighteen provinces, but it is not much to sell the price.

After all, there is a lot of production, but the market is limited.

At this time, Ma Yu muttered under his breath, “If we go and talk to the silk merchants, tea merchants and porcelain merchants, and ask them to supply the goods, and then pay the silver after the goods are shipped to Luzon for sale, perhaps they will be willing to do so.”

Ma Yu’s voice was low and inaudible,,, Ma San curiously said, “Young Master, what did you say?”

Ma Yu said, “I said …… now do these kinds of trading merchants, the most worried about is the sales, but now we can get the first batch of ships, if it is a bulk of goods, they must be begging for it, so if it is a little later to settle the payment, may not be no negotiation possibility. ”

Ma San heard this, but he didn’t know what to say, and with a hint of worry on his face, he said, “Young master, are you really not going to be an official?”

Ma Yu did not hesitate to say, “Being an official is not much fun.”

Ma San was very sorry to say, “But the young master has been reading for so many years ……”

Ma Yu mildly said: “Read so many years of books, think of the family, rule the country and world, but now think, do not have much fun as an official, even if you go to do the Hanlin, but also but mediocre, and the hundred officials for the people. The so-called advice, people may not be willing to listen to, and so on twenty or thirty years later, even if the luck is good, really lucky to become a university scholar and the Department of the Hall, but what about it? At that time, I have been dying, eating have to be fed. But this is not the same ……”

Said here, Ma Yu excitedly said: “Once upon a time I thought, from the business is just low buy high sell only, now just know, all this can be their own masters, do the official if there is a thought, that also want to hide in the stomach, to abide by the middle way, is not to show. Can do this thing, after the idea, will have to think again and again, after thinking, will be able to try to see, and things must be well thought out, how to negotiate with people, here, very interesting, you wait, sooner or later, one day, I will become Tao Zhu Gong, I stayed so long in this Pacific House, more and more feel that in the future the world will have a great deal of change, when the same is not worse than the head of the paperwork. ”

When Ma San saw his excitement, he almost cried out, “But young master, you are the Scholar Gong, if not to become an official, what are you doing taking this merit test?”

He still does not understand, when Ma Yu examination, is not to be an official? But now a good official, how Ma Yu said not to do not do.

Ma Yu frankly said, “That’s the merit I’m going to take. You, you don’t know anything, if I’m just a lifer, if I go to deal with merchant houses that do big business, they may not be willing to trust me.”

“But my scholar honor in, even if not as an official, but people have long admired my great name, do not dare to neglect. You wait and see, tomorrow I go to negotiate with some porcelain merchants and silk merchants, can let them supply first, depends on this merit.”

Ma Yu appeared to be very confident, this world only produces one scholar in three years, the identity of this scholar is somehow a credit. Furthermore, he still had ten ships in his hands!

With these two things, those tea merchants and porcelain merchants would never teach him to pay silver up front when they see him wanting to order on a large scale.

To put it bluntly, as long as the cooperation can be reached, it means that this time the big deal, he Ma Yu’s fleet of ships if there is a risk, then he and the silk and tea merchants share the burden.

But once the ship was delivered safely, he would take the lion’s share of the huge profit, while the other small shareholders who purchased the ship, as well as the tea merchants and silk merchants, would make a small profit.

As for the question of risk, he had also already made some calculations, and in the season of a month or two from now, there would not be any great storms in the seas around Luzon as well as Songjiang and Quanzhou.

On the other hand, the Luzon governor’s office has revealed that after a month or two, there will be a sea road inspection department’s ship, there is a trip to Luzon, then their own fleet, as long as they follow the inspection department’s ship with the same way, it is more unlikely to worry about the sea varmints.

All the risks, he has calculated clearly and ruled out a clean, if there is another accident, then it can only be said that God wants to kill me, non-war crime.

But Ma San is pained, he did not even dare to go back to report to the master. In fact, he knew that the young master was always stubborn, and he could not persuade him, so he was anxious, but there was nothing he could do.

Just then, in the distance, behind the pattering curtain of rain, someone shouted, “But Ma school brother ……”

That voice, tinged with suspicion, it was obvious that someone had recognized Ma Yu, yet seeing Ma Yu in this state made him wonder if he had recognized the wrong person.

Hearing this voice, Ma Yu was startled, and busied himself by pressing down the brim of his cocked hat, and instead of responding, he hurriedly and quickly entered the crowd, taking Ma San with him, and braving the rain.

Only left that spandex Confucian shirt, holding an umbrella of people, a face of suspicion, seems to think that he also recognized the wrong person.

“So close, almost got bumped into.” Ma Yu breathed a sigh of relief before laughing, “Haha ……”

Ma San aggrievedly said, “Young master …… good life of the official not to do, have to be this unseemly …….”

Ma Yu said, “It’s not that I don’t want to be honorable, it’s really because the mouths of the people are so long, it’s really hard to block them. Instead of going to explain with them, it is better to avoid people and do your own thing.”

They returned to the place they had rented, and had just entered, when they saw that there was actually an official-looking man outside, with a portrait in his hand, tapping at the door next door, calling out, “Can this man be recognized? Oh, this is not a fugitive, this is the Scholar Gong, I heard that he has disappeared, and now he is being sought everywhere.”

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