Chapter 500: A Family Full of Riches

Zhu Di looked at the ministers, then said, “What do the ministers think?”

The hundred officials were silent.

Zhu Di is a smile: “the ministers do not say, it seems that this is not good at it, may as well let the crown prince and Zhang Qing to draw up candidates.”

Zhu Gaoqi and Zhang Anshi said, “Obey the decree.”

After retiring from the court.

Zhu Gaoqi was frowning, and Zhang Anshi was also depressed.

The two of them are wide-eyed, only that Yang Shiqi, trailing behind, also step, face calm.

Zhu Gaoqi sighed and said: ”Father is really difficult! Just now the faces of the hundred officials, Anshi you have seen it, it is really like losing a mother. This time the damage to them is really not small, now Father Emperor and let us push the minister, if the selection is not good, even if into the dynasty, I am afraid that this person will also be targeted by the hundred officials, then …… only afraid to make trips.”

Even if Zhu Gaoqi is gentle, he is also defensive.

It would have been just as well if Zhu Di had directly agreed to the charter, creating an established fact.

Prefer to try, but also let Zhu Gaoqi and Zhang Anshi to choose people into the dynasty, can imagine, this person once into the dynasty, to face what kind of situation.

And it’s really hard to pinpoint such a candidate.

Zhang Anshi also sighed and said, “Blame me, if it is not that I can not let go of Yang Shiqi ……”

Zhu Gaoqi pressed his hand, originally wanting to say that there is no need to blame himself or something like that.

At this time, has been in the back of the silent Yang Shiqi said, “Your Highness the Crown Prince, Your Highness the King of Wuhu County, in fact, …… the candidate has long been there.”

Both Zhu Gaoqi and Zhang Anshi looked at Yang Shiqi and said in unison, “Who is it?”

“Former university scholar of Wen Yuan Pavilion, and now Zhao Wangfu’s Chief Historian Xie Jin!” Yang Shiqi said decisively.

Zhu Gaoqi was thoughtful.

Zhang Anshi, however, changed his face, “This lousy person?”

Yang Shiqi is not slow, but slowly said: “Xie Gong has the experience of joining the cabinet, but also in Java to sharpen the qualifications, and Xie Gong has a great talent, is sheepish people, ask him to join the dynasty, or can withstand the dynasty’s open fire and dark arrows. At the same time …… think …… can also cope with the complicated political affairs.”

“Your Highness the Crown Prince, Your Highness the King of Wuhu County, this recommendation is related to the Crown Prince’s and Your Highness the King of Wuhu County’s policy for the future of the country. The relationship is significant, personal preconceptions, what does it matter? The most important thing is …… to cope with the current situation, a great man is not to be restricted to small details, the district personal grudges, not enough to worry about!”

Yancey said.

Zhu Gaoqi and Zhang Anshi, however, were both silent again.

After a while, Zhang Anshi said, “I am afraid that this person’s heart is not right and his character is corrupted ……”

Yang Shiqi glanced at Zhang Anshi with a complicated look before quickly averting his gaze.

Zhang Anshi was oddly surprised by this glance and couldn’t help but say, “Lord Yang, what do you mean by this?”

Yang Shiqi busily said, “I …… didn’t mean anything ……”

Zhang Anshi is not a person who breaks the sand nest to ask to the end, so he sighed: “At the moment, there is no choice but to treat the dead horse as a living horse, hey …… strike strike strike, just him.”

Zhu Gaoqi then said, “Then this palace will write a letter tomorrow ……”

Yang Shiqi is shaking his head: “Your Highness, can not, tomorrow on the book ……… will appear to be too sure of His Highness the Crown Prince, will let people think that this is His Highness the Crown Prince and Wuhu County King His Highness after weighing the results. Hundred officials in the court, all are not good at guessing the hearts of people, according to my opinion, may as well be a little late, show the color of indecision, which can paralyze the hundred officials, so that the hundred officials that this solution to the public, is not really solid and agreeable to the candidate, but it is …… a choice of last resort.”

Zhu Gaoqi said, “……”

“In addition to ……” Yang Shiqi slowly continued, “when the time comes to write a letter, I implore Your Highness to remember, never allow Xie Jin to move his family back to the capital, but only allow Xie Jin one person to enter the dynasty. As for his sons and daughters, Your Highness should find a way to let them continue to serve King Zhao in Java.”

Zhu Gaoqi: “……”

Zhang Anshi has already brightened his eyes and said with a smile, “Yang Gong class me, also this far-sighted,! Not bad, not bad, leave his whole family in Java.”

Zhu Gaoqi sighed and said, “It seems to have to be so, so strike, the Palace to stay for half a month, half a month later, and then the book report, you see how?”

“Enough.” Yancey smiled.

The big thing is agreed, although the three people are still quite a bit of uncertainty, but at the moment, it seems that this Yang Shiqi’s proposal, is indeed the best choice.

Thus, both Zhu Gaoqi and Zhang Anshi were relieved.

Since this matter has been concluded, Zhang Anshi had the heart to think of other things, so he said, “Our ship, has it been built?”

Yang Shiqi said: “Your Highness, has been built. Your Highness can rest assured that this ship has been several sea trials, this time, is also the minister personally ride this ship to the mouth of Songjiang, the indicators, are far more than the Fu ship.”

“That’s good.” Zhang Anshi smiled in satisfaction, “Lord Yang is truly my Zhang Liang.”

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Zhu Gaoqi and Yang Shiqi, both looked at Zhang Anshi with an extremely strange look.

Zhang Anshi realized that this analogy seems to be very inappropriate, so he had to show his hands and shrugged his shoulders and said, “Straight to the point, this king has little culture, so I have to believe in the mouth, blindly making analogies. You will not suspect that I want to be Liu Bang or Chu Ba Wang, right?”

Yang Shiqi barely managed to squeeze out a smile and said, “Your Highness has the qualifications of Liu Zen.”

Zhang Anshi: “……”

For a moment, he could not tell whether Yang Shiqi was relieving him, or whether he had eaten a bear’s heart and leopard’s guts, and even wanted to devour his master with his minister.

Leading Yang Shiqi back to the county king’s residence, naturally, it is inevitable to have a long talk with Yang Shiqi, about the matter of Xinzhou, of course, Zhang Anshi would like to try his best to understand.

After all, this new continent is the future foundation of the Zhang family’s children and grandchildren!

And Yang Shiqi, since also understand Zhang Anshi’s mind, with the greatest patience, one by one will tell the situation in Xinzhou.

Yang Shiqi, in his report to Zhu Di, in fact, about the situation in Xinzhou is more general, but and Zhang Anshi talked about, but another situation.

The new continent is now taking shape. And at this point in time, it is precisely a bottleneck, to put it bluntly, or the need for manpower.

If you want manpower, you can only hit the idea here in Daming.

Yang Shiqi is here for this, he intends to launch a marketing campaign against the Great Ming.

And to market it, you need all kinds of tools. Either way, all the stuff about good government and prosperity and peace of mind and all that stuff has to be used anyway.

Not only that, but beyond that, it’s a matter of vigorous shipbuilding.

Xinzhou is far away from a corner of the world, not in a critical position. This makes, for Yang Shiqi, in addition to the traditional mining and animal husbandry and farming, Xinzhou must have a really outstanding industry, in order to make Xinzhou become the most indispensable part of the tribute system of the Ming Dynasty.

After many discussions at the governor’s residence in Xinzhou, and after sending many letters to communicate with Zhang Anshi, Yang Shiqi finally chose the shipbuilding industry.

The beauty of shipbuilding lies in the fact that it is not an industry of one; to build a large ship requires both a great deal of mechanical engineering and a great deal of canvas, timber, and steel, which can lead to a number of workshops, and around this shipbuilding industry, a huge industry is eventually spawned.

But …… it is not easy to compete with Daming in shipbuilding! It is never possible without a little something.

And the biggest benefit of the New Continent was that this large part of the continent, virtually untouched by human development, meant that a huge majority of the resources, were extremely rich.

As a result, the forestry industry in Xinzhou is also second to none, and although it is not as good as that in the West, there is still enough wood to build large ships.

Apart from that, Zhang Anshi encouraged the Xinzhou shipbuilding industry to try its hand at iron and steel, i.e., the manufacture of iron armor ships.

Because the most important thing that the iron armor ship needs is coal and iron. And these two resources, but the new continent is the most abundant resources. Nowadays, there is a steam engine, let the new continent to desperately smash down the silver, manufacturing iron armor ship, may not be impossible.

Once it can be built, then cheap coal and iron can be transformed into shipbuilding and enough to become the jewel of shipbuilding in the world.

Of course, it is naturally very difficult to build such a ship. Even now, the shipbuilding in Xinzhou is only an attempt, with a wooden ship wrapped in a skin of steel and a small steam engine, rather unorthodox.

and very expensive to build, it is obviously unlikely that any civilian or merchant ship would choose such a ship until there is a way to keep the cost down.

The only way to continue such a build, then, would be the Shinshu Sailors.

The Sailor’s Division allocates huge sums of money each year just to allow the major dockyards, to continue to delve deeper into the design and construction of ironclads.

When this ironclad matures, then this shipbuilding, will become the pillar of Xinzhou.

And again, because of the extremely cheap coal and iron, it means that even in the future, when the technology and techniques of ironclads are popularized, Xinzhou’s ironclads will be able to gain a huge advantage at least in terms of cost.

So Yang Shiqi to Zhang Anshi said: “Your Highness, this time the next minister to come here, is in order to recruit more craftsmen, this iron armor ships need too many craftsmen, especially blacksmiths and shipbuilding craftsmen and mechanical craftsmen shortfall, at least in the 30,000 up and down, now although the Xinzhou side, has established the sailor school as well as the ship academy, but is still a drop in the bucket, now, had to come to this Daming to solicit Now, we have to come to Daming to recruit.”

Zhang Anshi said, “Although Xinzhou is vast, but in fact, is still a small vassal state, want to be unique, the only way to comply with the state policy set by the governor’s office can not be done, since there is this intention, it is necessary to go all out, regardless of the use of any method, make what kind of means, what kind of price to pay!”

“Thus, this gap in manpower, to make up, silver, the new continent of the financial tax if it is not enough, then the county king’s side to pay! Twenty two silver a year to recruit people, then thirty two, thirty two to recruit, then fifty two, fifty two to recruit …… then one hundred two, as long as it is a person, the wealth will be able to move his heart, not afraid to spend the silver, but also do not remember the small account, to count count count the big account, we are not doing business, is the governance of a vassal state, then we have to have a long term We are not doing business, is to govern a vassal state, then we have to have a long-term vision. So …… you let go and do it.”

Yang Shiqi smiled slightly and said, “In fact, I also have this intention, just waiting for these words from Your Highness.”

Zhang Anshi said, “Haha, is that so?”

Yang Shiqi seriously up: “Fang just his majesty wants me to join the cabinet, but I refused, not that, this into the cabinet to become a university scholar, is not the intention of the minister, but the refusal of the minister, still from the heart.”

Zhang Anshi couldn’t help but be stunned, “What’s the reason for this?”

Yang Shiqi said: “Because in the Ming dynasty. Even if you join the cabinet, you still have to face a lot of constraints, there are always people who want to tie my hands and feet. But in Xinzhou, Your Highness and I share the same heart, everything Your Highness can support, and I only need to break the boat can be, such as from scratch, so that a place can be ruled, only not in vain the will of a great man, enough to comfort life.”

Yang Shiqi thought for a moment and added, “Your Highness, the official position is not in the size, but rather, whether or not a person can gain value from it. If it’s just a matter of stealing a high position, I’m afraid it will be difficult to become a success.”

Zhang Anshi looked more and more appreciative of Yang Shiqi’s gaze, and couldn’t help but sigh, “This king hasn’t misjudged anyone, work hard!”

Half a month later, a letter, finally sent into the palace.

Zhu Di saw the words to solve the red, frowned lightly, showed the shape of contemplation.

He also did not have a good impression of Xie Jin.

After all, a person with too much small-mindedness is definitely not liked by a person like Zhu Di.

Yao Guangxiao also has wisdom, but Yao Guangxiao’s wisdom is embodied in his Yang Zhui.

He will use many means, but will also encourage Zhu Di from the bottom of his heart. After Zhu Di’s frustration, he will rationally analyze the pros and cons for Zhu Di and restore Zhu Di’s confidence.

Contemplating for a long time, Zhu Di still drew a circle at the top of the crown prince’s zhengshi.

Turned to also lost ha said: “send an edict, imperial edict jie jin into the dynasty, as the crown prince, wen yuange university scholar.”

Yizhuoha heard the word Xie Jin, thought he heard wrong.

Unexpected was unexpected, but he did not issue any murmurs, but said, “The slave servant obeys the decree.”

The diaspora quickly copied the news.

This news came out, and the hundred officials had a lot to say about it.

They were very worried about Zhang Anshi’s charter.

It’s a lie not to worry, the previous New Deal was just thinking about your family’s land.

But in any case, the hundred officials have become ministers of the court, the land at home is important, but the hat is their real food.

Once this matter is finalized, it means that, in the future for the government, especially if you want to level the playing field, it is necessary to suffer some trials and tribulations in the future, which is fifteen to twenty years.

Besides, even if you survive this, God knows if the court will draft you back?

Don’t let the meat bag hit the dog and never come back, then you really have to look at the ocean and sigh. And this is not a metaphor, it is a physical meaning.

At this time, the hundred officials in the court, the vast majority, are cold-eyed.

Until the final decision of the palace came out, it triggered even more whispers from many people.

People speculate about this matter, that Yang Shiqi, looks like a talent indeed, as for Xie Jin …… His Highness hesitated for so long before pushing Xie Gong, it must be that Xie Gong …… himself has many places that His Highness the Crown Prince or Zhang Anshi is not satisfied.

It was just a moment where there was no other option and I had to tough it out.

Xie Gong entered the dynasty, the blessing and disaster are hard to predict, but …… no matter what again, it should be better than Yang Shiqi to deal with.

…………

Two months later.

Java.

Zhao Wangfu.

King Zhao Zhu Gao Suo looked at the imperial edict at this time, with a complicated look on his face.

He took the imperial edict and called the eunuch to fetch it to Xie Jin to see.

After Xie Jin read it, he was also silent.

The two of them, the ruler and the minister, looked at each other for a long time.

Zhu Gao Suo finally spoke, “Duke Xie, what do you think?”

Xie Jin said, “What does His Highness King Zhao think?”

King Zhao Zhu Gao Suo revealed a bitter smile.

Xie Jin saw him not say, then said: “Then I will say it, your highness this is and happy and sad, sad is, your highness for a moment, lose my right arm, and therefore deplore. Joy is, I know your highness, if you can enter the cabinet, your highness in the dynasty, such as a tiger with wings, at least …… Java side, not worried about the court’s changing orders, unauthorized changes in the trade policy, so that His Highness the King of Zhao into a difficult situation, I will also do my best to make the court, more inclined to the trade and commerce, and strengthen the liaison with the various clans, which has great benefits for the future of Java, has a great advantage. future, has great benefits.”

Zhu Gao Suire said, “The temple is too old-fashioned after all, even though there are always people pushing for a new government and trade and commerce, but ultimately the pace is too slow, if there is a Duke Xie in place, the king can indeed be free of worry.”

“So Your Highness wishes me to go?”

“But this king can t let …… go,” Zhu Gao Suo began to wipe his tears.

Zhu Gao Suire’s hypocrisy is purely a dog that can’t change its ways, anyway, all kinds of sympathetic and covering up tactics are really reaching out.

This …… is actually the same for Xie Jin.

Because Xie Jin also shed tears, the ruler and the minister two, tearful eyes, Zhu Gao Suo reluctantly grabbed Xie Jin’s hand, and Xie Jin also put one hand Zhu Gao Suo’s arm, both actually choked.

“And how can I give up your highness? Got to hear this news, the minister …… five internal burning, unable to overcome the grief.”

Zhu Gao Suo sucked in his nose and said with red eyes, “It hurts, it hurts, but unfortunately, it’s hard to disobey your father’s orders.”

Xie Jin sobbed, “Your Highness ……”

Zhu Gao Suire said with affection, “This king will take care of your kinsmen, you …… can rest assured that you will go.”

“Your Highness ……” Xie Jin bowed down, kowtowed, tears falling like rain: “I can’t let go ah ……”

“Ai ……” Zhu Gao Suo said sadly, “Xie Gong thinks, who can take over as the chief historian?”

Xie Jin was finally put away the tears, seriously said: “Changshifu Wenzuo Liu Jian how?”

Changshifu Shu Zuo Liu Jian, this is not a joke? This person’s qualifications are too low, although he has talent, but it is never possible.

So Zhu Gao Suo shook his head and said, “No.”

Xie Jin added: “Where is Chen Tai of the Yibin Si?”

Zhu Gao Suo continued to shake his head and said, “The Yibinfu is in charge of guest affairs and does not deal with practical matters. Chen Tai does not have the experience of being on his own, how can he rule the governor’s office?”

Xie Jin mentioned a few more people, Zhu Gaoshuu are not satisfied.

In fact, the several candidates proposed by Xie Jin perfectly avoided Zhu Gao Su’s expectations.

Either they have the experience but not the ability to handle practical matters, or they are quite capable but have no qualifications.

Several people with both seniority and ability were perfectly avoided by Xie Jin.

King Zhao, Zhu Gao Suo, kept shaking his head since, indicating that it was not possible.

By this time, Xie Jin raised his head, blinked, and suddenly said, “What does Your Highness think of my son?”

Zhu Gao Suo: “……”