My Brother-in-law is the Prince

  Chapter 500 Full of wealth

  Zhu Di looked at the ministers, and then said: "What do you think?"

  Hundred officials are silent.

  Zhu Di smiled: "You don't say anything, it seems that you are not good at this, so why not let the prince and Zhang Qing draw up candidates."

  Zhu Gaochi and Zhang Anshi said: "Follow the order."

  After retreating.

  Zhu Gaochi frowned, and Zhang Anshi was also extremely depressed.

  The two of them stared wide-eyed, but only Yang Shiqi followed behind, step by step, with a calm expression.

Zhu Gaochi sighed and said: "Father is really difficult for others! You have seen the faces of all the officials just now, An Shi, it is really like a concubine. This time the damage to them is really not small. Now the father asked us to elect ministers. If we choose It's not good, even if he enters the court, I'm afraid that this person will be targeted by all the officials, and then... I'm afraid he will be a stumbling block."

  Zhu Gaochi, no matter how gentle he is, is still defensive.

  If Zhu Di directly agreed to this charter, it would be nothing more than an established fact.

   He wanted to give it a try, and let Zhu Gaochi and Zhang Anshi choose someone to join the court. One can imagine what kind of situation this person will face once he enters the court.

   Moreover, it is really hard to be sure about such a candidate.

  Zhang Anshi also sighed, and said, "Blame me, if it wasn't for me being reluctant to part with Yang Shiqi..."

  Zhu Gaochi suppressed his hands, originally wanting to say that he doesn't need to blame himself.

   At this time, Yang Shiqi, who had been silent in the back, said: "His Royal Highness, His Royal Highness Wuhu County King, in fact...the candidate has already been selected."

  Zhu Gaochi and Zhang Anshi both looked at Yang Shiqi, and said in unison: "Who is it?"

   "Former Wenyuan Pavilion scholar, now Zhao Wangfu chief Shi Jiejin!" Yang Shiqi said firmly.

   Zhu Gaochi was thoughtful.

  Zhang Anshi's expression changed: "This rotten person?"

Yang Shiqi was not in a hurry, but he said slowly: "Mr. Xie has the experience of entering the cabinet and the qualifications of honing in Java. Moreover, Mr. Xie has a great talent. He is a person who hides needles in the cotton. If he is invited to join the court, he may be able to resist At the same time...if you want to...you can also deal with complicated government affairs."

"His Royal Highness, His Royal Highness Wuhu County King, this recommendation is related to the future national policy of the Crown Prince and His Highness Wuhu County King. It has a lot to do with personal prejudices, so what's the matter? The most important thing is... to deal with the current situation. Little details, mere personal grievances, nothing to worry about!"

  Yang Shiqi said it.

  Zhu Gaochi and Zhang Anshi fell silent again.

   After a while, Zhang Anshi said: "I'm afraid that this person's intentions are not righteous, and his character is corrupt..."

  Yang Shiqi glanced at Zhang Anshi with a complicated look, and then quickly looked away.

   Zhang Anshi was taken aback by this look, and couldn't help saying: "Mr. Yang, what do you mean?"

  Yang Shiqi hurriedly said: "I... don't mean much..."

  Zhang Anshi is not the person who breaks the sand nest and asks the bottom line, so he sighed: "Right now, I have no choice but to treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor, hey... let it go, let him go."

  Zhu Gaochi said: "Then I will write the letter tomorrow..."

But Yang Shiqi shook his head and said: "Your Highness, no, tomorrow's letter... It seems that His Highness the Crown Prince is too sure, and people will think that this is the result of the balance between His Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness Wuhu County King. All the officials in the court are good at guessing. People's hearts, according to the minister's opinion, might as well wait a little longer and show hesitation, so as to paralyze the officials and make them think that Jie Gong is not a genuinely desirable candidate, but... a last resort choice. "

  Zhu Gaochi said: "..."

"In addition..." Yang Shiqi continued slowly: "When the time comes, I will write a letter, and I implore your highness to remember that Xie Jin's family must not be allowed to move back to the capital, but only Xie Jin is allowed to enter the court. As for his children, your highness has to think There is no way to let them continue to be sent by King Zhao in Java."

  Zhu Gaochi: "..."

  Zhang Anshi's eyes lit up, and he smiled authentically: "Mr. Yang is like me, and he is also so far-sighted! Not bad, not bad, let his whole family stay in Java."

  Zhu Gaochi sighed and said: "It seems that this is the only way to go. Let's just wait for half a month. After half a month, I will write a book and play a report. What do you think?"

   "Enough." Yang Shiqi smiled.

  Major matters have been agreed upon, although the three of them are still somewhat uncertain, but right now, it seems that Yang Shiqi's proposal is indeed the best choice.

  So, both Zhu Gaochi and Zhang Anshi breathed a sigh of relief.

  Now that this matter has come to a conclusion, Zhang Anshi has the mind to think about other things, so he said: "Has our ship been built?"

Yang Shiqi said: "Reporting to Your Highness, it has been built. Your Highness can rest assured that this ship has passed several sea trials. This time, I personally took this ship to Songjiang Estuary. All the indicators are far superior to those of Fuchuan. .”

   "That's good." Zhang Anshi smiled with satisfaction: "Mr. Yang is really my Zhang Liang."

  After speaking, he suddenly felt a slip of the tongue, and said again: "No, no, it should be my king's Fan Zeng, Zhang Liang, my king can't afford it."

  Zhu Gaochi and Yang Shiqi both looked at Zhang Anshi with very strange eyes.

Only then did Zhang Anshi realize that this kind of comparison seemed inappropriate, so he could only spread his hands, shrugged and said, "Let's be honest, I don't have much culture, so I can only talk nonsense and make nonsense analogies. You will never doubt that I want to be Liu Bang." Or Chu Bawang?"

  Yang Shiqi forced a smile, and said: "Your Highness has the qualifications of Liu Chan."

  Zhang Anshi: "..."

  For a moment, he couldn't tell whether Yang Shiqi was trying to rescue him, or whether he had eaten the heart of a bear and wanted to devour the master with his servant.

  Leading Yang Shiqi back to the Prince's Mansion, naturally he had to have a long talk with Yang Shiqi. Of course, Zhang Anshi hoped to try his best to understand about Xinzhou.

   After all, this Xinzhou will be the foundation of the descendants of the Zhang family in the future!

  Yang Shiqi, who also understood Zhang Anshi's thoughts, used the utmost patience to tell the situation in Xinzhou in detail.

  In Yang Shiqi's report to Zhu Di, the situation about Xinzhou was actually quite general, but what he talked about with Zhang Anshi was another situation.

  Now Xinzhou has begun to take shape. But at this time, it is precisely a bottleneck. To put it bluntly, manpower is still needed.

  If you want manpower, you can only send your idea to Daming.

  Yang Shiqi came here this time for this purpose. He planned to launch a marketing campaign targeting Daming.

   And to market, you need various means. No matter how you say it, things like good politics and harmony, prosperity and happiness have to be used anyway.

  Not only that, in addition to this, it is the issue of vigorously developing shipbuilding.

   Xinzhou is far away in a corner of the world, not in a critical position. This makes, for Yang Shiqi, in addition to traditional mining, animal husbandry and farming, Xinzhou must have a real industry that can be sold, so that Xinzhou can become the most indispensable in the tribute system of the Ming Dynasty. part.

  In the Changshi Mansion in Xinzhou, after many discussions and communication with Zhang Anshi through letters, Yang Shiqi finally chose the shipbuilding industry.

The advantage of shipbuilding is that it is not an independent industry. To build a large ship requires a lot of machinery, as well as canvas, wood, and steel, which can drive many workshops. Around this shipbuilding industry, eventually out of a huge industry.

  But... it is not easy to compete with Daming in the shipbuilding industry! If there is nothing, it is absolutely impossible.

  The biggest advantage of Xinzhou is that this large continent has almost no human development, which means that most of the resources are extremely rich.

   Therefore, the forestry industry in Xinzhou is also second to none. Although it is not as good as the West, it still has enough timber to build large ships.

   In addition, Zhang Anshi encouraged Xinzhou shipbuilding industry to try steel, that is, to manufacture iron-clad ships.

  Because what ironclad ships need most is coal and iron. These two resources are the most abundant resources in Xinzhou. Now that there is a steam engine, it may not be impossible for Xinzhou to spend money desperately to build an ironclad ship.

  Once it can be built, the cheap coal and iron can be transformed into the shipbuilding industry, and it is enough to become the pearl of the world's shipbuilding industry.

  Of course, it is not easy to build such a ship. Even now, Xinzhou's shipbuilding is just trying to wrap the wooden boat with steel skin and add a small steam engine, which is quite nondescript.

   And the cost is very high. Before the cost can't be suppressed, it is obviously impossible for civilian ships or merchant ships to choose such ships.

  The only way to continue this kind of construction is the Xinzhou Navy.

  The navy allocates a huge amount of money every year, just to let the major shipyards continue to deepen the design and construction of ironclad ships.

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

   And because of the extremely cheap coal and iron, it means that even if the technology and craftsmanship of iron-clad ships are popularized in the future, the iron-clad ships of Xinzhou can at least gain a huge advantage in terms of cost.

So Yang Shiqi said to Zhang Anshi: "Your Highness, the purpose of coming here this time is to recruit more craftsmen. This ironclad ship needs too many craftsmen, especially the gap between blacksmiths, shipbuilders and mechanics. Up and down Wan, although the Naval Academy and the Shipbuilding Academy have been established in Xinzhou, it is still a drop in the bucket, and now, we have to come to Ming Dynasty to recruit them."

Zhang Anshidao: "Although Xinzhou is vast, it is actually a small feudal state. If you want to be unique, you can only follow the national policy set by the Changshi Mansion. Now that you have this plan, you must do your best. Go, no matter what method is used, what method is used, and what price is paid!"

"Therefore, this manpower gap needs to be made up. If there is insufficient money and taxes in Xinzhou, then the county prince's mansion will pay for it! Twenty taels of silver a year can't recruit people, then thirty taels, thirty taels If you can’t recruit, then fifty taels, if you can’t recruit fifty taels, then one hundred taels, as long as it is a person, money can move his heart, don’t be afraid of spending money, and don’t keep small accounts, if you want to calculate it, it’s a big account , we are not doing business, but governing a feudal state, so we must have a long-term vision. So...you just let it go."

  Yang Shiqi smiled slightly and said: "Actually, I also have this intention, just wait for His Highness's words."

  Zhang Anshi said: "Haha, is that so?"

  Yang Shiqi became serious: "Just now His Majesty wanted me to join the cabinet, but I refused. It doesn't mean that I didn't mean to become a scholar in the cabinet. But my refusal still came from the bottom of my heart."

  Zhang Anshi couldn't help but said in amazement: "Why is this?"

Yang Shiqi said: "Because in the Ming Dynasty, even if you enter the cabinet, you still have to face many constraints. There are always people who want to tie your hands and feet. But in Xinzhou, His Highness and his ministers are connected, and His Highness can do everything. Support, and the minister only needs to break the boat to save the boat. This kind of creation from scratch, so that a place can be ruled, will not be in vain for the ambition of a man, and it will be enough to comfort the whole life."

  Yang Shiqi thought for a while, and added: "His Royal Highness, the official position is not about the size, but whether people can get value from it. If it's just for stealing high positions, I'm afraid it will be difficult."

   Zhang Anshi looked more appreciative of Yang Shiqi's gaze, and couldn't help but sighed: "This king is right, work hard!"

   Half a month later, a memorial was finally sent to the palace.

  Zhu Di frowned slightly when he saw the words of Jie Jin, showing a contemplative look.

  He also didn't have a good impression of Xie Jin.

   After all, a person is too smart, and people like Zhu Di absolutely don't like them.

  Yao Guangxiao also has wisdom, but Yao Guangxiao's wisdom is reflected in his conspiracy.

  He will use many methods, but he will also be by Zhu Di's side, encouraging Zhu Di from the bottom of his heart. After Zhu Di is frustrated, he will rationally analyze the interests of Zhu Di and restore Zhu Di's confidence.

  After pondering for a long time, Zhu Di still drew a circle on the crown prince's memorial.

  Turning to Yishiha, he said: "Issuing an imperial edict, Xie Jin entered the court, and served as the crown prince and grand tutor, and a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion."

  Yi Shiha heard the word Xie Jin and thought he heard it wrong.

   The accident was accidental, but he didn't make any comments, but said: "The slave obeys the order."

  Di Bao quickly copied the news.

   When the news came out, hundreds of officials talked about it.

  They were very worried about Zhang Anshi's regulations.

   Don’t worry that it’s fake. The previous New Deal was just thinking about your home’s land.

   But no matter what, Baiguan has become a court minister, and the land in the family is important, but Wu Shamao is the guy they really eat.

  Once this matter becomes a foregone conclusion, it means that to be an official in the future, especially if you want to make it to the top, you will have to suffer a lot of tempering and suffering in the future. This is fifteen to twenty years.

   Besides, even if you get through this, God knows if the imperial court will recruit you back?

   Don’t beat the dog with meat buns at that time. If you don’t come back, you will really have to look at the ocean and sigh. And this sighing and sighing is by no means a metaphor, it has a physical meaning.

   At this time, most of the officials in the court and the central government are watching with cold eyes.

   Until the final decision in the palace was made, it caused many people to whisper.

  People are thinking about this matter. Yang Shiqi seems to be a real talent. As for Xie Jin...His Royal Highness hesitated for so long before recommending Jie Gong, it must be Xie Gong...There are many things His Royal Highness or Zhang Anshi is not satisfied with.

   It's just for a while, there is no other choice, so I have to bite the bullet.

   Duke Xie's entry into the court is unpredictable, but... no matter what, he should be easier to deal with than Yang Shiqi.

  ...

   After two months.

   Java.

   Zhao Wangfu.

   Zhao Wang Zhu Gaosui looked at the edict with a complicated expression on his face.

  He took the edict and asked the **** to get it for Xie Jin to see.

   After reading it, Xie Jin was also silent.

  The two monarchs and ministers looked at each other for a long time.

  Zhu Gaosui finally said: "Xie Gong, what do you think?"

   Xie Jin said: "What do you think, His Royal Highness Zhao?"

   Zhao Wang Zhu Gaosui smiled wryly.

Seeing that he was silent, Xie Jin said: "Then let me just say it straight. Your Highness is both happy and worried. What is worrying is that Your Highness lost his right hand and right arm in a short time, so he regrets it. What is happy is that the minister and Your Highness knows that if you can enter the court, your Highness will be like a tiger with wings added to the court. At least... on the Java side, you don't have to worry about the imperial court changing the order overnight, changing the trade policy without authorization, and putting His Royal Highness Zhao in an embarrassing situation. , is more inclined to trade and commerce, and strengthens ties with various vassal states, which is of great benefit to the future of Java."

  Zhu Gaosui said: "After all, the temple is too old-fashioned. Even though there are always people who are promoting new policies and trade, they are still too slow in the end. If Xie Gong is there, the king can really be at ease."

   "So His Highness wants you to go?"

   "But this king is reluctant..." Zhu Gaosui began to wipe away tears.

  Zhu Gaosui's hypocrisy is purely dog ​​shit. Anyway, all kinds of hypocrisy and cover-up methods are really at your fingertips.

  This point... In fact, Xie Jin is the same.

  Because Xie Jin was also crying, the two monarchs and ministers faced each other with tears in their eyes. Zhu Gaosui reluctantly grabbed Xie Jin's hand, and Xie Jin also held Zhu Gaosui's arm with one hand, and both of them choked up.

   "How can I be willing to part with Your Highness? After hearing this news, I... all of you are burned, and you are overwhelmed with grief."

  Zhu Gaosui sniffed his nose, and said with red eyes: "It hurts, it hurts, it's a pity that the father's order is hard to disobey."

   Xie Jin broke down in tears and said: "Your Highness..."

  Zhu Gaosui said sincerely: "This king will take care of your relatives, you... you can rest assured."

   "Your Highness..." Xie Jin bowed down, kowtowed, and burst into tears: "I can't bear it..."

   "Hey..." Zhu Gaosui said sadly: "Jie Gong thinks, who can take over as Chang Shi?"

   Xie Jin finally put away his tears, and said seriously: "How about Liu Jian, Wen Zuo of the Changshi Mansion?"

  Chang Shifu Secretary Liu Jian, isn't this a joke? This person's qualifications are too low, although he is talented, it is absolutely impossible.

  So Zhu Gaosui shook his head and said, "No."

  Xie Jin said again: "Where is Chen Tai from Yibin Division?"

  Zhu Gaosui continued to shake his head, and said: "The Yibin Mansion is in charge of the guests' affairs, not the actual affairs. Chen Tai has no experience in being in charge, how can he manage the Changshi Mansion?"

   Xie Jin mentioned a few more people, but Zhu Gaosui was not satisfied.

  Actually, the candidates Xie Jin mentioned perfectly avoided Zhu Gaosui's expectations.

   Either they have experience but no ability to deal with practical things, or they are quite capable but have no qualifications.

   Several people with both qualifications and abilities were perfectly avoided by Xie Jin.

  Zhao Wang Zhu Gaosui kept shaking his head, saying no.

  At this time, Xie Jin raised his head, blinked, and suddenly said, "How does your Highness see my son?"

  Zhu Gaosui: "..."

  (end of this chapter)