"Master, what did Ye Xianggao say?"
Seeing Fang Congzhe reading Ye Xianggao's letter, Mrs. Liu hurriedly asked.
Fang Congzhe smiled and said: "You can still say that. Although he just asked about my health and said nothing else, the sudden letter from him when he came to the chief minister said everything. He just wanted to ask if I was... I really want to make enemies of the powerful and gentry in the world."
Mrs. Liu hurriedly asked: "How do you plan to reply to him?"
Fang Congzhe thought for a while and said, "Although it is a private message, I still have to show it to Your Majesty for your Majesty's decision."
After saying that, Fang Congzhe snorted and said: "This Ye Xianggao has the nerve to threaten me. He was the one who protected Li Sancai from being almost punished by the temple. There is also Wang Huazhen, who was a collaborator with the enemy before. This person is also Ye Xianggao." His disciples, I didn’t use these people to threaten him. Ye Xianggao has given him enough kindness! If he really wants to attack me, then I won’t be too polite to him!”
"Does the master really intend to continue to be such an enemy of the world's powerful and gentry?"
Madam Liu asked at this time.
Fang Congzhe looked at his wife for a while, pondered for a moment, and then said: "Why did I ever plan to be an enemy of the powerful gentry in the world? I just never planned to associate with those powerful gentry who have no eyes for your majesty and no court! You should remember that Governor Su Song last year Sun Chengzong transferred three million yuan to Beijing. According to my guess, our Fang family is not the only one who shares the world's profits with the royal family by running Chongwen Shop. In the future, your Majesty will personally command more troops. After the reform is more thorough, there will be more and more powerful people who do not exploit their own people but seek to benefit the royal family."
Mrs. Liu nodded after hearing this and said nothing, only thinking deeply.
Fang Congzhe then handed Ye Xianggao's letter to Zhu Youxiao.
After reading the letter written by Ye Xianggao to Fang Congzhe, Zhu Youxiao laughed: "This Ye Xianggao knows how to greet Yuan Fu, but he doesn't know how to greet me. It can be seen that in his eyes, there is no me."
Fang Congzhe naturally understood the meaning of the emperor's words and said with a smile: "I believe that no matter what I say, Mr. Ye would not dare to ignore His Majesty in his eyes. Even though he once assisted the temple, he also contributed a lot to consolidating the country's foundation, which made the country's foundation He was saved, and the struggle over the foundation of the country did not cause major changes after all. But after all, he is a minister of our Ming Dynasty, and Your Majesty is the monarch. How dare he not look down on Your Majesty? Please be clear to Your Majesty!"
"Ye Xianggao really likes to participate in national disputes! He is good at turning big things into small things!"
Zhu Youxiao suddenly said this with a smile.
Fang Congzhe just smiled slightly, and then said: "Then may I ask, Your Majesty, if I want to reply to him, how should I reply to him?"
"Didn't he ask about your health? Just tell him that you are very healthy and plan to serve the court for another twenty years!"
Zhu Youxiao replied.
"I obey the decree!"
Fang Congzhe replied.
"How is the household registration of the refugees going, and how is the repair work on the walls and official roads of Tianjin City and Gyeonggi Province going?"
Zhu Youxiao continued to ask at this time.
Fang Congzhe replied: "Bi Ziyan and the others have already begun to compile households. They have followed your Majesty's instructions to mix up the refugees from all over the country to ensure that fellow villagers are not together to avoid gathering to make trouble and to build the city and repair the city and pipelines. Twenty more brick kilns have been built, and more than 50,000 refugees have been organized to take charge of this matter."
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao nodded, and then told Wei Zhongxian: "Dongchang sent a capable force to Tianjin and continued to keep an eye on it. During the process of household registration for the refugees, many of the secrets mixed in with the refugees will be exposed when their family backgrounds are investigated. Or they may be exposed because there are too few fellow villagers, and as long as they are discovered, they will be severely interrogated first and then killed directly!"
"My slave obeys the order!"
Wei Zhongxian replied.
Then, Zhu Youxiao continued to ask Fang Congzhe: "For the appointment of Tianjin Chengtong judge, has the Ministry of Personnel provided a list of ministerial recommendations?"
"Back to Your Majesty, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has given out a list of ministerial recommendations, including Wanping County Magistrate Yuan Chonghuan, Wuqing County Magistrate Hua Yuncheng, and Baoan Prefecture Magistrate Wang Duo."
Fang Congzhe replied.
Yuan Chonghuan?
Zhu Youxiao didn't expect that he would hear Yuan Chonghuan's name at this time.
"Why is Yuan Chonghuan recommended?"
Zhu Youxiao asked.
"Back to your majesty, Yuan Chonghuan was originally the magistrate of Shaowu County. He once said in a letter that he knew the military affairs of the border towns through interviews with veterans, and expressed his willingness to transfer the border fortresses, and promised to pacify the Liao Dynasty within three years! Therefore, he won the favor of the emperor. Shihou Xun and others praised him, and Zhao Nanxing, the left minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, also praised his talents. However, the minister thought that although this man had great ambitions, he was a little fond of talking about military affairs, so he was promoted to the magistrate of Wanping County to show his skills. This man did have some skills. After being appointed magistrate of Wanping County, I dare to attack powerful people."
Fang Congzhe came back.
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao nodded and thought to himself: "Three years of peace in the Liao Dynasty? Is it because the affairs in the Liao Dynasty are not as bad as in the Chongzhen period, so two years are missing?"
"Announce him to come see me!"
Zhu Youxiao knew that Yuan Chonghuan was quite controversial in history, but in any case, his deepest impression of Yuan Chonghuan was two things.
The first thing is that he loves to praise Haikou. For example, Yuan Chonghuan, the head of the Ministry of War, told Shu shortly after the war that he could defend Shanhaiguan alone. Later, after being summoned by Chongzhen, he even set the goal of pacifying Liaoning in five years.
The second thing was to kill Mao Wenlong.
Zhu Youxiao has now announced his meeting with Yuan Chonghuan, but he also wants to see what big goals Yuan Chonghuan will set in front of him because of the construction of Tianjin City.
Soon, Zhu Youxiao met Yuan Chonghuan, who was not yet forty years old.
Suddenly, after Yuan Chonghuan greeted Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youxiao asked: "Yuan Chonghuan, do you know that the Ministry of Civil Affairs recommended you to be appointed as the general magistrate of Tianjin?"
"Your Majesty, I have heard a little bit about it."
Yuan Chonghuan was ecstatic. He knew that the emperor's question meant that his promotion was guaranteed this time.
"Then tell me, if you were appointed as the general magistrate of Tianjin, what kind of Tianjin city would you manage for me?"
Zhu Youxiao asked.
Yuan Chonghuan thought for a while after hearing this. According to his experience, superiors like to hear ambitious words, and the more impressive the goals they set, the better, regardless of whether they can be achieved or not.
So Yuan Chonghuan said: "Your Majesty, if I serve as the general judge for Tianjin, I promise that within five years, Tianjin will be richer than Yangzhou, with a household of not less than 100,000 people, and a tax of not less than one million taels of silver!"
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao sighed secretly: "He is indeed a braggart!"
But Zhu Youxiao really didn't dare to let Yuan Chonghuan serve as the general judge of Tianjin because of this. He was really afraid that Yuan Chonghuan would not be able to complete the task and he would be slapped in the face.
Moreover, Zhu Youxiao felt that Yuan Chonghuan, who loved to praise Haikou's advantages, could be used to make him the foreign minister, which might have good results.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao said: "Ai Qing is a great talent! But Tianjin Tongpan is a little aggrieved. I intend to let you go to North Korea as a doctor of the Ministry of Rites to promote the power of the Ming Dynasty and preach the power of the Ming Dynasty. Sheng, in order to prevent North Korea from colluding with the Donglu in the future, and to get North Korea to agree to help Liao pay to eliminate the troubles of the Donglu, I wonder what your wishes are?"
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