Master Cai told her that if anything happened to him, the money would be for her and her son. As for the child's true life experience, no one can tell except the two of them. If this matter once spreads out, the county magistrate will not care, there is nothing to be afraid of. But some people will never let this child go. It's okay if nothing happens, but if something happens, the consequences will be unpredictable.
She even asked more at that time, why didn't she use the banknotes from Wuwei Bank instead of getting a banknote number from a bank whose name she had never heard of, still on Shanxi Road? Master Cai was obviously much more patient with this married woman who gave birth to a son than he was with his wife. He didn't hide the matter, and told her directly that Wuwei Bank was the universal deposit and exchange bank in the country and had the best reputation.
But Wuwei Bank's back is too deep and too dangerous. If he deposits money into Wuwei Bank, he will deposit it in front of him, and others who are interested in the back will know. Once some people found out that he had taken so much, his head would not be saved, and their whole family would even be implicated. Although this company has a small bank account, you don’t have to worry about its reputation, there is absolutely no problem.
All his banknotes were deposited in this bank, and her three melons and two dates were no big deal. Master Cai, who had just given birth to his son at that time, told her proudly when he was resting at her place. In recent years, although he has only been known as a master, he has been one of his master's principals in the northwest. Although he is not as good as Zhuo Ruxiao in terms of power, he is not bad in terms of money.
Last year, when there was a severe drought, they resold relief grain to Longyou and made hundreds of thousands of dollars in one fell swoop. Although Yan'an Prefecture did not have food last year, Fushi County Government did. The Duke's government had Zhuo Ruxiao's handle, so it was easy to borrow 20,000 shi of grain. He has a coal mine under his name that Zhuo Ruxiao doesn't even know about. All the coal produced is sold to the iron yard, and it can be said that he is making money every day and making a lot of money.
What the county magistrate's wife said was something that no other official had ever confessed. This county magistrate's wife, even though she gave birth to a son for Master Cai, is not very courageous. Once the person being interrogated was frightened, he would say something. Even how she hooked up with Zhuo Ruxiao and how she was deceived, they even had private meetings three or five times a month at Master Cai's residence in Yanchuan.
After hooking up with Master Cai, she no longer let her husband get involved. Until she found out she was pregnant, she slept with her husband in order to hide the truth. However, she didn't know much about Zhuo Ruxiao. Although Master Cai loved her very much, he didn't tell her everything. The only thing she knew was that the owner of the garden where Huang Qiong rested in Yan'an Mansion was Zhuo Ruxiao.
The Jiangnan girls raised there are all playthings he painstakingly collected. However, this Zhuo Ruxiao has an extremely domineering temperament, and no one in the garden is allowed to touch him. Including his cronies, it's the same. Last year, a woman in the garden had a secret affair with a musician, but he discovered her. The man was bitten to death by a wild dog in front of everyone in the garden.
As for the women, they were sold into the lowest-class brothels and could never be redeemed. Apart from these romantic affairs, the only thing she knew about Zhuo Ruxiao was that Zhuo Ruxiao sent several married women, even with children, to Chang'an every year. Last year, she even took advantage of the severe drought to buy more than twenty of them. As for who to give them to, she didn’t know.
Looking at the statements of Yan'an officials and their wives, Huang Qiong pinched the bridge of her nose with a headache. If these officials follow the imperial court's customization, it will be the lightest thing for them to reduce their posts to serve the people. But if all were to follow the imperial laws, there would probably be no officials above the eighth rank in Yan'an Prefecture except Zheng Gang, a seventh-rank academic envoy, and various prefectures and counties.
Even if I select people from various yamen in Xijing and local officials in Yan'an Prefecture, it will still take time. Wanting to get here, Huang Qiong opened the interrogation record again and read it carefully. After pondering for a long time, he finally picked up the pen and drafted several treatment plans for officials from various states and counties under Yan'an Prefecture, based on the results of the interrogation, to remove them from office for the sake of the people, hand them over to the competent authorities for trial, and wait for the crimes to be cleared and acquittals to be acquitted.
As for Zheng Daoyuan, he is already a third-rank official, and it is not suitable to continue acting as an agent in Yan'an Mansion. Huang Qiong, who was somewhat unmotivated, gave a direct order to the officials and asked Zheng Gang, a fellow magistrate, to take over. As for Zheng Daoyuan, he immediately rushed to Xijing and first took charge of the Xijing Ministry of War as a minister of the Ministry of War and a political participant. The rest will be discussed after the imperial edict is issued. The Minister of War in Xijing still needs the royal approval of the old man.
As for the Shaanxi Road Jiedu envoy Liu Jie, who committed suicide in fear of crime, and the deputy envoy was kicked to Qianzhong Road by himself, the court has not selected a candidate for the new deputy envoy. Now Tongzhi has also been imprisoned and is currently in the prison of Dali Temple in Xijing, waiting for conviction. Huang Qiong could only ask He Yuanfeng, who for some reason stayed in Xijing and did not return to Jingzhao Mansion after leading his army to retreat to Chang'an, to act temporarily.
As for He Yuanfeng, who is already a third-grade military attache, can he take this opportunity to advance to a higher level and finally take over officially? From being an agent to becoming an official palm seal official, it depends on his luck. Huang Qiong had no involvement in the selection of the former commander of the Xijing Palace. They just sent someone to rush the news of Ouyang Jie's death to Jingzhao for 800 miles, and left it to the old man to make a decision.
The former commander of the Xijing Palace, although his authority is far less powerful than that of Jingzhao Palace. However, he controlled the 50,000 elite troops in the Xijing camp, and during wartime he even authorized the mobilization of the Longyou and Shaanxi Second Route Guards, as well as the Second Route's frontier troops. I still can't intervene in the choice of this position for the time being. As for the person recommended by Sir Ouyang, Huang Qiong also reported it and said nothing more.
After neatly approving the list and writing the memorial, Huang Qiong handed the things he had already approved and the written memorial to Gao Huaiyuan, who looked at him with a complicated expression, and told him to send it out immediately. Huang Qiong didn't know that his nephew was in a somewhat confused mood at this time. When the Minister of Rites of Xijing was worshiping his ancestors in Huang Qiong, he read the imperial edict written by the old man himself, which was the Ming imperial edict.
In other words, when the edict was read out, it was also an edict to the world. The edict that was read in the Long'en Hall of Taizu's Mausoleum and consecrated the ninth son of the Emperor Yingwang as the crown prince is now being spread throughout the world. Taking advantage of the geographical location of Xijing, Gao Huaiyuan knew it immediately. Although Gao Huaiyuan had already made this preparation when his uncle took up the post of ambassador for the second-line control system.
But he didn't expect that this day would come so quickly. How many months has it been since the Longyou rebellion was put down? The emperor couldn't even wait for this uncle to return to Beijing, so he issued an order to canonize him while he was still in Xijing. Still doing it through this method of paying homage to the ancestral mausoleum and announcing it to the world through an edict was somewhat unexpected to Gao Huaiyuan. As soon as this imperial edict came out, his uncle became the new prince.
The announcement was still made in front of Taizu's Mausoleum, which meant that if my grandfather, the emperor, did not want to be charged with unfilial piety, this uncle would only have to refrain from treason in the future. Even if he is dissatisfied, he can't change anyone. And when my grandfather, the emperor, did such a trick, even if the court had dissatisfaction, he had no chance to dissuade him, so he could only bite the bullet and acquiesce.
If that courtier gives advice at this time, wouldn't you be slapping the emperor in the face? Even if someone is dissatisfied, they have to suppress it at this time, let alone do anything. The first time he learned the news, Gao Huaiyuan was a little confused by the emperor's actions. I even once wondered if my grandfather was tired of politics and was planning to abdicate to become an emperor or something like that?
Maybe, when my uncle returns to Beijing, it will be the time for the old man to pass on the throne. If he didn't have such an idea, why couldn't he even wait for this uncle to return to Kyoto, and now he didn't tell the world about it, and then he made such a show? Although because I am still young, my understanding of certain things is still a bit immature. But after all, being born in a noble family, there are some things that you don't need to learn.
Looking at the nephew who was in a daze in front of him, Huang Qiong just patted him on the shoulder. It was just Huang Qiong's slap that Gao Huaiyuan woke up from his trance and found that he was distracted in front of this uncle who never rubbed a grain of sand in his eyes. He quickly knelt down to apologize and said, "Huaiyuan is actually in front of you. I lost my mind and committed the crime of deceiving the king. I hope the prince will forgive me."
Huang Qiong was stunned by Gao Huaiyuan's title. It took a long time to realize that he had been appointed as the crown prince in front of Taizu's mausoleum by the old man. He shook his head, pulled his nephew up from the ground, patted his shoulder and said, "What are you talking about that is useless? The relationship between you and me as a nephew cannot be changed by changing our status. No matter what happens to me , aren’t you all my nephews?”
Hearing Huang Qiong's words, Gao Huaiyuan quickly waved his hands and said: "Absolutely not. Although the general and the prince are nephews and uncles, in the final analysis, they are monarchs and ministers. The prince is the king, and the general is a minister. The etiquette between the king and his ministers is broken. It cannot be abolished. Prince, from now on, the words of this nephew can no longer be spoken. The prince will not treat the general as an outsider, but the general himself must have some sense of restraint. Don't forget about the king and his ministers just because of his nephew."
After seeing that he had changed his title, his expression was a little downcast, and it seemed that his uncle was not very willing to listen to the words of the prince. Gao Huaiyuan was a little curious, but he didn't dare to ask. Regarding the confused look on this guy's face, Huang Qiong said calmly: "You know how to be cold and warm. You are still young and don't understand some things. This position is now a brazier. Whoever sits on it now will suffer."
After saying that, Huang Qiong, who obviously didn't want to continue on this topic, picked up the folding notes and handwriting on his desk, handed them to Gao Huaiyuan and said: "The folding notes will be sent out eight hundred miles away. As for this plan, wait until the appeasement brings them back. Let them handle it as they see fit. The officials who are vacant in the prefectures and counties of Yan'an Prefecture will be selected from the yamen of all the officials on Shaanxi Road to fill them as soon as possible."
"Tell them, just tell them what I said. I don't ask them to choose only capable people and officials, but they must also be practical and willing to work. If it is for a little money or for other purposes, the official position in the imperial court is given away as a favor. . Only those who are ignorant or who only know how to make money are selected to take office, and they are asked to weigh their own heads to see if they can vouch for those people."
"If those officials are corrupt, pervert the law or are incompetent after taking office, I, the Prince of Supervision, will not ask anyone else, but only ask him to settle the accounts of the Envoy, the Envoy and the Yushitai. I don't want to get involved, but this There is no time to worry about so much. Yan'an Prefecture suffered a severe drought last year, and its vitality has not yet recovered. After experiencing this turmoil again, incompetent officials are not up to the task."
"Although I choose talents in an eclectic way, what I want is talents, not mediocrity, let alone stupidity. The kind of people who don't seek merit but seek no faults are not acceptable. Also, let their officials below the eighth grade, They are all selected from the local candidates in Yan'an Prefecture. Don't take all the benefits yourself, but also consider the ideas of the officials in various states and counties. If the scholars are in chaos, it will cause a big chaos."
