Seeing that Su Rui was so confident about the safety of Jiangnan Road, Jiang Yan couldn't help but wonder if Su Rui knew anything in advance.
"Brother Jiang, don't look at me like I'm hiding a big secret from you. I just listened to Master Hua's divination of the national destiny. The result is that there is smoke in the northwest and peace in the southeast."
It turns out that it was Hua Yi's divination that made this statement.
Jiang Yan has always believed in such a magical thing as divination.
Then he reminded Su Rui: "If there is smoke in the northwest, Jiangnan Road is the world's granary. Before the war breaks out, a lot of food will leak out of the granary. If the war breaks out, there may be aliens who take advantage of the chaos to enter and cause chaos." Foundation.”
"That's why I asked you to be mentally prepared. The burdens on you and me will only be heavier in the future, and my term of office is about to expire. In the future, this heavy burden may mainly depend on you."
Su Rui said, pouring a glass of wine for Jiang Yan.
Jiang Yan looked at the cup of peace wine, but it was as big as two cups.
Nowadays, he is just a long history responsible for the taxation of Jiangnan Province. He is so busy that he can't sleep well every night. Everything he handles must be done to his satisfaction.
If he becomes the governor of Jiangnan Province, he will probably be about the same age as Su Rui within two years.
But in fact, although he and Suri were classmates, they were more than ten years apart!
"Brother Su, I'll call you Brother Su. Tell me the truth. When do you plan to leave Jiangnan Road?"
Jiang Yan raised his glass and clinked it with Su Rui before drinking it down, feeling a sense of heroic sacrifice.
Just endure it!
The bigger your official position, the more you can do!
Jiang Yan did not forget that his original intention of becoming a high official was to reduce the possibility of being hindered by others when doing what he wanted to do.
And the Jiang family is not the direct confidant of His Majesty. Without Su Rui's strong recommendation and his many achievements, it is absolutely impossible for him to become the governor.
"Didn't Mr. Xu say that all the countries in the Western Regions will send people to the capital to participate in the competition. If nothing happens, after that, I will leave and be transferred to Guannai Road. Before leaving, I will give His Majesty a few more memorials. Report the things you have done to resettle the wounded soldiers, station troops and farmland, and build villages and villages under your jurisdiction as credit. Of course, these will not determine whether you will become the new governor."
Because if you want to be the governor of Jiangnan Province, the important thing is not to carry out military revolution and improve the knowledge of the people.
Instead, increase taxes.
"Fortunately, Mr. Ning knows how to reciprocate. After he changed the quarterly tax to a monthly tax, Shen Ji's family, Princess Xian's ice drink shop, and the greenhouse owners all followed suit and changed it to a monthly tax, so as to facilitate cooperation. Ningjia Workshop will check the books, so that the new taxes in the past few months will definitely make you stand out among other competitors."
Daxing's taxation focused on Jiangnan Road.
Most of the taxes in the south of the Yangtze River are in Jinling.
Strong competitors from other prefectures and counties in Jiangnan Province, even though they had several years of management and planning, were still not as lucky as Jiang Yan.
In less than half a year, the development of the Ning family surpassed the efforts of others over several years.
"Brother Jiang, the longer I live, the more I feel that this man has to disobey orders sometimes. I remember that Master Hua once showed you a palmistry and said that you would become a very popular minister in the future, but at that time you only wanted to join the army and serve the country. , but when I didn’t make it, I wanted to be decentralized and become a small and happy county magistrate.”
Suri mentioned what happened back then, with a look of nostalgia on her thin face.
Jiang Yan almost forgot about it.
But when he heard such an instruction, he did have a rebellious mentality. In addition, he had no intention of becoming a civil servant in the officialdom. He never thought that Master Hua's words came true.
He was the one who didn't want to be an official at the beginning, and now he is the one who wants to be a high official.
"Brother Su, people from the Western Region have infiltrated into Master Xu's side. We might as well take advantage of the time when people from various countries are coming and they are active, and quietly count and sort out their personnel, so as to settle accounts in the future."
When it comes to increasing taxes, Jiang Yan can only rely on his fate.
But when it comes to the means of dealing with enemies, he is definitely not weaker than others.
Su Rui's idea was to take the opportunity to suppress, but Jiang Yan wanted to eliminate the root cause, first loosening and then tightening.
high.
It’s really high!
"Brother Jiang, you are in Jiangnan Road, and you are more thoughtful than me and more suitable for dealing with the enemy. I suddenly understand why Master Hua said that Jiangnan is worry-free. Come on, drink!"
boom.
The two clinked glasses again.
But before he even touched the wine glass to his lips, he heard someone's child yelling in the yard.
"The star in the sky is so bright, it shines like oil!"
Oily star?
This description made Jiang Yan and Su Rui laugh loudly. They stood up with wine glasses in hand, walked to the yard curiously, and looked up.
No.
In the western sky, a star is particularly dazzling, even more dazzling than the moon.
"It's quite a sight."
Jiang Yan and Su Rui didn't know why, they just felt that the star was so bright that it hurt their eyes.
And Hua Yi in Zhangjiazhuang, when he took the herbs out of the room and put them in the yard to dry, he found a double shadow under his feet, and the moon was not full tonight, but the light was brighter. He looked up and saw hanging in the northwest Jin Xing's face became solemn.
"Venus suddenly became so bright, as if it was about to burst. It would be extraordinary if it was still hanging in the sky tomorrow morning."
He once divined a fortune for the great rejuvenation of the country, but the war broke out not this year.
But today, the Venus shined exceptionally brightly, which made Hua Yi have to make some calculations again.
A bad omen!
Hua Yi instantly put down the bamboo basket containing the herbs in his hand and stared at the shining star.
During this period, only when the pain in your eyes becomes unbearable, you will look away, relax your eyes, and continue to observe their changes.
And as the eastern horizon turned white, the expression on his face became more serious.
Early in the morning, when the sun leaps over the horizon.
Many people have discovered the star hanging high in the northwest. Although its brightness is not as shining as the morning sun, it is still impossible to ignore.
But when the sun just rises, because the weather is extremely clear and there are other stars in the sky, for people who are not good at astronomy, the most they can say is "The stars are so bright today, the sun will not rise yet." Not left behind.” No one took this matter to heart.
So much so.
When it was almost noon, the star was still hanging high in the sky, and most people didn't notice its existence.
Only Hua Yi, whose neck was tired and his eyes were sore, seemed to frown and sighed with relief after confirming the horoscope.
"Taibai Jingtian, war is about to break out, and the wolf smoke in the northwest will burn forever."
at the same time.
Astrologers, Taoist masters and astrologers from Daxing and other countries in the Western Regions all observed the strange phenomenon of Taibai Jingtian.
Especially in Daxing, many mountain gates that had been closed for hundreds of years suddenly opened.
