During these days in Xiangyang, Yang Ming deliberately gave Du Ruhui the opportunity to get close to him and asked him about everything, and Du Ruhui's answers were also very specific and detailed.
After a brief contact, Yang Ming could roughly tell that this person was a very independent and smart person who had his own way of doing things.
Yang Ming asked him what he thought of the Jingzhou Navy. Du Ruhui saw that Yang Ming valued the Navy, so he directly pointed out that the Navy should either let them die here. If the Navy was to be rebuilt in the future, this gang would People must be replaced from beginning to end.
The reason is that they have been really poor over the years. Once the maintenance fees are allocated from above, these people know best where to get the money and put it into their own pockets.
If you send people to investigate, no problem can be found, but if you send supervisors, the supervisors will be bribed in the face of huge interests.
So what Du Ruhui means is, don't spend such wasted money, navy ships are no longer worth any investment.
It is true that normal people will definitely not throw money into this anymore, but people like Yang Ming who know the direction of history cannot not pay attention to the Xiangyang Navy.
During the great chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, grandsons such as Du Fuwei, Fugong'er, Li Zitong, Zhu Can, Lin Shihong, Xiao Xian, Shen Faxing, etc. were all active in the Yangtze River area.
If Yang Ming can have a huge fleet entrenched in the Han River, he can enter the Yangtze River from Jiangxia at any time, connect the east and west, and then control the entire Yangtze River waterway.
But he couldn't tell Du Ruhui this.
The Xiangyang Navy must invest, but when to invest is indeed debatable.
After three days of travel, Yang Ming made a special trip by the naval station and did not enter. He only asked someone to secretly call Zhou Zhongmu over.
On the roadside lawn, after listening to Zhou Zhongmo's report, Yang Ming completely agreed with Du Ruhui's statement.
These people are so poor that they even pretended to be bandits and robbed merchant ships. Are you soldiers or bandits?
It can be seen that the 110,000 yuan of military pay allocated every year has not been paid at all.
So, who took the money?
Du Ruhui listened to the side, feeling a little panicked, because the money was allocated by the imperial court to the General Manager's Office, and then the General Manager's Office allocated it to the Xiangzhou Prefecture, and the Fuyamen allocated it to the Husband's Palace.
In the process, there are three procedures to go through. As the governor of Xiangzhou, my father knows how to handle it. He must not be greedy. Don't let the King of Hedong focus on him because of this small amount of money.
Yang Ming had already planned to return, and he had no intention of going to the city to ask Du Zha, so he asked Du Ruhui to go back and clean up his time to salute, and also called his father over.
Du Ruhui was very grateful because he guessed that King Hedong was giving him the opportunity to collude with his father in confessing, and somewhat meant to let his father go.
Du Ruhui knew his father better than his son, and he knew that his grandfather was most likely to have taken the money.
At the governor's office, Du Ruhui said with a helpless look: "Master Hu Tu, how much money is this? Is it worth plucking your hair like this?"
Du Zha was also in a panic now, walking around the hall, thinking about how to deal with it.
Of the 110,000 guan of the Xiangyang navy, the general manager's office actually gave him only 30,000 guan. He took 10,000 guan and gave the remaining 20,000 guan to the Hussar Mansion. As for the Hussar General Cai Ju How much more he would deduct, he didn't know.
"What should I do? What should I do? If my father follows you out of the city to see the King of Hedong, I'm afraid I won't come back alive."
Du Zha was now panicked and had no courage to leave the city.
Du Ruhui sighed: "It's not that serious. It suddenly occurred to me that the King of Hedong deliberately asked me to call you to test our family. It depends on whether grandpa is willing to tell the truth. In the eyes of his son, as long as he tells the truth, This is loyalty, and the King of Hedong will never embarrass me for ten thousand guan."
In fact, it was not 10,000 guan, but 10,000 guan a year. Du Zha served as governor for seven years and received 70,000 guan.
He said he was afraid of not coming back, but in fact Du Zha knew in his heart that the King of Hedong would not kill him. The Du family in Jingzhao was also from Guanzhong, and the royal family had always been relatively tolerant to the children of Guanzhong.
After thinking about it, Du Zha gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go, my father will follow you out of the city."
Official road outside the city, Xiangyang official post
After receiving the order, he took the 600 horses and four carriages in the post station to the outside of the city for King Hedong's return journey.
Yang Ming went back this time by land and could return to Jiangling in a day and a half.
After these vehicles and horses arrive at Jiangling, they will be sent back by the official post in Jiangling.
In the open space on the roadside, after listening to Du Zha's explanation, Yang Ming nodded and got on the carriage without saying anything.
The team set off.
Du Ruhui hurriedly lifted his father who was kneeling on the ground and whispered: "Master, please go back. It's fine now."
Du Zha stood up and whispered: "When we get to the General Manager's Mansion, my son must remember to say a few good words for my grandpa. You must also do your duty. You are the eldest son, and our family will depend on you from now on."
"Don't worry, Grandpa," Du Ruhui knelt down and said goodbye to Nai's father, then got on his carriage and followed the team.
In the carriage, Yang Ming and Yang Yinjiang chatted about the whole process. After finishing talking, they couldn't help but smile bitterly:
"This is really a total of 110,000 guan. In the end, the amount that fell on the navy army was probably less than 10,000 guan."
Yang Yinjiang also laughed and said: "And this is just the navy... How much money has been embezzled in other places? I only heard that the King of Qin loved money, but I didn't expect the King of Han to be the same."
This is true for the kings of Qin and Han, but what about the kings of Jin and Shu? I'm afraid none of them are clean.
There is no way to pursue this matter, so we can only admit it. After receiving the allocation for next year at most, Yang Ming ordered the general manager's office to allocate the full amount of money to the navy.
Yang Ming does not intend to pursue the case of Du Zha, the governor of Xiangzhou, and Cai Ju, the general of the Hussar Prefecture. The atmosphere is such that it cannot be solved by just one or two people.
Originally, he was thinking of letting Zhou Zhongmo take his five teeth and sneak into the Navy to get paid, but now it looks like he has to spend his own money.
After returning to Jiangling, Yang Ming asked Du Ruhui to report to Yuan Wendu, and Yuan Wendu would arrange the specific matters, including reporting to the Ministry of Personnel, preparing eucalyptus for Du Ruhui, and receiving official uniforms.
As for food and accommodation, it's in the General Manager's Mansion.
There are many vacant rooms in the front office of the General Manager's Mansion. I'm just worried that no one will live in them, not that I won't be able to accommodate them.
Back in his dormitory, Xu Jing handed a letter to Yang Ming:
"Coming from Daxing, you have just gone to Xiangyang, and Xin will be here soon."
Yang Ming nodded and sat down aside. Xu Jing handed over the oil lamp sensibly and put it aside.
After opening the letter and looking at it, Yang Ming was stunned.
It turned out to be a letter from Pei Shuying. After reading it, Yang Ming breathed a long sigh of relief. The fatigue of the past few days was gone, which gave him an appetite.
"Hurry up to dinner, I'm very hungry."
"Okay..." Xu Jing chuckled and went out to organize things.
Pei Shuying's letter mentioned two things.
Her younger brother Pei Xuanji and Runan Princess Yang Chan are in love and their relationship is progressing rapidly. They are likely to get married in October.
This is a good thing. Yang Ming is very happy. His elder sisters Yang Chan and Pei Xuanji are both fourteen years old this year. Although they are a little early, they are within the normal range.
Grandmother Dugu Jialuo married her grandfather Yang Jian at the age of fourteen. The eldest grandson empress in history married Li Shimin at the age of thirteen.
Therefore, marriages like theirs are not considered early marriages.
In addition, Pei Shuying also mentioned in the letter that since Yang Ming left Daxing, she had gone to the Yue Gong Mansion more than ten times to look for Yang Yinjiang, but the housekeeper used various excuses to get there.
Therefore, Pei Shuying suspected that Yang Yinjiang followed Yang Ming to Jingzhou and was not in Daxing at all. Otherwise, Yang Yinjiang would not have missed her.
At the end of her letter, she hoped that Yang Ming could reply to her as soon as possible, saying that if Yang Ming deceived her, she would never see Yang Ming again in her life.
What you said was so hypocritical... Yang Ming couldn't laugh or cry. If you don't see me for the rest of your life, will you do any harm to me?
Besides, your brother married my sister, and we will be in-laws from now on, how could we not see each other?
So Yang Ming called Yang Yinjiang and showed her the letter.
After Yang Yinjiang finished reading, she held her chin helplessly: "Pei Shuying has a straightforward temper and acts in a fickle manner. Why don't you give me some help?"
She wrote back that she dared to come to Jingzhou to find you. "
Yang Ming lowered his head to eat the food and asked, "Then how should I reply to her?"
"You don't have to worry about this. Just trust me and come back." After saying that, Yang Yinjiang put the letter away properly.
There is no doubt that in addition to Dugu Feng'er, another major competitor of his has appeared.
But Yang Yinjiang didn't take Pei Shuying to heart, because she was very confident that she could completely control the other person, because Pei Shuying was too down-to-earth and unintentional.
Yang Yinjiang dragged her cheeks and looked at Yang Ming opposite through the light.
What she likes most is the time the two of them spend alone together. Even if they don't say a word, she still enjoys it.
...
Daxing, Pei Mansion.
Pei Shuying has made up her mind. Regardless of whether Yang Ming replies to the letter or not, she will go to Jingzhou.
She is one year younger than Yang Yinjiang and is sixteen this year. In the Sui Dynasty, both of them were older girls waiting to be married.
Originally, Pei Ju hoped that his daughter could find a suitable husband to marry before his son got married.
Unfortunately, things went against his wishes. The wealthy families in Guanzhong had stepped down the threshold of his family, but none of his daughters looked down on him. In this life, Pei Ju had nothing to do with his own daughter.
What's more, after making some insinuations, he unexpectedly discovered that his daughter already had someone in mind, and this person was Yang Ming, the king of Hedong, who had a marriage contract from the Holy Queen.
Doesn't it seem that my son has a good sense of sight? What made you fall in love with that guy Li Dewu in the first place?
Pei Ju paused outside his daughter's dormitory for a long time, looking at the flickering lights in the house in the distance, smiling bitterly and shaking his head.
It was impossible for him to let his daughter be someone's side wife, not even Yang Ming.
Luoyang Dugu clan? If it were not for the Holy Queen, the Dugu family would be useless. There would be no official in the border areas and no central government officials. It would be difficult for such a family to survive for a hundred years after the Holy Queen.
Because the Dugu family had little contact with Prince Jin's palace before, but now that Prince Jin has become the prince, they still have little contact.
This will be easy to handle,
Everything depends on people. As a legitimate daughter, I naturally want to find a good destination for her in this life.
This kid, King Hedong, is definitely not a creature of the pond.
Since the founding of the Sui Dynasty, the key to the reason why it has never fallen behind in the confrontation with the Turks lies in two people.
One is Changsun Cheng and the other is Pei Ju.
Pei Ju is so resourceful that he does not think twice about others in the current court.
