When the boat arrived in Yangzhou, Feng Ziying felt more and more the depression of dense clouds and rain.

Among the officials who came to greet him at the wharf, there was no doubt that Zhai Wenya, the prefect of Yangzhou, was the leader.

Their group was not ordered to travel, but was commissioned by the cabinet to investigate, so like the Nanjing Sixth Department does not need to send people to greet them, otherwise in Xuzhou, someone from Nanjing should come, but if Nanjing really attaches importance to this trip, it can also send someone to contact, but it is obvious that Nanjing has no such intention.

Cui Jingrong and they all know this.

Now the leaders of the six departments of Nanjing basically belong to the kind of idle and scattered, naturally a hundred people from these Beijing teachers are not waiting to see, and they really belong to the young young Zhuang faction who are stored materials, without the approval of the scholars, it is naturally impossible to come, but in private, they have already arranged for private people to come to say hello, such as Tao Qian, the left waiter of the Nanjing Ministry of Industry, Hu Wenji, the left waiter of the Nanjing Household Department, and others.

So Cui Jingrong and they don't care, they are just here to investigate and find out, for the six departments of Nanjing, that is, to walk around the scene, it is more necessary to focus on various provinces, such as Jinling Mansion, Huai'an Mansion, Yangzhou Mansion, Suzhou Mansion, Songjiang Mansion, etc.

Yangzhou is not the focus of the south, but Yangzhou status is special, as the salt transportation center of the whole two Huai Nanzhi, here not only gathers the rich salt merchants of the whole country, but also here is the most important distribution center for all kinds of consumer materials, in addition to salt, fat powder, silk, timber, grain, cloth, bone Dong art, etc., the prosperity of the trade here is even more than that of Jingshi City.

Yangzhou is a typical consumer-oriented city, the deformed demand and market make the consumer industry here extremely developed, but in addition to salt, fat powder and silk can be regarded as an important production here, and the others are more transit circulation, but this special transit circulation has created a prosperous ten miles here.

Feng Ziying had already greeted Cui Jingrong and others, and after taking a leave, after hurriedly attending the welcome banquet held by the Yangzhou local government, Feng Ziying left first.

When she saw Lin Ruhai for the first time, Feng Ziying's heart sank slightly.

Thin cheeks and a fairly godly gaze, what does the combination of these two different signs mean, Feng Ziying still has some numbers in her heart.

After following Master Zhang for a long time, he also has some insight, this situation is often terminally ill and difficult to reverse, but it is not in a state of running out of oil in a short period of time.

Sure enough, after a brief conversation with Jia Lian, Jia Lian told Feng Ziying that the situation was not optimistic.

According to the judgment of many Langzhong, Lin Ruhai should have been tired for a long time, and he became ill due to overwork, dampness and heat hurt the spleen, cold and temperature were out of season, hot flashes in the sun, and night sweats at night, which was a typical and serious liver disease.

Asked again, Lin Ruhai likes to drink, although the amount of alcohol is not large, but he has to drink every day.

Liver disease to such a state, basically a matter of procrastination, according to Lang Zhong's judgment, the short is one or two months, the long is three or five months, basically this time.

Looking at Daiyu's appearance is quite normal, although her eyes are red and swollen, and her expression is pitiful, but fortunately, it is not the state that she is most worried about being hit too hard to accept, probably because she had made the worst plan before, and now she sees that her father can still persevere, and she slowly accepts it in her heart.

"Feng Keng has seen Uncle Lin." Feng Ziying bowed in a proper manner.

"I didn't expect Brother Ru Jun to have such a proud disciple, he is really heroic, a genius." With a smile on the corner of his mouth, Lin Ruhai raised his hand, signaling that Feng Ziying didn't need to be polite, but he was sighing secretly in his heart.

The young man in front of him will undoubtedly be a dazzling new star in the political arena of the Great Zhou Dynasty in the future, and perhaps in twenty years, he should have a place in the Wenyuan Pavilion.

Not to mention Feng Ziying's ability and talent, just a Shu Jishi, no, now he is the status of the Hanlin Academy's cultivator, and with Qi Yongtai and Qiao Yingjia, the two outstanding scholars of the Beidi Scholars, his future can be imagined how bright it will be.

No matter who wants to move Feng Ziying, they have to weigh the crazy counterattack from the Beidi scholars, this is not even counting him or Guan Yingzhen, the proud protégé of the leader of the Huguang faction, Chai Ke is undoubtedly influenced by Guan Yingzhen to favor this son so much.

I have to say that Feng Ziying's identity is too special, his ancestral home is Shandong, he grew up in Shanxi, and then he was attached to Shuntianfu, Shandong, Shanxi, and Beizhi, the three northland provinces with the strongest strength of the northerners, the future may be his basic plate, plus his special background, the family of martial arts, although this group is not so popular now, but you can't deny that this group still has an influence that cannot be ignored in the army and the borderlands.

It all adds up to perfection.

Oh, by the way, this guy is quite in line with the emperor's appetite, or this guy is very good at the emperor's favor, and he can also get real materials, not the kind of sycophancy that just relies on sycophancy to please the emperor.

No wonder so many people are optimistic about this son, and naturally countless people want to recruit him as a son-in-law.

"My uncle has an overreputation, and the little nephew is shallow in his learning, and his qualifications are dull, especially in Jingyi poetry, which is not worth mentioning, and even becomes a laughing stock,......"

Feng Ziying's words made Lin Ruhai laugh, "Why should a virtuous nephew be so modest, you must know that being too modest is hypocrisy." I don't agree with what you said, Jingyi is indeed the foundation, but no matter how strong the foundation is, if it is not flexible and breakthrough, it will also have limited achievements, and it is difficult to really deal with the crisis situation, as for the poetry and songs, it is the icing on the cake, without these things brocade or brocade, it is just as useful, and the flower is just good-looking. ”

Feng Ziying didn't expect Lin Ruhai to use such a way to interpret the word icing on the cake and the scriptures, which completely subverted his previous speculation about Lin Ruhai, which made him feel like a confidant.

No wonder Lin Ruhai would introduce Jia Yucun to Wang Ziteng, but I am afraid that Lin Ruhai may not know Jia Yucun's ability and character, but he still recommended it to Wang Ziteng, which shows that Lin Ruhai is far from the kind of pedantic and old-fashioned scholar that some people imagine.

As for whether it is honest and upright, Feng Ziying does not judge favorably, but with his judgment, he can guard this inner library for Emperor Taishang for so many years in the position of Lianghuai Patrol Salt Imperial History, and even now Emperor Yonglong does not dare to interfere easily, which is enough to explain a lot.

This is not a position that can be firmly established just by relying on honesty and integrity, and even with a sinister heart, it is impossible for Emperor Yuanxi to let a private minister who is as honest as snow and upright sit in this position.

After taking a deep look at Feng Ziying, Lin Ruhai stood up with this body, and the chief next to him hurriedly supported him, but Lin Ruhai was quite normal, but his body was a little weak, and he waved his hand, "You all go out." ”

The long bowed and retreated.

"Yu'er, Lian'er, you also go out, I want to have a good talk with Ziying." Lin Ruhai's tone was flat, but Lin Daiyu and Jia Lian both understood what Lin Ruhai was going to talk to Feng Ziying, so they both nodded and went out.

There were only two people left in the study.

The theory of patrolling the salt imperial history is a temporary position, but since the former Ming Dynasty, although this position has been clearly the imperial history sent by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, it has never really been under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Since the Tianping Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the position of the Lianghuai Patrol Salt Imperial History has become the emperor's "self-reserved land", and even the cabinet and the Metropolitan Procuratorate seem to have reached a tacit understanding with these emperors.

Especially during the reign of Emperor Yuanxi, if the huge expenses of the six Jiangnan provinces were to be borne by the household department, it would inevitably trigger attacks from the government and the opposition, and it was difficult for both the cabinet and the emperor himself to resist this attack.

Therefore, there are two Huai patrol salt imperial histories in the middle of this as a kind of hidden bridge between the royal treasury and the household treasury, so many things that are difficult to say or difficult to explain clearly can be disposed of through here.

This is just that the scale of this hidden private treasury has gone through so many years, especially in the past forty years of Emperor Yuanxi, how big the scale is, how much salt is issued every year, how much silver is recovered, what aspects are used, who can use the silver here, and how much silver is left now, it is a mystery.

Whether it is the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Long Forbidden Lieutenant, or even the Household Department, they all want to understand this, but no one dares to come to the battle shirtless, and they can often only try to find out under various pretexts or reasons or the lack of state affairs.

But it seems that until now, this wish has not been fulfilled.

Lin Ruhai sat down again and faced Feng Ziying.

"Ziying, don't you have anything to tell me?" Lin Ruhai's face was gentle, but his tone was a little cold.

Feng Ziying took a deep breath, stood up, and bowed again, "The little nephew knows that the uncle must have some opinions about the little nephew in his heart, but the little nephew still wants to plead with the uncle and ask the uncle to marry Sister Lin to the little nephew." ”

"Oh?" Lin Ruhai laughed, a little cold, "Aren't you going to marry Shen Shen's daughter Shen Jiyu?" ”

Shen Fu and Lin Ruhai are both fellow villagers in Suzhou, and they are Jinshi in the same year, although he took the road of Emperor Yuanxi's private minister, and Shen Fu is not close, but it does not mean that there is no contact, let alone that he does not understand Shen Fu's situation.

"Back to Uncle, Uncle Shen, it is Master Qiao and his father who are in charge, who are favored by the emperor, and the little nephew is also the long house of the uncle of the Shen family, so the daughter of the Shen family is married to the long house." Feng Zi's tone was respectful, but there was no ambiguity.

"Are you planning to marry Yu'er as your Feng family's third room?" Lin Ruhai wanted to ask the question clearly, "Jia Yucun once wrote to me and mentioned to you that you and Yu'er had an agreement to marry, why did you refuse at that time?" ”

Feng Ziying didn't expect Jia Yucun to stab Lin Ruhai about this, but it was difficult to say that they were malicious.

After thinking about it for a while, Feng Ziying quickly replied: "There are two reasons, one is that the little nephew and sister Lin were still young at that time, and the other is that they have some concerns, worried that their mother will not agree. ”