Hearing his sister say this, Da Duan's heart became more comfortable.

It was already very suitable for her eyes, she was born gentle and elegant, and she was tall and plump, after all, she was an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl, which was much more down-to-earth than those fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls.

"It's a pity that it's a concubine's daughter, if it's a concubine, it's appropriate to let Ziying marry this girl." The more Da Duan looked at it, the more pleasing it was to the eye, and he sighed with emotion, but he didn't give birth to a human belly.

She has already asked someone to inquire clearly, that Lin Daiyu is delicate, and she is still young, which makes Da Duan's heart even more uncomfortable, but fortunately, when she sees this woman today, her heart is much more steady, if Lin Daiyu is really bad, at least this one is still stable.

"Sister, didn't Brother Keng say it? The two sisters married together, if the sister really likes her, the son she gave birth to in the future would be good for Brother Keng'er to seek a favor. "Xiao Duan's is very considerate, and this can be regarded as the greatest care for these concubines and children.

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, the children of civil and military officials had the opportunity to receive grace, and there were various ways to favor grace.

For example, if you are admitted to the Guozijian, this is the most common, and the children of civil officials like it the most, even if you fail to pass the imperial examination after you come out, you can also find a miscellaneous official, if the father has a big face, then maybe you can also get a noble idle position.

Another example is to hang a false title as a lieutenant in the dragon, which is the most common among martial artists and military attachés, and of course there are many civil officials who are willing to choose this.

Because it is not possible to enter the country and enter the country at will, and if you do not want to be an official in the imperial examination, even if it is a miscellaneous official, you have to go to a place outside the capital, which is what many Beijing officials are unwilling to do.

In the first few years of Zhishi, the military generals who were well mixed would try their best to seek a favor from the emperor, that is, to find a good background for their sons, even if it was a false title, they would have an identity.

"It's all an afterthought, and I don't know why this sonar brother touched his head? He has to marry this daughter of the Lin family, so many ladies are at his disposal, but none of them are eye-catching. ”

The Daduan clan is also helpless against his son.

Especially looking at the mountains of posts in those rooms, even now I can receive one or twenty letters a day, which is much better than my husband.

Based on this alone, Da Duan's family no longer has the same strong confidence as she used to be against her son, otherwise she would never agree to this marriage.

"Sister, Brother Cong'er has grown up, we can't be like four or five years ago, didn't even the master say a lot of things, please listen to Brother Cong'er more?" Xiao Duan knew that his sister's heart was still a little blocked, so he persuaded: "Besides, what family in this Jingshi City can be as proud as our sonor?" He values the Lin family girl so much, and it is estimated that on the one hand, the Lin family girl is indeed in love, and on the other hand, there are other considerations, I heard that he will soon go to Yangzhou, or on business, it is estimated that most of them are also related to the Lin family. ”

Da Duan glared at his sister, "Wanqin, Brother Cong'er was spoiled by you, so you can let him be." ”

Seeing the two figures disappear from the window of the meditation room, Feng Ziying's heart became much more steady.

This Miaoyu is dressed very plain and elegant today, which is just in line with her mother's preferences, plus this body is better to show her figure, it is estimated that there is an aunt on the side to persuade her, and it is not a big problem.

"Then please stay." Feng Ziying nodded and said with a smile: "Five days later, I will arrange a carriage to pick up Miss Miaoyu." ”

Watching Feng Ziying's graceful back disappear outside the gate of Muni Academy, Miaoyu was also a little distracted for a while.

Standing on the side, Master Yuan's heart was also moved.

This Feng Gongzi is really a suitable person, he is famous in the capital city, it is said that he is the leading character in the younger generation of Beidi scholars, whether it is his family background, his own apprentice fate is not over, and his heart is undecided, the only pity is his mother's identity, which is the biggest obstacle.

If you want her to marry an ordinary ordinary man, I am afraid that no one can afford it, but if she gives the children of rich and noble families as concubines, it is really wrong, and she is in a dilemma.

Hey, this girl is eighteen years old, this age is already the time to get married, look at this girl's eyebrows are already red and starry, it should be a marriage, and see if she is enough to cope with this fate.

If it weren't for that, fate wouldn't have allowed this trip so easily.

After returning home and getting her mother's affirmative answer, Feng Ziying finally lifted another stone.

Here he urged his mother to hurry up and prepare for the dowry, and he hurriedly asked Qi Yongtai to write a letter to Lin Ruhai, which is the minimum rule.

Qi Yongtai has to write a letter first, and the woman agrees, so the dowry can be sent here, the woman agrees, and writes the marriage letter approved by the government, basically this marriage is finalized.

As for the time of marriage, this can be negotiated by yourself.

******

"You kid, you just want to drag the teacher into the water?" Guan Yingzhen looked at the heroic young man in front of him with a smile.

Four years have passed in the blink of an eye, and this young man, who was still very immature when he first stepped into Qingtan Academy, has now grown into the most magical scholar representative of the Great Zhou, whether it is practicing state affairs or Huang Zunsu and Yang Sichang, they are beyond the reach of the dust. 113

"Official, don't you want to make a career?" Feng Ziying took the initiative to pour tea for Guan Yingzhen with great interest, although it was in the mansion where Guan Yingzhen temporarily lived, but as a disciple, he naturally had to do these things, and there was no need for servants to come.

"Although the disciple doesn't know the situation of the household department, he also knows that it is all set by rules and regulations, and every year there are so many fields and business taxes, and it is overstretched to meet the expenses of the nine sides, how much significance does it make for you, the right servant of the household department? And the left servant of the household must be a scholar from Fujian, Zhejiang or Nanzhi, right? Settled? ”

Feng Ziying's sophistication made Guan Yingzhen feel more and more, "Yo, are you so sure?" ”

"Could it be that Lord Zheng wants to be a scholar?" Feng Ziying saw that Guan Yingzhen smiled at the corner of her mouth, and was slightly surprised.

In his opinion, Zheng Jizhi is also from Huguang, if Guan Yingzhen serves as the right attendant of the household department, then the power of the Huguang faction in the household department is too strong, and the left attendant will definitely be a Jiangnan scholar, but the Beidi scholar people have nothing to gain here in the household department, I am afraid it is a little unreasonable.

"You've got that figured it out." Guan Yingzhen said lightly: "For the division, he will serve as the left attendant of the Nanjing household department." ”

Feng Ziying was stunned for a moment, and then immediately overjoyed, "It turns out that the official teacher was scaring the disciple before, congratulations to the official teacher, the disciple is now steady." ”

Feng Ziying had been thinking about it before, if Guan Yingzhen really served as the right attendant of the household department, and Zheng Jizhi, the secretary of the household department, might be a little dangerous, because in such an important department, Huguang people occupy two positions, and none of the Jiangnan or northern scholars have one, which is unreasonable.

It can be said that like the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of War, the three major ministries and the five ministries and temples of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple, each department must have a northern scholar and a Jiangnan scholar, that is to say, Shangshu, the left and right squires or the imperial history of the capital and the deputy imperial envoy, the imperial history of the capital, or the Dali Temple Qing and the left and right Shaoqing, are basically made up of the northern scholars and the Jiangnan scholars, and they must be relatively balanced, as for the others, it is not necessarily.

Therefore, if there are two Huguang people in the household department and there are no Jiangnan scholars or northern scholars to occupy a place in it, it is an exception, well, if it is the Ministry of Rites, the Criminal Department or the Ministry of Industry, it may be possible, but the household department will not, so Feng Ziying thought that Zheng Jizhi wanted to give office, and the household department Shangshu and Zuo Shilang should be occupied by Jiangnan scholars and northern scholars respectively.

Guan Yingzhen was also surprised by Feng Ziying's sensitivity and sensitivity to such things, but at a young age, she knew everything about the balanced operation of such officialdom, which was really emotional.

Feng Ziying didn't expect Guan Yingzhen to be so touched, decades of officialdom in her previous life had made her accustomed to automatically thinking from various angles.

At present, the northern scholars are faintly supported by Emperor Yonglong, and the Jiangnan scholars are still powerful and the relationship between the Emperor Taishang and the Jiangnan gentry is complex and intertwined, it is undoubtedly the safest move to let the northern scholars and Jiangnan scholars form a relative balance in the court, and then let the small faction of the Huguang faction, or the scholars from insignificant places such as the southwest and Liangguang, serve as a buffer in it.

Now Guan Yingzhen has been appointed as the left attendant of the Nanjing Household Department, so that the situation is clear all of a sudden, indicating that the cabinet and the emperor have reached an agreement, and Guan Yingzhen will definitely use the Nanjing Household Zuo Attendant to be responsible for the strategy of opening the sea.

This is also the proper meaning, in the north and south in the situation that no one is at ease with the other, it is undoubtedly acceptable for everyone to be responsible for a Huguangshi person.

Although Guan Yingzhen is good friends with Qi Yongtai, he also has a good relationship with Ye Xianggao, so it is most suitable to choose him to be in charge of the strategy of opening the sea.

"Hmph, you are down-to-earth in your heart, but you are not steady-minded in your heart." Guan Yingzhen snorted coldly, "Lord Shoufu is very dissatisfied with your inclusion of the Dongfan matter, thinking that you are ignoring the overall situation, regardless of priorities, and carrying private goods, Brother Chengfeng also has this intention, if you can't give a satisfactory explanation for the teacher, you can't let this matter interfere with the overall situation." ”

"Hehe, official, why should you be so nervous about such things?" Feng Ziying said lightly: "I have also said it to Master Qi, but it is a bypassing move, the disciple can guarantee that he will not let the imperial court spend more money and grain, and he will be able to hand over a fertile land with an annual output of 300,000 stones to the imperial court in five years." ”

Guan Yingzhen was taken aback, subconsciously looked Feng Ziying up and down, and it took a long time before he regained his calm expression, "Ziying, it's okay to say such big things in front of me, but if it spreads out and someone takes the handle, it will cause trouble." ”

"Don't you believe it?" Feng Ziying is confident.

After comprehensively collecting the reclamation situation of the Longyou merchants and the Jiangyou Anfu merchants in Yunnan and Yunyang, Feng Ziying's previous biggest obstacle to how to solve the Dongfan problem finally found the key.

Drilling into the sky and swimming all over the world, Feng Ziying had heard of this for a long time, but she didn't expect that the Longyou merchants and Jiangyou Anfu merchants still had the tradition of reclamation.

The reclamation of Yao'an in Yunnan and Yunyang in Huguang both left a deep imprint on the merchants of Longyou and Anfu, but Feng Ziying could not understand why these local officials were so afraid of the reclamation of these merchants.

Now the merchants of Longyou and Anfu have paid their own money to hire people to develop remote and backward areas, and these local officials are actually worried that it will be difficult to control the gathering of people to make trouble, and it can be imagined how inferior the quality and ability of these officials are, and it can also be seen how bad the psychological precautions and fears of the former Ming court were.

Once the sea is opened, Dongfan will become an important place connecting the Great Zhou and Japan, and it is also the throat of the two Guangxi and Fujian lands to go north to Beijing, and Feng Ziying also knows how rich the land of Dongfan is, gold sand, fertile soil, of course, the difficulty is not small, the local indigenous people are still in a primitive state, and the epidemic brought by the hot and humid climate needs to be solved.

But as long as these businessmen can be moved, they can gain a foothold in Yunnan, and of course they can start a business in Dongfan, especially with the support of the imperial court, there is no reason why they can't produce satisfactory results.

Seeing Feng Ziying so confident, Guan Yingzhen was really interested.

"Ziying, don't be a good eye, not to mention that you and I are responsible for the strategy of opening the sea, that is mainly to come up with a strategy, how to operate below, it depends on the people below, don't you plan to go to Dongfan to reclaim in person? The land of the east is not free to be reclaimed, from the past in Fujian, the wind and waves are dangerous, the water flow is uncertain, and it is extremely sinister, the situation on the island is not as fertile and fertile as you think, the golden sand is everywhere, there are many people in the mountains who do not obey the king, but I am afraid that they may not easily obey the king, such a sinister place, you say that it can be changed in three or five years, and it is hard to believe that the teacher is unbelievable. ”

"Hehe, official, the disciple naturally understands the difficulties. We all know that this eastern land is just a sea away from our Fujian, this Fujian is mountainous and less land, and the people are struggling to make a living, why would they rather go to Nanyang than go to Dongfan? Feng Ziying nodded.

"The key is that our sea ban makes our shipbuilding technology lag behind this era, many times our ships can only rely on the tailwind, and to cross the strait to the east, if there is not enough support, whether it is businessmen or ordinary people, it is difficult to take this risk, especially when they do not know what is in the land of the east, this fear of adventure will be heavier, but now everything is ready only to the east wind, the strategy of opening the sea is a foregone conclusion, and there is such an opportunity, why not dare to try?"

Seeing that Feng Ziying was so determined, Guan Yingzhen also understood the ability and character of this disciple, and knew that the other party was afraid that he had been planning this matter for a long time, but this was not the focus of his discussion with the other party, and what he wanted to talk about today with Feng Ziying was the matter of opening the sea and even Yinzhuang.

Since it is imminent for him to take office, the most important thing is how to support the series of expenses for opening the sea, and Yinzhuang is the top priority here, especially after the cabinet has made it clear that the concession is mainly to make up for the counterinsurgency expenses in Liaodong and Ningxia and Gansu, this pressure is even greater.