In the quiet afternoon, the sun sprinkled unobstructed, illuminating the entire Kaifeng Mansion with incandescent light. In the scorching hot weather, even the prosperous place of Kaifeng Mansion looks a little listless. At noon, when the weather is at its hottest, even the streets become scarce. On the street outside the Donghua Gate, the tall and majestic Fengle Building stands there, looking at the past, the eaves and arches of the Fengle Building are floating because of the heat.

Wu Haogu had already left the Donghua Gate, wearing a sweat-soaked official uniform, riding on the back of a docile mare, and slowly moving forward with his mind.

The audience of Chongzheng Hall has ended, although Zhao Xu and Zhang Dian asked Wu Haogu a lot of questions, and praised a few words from time to time, but the "heavy reward" still has not been seen, Wu Haogu is still a nine-grade right class hall straight. Although it was a matter of time before he was promoted, Wu Haogu was still a little disappointed.

However, there is a good side to the reward that is not finalized immediately, that is, Wu Haogu can still work hard to fight for it, and maybe he can get a better result.

He is now a military attache of Zhengjiupin, and he is really not very good in the bureaucratic system of the Great Song Dynasty.

In addition, it is not like an ambassador to be a minister in the Hanlin Painting Academy. After all, waiting for the edict is just a dispatch of officials, and the little envoy can just do it, but the ambassador can put the county order and be a middle-level official who can be the lord of the general, so Wu Haogu still wants to find a good dispatch for himself.

He can't look down on ordinary dispatches, even if he gives a county order, he doesn't want to do it - how much can a county order be greedy? And I don't know where to send it, how much delay it is?

As for the military position, he can't do it anymore, he has just begun to learn to draw a bow and draw a sword, how to lead the troops?

And Wu Hao Gu has long had a favorite position, that is, the supervisor of Lighthouse City or Lighthouse City.

Although Wu Haogu put forward a proposal to establish an autonomous commercial city in the "Pingyan Nine Strategies". However, he also knew that the Great Song Dynasty officials and all kinds of Qingtian were not big-minded, at least they would not allow autonomy on the surface, so they would definitely set up a yamen such as the city division of the lighthouse.

And Wu Haogu must take the real power of this promotion division in his hands in order to ensure that Lighthouse City will develop into a "capitalist ghost" in the future.

However, it is not easy to take down the Lifting Division, because the planned Lighthouse City is a maritime trading market, similar to the commercial market or the market under the Municipal Shipping Division. It is very likely that the government office in charge of management will refer to the municipal shipping department.

According to the current practice of the imperial court, the promotion of the post of city secretary is also led by Cao Chen, that is, the transfer envoy. Dengta City belongs to Cangzhou on Hebei East Road, and according to the convention, it should be concurrently promoted by the Hebei East Road transfer envoy. Therefore, to promote this position, Wu Haogu is now untouchable.

However, there are a lot of things to do on Hebei East Road, and it is impossible to concentrate on managing the city of Lighthouse City, so the real power must be the supervisor and hook up officials of the city department, and Wu Haogu must hold these positions in his hands. As long as these positions are controlled, the real power of the Lighthouse City Bo Division will be in the hands of Wu Haogu.

And with the real power of the Lighthouse City Division, Wu Haogu can further bring the Lighthouse City to the path of Free City. The specific method is the autonomy of the chamber of commerce, delegating the construction and management of the city to a chamber of commerce led by himself. Then the chamber of commerce elects the mayor, police inspector and chief referee, and the construction cost of the commercial market is also raised by the chamber of commerce, and the matter of attracting investment is naturally also the chamber of commerce.

The work of the Lighthouse Office is to guard the entrance of Lighthouse City to the Great Song Dynasty, collect official taxes, and discuss with the Lighthouse City Chamber of Commerce on matters such as city taxes and Bomai and Hemai.

In other words, Lighthouse City will be a "tax-inclusive municipality". The imperial court only collects money and does not participate in the day-to-day management of the market.

And this model of "tax autonomy" was actually very common in the Song Dynasty. The people of the Song Dynasty called it "buying" or "buying". According to the regulations of the Song Dynasty, all wild cities, towns, and virtual markets with an annual tax revenue of less than 1,000 yuan were all subject to a tax package system, and the big businessmen paid for the contract, and the government did not send personnel to supervise them. Liquor and Taoist shops with an annual income of less than 1,000 yuan are also contracted to merchants.

This "tax package" is of course politically incorrect, but it does receive money and saves on the cost of collecting taxes and managing it.

But Lighthouse City is not your average small bazaar, but a large commercial city. It's probably a bit out of the ordinary to give such a city to the Chamber of Commerce...... Fortunately, there is also a process of development in Lighthouse City, and it was only a medium-sized town at the beginning.

As for the development of Lighthouse City in the future, it should be the era of Huizong Zhao Ji......

Wu Haogu, who was thinking about his thoughts, had unconsciously left the Liangmen in the inner city of Kaifeng Mansion, and suddenly heard someone shouting "teacher" and "teacher" on the street of Liangmen, and this voice was quite familiar, as if it was his good apprentice Mi Youren.

He hurriedly turned his head and followed the sound, only to see Mi Youren, dressed in a moon-white Confucian costume and with a rose behind his ear, riding a donkey, followed by a young scholar with a book on his back. Look at this, I should have just come out of the class of the national superintendent.

"It's Yuan Hui." Wu Haogu gently pulled the reins and stopped the horse under his crotch, "I'm looking for you, how about going to my house for a few drinks tonight?" ”

As soon as Wu Haogu went home, he asked Zhang Zeduan to inform Mi Youren, Su Dalang, Guo Jing, Liu Wuji and Gao Yu, and invited them to his home for dinner in the evening, and discussed something with them by the way.

"The student is here for this," Mi Youren said with a smile, "The student has already met Senior Brother Zhang."

Teacher, look at you in an official uniform, but you have just entered the palace to face the king? ”

"Yes," Wu Haogu smiled and walked side by side with Mi Youren, "I've met the official family, Zhang Xianggong and Bachelor Cai." ”

After the audience in the Chongzheng Palace, Wu Haogu also went to the Privy Council to meet the Privy Council's deputy envoy Cai Jing, and explained the task of making Liao, which was just a routine matter and did not go deeper.

Mi Youren smiled and asked, "The teacher must have made a great contribution on this trip, right?" ”

"The credit is there," Wu Haogu smiled bitterly, "but the trouble is not small." ”

Human lives have been taken out, can this trouble be small?

But now is not the time to talk about this, Wu Haogu has always put public before private, and now what he has to consider is how to get the real power of the higher-level officials and the Lighthouse City Boshi in his hands.

Mi Youren asked, "Teacher, what's the trouble?" ”

Wu Haogu shook his head: "This is not the place to talk, let's go back to my house first." ”

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When Wu Haogu and Mi Youren returned to the Wu family's mansion together, Su Dalang, Guo Jing and Liu Wuji had already arrived, and they were all drinking tea and chatting with Wu Chengzhi and Murong Wangwu in the guest hall. Guo Yaoshi and Zhong Ge'er were not in the Wu family's mansion, and Zhang Zeduan accompanied them to visit Kaifeng Mansion.

"Mr. Murong, the official family and Xianggong Zhang have already read the music you handed over."

After greeting and introducing, Wu Haogu told Old Man Murong about meeting the saint in the Chongzheng Hall today.

"How?" Old man Murong asked quietly.

Wu Haogu glanced at him, this old man changed into a Taoist robe, and cleaned himself up, he really looked a little profound.

"Since you are Longyan Dayue," Wu Haogu said with a smile, "I also asked Zhang Xianggong to meet you and Brother Guo...... Mr. Xiangshan, why don't we go to the Prime Minister's Mansion tomorrow to meet you? ”

"See?" Old man Murong smiled, stroked his beard and said, "You asked the old man to go and see Zhang Zihou?" ”

"yes." Wu Haogu nodded.

"No, no."

Not going? Wu Haogu was stunned, what can he do with Kaifeng Mansion if he doesn't go?

Old man Murong pointed to the other two fake Taoist priests Guo Jing and Liu Wuji sitting in the guest hall, "The old man will move to the painting immortal temple tomorrow, Zhang Zihou wants to see the old man, so ask him to paint the immortal view." ”

As soon as these words came out, Wu Haogu and Wu Chengzhi's father and son laughed, and this old man actually put up a shelf.

It's just that the current time is not a chaotic era where the heroes are rising together, and Zhang Dian, who has been a great minister for many years, will eat him?

Seeing Wu Haogu's embarrassed face, Murong Wangwu shook his head and said, "Da Lang, you just have to tell the old man what he means to Zhang Zihou, if he doesn't come, the old man will go back to Yanyun in a few days." ”

It's true? Fake?

Wu Haogu was a little confused, this old man Murong really thought he was Zhuge Liang? Even if he is more powerful than Zhuge Liang, so what? He is not a jinshi of the Great Song Dynasty, who will be a good man?

Old man Murong stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Whether the strategy of the business market can be achieved depends on whether Zhang Zihou is willing to condescend to paint the immortal view."

If he doesn't go through this, you don't have to think about it, it won't happen. If he really wants to use this strategy, don't say it, even if it is a three-way gift, what is the bottom of it? ”

"Mr. Murong is right," Mi Youren's officialdom experience is much richer than that of Wu Haogu, and he immediately understood Old Man Murong's intentions, "If the official family and Zhang Xianggong really use Mr. Murong, it is better to have one end of the shelf, without a doctor, how can the old man go out of the mountain?" ”

At this time, the official system of the Song Dynasty did not have the name of "doctor" military attaché, only the Wensan officials (rank officials) included Guanglu Doctor, Jin Ziguanglu Doctor, Yinqing Guanglu Doctor, Zhengfeng Doctor, Tongfeng Doctor, Taizhong Doctor, Zhongzhong Doctor, Zhongsan Doctor, Chaofeng Doctor, Chao Invite Doctor and Chaosan Doctor, a total of 11 "doctors", of which the youngest Chaosan Doctor is also a civil official from the five grades.

In the Song Dynasty, the civil officials from the fifth grade were not small, and the qualifications for entering the political hall were barely enough.

"What is a doctor?" Old man Murong touched his beard, "The old man is a dignified scholar in the Northern Dynasty!" ”

The Jinshi of the Liao State can not be "dignified" at all, they are just tools for the Khitan people to coax the Han people to play.

Mi Youren nodded again and again when he heard this, "Yes, yes, yes, I have to give a Jinshi background...... In this way, the old gentleman can let go and give advice to the Great Song Dynasty. ”