Wu Haogu is not an official who came out of the imperial examination, nor is he an official who rose up in the army, so there are restrictions on serving as a dispatcher. Must be at least twenty-five years old, otherwise the emperor will need a special decree to be able to take up the actual office.

However, Wu Haogu has made so many great achievements now, and he is indeed qualified to make Zhao Xu make a special purpose.

Zhao Xu thought for a moment, and then asked, "How much should I send him?" A military attache from the seventh rank can be awarded a county order. ”

The county officials of the Song Dynasty were divided into county orders and magistrates, among which civil officials from Jinshi were awarded county magistrates when they served as county officials, and officials without Jinshi were awarded county orders. In addition, military attachés of the Song Dynasty could also serve as magistrates, and ambassadors could serve as county commanders.

And the county order or magistrate is not a minor official, and the official rank of this position is from the seventh rank to the sixth rank - the big official is the county official of the big county, and the small official is in charge of the small county. And the military attache of Wu Haogu from the seventh rank could not control Chixian (inside the capital) and Ji County (outside the capital), and Wangxian (more than 4,000 households) was also hanging, and at most he could catch the county order of the county (more than 3,000 households and less than 4,000 households).

However, Wu Haogu is too young, and his time as an official is also short, so it is still a little inappropriate to be a county commander.

Zhang Dian opened his mouth at this time and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Wu Haogu is not suitable to be a county order. He is a military attaché, but he is actually a businessman, and he has not been in the office for a long time, so it may be difficult to be a county magistrate. ”

Zhao Xu smiled: "I also thought that he couldn't be a county order. But how much can he do? I'm afraid it's even more inappropriate to be a ruler, right? Why don't you ask him to be an official in the Gatekeeper Division? ”

The jurisdiction is also known as the jurisdiction of the soldiers and horses, is a military commander, there is a division of the jurisdiction of the road and the jurisdiction of the state, which is equivalent to the garrison commander of later generations, and it is obviously not an official who can be a good martial artist.

The Gate Division is the yamen in charge of the palace gate, and at the same time, it also masters the errands of the officials' visits, which is generally done for Jiangmen artists or Jiangmen capitalists, which is suitable for Wu Haogu. However, Wu Haogu didn't want to go to Zhao Xu's door......

Zhang Dian pondered and spoke: "The minister thinks that this Heshang City is something that Wu Hao Gu can manage. ”

Zhao Xu frowned slightly, Wu Hao Gu County Order can't be the order, but the mayor can do it?

Zhang Dian continued: "The Jiehe merchant market does not exist now, and the imperial court will not pay for the construction of the merchant market, everything needs to be built and managed by the merchants themselves. The imperial court was only responsible for reaching an agreement with the Liao, and at the same time opening a city bureau to manage the taxation and purchase of goods from the merchant market into other lands of the Great Song Dynasty.

Therefore, the head of the Jiehe Commercial City and the corresponding officials of the Jiehe City Shipping Division must be extremely proficient in business. The minister thought that it was most appropriate for Wu Haogu to take these two positions. ”

In fact, there is another person in Zhang Dun's entrainment who is more suitable to be the "mayor of Lighthouse City" than Wu Haogu, that is, Ji Yi, who is still in Liao and has not returned.

However, in Zhang's view, the "mayor of Lighthouse City" is fat, but it is not a real shortage.

First of all, the "mayor of Lighthouse City" must be a businessman, and he must be a big businessman, otherwise he will not be able to do it at all - in this way, this position will have nothing to do with the word copper smell. Who would want to wear a "profiteer" hat on his head? Wu Haogu is a "dirty official" who has no background, so he naturally wants to find an errand that can make money.

And Ji Yi is too a student, and he is about to become a scholar, he should first go to the Hanlin Academy, go to a place like the Academy to be a pavilion minister, and then go to the Yushitai to be a speech official, so that he can accumulate popularity and be the successor of the new party in the future. How can you be a businessman? If you want to be a "businessman" for a few years, you will want to recommend the two governments.

Therefore, if you ask any official in the DPRK and China who still wants to pay homage to the prime minister one day, if you ask him to become the "mayor of Lighthouse City", he will not go.

And the officials who are willing to go, seven or eight times out of ten, are holding back their energy and preparing to make a big fish. But now the Jiehe Commercial Market still hasn't got a word! There is a wheat field on the edge of a boundary river...... Tian didn't levy it! If you want to fish, you can't catch it!

Who is willing to do this kind of "dirty official" who has no money to make money?

And even if you are willing to do it, you can't do it!

Even if you negotiate with the Liao State, you don't have an investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars in Jiehe Commercial City. And the imperial court will not give out this money, and it has to be handed over to the wealthy merchants of Kaifeng Mansion to take it out.

There is such a great ability to take an official in the imperial court to make those wealthy businessmen in Kaifeng Mansion pay money? I'm afraid it's only this Wu Haogu...... How long has his Christie's been open? It's already fat. And he is about to marry the sister of Pan Xiao'an, a wealthy businessman of the Pan family, and there are hundreds of thousands of dowries alone!

Hundreds of thousands of money for the construction of the city, he can take it out himself!

In addition, most of the Jiehe commercial markets were "co-organized by Song and Liao". In other words, you must have a good level of friends on the Liao side. And Wu Haogu just meets this condition, and he is really the best candidate to serve as the "mayor".

However, the mayor of Shang City should not be appointed by the Great Song Dynasty in theory, but Zhao Xu can also make a special case to facilitate Wu Haogu's preparation for the establishment of Jiehe Shang City.

The City Shipping Division is similar to the customs yamen, and also manages the market for maritime transactions, so it is certain to set up one - the Jiehe Commercial Market can be a "place outside the customs", but the goods entering the Great Song Dynasty through the commercial market still have to be managed by the Municipal Shipping Division.

Therefore, Wu Haogu asked Zhang Dian for the dispatch of the commander of Jiehe City to do official business.

After listening to Zhang Xuan's explanation, Zhao Xu smiled: "Zhang Qing is right, he will give Wu Haogu to be the manager of Jiehe City, and give another person in the name of the head of Jiehe Shang City to facilitate his actions."

As for the promotion of Jiehe City, as usual, it should be served by the Hebei East Road Transfer Envoy...... Zhang Qing, do you think Wu Anzhi can take on this role? ”

Wu Anzhi is Wang Anshi's son-in-law, a native of Pucheng, Fujian, and a fellow villager with Zhang Dan. However, he is not a cadre of the new party, but a figure of the old party - his father Wu Chong is a general of the old party, and after Wang Anshi's resignation, he was a fellow disciple and asked Sima Guang to be recalled.

However, Wu Anzhi has never been a jinshi, and he relies on the door shade to be an official, so it is not as difficult as his father Wu Chong, and he is generally more cooperative, so in the era of Zhang Dian in power, he also served as a transfer envoy on Hebei East Road for several years.

"Your Majesty, Wu Anzhi's term of office as the transfer envoy of Hebei East Road is about to expire, and it is time to leave his post if he can't officially start construction in the commercial market." Zhang Dian said, "Therefore, the minister suggested that he should no longer be responsible for the preparation of the Jiehe Commercial City, and that another member could be appointed to serve as the director of the Jiehe City." ”

Zhao Xu was right when he thought about it, Wu Anzhi should step down in a few months, and it is estimated that he has no heart to manage the affairs of Jiehe Shang City, so it is better to send another member.

"Who's going to be the lifter?" Zhao Xu asked again.

"The minister recommended Zhang Tianjue, a scholar from the middle school," Zhang Dian recommended his henchman Zhang Shangying, "Your Majesty can make Zhang Tianjue succeed him as the transfer envoy of Hebei East Road." ”

"It's okay," Zhao Xu nodded, "The preparation for the establishment of Jiehe Shang City does require the participation of important ministers, and Zhang Shangying is indeed competent." He paused, "The next time he will go to Liao, the birthday envoy will also do it for him, and let him go and discuss this matter with the Liao people."

In addition, it is also possible to contact the Nanjing Road Left-behind Division of Liaoguo through the Hebei East Road Transfer Division. It is better for the two countries to set up a big city near the sea on both sides of the boundary river, which is jointly managed by the two dynasties and the merchants are autonomous. ”

……

"The mayor of Jiehe Commercial City? Mayor? ”

Wu Haogu learned the good news of his becoming mayor in the government office of the Hanlin Painting Institute the next morning. At this time, he was working with his two students, Zhang Zeduan and Du Wenyu, to sort out the spy paintings he had painted in Liaoguo—they were all pencil sketches that were not easy to preserve, and they had to be changed into landscape paintings and boundary paintings written by part-time workers as soon as possible.

In addition, Ma Zhi also gave Wuhaogu a lot of "military maps" of the Liao State, including a map of the city of Xijin. Patchwork together, you can also make up a full map of Xijin Mansion, and there is no problem at all with a few sand tables and models (city models).

Just when he was thinking about what kind of official he could get after making so many contributions, Yang Jian sent an edict to Wu Haogu.

This time the official family is really interesting, the martial officer was promoted to the seventh level, and he was promoted to the deputy envoy from the seventh rank to the east! It's an ambassador, two levels older than Pan Xiao'an's official. And issued a special decree to Wu Haogu to send two sends, one is the director of Jiehe City, and the other is the mayor of Jiehe Shang City - does this mayor mean? Wu Haogu has become the mayor of the city now, and the official is really not small!

"Chongdao, your official is also promoted quickly!"

Yang Jian, who came to issue the edict, smiled and said to Wu Haogu: "This holy family is really rare. ”

"Isn't it the big guy's care?" Wu Haogu also laughed as if he was a child, and took out a personal friend of 500 yuan from the poster bag and quietly handed it to Yang Jian - his official luck is good, but the "official morality" is really to the point of being ashamed of the traverser.

All the way here, it's all about bribery! It has become a habit to give bribes, and at any time I bring a large amount of personal friends ready to give away...... It's really a "big send-off official"!

After taking the personal friend handed by Wu Haogu, Yang Jian's face was immediately full of smiles, and he arched his hand and said, "Chongdao is really polite...... By the way, the official family also has an edict to let you go to the Chongzheng Palace tomorrow afternoon to face the king. This is a noble treatment! ”

Wu Haogu was the chief of the Hanlin Painting Academy before, not a foreign official, and of course he didn't have to go through the normal procedures of ministers and ministers to meet the emperor.

But now he has "taken up his post", and he is no longer a member of the academy, but an ordinary minister. You have to queue up to meet you, like his level, it's normal to wait for a month, how can you arrange a face tomorrow? This is a bit too much...... If the current official family is Zhao Ji, of course it's no problem, but Zhao Xu and himself are not so close.

Wu Haogu didn't think about it right, so he asked: "Yang Daguan, do you still want to see Mr. Murong tomorrow?" ”

"Yes," Yang Jian asked, "there is a man named Murong Forgetful...... How do you know? ”

It turned out to be stained with the light of Old Man Murong! Wu Haogu thought to himself: I don't know what kind of official that old man is? Let's hurry up and ask about the Immortal Temple.