The more Deng Zi thought about it, the more he thought about Mr. Tisi's foreword and afterword.
The so-called head of the Northern Qi Dynasty is indeed an extremely risky assignment, but it is also the most important link on the Overwatch Council's external front. Anyone who has held this position will be reused after returning to China—not to mention the former Mr. Yan Bingyun Xiaoyan, who is young. Qing has become the leader of the four places, and everyone knows that in the future, after Dean Chen retires, Mr. Xiao Fan will take over the position of dean, and Mr. Xiaoyan will definitely have more important appointments.
Deng Ziyue's old boss, Wang Qinian, who was very familiar with Deng Ziyue, had been in the courtyard for ten years, and when he met Fan Xian, he was sent to Northern Qi. According to what Mr. Ti Si said earlier, Wang Qinian would also become the new head of a department after returning to China.
The trip to the Northern Qi Dynasty was an adventure, and it was even more politically gilded.
Master Tisi asked himself if he would like to go to Northern Qi, so he was naturally planning to promote himself, and I heard that the old director of the Second Division was getting old and was going to retire... I was born in the Second Division.
Deng Ziyue was so excited that he knelt down in front of Fan Xian and said in a deep voice, "It's all up to your lord's arrangement."
Fan Xian smiled and didn't say anything further. After the incident in the south of the Yangtze River, he felt more and more that although His Majesty did trust him very much, he still absolutely prevented him from having any connection with the military, so that when he started to do things, he still had the absolute strength in his hands. limited.
Otherwise, he would not be so afraid of the existence of Jiangnan governor Xue Qing.
The one sitting on the dragon chair didn't even trust his son, let alone Fan Xian. Fan Xian knew that the emperor had given him such great power, which was already very good, but he also knew that the other party would not allow him to expand his power. Since it is very difficult to obtain it from outside, Fan Xian must hold the power he already has more firmly.
For example, the Overwatch Council, the Overwatch Council in the post-Chen Pingping era must be replaced with fresh blood loyal to itself.
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Deng Ziyue reported to him the recent actions of the Overwatch Council in the south of the Yangtze River. The most important reason is the government's reason. The Overwatch Council has already made preliminary preparations, and can follow Fan Xian's orders at any time to intervene in Jiangnan affairs, from the inner treasury to Suzhou to the dock, from the account to the treasury, and oppress the Ming family in all directions.
This is the only thing Fan Xian can do right now. Since the specific criminal evidence of the Ming family cannot be traced, it is impossible to use official power to oppress. The officials on Jiangnan Road are all staring at him... Now the work of the Overwatch Council is to further reduce the income of the Ming family through harassing the Ming family's business routes, and the internal treasury transshipment department's tampering with the supply, so that the other party's money will fall into the trap. In the midst of a shortage, only in this way can the Ming family be forced to continue large-scale transfers of money.
And the method is actually hidden in the money transfer.
"How long has it been since there was no news from the island?" Fan Xian frowned. The island incident that could crush the Ming family had suddenly fallen into silence recently.
Hearing Fan Xian's worry, Deng Ziyue felt some doubts in his heart, and said, "The Quanzhou sub-office also feels that something is wrong, and has already sent people to sneak up on the island. There will be news about it in the next day."
The south of the Yangtze River is vast, and it would take too long to send news from the island of the East China Sea to Suzhou. Fan Xian knew that he could only wait for now.
After Deng Ziyue left, Fan Xian felt a little tired. He stretched himself, walked out of the room, and took a walk in the garden.
Although Huayuan is Yang Jimei's mansion, it is not contaminated with the richness of salt merchants and the arrogance of private salt sales, but it is purely beautiful and elegant. The shallow flowing water, green rockery, layer upon layer of peaks, corridors and mountain pavilions, which are no different from other gardens, have shown a different vitality after the original designer's skillful arrangement, and the whole garden seems to have come alive. Ordinarily, such as the green hills in the south of the Yangtze River and the clear water of the West Lake, gently and lightly surround the people in the garden.
This kind of ingenious arrangement of the unity of man and nature is undoubtedly the most appreciated by Miss Haitang, the direct descendant of Tiandao. Therefore, during her days in Suzhou, she spent most of her time meditating in the garden instead of going out to find Jiangnan. Character style.
So when Fan Xian saw the calico dress by the small lake, he was not surprised.
"Fishing doesn't seem to be suitable for you."
He walked to the lake and sat down, slightly closer to the shore than Haitang, keeping a distance of one foot between the two. From this angle, he could just see Miss Haitang's steady shoulders and the flowered scarf wrapped around her head. Beside him is a very ordinary straw hat, yellow.
Haitang didn't look back either, and replied in harmony: "Why isn't it suitable?"
The bamboo pole in her hand did not move at all, only the head of the pole nodded, as if saying hello to the fish in the water, without any other meaning.
Fan Xian laughed, wiped his moss-stained hands carelessly around his side, and said, "Fishing is also killing. I'll teach you a way. If you don't put the bait in, just fish with your heart."
This was a trick that the mysterious characters in those mysterious novels liked to play most when he read novels in his previous life. Unexpectedly, Haitang still didn't look back, and didn't move. Instead, she laughed and said: "What a boring thing, you don't need bait, so you don't want to catch it? Heart fishing... Since what you are looking for is heart, if you want to catch it, naturally it is If you catch it, what difference does it make whether you catch it or not?"
Fan Xian was bitter, thinking that he just wanted to chat, why did he come up with these empty conversations
Haitang looked back at him, smiled, and said, "I know you're restless these days. How about sitting together? Fishing can really calm your mind."
Fan Xian shook his head, and said with a smile, "A gentleman stays away from the kitchen, let alone a snare and a fork?"
Haitang couldn't help but give him a blank look, and shook her head: "You hypocrite."
Fan Xian chuckled and moved forward, who knew that his buttocks slipped and almost slipped into the lake, causing his hands and feet to panic, and he yelled.
There were rocks but no trees or grass by the lake, and there was no one to rely on except Miss Haitang, so he naturally grabbed Haitang's shoulders with both hands.
Haitang's shoulder trembled slightly, so she shook his hand away, clasped his wrist with his backhand, helped him stabilize his balance, and said with a smile: "Not only is it hypocritical, but even the acting is so false, it's so careless... How can there be someone in this world who can't sit still? A ninth-rank master who can't sit still?"
Fan Xian looked up to the sky and sighed, "People in the world don't know me, and Dodo doesn't believe me either. How do you live these days?"
Haitang flipped her wrist, let him sit beside her, and naturally took out another fishing rod beside her, stuffed it into Fan Xian's hand, and said, "Since you want to fish, you must be patient and don't worry."
There was a pun in the language, but Fan Xian knew it was not about picking up girls, but about dealing with the situation in the south of the Yangtze River. He smiled, took out earthworms from a small clay pot beside him, hung them on a fishhook, and hung them down. After entering the water, sprinkle some prepared crumbs, and enter the water to lure the fish.
The lake suddenly fell into a state of calm.
After a while, Fan Xianqing's calm voice broke the rare tacit understanding: "I am patient, and I am not in a hurry. The situation in Jiangnan is not difficult to control, and the plan is established. I will have the confidence to go forward step by step. The problem is that Jiangnan looks at the capital, but I can't control what will happen in the capital, the things there may develop in the direction I want, or there may be a sudden outbreak of a big event that everyone has no time to react."
"Big event?"
"That's right." Fan Xian didn't continue to say anything, but said with a trace of doubt and a trace of sincere admiration: "You know that I am the commissioner of the Qingguo Overwatch Council, so you must also know that the real boss of the Overwatch Council is who."
"Bei Xiaoen, Nan Pingping." Haitang smiled with a trace of bitterness: "That Dean Chen killed many people in our north, how could we not remember him?"
Fan Xian said with a smile: "Each is master, each has his own heart. The two sides were enemies back then, and it was only natural for you to kill each other. I just want you to be clear, this old man, is the whole world that I can't fully see." Clearly one of two."
"Two people?" Haitang turned around curiously.
"That's right." Fan Xian said with a serious expression, "Even if my emperor or your emperor, I can guess some of their thoughts and positions, because their buttocks are sitting on the dragon chair, so they must think about what is going on with this dragon chair." Things related to chairs. But Chen Pingping is different. The so-called lack of desire is strong, and tolerance is great. A person is about to die. His words... I can't figure it out. I can't see what this old man wants to do and what he is doing. Transparent. With his current status, there is absolutely no need to be involved in the battle for the throne. No matter who is the prince, he must be given to him... and he has always been so calm, which is not in line with his behavior in his life style."
Chen Pingping is the most famous conspirator in the world today. For such a character, if he doesn't make a move, he will be fine, and if he makes a move, the world will be turned upside down.
After thinking for a while, Haitang said softly: "If it wasn't for you not avoiding me and clarifying the relationship between Lingtang and Dean Chen, I would definitely have a different view on this matter, including everyone in the world today. I thought that the reason why Chen Pingping valued you so much was entirely because of Emperor Qing's will."
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"And through the things you told me in the past, I seem to be able to see some bad tendencies." Haitang laughed at herself: "You want to support the third child, Chen Pingping... Maybe you want to support you?"
"It's too difficult." Fan Xian said with a frown, "I have some problems with my background. If I don't clean up the nobles in the palace, I won't be able to enter the palace at all... And who knows who is behind the events of those years? One day we have to figure it out, but right now we can't rush it. As for what you mean by Mr. Dean..."
He smiled and shook his head and said, "Being an emperor is not being a commissioner. For such a big matter, if he doesn't communicate with me, he will never dare to do it by himself."
Haitang fell into deep thought, shook her head and sighed after a while: "If you can't figure it out, don't think about it for now."
"Jiangnan is just a small fish, while Jingzhong is a big fish." Fan Xian stared at the two thin lines slightly undulating on the lake with calm eyes, and said after a long time: "Fishing... I'm always worried that I caught the fish by myself. Still being dragged into the bottom of the water by the fish, there is no way to get up again.”
Haitang smiled and said: "You have already got your feet wet by the river, and you have no choice but to step into the water."
Fan Xian smiled wryly, and said, "That's true, it's just that there is a sense of uncertainty. I don't like the feeling that things are not under my control."
"No one, not even the king of a country... can control everything." Haitang said softly, "Just trying to grasp the general trend is good enough."
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"You just said that there are two people that you have been unable to see through. One is Chen Pingping, and who is the other?" Haitang was very interested in this question. She knew that Fan Xian was very confident in his knowledge of people. Even Emperor Qing, he thought he could grasp certain aspects of his mind, but he admitted that he couldn't see through some people. She really wanted to know who the first person was. Who are the two.
"My father." Fan Xian said with a smile: "Actually...he is as powerful as Chen Pingping, but Chen Pingping has been bobbing and sinking on the surface of the water, while he has been sinking at the bottom. Although I am his son, I also I don't know what he really thinks."
Regarding Chen Pingping and Fan Jian, Fan Xian treats each other as his parents, sincerely and without doubt. After his mother passed away, he presided over the revenge, bloodbathed the queen's family during the bloody night in Kyoto 14 years ago, and the care and love these two fathers gave to him during the growth process, all let Fan Feel free to admire.
But what's strange is that the two people who are closest to each other are the ones who can't see through them the most.
"It turns out that what you've been worrying about is not Jiangnan, but Kyoto." Haitang smiled and said, "With such two unfathomable figures behind you, you really don't need to worry about Jiangnan's affairs."
"I'm the whetstone His Majesty set for those brothers." Fan Xian said with a smile: "This Jiangnan matter, the eldest princess and the second prince...isn't it the whetstone set by my father and Chen Pingping? The elders are right. My expectations are very deep, and I am very pleased.”
Glad to say these two words are extremely annoying.
The two thin fishing lines were still submerged in the gentle water surface calmly, without any tremor caused by the wrists. Haitang glanced at him and said, "It seems that you really don't need to use fishing to hone your character."
Fan Xian said: "I have always had a firm temperament, a stable state of mind, and it is difficult to linger on foreign things."
To Fan Xian, boasting of his strengths in front of women was not embarrassing self-promotion, but a very good attitude of self-analysis.
"How old are you now?" Haitang asked curiously, she couldn't understand how such a young person could maintain such a calm state of mind while suddenly holding power in his hands and handling complicated affairs.
Fan Xian returned very quickly, and asked back, "How old are you this year?"
Haitang pursed her lips, her eyes were bright, making Bihu in front of her look weak, but she refused to answer this question.
Fan Xian snorted and said, "I'm eighteen years old."
Haitang shook her head and said sarcastically: "Looking at your usual behavior, if you say you are eighty, no one will believe you."
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The old people have experienced the spring wind, summer rain, autumn frost, winter snow, and have long been used to seeing everything in the world, so they can use those seemingly indifferent eyes to see through everything in the world.
Only because we have experienced it can we take it lightly, use the most stable state of mind, and use the most sophisticated methods to face those situations that seem extremely complicated. A necessary basis for a conspirator is that he has fewer desires, so that there are fewer empty doors that can be exploited by the enemy. Therefore, from ancient times to the present, all those who are famous for their conspiracy are either old men or old ladies, or eunuchs.
Young people are always bloody, such as the second prince, the prince, or even the eldest princess, so they will all make some unwise choices at certain times. And someone like Fan Xian who has two lifetimes of experience, although Haitang approved a sad label of being eighty years old, on the other hand, he is really as patient as an old man when he does things. While the family property lawsuit was being fought, the rest of the Overwatch Council remained silent until the turmoil of the family property lawsuit was about to subside when the Overwatch Council took action.
For a while, many officials on Jiangnan Road were politely invited to inspect the yamen in four places stationed on Jiangnan Road and drink tea.
Everyone knows that the Overwatch Council's tea is authentic Longjing tea, and the tea is full of fragrance, but no official wants to drink tea.
Although for Governor Xue Qing's sake, not many officials on Jiangnan Road were detained, but during the process of drinking tea and chatting, the Overwatch Council occasionally talked about some old things that still made those officials extremely uncomfortable. Trembling with fear, after returning to the mansion, he began to think about his future and his personal safety with a headache. Correspondingly, the officials who were reminded also noticed that it was impossible to protect the Ming family too much on the surface up.
On the other hand, the Overwatch Council also began to harass the business of the Ming family. Although it was impossible to directly seize people and seize the goods, the shops of the Ming family began to be inspected by the government within a day on the grounds of investigating Dongyi city spies, and the Ming family The family fleet also encountered unprecedented troubles in the process of transporting goods.
Although the Overwatch Council didn't catch any big things against the Ming family except for some petty crimes of carrying private goods, but under repeated harassment, they successfully forced the Ming family's pet-friendly industrial system to slow down.
A commercial bank pays attention to the transportation of goods, and the back and forth speed of converting them into cash is like an endless river. Now the Overwatch Council is like countless sandstones slowly sinking into the river, and the flow of the river slows down. , Silt is also deposited down, this is a pool of running water, but now it has gradually become muddy, and it is inconvenient to move.
This move by the Overwatch Council used the least amount of manpower and caused the least amount of discussion, but the results achieved were quite good. After the Ming family paid a huge amount of money in the internal treasury, for the first time in so many years, they felt that the flow of water was a bit stretched. Being harassed by the Overwatch Council, the running water became more and more insufficient, and he was forced to transfer money to the Taiping Bank. At the same time, Changfang Ming Qingda also began to secretly sign money orders from the China Merchants Bank.