In fact, the whole of Zhejiang knew the news at this time, and few looked good.
The governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Pei Kejian, returned to Beijing to report on his duties, and he was actually left in Beijing. The area in Fujian and Zhejiang seemed calm, but in reality, chaos had already begun.
Pei Kejian has been in Fujian and Zhejiang for nearly ten years, and many people in these two places count on him to eat. Now that people are gone, I still don't know who will come here. It is clear that Fujian and Zhejiang are facing a major reshuffle. Who can be stable. They are all taking advantage of the last crazy opportunity to grab a handful first, but in fact, their eyes have been staring at the decree over there in Beijing.
Regarding who the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang changed, the court has been talking about it for several months, but it has not been clear.
The people recommended below are either dissatisfied with Emperor Jiacheng, or the cabinet feels inappropriate. During the period, the specific inside story, outsiders don't know, only know that the big guys are shaking their arms and breaking their arms is frightening.
After a long time, the candidates finally came down.
It was Shao Kai, the right servant of the Ministry of Personnel.
This Shao Kai is from Wuxi, and Wu Ge is also an official of the Ministry of Personnel. It is not necessary to say who the person is.
The old family of Wu Ge laughed. The faces of people from other factions could not be seen by outsiders anyway. The following ministers only knew that Emperor Jiacheng's face had been cloudy for a few days, or that Laba had seen a little smile.
In the end, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang was chosen. This candidate really has no influence on the people of the capital. It is the turmoil in Zhejiang, otherwise Xie San would not be so rude.
No one knew what Xie San and Xue Tingxiang said that day, and this year went on as before. Because of Gaosheng and them, it was even more lively than last year.
When the new year started, Xue Tingxiang began to get busy, even busier than before, because he planned to do a big thing.
This is what he said to Zhao'er, and then he would go out mysteriously every day, and he would often go out to sea with people. Only later did Zhao'er know what he was doing. He actually took people to dig Shuangyu Port.
At the beginning, Xie San and the others only dug two channels, one in and the other out. This time, Xue Tingxiang didn't know which nerve twitched, but he planned to dig up all the filled places.
This is a big project, it is easy to fill, but difficult to excavate. Especially with the passage of time, the location that was filled in at the beginning has been blocked by a lot of seaweed and silt. The only thing that is fortunate is that when Xie San and the others were digging the waterway, they carried out detection, and now they only need to clean up a little bit according to the location.
Soon the sky warmed up again, and it was spring and March again, and Dinghai County became lively again.
Zhao'er hasn't been to the sea yet. This time Xue Tingxiang went out with the boat, and she deliberately followed.
Fortunately, Xue Tingxiang is now the biggest in Dinghai County, otherwise she probably wouldn't be able to get on this ship. People who go to sea are superstitious and pay special attention to a lot. One of them is that women cannot go to sea on boats.
According to them, women have menstruation, and menstruation is filthy and unlucky. And sailing at sea is particularly dangerous, and accidents will happen if you are not careful, so you will avoid it.
At first, Xue Tingxiang didn't tell Zhao'er. Later, when she saw others heard that she was going too, her eyes were a little wrong, so he asked the truth, and then he told the truth.
Zhao'er was a little unhappy at the time, but she also knew in her heart that even if she could use power to overwhelm people, the thoughts in people's hearts could not be changed. So before going out, he deliberately changed into a man's clothes, and the strange eyes were less.
Originally, Zhao'er didn't take this matter to heart, but Xue Tingxiang was a little bit concerned. After fighting with her for a long time, she didn't have to do it, and she didn't need to care about other people's eyes.
It's Zhao'er who said that she doesn't really care what others think, but since there are some things that can make everyone feel comfortable, there is really no need to deliberately make everyone feel uncomfortable for their own sake.
The ocean is unpredictable, and going out to sea is a very dangerous thing. The biggest hope is to go out safely and come back safely.
That's it.
Having said that, Xue Tingxiang couldn't say anything more.
The boat came to a certain place and suddenly stopped.
A total of two ships came out this time, and they took more than 200 people with them.
After the boat stopped, Min Zhuang on the other boat started to get busy. They took out a lot of leather ropes of the thickness of the wrist, and set up a special reel on the side of the boat. The reel was tall, and it took several strong men to lift it. After the reel was set up, they began to wrap the leather rope around the reel.
On the other side, there were a few men who changed into water pads, each carrying a specially made scuba, planning to go into the sea.
The reason why Zhao'er knew it was scuba was because Xue Tingxiang told her.
They had everything ready in no time, and each had a rope attached to them. Before entering the sea, they checked what they were carrying, such as hoes, knives, and some anti-big fish medicines.
This anti-big fish medicine was bought by those pearl collectors in Fujian who lived on pearls all year round. Those pearl collectors went deep into the sea all year round and naturally had their own unique methods.
These people quickly jumped into the sea. Here, Zhao'er looked at the calm and waveless sea, and couldn't help but feel a little palpitated.
The sea is really too big, and people are so small, so it is inevitable to have an indescribable sense of panic.
After about half a stick of incense, the rope on the sea was pulled, and the people on the boat quickly pulled the rope, and soon a person emerged from the sea.
Then a second, and a third, until everyone came out and got on the boat.
On the boat, dozens of men worked together to shake the tall reel. It was very slow at first, and then quickly got up when they heard a sentence.
The boat moved, dragged the unknown thing, and sailed forward all the way, until it stopped at a certain position, and the people who had entered the sea just now entered the water again. Together, they untied the rope that tied the thing, and they saw the sea. There was a ripple on it, and the thing sank again.
The so-called digging of the channel is carried out in this way.
There are many rocks and sunken ships piled up under the water surface. The ones that are small in size and light in weight can be dug up if they can be dug up, and those that cannot be dug can only be moved to a certain deep water. Anyway, this sea area is deep and shallow, as long as the ship does not hit the rocks, it can be piled up anywhere.
After this, Zhao'er finally knew what Xue Tingxiang was busy with.
Seeing his tanned face, which was not tanned, but tanned, she couldn't help but reach out and touch it.
Xue Tingxiang grabbed her hand.
"What's wrong?"
"It's nothing, I was just thinking, when this channel opens, you will probably have to peel off a layer of skin." Zhao'er said with a slight smile.
Xue Tingxiang laughed: "It's them who are working hard, not me, I just need to watch."
No, everyone is working hard and everyone is working hard.
Zhao'er suddenly felt that she wasn't working hard enough.
Because of her status as a woman, and because Hong'er was still young before, she always tried her best not to go out. At most, she did some accounting or issuing orders.
Whenever she sees others busy coming and going, she is also quite envious, but she knows that she can't be willful. Now that Hong'er has grown up, Xue Tingxiang hired a husband from outside a while ago, and he became a Western chair in the mansion, teaching Hong'er to study.
After all, my son is no longer pestering his mother every day. At first, he was a little unaccustomed to recruiting children. This is why she has the idea of going out to sea today. It is really boring recently.
It seems that she should also find something to do for herself.
It was not until the sun went down that Xue Tingxiang and the others returned.
For the first time, Zhao'er saw what the sunset on the sea looked like. The spectacle was particularly spectacular.
Looking back at the orange-red color on the sea, Zhao'er was still a little confused.
"When this place is cleared out, it will restore the grand scene of the ship full of seas a long time ago. By then, most of my mission here will be completed." Xue Tingxiang waved to the sea and said to Zhao'er.
"Where shall we go then?"
"We'll go wherever you want to go."
Under Guo Ju Mountain is Guo Ju Town.
Guo Ju is surrounded by mountains on three sides, one faces the sea, and across the sea is Zhoushan Island.
Because there are always Japanese pirates in the Zhejiang area, and Guo Ju faces the sea, so there are guards stationed there.
Dinghaiwei is different. Because the people on Zhoushan Island moved in, Dinghai Qianwei, Zuowei, and Youwei were all withdrawn to Zhenhai Tower, leaving Dinghai alone and stationed in Dinghai County.
Dinghai Housuo is only a thousand households, but Guo Ju is stationed with a whole guard.
At this time, in Guo Juwei's office, Liu Qianhu was reporting to the commander He Wei: "These days, the merchants of Goryeo, Waguo and Folangji are asking for less and less goods, and the merchants below have responded several times in succession. , this time even some merchants brought the goods, but only sold less than half of them. Some people asked questions, but these barbarians did not answer. Shang was drunk, and he used beauty tricks, and the other party told some inside stories."
Commander He was a burly man in his forties with a beard on his face.
He was rough, and he didn't like other people talking to him the most, so he kept half of what he said, so he couldn't help but frown.
Seeing this, Liu Qianhu also knew that he had committed the stinky problem again, so he continued to talk: "Before you asked your subordinates to investigate this matter, and your subordinates kept it in mind. We sent people to follow us, only to find out that it was the people from Dinghai County who stole our business."
Hearing the words, Commander He raised his eyebrows subconsciously, showing some disbelief.
They were all begging for food in this area, and Commander He knew where Dinghai was. To put it bluntly, he just picked up their leftovers to eat, and he never paid attention to it.
The side of the couch can allow others to sleep soundly. Everyone understands this principle, but the group of people are clans that have been inherited for many years in the Zhejiang area. Coupled with the relationship with Pei Keqiang, the former governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Commander He kept turning a blind eye.
Can such a place steal their business
Commander He would have this idea because he knew the terrain of Shuangyu.
The place was good earlier, the key points of many shipping routes, and the currents were gentle. From the South China Sea to the East Ocean, the nearest shipping route passes through here. After Shuangyu, it is Zhoushan, so Shuangyu became a well-known smuggling port in the past, all because of its convenient location.
But that was also in the past, when the port and waterway of that place were filled in the previous dynasty, it became a dead port. The reason why they have been able to revive in recent years is that some of the clans who were left out were not reconciled, and they moved their minds again.
As a person who is in charge of Guo Juyi's land, he is the one who speaks the truth, and the commander He knows the energy of handling goods in that place, which is why he has doubts.
"I don't know the specific subordinates, but the Yishang said that the price of goods there is much lower than ours, so they are more willing to go there. If they hadn't cooperated with us for many years, and we have some goods here and there No, he probably wouldn't have made the detour to come to us."
Commander He raised his eyebrows and his face became cautious: "Is this true?"
Liu Qianhu said with a bitter face: "How dare my subordinates lie to you, it is absolutely true. Originally, my subordinates didn't believe it, and in the crappy place of Shuangyu, if the cargo ship wanted to turn around, they had to be careful not to be caught by those below. Something has been tripped. But with the words of a barbarian businessman, we can't do what he thinks even if we calculate the business we have lost recently."
"Let's check it out!"
"How do you check, sir?"
"Why do you want me to tell you? Find a way to check!"
Liu Qianhu immediately retreated in despair.
After that, he deliberately got a boat, pretending to be a merchant ship approaching there, and saw ships coming and going on the sea, where there was still a narrow channel before. Only then did they come to a conclusion, it turned out that this group of people actually learned from the idiot who moved the mountain and dug the waterway that was filled below.
He was shocked and returned to report to the commander to congratulate him. After that, he sent a few passers-by to investigate secretly, and only then did he know what happened in Dinghai.
Since the year before last, Xue Zhi County has been in Dinghai. This person is very greedy for money, and he is very talented and has a lot of wealth. After taking office, the people love him, and he himself has done a lot of practical things.
One of them is to lead people to just dig up the filled channel and port.
"Where did this brat come from, he is so daring! Fornicating with foreigners, this is forbidden by the imperial court. If you catch him, you will be killed!" After hearing Liu Qianhu's reply, Commander He angrily said.
Liu Qianhu's eyes flickered, but he didn't dare to say it, but he said in his heart, we are doing what you said, we are just each other.
Commander He quickly realized this, as the saying goes, don't say black pigs black crows, everyone is half a pound. But it could be the same. Comparing himself with a seventh-rank county magistrate, he always felt annoyed and angry.
People have always been like this, when they condemn others, they never reflect on themselves. Commander He has this mentality now, but after getting angry, he also found that he had no direct means to deal with this kid.
First, he is only the commander of the guard station, and has no relationship with the local officials. Second, other people are doing their best, and he is not doing less, even more than the other party.
However, Commander He was not helpless. He quickly handed a letter to Sun Gang, the prefect of Ningbo, asking him to take care of the people under him.
He believed that Sun Gang would be interested.