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Chapter 960 Capital Mi Jugui

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    Aboard the Pingjiang.

    After Hu Shouren finished speaking, he winked at Zhao Hao and said with a smile: "Do you need me to introduce the local snake to Lao Wang?"

    "That would be great." Zhao Hao held up his hands and said with a smile: "Brother Hu is really attentive, and I can't hide my thoughts from you."

    "Hahaha!" Hu Shouren laughed proudly and said, "If you just want to escort the eldest princess, you have to bring dozens of ships of food northward?"

    "You can't go all the way in vain." Mr. Zhao said with a smile.

    "Then you should be selling silk." Hu Shouren said with a smile: "Besides, with Mr. Zhao's current family fortune, can you think of such a small business?"

    "This is something my godmother brought to the capital specifically to calm the people out of concern for the people." Zhao Hao smiled and said, "You can just believe it."

    "Okay! That's what Lao Hu believes." Hu Shouren laughed and said, "Young Master is still as funny as before, and Lao Hu likes him very much. If the imperial court exposes you in the future, you must take Lao Hu in."  .¡±

    "Then don't go back to meet me, let Brother Jin take your place immediately." Zhao Hao also smiled flattered.  It's a pity that Hu Shouren is just a close friend. He is different from Jin Ke and Wang Rulong.  Those three people were originally ordinary people recruited by Qi Jiguang in Shaoxing. They had nothing after being dismissed.

    Hu Shouren is a hereditary right guard who commands the general affairs. He has been a high-ranking official for generations. How could he dismount and go to sea?

    ??~~

    The two were chatting happily, and time flew by unknowingly.  Hu Shouren escorted the eldest princess, so of course he couldn't just disappear all the time.

    Zhao Hao asked Hu Shouren to bring a letter to Marshal Qi, and then the two ended their conversation and went about their own business.

    Hu Shouren went to stand guard outside the eldest princess's cabin. Mr. Zhao 'accidentally' met Tianjin Bingbeidao Cao Ke on the front deck, and then naturally invited him to tea.

    Tianjin Bingbei Road is a relatively special Bingbei Road.  Generally, military preparation is mainly based on supervision.  Tianjin Bingbeidao is a people-friendly official who is in charge of everything.

    Because there are only three military bases in Tianjin and there are no administrative agencies such as prefectures and counties, Tianjin Bingbei Dao must not only perform the duties of general military preparations, but also bear the civil and criminal responsibilities of state and county officials.

    In addition, because Tianjin is located at the strategic point of the Haihe River, the gateway to Gyeonggi Province, and the intersection of the South Canal and the North Canal, Bingbei Road also has two important responsibilities, namely, postal delivery and river channel, and it accounts for a large proportion of its daily work.  Therefore, Tianjin Bingbei Road also has the nicknames of "Golden Daiyi Cheng" and "Hongpao Heguan".

    In short, its power is much greater than that of ordinary soldiers.  On the ground in Tianjin, there is no fear of decentralization of power and constraints. Cao Bingxian has the final say in all aspects.  Of course, under the emperor's nose, he didn't dare to act too randomly.

    And this Cao Bingxian was also very cautious. He kept complimenting Zhao Hao politely but said nothing that hurt his heart.

    Fortunately, Zhao Hao didn't intend to have a casual relationship with anyone. It would be enough to get to know each other and become familiar with each other.  Anyway, grain and sea transportation is a great thing for Tianjin. It will become the most prosperous city in the north of the Ming Dynasty outside the capital.  There should be no reason for Cao Ke not to cooperate, right?

    If you don¡¯t cooperate, don¡¯t be afraid, just replace it.

    With the current power of Mr. Zhao and the Jiangnan Group, it is difficult to appoint a military governor. If you want to change to a fourth-grade soldier, you can still do it.

    ??~~

    The next day, the fleet arrived at the mouth of the Sancha River, where it could merge into the Grand Canal.  Cao Ke and Hu Shouren disembarked and said goodbye to Her Royal Highness the Princess.

    The eldest princess of Ning'an transferred to a sand boat with a weight of 400 materials and continued sailing towards Tongzhou.  As for the Pingjiang, it carried Wang Rulong's coast guard team and sailed back to Dagukou to wait for the fleet to return from the capital.

    After separation, the fleet will go 200 miles north along the Grand Canal to Tongzhou.

    "Probably because water transportation was cut off and water ships were blocked south of the Yellow River.  The Grand Canal, which used to be busy and congested, has become extremely smooth.  More than half of the ships plying the river were missing, and all the watercraft going north were missing.

    The eldest princess¡¯s car also enjoyed the highest right of passage, and it took only two days to reach Tongzhou.

    It was already midnight when we arrived in Tongzhou, and no one was too lazy to get off the boat again.  Under the guidance of the escort team on the road, the fleet traveled westward along the Datong River overnight and arrived in Beijing early the next morning.

    ??~~

    It is March in spring, and the flowers and willows on both sides of the moat are red and green.  With blue sky, clear water and clear river, it is the most beautiful time of the year in Beijing.

    On the river, there are many pleasure boats and boats out to enjoy the spring. The princes, princes, grandsons, and ladies of the official family are intoxicated in the boundless and prosperous spring scenery.  The beauties played the pipa and sang spring songs in low voices.

    These people who have no worries about food and clothingHe became even more arrogant and said: "If ships of rice from the south of the Yangtze River arrive within half a year, I will be rich enough to write my last name upside down!"

    "That's still huge" The literate man laughed and said, "It's the same as if you didn't say it!"

    "I haven't finished speaking yet." Boss Ju also got excited and sneered: "How about I pay another one tael of silver and one stone of rice and sell it for three days? How about that?!"

    "" Now the common people were speechless. Big bosses dared to make such a bet. It was obvious that no grain ship would arrive in Beijing in a short time.

    So they lined up dejectedly, waiting to buy his exorbitantly priced rice.

    Seeing that the situation was completely suppressed by him, the giant boss waved his hand triumphantly like a winner and shouted loudly: "Open for sale!"

    Before he finished speaking, he saw a commotion at the end of the team.  Then I heard someone on Datong Bridge shouting: "Look, the fleet transporting grain is coming!"

    "Wow" the crowd was in an uproar, and the people didn't care about queuing, and rushed to both sides of the river like a tide.

    Sure enough, we saw a group of sand boats slowly approaching from the west.  The sailors on the ship opened the reed shed, revealing a load of rice from the south of the Yangtze River!

    "There is no perfect path for man!" An old man cried and knelt on the bridge.

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