Zhao Jin¡¯s mansion is divided into east and west courtyards. His family lives in the east courtyard, and the entire west courtyard is freed up to house Zhao Hao, his son, his master and his disciples.
The group of people were tired and sleepy after running around all day. They managed to talk for a while and then, led by Zhao Shizhen, came to the west courtyard to go to bed early.
The next day, Zhao Jin was at home on leave. After breakfast, he called Zhao Hao into the study to talk.
After Yu Peng served tea, Zhao Jin asked him to go out and guard the door.
Seeing Zhao Jin¡¯s mysterious look, Zhao Hao couldn¡¯t help but smile and said, ¡°It seems that my brother has good things going on again.¡±
"You really can't hide anything from my dear brother." Seeing that Zhao Hao had guessed everything before he even opened his mouth, Zhao Jin couldn't help but smiled and said, "My dear brother, I'm still right about the tip bag you gave me. , helped me a lot.¡±
With that said, he opened the drawer and pulled out a piece of paper from the envelope that Zhao Hao had given him before.
There are only four words written on it, "Good luck to the southwest".
Zhao Hao then said with a ghostly smile: "It seems that it has come true."
"Yes." Zhao Jin nodded and looked at Zhao Hao with some awe: "At the beginning of the month, Wang Tongnian called me to his house and said that there was a good opportunity now. It was possible to upgrade me to another level and let me out. Become a feudal official."
After a pause, he said with a wry smile: "But the only drawback is that the place is not very good I'm patrolling Guizhou."
¡°That¡¯s really tricky.¡± Zhao Hao smiled and nodded. In this era, Guizhou was not only remote and wild, but also had chieftains, big and small, causing trouble all day long.
If you want to be an official elsewhere, if you do not do well, you will lose your official position at most. But if you go to Guizhou to become an official, you will lose your life if you do not do well.
Zhao Jin had served in the army in Guizhou and was well aware of the dangers there. However, he wasted half his life and wasted too much time, but he was very eager to seize this rare opportunity and make contributions to the court to make up for the regrets in his life.
¡°But he had only served as a local magistrate once before, and lacked the experience necessary to take charge of a party. If you go to be a governor in a peaceful province, you can learn while doing it, and you can get started after just one or two years of hard work.
But will that place in Guizhou give him the opportunity to learn slowly? I'm afraid he will lose his black yarn before he learns how to be a governor
¡°Of course, having said that, if it weren¡¯t for the difficulty of being the governor of Guizhou, he wouldn¡¯t have been able to take the position.
Zhao Jin worked hard for more than ten years before finally seeing the light of day. Naturally, he cherished the official hat on his head, so he did not reply to Wang Tongnian on the spot. He only said that he would think about it for a few days.
??~~
"After I got home, I thought about it, and it was really difficult to make a decision. Suddenly I remembered the tip bag given by my wise brother." Zhao Jin looked at Zhao Hao with a shocked look and said, "When I opened it, it said 'Southwest With these four words, "good luck", my mind was made up instantly."
"Brother has already agreed?" Zhao Hao asked with a smile.
"I haven't given a formal reply yet. Besides, it's not something I can do if I promise to seal a province." Zhao Jin shook his head with a smile and said, "I think my dear brother will come to Beijing soon. Anyway, I'm going to follow you in the next few days." You can decide after reading the details."
¡°It¡¯s a major military and national matter, how can I, a child, talk so much.¡± Zhao Hao said with a false humility.
"Hey, do you and I still need to be humble? Brother Xian was well aware of the current situation in the capital when he was in Jinling. Whether it was Gaoxin Zheng's resignation, or the discussion of opening up the sea, or even such trivial matters as Brother Yu, you told them all one by one ÖÐ. People say that Zhuge Kongming has divided the world before he left his thatched cottage. I only think it is a descendant¡¯s literary decoration. It was not until I met my wise brother that I realized that this is not an exaggeration - there are geniuses in this world that ordinary people cannot imagine!"
"Please give me your wise brother's advice to relieve the difficulties in my foolish brother's heart." Zhao Jin said as he stood up and raised his hands to Zhao Hao.
Zhao Hao hurriedly stepped aside. He was a little embarrassed by Zhao Jin's blow. I thought to myself: How can I compare with Zhuge Liang? They are really capable, but I was just a foresight, it was all just a routine.
He had known that Zhao Jin would be appointed as the right deputy censor of the capital at the end of this year to patrol Guizhou.
Everyone would worry about such a big thing, let alone going to be the governor of that damn place in Guizhou. Zhao Hao thought about it with his toes and could guess that Zhao Jin would be undecided.
But Zhao Hao also knew that Zhao Jin went there in the end, and did a very good job, achieving a lifetime of achievements.
Therefore, the four words "Zhao Hao" were just to help Zhao Jin make up his mind, and at the same time, he established an image of himself as a master of dexterity and calculation in his mind.
To put it bluntly, I¡¯m still worried that my old brother will become an adult when he becomes an official, and he won¡¯t be able to recognize his little brother who shares the same hardships
Although doing this is a bit unethical, has Mr. Zhao done many unethical things? At least this method of using one's spear to attack the other's shield was not the first time he had used it.
However, the effect is still so immediate.Wow.
??~~
After sitting down again, Zhao Hao explained Pingmiao's strategy to Zhao Jin.
"Every one of them was done by Zhao Jin in another time and space, and he did it very well. It sounds natural and very good
"The situation in Guizhou seems to be difficult, but in fact it is not difficult to sort out. Since Emperor Chengzu abolished the two Xuanweisi of Sizhou and Sinan, the two chieftains who once dominated eastern Guizhou no longer exist. Now my brother has to deal with it, but They are just two weak chieftains, Guizhu Changsui and Pingfa Changsui."
"Oh, Brother Yu finally believes today that there are people who can be born knowing it." Zhao Jin was dumbfounded. He had served in the army in Guizhou, and recently spent every day in the Ministry of War to check information, so he could barely have a comprehensive understanding of the situation in Guizhou. understanding. Unexpectedly, Zhao Hao had just heard that he was going to be the governor of Guizhou, and he immediately gave him an outline of the complicated situation.
¡®Obviously, Brother Xian is secretly paying attention to the situation in Guizhou! ¡¯
And it was exactly the same as the result he had been thinking about for half a month. This makes people unable to express the reverence in their hearts at this moment in words except offering a pair of knees.
Zhao Jin couldn¡¯t help but feel ashamed for his superficiality and one-sidedness. I said in my heart that I still felt that my good brother was wasting his good time by eating all day long and doing nothing. It turns out that I only saw the surface. In fact, my dear brother has the world in his heart and has been studying various current shortcomings of our Ming Dynasty
"It's just that my good brother's efforts were all done in places I didn't see Sure enough, all good students have this problem!"
??~~
Realizing that Brother Xian had a profound understanding of Guizhou, Zhao Jin no longer dared to listen with just his ears. He hurriedly got paper and pen, and while listening, he wrote down the key points of what Zhao Hao said.
"What an official should grasp is the main contradiction. If you grasp the main contradiction, you will grasp the key to solving the problem." Zhao Hao's self-esteem was greatly enhanced when he saw a third-grade official taking out a small notebook and showing an attitude of being open-minded and willing to be taught. Very satisfied, he worked harder and harder to advise his elder brother:
"Brother's good fortune is that your predecessor, Du Zhongcheng, was a rare good official with vision and ability. Not only did he realize this main contradiction, but he also put forward two solutions to the problem. One was to combine the two chieftains. To change the land and return it to the locals, the second was to set the area under the jurisdiction of the two chieftains into two counties, under the jurisdiction of Chengfan Prefecture, and then move the administration of Chengfan Prefecture to the provincial capital With his unremitting efforts, both of these things were successful. Small progress.¡±
"But he also forced the chieftain to rebel, and the trouble ended in chaos, so he was transferred out of Guizhou." Zhao Jin looked at Zhao Hao distressedly and said: "What my brother means is, should I continue on the path of my predecessor, or should I take a step back to open up the world?" ?¡±
"Let's take a half step back." Zhao Hao then smiled and said: "First try our best to move the government, temporarily put aside the reform and return to the native land, and wait until the time is right to implement it"
"Yeah." Zhao Jin nodded, understanding what Zhao Hao meant, which was to do the easy things first and leave the difficult things to others.
ps. Chapter 8, update 2,300 votes plus updates, continue to ask for monthly votes and recommended votes (remember this site's website address: www.hlnovel.com