Prime Minister

Chapter 707 Face-to-face Opportunities
Cai Yanqing, the new transfer envoy of Qinfeng Road, is the nephew of the champion Cai Qi.

When the officials wanted to use Su Shi to build a living note, Wang Anshi refused, so he recommended Cai Yanqing and Sun Jue.

After Su Song's Sansheren case, there was no one in the Sheren's Court. Wang Anshi immediately promoted Cai Yanqing, and Wang Yirou went straight to the Sheren's Court.

Now Wang Anshi recommended Cai Yanqing as the transfer envoy of Qinfeng Road Capital.Before Cai Yanqing left Beijing, of course he had to visit Wang Anshi's residence, first to thank him for his recommendation, and second to listen to Wang Anshi's face-to-face instructions.

Wang Anshi and Cai Yanqing said a few words.Wang Anshi was concerned about too many things, and this Qinfeng Road was not the most important thing on his hands. He said: "The most important thing for you to go to Qinfeng Road now is to manage the military supplies. I didn't get involved much in this matter before. You need to go to the mansion and ask. Wu Shuxiang, please teach him his strategy, so that there will be no mistakes."

Cai Yanqing didn't get any words from Wang Anshi, so he left.

Walking outside the gate, storyteller Wang Yu of Chongzheng Hall stopped Cai Yanqing.

Cai Yanqing had dealt with Wang Yu several times, and he knew that the other party was an extremely shrewd and formidable person.

Wang Yu said: "This time, the officials want to crusade against Hezhou, completely wipe out the wooden levy, and entrust you to handle military supplies. How do you do it?"

Cai Yanqing said: "I'm just about to ask for advice. Guo Zhongtong (Guo Kui) and Zhang Duzhi, the general manager of Qinfeng Road, and Zhang Duzhi, the general manager of Xihe Road, are not easy to get along with."

Wang Yu smiled and said: "What's not to like, now this Xihe Road is the place where you have done meritorious service. This time you captured Lintao City, how many people made officials Yinzi, and extended kindness to your children. You will come here later. It’s not hard to go any further.”

"It's just that Guo Zhongtong is the general of the Northwest, and he was also elected by Duke Han Wei. Zhang Duzhi is the son-in-law of Wu Shuxiang, and Gao Gongchuo (Gao Zunyu) is a relative of the official family. The official commissioned them to manage the Xihe River. The meaning of restraining each other is not to make one party dominate."

"You went to the Northwest to make these people work together. You need military supplies to fight a war. Without military supplies, you can't do anything. If you take the general's needs in your hands and manage them all, they will bow their heads and obey orders. This is not in vain. The meaning of cultivation."

Cai Yanqing heard the words: "I understand."

Cai Yanqing walked out of the gate of Wang Anshi's mansion, thinking about the pacification ambassador who inherited the post of pacification envoy from the Northern and Southern Sui and Tang Dynasties. The first pacification ambassador was Li Daoyuan, that's right, he was Li Daoyuan who wrote Shuijing Zhu.

The pacification envoy is a non-permanent post, which is still the case at the beginning of this dynasty, and the post is just a matter of observing the customs of the province.

The real commander of military affairs in the local area is Du Deployment (du supervisor), also known as Du Deployment of the Horse Infantry Army.

But in Shanxi, on side roads like Hedong, the first prefecture is often known by military generals. The power of soldiers is still feared by the court.

The current dynasty, who was worried about the harm of the feudal town all day long, changed it to a civil servant who knew the state and was also the governor of the capital, thus evolving into an economic and strategic appeasement envoy.

The Jinglue appeasement envoy is called Jieshuai, which is the title of Jiedu envoy.

However, Zhang Yue did not grant the governor of the capital, so he lacked the power to control soldiers and horses, but he can manage civil affairs, judiciary, and supervision of a state, which coincides with his powers of transfer envoy.

Especially in the preparation and handling of military expenditures, the powers of the two conflicted even more.

The overlapping of powers is the root of conflicts. Why do mother-in-law and daughter-in-law always disagree, because there are too many places where the powers of the two overlap.

The contradiction between the transfer envoy and the passage envoy often comes from this.

Just now what Wang Xi said was also very clear, that is, he used Qin Fenglu's status as a transfer envoy to sum up everything.In the future opening of the Xihe River, the order of Zhongshu will be thoroughly implemented.

This is also the reason why Zhang Yue does not have the general manager of Jiandu, just to prevent his power from being too powerful and affect his power as a transshipment envoy.

Cai Yanqing understood these thoughts clearly, if he was a prime minister like Lu Yijian, this move was a matter of course.

But Wang Anshi is a man of affairs after all, and the matter of opening the Xihe River must be led by Zhongshu. The imperial court invested so much money and food in the army, who will be responsible in the future if something goes wrong?
But for the success of the matter, the cooperation of the Privy Council is still needed, otherwise he would not let himself go to Wu Chong's mansion and ask him for his opinion.

"Go to the residence of Prime Minister Wu Shu."

Cai Yanqing gave an order and immediately drove to Wu Chong's mansion in a carriage.

In fact, Cai Yanqing would come quietly even without Wang Anshi's orders.

Wu Chong greeted Cai Yanqing with a smile, this respect made Cai Yanqing very happy.

Wu Chong took Cai Yanqing's hand and asked him to come in and sit up.

The two chatted while drinking tea soup, and then slowly turned to the topic.

Wu Chong said: "This time, not only Shaanxi, but also Beijing West, Huainan, Hebei, and Jingdong Road Transit Departments are divided into two routes."

Cai Yanqing didn't hear a few words from Wang Anshi, but from Wu Chong, he could vomit his bitterness and say: "What the Prime Minister said is very true. Shaanxi originally used one road for unified allocation of wealth, but it was divided into two roads to produce A lot of inconvenience."

The most important thing for a transfer envoy is financial management. The person in charge is divided into finance, and the transfer envoy is connected with the third department. Therefore, the two of them can have a lot of topics about financial management.

Wu Chong said: "You can't say that. In the past, the transshipment envoys ran outside all day long, consulted inside, and never stopped eating. In the past, Shaanxi was so big. If you went to any place for transshipment envoys, you would break your legs on the road. My three term The transshipment envoy knows the difficulty."

That's right, the road transfer envoys don't have a fixed office, and they have to patrol the road. As the governor of Jiezhen Prefecture, the economic appeasement envoy is usually in Jiezhen Prefecture, so there is basically no need to run around except for patrolling the border. .

But after analyzing the road, Cai Yanqing, as the transfer envoy of Qinfeng Road, only needs to go to Xihe Road and Qinfeng Road.

Cai Yanqing said: "This is my first official appointment in Shaanxi. I don't know the local conditions, so I ask the Prime Minister to give me some advice."

Cai Yanqing's words are true, he has never served as a transfer envoy, and in front of the third transfer envoy Wu Chong, he really has no qualifications at all.

Wu Chong said: "The most important thing about local wealth is two taxes, and the other is to collect reminders."

"Local income is mainly based on two taxes (agricultural tax), while the imperial court is mainly based on collection (tea, salt, wine, vinegar, alum monopoly)."

"Needless to say the salt tax, the wine tax is like Qinzhou's 30 Guan, which ranks among the top five in the country, with 20 Guan, Jingzhao, Fengxiang, Yan, Wei, [-] Guanhua, Qingzhou, and Zhenrong Army. The road is the first, Tao Gu once said, Yongdu, Jiuhai also..."

Having said that, Wu Chong laughed.

Cai Yanqing listened carefully, he really benefited a lot from Wu Chong.

However, Cai Yanqing did not forget to get to the point and said: "Master Cheng Shu pointed out, I remembered that Yu Xianggong (Yu Jing) once said that the most difficult official in the world is the commander-in-chief of Shaanxi Silu."

"But now that the imperial court has newly established Xihe Road, I think this Xihe Road is more difficult to appease, and it is probably better than these four handsome officials!"

Wu Chong smiled slightly when he heard the words: "It's hard or not, it all depends on whether the transfer envoys help each other, Cai Caoshuai, is what the old man said right?"

(End of this chapter)