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Chapter 54 You Are More Open-minded Than I Imagined

Huo Rong was ordered to supervise the Huzhou Wharf. Before coming here, he had made up for the situation of water transportation in Huzhou, Jiaxing, and Hangzhou for nearly five years. It is not a coincidence that he came to the wharf today. In Jiangnan Road, where Cheng Xiao is a model, it is common for the government to collect money. Now, it is not uncommon for water transport terminals to exploit artisans.

If the Huzhou Wharf is to be cleaned up, this trend must be stopped for a while, but the situation he saw along the way was not very optimistic.

The docks are all near the wharf or the bay. The craftsmen in the government-run docks are paid wages, but the handymen are all under military service, and there are about a thousand people working every day.

The people on the river bank were beating and beating, and they were very busy, but there were still foremen with big knives yelling and drinking from the side, and they were even more impressive when they saw them coming.

"Go back and check the background of the chief of the Huzhou Water Transportation Department." He turned his head to signal Tong Qi.

It was also Changying's first visit to this kind of place, which to a certain extent overturned her previous understanding of the lives of the common people.

Su Xinrong frowned all the way, she didn't say a word, stood on tiptoes, covered her nose with her palms, and couldn't stand the smell of rust halfway, she pushed the long tassel away, held the wood beside her and vomited.

Fortunately, Xu Lan was close, and quickly supported Chang Ying with his sharp eyes and hands, avoiding the bad luck of falling to the side.

"Changying, I'm really sorry. I felt a bit of wind and cold last night, and I felt a little unwell just now. I didn't hit you, did I?"

Su Xinrong looked over "sincerely".

Chang Ying brushed off his sleeves and said with a smile, "I hit it."

Su Xinrong twitched the corner of her mouth: "That's really embarrassing."

"There's no need to be embarrassed." Changying smiled, "After all, General Su's body is weak, and it's obvious to all."

You have become a general and you still say that you are weak?It's not insulting.

Su Xinrong's expression changed.

There was a moment of silence.

Xu Lan cleared her throat and beckoned someone to bring a few bowls of tea: "It's been a long time since I talked about it, let's drink some water to moisten your throat first."

There is only a big bowl of rough tea in the dock, but this is not the time to be particular.

Huo Rong glanced at Su Xinrong, then at Chang Ying who was calmly brushing his sleeves, and stroked the edge of the rough pottery bowl with his hands, his heart was calm.

Su Xinrong took the tea, her heart boiled like porridge, but she was helpless for a while.

Seeing that Huo Rong was casting a cold glance at Shen Changying, and remembering how he ignored her earlier, he smiled and said, "Changying, you've always been outspoken, why don't you restrain yourself in front of General Huo?

"This is not the north where you grew up. Jiangnan is a land of elegance, and etiquette has always been important. Changying, you should learn more, and don't try to grab the limelight all day long.

"General Huo, do you think so?"

Su Xinrong laughed silently, with the attitude of a winner.

Huo Rong, who was shaking the tea in the bowl, glanced at her, obviously couldn't bear to be dragged into the water: "General Su is so particular about etiquette, why doesn't he stay in the inner house?"

Su Xinrong was stunned.

Immediately, Changying let out a laugh that made her feel extremely piercing: "Probably because General Su has always liked the feeling of having a hot face next to a cold butt!"

Su Xinrong gritted her teeth angrily, before she could speak, Chang Ying frowned, and walked away with her arms folded.

Huo Rong's face was not very pretty either.cold ass?Who is she calling a cold ass?

Xu Lan couldn't bear to stay aside, coughed and said to Su Xinrong, "Aren't you feeling sick? Go up and stay."

Su Xinrong's face turned even uglier.

Xu Lan didn't care about her anymore, and walked towards Changying by the river beach.

Chang Ying stood under a dragon skeleton, looking at the craftsmen rushing to work not far away.

Due to the sudden transfer to the supervisory department, her original plan was changed, and she had to review the past life in recent days.

After Cheng Xiao's death, He Min was taken into custody, but the Water Transport side was actually very peaceful.

It was also because of her tranquility that she didn't think about it at all before uncovering Cheng Xiao's crimes.

But despite this, something happened in August of the same year.

The biggest function of water transportation for the imperial court is to connect the transportation of goods from north to south. The water boats in Jiangsu and Zhejiang transported grain and silk to the capital, and the merchants transported jujube, pear, medicinal materials, fur, etc. from the north to the south, which saved a lot of cost compared to land transportation. .

However, because of the importance attached to the canal, the imperial court has always made every effort to maintain the normal shipping of the canal. The Li Canal along both sides of the river is often disturbed by floods, and the trackers and sailors at the docks in many places are also suffering from water transportation.

Because he was a native of Huzhou and lived in Huzhou since he was a child, Song Cheng, a university scholar, proposed to promote sea transportation instead of river transportation, but was refuted by Dongping Hou Shizi Gu Lian.

Gu Lian believes that under the current situation of rampant piracy, Song Yi's proposal to open shipping as a democracy movement is to put Daning in danger.

Song Cheng argued with reason and cited several disadvantages of river transportation.Gu Lian directly pointed out that he was suspected of colluding with pirates, and finally forced Song Yi to leave his post in order to protect himself.

Since then, no one has proposed to abolish the river transport.

If Gu Lian did not want to abolish the canal, one of the reasons must be that the department of water transport was in the hands of his relatives and the East Palace. Abolishing the canal would mean losing ground, and transporting property would no longer be as convenient as it is today.

The second is that if the sea transport is greatly promoted, the sea road will be under the control of the five armies' governors' mansions, and the relatives will not be able to reach the barracks. Once the generals control this fortress, it will be a matter of time before the Gu family's party will lose power in the court.

No matter how likely Song Cheng's proposal is to be implemented in the end, he is not afraid of his relatives, and it is an indisputable fact that he will have enemies with the Gu family in the future.

As a civil servant of the six ministries under the almost single-handed control of the Gu family, being able to consider the overall situation of the imperial court and fight against his relatives against the wind, at least shows that he still has some strength of character...

"Except for the boat masters, these craftsmen are all here to serve. Some of them serve three months in three months, while those who live in the place serve ten days in January."

Xu Lan followed the direction she was looking at and began to explain. "You grew up in the Northland, so you probably haven't had much contact with the docks, have you? How is the scenery in the Northland?"

Changying entered the camp and fabricated his resume, saying that he was from the family of a young general in the Northland.

"The climate is bad, far worse than that in the south of the Yangtze River. But when the season is good, the scenery outside the Great Wall is also quite interesting." Changying smiled.

Xu Lan stared at her profile, and said, "I thought you would care about General Su's words, but it seems that I am thinking too much. You are more open-minded than I imagined."

Seen from this angle, her thick eyelashes, pretty bridge of the nose, as well as the exquisite lip line and jaw line are all highlighted, like a beautiful silhouette in the sunset.

"General Xu has a good reputation." Changying turned her face and folded her arms with a smile that was not a smile: "General Su always has trouble with me, but I really don't mind. So sometimes I just start fighting as soon as I say it."

Su Xinrong claimed to have a good family background, and always taunted her by using the small family background she fabricated for enlisting in the army, because the Xu family had a good family background, and she had to belittle her to flaunt herself.

Changying really doesn't care about this, but she doesn't want to let Xu Lan misunderstand that Shen Changying has something special about her.

Xu Lan stared at her for a while, then gently raised her lips, and said softly, "Naughty."

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