The person shouting at the dock was Fu Wenlong's housekeeper. The housekeeper had been waiting at the dock for three days, but had been on the civilian dock. Unexpectedly, the official boat Ma Shaoguang was on heading north. If it weren't for the noise of the official dock, the housekeeper and Ma Shaoguang would have missed each other.

The butler saw Qiu Ba from the infantry yamen on the boat and thought that these guys were coming to fight Qiu Feng and wanted to bully his son-in-law, so the butler shouted below.

"You guys are really blind. Do you know who this person is? They are the dear guest of our Fu family! Do you know who my master is? They are the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet Master Fu!"

The butler shouted while pushing the crowd away and rushed onto the boat. When he arrived in front of Ma Shaoguang, he was about to speak when he saw Ma Rufeng wearing the uniform of a second-rank military officer. The butler of the Prime Minister's family was all very hand-eyed. When he saw Ma Rufeng was a second-rank military officer, he quickly changed his words and said, "This is Master Fu's dear guest. If you want to reminisce about the past, please come to Master Fu's mansion tomorrow? Now my son-in-law is going to go back to the mansion, please move out of the way."

The butler did not recognize Ma Rufeng, but saw that Ma Rufeng was a second-rank military officer, so he did not say anything. Otherwise, he would definitely come up to curse according to the butler's temper. However, the butler said respectfully and did not respect Ma Rufeng very much.

Ma Rufeng laughed at the butler and said nothing, but Zhu Jiang beside Ma Rufeng was so angry. As the prince, Zhu Jiang was not afraid of anyone except me in Beijing. Now this dog slave looks down on him, and Zhu Jiang can still bear it.

Zhu Jiang was about to get angry when he glared at him, but Ma Rufeng next to him stepped forward to grab Zhu Jiang, and then said to Ma Shaoguang: "Brother, since you are going to go to your father-in-law's house, I won't force you. When the eldest brother is free tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, you and my brother are going to talk in detail!"

Ma Shaoguang nodded when he heard Ma Rufeng say this: "Okay, let's talk about it later!" After saying that, Ma Shaoguang asked his family to invite his wife Fu, and then got off the boat and entered the city.

Ma Rufeng and Zhu Jiang watched Ma Shaoguang's family get off the boat, and Zhu Jiang whispered: "Uncle, why did you let your uncle go? Didn't you agree to live there?"

Ma Rufeng whispered: "What are you worried about? There are still some time in the future, are you afraid that your uncle will run away?"

"Uncle, it's not that I am afraid that he will run away, but I am afraid that my uncle will do what if he doesn't agree to help us?"

"Don't worry, your uncle has entrusted Fang Fengnian with his promotion this time, so he must go to pay homage to Fang Fengnian."

"But Fang Fengnian couldn't convince his uncle? Uncle, you just saw his uncle's cold look, and I really don't have confidence."

Zhu Jiang now has no one of the counselors who have given him advice, only Ma Rufeng is still half a bottle of jealousy, and the others are all warriors who are shouting and killing, and they are killing and setting fire to each other. However, playing conspiracy is not a strong point. So Zhu Jiang is so concerned about Ma Shaoguang, because it has a direct relationship with whether he can become the crown prince. Now that Zhu Jiang sees Ma Shaoguang not very enthusiastic, he is naturally very anxious.

Ma Rufeng scolded when he saw Zhu Jiang anxiously, "You are too deep, why are you afraid of? If Fang Fengnian said he was dissatisfied with your uncle, wouldn't he still have the imperial concubine? Your mother had the best relationship with your uncle back then, don't worry!"

Ma Jiyuan's children

Ma Ruyan is the oldest, and the second oldest is Ma Shaoguang, followed by Ma Shaoji and Ma Ruyun, and the youngest is Ma Rufeng. Ma Ruyan was very good to Ma Shaoguang as his elder sister, and their siblings are not much older, so they could play together when they were young. But Ma Rufeng was not good. Ma Rufeng was seven or eight years younger than Ma Shaoguang. When Ma Rufeng grew up, Ma Shaoguang had already passed the imperial examination, so Ma Rufeng and Ma Shaoguang were actually brothers, but they were actually not as close as good friends.

Zhu Jiang was overjoyed when he heard his uncle say this. I will definitely succeed if I take action!

Ma Shaoguang and the butler got off the boat, and the sedan chair in Fu's mansion was on the dock. Fu got on the sedan chair first. Ma Shaoguang bowed to the butler and said, "Thank you, the butler, for helping you!"

The housekeeper didn't know what was going on, and he thought it was the officers and soldiers of the infantry yamen who were looking for trouble just now. Now he heard Ma Shaoguang say this and couldn't help but brag: "Don't worry, son-in-law, although Qiu Ba of these infantry yamen is domineering, he doesn't ask who our family is? The master is in charge of the Ministry of Personnel. He can make the military officer unlucky by just moving his little fingers, and he doesn't urinate on his own, and he wants to take advantage of our family!"

Military officers of the Ming Dynasty were really worthless. Ma Rufeng's second-rank military officers were in charge of the life and death power of tens of thousands of people in a province. But don't forget that this is Beijing, the heart of the motherland. Second-rank military officers were naturally one party member in the local area, but they were not enough in Beijing. The turtles in Jinshuihe in Beijing are all ranks, not to mention the large number of officials who made wishes when the emperor founded the country. There were thousands of people in the Jinyiwei Governors, assistant magistrates, etc. The Jinyiwei Governor is the second-rank, but in Beijing it is a person who is a person who is waiting to die, so the butler naturally looks down on the second-rank military officers.

Ma Rufeng is a second-rank military officer, but Zhu Jiang is the prince. However, today Zhu Jiang came to pick up his uncle and went out in plain clothes. Zhu Jiang did not have the decisive aura of his father Zhu Hongsan, so he was naturally ignored by the housekeeper.

Ma Shaoguang was amused when he heard the butler say this. If the butler knew that the two people just now were his younger brother and the other was the prince of the country, he would not know if he would dare to brag like this.

Ma Shaoguang did not point it out, so he got into the sedan chair and went straight into the city. The sedan chair of the Fu family naturally did not need to be inspected by the city gate officials, so there was no delay in Chaoyang Gate, and he went directly into the city and came to Fu Wenlong's mansion.

Fu Wenlong has two sons and two daughters, but they are all married. The eldest son Fu Cheng and Ma Shaoguang are about the same age as Ma Shaoguang, but they are not good at learning. They are just a scholar in their forties. They have no choice but to go to the Imperial College to get a student and wait for the opportunity to go out to be an official. The second son Fu Xun is pretty good. He is already a juren in his thirties and is now studying hard in his hometown, waiting for the imperial examination and Jinshi. The eldest daughter has already started a family, and her husband's family is Fu Wenlong's classmate. Her son-in-law is an official in Shandong, and her second daughter is Ma Shaoguang's wife.

When Ma Shaoguang arrived at the door, Fu Cheng had been waiting for a long time. When he saw Ma Shaoguang, he smiled and said, "My brother-in-law is finally here. My mother has not waited for the younger sister. She has asked many times!"

Although Ma Shaoguang was about the same age as his brother-in-law, he was his brother-in-law after all. He stepped forward and bowed and said, "Shaoguang has met his elder brother!" Ma Shaoguang's sons also came to greet his uncle.

When Fu Cheng saw his little sister come out of the sedan chair, he said happily: "Little sister, after more than ten years of separation, my brother has seen you again!"

Since Fu married Ma Shaoguang, he has been in Yong'an Prefecture, so he naturally cannot see him.

My mother's family now sees that her elder brother's temples are white, and she can't help but cry in her eyes: "Brother, it's been sixteen years, but I didn't expect that my elder brother is old too!"

Fu Cheng smiled and said, "Brother is also in his forties, so how can he not grow old? My younger sister goes to the back house to meet her mother. Your husband and elder brother have taken it away, and my father wants to see him!"

Fu Wenlong was not the emperor's old subordinate of Huguang, but was just a revolutionary team that participated in the halfway through Guangdong, so there was nothing when evaluating his professional title. Naturally, his residence was not as majestic as the four dukes such as Ma Mingyuan and Feng Ziyong. However, Fu Wenlong had been the governor of Nanyang and Guangdong and Guangxi, and is still the chief minister in charge of all the officials in the world, so his residence should not be too shabby.

There were more than twenty years before and after the Fu family, there were fifty or sixty houses, and there were seventy or eighty maids.

Today the emperor welcomed Da Lama, which was the affairs of the Ministry of Rites and the Prime Minister, so Fu Wenlong was very unconventional and skipped the shift today.

Fu Cheng took Ma Shaoguang into Fu Wenlong's study. Fu Wenlong was sitting on the Grand Master's chair waiting for Ma Shaoguang. Ma Shaoguang quickly stepped forward and knelt down to salute to his father-in-law.

Fu Wenlong nodded and said, "Get up, it's hard to get along!"

Ma Shaoguang bowed and replied, "Thank you, father-in-law, for your concern. Fortunately, there is no time limit to going to Beijing this time, so he left casually!"

Previous organization department transfer orders have been reported for a limited period of time, but there is no transfer order for Ma Shaoguang, so Ma Shaoguang received the transfer order in March. He left for half a year and arrived in Beijing at the end of October.

Fu Wenlong heard Ma Shaoguang say this and said, "Ziheng, it seems that you don't know who transferred you to the capital!"

Ma Shaoguang really didn't know, but heard Fu Wenlong say this and asked, "Isn't it my father-in-law?"

"Haha, of course it's not me. If it's now, I'm in charge of the Ministry of Personnel, so I can naturally use some means, but in March, I'm in charge of the Ministry of Justice, and it's beyond my reach!"

"Is it not my father-in-law, is it Uncle Fang?" Ma Jiyuan analyzed at the time that only these two people could help.

"Shutian is now in charge of the Taxation Department. He has the right to recommend it, but the final decision is the emperor. The place you are going to is the Salt Affairs Department of the Taxation Department. This is a fat and shortage! Without the emperor's direct order, the Organization Department would not dare to replace people at will!"

Salt Affairs Sima Shaoguang knew that in charge of the salt administration in the whole world was a first-class fat.

In ancient China, salt and steel were a specialist in states. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were administrative officials in charge of salt administration and steel. In the Ming Dynasty, due to economic development, the state's control over steel was not so strict, but the salt administration was always under the control of the central government.

In the Ming Dynasty, six Dushi salt transport commissions were established in Lianghuai Salt Field, which were responsible for the transportation and sales of salt, collection of classes, payment of money and grain, as well as private salt cases in various places, anti-smuggling assessments, etc. The central government also established a salt inspector to supervise the six salt transport commissions. This organization, like the Salt Industry Monopoly Bureau in the later generations, strictly controls the distribution of salt industries across the country.

However, the profit of salt is too great. As long as the country sells it, there will be powerful figures to poach the country's corners. During the Chongzhen period, there was a history of only ten taels of silver being collected. Therefore, after Zhu Hongsan occupied the whole country, he released all salt. Just like industrial products, he only collected taxes at the source of the salt farm. The agency in charge of tax collection was the Salt Affairs Department. (https:)
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