Li Sancai was also such a keen person. When he saw everyone's expression, he knew that they did not agree much with Wang Xijue who was about to return to the court.

Li Sancai thought for a while and then said, "Since my teacher returned to the province last year, the emperor has repeatedly summoned each other, but my teacher said seven times but refused. As a disciple, we wrote a letter to advise my teacher to persuade him that the enemy is still in the west, but the eastern storm has not yet calmed down. The war and thunder are on the border, and the clouds are connected in Liaodong. At this moment, we are the emperor who is a sacred party, and we are a party who is a good person. We should not thank our loyalty and good fortune repeatedly, and we will be more and more determined! It is better to stand up for the country and turn the tide in the crisis."

"After I said this, my mentor did not reply to me. I don't know his state of mind, but I just imagine what's behind Zhang Jiangling? Why did Shenwu County, Xu Xin'an, and Wang Shanyin leave one after another? Therefore, I think that this time I returned to Beijing, my mentor was also worried. Please understand the difficulties of the position of prime minister."

After hearing what Li Sancai said, Zhao Nanxing, Wei Yunzhen and others' impression of Wang Xijue has changed a lot, and they immediately said, "We understand."

So the officials met Li Sancai to the tavern next to Tongzhou for a welcome banquet, and then Li Sancai rushed to his home in Tongzhou without stopping.

Li Sancai's ancestors were from Shaanxi, and his grandfather was an officer of the Right Guard of Wugong and moved to Zhangjiawan, Tongzhou.

Zhangjiawan is close to the canal, looking north at the capital. Li Sancai grew up here since childhood. His grandfather Li Lu was inspector of the Zhangjiawan Inspection Department, and his father Li Xun was a grocery merchant.

Li Sancai walked all the way by car, but saw that the canal wharf was very prosperous, and ships were parked on the dock to load and unload. The towns along the canal wharf were equipped with inspection departments, Xuanke departments, Tijuan departments and other yamen, as well as brick factories, slab stone factories, iron anchor factories and other shops. The most common ones were hundreds of collapsed houses standing next to the canal. These collapsed houses were used to store commercial goods, and merchants rented them as cargo warehouses.

Merchants and department stores from north to south gather here. Although Li Sancai moved to Zhangjiawan, he has been familiar with all this since he was a child.

"Let's go and don't get in the way!"

Li Sancai heard a noise coming from the front.

He lifted the curtain to look, but saw a long line of chariots, horses, donkeys and mules along the street, which turned out to be carrying royal wood into Beijing.

There is an imperial wood farm in Zhangjiawan. Whenever the large wood used for building imperial palaces and mausoleums are transported from Sichuan, Jiangxi, and Huguang to the capital via the canal. It takes a lot of manpower and financial resources to transport just one imperial wood to the capital. When Zi spent more than 7 million taels of silver to build the Shou Palace today, a large amount of money was on the imperial wood.

Because it was the imperial merchant transporting imperial trees, it was rampant everywhere. Everyone avoided the road, fearing that they would be beaten.

Seeing that Li Sancai was about to meet the team transporting the imperial wood when he saw that he was sitting in a sedan chair, he couldn't help but remember that when he was young, his neighbors were bullied by these arrogant people, so he said to the entourage outside the sedan chair: "I'll let them avoid it!"

After saying that, Li Sancai's sedan chair stopped in the middle of the road, and the entourage immediately stepped forward and ordered the other party to avoid the road.

Soon the entourage replied: "Master, Manager Yu from the Huangmu Factory wants to see you."

"Let him talk to the side of the sedan chair."

Soon a businessman in his forties and rich figure walked to the side of the sedan chair.

The entourage lifted the curtain of Li Sancai, and Li Sancai looked at the other party and said, "Manager Yu hasn't seen him for a long time?"

Manager Yu smiled and said, "Master Meng also recognizes villain. Some time ago, I learned that the adults were promoted. People in Zhangjiawan heard that they were so happy. After many years, a high-ranking official has finally appeared in our Zhangjiawan. We are thinking about when to congratulate. You see, you will meet this."

Li Sancai said lightly: "Since I know I've been promoted, why do I still use the team that transports wood to block me? Is this a way to congratulate me?"

Manager Yu quickly waved his hand and said, "Where can you dare to block you, sir? Didn't you meet this by chance?"

"That's good that it's a coincidence, I'll move it."

Manager Yu smiled and said, "Sir, you said, that's the team that transports imperial wood to the emperor."

Li Sancai sneered and said, "I am still the young minister of Dali Temple. Where can anyone avoid things? You people from the Imperial Wood Factory have been domineering in our Zhangjiawan for a day or two. Today, the Japanese official returns home. Are you still like this? I really think you have the golden signboard of the Imperial Merchant, so I can't do anything to you?"

When Manager Yu heard this, his face changed and said, "Look at you, sir, just behave like a villain today and you don't know Mount Tai. Let's just let it go."

"It's not you who let it go, but it should be like this."

Manager Yu nodded repeatedly when he heard this, "Yes, we will do this when we meet the master in the future."

After saying that, the caravan transporting the Huangmu cleared a way for Li Sancai's sedan chair.

Li Sancai returned to his mansion in this way, and his mansion lived in Zhangjiawan Town.

When the sedan chair arrived at the front and after the mansion, Li San walked out of the sedan chair and saw that the vermilion paint in front of the mansion was a little peeling, and the mansion was slightly cramped, which was not as good as his current identity.

Li Sancai sighed: "After so many years, the mansion is still so devastated. This is really the unfilial son of man!"

After saying that, the door of the mansion was already open, Li Sancai strode into the mansion. After seeing his family and wife's room, someone reported that Chen Jiru was here.

Li Sancai immediately went out to greet him in person.

Why is Li Sancai respectful to Chen Jiru? Because Chen Jiru is Wang Heng, the son of Wang Xijue, but as the teacher of the son of a high-ranking official, he is not as good as the other party.

Therefore, generally speaking, one has to be shorter for a lifetime. Chen Jiru called himself Wang Xijue's son and nephew and called Wang Heng a brother. In addition, Dong Qichang was also the former Minister of Rites Lu Shusheng who invited his son to teach his son. He also called himself his elder brother. Because of this identity, he was like a fish in the officialdom.

When Li Sancai heard that Chen Jiru had arrived, he personally welcomed him to the living room.

After the two of them took their seats, Chen Jiru smiled and said, "As soon as they arrived in Zhangjiawan, I heard that Brother Daofu had defeated the majesty of the people in the Huangmu Factory. The people along the streets applauded! It would be a good story to be passed on to Shilin in the future!"

Li Sancai laughed when he heard this. His style of being an official was to say what he did not do, and even what he did. Others were low-key officials, but Li Sancai instead acted high-profile everywhere. Today, he gave the imperial merchants the power, and it was certainly a kind of act that would not be charming the emperor when he was told to the officials.

Li Sancai said: "These people rely on their status as the Imperial Merchants, and they are arrogant in the local area, and even the local parents and officials are afraid in front of them. I have long been unable to see it, so I have used some means to punish them."

Chen Jiru sighed: "Brother Daofu is not afraid of these people today, but the people still can't do anything to them. When I was studying at the Xiangye's house in the capital, I passed by Dayu Mountain, but I saw that the Shou Palace covered most of the mountain. The magnificence reminded me of the Qin Emperor Mausoleum... There is nothing we can say."

Li Sancai's face darkened and said, "I already knew that Your Majesty's reign was too luxurious. Not to mention the Shou Palace, is it just that Zhangjiawan is a royal shop? And how many collapsed houses that store goods outside are royal? The Royals levy both store rent and commercial tax, which not only recruit merchants, but also sell merchant goods wholesale. The people's fat and paste were finally put into the Nanku."

Chen Jiru sighed after hearing this, "I have advised the prime minister not to go to Beijing to become prime minister, but the prime minister is the emperor's most trusted minister after all. The emperor has repeatedly summoned each other, and the prime minister cannot refuse. I am afraid that the reputation accumulated in half a lifetime will be lost."

Li Sancai heard this and said, "I'm worried that this is not the case. Lu Pinghu and Lin Houguan in the court all have the intention of coveting the chief assistant. If his mentor returns to the court, he may be embarrassed by his mentor."

Chen Jiru and Taoism: "It's okay to say Lu Pinghu, this Marquis of Lin has not yet entered the cabinet."

Li Sancai said: "I am just worried that he will enter the cabinet."

Chen Jiru heard this and said, "You and Mr. Lin made great contributions to the sweet potato strategy back then. Moreover, he is one of the few ministers in the court. Although the prime minister thinks that this person is not upright, he still appreciates his contributions and his rituals that he pleaded for the people."

Li Sancai shook his head and said, "Mr. Mei, you are a very charitable woman on weekdays. It is difficult for us to treat others based on our own likes and dislikes. That's right, I admire Mr. Lin from the bottom of my heart for asking for the people. However, this person's propositions and political positions since the Book of Etiquette were not praised by his mentor."

"For example, he introduced the salt merchants from Lianghuai to the emperor before and asked them to transport grain from the sea. If this matter was done, there would be a 500,000 stone of grain every year to this salt merchant. Do you think your mentor would agree if he was in the court?"

Chen Jiru nodded after hearing this, saying, "You are right, the prime minister must not allow it."

Li Sancai said: "No matter how reasonable Lin Houguan advocates sea transport, it is well known that the principle of promoting sea transport will definitely be less than river transport. However, he actually gave the Hecai Governor Fu Zhiyuan in advance to keep his position as the Hecai Governor, which made it difficult for him to object. At that time, it happened that the Hecai workers were causing trouble, and all the Hecai officials were ate and finally ordered Lin Houguan to get a plan. Now the Haicai incident has been completed and no one can object. I really feel sorry for it."

Chen Jiru glanced at Li Sancai. Li Sancai has lived in Zhangjiawan since his grandfather and has been intimate with many businessmen who rely on the canal for many years. No wonder Lin Yanchao suggested that Haicai was regarded as a threat by him, because it endangered the interests of a group of officials in Hecai.

At the end of last year, the Hecao was making trouble, and Zhiyuan also worked hard to strictly rectify the canal transportation. As a result, officials of the Hecao Group were caught off guard. Now they have recovered, and Wang Xijue is about to return to Beijing, so Li Sancai stood up.

Chen Jiru and Tao: "Brother Daofu, you are the talent to help the world in my heart, and so is the official Lin Hou. In my eyes, you two are just as good talents as Yuliang, but I really don't want you to fight for political views!"

Li Sancai heard what Chen Jiru said when he heard this. He meant that he was a bit jealous of Lin Yanchao just like Zhou Yu was jealous of Zhuge Liang.

Li Sancai asked himself, he always regarded himself very high, not to mention that he became an official even earlier than Lin Yanchao. Now Lin Yanchao is the second-rank minister of the Ministry of Rites. Although he is the young minister of Dali Temple, he is almost a few shorter when he sees him.

Now that Chen Jiru talked about him, Li Sancai admitted it calmly.
Chapter completed!