I, Jiajing, successfully cultivated immortality

Chapter 216 Hai Rui's Decision

Hai Rui had a panoramic view of the expression on his wife's face, and said helplessly.

"My husband hasn't figured it out yet, whether or not I should agree to the Imperial Envoy to serve in the Inspector's Office!"

"Why don't you go, do you know how many people dream of this? This may be your last chance in this life!"

After hearing what her husband said, Hai Rui's wife, Wang Shi, was out of breath and couldn't help retorting.

"Since ancient times, the capital has never been a place of the first kindness!"

"The water in this capital city is very deep. A small wave will end up ruining everyone's family. I'm afraid..."

After Hai Rui finished speaking, he turned his gaze to his wife, Wang Shi, with a look of hesitation on his face.

"But if you miss this opportunity, I'm afraid there will be no hope of being promoted again! Do you want to stay here for the rest of your life and be an unknown county magistrate?"

"Isn't there a saying that the higher you stand, the farther you can see. Didn't you say before that you want to benefit the world and realize your ambition?"

"Sometimes, only when you reach that position can you be free from shackles and unleash your ambitions! Otherwise, how can you help the world with a seventh-rank magistrate?"

After Hai Rui's wife, Wang, poured a cup of hot tea for her husband, her face was full of worry.

After hearing what his wife Wang said, Hai Rui seemed to have made up his mind, with an inexplicable gleam in his eyes.

For some reason, he suddenly recalled a sentence that Zheng Michang once told him.

"Listen well, in the officialdom, you must be like the light!"

When Hai Rui fell into deep thought, Mrs. Wang did not interrupt him, but chose to accompany him quietly.

After a long time, Hai Rui came back to his senses, and said silently to himself, "Oh, with the light and the dust? No! Maybe there is another way to go, and this way, no one has ever dared to say that he has walked the whole journey."

"In that case, let me, Hai Rui, try it!"

Hai Rui stood up from his seat suddenly, his eyes seemed to be burning with flames, and his whole body was full of fighting spirit!
Afterwards, I saw him turn around, with a resolute face, and said in a deep voice: "I will go to the Governor's Mansion in person later, meet the Imperial Envoy, and formally go to the Inspector's Office!"

After Hai Rui finished speaking, he left the room without looking back, and then went to the county office. He wanted to finish all the remaining official duties.

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Jiangxi, Nanchang Prefecture.

At this moment, Jiangxi governor Cao Shunhe is anxiously waiting for news from his subordinates.

After a while, only the sound of chaotic footsteps came, and his subordinate knelt down on the ground, reporting in a deep voice.

"Report to the governor, according to your order, the nearby guards have sent soldiers with good water to salvage the river near the wrecked ship, but nothing was found."

"I didn't find the official salt that sank into the water!"

After Cao Shunhe heard the news from his subordinates, he couldn't help being furious: "Send more people, keep looking for this officer!"

"I don't believe it anymore, the official salt on more than 20 ships just disappeared like this?"

"Yes, Lord Governor! This subordinate will report your order to the Commander."

After the subordinate responded, he left quickly.

And Cao Shunhe seemed to have lost all the strength in his whole body, and he fell back to the chair weakly.

Just a few nights ago, more than 20 large ships from the government that were in charge of transporting official salt had an accident when passing through a narrow local river. Several large ships were caught in the undercurrent, struck a rock and sank!
When the government received the distress message and rushed to the scene for rescue, they suddenly discovered that more than 20 large ships, except for the few that sank, were docked on the shore intact.

Not only that, but the people on board and the thousands of catties of official salt they carried disappeared.

Cao Shunhe knew very well in his heart that the whole thing revealed a strange atmosphere.

He is quite familiar with the river where the incident happened. According to common sense, the fleet should be able to pass through safely.

However, something happened to the fleet responsible for transporting the official salt here!
"Come here, bring me the nearby hydrological map!"

Perhaps in order to verify his conjecture, Cao Shunhe ordered so.

"Yes, Lord Governor!"

The guards at the side led away, and soon, a complete hydrological map appeared in front of Cao Shunhe.

"The fleet happened here. There are few people around here, so it's an excellent place to ambush!"

Cao Shunhe pointed to the accident site of the fleet, continued to look around, and came to such a conclusion.

"But there aren't any well-known gangs of bandits around here?"

Cao Shunhe put away the map and fell into deep thought.

After a long time, Cao Shunhe finally sorted out the stakes behind this, and then said silently to himself.

"So that's the case. Right now, the government's salt transport ship has capsized, and the government's salt reserves have bottomed out."

"The next batch of official salt will take at least two months to arrive!"

"And within these two months, if the common people want to obtain table salt, they have to spend a lot of money to buy private salt from those salt merchants."

"And this group of salt merchants took this opportunity to hoard and make huge profits!"

"The accident of the government's fleet transporting official salt must be planned by these salt merchants behind the scenes!"

"If you think about it more boldly, it is absolutely impossible to achieve this level with just the group of salt merchants. That is to say, some officials are also involved in the whole matter, and there are a lot of them!
"Maybe, they are sending someone to secretly monitor me right now!"

When Cao Shunhe thought of this, he couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat, and then he suddenly raised his head.

In a trance, several figures flash past outside the door.

"Whoo~"

Cao Shunhe breathed a sigh of relief, forcing himself to regain his composure, and then saw him calling his subordinates, and said in a deep voice.

"Give me this map and take it down!"

"Yes, Lord Governor!"

After the visitor responded, he took down the hydrological map.

Unexpectedly, after leaving the room, he did not walk towards the room where the map was stored, but walked away quickly in the direction opposite to the destination.

After looking around, he saw that no one was paying attention, and then entered a room.

"Has he noticed anything?"

From the room, came a rather dull voice.

"Reporting, no, he has been studying this hydrological map!"

The visitor said, and respectfully presented the map in his hand.

"Keep staring at him, if you make any move, report to me directly!"

"Yes, my lord!"

After the visitor responded, he quickly left, and by the way, he also took the door behind him.

At this moment, Cao Shunhe has roughly guessed his current situation, someone is secretly watching him!

"No, I have to quickly find an opportunity to pass the news on."

"Otherwise, if these salt merchants are allowed to mess around, the people of Jiangxi will suffer!"

After thinking for a while, Cao Shunhe quickly made up his mind that he would report the news to the court.

"Right now, the official channel is definitely not available. Maybe someone stopped me just as I handed out the memorandum!"

"At that time, not only will it not have any effect, but it will also scare the snake!"

"Well, if only I could submit the memorial directly to His Majesty, it would be great, and there wouldn't be so much trouble."

Thinking of this, Cao Shunhe couldn't help but give up on himself.

(End of this chapter)