After the whole family was swept away, I lay down flat

Chapter 652 Surprise
Upon hearing this, Hai Xiya's face lit up with joy: "Minister Tao wants my cousin to return to the capital to help him? This is a good thing! My cousin has been delayed outside for too many years, and he should have returned to the court long ago!"

Xie Wenzai looked at Hai Xiya helplessly: "Cousin, don't worry, I haven't finished speaking yet."

Hai Xiya hurriedly said, "Then go on, just don't find excuses to refuse to go back. You are not young anymore, if you delay any longer, you will have to live a leisurely life. I know you have great ambitions in your heart, how can you waste your life like this? You didn't go back before because there were treacherous ministers in power in the court. If you went back, you would be suppressed and have no good life. It would be better to stay outside and live a leisurely life. Now that Lord Tao has entered the cabinet, he has the support of the emperor and will definitely protect you. This is the best time for you to return to the court. If you delay any longer, you will really be old!"

Xie Wenzai pursed his lips and said, "Whether I return to the court or not is a matter for the future, so let's not discuss it now. Tao Nanshan is in need of manpower right now, so I want you to help him."

Hai Xiya was stunned: "Me?"

Not only was he surprised, but even Haijiao, Hai Chang'an, and Ma and Haitang in the room were all surprised.

Hai Xiya was a civilian official of the Northwest Frontier Army, but he had been seconded to Tao Yue last year and was busy with the promotion of new grain for him. He was originally Tao Yue's man, so why did Tao Yue now ask him to help?
Xie Wenzai explained: "Tao Nanshan's intention is to ask you to withdraw from the Northwest Frontier Army and officially become an official of the Ministry of Revenue, that is, his subordinate. In this way, he can better command you to do things. He has been in the Ministry of Revenue for too short a time, and there are not many people under him who can get things done. He is in urgent need of manpower. And the people he can find in a hurry are far less reliable than your old acquaintance."

After Tao Yue became the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, he was very eye-catching for a while because he was the emperor's cousin. However, he acted very cautiously and rarely took the initiative to quarrel with officials from the Sun Ge Lao faction. He seemed to be just a crony forced into the Ministry of Revenue by the emperor to occupy a position. In essence, he was a serious official with a peaceful personality, and he was not the same kind of person as those Wumen Gusheng who were constantly fighting with the Sun faction.

The Sun family did not count him as one of the Wu family's old students, thinking that he was just a good friend of the Wu family's old students, and he was also a relative and a confidant of the emperor. After he entered the Ministry of Revenue, he also did several major things and achieved outstanding political achievements. Among these things, only one touched the interests of the Sun family, and the others had nothing to do with the Sun family, or only affected some of the Sun family's followers. He seemed very restrained and measured. Sun Ge Lao felt that he was not an enemy, and specifically warned his family that as long as he did not take the initiative to cause trouble, they should not cause trouble for him, so as not to anger the emperor.

Lord Sun's understanding also played a decisive role in Tao Yue's smooth entry into the cabinet.

Tao Yue is currently advocating the promotion of new grain. This year, the new grain has achieved a bumper harvest within the sphere of influence of the Northwest Frontier Army, and the planting area will be expanded next year and the year after. The new grain has not affected the status of the staple food that is currently prevalent in the world, but is only used as a supplementary food to prepare for famine years. This matter has no bad impact on the Sun Ge Lao faction, and it does not involve the interests of the old people of Wumen, so no one jumped out to hinder Tao Yue. However, if the new grain is promoted smoothly, and a natural disaster occurs one year, and the people affected by the disaster rely on the scattered new grain to survive the disaster, Tao Yue will have an unquestionable great contribution, and someone may even build a shrine for him!
Tao Yue was determined to expand the cultivation area of ​​the new grain, no longer limited to Shaanxi, but also to Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Zhili... and preferably the entire north of the Yangtze River. As long as there was marginal land suitable for growing new grain, such as the edge of the mountain, in the forest, on the edge of the ridge... anywhere that was not good farmland, it would be planted. This was no small project, and he was far from having enough manpower, and urgently needed new blood.

However, considering that the promotion of the new grain in Shaanxi had just begun, Tao Yue did not plan to transfer Hai Xiya to the Ministry of Revenue in Beijing right now. Instead, he planned to transfer him to the Shaanxi Qingli Division of the Ministry of Revenue as a principal, stationed in Shaanxi, responsible for supervising the promotion of the new grain. When the new grain was rolled out throughout Shaanxi and the promotion went smoothly, he would transfer him back to Beijing.

After Xie Wenzai told Hai Xiya about Tao Yue's plan, he added, "If you, my cousin, agree to Tao Nanshan's offer, you will have to serve for at least one more term, and maybe even go to Beijing to work as an official for a few years. But the good thing is that Tao Nanshan will never treat you unfairly, and he will be responsible for your promotion."

Apart from other things, the head of the Shaanxi Qingli Division of the Ministry of Revenue is a sixth-rank official. After Hai Xiya came back to power, he came to Chang'an to serve as a seventh-rank official of the Shaanxi Dusi. After only one year, if he accepted Tao Yue's invitation and transferred to the Ministry of Revenue, he would be promoted two levels and become a sixth-rank official. Even though he still had to work in Shaanxi, he was a Beijing official in terms of the organization. How could the benefits be just a promotion?

Hai Xiya was stunned for a long time, unable to say a word. Hai Jiao's eyes were already shining, surprised and happy. In the inner room, Ma was still a little confused: "What does this mean? The master is going to be promoted?"

Haitang hurriedly explained the reason to her grandmother. The more Ma listened, the happier she became: "Oh, so the master doesn't have to wait for the Duke to promote him, and he can also be promoted to the sixth rank?!"

Haitang nodded and whispered, "If Grandpa can hold out for one more term, after serving as the head of Chang'an for three years, and then go to Beijing to hold out for another term, he might even be promoted again."

The next promotion would be to the fifth rank!

Ma excitedly raised her voice and said, "Master! What are you still hesitating about?! We should naturally agree to such a great thing! The Duke of Zhenguo Mansion also knows about this matter. They didn't object, which means they agree. Even the Duke of Guo praises this good thing, how can you not agree?!"

Hai Xiya came back to his senses, feeling a bit amused and helpless: "My lady, please be patient! I will ask you in detail." He lowered his voice and whispered something to Xie Wenzai. Haitang couldn't hear clearly in the inner room, but seeing Haijiao and Hai Changan who were close by, they didn't show any abnormality, so it was obvious that there was nothing wrong with what Hai Xiya said.

Then Xie Wenzai nodded: "Yes, if my cousin becomes the head of the Ministry of Revenue, the quota for the Hai family in the army will be vacant." When he left the Zhenguo Mansion, General Zhou Liu had reminded him of this. But it was not a big deal, Hai Jiao was almost old enough to join the army. With the Zhenguo Duke in charge, it would not be a big deal for the Hai family to delay for two or three years and let Hai Jiao fill the vacancy. This kind of thing is common in the Northwest Frontier Army, and every family does this. After Hai Dingcheng died on the battlefield, no one from the Hai family served in the army for more than ten years, and no one complained about his family.

Hai Xiya hesitated: "If I transfer to the Ministry of Households, I may be transferred at any time. But the Hai family is a military household of the Northwest Frontier Army. Without me, Bao Shun will have to take over. If he fills a vacancy in the Northwest Frontier Army, can he still follow us?"

He still wanted to reunite with his family, and he couldn't leave his children alone in the northwest! Whether they stayed in Chang'an or returned to Zhili, their family had to be together.

Everyone was silent. In fact, everyone felt that it shouldn't be difficult to solve this kind of problem by asking the Duke of Zhenguo for help, but it was a bit against the rules. However, considering the benefits that Tao Yue's arrangement would bring to their family, it seemed unnecessary for them to be too rigid about the rules? It was just that everyone was too embarrassed to say this.

At this time, Haitang spoke up: "Why must my brother take this position? In fact, Second Uncle is also a member of our family. Isn't he more suitable?"

(End of this chapter)