Number of romantic figures

Chapter 533
Feng Ziying is indeed very busy.

Shen Yourong's appearance lifted his spirits.

This is definitely the most suitable candidate for the head coach of the Northern Navy Fleet.

Familiar with the Liaodong military situation, and served as a naval officer in Fujian for many years, he is slightly older, just 50 years old, but his physical and mental state should be in his prime.

In the previous life, he even beat up the Japanese pirates and forced the Dutch back in Dongfan (Taiwan) and Penghu. How can this life be worse than the previous life?
Shen Yourong arrived in Beijing just one day later.

According to the practice of the Great Zhou Dynasty, officials who have expired in Ding You need to report to the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War, and then make arrangements according to the number of vacancies, the ranking of seniority, and the time for reporting.

Some people will be able to arrange a job immediately after reporting, and some people may not be able to wait for the arrangement after spending a few years in the capital. There are also many considerations and opportunities here.

One is to see if there is a suitable corresponding job vacancy. You are from the fourth rank, but the vacancy is either the fifth rank or the fourth rank. If you have excellent connections, or you are a Jinshi, or you have The concept assessments are all excellent, and they are quite recognized by the official department, so the official department will definitely give priority to them, and this may not even be arranged according to your order and time.

Of course, the connection background is more important in many cases. If you are valued by the big boss in the court, or you have special friendship, even if the job vacancy you should have arranged does not have a suitable position, you can be directly promoted and arranged. Go for higher grade posts.

In fact, Shen Yourong had already completed Ding You's term a year ago, and he had visited the capital last year and reported to the Ministry of War.

He is a military general, and his job assignments are all arranged by the Ministry of War's military selection and clean-up department. He stayed in Beijing for three months and spent all his money.

This year, the capital was also recommended by someone, that is, Wang Wenyan wrote to him, asking him to leave for the capital as soon as possible, and recommended Feng Ziying to him.

Shen Yourong, who once served as the commander of the guards, of course knew very well how difficult it would be for a military general like himself, who had long been forgotten after three years, to find a suitable official position in the capital.

Every official has to face the difficulty of Ding You. Three years is enough to make many people forget you. Moreover, in the situation where there are too many monks and too little food, if you don’t have enough connections in the Ministry of War or the Ministry of Officials, and you don’t want to spend money, you want to wait for someone If the location is right, let's go.

But Wang Wenyan's letter lifted his spirits.

Who is Feng Ziying, even if he is a foreign military officer, he has already heard of it.

When he went to Beijing to report to the Ministry of War last year, the other party had followed Chai Ke, the right servant of the Ministry of War, out of Beijing to the western border to fight the rebellion. It is said that Chai Ke ordered him to leave the Imperial Academy.

At that time, the other party was just a concubine.

Of course, the future of Shu Jishi who was born as a Jinshi is undoubtedly great. As I expected, when he returned from a trip to the Western Xinjiang to suppress the rebellion, he had already edited from the sixth-rank Imperial Academy.

This is the prestige of a Jinshi. The 20 years of hard work by a warrior like myself is not even as good as a few articles and a so-called travel-like expedition to counter the rebellion.

However, Shen Yourong, who had struggled in the officialdom for decades, didn't have much opinion on this. Da Zhou originally used literature to control martial arts, and civil servants were higher than military generals, not to mention civil servants who were born in the imperial examination were even more superior.

These are not what Shen Yourong is most concerned about. He is more concerned about Feng Ziying's proposal to open up the sea and open up the Liaoning-Denglai logistics supply line.

This is too in line with Shen Yourong's appetite.

Having been in Liaodong for a long time, he is well aware of the plight of Liaodong.

Jianzhou Jurchen, relying on the advantages of geographical location, climate and ethnic habits, continued to encroach on the surrounding areas. The abandonment of the six forts in Kuandian made him sigh with regret and worried about the situation in Liaodong.

In Liaodong, basically all the logistics supplies of Dazhou need to come from the inland, or to be precise, from the south of the Yangtze River. From grain to cloth, all these need to be transported from the south of the Yangtze River to the capital via the canal, and then transported from the capital to Liaodong via land.

There are layers of transshipment here, man-made, natural disasters, or the consumption itself. The consumption is so huge that people can't believe it.

If the logistics supply line from Denglai to southern Liaoning is solved, and if the sea can be added to bring about the development of shipping, then it means that the route from Songjiang or Ningbo-Dengzhou-South Liaoning can be unimpeded, and The loss of these grains, fodder, cloth and other materials can be reduced by at least [-]%!
What made Shen Yourong even more excited was the strategy of opening up the sea, which meant that the sea ban policy since the Ming Dynasty would be completely abolished, and at the same time, the original tribute system for opening up the sea would be changed into a completely liberalized maritime trade system. This is an epoch-making reform. It means that Dazhou will completely open its arms to the ocean, and will no longer be afraid of challenges from the open sea.

Shen Yourong has been in Fujian for more than ten years, so he is too aware of the harm brought by the sea ban.

This is how the Fujian navy was slowly suffocated to death. From the initial 3000 or [-] ships with nearly [-] people, it slowly shrank to only [-] or [-] ships with [-] people. It can barely support a small group of Japanese pirates. But it was hard to meet a few pirates, and watched these pirates and Japanese pirates land and wreak havoc in various parts of Fujian and Zhejiang.

If it wasn't for Japan's peace after the Imjin Japanese Invasion, and Fujian and Zhejiang's half-openly allowing those large merchants to smuggle, I'm afraid that those Japanese pirates would harass the coast even more rampantly.

So when he received Wang Wenyan's letter, he went to Beijing immediately.

If he was only looking for an official position, Shen Yourong wouldn't be so eager, but if he could take this opportunity to find an opportunity that would allow him to express his ambition, then Shen Yourong would be shrouded in horse leather, and that would be worth it.

The only thing that worried him was whether this Feng Xiuzhuan was as powerful as Wang Wenyan said.

He admitted that this Feng Ziying must have some skills, and he could propose to open up the Liaonan-Denglai logistics supply line, and then came up with a strategy to open the sea as a two-pronged approach. They may not have such courage, but Feng Ziying, who is still a good man, can actually persuade the cabinet and the emperor.

Although Shen Yourong is a general, he also knows how big the differences and contradictions are between the north and the south in the imperial court. Such a strategy that can take into account both sides requires a lot of thought, especially in the details. We support.

But what he cares about now is whether Feng Ziying has the ability to push himself to the position he wants to go.

Even Shen Yourong herself didn't know what position she was more suitable for now.

While thinking about it, he heard a conversation between his servant and a clear voice outside: "Excuse me, is General Shen there?"

"Who are you? My master is resting,..."

"Then can you bother to inform me that Feng Keng from the Imperial Academy is asking to see you?"

Feng Keng? !
That arrives so fast?

Shen Yourong couldn't help standing up, with a shocked expression on his face.

It took less than an hour for me to send this post, right?It seemed that the other party was not at home at the time.

So fast, did you come here after seeing your own post?

With complicated emotions in her heart, Shen Yourong didn't dare to neglect.

Before Ding You, he was the Commander of the Guard, an official of the fourth rank, but after Ding You, he was nothing. It can be a proud capital.

Where is Hanlin Academy?The cradle of future court officials.This Hanlin Academy Xiuzhuan, who is not even 17 years old, may be promoted to Pinyi on an equal footing with him in a few years.

Pushing open the door, Shen Yourong clasped his fists, "Shen Yourong has seen Feng Xiuzhuan."

"General Shen is too polite, Ziying is just a literati, how can he be treated so courteously by General Shen who defends the country and fights against foreign enemies?" Feng Ziying said while looking at General Shen.

Ordinary in appearance, not tall, with a slightly dark complexion, Long Zhun's pair of eyes under the broken eyebrows make people see a little extraordinary.

"It is worthy of Shen to bow and thank you for the suggestion that we must protect the eastern Liaoning and the southern Liaoning-Denglai route, not to mention that Feng Xiuzhuan also proposed and promoted the strategy of opening the sea. With Shen's humble opinion, the opening The strategy of the sea will definitely make our Da Zhou no longer subject to threats from overseas, whether it is Japan or the Western Yi, the sea ban will only tie our Da Zhou hands and feet, and wait to die,..."

Both parties were straight to the point, and even before they sat down, they were already probing with words.

Feng Ziying likes this style very much.

"Ziying heard that General Shen has been in Liaodong for a long time, and then fought in Fujian. He knows the key points of the coastal areas like the palm of his hand, and he is proficient in both land and water warfare. I wonder how General Shen thinks the current strategy of the Great Zhou's sea area management will be implemented?"

Shen Yourong was quite shocked by Feng Ziying's question, and couldn't help but look at this young man who was standing with his hands behind his back.

If the minister of the Ministry of War or a certain elder wanted to ask this question, Shen Yourong would naturally be able to give some advice, but no matter how famous the other party is, it was only compiled by an Imperial Academy, and what he wanted to talk about was the military and national importance that truly stabilized the country. thing.

But after hesitating for a while, Shen Yourong couldn't help laughing dumbfounded and laughed at himself. He had been idled by the Ministry of War for a year and no one cared about him. Even if he had a strategic strategy, who would believe it or listen to it?

Although the person in front of me has a lower status now, his influence and voice are not low. He can't make the decision, but at least he can bring his words to a higher level.

"In the short term and from an urgent point of view, opening up the Liaonan-Denglai supply line can greatly improve the defensive situation in Liaodong, and it can also prevent North Korea from falling to the Jurchen after being coerced by the Jianzhou Jurchen. In addition, if we can establish a strong enough With a naval fleet, we can bypass the waterway between southern Korea and Japan, all the way north, relying on Ezo as a base, passing through the Haixi Jurchen and the savage Jurchen further north, so as to open up another route from behind the Jianzhou Jurchen. A front!"

(End of this chapter)