A scholar of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty

"Did Second Master Zhao find His Royal Highness King Jin?" Gu Qing remained calm.

Li Zhi nodded.

"Then is this person His Royal Highness Prince Jin going to use?" Gu Qing continued to ask.

"I haven't agreed yet. I thought about refusing, but he said it was recommended by you, so I hesitated."

Fan Jian listened attentively.

Gu Qing said to Li Zhi, "This Zhao Rui can be used, but he can't be reused. He is a very rich and thoughtful person. His Royal Highness King Jin will use him for the time being. He is a very useful stepping stone for Jin. His Royal Highness said that someone like him can drain his value, and then throw him out as a chess piece when necessary, does His Royal Highness Jin understand now?"

After listening, Li Zhi lowered his head and thought, "Is it too dark to do so?"

Chapter 7 Thirteen

"Nowadays, His Royal Highness King Jin has to meet many people every day. There are not only good people in this world, but also bad people. Some people are loyal to His Highness King Jin while others just use His Highness King Jin to climb up. Zhao Rui is The second son of the Zhao family, the former nobleman of the Guanlongmen Clan, he didn't come to me to climb up, and he couldn't climb up, his status is not very good."

"His Royal Highness Jin Wang thinks that he will think of coming to the Maritime Trade Department just because of my words?"

"I still don't understand." Li Zhi said.

Gu Qingchang sighed, "Of course Zhao Rui can't climb up, but he can use the resources of the Maritime Trade Department. The Maritime Trade Department is just a place for him to temporarily live under the fence. He will make a transition in the Maritime Trade Department, and he can also get to know more in the Maritime Trade Department. The people who come and go to the Maritime Trade Department are mostly wealthy businessmen from all over the world, does His Royal Highness Jin Wang understand now?"

"I understand now!" Li Zhi nodded vigorously, "According to what you mean, Zhao Rui and I are just using the relationship. He is going to come to the Maritime Trade Department now, but he will definitely leave in the future to do his own business. The Maritime Trade Department is just Where he's laying the groundwork."

"That's right, that's right." Gu Qing nodded helplessly, "But how to use Zhao Rui and how to guard against it is up to His Royal Highness Jin Wang himself. If you still don't understand, you can ask Shangguanyi. He should know. .”

Li Zhichang sighed, "Evil people will be punished by evil people, Gu Qing, you are not a good person."

"I'm helping His Royal Highness King Jin come up with ideas, why does His Highness King Jin still scold me?"

"That's what I praised you for." Li Zhipi smiled.

"It's time to eat." Gu Qing lazily stood up from the recliner, "Let's talk about it tomorrow, eat."

Gao Yang coaxed his child to come and talk, "Gu Qing, let's take the child to meet the emperor and queen tomorrow."

"Should be, we will go tomorrow." Gu Qing looked at his own and cried again.

"I guess I'm hungry again." Gao Yang returned to the room with the child in his arms.

"What does it feel like to be a father?" Li Zhi asked Gu Qing.

"By the way." Gu Qing came back to his senses, "How was the matter between His Royal Highness Prince Jin and that woman? Is there any breakthrough?"

"I want you to take care of it!" Li Zhi turned his head.

Early the next morning, Li Zhi came to the Maritime Trade Department early, saw Zhao Rui waiting outside the door and said, "It's so early."

"Just arrived." Zhao Rui replied with a slight salute, "I just didn't expect that the first person to come here is His Royal Highness King Jin. This Maritime Trade Department has not yet opened."

This tepid flattery made Li Zhi very useful, but I have been with Gu Qing for a long time, and I don’t like this kind of flattery. Thinking of what Gu Qing said to himself yesterday, I opened the door of the Maritime Trade Department and saw the inside. He said messily, "Second Master Zhao, please clean up this place, and you will work here from now on."

"Thank you His Royal Highness King Jin for giving me this opportunity."

Li Zhi walked to the second floor of the Shanghai Trade Department. This is his study room. On the wall here is a huge chart. Li Zhi looked at the affairs left over from yesterday. Now it seems that the manpower is enough, but After waiting for the expansion of the sea trade, the manpower will definitely increase. In addition, Shangguanyi mentioned that Gu Qing is also building a port along the coast of the south of the Yangtze River, and the future branch will be built in the south of the Yangtze River. There are many things to do.

While looking at the roster of sea trade civil servants recruited this time, he saw a cup of hot tea put in front of him.

Looking up, he saw that it was Zhao Rui who brought the tea. Li Zhi took a sip and said, "You don't have to do the work of serving tea and water."

"I just don't know what to do, so I have to do what I have to do."

Listening to his words, Li Zhilai was very interested. This guy was very interesting. As the second son of the Guanlongmen clan, he should have been pampered and served everywhere. Now this guy took the initiative to serve him tea and water, and he looked very natural.

"I know all about your deeds." Li Zhi watched Zhao Rui put down the roster in his hand, "Let me ask you, the Zhao family in Guanlong was involved in a rebellion, and now you come to join me, I have to suspect that you have ulterior motives. "

"I just want to make a living, I don't want too much." Zhao Rui also replied calmly.

"It's really nice to say." Li Zhipi smiled.

"Then I'll go and see what I'm going to do next, and I'll take my leave first."

"Wait a minute." Li Zhi called him, "Maritime Trade needs to send more manpower, and now the second sea trip is already under preparation, and the manpower is still short of [-]. You go and recruit [-] civilian men."

"I understand." Zhao Rui nodded.

Waiting for him to leave, Li Zhi once again put his mind on the roster in front of him.

Zhao Rui received the task and walked out of the Maritime Trade Department. Jia Zhengjing, who was waiting outside, said, "Second Young Master, how is it?"

"His Royal Highness Jin is on guard against me." Zhao Rui said, "But in my capacity, it is understandable for him to do so. It must be Gu Qing's arrangement for His Royal Highness Jin to use me. Your Highness, as the royal heir, can't get close to me, who is from the Zhao family in Guanlong, but he chose to use me, this His Highness Prince Jin is really interesting, Gu Qing must be playing some tricks with him."

"Why don't we leave here." Jia Zheng was worried.

"It's all here, it's so boring to just leave."

"His Royal Highness King Jin entrusted me with an errand, asking me to recruit five thousand civilian husbands for him." Zhao Rui said, "He is trying me."

"Five thousand civilians?" Jia Zhengjing was surprised, "Where are we going to recruit five thousand civilians, or we should go to the Maritime Trade Department to ask for some people."

Zhao Rui smiled bitterly, "That's why you, Jia Zhengjing, have ambitions. You have said that His Royal Highness King Jin is testing me. If he wants to give me manpower, he has already appointed him. As long as I recruit these five thousand civilian husbands for him, from now on I can Gain a firm foothold in the Maritime Trade Department."

"First, there is no manpower, and second, there is no money. How do we get a sign of manpower." Jia Zhengjing still looked confused, "Second Young Master, why don't we just let it go."

"No, if I just leave like this, I will really be underestimated by Gu Qing and Li Zhi."

Li Zhi sat in the study and waited until Shangguanyi came, "Uncle Shangguan, that Zhao Rui really came today."

Shangguanyi nodded slightly, "How will His Royal Highness arrange for him?"

"I'll try him first and let him recruit [-] civilian husbands, it depends on his ability." Li Zhi nodded and said, "The conditions for recruiting people in our Maritime Trade Department are very strict. Blame me for being rude."

Shangguanyi was speechless for Li Zhi's cleverness, "Has the date for His Royal Highness King Jin's going to sea been fixed?"

"It's settled." Li Zhi came with a file, "Now the wind season at sea has passed, and the wind direction is not very stable just now. It's October and I plan to go to sea in mid-November."

Chapter 7: Academy Controversy

"If we say we are going to go to sea in the middle of next month, then we have to prepare now. We will go to sea as soon as the monsoon arrives. In order not to delay the time to go to sea, it will take more than ten days to go from Chang'an to the East China Sea. Three days, at least seven days, we need to arrange enough manpower, and then we will set off."

Li Zhi was a little stunned, and immediately felt a sense of urgency after hearing what Shang Guanyi said.

"Time is tight, but there is still time. There can be no mistakes during this time." Shangguanyi continued, "There is still a shortfall of [-] manpower. If Zhao Rui can't call [-] civilian husbands, we can't wait any longer. The current manpower must also leave within seven days."

Li Zhi was puzzled, "Can't it be a few days later?"

"No." Shangguanyi said bluntly, "Since His Royal Highness Prince Jin wants to come down to the Department of Maritime Trade to help, I understand some things, so I have to tell His Royal Highness Jin. Maritime Trade is not just a joke, nor is it ordinary. business."