Chapter 1168

Chapter 1168

Chapter 1168
Of course, Ma Dongqiang didn't really expect his daughter to learn from Hai Han how to become an official and make a fortune, but just wanted to create a reason for the two to meet more often.He thinks that his daughter Ma Yuling is definitely the best among women of her age in all townships, regardless of her appearance or knowledge, and Chen Yixin's rapid change of attitude after seeing her daughter seems to just confirm his point of view .Strike while the iron is hot at this time will definitely greatly increase the chances of success of this marriage.

Chen Yixin did not deliberately object to Ma Dongqiang's proposal. The personnel control in the mine camp was far less strict than that of the Zhifu Island base. If Ma Yuling wanted to come and walk around from time to time, it would not cause any bad effects.As for the "classes" mentioned by Ma Dongqiang, Chen Yixin is really interested in finding opportunities to improve the cultural level of Miss Ma, at least in terms of common sense so that she can approach the average level of Haihan citizens, otherwise the two will work together in the future. Languages ​​are difficult to find a few words.

However, not everyone is as entangled with cross-border marriages as Chen Yixin. After a long circle, he returned to the starting point. For example, Shi Diwen, an admiral on duty in Zhoushan, Zhejiang, is going to hold a wedding in the near future to marry Qu Yutong, the prefect of Ningbo. niece.

Although there were precedents of members of the Time Traveling Group marrying officials of the Ming Dynasty before, most of them stayed at relatively low levels of official positions and their influence was relatively limited. This marriage at the magistrate level was really the first in history.Although the one who married Shi Diwen was only Qu Zhifu's niece instead of his own daughter, and after marrying, he was not a big house but a concubine, but its political significance cannot be ignored.

Wang Tom didn't know that Shi Diwen had done such a big thing in Zhejiang until he received a telegram from Zhoushan after he led the fleet to leave Zhifu Island.Although I don't know how Shi Diwen did it, I can't help but admire his means and courage.With this relationship, it will undoubtedly be much easier for Haihan to take actions in Zhejiang in the future, and the executive committee will definitely extend Shi Diwen's stay in Zhejiang to make full use of the existing relationship in his hands.

The wedding date set by Shi Diwen's marriage, Wang Tom counted the days and just happened to be able to rush back from Shandong to participate, so he didn't stop any longer on the way south, and went straight from Jiaodong Peninsula to Dinghai Port in Zhoushan.

The day when the Beishang Fleet arrived in Zhoushan happened to be the New Year's Eve of the Haihan calendar. Although it was far away from Sanya, the Zhoushan Management Committee still organized a celebration. The pier was decorated with lights and festoons, which was very lively.Shi Diwen arrived at the pier early to welcome the return of the Northward Fleet.The two met again after five months, and there was a lot of embarrassment.

Shi Diwen has set up a banquet in advance to welcome Wang Tom and his party.During the dinner, Wang Tom found an opportunity, and asked Shi Diwen about the origin of this transnational marriage: "I have only been away for a few months, and you took down the little girl from the prefect's family here, and you moved fast enough! Hurry up!" Tell me, how did you operate in the middle? I will practice it when I have a chance someday!"

Shi Diwen smiled wryly and said, "It's not as good as you think! I'm called a great man, marrying for the country! Do you think I think so?"

Tom Wang frowned and said, "How do you say that?"

Shi Diwen shook his head and said: "It's not convenient to talk now, I'll talk to you slowly after the meeting is over."

Accompanying them were senior military officers from both sides, cadres from various local departments in Zhoushan, and several Zhejiang businessmen who were trading at Dinghai Port. There were indeed too many people, and it was inappropriate to discuss private secrets in such a public place.

After the banquet was over, Shi Diwen took Tom Wang to his office, served hot tea, and sent an order to temporarily stop meeting guests, and then told Shi Diwen the reason.

"Qu Yutong is very thoughtful." Shi Diwen took a sip of tea and said slowly, "On the one hand, he wants to use our influence to make money and at the same time consolidate his position in Zhejiang's officialdom. He has been wary of us all the time, fearing that we would launch a surprise attack on Ningbo and implicate him in losing his position. After you led the fleet northward, Qu Yutong panicked. He thought we were going to abandon Zhoushan and leave, so he explained to him that we were going Opening up a new port in the north, he thought that we might be invading Shandong. However, our current activities in Zhejiang cannot bypass Ningbo, so he asked him later if he had any good proposals for re-establishing mutual trust. In the end, this guy actually Proposing a marriage... Hehe, it's a good plan to tie his future with us!"

Wang Tom also stayed in Zhejiang for a while before going north, and he also has a certain understanding of the local social environment. Hearing what he said, he can already make up the general situation.

Qu Yutong, the prefect of Ningbo, is undoubtedly an opportunist. Haihan first wiped out almost all the local civilian armed forces when he was stationed in Zhoushan Islands, Zhejiang, fully demonstrating his war power.Therefore, almost all the people in the official circles in Zhejiang who were strongly hostile to Haihan were in Hangzhou, which was four hundred miles away from Zhoushan, but in Ningbo, which was close at hand, few people dared to speak out against Haihan openly.After receiving the various benefits offered by Haihan, Qu Yutong acquiesced to Haihan's various actions in Zhoushan without any hesitation, and later cooperated with Haihan to provide him with business and immigration from the inland of Zhejiang. resource.

However, Haihan made a sudden move in June and pulled out the three nails of Yu Pingfeng, Guo Zheng, and Liao Xun in Hangzhou, which caused quite a lot of turmoil in the official circles of Zhejiang.Although there is no real evidence to link the disappearance of these three people with Hai Han, anyone with a discerning eye knows that these three are the leading figures against Hai Han in the official circles of Zhejiang. If the disappearance of the three has nothing to do with Hai Han, I am afraid. Not many people can believe it.

After the incident spread, Qu Yutong naturally tried to inquire about the relevant information from Haihan, but this was a top-secret operation that could not be disclosed to Haihan, and all the insiders kept secret about it, and unanimously firmly denied that it was related.But such a pale excuse has no real evidence, and it is difficult for Qu Yutong to completely dispel his suspicion of Hai Han.Just when he was suspicious, the Haihan Fleet set sail from Zhoushan Port to the north, and this huge fleet of hundreds of ships would inevitably cause Qu Yutong to misunderstand.

In fact, the development of the situation up to this time is still within Haihan's predictions, and Haihan has also planned to use more practical benefits to stabilize the hearts of the officials in Ningbo Prefecture.But at this juncture, Qu Yutong expressed that he would draw a clear line with Haihan and limit Haihan's various activities in Ningbo Prefecture.

Although he knew that the other party's attitude might be just a way of bargaining and taking retreat as an advance, in order not to hinder the overall situation, Shi Diwen took the initiative to express to Qu Yutong that "everything can be discussed".So Qu Yutong proposed a seemingly radical plan, that is, the two parties would consolidate the existing cooperative relationship through family marriage.

This plan is actually similar to Chen Yixin's experience in Dengzhou, the difference is that Chen Yixin's opponent is a local gentry, while Shi Diwen's opponent here is a court official of the Ming Dynasty, a dignified fourth-rank local official.The political significance of this kind of marriage is far from comparable to Chen Yixin's situation, and it is not just a single person in Haihan who can make a decision to agree or reject the other party on his own.

When Wang Tom went north, almost all the traversers at the Zhoushan base set off with him, leaving only Shi Diwen in command in Zhejiang, and the other party proposed a marriage, and it was obvious that this object was Shi Diwen.

Shi Diwen knew that this matter was relatively serious, so he reported it to the executive committee in Sanya immediately, and the answer he got was to investigate the reason why Qu Yutong proposed this plan as soon as possible. As for whether to actually contact the other party, the executive committee The meeting did not give a conclusion, but just asked Shi Diwen to "handle it as appropriate".

It is not difficult to investigate the truth of this matter, and soon Qu Yutong himself took the initiative to announce the answer: After the disappearance of Yu Pingfeng and three people in Hangzhou City, someone was accused of "colluding with foreigners" , secretly sent a small report about Qu Yutong to the top.Although it is difficult for Qu Yutong to be overthrown by this kind of innocuous crime, if someone in the court wants to use this to gain power, or to support his own people in the position, it is still very likely that Qu Yutong will be dismissed from his current position. up tune away.

It is almost impossible for Qu Yutong to clean himself up. There are many Haihan people's industries in Ningbo now, and he dare not take the risk of offending Haihan and local wealthy businessmen to eliminate these industries that have already started to operate. If someone really wants to collect his "crimes", he can easily get a lot of money by walking around Ningbo Mansion.Therefore, Qu Yutong, who was unwilling to give up the current environment, came up with a solution not to try to whitewash himself, but to go to the other extreme—if you want to sue me for colluding with Haihan, then I will show you how to do it, except for me. Besides Qu Yutong, who else can maintain peace in Ningbo Mansion!

Qu Yutong hopes to bind the relationship between the two parties on the surface through marriage, and at the same time put pressure on Zhejiang officialdom through Haihan, and will not accept anyone to replace Qu Yutong.Although the purpose was to keep his position in Ningbo Mansion, this method was a desperate one, with great determination, almost the same as Luo Shengdong's move to seek refuge in Haihan back then.

Of course, Shi Diwen would not listen to his one-sided words, so he asked the Ministry of Security to find out in Hangzhou City, and the news he got confirmed Qu Yutong's statement.The three major yamen of Zhejiang, the Chief Commissioner, the Commander, and the Procuratorate, all have the same trend. They believe that the behavior of the Haihan people in Zhejiang is somewhat lacking in control, and the root cause lies in the administration of Ningbo Prefecture, which governs the Zhoushan Islands. So the hat was put on Qu Yutong's head.

The opinions of the three major yamen are so unified, it is no wonder that Qu Yutong is anxious.But to be serious, he is not wronged to take the blame. It only took more than a year for Haihan to attack Zhoushan, and he has already designated the sea area east of Hangzhou Bay as his own, and spread it in Ningbo Prefecture. Its own business system, and the use of military and economic means to influence the officialdom of the state capitals around Hangzhou Bay, this is indeed due to the cooperation of the Ningbo government to a certain extent.If there is no such person as Qu Yutong, Haihan's progress in Zhejiang may be much slower than it is now.

From this point of view, Qu Yutong can also be regarded as a person who has made great contributions to Haihan's entry into Zhejiang. In fact, the purpose of drawing a clear line before was more for the high-ranking officials of the Hangzhou government to see. It is too late, and it is difficult to restore the impression of yourself from above.So in private, he did the opposite, went directly to another extreme, and chose to take the initiative to tie himself to the big ship of Shanghai Han.

Regardless of whether Qu Yutong is out of self-preservation or "longing for an advanced social system", since he has already expressed his willingness to join the Haihan camp, in principle, Shanghai Han will not refuse the Ming officials to make such a choice, even if Qu Yutong On the surface, this person seems to be greedy for money and afraid of getting into trouble. He doesn't seem to be a good official, but for Hai Han, even if he is buying a horse bone with a thousand dollars, he must be kept as much as possible.Even if he can't keep his official position, he has to keep this person, which can be regarded as setting an example for many local officials of Ming Dynasty who cooperate with Haihan in Zhejiang, Fuzhou and Guangxi.

Of course, the way of handling this matter also needs to be cautious, otherwise everyone will follow the example and try to marry the little girl in the family to Haihan in order to protect themselves or climb up the ladder. troublesome thing.The Executive Committee will definitely not send someone to deal with this matter, so the burden finally fell on Shi Diwen.

After listening to the cause and effect, Tom Wang suppressed his smile and asked, "So the executive committee asked you to marry this girl?"

Shi Diwen sighed: "The elders of the executive committee said it lightly. You don't need to marry someone, as long as you settle Qu Yutong so that he doesn't make trouble, and protect him so that he doesn't have trouble. The problem is that Qu Yutong This guy has insisted on getting married, what can I do? I am also very desperate!"

Tom Wang has known him for many years, but he doesn't really believe his complaints: "You guys have always belonged to the Appearance Association. If you really want a girl you don't like, can you just let go and marry her home?"

Shi Diwen laughed dryly and said: "Although Qu Yutong's doing this is indeed not very authentic, but his niece is indeed a little beauty. I originally wanted to see that if people don't match their eyes, they would try to make this matter clear." I pushed it, after all, I'm not interested and it's not good to harm other girls, right? But after reading it, I really like it, and I feel a little sorry for myself for not agreeing."

"In the end, it's a world of faces!" Tom Wang couldn't help but sighed, "Who in your family knew about this and didn't make trouble with you?"

Shi Diwen shook his head and said: "The status is different, what's the trouble? Is it not enough for a lady from an official family to marry and be a concubine?"

Shi Diwen's wife is also a Daming woman who married two years ago, but her background is not so prominent, she is just an ordinary scholar's family.As for the reason for the marriage, of course the girl's appearance caught Shi Diwen right.His wife can be regarded as a well-educated and reasonable person. She has already given birth to a son for him after being married. She also moved from Sanya to Zhoushan Island at the beginning of this year to settle down.

(End of this chapter)