If it is the cold winter months and the capital is dry and cold most of the time, the winter in the water town of Jiangnan will be wet and cold.

In the room, if you don’t burn charcoal to drive away the dampness and cold, a northerner will basically not be able to sleep.

On the first day Miao Yan came, he thought that Jiangnan would fall asleep under a wet quilt in winter.

But for Lord Miao, the accommodation conditions do not exist at all.

Not to mention that in the entire Huaian City, the Governor's Office of the Canal Transportation Transportation has the best conditions, and is not as good as here in other places.

For food and other things, because of Miao Yan's arrival, the Huai'an prefect specially prepared a chef who specialized in making Beijing dishes at the emperor's order, and he was not used to it.

What Miao Yan cares most about is his own work.

As a new governor of the canal transport, he has never been involved in matters related to canal transport before. How to convince the public as quickly as possible and how to control the canal transport yamen as quickly as possible is Miao Yan’s most important thing.

After all, the emperor and the court sent him here just to make things right and to make the canal transportation on the right path, and never delay the heavy canal transportation tasks next year.

I have worked in the Imperial Palace for many years and have seen Miao Yan all the various ancestry, so naturally he has a way of doing things by himself.

He stayed in Huai'an City for three days, and after learning about the situation, he followed the Jiangnan River at the beginning of the canal transportation and arrived in Huzhou.

Miao Yan was surrounded by the four chief constables he brought from the capital, plus one hundred thousand Niu Guards whom he had given him to protect him by one hundred emperors.

When the fleet arrived in Huzhou, the Huzhou prefect came and led officials from all over the country to greet him.

This is not against the rules.

In addition to being the governor of the canal transportation, Miao Yan was also a "research and minister of imperial envoy". This position is very powerful. In a sense, he can directly manage all matters in Jiangnan, and he can manage the defense line of the Shanhaiguan Great Wall.

Therefore, it is normal for Huzhou magistrate Tang Wenzhu to welcome him in person.

"Secretary of the Imperial Officer!" Tang Wenzhu, who was in his forties, had a smile on his round face. "Secretary of the Imperial Officer has prepared a reception banquet at Xiaguan's residence. He also asked the Imperial Officer to give him a look and have a rest."

"good!"

Miao Yan seemed very excited after getting off the ship. "Along the way, I found that Jiangnan is indeed very talented. Huzhou is also very good! No wonder he can be as talented as Cao Xiang!"

Tang Wenzhu observed his expression and smiled and said, "Yes, Cao Xiang is the pride of our Huzhou... Lord, please tell me, the minister here to introduce to you the elders and fellow villagers and famous scholars of Huzhou. This old man was Lord Chen Zhenxuan, who served as the Minister of Personnel during the late emperor... This is..."

He introduced it one by one, and Miao Yan had seen it with smiles one by one, but he did not have the legendary Miao Heizi's demeanor at all.

This made Tang Wenzhu feel relieved, thinking that Miao Yan was really just passing by when he came to Huzhou.

After all, this is what he wrote on the pigeon two days in advance.

While we were greeting here, another fleet of ships came from the river.

These ships are not large in size, with pointed bows and are easy to navigate in the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River.

Look at the flags hanging on it. In addition to the logos of the imperial officials, there are two other flags.

Lei Sheng, who has good eyesight, took a step forward and said to Miao Yan: "Sir, it is the ship of the Minister of the Salt Administration."

Miao Yan was walking towards the carriage next to him with Tang Wenzhu and others. He stopped and turned around and looked over after hearing this.

Sure enough, as soon as the ship got closer, a middle-aged man wearing a second-rank official uniform stood at the bow of the boat.

After a while, he got off the boat and walked towards Miao Yan.

"It's true that it's Lord Bai!"

Tang Wenzhu quickly accused Miao Yan and went forward to greet him.

After the two of them said a few words, the Minister of Salt Administration Bai Hengwang stepped forward to Miao Yan.

Bai Hengwang smiled and closed his hands together and bowed: "Salt Administration Minister Bai Hengwang has seen the imperial envoy, Lord Miao!"

Bai Hengwang's salute was even more respectful than Tang Wenzhu just now, which made Tang Wenzhu following him quite stunned.

Miao Yanxu helped Bai Heng and looked at it for a while, and then said, "Please get up, Lord Bai."

"Thank you!"

When Bai Heng looked up, he still had a slightly respectful smile on his face, "I knew the imperial envoy had arrived a few days ago, but I didn't expect that we met in Huzhou."

Miao Yan said curiously: "So, did Lord Bai come here deliberately?"

"Yes!"

Bai Hengwang said without hesitation: "Didn't the court ask the Salt Administration to prepare 5 million taels of silver for the canal transportation yamen? Yesterday, the raising was finally completed, and I sent it to you without stopping."

While speaking, he waved his hand, and a man came over with a small box behind him and served it with both hands.

Miao Yan's confidant Sun Rui immediately took it over, opened the scene, and began to lightly click.

A group of gentry from Huzhou looked a little confused.

Why should have done something in the government office, but I have to hurry up and hand over here?

Also, the court is really good to this governor of the grain transportation and imperial envoy!

Before he took office, he asked the salt government office here to prepare money, and he prepared so much as five million taels.

Tang Wenzhu looked envious without feeling.

If you have five million taels of silver in your hand, how much can you do!

Isn’t all my annual assessments going to be better?

Be gentler here, Bai Hengwang was also looking for a conversation and said to Miao Yan: "Mr. Miao, I don't know what you are coming to Huzhou for? I am very familiar with the neighborhood and maybe I can help you."

The Salt Administration Yamen is in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, and this place is already Huzhou, Zhejiang.

Although the distance is not too long, Bai Hengwang can extend the network of relationships here. He has never been in vain for his years.

Miao Yan said lightly: "I'm just passing by... By the way, Lord Tang will prepare a banquet at the official residence behind the government office later. Let Lord Bai go together?"

"good!"

Bai Hengwang smiled and said, "Then I will be disrespectful."

When he looked up at a group of Huzhou gentry, he saw that the group of people were either confused, contempt or surprised... and seemed to be a little puzzled by his behavior.

Bai Hengwang was too lazy to explain to these people.

He came so eagerly, was he really so lowly?

Pooh!

You group of people don’t know who Miao Heizi is!

Don’t think that he can stretch him when he is just a first-timer. This is simply seeking death!

It would be fine if the emperor sent him to rectify the canal transportation yamen as absolute as him.

Why add a "responsible minister who investigates illegally and receives imperial envoys"?

This is obviously because he has other cleaning and inspection tasks!

And what is the most prominent institution in Jiangnan?

Arranged in turn.

Governor's Office in Jiangnan.

The canal transportation yamen.

Salt Government Office.

Jiangning Weaving.

Suzhou Weaving.

Such five institutions are known as the Five Tigers of Jiangnan.

If you can enter one, it will be a fat place.

Even if it is the Governor's Office in Jiangnan, which is in charge of Liu Renhuai, the salary, rewards, subsidies, etc., combined, it is very high.

Otherwise, why do you think others are fighting for you, Liu Renhuai, and there is no delay in all disaster relief matters, and they are all the fastest and best to deal with?

Authoritarianism can only be a prerequisite. Whether you treat them well is the key to whether they are willing to help you from the bottom of their hearts.

The same goes for the other institutions.

But it was obvious that the canal transportation yamen was over-harvested and the ship was capsized.

Well, it cannot be said that it is the fault of the canal transportation yamen itself.

The mistake was that Lin Yao, the son of Lin Zhenyuan, the governor of the Cao Transportation Office, was involved in a huge grain corruption case in the storage and transportation warehouse of the Ministry of Revenue in Beijing. He followed the clues and directly rubbed Lin Zhenyuan, who was already a mess.

When Bai Hengwang heard this news, he was so scared that he was scattered.

Fortunately, his son Bai Shuangxi was not good at doing everything, and he was very cruel. The former prince didn't like it at all, so he let Bai Shuangxi return to Yangzhou early after several times.

Otherwise, the consequences of the former prince's subordinates being beaten up this time would definitely be turned to him.

The canal transportation yamen is full of shit, isn’t the salt yamen?

After investigation, he would definitely involve thousands of people, and Bai Hengwang could not escape the first one.

By then, his best life would be like Lin Zhenyuan, who would be under house arrest in the capital and would never leave that in the small space for the rest of his life.

Bai Hengwang's luck is also good.
To be continued...