Qin Youli was sitting there and drinking tea carefully. When he heard this, he put down the tea cup in surprise: "Oh? Do you have this idea?"

Qin Zhao said: "Without an official body, it is difficult to unite people's hearts. Even if you can hire more servants, these servants will not work very hard."

Qin Zhao talked about a practical problem he faced.

Qin Zhao's servants always thought that they were supporting the scene, and no one had the idea of ​​working hard for Qin Zhao and fighting on the battlefield.

This is a common phenomenon for people without an official body. Without an official body, their social status will be low. Even if your subordinates take a lot of money every month, they just feel that they should do things honestly and practice seriously, but they will not have the intention to repay the consequences.

Qin Zhao's thirty members of the family had been practicing for two and a half months, and each of them was very strong. However, Qin Zhao observed their spirit and felt that these people were not determined to serve.

If this servant team is allowed to fight and face the bandits in a certain place, the team may have suffered 10% of the casualties and will flee.

If the government sends people to take Qin Zhao, these servants will not dare to confront the government at all. If a civil servant wearing an official robe stands under the mountain of Taoyun, he will probably escape within an hour.

Everything is because their employer, Qin Zhao, is a villager, not even a gentry. The servants hired by the villagers are completely different from those hired by the military officers of the Ming Dynasty. The former practices to make money, not for morality or even ideals. Such servants lack cohesion.

At the critical moment of life and death in the battlefield, the fundamental factor that determines morale is cohesion.

During the bloody battle of Hunhe, the Zhejiang soldiers fought to the death and refused to retreat, in order to have the ideal of loyalty and righteousness in their hearts, rather than the military pay of more than one or two taels per month. During the Battle of Jinshan, the Ming army could start with the Qing cavalry, which was almost victorious in every battle, and rely on the little military pay, but the sense of responsibility to save the Han people.

To arouse the ideals or sense of responsibility of a servant, it is very important to be appointed by an official in the court.

Qin Zhao is different from the Zheng family. Fujian is a pirate town, and there are pirates who want to go out to sea to plunder everywhere in remote areas. The Zheng family is born and raised in Quanzhou and has become a recognized leader family of pirates. They support the pirates in Fujian with their own strength. Therefore, it is very easy for the Zheng family to let the pirates gather in the place by obeying their orders. The so-called "A shout" and "All people will respond" is just like this.

Qin Zhao was born in Renhoufang, Xiangshan County, Guangdong Province. The bottom floors here are honest peasants, not places where pirates gather. For such a grassroots environment, Qin Zhao wanted to mobilize the local grassroots forces and urgently needed an official position.

It is best to be a military officer who can directly raise troops and mobilize troops to fight.

"The master is far-sighted!" Qin Youli said: "If you are a military officer, you have to find Ding Kuichu. Ding Kuichu is the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. He holds the title of the Minister of War, and can apply for the Ministry of War to be promoted to the position of the Chief of the General."

The hall official was a common name for the ministers of the court in the Ming Dynasty, such as the Shangshu and the Minister of the Secretariat. It was named after working in the lobby of each government office. The corresponding one was the official official, who worked in the hall.

After all, Qin Youli lived in his forties and was able to read and write, and had some understanding of the basic rules in the officialdom. These days, he often stayed in a shop in Guangzhou, chatting with people, and clarified the powers of various officials in Guangdong.

Qin Zhao nodded and said, "I'm looking for him."

Qin Youli took a breath and said, "It's just that the Zheng family's thief forced Guangzhou to be martial law recently. Guangzhou closed the city gate for 16 days, and his family's business in Guangzhou was affected. This time, the big thing about the pirates forcing the city was done for the owner's store. Now it's something that Ding Kuichu is dissatisfied. I'm afraid it's a bit embarrassing to find him now."

"And recently many small merchants went to Zheng's family to seek protection. There were fewer people who asked Ding Kuichu's second son Ding Daochang to pay protection fees. Ding Kuichu is a vengeful person, and he must have hated the Fourth Master and his master very much at this time."

Hearing Zheng Chenggong's analysis, Qin Zhao took a long breath.

The business of the sand cannot be guaranteed, but once they fight with people to protect their business, they offended vested interests in all aspects of the Guangdong officialdom.

Qin Zhao said calmly: "Try it, how can you know if you don't?"

Qin Youli looked at Qin Zhao and said, "Do you know, when the Fourth Master was studying in Nanjing, he studied articles under the name of Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Donglin Party."

Qin Zhao was stunned for a moment and couldn't react at once. Zheng Chenggong, a powerful sea overlord, was actually a disciple of the leader of the Donglin Party who was in trouble with the country and the people.

But I think so, since Zheng Chenggong was born smart and passed the title of scholar, he naturally had to work hard towards the Jinshi and find a master. Finding a master is an act of hugging his thighs. Since Zheng Zhilong wanted to find a thigh for his son, he naturally looked for Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Donglin Party, who had the thickest thighs in the world.

The master-apprentice relationship does not mean that Zheng Chenggong is a member of the Donglin Party. In fact, this only represents how powerful the Zheng family was at this time.

Qin Zhao said: "I really didn't expect this."

Qin Youli said: "Would you like to ask the Fourth Master for help in this matter? Let the Fourth Master prepare a letter to the postmaster Qian Qianyi. Qian Qianyi has connections in Nanjing and will definitely find a suitable person to give you silver. When the officials in Nanjing elected the new emperor, the master will give the silver to the Minister of War in the new dynasty."

Qin Zhao nodded when he heard this.

If Qian Qianyi had given him guidance, there would probably be hope for this matter. Even if Ding Kuichu made things difficult for him, there would still be hope for him to go to Nanjing.

Qin Zhao took a sip of tea and said, "Let's take a step by step."

...

On May 20th, Qin Zhao stood in front of the Governor's Office of Guangdong and Guangxi, but he could not enter the yamen for a while.

The yamen was very big, and there were three (rooms) wide in the gatehouse. The four big words "Zhengda Guangming" were written on the gatehouse, and two yamen runners holding water and fire sticks were standing below.

The two yamen runners stopped Qin Zhao and prevented Qin Zhao from entering the Governor's Office.

Qin Youli looked at the gatehouse and shook his head and said, "Master! If you don't ask someone to introduce me, I'm afraid that a civilian will not see the governor."

Qin Zhao frowned and said nothing.

I asked someone to do something but had a closed-door banquet and couldn't even get in. This was not a good feeling.

Qin Zhao looked in front of the Governor's Office and saw several yarn shops on the road ahead of the yarn. One of the shops had the largest storefront, with a huge sign hanging at the door with the words "Zhaoqing Lu Family Official Teeth" written on it.

Yashang was an intermediary institution in the Ming Dynasty, which specialized in matching up and down businesses to deal. In the Ming Dynasty, Yashang developed to a very complex level. It not only matched up and sold, but also purchased and stored goods by itself, and provided accommodation to customers who came to buy goods, creating a one-stop service that communicated upstream and downstream transactions.

Operating a dental shop must be approved by the government and pay taxes. The dental shop plays a central role in "evaluating prices" and "communication with merchants" in transactions, so it is also called official dental.

Qin Zhao's eyes lit up and he took Qin Youli and two servants to the store.

Unlike ordinary teeth stores that sell goods, there are not many cars and horses in front of the "Zhaoqing Lu Family Guanya" store. However, the official teeth store is decorated very high-end. There are a row of nanmu chairs in the entrance, and a tall but thin guy sits bored on the last one of the two chairs.

When he saw Qin Zhao enter the door, the guy said, "Customer, do you have any business to look for me?"

Qin Zhao said straight to the point: "I want to meet the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, can you help?"

The guy smiled and said, "Yes, what's wrong with this? Guest Officer, don't you look at the decoration style of my house? Opening opposite the Governor's Office, of course, you can let the Governor meet the Governor."

He ran to the back hall in three steps and led out the shopkeeper of the Yashang.

The shopkeeper looked at Qin Zhao and the other two and smiled and said, "I will introduce the guest to the governor. The guest will pay 50 taels of silver to me."

Qin Zhao smiled.
Chapter completed!