The news that Long Xiao was rewarded with 100,000 taels of gold by the emperor soon spread all over the county, and all the yamen in the county were very envious, and they all lamented that Long Xiao himself was rich, but the more he was rewarded by the emperor, many officials lamented the unfairness of the world." 』．』 Long Xiao's three subordinates still don't matter, whether it is the county Chengwu, or the main bookkeeper Xing Mantang, or the classic history Zhang Cheng, they have an income of more than 2ooo taels of silver every year. I am very grateful to Long Xiao. If there was no Long Xiao, the three of them would not have such a good thing. Even if there are more than 10,000 servants in Shenwu County, Long Xiao also gives Yu a lot of annual salaries, more than his own annual salaries. Long Xiao's annual salary is given by the state, and it is only 12o taels of silver per year, but an ordinary official in Shenwu County, the annual salary and the regular silver add up to 2oo taels, which is why those yamen are very satisfied.

But there are also dissatisfied, that is, the provincial and county yamen opened those branch yamen in Shenwu County, such as the salt inspection department of the salt road, the grain inspection department of the grain road, the military inspection department of the military inspection department, and the water inspection department of the waterway yamen, these yamen do not belong to the jurisdiction of the Shenwu Zhixian County, strictly speaking, it is still the superior department of the Shenwu County Zhixian Yamen, although the level is one level lower than Long Xiao, they are all blind 8 officials, but the authority of the driving is to manage the Zhixian Yamen, therefore, they are also the superior yamen. Long Xiao was not obligated to give them money.

Especially those rules and regulations of silver, which are more than the annual salary, these people will be red-eyed, and they will have to try to make money. There are more than 2ooo salt merchants in Shenwu County, and each salt merchant takes out 1ooo taels of silver to be 2o thousand taels, and it is 24o million taels in a year, so the salt inspection department is not poor. What's more, the salt merchants routinely pay more than 1oo taels, and sometimes even 5oo taels or more than 1ooo taels. It is not unusual for the Salt Inspection Division to make millions of taels of silver every year. The second is the grain inspection department, Shenwu County does not say anything else, there is a grain depot that can accommodate 1oo billion catties of grain, plus there are countless grain merchants, life is also good, Longxiao gives you the grain depot to develop a person system is a loss subsidy system, grain is 2 copper plates in, a copper plate out, sometimes a copper plate two catties, this huge deficit, it creates a good opportunity to make money for the people of the salt inspection department.

The practice of grain depots is to take turns to go out of the warehouse every three years, buy new grain, and sell old grain, but in order to make money, the grain inspection department will also sell the new grain of the year and sell it to those grain merchants to earn a huge interest margin. Therefore, the people of the Food Inspection Department can no longer earn 1oo taels of silver every year. Besides, the Grain Inspection Department also manages the purchase of cotton and silk, which also has great fire consumption, and the interest rate difference earned from it is no longer a few. In addition, the grain inspection department also contracted the scraps produced by the silk factory, silkworm chrysalis, which is a profitable thing.

Silkworm chrysalis as the scraps for the production of silk is originally a worthless thing, but the grain inspection department and the boss of Wu's silk did not negotiate a lot, and contracted the silkworm chrysalis scraps, and handed over 10,000 taels of silver to the silk factory every year, and the silkworm chrysalis scraps from the silk factory every year are millions of catties, and each catty is sold to those restaurants and individuals at the price of 5 copper plates, which is an annual income of more than 100,000 yuan, and the profit is huge.

The Military Inspection Department is a yamen in Shenwu County and there are 10,000 soldiers, and the annual allocation of the imperial court is hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and the others also have income, one is to help the grain depot collect and sell grain, and there is also an additional regular silver, which is so much that I dare not say that there are 2 taels of silver per person, so the life of the soldiers is quite rich, and they can earn more than 5 taels of silver every month, which is more than a county's annual salary. The directors of the Military Inspection Department, there are more ways to make money, one is the deduction from the salary, each soldier dare not say, one or two silver is deducted every month, that is, 10,000 per month, and the annual filial piety from Shenwu County, there are more than 100,000 a year.

In recent years, the poorer is the water inspection department of the waterway yamen, due to the silting of the river, and there are 6 places that are convenient to walk, Shenwu County has built a dry road extending in all directions, but there are few waterways, and the toll of the waterway yamen is slightly more. Coupled with the fact that there are many people in the waterway yamen every month, the directors of the water inspection department just want to be corrupt and there is no foundation, so Liang Huacheng, the water inspection department of the waterway yamen, came up with a solution.

The solution that Liang Huacheng came up with is very simple, that is, to dredge the river, which is a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, but the waterway yamen has no money. Liang Huacheng wrote to the provincial and county waterway yamen, asking for funding, and was approved to come back. The head of the waterway yamen severely criticized Liang Huacheng, saying that Liang Huacheng was so happy that the state did not have this money to invest. Now the traffic of No. 6 is very good, why take the waterway, if the dredging can be, to Liang Huacheng self-raised, the provincial and county waterways are supported.

Liang Huacheng frowned, he knew that his lack of money did not mean that Shenwu County had no money, as long as he discussed with Long Xiao, there would definitely be a way, Liang Huacheng found Long Xiao: "Lord Long, discuss one thing with you, and ask Lord Long for help." Long Xiao knew that anyone who looked for himself either borrowed silver or borrowed silver, and there was almost no choice for him. Long Xiao smiled: "What's the matter, how do you say it?" ”。

Liang Huacheng: "I want to dredge the river, but I don't have any money, I want to ask Longzhi County for help to see if it works." When Long Xiao heard it, he was very interested, this dredging of the river is a matter of benefiting the country and the people, but it is a huge project, from Shenwu County to several Linxian counties, as well as the rivers of the provinces and counties are indeed in disrepair all year round, and the rivers have been silted up, if the river is repaired, it is indeed a good thing to transport the waterways. To transport to various places by water, the freight should be reduced by ten times, which is also the best choice for businessmen, but it is indeed a bit difficult to ask Shenwu County to help with dredging, with the current financial resources of Shenwu County. Long Xiao asked; "Lord Liang, have you calculated how much silver is needed for the river from Shenwu County to Linxian County and Provincial County?" Liang Huacheng thought about it for a while: "200 million taels are needed."

Long Xiao fell into deep thought, and said: "Lord Liang, although Shenwu County is rich, if it is a few million, it is okay, if you take out 200 million taels at once, but you still can't do it, but I have a way, that is, to borrow money from the bank, as long as Lord Liang has a plan, I can guarantee that I can borrow 200 million taels of silver for Lord Liang." Liang Huacheng was even more happy when he heard that the silver had fallen, and thought to himself, it is better to borrow the silver from the bank, maybe there will be benefits.

Liang Huacheng: "That's great, please ask Lord Long to introduce me", Long Xiao invited Hu Xueyan over, Hu Xueyan saw that Liang Huacheng was a small water inspection department, and he wanted to borrow 200 million taels of silver, but he was a little unconvinced: "Lord Liang, you borrowed 200 million taels of silver, what will you pay back?" Cleaning up the river is good, but the benefits are very slow, how do you ensure that the waterway yamen will pay back? ”。 Liang Huacheng was not completely sure, but Long Xiao was very optimistic, so he said to Hu Xueyan: "Xueyan, borrow it, it doesn't matter, I will vouch for it, after the waterway yamen cleans up the river, the transportation of the river will be tens of thousands every day, and the daily income is more than 100,000 taels, which may not be replaced in a year, but it is still sure that it will be in ten or twenty years, or thirty years."

Hu Xueyan saw Long Xiao's support, so he had nothing to say, Hu's money village was Long Xiao's, and he was just the nominal boss, if Long Xiao was willing to give the money house away, Hu Xueyan had no opinion. However, Hu Xueyan still put forward his own opinion: "Lord Liang, if you pay it off in 2o years, or 3o years to pay it off, there is no problem, but the interest will be more, generally speaking, our loans are calculated every year, and they are all 10% interest, if they are paid off in 2o years, it is 2% of the interest, which is 4ooo million taels of silver every year, plus the principal of 1ooo million, you will have to repay 5ooo million taels every year, do you think your waterway yamen can repay it?" ”。

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