The first thing Xie Zan did in the spring was to transport the cement produced in the cement mill built on the outskirts of Nanjing to various prefectures and counties in the south of the Yangtze River. www.biquge.info The officials included the subordinate officials sent by the Jiangnan Governor's Office, the military attache who commanded the envoys in Jiangnan, and several Langzhong of the Ministry of Works and several imperial historians of the Inspectorate who were hurriedly sent by the emperor before the end of the year.

Xie Heng took his two grandsons and came to Nanjing early to sit in the town and picked up several officials from Beijing. discussed how to arrange for the officials of the supervision to go to the local supervisor, and specially told Wang Lian, the imperial historian of Hangzhou, to go to Hangzhou before everyone left. Wang Lian had already gotten some news from Wang Ge Lao before leaving, and knew that the main reason for coming this time was to escort Yu Boru, the prefect of Hangzhou.

When officials from all over Jiangnan heard the news that they had changed their routines this year, they all smelled something unusual. In previous years, if there was a large-scale strengthening of the embankment to prevent floods, the imperial court would only allocate some funds in advance, at most one or two Beijing officials would be sent to escort the silver taels, and then the governor would directly distribute them to the provincial capitals, and finally fall into each county for its own disposal.

Last year, I heard that because Xie Zan discovered a building material called cement, the emperor actually changed the previous disaster prevention mode, and all the governors He Sheng, Governor Wei Zongmin, and Nanjing Governor Xie Zan were centrally dispatched. It directly affected many people's bad year, and even caused last year's Jiangnan salt merchants to be greatly bloodletted.

Zhejiang's political envoy Sun Jiajiaomen, several groups of people have come in and out today. Sun Mingrong's long face was half hidden in the candlelight shadow of the study, and his expression was dim and difficult to discern.

The other people in the study not only included provincial-level officials such as Ma Hui, the envoy of Zhejiang, but also several county officials such as Ge Moxin, the magistrate of Haining County, and several officials from other provinces such as Bi Huixian, the governor of Songjiang Prefecture in Jiangsu.

"There was news in the palace a few years ago, saying that several nobles were a little dissatisfied with the emperor's grandson, and I don't know if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince noticed something in Jiangnan. What my father and Uncle Huai'an meant was to keep a low profile as much as possible, clean up the previous things, and squeeze this year's income from elsewhere. "Zhu Ge's second son, Zhu Zikuan, is just a talented person, and has always been responsible for the family's business, and he took his family to stay in Jiangnan for a long time in the name of running the industry a few years ago.

Bi Hui first broke out in a cold sweat on the top of his head, first looked at Sun Ming who was hiding in the shadows, and then looked at Zhu Zikuan and said, "I don't know if the elder pavilion can find out, is it related to His Royal Highness the Prince's encounter with the Japanese Invaders?" ”

Zhu Zikuan's eyes looked at Bi Huixian directly, "Now that I don't dare to act rashly in Beijing, where can I go to the grass and scare the snake again." They are all people on the same boat, as long as Master Bi ensures that nothing goes wrong here, we can rest easy. ”

The officials in the room couldn't help but sweat a little, pinning their heads on the mistakes of others, and no one had a bottom in their hearts. Bi Hui saw that everyone was looking at him, so he had to stubbornly say, "Please ask the second master to go back to Beijing and tell the two adults, and I promise that I will not fall into the handle here." ”

Zhu Zikuan also knew that this matter had put pressure on Bi Huixian, so there was nothing more he could do, and the prince had returned to the capital, and it seemed that no one was left to investigate the Japanese incident.

Sun Ming knocked on the corner of the table, "Now all prefectures and counties will receive cement and silver from Nanjing, and the accompanying officials are all people who have no friendship with us, so it seems that the matter of building embankments and dams should be better cooperated." ”

"I don't know if these people in Jiangnan want to take this opportunity to get rid of them?" Ge Moxin asked a little anxiously.

Sun Ming raised his eyes and glanced at him, but did not speak. Ge Mo Xin said in his heart, every time I have to understand your old intentions, I have gray hair. I had to salivate and smile and said, "The humble post has already found the salt merchant Huang family to make a false account, and there is evidence that many salt merchants have bribed Yu Boru in the account, and several counties under the rule of Hangzhou have also arranged manpower to prepare to do things when the embankment is repaired." ”

"This time I came to Hangzhou Mansion is Wang Lian, the imperial history of Zhengsi Pindu, who is a relative of Wang Ge's hometown. There is also the Ministry of Labor's Shui Qing Envoy Si Niulang, known as the old scalper, this person has always bowed to everything, and his temper is stubborn and hard. If you want to have an accident here, do you want to cause everyone to lose their heads? Zhu Zi glanced at Ge Moxin and said.

"Yes, the lowly did not dare to think about repairing the embankment anymore, and immediately sent someone to evacuate the people when he went back. However, can we take advantage of the supervision of the imperial history to poke out the salt case? ”

Ma Hui glanced at Sun Ming, "This matter can be done by using the mouth of the cowherd, I will continue to operate, even if there is that Wang Lian, he can't exonerate Yu Boru with conclusive evidence." Ma Hui said gloomily.

Ge Moxin heard the accurate words, and responded with some joy, "Yes." ”

In the middle of the moon, the corner door of the Sun family opened and closed several times, and a group of people took advantage of the moonlight to go back to their respective places. Several secret guards sent out by the Xie family focused on Ge Moxin, and followed him all the way back to Haining County.

Ge Moxin sent people out separately, all of them to the homes of some small officials in various counties, and the secret guards couldn't figure out what they were going to do, so they had to secretly record the information of these small officials. There were only people along the way, and they disguised themselves several times on the road, and finally entered the courtyard gate of the Huang family in Yangzhou.

The person who followed knew that this clue was very important, and he didn't care about reporting to Taifu first, so he had to hide himself and follow into the Huang family. Although the Huang family is only a salt merchant, the family has also invited a lot of nurses, but fortunately, the secret guards who came with him were strong in martial arts, so he was not immediately discovered, he hid in the eaves of the Huang family's head Huang Peilin's study, and just looked in through the open window.

If Huang Peilin is also careful enough, for fear of being overheard, he will support everyone to the periphery of the courtyard to watch, and the study is wide open to see the movement outside. can't stand being targeted early, but it saves a lot of trouble for the eavesdropper.

"My lord said that as long as you can poke it out in front of the supervising imperial history, there will be as much salt as there will be this year." The person who came to deliver the letter gave Huang Peilin a handwritten letter written by Ge Moxin himself.

Huang Peilin took the handwritten book, turned around and seemed to look at the sun, just blocking the sender's view. The secret guard saw it very clearly, Huang Peilin quickly changed the letter, turned back to the messenger and said, "I understand what my lord means, please go back and take me to tell me, Huang will definitely live up to his high expectations." ”

The messenger nodded with satisfaction, "It's still the old rule, please Huang Ye destroy the letter in front of me." ”

Huang Peilin hurriedly took out an open flame and burned the letters he had changed. The messenger carried the silver ticket given by Huang Peilin and returned to Haining from Huang's house satisfied.

The secret guard did not follow the messenger, he waited motionless outside Huang Peilin's study for a few hours. In the middle of the night, Huang Peilin came back, I don't know what he pressed next to the desk, a mechanism was revealed behind the Bogu frame behind him, Huang Peilin flashed in and went in for a while, and then cautiously came out and locked the door and left.

The secret guard was afraid of startling the snake, so he hurriedly left the Huang family and hurriedly went to Nanjing to report.

At this side, various prefectures and counties have begun to receive supervision officials and cement and silver taels one after another. Hangzhou Mansion is where Wang Lian and Cowherd Zhong led the team straight to the government, Yu Boru had already learned the news and solemnly invited someone to enter the government.

After the tea was served, a few people sat down, and Yu Boru said directly, "There are nine counties under Hangzhou Prefecture, among which the suburban waterway near Fucheng, I have already given the government secretary Lord Sun, and he will be responsible for leading people to build." Now that there are still two months left before the flood season, I want to lead three people each with Lord Wang and Lord Niu to go to these nine counties to start work in an all-round way. I don't know what you think. ”

Several people said yes, so they immediately divided the materials and silver into ten parts, one of which was sent to the political secretary, and after Sun Ming received everyone with a smile, he sent a few more to him. Turning his face, he turned his face and became gloomy, and reluctantly ordered his subordinates to take cement and silver to build the embankment immediately.

If he eats it as in previous years, first, this little fly leg is not enough to stuff his teeth, and second, if there is really a flood this year, the Hangzhou mansion will be flooded, and his official body will not be guaranteed, and his life will be explained.

Sun Ming hated it so much that his teeth itched, as if he had swallowed a fly, but he had to swallow this breath, who made the prefect of Hangzhou a member of the Wang family. Sun Ming clenched his fists and said in his heart, see how many days he can still jump.