Why did Wang Yuan want to investigate Beiguan, Zhejiang?

Of course, it's not about fighting corruption, his main task is to open the sea, so why bother with it.

But if you want to open the sea, Beiguan must be taken. Because the entire cargo of Nanzhili must pass through here before it can finally flow to the sea.

If Beiguan falls into the hands of those who oppose the opening of the sea, as long as they are expropriated and extorted, the transportation cost of goods north of Hangzhou will increase exponentially. At that time, I am afraid that many merchants will choose to smuggle instead of going to sea from the official port of Hangzhou.

In addition, Wang Yuan opened a mansion and built a tooth, and there were 1,000 soldiers, all of whom needed a lot of money support.

For example, Wang Yangming trained troops in Jiangxi to suppress bandits, and used Jiangxi commercial tax silver. Wang Yuan's side is similar, he is still counting on Beiguan and Nanguan to eat, how can his own rice bowl be held by others?

In the end, if the officials involved in Beiguan, Zhejiang, dared to use political means to resist the opening of the sea, then Wang Yuan would directly detonate the thunder of the banknote. Lao Tzu is a big deal to return to Beijing after failing to open the sea, so you just wait for the exile of your official position!

Li Long, the commander of Zhejiang, was frightened, and he didn't dare to come to see him in person, so he only asked his cronies to send a local specialty-shark fin cooked by a chef in Hangzhou.

"Why did you bring it back?" Li Long asked.

A cronie reported: "Mr. Wang took a bite and said that he didn't dare to eat more seafood for fear of stomach trouble." ”

Li Long racked his brains and couldn't figure it out, so he could only call his master: "Sir, Mr. Wang took a bite and brought it back." He also said that he didn't dare to eat more seafood for fear of upsetting his stomach. What does he mean? ”

The master pondered carefully and said, "I'm afraid, Mr. Wang's drunkard doesn't mean to drink." Since he took a bite, he showed that he would not turn his face directly. As for his words, I'm afraid he doesn't trust the local officials, and he just wants us to cooperate with him to open the sea. ”

"How can it be so easy to open the sea?" Li Long shook his head.

The master smiled: "You might as well cooperate on the surface, at least you can't offend this general system of the king." ”

Li Long asked, "How to cooperate superficially?" ”

The master said: "Du Si can visit in person to test the tone of the general system of the king." ”

"Let me think about it again and see how the chief secretary and the judge will respond." Li Long said.

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The current Zhejiang Governor is called Tang Fengyi, who has been a scholar for three years in Zhengde, and has a good relationship with Yang Shen.

Historically, this person was the official of the Imperial History of the Left Capital, and he was in charge of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate, mainly with two major political achievements-

First, during the inspection of Zhejiang, extravagance in marriage was rampant, and both dowry and bride price were very demanding, causing many unmarried couples to continue to postpone marriage. Tang Fengyi opened her mind and directly implemented the year-limited law, stipulating that men and women must get married before being crowned and married, so as to stop the extravagance of marriage.

Second, when the governor of Sichuan, the imperial court changed the land of Zhenxiong Mansion and returned to the stream, which provoked the local Tusi rebellion. The imperial court sent troops to quell the rebellion, and the Tusi next door made a fuss again. Tang Fengyi was sparse because of this, saying that changing the land and returning to the stream made the nearby Tusi uneasy, and simply turned the Liuguan into a local official. As a result, Zhenxiong Mansion was still ruled by Tusi, and the rebellion was over, and Tang Fengyi was promoted because of his merits.

Hangzhou Mansion.

The prefect Liang Cai said angrily: "If the king is empty, he is fortunate to be a minister." He was born in the wilderness of Guizhou, and his actions are also barbaric. He is a governor of the open sea, how can he have the power to lead troops to surround the banknotes and check the accounts! If the governors of all places are so domineering, then how can local political affairs continue! ”

"What Liang Taishou said is very true, this official will definitely join him!" Tang Fengyi said righteously.

Governors and governors have a lot of power at the local level, but they are afraid of encountering a small governor and imperial history.

Once the governor is impeached by the governor according to the imperial history, it is basically impossible to continue to stay in office. Unless there are important ministers who are forced to protect them, there are only two options for the governor: first, resign directly and leave; Second, return to Beijing to prove your innocence.

Well, there is a third option.

The governor can go back to the patrol to press the imperial history, as for the end, the governor and the governor according to the imperial history were both investigated, and the lightest punishment was to be demoted.

In the whole of Zhejiang, only Tang Fengyi, a seven-grade imperial history, can threaten Wang Yuan from the system.

Once Tang Fengyi is impeached, the ministers of the DPRK and China can take the opportunity to make trouble. At that time, Wang Yuan will either resign, return to Beijing, or be suspended and investigated together with Tang Fengyi.

Tang Fengyi returned to the official residence, and brushing it was a piece of music, counting Wang Yuan's lawlessness in Zhejiang.

Compared with Tang Fengyi's "fierce and selfless" and Liang Cai's "honesty and integrity", Zuo Bu's political envoy Wang Shao chose to be a turtle with a shrunken head, and he waited and watched slowly without doing anything, anyway, he had just been in office for a month. Ren Jian, the political envoy of Youbu, was anxious, and only hoped to stay up for another month, return to Beijing safely and safely to report on his work, and pray for Mazu's blessing not to make things bigger.

Min Kai on the left and Liu Wenzhuang on the right, it was very embarrassing to leave the country. The top bosses set up political envoys left and right, one just came, the other was leaving, and they didn't care about anything, and they were now in a panic, for fear that Wang Yuan's brain would draw and directly detonate the thunder.

In any case, the officials in Hangzhou were all diverted from paying attention anyway. Few people paid attention to Kaihai anymore, they all stared at the banknote gate, and they almost forgot what Wang Yuan was here for.

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Only 200 sergeants were left to guard the banknotes, and the remaining firecrackers were transferred back to the governor's palace.

Yu Zhi, the head of Beiguan, began to be a Qing official. He seriously rectified the Seventh Bureau of Beiguan, and if any of the officials dared to be disobedient, he directly threw it to the stationed sergeant and dragged him to the governor's palace for severe torture.

The customs inspectors no longer extort businessmen, and the valuation of the goods is only slightly higher than the market price.

In this way, the merchants cheered and called Wang Yuan the master of the blue sky, and began to convince the governor of Zhejiang.

Immediately afterwards, Yu Zhi began to reform his work.

For those ships that need to pay taxes of less than five yuan, the customs declaration and tax payment procedures will be simplified, and a small amount of customs declaration tickets will be issued, which will be reported at any time, and the name is "convenient receipts". This change made the overall customs declaration speed one-third faster, which greatly facilitated the passing merchants, and the merchants were more convinced of Governor Wang.

Then, Yu Zhi announced that he would divert funds to build the road and rebuild the dilapidated banknote street. And instead of inviting local officials to levy servants, Beiguan spends money to hire people to build roads, which not only does not disturb the people, but also facilitates the people.

This is not only the merchants, but also the people in the north of Hangzhou City, more than ten miles along the river, are happy.

Although Yu Zhi is doing good deeds, people are not stupid, and they know that Wang Yuan is behind the push.

The eyes of the masses were bright, and they all hoped that Governor Wang would stay in Hangzhou for a few more years. With Governor Wang in charge, everyone may be able to get better and better in the future.

The people's requirements are really not high, and they can buy the hearts of the people by doing only a few practical things.

This popular sentiment does not include the gentry.

"What a good way for Mr. Wang!" Zhang Xuan secretly observed for several days, admired Wang Yuan's methods, and finally showed up to apply for a job at the Governor's Palace.