Chapter 118: I was worried before I entered the capital

On the canal, the news from the north and the south is still very well-informed.

Zhu Qizhen and Yang Pu joined forces to set the tone of Hebei Daxing Water Conservancy. These news came one after another, which made Zhou Chen's originally hanging heart even more up.

It's like a heart, just tied by a thin thread, deeply strangled in flesh and blood, as if it is about to be strangled alive.

Zhou Chen is a thin old man, he is sixty years old this year.

He lived an uneventful life in the first half of his life, and he has been sinking into subordinates. Full of talent and not promotion.

At the age of forty-nine, he was promoted by Yang Shiqi and recommended to Emperor Xuanzong, and presided over the collection of grain taxes in Jiangnan in a state of imminent danger.

I've been doing this for more than 10 years.

It seems that because the front half of the body is sinking into the subordinates, the doors that have been traveled are not promoted. Therefore, after he sat on the position of governor of Jiangnan, he was extremely tactful, and used almost iron-fisted means to rectify many people. But for the high-ranking officials and magnates in the court, he maneuvered in a very smooth manner.

That's why under the constant opposition of the Jiangnan gentry, he was able to firmly sit on the post of governor of Jiangnan.

It doesn't mean that if you have the ability, you can sit in this official position that can be called the richest in the world.

It's just that this sudden promotion really made Zhou Chen scratch his head, especially in the face of Yang Shiqi being overthrown by Yang Pu, the highest level of the Ming Dynasty has set off an unprecedented political storm from Xuande ten years to the present.

No, even during the Xuande period, such a big storm was not common.

Emperor Renzong relied very much on his East Palace bureaucrats, and so did Emperor Xuanzong, so from Hongxi, Xuande, to the early years of orthodoxy, there were such and such movements in the imperial court.

But all of them were from the Eastern Palace of Emperor Renzong.

It was later called the Hongxuan Auxiliary Political Group.

They are not without internal strife, but everyone is measured.

And Yang Pu overthrew Yang Shiqi, and the large-scale personnel adjustment after that actually broke this peace. If you look at it only from the historical dimension of the Orthodox years.

However, Yang Pu replaced Yang Shiqi.

From a longer historical perspective, it is also from the Yongle period that the Hongxuan auxiliary political group, which followed Emperor Renzong to the political stage, officially collapsed and collapsed.

Although Yang Pu suppressed it with a strong hand and announced Hebei's move to overhaul water conservancy, implying that the personnel struggle was here, many officials may not be at ease in their hearts.

And Zhou Chen is one of them.

Zhou Chen is a person on Yang Shiqi's line. There is no doubt about that. But under the circumstances of Yang Shiqi's downfall, Zhou Chen did not fall but rose, but because of what.

When Zhou Chen was in Jiangnan, he was thinking about this matter.

But until today, it was understood.

dare

His Majesty wanted him to fill the hole. He saw the appearance of Naoli's construction work. He naturally has an account in his heart, after all, he has been in Jiangnan for a long time and has been a magistrate.

He estimated the projects from Hejian Prefecture to many prefectures and counties in Hebei, good guy. He just estimated, and even came up with a number that he didn't dare to imagine.

He was excited and worried for a moment.

The excitement is that he is also Jane in the emperor's heart, and the first thing the emperor thinks of when he encounters a problem is him. He had the opportunity to make his mark at the top of the court.

What worries me is that the ministers who have collected money for the imperial court in history have not ended well in the end.

After all, the small people naturally don't have money and food from the people. Naturally, it will be scraped out of the hands of the rich.

But how can a rich man not have a little power?

Therefore, cutting meat from them is easy to be counterattacked.

Zhou Chen is naturally worried, the closer to Beijing, the heavier this feeling of worry, especially Yu Qian's treatment, which reached Zhou Chen's ears, and Zhou Chen's worry is even worse.

If the previous worry was just about worrying about the future account, but now the worry is more about what Yang Pu will do.

Zhou Chen is not Yu Qian.

Zhou Chen knows all about political tricks. And Yu Qian is a student of Yang Shiqi, and Yu Qian's experience is likely to be a lesson for Zhou Chen.

Let Zhou Chen not worry.

It's just that no matter how worried Zhou Chen is, the boat he sat on still went north leisurely. Finally, I got off the ship in Tongzhou.

Zhou Chen got off the boat, took the entire Tongzhou wharf in his eyes, and said: "Tongzhou is more prosperous than before. ”

"Isn't it, this lord, last year the imperial court opened Tianjin Customs, and all the good things from overseas came. All of them have to be transported from Tianjin to Beijing, so it is natural to go through our Tongzhou, so this Tongzhou is more prosperous than before, and even Zhizhou intends to expand Tongzhou City. A handlebar type broke over, babbling a lot, and finally remembered the topic, and said, "Does the master want a car?" ”

Zhou Chen listened to him and said, "Okay, I just need to use a car." After some bargaining, Zhou Chen got the coachman for 100 yuan.

While letting Zhou Chen and Zhou Chen's old servant get into the car, the coachman chattered and said: "Master, you are too powerful, I will never reduce the price of 200 wen on weekdays." Today is a discount. ”

Zhou Chen said: "One hundred Wen, you can buy half a stone of rice, what do you pay?" ”

The coachman said: "The old man doesn't know, but it costs money to raise this big animal, and the horses of this government have to pay money, and the amount of food that this animal eats is greater than that of people." ”

Zhou Chen knew that a hundred wen, this coachman must still have a profit, but he heard him say something about the pain of raising horses for the government. Zhou Chen listened very carefully.

This is Zhou Chen's habit. All travel, light car is simple

, asked his father about the suffering, and he kept in mind what the people felt was the most suffering.

But about Ma Zheng's matter, even if he is the new head of the household department, he has nothing to do, and this matter is under the management of Taifu Temple.

Tobe's hands are out of reach.

With the jingling of horse bells. Zhou Chen sat on the wheel, looking at the scenery on both sides, and talked to the coachman without a match.

Suddenly, Zhou Chen saw that there was a group of people working on the side of the road, but this project was a little strange, saying that it was repairing a ditch, digging very shallowly, saying that it was building a road, but it was not like it.

And there was a long log of wood, which was repaired straight. It seems that there is still a layer of iron sheet wrapped on it, and it is all piled up on one side. Zhou Chen was really confused. So he asked the coachman, "What is this?" ”

When the coachman saw it, he sighed and said: "It's a job grab, saying that it's a gallop road in the palace, two horses in parallel, pulling the carriage, you can run fast, the northwest of the capital, from the Mentougou to the Xicheng side, has long been there, it is to pull coal." A few thousand catties of coal will arrive in Beijing in a few hours. ”

"This thief, God, do you want anyone to live."

He didn't see it, Zhou Chen's eyes were getting brighter and brighter, almost bursting into light, and said, "Chi Dao, Qin Chi Dao?" ”

The coachman didn't have his knowledge, and he didn't even know a single big character, so he naturally didn't know what Qin Chidao was.

The coachman said for a while: "What the old man said, the little old man doesn't understand. ”

Zhou Chen said: "Bypass the capital, don't enter the city, go to the west of the city first, I want to see this gallop." ”

"Okay." The coachman suddenly became excited and said, "No problem, but you have to add money." Three hundred texts. ”

Zhou Chen sits in the south of the Yangtze River, with mountains of gold and silver in his fingers, and bargaining with the people is just a little habit of his own. After all, there is not much difference between weighing the interests of all parties and bargaining with the common people.

And it's not that he came up with that much money.

It is said that there are few Ming Yulu, but when you sit at the governor level, the main income is absolutely enough. Zhou Chen doesn't raise any servant masters. Naturally, there is money in the hands.

At this moment, he was really in no mood to bargain with the coachman, so he took out two coins of silver and said, "No need to look for it." ”

The coachman took the silver, bit it with his teeth, tested the truth, and then whipped and said, "Okay, the master is done." Then he drove the horses south and went around.

Although it is a little closer to go directly through the city of Beijing. But first, you need to pay money to enter the city, and secondly, the horses in the city can't run, so if you are in a hurry, it is naturally better to detour.

In the evening, Zhou Chen finally came to the west of the city, and also saw what Qin Chidao that he had been thinking about was like.

But I saw that the two wooden rails were covered with iron sheets, smooth as a mirror, stretching for I don't know how many miles, and I couldn't see the edge at a glance, and the ground near the road was black. It's all coal.