Chapter 25 The Water Supervision of the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty,

Zhu Qizhen frowned and said, "Cao Qing, what do you mean by this?" ”

When Cao Nai saw Zhu Qizhen like this, he knew that he had misunderstood, and immediately explained: "There is little water in the north, so every time there is a spring drought, water is particularly valuable, and the river sluices are guarded everywhere, and even water is sold for money. ”

When Wang Zhen heard this, he was immediately furious and said, "Scholar Cao, are you talking about our family again?" Although our family loves money, we will never ask for such money. ”

After Wang Zhen blurted out, he felt that he had said the wrong thing. looked at Zhu Qizhen, but didn't see any reaction from Zhu Qizhen.

didn't know what Zhu Qizhen did to Wang Zhen, and he knew everything about it.

However, although Wang Zhen himself was not upright, he was beaten by Zhu Qizhen, and his nephew Wang Li was among the Jinyi Guards, which can be regarded as famous, plus Wang Zhen's uncle, he is already a thousand households in Jinyiwei, and he has done a lot of errands, although he has no great talent, but he is also honest.

Therefore, although Wang Zhen's greed for money cannot be contained, it is all sneaky, and the number is not large. But Wang Zhen has a little benefit.

It is particularly strict with other too many regulations.

When the Empress Dowager ascended the throne in Zhu Qizhen, she issued a series of edicts to reprimand the ministers, and recalled the ministers who guarded many minor places.

All eunuchs were strictly guarded.

Just like Cao Jixiang at the beginning, even if there is a small mistake, it is a board. This is still Cao Jixiang has Wang Zhen as his father-in-law, otherwise, he would have been beaten to death with a board.

In fact, although Renzong Xuanzong loves the people, he is not too disciplined in his private life.

For example, Emperor Xuanzong loved to fight crickets, and this incident made a village on the edge of the capital, and he had to attack crickets in the palace and could not sleep peacefully.

For example, Emperor Xuanzong made a Xuande furnace and sent people to buy copper.

All these things were done by the eunuchs.

But after the Empress Dowager took over, almost no eunuchs went out of the palace on errands. Naturally, there is no such thing as making money in the name of the emperor.

Of course, now the Empress Dowager doesn't care about the affairs of the palace for two or three years.

Except for the affairs of Cining Palace, the rest of the palace maids and eunuchs were all managed by Wang Zhen. Wang Zhen didn't know whether he inherited the law of the Empress Dowager, or whether he couldn't see others rubbing oil under his hands. Or he didn't want other eunuchs to compete for favor in front of Zhu Qizhen, so under his management, the eunuchs in the palace were very strict.

Zhu Qizhen is good at doing things, and he sent Jinyi Wei Weiwei to verify.

The same is true in history, during the orthodox years, there were no eunuchs inside and outside.

Cao Nai bowed slightly, which could be regarded as a response to Wang Zhen.

It can be seen that the contempt of civil officials for eunuchs has never changed.

Even though Wang Zhen is an important boss in the palace, in the eyes of the outside scholars, he is just the emperor's eagle dog. Cao Nai didn't want to talk to him at all.

Wang Zhen's face suddenly became a little ugly.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Cao Qing, it is natural for the imperial court to build water conservancy for the local area, I naturally will not be greedy for this little money, but the water conservancy in various parts of the imperial court is managed like this?" ”

"How much money does the imperial court allocate to the Ministry of Industry and Water every year? And the nearby prefectures and counties of Zhili, how much money can be used to control the river in total? ”

Cao Nai said: "The imperial court gave the Metropolitan Water Division 140,000 taels a year, but the Metropolitan Water Division wanted to allocate more funds to places where there were more taxes in various places, and less funds to places with fewer taxes. ”

"Zhili and other places do not have a high share of the imperial court's taxes, so the appropriation is not much, and the minister seems to remember that it is less than 10,000 taels. And for the canal transit, most of this money has to be used on the canal, in addition to the canal, how much is it? The minister is not clear. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Wan Liang, what can you do?" Mr. Yu, you have been in the local area for a long time, and I ask you, is there an official in the local government to manage water conservancy? ”

"Along the Yellow River, there is a common knowledge of water control." Yu Qian said: "In addition, there is the sixth room in the county. ”

Zhu Qizhen took a deep breath, there was a bit of sneer in his tone, and said, "I know." ”

It turned out that the Ming government was almost completely absent in water conservancy management.

Cao Nai seemed to explain intentionally, and said: "Your Majesty, but whenever there is a great water conservancy, the imperial court will also have an appropriation." ”

Zhu Qizhen understood what Cao Nai meant.

The appropriation of the Ministry of Industry and the Water Supervision is only the daily management cost, not the project money, if there is a project, the appropriation is the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households, and even other departments will consult.

Not all water supervisors can manage it.

Zhu Qizhen said: "I know that there is no agriculture in the world, and agriculture is not prosperous without water, and it is the five products of the Ministry of Industry who manage the water conservancy in the world. ”

Cao Nai silently added a sentence in his heart after hearing this, and said secretly: "The management of the Water Division is not only water conservancy. ”

As the name suggests, he is in charge of all water-related matters in the world. But speaking of which, farmland and water conservancy are naturally in his charge, but when it comes to real management, his management method is not to manage.

It's just this sentence, Cao Nai never dared to say it.

Zhu Qizhen adjusted his mood.

He has adapted to the bad of this era. With this matter in mind, he immediately asked, "In Mr. Yu's opinion, how should this matter be handled?" ”

Yu Qian said: "The minister thinks that he can set up more people under the Shuntian Mansion to be responsible for the water situation of the Lugou River. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Let's do it." "He's got a little bit of interest.

Tongzhi is what kind of official, that is, if a certain prefecture or county has special affairs that need to be handled, or these certain affairs are compared

Major, must be assigned to be responsible.

This person is Tongzhi.

In the government, it is the same knowledge of the government, and in the state is the same knowledge of the state.

Zhu Qizhen sorted out his mood, and then returned to the banquet and announced that Shuntianfu had newly established Tongzhi to be responsible for a series of issues in the new river of Lugou River, including how to use the water of Lugou River.

The old man below talked a lot, and forgot about the emperor for a while.

It seems that the water of the Lugou River is far more important than the emperor in front of them, because it is related to whether they can eat enough. But they reacted quickly. After all, they are all old and refined, and they put their minds on the emperor. One by one, they are full of beautiful words.

Zhu Qizhen was not in the mood at all.

That night, Zhu Qizhen stayed in a nearby Zhuangzi.

Although Zhu Qizhen said that he wanted to live on the embankment, Wang Zhen really let Zhu Qizhen live on the embankment.

Zhu Qizhen lives in a nearby farmer's house, and his family is also good, but in Zhu Qizhen's opinion, it is really simple and incomparable.

There are only three rammed earth houses, which seem to be newly built, and the thick loess is rammed, up to half a meter thick, but it is warm in winter and cool in summer, but the lighting is very bad, and it is almost the same as in the cave.

Even if there are windows, they don't let in much light.

There are three houses, one is a bedroom, one is a hall, and the other seems to be a warehouse, in which a lot of grain is piled up, which is supposed to be the savings of the owner's family.

As for the bedroom, there are very few furniture, tables, hang, and some farm tools, some Zhu Qizhen knows, some Zhu Qizhen doesn't know, but one by one is placed against the wall, looking at the owner is extremely precious.

As for the futon or something, Zhu Qizhen couldn't see it, because Wang Zhen had already changed it, and the ones used in the palace were much better than the best silk quilts now.

Naturally, it doesn't take much.

In the room, of course, there are a few long chairs, but more of them are made of reeds or straw-like things, wrapped in circles, and cylindrical seats, like embroidered piers in the palace.

Wooden furniture is already a big thing, because in the main hall, there is a wheelbarrow, which is placed in the middle. It can be seen that this is a very important thing for the owner.

It is estimated that in the eyes of the owner of this room, it looks like a car in the future.

Zhu Qizhen knew that this was still a wealthy family nearby.

Zhu Qizhen naturally knew that Shuntian Mansion was at the foot of the Son of Heaven, and there was the noble Zhuangzi Courtyard not far away, if he really wanted to find a good place, he could still find it, he just wanted to know how ordinary people lived.

Such a scene, in the eyes of later generations, must be 100% poor. But in this era, it is already a place where many people can live if they take a shot.

Zhu Qizhen understands very well that he strongly wants to live in an ordinary people's home. But if it's really unbearable, Wang Zhen will find a way to veto.