The crowd pushed and shoved to the side of the road to see, the current situation of the Taoist lord being sent, most of the people here have vegetables, "south of Huai, north of Yang, thousands of miles of Zeguo", this is the status quo after the Yellow River seized Huai, this flooding range is Huaiyin Qizhou County, Shanyang, Yancheng, Gaoyou, Baoying, Jiangdu, Taizhou, Xinghua, is also in the Huaiyang range, the disaster is not much lower than Henan.

"It's not that I don't report it, the time has not come, or Lord Yushi will see the effect quickly......" In their scolding, the escort team marched north, and went straight to the canal to Qingjiangpu, from the Qinghe River, the canal is not heavily blocked, these flying fish suits embroidered spring knives stand upright on the deck, but they are not Yu Biao's gang.

The four-storey tower of several zhang on the other bank, Jia Cong stands by the window, looks down and overlooks, the canal that runs through the north and south and the Yellow River that crosses the east and west, all at the end of the plain, the smoke and waves are vast, the south section, there are only official ships, there are no merchants, merchants and households, the north is as far as the west, until the invisible Taoyuan Suqian, there are countless river workers along the coast, the sunset gradually leans against the west mountain, and there are no acres of good land.

Today, the work of Huai'an Mansion to hang and brush the case file is basically completed, except for one Wuzhou, there is no big case, in order to improve efficiency, the case file of the state and county where the house is located, he ordered to move to the government to brush, there are two employees of Guan Chaosheng and Miaoyu, Jia Cong's workload has been greatly reduced, and before Jinyiwei came, he was also able to inspect the embankment of Qinghe Zhongjiazhuang's house.

"Congratulations to Brother Shanhai, there is Brother Shanhai to assist our family. Huai'an Dazhi is just around the corner, and this is all our credit. Liu Zhiyuan took credit quite proudly, and pointed to the country and said: "Brother Shanhai is left and right, and his official career is unlimited, Zhang Ge Lao and you don't deal with it, our family knows, this matter is indispensable for the help of godfathers, but ...... This is not enough money to govern the river......"

In the first half of his words, Jia Congchun regarded it as a fart, and when he heard the back, his tone was as if he was speculating: "Silver...... Could it be that the emperor's palace still needs to be overhauled? ”

"Hehehe......" Liu Zhiyuan did not speak perfunctorily.

Jia Cong's heart sank, I am afraid that the book is only a temporary change, send Liu Zhiyuan down, in addition to supervising him, it is likely to be a silver, to say that the emperor is mediocre is also simple, and how many emperors have restrained millions of squandering?

"What my father-in-law said is very true, I don't dare to take the credit for your old ......" Jia Cong was embarrassed: "There is a good word to remind my father-in-law, don't provoke public anger, otherwise the road below is not easy to walk, and there are a group of officials above calling ......"

Liu Zhiyuan's face was straight, he waved his sleeves and sat down, and made a gesture of invitation, this tower has four floors, quiet and elegant, and the height is not cold, he asked: "Brother Shanhai, what is the best way to cure this disease?" ”

Whether it is knowledge, or the means of doing things, or the idea of taking precautions, Liu Zhiyuan has some admiration for Jia Cong.

"This good prescription for curing diseases, no matter what you look at or hear, whether you want to know or hear it, whether it is big or small, there is the main and the secondary, there are the kings and the ministers, the main and the auxiliary are appropriate, and the kings and ministers are complementary, so that the medicine can take effect."

"At present, Qingjiangpu has few people, and collecting taxes here is just an auxiliary, and the river work has not been completed, so the merchants can only escape. The real lord is in Yangzhou below, two Huai salt taxes, a big salt merchant can pick a little bit casually, and 100,000 is a small amount......"

Gonggong Liu's eyes narrowed, he was not stupid, if the salt tax was so easy to collect, why didn't Jia Cong collect it? It's too much involved, it's too complicated, "haha...... Don't rush, take your time. Our family is also bitter, the emperor has to do it, and he can't offend everyone to death, it depends on His Majesty's intentions......"

"Gonggong Liu misunderstood, this is how you don't understand many methods of civil officials...... Jia Cong came up with ideas one by one: "Today's salt citation, called the outline salt, has been engaged for hundreds of years, full of loopholes, and many drawbacks, according to my method, it is replaced by the ticket salt system, and it can always be collected, and the soldiers are not bloody, and there is no merit......"

Jia Cong told him so, so, and so, Liu Zhiyuan's eyes lit up when he heard it, and he felt that it was very feasible, saying that this person also entered Beijing from the palace, but his luck was much better than that of Wu Zhuangyuan, and the court severely punished the people from the palace at that time, but he had just met the Yongle Emperor who ascended the throne, was pardoned, and participated in the selection.

is not only the low-level ruffian hooligan origin, not within the normal track of society, pathological and psychopathic from the palace, this kind of eunuch hopes most is the respect of others, their own dignity, this can also be said to be their reverse scale, ordinary officials see the emperor trembling, see the boss groveling, if necessary, you can not have self-esteem, the eunuch comes out but dies to save face, the typical characteristics are cautious, greedy for money, comparison, collection of treasures, vassal elegance, Liu Zhiyuan has all the advantages.

And Jia Cong and he intersected equally, now these words sound, it is really "from the bottom of my heart", Liu Zhiyuan has a big heart, Jia Cong breathed a sigh of relief, and finally drove Liu Zhiyuan out of Huai'an again!

Jia Cong did this, first of all, he didn't want him to interfere with his inspection of the river, what knowledge could this eunuch in the deep palace have about the river? Leaving him is a blind toss, second, his large bribes have already had an impact on his previous reputation, although now that the two Huai patrol salts are vacant, let the political envoy concurrently, he can also write a proposal to allocate a sum from there, but this pot is still for Liu Zhiyuan to carry, after all, the sky is angry and people are resentful, isn't it? Liu Zhiyuan is the best person to carry the black pot for him.

First, Liu Zhiyuan will be fine, Wanli's tax supervisors and mine supervisors have stirred up the restlessness of several provinces in the world, the people scolded, the officials were angry, and even the money collected, the eunuchs only paid one-tenth of it, and the emperor was kept in the dark, but these eunuchs returned to the palace, and there was still no. In terms of theory and officialdom rules, there will be no constraints everywhere, only eunuchs.

Second, even if Liu Zhiyuan is greedy for most of it, as long as he allocates a small amount to this side, which is comparable to the Yangzhou salt merchants in the imperial treasury, it will not make the Huaiyang River overstretched.

This is the only compromise that Jia Cong thought of, and he has been planning for a long time, after all, he is a civil official and scheming, but at this time, Liu Zhiyuan probably still regards him as a good friend, and he will not think of how many turns Jia Cong's intestines turned.

After half of the silver was raised, Jia Cong returned to the tower and listened to the report of Zhihe.

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Qingjiangpu is only a little distance from Qinghe, and outside Qinghe County, hundreds of acres of fertile land have turned into bending shoals after the flood waters reced.

With the Huai'an prefect in charge, after a few days of soup soup and work-for-relief, tens of thousands of refugees were resettled, but all this still made Lu Lianxian feel very bad, and a few days ago he signed a joint letter with Jia Cong, asking for another 800,000 money, if this silver is missing, Lu Lianxian is really afraid of the hundreds of thousands of refugees and river union riots.

Manpower, material resources, financial resources, on-site investigation, this is a work involving all aspects, time-consuming, according to his and Jia Cong's estimates, it will take at least a year, otherwise the river from Luoma Lake to Hongze Lake will not be cured at all.

This day is very tired, back to the city to rest, Lu Zonghe changed into civilian clothes, called an entourage, to the temple fair of the Dragon King Temple micro service private visit, but see sparsely populated, few people, how can there be the prosperity of the past.

"Within half a month, we don't want to take the waterway, Caoyun is blocked, and only official ships are allowed ......to come and go," Baozhu sighed.

Ruizhu said: "I heard that it was an order issued by the river yamen, grandma, the people here are still spreading, Cong Ye has become a living Bao Longtu, the former Chaohai Gangfeng, that case, the ghost is not ......"

Qin Keqing entered the temple without saying a word.

"Not bad......" Lu Lianxian lost his mind and said: "This woman should only be in heaven, and the world can get a few times to smell it......"