A few people walked, watched, and chatted, and in a moment they arrived under the tall building in the middle of the pier.

There were naturally soldiers guarding outside the building, and seeing that Ji Qingwen was coming, he hurriedly saluted, and let the group enter the building.

Li Yan was running errands in the building, and when he saw Ji Qingwen coming, he actually took Liu Ru upstairs with him, and couldn't help joking: "Brother Ji is procrastinating in doing other things, but he didn't expect to be extremely attentive in this matter, and he pardoned Miss Liu after only a few days?" ”

Ji Qingwen scratched his head and said, "Is this...... Isn't the first poem of the "Book of Songs" that says, 'Guan Guan Ju Dove, in the River Island, My Fair Lady, Gentleman is good'? Am I full of lust and lust, and with some money, do I like to pursue a fair lady? ”

Li Yan said with a smile: "Brother Ji's words are wrong again, the 'good' of 'gentleman' is beautiful, and 'good' is a companion, which means that my fair lady is a good companion of a gentleman, but it is not something that can be 'begged'." However, I think that Liu Ru is a girl is certainly worthy of the words 'My Fair Lady', but Brother Ji may not be a 'gentleman', but he is not worthy of Miss Liu. ”

The relationship between Li Yan and Ji Qingwen is that of a teacher and a friend, and Ji Qingwen was not moved when he heard this, but said: "I don't want to be a gentleman, I have to be cautious everywhere, I'm too tired." Don't be a hypocrite who is one set in front of others and one person in the back, wearing a mask to live, wouldn't it be more tiring? ”

Li Yan seemed to have an understanding when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Brother Ji's true temperament is not far from the 'gentleman'. ”

Ji Qingwen shook his head and said, "It's a pity that I don't want to be a gentleman, but there are some 'gentlemen' who want to force me to be a 'villain'." Alas, man, you don't provoke others, but others will provoke you......"

Li Yan listened to Ji Qingwen speak seriously, and knew that he must have something important to discuss with him, so he said, "Is Brother Ji in any trouble?" Why don't you say it and we'll counsel together? ”

Ji Qingwen nodded, looked around the room for another week, and said, "It's all our own people here, I'll just say it." This is the information given to me by Li Yuanyin and Li Commander, saying that the imperial court intends to open the sea ban to a limited extent, and here, that is, the Dianshan Port of Songjiang Prefecture, will cancel the exploration trade. However, it is necessary to set up another city shipping department, and the emperor appointed Shen Liangzuo, the chief celebrant of ceremonies, to serve as the main promotion, and I will be the deputy promotion to manage the import and export matters of the port......"

When Li Yan heard this, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "I don't know who made this suggestion, one move hit Brother Ji's death hole, and it can be regarded as well-intentioned." ”

Ji Qingwen glanced at Li Yan: "Brother Li still has the leisure to praise others?" Isn't that my head aching? I was about to discuss with Brother Ji how to deal with this Shen Liangzuo. ”

Li Yan looked at Ji Qingwen with appreciation, and said, "Brother Ji is really smart, and he is heaven-shattering!" ”

Ji Qingwen was praised by Li Yan and looked confused

forced, and hurriedly asked: "How do you say this, Brother Li?" ”

Li Yan said: "If Brother Ji can say what Fang Cai said, it can be called a victory." Why? It's just because Brother Ji chose the right opponent! ”

So Li Yan analyzed: Ji Qingwen's purpose is very simple, that is, to continue to firmly hold the affairs of Dianshan Port in his own hands, and to achieve this goal, there are only three means:

First, if the emperor retracts the decision to open the sea ban, there is no need to set up any city department - and this suggestion itself was put forward by Ji Qingwen, which is tantamount to slapping himself in the face, and it is categorically infeasible.

The second is to cancel the establishment of the City Ship Division - to do so is to oppose the court boss who put forward this proposal and the emperor who approved this proposal, and it is too difficult to succeed.

Third, it is to get rid of Shen Liangzuo - watching the fire from the other side, drawing salary from the bottom of the kettle, wanting to capture the old people, hiding from the sky and crossing the sea, or overthrowing, or overhead, or taking him as a puppet, there are not a hundred ways to deal with him, but there are seventy or eighty ways, but it is much easier than the above two.

After listening to Li Yan's analysis, Ji Qingwen's hanging heart suddenly relaxed, and said: "This Shen Liangzuo, I have also been in contact with under the Jingshi City, but he is just a fox and a fake tiger, a strong outsider. As the saying goes, a strong dragon doesn't suppress the head snake, he is not a strong dragon, and I am not a head snake, he came over single-handedly and fell into our hands, and he didn't rub it at will according to our hearts! ”

When Li Yan heard this, he said again: "But Brother Ji can't be too underestimated. The emperor must have attached great importance to the city, and being able to send Shen Liangzuo over means that he also values him, so there should always be something outstanding, right? ”

Ji Qingwen thought for a while and said, "It seems that I can only see the moves." However, I have an idea if we can spend all the silver taels in our inventory first, and then destroy the account books so that he cannot check the accounts. Brother Li, we have made a lot of money in the past few years, so I am afraid that someone will worry about our silver, so we will simply spend it. ”

Li Yan smiled and said to everyone, "You all heard it, right? Good things are coming, Lord Ji is going to divide the money! Come on, come on, I'll calculate how much silver we've saved in the past two years, and everyone will share it, and we can go home. ”

As he spoke, Li Yan took out a large stack of account books from the cabinet and began to count them one by one.

Unexpectedly, although Ji Qingwen has earned a lot of money in the past two years, he has also spent a lot of money, with 1.6 million taels of silver in the account, and more than 600,000 taels spent, not counting the 400,000 taels that need to be paid tribute to the court this year. Therefore, the silver that Ji Qingwen can dispose of now is only about 600,000 taels.

In fact, this number is quite a lot.

So Ji Qingwen, Li Yan and others thought about it:

There are a total of 300 weavers under the weaving yamen, plus people who help in the welfare workshop

, a total of 350 people, at the end of the year, each person will be given a reward of 200 taels of silver plus dividends, about 70,000 taels of silver.

In addition to the fixed salary, each person will be given another 100 taels of silver, plus the money for rewarding meritorious soldiers and the families of fallen soldiers, which is about 80,000 taels of silver.

The rebels recruited from Shaanxi, a total of more than 1,500 people, can not be too bad, each reward of 20 taels of silver, let them spend the New Year happily, about 40,000 taels of silver.

In this way, the money to settle the grassroots cost 190,000 taels of silver.

Then, according to Chen Wenzhao's last wishes, the "Ming Wu Army" would continue to expand the army to 3,500 people, but Ji Qingwen did not have an old military affairs like Chen Wenzhao in his hands, so he did not dare to suddenly expand the number of soldiers, thinking about recruiting 500 elite soldiers first and expanding to 1,000 people.

The settling-in allowances, equipment, and advance military salaries of these 500 men add up to about 50,000 taels of silver. Then in the battle of Jingshi, the "tank" that made a big move, Ji Qingwen was also going to build one as it was, so that another 100,000 taels of silver was spent.

In addition to these people, Li Yan, Li Yuanyin, Huang Degong, Song Yingxing, Ge Sheng, who helped Ji Qingwen do things, as well as the family members of Chen Wenzhao who died in battle, each received 5,000 taels of silver, so that it was 30,000 taels of silver.

After such a round of rewarding, there are still 230,000 taels of silver left in the inventory of 600,000 silver.

Among them, excluding the money for Song Yingxing to carry out scientific research, the money for printing the "Geometric Original" and "The Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" for Xu Guangqi, the money for the maintenance and renewal of the loom, and the money for the daily maintenance of the wharf, there are still 100,000 taels of silver left.

So Li Yan said: "My lord, it is not easy to make money, but it is not easy to spend money. We haven't spent the money yet, and we've wasted half a day just thinking about it here. Now there are 100,000 taels of silver left, and Brother Ji can put it by his side, treat him, eat or something, and have a little looser on hand. ”

Ji Qingwen still had Wei Zhongxian's inheritance worth 2.4 million taels of silver in his hand, so he didn't have a tight hand, but he was able to be more or less sure-footed with 100,000 taels of cash in his hand that could be called at any time, so he nodded and agreed.

But he suddenly thought of something again, and said, "I say, have you forgotten Father John Tong?" He's also very helpful to the marina, why did we forget to share his money? ”

Li Yan is a Confucian disciple, and he has always disagreed with Western religions, so he said coldly: "John Tang is a priest, that is, a foreign monk, the monk pays attention to wine, wealth, and the four are empty, do you still need money?" ”

Ji Qingwen said: "Yes, of course." Brother Li didn't know that the monk collected incense money, just like the bandits who cut the path, they did a business without capital, and the richest ones were these bald donkeys. ”

He said it so wittily that it made the whole room laugh.

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