On the day of the New Year, Liu Zheng, Jiang Mingda, Old Man Wei and Liu Yuniang ate a meal of dumplings. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Now that Linqing is facing reconstruction, there are too many things to do, and Neng Feiyu and Li Tingji keep sending official documents to him, and the things mentioned in these official documents need to be decided by him personally.

After the New Year, the next day, Liu Zheng just got out of bed, can Feiyu hurriedly ran over, as soon as he saw Liu Zheng's face, he cried and said with a sad face: "Lord, we thought it was too simple, thinking that the local brick kiln is enough to solve the problem of bricks, in fact, it is not the case at all, the brick kiln in Linqing burns all tribute bricks, the process is too complicated and verbose, and the finished product time is too long, we plan the construction cycle of the new city in about three months, according to the speed of bricks in the brick kiln, let alone three months, that is, give me ten months, I won't even be able to build a new city! ”

Liu Zheng patted his head and said, "Alas, how did I forget this stubble, so what should I do now?" Find someone from Qingzhou, come over, rebuild a batch of brick factories nearby, and let's make bricks ourselves! ”

Can Feiyu smiled bitterly and said: "Lord, it's no problem for us to build a new batch of brick factories, but our brick houses are enough, but it is absolutely impossible to build a city wall, and it is winter now, it is basically not suitable to hit the ground, if we use our bricks to build a city wall, as soon as the spring of the next year begins, the land will freeze, and the city wall will crack, and the lord, use our bricks to build a city wall, you must use the cement you made, but there is no lime kiln in Linqing, you want to make cement......"

Liu Zheng understood in seconds, no lime is no cement, this is not the next generation, the production of your cement has been extremely simple, people are not people can open a cement factory, but now the only way is to fire, and this method is quite serious pollution to the environment.

Linqing is not without lime, but very little. Linqing's tribute transfer firing does not use lime, but uses the lotus soil made of the Yellow River alluvium that is unique to Linqing, and fires it, and these tribute turns are big green bricks.

People who have studied history a little in later generations know that the entire Beijing division is basically built by the big blue bricks of Linqing, and these big blue bricks of fifty or sixty catties or even seventy or eighty catties are transported from Linqing to Beijing through Cao Yun.

From the beginning of the Yongle period to the twenty-fifth year of Wanli to the present, when the Qing Dynasty passed, all the boats, no matter what the boats were transporting, and no matter whose boats you owned, even if your boats were from the emperor's father-in-law, you had to bring five big green bricks and transport them to Beijing.

These large blue bricks were mostly used to build the Forbidden City, the residences of princes and ministers, and the walls of the capital division, so they were called tribute transfers.

Liu Zheng wants to use these tributes to build a new city, it is simply a dream, the tribute transfer began to be transported to Beijing during the Yongle period, and lasted until the end of the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the reason why it lasted for more than 500 years, the reason is that the big green bricks use too much land, and the output is too small, and now Liu Zheng whimsically uses the big green bricks of Linqing to build a new city.

After pacing back and forth for a few steps, Liu Zheng clapped his hands and said: "In this way, hire some boats to transport lime from the Yellow River to Linqing, as for the sand and clay to take local materials, and at the same time send more people out to inquire where there is lime, to see if we can build some lime kilns, and send lime to this side, let's pay for it!" ”

"This ......" Neng Feiyu paused, sighed and said: "Lord, although we have silver in our hands now, there is a lot of silver, but it is all robbed, the income is still too small, now there are too many places to spend money, and our Qingzhou side alone is not enough, I still expect you to give some money from Linqing to Qingzhou, but you are good, and with a stroke of the pen, all the silver is thrown into the construction of this new city......"

Liu Zheng heard the word 'not enough money', he used to think that in ancient times, he really couldn't spend much money to manage a few county seats, but now he found that according to his way, these millions of taels of silver thrown in, the splash may not necessarily hit one.

Now he finally understands why the emperors of all dynasties and generations have a headache when they hear that the ministers ask for silver, and now he also understands why the bigwigs of the court are arguing all day long about not enough money, and he also understands that the management of a prefecture, a state, and a county is not as simple as he imagined.

In the past, there were a lot of official documents in Qingzhou, and there were even more official documents about people's livelihood, but Liu Zheng could still deal with it, but now he finally realized that the difficulties are there, there are too many things, too complicated, too many places to reach out for money, you can't ignore it, because you don't care about what no one can manage.

Don't look at Liu Zheng now trusts Feiyu and Li Tingji, and handed over the right to handle everything to these two people, so that Feiyu and Li Tingji formed a temporary cabinet, and they are indeed doing things similar to the cabinet, but they are all dealing with not very important matters, and everything that involves money is basically sent to him, not that they don't deal with it, but they don't have money to deal with it.

Headache, headache for money! How can I get some money?

Liu Zheng kept pacing back and forth, and gradually had an idea in his heart, but this idea was not a good idea, and it might not be able to really get it, he didn't know whether it would work or not, and after a long time he made up his mind and said: "I know about this, isn't it just money?" Everything that can be solved with money is not a problem, you go back first, and I will reply to you in the afternoon! ”

It is not such a trivial matter that can Feiyu come to Liu Zheng, there are other things, how can he go back if he doesn't finish speaking.

So Neng Feiyu arched his hand and said, "Lord, there are other things to do with your subordinates!" ”

When Liu Zheng heard that there was something else going on, he suddenly felt that his brain was swollen again: "Say, what's the matter!" If you want to ask for money, don't talk about it yet. ”

Neng Feiyu laughed dryly and said: "No, it's not about money, lord, it's a matter of the banknote, now the banknote is ours, although the canal is frozen now, but the freezing period here in Linqing is very short, and it will melt in February, and when the time comes, it will be navigable, and it will have to work!" ”

"This person hasn't been recruited yet, and you only mentioned it to me before, saying that you won't collect taxes, then you won't collect taxes, what are you doing with this banknote, you haven't told me yet!"

Liu Zheng patted his head and said: "This, blame me, blame me, I haven't been idle, I finally had a day of leisure a few days ago, and I forgot to be able to tell you about this, so you go and call Master Li Tingji and Master Li over, and the three of us will talk about this money!" ”

Neng Feiyu nodded, and just wanted to leave, but before his legs stepped out, he stopped again: "By the way, lord, there is still something to do, Qingzhou will start to collect business taxes after the New Year, how to send and receive them, you have to give a charter for this matter!" ”

Liu Zheng's brain swelled again: "I still have to make a charter for this matter?" It turns out that how did the imperial court collect it, and wouldn't it be over according to the original ones? ”

After Liu Zheng finished saying this, before he could Feiyu speak, he himself raised his hand first: "Wait for this matter first, wait for it first, I'm also confused, how can I come according to the imperial court, let this matter go first, and get the matter of the banknote customs first, by the way, you can also ask Li Tingji about this matter, you call Li Tingji first!" ”