Li Shun nodded on the side and said, "Well, the eldest lady said yes, this must be instigated by someone behind the scenes."

Lu Fei also nodded, "Who could it be?" Who have I offended? ”

Yun Niang said, "It doesn't matter who it is, what matters is how do you deal with this?" ”

Lu Fei smiled, "Rumors, forcibly blocking them may be counterproductive, not to mention that the words have already spread, the best way to quell these gossips is to prove them with facts, with a clear conscience"

Yun Niang smiled and nodded, "My lord is wise, facts speak louder than clever arguments, but only when you know that you know the other can you be handy, at least you have to know who is behind it."

Lu Fei nodded, turned to Zhao Bantou and said, "Zhao Bantou"

Zhao Bantou arched his hand, "My lord, what do you command?"

Lu Fei said, "Immediately order to go down, let people secretly stare at those few called Huazi, check who they are in contact with, no matter who they are, don't be alarmed."

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Yun Niang smiled and saluted, took Ling Ning's hand and said to Lu Fei, "My lord, you talk, Ling Ya and I went to the street, so as to tell those people with bad intentions that rumors are not a threat to the people in the county government."

Lu Fei nodded with satisfaction, "Okay, let Big Eyes accompany you"

Lu Fei took Li Shun and Zhao Bantou to the main hall, and asked people to call the county government in charge of the six rooms together to discuss what the county should do in the future.

Lu Fei pointed to a few account books on the table and said to Li Shun, "Master, this is sent by the managers of various departments in the county, and the county's money, grain, and taxes are all here, you can take it and check it later, and see how many families we have, and the stone factory can't be delayed any longer."

Li Shun nodded.

Lu Fei said, "Also, in the past few days, you will count all the unemployed people in the county, call Huazi, and post a notice to collect about 10,000 people in the county."

Li Shun asked, "My lord, what are you doing here?" ”

Lu Fei said with a smile, "Repair the river embankment, build a embankment that has not been flooded for decades."

Li Shun was surprised and delighted, "This is a big deal, do you have to discuss it with the people of Futai in advance, this money is not a small amount"

Lu Fei waved his hand and smiled, "No need, I understand why the emperor gave me a five-grade county today, the emperor wants me to let go of my hands and do it, I don't have to be tied up by the above, don't worry about the silver, you will help me write an excerpt later, let's go directly to the emperor to ask for silver, in addition, this big head is Zhao Jun's horse, of course, our county should also support it somewhat, for the people."

Li Shun nodded, "My lord is thoughtful, it's just such a big project, it's not something that our county can complete, it's not difficult to have 10,000 migrant workers, but it's not easy to find a river worker with craftsmanship."

Lu Fei waved his hand again, "Rest assured, there will be brave men under the heavy reward, the notice states that the people are fifty wen a day, in charge of food and housing, and there are skilled river workers, one or two silver a day, one day and one settlement, and they will never be in arrears."

Everyone in the hall exclaimed, such a high salary, not to mention inviting people's husbands, they themselves wanted to roll up their trouser legs.

Lu Fei said again, "Director Zhou of the workshop, you have to record the people recruited, you are in charge of this matter, and after the embankment is repaired, I will add a year of money to you."

The director of the workshop Zhou got up busily and said. "I must do my best to do my best in the affairs of my subordinates, not to mention being able to add such a grand event to Susong. My subordinates are deeply honored."

Lu Fei nodded, "Well, okay, Zhao Bantou, how did you appease the bandits who were outcast?" ”

Zhao Bantou said, "Seven or eight out of ten, all of them are currently located outside the city"

Lu Fei was happy for a while. It was a perfect ending, "Not bad." You must eat and drink well to them, and you are not allowed to look down on them, because these people are the best help to me if they don't make trouble, so far. Director Zhou, you will go to the post house to discuss with the people from the Ministry of Industry sent by the emperor, go to the mountain to check on the spot, and see how the stone factory is built, I only have one request, not to demolish a private house"

In order to settle the bandits, Lu Fei asked people to build a residential area near the future stone factory, and the money was first taken out of the county account, and then resold to these bandits at the reserve price after the construction was completed. Let them pay for their work and grind out their bandit hearts.

In addition, the 300 rebels recruited to deal with the bandits in the mountains were also disbanded, and raising so many soldiers for nothing is a big expense for a small county. Zhao Bantou was sullen about this, but he still did it.

Lu Fei told everyone in detail about the transformation of the Great Lake, and everyone was surprised, the cost of up to 500,000 taels alone scared them, Susong County, since ancient times, they have never heard of such a large civil engineering project. Including Li Shun, they all felt that this was throwing silver into the water. But the county magistrate has a word, who can say nothing.

Lu Fei gave an order, and all the houses in the county moved, each performing its own duties, and no one dared not do their best.

After the meeting, everyone took their errands and retreated, and Lu Fei left Li Shun and Zhao Bantou behind, telling them that he would leave Hangzhou in a few days, and the county would be handed over to Li Shun and Zhao Bantou.

The two nodded yes.

Beijing, leopard room.

In the middle of a group of brightly dressed dancing girls, the Jinyi guard commanded Jiang Bin to wear heavy makeup, and pretended to be a woman writhing his thick waist with the sound of the tune.

After the song, Jiang Bin learned the way of a woman's salute, squatted and shook his sleeves, and said in a holding voice, "Your Majesty, how is the slave family dancing?"

Emperor Zhengde laughed, hugged left and right, and said to the girl on the left, "You say, Lord Jiang doesn't look like a woman, do you dance well?"

The girl said delicately, "It's fun, it's fun, it's just that this look is ugly."

In this leopard room like a forest of meat in the wine pool, there is no such courtesy of a monarch and a minister, and the favored woman is even more energetic, and she even blames Jiang Bin in person.

Zhengde was even more happy, and pointed at Jiang Bin and said, "Master Jiang, did you hear it, it scared the two beauties, I am not polite to you, I want to look at you a few more times, I am not interested in any woman, haha"

Jiang Bin smiled, twisted his waist and said in a thin voice, "The slave family obeys the order"

Zhengde laughed and rolled into a ball with two beauties in his arms.

After a while, Jiang Bin changed back into men's clothes and came back.

Emperor Zhengde was having fun with the two girls, and after teasing them up and down, he turned his head to Jiang Bin and said, "Lord Jiang, what are the interesting things in the capital these days, let's hear about them."

Jiang Bin said with a respectful face, "Your Majesty, according to the director of Qin Tianjian, there is no rain on the day of the beginning of autumn this year, and many lords are in the summer of autumn and summer.

Zhengde said, "What is this new?"

Jiang Bin said, "Emperor Shengming, although it is not a big matter, it is of great use"

"Oh? What does that mean?"

"Your Majesty, don't you want to go to Jiangnan?"

"yes, didn't I ask you to figure out a way to do this?"

"At this time, the leopard house palace, there is ice in the ground, the elixir to cool off, if the emperor you say that the weather is hot, in the future, if there is any state affairs in the emperor, you will deal with it here......"

Jiang Bin said half of it, Zhengde immediately understood, and laughed, "Well, good way, come, pass on the decree to the cabinet, from today onwards, all the folds will be sent to the leopard room for a month, oh no, two months, all the ministers and officials, without an edict, are not allowed to come to disturb"

Zhengde hehehe, in this way, you can go to Jiangnan to play unconsciously.

Jiang Bin was secretly happy in his heart.

"Let's go, change clothes, go down to Jiangnan" The young Emperor Zhengde said that the wind is rain, and when he thought of Jiangnan, he wanted to leave immediately.

Jiang Bin hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, leave now?" ”

"What are you waiting for, you don't need many people, you accompany me, call a few more internal guards, and leave" Zhengde was overjoyed.

"Your Majesty, if you leave, it won't take long, if there is a major event in the ministries that can't wait for the emperor's approval, you will be suspicious for a long time."

"Well, this is a matter, what do you say?"

"It's better to pass the decree to the celebrant and order the palm seal eunuch Li Rong to come to the leopard room on duty and approve the luggage on behalf of the baggage."

Li Rong, the chief eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, has a deep relationship with Emperor Zhengde, Zhengde from the prince to the emperor in the process, there are two people who are very important to him, one is the eunuch Liu Jin, the other is this Li Rong, Liu Jin was killed two years ago, Li Rong is in power, but this Li Rong is a loyal and honest person, although the position is not under Liu Jin a few years ago, but everything is controlled by him and dare not fight back, Liu Jin can't tolerate anyone who is disobedient to him, but he did not start with this Li Rong, First, he knew this old colleague for many years, and second, Emperor Zhengde valued Li Rong very much, and he didn't dare to do it lightly.

Although Li Rong is in power now, he has never done anything that violates the ancestral law and the emperor, as soon as Jiang Bin said that Li Rong would approve the luggage on his behalf, Zhengde nodded immediately.

"Okay, thoughtful, handle it like this, Lord Jiang, you stay here for one more day, and when Li Rong arrives, you will explain, I will take the first step, and see you in Hangzhou"

Jiang Bin was even more overjoyed, touched the 100,000 taels of silver ticket and a fold sent by King Ning in his arms, and bent down to bid farewell to Emperor Zhengde.

Under Lu Fei's auspices and arrangement, all the work began step by step, the director of the workshop took the two talents sent by the emperor to the mountain to investigate on the spot, Li Shun and the head of the house sent the officials to the villages and towns of the county, posted notices, and recruited craftsmen and people, Zhao Bantou registered all the unemployed people in the city, and sent the three hundred righteous soldiers home one by one, but it is worth mentioning that these three hundred people have been accustomed to the life of eating food on errands in the past few days, and no one is willing to leaveAnyway, the county's demand for labor in the future will only increase, so be prepared first.

All the affairs in the yamen Lu Fei have been handed over to the criminal name and the grain master to manage, and the big county town has to worry about these two substantive tasks, and the biggest thing now is to renovate the Great Lake and the Zuoshan Stone Factory, and only when the matter involves these two aspects, Lu Fei will come up and ask.

A few days later, the census work in the county was also completed, and there were nearly 40,000 households in the county, of which 90% barely maintained their livelihoods and lived on rent.

The county treasury has a total of 180,000 taels of silver stored in Yinzhuang, and there can be an interest of more than 2,000 taels a year, although this is not in accordance with the rules, but it is a method that is common and tacitly used by the yamen of the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and the silver is always better than being put in the silver treasury to deteriorate, so Lu Fei didn't ask after learning about this, but just ordered someone to go and greet Yinzhuang in advance, and the money in the past two months should be withdrawn at any time, and nothing can be wronged.

In addition, the land in the county has also been liquidated, with a total of more than 800,000 mu of land registered, less than 100,000 mu of land privately owned by households, and the rest are under the names of gentry landlords like Zhao Junma, and the inequality between the rich and the poor is very serious, of course, this is also a common phenomenon in the whole country of Datang.

Understand the basic information of the county, which is very useful for Lu Fei to do in the future, the rational use of labor is the key to driving the county's economic development, in this era without mechanization, manpower determines everything.

Three days later, the rosters from the village newspapers showed that since it was now the autumn harvest, less than 2,000 people had registered, but this should be enough to do it first.

At this time, it was the time when the river water was falling, and it was the right time to repair the river embankment, and Lu Fei was not idle in the past few days, while he was busy caring for the villages that had been disturbed by the scattered bandits in the mountains, and at the same time taking Zhao Junma along the Yangtze River embankment to check the dangerous areas where danger had occurred over the years, explaining, to let Zhao Junma know how the money to his family was spent.

For this reason, when it came to repairing the embankment, Lu Fei decided to draw 20,000 taels from the county, and the Zhao Mansion gave 40,000 taels of silver, and asked people to go to the county to raise money.

After all aspects of the preparations were carried out in an orderly manner, early this morning, Lu Fei was ready to pack some bags and go to Hangzhou West Lake, Yun Niang is a clever person, with her by her side, Lu Fei can rest assured, so Yun Niang is going to go together, all the way to the mountains and rivers, bandits and mountain bandits are more popular in this era, Zhao Bantou is also to bring it, and finally decided to go to Hangzhou, accompanied by Yun Niang and Zhao Bantou and then bring big eyes and sunspots.

Before leaving the county office, a government official hurriedly ran to the back office, "My lord, Wangfutai is here"

Wang Guangmei, the prefect of Anqing, tossed around in Susong like a headless fly these days, begging grandpa to tell grandma that he wanted to give the 100,000 taels of military expenses that were taken away from Anqing Mansion to Yuanshang, but the result was nothing, General Zhang died in vain, and the acting general did not admit it, and wanted to find King Ning to come to the court to talk to see if he could explain the money clearly, but King Ning returned to Nanchang two days ago. The emperor's attitude has made it clear that he does not admit the account, where is there a war, no, where is the military expenditure, and the silver has to be asked for by Anqing Mansion.

There is no way, I can only think of this Susong Zhi County, it is expected that Lu Zhixian will understand the matter of the army coming to Susong to suppress bandits, if you can pull Lu Zhixian to explain to the imperial court, there may be a chance to explain the matter of 100,000 taels, and let Lu Zhixian bear the money together, the military expenses are used in the matter of suppressing bandits in Susong, the emperor does not recognize it, and Lu Zhixian This party cannot and should not be denied.

Lu Fei is packing up, it's better to do his own thing, otherwise it's very troublesome to go out and have something less, there is no express hotel in this era, and there are mostly deserted places along the way, so you can rest assured that you can do it yourself, Li Shun is helping on the side while telling you where to go all the way, where the road is easy to walk, where the road is close, where it is easy to unearth bandits, etc.

Yun Niang comforted Ling Ning in the garden, Ling Ning heard that she couldn't take her to Hangzhou this time, she was naturally a little depressed, although it didn't show it on her face, but the careful Yun Niang still saw it at a glance, so she pulled her to the garden and whispered.

"Wangfutai? What did he do, I thought he was going back to Anqing" Lu Fei stopped what he was doing.

Li Shun said, "It is rumored that General Zhang Shen took 100,000 taels of silver from him for military expenses before, and now that General Zhang is dead, eighty percent of him came for this money."

Lu Fei put a piece of Yun Niang's sewing for him into the baggage, and smiled, "Find me a fart, military expenses, he should go to the capital to find the military department to ask for an account, oh no, I have seen the emperor's holy decree to General Zhang, it seems that there is no mention of war at all, and the emperor Lao Tzu does not plan to admit this account, think about it, the two thousand government battalion army and the three hundred bandits also let the bandits break through, not to mention the emperor, I blush for Zhang Razi, eighty percent of his Wang Guangmei did not have the courage to go to the capital to report the account"

Li Shun smiled, "That's it, he has to pay for 100,000 taels himself, master, how are you going to reply to him?"

Lu Fei smiled, "Reply to a fart, I still want to ask him for silver tweeds"

Li Shun laughed repeatedly.

was almost busy, Lu Fei casually took off his official uniform and went to the flower hall, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw that the anxious-looking Wang Zhifu was walking back and forth in the hall.

"Lu Fei of Songzhi County, Xiaguansu has seen Lord Futai" is a superior anyway, Lu Fei still opened very politely and walked forward.

When Wang Guangmei saw him coming, she was busy pretending to laugh, and a prefect even bowed his hand to the magistrate under his rule, "Lu Zhixian is a busy man, it's really not easy to see you."

Lu Fei stretched out his hand and motioned to sit on the chair, "Lord Futai said and laughed, the lower official is under your rule, the door of this Susong County Ya is open for you at any time, Lord Futai, please sit down"

Wang Guangmei sat uneasily in her heart, "This time is different from the past, now you are a five-grade official, although you are an official under the rule of this government, this government expects that this is just a temporary position for Lord Lu, or it will not be long before you can rise to the top and enter the cabinet, and I hope that Lord Lu will not forget the love of you and me working together, and bring one or two."

Lu Fei is not polite, everyone likes to listen to the sycophants, especially a prefect who is patting the county master's sycophants, Lu Fei smiled and waved his hand, "Lord Futai, borrow your auspicious words, one day I, Lu Fei, will be the first assistant of the cabinet of the Zhengde Dynasty, how can I get the position of the assistant this time is none other than your Lord Wang, haha"

As soon as Wang Guangmei heard this, she was so angry that she almost vomited blood on the spot, why do you have to press me, but now that he has a request for someone, he still has to endure his anger and vomit, and his face will be happy and sad for a while, and he will be extremely embarrassed.

Lu Fei has no enmity with him Wang Guangmei, this is also the second time the two have met, but when Yun Niang's father was in Susong Zhi County, this Wang Guangmei was his top boss, it is likely that this Song Zhi County's forced resignation has something to do with him, Lu Fei doesn't like him left and right, plus this Wang Guangmei can be so speechless to his subordinates, which makes Lu Fei look down on him even more.

Lu Fei laughed, waved his hand and said, "Lord Futai, the lower officials are joking with you, don't care?"

Wang Guangmei laughed dryly, "Where is it, I have long heard that Lu Zhixian is funny, and today I saw it."

A servant served tea, Wang Guangmei took the tea casually, lowered her head to blow the hot air in the cup, and covered up her embarrassment.

Lu Fei said, "Lord Futai deigned to come, but there is something important? ”

Wang Guangmei, who had just picked up the teacup, hurriedly put the cup on the table, and said seriously, "Don't hide it from Lu Zhixian, but there is an important matter that needs to be discussed with you in this mansion at the moment."

Lu Fei pretended not to know, and wondered, "Lord Futai, why are you joking, if you have something to order, the lower officials will do it, where can you discuss?"

Wang Guangmei's face twitched, "Actually, this matter is a well-known thing, a few days ago, there was a bandit in Susong County, and some bandits killed Wang Zhongren County, and after hearing about this, the government immediately discussed with General Zhang Shen, the general of Anqing, and finally decided that General Zhang personally led the army to help Susong quell the banditry, and now that the war is over, some post-war matters should still be explained to you in Luzhi County."

Lu Fei pretended to be very surprised, "Oh, what's going on?" ”

Wang Guangmei stood up and counted with his fingers, "First of all, when the army is drawn that day, the military expenses of 100,000 taels will be paid in advance by this government, and second, this war has ended, why has this government not received your merit report from Lu Zhixian, and this government can also convey it to the emperor on behalf of Lu Fei, Lu Fei helped General Zhang to quell the banditry, and the contribution is indispensable, and the court will definitely reward you for your meritorious deeds."

Lu Fei laughed, "Wangfutai, are you telling a story?" ”

Wang Guangmei was stunned for a moment, her eyes rolling, "What? What do you mean? ”

Lu Fei stood up and counted on his fingers, "First, how much military money did you give to General Zhang in Wangfutai is a matter of your Futai Yamen, and the lower officials don't know at all, second, my lord, so far the lower officials don't seem to have asked for help from the Futai Lord because of the banditry, Zhang Shen will come to Su Matsu and the lower officials will only know about it afterwards, as for what he came to Su Song to do, the lower officials don't know, Su Song has no war, how can the war end, are you mistaken?"

Wang Guangmei suppressed her anger, Susong County has become a treasure porridge because of the banditry, and your county master is still pretending to be confused here, "The bandits fled in a battle on the mountain, this is something that everyone in Anqing Mansion knows, Lord Lu, you don't know this?" ”