In the prefect's yamen, Li Hongfei arranged for an official to entertain the entourage brought by Wang Chengen, while he and the Dongchang factory were drinking tea and chatting in the study. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"This prefect's yamen is really shabby, it seems that Mr. Li is going to be a Qing official!" Wang Chengen sniffed the teacup, but did not drink the tea, but talked about the furnishings of the prefect's yamen.

Wang Chengen is a person around Zhu Youzhen, he has never seen any good things, and he knows that this tea is not a top grade when he smells it, and looking at the furnishings in this study, he must not be rich in this prefect's yamen.

Li Hongfei is an "immortal", and he doesn't need to pay attention to this so-called superficial effort, but this yamen represents the royal face, and Wang Chengen naturally wants to remind him.

"It's no wonder that this official is too honest in the previous prefect, and when the official took office, the saint didn't even give a tael of silver for the journey, and now it has been set for a three-year period, how can there be any money left for repairs? However, my father-in-law must have made a lot of oil and water all the way, or if he didn't support a little, at least let the official repair this yamen. Li Hongfei not only cried poor, but also asked Wang Chengen for money in turn.

For the ancient envoys to travel, Li Hongfei is a clear door, that is basically where to go, where to receive money, although Suzhou is not too far from Nanjing, but all the way over, it is a rich land, earn a hundred thousand, there is no problem at all.

In this Ming Dynasty, in addition to Zhu Youzhen, it is estimated that only Li Hongfei dared to ask Wang Chengen for silver.

"Mr. Li! It's not that our family is reluctant, but this time the saint has explained, the benefit fee collected all the way, the saint wants to take seventy percent, and the remaining thirty percent is only enough to maintain the expenses of the East Factory, and our family really has no money left. "Wang Chengen didn't eat Li Hongfei's set.

It can be said that even if Wang Chengen has spare money in his hand, he will not give Li Hongfei a penny, because Zhu Youzhen asked Wang Chengen for a benefit fee, or Li Hongfei usurped it, Wang Chengen lost seventy percent of the benefit fee for no reason, how could he give money to Li Hongfei.

Li Hongfei said very bluntly: "The people under him can love money, but they can't be corrupt and pervert the law, such as Dongchang, these special institutions, sometimes in order to facilitate the way to act, to facilitate intelligence investigation, must collect some filial piety money, after this kind of money is collected, you can report to the emperor, and then the emperor decides, part of it as a reward, so that everyone is happy, and the people under him have the motivation to do things, and they will not bend the law for personal gain because they are worried about the other party's exposure." ”

Since corruption can't be stopped, then come clearly, if you are willing to give money and filial piety, then I will accept it, but I will not sell you any good, but will write down this kind of thing and tell the emperor, so that the emperor can catch you for bribery.

In this way, the silver received in the end was less, but at least the silver was taken with peace of mind.

Therefore, this time, Zhu Youzhen specially allowed those eunuchs who passed the decree to collect filial piety money, but they could not forcibly ask for it, and in the end, they had to report to Zhu Youzhen, so that they could take away the part that they deserved.

Today's Zhu Youzhen can be said to do everything in terms of money.

"It seems that it is not easy to be holy! I heard that Lord Shi Kefa's army is now difficult to even get food and salary, and this official has only just taken office now, and he hasn't gotten much silver, so he will first support 500,000 taels of silver, and take it to Lord Shi for emergency. Li Hongfei said lightly.

As a modern person, pretending to be forced to slap your face is a necessary skill, aren't you crying poor?

Don't you dislike my prefect's yamen for being shabby?

Labor and management will smash you to death with white money!

"Five...... 500,000 taels? Master Li, you won't take out all the money in the treasury, will you? The local yamen should keep a certain amount of cash to deal with emergencies! Moreover........ Moreover, the emperor explained that Suzhou has just become a special zone, and the imperial court has no money and food to support Suzhou because of the war, so the silver money on the adult's side can be temporarily kept for his own use, and the taxes of the first year do not need to be paid in a hurry, just need to report it, and use the income tax silver to develop the economy and train the new army is the most important thing. Wang Chengen was very surprised, thinking that Li Hongfei was an "immortal" and didn't understand the truth that this money makes money, so he quickly explained to Li Hongfei.

In fact, the reason why Zhu Youzhen stipulated this three-year period was also out of compromise with the ministers, the Ming Dynasty was not a hall of the Zhu family, and if there was no reason for those ministers to refuse, the Suzhou Special Economic Zone would not be able to implement it at all.

Since he can't help Li Hongfei on the surface, Zhu Youzhen is still secretly trying to find ways to help, such as retaining taxes in the first year, and not having to hand them over to the imperial court.

If it was in a peaceful and prosperous era, this would be nothing at all, but now is the era of war, and it is difficult for the imperial court to even maintain military expenses, giving up a year's tax revenue from a rich land, which is the greatest sincerity given by Zhu Youzhen.

"Thank you to the emperor for me, since it is a regulation, I must abide by it, this 500,000 taels of silver, even if it is a part of the taxes paid in advance, and the rest will be made up at the end of the year." Li Hongfei said.

The emperors of the Ming Dynasty were not easy to do, Li Hongfei didn't want Zhu Youzhen to be difficult, not to mention that the first year was a critical period of reform in Suzhou, and he had to do better than other state capitals in order to attract businessmen from all over the world to invest.

Li Hongfei is in sales, the more bad the market is in the early stage, the more efforts must be made to advertise, otherwise the popularity of Suzhou Special Economic Zone will disappear, who will remember this special place?

"But if the local government treasury does not have enough cash.........

"Don't worry, there are still 1.2 million taels of silver in the treasury, which is enough for the second half of the year." Li Hongfei interrupted.

has already decided to pretend to be forced, how can people still be slapped in the face?

Li Hongfei didn't touch a penny of the taxes, donations, and dividends of government-run enterprises he received this time, and the 500,000 taels of silver he took out were all silver coins from the treasury of the Yamen Mansion before, and the remaining 1.2 million taels were enough for this year's expenses.

After figuring out how Li Hongfei made money, Wang Chengen was speechless in surprise, worthy of being a god descending to earth, without any immortal law, he let a group of businessmen who regarded wealth as their life obediently come to hand over the silver with the account book..........

"Mr. Li is really a master, so our family might as well be respectful and accept this silver for the saint."

Since Li Hongfei is rich, Wang Chengen is not shirking, Nanming has just been established, and there are too many places that need money.

"By the way, this time our family came over, but I didn't come empty-handed, knowing that Mr. is in urgent need of talents here, I specially ordered Dongchang Fanzi to go to Fengxin, Jiangxi, and invited Song Yingxing and Song Zhizhou, who had just resigned, I believe that in a few days, Song Zhizhou will be able to come to Suzhou to take office." Wang Chengen said.

"Song Yingxing? Who is this person? Li Hongfei looked confused.

"Didn't Master Li say that "Heavenly Creation" is a strange book? The author of this "Heavenly Creation" is Song Yingxing, Lord Song! ”

Wang Chengen is even more strange, could it be that the gods only read books and only look at the content and don't care about the author's name?