Chapter 373: The Iron Bucket (2)

Wang Hexuan's temperament is to be a good teacher, seeing the governor asking, he consciously has face, and he smoked a bag of cigarettes unhurriedly, and then said slowly: "Dashuai, Brother Jingzhai is a good hand at handling criminal names, but if you want to say that in this general affairs, I am afraid that I am not very proficient, and I am not familiar with the Lin family who opened the gold mine, so I can't say it clearly." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info opening a gold mine, everyone knows that it is a profitable business, but it is man-made, and if you do it like the Lin family, you will naturally not be able to make a fortune. Lin Lao was a grandfather who mined this gold mine, and he made some money in his early years, but by his grandfather's generation, there was no gold on the surface, so he had to dig deeper. According to the old miners of the gold mine, the surface of this gold mine is called cattle lice, although there are many but the quality is not good, and the color is not high. If you really want to make a profit, you must dig deep, dig up the big golden calf, and when the time comes, you will pull gold and urine and silver, and enjoy endless wealth. But if you want to dig deeper, you have to use machinery. The Lin family insisted on the ancient method, not to say that the method passed down from their ancestors was the most useful, and they refused to use Taixi machinery or hire foreigners. There are a few lives in it, but they still can't touch the roots. Besides, how could he make money because of the rugged roads in the gold mines, the difficulty in transporting gold, and the high cost of manual transportation. On top of that, there are also things to be thrown at the mine. ”

It is the most normal thing to lose gold in a gold mine, but when the miners go down the mine, they are required to be naked, so as not to be entrained, and how to bring out the gold. Wang Hexuan smiled weirdly, "Those miners used the method of stealing silver from the capital silver treasury, and Gu Dao hid gold. Not to mention the golden calf, even the cow hair oxtail, it is also cheaper for them, but the main family can't see it. Later, the proprietor of the Lin family thought of a way, set up a big scale outside the door, and found a worker to be a weighing stone, and every worker had to go down the well and go through the scale, and when he came out, he had to pass the scale, for fear that he would take away the gold. With this method, it is not good to prevent stealing, but the hearts of the people can no longer be kept. ”

Zhao Guanhou nodded and said: "What I said is very true, if I am running a gold mine, I will set up a security team to prevent theft and robbery, and those who violate the law will be sent to the yamen for disposal." Second, we must never engage in these tricks, and we will not let the workers and the mine owners become enemies. Besides, you have to give them treatment. ”

His modern salary and welfare concept, in this era, even Taixi has not yet, just as soon as he said a clue, several staff members couldn't stop nodding their heads, "The handsome man is really kind-hearted, and the students admire it." But since ancient times, if you don't control the soldiers, you can't be kind to the miners. The cost of doing something like Dashuai is too high. ”

"What a few gentlemen have taught me is that at this level, I will discuss with foreigners, in short, the gold mine must be in my hands, and I will take the silver ticket for 10,000 silver."

Wang Hexuan asked: "Dashuai, don't you ask me, how do you plan to spend 10,000 silver?" ”

"I said it, if I use people, I will let it go, and follow how Mr. dispatches the silver taels. Even if the 10,000 silver is used up and the matter does not work, it is God who does not bless it, and it has nothing to do with Mr. ”

Wang Hexuan's expression changed, he got up suddenly, and gave Zhao Guanhou a solemn salute, "The handsome man trusts me so much, if the student has any selfish intentions, not only will he have no face to see Brother Jing Zhai, but I will also have no face to see the father of this hometown." It's up to me to let the gold mine change hands. ”

Waiting for him to go out, Zou Jingzhai said: "Dashuai, now Dashuai is in charge of Shandong, students don't know, what will Dashuai focus on next?" ”

"In civil affairs, I think it's nothing more than a few parts. The first is justice, the second is policing, and the first is to arrest public security. Then there is the study of politics, the imperial court to implement the new law, teach Western learning instead of the old learning, Shandong is the hometown of Confucius and Mencius, among the northern provinces, the most prosperous literary style, it is necessary to be affected. But this is a major policy, and habits must be accepted, and if you are not used to it, you must also accept it. The resistance in the countryside is heavy, I don't care about him for now, let's start with the city. I want to build a school in Jinan and establish Shandong University, Shandong Middle School, and Shandong Primary School. Then there is the control of the river, but I am not very familiar with the situation of the Yellow River, so I have to waste some effort. ”

As soon as he heard that Zhao Guanhou wanted to govern the river, he immediately asked: "Dashuai, before the Hongyang Rebellion, the Yamen of Dajin Country was the river worker. Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, there is a play every day, and a cook can go to drink flower wine after cooking only one dish. Millions of wages, with 30% to the river work, it is necessary to count the heart, with 50%, it is considered a saint. If you do this, something must go wrong, I don't know how you plan to treat the law? ”

"One word, go. I rode a horse and led people to go through the entire river section in Shandong, and then took a boat to inspect it, asked the sailors of Lao Shaogong, and finally, read the county records, checked the water conditions in previous years, and prepared sufficient information. Demarcate the hydrological cordon, send people to guard the embankment during the flood season, and once the water level is found to be alarmed, the people will be evacuated immediately and resettled. If the river is washed away by a natural disaster, there is nothing to say, and if the dam collapses due to a man-made disaster, I will stuff the responsible person into the river. Every responsible person must have a responsible time, and if the time is not enough, even if he returns to his hometown, he must be caught and compensated for beheading. ”

Li Runnian couldn't help but nod his head when he heard this, "Dashuai, if you govern the river like you, the Yellow River will definitely be cured, and the floods in Shandong will definitely not be a problem again." I am afraid that the floods in the neighboring provinces will extend to our province, and the crown of the lower officials was taken off in this way. ”

"There's no way around this, I'm just the governor of Shandong, not the governor of Hefang, I can only manage my own section, and other people's sections, I can't interfere. But I don't blame the subordinates for something like this dude. ”

Zou Jingzhai nodded and said: "Brother Run, I asked you to go out of the mountain, right, the younger brother has been the curtain for decades, and the high-ranking officials and dignitaries have seen countless people, but there are capable ministers, who can be as handsome?" ”

Several people laughed for a while, and Xia Manjiang suddenly said: "Dashuai, the student has a love in return." Students spend money and food, and recently checked the taxes, and found that I have a source of wealth in Shandong, that is, soil plaster. The harm of tobacco and soil is well known to the world, but now the folk smoking addiction has become a ban, although it is said to be banned, it is just that the imperial court sends empty cannons, and it is actually impossible to do it. Students and a few others eat tobacco and use medicine in the army, and they can't do without soil plaster. In the imperial court, I heard that even in the Forbidden City, there is hibiscus incense. Moreover, cigarette paste is originally a medicinal material, and it is completely banned, where does the pharmacy come from, and in the end, it is cheap for foreign merchants. The imperial court carried out new laws and shoveled tobacco in other provinces, and in the eyes of the students, it was the next policy. It is nothing more than to let tobacco and soil be the same as salt, from public to private, not only not for the country, but for the outflow of tobacco taxes in vain. ”

"What about your opinion, Mr. Xia?"

"According to the students' thoughts, instead of banning, it is better to follow the wisdom of Yiwu. Like the Qing Lou, the Qing Lou collects flower donations, and the soil plaster collects soil taxes. Farmers collect taxes, sellers collect taxes, and smokers need to go to the government to mark and issue licenses. Licensed holders are allowed to smoke, but unlicensed ones are not. For the cloth license, you must pay the cost of production and smoking equipment, and collect a cigarette donation every month. Although this amount of money may not be very large, it is better in the long run. The other is Shandong Salt Profit, which can produce 400 trillion catties of salt every year. However, the income from the salt tax is very small, and it is not a problem to send one or two capable people to rectify it, and get hundreds of thousands of silver every year. ”

Zhao Guanhou couldn't help nodding, "What Mr. said is very true, governing the Yellow River, running education, and implementing new policies, these are all things to do, and we don't have to worry, we are not the Restoration Party, everything will be successful overnight." One by one, take your time. Let's see what I will be like in Shandong a few years later. ”

It didn't take long for Wang Hexuan to reply. With him came another acquaintance of Zhao Guanhou, Cao Zhongying.

Wang Hexuan smiled when he entered the door, "This time it was almost the water that washed the Dragon King Temple, and when I arrived in Zhaoyuan, I found that someone had made a game for the Lin family, and thousands of silver had been used to pave the bottom before and after, and it was time to close the mouth." I kicked it in and almost broke the game. The two talked about it, but they knew that it was the sworn brother of the handsome, and this thing was easy to do. ”

Cao Zhongying also smiled: "I heard that Guanhou has released the governor in Shandong, and I also want to get a little light and make a little money." I didn't expect that I took a fancy to you, so I have nothing to say, and the two strands are combined into one strand to do this. But I still have to say that Mr. Wang is worthy of old qualifications, and he is really beautiful, and I have to learn from him in the future. ”

Originally, Cao Zhongying found a good player in the casino to play a game, first lured Lin Dashao into the hub, lost thousands of silver, and finally harvested it. When Wang Hexuan joined, the sedan chair was lifted higher and higher. In one night, he won Lin Dashao's ancestral home, wife, daughter, field, and finally a gold mine.

After the gambling game was over, Wang Hexuan returned all the lottery heads other than the gold mine to Lin Dashao, and offered another 3,000 taels of silver, and promised that every year no matter how much the gold mine lost, he would give Lin Dashao a permanent deposit of 500 taels of silver in Siheng. This money is only interest-based, not moving, as long as Siheng does not fall, Lin Dashao will not worry about no life-saving money.

Lin Dashao survived the dead, and for Wang Hexuan as a reborn parent, the procedures were extremely neat, and the procedures for the change of ownership of the gold mine were quickly completed. And the remaining 7,000 taels of silver, Wang Hexuan refused to accept it, and had to return it to Zhao Guanhou's hands, saying that if he met the master, he would be rewarded for his efforts, and these small money were not in his eyes.

Zhao Guanhou's opinion of this gentleman has also improved greatly, and he feels that he is a rare talent for socializing. said to Cao Zhongying again: "Fourth brother, you are here, but don't leave." I'm the governor, and my subordinates are employing people, so you just happen to be a substitute for me. ”

"It's something you can't ask for, but there's a layer, what can I do?" Cao Zhongying hesitated, "If you want to donate an official, I can donate if I have money, but the problem is that I don't have the ability to work, and besides, I am impatient to be promoted to the court to ask questions and sit on the council." We are our own people, our own people don't pit our own people, I am an official, eighty percent of them are going to make mistakes, even my eldest brother's military camp doesn't want me, you arrange me, don't make yourself uncomfortable. ”

Zhao Guanhou smiled, "This will definitely not be, the errand I arranged for the fourth brother, I guarantee that you like it." Two words, non-smoking. ”

"I'm a non-smoker?" Cao Zhongying was a little inexplicable, "Brother, you know, I can smell the soil from two miles away." I can't get by if I don't smoke dozens of tubes a day, and you put me in charge of banning smoking? ”

"It's because of your ability, Fourth Brother, that I want you to be the head office of this anti-smoking bureau. I'll send someone to you as an assistant, and you'll be responsible for the black goods in Shandong. My request here is very simple, no tobacco is allowed in the army, and no tobacco is allowed in the yamen without my permission. Other people eat cigarettes and sell cigarettes, and we have to see the benefits. In the pharmacy, smoke is used to mix medicines, and the number should be accurate. None of them are allowed to stay, unless the fourth brother has a good nose, no one else can do it. ”

Cao Zhongying nodded again and again, "If you want to say that, that's not bad, as long as you walk in front of my eyes, I will know whether he eats cigarettes and smokes." ”

Spring drives away the winter cold, and the autumn wind sweeps away the sun. The leaves on the tree turn yellow and green, green and yellow, forming one cycle after another. The situation in Shandong is also changing with each passing day, Cao Zhongkun's fourth brother Cao Zhongying, after a sacred election ceremony, was elected as the general office of the Shandong Anti-Smoking Bureau by the Shandong father who loved him. As for how a Jinmen person became the object of Shandong people's support, it is a top secret and must not be disclosed.

After taking office, he made drastic measures to strictly ban smoking, and the results were remarkable. Less than three months after taking office, several surrounding provinces knew about the strict smoking ban in Shandong, and they rushed to tell each other: "Old and young masters, if you want to sell cigarettes to Shandong, as long as you pay enough taxes, the officers and soldiers will protect them along the way." ”

Although the cigarette dealers were mostly in groups and armed, the general defense battalion was no match for them. But when I really fight against the officers and soldiers, I am always worried in my heart. There can be a legal way to sell, and no one wants to play with their lives. At the beginning, the neighboring provinces gloated about this, and there were still people waiting to write a book to participate in Zhao Guanhou's misdeeds.

But it didn't take long for them to stop laughing. In order to encourage the export of tobacco soil, Shandong's tobacco policy does not encourage circulation in the province. The general office of the Anti-Smoking Bureau is also the largest wholesaler of tobacco, and at least one of its assistants is a mathematician.

For the demand for tobacco soil in a province, there is a very detailed calculation. He first bought this amount of tobacco and then sold it, which is official cigarettes, because they are tax-free, and the price is cheaper than illicit cigarettes. Moreover, smoking official cigarettes can be discounted on taxes.

Although those cigarette dealers were taxed, they could not sell them in the province, and their lives were extremely poor. At this time, some people came out with the idea that Shandong was not allowed to sell cigarettes, but could be sold to neighboring provinces. If the neighboring province is in a hurry, as long as you pay enough taxes in Shandong, the general office of the anti-smoking bureau can send you a letter of appointment for the anti-smoking commissioner, and you can guarantee safety in Shandong.

Encouraged by this, tobacco dealers paid taxes in Shandong, and then dumped their smuggling goods in Henan, Shanxi, and other provinces. When the government arrested him, he fled back to Shandong to avoid trouble. In this way, not only are the anti-smoking results of the provinces not as good as those of Shandong, but the fiscal revenue has been greatly affected.

In addition, railways and river engineering are all impressive in Shandong, and the neighboring provinces are becoming more and more incompetent. However, neighboring provinces also have suffering, and Shandong's impressive reputation is carried out under the premise that a large number of young and strong people have been abducted from its own province, and its own good life will be harmed by the surrounding provinces.

Someone once asked about this, and Zhao Guanhou's answer was one sentence: I am the governor of Shandong, I am in charge of Shandong's affairs, and don't ask me about Shandong's affairs. After hearing this answer, colleagues commented one after another: This son must not be a military aircraft, otherwise it will bring disaster to neighboring countries and provoke insults. (To be continued.) )