A private interview with Weifu? Zhao Fengzhao was overjoyed, to be able to accompany Zhenwu Weifu on a private visit, it was not an ordinary honor, not a cronies and courtiers did not have this honor at all, although Zhenwu did not mention that he was impeached for bribery, but in this way clearly expressed his trust in him, which made him dislike, and he bowed down and said: "Weichen obeys the order." ”

As soon as Zhao Fengzhao withdrew, Yin Qi bowed in, and after seeing the salute, he reported: "Your Majesty, I ask to see you outside." ”

Zhenwu nodded, and said that he must have asked for money and policy, and he groaned slightly before he said, "Let him in." As he spoke, he said to Yinqi: "Go and change into civilian clothes, and go out for a walk." ”

Want to go out for a private visit to WeChat? Yin Yi was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly smiled: "Brother pretend to be a housekeeper." ”

"Dress up as a gentleman, it's easy to speak." Zhenwu smiled and said: "Go and inform Dachun, just bring a few clever people to follow, don't sweep away my happiness." ”

"Oh, the minister will go and pass the decree." Yin Qi hurriedly bowed and said.

Outside the door, was dismissed from the Imperial Court of the Left Capital of the Imperial History of the Narrative is a mixed blessing in the solemn standing at the foot of the steps, Zhenwu arrived in Taiyuan on the day of the proposal to vigorously develop inland trade, and encourage Jin merchants to create a ticket number, this is obviously not a whim, but a major move of the imperial court, and then in the future for a period of time, the imperial court will pay great attention to Shanxi, pay attention to the northwest, stay in Taiyuan may contain great opportunities.

What worries him is that the project to cure the floods in Taiyuan has now been opened, what is Zhenwu's attitude, whether Zhenwu will allocate the money for this project, and he has signed the IOU of five million taels of silver borrowed from the businessman, and now he is in charge of the entire project, and this silver will be pressed on him.

Yin Qi walked out with a smile on his face, and when he saw Yu Xu standing in a daze under the steps, he couldn't help but chuckle: "What are you doing in a daze?" The emperor called in. ”

Seeing the smile on Yinqi's face, Yu Xu's heart couldn't help but relax slightly, it seemed that Zhenwu's mood was not bad, he hurriedly arched his hand and said: "There is Lao Shiye." With that, he walked quickly through the door and reported again outside Zhenwu's room. He bowed in, and after bowing his head to say goodbye, he knelt respectfully in front of Zhenwu, still taking off his hat and putting it on the ground. Only then did he kowtow and said, "The slave bowed to thank the emperor Longen." ”

Zhenwu glanced at him, and said slowly: "I asked you to be in charge of the project to cure the Taiyuan flood, is to give you the opportunity to make meritorious contributions. The salary must be reasonable, in addition, that is, it is a radical cure, and it is necessary to ensure that Taiyuan City is free of floods for decades, otherwise, I will not be able to make up for the river work with your family property. ”

Yu Xu's heart shook, and he hurriedly bowed down and said: "The slave must do his best to ensure that Taiyuan City will be free of floods for a hundred years." ”

Zhenwu smacked slightly. Said: "Ensure that there is no worry about flooding for a hundred years? Do you deceive me and don't understand water conservancy? ”

"The minions don't dare." Unexpectedly, as soon as he opened his mouth, he was provoked, and he hurriedly kowtowed: "The slave must build the river embankment as solid as gold." ”

"It's not just the embankment." Zhenwu said in a deep voice: "The reason why Taiyuan is constantly flooded. It has a great relationship with the topography of the east and west mountains and a river, why before the Tang Dynasty, there were few floods in Taiyuan? That's because in the past, the east and west mountains, the upper reaches of the Fen River were densely forested, the Qin and Han dynasties and the Tang Dynasty built Chang'an, the Northern Wei Dynasty built Luoyang, the Song Dynasty built Bianjing, and the Ming Dynasty built Beijing, most of the timber used was harvested from Shanxi and transported out of Jin through the Fen River. This is the root cause of the continuous flooding in Taiyuan today.

In order to ensure that there is no flooding for a hundred years, it is necessary not only to control the river, but also to plant trees, and restore the previous state of lush forests. In order to cure the floods in Taiyuan, it is necessary to treat both the symptoms and the root causes, otherwise, it is purely delusional to ensure that Taiyuan will be free of floods for a hundred years. ”

And plant trees! I couldn't help but be stunned when I heard it, where did I get the money to plant trees? The silver for governing the river has not yet fallen, and he hurriedly bowed down and said: "The emperor Shengrui Tiancong, learning the history of the cang, and understanding the affairs are really the root of the flood in one word, but in this way, the project of curing the Taiyuan flood will be an astonishing expense, and the servants are worried that the imperial court will be unable to afford it." ”…,

Seeing that Yu Xu had gone around to the silver money with a word, Zhenwu couldn't help glaring at him and said, "Are you worried that the imperial court can't afford it now?" Why weren't you worried when you put forward the plan earlier? Why don't you worry when you start construction? ”

As soon as he heard Zhenwu snatching the white repeatedly, he was speechless for a while, so he had to kowtow again and again to confess: "The slave is not thoughtful, and he is dizzy, and he begs the emperor to surrender." ”

"Hmph." Zhenwu snorted coldly and said: "Over the years, I have spent money everywhere, even if I am poor, I have never touched the attention of the treasury that little bit of treasury silver, you are good, you dare to cut first and then play, and force the imperial court to pay for your political achievements, I will tell you clearly, the imperial court's treasury silver is not easy to come by, no one can pay attention, the silver of the Taiyuan flood project, you can find a way to solve it, kneel down." ”

Solve it yourself? He was stunned, this is not tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of taels, this is millions of engineering silver, he is willing to break the family for the country, then he can't make up such a huge amount of money, what way can he raise millions of taels?

He couldn't help but smile bitterly and saluted, seeing this situation, Yinqi couldn't help but be startled, and asked with concern: "What's the matter?" ”

"The emperor said that I would solve the silver of the Taiyuan flood project, which is millions, and the lower officials can't get it even if they sell all their family property." Said with a sad face.

As soon as he heard this, Yin Qi couldn't help but chuckle and said: "This king sees that you are a fan of the authorities, the emperor cherishes the people, and does not give you silver, there must be another way, think about it first, can't think of a proper way, and then go to the emperor." ”

After this mention, Yu Xudeng's eyes lit up, ah, Zhenwu must be confident, otherwise wouldn't this move force them to exploit the people? Zhenwu was deliberately trying to test him, he hurriedly bowed and said: "The grace of the tenth master, the lower official is unforgettable." ”

Taiyuan City is not only the political center of Shanxi, but also the center of commerce, but also the transportation hub of Shanxi, the goods from the south to the north are gathered in Taiyuan, the rich businessmen of Shanxi have their own business names in Taiyuan, of course, there are various guild halls, the so-called guild hall, which is a public place built by businessmen to raise funds for the activities of businessmen in the industry and the region, and the "Tai Crude Oil and Salt Grain Hall" is built by the Fan family with silver.

The fifth elder of the Fan family, known as the fifth master, Fan Yuqi, after a group of officials left, rushed to the 'Tai Crude Oil and Salt Grain Hall' slowly, if nothing else, a group of Jin merchants and wealthy people will definitely go to the hall in a hurry to ask what is going on, the Jin merchants jointly founded the ticket number is not a trivial matter, the profit of the ticket number is needless to say, the Jin merchants should pay more attention to the convenience that the ticket number brings to them.

Although the outlets of the "Four Heng" have spread all over the Qing Dynasty, there are semicolons in the places where commerce and trade flourish in the northwest frontier, but their funds are limited, mainly focusing on the south and coastal areas, followed by inland provinces, the various branches of the northwest frontier are mainly responsible for the business of the government, for the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of Jin merchants and trade, they are simply powerless, after all, the frontier trade is mainly cash silver trade, and the merchants of Russia, Mongolia and Tibet only recognize silver.

"Tai Crude Oil Salt and Grain Hall" early in the morning brought together a lot of Taiyuan local and surrounding rich businessmen, a group of people have been discussing and speculating about how the ticket number will be built, is a joint founding, that must be the implementation of the joint-stock system, the joint-stock system is not a new thing for Jin businessmen, as early as a few decades ago, Jin merchants have a loan system, a partnership system, a juice system, and on the basis of the development of a joint-stock system, the question is how to buy shares, how much silver a share, is there a limit to the amount?

Furthermore, the 'Four Hengs' can be said to be completely controlled by the government, and the court will interfere with the ticket numbers they opened? Will the imperial court have a stake in it? The crowd was talking about the excitement, and when they saw Fan Yuqi coming in, they got up and greeted one after another. …,

Seeing this lively situation, Fan Yuqi was also secretly happy, smiled and greeted everyone one by one, and walked to the center of the hall.

Not only that, the emperor also strongly praised the Jin merchants as the purest merchants, and encouraged all the merchants of the Qing Dynasty to follow our Jin merchants and be pure merchants. ”

As soon as they heard this, all the wealthy businessmen and tycoons were overjoyed, what is the subtext of these words? It is the imperial court that does not interfere with the ticket number silver number jointly opened by the Jin merchants, otherwise it will not be called a pure businessman, what they are most worried about is that the ticket number created is controlled by the imperial court, with this sentence, they finally put their minds at ease, and someone said at the moment: "Fan Wuye, the rumors outside are too simple, can you pick out the situation when Fan Sanye met him." ”

Fan Yuqi smiled slightly: "The emperor has a lot of opportunities, how can he have time to chat with his brother, what he said is naturally the key, my brother carefully summarized it, there are three points in general, one is to pay attention to Western learning, Western learning not only attaches importance to arithmetic, but also attaches importance to astronomy and geography, as well as foreign languages, the emperor encourages Jin merchants to open ticket numbers all over the northwest, and even to Europe and America, our children naturally need to understand geography, foreign languages, such as Russian.

Second, the emperor encouraged the Jin merchants to carry out healthy competition with the 'four constants', and also encouraged the Hui merchants to create silver ticket numbers, so as to promote each other and strengthen the development of the ticket industry.

In the future, the transportation of military rations, as well as the sale of clocks and watches produced by the Jinjing workshop, pure and transparent glass and other commodities, will only cooperate with the best of the Jin merchants, and more importantly, only the major shareholders of Russia, the Bukhara Khanate, the Mughal Empire, the Kazakh Khanate, Persia and the Ottoman Empire are allowed to operate. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )