Seeing that the snake was beaten with a stick, he opened his mouth to borrow 5 million, and Su Keji, the governor of Shanxi, and Su Zhan, the political envoy of Bu, couldn't help but slander for a while, borrowing silver is to pay interest, and when he returns to Beijing for activities, the silver money will be transferred, at least for a year, how much is this interest? This is not a low-interest loan of the 'Four Constants', and these rich people in Shanxi are not fuel-efficient lamps, not only must be compared, but also shrewd.

In addition, if the wages are repaid for both the work relief and the conscription, how much benefit can they be left behind? You can't let everyone follow for nothing, right? Otherwise, where is the prestige? As soon as he sighed, Su Keji said with a smile: "Lord Xiantai, the merchants in Shanxi are rich, but they can collect five million taels in a short time, which is not easy. ”

Naturally, he knew what they were thinking, and immediately said with a smile: "The river control project can't be abandoned halfway, otherwise we won't be able to pay the difference, is it important to make money, or is this hat important?" You all weigh it, with this project, do you still have to worry about being traced for the shortfall? After this hurdle, slowly find another opportunity to fill it. ”

Say it lightly, fill it slowly, where to find such a good opportunity in the future? Besides, if the officials below knew that the past few months had been a worrying and vain job, they were afraid that they would immediately be chaotic and groaned slightly, Su Keji said: "Lord Xiantai is far-sighted, and the lower officials immediately gather a group of wealthy businessmen and magnates to strive to gather the silver as soon as possible." ”

"That's very good." Yu Xu nodded slightly, and said: "Don't worry, Benxian has written to Prince Lian yesterday, imploring him to say kind words in front of the emperor, if it goes well, the silver can be allocated in two or three months, and everyone will not work in vain." As he spoke, he stood up.

Seeing this situation, several people hurriedly got up to send him off, and sent him away, and the chief soldier Jin Guozheng couldn't help but say: "Prince Lian is hot now. Could this Lord Xiantai be lying to us? ”

"Not really." Su Keji said in a deep voice: "Xuxu is the second son of Mingzhu. He has a wide range of contacts in Beijing, and is also the backbone of the Eight Parties, and has an excellent relationship with Prince Lian. After a slight pause, he continued: "There is no doubt that he can get the silver in the Jingshi, otherwise he would not have the courage to cut first and then play, if Ben Fu did not know this, he would not have dragged you to this troubled water." ”

Su Zhan, the political envoy, said worriedly: "It's just enough to issue Anji silver, pension silver, and anti-harm silver, but to reissue the wages of migrant workers who are relieved of work and conscripted." Aren't we working in vain? The officials below will not rest on their laurels either. ”

Su Keji smiled slightly, and said: "Lord Xiantai can't be offended, do what he says, isn't it just a retroactive salary, what are you anxious about?" After the money was sufficient, they were given a month's salary, and when the messenger was gone, everything was as usual. ”

"Lord Futai is clever." Several people listened to it with joy. Busy flattering.

The eighth day of July. Dusk, Taiyuan City, Great South Gate.

A few lazy soldiers guarding the city were planning to close the city gate and go to the river to cool off, but they heard a faint sound of dense horses' hooves. Taiyuan City was the commercial center of Jin merchants, and there were often large caravans coming and going from the south to the north.

However, to their disappointment, it was a team of officers and soldiers who came, and several people suddenly secretly shouted bad luck, and when Lin Zhi, the leader of the team, saw this situation, he immediately rushed out in a hurry to gather the whole team. Based on experience, the officers and soldiers who came here must have officials of higher rank than him, but they can't let people grasp the handle, and guarding the city gate is a fat difference.

When Lin Zhi gathered the team at the gate of the city, the pair of cavalry had already galloped over, and when he saw that the horse team turned out to be all high-headed horses, he couldn't help but feel nervous in his heart, where are the soldiers and horses on the other side? It's so generous! He hurriedly shouted: "Cheer up Lao Tzu, whoever wants to embarrass Lao Tzu will go back to the barracks with his mother." ”…,

In the blink of an eye, the horse team had galloped to the gate of the city, but there was no sign of slowing down, seeing this situation, Lin Zhi couldn't help but be very angry, and was about to step forward to stop him, a horse rode out of the team, and a beautiful person stood in front of him, and the thick hooves of the bowl almost kicked him in the head.

Before he could speak, the rider on the horse had already turned over and dismounted beautifully, glanced at him with an arrogant expression, and then took out a copy of the military department and said, "This is the military department survey." ”

Lin Zhi glanced at the horse team roaring into the city, knowing that this was not the person he provoked, he immediately took Kanhe, only glanced at it, and saw that the rank marked on it was super high, so he hurriedly returned Kanhe respectfully, bowed slightly and said, "Respectfully invite the adults to enter the city." ”

The horse team entered the city, then turned left along the big south gate street, stopped at the gate of the 'full city' at the south end of the sea street, the so-called full city, as the name suggests, is naturally the city inhabited by the Manchurians, the big cities of the provinces, but where there are eight banner soldiers, all in the city to build a garrison, referred to as the city or garrison city, in fact, it is the barracks in the city, there are only official offices, warehouses, armor housing and family living areas in the city, no restaurants, tea houses, green buildings, etc. This was not only to prevent the Manchu-Han conflict, but also to prevent assimilation by the Han people and maintain the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners.

The guards at the gate of the city are much stricter, as soon as they saw the large group of soldiers and horses galloping, they had already been waiting for a strict battle, and even pushed out the horses, seeing that it was getting late, no one dared to have the slightest carelessness, and the soldiers of the survey and the soldiers fell behind, but the leader of the team came to Yinqi who was impatient to wait, urged the horse to come forward, and said: "Hurry up and go to report to your city guard Qi Mingtang, and say that his master has arrived, let him hurry out and ask for peace." ”

When the guards heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other, the city guard captain is a member of the third grade, what is his master's identity? Could it be that the banner owner of the blue flag has arrived? Seeing the other party's horses, no one dared to doubt it, and someone rushed forward to report it immediately.

Listening to the subordinate soldiers, it was said that his master had arrived, Qi Mingtang was also full of doubts, to say that the master, how many of his masters, Zhenwu is his master, and so is the banner master of the blue flag, he is a slave under the door of Yinyu, the king of Raojun, Yinyu is a serious master of eight hundred, this master does not dare to pretend, especially in his territory.

He didn't dare to slack off, and immediately rushed to the door, but saw that the person in charge was the prince of Dun, Yinqi, and couldn't help but hurriedly roll off the horse, hurriedly rushed to Yinqi in front of the horse, and neatly pierced a Qian'er and said: "Slave Qi Mingtang, give." ”

Yin Qi interrupted him and said: "Don't talk nonsense, the bones in my body are about to fall apart, lead the way in front of the master." ”

Qi Mingtang was also clever, and hurriedly got up and said with a smile: "The slave leads the horse for the master." Seeing this, the guards dared not hesitate, hurriedly moved away from the horse, bowed and saluted.

led everyone into the conference hall, Qi Mingtang withdrew his personal guards, and then re-tied Qian'er, and said, "Slave Qi Mingtang, please say hello to Prince Dun." After getting up, he glanced at the middle-aged official standing next to Yinqi, and Yinqi said with a smile: "This is Dachun, the first-class guard of the imperial front." ”

First Class Guard! Qi Mingtang couldn't help but be surprised, could it be that the emperor also came to Taiyuan? He hurriedly waved his hand and said, "The lower official will see the lord." ”

Da Chun and he are the same rank, immediately returned a salute, after a few people sat down, Yin Qi said: "The holy car has arrived in Tai'an Station, tomorrow will arrive in Taiyuan, this king and Da Chun came to play the front station." ”

Da Chun said in a deep voice: "Tai'an Station is only one hundred and twenty miles away, and the fast horse will arrive in half a day, what is the situation of the green camp in the city?" ”

Zhenwu actually arrived at Tai'an Station quietly, Qi Mingtang couldn't help but be surprised, don't think about it, it must be for the relief of the victims in Shanxi, he didn't dare to think about it, he hurriedly settled down, and replied: "Lord Wang, Lord Da, there are not many garrisons in Taiyuan City, in addition to the more than 1,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners under his command, there are still more than 1,200 soldiers in Taiyuan Town, the general soldier Jin Guozheng, and then there are the two battalions of Fubiao of Governor Su Keji, more than 1,000 people. …,

The news that the imperial court had increased the salary of the green battalion and improved the welfare of the soldiers of the Eight Banners had already spread in Taiyuan, and the Eight Banners Green Battalion had a stable military spirit and high morale, and there was no problem in protecting the safety of the emperor. ”

Groaning slightly, Da Chuncai glanced at Yinqi, Yinqi smiled slightly, and said: "This king sits in the city, and you should be in charge." ”

"Thank you for your compassion." Da Chun bowed before he said to Qi Mingtang: "This Taiyuan Town Chief Soldier Jin Guozheng, my meeting, you sent someone to summon the generals above the city guard association overnight. ”

"No Order." Qi Mingtang hurriedly bowed and said.

Tai'an Station, after Zhenwu bathed, did not rest, but under the lamp to check the map of Shanxi's branches, this time to Shanxi, to visit the relief of the victims is only a purpose, he also has a purpose, the integration of Jin merchants, the Qing Dynasty to walk on two legs, not only to vigorously develop maritime trade, the inland trade in the northwest should also be vigorously developed.

Jin merchants are undoubtedly the main force of northwest trade, not only abundant capital, but also hard-working, the courage to open up, he not only to guide, but also to vigorously support, the Jin merchants into his plan to open up the northwest, said a thousand ways and ten thousand, Asia is the fundamental interests of the Qing Dynasty.

In addition, Shanxi's coal reserves are large, shallow burial, good coal quality, is an indispensable industrial fuel for modern industry, once the steam engine is used in large quantities, Shanxi's coal has become a hot commodity, in addition, Shanxi's iron ore is also particularly rich, along the way, he has been considering, whether Shanxi will be built into a modern heavy industry base.

What makes it difficult for him to make up his mind is the traffic in Shanxi, it is too difficult to get out of Shanxi, there are mountains on all sides, this year he is shoulder-to-shoulder, and the difficulty of opening up a road is really not ordinary, and he feels extremely hard to enter Shanxi.

After looking at it for a long time, he sighed lightly, put down the map, and went out to pace slowly in the yard, establishing a modern industrial system, how to say that it will have to wait for twenty or thirty years, and he is not in a hurry at the moment, he quickly turned his mind to Taiyuan.

Since entering Shanxi, whether it is a tip or a stay, he has sent people around to inquire about the situation, Shanxi's various security silver, pension silver, and anti-pest silver have indeed not been issued, and they have also sent conscripts to govern the Fen River, this is purely demolishing his platform, and he will enter Taiyuan City tomorrow, I don't know what kind of explanation this gang of people in Shanxi will give him?