Chapter 397 Coming to the Qinhuai River Again

Chen Xie smiled, and now Shandong's officialdom is unusually united. This is the result of a fighting friendship. Chen Xie became the governor, and in the cases of Yanzhou and Dongchang, as well as in the subsequent locust plague, he took everyone to work together, advance and retreat together, and share the benefits together. Shandong officialdom does not say that it is monolithic, and no one can reach out if they want to.

"Governor Xiong is going to be powerful! Seeing that Shandong was free of money and grain, and was building bridges and paving roads, and dredging canals, I thought we had made a windfall. "In fact, Shandong officialdom did make a small fortune, mainly from the benefits of the grain merchants' fines. Officialdom naturally has rules for this silver, and half of it is divided privately, and then the rest is said. Chen Xie acquiesced in this move, so Shandong officialdom is united. Now that the officialdom has made a fortune, it no longer depends on corruption, and the official road from Dengzhou to Jinan has begun to collect fees. I can always collect more than 100,000 taels of silver every year. The management fee collected by the city management in Jinan City is another sum of silver, and soon the canal will start charging again, and this silver is even more. There are many ways to earn money, who still cares about such risky things as corruption, everyone sees the opportunity to make a fortune and safeguard the common interests, so they are naturally more united.

Chen Xie's work is quite evil in the eyes of ordinary civil officials, such as the chengguan. After half a year's hard work, the biggest credit is to clean up Jinan City, and the beggars, gangsters and other people on the street have been arrested cleanly. Where these people have gone, no one knows, and no one cares.

After a while, the chengguan began to charge. As long as it's a merchant, none of them have run. You have to pay environmental sanitation and public security fees for a year, and you can't pay them if you don't pay them. There are indeed merchants who are coaxed and refuse to pay. But don't think about doing this business, you open a restaurant, every day there is a hill of garbage at the door, open a green building, and someone comes to investigate the case every night, and wants to catch the Jiangyang thief. If you open a grocery store, you generally don't dare not pay it. Small business transactions. A maximum of one tael a year is charged, how many things can be saved.

It's okay for a day or two, it's like this every day, who can stand it? Don't make a fuss. The soldiers are holding bayonets to maintain order. Whoever makes a fuss catches whom. The German royal mansion is awesome, right? Packed up obediently. Now the people in the palace dare not go out, and they have to pay double the price to buy soy sauce, and the grain in the field is also transported back at a high price.

The demons and monsters in the city of Jinan. It's almost crazy, it's almost caught, and the market is stable. Gotta hand it over. In fact, this fee is really not much, people charge according to 15% of your monthly profit, to put it bluntly, it is a disguised business tax. But not under the banner of commercial tax, but with some other tricks. Besides, everyone can see the changes in the city of Jinan, the road surface is smooth, the streets are spacious, and there is no water accumulation on rainy days. This has to spend money to rectify, who will pay for this? People say that it is taken from the people and used by the people. Merchants who have paid the fee have an advantage, but if someone comes to make trouble, the government will immediately dispatch to ensure that it is settled. Pay once a month, and you won't have to worry about anything. After a few months, after discovering such benefits, the merchants did not make a fuss, and some people said that they would not let the payment be paid regardless of security, and they might not be able to agree.

Some long-distance businesses are even more surprised to find that after paying various fees, they can be described as unimpeded in Shandong Province. The bandits that used to be everywhere are no longer visible. The Shandong government sent troops, but they were all wiped out. Or if you run away, you can't stay in Shandong, what if you don't run? Compared with other provinces, everyone feels that Shandong is different, and the benefits are obvious.

At the end of the year, I earn 20% more than before, and this idea is different.

How else to say that the Chinese are afraid of seriousness? As long as the government does things seriously, there is nothing bad to do. However, Shandong's serious premise is that everyone is beneficial. The various expenses collected will be distributed by the province in a unified manner. When a part of the silver is distributed as a subsidy for officials, the temptation for corruption is not so great. Of course, there are also those who are not afraid of death, and continue the grand cause of corruption, don't find out, and catch one by one, without mercy at all.

Xiong Wencan wanted to put on the prestige of the governor, but Chen Xie didn't care at all. Persuading the angry Zhang Bingwen, Chen Xie made a little preparation and went down the canal to Nanjing for a meeting. At this time, it is said that Xiong Wencan is still in Jiangxi.

Of course, Chen Xie didn't care about Xiong Wencan's bullshit orders, he didn't want silver, and he didn't want food. With a thousand soldiers, Sun Kexian, one of the staff, went south along the canal. Chen Xie didn't even fight a guard of honor, and quietly took the boat. The road was quite smooth, no one was looking for trouble, and when he crossed Yangzhou into the Yangtze River and spent the night in Zhenjiang, it attracted the attention of local officials in Nanzhili.

I can't help but pay attention to this, the fleet on the Yangtze River came to Zhenjiang, and the four warships of 500 materials, waving the red flag of the Dengzhou battalion, were too eye-catching. Zhenjiang officials hurriedly inquired and learned that Chen Xie, the governor of Shandong, had arrived in Zhenjiang and was going to Nanjing.

When the warship escorted Chen Xie to Nanjing, the news had already spread, and a group of Nanjing officials were waiting on the dock. are all some unlucky people who do cold benches in Nanjing Liubu, and they welcome Chen Xie very much, the reason is naturally that they have not taken any benefits.

Chen Xie got off the boat, and after some formalities, he said that he had come here to discuss how to suppress the thieves by the order of the new governor.

Xiong Wencan arrived in Wuchang at this time, and he, the governor of the five provinces, then issued an order not to go to Nanjing, and asked Chen Xie to go to Wuchang to see him. The reason is very strong, he is the governor of the five provinces, and he can't manage Jiangbei but not Jiangnan.

Chen Xie declined the invitation and took his entourage to his residence on the bank of the Qinhuai River. Zheng Toniang and Liu Ruyi, when they stood at the gate of the courtyard to greet them, their faces were flushed with excitement. The Ming Dynasty has been getting better and better over the years, and gradually dominated the trend of public opinion in the south of the Yangtze River. This also led Zheng Toniang and Liu Ru to work harder, and they didn't have time to go to Dengzhou.

I haven't seen Chen Xie for more than two years, Zheng Toniang couldn't help but be excited and stepped forward to Wanfu, Chen Xie smiled and took a deep look. It's a little bit of a qiē in the meaning of self-evident. When facing Liu Ruyi, this young girl at the beginning is now a young woman in literature. And with a taste of leadership, it means that it has a lot of voice in Ming Pao over the years.

Although Zheng Toniang and Liu Ru hated to hug Chen Xie immediately to relieve the pain of lovesickness, the people on the side of Ming Pao came out to see each other, and Chen Xie still had to deal with it. Gu Jikun and Gui Zhuangxing, this is known. There are also two white-faced men in green clothes, standing there very eye-catching, but Chen Xie doesn't know them.

Liu Ru introduced: "Songjiang Zhou Lixun, Peng Bin. Chen Xie smiled when he heard this name, two of the six sons of several societies. stepped forward and arched his hand: "Jiuyang, Mr. Xia, Mr. Xu, I have mentioned the two many times, as well as Mr. Chen (Zilong) and Mr. Du (Lin Zheng)." The two of them said that the sons of several societies are all great sages in the world, and they have been admired for a long time but have not been seen. ”

If it had been before, Chen Xie would not have taken it too seriously, after all, he was a military general. Now that he is the governor, he says this from the standpoint of a civil official, and the meaning is the same. The literati are sour, and this disease is incurable.

"Zhongcheng has a reputation!" These two didn't put on any scribe's romantic stand, and politely bowed their hands. If it weren't for Ming Pao, these two would have failed the imperial examination, and he would have been a poor scholar. It's like now, when I became the editor-in-chief of Ming Pao, I wrote a lot of articles to rebuke Fang Xuan in the newspaper, which faintly meant a famous person in Jiangnan. And they served in Ming Pao, and they were very popular with the girls on the Qinhuai River.

Literati are also divided into people, and some literati are not good, their ability is not big, and their problems are not small. The six sons of several societies are not bad, and they are people who can do things. Although they all joined the Restoration Society, they were not very interested in those members of the Restoration Society who went to extremes. They should be sprayed in the newspapers, and that's not polite at all. In the past two years, I have been fighting with the gang of people in the Restoration Society, and these two are the main force.

These two people are actually very envious of Xia Yunyi and Xu Fuyuan, these two brothers, when they entered Chen Xie's staff team, and when they wrote to each other, they knew that Xia and Xu were quite important in Shandong and had real power in their hands. At the beginning, the two refused the invitation and stayed in Jiangnan, but now they are embarrassed to say that they want to go. Besides, it's not bad to mix in Ming Pao.

A group of literati were also interested, so they didn't delay Chen Xie's time much, and after a few polite words, they quit under the pretext of having a job. Chen Xie slowly went to the backyard, and when he went upstairs, a shadow jumped out of the boudoir, his neck was tightly kept, and he refused to let go. Chen Xie picked up the fluttering body in his arms, soft as warm jade, and stepped into the boudoir.

After a while, he groaned, like crying and complaining. The two maids in the corridor were sinned, and they stood there listening and couldn't leave, ready to go in and help one or two. Two hours later, it was already the willow tops on the moon, so someone was asked to send food inside.

Zheng Tuoniang, who was full of tenderness, shrunk in Ailang's arms, without any strength. It's just that the strength to stare on his back is still there, his face is ruddy, and his eyes are full of friendship. Even if Liu Ru came in with the maid who delivered the food, Zheng Toniang didn't move a finger, and still sat on her lap and didn't move.

"If my sister doesn't get up again, my sister should come in and call someone." Liu Ru saw the two of them crooked together, and couldn't help but feel pantothenic acid in her heart, and laughed. Zheng Tuoniang squinted her eyes and replied, "It's good for you to come in, I'm about to fall apart by myself." You're just doing me a favor. ”

Liu Ru's face was red when she was said, and she snorted: "Sister who is a monster, I can't help it, and there are two maids." What do you want me to do? I didn't have a place to ask my brother-in-law to look down on others. ”

Chen Xie smiled and watched the two bickering, not interjecting. After the wine and food were arranged, Zheng Tuoniang got up, pulled Liu Ru to sit down opposite and said, "Good sister, sit down and have a few drinks together." ”

Chen Xie picked up the cup and said, "Over the years, I have worked hard. Chen can have today, and you have a great contribution. (To be continued......)