After receiving the support of Huang Zonghan and obtaining the title of 'supervising the affairs of the Huzhou Donation Bureau', Lin Zhe soon began to act.

Almost on the day he received Huang Zonghan's approval, he hung up the signboard of 'Huzhou Donation Bureau' in his battalion headquarters and personally supervised it.

Interestingly, Qu Shengchao, the prefect of Huzhou, who had impeached Lin Zhe several times, was appointed by Huang Zonghan as the 'Huzhou Donation Bureau Office'.

Although Lin Zhe was dissatisfied with Huang Zonghan's appointment arrangement, he also knew that this was a balance of power and skill for Huang Zonghan, after all, Lin Zhe himself only had the title of Alternate Dao, but he did not have a real official position, and the Yongying Supervision Office of Yuyao County was only a temporary assignment.

If you want to get the support of the gentry in Huzhou Mansion, you have to need the cooperation of Qu Shengchao, the prefect.

Of course, in order to prevent the money from the Donation Bureau from being misappropriated by the Huzhou government, Huang Zonghan clearly instructed that all the income from the bureau should be used for military supplies in the remaining camps and should not be diverted for other purposes.

Lin Zhe considered that he was busy with affairs and could not personally handle all the affairs of the Donation Bureau, so in order to prevent the daily power of the Donation Bureau from being controlled by Qu Shengchao, he asked Bi Yutong, the camp officer of Yongying in Yuyao County, to serve as the assistant of the Donation Bureau.

In the Qing Dynasty, there was a clear distinction between superiors and subordinates, the supervisor was the number one, and the meeting could be regarded as the second-in-command, and the assistant was the second-in-command in the absence of the meeting.

In addition to transferring Bi Yutong to the Donation Bureau, Lin Zhe also transferred many people from the battalion headquarters to serve in the Donation Bureau.

In this way, the shelves of the Huzhou Donation Bureau were set up, and the next day, Lin Zhe invited Qu Shengchao to come to the camp to discuss the matters of the Donation Bureau, and at the same time, he naturally participated in the discussion and assisted Bi Yutong.

"There are ready-made examples of this donation, we can follow their charter, and then make some detailed adjustments according to the situation in Huzhou, Zhejiang, for example, Jiangsu is mainly to collect donations on rice grain, but Huzhou here, there is not much rice grain, but Huzhou's raw silk is famous at home and abroad, so our donation collection is mainly focused on raw silk!"

Lin Zhe is not familiar with Huzhou in later generations, but after this era, he is very familiar with Huzhou, especially Huzhou raw silk, why?

Because the Lin family is in the raw silk business!

Raw silk is the main business of the Lin family's firm, and Lin Zhe also painstakingly learned about the family's raw silk industry in the months before the group training, and proposed to set up a machine to build a silk reeling factory, which is naturally to understand the raw silk in Huzhou.

As the most famous in contemporary China, but also the largest production of raw silk production area, Huzhou's raw silk has always been famous, and the output value is quite high, the Lin family in Huzhou Nanxun and other counties and towns generally opened warehouses, commercial houses, mainly to purchase silkworm cocoons, handmade silk reeling, etc., and then sell the finished raw silk at home and abroad.

Therefore, if you want to collect commercial taxes in Huzhou, this one must be aimed at the raw silk industry!

As long as the cents of the raw silk industry are collected, I am afraid that I will not be able to support an army of a few thousand people?

Qu Shengchao listened to Lin Zhe's words, although he was dissatisfied with Lin Zhe, but he had to admire Lin Zhe's vision was indeed unique, in order to raise military expenses, he could even come up with a way to imitate the donation in Jiangsu, and he dared to directly propose and implement it, this courage is still not possessed by ordinary people.

Although Qu Shengchao also had concerns about the donation bureau, he was afraid that it would be easy to offend the gentry if this matter was not done well, and he was even more afraid of causing a backlash from Huzhou businessmen, but he was even more afraid that Lin Zhe would directly pay military salaries to the rich gentry in Huzhou as he did last time.

To be honest, after Lin Zhe arrived in Huzhou, his reputation was not very good, especially the previous large-scale extortion of local bigwigs caused a backlash from many people, and many people, including Qu Shengchao, have written many books to impeach Lin Zhe.

But because of Lin Zhe's strength, Qu Shengchao and they didn't have a good way, so they could only scold and endure it in their hearts.

However, what is even more interesting is that although they want to be very dissatisfied with Lin Zhe, if Lin Zhe really wants to leave, it is estimated that they will have to pull down their faces and beg Lin Zhe not to go?

Why? Because as soon as Lin Zhe left, if the Taiping army went south to attack Huzhou, they would not have to live, and the Taiping army would do the same thing every time they conquered a place, that is, massacre the local gentry class.

Therefore, those ordinary people may not be afraid or even expect the Taiping army to fight, but the gentry class will definitely not want the Taiping army to fight.

In short, the current official gentry class in Huzhou now has very complicated feelings about Lin Zhe, they are like the delicate ** forced by Lin Zhe, on the one hand, they are crying and struggling to resist, and on the other hand, they are reluctant to give up this full and refreshing feeling.

Now Lin Zhe is engaged in such a donation game, although it also has a great impact on them, but it is much better than being knocked and blackmailed by Lin Zhe every day.

Qu Shengchao didn't say much in the brief meeting of this meeting, not saying that he agreed with Lin Zhe's measures, but he didn't say anything against it.

Lin Zhe didn't care about Qu Shengchao's reaction, anyway, he didn't expect Qu Shengchao to help him, as long as he didn't make trouble, it was enough, and Lin Zhe also knew that he didn't dare to make trouble if he gave Qu Shengchao a hundred guts, because the donation bureau around the lake was not only Lin Zhe's business, but also Huang Zonghan's business.

Huang Zonghan also thought that if it was done, not only would it be able to solve the military expenses of Yongying in Yuyao County, but Huang Zonghan also planned to promote it throughout Zhejiang, so that he could raise more funds for all aspects and alleviate the current huge financial pressure in Zhejiang.

In this case, if Qu Shengchao wants to make trouble, without Lin Zhe's hands, Huang Zonghan will directly teach him a lesson.

After the Huzhou Donation Bureau was listed, Lin Zhe first handed over many of his own private checkpoints to the Huzhou Donation Bureau, and at the same time added some checkpoints throughout Huzhou to collect centimen for all business travel goods in the past.

At the same time, it also collects 'sitting centi' for shops in all walks of life, with official support, and with the guns of Yuyao County's Yongying as a guarantee, although the centiary donation system has just been issued, it has attracted a lot of backlash, and many businessmen even directly resist taxes, but after several arrests and suppressions, Shun lì has quelled the rebound, thus making the tax collection behavior of the Huzhou Donation Bureau regular.

And when Lin Zhe was working hard to solve the gap in his military spending in Huzhou, the officers sent back to Shaoxing counties to recruit soldiers by the Yongying in Yuyao County were also busy.

In Shangyu County, Shaoxing Prefecture, there was a long queue at the gate of the city that was peaceful in the past, and a young man about twenty years old, holding a folding fan and wearing a robe, looked puzzled, and asked another young man next to him, who was also about twenty years old and wearing a robe: "Brother Zhou, what happened ahead?" Why are there so many people? ”

The man surnamed Zhou said, "You don't know? ”

But soon he showed a look of awakening: "Oh, I forgot, Brother An, you have been studying hard these days, and it's normal to not know!" ”

He continued: "Ahead is the Yuyao County Yongying Battalion recruiting! ”

The man surnamed An looked puzzled: "Yuyao County Yongying? Is it the county Yongying camp made by Yuyao Lin Zhe? How did you come to us to recruit soldiers? And recruit so many people? ”

He also heard about the Yuyao County Yong Camp a few months ago, as far as he knew, it was a local county Yong in Yuyao, led by Lin Zhe, the young master of the Lin family, the richest man in Yuyao, and the local county Yong This kind of thing is not an uncommon thing for contemporary times, and many gentry and landlords in Shangyu County are engaged in Xiangyong and the like.

But I haven't heard of the need to go to other counties to recruit soldiers, and looking at the scale in front of you, there should be a lot of recruits, you must know that there are only dozens of ordinary villagers, and there are only hundreds of people, and they are generally not full-time professional soldiers, most of them are temporary part-time farmers.

The man surnamed Zhou next to him seemed to know more about current affairs: "This Yuyao County Yongying is different from those township warriors, in addition, that Lin Zhe led the army north to Huzhou, I heard that it was a battle and a success, with more than 1,000 soldiers and tens of thousands of thieves, beheading more than 2,000, tsk, it is said that even the imperial court was alarmed!" ”

"Oh, is it true?" The man surnamed An looked curious.

"Naturally, it's true, I heard the news from Huzhou from my family, saying that there are thousands of prisoners handed over to Guangde by Yu Ying!"

Speaking of this, he remembered something, and then said: "By the way, Yuyao Shi Langyi, do you remember, it is the one who studied with us in Qinglin Academy a few years ago?" ”

The man surnamed Zhou nodded: "I still remember him when I arrived!" ”

"He hasn't even been able to pass the exam for many years, and this year he gave up his pen and went to Rong, and this is the Yongying of Yuyao County! When the man surnamed Zhou talked about Shi Langyi, he showed a look of envy: "It is said that he has won successive battles in Huzhou, and he has been promoted to the sixth rank and thousands of generals under Lin Zhe in just a few months!" ”

The man surnamed An sighed after hearing this: "His talent is there, but it's a pity that he hasn't had good luck in the past few years, otherwise he would have been admitted to the student like you and me." But now, joining the army is also a proper way! ”

Although he sighed between the words, he still had a trace of contempt for military generals, and it was also that the contempt of civil officials for military generals for hundreds of years was deep-rooted.

However, the man surnamed Zhou next to him heard that he frowned slightly, why, because he was going to Huzhou soon.

The man surnamed Zhou is named Haijing, a student of Shangyu County, Shaoxing, twenty-five years old this year, although this age can be regarded as a successful career, but his family knows his own affairs, and it is already very reluctant to take a show with his scripture level.

He had a great relationship with Shi Langyi, and Shi Langyi also communicated with him several times after joining the army, and not long ago he received a letter from Shi Langyi, in which he persuaded him to go to Yongying in Yuyao County, saying that now Yuyao is in the midst of expanding the army, if Zhou Haijing is willing to come to Yuying to serve, then he will personally recommend Lin Zhe for him.

But he didn't say this to the man surnamed An, on the one hand, he knew that the man surnamed An was bent on his career, and he was afraid that he would persuade himself after he knew it, and on the other hand, he actually had some pimples in his heart.

Zhou Haijing, whose face was a little unbearable, chose not to say it!

But the next day, he still packed his bags and embarked on the road to the north, he was going to Huzhou!