Shandong Jinan Governor's Yamen Hall, as the second grade of the imperial court's Shandong Governor's Office, Wang Chengyi should have been high-spirited and made great achievements in the governor's office.

However, when he really entered Jinan and became the governor, he found that things were not as simple as he imagined.

First of all, when he was appointed governor of Shandong, he only found less than 10,000 taels of silver in the treasury of the governor's yamen.

You must know that this is the Yamen of the governor of Shandong, which manages more than 100 counties in Shandong, and the officials who need to use the office funds every month need thousands of taels of silver

As for the little silver left in the governor's yamen, it will be used up in less than two months.

Therefore, the first thing Wang Chengyi did when he took office as the governor of Shandong was not to develop his political achievements, but to be cheeky and raise money for the governor's yamen in front of all the officials and gentry and landlords in Shandong.

After half a month of hard work, the silver was there. However, a question that followed again appeared in front of Wang Chengyi.

That is to pay an annual tax to the imperial court.

However, because the drought has spread throughout Shandong Province, except for 30% of the land on the ground in Shandong near the water source, it can be said that there is no harvest in other places.

In this case, the counties under the jurisdiction of the Yamen of the governor of Shandong. I didn't ask the governor's yamen for help because of the drought and asked the governor's yamen to provide disaster relief, and I was already thankful, where was the surplus grain used as a tax to be handed over to the imperial court......

However, the orders of the imperial court could not be disobeyed. Otherwise, the position of his Shandong patrol has not yet been hot, and he will have to be transferred.

For their own future. Wang Chengyi can only use strong ......

Command the counties. Forcibly collect grain taxes from the common people. This is also known as the arson of the army to grab food.

A few months later, the taxes that needed to be paid to the imperial court were finally collected. However, as a patrolman, he caused the resentment of the people of Shandong to boil because of this incident.

Many people who have lost their food rations have to be reduced to exiles in order to survive.

What's more, they fled directly into the mountains and began to become bandits. Gather crowds to make trouble, kill people and steal food......

For a time, the official documents of various counties in Shandong requesting the patrol of the yamen to send troops to suppress the bandits were sent to Wang Chengyi's desk like snowflakes.

Suppressing bandits, for himself who has just taken up his post as a patrolman, is definitely a good opportunity to stand up in front of the people.

Therefore, Wang Chengyi didn't think about it, so he made the decision to send troops to suppress the bandits.

However, what Wang Chengyi didn't expect was this. As the drought in Shandong intensifies. Bandits scattered in Shandong. The more they were suppressed, the more they were killed...... The scale of the bandits is also getting bigger and bigger.

When they sent out an army of bandits. After the loss of two battalions in a row. The bandits, who had seized a large number of weapons from the officers and soldiers, even bandits, joined together to attack some large-scale villages and towns......

In the vast territory of Shandong, all the towns and cities that were captured by these chaotic people were robbed of all the grain.

Without food, the people in these places are not coerced by these chaotic people, and they become chaotic people together, and they continue to strengthen the strength of traitors. It is to evolve into a wandering outcast......

As the scale of the rebels and displaced people in the territory became larger and larger, their appetite also grew, and even began to capture the county seat and form a formation to eliminate the official army.

Patrol Wang Chengyi finally realized that something was wrong. At the same time, it can also be seen that the garrison army and the garrison army in Shandong have not been in war for a long time, and in terms of combat effectiveness, they are no longer as good as the rebels and bandits.

However, as a patrol in Shandong, if he can't control the increasingly violent displaced and chaotic people in Shandong, then he will not be able to do this position for long, and even become a sinner in the Ming Dynasty, turning Shandong into a plagued Shaanxi ......

At this time, Wang Chengyi, the governor of Shandong, immediately made a decision: to retrain the army......

As long as there is an army with strong combat effectiveness in his hands, he can really gain a firm foothold in Shandong and destroy a single enemy.

If you want to train a strong army, soldiers and money and food are two indispensable factors......

As a patrol in Shandong, there is absolutely no problem in finding enough qualified soldiers.

However, since he took office as the Shandong Patrol, the problem of money and food, which has been plaguing him, has once again become a difficult hurdle for Wang Chengyi to overcome......

At this moment, Wang Chengyi, who was frowning, sat in the lobby of the governor's yamen, thinking about possible solutions to the problem of money and food......

Because he has been converted from the hands of the gentry and landlords in the territory many times, and the money and food needed to train the army are not thousands of taels, but tens of thousands of taels, or even hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to find a way to find a way from the gentry and landlords in the territory......

Asking the court for money will not work even more......

The current imperial court can't even send out hundreds of officials, let alone take out so much silver at one time to train the army......

There is no way, but the problem has to be solved... As time passed little by little, the expression on Wang Chengyi's face had been unconsciously replaced by solemnity.

At this moment, a rush of footsteps suddenly reached Wang Chengyi's ears.

A servant with a big knife at his waist hurriedly walked into the lobby and said to Wang Chengyi, who was frowning.

"My lord, someone outside the yamen wants to see you, this is a greeting post that the other party asked the small one to hand over to the adult......"

Wang Chengyi, who is worried about money and food, where does he have the time and energy to meet people. He waved his hand directly and refused: "Didn't you see that this official was thinking about things...... The official has no time to see him now, and he will go back wherever he comes. ”

The official who received the money did not leave immediately, but continued to speak: "Lord Governor, the people outside the yamen have said that as long as you read the prayer post, you will definitely see him... And if you look at that person, it should be from the government. So, the little one thinks, the adult, you should take a look at this prayer post......"

Although he was full of dissatisfaction with the official in front of him who didn't know how to read words and feelings, Wang Chengyi, who looked thoughtful, still took the post and began to read it.

I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it...

Wang Chengyi, who was still frowning just now, instantly showed a thoughtful expression on his face.

Then, he ordered the official in front of him with an expectant face: "Invite the other party into the lobby immediately....Also, let people serve tea immediately, and use the good tea brought back from the capital by the official, and be sure to entertain a distinguished guest..."

The person who came to visit Wang Chengyi was none other than Zhou Shuyuan, a military advisor of the Haw Par Army who took over the immigration task from Wei Zheng.

Of course, Zhou Shuyuan also has an identity in the imperial court, that is, the political envoy of Zheng Erpinbu under the Shanxi Governor's Office, who is in charge of all civil affairs in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces......

Although it is not clear why such a high-ranking and powerful Zhou Shuyuan came to Jinan secretly, as long as people with a little common sense know that Zhou Shuyuan must have some ulterior secrets when he came here.

Therefore, although there is not much difference between the current one and himself in terms of grade, his rights far exceed his own, especially Zhou Shuyuan, who is backed by tens of thousands of tigers and leopards. Wang Chengyi didn't dare to slack off in the slightest.

As soon as Zhou Shuyuan walked into the yamen compound, Wang Chengyi greeted him with a smile on his face. (To be continued......)