Chapter 346: The New Governor's Visit

It is not difficult to see from Zheng Zhilong's historical actions to surrender that this person is not firm in his will to resist when facing a strong opponent. Fighting to the death with the Dutch at sea is not how patriotic Zheng Zhilong is, but because the interests are too great. In addition, the local war was relied on by the Ming regime, so it was able to hold on.

Now the one who came with him to grab meat to eat is also a Ming general soldier, and this Ming general soldier is a little different.

From the moment he sat at the negotiating table, the end of compromise was already doomed. Negotiations cannot be achieved overnight, and the two sides have to continue to grind their tongues, and it is the ships that take this route that suffer. The fleet of the Silao Ching made a cameo appearance as a pirate at sea, and it was very hilarious.

Dengzhou, it was already late autumn, and sitting on the soft kang, Chen Xie's love was not very good. What is on the small table is not good news, Lu Xiangsheng, Premier Jiangbei, and Gao Yingxiang, who is gaining momentum, are about to embark on the road of defeat after winning a series of victories in the face of Hong Chengchou's encirclement and suppression. There are two people waiting for him on this road, one is Lu Xiangsheng and the other is Sun Chuanting.

At this time, the situation in the Central Plains can no longer be described as erosion. In October, Gao Yingxiang went out of Zhuyang Pass, and in November he joined Zhang Xianzhong in Lingbao, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, three forces, sixty miles of joint operation, and the momentum was huge. After defeating Zuo Liangyu and Zu Kuan in a row and capturing Shaanzhou, this cooperative march ended in the division of troops again.

It cannot be ruled out that there are contradictions between the three forces and that they are wary of each other. The main reason is that there are too many people together, and it is difficult to find food. Zhang Xianzhong went to Ruzhou, Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng went to Yanshi. The greatest advantage of the peasant army is mobile warfare. It is difficult for the officers and troops to encircle and exterminate it. But the biggest disadvantage is also this, mobile warfare, going to one place to destroy another, and then robbing all of them and coercing the people. It looks very fast when it grows up, but in fact, there is a disadvantage of being strict, that is, there is no base. The leaders of the peasant army may not be blind to these shortcomings, but they have no better means of survival. It can only be counted wherever you go, and you can eat all the way along the way. All the way to destruction. This form of warfare. It has a destructive power for the economy of the Central Plains. As long as the rogue passes through, it must be a white ground.

When Chen Xie entered a state of distraction, Ying Niang always quit very interestingly and didn't let anyone disturb him. The course of history has not been disrupted by Chen Xie. Natural disasters were too fatal for the end of the Ming Dynasty. The rogues are constantly being defeated. And it keeps rising. Even if there is no Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong. There will also be other people who will come out and take these people who have no food to rob.

The fundamental solution to the problem of the rogue is known to Chen Xie. The last time I went to Beijing, I also had the intention of helping Zhu Youzhen as much as possible. It's a pity. Zhu Youzhen is definitely not a good teammate, and when it comes to dealing with courtiers, his desire to control is too strong. Chen Xie doesn't like his kind of personality very much, he doesn't have much ability, and he still has everything in his hands. In the end, he lost all his family background, and he cheapened "I Daqing" in vain

The knock on the door interrupted Chen Xie's distraction, and he looked outside the curtain and said, "Come in, what are you polite?" ”

Ying Niang opened the curtain and came in, and Wanfu said: "Master, the slave family didn't mean to disturb you thinking about things, Governor Zhu is here." ”

Uh, Chen Xieleng for a moment, why did Zhu Dadian come? This person is still very interesting in history. There is a corrupt official, and there is no silver that he dare not earn, but when he is in a national crisis, he chose to die in battle. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, these ministers were not right to say that they were incapable, and the key to their failure to govern the country well was the relationship of interests. The civil official clique and the gentry clique played a role in sucking blood from the country's body in the late Ming Dynasty.

As annoying as these guys were, Chen Xie decided to meet them. Nominally, Zhu Dadian is his boss, and after returning from North Korea, he just went to take a photo and flashed people, Chen Xie is really a bit too bullying.

At the beginning of Zhu Dadian's tenure, he knew that this position was not easy to do, and Zhu Dadian, who was older than Huan Hai, decided to brake with static at the beginning. After he actually took over, he didn't know what the role of Governor Denglai was. Denglai is a very strange place, completely different from the rest of Daming. The general governor is in charge of the military and the civil administration is in charge of the horse. When they arrived in Dengzhou, they couldn't get in militarily at all, and even if the garrisons of each county were not from the Dengzhou battalion, they all wore the same pants as the Dengzhou battalion. In terms of civil governance, it was easy to take over, but when it was time to do things, he realized that there was actually nothing for him to do.

The officials in Dengzhou are very efficient, and other places are busy with two taxes a year, and they don't touch the ground, so there is no such trouble in Dengzhou. Just take out last year's account book, glance at the total, explain a few words to the officials below, and then the matter is done. There is a lot of silver to guarantee taxes, and the same is true for salt classes, and other places are in arrears, and Dengzhou does not exist at all at this time. When the day comes, go to Dafa Bank, see how much silver is stored in the account, and then open a bill and send someone to send it to Dafa Bank in Beijing, and it's done! The entire team seems to be completely different from other places in Daming, and no one has to do anything about taxes.

At first, Zhu Dadian was not adaptable, and after the autumn grain was harvested, he handed over all the taxes. When he was wondering why no one was doing anything to honor him, the official in charge of money and grain took an account book to find the master in charge of money and grain, and asked him to take a look at a place, and after looking at the numbers on it, he didn't need to sign it, and he didn't need to have a handprint. It's just to inform you that there is such a thing.

Then, Zhu Dadian got a passbook of 10,000 silver yuan, and if he needed money, he could go to the money bank to get it at any time. The staff brought by Zhu Dadian are also treated similarly, as long as they are in charge of things, they all have a passbook, and the number varies. Where did this money come from? Zhu Dadian didn't understand, so he asked the master to inquire. The explanation he got was "government-run tertiary industry dividends", and this new term made Zhu Dadian dizzy. This name, which is purely Chen Xie's personal evil taste, is really a bit thunderous. If you ask for details, people don't hide it, and the account book is brought out for you to see. The master can't understand the double-entry bookkeeping method, and the person is also responsible for teaching you.

After reading it, I understood that there are two main sources of this income, one is the Denglai Salt Farm jointly run by the government and business, and every Denglai official has an income in it. After taking the money, I know what to do and what not to do. The second part of the income is the grain trade, and the grain price in Dengzhou is low, and grain merchants from other places must go through official channels when they come here to purchase grain. The price of grain sold through official channels is more than double that of private grain. Relying on these two transactions, Denglai officials can live a very prosperous life with and without money, and as long as there is nothing wrong with the locality, they can be officials very leisurely.

The books do not count the garrisons of the counties, the Dengzhou battalion is 15,000 people (including the water division), since the fifth year of Chongzhen, the household department has stopped allocating money and food for Denglai. In other words, Zhu Dadian has no official income in his hands. All the income under the governor's rule came from the Dengzhou Chamber of Commerce. At the beginning of each month, the Chamber of Commerce will pay a sum of money to the fixed account of the bank, which is dressed in a coat of "security maintenance fee", Zhu Dadian's money and grain master, it is not difficult to see the clue from the book, the essence of this money is industrial and commercial tax. Dengzhou is actually collecting industrial and commercial taxes, and the local gentry actually obediently paid the silver, this discovery is too amazing. Relying on this money, Dengzhou's ground security maintenance, education expenditures, road and bridge maintenance, market management, etc., all took this money. There is still a lot of surplus every year, which is placed in the money bank to deal with emergencies at any time. Supposedly, this money should be very attractive, but still no one has done anything about it, at least the previous governor and his subordinates, no one has bothered with the idea of this money.

It soon became clear that an even more striking thing was that almost no one in the trade of grain and salt was embezzled by officials in Denglai, knowing that it was a very lucrative business. It's not that I don't want to be greedy, but I don't want to be the enemy of the entire Denglai officialdom. All in all, there seems to be a strange hand at the mercy of a qiē in the state of Deng. Compared with other places in Daming, Dengzhou City is prosperous and the people live a stable life. Zhu Dadian is really strange, how this hand did this.

After thinking about it, he decided to visit Chen Xie in person, and before that, he needed an excuse. It wasn't until Zhu Dadian received an order from the Ministry of War to transfer troops that he had a suitable excuse to go to see Chen Xie without losing face.

In contrast, the face is not faceless, in front of the silver distributed after the two taxes a year, it is really not very important. Zhu Dadian is also an official who has control of his desires, but in Dengzhou, his control desires have not yet diverged, and he is entangled in a big net.

Even if he is the governor, Zhu Dadian will not do anything that is the enemy of the entire Denglai officialdom.

When he was 500 meters away from the courtyard, the governor's carriage was stopped. A soldier rudely opened the car door, looked at the people inside, and saluted: "Sorry, Lord Zhongcheng, the small one is on official business." Having said that, Zhu Dadian didn't feel any sincerity on his part. Then the carriage door closed and he continued inside. When he got out of the car, Chen Xie was already at the door.

"I've seen Zhongcheng in my humble position, if my lord has something, why bother to come in person, just send someone to pass the word." Chen Xie said very politely, Zhu Dadian looked at his smiling face, but he didn't feel that he was very respectful to him at all. Even if you don't know the details, you can guess the clues. Who is Hong Chengchou? It's not that Zhu Dadian hasn't dealt with it. is such a ruthless person, he didn't dare to leave Chen Xie's Dengzhou camp in Henan. It is conceivable how stiff Chen Xie should have been with Zhu Dadian, but there is nothing at all. I went on a trip to Beijing and came back, and this goods went to North Korea, and I didn't worry about anything happening in Dengzhou.

Zhu Dadian was distracted for a moment, Chen Xie screamed three times before he could react, and smiled awkwardly: "Distracted." Chen Xie smiled and said nothing, and made a gesture of please. Zhu Dadian was also not polite, and walked inside, this courtyard is not too big, but it is a three-entry courtyard. But it was very quiet, walking on the stone path, Zhu Dadian couldn't see anyone else, but he felt that there were eyes peeping in the dark. (To be continued......)