Chapter 278: The scenery returns to Beijing
Today, Prince Zhongshun is allowed to establish a vassal state overseas!
This news came out suddenly, and it immediately caused a sensation throughout the capital, and spread in all directions at an incredible speed.
That's it......
Where did Daqing come from?
Isn't it, crazy now?
Naturally, he was not crazy today, and Prince Zhongshun jumped out for the first time, saying that this was the goal he begged to be willing to go to the emperor, and then achieved it.
Whether in public or in private, Prince Zhongshun has shown great sincerity, and his filial piety to the emperor and his loyalty to the present day are absolutely indisputable.
This is incomprehensible......
What's even more puzzling is that Prince Zhongshun didn't establish a feudal state, why didn't he take the initiative to leave Beijing to become a king?
Also, there is no other indication except for giving Prince Zhongshun a name today, which is a joke.
Certainly not a joke!
Whether it is in the face of inquiries from cabinet ministers today, or Prince Chungshun in the face of inquiries from familiar and powerful people, they all say this in unison.
What the hell is it......
The magnates in the capital were stunned, and they didn't know what to do for a while.
Of course, after a long time, when the heat of this matter passed, Prince Zhongshun still stayed in the capital and did not leave, and now there is no follow-up, everyone will treat it as if this has not happened.
As for what is happening between him and Prince Zhongshun today, it is an internal affair of the imperial family, and the foreign ministers are not willing to inquire into the bottom line.
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On the spacious water surface of the canal, three official ships formed a long snake formation, slowly heading north.
With the reduction of grain transportation, the Grand Canal, which was once extremely busy, seems to be deserted than before.
However, the number of merchant ships and cargo ships on the Grand Canal has increased sharply, and the towns on both sides of the canal have not been greatly affected, but there are signs of more prosperity.
In such a situation, some courtiers who originally clamored that the canal would be completely ruined and that hundreds of people on both sides of the river would suffer had nothing to say.
However, with the clear statement that the future canal maintenance money will be raised by the local government itself, and the imperial court will no longer pay for it, the government offices along the canal are shrouded in a thick haze.
Once there is a problem in the canal, it will affect the entire government along the canal, and no one wants to lose their money bags, and even have to pay the painful price of losing their official position and resigning.
The Yamen, the governor of Caoyun, who was originally extremely beautiful, also fell rapidly in a short period of time.
Most of the nearly 100,000 Caoding under the control of the previous Caoyun Governor Yamen have been transferred to local garrisons, as well as the guardian force of seaside cities that have gradually prospered with the development of maritime transportation.
Without this paramilitary force, the Yamen, the governor of Caoyun, suddenly became a toothless tiger, allowing it to be rounded and flattened today.
From the original command and dispatch, coordination, and a powerful department with armed forces, it suddenly became a coordination department.
As for the dispatch and command of Caoliang, it has been transferred to the household department and the yamen of the governors of various provinces, and it has nothing to do with the Caoyun yamen, at most it is just an assistance.
I heard that some powerful people who relied on Caoyun Yamen to suck blood were bitter about this, and hated Zhen Yingjia, the guy who took the lead in shipping, to the core.
As for the initiators, they don't have the courage to fight now, so they can only find a soft persimmon to vent ......
It is estimated that this is also the main reason why Zhen Yingjia feels that his safety is not guaranteed and wants to run away, he is not sure that he will push him out today and use it as a scapegoat to appease some powerful people?
Not to mention the gossip, at this time, on the deck of the official ship, Lin Ruhai and Jia Cong, the two sons-in-law, stood together, talking quietly while enjoying the scenery along the way.
"You kid entered Beijing this time, but you have to be careful to be ruthless to you today!"
Lin Ruhai said worriedly: "After all, Prince Zhongshun's ambition that he shouldn't have was lured out by your kid, who knows if he will take you under the knife today!" ”
"No, Prince Zhongshun will not be the first to agree!"
Jia Cong's expression was calm, and he said leisurely: "He is also worried that he will regret it today, and he will definitely not allow such a situation to occur, doesn't it stir up contradictions within the royal family?" ”
This time in Beijing, Lin Ruhai is debriefing.
After more than three years of governor Huaiyang, the entire Huaiyang realm has undergone earth-shaking changes, at least it has been greatly improved.
Lin Ruhai himself has a square and decent character, and he has skills, he is quite familiar with the officialdom, and can easily control the Huaiyang officialdom.
In fact, a place like Huaiyang can be described as a cultural gathering and an economically developed economy, as long as the government interferes less and tosses less, it will naturally develop very well.
With the help of Jia Cong, he spent a lot of effort to build roads and bridges, suppress the bad atmosphere in Huaiyang, and strive to improve productivity and production efficiency.
It was Jia Cong who came up with some relatively elaborate, but very simple mechanical instruments, all of which were made according to some scientific theories of modern society and the mechanism techniques of the main world.
For example, water-powered spinning wheels, water-powered looms, water-powered mills and other water-powered machinery and appliances have formed large-scale and standardized manufacturing.
There are also farmland water conservancy, as well as a three-dimensional ecological development model, Jia Cong has deliberately tried with the help of Lin Ruhai, and has achieved good results.
I have to say that Jia Cong's previous "Best Farm" played a big role.
Inside, there are all kinds of easy-to-understand knowledge of mechanical techniques, and there are some simple manufacturing methods of mechanical equipment, as long as you don't have a problem with your brain, you can basically create some of these mechanical equipment.
In addition, the construction mode of farmland water conservancy projects, as well as the increase of farmland yield, as well as the maintenance and output mode of the three-dimensional ecosphere, are all described in detail and vividly.
As long as you read this book carefully, you can basically become an agricultural expert in this era.
It is also for this reason that Jia Cong's reputation is definitely not small in the Huaiyang countryside, and it is even more famous in the industrial, commercial and agricultural groups.
The level of industry and commerce in Huaiyang, as well as agricultural output, have been significantly improved.
Doing this only enhances Huaiyang's economic strength, and to be honest, it only benefits the landlords and businessmen, and there is no obvious benefit for ordinary people, unless they are yeoman farmers.
But in the Huaiyang area, where land annexation is serious, how many yeoman farmers are there?
So, he instigated Lin Ruhai and did something that offended the low-level officials quite - set up a grain station!
When it was time to collect taxes, at the instigation of Jia Cong, Lin Ruhai would recruit students from the government academy in the name of practice, as well as some students from the academy who took the initiative to cooperate, and scattered them to the towns and villages below the county seat in Huaiyang, and directly set up grain stations to receive tax grain.
At the same time, a large number of merchants who went to the villages and townships were organized by the government to train intensively, and immediately spread throughout the Huaiyang villages, preaching the benefits of taking the initiative to pay grain at the grain station, and encouraging the villagers to take the initiative to go to the grain station to avoid losses.
For a time, the entire Huaiyang countryside was shaken......
Don't underestimate the small measure of setting up a grain station, but it can help the villagers avoid being exploited by tax collectors and village heads.
After most of the villagers understood the pros and cons, they took the initiative to go to the grain station to pay taxes and grains, saving the need for the government officials and village tyrants to continue to exploit them, and their families quickly had surplus grain and surplus money in their hands.
As for those villagers who want to take advantage and are unwilling to take the initiative to pay grain at the grain station, then the tax collectors with red eyes will take the initiative to come to the door to collect the payment.
Due to the supervision of government students around them, these tax collectors did not dare to trouble the rest of the villagers who took the initiative to go to the grain station to pay taxes, so they had to find dishonest guys to slaughter them.
And these guys who don't want to take the initiative to pay taxes are basically at the level of local tyrants in the village, and in the past, their taxes and grains were apportioned by the entire village or the entire clan.
But this time, the government played the trick of the grain station, which basically put an end to the excuse for these rural tyrants to fool the villagers or clansmen to pay for them.
As a result, the original gang had a very good relationship with the tax collectors at the bottom of the government, and the rural tyrants who had long colluded together had bad luck.
There is no way to take oil and water from the vast number of village farmers, so you can only be sorry for these friends in the past, and as a result, there is a lot of chaos, and even a few lives have been lost.
Some village-level tyrants are indeed stingy, and would rather give up their lives than take out a grain of grain.
There's nothing to say, you can only blame yourself for being rectified, and even if you die, the government won't pay attention to it.
It is also because of this that after the turmoil of the first year, in the second two years, there was even a scene of 'great governance' in the entire Huaiyang.
There is no way, that is, the poorest villagers have surplus food and surplus wealth in their hands, and Jia Cong secretly supports the expansion plan of Mongolian education, so that the rural children at the bottom of Huaiyang have such ideas.
Life is better, you can still read and write, and even learn a craft, as long as you are not really lazy to get home, it is not a problem to basically mix food and clothing, and the appearance of the whole society will not improve dramatically.
It can be said that in addition to some stumbles in the first year of his tenure, in the last two years, the entire Huaiyang is a prosperous scene.
Whether it is the upper class magnates or the bottom commoners, they have all received a lot of benefits, and they naturally praise Lin Ruhai, the governor.
In such a situation, it is even a little inappropriate to evaluate Lin Ruhai with ordinary officialdom evaluation.
If he is allowed to sit on the previous governor of Huaiyang, with Lin Ruhai's achievements, he may be able to form a vast momentum, directly promote him to enter the cabinet, and also occupy a very prominent position.
Whether it is today or the cabinet bosses, it is obvious that Lin Ruhai does not have the idea of rising quickly and becoming the top boss of the Daqing Dynasty.
There is no way, then Lin Ruhai can only be transferred away from Huaiyang, as for the follow-up arrangements, there is no rumor yet, obviously both today and the cabinet bosses have a headache.
If a person with remarkable political achievements like Lin Ruhai cannot be properly resettled, the prestige of the imperial court will be greatly affected, which is absolutely unacceptable to the cabinet leaders today......