Lin Ruhai arranged a new identity for Hua Chong and let him live in the courtyard behind the yamen. Since then, Hua Chong is no longer the shopkeeper of the silk village that was hunted down, but the master of Lin Ruhai, the governor of Suzhou.

At this time, Lin Ruhai had successfully taken over all the affairs of the Suzhou Zhizhou Yamen. With the help of a master who has been a shopkeeper for more than ten years, Lin Ruhai quickly checked all the accounts in his previous office. The previous governor, named Qian Zhengqin, was also a native of Suzhou. Although he embezzled a lot of silver, he was also a smart man, and when he learned that he had been dismissed, he quickly made up for it. I am afraid that I will not be able to keep my official position and lose the lives of my whole family.

The first thing Lin Ruhai did was to solve a very serious problem in Suzhou. There are many silk villages in Suzhou, and there must be a lot of silk merchants, but these silk merchants only have very few fields under their names, so where do they grow mulberry and silkworms? Are so many of Suzhou's fields terra nullius? Lin Ruhai has memories of his previous life, and of course he knows what is wrong with it. It turned out that in order to reduce the tax and silver paid by these silk merchants, their own fields did not go to the yamen to apply for red deeds, of course, they had to hand over a sum of silver to the yamen, but this silver was much less than the tax silver paid every year. But in the account books that Lin Ruhai obtained, there was no record of this money, so it was impossible to see where so much silver had gone.

Lin Ruhai just took office, and he didn't want to fall out with the same acquaintances and general judgments below, in the previous life, he was also young and vigorous, and he was not thoughtful enough, he slapped several people in the face, violated the interests of many people, and made him isolated later, and there was no helper in the entire Jiangnan officialdom. This time, Lin Ruhai had already made arrangements, and he also asked Hua Chong to help him solve this matter, which also meant to try Hua Chong's ability. Of course, Hua Chong understood what Lin Ruhai meant, and he also knew that Lin Ruhai wanted to give himself a chance, on the one hand, to prove his strength, and on the other hand, to take the opportunity to rectify his enemies.

So on this day, Lin Ruhai called Tongzhi Master Zhang and Tongju Xu to come and told them about his series of decisions.

"Two adults, there are a few things to discuss with you today, the first is that our Suzhou has suffered extremely serious floods this time, and many fields have been destroyed. Therefore, the magistrate decided to re-measure the fields, and on the same day he sent people down to the villages and towns. The second thing is that the official found that there are very many borderless lands in Suzhou, and the official decided to manage these borderless lands in a unified manner, and find someone to be responsible for planting mulberry trees and raising silkworms on these borderless lands, so that the imperial court can have an extra share of tax silver, and the annual income will belong to our yamen, except for some necessary expenses and accidents, and the rest will be distributed to everyone according to the rank. What do you two think? ”

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Zhang Tongzhi looked at each other, and couldn't understand what Lin Ruhai's move meant, but he was afraid that the matter would be exposed and cause trouble for himself, so he tried to stop it.

"Lord Lin, the imperial court has a law for measuring the land, and this rash measurement of the land is not in accordance with the law!" Zhang Tong knows.

"Yes, yes! Lord Lin, there is no law in this court that stipulates that the yamen can use the borderless land at will! Xu Tong judged.

"Huh! The two adults didn't know that the official had discussed this matter with the emperor before coming to Suzhou. Emperor - >>