Chapter 298

In mid-October, Song Nan's purge of the Jinyi Wei Yamen also came to an end, this more than a month of large-scale purge consumed a lot of Song Nan's energy, the accumulation of shortcomings in the yamen for too long, many things can not be achieved overnight, although even the fierce medicine, with the momentum of thunder to carry out rectification, but Song Nan understands, the negative effect is not small.

As the emperor's eyes and ears, the wind and rumors take people, and the privileges of doing things, all these special powers will make the people in the Jinyi Wei breed a sense of superiority that ignores the rules, and the resulting evils such as revenge and corruption are rooted in the minds of officials of all sizes in the Jinyi Guard, and are also reflected in their behavior.

Although this purge has dug out the eyes and ears of more than a thousand other yamen, and also punished many officials who act recklessly, Song Nan can obviously feel the dissatisfaction with himself pervading the yamen, Song Nan actually does not plan to turn the Jinyi Wei Yamen into a yamen as clear as water and as bright as a mirror, it is the yamen of tigers and wolves, if all of them become sheep and white rabbits, then this yamen is also wasted.

The purpose of Song Nan's rectification is actually very simple, one is to establish his own team of cronies, so that the Jinyi Wei Yamen can truly be called his own strength like an arm, and the other is to eliminate the other forces that have penetrated into the Yamen, so that the Jinyi Wei Yamen will become an iron bucket, and no one will want to do anything wrong on their own territory except themselves.

In view of this, Song Nan decided to end this cleanup, the goal was basically achieved, and it was time to calm people's hearts. The vacant vacancies of officials began to be filled by middle and low-level officials, and all those who had meritorious achievements in ordinary flag schools were also promoted to small leaders, and for the middle-level and above Jinyi Wei backbones with hundreds of households as a unit, Song Nan specially set aside time to summon them to Beijing to meet, appease their frightened birds, and at the same time give them some necessary commendations and rewards, and explain to them the necessity of this rectification.

Of course, in order to consolidate the results of the purge, Song Nan decided to set up a new internal department under the general office-inspection team. This is a department dedicated to the management of Jinyiwei's internal personnel, from the inspection and screening of new personnel and the evaluation of the behavior of personnel at all levels are controlled by the inspection team, but for official affairs are not allowed to interfere, similar to the inspectors of the police department in later generations, the purpose of this move is self-evident.

The captain of the inspection team is served by Li Daniu, Li Daniu is at the level of 100 households, and more than 100 people are selected to be under him to become the inspector flag school of the inspection team. For Li Daniu, it is a suitable position, beside Song Nan, Li Daniu is an absolute confidant, but due to the limitation of ability, Song Nan cannot let him serve as the official of an important department, this position can be described as tailor-made.

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The weather is gradually getting cooler, in the golden autumn season, the blue sky is high, and the big autumn chrysanthemum in the back garden of the Song Mansion is also opened, and the whole Song Mansion is filled with a rich fragrance.

October 16 is Lu Qingli's birthday, Song Nan specially took a day off and set wine in the chrysanthemums in the backyard to celebrate Lu Qingli's eighteenth birthday. As the first woman with an official name in the Song family, Lu Qingli's status in the Song Mansion is naturally not low, coupled with her simple and lovely, and tolerant, the Song Mansion has a good impression of Lu Qingli, and the servants and servants in the family are also the closest to Lu Qingli.

The director's table was full of snacks and fruits, and early in the morning, the whole house was busy, and Lu Qingli was dressed like a doll, sitting on the chairman to accept everyone's congratulations. The little county lord and Lu Qingli have the best relationship, and the gifts they give are also the most precious, in addition to the tribute rouge gouache rewarded by the palace, the little county lord also gave Lu Qingli a pigeon-egg-sized Nanyang bead ring, this pearl is worth five or six thousand taels of silver, and the people are so shocked that they can't keep their mouths together.

Song Nan's gift to the little county lord was a jeweled shotgun musket, which had been named 'Lady Song Musket', and after returning from the inspection, Song Nan had already obtained Zhengde's approval and asked the Arsenal Department of the Ministry of War to improve the manufacture of his own double-barreled shotgun musket. But Song Nan's offer was four hundred taels of silver to make a shotgun firearm, which immediately made the military department dumbfounded, this thing is so expensive, how can it be equipped in batches? Therefore, although there is a holy decree, the military department has always regarded this matter as a joke, and secretly suspected that Song Nan was playing something in it.

Moreover, only those who have experienced the perseverance of Xinping Fort know the power of this thing, and Song Nan did not hand over the drawings and artifacts to the Arsenal Department of the Ministry of War for study, so they naturally did not know the power of this thing at all.

The reason why Song Nan asked Zhengde to make an order to make it was actually because he was afraid of being accused of making private firearms, and after the name of the decree, the Ministry of War didn't care if it was made or not, even if the Ministry of War was really willing to spend a few hundred taels of silver to cast this gun, Song Nan would never tell the Ministry of War all the secrets, for Song Nan, this was also one of his secret weapons, unless it was a last resort, Song Nan would never agree to share.

On this day's birthday banquet from morning to evening, everyone drank a lot of wine, and the little county lord finally couldn't support it, although he had a marriage contract with Song Nan, he was much more self-disciplined, and as soon as it was dark, he was surrounded by the palace guards and went back.

Song Nan was drunk and leaned on the recliner and sprayed wine, Lu Qingli was tired of falling asleep in his arms, Ye Fanggu was not as casual and crazy as them, she drank the least alcohol, and she was the most sober at the moment, sitting aside to take care of the two.

"Look at you, what are you drinking, Ping'er and the little sister of the Li family are vomiting, Aunt Li is reprimanding them at this time, Qingli has never drunk so much wine, and you also took the lead in pouring her wine, this girl is crazy about drinking and singing and dancing with swords, it's really crazy." Ye Fanggu wiped Song Nan's face with a towel and said angrily.

Song Nan didn't open his eyes, reached out and touched Ye Fanggu's face and pinched it, Ye Fanggu waved it away and said, "You are also going to be drunk, go into the house and sleep, it's very cold outside." ”

Song Nan patted Lu Qingli, who was drunk like a kitten in his arms, and said: "It's rare that Qingli is so happy today, don't scold her when she wakes up, you can work hard to carry Qingli back to the room, I still want to lie here for a while, I'm really happy today." ”

Ye Fanggu bit her lower lip and said softly: "The slave family knows that you have been very busy during this time, and I am afraid that the outside affairs are enough to worry about, but the slave family still has to talk to you about the affairs of the family, and I don't have a chance to talk to you." ”

Song Nan smiled and patted an empty thigh and said, "Sit here and say." ”

Ye Fanggu took a sip and said, "Don't go crazy." ”

Song Nan smiled: "You say it, I'll listen to it." ”

Ye Fanggu said: "At the beginning of the month, Wan Dabao, the steward of the manor outside the south gate, and a few tenant farmers came once, and you were not at home, so the slave family and Uncle Zhong received them and left them for a meal. ”

Song Nan nodded and said, "How is this year's harvest?" ”

Ye Fanggu said with a smile: "I didn't expect your method to really work, this year's harvest is very good, one acre of land has eight buckets of rice more than in previous years, in addition, the fish fry we sent are also fattened in the paddy fields, and the fish that grow up eating rice flowers taste very good, they sent more than 100 catties to our house to try it, and this item also collected more than two taels of silver per acre; And the steward said that he would pay half of it as rent. ”

Song Nan said: "Then you can't ask for it, let's just collect the rent, don't ask them for the money from the sale of this fish, you accept it?" ”

Ye Fanggu glanced at him and said, "How can the slave family want it?" I only received a few baskets of fish to try it, and the plate I ate today was, and it tasted really good. ”

Song Nan nodded and said, "No wonder I think the fish are delicious today, and they are about to catch up with the big carp of the Yellow River that I like; It's good that they can be fed and clothed, and we'll visit another day. ”

Ye Fanggu nodded yes, and continued: "The business of the first-grade duck shop has not been very good recently, and there are many shops on the street, although it is not an authentic first-grade duck, but the taste seems to be not much worse; Now the total income of the six shops per month has dropped to 1,200 taels, which is as much as 40% lower than the year we first opened; The cost of the house is also large, and last month the dowry to the Guogong Mansion alone cost 18,000 taels. The slave family has long wanted to tell you about it, now we are a big family, and we are scary everywhere, and we always have to be careful in our calculations, and we will be embarrassed if we continue to be so extravagant. ”

Song Nan frowned and said: "This is a thing, I knew that the road shop would go downhill sooner or later, but I didn't expect it to come so quickly, last year I thought about Zhang Luo some new industries, there have been many things in the past half a year, but I forgot about these things; In short, I mean that open source is serious, and it is useless to be frugal without new financial routes, I have written this down, and I will find a way. ”

Ye Fanggu said: "At the end of the year, you will spend a lot of money on your wedding, in the past few months, I have to make Uncle Zhong have a good preparation, the money and silver must be tighter, the little county lord naturally can't be shabby when he marries, but he is the county lord of the Guogong Mansion, don't let people see jokes." ”

Song Nan smiled, stretched out his hand and took Ye Fanggu's hand and squeezed it: "Sister Fanggu looks like a housekeeper now, hey, I have wronged my sister." ”