Thoughtfully, he returned to his public house calmly.

His public house was very simple, with only a table and a chair, and on the wall were a few ink treasures, most of which were left from the past.

Zhou Wei himself was a simple man, he sat in the public room, muttered for a long time, and then called an errand officer.

This errand officer is not a thoughtful henchman, but at this time, Zhou Zhi's eyes are staring at this errand officer, holding the pen in his hand, and the pen is tapping on the bookcase, for a long time, he said lightly: "Some news, please pass it on to General Zhou, be sure to deliver it within half an hour, ...... in Nanjing."

After explaining one by one, Zhou Zhichang breathed a long sigh of relief, and it seemed that the whole person was relaxed, and he couldn't say that he had any guilt in his heart, but once the guilty things were done, those so-called discipline were no longer important.

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Within a stick of incense, an latest piece of news reached Zhou Tai's desk.

Zhou Tai took a sip of tea, his face was very flat, he was used to seeing big scenes, and he obviously didn't care about this little thing.

It's just that Governor Fang finally made a move, which made him feel comfortable, he has been waiting for so long, you are waiting for you, you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves, it is not terrible for thieves to come, it is terrible that there is a time bomb buried next to him, and now, this bomb is finally going to move.

Zhou Tai had made a lot of preparations before this, and after a short time, many people came to the door, up to the Yamen of the Political Envoy Division, down to the chief official of Hangzhou Prefecture and County, and then to the factory guard and the new army, everyone gathered together.

Everyone was silent, and after looking at the briefing distributed by Zhou Tai's order, the faces of these people suddenly became cold.

Zhou Tai was silent for a while, and said slowly: "So far, the old man doesn't say much. The news has already spread to Nanjing, and the matter of Nanjing has been handled by Lord Futai, but the matter of Zhejiang, I am afraid that we will not be able to handle it. ”

This is a big truth, the matter of Nanjing, they can't reach it, at most, it is to remind Xu Qian. But Zhejiang's business. Will they still be able to take the governor?

Among the people here, the biggest black gauze hat is just Zhao Ming, the political envoy, and it seems that he has a lot of power. It is also half of the feudal officials, but since the Zhengde year, the power of the political envoy has been continuously compressed, not only subservient to the governor, but as for the governor, it is even more different than 108,000 miles.

Xu Qian can pit the governor, and everyone relies on Xu Futai's momentum. Maybe the other governor turned a blind eye, but this does not mean that they can kill the governor, and even have the ability to argue with the governor of Fang. are very lacking.

Zhou Tai continued: "However, since the governor of this side has already made a move, and Futai beats people happen to be staying in Zhejiang, he can't care about this side for a while. So...... I'll have to make some preparations in advance. ”

Let's talk about it. Zhou Tai smiled at Zhao Ming and said, "This kind of thing has to be arranged by Lord Zhao." ”

Zhao Ming coughed, nodded his head, and then said: "Everyone, General Zhou just said, work together, this is not bad, in fact, the Governor is almost in the hands of General Zhou, and I, since we are temporarily in order, Hangzhou Mansion, how to do it, as for the new army, we must be a little vigilant, if there is anything ordered by the Governor Yamen, don't pay attention to it." I have to send someone to Mingbao to make some articles, as for how to do this article......" Zhao Ming said lightly: "It's up to Mr. Wang." ”

Zhao Ming said that, smiled slightly, and said: "All in all, everyone is pretending to be confused now, and we have to prevent Governor Fang from jumping over the wall in a hurry, and when Futai comes back, we will deal with it together." ”

The crowd nodded and dispersed.

It's just that this Zhao Ming, his face was gloomy, and he discussed with Zhou Tai in private, and said: "This surnamed Fang will definitely make trouble, you must always pay attention to his actions, don't let him take advantage of any loopholes, as long as you and I don't make mistakes, he won't be able to do anything, General Zhou has to keep an eye on it, something went wrong......"

Zhou Tai hurriedly continued: "Don't worry, I know the severity, but I am an adult, I have to be busy with the new deal on the one hand, and I have to worry about this matter on the other hand, but it is ......"

Zhao Ming smiled slightly, as a political envoy, he was proud of the spring breeze during this time, and the official grain was escorted up, which not only made Xu Qian in Beijing from passive to active, on the other hand, Xu Qian also relied more on Zhao Ming, although the official grain matter, although Xu Qian was operating behind the scenes, but the real person in charge was Zhao Ming, taking the idea is taking the idea, but the implementation is also extremely important, Xu Futai handed over a beautiful report card to the imperial court, and he Zhao Ming also handed over a beautiful report card to Xu Futai.

Now, Zhao Ming, the political envoy, has gradually become one of the cadres of the new policy, that is, in the imperial court, he also has some influence, if the new policy is rolled out in the future, the time for him Zhao Ming to rise to the top will come.

"This matter, this is okay. After all, the difficulty is temporary, as long as Futai returns to Hangzhou, it will be easy to say. ”

Zhou Tai glanced at Zhao Ming, and suddenly said: "My lord, in fact, the last general has an idea, since this party is determined to get along with us, it is better to simply do it, and now do it and set a trap......

Zhao Ming was a particularly cautious person, and hurriedly shook his head and said, "No need, I'll wait for Xu Futai to come back." ”

Zhou Tai nodded silently and did not persuade again.

Zhejiang fell into calm again, and the implementation of the new policy naturally staggered in the right direction.

The Zhejiang officials who have tasted the sweetness no longer need to be supervised and guided by the governor's yamen, and have consciously begun to formulate various so-called engineering plans, and they have all submitted them to the political envoys, and their only purpose is actually to ask for money like the Money and Grain Bureau.

Silver is fundamental, with silver, in order to continue to widen some branch of the river, build roads, only in this way, businessmen are willing to flock in, even in Chun'an County is the most exaggerated, one breath is to rebuild more than 30 stone bridges, and then widen and clean up more than 400 miles of the river, the reason is that the original stone bridge, erected on the river, greatly limited the cargo capacity of cargo ships, therefore, must build a higher stone bridge, in order to ensure the passage of the river, in addition, there are rivers, roads, total, He actually asked for 630,000 taels of silver from the Grain Bureau.

The officials on the side of the political envoy almost didn't spurt out a mouthful of old blood, these people really dare to ask for 600,000 taels of silver, this is just a county, the county order of Chun'an County, I think it's crazy, you know, the annual income of the treasury is only three or four million taels of silver a year, even if the Money and Grain Bureau is now rich, it will never be extravagant to this point.

It's just that in the past, it was the Money and Grain Bureau and the Governor's Yamen who urged all prefectures and counties to widen rivers and build roads, and at that time, all prefectures and counties were resistant, and everyone felt that this was a waste of silver, a toss, and this kind of bold attempt was a bold attempt for all prefectures and counties, and if it wasn't for Xu Futai's implementation of the new policy, even if the silver was sent to the door, people might not have this motivation.

But now, although it is overkill, but at least everyone's thinking has been completely reversed, although the construction project is under the management of the Money and Grain Bureau, and they can't handle a penny of silver, and there is no possibility of greedy ink, but everyone knows that this is a good thing, not only has political achievements, attracts businessmen to come in, but also gets a lot of benefits, why not?

And this Chun'an County Order, most of the previous life was a profiteer with broken wings, and he was well versed in the truth of asking for money to repay the money, and he was completely a profiteer, which made people feel very dazzling.

As soon as the officials of the various prefectures and counties inquired, they reported only a project of more than 100,000 or 200,000 yuan, but they were more than 600,000 yuan, and they secretly beat their chests and stumbled, only blaming themselves for being too kind, and striving to report 81 million yuan next year, and the money and grain bureau here, after a chopping, three times five divided by two, finally cut the number of Chun'an, cut off seventy percent, but Chun'an County also seemed to feel satisfied, but did not make trouble.

While the whole society is quietly changing, people's life patterns are also quietly changing, and the same is true of this officialdom, many things in the past, everyone suddenly found that they are no longer applicable, so some new officialdom rules are quietly forming, therefore, there are also absurd and uninhibited phenomena that make people spray rice, and these phenomena are obviously just the beginning.

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Nanjing City.

Before the hour came, everyone got up early.

It's a big day, and the do-gooders get up early and still talk about the new topics that haven't been in recession lately.

"I heard that today's Mao, Wang Butang and Xu Futai are going to sacrifice Kong, in addition, there are also officials from the Ministry of Rites and various ya, we have to go earlier, occupy a good position in the Confucius Temple, go late, when the time is overcrowded, even if you want to go to see the excitement, it's too late."

"It is said that this is the first time that Wang Butang and Xu Futai have publicly sacrificed to the Confucius Temple, but I don't know what this sacrifice is."

"What can be so strange about the sacrificial text? I think it's similar to the others, the biggest attraction is the sacrifice of the master, but the sacrifice of the master, this Zhu master's sacrifice, but I don't know how to write, the Ministry of Rites must have prepared, I don't know, Wang Xu two adults, willing to use the Ministry of Rites' sacrificial text, if it is used, those old scholars, will inevitably have to make sarcasm, but if you don't use it, do you want the rules of this court? Ay...... This matter is probably very tricky, if I am Xu Futai, why bother to make a fuss. ”

"What do you know? If you don't go, it won't work, the old school criticized us Wang Xue, which time didn't use this to make a fuss, saying that we deviated from the norm, if we don't go, just give people a handle, so it's okay, sooner or later we have to go, just be above board. ”

This kind of discussion and controversy has long been not new, and the Confucius Temple here has long been overcrowded at this time, this early in the morning, it is actually blocking a few streets, everyone is looking forward to it, looking at the end of the street, with a little excitement of good deeds, and inevitably a little worried.