Xu Qian's motto is to seek his own government in his position, eating pickles and radishes is not necessary to worry about the temple's heart, but now as the governor of Zhejiang, he has a lot of heart to worry about.

Seeing the end of the year, officials from all over the country have arrived one after another.

The idea of the Governor's Yamen was to invite everyone to see the effectiveness of the new policy, but everyone was thinking in their hearts that eighty percent of the new governor was going to show off his official authority.

However, the new governor of Zhizhejiang is really not easy to mess with, compared to the previous Fang Xianfu, Xu Qian is obviously much stronger, and the deterrent power is much greater, and many rumors related to him make people shudder.

No matter what everyone thinks, people are here anyway, there are more than a hundred people, Xu Qian did not rush to summon them, but asked the new prefect of Hangzhou Mansion to entertain them.

Since Zhao Ming was promoted to governor, Wang Governor's Mansion became Wang Buzheng, the new Hangzhou Governor also hurriedly arrived, he was Lang Zhong of Nanjing's household department, and now transferred to the prefect, when he was in Nanjing's household department, he opposed the new policy with great fanfare, and now, when he saw that the shape was wrong, he immediately supported the new policy, since taking office, he personally visited many workshops, convened subordinate officials to study the gains and losses of the new policy, no matter where he went, he always had to put such a bright newspaper in the sedan chair.

People are like this, seeing the wind makes the rudder see a lot of people, Xu Qian doesn't think it's wrong, this Governor Zhang, a single name and a business word, now also knows that the arrival of hundreds of officials in Hangzhou is a matter of concern to the Governor, so he has worked very hard, since the Governor is not in a hurry to convene everyone to speak, then according to the process, it is time to take everyone around and have a look.

Hangzhou is close to a huge dock on the shore of West Lake, and has welcomed dozens or hundreds of officials.

The leader is Zhang Ye, the sedan chair stopped outside the workshop, many people got off the sedan chair with great interest, Zhang Ye greeted everyone: "Everyone, everyone...... This is the Dockyard, please ......"

The owner of the dockyard had already received the news in advance, and hurriedly said, "Your Excellency has come from afar, and I am glad to meet you." ”

The proprietor was obviously a man of some knowledge of the world, but he was not too condescending and led a group of adults into the dock.

The dock covers a huge area, hundreds of acres, many buildings are connected, countless timbers are transported by trucks, and after loading and unloading, there are people who divide labor to cut and then send them to various places for processing.

At first glance, these officials from other places only thought that the dock was large enough, and that there were thousands of craftsmen and apprentices busy in it.

The scale of thousands of people, which is enough for the current Ming Dynasty, is enough to make people feel shocked, and this is still a visible number of people, and the actual number of apprentices is only afraid of more than two thousand.

Zhang Ye took his hand and introduced with a smile: "This Futai dock is the second largest dock in Hangzhou, and the main production is the cargo ships and passenger ships running on the inland river, there are more than 70 docks in Hangzhou, and the scale of this Futai shipyard is not small, occupying the top three, recruiting craftsmen and apprentices There are 2,400 people, producing more than 2,500 ships every year, and the income is about 80,000 taels of silver in a year, and the net profit is more than 20,000. ”

When they heard that they had earned 80,000 yuan a year, many people gasped.

These officials are very incomprehensible to such a huge amount, you must know that a high-class government may not have 80,000 yuan of gold and silver a year, otherwise how can the annual income of the imperial court only be 3 million a year.

And a shipyard has so much net profit every year?

This is incomprehensible to many people, because many people are still in a period when they are still in a period where they ask for money in order to raise one or two thousand taels of silver, and after raising enough money, they begin to repair the county school and the government school, and then go around boasting about their political achievements.

Although many people's net worth is not expensive, but this is everyone trying their best to save it, pick a little here, collect a little there, and it is good to say that when you meet a superior prefecture and county, you can say that you have thousands of taels of silver in a term, but if you encounter a poor countryside, I am afraid that even this bit of silver is a luxury.

Just a workshop, a shipbuilder, or just one of the dozens, just making money like this?

Many people were shocked, and when they looked at this busy scene, they really didn't know what expression to use to face it.

Could it be that this Hangzhou is full of gold?

The proprietor of the boat said with a smile: "Where, where, the old man is just doing a small business, and the adults praise it too much." ”

Although there was an element of modesty in his words, it was enough to make many officials kill him with their eyes.

What kind of world is this, let's study hard, and finally survived an official, and you are not a small businessman.

Zhang Ye immediately took everyone to the dock for a turn, many affairs, are breathtaking, such as the processing of logs, I don't know what kind of equipment is used, hanging with pulleys, on top is a huge guillotine, the craftsmen put it, a log will be cut into two sections.

In fact, the people of later generations have a little misunderstanding about the scholars of the Ming Dynasty, and always think that the scholars reject machinery, in fact, this is wrong, KitKat and obscenity, although it has existed in ancient times, but the general officials are more tolerant of this kind of thing, and even in Jiangnan, there are many scholars who specialize in miscellaneous studies, such as Song Yingxing, who writes about heavenly works, Cheng Dawei, who studies the algorithm of the sect, and Xu Guangqi, Ma Yilong, Xu Xia, etc.!

These people were not ridiculed for their study of miscellaneous studies, but after the death of the Ming Dynasty, they became the mainstream of the book by ordering them to have no distractions.

In fact, most of these officials just looked at the lot, and when they saw this huge guillotine, they were amazed one by one, and began to talk in a low voice with great interest.

What's new here is really beyond many people's expectations.

Immediately afterwards, everyone followed Zhang Ye with great interest to see the silk spinning, garment workshop, dyeing workshop, Zhang Ye naturally introduced to them: "Hangzhou here, the recent rise is mainly docks and garments, the real silk workshop, Ningbo is the largest scale, in Ningbo's Liu Ji workshop, recruited more than 7,000 apprentices, more than 200,000 silver transactions per year, a year's profit, there are 40,000 or 50,000. ”

These officials, only then did they realize that they had become hillbillies, buying and selling more than 200,000 taels of silver a year, what kind of concept is this, this is a percentage of the imperial court's income.

"Okay, let's go to Hangzhou Ruyi Fang to have a look."

led everyone to Ruyi Fang, Ruyi Fang businessman Jia Ruyun, Zhang Ye said: "There is a pot of tea here, how much silver do you think?" ”

Many people are confused, a pot of tea, only heard of how much money is used to calculate, never heard of the use of silver as a price.

Zhang Ye smiled and said: "It's not much, it's just two taels of silver." ”

This is really bluffing everyone, two taels of silver, if they are not greedy or occupied, they will work hard for the court all year round, and it will not be enough to eat a few pots.

The prefect of Zhangzhou, Fujian couldn't help but say: "What kind of tea is it?" ”

Zhang Ye smiled mysteriously, shook his head and said, "It's ordinary tea, the kind that has a pot on the tea stall." Ladies and gentlemen, this is buying and selling, it is business, you look at the dockyard, what do you make money from? It depends on the fact that everyone needs ships to transport goods, so many merchants, no matter how much the price, come from hundreds of miles to order, and there are many shipping lines, specializing in soliciting passengers and pulling goods, and at least hundreds of ships must be ordered every year, the same is true for this Ruyi Fang, merchants want to come here to talk about business, it is inevitable to drink tea, how much is the value of this tea, naturally Ruyifang has the final say, but what about the merchants, all of them are full of money, will they care about this tea money? ”

Everyone listened suddenly, and then many people laughed bitterly.

Zhang Ye said: "Hangzhou Ruyi Fang is newly opened, here this month's transaction volume is only 3.7 million taels of silver, Hangzhou Ruyi Fang from the commission, this month is only 200,000 taels of silver, compared to Ningbo and Jingshi's Ruyi Fang is much inferior, Jingshi's side, a year's transaction volume can reach as much as 100 million." ”

Many people can't accept it at once, more than 100 million taels of silver, my mother, this is too incredible.

That night, everyone arranged to stay at an inn.

Although it is an inn, but the scale is not small, after the accumulation of capital of many merchants, coupled with the increase of merchants, the scale of the inn in Hangzhou City is becoming more and more grand, and the decoration is becoming more and more luxurious, Hangzhou Yamen specially chartered this inn, sent soldiers to guard, all the adults, naturally also stayed here, at the beginning, some people could not help but slander, it was an official body, not sent to the post station hospitality, but the guest house, the face was a little unbearable, but really entered the inn, a stomach of complaints immediately turned into nothing, I have to say, This inn is much more comfortable than in my own yamen.

In the evening, everyone gathered in groups and talked about each other.

One of them seemed to have some secret, so he naturally whispered to someone: "Do you know, where is the mansion of Hao Zheng, the same knowledge of Hangzhou?" ”

"Why, he is a local official, and he also has a mansion in Hangzhou." These people are people who are familiar with the inside story, and officials who take office in a certain place will have to be transferred to another place sooner or later, so even if there is silver, it is sent back to the township, building a house, buying acres of land, where is there a reason to buy a house in a guest place.

"People have silver, naturally you can buy it anywhere, you remember when we came back, what Yongchun Fang passed by, there are all new houses, one of them is a house, I heard the accompanying errand officer identify, said that this is a courtyard in Hangzhou Tongzhi, covering an area is really not small, and it is in such a lot as the provincial capital, it is said that it is at least seven or eight thousand taels of silver."

"So much, he knows everything, where did he get so much money, this guy is too ruthless to scrape the ground.

"What do you know, I heard the errand say, people don't scrape the ground, but it is said that he has a few relatives, one has built a boat shop, and the other is specialized in timber business, you think about it, Tongzhi Adult's relatives sell timber, which ship shop does not sell face, it is said that the relative's timber is sold at the same price as other people's timber, but even so, it still makes a lot of money, Hangzhou alone, now the timber required in a month, is as high as hundreds of thousands of materials, his family casually gets a piece of the pie, this ten thousand family wealth, Isn't it easy? (To be continued.) The latest chapter of the peerless Tang Gate