Xi'an City, worthy of being the largest city in the northwest, is really powerful.

Because the Yamen of the Governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, the Yamen of the Governor of Shaanxi, and the Yamen of the General of Xi'an are all concentrated in this city.

The world is so big that only the city of Guangzhou, where the governor of Liangguang is stationed, the governor of Guangdong, and the city of Guangzhou, where the general yamen of Guangzhou is located, can be compared.

Even Jiangning City is a little worse.

There are only the governors of Liangjiang and Jiangning in this city, and the yamen of the governor of Jiangsu is in Suzhou.

However, recently, Yuan Shoutong, the minister of the Han Dynasty, sent a letter to the imperial court, requesting that the Yamen, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, be moved to Lanzhou.

The reason is that the Hui people in Lanzhou often rebelled, and recently there were Hui Huang Guoqi and Wang Fulin in Hezhou, and the old and new religions were restless and self-guarding, which was easy to cause religious chaos.

"If the old and new sects are in chaos, then Lanzhou and Ningxia will be chaotic, and I am afraid that they will be cut off from naturalization and Yin Li, and the lonely scene of the Western Regions in the Tang Dynasty will be reproduced."

Yuan Shoutong's twists and turns were supported by Fu Lehun, the chief military officer in charge, and Fu Zhongtang also believed that it was difficult to bear the needs of large-scale quelling of the rebellion with the strength of Gansu alone, after all, Gansu was called a province, but in fact it was the power of Ningxia, Lanzhou, and Hezhou.

Therefore, after "petitioning" the emperor, the post of governor of Gansu was re-established, and Wang Tingzan, the current political envoy, took over.

At the same time, it was constantly blowing the wind that the yamen of the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu should be moved from Xi'an to Lanzhou, so that Lanzhou would not only become the military and political center of the northwest, but also concentrate resources on the development of Lanzhou and Ningxia, and consolidate the rule of the imperial court there.

This is actually the right thing to do.

Since ancient times, the best way to develop a place is to move the administrative center to this place.

Lanzhou really wants to become the residence of the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, at most twenty years, this place will be able to prosper, I dare not say that it can be compared with Xi'an, at least several times stronger than now.

However, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Leer, resolutely opposed this, because compared with Xi'an, Lanzhou can really be called a bitter cold place, not only not as prosperous as it is, but also as good as the climate.

Therefore, even if the imperial court really wanted to move the governor's yamen to Lanzhou, Leerjin hoped that it would be his successor who had passed, not himself.

But it was inconvenient for him to come forward to oppose it, so he instructed his close comrade-in-arms Bi Yuan, the governor of Shaanxi, to write a letter, and secretly told Wang Tingzan, the governor of Gansu, to quickly suppress Hezhou Hui and suppress the chaos.

In this way, most of the imperial court was not in a hurry to move the governor's yamen.

While he was busy pacifying Hezhou, Governor Le was also vigorously supporting the quelling of the Huguang front.

In addition to transferring more than 10,000 elite soldiers from the Shaanxi and Gansu Green Battalion to Wang Deyong, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, to go to Huguang to suppress bandits, he also undertook a lot of money and food expenses at the front.

Part of it was allocated according to the dispatch of the imperial court, and part of it was at the request of Prince Rui, the presiding officer of the Mutual Aid Association.

This is also one of the contents of the "Supervision and Mutual Protection" treaty.

That is, when one party is in trouble, all parties will help.

Today, the chief presiding officer is begging for money from thieves in Huguang, and you Governor Le actively supports it, and if you have anything to do with Governor Le in the future, the chief presiding officer will definitely lead all his colleagues to treat you with all sincerity.

Great, come here with a watermelon knife to support you for a while!

"Everyone is in a group, and we will help whoever has something! It's useless to play the song, so I use a knife and a gun to talk to the court! ”

The aftermath of the chief host has been separated for several months, and it has always been echoing in the ears of the restraint table.

Don't say it, I think about it during the day, and I think about it at night, just one word - good!

Being able to shine the pectoralis muscles with the court and compete for the right to speak is the lifelong wish of many officials.

In order to implement the concept of "mutual protection between the superintendent and the caregiver", Governor Le immediately began to carry out drastic reforms in the officialdom of Shaanxi and Gansu.

The main content of the reform is to transfer or demote the officials who look strange and obnoxious, and replace them with reliable people who are organized and planned from top to bottom.

Who can be trusted?

Of course, it is a person who is willing to spend money to honor the Governor.

You can't even afford to spend money on the Governor, so why should the Governor believe you?

That's the truth.

After a few months, the Shaanxi and Gansu officialdom was called a miasma.

Eighty percent of the officials told the Governor to take care of it, and the remaining 20 percent basically stood aside.

It's not that there are no officials who want to react to the situation, but the governor and officials at all levels have stuck the post road checkpoint to death.

Even officials with the power of secret music arranged for people to keep an eye on them for 72 hours.

Every once in a while, officials who overstepped their rank and were still visiting were dismissed by the staff of the Governor's Office before the Governor.

Fortunately, the governor is also particular about people, and he showed some affection for these officials who wanted to go to Beijing to accuse him of being black, not to convict others and detain his hats, but to detain him for three or five days and starve him for seven or eight meals.

Come back and ask questions.

Most of the results are honest.

Diao people are safe, Diao officials are also honest, and the officialdom of Shaanxi and Gansu is clear.

The top and bottom are very harmonious.

Especially in Gansu, the officials of the province are only the governor and the horse, and the officialdom is harmonious and looking at the whole country, you can't find a second one!

Of course, this is mainly due to the fact that Wang Kangwang, the former political envoy of Gansu, managed it well.

The Governor's side is just a tree planted by his predecessors, and he sits in the shade.

Time flies quickly, in the blink of an eye, there are only a few days before the New Year.

During this time, the governor was not very idle, and was mainly busy with one thing, that is, he planned to borrow money from the gentry and wealthy families in Shaanxi and Gansu after the New Year.

Why borrow money?

Because it is necessary to develop the local economy, invigorate the market, raise the income level of the people, improve the people's livelihood, and at the same time strengthen the training of the army and improve the combat effectiveness of the army...

How much to borrow?

The upfront loan was five million taels.

This is the data made by the Governor General in combination with the actual situation of the province.

The amount is not much, because Wang Kangwang, who is far away in Zhejiang, said in his letter that as soon as he took office, he began to borrow money from wealthy households, and borrowed more than 9 million taels in less than three months.

Money is not borrowed for nothing, it has interest.

What money do you say the good governor will borrow?

This is the economic mind of Prince Rui, the general director of the Mutual Aid Association.

When I had a casual meal in Beijing a few days ago, Prince Rui had no intention of mentioning to Governor Wang that Zhejiang is a place with good weather and no major disasters, so your old Wang's method of lying about the disaster in Gansu in the past must not be effective, and it is easy to be discovered, so you must find another way to make money.

Lao Wang was right when he thought about it, knowing that Prince Rui had economic acumen, so he humbly asked for advice.

Prince Rui didn't hide it, and drunkenly sold the "Baolong Project" he did in Beijing to Lao Wang in a different packaging way.

To put it bluntly, it was to let Wang Kangwang be cheeky and use various names to borrow money from the local gentry at high interest rates after arriving in Zhejiang.

"You are the governor, representing the imperial court, as long as you borrow, those rich people will not dare not borrow!"

Prince Rui is very sure of this.

"After the money is borrowed, the principal is left, and the interest is given to them every year, don't worry about not paying back the money, as long as you borrow every year, you can repay the interest of the previous person with the loan from the later person every year... As long as our Qing Dynasty does not die, as long as your old king is still the governor of Zhejiang, you will not be afraid of this business. ”

"The prince's words are better than reading a book for ten years!"

Wang Kangwang, who was an official just to make money, regarded this method as a treasure, and began to operate after taking office, and the interest rate promised was terrifying, with a direct annual interest rate of 20 percent.

Since Wang Kangwang was the governor of Zhejiang, the gentry did not dare to offend him, and they were not afraid that the court would not be able to repay the money, so they borrowed a lot of silver.

In less than three months, Wang Jiawang borrowed more than 9 million taels in Zhejiang.

It is equivalent to two years of fiscal revenue in Zhejiang Province.

The scam continues to work.

Lao Wang's final loan amount was 50 million taels, and the minimum was 40 million taels.

There are many rich people in Zhejiang, and I am not afraid that they do not have them.

As Prince Rui said, as long as the Qing Dynasty does not die for one day, as long as he is still the governor of Zhejiang one day, this business can be done until death.

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But Wang Kangwang didn't know that the method that Prince Rui taught him was not good at all.

Because of his way of doing this, it seems that he has made a lot of money without any loss, but the reputation of the Qing Dynasty has been invisibly lost by him.

If he really borrows tens of millions of taels, the interest will be so high that he can't pay it back at all.

In the end, I can't pay it back, what should I do?

If the gentry who borrowed money can't get money from you, Wang Ganwang, they will sprinkle their grievances on the head of the court, which will invisibly make the hearts of the Qing people in Zhejiang lose their hearts.

In fact, Leer also knows that this kind of borrowing method is not good, and it is simply to use the future of the Qing Dynasty as collateral, but the temptation is too great.

Shaanxi and Gansu are not as good as Zhejiang fertilizer, and the province still has 10 million taels of silver borrowed from a circle.

Back then, Wang Jiawang bought him with 3,000 taels, and he was tempted by tens of millions of taels.

So gritting his teeth, he still made the PPT and handed it over to his henchman Bi Yuan, the governor of Shaanxi, to implement.

Master Bi is always from the champion Lang, he is greedy, but he doesn't have the courage to be greedy for tens of millions of taels, and this kind of borrowing money offends the gentry of the whole province, in case of a civil uprising, I am afraid it will not end well.

"Afraid of hanging, support the bold, starve the cowardly!"

Le Zhitai looked greedy, "Don't think too much, let's get the silver first, I really can't let them go with the court." ”

This is the future of officialdom.

Governor Bi looked worried: "Can the imperial court admit this account?" ”

"If the court doesn't recognize this account, we won't recognize the court... Whoever is willing to pay us back this money, we will support him. Otherwise, let's oppose him! ”

Well, this little ninety-nine is pretty good.

Justified.

It looks like he's scheming someone.