Cheng Jing hadn't recovered from the shock of the food, and then Minli's words made him even more surprised!

"Master Guan, the grass people are controlling the water under the hands of the champion Gong, but they not only have meat to eat, but also half a tael of wages every month."

"Half a month's salary?"

Cheng Jing's eyes widened, and he asked rhetorically in an unbelievable tone.

As far as the pre-Qin period, there was no such thing as giving money to conscription, and at most it was to reduce or exempt taxes.

Not only did they not even give money, but they also had to bring their own food, clothes, tools, etc., which caused the people to fear forced labor like tigers.

The famous Chen Sheng and Wu Guang uprisings at the end of Qin, and the Red Turban Army at the end of Yun, the root cause of the conscription was in the conscription, which led to the leader ascending to the heights and shouting, and the people below gathered to start the process of the collapse of the dynasty.

The food ordered by the conscience of the officials of the Ming Dynasty was not possible to eat well, and it was even more unthinkable to have white flour and meat like Shen Yichen.

As a result, in addition, the people can still get wages, is this really the imperial court's water control and river work?

may have seen the shocked look on Cheng Jing's face, an old man with a relatively large appearance, and said boldly: "Don't hide it from the official, the little old man has lived for more than 50 years, and has been requisitioned by the imperial court for nearly 20 times, and he has received his salary for the first time. ”

"Everyone says that Zhuangyuan Gong is the Wenqu star in the sky, so it seems that he is a real living Bodhisattva!"

The old man's tone was full of a sense of life, and he only felt what it meant to be a real "parent official" in Shen Yichen all his life.

Listening to the people's words, Cheng Jing wondered for a moment whether this group of people was invited by Shen Yichen. How can there be such a good treatment of conscription in the whole world, and can Shen Yichen really love the people like a son?

At the same time, a question that had plagued the important ministers of the imperial court for a long time, Cheng Jing found an answer here.

That's why Shen Yichen's cost of water control is so amazing, the river industry and silver allocated by the imperial court are far from enough, and he also stretched out his hand to the local political secretary of Shandong. Even in the name of water control, he took over the banknotes and salt farms in Shandong.

Although the customs duties and salt taxes that should be paid, Shen Yichen handed them all over without any arrears. But the ministers of the court understood that customs duties and salt taxes were one of the largest departments of the imperial court, and the profits were far more than those paid.

Many people speculate that Shen Yichen is really not greedy, and when he is greedy, he is more ruthless than the eunuchs sent out by the imperial court in the past!

Everyone doesn't know how much money it costs to control the water, but in terms of income, Shen Yichen is afraid that he will scrape the ground in Shandong and make a lot of money.

Now it seems that Shen Yichen cares so much about the income of money, and he is not greedy for ink to use on himself, but a real cost of water control.

Not to mention anything else, the wages of more than 200,000 people alone are more than 100,000 taels per month, and food and other things are not included, and river materials are even more excluded.

With this kind of spendthrift of money, how can there be no shortage of money?

Cheng Jing may not have thought of it himself, and the follow-up investigation also found that Shen Yichen's place to spend money was far more than the salary of the river workers.

There are also the salaries of the people who rebuilt Zhangqiu Town, the spring ploughing subsidies for millions of displaced people, the double salaries of the officials and servants of Yanggu County, and the double salaries of more than 10,000 soldiers in the entire Yanzhou Prefecture.

In the past, Zhu Qizhen's southern expedition to Luchuan and northern expedition to Mongolia were considered by the civilian group to be a loser emperor.

Now compared with Shen Yichen's way of spending money, Zhu Qizhen can be called diligent and thrifty, hard and simple!

In the future, if the government and the opposition are controlled by the "second generation of officials" like Shen Yichen, who is accustomed to spending money, the finances of the Ming Dynasty are estimated to not survive for three years......

After seeing everything in the canopy, Cheng Jing subconsciously swallowed his saliva, and didn't know how to describe his mood at the moment. What Shen Yichen did, should he say that he was diligent in government and loved the people, or should he say that he was extravagant?

"Shen Yixian, let's continue to look along the embankment."

In the end, Cheng Jing put away his complicated feelings, and still planned to continue to inspect the river work, no matter how he spent the money, at least he had to make sure that the money was spent on the blade.

"Father-in-law, please."

Shen Yichen didn't say anything, the Yellow River embankment is now described as "solid", which must be an exaggeration. But he can guarantee that the reinforced Yellow River embankment far exceeds that of previous dynasties, and he is not afraid of any river engineering survey.

The group continued to brave the wind and rain and walk on the embankment of the Yellow River. Cheng Jing saw that the embankment he had walked along the way was very strong, and there was a protective wall of wooden stakes and sandbags at the place where the river waves washed out, so as to ensure that the embankment itself would not be eroded.

At the same time, at many dangerous points, earthen embankments have been replaced with stone embankments, and there are multiple combination dikes to slow down the water potential.

It can be seen from these that Shen Yichen did not relax his requirements for the quality of the river embankment when he spent money like flowing water. The evil dragon of the Yellow River, which has "mutilated" both sides of the river for hundreds of years, is now firmly restrained and can no longer do evil wantonly!

"Shen Yanxian, Your Majesty once asked the Ming Praise Officer to read your chapter in front of the ministers, which aroused the suspicion of all the ministers, including the contemptible people."

"Today, I came to the boundary of Shandong, and I know what it means to hear and see. Shen Yanxian has indeed completed the great cause of river engineering, the merit is in the present generation, and the benefit is in the future! ”

The so-called hearing is false, seeing is believing. If Cheng Jing hadn't seen all this, he wouldn't have believed it anyway, Shen Yichen would have completed the construction of the embankment and the dam in less than a year.

Throughout the ages, those who have completed water control have been immortal.

The Yellow River embankment built by Shen Yichen will be passed down through the ages.

Facing Cheng Jing's emotion, Shen Yichen only smiled, and was not ecstatic about completing the immortal achievement.

"It's not so much that the credit lies in me, but that the credit lies in the people of the Ming Dynasty, without the hard work of hundreds of thousands of river workers and people, and without more than 100 lives sleeping under the embankment, how can this immortal achievement come about."

No matter how much Shen Yichen pities the people's power, after controlling the water for more than half a year, there are no less than 100 victims because of the river workers.

Many of these people who paid with their lives could not even find their bodies, leaving only a tombstone next to the embankment of the Yellow River. Maybe in a few decades, it will be completely forgotten.

Compared to themselves, they are the unsung heroes.

"How can a husband have the kindness of a woman, and those who are committed to the constitution should look at the family and the country!"

Cheng Jing did not have these feelings of Shen Yichen, in his opinion, the treatment of the river workers and people has far exceeded that of previous dynasties, and there is no need to praise and reward them too much.

Since ancient times, a man will succeed and his bones will wither, how can a person who has become a big man not sacrifice, Shen Yichen has to abandon these indecisiveness, and even sacrifice everything if necessary, in order to become a qualified official and politician!

"I've been taught."

Shen Yichen arched his hand, he understood that Cheng Jing said this for his own good. This kind of thing has nothing to do with right or wrong, only about the difference in position, it is nothing more than to see who will be the victim.

"Shen Youxian is polite, the contemptible person actually has something unclear in his heart, and please ask Shen Qixian to teach him."

"Cheng, father-in-law, please speak."

"Shen Yanxian has a lot of money to control the water, if he is in charge of the government in the future, how can he continue?"

Cheng Jing knew very well in his heart that after Shen Yichen completed the immortal achievements of water control, the road to the green sky could not be stopped. With his age, it is not surprising that he will inevitably enter the cabinet to worship the prime minister and control the government and the opposition.

The water control work is done beautifully, but this way of spending money is unsustainable in Cheng Jing's opinion, and it even tastes like drinking to quench thirst.

After all, in the future, to control the government and the opposition, the consideration is not one province and one place, but the overall situation of the entire Ming Dynasty, can you still spend money on tariffs and salt taxes so unscrupulously?

It stands to reason that this kind of hidden worry should not be considered by eunuchs like Cheng Jing, but the past of Jinshi's background in the Hanlin Academy made him worry about his family and country like a literati.

Governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh, Shen Yichen's radical style of acting, is it really good to be in charge of the Ming Dynasty?

If not, then the results of the river engineering inspection will determine Shen Yichen's meritorious career, and Cheng Jing does not want to let go of a madman to harm the government and the opposition in the future.

The problem of money can be regarded as Shen Yichen's heart, for a long time after he came to Shandong, he thought about how to make money every day!

"Cheng Gonggong, the financial revenue is more or less to put it bluntly, it lies in the four words of opening up sources and reducing expenditure. In the past, most of the ideas of the Ming court to spend money were focused on throttling, and rarely solved problems from open sources. ”

"It is true that the cost of water control is huge compared with the past, but this year's tariffs and commercial taxes in Shandong can fully support the cost of water control, and even more than enough. When he returned to Zhang Qiuzhen's station, Cheng's father-in-law knew it when he looked at the account book. ”

Shen Yichen was indeed very short of money before, and even did not hesitate to extort money and make empty checks.

However, with the reconstruction of Zhangqiu Town, all the checkpoints in Shandong have been opened, and the officials have been rectified after being controlled by the army, and various tax revenues have increased more than five times compared with before!

In addition to the increase in tax revenue brought about by commercial development, it is more because after the rectification of the government, corruption has been severely cracked down, and money can be collected from the local government.

In addition, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the ranking of Shinong industry and commerce has indeed seriously suppressed the status of merchants, and it has also reduced a lot of commercial taxes, and the burden has been all on the peasants.

According to the standards of later generations, Shen Yichen directly levied a 10% "value-added tax" on commercial finished products. Don't look at the tax rate is much higher than in the Ming Dynasty, but after the exemption of checkpoints and the greatly improved efficiency of commercial traffic, merchants have earned more than before.

History has proven that frantically squeezing agricultural taxes out of the peasants will only lead to the end of the dynasty. On the contrary, we vigorously developed industry and commerce, promoted the circulation of commodity funds, and received 10 times more taxes than before.

Of course, after receiving the money, Shen Yichen was not exclusive to him, and he also gave the officials of the banknote salt field who took over, and he also prescribed a double salary, which was regarded as "raising incorruptible silver".

This is why, Shen Yichen seems to be "misbehaving" in Shandong, but the follow-up impeachment is much less than before. It's just that all parties have gotten benefits, and everyone has money to earn together, so naturally there is not so much dissatisfaction.

After listening to Shen Yichen's explanation, Cheng Jing seemed to understand a little, but the other party dared to show himself the account book, which proved that he had full confidence.

Right and wrong, you will know at a glance when the time comes.

After walking along the river embankment for a long time, the pouring rain gradually stopped, and a bright color appeared in the distant sky, and the long-lost sun was about to come out.

"Chenggong is really a lucky star, Yanggu County has been raining heavily for several days, but today it is rare to be clear."

Shen Yichen complimented him in a timely manner, after going out of Shandong for a long time, the sycophancy kung fu practiced by the center of the imperial court is still not too rusty......

But after listening to Shen Yichen's words, a meaningful smile appeared on Cheng Jing's face and said, "Shen Yixian, the contemptible person came here with the mission to become your disaster star. ”

"Father-in-law Cheng laughed, how could he become a disaster."

Shen Yichen thought that Cheng Jing was joking, as early as two years ago, the image of the two sides was good, and today it can be called a very happy conversation, what else can there be that can't be untied?

"The prince and the prince are emphasizing the contemptible people, and the results of the river engineering inspection should be rated as inferior."

When the three words Wang Gonggong came out, Shen Yichen knew that Cheng Jing was not joking.

Shen Yichen was still curious at first, with Wang Zhen's character of retribution, why didn't Hegong send his own people to make trouble for such a major event.

Now it seems that although the envoy eunuch is not Wang Zhen's person, what he has to do is still that thing, in short, he will not let himself easily pass the river inspection.

"Then what is Grandpa Cheng going to do?"

Since Cheng Jing said it publicly, it means that he will most likely not act according to Wang Zhen's instructions.

Shen Yichen guessed that the other party was waiting for the price to sell, waiting for his bid code.

"Honest inquest."

After that, Cheng Jing looked at Shen Yichen and smiled meaningfully, as if he had seen through the other party's thoughts, and then turned to leave.

Cheng Jing's life can be said to be full of legends, and the biggest difference between him and Wang Zhen is that after experiencing ups and downs, he was not swallowed up by ambition, let alone thinking about making contributions and leaving a name in history.

As a person in the line of King Yu, as long as Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen is still in office, his internal official rank has reached the upper limit. It is impossible for Cheng Jing to take the position of the master of ceremonies and the eunuch of the pen.

Since there is nothing to pursue, the ancients have no desire and are rigid, Cheng Jing didn't take Wang Zhen's instructions to heart at all, let alone think about getting any benefits from Shen Yichen.

To truthfully inspect the river workers is to be worthy of the Son of Heaven, to the people, and to their own conscience.

Looking at Cheng Jing's back in the distance, Shen Yichen was a little embarrassed, under Wang Zhen's "edification", he forgot the original judging criteria in a sense.

That is, eunuchs are not necessarily bad people, and Wenchen is not all good people, and Cheng Jing is an outlier who is a eunuch in the court.

Returning to Zhang Qiuzhen one after another, and seeing Shen Yichen's "official residence" that was no different from ordinary residences, Cheng Jing completely believed that he did not have any corruption and malfeasance.

At the same time, Shen Yichen fulfilled his promise, and after arriving at the station, he ordered someone to take the river engineering account book and hand it over to Cheng Jing for inspection. As the saying goes, he is not afraid of shadows, and from the beginning of the intrigue with the officials of the Shandong Political Division, Shen Yichen paid attention to the account records.

One account, one penny, all verifiable!

After getting the account book, Cheng Jing was not polite, and immediately took his entourage to start auditing overnight.

This is the reason why the Ming Ying Sect sent Cheng Jinghe Gong to inspect, the general level of eunuch knowledge, even after the teaching of the inner study hall, is only a few big words, and it is not easy to understand the account book, let alone check the accounts.

In the next few days, Cheng Jing was checking the accounts here, and Shen Yichen still went to various river embankments every day. After all, during the main flood season, the consequences of any dangerous situation are immeasurable.

The kind of embankment failure in Shawan, Dong'e County, happened at a moment like this, and Ren Shen Yichen had the ability to reach the sky, and he couldn't block it anymore.

A few days later, several thick stacks of river work ledgers were sent back to Shen Yichen's desk by Cheng Jing, and his face was full of admiration at this time.

I really don't know if I don't check, and I'm shocked when I check it. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the records of the upper and lower account books of the imperial court can be called a lake account. Even if the Ministry of Households, which is in charge of the finance of the Ming Dynasty, wants to completely control the income and expenditure, it is impossible.

But Shen Yichen's river work account book, pen and pen cashier are recorded, even if the rice, grain, millet, silk and cotton cloth, are converted into silver money, and the statistics are clear.

What made Cheng Jing even more amazed was that what Shen Yichen said on the river embankment that day was true, he really made up for the huge cost of river engineering and water control by opening up sources and reducing expenditure to develop business, and there was still a small surplus.

In the past, Cheng Jing looked down on businessmen the most, thinking that they valued profit over righteousness and had no integrity at all. But this group that he despises the most can generate huge commercial taxes, far beyond Cheng Jing's imagination.

And judging from the prosperous scene of Zhang Qiuzhen's wharf, Shen Yichen's collection of huge commercial taxes is not exhaustive, and the commercial port is still thriving.

This touches on Cheng Jing's knowledge blind spot, is it really such a benefit to promote business development?

"Don't hide it, the contemptible people have never seen such a clear number of account books, I really admire it."

Even if the account book of Hegong was returned, Cheng Jing was still amazed, and this Shandong implementation was an eye-opener.

"There is nothing difficult in the world, but I am afraid that those who have a heart will not do their part in the future."

"Just before the division, it can show its preciousness, and there are a few people in the Ming Dynasty who have done this thing well."

"Actually, there are a lot of them."

Shen Yichen smiled, at least if Yu Qian, Hai Rui and others were in charge of the accounts, the account book would not be lost.

Listening to Shen Yichen's modest words, Cheng Jing's eyes were meaningful.

"In the impeachment of the imperial court, Shen Yixian acted arrogantly and unscrupulously. can get along, but they are humble and humble, not arrogant or impatient. ”

"It's really terrifying to be able to do this......"

Regardless of whether Shen Yichen is really like this, or acting in front of him, Cheng Jing is completely convinced at this moment anyway.

No wonder this son can rise to prominence, at a young age, the official residence is out of the town, and now it seems that he is much more mature and sophisticated than when he was wronged, and there is no such scholarly childishness.

Listening to Cheng Jing's words, Shen Yichen only smiled and smiled, and said no more.

Now that the review of the river's ledger has been completed, Cheng Jing will have to walk along the Yellow River embankment to thoroughly inspect the quality of the embankment.

In addition, before leaving Beijing, Cheng Jing also received a special task from Zhu Qizhen, and the priority was not under the river engineering inspection.

"Shen Yanxian, since the account book has been read, it is time for the contemptible person to leave Zhang Qiuzhen and go to another place to inspect the river workers."

"Cheng's father-in-law has a heavy responsibility, and it is not easy to keep it in the future, if there is any need to send someone to say hello."

"This is natural, and the Shandong territory has to rely on Shen Yanxian for help."

Cheng Jing smiled politely, and then continued: "The next stop of the contemptible people has to go to the Lu Wangfu in Yanzhou, I heard that Lu Shizi has been detained by Shen Yanxian, I don't know what the situation is recently. ”

Imagine the Chinese network

The speaker was unintentional, the listener was intentional, and Shen Yichen instantly felt a vigilance in his heart.

Why did Cheng Jing go to King Lu's mansion, and asked about Lu Shizi's recent situation, could it be that Han Yong, the prison of the Criminal Department, did not carry it and leaked the news?

Thinking about it, this is not very likely, no matter whether there is evidence or not, as long as Han Yong shows the slightest suspicion, he will inevitably be examined by the Jinyi Guard of Shandong Province, and Cheng Jing cannot be so polite.

So Shen Yichen pretended to be careless, and replied: "After the imperial decree was issued, Lu Shizi has been released back to King Lu's mansion in the next step, and it should be fine recently." ”

"I don't know why Father-in-law Cheng suddenly asked about this?"

"King Lu committed suicide in fear of sin, but King Lu's lineage cannot be broken, and Lu Shizi should take the throne of the king. The contemptible envoy to Shandong this time also brought the canonization decree of His Majesty's court to issue an edict to Lu Shizi. ”

"Is it so quick to attack King Fenglu?"

Shen Yichen was a little surprised, you must know that the Ming Dynasty inherited the throne of the prince, but it was not that after the death of the father, the prince would be able to attack the seal immediately, on the contrary, it would have to go through a series of complicated procedures.

In history, Zhu Zhaohui, the king of Lu, died in the second year of Chenghua, and on October 19, the third year of Chenghua, Zhu Taikan, the son of Lu, attacked the throne of Lu.

This time, the imperial court canonized the holy decree, which is obviously a little out of line with the convention.

"King Lu committed suicide on the way back to Beijing, and His Majesty hastened to let Lu Shizi attack the seal in order to calm the suspicions of the kings."

After that, Cheng Jing didn't know whether it was a hint, or said casually, and added: "In addition, Your Majesty wants to investigate the matter of King Lu, so the contemptible people have to rush to the Lu Palace, Yanzhou." ”

If Shen Yichen was just vigilant in front of him, then now he can be described as a chill in his heart. Zhu Qizhen has not let go of King Lu's suicide in fear of crime, and even specially sent Cheng Jing to investigate.

To know that he is the biggest antagonist in the King Lu incident, does Zhu Qizhen's move mean that he doubts himself?

There is also Lu Shizi Zhu Taikan, Shen Yichen was in the process of detention, and he couldn't coerce and lure like Zhang Ji and others, and reached a certain compromise with him.

Although Zhu Taikan didn't know some of the things behind it, it was difficult to guarantee whether he noticed anything, let alone whether he would talk about personal vendettas.

"Shen Yanxian, is there any problem?"

Seeing that Shen Yichen suddenly stopped talking, Cheng Jing asked suspiciously.

"It's okay, the road has been slippery recently, please pay more attention to Cheng's father-in-law."

Shen Yichen put aside the topic and replied, it is not so easy to do the thing of punishing the king and trying to erase all the troubles after all.

"Thank you Shen Yanxian for your concern, then the contemptible person will say goodbye first."

After that, Cheng Jing arched his hand towards Shen Yichen, he didn't think about it that much.

"Cheng's father-in-law walks slowly, and I won't send it far."

Shen Yichen returned the salute, and he didn't have much thought to send Cheng Jing at the moment.

Looking at Cheng Jing's back in the distance, Shen Yichen immediately ordered to the Canghuo head beside him: "Send someone to follow Cheng Jing secretly and see what King Lu will tell him." ”

"Yes, little one."

Canghuotou understood that this was not a trivial matter, and gave a few words to several Fujian miners behind him, and soon several people chased in the direction where Cheng Jing left.

------Off topic------

Today is still full of words, and now the cycle is not paddling. In addition, when it is close to a million words, the book must have exceeded 1,000. Starting from the beginning of more than 100 Dingtian collapses, it is estimated that the eunuchs are put on other authors, and the cycle is written to thousands of equals, and the plot of the civil fort has not yet reached the climax, which can be regarded as a small counterattack.