With the emperor's personal promise, Shang Chengjie had a token and began to work on this matter. Suffering from the lack of such talents around him, he can only rely on Tang Tong now. But he was very worried about Tang Tong, he was the Marquis of Qingyuan, not his cronies, someone had to restrain him, and there had to be a group of people who listened to him, so he arranged this matter carefully.

On this day, Tang Tong was found to discuss, and after the salute was completed, before Tang Tong could speak, Shang Chengjie asked sincerely: "What is the good way for Tang Duwei to raise this 500,000 silver?"

Tang Tong had long understood Shang Chengjie's temperament, and had already thought about how to deal with it, so without thinking, he replied with confidence: "Who has the most money in the capital, of course, is the powerful and the merchants, how dare the powerful offend, Lord Shangshu!" Now there are only merchants, but they still have to follow the rules.".

Shang Chengjie didn't say anything, just looked at Tang Tong in a daze. He didn't need to respond, seeing that Tang Tong was no longer talking, looking at himself, he smiled knowingly, "Please continue!".

Tang Tong nodded, "These merchants in the capital have extra money, they all have silver in the bank, we also give interest, and then impose some means, they are also afraid of the government, not to mention that the money lent to us is the same as putting it in the bank, they will calculate this account." If it is insufficient, please trouble Lord Shangshu to borrow some from Song Guogong and other powerful people, and the conditions will be the same!".

Shang Chengjie understood what Tang Tong meant, and said confidently: "With my face, there is no problem in borrowing tens of thousands of dollars from Song Guogong with interest.".

With this guarantee, Tang Tong was more confident, "The fundraising will be handed over to me, and I will do it as soon as possible!".

Although he has no confidence, he can only rely on Tang Tong in this matter. Shang Chengjie said very sincerely, "If Lord Tang has any suggestions, the old man wants to hear it!".

Shang Chengjie has already called Tang Tong an adult, indicating that he began to rely on him, Tang Tong said very calmly: "The most important thing is that the military department should set up a yamen, which should be commanded by Lord Shangshu, and the personnel allocation should be in place, so much should be less than more, as long as it is enough."

"I'll draw up the list as soon as possible, don't worry!'.

"At least 500 soldiers are needed to maintain law and order and supervise the construction, just go out of the Xidingmen military camp, which can reduce expenses!", after speaking, see how Shang Chengjie reacts.

Shang Chengjie listened quietly, did not respond, pondered for a while, and then asked: "What does Lord Tang think about collecting bridge tolls?".

Tang said carefully: "The bridge can only be collected as soon as possible, and the bridge toll can be collected earlier, and there should be 80,000 taels of silver in the first year!", deliberately said loudly.

Shang Chengjie was accustomed to relying on Tang Tong, and the words immediately came out of his mouth, "How do you know that you have 80,000 taels of income a year?".

Tang Tong has become a habit of answering questions, and he quickly replied: "Zhengximen now has a daily flow of at least 100,000 people, because it takes an extra fifty miles to walk from Fengkou to Zhengximen, after this road is repaired, we can divide at least 50,000 flows, even if it is 40,000.", he looked at Shang Chengjie as he spoke, and saw that he was listening quietly.

"That's how I calculate, people cross the bridge and receive two wen, horses pass five wen, car passes five wen, goods pass twenty wen, and the compromise is five wen. Two hundred taels a day, six thousand taels a month, seventy-two thousand taels a year. If my estimate is good, the flow of people should be about 60,000, so that there can be more than 100,000 taels of silver, and 80,000 is just a conservative number.", and carefully calculated an account with Shang Chengjie, which is completely a live abacus.

Shang Chengjie had already begun to admire Tang Tong in his heart, and Tang Tong gave Shang Chengjie a new stimulus and said loudly; "When building the road and approach bridge, we widened the road that we wanted to rely on, so that we could attract passing merchants, but we had to pay 20 yuan for the goods, and there were coachmen and bodyguards. The cost of the goods has to be added to the customer, and they can't pay it!".

Shang Chengjie smiled proudly, with such a subordinate who can manage money, why worry about big things. Shang Chengjie is well versed in the way of officialdom, the more capable people are, the more unwilling they are to be controlled, and they must have someone they can trust to control this newly established department.

Tang Tong has been planning this for a long time, let's first understand the current political situation. Although the emperor does not pay much attention to the government, the cabinet is running normally. The cabinet is temporarily composed of five people, Cao Shu, the first assistant of the palace university, Qin Yunhou, the second assistant of the palace university, and the left governor of the palace university inspectorate, Yu Shi Luoyan. And Ruan Zi, the head of the Hanlin Academy of the Imperial Court University, and Cao Shu's son-in-law, Shangshu Xia Zhan, temporarily helped in the cabinet.

Cao Shu's grace is mainly good at observing the face, the emperor is addicted to Taoism, has not been in charge of the government, and especially loves the green words, Cao Shu to his liking, wrote a lot of green words, and then there is a good word, get the favor of Emperor Jiaqing. And the second assistant Qin Yunhou wrote a good article, seeing that Emperor Jiaqing believed in the love of green words, and also rewrote green words, and also won the favor of Emperor Jiaqing.

Cao Shu also had a close relationship with Liu Quan, the eunuch who was the master of ceremonies, and with this relationship, the emperor's movements were well understood. Cao Shu was the first assistant, and only controlled the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Industry in the six departments, and Xia Zhan, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and Pan Guohong, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, were Cao Shu's dead party. One of the ten tigers of the short-legged tiger Pan Guohong, people privately called the errand tiger, because he is the most diligent for Cao Shu, often run to Cao's house, as the Ministry of Industry Shangshu major projects in the country have to experience personally, run a lot of places, people give the nickname errand tiger.

Hubu Shangshu Xiong Daoyun, a slave of the emperor's hidden residence today, followed Emperor Jiaqing for more than 40 years, grace is unwaning, good at accounting, very good at financial management, except for the emperor, no one buys face, the household is actually controlled by the emperor.

Shang Chengjie, the secretary of the military department, was originally a member of the Qi clan, so he naturally thought about the four nobles, so the military department became the sphere of influence of the four nobles in the capital. It is not that all the officials of the military department are the four noble people, in fact, many middle-level officials are the three rank jinshi of the military test, and the military department must be civil officials, but most of the military attaches are the four noble people, or the door of the people, forming a martial arts group, headed by the four nobles of the capital.

Ruan Zi, the head of the Hanlin Academy, is the leader of the Qi Party, and he is a faction of his own with the Shangshu Ai Zheng of the Criminal Department. This time, Ai Zheng supported the Criminal Department, and also grabbed real power for the Qi Party, and became the leader of the Qi Party.

Li Chengde, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, has a deep personal relationship with Qin Yunhou, and the two are both members of the Zhejiang Party. Coupled with the fact that Qin Yunhou is also favored, the Zhejiang Party has been affected much less than the Qi Party, and the Ministry of Rites has been the sphere of influence of the Zhejiang Party since he was concurrently the secretary of the Ministry of Rites six years ago.

The left governor of the Inspectorate, Yushi Luo Yan, is non-party and non-factional, and is one of the first six incorruptibles of the clear stream. It seems to be impermanent, but in the eyes of Emperor Jiaqing and the people, it is the backbone of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the righteousness of the imperial court.

Emperor Jiaqing Emperor Empress Xuan, has not been a queen, Concubine Chen Xian manages the harem, Concubine Dong Guifei is deeply favored by Emperor Jiaqing, and the struggle between the King of Servants and the King of Fu is fierce. The objects they fought for were Cao Shu and Qin Yunhou, but the two of them were old foxes, and they would never get involved in the seizure, no matter who succeeded to the throne, they couldn't do without them for a while, so why take unnecessary risks. Except for Ai Zheng is the master of the king of Yu, the three cabinet ministers and the six Shangshu, no one openly intervened to seize the throne, only the middle-level and low-level officials actually showed their attitude, and they were involved in gambling their own future.

Shang Chengjie set out to set up the Xidingmen to run the Yamen, and he was in charge, and Zhu Siliang was the manager of the Yamen Langzhong, who was Shang Chengjie's direct confidant and was in charge of daily affairs. Tang Tong is the main business, from the fourth product and the captain of the Xiding Gate City, responsible for raising money to repair roads and bridges and the aftermath, in short, it is the most tiring errand of the Yamen. The main Bo Hu Jin, the assistant manager who handles the daily affairs of the yamen, is actually Zhu Siliang's cronies. The main Bo Mo Lixin, as Tang Tong's deputy, is responsible for assisting in the miscellaneous work of building roads and bridges. The main Bo Shen Jingwen is in charge of money and property accounts. Tang informed that they were all people from the Qi State Mansion, and there were more than a dozen pen posts, governors, and officials. Tang Tong also has his own set of people, from the Tongheng coal stack to draw Sun Siguan accounts, Mao Zongxie is the master, Hu Xinggang is the supervisor, and He Wang is his personal bodyguard.

The Yamen is located in the Xidingmen Barracks, a five-room military room, and the plaque is fashionable to take a picture and leave, and Zhu Siliang rarely stays in the Yamen. The big and small affairs of the yamen are all done by Tang Tong, of course, the main Bo Hu Jin is staring, the main Bo is a minor official of the seventh grade, but Hu Jin is Zhu Siliang's person, some things do not look at the face of the monk and look at the face of the Buddha, and he cannot be offended.