Although the practice of local governors is a very bold and novel thing for the ministers of the imperial court, Zhu Yijun is no stranger to the practice of local governors.

He clearly remembered that after human civilization entered the industrial revolution, there was also a situation in China where the ruling class, dominated by Han bureaucrats, carried out industry and commerce in the name of the government.

However, at that time, it was under the influence of the industrial revolution led by the West that the situation of local governors and governors running industry and commerce on a large scale was started, so it was called foreign affairs, not practice.

And now, because it was mainly after Zhu Yijun carried forward the internal practical ideas of the Ming Dynasty through the mouth of Zhang Juzheng, that the local governors had the idea of running industry and commerce in the name of the government, so it was only called practice.

Therefore, its name is to separate from empty talk and do some practical things to help the people.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun did not regard this as a flood beast, so that like Fang Fengshi, he thought that this would lead to the loss of the country.

Because the scholars and doctors among the Han people themselves belong to the knowledge controllers who are relatively at the forefront of the ideology in the agricultural civilization, it is normal for many enlightened Han doctors to make some innovative moves and be willing to try new things.

In particular, people who were officials in the south, such as Lu Kun, Shen Li, and Jin Xuezeng, were more likely to breed these new ideas because of the budding capitalism.

Therefore, it is not surprising that Zhu Yijun knows this.

In general, because Zhu Yijun is no stranger to these, he just issued an order to let the three governors enter Beijing, and did not choose to treat Lu Kun and others as rebellious criminals.

Qingjiangpu, Huai'an Province.

The cold north wind whistled on the bean-green Yellow River, and it didn't take long for a river of white snow to be sent to the sky.

And Ye Agui, a civilian who lived in a shack on the shore, exhaled white air at this time and moved the bark that was immediately stacked outside into the house.

Seeing this, Ye Agui's wife Wang Xiaocao said: "Now that I don't eat these for the winter, why do you move in?" ”

"Although you don't eat him, it's okay to burn it as firewood, so as not to freeze you and the child in your belly."

Ye Agui said with a smile.

It turned out that Ye Agui was originally a homeless person who relied on others to carry goods and work idle in Qingjiangpu, but since he and Chen Jiuzhu were arrested together to patrol the yamen, and after they were registered as residents together, he was summoned by Chen Jiuzhu into the government-run paper mill and became an employee of the government-run paper mill, so he had a stable income, and he also relied on this to marry Xiaocao, the queen of Wang Xianfu, who lived in Qingjiangpu.

It didn't cost much of the bride price, just a part of the first month's salary to revive Wang Xiaocao, who was about to starve to death this winter.

Because every winter in the canal, a group of displaced people will freeze to death and starve to death.

Therefore, his father felt that he didn't need to support one more person and begged Ye Agui to be his son-in-law.

"Agui! Chen Jiuye asked you to go to Yangzhou with me to transport goods, a trip back and forth, and you will get five dollars of silver, whether you can go or not! ”

Ye Agui glanced back at Wang Xiaocao.

He is not Chen Jiuzhu's slave, he is a serious official employee, so he has no personal dependence with Chen Jiuzhu, and he is a free worker belonging to this era, so he can naturally refuse Chen Jiuzhu and not earn the benefits of this trip.

It is precisely because Chen Jiuzhu and Ye Agui have no personal dependence on these workers, so they can't serve casually, especially on such a snowy day, they need to pay extra wages.

"Five coins of silver, you go, I'll go to my father's place for a few days."

Wang Xiaocao touched her big belly and said with a smile.

Ye Agui thought about it, nodded too, and then gave Wang Xiaocao a bag of rice and a salted fish on the wooden wall: "Don't let my uncle think that you are going to eat rice, take this bag of rice and fish." ”

Wang Xiaocao let out an "um".

"Hey! I'll go! ”

Ye Agui hurriedly shouted, and then braved the heavy snow and the cold wind to run towards his colleagues.

At this time, Chen Jiuzhu was on a sampan with a lantern of the Fengyang Cloth Governor in Qingjiangpu, rubbing his hands dryly, twisting his eyebrows to look at the gray dead branches in front of him, and an old slender man who was peeling the bark under the dead tree.

Chen Jiuzhu had already learned about the impeachment of Lu Kun, the governor of Fengyang, through the people of the governor's yamen.

This made him worry that the paper mill he opened for the government would never be able to open again, and then he would have to go back to the days when he needed to spend the cold winter with bark and wild vegetables, just like the old slender man in front of him.

"Be careful, look at the tarpaulin on it! Don't let the snow fall in, it will break the paper inside, it is the high-quality paper that was transported into Yangzhou City for the old men and girls to write and paint. ”

When Chen Jiuzhu was thinking about it, he instructed Ye Agui, who was transporting goods on the ship, to wait a few words, and he promised Lu Kun, the governor of Fengyang, to recruit more unemployed civilians and use the government-run paper mill to solve some people's survival problems, so now his paper mill has opened for a short time, but the scale is very large, recruiting many workers, so that in order to increase profits, I have to transport goods to Yangzhou at this time to sell.

But Chen Jiuzhu also couldn't help but think at this time, if the imperial court did not allow the government secretary to run a paper mill, then what should these people who begged for food in the paper mill do, the key is that these people have begun to start a family because of a stable life, and they are not as hungry as when they were single before.

"Master Qian, the imperial court really won't let the eldest master open this paper mill again?"

Chen Jiuzhu couldn't help but ask about Qian Bingtu, the master sent by Lu Kun to deliver the goods.

Qian Bingtu twisted his eyebrows and said: "If you can not punish the crime, everything will be fine!" After all, the eldest lord has cut off a lot of wealthy gentry by doing this, especially in Jiangxi! ”

"Shall they be allowed to take away my inheritance, and not allow the government to compete with them for profit? The DPRK and Chinese officials who spoke for them were too unreasonable! ”

Chen Jiuzhu asked with some dissatisfaction.

"The court is not a place to be reasonable, when this batch of goods is sold out, don't go into hemp first, and wait for the eldest lord to return to Beijing, and now the court just let him go to Beijing to report on his work, as for what the result is, it's hard to say."

Master Qian said.

Chen Jiuzu nodded.

……

"Master, the official shop under the name of the political secretary is in stock again!"

Yangzhou City.

A shop in the attic.

Pu Jinkui was looking outside with his hands behind his back, and his servant Jiang Er pointed to him and said to Chen Jiuzhu and the others and the car.

"I see it."

Pu Jinkui said with a calm face: "That person is Chen Jiuzhu!" Unexpectedly, he really escaped here, and ran a paper mill in the name of the government. ”

"You don't know, because their paper is close and the quality is better, and in the name of the government, the tax collectors don't dare to be very embarrassed, so they rob us of a lot of business in Shitang Paper! Now the big households in Yangzhou don't use our paper. ”

Jiang Er said with an angry face.

Pu Jinkui said: "Don't worry! I have already sent people into Beijing to deal with it, and many Beijing officials have promised to speak for us, and sentenced him to the crime of competing with the people for profit, taking the opportunity to accumulate wealth, and ruining the reputation of the government. ”

"Yes!"

……

Lu Kun had indeed received an urgent dispatch from the cabinet summoned by the imperial court to Beijing, and he also knew from many colleagues in Beijing that the imperial court was now arguing with him because of his behavior with Jin Xuezeng and others, so that some people threatened to kill them.

Therefore, he was standing on the official ship heading north at this time, looking at the white world on both sides of the strait, and he frowned and thought hard.

He didn't know what the next outcome would be.

But when he saw a young pregnant woman with a big belly, although she was wearing a hundred clothes, she was carrying a bag with the words "Fengyang Buzheng Si Paper Mill", smiling and pouring white rice into a clay pot held by an old man in front of a shack, and suddenly felt that he had to keep the paper mill that he asked Buzheng to open when he was the governor of Fengyang.