Chapter 195: Songjiang Mansion Listens to Command

In fact, it is quite dignified to be a wronged leader of 120,000 people, but Huang Shijing, who is a civil official, feels that this is a major blow to his life.

"Close the door..."

The door of the middle hall was closed by Zhao Xin, and Huang Shijing glared at Chen Cao: "What does Dingwu Hou mean by this?" ”

Chen Cao stood up and stretched, and said by the way: "Lord Huang has also suffered a lot of benefits in the Songjiang Prefect over the years, right?" Liu Zhixian should have taken a lot. ”

Huang Shijing's face changed, and then he said with a righteous face: "As an official of the imperial court, I should consider the saint, and the lower official has served as the prefect of Songjiang for so many years, and I have never been greedy for the money of Songjiang Mansion. ”

"Then Liu Zhixian is also as clear as water and as bright as a mirror?"

In the face of Chen Cao's inquiry, Liu Wenzheng also puffed up his chest: "Xia Guan has received the education of a sage since he was a child, and he has read the books of sages, so he naturally knows that he is loyal to the monarch and serves the country..."

"A good one is as clear as water and as bright as a mirror, and a good one is loyal to the country... Zhao Xin..."

There were only four of them in the house, and Zhao Xin immediately took out two notebooks from his arms, and then handed them to Huang Shijing and Liu Wenzheng respectively.

Chen Cao saw that the two didn't want to open it, so he said, "Don't want to see it?" Why don't Ben Hou read it for you, here are two copies of the recital, the content of which is the impeachment of Huang Shijing, the prefect of Songjiang, and the removal of Liu Wenzheng, the prefect of Huating County. ”

"Ahh

The two screamed in unison, Liu Wenzheng couldn't sit still at first and immediately opened the playbook, and felt cold all over his body after reading half of it.

"It's... This..."

Huang Shijing couldn't speak, so Chen Cao smiled and said: "Although Benhou is no longer the commander of Nanzhen Fusi, but this Lord Zhao is the commander, your affairs in Songjiang Mansion are all under the control of Benhou, after tomorrow, these two letters will go to Beijing by sea;

Ben Hou believes that in order to protect themselves, the Yamen of Su Song and the Yamen of Suzhou Governor will definitely do official business, and the two of you, Lord Huang will be dismissed and investigated, and Liu Zhixian will cut his nationality and go home..."

"Lord Huang... The lower officials are loyal..."

Liu Wenzheng shouted at Huang Shijing coldly, this is not obvious to people that it is true to be greedy for ink, and in the officialdom, who is not like a mirror in his heart, but he didn't pierce this layer of paper...

"Dingwu Hou, the lower officials have never provoked Dingwu Hou..."

Huang Shijing said these words with some trembling, but Chen Cao didn't care: "Now that the party in the imperial court is constantly fighting, and the eunuch party has also gained the upper hand, Lord Huang thinks your Donglin Party still has a chance to turn around?" ”

It's all said and done, how the experienced Huang Shijing can't understand, but now he is a plaything in the hands of others, and the other party has the final say on how to talk about the conditions.

Chen Cao saw that he was reluctant to speak, so he took the initiative to say: "Ben Hou will ask you two, do you still want to make money?" ”

How do you take this?

However, the two looked at Chen Cao's sworn look, and Huang Shijing finally compromised: "I want to..."

"Huh... That's right..."Chen Cao said with a smile on his face: "Then Lord Huang told Ben Hou, do you want to earn money standing or kneeling?" ”

Liu Wenzheng looked at Huang Shijing, and Huang Shijing then smiled awkwardly: "Naturally, I earned the money while standing." ”

"Isn't that right..."Chen Cao patted Huang Shijing on the shoulder: "You can only kneel to earn money with Yang Weizhi and Suzhou Mansion, but it is different with Benhou, Benhou can let you stand and earn money..."

Although the words are straightforward, Huang Shijing still doesn't know what to do, follow Yang Weizhi to kneel to make money, and follow you Dingwuhou to kneel to make money?

Looking at the puzzled eyes of Huang Shijing and Liu Wenzheng, Chen Cao laughed and walked to the main seat and sat down, and then took a sip of tea: "The grain tax you collected in Songjiang Mansion has to be handed over to the governor's yamen, and it is just a small head in the hands of your Lord Huang, Liu Zhixian takes even less, according to Benhou, the two of you are only greedy for ink every year is no more than 30,000 taels of silver." ”

was actually said by Chen Cao, Huang Shijing, the prefect, is greedy for nearly 20,000 a year, while Liu Wenzheng is nearly 10,000, which is still a rich state capital like Songjiang Mansion.

"Look at it, Yang Weizhi's eating appearance is ugly, the dignified prefect, the parent official of the land of a mansion, is not as greedy for money as Shangyuan County in Jinling, are you ashamed?"

The words have come to this, and if he pretends again, it may make Chen Cao unhappy, so Huang Shijing no longer hides it, after all, his handle is in the hands of others: "Dingwu Hou doesn't know, the whole of this Songjiang Mansion must have it, and the rest has to deal with the Yamen of the Governor of Su Song, so only a few people fall into the hands of the lower officials." ”

"Right..."Chen Cao had a look of 'let me say it', and then said with a smile: "If you follow Ben Hou, Ben Hou can guarantee that you will have an income of nearly five thousand taels of silver every month." ”

"Five thousand?"

Huang Shijing didn't dare to think that these five thousand taels of silver were calculated according to his thirty and sixty taels in one Chinese New Year's Eve, which was close to twenty years, but now Chen Cao easily said that he earned nearly five thousand taels every month.

"Dingwu Hou... What you're saying is true. Huang Shijing was a little excited.

Chen Cao looked at him with a serious face as he spoke: "Ben Hou is a dignified and noble of the country, pinching your handle and letting you do it with Ben Hou, just to brush you?" ”

Reasonable...

"Then the lower official asked Dingwu Hou, what should the lower official do?"

"Well, Songjiang will have to listen to Ben Hou's arrangement in the future, and from now on, Ben Hou will ensure that the two of you have money to make, and you can always be stable, how about it?"

...

"The city should be built first, and the construction of the city should be built according to the regulations, but it should be larger and taller than the ordinary one," Chen Cao drew on the drawing: "Puxi should be built first, focusing on the side of the wharf, and in addition, the upstream of the Songjiang estuary is turbulent, and the water conservancy factory should be built there, and a separate Baoshi building should be set up, which will be included in the encirclement of the county seat of Shanghai." ”

Chen Cao said and turned his head to look at Yu Shimin, who was already the magistrate of Shanghai, and said: "The homeless people should make good use of it, the old and weak and their female dependents, no matter how old they are, they can use them, and they are full every day, and the men who do heavy physical work will be given two silver dollars a month, and the others will be between one penny of silver and one hundred wen according to the difference in work." ”

"Give the silver back?" Yu Shimin was a little surprised, he originally thought that as long as he was full, these homeless people would be grateful to Dade.

"That's natural, with money, they are more motivated to work, and also, tell those displaced people that they will give priority to permanent housing in Pudong if they work and work well, and it will be calculated according to the number of households;"

With housing, even if these displaced people have a home, if they have a land, it is the foundation of a stable life.

"The fields in Pudong and Puxi are expensive and cannot be given, but if those who perform well, they will be given two acres of land outside the two places, and each household will never starve to death."

This is a grand plan, and most of the current fields in Shanghai County have owners, so it is not a small matter to integrate these fields, and it is a big deal to take the fields from Shanghai County to these displaced people from Shaanxi.

"Master Hou, the Taixi missions from Haojing and Dayuan are here."

...

Portugal and Spain are divided into large and small franc machines, also collectively known as franc machines, the Hongyi people are the Netherlands, and on the Asian side, the most famous is the Dutch East India Company.

It was the Portuguese who occupied the territory, while the Spaniards and the Dutch occupied what is now the island of Dayuan (Taiwan), and the two gangs had a deep hatred.

There are no eternal friends in this world, only eternal interests, and when interests can temporarily separate feuds, both parties can also make a lot of money together.

This way to make money is now the Shanghai County and City Bosi.

All three were seafaring powers on the European continent, led by the Dutch, and the East India Company's business in Asia was unmatched by the other two countries.

On the side of the Pudong wharf, in the pergola specially built by Chen Cao, there are people from the four countries, including Daming, sitting at the moment, and behind Chen Cao is full of translators.

Although Xu Guangqi is older, he is proficient in the many Chinese languages of the Europa continent, and these three Chinese languages are of little meaning to him.

"Master Hou, the first on the left hand is Mr. Erri, the special envoy of the Governor of Spain; In the middle is Colonel André, the special envoy of the Portuguese Governor-General, Mr. Philippe Robb, and on the right-hand side is Mr. De Vries, the special envoy of the Governor of the Dutch East India Company, Mr. Jane Peterson Cohen. ”

Xu Guangqi pointed to the three foreigners sitting in front of him to introduce Chen Cao one by one, and then warmly shook hands with the three of them to salute Chen Cao.

Chen Cao waited until Xu Guangqi showed him that he could start before greeting the three of them in English.

The three of them were amazed that this marquis of the great feudal empire was able to speak fluent English, and he was already religious.

Ventelli replied in English: "Dear Monsieur Marquis, I pay you the highest respect only on behalf of Monsieur Ear. ”

If you want to enter a higher university, at the time of Chen Cao, English was only level 4 or 6, which was absolutely not good, and now it is just a conversation with these old imperial people, and English is still popular in the three countries of Spain.

Colonel André also said: "Monsieur Marquis may have been in contact with the Kingdom of England, otherwise he would not have spoken English so fluently. ”

Chen Cao naturally didn't care about this, and when he was about to talk about business, the special envoy of the Dutch East India Company, De Vries, spoke to Xu Guangqi in Dutch for a long time.

Of course Chen Cao didn't understand, and the translator behind him whispered after hearing the other party start talking: "Master Hou, the red-haired people said that they fought with us in the waters near Dongfan Island last year, and now to negotiate peace with us, we must first ensure their interests on Dongfan Island, and secondly, we must ensure the safety of his sea route to the north." ”

The translation actually didn't finish listening, but now Chen Cao has frowned, although he has changed the sailors of the Ming Dynasty now, his power has not yet extended to the southeast coast.