In the following time, Zhang Yuanfeng repeatedly asked Qiu He how to deal with Zhang Juzheng? And Qiu He still doesn't spit out a word! In the end, he could only leave in a low-key manner with great reluctance.

And just as Zhang Yuanfeng guessed, as soon as he left, Qiu He and the middle-aged man simply packed up and left. Soon after, another person moved into the courtyard.

After returning home, Zhang Yuanfeng finally made up his mind to use Qiu He to attack Zhang Juzheng after two days and one night of fierce ideological struggle! Anyway, it is impossible to find him in the end, as long as he does a good job of protection, even if Qiu He succeeds, he will not find him!

At the same time, he secretly arranged a few henchmen to start a reverse investigation, where is Qiu He? Anyway, there will be a lot of correspondence between them in the future, and there will always be some news along this line.

Time passed slowly, and more than half a year passed in the blink of an eye, and the projects in various places finally ended one after another!

Nearly 10 million taels of silver were smashed down, and the whole Da Ming really took on a new look! The embankments have become higher and thicker, the roads have become smoother, and there is clear water flowing in the canals! The sporadic bandits are gone! Especially God gives face, the harvest for two consecutive years has stabilized the price of grain, the people live and work in peace and contentment, commerce is prosperous, all industries are revitalized, and the whole Ming Dynasty is a prosperous scene!

For ordinary farmers, they are the most widely benefited group! Because the river embankments in various places have been repaired, and the suffering of flooding has been avoided within a few decades! No matter how corrupt the local officials are, there will not be much of a problem in the next twenty years! In this way, they saved their lives and land!

At the same time, after the repair of water conservancy hubs and trunk canals, the amount of land that can be irrigated has increased significantly! The main beneficiaries, of course, were the gentry everywhere. Because they have the vast majority of the land in their hands! However, with the allocation of sufficient resources, many yeoman farmers have benefited from the water conservancy project!

Even those tenants have a certain income because of the increase in food production and the fact that they are hired to participate in the project. At the same time, taking advantage of this opportunity, the gentry opened up a large amount of wasteland, and the land area of their families has increased considerably! And these newly developed lands can accommodate more tenants, so that more bankrupt farmers have a chance to survive!

Then there are the ordinary citizens and craftsmen! The whole country is building a large project, and the materials needed are not a small number! And there are all kinds of these materials! This allows all industries to get sufficient orders, which can be described as extraordinary! Doing more work naturally requires more processing money!

The increase in income has further stimulated consumption for all! At the very least, even poor families should buy more food and cloth after they have some money to spare! And wealthy families are naturally more willing to spend money! This in turn further promotes the development of industry and commerce!

Moreover, this national construction activity also gave scholars from all over the world the opportunity to show their talents! Those who are good at calculations are hired to participate in the project, those who are good at deployment participate in the command, and those who are good at sycophants have written countless poems to praise the local chief officer and this grand event! In short, all strata of Daming have benefited from this event!

Of course, it is the officials who benefit the most! At the same time that the imperial court threw nearly 10 million taels of silver into the country, a gluttonous feast began!

Officials from all over the country acted alone or colluded together, and began to set up clever names and embezzle the funds allocated by the imperial court! Those who are timid and do things alone will take a little less, and those who are bold will take a little more if there are more people! Even the officials and servants below also intervened! They certainly can't eat meat, but the soup is always a mouthful!

But fortunately, Zhang Juzheng had expected this kind of thing, and once again took out the weapon of the test method! At the same time, a large number of imperial historians were sent to various places to supervise. The effect did produce some, but I have to say that even some of the imperial history were dazzled by the huge amount of silver and went into the water!

But even so, the bulk of the silver was used in various places. Most officials don't dare to go too far, after all, they can still tell if they are saturated! So, with a few exceptions, at least half of the silver is used for real purposes!

Of course, there are also some officials with a good conscience

To do things, I just took some silver according to the rules and regulations, but I did things well! But in any case, this silver has played a huge role in promoting all strata of the Ming Dynasty!

So when the projects in various places were over, the recitals of the meritorious service in various places began to be continuously passed to the Beijing Division! Seeing Emperor Wanli's eyebrows and smiles, and he has already sketched a prosperous scene in his heart! And Zhang Jia and others beside him sent countless sycophants, so that he was so dizzy that he couldn't tell the north and the south!

Not only that, but even after Empress Dowager Li read these transcripts, she specially summoned Emperor Wanli to where she was, and praised her fiercely! At dinner, I made an exception and drank a lot of wine with Emperor Wanli! So during this period of time, you don't step on the ground when you walk thousands of miles!

As for today, it is the second time she has seen Emperor Wanli, and she specially dragged Emperor Wanli to the ancestral tablet, and boasted about her son to the ancestors!

Just when Emperor Wanli was proudly walking back after worshipping his ancestors and winning the praise of Empress Dowager Li, he frowned and rubbed his knees and legs while sitting on the chariot. Although it is a pleasure to boast about his achievements to his ancestors, it is also a very sinful thing for his chubby body to kneel for so long!

Emperor Wanli rubbed his knees, twisted his body, and put on a comfortable posture, and then sighed with satisfaction! But after this sigh, I suddenly felt that my whole body was even more powerless, and there was even a trace of emptiness in my heart!

Emperor Wanli couldn't help but ask himself, feeling that there seemed to be some unmet needs! So he closed his eyes and pondered the sudden feeling of dissatisfaction!

Zhang Jia has always been sensitive to Emperor Wanli's mood. He suddenly felt that Emperor Wanli seemed to have some problems, but when he turned his head to look, he found that he was in a state of pretending to sleep with his eyes closed, so he shook his head gently, thinking that he felt wrong!

After returning to the dormitory, Emperor Wanli still looked depressed, which made Zhang Jia dare not say anything more. I just thought that he had been kneeling in front of the ancestral tablet for a long time and was a little tired, so he persuaded Emperor Wanli to go to bed and take a nap.