Nowadays, the price of rice in Huguang area is about 15 liters per liter, and 15 liters per bucket of rice, which is about 220 liters.

One or two silver coins are exchanged for copper coins on the market, about 1,000 yuan.

In other words, one tael of silver can buy about 80 catties of rice.

In terms of purchasing power, it is about 200 yuan in Wang Wu's previous life.

If 50,000 taels of silver is converted into coins, it is 7.5 million to 10 million coins.

There must be more rich people in Guizhou City, which is equivalent to a county-level city, than in the county, so this money is not a big amount for the gentry in the city.

If one family is struggling, ten families and hundreds of families will not be struggling.

There are no hundreds of thousands at home, you are embarrassed to call it a big family.

In this "fundraising", Wang Wu emphasized that those who have merit and fame must be ranked in front of those who have money.

Because there are only two kinds of people who have made a name for themselves in these years.

One is pre-Ming, and the other is Manchu.

The famous people in the former Ming Dynasty did not think about resisting the Qing Dynasty, but were willing to be traitors, who would not take their money?

If the Qing court is tested for fame, then the money should be even more out of it.

Because in terms of time, the most recent Huguang Township test was three years ago.

Three years ago, Daming was not dead!

At least those who return to the state should know that the Ming army is fighting against the Qing Dynasty next door.

Therefore, it must be collected.

What is fame?

It's compilation.

Perhaps the established in later generations is not the same as the rich.

But in this era, fame and wealth are basically linked.

Gentlemen and gentlemen, there are gentlemen and gentlemen.

Without the privileges that come with fame, there would be no local power.

The so-called gentry, whether in the city or in the countryside, are all local snakes.

Of course, in order to prevent individual exceptions, Wang Wu also specially told Xia Zhizhou to engage in "powerful".

I won't explain the superfluous words, I understand them.

"Don't be afraid, you take the money, and the IOU is also written by the official, and if you go back to the people, you will also sue the official, and it has nothing to do with you."

Wang Wu gave the military and political chief in Guizhou City a reassurance, and directly took the matter to himself.

and hinted that he dared to raise funds in Guizhou, there must be someone on it.

Who is above the Han army capital?

"Understood, understood, lowly understood!"

Lord Zhizhou immediately went to work.

Lord Dutong is delaying time, you said that I would be divided earlier.

The gentry in the city were soon notified to hold a meeting at the yamen.

Xia Guoen made a list of 54 companies that could attend the meeting.

There are 5 officials in Zhishi, and one is still retired from the position of the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, which is equivalent to the retirement of the deputy minister.

Two of them were retired from the Fuzhou Yamen, one was from the head of the government, and the other was retired from the appointment of the county magistrate of Shandong.

There are also more than a dozen people in the family who are officials in other places, and the official positions range, and the largest official is the prefect in Guangdong.

The rest are either more land or more shops, and they are all characters who can be counted in Guizhou City.

In order to prevent these big gentry from spreading the money on the heads of the common people again, and engaging in ghost tricks such as returning the money of the gentry and giving the villagers three or seven points, Wang Wu asked Xu Lin to bring people to the meeting as a deterrent.

He also instructed those who were willing to pay to put them back and get the money, and those who refused to pay the money were detained in the yamen.

Don't beat or scold, just buckle it.

It is not allowed to go to the thatched house.

It's up to whom.

Xia Zhizhou is experienced in the end, and if he came up with an idea, he really had a head and refused to pay it, so he asked someone to go to his house and tell his family.

Talk about the matter more seriously, deduct a few trumped-up charges, and talk about small things to see if his family is in a hurry.

In a hurry, the money came.

"It's a good idea to notify the family."

Wang Wuda praised, the yamen is really unchanged for thousands of years.

But I didn't meet the head iron.

A group of soldiers went to that station, and it was the lord of the Eight Banners who borrowed money by name, and the gentry and big families had to obediently give out the money no matter how much they complained.

Who dares to offend the Lord of the Eight Banners these years?

If you have a lot of money at home, you can take it directly, and if you don't have a lot of money, you have to turn it around with relatives, friends, and business partners.

Wang Wu is not in a hurry, as long as he gets the money together tomorrow.

President Qian Wang Tai came over to ask for instructions that after Lord Dutong handed over their weapons last time, Admiral Dong allocated them a batch of weapons and equipment, whether to pack them and take them away.

"I'll take some of the better quality ones with me, and the rest will be yours, and you can just report the whole account." If Master Dong is upset, tell him to find me. ”

While speaking, Wang Wu put a pen on the ledger and ticked a red circle behind the name of President Qian Wang Tailai.

Remember the merit once.

Xia Zhizhou also came after a while, saying that he felt that he didn't need so much silver to repair the river embankment, so he wanted to move five thousand taels from the river repair money to honor Lord Dutong.

"Nine thousand taels is enough to repair the embankment?"

Wang Wu didn't know much about water conservancy construction, but he felt that the river embankment reinforcement in a state would not be able to stop it for 9,000 taels, so don't let the people suffer because of this bit of silver.

Xia Zhizhou coughed lightly: "Don't you know that civil officials eat grass and military attaches eat soil?" ”

"Civil officials eat grass, military attaches eat soil?"

When Wang Wutou heard this, he couldn't help but be curious.

Xia Zhizhou explained that the so-called "grazing" means that the civil officials in charge of the construction of the river embankment use the procurement of river control materials (grass) to falsely report the materials used for the project to obtain funds; "Eating soil" means that the military attache in charge of the construction of the embankment and dam falsely reported the earth and stone to obtain the project payment.

Conventional embezzlement.

Therefore, the cost of repairing the river of 14,000 taels reported by them this time is enough for seven or eight thousand taels.

The extra money is actually the "profit" of him and Wang Tailai.

Taking out the bulk of the profits to honor Wang Dutong is also the common meaning of him and Wang Qianzong.

"You all eat grass and soil, and you still pay tribute to the official with the silver, what is there to ask the official?"

Wang Wu felt that his skill attributes were about to be activated by the two guys in Guizhou.

Xia Guoen glanced at Wang Tailai, who was laughing with him, and said a little embarrassed: "Didn't you hear that the imperial court is going to build a city in Jingzhou, when the city is renovated, repaired and fortified, training grounds, horse farms, and various yamen offices."

Wang Wu, who listened to the words, was also dumbfounded, but he didn't expect the two in front of him to actually set their eyes on the Jingzhou Mancheng Project.

Of course, in their words, it was their brother-in-law who was engaged in earthworks in Jingzhou, and this is not just the right place to garrison Jingzhou, rather than this engineering project worth millions of taels for others to do, it is better to do it for their own people.

"Your own people?"

Wang Wu raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Yes, yes, your own people!"

Xia Guoen and Wang Tailai nodded repeatedly.

Why aren't they their own people, but they have written a letter of repentance and a letter of guarantee for you.

The ship sank and drowned.

Wang Wu thought about it seriously and readily agreed: "I can find a way to help your brother-in-law fight for the project, but I have to cut corners." ”

Hearing this, Xia Guoen was overjoyed, and swore with a swear: "Lord Dutong, rest assured, the city is a thousand-year project of our Qing Dynasty, and it is also related to the 10,000-year national fortune of our Qing Dynasty, and you can't cut corners if you die!" ”

Mr. Wang Qian also said that his brother-in-law dared to cut corners, and he didn't need to speak to the adults, and he, who was a brother-in-law, peeled off his brother-in-law's skin with his own hands.

Who thinks that Lord Tutong is unhappy: "If you don't cut corners, what money do you earn?" If you don't make money, how can I make money? ”

"Huh?"

Zhizhou and Mr. Qian looked puzzled.

"You can do the tofu slag project, right?"

Wang Wu was interested here, and Zhang Changgeng was responsible for the establishment and renovation of Jingzhou Mancheng, and Zhang Changgeng was responsible for him, so he had no reason not to get involved in the Mancheng project.

Could it be true that people can build the walls of the city so impregnable?