Chapter 278: Fireworks Come Down to Yangzhou in March
Gu Shuigen's son has been released by the Jinyiwei. After hearing that his son was captured, the Jinyiwei not only did not make things difficult for him, but also distributed land to them. Gu Shuigen asked his son with concern, "Son, the Jinyiwei said he wanted to divide land for us. Where did they get the land for our family?"
"There are all the officers in the military office. Thousands of households, hundreds of households, general flags, and small flags are all escorted to the capital for punishment. Their land will naturally be taken away by the Jinyiwei, and they will be distributed to our family." The son replied.
With the arrival of the Jinyiwei, Gu Shuigen heard more and more good news, including the Minister of Works personally brought craftsmen to help their military households build dams and transform farmland; the Jinyiwei also planned to run schools in military households and teach the children of military households to study, etc.
Gu Shuigen is skeptical about these things.
"Isn't the Jinyiwei called the Living King of Hell? What's wrong with this world? Has the Living King of Hell become a Living Bodhisattva?" Gu Shuigen said to himself, and he couldn't believe these things.
Xu Guangqi started to be busy with the craftsmen brought by the Ministry of Works. There were only more than 300 craftsmen, so he definitely could not complete such a huge project. So the villagers in the military office organized spontaneously, and almost all the young and strong men took the initiative to stand up to help the craftsmen from the Ministry of Works.
In fact, efforts are also to contribute to oneself. The military households are like a mirror in their hearts. Once these projects are completed, the ones who benefit will be their military office.
Under the command of craftsmen, the young and strong military households began to dig by the riverside, dug a low-lying land along the grass about three meters away from the river bank, raised the excavated earth to the riverside, and built a river embankment. The low-lying areas were digging even lower, forming a pond. These ponds were usually fish ponds, where fish, shrimps, turtles, ducks and geese were raised. When floods occurred, they became flood discharge areas. On the inside of the pond, a river embankment was built. The double insurance of the double embankment was not a problem to resist the once-in-a-century flood. Unless the extreme situation of Gaojiayan collapsed, it would be a great disaster and even Huaiyang would be over.
In the past few days, Xu Guangqi and the craftsmen were busy on the construction site, and Zhang Yong, a science and engineering man in his previous life, also stayed there. However, Gao Shixin and Xu Xianchun visited the salt merchants in Lianghuai to see if they could seize the opportunity, clean up some salt merchants, and confiscate their homes.
"These salt merchants are all rich enough to compete with their country. As long as they can copy two or three families, we will make another fortune." Xu Xianchun said with a smile.
"Let's go to the Lianghuai Salt Law Envoy first to check it out." Gao Shixin did not directly propose to visit the Lianghuai Salt Merchants, but went to Long Yuqi, a supervisor in charge of the salt industry.
Long Yuqi, the salt inspector who inspected Lianghuai, searched on Baidu on the Internet in later generations and said that he was a clean and honest official who pleaded for the people and was honest. At the historical information on later generations, Gao Shixin could only sneer in his heart: What bullshit? Can a supervisor in charge of Lianghuai's salt industry be a clean official? Even if he was originally a clean official, he had long been fed by salt merchants. A real honest official like Haigangfeng came to Lianghuai and fell into the siege of salt merchants. If you still want to be Haigangfeng, then wait and get out.
You do not embezzle or accept bribes. Don’t say that the superiors saw you sitting in the position of the Salt Censor of Lianghuai, and you can’t afford to blackmail you the money. They just say that the salt merchants have to find a way to kill you. If you impose a full salt tax, how can the salt merchants and officials at all levels survive? Cutting off people and money is like killing their parents. Maybe they fall into the water, fall off the horse, robbers, or encounter private salt caravans. There will always be a way to die for a fool like Haigangfeng.
If you can serve as the Yanshi Censor of the Lianghuai Censor, you will have to spend a lot of money to get this position. After you sit in this position, the great gods above will need to reward countless silver. If a Yanshi Censor is a clean official, he may have wealth that is as rich as a country, and it will not be enough to pay for the outside world.
Being a fat man is naturally a good job to make money, but if you become a fat man, you will really lose money every year. Why do you become a fat man and only make you fat? The masters above will get a share of the pie.
Not far from Huai'an, next to the famous Twenty-Four Bridges of Slender West Lake, the river is bright on the sand bank, the clouds are sailing to the Pu Bridge, the flower boats are densely packed with clouds, and the colorful lights make the lake surface brightly. There are silk and bamboos and laughter everywhere. There are also gullies and songs in the middle, and the sound of music and wine are really rising.
Among the flower boats, on the largest flower boat, the Lianghuai Salt Law Commissioner Long Yuqi and Yangzhou Prefect Liu Duo were on this boat. According to historical records, Liu Duo enforced the law like a mountain, and did not show personal feelings. He had to take care of the situation when he saw injustice. According to the History of Ming Dynasty, the Yangzhou Prefect Liu Duo was angry at the wise and chaotic government, and wrote a fan of poetry, books and monks. He had a sentence of "ghostly national affairs", and committed literary inquisition and was killed in prison.
Wait, literary inquisition? Isn’t this a specialty of our Qing Dynasty? When did there be literary inquisition in the Ming Dynasty?
When the Qing Dynasty was revising the Ming Dynasty, those unscrupulous literati took all the shit on Eunuch Wei. They told two jokes: the first joke was that the Yanfa commander of the Lianghuai Censors had a clean official; the second joke was that there was a literary inquisition in the Ming Dynasty.
At this time, the honest and honest Long Yuqi and Liu Duo recorded in history books were each hugging a woman, and the two great officials were placing their mouths on the girl's breasts.
"Liu Fu Zun, I heard that the eunuch party's Jinyiwei is coming to Yangzhou?" Long Yuqi asked.
Liu Duo sneered: "Entertainment Uniform Guard? What can the Jinyiwei do when it comes? Let the salt merchants deal with them and feed the two little eagle dogs, Gao Shixin and Xu Xianchun."
"Liu Fu Zun, you don't know anything!" Long Yuqi said, "The two eagle dogs, Gao Shixin and Zhang Yong, are different. They just like to search the house! I'm afraid that if we feed the silver, we won't be able to feed these two hungry wolves! Mr. Xiuwu has been wrongly imprisoned, and both the Li family's sons were caught by the Jinyiwei! The Eagle Claw Sun came to harm the two Huaihuai, and the two Li family's sons were arrested, causing heavy losses to the salt merchants! The canal transportation was severely damaged, and even the salt merchants could not transport the salt!"
Liu Duo was scared and sweated coldly, then comforted himself and said, "They were just ordered to go to Huai'an to search the Li family. It seems that the emperor did not ask them to come to Yangzhou? Maybe they were just coming to Yangzhou to play?"
"Tongchu, even though he said that, since these two castrated dogs came to Yangzhou, we have to be careful! Don't think about getting some money, or they might just catch them! In my opinion, it's better to invite them to have delicious food and fun. By the way, I heard that Gao Shixin's little castrated dog was not rich, but very lustful! He accepted all kinds of women. When he attacked Korqin, he caught two Mongolian women as concubines! When he returned to Datong, he openly snatched a maid from the brothel and took her home as a concubine!"
"I took a scammer and went home to be a concubine?" Liu Duo laughed.
The two women beside the two laughed when they heard that Gao Shixin stole a maid from a rough maid and went home to be a concubine.
"What kind of person are the two elder brothers, that eunuch Gao Shixin? Why do you even want to steal the maid from a rough man?" A singer shook Long Yuqi's arm and asked coquettishly.
Liu Duo laughed: "Is this more important? He is just a vulgar martial artist! He is a rough man who likes the same vulgar maid!"
Long Yuqi said, "But I heard that the maid with a thick face looks pretty good, but she is thick and big. I heard that after the eunuch brought this woman home, no matter what clothes she had, she looked rustic and rustic. No matter how she dressed up, she would not be on the table."
"Hahaha!" Liu Duo smiled and leaned back and forth, "It turns out that he is a vulgar martial artist!"
Long Yuqi said again: "Since this person is lustful, it's easy to deal with. He should be here tomorrow. Let's prepare and invite Miss Yang Wan to play and sing a song for him."
"Miss Yang Wan?" Liu Duo was so distressed that he almost vomited blood. "Miss Yang Wan is the number one beauty in Yangzhou! That's the eagle claw grandson! It's fine to play and sing a song, but I'm afraid that if this little eagle dog falls in love with Miss Yang and forces him to leave, then the scholars in Yangzhou are still in trouble?"
Chapter completed!