Chen Yichen was so angry that he laughed. He thought that because of his identity as the imperial censor, each prefecture would be fine if it was at least 10,000 taels of silver.

Unexpectedly, I didn’t even give me a thousand taels of silver, especially the last one hundred taels of silver, I really feel embarrassed to say it?

"My colleagues are so generous. If the Japanese official does not ask, he will not know that Shandong Prefecture is so poor.

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Listening to the teasing meaning of Chen Yichen's words, the officials of the Shandong Provincial Administration had to smile awkwardly.

A few sarcastic words will not lose a piece of meat. If you pay for money and grain, you are really cutting the flesh!

Looking at the hippie and smiling look of the officials of the Shandong Provincial Administration Office, Chen Yichen understood that this group of people would definitely not eat it, and he had to have some hard guys.

Chen Yichen said slowly: "Since that's the case, then some extraordinary means must be taken in extraordinary times.

"I must have known that this official was born in Yingtian Prefecture. The staff and tutors of the Southern Zhili and Zhejiang Provincial Administration are well-known in the world, and are proficient in the reputation of punishment, money, and documentary documents."

"It is unreasonable to purify Shi Zheng without investigating the account book of silver, money, rice and grain. Which prefecture do you think I should start from?" As he said, Chen Yichen looked back and forth at the Shandong Provincial Administration officials, and everyone was dodging their eyes and dared not look at each other.

The shogunate culture in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas flourished in the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty. The economic and literary style were prosperous, resulting in a large number of scholars. Under the inner circle, some literati who did not obtain official positions would choose to become private consultants of local officials at all levels.

This is how the famous "Shaoxing Master" came from later generations.

Of course, Chen Yichen is actually not familiar with the staff members of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, except for Bian He, who came to the door. However, it is enough to borrow their names to check the accounts and scare the officials of the Shandong Provincial Administration. After all, they don’t know whether Chen Yichen has connections in this regard.

These days, if you want to find faults in the local governments in the Ming Dynasty, even if you are as honest as Hai Rui, you can find loopholes. It’s not that he is greedy, but that the local financial system of the Ming Dynasty is extremely strange and it is impossible not to have problems.

The most incredible point is that in the end, the Ming Dynasty, there was no unified Ministry of Finance, and there was no coordinated payment transfer channel. The Ministry of Revenue was decentralized too much.

To describe it as a popular word in later generations, it is called "decentralization".

For example, Yanggu County receives local taxes. It is not paid to the financial department and then distributed according to needs and budget, but is distributed by itself in the local area.

For example, the county government directly decided to pay the salary of officials, the garrison and garrison, the garrison and garrison, the garrison and yamen maintenance, the garrison and yamen retained the fiefdom and vassal kings, etc.

It would be fine if it was just like this. At least the number of silver was clear, it was nothing more than the local distribution power. The problem was that the fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty was not just silver, but physical goods were collected!

Therefore, the amount of silver above needs to be converted into rice, grain, cloth, silk, salt, tea, oil and pepper and other things, and it is not clear if you change it to a god.

Even more outrageous is that this pile of things is not just handed over to the Ministry of Revenue, but also has to be transported to the transportation warehouse, the inner warehouse, the Taipu Temple, the Ministry of Works, and the Ministry of Rites.

Anyway, if the center can think of the yamen, it can basically get a share of the pie. In the end, it will be a mess of money from the central government to the local government.

This is why the Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue could only be maintained at around 20 million taels, and it collapsed directly in the late Ming Dynasty during the Chongzhen period. Even in the late Qing Dynasty, the total annual income still remained at over 100 million taels, and the gap was huge.

The reason is that in addition to the difference in the collection efforts caused by the distribution of minus acres and the gentry's collection of grains together, the difference in fiscal execution efficiency is also a very important factor.

As for the chaotic financial system of the Ming Dynasty, only if local officials are not greedy or chaotic will there be ghosts. They can last for more than two hundred years before they collapse, and even more, the ancestral tombs will be filled with smoke.

So as long as Chen Yichen checks the accounts, he will definitely find out the problem and ask for the crime!

Seeing that all the officials did not speak, the governor Hong Ying coughed and then said, "Dear colleagues, Chen Qianxian is the imperial censor to punish Shi Zheng. You and others should cooperate. How can you shirk responsibility when encountering difficulties?"

"Let me be the master of this. My colleagues from the Shandong Provincial Administration Office think of a way to collect 50,000 taels of silver from each prefecture to support Chen Qianxian to provide disaster relief and water control. As parents, we should put the people first!"

Apart from the "special envoys" such as the governor, the governor is the official chief of a province. So when Hong Ying made the decision, the Shandong governor's official immediately nodded and echoed: "What the Fantasy said is very much. As a civil servant, how can we refuse because of the current predicament?"

"Chen Qianxian's contribution to water management is in the present and the future. We must cooperate with each other!"

"Even if the local government is hungry, the officials must collect all the money for disaster relief, so that the people cannot suffer!" "The vassal state and the royal royal family constitution should take compassion and love the people, and the officials should take the lead as examples."

This speed of face change made Chen Yichen amazed.

In the past, when I was in the center of the court, I was either high-ranking officials or noble officials or Hanlin nobles. No matter how bad I was, I was still the group of censors and trolls. No matter whether the character of a literati was said or practiced by myself, at least everyone was in the scene and wanted to be more handsome.

Millions of victims in Shandong have been floating around, and the situation is so decayed. They are so embarrassed to say that as a person-friendly official, they would rather suffer than the people suffer. They really want to be faced.

50,000 taels of silver may seem a lot, but for large-scale water conservancy projects and large-scale disaster relief, it is a drop in the bucket.

You should know that Chen Yichen recovered taxes and grains from several large households in Yanggu County, and converted them into silver, and the entire Shandong Chengxuan announced that the Political Department would only squeeze 50,000 taels so hard?

Hong Ying's move is to retreat as he advances, and he fools the ghost?

"Hong Fantai is a magnificent official, and I believe that he should be worth 500,000 taels, otherwise wouldn't it be detrimental to Hong Fantai's reputation if it is spread?'

Chen Yichen no longer had the patience to play with these local officials. He just wanted to make money now and then settle in Zhangqiu Town to manage the water.

Since Hong Ying, the head of a province, stood up, Chen Yichen simply beat the snake and rode it on, forcing him to express his opinion.

"What did Chen Qianxian say? How could a province's finances be so frivolous and casual? Could it be that the capital's prosperity flashed and thought that 500,000 taels was a small amount?"

Feeling the aggressiveness of Chen Yichen's words, Hong Ying's tone became tougher.

After all, Hong Ying is also a second-rank official and is the head of the governor. In front of his subordinates, Chen Yichen is so disrespectful, if he does not show a tough attitude, how can he convince the people in the future?

"Absolutely 500,000 is not a small amount, but in such a huge Shandong, I cannot even retract 500,000 taels. I have reason to suspect that the corruption is serious!'

Chen Yichen continued to be aggressive. He made up his mind if the Shandong Provincial Administration officials refused to obey, then he rushed to the Provincial Administration Office to check the accounts overnight.

There is no need to check the accounts in person, because the censors of the Ming Dynasty went out to the town and had the same power of news and reporting as censors. If you suspect greed and deficit, you can be punished.

If you don’t get rid of the local officials, you will really be like a censor?

Seeing that the situation was in a state of brilliance, Governor Zhang Ji stood up and spoke up as the musician who was blushing.

"Chen Qianxian, the 500,000 taels of Shandong prefectures are indeed unable to be recruited, and I hope to understand the difficulties of local governments."

"Control the Yellow River floods is a matter of benefiting all people in Shandong. Eliminating all difficulties, my colleagues must do their part. Otherwise, if each step back, what if you take a step back? How about 200,000 taels of silver?'

Is this called taking one step back from 500,000 taels to 200,000 taels?

The Dragon Slaying Sword is just like this.

Just as Shen Yichen was about to bargain, Zhang Ji looked at him and said lightly: "Chen Qianxian, not only you have the power to report to the Shandong territory, but I can also go to Shengshen directly!'

"There has been delayed by the river construction period, and the people are still suffering.

Zhang Ji said it very clearly. If Chen Yichen continued to "make trouble", he would also submit a memorial to the court to make trouble.

If two great gods in one province attack each other, they will be like the party struggle in the late Ming Dynasty, and everyone will not do anything. When the flood season occurs again, in addition to the people suffering, Chen Yichen will also be held accountable for the failure of water control, which can be said to be both defeated.

"Okay, only 200,000 taels, please help me with your colleagues!'

Unlike the scene that Zhang Ji imagined, Chen Yichen suddenly made a big turn of 180 degrees and immediately agreed, which was really unexpected.

In fact, Chen Yichen also knows that it is impossible for Shandong local governments to take out 500,000 taels of silver.

The reason why the price is so high that the Ming Dynasty officialdom emphasizes a moderate amount, and it is definitely not up to the point that it is 200,000 taels. If the lion speaks 500,000 taels, they will reconcile and think that 200,000 taels are acceptable.

Chen Yichen thought his theory was perfect, but he didn’t know that he was only on the first level, and Zhang Ji’s subsequent approach had reached the fifth level!

After the negotiations on the recruitment of money from Shandong prefectures, Chen Yichen immediately ordered the Dongchang Weiyun Army to escort the people in the Hewan to Zhangqiu Town where the dike was broken, and built a large-scale construction of camps there to prepare for subsequent labor-for-relief.

Another day later, the soldiers of the Tai'an Guards, who were recruited, rushed to Yanggu County under the leadership of Han Bin, which was considered to be a relief from insufficient manpower.

However, the Tai'an Guard did not come alone. In less than two hours, the soldiers of the Jinan Guard 5,000 Guards, led by the commander Tongzhi of the capital, also came to Yanggu County.

But the problem is that Chen Yichen did not recruit soldiers from Jinan Guards, and they were different from Tai'an Guards, which were only a hundred miles apart. Even if they took a boat down the Yellow River, they would not be able to go to Yanggu County in a short time.

Then the answer is very obvious. They were dispatched by Governor Zhang Ji!

"The headmaster, Zhang Ji transferred the soldiers from Jinan Guards, I'm afraid things are not simple.

Bian He looked at the Jinan Guard soldiers who were heading to the county government and said to Chen Yichen with a serious expression.

"Actually, it's not that complicated. Just strengthen your momentum.

Chen Yichen didn't believe that Zhang Ji had any disobedience. Even if he was incompatible with him, the Censor of the Censor, it would be impossible to transfer the soldiers of the garrison to siege him.

The reason for such a big fanfare is probably because I learned about Meng Anwei's death on the way, so I sent troops to guard him, and at the same time I could kill his own arrogance.

Chen Yichen's guess was only half correct. Zhang Ji did learn about Meng Anwei's death on the way. But he mobilized the soldiers of Jinan Guard not to escort and pretend, but had planned it before.

However, the Jinan Guards are far away from Yanggu County, and the marching of soldiers in the guards is slow, so this is delayed to today.

"Mr. Bian, have the county government's grain storage transportation arranged properly?'

"It has been arranged and can be loaded and transported to Zhangqiu Town within three days."

"Okay, let's set off to Zhangqiu Town immediately."

Chen Yichen and Bian He stood at the county government gate, not to observe the arrival of Jinan Guards, but to set off for Zhangqiu Town.

Now that the rice, grain, and money for disaster relief have been settled, the next step is Chen Yichen's real task of seizing Shandong to control water. He doesn't need to stay in Yanggu County and accompany these Shandong Provincial Office officials to falsely make polite decisions. It's time to do practical things in Daxing Water Conservancy.

Zhangqiu Town is not far from Yanggu County, with a straight line of about twenty kilometers. However, because the floods last year, the road was damaged, and the road was muddy and was far less smooth than the waterway.

Chen Yichen and his group set off at noon and walked until night fell before coming to Zhangqiu Town.

Although Zhang Qiu was a town, it was not inferior to ordinary county towns during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Because it was at the intersection of Shouzhang, Dong'a and Yanggu counties, and it was also one of the five commercial ports on the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, almost equivalent to the port city in later generations.

Therefore, during the most prosperous period of the entire town, there were Jiumen Jiuguanxiang, 72 streets, 82 Hutongs, and Yanggu County.

But this time, Chen Yichen came to Zhang Qiu's eyes, and basically, except for the ruins, there were various weeds. The reason was that after the estuary broke, the huge amount of water from the Yellow River almost wiped out the entire town, and all the houses collapsed, with a depth of several meters.

Even though the flood has faded during the dry winter season, it is still full of devastation.

However, compared with the most miserable moments, the Dongchang Weiyun Army has now begun to rebuild houses and residences based on the ruins, so that the victims living on the road can have a place to settle down.

And no matter how much the flood is destroyed, compared to the desolate area in the wild, at least there are some architectural foundations here, and the amount of large-scale construction projects is smaller.

But soon Chen Yichen realized something was wrong. He issued a decree a few days ago, calling on victims from all over the three provinces to go to Zhangqiu Town to provide relief. Based on the current base of victims, plus the growth rate of refugees in Yanggu County during the current period.

If nothing unexpected happens, at least tens of thousands of victims in Zhangqiu Town will come here to seek help.

Now, at a glance, with the number of victims migrating from Yanggu County and the Dongchang Weiyun Army, the number of people is not as large as the number of victims in the river besides at the beginning, which seems very abnormal.

"Wu Dong, in addition to opening a porridge shed in towns, have you also set up a porridge shed in other places?"

Chen Yichen called Wu Dong over to ask, there was something wrong with the number of people here.
Chapter completed!