Chapter 397 Return to Qinhuai River

Chen Xie smiled. The Shandong officialdom is extremely united now. * This is the result of the friendship between fighting. Chen Xie became this governor. In the cases of Yanzhou and Dongchang, in the subsequent locust plague, he took everyone together to advance and retreat together, and everyone divided the benefits. The Shandong officialdom is not just a solid piece, and it is not enough for anyone to reach out.

"Governor Xiong wants to establish his authority! Seeing Shandong exempting money and grain, building bridges and roads, dredging canals, I thought we all made money." In fact, Shandong's officialdom did make a small fortune, mainly from the fines of grain merchants. The officialdom naturally had rules, and half of these silver was used to share privately, and then talk about the others. Chen Xie agreed to this move, so the Shandong officialdom was united. Now the officialdom of the officialdom was no longer dependent on corruption. The official road from Dengzhou to Jinan started charging fees. It was always more than 100,000 taels of silver per year. The urban management fee in Jinan was another silver, and the canal was about to start charging again, and this silver was more. There were more ways to make money, and who was still thinking about risky things like embezzlement? Everyone saw the opportunity to make money and safeguard the common interests, so they naturally became more together.

Chen Xie's work is quite evil to ordinary civil servants, such as the urban management. In half a year, his greatest contribution was to clean up Jinan City. The beggars, gangsters and others on the street were all arrested. No one knew where these people were taken away, and no one cared about it.

After a while, the urban management started charging fees. As long as it was a merchant, none of them ran away. The environmental sanitation fees and security fees a year had to be paid, but it would not be possible to pay. There are indeed merchants who are awesome and unwilling to pay the fees. But you don’t want to do this. If you open a restaurant, you can pile up small hills at the door, like garbage at the door, opening green buildings, and every night, someone comes to investigate the case and catch thieves. If you run a grocery store, you usually dare not to pay this kind of small book deal. The maximum fee of one tael per year is how much trouble it saves.

It's okay for a day or two, but every day, who can stand it? Don't make trouble? The soldiers are holding bayonets to maintain order. Whoever makes trouble is arrested? Is the De Prince's Mansion awesome? The people who are being cleaned up are obedient. Now the people in the Prince's Mansion dare not go out. They have to pay double the price to buy soy sauce, and the food in the field is also found to be transported back at a high price.

The demons and monsters in Jinan City are almost crazy, and they are almost caught, so the market is stable. You have to pay. In fact, this fee is really not much. They charge at 15% of your monthly profit. To put it bluntly, it is a disguised commercial tax. But they do not use commercial tax, but use other tricks. Besides, everyone can see the changes in Jinan City. The roads are flat, the streets are spacious, and it is raining.

There is no water accumulation. There is a lot of money to rectify it. Who will pay this money? People say that it is taken from the people and used for the people. The merchants who pay the fees have an advantage. Whenever someone comes to make trouble, the government will immediately send out to ensure that everything is settled. Pay the fee once a month, and no worries will be gone. After a few months, after discovering such benefits, the merchants will no longer make trouble. Some people say that they will not allow the payment to be ignored and they may not be able to agree.

Some long-distance businesses were even more surprised to find that after paying various fees, they were unobstructed in Shandong Province. The bandits were everywhere in the past, but now they can't see them. The Shandong government sent troops and wiped out them. Or they just ran away and couldn't stay in Shandong anymore. What if they didn't run away? Compared with other provinces, everyone thinks that Shandong is different and the benefits are revealed.

After calculating over the year, I earn 20% more than before, and my thoughts are different.

Otherwise, the Chinese are afraid of being serious? As long as the government does things seriously, there will be nothing that cannot be done well. However, Shandong's serious premise is that everyone has benefits. The various fees collected will be distributed uniformly by the province. When a part of the money is distributed as a job subsidy for officials, the temptation of corruption is not that great. Of course, there are also those who are not afraid of death and continue to have a grand cause of embezzlement. Don't find out if you find that one is caught and you will not be ruthless at all.

Xiong Wencan wanted to show off the prestige of the governor, but Chen Xie didn't care. He persuaded Zhang Bingwen, who was angry, to leave, and Chen Xie made a little preparation and went to Nanjing to have a meeting along the canal. At this time, it was said that Xiong Wencan was still in Jiangxi.

Of course, Chen Xie would not care about Xiong Wencan's bullshit orders, and he didn't ask for money or food. With a thousand soldiers, Sun Kexian, among his staff, went south along the canal. Chen Xie didn't even fight a ceremonial war and took a boat quietly. The journey was quite smooth, no one was looking for trouble, and he passed Yangzhou smoothly into the Yangtze River. When he spent the night in Zhenjiang, it attracted the attention of local officials in Nanzhili.

It is impossible not to pay attention to this. The fleet carrying out missions on the Yangtze River arrived in Zhenjiang. Four 500-year-old warships were carrying the red flag of Dengzhou Camp. They were so eye-catching. Zhenjiang officials quickly inquired and found out that Shandong Governor Chen Xie was in Zhenjiang and was going to Nanjing.

When the warship protected Chen Xie to Nanjing, the news had spread. There were a group of Nanjing officials waiting on the dock. They were all unlucky guys who were working on the bench at the Sixth Ministry of Nanjing. They were very welcome to Chen Xie, because they naturally had a lot of benefits.

Chen Xie got off the boat and finished the process. He said that he had been ordered by the new governor to discuss how to suppress the thieves.

Xiong Wencan arrived in Wuchang at this time. He was the governor of the five provinces, and then gave the next order not to go to Nanjing and asked Chen Xie to go to Wuchang to meet him. The reason was very strong. He was the governor of the five provinces, and he could not control Jiangbei but Jiangnan.

Chen Xie refused the invitation and brought his entourage to his residence on the banks of the Qinhuai River. Zheng Tuoni and Liu Rushi, when they stood at the door of the yard to greet him, their faces were full of excitement. The Ming Dynasty was getting better and better in recent years, and gradually dominated the trend of public opinion in Jiangnan. This also led to the worsening of work of Zheng Tuoni and Liu Rushi and they had no time to go to Dengzhou.

I haven't seen Chen Xie for more than two years. Zheng Tuo Niang endured the excitement and stepped forward. Chen Xie smiled and took a deep look. It was a bit of a meaningless thing to say. When facing Liu Rushi, this girl was now a literary young woman. And with a sense of leadership, she had a lot of say in Ming Pao these years.

Although Zheng Tuoni and Liu Rushi wished that they could hold Chen Xie immediately to relieve their lovesickness, the people from Mingbao came out to meet each other, and Chen Xie still had to deal with it. Gu Jikun and Zhuang Xing knew each other. There were also two men in white-faced and blue-clad standing there, which was very eye-catching, but Chen Xie didn't know him.

Liu Rushi introduced: "Zhou Lixun, Peng Bin, Songjiang." Chen Xie smiled when he heard this name. Two of the six sons of the Jishe came forward and bowed, "I admired you for a long time, Mr. Xia and Mr. Xu, mentioned the two many times, including Mr. Chen (Zilong) and Mr. Du (Linzheng). The two said that the Jishe was the great wise men of the world, and Xie admired them for a long time but could not see them."

If it were before, Chen Xie might not take it seriously, after all, he was a military general. Now he is a governor, and speaking this from the perspective of a civil servant would be the same. The literati's aphrodisiac is hopeless.

"The Chief Executive is too honored!" These two people did not show off the elegance of scholars and bowed politely. If it weren't for Ming Pao, these two people would have failed the imperial examination, they would have been a poor scholar. Unlike now, they have been editor-in-chief in Ming Pao, and have written many articles in newspapers, with the vague meaning of famous scholars in Jiangnan. Moreover, they worked in Ming Pao and were deeply welcomed by girls on the Qinhuai River.

Literatures are also divided into people. Some literati are not good, they are not very capable, and they have a lot of problems. The six sons of the society are pretty good, and they are people who can do things. Although they have all joined Fushe, they are not very interested in those members of Fushe who go to extremes. It is not polite to criticize them in the newspaper. In the past two years, they have been fighting against the people of Fushe, and these two are the main forces.

These two people actually envied Xia Yunyi and Xu Fuyuan. These two guys joined Chen Xie’s staff team. When they wrote to each other, they knew that Xia and Xu were highly valued in Shandong and had real power. At the beginning, the two of them refused the invitation and stayed in Jiangnan. Now they are embarrassed to say what they want to go. Besides, they are doing well in Mingpao.

A group of literati were tactful and did not waste Chen Xie's time much. He said a few words of politeness and said goodbye. Chen Xie slowly went to the backyard. When he went upstairs, a shadow popped out of the boudoir, and his neck was tightly kept, so he refused to let go. Chen Xie picked up the light body in his arms, as soft as warm jade, and stepped into the boudoir.

After a while, he moaned and cried. The two maids in the corridor suffered a lot. They stood there and could not leave yet, and were ready to go in and help. Two hours later, the moon was already on the willows, so people were asked to send food in.

Zheng Tuoni, full of tenderness, shrank in her beloved man's arms, without any strength. She just stared at her with her rosy face and a pair of friendship in her eyes. Even if Liu Rushi came in with the maid who delivered the meal, Zheng Tuoni didn't move a finger and still sat on her thighs.

"Sister doesn't get up, so it's time for the girl to come in and call someone." Liu Rushi felt sour when he saw the two of them being squinted together, and he teased her. Zheng Tuoniang narrowed her eyes and said, "It's better you come in. I'm almost broken up by myself. You just happened to help me."

Liu Rushi was blushed when he was said and spat: "Sister who is doing something wrong, it's not my turn to help me, and there are two maids. What do you want me to do? I'm asking my brother-in-law to look down on him."

Chen Xie smiled and watched the two of them quarrel, not interrupting. After the food and food were ready, Zheng Tuo Niang got up and pulled Liu Rushi to sit down opposite him and said, "Good sister, sit down and have a few drinks together."

Chen Xie picked up the cup and said, "Thank you for the hard work over the years. I have a great contribution from Chen to be today." (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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