Chapter 222 The Smart Xiaoge Lao
If there is anyone in the capital who is more anxious about the capital expansion project than Emperor Jiajing, it is Yan Shifan, the minister of the Ministry of Industry.
Ever since Yan Shifan found his goal in life and devoted himself to supporting King Jing to prove that he was stronger than his father, he also fell into the excitement of racing against time.
However, Yan Shifan's excitement was not brought about by the capital expansion project itself, but by Yan Maoqing and Luo Wenlong.
After Yan Maoqing came to the salt administration, he acted very quickly and the results were indeed very good. In just half a year, he collected millions of taels of salt tax.
Facing such an efficient Yan Maoqing, Yan Shifan almost grinned.
As expected, I am still very discerning and very useful.
This is a high praise Yan Shifan gave himself after receiving Yan Maoqing's secret letter.
With the salt tax of more than one million taels of silver, Yan Shifan was confident.
But he also has his own cleverness. Yan Shifan believes that being a king is similar to raising a dog.
You can give bones to dogs, but never meat!
Because once a dog gets used to eating meat, it will be unhappy when you give it a bone.
Therefore, Yan Shifan did not intend to actually hand over the more than one million taels of silver that Yan Maoqing obtained after taking charge of the salt administration.
Finally, Yan Shifan asked Luo Wenlong to go there in person and ask Luo Wenlong to tell Yan Maoqing to pay 200,000 taels to the court first, and then another 200,000 taels, so that the court can not only see you ability, and can appreciate your hard work.
As a result, Yan Maoqing followed Yan Shifan's instructions and handed over the special funds dedicated to the expansion of the capital to the imperial court bit by bit.
At the same time, with the remaining money, Luo Wenlong's suggestion was used to set up loan sharks in the local area. He continued to squeeze the poor people in the local area, and those who could not pay back the money were used to shop or sell Sons and daughters were sold to pay bills.
Anyway, with them as the backend, no loan shark dares not to repay the money, so this investment is definitely a sure profit.
Moreover, this is not Luo Wenlong's exclusive invention, but something that many powerful dispatched officers often do, but those people do not have as much capital as they do.
So this also reflects Luo Wenlong's ability and boldness in disguise.
Part of the money they earned was kept in their own pockets, and part was used to buy relationships. The remaining part was quietly sent to Yan Shifan's hometown in Ji'an with full filial piety.
It can be said that of the more than one million taels of silver obtained from the salt administration in the past six months, only one-fifth of the money actually handed over was only one-fifth.
Most of the rest was pocketed by Yan Shifan, Yan Maoqing, Luo Wenlong and various local shrimpers who participated in it.
And these little shrimps are also unavoidable interest groups.
After all, Yan Maoqing came to work on the salt administration. Although he had the power of prime minister, he was just a person.
So if he wants to do things well and beautifully, he must recruit a group of people to help him do things.
Otherwise, even if he has extraordinary abilities, he will not be able to receive even a tael of silver from the salt administration.
And this is also a stubborn disease and status quo of the local system, and no one can change it.
Because these little shrimps who are parasitic on the salt administration, although their officials are not big, they can't stand the intertwined relationship between them, and most of them are hereditary petty officials.
Such a kid is so difficult to deal with, even if the King of Hell comes, he still has to hold his forehead and sigh. Because when it comes to specific matters, these little brats still have to contribute, so even a strong cross-river dragon like Yan Maoqing cannot suppress these local snakes.
Once he wants to suppress the interests of these local snakes, these local snakes will let him know why the flowers are so red in a minute.
Therefore, when dealing with these local snakes, Yan Maoqing's approach is also very simple and clever, that is, to fight against each other.
Otherwise, why did he get more than one million taels of silver in half a year?
However, this method also has sequelae.
Because the extra money he collected must be taken away from the original interest groups.
Now that these people have been deprived of their meat, when these people seize the opportunity to fight back in the future, they may directly bite him to death.
Therefore, if Yan Maoqing wants to remain stable, he has to hug Yan Shifan's thigh tightly and give Yan Shifan the greatest benefits. In this way, he can continue to rise step by step smoothly and escape from those who are being suppressed. He suppressed the bully of the Yanzheng local snake, but the result was that he retaliated.
But is Yan Shifan a good tree?
Xiyuan, Longevity Palace.
After waiting for three days, Emperor Jiajing finally received the report on the capital expansion plan submitted again by Ouyang Bijin, Minister of Industry.
Emperor Jiajing frowned while looking at Ouyang Bijin's memorial, with an indescribable emotion between his brows.
But Huang Jin, who had been serving Emperor Jiajing for a long time, could tell at a glance that Emperor Jiajing was dissatisfied with Ouyang Bijin's new plan.
After a while, Emperor Jiajing finally couldn't help but became furious, "Call Ouyang Bijin and Yan Shifan in!"
Huang Jin heard Emperor Jiajing's rage and hurriedly He responded: "Emperor, don't be so angry that your immortal body will be broken. I will go find these two to vent your anger."
Emperor Jiajing looked down at Ouyang Bijin's memorial again, gritted his teeth and said: " Does the Ministry of Industry want to build a straw shed for me? How dare you submit such a plan to me? And what happened to Feng Bao? I asked him to take Ouyang Bijin around to see the results. Did you come back with such a plan? ”
When Huang Jin heard that Emperor Jiajing's rage implicated Feng Bao again, Huang Jin could only sigh in his heart, what an unlucky boy.
But now is not the time for Huang Jin to lament Feng Bao. The top priority now is to call Ouyang Bijin and Yan Shifan over.
So, after calming Emperor Jiajing's anger, Huang Jin immediately sent someone to call Ouyang Bijin and Yan Shifan.
Especially when he called Yan Shifan, he was serving his father Yan Song in the Xiyuan duty house.
At this time, he was suddenly summoned by the emperor, and Yan Song also vaguely felt that something was wrong.
So while Ouyang Bijin also came to Xiyuan, Yan Song asked Yan Shifan, "Tell me, what good things have you done?"
When his father asked Yan Shifan this question, he immediately Exploded.
"Dad, you know me well. How could I do something unmeasured? I must have been brought into trouble by Ouyang Bijin this time. His Majesty asked him to follow Feng Bao around and take a look again. A memorial for the expansion of the capital. Hei'er estimated that he must have done nothing, and then asked the people below to help him prepare a plan that was not innovative and gave it to His Majesty."
"So, Hei'er thought. His Majesty's sudden summons this time must be to warn Ouyang that he must come in, and the child is just incidental."
Yan Song looked at Yan Shifan who spoke with certainty, a glimmer of light flashed in the depths of his cloudy old eyes, and then he said quietly: "Really?"
(End of this chapter)