Sir, you have to pay more

Chapter 334
Since the general manager's yamen is being renovated and repaired, the general manager and his wife have no place to live for a while, and they don't want to open a room in a nearby town to disturb the place, so they asked someone to temporarily build a thatched hut next to the yamen.

Everything is frugal.

It's really strange to say that the Master Manager doesn't see money, but he is strict with himself, never extravagant and wasteful, and even wipes between husband and wife afterwards with towels instead of the fine notes produced by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, because the Master Manager thinks that towels should be washed It can be reused, but the fine banknotes cannot be reused after being wiped, which is too wasteful.

It was so simple that the staff of the management committee who contracted the project couldn't stand it anymore. They spontaneously organized donations to the general manager, and they donated tens of thousands of taels of silver one after another.

In this regard, although the general manager thinks that the impact is not good, he is afraid that the people below will have other ideas, which will be detrimental to work and unity, and even affect the progress of the project. .

Sometimes, clean government work also requires strategy.

It is necessary to reflect one's incorruptibility and to allow subordinates to work with peace of mind. Only by doing this is a qualified leader.

Rough working methods are not advisable.

After all, Jingling is the Changrui Mountain Scenic Area. No matter how hot it is during the day, at night, when the mountain wind blows, it is still very cool.

It's just that there are more mosquitoes.

Under the dim oil lamp, the Master Manager is taking stock of recent expenses.

Yuanyuan, who was five months pregnant, was sitting on the side and was going to make two pairs of cloth shoes for her husband.

Because the two pairs of shoes my husband has been wearing are really smelly.

After putting in a shoe sole, Yuanyuan felt a little sleepy, looked up and saw her husband was still lying on the account, and said: "It's getting late, go to bed early."

"Well, you go to sleep first, I will sleep after finishing this painting."

After casually agreeing, Jia Liu continued to draw with relish, with an extremely satisfied smile showing from the corner of his mouth from time to time.

Seeing this, Yuanyuan couldn't help becoming curious, she put the soles of her shoes by the bed and walked over to have a look.As a result, she really couldn't understand what her husband drew. It looked like a tall building, but it was very weird, and it didn't fit in with the buildings she usually saw.

I don't know what it is.

Jia Liu touched Yuanyuan's belly and asked her, "How about it, isn't the imperial mausoleum I designed grand?"

Yuanyuan was stunned, and lost her voice: "You painted the new imperial tomb of Qing Yao?"

Jia Liu was taken aback, and quickly shook his head: "No, it's my own imperial mausoleum. I have already thought of the name, either the Winter Palace or the White House."

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Yuanyuan was speechless.

Jia Liu opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but realized that he had better not say anything.

Because, after talking too much, it feels like he is bragging.

After the investigation team headed by Prince Jane Feng Neheng returned to Beijing, the water seepage in Jingling quickly spread among the government and the public, and there were many discussions because it was unprecedented.

Some rumors were also spread in Beijing, saying that the reason why the bandits in Jinchuan were able to break through the blockade and run to Huguang was because of water seepage in the underground palace of the holy ancestor, which damaged the dragon veins of the Qing Dynasty.

This kind of rumor must have reached the ears of the emperor. Qianlong held two imperial meetings for this, and the queen mother also said that water seepage in the underground palace of the holy ancestor must not be allowed, even if there is no precedent to open the underground palace, for the sake of the holy grandfather The emperor had to deal with the Jiangshan Sheji in the Qing Dynasty as soon as possible.

In recent years, Qianlong, who has been extremely superstitious, believed in this even more, but whether to rebuild the imperial mausoleum once and for all, or just open the underground palace to drain water, is a big controversy between the court and China.

In the end, it's about money.

At that time, Jingling spent 314 million taels of silver on its construction. With today’s prices, it would cost at least 500 million taels to choose a place to rebuild.
The relative cost of the drainage project is less, and it can be done at most one hundred thousand taels.

Therefore, out of practical considerations, the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Internal Affairs gave suggestions to drain water first, and then consider relocation and reconstruction when the treasury has sufficient money in the future.

Qianlong couldn't make up his mind, and asked Heshen how much money he had left in the treasury.

He Shen said that originally there were millions of taels of crimes received from various places, but the household department temporarily withdrew 3 million taels to Sichuan for emergency, and the remaining silver in the treasury is less than 2 million taels.

The money issue was a real headache for Qianlong.

Jia Liu was also waiting anxiously. He didn't really want to rebuild Kangxi's private mansion, he was just making broken windows.

Yuanyuan doesn't understand what the broken window theory is.

Jia Liu's image is a metaphor.

He asked Yuanyuan: "If I marry a few more wives, would you be willing?"

"Pooh!"

Yuanyuan's answer was that she rolled her eyes, and she looked like she didn't know anything.

Jia Liu sneered: "Then I go out to visit brothels occasionally, like once a month, you don't object?"

Yuanyuan still wanted to pooh, but she didn't say anything after thinking about it.

Men are not good things, and even when you are doing it, you may be thinking of other women in your mind.

If you don't marry someone in, go out to spend once a month, you can just turn a blind eye and close your eyes.

Jia Liu chuckled, "This is the broken window theory."

Jia Liu, who fully understood Qianlong's difficulty in having no money, felt that he should perform the obligation of a loyal courtier, that is, as the head of the competent unit, he wrote to the emperor to ask all officials to donate "Xiuling Silver".

In order to prevent the lack of political awareness of all officials, the household department can directly deduct wages when paying wages, and then issue them a voluntary certificate.

It's the same trick as President Li played in Sichuan.

But before he could finish writing the notebook, something big happened in Shandong.

Qingshui leader Wang Lun, who is active in Shandong, took advantage of the severe drought and poor harvest in Shandong this year, and the local officials’ arbitrarily imposed additional taxes, which led to the fierce resistance of farmers. Thousands of people, wearing white scarves on their heads, attacked Shouzhang County with big knives and spears, killed Shen Qiyi, the county magistrate, and attacked Yanggu and Tangyi counties.

Wang Lun put forward the slogan of killing the rich and helping the poor. The people of Shandong joined the rebel army one after another, with tens of thousands of people. Shandong was in a hurry, North China was in a hurry, and the capital was in a hurry.

A few days ago, Wang Lun led his troops to defeat the encirclement and suppression officers and soldiers organized by Yanzhou General Soldier Weiyi and Shandong Governor Guotai, and went north to Linqing.

Linqing is the hub of waterway transportation between the north and the south. According to the main road of water transportation, if it falls into the hands of the rebels, the water, silver and grain in the south of the Yangtze River will not be able to get to Beijing, and the central government will be paralyzed.

This is more dangerous to the Qing Dynasty than the bandits who sneaked into Huguang.

Qianlong was furious and urgently ordered Shandong Lixing to attack.

But the Shandong Green Camp was unusable at all, and the only commander in chief who "bragged about his bravery" was beaten to the ground by the rebels.Guerrilla Chafu was also from the Manchurian Eight Banners, when he heard the bandits, he jumped out from the gap in the back wall of the office and fled after hearing the news.

The Shandong Green Camp was unavailable, so Qianlong had no choice but to let the Beijing Eight Banners go out to fight. However, the Beijing Eight Banners' elite firearms, forward, Shanpu, and Jianrui battalions were all lost in Jinchuan, and the Beijing Eight Banners had no soldiers or generals to use.

After patchwork, 1500 Imperial Guards were organized.

Who will lead the troops has become a big problem.

The Military Aircraft Department recommended Shu Hede, a senior scholar, as the imperial envoy, but Shu Hede had never led a soldier, and the Eight Banners can enlist generals either in Sichuan or in the Northwest.

In the end, He Shen, Minister of Military Aircraft, suggested to the emperor that "Uneng Yibatulu" Jia Jia Shikai, who had been convicted of attacking the camp by the bannermen and was demoted to the Minister of Tanglin, should serve as the leader of the team and go to Shandong to quell the chaos.

After the imperial guards came to Jingling to announce the decree, Jia Liu was stunned and remained speechless for a long time.

Yang Zhi next to him asked softly, "Master, what's the matter?"

"Fate, man, I really have to believe in fate, the Qing Dynasty is destined to end in the dark."

Jia Liu was gearing up, "Master, I want to help the Qing Dynasty and destroy the foreign countries. Master, my hands will be stained with the blood of the working people again, and I will solve the problems of the Qing Dynasty."

(End of this chapter)