Take the farm down to earth

Chapter 131 Chapter 130
Xue Biao and Xue Baoqin were equally happy, 3000 taels of silver was not the main thing.

With this incident, it means that my team has a backer.

Moreover, the two brothers and sisters have been traveling with their father since they were young. It can be said that they are very good at doing business, but because they are young and have no elders, it is not an exaggeration to say that they have been cautious in the past few years.

Now the pressure is reduced all of a sudden, not to mention Xue Biao, even the 11-year-old Xue Baoqin can't help thinking wildly.

"Brother, is it possible for brother-in-law to lift you up and make you an official?"

Xue Biao was stunned for a moment, then sighed, "I really want to, but my brother-in-law insists on giving me the 3000 taels, so I don't even have a chance to ask."

But Xue Baoqin shook her head, "Brother, you are so stupid, how can you promise to ask for an official for you once you do something. If that's the case, brother-in-law can't be trusted.

This is just right now, it not only shows that you are valued, but also can take the opportunity to test and test you again. "

Only then did Xue Biao come to his senses, and nodded with a surprised expression on his face, "I heard people say that after my brother-in-law took over as an imperial envoy, he has been busy arguing with officials from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households these days.

No, tomorrow morning I will go to my brother-in-law and wait there. "

While Xue Baoqin nodded, he reminded, "Brother, it's better to go to my aunt and cousin first."

"Yes, yes, yes," Xue Biao patted his forehead, "It's still the girl who is thoughtful."

He raised his foot and wanted to find Xue Pan, but stopped after walking a few steps.

"No, it's better to help brother-in-law after talking about brother-in-law's difficulties tomorrow."

Xue Baoqin thought about it and agreed.
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Shi Zhongkui went to the emperor that day, apparently to warn Xia Shouzhong by meeting the emperor.

But it's also true.

After getting the records of the Ministry of Household Affairs, all the registered rice fields in Gyeonggi, I checked carefully for a day, and then recruited the land of Daxing after returning home.

With the presence of land smugglers who know everything about Daxing's fields, let alone officials and gentry who want to hide the land.

That is, no one can hide from him how many donated fields the family accepts.

"Shangxian, the household department's data was recorded during the inventory 15 years ago, and the little god did the math, and there should be more than 2 mu of rice fields in Daxing that have not been registered.

As for the wheat field, although I didn't see the information, the little god guessed that the amount of concealment should be more than 5 times. "

When the land said this, Shi Zhongkui understood.

10 mu of land equals 66.67 square kilometers, while the capital of modern society covers an area of ​​16410 square kilometers.

Although I don't know how big the Shuntian Mansion of the Great Zhou is, it shouldn't be much different.

Over the past 15 years of continuous land reclamation, 10 mu, or [-] hectares of wheat fields have been developed, which seems like nothing.

But even if Shi Zhongkui knew about it, he didn't intend to report it.

Ordinary farmers are unable to open up wasteland and keep these farmlands. Once this matter is revealed, the nobles, officials, and squires in the whole capital will definitely hate themselves.

Let alone doing things in the future, it is not bad to be forced to return to the Imperial Academy by someone, and to work in the National History Museum as a history editor.

So he looked for the emperor for two things.

One is asking for money, and the other is asking for power.

The emperor understood that it was inevitable to give Shi Zhongkui some rights.

Whether it is to promote rice-field fish farming or to dredge rivers, it is impossible to do it without any actual rights.

Even the river governor's yamen stationed in Jining couldn't get in.

Fortunately, Shi Zhongkui didn't have to dredge the entire Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. The Supreme Emperor's will clearly stated that he would act as an agent to dredge the Gyeonggi River.

However, when the Gyeonggi Water Transport and the Yongding River are flooded every year, the imperial court will basically send a minister, or a minister, or a capital censor to preside over it.

The flood season is over, the errand is over, and the position is removed.

There is no credit, and you have to take responsibility if something goes wrong. The Ministry of Industry is eager to let Shi Zhongkui take care of it every year this year, or even next year.

After the emperor heard that Shi Zhongkui had been arguing with the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households every day these days, he also sympathized with him.

After thinking about it, he gave Shi Zhongkui a piece, which can mobilize Xiuyiwei Baihu's waist card.

As for wrangling with civil officials, it depends on Shi Zhongkui's own ability.

What Shi Zhongkui wanted was also very simple, justified.

With this name and rights, it doesn't matter whether those officials shirk or not, as long as they don't dare to refuse.

But for the money, the emperor was reluctant to take money from his own treasury.

But when he thought about the deficit of the Ministry of Households, he also knew that he wanted to ask for money from the Ministry of Households, not to mention Shi Zhongkui, even the emperor would not necessarily ask for it.

Shi Zhongkui would not be as stupid as when Jia Zheng was released, using his own money to work for the court.

"Your Majesty, please raise your own funds, but please also give 5 taels of silver first to prepare for the establishment of the yamen and to gather the yamen servants, soldiers and minor officials."

"5 million taels?"

The heart and liver of the emperor's anger ached.

In previous years, even Shangshu presided over Hong Xun, he never gave 5 taels.

Moreover, the annual tax revenue of the Dazhou Household Department is only 6 million taels, and it also shows a downward trend during the day.

Let alone 5 taels, even taels and 30,000 taels will not be given by the household department.

Shi Zhongkui smiled and said, "I borrow 5 taels today, and pay back 4 taels a year later."

"really?"

The emperor stood up in amazement, "Ai Qing knows that you have no jokes before, and if you can't do it, it's not just as simple as dismissal."

If this is done, it means that the court only spent 1 taels of silver to complete the tasks of raising fish in rice fields and dredging the rivers in Gyeonggi.

This is not a capable minister, who dares to say that he is a capable minister?
Shi Zhongkui cupped his hands and said, "Besides the fact that I have just started learning, I am more proficient in business management."

The emperor's face darkened, and the leader of the six yuan is just a beginner in learning?
So isn't the emperor himself at the same level as a babbling toddler?

But the emperor could only keep this in his heart, but he was ridiculed when he said it.

Also, as a scholar, how dare you say that you are better at business management?

After much deliberation, the emperor finally could only think that Shi Zhongkui was planning to attack Xue's family.

But in this way, it seems that there is no need to worry that Shi Zhongkui will not return the money, and there is no need to worry that he will not find a way to make money.

Picking up a pen, wrote a letter and threw it to Shi Zhongkui, "I don't want to see you again until I get my grades."

Shi Zhongkui took the booklet, smiled and saluted, retreated and left the upper study.

After waiting for a while, seeing Xia Shouzhong came out, he cupped his hands and said, "I still need to trouble my father-in-law to send someone to take the officials to the Xiuyiwei Yamen."

"Should, should."

Xia Shouzhong nodded with a smile, "It just so happens that our family is fine, why don't you take Mr. Zhuangyuan along?"

This was a good intention, after all, the leader of Xiuyiwei was the emperor's confidant and Xia Shouzhong's subordinate.

He took it with him, and the embroidered clothes guards up and down, including the commander, would not dare to be perfunctory in the future.

But Shi Zhongkui smiled and said, "Thank you Eunuch first, but what I'm going to do may offend many people. I'd better ask Eunuch for help when troubles arise."

Xia Shouzhong understood as soon as he heard it, what Shi Zhongkui meant was that it had nothing to do with him as an internal official at the beginning, and if he helped in the future, no one would say that the two were colluding internally and externally.

Thinking of this, Xia Shouzhong immediately stopped thinking about leading the way, and he didn't even want to have anything to do with Shi Zhongkui at all.

So as not to be implicated by him in the future.

When Shi Zhongkui walked out of the palace with a young eunuch, he thought in his heart that if civil servants could avoid being associated with the inner eunuch, they should avoid it as much as possible.

Otherwise, even the chief assistant would not be able to bear the accusation of internal and external collusion.

But you can't tell Xia Shouzhong directly, otherwise the eunuch must think that he looks down on him.

With the waist card given by the emperor, the process of going to the Embroidery Guard went smoothly.

One hundred embroidered guards, one hundred households and five general banners, as long as Shi Zhongkui still has the job of dredging the river, he will obey Shi Zhongkui's orders.

Sitting in the official sedan chair carried by four people, he ordered Shun'er to lead the way to the household department to ask for money.

Generally, the official sedan chair carried by four people is only eligible to be carried by officials of the third rank or above, and it can be replaced by eight people when leaving Beijing.

Shi Zhongkui, a small official from the sixth rank, can only be used as an official sedan chair carried by two people even if he is the number one scholar, but he is also an imperial envoy, so not only can four people carry the sedan chair, but the Ministry of Rites also equipped him with a 2-member guard of honor .

Four guards with knives, four entourages holding imperial envoy plaques, and eight bearers can take turns changing people, and they can also bring different numbers of domestic servants.

But because he has been staying in the capital, Shi Zhongkui is not so public.

Except for the official sedan chair because it was a manifestation of identity, he brought 8 people with him, and he sent the imperial envoy plaque and guards to the Ministry of Rites to stay.

These people don't have to work and still get money and food, so of course they are happy.

As a result, Shi Zhongkui had to give 8 sedan chair bearers a subsidy of 50 Wen per person per day.

Otherwise, although this group of officials from the Ministry of Rituals dare not disobey orders, they can make you uncomfortable when lifting the sedan chair.

Shi Zhongkui could also replace them with dishonesty, or simply get them beaten.

But the consequence of doing so is that there must be rumors, which are circulated in the Ministry of Rites and other yamen.

Even if these people were his direct reports, it wouldn't sound good to have a reputation of being harsh.

Fortunately, this kind of people's requirements are not too high, subsidizing them with a few catties or more than ten catties of rice every day is enough to make them grateful.

And this is one of the so-called unspoken rules of ancient officialdom.

When he came outside the household department, the clerks and yamen servants who were in charge of guarding the gate showed gloating smiles when they saw him get off the sedan chair.

While he was busy ordering people to go in and report, several minor officials and yamen servants also stepped forward and knelt on one knee to salute, "I have seen Mr. Zhuangyuan, and Mr. Diao of the Duzhi Division went to the official department for an hour.

How about you come back tomorrow? "

Shi Zhongkui knew that Diao Dexing was avoiding him, and it was not the first time.

Everything is less than three, and I have come to look for you three times by myself, but I still haven't seen you, then don't pretend to be playing tricks on yourself.

Of course, I can actually find Yu Honggao or Shan Guogong's mansion, or even the Jia family and Wang Ziteng.

But if you have something to ask for help, it seems that you have no ability.

I deliberately stood at the gate of the household department for a long time, and the officials and petty officials who came and went discussed and inquired.

Soon some people smiled, some shook their heads or left directly.

But no matter whether they were laughing or sighing, they all spread the word.

Only then did Shi Zhongkui smile and say to the little official who had been kneeling all this time, "I met Mr. You Shilang on the first day I came to the household department.

It took four days to go to the Department of Household Affairs to get the records of rice fields registered over the years in Gyeonggi.

This is nothing, after all, it does take time to get the inventory.

But when you go to the Duzhi Division, which is in charge of the transfer, to collect money and food.

It's a good thing that Mr. Diao came here because he was busy with business, so he couldn't see him three times. "

The first two sentences are intended not to offend Youshilang and Hubusi.

The latter sentence was short of scolding Diao Dexing for being busy all day and deliberately making things difficult for him.

With a smile on his face, Shi Zhongkui glanced around the household servants, petty officials, more than a dozen officials and many attendants who were listening.

Seeing the different expressions of this group of people, he smiled and said, "Tell Mr. Diao, there are only three things in everything."

After speaking, he turned and got on the sedan chair.

This incident clearly shows that someone is procrastinating himself. Once he misses this year's sowing, it will be a great sin.

In this case, it is normal for him to make some outrageous actions.

Of course, if he really can't get the money for a while, Shi Zhongkui won't spend it with the Ministry of Households all the time.

Compared with the decree given by the emperor, there are words that can raise funds by themselves.

He said to Shun'er through the sedan chair, "Let Cui Hezhong, a hundred households of embroidered clothes guards, come to see me later, go home now."

Shun'er nodded hurriedly, shouted 'Get up the sedan chair', and then ordered the servants who followed him from Yu's house to call for someone at a restaurant not far away, just like him.

After finishing speaking, Shun'er thought for a while, and asked in a low voice beside the sedan chair, "Master, do you want to invite the warriors of the Embroidery Guards, the General Banner, and the small banner officials to have a light meal?"

This suggestion was good, but Shi Zhongkui said 'no' and stopped talking.

Shi Zhongkui, who has gradually gotten used to ancient times, knows very well that it is indeed useful to use money to attract subordinates to serve him, but there is a problem.

In ancient times, it was the official standard, not the modern social enterprise. The boss has to be careful with and win over the people who work under him.

Shi Zhongkui was dissatisfied with the embroidered guards who were ordered by him, and it was only a word to beat Cui Hezhong, a hundred households, with three or fifty sticks.

Cui Hezhong didn't dare to complain, if he was asked to return to Xiuyiwei, the big boss and commander would definitely take his skin off.

Because I am the one who can pass the waist card at any time and enter the palace to go to the study.

Although he would not sue in front of the emperor foolishly, he could mention a few words in front of Xia Shouzhong, as eunuchs are extremely concerned about face, they will definitely cause trouble for the boss and the commander.

So Shi Zhongkui knew very well that rewarding his subordinates should be done after they have made achievements, not in advance.

Lest this group of killers feel that they are so deceived.

Back home, Cui Hezhong had already brought five general flags, and was waiting outside the door in an orderly manner.

When Shi Zhongkui got off the sedan chair and saw it, he couldn't help showing a smile on his face.

At the same time, I sighed in my heart, no wonder so many people have to rely on the imperial examination.

It is true that once the official robe is added to the body, the future, even life and death of many people can be determined.

Cui Hezhong and the five general banners hurriedly knelt down on one knee, "I have met you, sir."

"Well," Shi Zhongkui brought the six people into the house, and ordered Shun'er to take them to the lobby to wait, while he went into the study.

After launching the technique of exorcising the gods, Chinchilla came back not long after.

"My lord, that Diao Dexing was notified by the household official, and went directly to the waifu's family who was raised outside."

Hearing that Chin Maoshu said that Diao Dexing had actually gone to the waifu's house, Shi Zhongkui couldn't help but sneer.

Zhengchou couldn't find your handle, but I didn't expect you to send it so simply.

(End of this chapter)