After being divorced, my identity as a poet was exposed

Chapter 447 Bad Administration
Of course Li Chenan did not return to the capital.

A group of seven of them were walking on the official road to Zhouzhuang.

He still rode the same horse as Baozi Xiao, and there was still one vacant, which of course surprised Second Master Su and Steward Liu.

But this kind of thing cannot be asked.

In Liu Butler's view, this is the relationship between the husband and wife.

We traveled together for two days.

Whenever there is a break, Steward Liu will arrange the board and lodging for the five of Li Chen'an, and of course he can't help but talk to Li Chen'an.

Regarding the Jiangnan officialdom, it was obvious that Steward Liu knew a lot.

Compared to the information from the Imperial City Department, what he said to Li Chenan was nothing.

Li Chenan knew many things.

However, he was still listening very carefully, and he had the right to confirm it with the information.

From Steward Liu's point of view, this is the young man's curiosity about officialdom.

So he also has the right to say casually——

After all, people in the rivers and lakes walk in the rivers and lakes, and they probably don't pay attention to those officials in the temple.

Can't understand it either.

Because the relationship between those officials in the officialdom is too complicated and intricate, you don't even know who the big tree behind them is.

There used to be a knight-errant in the Jianghu who fought for righteousness. One guy slaughtered the whole family of a corrupt official and county magistrate in Hui County. What happened?
As a result, he was wanted by the entire Jiangnan government and offered a reward of ten thousand taels of silver, but was finally betrayed by people in the Jianghu.

It is said that the chivalrous man was killed by a thousand knives, and his body was hung on the city wall to dry in the end!

This is the meaning of killing chickens and monkeys.

It is also a warning to people in the rivers and lakes to obey the rules!

"The so-called rules of the rivers and lakes are that officials cannot be killed. Even if it is a huge corruption known to the world, if it is to be moved, the imperial court will send someone to do it."

Steward Liu shook his head, poured a glass of wine for Li Chenan, and said with a smile: "Let my son beat him himself, if others beat him... that would be disrespectful!"

"Even if they escape to the ends of the earth, they will be punished!"

"So when you walk in the rivers and lakes, you must never provoke those officials... You can rely on them, and you can follow their orders, but you can't offend the superiors, because the official authority cannot be offended!"

Li Chen'an grinned: "Speaking of it this way, our Ning country officials are so stubborn, so they should not be bullied by other countries."

"My son's thinking is still too simple."

"For the outside world... In fact, Ningren is still extremely tough in his bones, otherwise the Western Regions invaded a hundred years ago and the country would have been destroyed."

"It's just that the officials in the temple..."

Butler Liu laughed at himself, "Let's drink and don't talk about those things."

Li Chen'an and Steward Liu had a drink with each other, and asked suddenly: "Now we have changed people in the temple of Ningguo, and Ji Tai's followers have all been eradicated, I think things will get better in the future."

Butler Liu pondered for a moment, "To tell you the truth, my lord, the old man and the second lord originally wanted to go to the capital, hoping to meet the regent."

"Oh, what's your business with him?"

"Hey……"

Butler Liu let out a long sigh: "I shouldn't have said this to you, but I have been with you for the past two days, and I feel that you are an open-minded person, and I have the right to chat with you. You just listened to me."

"That's right, our Su family, in the south of the Yangtze River, can be regarded as a law-abiding businessman... After all, the Su family's family tradition is very strict. Even though there have been many talents in the family, some of them have been officials in the court, but Su But the family never bullies and dominates the market by relying on someone in the court."

"The Su family still upholds fair and reasonable business practices, and uses the money they earn to support the children of the Su family to study."

"It's been like that for hundreds of years."

"But since the Shang family came to Pingjiang City...the Prime Minister Shang a hundred years ago saved the dying Ning country, and of course his contribution is indispensable!"

"As a century-old family in Pingjiang City, the Su family welcomed the Shang family very much, and even helped the Shang family a lot at the beginning... For example, teaching the Shang family how to do business, teaching them how to start a textile workshop, and even teaching them how to Cooperate with farmers to plant mulberry and raise silkworms, etc.”

"In the eyes of the Su Clan Head at that time, Ningguo survived, Su Clan was able to do business in the south of the Yangtze River and earn money, and Su Clan's children could study and learn at ease. This was almost all due to the kindness of Prime Minister Shang."

"Then, for the descendants of Prime Minister Shang, of course we have to do our best to help."

"This help is a big mistake!"

"The Su Clan never expected that the Shang Clan, who was rising rapidly, raised the butcher's knife to the Su Clan!"

"After Ji Tai became chancellor, the Daotai of Jiangnan Dao was replaced by the current Yu Wanzhi... The original Daotai fell down and was slaughtered by bandits on the way to Beijing!"

"The first thing Yu Wanzhi did after he took office was to gather all the merchants in Jiangnan and hold a so-called Jiangnan market rectification..."

"The south of the Yangtze River is rich in silk, and there are many silk workshops, among which Su's silk workshops are the largest."

"It took the Su family hundreds of years to establish these, but at that meeting, Yu Wanzhi took all the silk workshops into Jiangnan Weaving... Now the weaving doctor Cao Fa of Jiangnan Weaving , is the confidant promoted by Yu Wanzhi."

"The people can't fight the officials after all."

"The owner of the family handed over all of the huge family property to Jiangnan Weaving. It was originally agreed that Jiangnan Weaving would give [-]% of the silk share to the Su family... This is of course much less than the output of his own workshop in the past, but the owner forgets Forget it, it can still make a profit, so let’s let it go.”

"But two years later, which is about the sixth year of Zhaohua, the share of Jiangnan Weaving's silk for the Su family has dropped to [-]%... In another two years, only [-]% is left!"

"Those who were distributed, all fell into the hands of the Shang family."

"Then the Patriarch heard from an old friend that all of this was the idea of ​​Yu Wanzhi from the Shang family. The Shang family has been spying on Su's family business for a long time!"

Li Chenan frowned, and interjected, "I heard that the Shang family mainly relies on water transportation to make money."

Butler Liu didn't realize the suddenness of Li Chenan's words.

"Water transportation is a matter of nearly ten years."

"After our Majesty Ningguo went to practice Taoism, Ji Tai... It's not that he died and then spoke ill of him. Many businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River have complained about him, but they just dare not speak out!"

"Ji Tai, how does he know how to govern a country!"

"He just knows how to play tricks!"

"He doesn't know how important business is to a country. All he wants is to stabilize his power and use it to earn more money! Use the money he gets to feed the dog officials he raises!"

"As for the life and death of merchants, the life and death of common people..."

Steward Liu drank a glass alone, smacked his mouth, "Who cares about Ji Tai and the corrupt officials he promoted?"

"It's not that Jitai has finally fallen. The policies issued by the regent, especially the emphasis on boosting industry and commerce, are absolutely correct."

"It's just that this wind doesn't seem to blow out of Yujing City...at least the land in the south of the Yangtze River is no different from before."

"The old man and the second son intend to go to Beijing to meet the regent, and what they think is that the regent may not know the situation in the south of the Yangtze River or the situation in the whole country."

"If the regent is really so enlightened, we should tell him about the bad government in the south of the Yangtze River, which is also the bad government in the whole country!"

"Otherwise, everything the Regent has done... the decree does not come out of Yujing City, it's just a change of soup instead of medicine."

Butler Liu shook his head and sighed, and said:

"The Su family... To tell you the truth, my lord, the Su family is now selling their property to make a living."

"But those corrupt officials, as well as the Shang family, made a lot of ill-gotten wealth. They were not punished, and they still lived happily..."

"This is unfair!"

Li Chenan nodded, "Well, it's not fair!"

"Come, come, let's finish this glass of wine... This day will eventually be bright."

As soon as Li Chenan finished speaking, a bird came in through the window and landed on Xiao Baozi's shoulder.

(End of this chapter)