Mingshi

Chapter 661 News
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"So that's what happened!" Luo Xin said with a faint smile, "There will be no rewards, I won't break my promise."

"call……"

He Nian let out a long sigh of relief, it is good to have money.Because He Nian has no background, he has been mediocre for half his life. Now that he meets Luo Xin and sees Luo Xin's methods, he thinks it is time for him to change his fate.He wholeheartedly assists Luo Xin, hoping that Luo Xin can go higher and higher, so that he can also rise with the tide.

"What's the matter?"

He Nian's cheerful smile froze again, with some hesitation in his expression.Luo Xin said:
"Master He, we have been cooperating for a long time. You know how I am. If you have anything to say, it's okay to say it."

Now He Nian has made up his mind to follow Luo Xin, so he can't watch Luo Xin have an accident, and finally gritted his teeth and said:
"Master Luo, there have been many rumors about you recently."

"Huh? What rumor?" Luo Xin asked with a smile.

"Say you... are greedy for money, and extremely vulgar. You don't like elegance, you only like money."

Luo Xin couldn't help laughing when he heard this, and He Nian couldn't help but said with a bitter face: "My lord, can you still laugh? You must know that once you get this title, your reputation will be rotten, and Shihlin will be in danger." will despise you, and it will be difficult for you to be promoted in the future."

Luo Xin waved his hand, the smile on his face gradually subsided, and he sighed softly:

"I can't do anything about it. The Shibo Department has not started to operate yet. Did His Majesty give me a penny? If I don't send those gifts to the pawn shop for mortgage, what will I use to distribute the rewards to the officials of the Shibo Department?" ?”

A look of shame appeared on He Nian's face, and he said, "My lord, you...you actually pay out of your own pocket to distribute rewards to the officials of the Municipal Bureau?"

"What if it's not like this?" Luo Xin raised his hand and rubbed his brows and said, "Now the whole Hangzhou knows that I have formulated a system of rewards and punishments. Hard work, just waiting for the rewards to be distributed at the end of the month, if there is no money for them by then, our efforts will be wasted in an instant. It will be impossible to regain the current situation. Because I have lost credibility .And the prefect of Hangzhou Yamen is also looking at our Shibosi, or they are waiting to see my jokes.

They will never believe that I can come up with money to reward the officials of the Municipal Bureau, they are just waiting to see how I end up.Don't you think that the magistrate's office is fully supporting the establishment of the port by the Shibo Department?It's not making things difficult at all. If this is normal, do you think those moths in the prefect's yamen might be like this? "

"This...is His Majesty's will, and your reputation..."

Luo Xin waved his hand and said, "There are some reasons for what you said, but the biggest reason is not this."

"what is that?"

"That's because they don't want to give me a handle. Once I can't afford the money and blame them for the problem, they just don't want me to catch them and see my joke. If I If there is no wrong guess, when they see that I have issued a reward at the end of this month, they will make things difficult for us next month."

"They dare?" He Nian blew his beard and stared.

"Why don't they dare?" Luo Xin sneered, "When the magistrate's office sees that the officials of the Shibo Division can get so much money, but they can only get that little salary, it is very likely that they will not even get the salary. Not all, how can they not be jealous? A jealous person can do shocking things, let alone a group of jealous people? They will think that Shibo is a piece of meat, and they wish everyone would come up and take a bite."

"Then... what should we do? The pier will not be finished at all by the end of this month, and some houses will also be built."

"Cold salad!"

"Cold salad?"

"That's what the statement should do."

He Nian was silent, and said after a while: "My lord, the Shibo Department can't always rely on your personal money to distribute the rewards, can it?"

"Of course not!" Luo Xin said with a faint smile: "After the Shibo Department starts to operate, the money will naturally flow. At that time, I will redeem all the pledged things."

Soon, all the clerks of the Shibo Department knew that his lord had pawned all the gifts he received in order to distribute rewards to them, regardless of his stigma.All of a sudden, the officials of the Shibo Division were moved, and the thought of dying for the confidant rose in everyone's heart. The Shibo Division was united unprecedentedly, and Luo Xin's prestige also reached an irreplaceable status.

Prefect Yamen.

Song Danian and some officials, as well as famous gentry and celebrities in Hangzhou Prefecture, are holding a literary meeting in the back garden. They say it is a cultural meeting, but these people gathered together in the name of holding a cultural meeting to discuss the cancellation of Luo Xin.

"Hehe... I really look forward to the end of the month and see how our Daming's military god can make money."

"It's just a vulgar person, a person who is full of money, and will definitely cause chaos in the Shibo Department. Maybe he will be the shortest co-prefect in the history of Ming Dynasty."

"I really don't understand. How can a vulgar person like him, who smells like money, be the number one scholar? How can he become a great Confucianist? I really doubt that he didn't write "The Combination of Confucius and Mencius."

"........."

There was a sound of footsteps, but it was Song Danian's manager. Song Danian glanced at him and said:

"What's the matter?"

"My lord, there is news from the Shibo Department that the reason why Lord Luo pawned all the gifts is to distribute rewards to the officials of the Shibo Department at the end of the month."

"What?" Song Danian's face suddenly changed: "Is he crazy?"

The eyes of all the officials also showed that Luo Xin was crazy. In their opinion, Luo Xin was crazy. That official would use his own money to distribute rewards to his subordinates?

Doing so is purely at the expense of others.

First of all, Luo Xin didn't have the slightest benefit, but distributed his own benefits. Isn't this self-defeating?
Secondly, he did this and asked other officials to do this?Let Song Danian do this?
It has always been the credit and gold and silver of Shangguan's corruption of ink and subordinate officials. How can Shangguan pay his own money to distribute rewards to his subordinate officials?
Luo Xin was willing to use his own money to distribute rewards to the officials, but the prefect's yamen didn't even pay the full salary, which made Song Danian's subordinates think so of him?
This is hurting people!In addition to what I said before, it is harmful to others.

And if Luo Xin does this, he will get officials from the entire Hangzhou Prefecture, even the entire southeast, and then the entire Ming Dynasty.Isn't Luo Xin afraid of criticizing others?

What do you say that Luo Xin is full of money and doesn't know elegance.Now that this kind of rumor came out, those shortcomings of Luo Xin turned into advantages.No one used Luo Xin as a pawn anymore.

"I don't believe that Luo Xin can always use his own money to distribute rewards. Even if he has a fortune of ten thousand, it is not enough for him to spend so much." An official said angrily.

"He doesn't have to use his own money to distribute rewards all the time. As long as he gets through this difficult time and runs the Shibo company, he will naturally have a lot of money. At that time, he will redeem those pawned things."

"Hehe... It's not his decision to run the Shibo Department, but our southeastern people. They keep smuggling and don't go through the Shibo Department at all. What will Luo Xin do? When the time comes, his The Shibo Department is just an empty shelf."

"Wonderful, we must teach Luo Xin a lesson, put him in a cage, and let him obediently do things for us."

It has been a month since Luo Xin came to the Hangzhou Shipbuilding Department, and finally at the end of the month, every official in the Shipbuilding Department not only received the full salary, but also received a lot of rewards, all of them smiled and praised Luo Xin However, Luo Xin sat in the room and sighed.

He Nian looked at Luo Dao with amused expression, "Your Excellency, are you sure that the magistrate's office will make things difficult for us?"

"Most definitely."

"Then what do we do?"

"Oh, I really don't want to mess up the southeast into a pot of porridge! I don't want to offend my colleagues, it's just that they force me! My heart is for the bright moon, but the moon shines on the ditch. Come on."

"Master Hou!" Lu Daqing walked in immediately.

"Call Wang Ziren to come see me."

"Yes, Lord Hou!"

Less than half a quarter of an hour later, the pushing officer Wang Ziren walked in, bowed and saluted:
"The humble job has seen adults."

"How about what you were asked to do?"

"Your Excellency, are you asking about the magistrate's yamen?"

"En!" Luo Xin nodded slightly.

Wang Ziren took out a thick stack of paper from his arms, and handed it to Luo Dao with both hands:

"My lord, they are all here."

"How much?"

Luo Xin was taken aback, and quickly read page by page, his face became more gloomy as he read, he threw the stack of papers on the table heavily and said:

"Is this true?"

"Totally true."

Luo Xin frowned tightly and said: "There are so many corrupt officials, and no one in the entire magistrate's yamen was spared. How could you investigate so clearly in such a short period of time?"

Wang Ziren smiled wryly and said: "This is because the whole southeast is corrupt. Those corrupt officials have no scruples at all. They don't hide their actions at all. Corruption has become the fashion in the southeast. Only corrupt people can get promoted. Instead, those who are not corrupt are squeezed out, and even eventually dismissed from office, or slandered and exiled. They are openly blackmailing, openly giving gifts, openly accepting bribes, and have no scruples at all."

"Good! Good! Good!"

Luo Xin said hello three times, his face sinking like water.

Another three days passed in a flash. On this day, Luo Xin was drinking tea in the second hall when he saw He Nian hurried in with an angry look on his face.Seeing Luo Xin, he said:
"My lord, as you expected, the house of the magistrate's yamen refused to allocate supplies for us, saying that there were no supplies in the warehouse, and let us wait."

Luo Xin nodded slightly and said, "Then did they tell us how long to wait?"

"No!" He Nian shook his head and said, "They just told us to wait, and they will notify us when we have supplies."

"Oh!" Luo Xin nodded slightly and said, "Then send someone to check it out every day and blow it up."

"My lord, it's clearly that the people in the house are making things difficult for us, and it's not that there are no supplies in the warehouse."

"I know, this matter is not urgent, you first send someone to blow it up every day."

"How can you not be in a hurry?" He Nian asked anxiously.

"I said there's no rush, no hurry, it's okay, you go down first." Luo Xin said lightly.

He Nian stomped his feet resentfully, turned and walked out, Luo Xin's eyes gradually narrowed, and a sharp light flashed in the slits of his eyes.Slowly the sharpness in his eyes faded away, Luo Xin stood up from the chair, came to the window, watched the New Year's greetings outside the window gradually disappear, sighed softly, and said in a low voice:
"In this place in the southeast, if you don't have the strength to act rashly, you will only have a dead end. Let them be arrogant for a few days first, and I think His Majesty's reward for eldest brother and them is coming soon."

There was a sound of footsteps, and two figures appeared in Luo Xin's field of vision. Luo Xin's eyes were filled with joy. One of the two figures was Lu Daqing, and the other was Liang Botao.Luo Xin went back to the chair and sat down. Footsteps came from outside the door. Lu Daqing walked in with Liang Botao. He was waiting for the two of them to speak, so Luo Xin stood up and said:

"Come with me."

Luo Xin brought Liang Botao to the study room, closed the door, Liang Botao knelt down on one knee and said:

"Meet the master."

"Get up!" Luo Xin stretched out his hand to help Liang Botao up and said, "Tell me about it in detail."

"Yes!"

Liang Botao stood up, just as he was about to speak, Luo Xin motioned him to sit down again, and then poured him a cup of tea with his own hands, Liang Botao was so grateful that he drank it down in one gulp, and then started talking.

"My lord, we owned more than [-] ships, and then we started to go to their lair under the leadership of the pirates. When we got to the island, we found that there were really not many people left by the pirates, and almost all of them were women and children. Even a few young and strong were killed by us in an instant. We wiped out seven pirate lairs in total. When we started to drive towards the eighth lair, we found that Wang Zhi had begun to occupy those pirates, so we hurried Fleeing, if we hadn't dropped [-] Thunderbolt bombs, we would have been caught up by Wang Zhi's fleet."

"Then is the place where you are hiding now safe?"

"It's safe, absolutely safe. It's a deserted island with no people on it. As long as we don't come in and out frequently, we shouldn't be found in a short time."

"Okay!" Luo Xin nodded and said, "How's the harvest?"

"The harvest was great. We cleared the lairs of the seven pirates. We obtained countless supplies and gold and silver. I calculated it and converted the supplies into gold and silver. Now we should have about 400 million taels of silver."

"it is good!"

Luo Xin's heart was filled with joy. With the 400 million taels of silver, at least he could start building some fortifications on Taiwan Island where he could land, so that even if other people found Taiwan Island, they would not be able to take it away.

"Also, we didn't kill the women and children of the seven pirates. Instead, we put them on board and brought them to the current island."

"how many people?"

"There are more than 5000 people in total."

"Okay!" Luo Xin stood up excitedly and said, "Now we need people who know about farming and mulberry. Those people know it, right?"

"Yes! They will!" Liang Botao nodded and said: "I asked them, they were all robbed to the pirate's lair, and before they were robbed, they were almost all the peasant daughters of Daming, who knew farming and mulberry."

You stay in the mansion for the time being, tomorrow you and I will go out for a trip.

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