In the back flower hall.

How exactly did this money come out? This question has been holding back in Wu Chengen's heart for a long time, and it has affected him to conceive a new plot.

"It's easy to get into trouble if you donate money to the government by a private person." Wu Chengen sighed lightly and said quietly: "Shen Wansan is from Kunshan, so the son must not be careless." ”

Shen Wansan, the richest man in the Ming Dynasty two hundred years ago, ignored this. He also helped Zhu Yuanzhang repair the city wall of Nanjing, and paid millions of gold to reward the three armies for the emperor, but Zhu Yuanzhang was guilty of pink eye, and he found an excuse to raid his home and sent him to Yunnan to fill the army.

"Huh? Mr. Sheyang is so strange, who said that I was going to donate to the county? Zhao Hao blinked and said: "Thousands of miles of officials are only for money, how can there be a reason to pay for construction by yourself?" ”

"What are you going to do?" Wu Chengen glanced at him, and he had to act with the old man.

"My son can only help to draw a line and contact to see if there is any company that is willing to lend money to the county." Zhao Hao replied.

"Isn't there only one company in the whole world?" Old Wu rolled his eyes.

"Mr. Sheyang doesn't know. Now in Beijing, more than a dozen companies have been opened. I heard that one has opened in Taiyuan, Shanxi. "My son still has five percent of the dry shares.

"Oh, really?" Wu Chengen is ashamed of his loneliness, as an excellent writer, he should keep up with current affairs and know a little about everything.

In fact, he is not to blame, after all, the speed of the spread of economic news in the Ming Dynasty is far inferior to that of political news.

What's more, except for the Shanxi Coal Industry Co., Ltd. in Taiyuan, the dozen or so companies are all petty and can't make any waves.

~~

"If it's not Xishan Company, which one will it be?" Wu Chengen asked curiously.

"It is a company called Jiangnan Company, and its full name is Jiangnan Investment Co., Ltd." Listen to Zhao Gongzi's serious way.

"What does this company do?" Wu Chengen asked.

"It's just a bunch of big dogs who have money and nowhere to spend it, so they have formed such a company, investing in the east and lending to the west, and letting the money make money." Zhao Gongzi replied:

"It just so happened that my son also had some shares in it, so I pulled a line for my father, and they promised to borrow money from Kunshan County."

"That's not a small amount." Wu Chengenquan believed Zhao Gongzi's statement.

At this time, if you have milk, you are a mother, and it doesn't matter if you are a mother or a godmother.

"Is 200,000 taels enough? It's not enough for them to add another 200,000. Zhao Gongzi said without blinking.

"Enough, sure enough!" Wu Chengen almost slipped off the chair, and said in disbelief: "But that's 400,000 taels, how many years of income in Ding County!" What is the Jiangnan company? ”

"Of course, people are not doing charity." Zhao Hao replied in a deep voice: "The county wants to lease the land to them, and the land rent will be used to pay off the debt." ”

"So?" Wu Chengen finally felt a little reasonable. "There are 100,000 acres of official land in the county, and you can collect a rent of 30,000 or 40,000 stone a year. If the interest rate is not too high, you can repay it slowly and ......"

Speaking of this, Wu Chengen's face gradually became difficult to look at.

The tax system of the Ming Dynasty was very absurd, and the tax grain of each county was not uniformly handed over to the county, and then handed over and distributed by the county order. Instead, it is delivered directly to the designated place by the grain chief...... It is usually Nanjing and nearby health centers.

Therefore, the only thing that the county can freely allocate is the official land belonging to the county.

Including the county magistrate, hundreds of officials ate the imperial grain; day-to-day operating expenses for the county; Expenses such as repairing bridges and paving roads, disaster relief, and education and education...... All of them will come out of the official fields.

"Kunshan County is already stretched, Yin has eaten a lot of food, and with such a heavy debt, how can I live in the future?" Knowing that the eldest master had no choice but to do it, the responsible Master Wu still had the obligation to remind Zhao Hao that this was drinking to quench his thirst.

"Hahaha, Mr. Sheyang, don't worry, people don't have the idea of beating our little official land, and what we want to rent is the abandoned land north of Yanglintang." But I heard Zhao Gongzi say with a holy face.

"Huh?" Wu Chengen was taken aback and said, "What do you want that thing for?" Of the three hundred and sixty days in a year, two hundred days must be soaked in water. Do you want to raise fish? Then it's better to rent Yangcheng Lake directly. ”

"People may want to raise loaches." Zhao Gongzi laughed and said, "Maybe people have some wonderful ideas, and we will be surprised when the time comes." ”

"Well, we'll see." Seeing that there was no need to increase the burden on the county and no loss of the county's property, Wu Chengen was naturally happy to see it. It doesn't matter if he raises loaches or toads.

"And when will I be able to sign the contract?"

"The contract will have to be signed in a few days, and the chairman of the board of directors will come and sign it. However, Jiangnan Company has already given an advance payment, which is enough to solve the urgent need. ”

Zhao Gongzi said, counted out 20,000 taels of tickets from the ticket holder, handed it to Wu Chengen and said, "Go back and let Zhao Shizhen redeem it, and first allocate a sum of money to General Jin." Give my dad another sum and ask him to send the money of the people below. The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers, and we can't make the horses run fast and keep the horses from grazing. ”

"A few thousand taels of silver is enough, not so much." Wu Chengen took the ticket and looked at Zhao Hao's wallet suspiciously.

He couldn't help but wonder if the so-called Jiangnan Company only existed in Zhao Gongzi's wallet.

"The county will spend a lot of money in the future, and there will be many places to use the money." Zhao Hao smiled and waved his hand and said: "The big head will handle it personally, don't bother me with the daily trivial expenses." Besides, I'm going to be out for a while in the next two days. ”

"Hey, okay......" Although Wu Chengen felt that this was not in accordance with the rules, he had the right to do everything, all for the sake of fighting the flood.

~~

In the afternoon, Xu Wei came back, and the three of them seized the time to hold a meeting, and combined with the results of Zhao Hao's investigation today, they drew up a number of 'Interim Regulations for the Flood Fighting Period in Kunshan County'.

Then revise the transcription, transcribe the seal, and send it to Nanshan Temple to Zhao Erye for signature.

In fact, there is no need to be so troublesome, anyway, Zhao Erye will see it in vain, Xu Wei can sign it directly.

You must know that Master Xu can not only paint with his hands, but also imitate famous calligraphy and paintings, and the fakes he creates can be fake. Imitating Zhao Erye's signature is completely handy.

The reason why there is more to do this is just that the three bigwigs behind the scenes are consciously maintaining the dignity of the tool people.

Then, the tool man ...... Oh no, Zhao Erye ordered Zheng Yilong and other liaison people to send copies of the charter to their respective homes, and asked the gentry to mobilize all the people to participate in the flood fight.

In fact, the people of Kunbei have long been panicked, worried that the earthen dam will burst and their homes will be flooded like Kunnan.

In order to preserve the summer harvest, everyone is willing to go up the embankment to fight the flood.

But it was necessary to wait for the squires to speak, and the villagers of the whole county could really move.

The imperial power does not go to the countryside, it is not for fun.

Outside the county seat, the county lord cannot directly intervene, and must do it through the squire. Otherwise, he won't be able to do anything!

Fortunately, the gentry had just sworn in the morning, and heard that the eldest lord had already lived on the embankment, and in the afternoon they saw Zhao Shouzheng come up with a set of regulations that were lenient and strict, careful and reasonable.

couldn't help but look at this new old parent with admiration, and said in his heart that Zhuang Yuanlang really deserved his reputation, but he was completely different from the mediocre officials of Feng Zhixian.

They finally cheered up one after another, summoned the village elders to their homes for a meeting, and ordered them to give one ding per household, bring tools and dry food, and go up the embankment with them tomorrow to fight the flood.

ps. Chapter 4 is delivered, lalala, ask for a monthly pass~~~~