Chapter 161 Cutting the grass and eradicating the roots

Shi Kefa returned to the mansion, and only then pressed his temples to look at today's official documents, and found that Tan Boming and Zhang Xiaofeng also walked in from outside the door, and said with a smile: "Last night, it was the Baoguo Gong who paid for it, and you didn't want to be romantic?" ”

Tan Boming said: "A night of romance is worth 10,000 dollars, and I, the Lang Zhong who manages the branch, am reluctant." ”

Shi Kefa looked at Zhang Xiaofeng and said, "What is your reason?" ”

Zhang Xiaofeng said angrily: "You all refuse to go along with it, why do you look down on me alone?" ”

Shi Kefa laughed and said: "It is a good thing for a gentleman to be cautious, but it is also the wisdom of the world to be with the light and the dust. ”

Zhang Xiaofeng shook his head and said: "I know that I am not a strong-willed person, this kind of thing should not be started, once it starts, I am worried that I will not be able to hold it, and finally sink into this ten zhang soft red."

This is called self-knowledge. ”

Shi Kefa sighed and said: "There are two virtuous brothers who guard the nest for us, and a certain family is worry-free. ”

Tan Boming shook his head and said: "The two of us are only suitable to be the dogs of the house, if we want to fight with a giant like Baoguo Gong, we will not be able to get on the stage after all, and we only hate to share the worries of the house." ”

Shi Kefa stood up, took the hands of the two and said: "We got acquainted with the reverse journey, and we intersected in the stormy times, I just hope that the two virtuous brothers will not forget our original ambition and hold up a place that can shelter from the wind and rain for this crumbling tomorrow." ”

Zhang Xiaofeng said sadly: "Is the north really hopeless?" ”

Shi Kefa shook his head painfully and said: "Civil unrest, military disasters, droughts, floods, locust plagues, the turning of the earth dragon, and the rampant plague, the north has been completely eroded.

With a tiger wolf like Yun Zhao by his side, he has no power to return to the sky. ”

Tan Boming said puzzledly: "Yun Zhao has not left Tongguan so far. ”

Shi Kefa smiled bitterly: "People have not left Tongguan, but everyone in the world knows his name, and they all know that Guanzhong is the real paradise." ”

"However, last night, Baoguo Gong also counted Yun Zhao's 26 major crimes, and he will definitely be able to expose Yun Zhao's hypocrisy."

Zhang Xiaofeng sneered and said, "Do you really think that Zhu Guobi is for the country and the people?" In my opinion, he was dissatisfied with Yun Zhao taking away his imprisonment, and he was dissatisfied with it, so he said that through wine.

I can guarantee that Zhu Guobi must be panicked and remorseful now. ”

Shi Kefa sneered: "He wants to stay in Nanjing and enjoy happiness and dream, this official has written to His Majesty, hoping that His Majesty can transfer all these nobles to Shuntian Mansion, they are nobles, they have enjoyed the fat and ointment of the people of the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, and it is time to do something for these people." ”

Tan Boming said with a smile: "Last year, these nobles paid us a lot of silver, but they left the grain in their hands, and they wanted to hoard it, so Fuzun ordered me to go to Lantian County to buy a large amount of grain and come back.

These people still wanted to continue to buy the grain we put on the market at a high price of silver, so they sold them 200,000 quintals of grain in one go, and put them to death.

The price of grain in Nanjing this year was as cheap as grass, but no one had the silver to continue to buy it, so he used the price of 100,000 quintals of grain sold last year to collect 340,000 quintals of grain from the nobles' treasury.

Nowadays, there are 840,000 taels of silver in the treasury, and there are 680,000 quintals of official grain in the granary.

If Fuzun sends 200,000 taels of silver and 200,000 quintals of grain to the capital at this time, I think that no matter what kind of suggestion Fuzun makes, His Majesty will agree to it—for example, transfer all the nobles of Nanjing City back to the northern capital.

Without them getting in the way, Fuzun would be able to make great progress. ”

Shi Kefa was overjoyed when he heard this, rubbed his hands and said: "It's true, it's true, it's just that doing so will affect our plan to accumulate money and grain in Jiangnan." ”

Zhang Xiaofeng said with a smile: "Fuzun, money and grain are a tool, when Fuzun uses them, they have value, if Fuzun doesn't use them, they are a bunch of useless things."

Fuzun rest assured, our brothers are here, and we will definitely save more money and food for Yingtianfu to show off their talents! ”

Shi Kefa applauded again and again, and had two more points of trust in these two talents who met halfway.

Seeing that Shi Kefa went to sleep satisfied, Zhang Xiaofeng and Tan Boming came to their public office, called the little official and instructed: "In the past few days, the Fuzun will withdraw 200,000 taels of silver from the treasury and 200,000 quintals of grain from the grain warehouse, you don't have to stop it." ”

The little official looked at Tan Boming and said coldly: "Show me the warrant of the county honor!" ”

Zhang Xiaofeng said: "Hurry up and follow the power!" ”

The little official looked at the two of them with suspicion, and then said, "This is the grain and silver of my Lantian County, as far as I know, you two don't have such power to use it." ”

Tan Boming said: "The matter is very urgent, we will make up the procedures immediately." ”

The little official shook his head and said, "After you bring the formalities, come and ask me for food and silver." ”

Zhang Xiaofeng paced back and forth for a while, and then said to the little official: "How about Zhou Guoping as a guarantor?" It's a collective decision. ”

The little official's eyes were already narrowed, and he took a step forward to look at the two of them and said, "It has been three days since Zhou Guoping left Nanjing, and before she left here, she didn't give me such a big expense. ”

Tan Boming said angrily: "Are you people who have managed the treasury so admit death? ”

The little official didn't even bother to pay attention to the two of them, turned around and went out.

He is different from political officials like Zhang Xiaofeng and Tan Boming, in Lantian County, the treasury envoys are a separate system, and their supreme leader is Duan Guoren, who is responsible for managing all the treasury belonging to Lantian County.

It has its own system of promotion and derogation, independent of government affairs.

Because of his stinginess and rigidity, Duan Guoren gradually had a nickname called Pixiu.

Just when Tan Boming and Zhang Xiaofeng were anxious, in the evening, Zhou Guoping came back.

After listening to the complaints of the two, Zhou Guoping shook his head and said: "You remember, next time you must not come out indiscriminately, my last bad luck was because I did not follow the rules, you should take it as a warning."

We must do things carefully, we must not be in a hurry, and this bad problem you have developed in Lantian must be changed.

When you are in Lantian, as long as you do things right, the county will tolerate you, even if it is the first to cut and then play, the county will help you clean up by cheating.

I dare say that the document for Zhao Guorong's impeachment of you is already on the way. ”

Tan Boming patted his head and said: "If you can use 200,000 taels of silver and 200,000 loads of grain to clear the nobles of Nanjing City, this is a good thing worth thousands of dollars, and it almost has the effect of deciding the outcome of a war." ”

After Zhou Guoping quickly signed the two documents drawn up by the two of them, he sent someone to send them to Lantian quickly.

When the treasurer Zhao Guorong appeared in front of the three of them again, after carefully checking the seals of Zhou Guoping, Tan Boming, and Zhang Xiaofeng, he nodded slightly, indicating that Shi Kefa could take these things from the treasury at any time.

Regarding the matter of Shi Kefa, the prefect of Ying Tianfu, who has no right to use the grain and silver in the treasury of Ying Tianfu, whether it is Zhou Guoping or Tan Boming, Zhang Xiaofeng does not think that there is anything to discuss.

He has no power to wield himself!

Any tael of silver and a pound of grain that should be spent in the treasury of Tianfu were all made with the consent of the Yushan Great Study, and they were all allocated according to the requirements of the facts after the statistics and accounting of the Finance Department.

What Shi Kefa can use at any time is just the private treasury of the government.

After dealing with this matter, Tan and Zhang seemed to have been stripped of a layer of skin, and they were faintly afraid of Zhao Guorong, who had never had a smiling face.

Dealing with such people a lot, and I have a long life!!! (It's still a nightmare when I think about it now)

"The reason why I came back from Yangzhou was that I received an urgent document from the county honor, who was dissatisfied with what the White Lotus Sect had done, and ordered us to remove the cancer of the Nanjing White Lotus Sect as soon as possible in the shortest possible time.

Let's discuss what we can do to achieve the goal of the county. ”

Tan Boming was taken aback and said: "The White Lotus Sect has now become a chess piece in our hands, we can drive the fire to merge, retreat, we can frame us, such a useful chess piece, how can we dispose of it now?" ”

Zhou Guoping shook his head and said: "Now is not the time to ask questions, how to deal with the problem of the White Lotus Sect as soon as possible, the county venerable has not left us any opening to delay."

In other words, the Nanjing White Lotus Sect is dead. ”

Hearing Zhou Guoping say this, Tan Boming and Zhang Xiaofeng immediately extinguished their thoughts of continuing to use the White Lotus Sect, and instead began to think about how to uproot the White Lotus Sect here.

The two searched for a long time, but they still didn't come up with any ideas that were too reliable.

I listened to Zhou Guoping's prediction: "Shi Kefa wants to get all the nobles of Nanjing City to Shuntian Mansion, then, I think that even if these nobles go to Shuntian Mansion, they will only go to the head of the family."

This is still their roots! “

Tan Boming looked at Zhou Guoping and said, "You want to use the White Lotus Sect to rip off the roots of these nobles?" Then use the power of these nobles to fight back and uproot the White Lotus Sect again? ”

Zhou Guoping said: "That's the purpose, we get rid of the fish that slipped through the net around, when the White Lotus Sect deals with the nobles, we clear the nobles who have slipped through the net, and when the nobles in the capital fight back, we will clear the White Lotus Sect that has slipped through the net." ”

Zhang Xiaofeng said: "This requires a strict arrangement. ”

Zhou Guoping said: "Make a plan now, after reporting to the county, I think the news that Shi Kefa is going to give the emperor money and grain, the emperor should know, with these money and food, Shi Kefa's loyalty will definitely be visible in the emperor's heart."

The emperor's will to call the nobles to the north will also surely take shape.

When the nobles left Nanjing with their front feet, the White Lotus Sect would move on their hind feet, after all, these nobles were the objects that the White Lotus Sect had wanted to retaliate against for many years.

This time, we not only want to get rid of the nobles in Nanjing, but also get rid of the White Lotus Sect, and most importantly, I want to make all the nobles in the world deviate from the emperor.

As long as our plan is thorough, it will definitely have the effect of four or two thousand pounds! ”