In mid-June, Guide Province.

The original boiling affair of the government test cheating case has gradually come to an end.

In the house office.

Lin Yanchao was working the bookcase while listening to Qiu Mingshan's recital.

Qiu Mingshan said: "The second son of the Zhao family, Zhao Mengchang, tried to commit suicide in the government prison yesterday, and now he has been rescued. Judging from the letters he left, Zhao Mengchang said that he was responsible for the cheating case in the government test, so let's not implicate his Zhao family. ”

Lin Yanchao clicked the ink with a pen and said, "What do you think?" ”

Qiu Mingshan said: "Returning to Dong Weng, in my opinion, this is useless, the Zhao family is now under the nest, and he picked it up alone, but it does not mean that he can clean it up alone, his move is in vain, it is really stupid." ”

Lin Yanchao said: "It's reasonable, but send someone to watch it closely, and you can't let him make any more mistakes." How much money did the Zhao Mansion come up with this time? ”

Qiu Mingshan said: "After two days, the floating wealth such as gold and silver is about more than 50,000 taels, and the rest are field houses, and the Zhao family's house in Kaifeng can be worth 20,000 taels, as well as antiques or something, all of which have been converted into prices, and finally around 176,000 taels." ”

Lin Yanchao stopped writing and said: "176,000 taels, this is similar to the Zhao family's family background reported by the people below, it seems that this Zhao family is really much inferior to the Mei family." ”

After speaking, Lin Yanchao continued to write official documents.

Qiu Mingshan said with a smile: "The Zhao family is just a fifth-grade foreigner, how can it be compared with the Mei family." There is no one in the Mei family who is an official in the court, but in terms of background, ten Zhao families are not as good as one Mei family. I just dare to ask Futai, the Zhao family didn't have enough money, should they continue to wait? Or directly? ”

Lin Yanchao had already finished his work, put his pen aside, and said casually: "This mansion didn't mean to let the Zhao family gather these 200,000 taels. ”

Qiu Mingshan said: "Yes, Dong Weng, I understand what to do." ”

Lin Yanchao smiled and said: "This time, these horse thieves from Shandong have made great efforts to find the evidence of the Zhao family's guilt for me, and the Mei family also has the ability to ventilate and report the news, how do you think we should reward them?" ”

Qiu Mingshan opened his mouth and said: "Those horse thieves in Shandong are originally Dong Weng's subordinates, and it is already a grace for the master to give them an errand and support them, if you reward them." In the future, these people will have a heart of appreciation, and it will be difficult to mobilize. ”

"As for the Mei family, it's even more needless, what their family wants is Dong Weng's favor."

Lin Yanchao said with a smile: "You're right, but let me ask you that the Mei family is so familiar with the matter of 'Tongwei', didn't they do this smuggling and trafficking thing?" ”

Qiu Mingshan said: "In Suzhou and Hangzhou, except for a few salt merchants, the big merchants in Zhejiang are basically connected with the sea, either smuggling or selling smuggling. The Mei family has at least a little bit of it, and I don't know how much, but I know that they have been begging the imperial court to give them a quota in Yuegang recently. ”

Lin Yanchao nodded and said, "The Mei family has such a big ability, it shouldn't be difficult to get a quota." ”

Qiu Mingshan said: "The quota of Yuegang is set by the imperial court every year, and the Chen family, a friend of the master, Chen Xinggui, is a maritime merchant in Fujian, but he has not yet gotten the quota of Yuegang." The Mei family is so capable, they can only wait for others to give up the quota, or the imperial court to expand the quota. ”

Lin Yanchao nodded in his heart and said, "I know, the big mansion of the Zhao family in Kaifeng Mansion will be sold to the Mei family, and he should be able to pay a good price." ”

"As for the Zhao family's affairs, think about it again, Mr. Qiu has worked hard this time, rest early."

Qiu Mingshan retired immediately when he heard this.

One day a few days later.

Although it was a scorching summer day, dozens of respected officials and gentry in the mansion and the elders and elders in the township had already arrived.

These local gentry had a certain conflict with the government because of the prohibition of land deeds.

This contradiction has existed since last year, when Lin Yanchao led the development of nearly 1,000 hectares of silt fields in the embankment, and this time the Jialu River dammed and irrigated more than 300,000 silt fields.

They all have very little benefit from it.

Before the silt fields in the embankment, Lin Yanchao engaged in 'purchase restrictions', and a household could not buy more than ten acres at most.

If the silt fields are cheap to the people of their fellow villagers, these heroes will admit it, but later there are hundreds of silt fields, but Lin Yanchao privately sold them to an unknown merchant of Su Song in one go, which makes them very opinionated.

to the current silt fields of the Jialu River.

Lin Yanchao took nearly 100,000 taels from the government secretary's yamen, and the government government used the surplus from the sale of silt fields last year, as well as borrowing money from various money banks, and finally completed this big project with a total of more than 300,000 taels of silver.

This time they have to take a little more advantage.

However, Lin Yanchao forbade the sale of land deeds, that is, he told you that before the dam was built, who owned the more than 300,000 mu along the Jialu River, and who still owned it after the dredging.

How does this work?

So the last time the government tried to cheat the case, when the Zhao family made a fuss, they mostly gloated.

Later, in the collection of summer grain, water transportation, and river dredging, they also delayed and expressed their discooperation.

Cao Yun and Dredging the River are not to be said, but only to say that it is summer grain.

In the past two years, the Guidefu was almost no harvest due to floods, and last year, Lin Yanchao relied on the income from selling silt fields, and he did not panic when there was grain in the pot, and he did not seriously collect the summer and autumn grain.

If you belong to the common people, you will pay if you love it, and if you don't pay, our government will not force you.

At that time, in order to repair the palace for King Lu, the people in Henan were urged by the government, and even the green seedlings at home came out to pay taxes, and many people starved to death.

However, no one starved to death in Guide Mansion, and this move was praised by the people of Guide as a virtuous government.

But there must also be a limit to virtue and politics, okay, now we have to pay summer grain this year. As a result, less than 70 percent of last year's autumn grain has been harvested so far.

At that time, some officials laughed at Lin Yanchao's move, which was too lenient to the subordinates, so that the people did not know the majesty. Committed the officialdom taboo of fighting Mien and promoting Mi hatred.

Now what is even worse is that when the summer grain was collected this year, the gentry took the lead in refusing to pay it.

You must know that this year's summer grain in Guide Mansion is a bumper harvest, and even the Kaifeng Mansion next door has heard about it. Because of the flood of the Yangtze River a month ago, the Huguang grain ship did not arrive in Kaifeng through the newly repaired Jialu River and Xinhe.

As a result, the price of grain in Kaifeng did not drop much, and Zang Wei, the governor of Henan, asked the Guide Mansion to transfer 100,000 Shixia grain to Kaifeng to relieve the urgent need.

But as a result, it has been half a month since the summer grain levy in Guide Mansion began, and he has not been able to collect 20%, which has made the officials of Guide Mansion lose face.

Today, Wu Tongju, who has always had a good relationship with the local gentry, came forward, saying that the people of Futai have always been willing to communicate with the local gentry.

Therefore, on today's sunny day and the scorching sun, the local officials and gentry are invited to the government to talk.

Guide prefect Lin Yanchao set up a banquet and a thin wine hospitality.

Seeing Lin Yanchao's invitation, the local officials and gentry were very pleased.

Lin Sanyuan has been the prefect for so long, and it seems that he finally knows the importance of having a good relationship with the local gentry.

So at the warm invitation of Governor Lin and Wu Tongju, they came to the Guide Mansion for a banquet.