The silt field was almost sold, and as soon as Lin Yanchao returned to the Tongzhi Bureau, he was told that Fu Zhiyuan sent someone to find Lin Yanchao to go to the government to discuss matters.

Sun Chengzong, Qiu Mingshan and others were worried about whether something had changed. Lin Yanchao knew that Fu Zhiyuan was not the kind of person who changed his order every day.

When Lin Yanchao came to the mansion, Fu Zhiyuan was eating, and by the way, he was still reading the official document.

There was a plate of fish and a plate of vegetables on his table, and when he saw Lin Yanchao, he ordered others to add him a pair of dishes and chopsticks.

Fu Zhiyuan clipped a chopsticks and said: "The silt fields in the embankment, the government has discussed it with Mr. Tang, and this matter is still muffled." How many acres of land have been sold, and how many taels of silver have been collected, the government has strictly ordered the people below to seal their mouths......"

"The imperial court, the feudal division, the government can claim it. Repair...... It doesn't cost the court a penny to repair a hundred miles of embankments, even if this matter is right, when it comes out, the other officials who govern the river don't look good. ”

Fu Zhiyuan commanded, he was right, Lin Yanchao built a hundred miles of embankments, and made 30,000 taels, if it spread, it would be a slap in the face of the officials in charge of the river on both sides of the Yellow River, which would not be good for his career.

And for Fu Zhiyuan, Lin Yanchao still has reservations about collecting money from the people.

Lin Yanchao's move to open the dredging field, after all, still collected money from the people. is similar to Wang Anshi's change of law, shouting in his mouth, 'If the people don't add endowment, the country will use enough', but Sima Guang objected, thinking that 'people who are good at managing money (Wang Anshi's set) will not be able to collect the people's wealth. The poor of the people are thieves, not the blessing of the country'.

But Fu Zhiyuan has reservations, but it does not mean that he is against it.

Confucianism who refuses to be flexible is called rotten Confucianism, and cannot be called great Confucianism. The true Confucianism is tolerant and inclusive, especially the upper-class scholars. Historically, when Matteo Ricci entered Beijing, the upper echelons of the Ming Dynasty were tolerant and acceptable to Western disciplines, and there was a great trend of Western learning in the east.

If the Ming Dynasty can continue, there may not be any later Westernization Movement at all.

Lin Yanchao, on the other hand, engaged in water conservancy and sold silt fields to the common people.

Fu Zhiyuan was shocked that Lin Yanchao could make so much money, because it completely subverted his cognition. But after being shocked, he first thought, is this move squeezing the people's money and benefiting the people? Is there any suspicion of fooling the people and collecting money?

After Lin Yanchao explained, Fu Zhiyuan was relieved, but he felt that in addition to taxes, the government also asked the people for money by selling land, which would cause unnecessary trouble in the officialdom.

Although he had this worry in his heart, he did not stop Lin Yanchao's move. Because it is true that the common people and the government have done their best, so his final decision is to put it there first and take a look, let Lin Yanchao feel the stones and cross the river to try, how to talk about it in the end.

Confucian kung fu is all in the word 'Jing Jing', the so-called respect is to be able to pour out a bowl full of water at any time. Therefore, the more insistent the heart, the more humble and retreating the appearance.

Fu Zhiyuan has a deep understanding.

Fu Zhiyuan stopped his chopsticks and said, "King Lu has already decided the matter of Weihui. The internal supervisor who came to supervise the affairs of the feudal domain was about to arrive in Kaifeng. I heard that in addition to the salt introduction, there are also matters related to the property of each prefecture. ”

"This government thinks that we can't sit back and wait for the order of the feudal division, and we should take the initiative to communicate with the feudal division, so you should go to the provincial capital to explain to Yousi the current difficulties of our return to the German government."

Lin Yanchao's trip to Kaifeng had already been decided, but it was delayed until August because of the silting of the fields in the embankment.

Lin Yanchao said: "Futai, what's going on with the property of each prefecture?" ”

Fu Zhiyuan said: "King Lu asked him to give him all the original property of King Jing in Henan, and the Son of Heaven has agreed." In addition, the budget of Weihui Jianlu Wangfu is 6727,800 taels of silver, and this money will also be shared by our Henan provinces. ”

King Jing was the son of Jiajing, and later died of illness, so the country was eliminated.

Emperor Jiajing was poor and extravagant, and he was also very generous to King Jing, and gave him a lot of farmland, many of which were in Henan. King Lu then asked him to give him all the property of King Jing.

In fact, the Son of Heaven has already given a lot of property to King Lu. King Lu is still not enough.

You must know that there are already fifteen vassal kings in Henan. At the beginning of the country, there were 1.5 million hectares of tax land in Henan, but now it is less than 500,000 hectares. So many vassal kings gathered together?

There are also nearly 680,000 taels of Luwang's mansion, and this money is not withdrawn from the treasury, but to be shared equally among all provinces in Henan, is there a reason for this?

Lin Yanchao's face was light and light, and he didn't care about everything, and said: "Our Guide Mansion was flooded last year, and the people have not yet recuperated, so it is really inappropriate for King Lu to come here at this time." ”

"Since that's the case, the lower officials will go to Kaifeng."

Fu Zhiyuan nodded, then stood up and sent Lin Yanchao out.

I don't know when it started to rain outside, and the rain was sprinkled down the eaves.

Fu Zhiyuan said: "Come on, give Sima a lantern and an umbrella, and send Sima back to his house." ”

Lin Yanchao said with a smile: "No need, the carriage that Xia Guan is riding in is outside." ”

"Then send it to the wagon!" Fu Zhiyuan said to Lin Yanchao, "King Jing's legacy has Huguang, nine provinces and 21 counties in Henan Province, about 15,000 hectares, and although Guide is barren, it is also among them, about 1,000 hectares. ”

Fifteen thousand hectares of farmland? Lin Yanchao sneered, he wanted to say that in history, Wanli gave his son King Fu more generous, and a total of 40,000 hectares were given, and then the officials of the Manchu Dynasty rushed to oppose it, and finally it was reduced to 20,000 hectares.

These 20,000 hectares are not given casually, they must be fertile land. At that time, the good fields in Henan were robbed by King Lu and other vassal kings, so they could only make up from Huguang and Shandong.

Lin Yanchao was very indignant when he heard about this kind of thing at first, but after a long time in officialdom, he got used to it over time, and it was not worth making a fuss.

Compared with the Queen Mother's 6 million taels for King Lu's wedding, this matter is not worth mentioning at all.

It's just that from the perspective of Henan officials, it is a little choking, because once King Lu decides on the affairs of the domain, only the De Mansion will have to pay tens of thousands of taels of money to repair the Wangfu, and there will be 1,500 hectares of land in the salt class of the Mansion to become King Lu's Yulu Field.

In this way, the taxes in the government will be shorter next year, and tens of thousands of taels of taxes will have to be paid, and whoever is the prefect will not be able to sit still. This official can't go down now.

Fu Zhiyuan said with a solemn face: "Lin Sima, as a Zhengyin of this mansion, you can't go to Kaifeng, Lin Sima, you are also a provincial parent official, where your responsibility lies, go to the domain to fight, and you can fight for one acre for the people, and one or two silver is one or two silver." ”

Fu Zhiyuan and Lin Yanchao are both the highest officials in the first government, and as the prefect, if Fu Zhiyuan takes a break to Kaifeng, it will be a crime of leaving his post without permission. Therefore, Lin Yanchao can only be asked to fight on behalf of the Guide Mansion.

When Lin Yanchao heard this, he was silent and said: "Futai, the last time I admonished the Son of Heaven for the matter of King Lu, I was demoted to Henan. Now it's hard to say it anymore, and the lower officials can only do their best. ”

A few days later, Lin Yanchao settled the affairs of the river work, and after leaving Sun Chengzong in the office, he took Qiu Mingshan and a protégé to Kaifeng on business.

When it comes to travel, in this day and age, it's definitely a waterway, better than a land route.

From Guide to Kaifeng, in the Song Dynasty, the waterway could go through the Bianhe River, but now the Bianshui River has long been silted.

Thankfully, there is also a Jalu River.

This Jialu River was dug by Jialu, a famous minister of water control in the Yuan Dynasty, and was named after people. The predecessor of this Jialu River is said to be a chasm, which is the Chu River Han Boundary in chess.

The Jialu River starts from Fengqiu, passes through Zhuxian Town in Kaifeng, reaches the Dingjia Road Crossing in Shangqiu, passes through Yucheng and Shangqiu two counties, can be said to be through Henan, returns to the two prefectures of Germany, and then enters the canal in Xuzhou.

However, the current Kaifeng Mansion is not as good as the status of Kaifeng in the Song Dynasty, and the Cao Yun of the imperial court no longer passes through Kaifeng, so the Jialu River is not used as the main transportation channel and is not within the scope of the key governance of the imperial court.

In addition, there is a section of the Jialu River that runs through the Yellow River, so the river water has a large sediment content, and the river embankment burst last year, and the canal is now often silted.

Before the government discussed the matter, the cao boats carrying grain could no longer go to the Jialu River, so there was a plan to let the cao boats go north to Linqing to buy grain by empty boats.

Now Lin Yanchao is taking a boat from Guide to the Jialu River, and he also takes a look at both sides of the canal by the way.

After really taking the boat, Lin Yanchao already felt that the Jialu River really needed to be dredged. It's September now, and it's not yet winter, but the boat with a slightly deeper draft is going to use a slender man to cross the Jialu River, and the silting situation can be imagined.

The boat stopped at a river beach that night.

That night, the moonlight was like water, shining on the canal, and Lin Yanchao was holding a book and reading it on the boat.

At this time, I suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves on the bank of the river.

The sound of horses' hooves was far and near, Chen Jichuan and Zhanming in the cabin all climbed the ship's building to look, as for Yuan Keli, Hou Zhipu, these protégés were also awakened by the sound of horses' hooves.

Soon the sound of the horses' hooves faded away, and after everyone was relieved, the sound of the horses' hooves came back and stopped at the side of the boat.

At this time, there was already a guard in the ship, and more than 20 officers and soldiers went on board to be on guard, Chen Jichuan and Zhanming were also holding steel knives.

Lin Yanchao got up but listened to the river breeze blowing, he couldn't help but think that this was an official ship, even if any thieves didn't open their eyes, they wouldn't rob their own boat.

I heard Chen Jichuan say upstairs: "I don't know which friend is on the other side, it's polite here." We are the official ship of Guide Province here......"

At this time, there was a commotion on the other side of the river, and a voice came: "Dare to ask if it is Lin Qingtian, the Tongzhi of Guide Mansion, who is on the boat?" ”

Both the ship's people were shocked that they had come all the way.

"I met at the beginning of the year, and now I know that Lin Qingtian has passed by since then, so I will talk about it, once I am born and twice cooked, please Lin Qingtian appreciate his face."

When Lin Yanchao heard this, he remembered that at the beginning of the year, Xiangma besieged the city of Guidefu, and at that time, Lin Yanchao persuaded these Xiangma to leave and withdrew the siege.

Later, one day, Lin Yanchao received a silver ticket of 1,000 taels of silver, with the words Shandong Li Er returning to worship below.

Chen Jichuan didn't know what to do, Lin Yanchao said: "These Shandong ringing horses, since they have come all the way to the door, if they don't see me, they will not stop, let two people on the boat, and ask what is the matter." ”

Chen Jichuan got the order and said to Xiangma: "It's really one time and two times ripe, please!" ”

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