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Chapter 343 New Policy and New People
Chapter 343 New Policy and New People
Although the setting up of practical affairs by local governors is a very bold and novel thing for the court ministers, Zhu Yijun is no stranger to the establishment of practical affairs by local governors.
He clearly remembered that after human civilization entered the industrial revolution, there was also a case in China where the ruling class dominated by Han Chinese bureaucrats used the name of the government to promote industry and commerce.
However, at that time, under the influence of the industrial revolution led by the West, the situation of local governors and governors running a large number of industries and commerce began, so it was called Westernization, not practical affairs.
But now, because it was mainly after Zhu Yijun promoted the internal practical thought of the Ming Dynasty through Zhang Juzheng's mouth that the local governor had the idea of doing business in the name of the government, so it was only called practical practice.
Therefore, it is called, which is separated from empty talk and rationality, and does some practical things to help the world and the people.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun did not regard this as a scourge, so that, like Fang Fengshi, he believed that this would lead to the failure of the country.
Because the scholar-bureaucrats among the Han people belong to the knowledge controllers who are at the forefront of thinking in farming civilization, it is normal for many enlightened Han scholar-bureaucrats to make some innovations and are willing to try new things. .
Especially Lu Kun, Shen Li, and Jin Xuezeng, who are officials in the south, are more likely to breed these new ideas because of the germination of capitalism.
Therefore, it is not surprising that Zhu Yijun knew that this happened.
Generally speaking, because Zhu Yijun is no stranger to these things, he only ordered the third governor to come to Beijing, and did not choose to treat Lu Kun and others as rebellious criminals.
Qingjiangpu, Huai'an Prefecture.
The bitter north wind howled on the pea-green Yellow River, and it didn't take long to send a river of white snow, which filled the sky one after another.
Ye Agui, a commoner living in a shack on the shore, exhaled whitely at this moment, and moved the bark that was immediately stacked outside into the house.
Seeing this, Ye Agui's wife Wang Xiaocao said, "Now I don't eat these for the winter, so why move in here?"
"Although I don't want to eat him, it's okay to use it as firewood, so as not to freeze you and the baby in your stomach."
Ye Agui said with a smile.
It turned out that Ye Agui was originally a refugee in Qingjiangpu who used others to move goods and do idle work, but since he and Chen Jiuzhu were arrested to the governor's office and registered as residents together, he was called by Chen Jiuzhu into the government-run paper workshop In the middle of the year, he became an employee of a government-run paper mill, and thus had a stable income, and also relied on this to marry Xiaocao, the queen of Wang Tracker who lived in Qingjiang Pula.
It didn't cost much dowry, just a part of the first month's salary to bring Wang Xiaocao, who was about to starve to death this winter, back to life.
Because every winter on the canal, a group of refugees would freeze to death and starve to death.
Therefore, his father felt that there was no need to support another person and begged Ye Agui to be his son-in-law.
"Ah Gui! Master Chen Jiu asked you to go with me to Yangzhou to transport the goods. If you go back and forth, you will get an extra five kuai. Do you want to go or not!"
Ye Agui turned his head and glanced at Wang Xiaocao.
He is not Chen Jiuzhu's servant, but a serious government employee, so he has no personal relationship with Chen Jiuzhu, and he is a free worker belonging to this era. Naturally, he can reject Chen Jiuzhu and not take advantage of this trip.
It is also because workers like Chen Jiuzhu and Ye Agui have no personal attachment, so they cannot be used casually, especially in this kind of heavy snow day, they need to pay extra wages.
"Five qian silver, you go, I will stay with my parents for a few days."
Wang Xiaocao touched her big belly and said with a smile.
Ye Agui thought for a while, then nodded, and then gave Wang Xiaocao a bag of rice and a salted fish on the wooden wall: "Don't let the old man think that you are going to eat rice, take this bag of rice and fish. .”
Wang Xiaocao let out a "hmm".
"Hey! I'm going right now!"
Ye Agui hurriedly yelled, and then braved the heavy snow and cold wind, and ran towards his colleagues.
At this time, Chen Jiuzhu was on a sampan with Fengyang Chief Secretary's lantern on Qingjiangpu, rubbing his hands dryly, frowned and looked at the dead tree branches that were gradually turning gray in front of him, and the bark peeling under the dead tree. old tracker.
Chen Jiuzhu had already learned about the impeachment of Fengyang Governor Lu Kun through the governor's office.
This made him worry that the paper mill he opened for the government would not be able to continue because of this, and then he, like the old tracker in front of him, had to go back to the days when he needed to eat bark and wild vegetables to survive the cold winter.
"Be careful, look at the oilcloth on top! Don't let the snow fall in, it will damage the paper inside. It is the first-class paper that is transported into Yangzhou City for the masters and girls to write and draw."
When Chen Jiuzhu was thinking about it, he asked Ye Agui, who was transporting the goods on board, to wait a few words. He promised Fengyang governor Lu Kun to recruit more unemployed civilians and use the government-run paper workshop to solve the survival problems of some people. So now his paper workshop Although it opened not long ago, it has become very large-scale and recruited many workers, so that in order to increase profits, I had to transport goods to Yangzhou for sale at this time.
But Chen Jiuzhu also couldn't help thinking at this time, if the imperial court does not allow the chief secretary to run paper workshops, what should those people who beg for food in the paper workshops do? Sometimes, one person is full and the whole family is not hungry.
"Master Qian, is it true that the imperial court will not allow the elder to open this paper workshop?"
Therefore, Chen Jiuzhu couldn't help asking about Qian Bingtu, the master Lu Kun sent to deliver the goods.
Qian Bingtu frowned and said: "If you don't punish the crime, everything will be fine! After all, the Elder Master has cut off a lot of wealthy gentry, especially those in Jiangxi!"
"Should they be allowed to seize my property, and the government should not be allowed to compete with them for profit? The court officials who speak for them are too unreasonable!"
Chen Jiuzhu asked with some dissatisfaction.
"The imperial court is not a place for reasoning. When the batch of goods is sold out, don't get involved. We will talk about it after the grand master returns to Beijing. Now the imperial court just let him go to Beijing to report on his duties. As for the result, it is hard to say."
Master Qian said.
Chen Jiuzu nodded.
……
"My lord, the official store under the name of the Chief Secretary has restocked!"
Yangzhou City.
On the attic of a shop.
Pu Jinkui was looking out with his hands behind his back, when his servant Jiang Er pointed to Chen Jiuzhu and others and the car in front of him and said something.
"I saw it."
Pu Jinkui said with a sullen face: "That man is Chen Jiuzhu! Unexpectedly, he really escaped here, and even started running a paper workshop in the name of the government."
"My lord, you don't know. Because of the short distance and better quality of their paper, and in the name of the government, tax collectors don't dare to embarrass them, so they robbed us of a lot of business in Qianshan Shitang paper! Now the big households in Yangzhou don't use it. Our paper is gone."
Jiang Er said angrily.
Pu Jinkui said: "Don't worry! I have already sent people to Beijing to take care of it, and many Beijing officials have agreed to speak for us. He was sentenced to Lu Fuyuan for the crime of competing with the people, taking advantage of the opportunity to amass money, and ruining the government's reputation. The mud bodhisattva crossing the river—it’s hard to protect yourself, so the Huai’an official paper industry will naturally not be able to continue. Then you can go to Cao Xun, who is standing on our side, and ask him to run Chen Jiuzhu, who instigates the government to compete with the people for profit, and to seek evil crimes, exiled!"
"Yes!"
……
Lu Kun has indeed received an urgent letter from the cabinet calling him to Beijing from the imperial court, and he also knows from many colleagues in Beijing that the imperial court is now arguing with Jin Xuezeng and others because of their behavior, so much so that some people threaten to kill them .
So, at this time, he was standing on the official ship going north, looking at the white world on both sides of the strait, he frowned and thought hard.
He didn't know what was going to happen next.
But he saw a young pregnant woman with a big belly, although she was wearing Baijia clothes, she was carrying a bag with the words "Fengyang Chief Secretary Zhifang" printed on it, smiling and pouring it into a clay pot held by an old man in front of a hut When he was making rice, he suddenly felt that no matter what, he had to keep the paper workshop he had asked the chief secretary to open when he was the governor of Fengyang.
(End of this chapter)