Chapter 1828: Ni Er expresses his loyalty when Ren Zi Juan is in danger

Flirting with girls and winning their hearts is just a small episode in Feng Ziying's complicated daily routine to relieve her mood. Faced with the growing number of refugees and the increasingly severe price situation, these are the things that trouble Feng Ziying and make her happy. It was a big event that put Feng Ziying under great pressure.

Feng Ziying discovered more and more that there was a reason why Shuntian Mansion was Shuntian Mansion, and why it was several levels higher than other mansions. The center of a country is where the elite of a country gathers, and any sound can be amplified countless times and spread throughout the country. It is not an exaggeration to say that the whole country can be activated at once.

To put it bluntly, starving to death of a hundred people in Yongping Prefecture would not have as big an impact as starving to death of one person in the capital city. The asymmetry and occlusion of information make any action and impact in the capital city will be affected. Lift to different standing heights.

Feng Ziying found that her current working time allocation has also undergone some changes. Based on a ten-day period, she basically only has about seven days to deal with affairs in Shuntian Prefecture and Xia Bianzhou County.

With the remaining three days, Wenyuan Pavilion will occupy at least one day, and the remaining two days are almost spent in the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Punishment.

Especially the Ministry of Household Affairs visited the most. As he himself told Huang Ruliang, he, the Prime Minister of Shuntian Prefecture, could become a supernumerary minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

The migration of refugees to Beijing has become the biggest event in the first year of the Yonglong decade.

In fact, this wave of refugees began to appear in December of the ninth year of Yonglong. The refugees from Datong and Taiyuan in Shanxi passed through Baoding and Zhending in the north, and brought a large number of local victims with them to the north, like an unstoppable flood. .

Although local officials have tried their best to prevent and encourage people to return, it is obvious that at this level, unless they resort to violence, they cannot stop these refugees who are seeking to survive.

Even though the imperial court and Shuntian Prefecture were mentally prepared, the arrival of refugees far beyond the 100 years since the founding of the Zhou Dynasty, especially during the Yuanxi period and the first ten years of Yonglong, still caused panic throughout the capital.

In particular, the impact of this refugee wave is still fermenting, so that the victims in other prefectures such as Henan, Beizhi, and Shandong have also been affected by this, and they have begun to spontaneously turn to what they think is the most convenient, rich, and most desirable place. The living place—the march to the capital.

Everyone knows that the price of food in Gyeonggi Province has now risen to an unprecedented level, but it is still barely bearable under the suppression of the imperial court. The arrival of these refugees will not only consume more materials including food, but will also bring more There is a huge panic. When water transportation cannot be restored for the time being, can Gyeonggi be able to withstand such pressure?

Some officials in the imperial court are also worried that with such a large number of refugees entering Beijing, once the price of food rises to a height that the people in the capital cannot bear, they may fall into an uncontrollable chaos, and the turmoil and chaos in the capital will inevitably affect the government's intensive preparations. The prepared Shandong strategy, once the Shandong strategy failed, would be fatal to the court.

The idea of ​​intercepting the refugees on the spot, or even using the military to deal with them, is not unknown, but it is very difficult.

Since local governments lack motivation and can reduce their own local pressure and transfer these risks to other places, why not? What's more, the imperial government's financial relief has not been fulfilled, which is not entirely the responsibility of the local government; secondly, once it is dealt with, it is very likely to trigger civil uprisings in areas where the White Lotus Sect is most rampant, such as Baoding and Zhending, and the guards in these places The army is relatively weak, and an uncontrollable situation may arise if you are not careful, which will be counterproductive.

“Qiu Sheng, how is the situation?” Seeing Fu Shi come in, who had lost a lot of weight, Feng Ziying put down the wolf hair in her hand and asked in a deep voice.

"It's too chaotic. The Ministry of Industry is not fully prepared at all. If this continues, something will happen!" Fu Zhen said angrily: "The strategy has been submitted to the Ministry of Industry a long time ago, but it's hot and cold. Master Cui and the others It does attach great importance to it, but the people below are pushing and blocking the specific work. The first batch of more than 6,000 selected refugees have been arranged to Daxing. The county government has also made preparations. Some people take the lead and some make arrangements, but the Ministry of Industry This side has been unable to come up with a repair and construction plan, and it is said that Jieshenku is also wrangling..."

"What can Jieshenku say?" Feng Ziying had already expected the procrastination of the Ministry of Works. Cui Jingrong had not been the Minister of the Ministry of Works for a long time, and he was not a strong official to begin with, so he could not expect too much efficiency in the work of the Ministry of Works. , but the Jieshen Treasury is currently more important than the Bank Treasury of the Ministry of Revenue. If there are problems there, then the plan to provide work relief to the refugees will be troublesome. This is absolutely impossible.

"Sir, you should know that although the Jieshen Treasury is managed by the Ministry of Industry, it is mainly used by the inner government. The imperial court proposed to temporarily misappropriate the money and materials from the Jieshen Treasury, which aroused strong opposition from the palace. Two of the supervisors said that they could not open it. This precedent is because the Ministry of Industry Yuan Wailang who is in charge of the Jieshen Treasury has always been directly appointed by the emperor, so the current Ministry of Industry Yuan Wailang Liu Shilu refused to accept the orders of the Ministry of Industry. The guards of the Jieshen Treasury are also responsible for the Warriors Battalion and the Four Guards Battalion, so the Workers’ Battalion Until now, the Ministry has not been able to transfer money and materials from the Jieshen Treasury..."

 Fu Shi licked his lips and introduced the situation of Jieshenku with some difficulty.

Feng Ziying only knew that the Jieshen Treasury was under the control of the Ministry of Industry, but it was mainly used by the inner government. In other words, it was part of the emperor's inner treasury, and it was the most important part, because it was the Ministry of Industry system in the imperial court system. The collection is completed, instead of collecting it directly through the methods of mine supervisors and tax supervisors in the past.

The mining taxes collected by the mine supervisors and tax supervisors can be put into the Jie Shen treasury, but most of them go directly into the emperor's inner treasury. Just like the civil uprising that Feng Ziying encountered in Linqing, it was actually the tax supervisor who set up checkpoints in Linqing. , imposed tariffs, resulting in civil unrest.

 But Jieshenku was different. It was part of the imperial system and had collection rules and channels stipulated by the laws of the Zhou Dynasty. However, the money and materials collected were mainly for use in the inner palace.

For example, the monetary materials stored in Jieshenku only need to be silver, iron, lead, copper and a small amount of wood. The Fourth Department of the Ministry of Industry collects material silver from each province in a fixed amount every year. According to the Yonglong Sixth Year Standard, the material silver collected each year is about The discount of silver is about 800,000 taels.

Since this part of the money and materials was mainly for the use of the palace, during the period of Emperor Yuanxi, the palace was extravagant and squandered, and there was never any surplus. However, after Emperor Yonglong succeeded to the throne, due to Emperor Yonglong's relatively frugal temperament, basically every year They can all have a balance of two to three million taels of silver. So far, it is estimated that the balance of Jieshen's treasury should be more than two million taels of silver. For the current court, this is a considerable profit.

"Is there such a thing? A foreign minister from the Ministry of Industry can block the court's decision-making?" Feng Ziying found it incredible.

"My lord, Liu Shilu was appointed by the emperor. This is the practice of this dynasty, similar to the salt censorship of the Huaihe River. The emperor must nod before he can be appointed or dismissed." Fu Shi was also helpless.

"That means that as long as Liu Shilu doesn't agree, the court will be helpless?" Feng Ziying thought it was too ridiculous, "What did the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Work say?"

"The Ministry of Industry is still trying to persuade Liu Shilu to take the overall situation into consideration, but Liu Shilu said that it was difficult to obey the order because the two supervisors disagreed." Fu Shi replied.

Feng Ziying laughed angrily, "Thousands of refugees are now crowded outside the city, and tens of thousands more are swarming in. Just because of such a strange thing, such a big plan has been shelved. Sorry, I really don’t understand what these people from the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Works are doing? How cowardly do you have to be for something like this to happen?"

 Fu Shi was silent. He also felt that he could not understand.

Suppressing the anger in her heart, Feng Ziying pondered for a moment.

It seems that we have to start with Liu Shilu to solve this matter. The Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Personnel have such an attitude, completely unaware of the urgency and seriousness of the problem. These refugees entered the city and had nothing to do for a day or two. Fortunately, if it drags on for a few days, I'm afraid they will become restless. Who will provide them with food and drink? Shuntian Mansion's plan is to absorb at least 30% to half of the best of the refugees, otherwise it will be a powder keg.

Liu Shilu passed the responsibility to the two **** supervisors, and it seems that King Shou and King Lu also took the opportunity to stir up trouble. Apparently they were dissatisfied with the court treating them as decorations and wanted to express their own existence.

It's just that now more than 6,000 refugees have entered the city, which is equivalent to being handed over to Shuntian Prefecture. The money and materials from the Ministry of Industry have not arrived, so construction cannot be started. If something goes wrong, everyone is responsible, and Shuntian Prefecture will not be left behind. .

 “Send someone to call Ni Er, and I’ll talk to him.” Feng Ziying thought for a while, and he could only let Ni Er carry it first.

Ni Er came very quickly, as if he had been waiting outside the government office.

"I have met you two adults." The current Ni Er is completely different from the Ni Er of the previous two years. He is wearing a purple-trimmed robe, a square scarf on his head, a green emerald ring on his thick finger, and walks calmly , although his attitude was still respectful when he came in, but in another situation, he could already feel that his demeanor was very different.

Yang Qi Ti Ju Yi Qi, in just two or three years, Ni Er has already lost the aura of the gangster proletariat of the past, and transformed into a gentry in the city.

"Do you know why I'm here to see you?" The relationship was unusual, and Feng Ziying asked directly without going around in circles.

“Master Fu has already told Xiao Xiao that the Ministry of Industry and Shuntian Prefecture have decided on the maintenance strategy for the city. Now Minzhuang has entered the city, but something went wrong at Jieshenku...” Ni Er was very calm.

“Well, this matter cannot be postponed, and in three days, 8,000 people will be screened and brought into the city. Are your people ready?” Feng Ziying did not talk about the issues of the Ministry of Works first, but asked Ni Er.

 (End of this chapter)