Zhou Zheng went to the household department and discussed money and food with Li Shiwen.
The money raised by Yang Sichang cannot be used'privately' and requires procedures from the Ministry of Households.
Li Shiwen is a person who strongly opposes "sweeping the net on all sides". Previously, he was against Yang Sichang, and it was the same when he changed to Zhou Zheng.
The two sat down in the side room, and Li Shiwen didn't have any false politeness, and said directly: "I want to keep half of it."
Zhou Zheng directly retorted, saying: "It must be distributed in full. For hundreds of thousands of troops, the money and food are already insufficient, and the household department cannot withhold it."
Li Shiwen snorted coldly and said, "If it is really thrown to the northwest, what do you ask the court to do? Next year's official salary will not be issued!"
Zhou Zheng was in his spare time and said: "You should know the relationship between Zhou's ticket number and me. If you constrain the great cause of suppression of bandits in the northwest, I will let Zhou's ticket number collect debts, 900,000 taels, and the amount of money in the northwest is almost the same. ."
Li Shiwen's eyes changed, and he said solemnly: "Dare you!"
The corners of Li Shiwen's face were square, and his tone was full of gunpowder, sonorous and forceful, and could not be rebutted.
If the Zhou's bill number is the debt collection department, Li Shiwen will naturally have a way to deal with it. The worst is, but it can still rely on the account. The family department does not repay the money, and it is the same if it is in Chongzhen. How can it be paid if there is no money
But the problem is that Li Shiwen has already borrowed another 300,000 yuan from Zhou's ticket number as the year-end government officials' salaries throughout the country.
If Zhou Zheng had made trouble from it and made Zhou's ticket number not lent to the Ministry of Households, then the trouble would be great.
Zhou Zheng adjusted the clothes on his legs and said lightly: "You pay in full, and I will let Zhou's ticket number lend you 500,000, relax the time for three months, and halve the interest."
Li Shiwen answered the conversation immediately and said, "Really?"
Five hundred thousand, the time is relaxed, the interest is halved, at least seven to eight hundred taels of silver can be saved, which is a big number for the depleted household department!
Zhou Zheng smiled and said, "Do I have to deceive Li Shangshu?"
Li Shiwen looked at Zhou Zheng, Fang Zheng's face moved, and immediately said'seriously': "It's not that I want to restrain you, but the northwest is a bottomless pit. Yang Sichang's "ten-faced net" may not be able to do all the work. If it's a gangster If not, whether it is stalemate or the spring breeze is blowing again, it will be a dead end for the court!"
There was a surprise in Zhou Zheng's eyes. The ruling and the opposition were clamoring for the bandits, and there were not many people who could see so far.
Zhou Zheng put away his contempt and said, "The emperor, you know the situation of the court. It's not so much that this'ten-faced netting' was Yang Sichang's idea, but the emperor, the court gave birth. Now, he can only do his best. Moving forward, it may be possible to eradicate the banditry. If it is abandoned halfway, or if the officer and army fail, that is the real dead end."
Li Shiwen frowned, and said a little annoyedly: "As long as you ask Zhou's ticket number to lend me money, Yang Sichang prepared it, and I will send it to you."
Li Shiwen also knew that Zhou Zheng was right. In fact, it is impossible to intercept half of it. If people from all walks of life in the northwest riots, the Ministry of Households will be the first to be held accountable.
"Surrounding the net" is a matter of the imperial court, the emperor attaches great importance to it, no one will have good fruit.
Seeing that Li Shiwen was settled, Zhou Zheng felt relieved, the money and food matters were settled, and then people were the people.
Zhou Zheng was out of the household department, and Cao Bianjiao was coming out of the military department. As soon as he saw Zhou Zheng, he raised his hand with joy and said, "My lord."
Seeing that he is getting more mature, Zhou Zheng patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Go, come with me to pick up Prime Minister Lu, and go to my house for a drink in the evening."
Cao Bianjiao has followed Zhou Zheng for seven or eight years. He is very familiar with him, and said without extra politeness: "It's an adult."
Cao Bianjiao is now also a general soldier, in his early thirties, it was the time to make meritorious deeds.
Zhang Heyi and Cao Bianjiao accompanied Zhou Zheng and turned straight to the Xing Department.
Zhou Zhengjin was not what he used to be, and a group of people from the Criminal Department greeted him and treated him politely for a long time.
When Zhou Zheng entered the prison of the Ministry of Justice, he saw that Lu Xiangsheng had changed his official uniform in the jail and was sitting in jeopardy.
Zhou Zheng separated the prison door and said with a smile: "Jian Dou, the imperial edict is coming soon."
Lu Xiangsheng looked at Zhou Zheng, stood up, walked to the door, raised his hand, and said with emotion, "Thank you very much this time."
Zhou Zheng raised his hand and smiled, and said, "It's a blessing in disguise. When the imperial decree is here, go to my house first."
Lu Xiangsheng knew that he could be released this time. It was Zhou Zheng who made a military order in front of Chongzhen and made a guarantee. He nodded and said, "Don't worry, only Hong Chengchou in the northwest is familiar with me. Just around the corner!"
Zhou Zheng didn't care whether Lu Xiangsheng was really confident or because of his guarantee, he said, "Go back and talk about it."
This is really not the place to talk. Lu Xiangsheng was about to turn around when suddenly a team of internal monitors walked in.
Zhou Zheng glanced at it and waved everyone away.
Sure enough, it was Chongzhen's edict that released Lu Xiangsheng and made meritorious deeds.
Lu Xiangsheng took the order, and the internal supervisor left.
Lu Xiang rose out of the cell, holding his fingers, with emotion, and said, "Finally, he has come out."
Zhou Zheng took him over and said: "Let's go, first go to my house to wash up, we will talk all night, and go to Shaanxi the next morning."
Lu Xiangsheng responded, and a group of people left the Criminal Ministry and turned to Zhou Mansion.
After arriving at Zhou Mansion, after Lu Xiangsheng had a wash, a group of people, Zhou Zheng, Lu Xiangsheng and his younger brothers, Cao Bianjiao, Meng Hezhou and others, were eating and drinking while discussing anti-bandit strategies in the Northwest.
This basically covers people at all levels, including coaches, generals, and intelligence. The discussions are very detailed, deducing various possibilities and countermeasures.
Until dawn, a group of people were still talking tirelessly.
Then Shangguanqing arranged for someone to clean up and replace the food and drink. Then Lu Xiangsheng stopped talking and quickly stood up and said to Shangguanqing: "Thank you brother and sister."
Shangguanqing has always been cold, especially hardly speaking with outsiders. He rarely said: "It's not a problem."
The others also stood up, helping to tidy up, politely saying "Mrs. Hard Work" and so on.
After Shangguanqing cleaned up, Lu Xiangsheng continued talking, saying: "To be honest, Yang Ge Lao's layout is indeed very precise. Others... I can't do it. He basically completes the layout. We only need to refine and advance. That's it..."
Zhou Zheng nodded. Strictly speaking, he picked up Yang Sichang's bargain!
Looking up at the sky, Zhou Zheng said, "It's almost there. After eating, I will go back and have a good rest. I will leave Beijing tomorrow morning. I will go to the Ministry of War and enter the palace."
Naturally, Lu Xiangsheng and the others had nothing to say, they ate and talked, and then left separately.
Zhou Zheng took a bath and changed his clothes. He watched Shangguanqing sitting not far away and looked at him. He smiled and said, "You have also seen that, I'm surrounded by talented soldiers and bandits. "
Shangguan pursed the corner of his mouth, his expression worried.
Zhou Zheng came over, hugged her, and said, "I promise you that I will be back before the end of the year at the latest."
As the person next to the pillow, Shangguanqing knew Zhou Zheng very well. He raised his head when he listened, and stared at Zhou Zheng with his eyes, and said, "Really?"
Zhou Zheng smiled and said, "Really."
Shangguanqing smiled and said, "Okay, I'll wait for you to come back."
Zhou Zheng smiled, and then said: "After I leave, you find a way to persuade Dad to move the mansion to Tianjin Wei."
Shangguanqing blinked in confusion.
Zhou Zheng casually explained: "The state affairs are so difficult and the political affairs are too chaotic. I am worried that my father can't help being an official."
Shangguanqing nodded slightly and said, "I will try."
Zhou Zheng hummed and turned to go out.
First, I went to the Ministry of War, and after I explained the matter, I went to the palace to request an order.
Emperor Chongzhen placed high hopes on Zhou Zheng and personally sent him out of the Palace of the Qing Dynasty. He even ordered Zhou Zheng, the governor of the Northwest, and the generals to cut first and then play. (End of this chapter)