The Lobby of the Governor's Office in Jinan, Shandong Province, as the second-ranking Shandong Provincial Government, Wang Chengyi should have been full of energy and made great achievements in his tenure as a governor. This novel is written by

However, after actually entering Jinan and becoming the governor, he found that things were not as simple as he imagined.

First of all, when I took office as the governor of Shandong, I only found less than 10,000 taels of silver in the warehouse of the governor's yamen.

You know, this is the Shandong Governor's Office, which manages more than 100 counties in Shandong. The officials who need office funds every month need thousands of taels of silver for their salary.

Just the remaining amount of money in the governor's yamen will be used in less than two months.

Therefore, the first thing Wang Chengyi did when he took office as the Shandong Prefecture was not to develop political achievements, but to be shameless and raise money for the governor's yamen in front of all the officials, gentry and landlords in Shandong.

After half a month of hard work, the money was found. However, a question that followed appeared again in front of Wang Chengyi.

That is to pay taxes to the court once a year.

However, because drought has spread throughout Shandong Province, except for 30% of the land on Shandong's ground, other places can be said to have no harvest in particles.

Under such circumstances, the counties under the jurisdiction of the Shandong Governor's Office did not ask for help from the Governor's Office or ask the Governor's Office to provide disaster relief due to drought. There was no extra grain used as taxes and paid to the court...

However, the imperial court's orders cannot be disobeyed. Otherwise, the position of his Shandong patrol service has not yet been in heat, so he will be transferred away.

For his own future, Wang Chengyi can only use strong...

Order the counties to forcibly collect grain taxes from the people, which is the so-called robbery of soldiers.

A few months later, the taxes that needed to be paid to the court were finally collected. However, as a patrolman, the people of Shandong were resentful because of this incident.

Many people who lost their food had to become refugees in order to survive.

What's more, they fled directly into the mountains and began to be bandits. They gathered to cause trouble, killed people and rob grain...

For a time, the official documents of Shandong counties requesting patrols to send troops to suppress bandits were sent like snowflakes.

Suppressing bandits is definitely a good opportunity for me who has just taken office as a patrolman.

Therefore, Wang Chengyi made the decision to send troops to suppress the bandits without thinking.

However, what Wang Chengyi did not expect was that as the drought in Shandong became more and more serious, the bandits scattered in Shandong were actually suppressed more and more... The scale of bandits became larger and larger.

When the bandit suppression army he sent out lost two battalions in a row, the bandits who seized a large number of weapons from the official army actually joined forces to attack some large-scale villages and towns...

In the huge Shandong territory, all the food in the towns that were captured by these rioters were robbed of.

If the food is lost, the people in these places are either surrounded by these chaotic people and become chaotic people, constantly strengthening the strength of the stolen traitors. They are also transformed into refugees wandering around...

As the scale of civil unrest and refugees became larger and larger, their appetites became larger and larger. They even began to capture county towns and eliminate the official army in an organized manner.

Wang Chengyi, the patrol supporter, finally realized something was wrong. At the same time, he also saw that the garrison troops and guards in Shandong were all inferior to the rioters and bandits in terms of combat effectiveness because they had not experienced any war for a long time.

However, as a Shandong patrol, if I cannot control the increasingly fierce refugees and rioters in Shandong, I will not be able to do this position for long, and even become a sinner of the Ming Dynasty, turning Shandong into Shaanxi with bandits everywhere...

At this time, Wang Chengyi, the Shandong Prefecture, immediately made a decision: to retrain the army...

As long as there is a strong combative army in your own hands, you can truly gain a foothold in Shandong and eliminate all enemies.

If you want to train a strong army, soldiers and money and food are two essential factors...

As a Shandong patrol, there is absolutely no problem finding enough qualified soldiers.

However, since taking office as a Shandong advisor, the money and food problem that has been plagued by him has once again become a difficult obstacle that Wang Chengyi could not overcome...

At this moment, Wang Chengyi, who was frowning, was sitting in the lobby of the governor's yamen, thinking about possible solutions to the problem of money and food...

Because I have been begging for alms from officials, gentry and landlords in the country many times, and the money and food required to train the army is not a few thousand taels, but a few tens of thousands taels, or even hundreds of thousands taels of silver.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to find a way out from the hands of officials, gentry and landlords in the country...

If you ask for money from the court, it will be even more unworkable...

Now the imperial court cannot even pay the salary of all officials, let alone spending so much money to train the army at one time...

There is no way, but the problem needs to be solved... As time passes by, the expression on Wang Chengyi's face has been replaced by solemnity without realizing it.

At this moment, a burst of rapid footsteps suddenly reached Wang Chengyi's ears.

A yamen runner with a big knife around his waist hurried into the lobby and reported to Wang Chengyi, who was frowning.

"Sir, someone outside the yamen wants to pay a visit to you. This is the prayer that the other party asked the younger one to give to the adult..."

Wang Chengyi, who was worried about money and food, had no time and energy to meet people. He waved his hand and refused, "Didn't you see that I am thinking about things... I don't have time to see him now, so he will go wherever he comes."

The yamen runner who collected the money did not leave immediately, but continued to speak: "Governor, the person outside the yamen said that as long as you read the prayer, you will definitely meet him... And the younger one looks at that person, it should be from the government. So, the younger one thinks, you should take a look at this prayer..."

Although he was full of dissatisfaction with the yamen runners who did not know how to observe their expressions, Wang Chengyi, who looked thoughtful, still took the call and started reading.

I don't know if I don't look at it, I'm shocked...

Wang Chengyi, who was frowning just now, had a thoughtful expression on his face.

Then, he ordered the yamen runner in front of him with anticipation, "Please invite the other party into the lobby immediately... Also, if you ask someone to serve tea immediately, use the good tea brought back from the capital, you must entertain a distinguished guest..."

The person who came to visit Wang Chengyi was nothing else, but Zhou Shuyuan, a military advisor of the Tiger and Leopard Army who took over the immigration task from Wei Zheng.

Of course, Zhou Shuyuan also had an identity in the court, that is, the second-rank governor under the Shanxi Governor's Office, who is in charge of all civil affairs in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces...

Although it is not clear why Zhou Shuyuan, who is so powerful, secretly came to Jinan, as long as someone with some common sense knows that Zhou Shuyuan must have some ulterior motives.

Therefore, although the level of the present is not much different from that of himself, his power is far greater than that of himself, especially Zhou Shuyuan, who has tens of thousands of tiger and leopard troops as his backing. Wang Chengyi dared not neglect at all.
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