After Zhong Jinwei received Sun Chuanting's explanation, he naturally no longer misunderstood Sun Chuanting. At the same time, he also understood why the anti-smuggling soldiers had no military discipline at all.
Just imagine, not only are the lives of the anti-smuggling soldiers in great danger, but their military pay is also in arrears, who would fight for it again?
Zhong Jinwei looked at Sun Chuanting and asked in a friendly tone: "Besides the silver coins, do you have any difficulties here?"
Sun Chuanting was overjoyed after hearing this. He seemed to want to solve the problem for himself.
Therefore, he did not hesitate and faced Zhong Jinwei again and reported: "The Duke of Guo Ming has learned that there are indeed many difficulties."
"Oh, tell me." Zhong Jinwei immediately ordered.
When Sun Chuanting's men saw this situation, they all smiled. In the past, Shibosi was in Guangzhou because his grandfather was not close to him and his grandmother did not love him, so it was really difficult to do things.
Now that Duke Xingguo has given Shang Fangjian, and the imperial envoys who inspect the important military and political affairs of the southern provinces on behalf of heaven have come to support them, it can be foreseen that the spring of Shibo Division is coming.
They all listened attentively as Sun Chuanting reported the situation to Duke Xingguo, so that they could remind him in case anything was missed.
I only heard Sun Chuanting report to Zhong Jinwei: "My lord, apart from the silver, one of the difficulties of the Municipal Shipping Department is that there are not enough troops to patrol the long coastline. This is one of them."
"Secondly, the scale of Guangzhou's water camp is less than one-tenth of its heyday, and the city's shipping department often makes irregularities when calling the water camp. It's not that the ship needs maintenance, or that the naval gun
It needs maintenance, or the sailor is sick or something."
"Not only that, Guangzhou Shuiying has almost no warships that can be used. Whether it is warships or naval guns, they are not even as powerful as those ocean-going smuggling ships. It has become almost impossible to use Shuiying to fight smuggling at sea.
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"Third, the equipment of the anti-smuggling soldiers is too backward. There have been many occasions when anti-smuggling soldiers faced off against armed smugglers and found that their weapons were sharper than the anti-smuggling soldiers, and they were beaten to death by the armed smugglers."
"Fourthly, when the Shibo Division first took over, there were various requests for favors, but they were coldly rejected by the lower officials. As a result, when the lower officials encountered problems and needed help from the gentry and the government, they often passed the buck.
Condition."
"Fifth, the Shipping Company has left a lot of debts in the past. It's hard to explain, and it's also a headache."
"Sixth..."
Zhong Jinwei listened to Sun Chuanting's explanation of the difficulties one by one, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. It was really not that easy for this shipping company to operate as expected.
If I don't come over here and just sit in Beijing waiting for the harvest from the Shipping Department, I will probably make a mistake.
According to Sun Chuanting's account, it is very difficult to obtain this shipping company as envisioned. Just solving these troublesome issues may take an unknown amount of time.
At the moment, the imperial court is in urgent need of food from Nanyang, and the shipping department also needs to operate normally to bring more tax revenue to the imperial court. If we follow conventional methods and solve the problem one by one, it will probably take too long.
It seemed that he still had to use unconventional means to cut through the mess quickly as he had imagined before.
Sun Chuanting talked non-stop for about a quarter of an hour before basically explaining all the difficulties. With his memory, naturally there would be no difficulties worth mentioning that he would miss.
After hearing his story, Sun Chuanting's men didn't have anything to add. They just looked at Duke Xing, wondering what the Duke could do to solve the problem.
At this time, it was getting dark. Zhong Jinwei did not express his thoughts directly, but said to Sun Chuanting: "My imperial envoy's office is located in your Shibosi Yamen. If you don't solve these problems of yours, I will not do anything."
gone."
When Sun Chuanting heard this, he quickly led his men to salute Zhong Jinwei and thanked him: "Thank you so much, Duke. With the Duke here, everything will be safe."
After finishing speaking, Sun Chuanting immediately suggested to Zhong Jinwei: "My lord, it will take some time for the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi and the chief envoy to arrive. Why don't you go have a meal and rest for a while?"
Hearing what he said, Zhong Jinwei also felt tired. After all, he had just arrived in Guangzhou in the morning, and then he just had a casual meal at the inn, and then came out for a private visit. As a result, he encountered a series of things, and he is now busy.
Zhong Jinwei immediately nodded in agreement, and Sun Chuanting led him to have a meal and rest.
After eating, Sun Chuanting was busy arranging the imperial envoy's departure. Zhong Jinwei occupied the magpie's nest and rested in Sun Chuanting's back office.
After Yu Changjian brought tea to Zhong Jinwei, he looked at Zhong Jinwei using the tea and said with a little worry: "Master, I didn't expect Shibo Division to have so many troubles. I think if Master wants to help Shibo Division solve them one by one,
I'm afraid it will take too long. I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up with Madam's delivery."
When he saw in the restaurant that the Nanyang Chinese were trying their best to transport grain, he was secretly happy and the matter was resolved smoothly. However, he did not expect that after he came to the Shipping Department, he found that there were still so many difficulties.
Zhong Jinwei was drinking tea. When he heard what Yu Changjian said, he put down his tea cup with great interest, looked at Yu Changjian and said: "I didn't expect you to still want to solve these things. Yes, it is right to think diligently!
Then tell me what you think, don't worry about saying it wrong, just say whatever you think."
Yu Changjian's face turned red, but fortunately the oil lamp was not very bright, so others would not be able to see clearly. He was naturally familiar with Zhong Jinwei, so he was not polite and spoke out his thoughts.
He kept talking a lot, and according to the difficulties mentioned by Sun Chuanting, he had to explain one by one the corresponding strategies he had in mind. He talked about overt and covert investigations, obtaining evidence, reprimanding, convicting, and beheading.
After Zhong Jinwei finally waited for him to finish speaking, he smiled and asked him: "If you do this, how much time will you need to spend here?"
Yu Changjian's face turned red again, and he replied a little embarrassedly: "That's why I said there is a lot of trouble here. I'm afraid that I won't be able to return to the capital in time."
Zhong Jinwei shook his head with a smile, picked up the tea cup and drank it all, and then said to Chang Jian: "It's not a big deal if you can't get back. Archi is watched by his mother-in-law, and is served by the emperor's special doctor, Po Wen, so there won't be any
What a big deal. If this goes on for a long time, the biggest trouble will be the lack of food supply in the north, which will cause big troubles. The situation achieved through previous efforts may not achieve the desired results in many aspects."
Yu Changjian secretly sighed that the realm between himself and the Duke was too far apart, and then quickly asked Zhong Jinwei: "Then what can I do?"
Just as Zhong Jinwei was about to express his thoughts, he heard footsteps coming from the door, and then a guard announced: "My lord, the Chief Envoy from Guangzhou has arrived."