"Not only that, Weihaiwei also has money to strengthen coastal defenses. Fishermen in other places cannot go to sea to fish. Although there is a sea ban policy, it has always been possible in offshore areas. But in a year, fishermen on the seaside can only go to sea for 100 days."
Yes, only the fishermen of Weihaiwei can go to sea for more than 200 days a year. It is because Weihaiwei spends money to maintain the coastal defense, so that Japanese invaders know to go around Weihaiwei."
Li Chen was stunned when he heard this.
If what Su Jinpa said is true, then Weihaiwei's exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes seem to have nothing to do with Zheng Baorong's own greed.
"How do you know so clearly?" Li Chen asked.
Su Jinpa pursed his lips and smiled, and said: "When Zheng Baorong donated an official position, he found his father through a distant relative. His father refused at first, but then he knelt in front of the door for a day and a night, and his father reluctantly wrote a letter of recommendation.
Sent to the Ministry of Personnel and Household Affairs."
"Otherwise, he is the prefect of Yiwei after all. Even if he is rich, no one recommends him to such a high position in the court, and it is impossible to buy him. It's just that many years have passed and I forgot about it. I only remembered it when I heard Zheng Baorong's name."
"According to you, Zheng Baorong can really observe and observe."
Li Chen is really short of people at the moment. If Zheng Baorong is really what Su Jinpa said, he is really a talent.
Available.
But as for the specifics, Li Chen still has to meet him in person and understand it before talking about it.
At this time, Weihaiwei magistrate's residence.
In the backyard of the mansion, a Hedong lion's roar was being staged.
"My surname is Zheng. When others become officials, they get fatter and fatter. But you are better off. You are fat, but all the fat is in your body. However, your family background is getting thinner and thinner as you become an official. People who work as officials will try their best to get whatever they can.
, it doesn’t matter if the people are complaining, if everything is sorted out clearly from top to bottom, even the King of Heaven and I can’t control it.”
"Even those who are honest and upright officials, even if they eat chaffy vegetables, at least they have a good reputation loved by the people."
"Look at yourself again. You have done so many things, and while being scolded by the people, you have not gained any actual benefits. What are you doing as an official?"
The servants in the mansion listened to these roars, and they lowered their heads in silence and pretended not to hear.
Over the years, everyone has gotten used to it.
Everyone knows that the prefect of his family is very afraid of his wife, and it is common for him to be yelled at by his wife like this.
In the study room, Zheng Baorong, who was broad and fat, sighed and said to the woman in front of him who had her hands on her hips and an angry frown: "What do you know about a woman? I naturally have my own reasons for doing things. You take care of your own life."
that is."
"I take care of my own life?"
The woman laughed angrily, pointed at Zheng Baorong's nose and cursed: "Your Zheng family is a big family after all. Back then, your old man wanted to donate an official position to you, but the money was not enough, so my natal family helped subsidize it with 100,000 taels of silver.
Originally, everyone hoped that an official would be appointed to make the lives of both families more prosperous, but when you became an official, you were the first to attack your own family. You collected taxes every year. Not to mention the benefits to our two families, we earned our hard-earned income.
All the little money I have has been levied on you, and you still want me to manage my own life?"
"This life can no longer go on, do you know?"
Zheng Baorong said angrily: "I am doing this for the good of Weihaiwei. If it hadn't been for the taxation and construction of coastal defenses over the years, how could my family, your natal family, and such wealthy families have made so much money?"
