This time, Zhou Pingan's face finally showed a solemn expression.
He did not give an answer immediately, but frowned and thought for a while.
Li Chen was not in a hurry.
If you want people below to do things and do good things, you must have some patience.
And this matter is indeed difficult to handle. To put it bluntly, not to mention that the East Palace cannot find anyone other than Zhou Pingan who can handle this matter. Even if Li Chen goes there by himself, it will be troublesome.
Why is it that no matter it is the feudal era or modern times, the imperial court rarely sends officials from the capital to parachute to places, but every time they parachute to a place, it causes some sensation?
Because the officialdom in any place will have its own political ecology.
When local officials face airborne officials, they will naturally unite to fight against the airborne officials in order to protect their own interests.
If everyone is from the same place, has cooperated for a long time, and knows each other's ins and outs, then each other's interests will be involved, and naturally it will be easier to do things and talk better.
But coming by air from the capital means that it will definitely break the local political and ecological balance, and no local official will like it.
Not to mention, the task Li Chen gave Zhou Pingan was to control Nanhe, and the time requirement was extremely short.
Although Li Chen didn't say it clearly, with Zhou Ping'an's intelligence, he also knew that this extremely short time was not a metaphor or an exaggeration, but a very short time in a literal sense, so short that it might even last only a few days.
After pondering for a while, Zhou Pingan said: "If His Highness wants the minister to completely control Nanhe and make him obey the orders of the East Palace and the imperial court, it will take at least half a year."
Li Chen nodded, understandably.
In fact, it is already an extremely terrifying thing for someone who is in charge of a local government to be able to completely control the local area within half a year.
An ordinary chief envoy may not even recognize his own subordinates in half a year, let alone those county magistrates, magistrates, etc.
And who can be a provincial chief envoy, which one is mediocre?
All of them are top figures in this era, and they are definitely not stupid.
It is precisely because of this that we can see the terrifying nature of Zhou Ping'an's abilities.
"But half a year has definitely exceeded the limit allowed by His Highness, so I can only do the next best thing. The first is to ensure that Nan He will not cause trouble when it is important. The second is to ensure that when things really cannot be done, Nan He will
It won’t hold you back.”
Li Chen said: "Then it is the same as Xishan Province."
Zhou Ping'an said sincerely: "Wei Chen is not a god, and he has no means to directly control people's hearts. This is already the limit of what human beings can do."
"How much time do you need?" Li Chen asked.
"Half a month."
Zhou Ping'an said without hesitation: "If His Highness can put all the strength of Dongchang Jinyiwei in Nanhe to Wei Chen's disposal, and give Wei Chen one million taels of silver, Wei Chen can shorten this time even more."
"It's easy to talk about things in Dongchang. I asked Chen Chuan to go and help you."
Li Chen frowned and said, "It's just that these one million taels of silver are not easy to handle."
Unfortunately, what Li Chen lacks most now is money.
Whether it's the imperial court, a bank, or building a school, money is needed.
These are all done in the open, but in the dark, does Su Zhenting need money to win over people? Does it cost money to raise the troops and horses that have been arranged in advance?
It can be said that Li Chen now spends astronomical amounts of money every day.
If it hadn't been for the construction of the bank and the school that had come to an end, and the bank had even been able to get on track under the Liu family's management, Li Chen would have gone bankrupt long ago.