Chapter 1285 Even if I can't make money, I want to make it anyway
Chapter 1285 Even if we can’t make any money, we still want to make some political achievements (please subscribe and vote)
Li Ke, who was already bored with the loss, stood up and walked to the door of the room, looking at the light rain outside.
My whole body felt like it was about to become moldy and rotten, and the silky mist of moisture came towards my face with the blowing of the wind.
Not far outside the house, the lime courtyard wall that was just painted last year is already covered with green moss.
There are also those unknown wild flowers blooming in various colors, welcoming the wet, moist and cold rain and dew.
Li Ke couldn't help but sigh a little.
“People often say that the scenery of Jiangnan is misty and rainy, and this place is no worse than Jiangnan.
But it’s so misty and rainy every day, I feel like I’m going to get moldy.”
"Sigh... Winter in the south is already very difficult, but I didn't expect spring to be so difficult."
Cheng Chubi couldn't help but feel happy when he saw Li Ke, a handsome northerner with thin skin and tender flesh, chattering.
"This is normal. It's better here. In those mountainous areas south of Luzhou, it's true that the sky is never clear for three days and the ground is never three feet flat."
"At least we can still see the sun here from time to time. It's already very comfortable, okay?"
Fang Jun touched his belly and felt hungry again.
"Brothers, instead of discussing this, why not think about what we should eat tonight?"
Li Ke nodded in agreement, turned back and smiled.
"That's true, well... I want to go out for a walk, but I don't want to move when I see the weather like this."
"How about we order some bacon to go with the wine tonight?"
"By the way, Brother Chubi, how's your cured ham doing? When can it be eaten?"
"That thing has to be marinated for two or three years. It would be too wasteful to eat it now, but today you can taste the flavor of bacon knuckles."
Cheng Chubi couldn't help but feel a little sick, but it was a pity that this was Luzhou, not Yunnan. The climate in Yunnan was dry and rough, so that was a good place for cured ham.
But since I am the governor of Luzhou, I can’t just rush to Yunnan to cure ham just because I have a stutter, right?
Sitting next to the iron stove, Cheng Chubi poured the boiling water that had been sitting for a while and the temperature had dropped slightly into the white porcelain bowl in front of the three of them.
Soon, a faint fragrance of tea began to spread.
"It smells so good, little brother, I can smell it and feel like spring..."
Li Ke is indeed a gentle man who flirts with young ladies all day long, and he even expresses his feelings over a sip of tea.
Cheng Chubi waited for the tea to turn a bright and pleasant yellow-green color, then he picked up the tea bowl and took a sip.
I smacked my mouth happily and felt comfortable. This is called drinking tea.
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"Brother Chu Bi, the officials of Luzhou often complain to me."
After Li Ke took a sip of tea, he felt comfortable and enjoyed it for a while, then he opened his eyes and said.
"I'm complaining that our Governor's Office has been here in Luzhou for so long. Apart from issuing a few orders from the Governor's Office, we haven't paid attention to any government affairs in Luzhou."
Hearing this, Cheng Chubi suddenly became unhappy.
"How should we care? We have arrived in Luzhou, don't we have much to do?"
“Look, it took us less than two years to build a project from the dock on the south bank of the Yangtze River in Lu to Jingnan.
And the road from Jingnan, Changning Prefecture to Chuizhou."
"To the east, all the roads to Nengzhou on Jingnan Road have been built, and almost half of the road to Shunzhou has been built."
"In two years at most, we can build the entire cement official road in Luzhou and make the roads in Luzhou smooth."
"Brother Chu Bi, you don't have to worry. They said that. I naturally know how they feel."
"After all, many of the things we did in Luzhou were not done by the Governor himself, but by the Luzhou Branch of Han and Tang Commercial Banks."
"This makes them very unhappy, especially now that the Luzhou pigs are getting richer and richer, but they have made no achievements..."
Luzhou officials were initially reluctant to contribute to road construction because the Luzhou Metropolitan Governor's Office was responsible for building roads this time.
There are also officials from the Ministry of Industry responsible for supervision. In addition, when building roads, they actually do not ask for money from those in Jizhou.
Instead, they used the funds of the Luzhou Governor's Office to spend, which made it difficult for them to profit from it.
In addition, there was a prince, a prime minister's son, and a general's son. None of these three young men who were trusted by the emperor was easy to mess with.
Therefore, these Luzhou officials adopted a resigned attitude.
You do your thing, we do ours.
However, their attitude can actually reduce the constraints of the trio of demon moths in the Governor's Mansion.
The important thing is that Cheng Chubi persuaded the two good brothers and made the Han and Tang Dynasty Commercial Bank the biggest beneficiary of investment promotion.
Cement factories, various breeding farms, and various manufacturing workshops, etc., allowed the Luzhou Branch of Han and Tang Commercial Banks to obtain a large amount of income.
The Luzhou Branch of the Han and Tang Commercial Banks also spent money to support the Luzhou Metropolitan Governor's Office to establish Luzhou Elementary School and adult literacy schools in Zhujizhou, Luzhou.
It can be said that the rapid economic prosperity of the Luzhou Metropolitan Governor's Office was inseparable from the strong support of the Luzhou Branch of the Han and Tang Commercial Banks.
With the commercial prosperity of Luzhou, it brought a large number of floating population and increased tax revenue.
The Luzhou magistrates were a little unhappy. They originally thought that these three young men came here to get gold plating, and left after messing around.
But the result made them stare blankly. Seeing how Luzhou was changing every year, they couldn't help but become anxious.
Although he couldn't make any money, he still wanted to gain some political achievements, so he frequently came to visit Li Ke, the governor of Luzhou.
After all, we are all gentlemen and scholars, and we are not willing to deal with Cheng Sanlang, the notorious governor of the governor.
Naturally, we can only go to this smiling tiger-level His Highness the King of Wu.
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"They are working hard on their own to take on the important task of building roads from Luzhou to Rongzhou, Rongzhou, Zizhou, Bazhou and Yuzhou."
"Brother, of course I won't agree directly, but I won't reject them directly either.
After all, they are all colleagues, and if they also want to make achievements, I think this is also a good thing."
"In addition, they also want to learn from us. They no longer conscript the people into corvee service, but recruit rogue people to build roads."
Cheng Chubi nodded and asked Deng Chengxin to find the map and look at it a few times.
"They want political achievements, so there is no problem. However, the terrain in Bazhou and Yuzhou is too complicated. I am still not sure how to proceed."
"I can't rest assured if they are allowed to go. Let's ask officials from Luzhou to take charge of building a road connecting Rongzhou and Rongzhou."
"Of course, there is no problem with recruiting 獠人, but the wages of the 獠人 must not be owed."
"The quality of the project must be checked by the Metropolitan Government and the officials from the Ministry of Industry, and the cost of each mile of road must not be higher than..."