Chen Yuan was stunned for a moment and said hurriedly: "To inform the prefect, this time a total of thirteen rebel thieves were killed and twenty-six were arrested. They are from Shen Faxing of Jiangnan Province."
Li Yizhi nodded slowly, his expression softening a lot.
In fact, what he cared about was not the assassination incident itself, but Chen Yuan's role in the incident and whether he had rebelled.
If the other party really rebels, then he can only make up his mind to vigorously purge the city guards.
Luo Tong will definitely be removed from his post, even if the other party doesn't know about it at all.
Now it seems that his worries are unnecessary.
From Chen Yuan's expression and reply, it can be seen that this bandit suppression should be real, but he fell into someone else's trick to lure the tiger away from the mountain.
Li Yizhi continued to ask: "Have you investigated the two parties blocking the street?"
Chen Yuan understood what Li Yizhi meant and hurriedly replied: "We have found out, it must be a coincidence. They are both in the rice and grain business, and they usually fight openly and secretly, so this time they happened to meet on the street, and neither one was willing to give in." , then they started to quarrel and blocked the street."
When Li Yizhi heard this, he sighed at the mastermind behind the scenes, who cleverly used all parties and planned carefully without leaving any clues.
But in fact, leaving no clues is the biggest flaw.
In Yangzhou City, the only force that can do this and control the overall situation is Yu Wenhua.
But he still has some doubts, why would Yu Wenhuaji send such a weak killer?
You must know that Yin Kaishan and You Gui in the previous two times are both innate masters who have been famous for many years.
Li Yizhi said in a deep voice: "Chen Yuan, this time you made great achievements in suppressing the bandits, but you were also used by others. Let's just balance the merits with the fault. As for Luo Tong, you didn't notice in advance that a large number of rebels gathered in the city. This is your fault. For your dereliction of duty, I will fine you three months' salary. Can you accept it?"
"The general will finally accept his punishment!"
Both Luo Tong and Luo Tong breathed a sigh of relief, feeling grateful in their hearts.
They knew that Li Yizhi was showing mercy.
"Um."
Li Yizhi hummed and said: "Now that a large number of forces have gathered in Yangzhou, Luo Tong, you have a great responsibility. You must ensure the absolute stability of the city and strictly check those who enter the city. We will suppress any troublemakers with all our strength and show no mercy."
"Yes, Taishou."
"Okay, you go down."
After watching the two people leave, Li Yizhi looked at Xue Zhen and Gao Shouyi and asked, "What happened in the past few days when I was away?"
"Nothing happened, but these days, the number of refugees pouring into Jiangdu has increased a lot. Even if we try our best to resettle, there are still many people who are temporarily unable to cultivate their fields because of insufficient farm tools, so they can only raise them first. And I’m afraid there will be more to come.”
Xue Zhen said hurriedly: "However, we have sent people to other places to purchase farm tools and cattle. I believe that after some time, this situation should be alleviated."
Li Yizhi pondered: "You can't just support the refugees like this. Firstly, it will cost a lot. Secondly, they can easily be deceived by others, which may threaten the local area. In this way, the government will pay to hire people who are temporarily unable to cultivate fields, and they will be hired in various places in Jiangdu County. Construction of water conservancy projects, bridges and roads must be done to keep the refugees busy."
Xue Zhen and Gao Shouyi hurriedly dissuaded them: "It's not okay, Grandmaster. We have seriously overspended just to resettle the refugees. We need to borrow money from Sihai Bank. If we build water conservancy projects on a larger scale, it will probably cost even more."
They actually wanted to persuade and directly recruit the refugees to work.
It's just that they know the character of their governor, and it is absolutely impossible for them to do something so harmful to the people.
"It doesn't matter. Whether it is building water conservancy projects or building bridges and paving roads, although it is very expensive at the moment, as long as we survive this period, the future development of Jiangdu County will definitely be a legacy that will last a hundred years."
Li Yizhi waved his hand and said: "What's more, as the people become richer, their hearts will calm down and they will not be taken advantage of by people with malicious intentions. As for the silver, all the money will be withdrawn from Sihai Bank first. I will discuss it with Tian Wen later.
"
When Xue Zhen and Gao Shouyi heard this, they could only nod.
Anyway, this is a good thing that benefits the people, so they can only follow it, and maybe they can leave a good name in the history books.
After talking about political affairs again, Xue Zhen and Gao Shouyi left.
Just as Li Yizhi was about to get up, someone came to report that Tian Wen was visiting.
Not long after, Tian Wen walked in quickly. He looked up at Li Yizhi, breathed a sigh of relief and said, "When I first entered the city, I heard that you were assassinated in the street. It seems that nothing is wrong."
Li Yizhi smiled and said: "It's just a scratch on the palm of my hand. It's fine now. By the way, what's the matter with you coming to see me?"
"Well, the production of sample coins you ordered last time has now been completed. I am here to show you whether these sample coins are qualified!"
Tian Wen said as he handed over the black wooden box in his hand.
Li Yizhi took it and opened it. There were three kinds of gold, silver and copper inside, totaling nine sample coins.
These sample coins are beautifully made and come in different sizes, all of which are round on the outside and square on the inside.
Li Yizhi picked up the largest gold coin. It was golden in color with clear lines and the words "Sui Jin Wuliang" were printed on the front.
"This is a five-tael gold coin, of which the gold content is about 70%, and the other three are other metals. According to what you said before, there are three types of gold, silver, and copper coins, namely one, two, and five. Among each type of coin,
Both contain about 30% other metals.”
When Tian Wen said this, his tone couldn't help but tremble, and he said excitedly: "If our set of coins can be issued, it means that we can make a profit of more than 30% just from minting coins. This is simply robbing money.
"
Li Yizhi smiled and said: "It's faster to get money by issuing coins. I looked at it and found that there is basically no problem with this coin. Have you tested it? If others copy it, what will the cost be?"
The advantage of stamping coinage is that it is fast and exquisite.
However, no matter how beautiful a coin is, someone can still imitate it.
However, as long as it can be guaranteed that the cost of imitation by others is higher than the coin itself, then no one will imitate it even if the imitators are not cracked down on.
Tian Wenhan said with a smile: "Don't worry about this, I have already had it tested. Even if the top craftsmen imitate the nine types of coins, the cost will be much greater than the coins themselves, so no one will ever have to do the thankless job.
Imitation."
"So good!"
Li Yizhi smiled happily and said: "In this way, Mr. Tian, when you go back, you can work hard to make coins. When the time is right, we will do our best to promote it."
"okay!"
"By the way, there is one more thing. I temporarily borrowed 400,000 taels of silver from the Song family. You will send someone to the Song family fleet to accept it later. In the future, the prefecture will build large-scale water conservancy projects and will borrow more money from Sihai Bank.
.”
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Jiangdu Palace.
The news of Yuchi Sheng's assassination had been sent back, and it was Yu Shiji who reported it immediately.
If it was other military news, he would usually intercept it directly and would not tell Yang Guang at all, but this matter was different. It was related to the one hundred thousand taels of silver that Li Yizhi had promised to him.
Yang Guang was furious after receiving the memorial.
You said that as a general, whether you die on the battlefield or be assassinated in the military camp, you can be forgiven.
However, if you don't fight a good fight but go hunting instead, this is already a serious dereliction of duty.
In the end, he was assassinated. This was an unjust death and extremely ridiculous!