Do you still remember the chief minister Guo Shen who took the initiative to promote Wang Yuan as a child prodigy when he was in Guizhou?
Shu Kunshan, the right deputy imperial envoy who came to Qingzhou this time, is the same kind of person. He has no other talents, except that he can write well and write articles well. He likes to write inscriptions and steles everywhere, and he also likes to write articles and praises.
Colleagues.
Last year, Shu Kunshan was sent to Yansui as governor as the right deputy imperial envoy.
Good guy, Yansui was one of the nine frontiers of the Ming Dynasty. He didn't leave any political achievements as a governor, but he left a lot of frontier fortress poems. He wrote poems and sang peace with his master, and wrote poems and sang peace with military officials. Anyway, he just patrolled everywhere.
Border affairs officers would write poems as a souvenir after completing their inspections.
It's not that he can't write poetry, but he wrote too many poems, but he didn't do anything practical in comparison.
This guy Shu Kunshan is also a veteran of three dynasties. He is older than Li Chongsi and has a thicker skin than the city wall!
When he was the governor of Yansui, he was impeached by Yan Guan. Logically speaking, he should avoid suspicion. Regardless of whether there is any problem, he must at least pretend to resign. Instead of resigning, this guy actually wanted to be promoted, which caused an uproar in the whole court.
, the impeachment memorial once surpassed Jiang Bin.
Seeing public outrage, Shu Kunshan finally resigned and was persuaded to stay by Zhu Houzhao. After all, he was a veteran of three dynasties without any threat, so he directly agreed that his resignation would not be a good look and he would just stay and receive his leisure salary.
It is estimated that the cabinet did not want to provoke Wang Yuan directly, so they threw Shu Kunshan here, hoping that this shameless veteran would come to Linqing to be a troublemaker.
As for the right minister of the Ministry of Industry who came, his name was Yu Lin.
When Wang Yuan left Beijing, this man was still serving as the right minister of the Ministry of Rites and also in charge of the affairs of Honglu Temple. Somehow he was promoted to the right minister of the Ministry of Works.
"Good words!" Zhizhou Ma Lun clapped his hands and praised.
Shu Kunshan was quite impressed. He put down his brush, held his head high, put his hands behind his back, and continued to inspect Linqing Prefecture School.
This guy was obviously here to supervise Wang Yuan's water conservancy project, but now he is "inspecting" the place every day, and even brought Yu Lin, the right minister of the Ministry of Industry, with him. In less than half a month, the old man wrote sixteen poems, by the way
He left calligraphy treasures in the state government office, Xiangxian Temple, state school, Caohe Gate and other places.
When I came to school today, Shu Kunshan drank with the teacher and composed poems. He also checked the students' homework and urged and encouraged them to make progress every day. The students felt like spring breeze and had a very good impression of this veteran. Those who didn't know it thought he was from Shandong.
Mention the scholar!
After coming out of school, Yu Lin reminded: "Mr. Chu Zhan, we are here to assist Academician Wang in regulating the river. Maybe we should go to the construction site again."
Shu Kunshan pointed at Ma Lun and said with a smile: "Look at Ma Zhizhou, doesn't he rarely go to the construction site?"
Ma Lun complained: "It's useless to go down there. Bachelor Wang has the final say there."
Yu Lin was very depressed and wanted to say: You should just do it and show off.
But after thinking about it carefully, I decided not to say it.
People say that Shu Kunshan is a weak official, but he is actually very smart. From the moment he received the errand, he never wanted to trouble Wang Yuan, but only hoped to get a share of the credit and a little profit.
Since there is no oil or water to be harvested, why are you still doing it at the construction site?
Just hide far away, don't cause trouble to Wang Yuan, and wait for the completion of the project to gain political achievements in vain.
Yu Lin also planned to show her presence at the construction site, but Shu Kunshan pulled him away without saying a word. It was obvious that Wang Yuan was a favorite of the emperor, and there was no room for others to interfere. If he continued to stay there, he would only be annoying.
Other civil servant construction projects must be followed by eunuchs, but the emperor did not even send eunuchs this time. The only eunuch, Li Xing, was invited by Wang Yuan himself as a consultant, which shows his status in the emperor's heart.
What Shu Kunshan is thinking about now is to ask a scholar to write an article for him.
Didn't he serve as governor of Yansui? Although he was impeached, he could still write an "Official Biography of the Governor of Longxi" to record his great achievements as governor of Yansui.
Suddenly, an official ran over quickly and said to Malun, the governor of the state: "Xueshi Wang has killed someone again!"
Ma Lun was shocked: "How many have been killed?"
"One." said the official.
"Then what did you do for so long?" Ma Lun said angrily, "Isn't it normal for Academician Wang to kill all the officials?"
The official explained: "Xueshi Wang, he...he cut off Zheng Yuan, the head of Qiaoguan!"
"What?"
Ma Lun was shocked when he first heard about it, and then he smacked his lips and said, "Just chop it off. How could Chief Zheng be so ignorant?"
Two months ago, Ma Lun would have thought that anyone who dared to kill Chao Guan was crazy. But now he has become so accustomed to it that he doesn't even bother to ask Wang Yuan why he kills people.
Shu Kunshan smiled and said: "If you kill him well, this person must be corrupt. I will write a poem to record the feats of Scholar Wang in eliminating harm for the country!"
Yu Lin resisted the urge to roll her eyes and thought: You always came to Qing to make money.
Yu Lin asked: "Why did Bachelor Wang kill the person in charge?"
The official said: "Due to the shortage of official ships, the recent batch of iron and stone materials were transported by private merchants on merchant ships. Those merchants had documents issued by Wang Xueshi and were exempted from customs duties when passing through the customs. But Mr. Zheng did not Qian, saying that merchant ships must pay taxes, and let the merchants pay for it themselves. When Wang Xueshi heard about this, he rushed to Chaoguan and hacked Master Zheng to death with one sword."
"You deserve it. You want money at the risk of your life, and you don't even care who owns it." Ma Lun curled his lips.
Ships that are tax-free must also collect taxes. Of course, they cannot be collected by the country and must be collected 100% into private pockets.
Shu Kunshan stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Such a big rat should be killed!"
Yu Lin was speechless and said: "Even if there is corruption, the crime will not lead to death. Scholar Wang really... really went too far."
Shu Kunshan smiled and said: "Shilang Yu, don't you know what kind of person Wang Xueshi is? His ribs were broken, and he chased him for hundreds of miles on his own, and captured Qi Yanming, the leader of the bandits, alive on horseback. Such bravery You should not be enemies with this kind of person. Not only is he cruel to others, he is also cruel to yourself. You only see him killing people everywhere, but you forget about his project accounts. If someone else were to supervise the construction of such water conservancy, it would cost at least It’s going to triple!”
What really scared Shu Kunshan away from causing trouble was that the accounts were so scary that he had never seen them before in his life.
Wang Yuan even used all the money he got from ransacking his house and the money donated by King Guishan in Yanzhou to pay for projects, and recorded it in detail.
Standing on a wall a thousand feet tall, one can be strong without desire.
Only when you are full do you go against an upright official. If you win, there will be no benefit, but if you lose, you will be infamy.
Shu Kunshan asked: "Mazhizhou, what other places of interest are there in Linqing?"
Malun immediately said: "Three miles away from the north of the city, there is a relic pagoda, which is nearly twenty feet high!"
Shu Kunshan immediately smiled and said: "I have an impression. I saw it on the road when I came here. Tomorrow I will invite the city sergeants to climb the tower together."
Malun flattered him and said, "Mr. Chu Zhan is very elegant. If he can compose another poem and engrave it on the inner wall of the pagoda, it will be a good story for me in the literary world of Qing Dynasty!"
Shu Kunshan said: "Since it is a relic pagoda, it should be written a poem to pay homage to the Buddha."
Wang Yuan was busy at the construction site, and from time to time he would kill a few people to deal with corruption.
But this old gentleman is very cool. He spends all day thinking about where to go and just waits for the dam to be repaired to share the profit. But Wang Yuan has to thank him, because this old guy doesn't make trouble, and officials who don't make trouble are already known as
Good officer!
"Da da da da!"
There was a sound of horse hooves.
Yuan Da rushed over on horseback and said to several officials: "Dear superior officers, three of the dredging boats invented by Wang Xueshi have passed the improvement test. Tomorrow morning, please come to the Wei River to celebrate the launch of the dredging boats!"
Yuan Da was just a follower of Wang Yuan, but Shu Kunshan, a veteran of three dynasties, politely clasped his fists and said, "Brother, please go back and tell Scholar Wang that I will be there when the time comes!"
"Farewell!"
Yuan Da immediately rode away, feeling that this old gentleman was a good official and treated the common people with such courtesy.