Since the General Manager's Yamen was being renovated and repaired, the General Manager and his young wife had no place to stay for a while, and they didn't want to disturb the place by renting a room in a nearby town, so they had someone build a temporary straw shed next to the Yamen.
Be frugal in everything.
It’s really strange to say that the general manager doesn’t see money, but he has strict requirements on himself and never is extravagant or wasteful. Even after the couple wipes with each other, they use towels instead of fine banknotes produced by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, because the general manager believes that towels are good for washing.
It can be reused, but fine banknotes cannot be reused after being wiped, which is too wasteful.
It was so simple that the staff of the management committee who contracted the project couldn't bear it. They spontaneously organized donations to the general manager, and one after another donated tens of thousands of taels of silver.
In this regard, although the general manager thought the impact was not good, he was afraid that the people below him would have other ideas, which would be detrimental to work and unity, and even affect the progress of the project. After repeated refusals to no avail, he decided to keep it temporarily and return it to these people after the project was completed.
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Sometimes, anti-corruption work also requires strategies.
You must not only show your own integrity, but also let your subordinates work with peace of mind. Only by doing this can you be a qualified leader.
Rough working methods are not advisable.
After all, this side of Jingling is the Changrui Mountain Scenic Area. No matter how hot it is during the day, it is still very cool at night when the mountain breeze blows.
There are just too many mosquitoes.
Under the dim oil lamp, the steward was taking stock of recent expenses.
Yuanyuan, who is five months pregnant, is sitting by the side picking up shoe soles. She is going to make two pairs of cloth shoes for her husband.
Because the two pairs of shoes my husband always wears are really smelly.
After putting away one shoe sole, Yuanyuan felt a little sleepy. She looked up and saw her husband still lying there doing the accounting, and said: "It's getting late, go to bed early."
"Well, you go to sleep first. I'll go to bed after finishing this painting."
After casually agreeing, Jia Liu continued to draw with gusto, with a smile of extreme satisfaction on his lips from time to time.
Yuanyuan couldn't help but become curious when she saw this. She put the soles of her shoes next to the bed and walked over to take a look. As a result, she really couldn't understand what her husband had drawn. It looked like a tall building, but it was also very strange. It was not like her usual
The buildings you see are out of place.
Don't know what it is.
Jia Liu touched Yuanyuan's belly and asked her, "How do you like it? Isn't the imperial mausoleum I designed grand?"
Yuanyuan was stunned and lost her voice: "What you painted is Qing Yao's new imperial tomb?"
Jia Liu was stunned and quickly shook his head: "No, it's my own imperial mausoleum. I've already thought of the name. It's either called the Winter Palace or the White House."
"..."
Yuanyuan was speechless.
Jia Liu opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but found that it was better not to say anything.
Because if he talks too much, it feels like he is bragging.
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After the investigation team headed by Prince Feng Neheng returned to Beijing, the incident of water seepage in Jingling quickly spread among the government and the public, and there was a lot of discussion because it was an unprecedented thing.
Some rumors also spread in Beijing, saying that the reason why Jinchuan bandits were able to break through the blockade and run to Huguang was because water seeped into the underground palace of the Holy Ancestor and damaged the dragon veins of the Qing Dynasty.
This kind of rumor must have reached the ears of the emperor. Qianlong held two imperial meetings about this. The Queen Mother also said that water seepage in the underground palace of the Holy Ancestor must not be possible. Even if there is no precedent for opening the underground palace, for the sake of the Holy Ancestor and the great people.
The emperor had to deal with the Qing Dynasty's country and country as soon as possible.
Qianlong, who had been extremely superstitious in recent years, was even more convinced of this. However, whether to rebuild the imperial mausoleum once and for all, or just open the drainage of the underground palace, was a matter of great controversy between the DPRK and China.
At the end of the day, it's still about money.
It cost 3.14 million taels of silver to start the construction of Jingling. With today's prices, it would cost at least 5 million taels to rebuild on a selected site. The imperial court could not even raise the military expenses for Sichuan. Where would it find this money?
The cost of drainage projects is relatively low, with a maximum cost of 100,000 taels.
Therefore, out of practical considerations, the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Internal Affairs gave suggestions to drain the water first, and then consider relocation and reconstruction when the treasury has sufficient money in the future.
Qianlong couldn't make up his mind and asked He Shen how much money he had left in his treasury.
Heshen said that he had originally received millions of taels of silver from various places for negotiating crimes, but the Ministry of Revenue temporarily paid 3 million taels to Sichuan for emergency response, and now the remaining silver in the treasury is less than 2 million taels.
The money problem gave Qianlong a real headache.
Jia Liu was also anxious. He didn't really want to rebuild Kangxi's Yin Mansion, he was just breaking the windows.
Yuanyuan doesn’t understand what the broken window theory is.
The image of Jia Liu is a metaphor.
He asked Yuanyuan: "If I marry a few more wives, would you like it?"
"Pooh!"
Yuanyuan's answer was rolling her eyes and looking like she didn't know what to do.
Jia Liu sneered: "Then I go out to visit brothels occasionally, like once a month. You don't object, right?"
Yuanyuan still wanted to pee, but she thought for a while and remained silent.
Men are not good, and they may even be thinking about other women when they are doing it.
If you don't marry someone in, go out and spend money once a month, then just turn a blind eye.
Jia Liu chuckled: "This is the broken window theory."
Jia Liu, who fully understood Qianlong's problem of having no money, felt that he should fulfill his obligation as a loyal minister, that is, as the head of the competent authority, he should write to the emperor to ask all officials to donate "silver to repair the mausoleum."
In order to prevent officials from not being sufficiently politically aware, the Ministry of Household Affairs can directly deduct wages when paying them, and then issue them a certificate of voluntariness.
The trick you played with President Li in Sichuan is a virtue.
But before he could finish writing the note, something big happened in Shandong.
Wang Lun, the leader of the Qingshui cult who is active in Shandong, took advantage of the severe drought in Shandong this year and the local officials' arbitrary increase in taxes, which led to fierce resistance among the farmers. He openly organized believers to revolt, appointed military advisers, marshals, general soldiers and other official positions, and led the crowd.
Thousands of people, their heads wrapped in white scarves, armed with broadswords and spears, attacked Shouzhang County, killed the magistrate Shen Qiyi, and attacked Yanggu and Tangyi counties.
Wang Lun put forward the slogan of killing the rich and helping the poor, and the people of Shandong joined the rebel army one after another, with tens of thousands of supporters. Shandong was in urgent need, North China was in urgent need, and the capital was in urgent need.
A few days ago, Wang Lun led his troops to defeat the encirclement and suppression officers and soldiers organized by Yanzhou General Soldier Weiyi and Shandong Governor Cathay, and marched north to Linqing.
Linqing is the hub of north-south waterway transportation, and it controls the main water transportation route. If it falls into the hands of the rebels, Cao Yin and Cao Liang from the south of the Yangtze River cannot be transported to Beijing, and the central government will be paralyzed.
This is more dangerous to the Qing Dynasty and the country than the bandits who broke into Huguang.
Qianlong was furious and urgently ordered Shandong to march to suppress it.
However, the Shandong Green Camp could not be used at all. The only general in the army who "always boasted of his bravery" was beaten to pieces by the insurgents. He also came from the Eight Banners of Manchuria as a guerrilla. When the thieves arrived, he jumped out of the gap in the back wall of the station and heard the news.
And escape.
The Shandong Green Battalion was unavailable, so Qianlong had no choice but to send the Eight Banners of the Beijing Battalion to the expedition. However, the Eight Banners' elite firearms, forward, Shanpu, and Jianrui battalions were all lost in Jinchuan. The Eight Banners of the Beijing Battalion had no available soldiers or generals at all.
After patchwork, 1,500 guards were organized.
Who will lead the troops has become a big problem.
The Military Aircraft Department recommended Shu Hede, a bachelor, as the imperial envoy. However, Shu Hede had never led an army. The generals who could be recruited by the Eight Banners were either in Sichuan or in the northwest.
Finally, Minister of Military Aircraft He Shen suggested to the emperor that Jia Jia Shikai, the "Wuneng Ibatulu" who had been demoted to the general minister of Dongling after being convicted of attacking the camp by the flagmen in the previous period, should serve as the leading minister and go to Shandong to quell the rebellion.
After the imperial guards came to Jingling to announce the decree, Jia Liu was stunned and speechless for a long time.
Yang Zhi beside him asked softly: "Master, what's wrong?"
"Fate, man, you really have to believe in fate. The Qing Dynasty is destined to end."
Jia Liu geared up, "Young Master, I want to support the Qing Dynasty and destroy the foreign countries... Young Master, my hands will be stained with the blood of the working people again, and I will solve the problems for the Qing Dynasty."