Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 278

Hangzhou, Governor's Mansion.

The new governor, Pan Yinglou, had just arrived from Jiangning. As soon as he entered the city, he first came to see the governor Li Yuchun, and Zheng Jiwu, who was the first to recover Hangzhou, is now also a new admiral.

The three sat together to meet.

Sitting in the governor's seat, Li Yuchun's eyebrows and eyes were full of joy. He never thought that his official career would be so smooth, and his career would be so smooth.

It seems that after I left Hangzhou last time, I took off after meeting the Nine Kings.

Nine Kings and Yan Wogong are his two nobles. Nine Kings have always given him merit, and Yan Wogong helped him plan, and now he even directly invites him to be an official.

Governor, the Qing Dynasty is the second grade.

Although the imperial court did not give him the title of Minister of the Ministry of War, only the right servant of the Ministry of War and the right deputy capital censor, but it is also a second grade, not to mention that in the writing given to him by Mr. Yan, the full name of the governor is the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian. , food and salaries, management of rivers and governors.

He has supervised more Fujian Province than before Zhang Cunren, and is the governor of the two provinces.

Although Fujian is still in the hands of the Ming army, and Zhejiang has only three prefectures, isn't one more province more famous?

"How to deal with the thief Zhu Guofan?" Li Yuchun asked the newcomer Pan Yinglou.

He didn't have much friendship with Pan Yinglou. Although Pan was a Tongzhi in Hangzhou before and he was the deputy commander in chief, he was stationed outside the city but not in the city. Later, he went to Jiaxing and met again. Now there is a governor and a governor.

He thought to himself that Pan Yinglou was really lucky, Zhang Cunren and Xiao Qiyuan were cut off, and he also ran to Jiangning, but he was still promoted to governor.However, it is rumored that this guy has a background in Beijing, and Feng Quan, a bachelor, is his uncle, and now he has won the trust of the regent Dorgon.Of course, there are also rumors that Pan Yinglou smuggled secretly in Yuhang before, and he did a lot of it. The Ming army attacked Hangzhou with Yuhang as the breakthrough point.

But this kind of thing, regardless of the above, it is impossible for him to say.

Pan Yinglou also thought that he could not figure out that after he got on the thief ship, his official career took off.

He glanced at Li Yuchun, then at the admiral Zheng Jiwu, who had a dark face and said nothing, "Although the thief Zhu Guofan is capricious, he also has an advantage, that is, he is obedient, and he is really good at appeasing the people. In the new restoration, a lot of waste is waiting to be built, and the post-war reconstruction needs manpower. When I was in Jiangning, I asked Yan Jinglue for instructions, and Yan Gong meant that Zhu Guofan could take the blame and make meritorious service."

As soon as Li Yuchun heard what Yan Wogong meant, he immediately changed his attitude, "Well, the prefect Zhu is indeed very rare. He pretends to be a thief, but in fact preserves his strength. Let him be the prefect."

"Duke Yan's intention is that Zhu Guofan can actually act as the chief envoy temporarily."

Li Yuchun was stunned.

Is this guilty or meritorious?
Offering Hangzhou to subdue the thieves, this will be promoted to the second-rank chief envoy instead?
Pan Yinglou calmly took out a piece of paper and pushed it in front of him.

"Master Zhu is very sincere."

Li Yuchun glanced sideways, and found that there were only a few simple words on the paper, and as a token of gratitude, he offered ten thousand taels of silver.

"Prefect Zhu is quite rich."

Pan Yinglou laughed and said, "This man knows both Huzhou and Hangzhou. This is a rich county in the south of the Yangtze River. He repeated several times, but he kept his official position. He must have saved up his wealth."

"Is this money for the three of us?" Li Yuchun asked directly.

"It's for the governor and the admiral."

Li Yuchun thought he would get 1 taels, but after thinking about it, the three people's share is not bad, a few thousand taels, no matter how small a mosquito's legs are, it is still meat. In the past few months, Li Yuchun's appetite has been very big, and the usual 800 taels I can't even look down on silver.

"Then let's divide together."

He talked about dividing up the spoils very normally, and he didn't feel that there was anything to be cautious about. These days, being an official is not for money, whoever is an official.

All three of them were civil servants and military generals of the Ming Dynasty, but now they have become the Big Three in Hangzhou of the Qing Dynasty.

Zheng Jiwu, Marquis of Haining, said, "The governor will take half, and Pan Fuyuan and I will share the remaining half."

"Let's split evenly."

In the end, Pan Yinglou suggested that Li Yuchun take four thousand, and he and Zheng Jiwu each take three thousand. His governor was originally above the admiral, but now he takes the same amount as Zheng Jiwu, and it is also for Zheng Jiwu's face.

So the two pretended to decline, and both accepted it with a smile. Although it was just a piece of paper, Zhu Guofan would naturally send the money later.

"Let Zhu Guofan take over the chief political envoy and work hard. There will be no next surrender to the enemy. Otherwise, I will be sorry for the trust of Lord Yan. I will be the first to take his head when the time comes."

The first thing the three did when they took office was to share the 1 taels of silver from the prefect Zhu Guofan.

As for the others, there is no rush.

No one even mentioned whether to attack the Ming army and regain lost ground.

Nominally Hangzhou was captured by Zheng Jiwu, but in fact it was the Ming army who voluntarily withdrew from Zhu Guofan and opened the city to welcome the army into the city. However, after the Ming army left Hangzhou, the cities such as Yuhang and Lin'an in the west are still in their hands.

It's just that the suburban towns of Qitang and Linping have been recovered by them, or it means that the army has given up on its own initiative.

Zhu Guofan was summoned.

From now on, he is the chief minister of Zhejiang Province. He is also a high-ranking official from the second rank. Normally, he is a magistrate, and he is usually promoted to the Daotai. Unless there are very special circumstances, he may be promoted to the third rank. It is the inspector of Zheng Sanpin.

A few months ago, Zhu Guofan was a co-prefect of Huzhou. After surrendering five or six times, he was actually a second-rank chief envoy.

"Fantai, now that Hangzhou has been recovered, what are the most urgent matters to be resolved?"

Zhu Guofan's chubby face showed a harmless calmness.

"The lower officials believe that the most urgent problem in Hangzhou today is food. The Ming army besieged the city for nearly a month, and there was a scene of cannibalism in the city. Later, the Ming army entered the city and transported food into the city, but it was barely maintained. Now the Ming army has fled. , The lower officials asked, before they left, they transported all the grain from the granaries around Beishiguan, Qitang, and Linping, and now the people of Hangzhou have no rice to cook in the future."

"The price of grain on the black market has skyrocketed again, ten taels of silver per stone and rice, people are reported missing, and rice and meat are found on the black market. We must find a way to transport grain into the city, otherwise the people of Hangzhou will abandon the city and flee."

"The lower officials implore Governor Li and Admiral Zheng to transfer some military rations to the people first, and then ask Governor Pan to second the emergency food to Hujia Susong and other places immediately."

Li Yuchun said, "Hangzhou has a population of more than a million people, and I have only 1 troops under my command. This time I came here in a hurry, and I didn't bring much army food. I pulled it out for the people to eat, so what will my brothers eat? "

Zheng Jiwu was the first to enter the city. He also knew the situation in Hangzhou, but he also had the same attitude. His army rations were only half a month old, and he couldn't pull them out.

Pan Yinglou also had a terrible headache, "Huzhou has been in the hands of thieves for a long time, and now it must be ransacked and has no food. When I passed by, they still asked me for food. Jiaxing was originally guarded by Admiral Zheng. I don't know if they can get food there. ?”

"Over there in Jiaxing, there is no grain in the official warehouse, and the common people still have some, but the price of grain is very high now, and is there any money in the yamen?"

There is still a fart of money in the yamen, and even the mice can only be moved by the Ming army.

Now all the prefectures and counties in Huzhou, Hangzhou are the same, and they were completely evacuated by the Ming army.

Before the siege of Hangzhou, the rich people’s food was forcibly confiscated. Now the yamen have no money and no food, and the common people have no food.

"What should I do?"

Pan Yinglou tentatively said, "There must be a lot of grain in Yuhang and Shaoxing."

Li Yuchun said in a strange way, "Is Pan Futai planning to take Fubiao to grab the food himself?"

How can Pan Yinglou have this ability? His salt standard has now been upgraded to Fu standard, but there are only 1000 people, and he doesn't know their strength?
It is impossible to rob, and I don't have the ability and courage to take it.

"How about sending people to Yuhang and Shaoxing to buy grain?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked, Li Yuchun and Zheng Jiwu looked at Pan Yinglou like a fool.

(End of this chapter)