Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 261 Loyal to Ming Dynasty
For a person like Wang Chengen, he cannot be bribed directly.It's not that Wang Chengen doesn't love money and doesn't want money, but that Wang Chengen dare not take Li Jing's money.

Does anyone dare to take Li Jing's money?The emperor himself tabooed internal officials from making friends with foreign ministers, especially generals with soldiers in their hands.What's more, Zhu Youjian is so suspicious of Li Jing now, if the emperor knows that he doesn't want to live if he takes Li Jing's money?
Even if you can hide it from the emperor, but if you hold such a big handle in Li Jing's hands, then you don't have to be a man in the future.

Regarding this point, not only Wang Chengen knew it well, but Li Jing also knew it well.

But Li Jing's cleverness is that I don't send things to you personally, I lend your hand to send things to the emperor.

When you, Wang Chengen, came to Pingyang Mansion, not only did you get the silver, but you also brought back [-] shi of grain, which must be a big bonus in the eyes of the emperor.

This kind of ability is not something everyone has. Even the emperor and Li Jing have to discuss what they want. If Wang Chengen can do it, what is Wang Chengen's ability?

Li Jing's ability to figure out other people's mentality is not weaker than Wang Chengen's.

Sure enough, Wang Chengen was overjoyed when he heard it, which meant that the matter was basically completed.

During the meeting, Wang Chengen proposed to Li Jing that he wanted to inspect the salt affairs in Yuncheng, and Li Jing would not object to this.

The next day, Li Jing brought a group of officials and accompanied Wang Chengen to the Yuncheng Salt Factory.

Although Li Jing devoted a lot of energy to the salt factory, he didn't have time to manage it himself.Except when it was just expanded, I came here to give some pointers. Later, I didn't have time to ask about the affairs of the salt factory. I only came there twice during that time.

After the salt affairs in Yuncheng were handed over to Li Jing, Li Jing expanded the salt factory, built four new salt farms, and expanded the original salt farm.

Because there are too many workers in the saltworks, it is impossible to gather in one place for production. Therefore, when expanding and building new saltworks, several saltworks were not built together, but distributed around the salt lake.

With so many salt fields, Li Jing naturally couldn't see them all. How big is the salt lake?If you go around once, you can't finish it in a day or two, so you can only choose one.

Generally speaking, the saltworks selected for inspection should have convenient transportation and not too far away. Both Zhang Li and the officials of the saltworks thought so, but Li Jingxuan’s saltworks happened to be the farthest, and the roads were worse.

The farther away, the farther away, Zhang Li is still very sure about the production status of each salt farm, and he is not afraid of Li Jing's random inspection of any salt farm.

When you come to the salt factory, under normal circumstances, you first go to the site to see the production situation, and the leaders of the salt factory also arrange it in this way.

But to everyone's surprise, after Li Jing arrived at the saltworks, he did not go directly to the production area to see the production status, but took all the officials to the living area of ​​the workers in the saltworks.

The person in charge of the saltworks that Li Jing chose was Liu Shuyan, who was in his forties and was an official from Xiezhou. When Zhang Li saw that he was doing things safely, he recommended him to Li Jing to be the person in charge of a saltworks.

When Liu Shuyan saw that Li Jing did not conduct inspections according to the prior arrangement, a trace of panic appeared on his face, and he faltered in his words.

Li Jing didn't say anything when he saw this, but waved him to lead the way.

When he reached the living area, Li Jing's face darkened.

Because the houses where the workers live are extremely shabby, to say the least, if the wind is stronger, the roof may be blown away.

"Zhang Li, have you come here?" Li Jing asked Zhang Li with a sullen face.

When Zhang Li saw the house in front of him, his expression was extremely ugly. When Li Jing asked, he wiped his face and said, "Commander, this is a dereliction of duty. How will the commander punish you? I have no complaints. I just ask the commander-in-chief for one thing, and I will punish the subordinate after the matter is settled."

Seeing that Zhang Li didn't defend himself, Li Jing nodded slightly: "Zhang Li, you have a lot of things to do, and you may not be able to take care of them. You can't blame all this on you, but you are the supervisor of Xiezhou. Responsibility cannot be escaped, let’s not talk about punishment or not, let’s talk about it after I see the results.”

Zhang Li cupped his hands at Li Jinggong and said, "Don't worry, Commander, the next official will definitely handle this matter well and give the Commander a satisfactory explanation."

Li Jing sighed, pointed to the house in front of him and said: "The ancients said that the people value the king less than the king, but how difficult is it to achieve the people's respect? Don't say that in the eyes of the emperor, even in the eyes of officials, how can the common people Seriously? Let’s take the disaster victims from Henan to Shanxi, and let them live in such a house? Can such a house accommodate people?”

Shaking his head, Li Jing sighed and continued: "I guess those disaster victims are not sure how to scold me! They scolded me for deceiving them, but they didn't build the house they promised. People's hearts! People's hearts! When will you understand the importance of people's hearts? Sex. It has been less than two years since the bandits swept Pingyang Mansion, and you have forgotten? The fate of your colleagues is in front of you, why don’t you have a long memory!”

Speaking of this, Li Jing turned his head to look at Liu Shuyan and continued: "Your name is Liu Shuyan? Zhang Li strongly recommended you to you, and this is how you repay Mr. Zhang? I remember that the funds for the construction of the house have been allocated? I want to check you account, if I find that your account is wrong, I don’t need to tell you how to deal with it?”

Liu Shuyan wiped the sweat off his face, and said hastily, "I know my mistake, and I will immediately build houses for these workers."

Li Jing waved his hand: "Don't tell me these things, you should tell those workers, I don't want to hear this, I only look at your grades."

Liu Shuyan nodded again and again.

Li Jing looked at Zhou Hengchen and said, "Hengchen, you are also responsible for this matter, but I don't want to hold you accountable now, I want you to go all out to solve this matter for me immediately. In addition, you should inform Jun Yang and ask him to take the responsibility. People stationed in the salt factory to thoroughly check out what’s wrong with it.”

"Yes!" Zhou Hengchen responded hastily.

Li Jing waved his hand, sighed and said, "It seems that the salt factory is going to go out independently, so how about it, in the future the commercial operation of the salt factory will be handed over to Shen Zhenglai, and Yuan Shu will be in charge of the administrative aspect, and the local government must not interfere."

Zhang Li wiped his sweat and nodded hastily.

Shen Zheng was the magistrate of Pingyang Mansion, and Li Jing's father-in-law, and Yuan Shu was Yuan Keli's son. Li Jing sent these two people to the salt factory, and Xiezhou would not be able to get any benefits from them.

Although Li Jing was not angry, these personnel arrangements clearly showed that Li Jing was very dissatisfied with the situation of the salt factory.

With a wave of his hand, Li Jing continued, "Let's go to a few families to see what's going on in their homes, and listen to their complaints by the way."

Zhang Li glared at Liu Shuyan and shouted, "Don't lead the way yet!"

Liu Shuyan hurriedly nodded in agreement.

Li Jing turned his head to look at Wang Chengen and sighed: "Oh! After working as an official for a long time, I have forgotten my origin. It seems that I can't avoid it. I still have to come down often in the future. Otherwise, I thought Everything below is peaceful."

Wang Chengen felt ashamed when he heard this, but Zhu Youjian had never been to the people to experience the sufferings of the people, and he never cared about the quality of the people's houses.

After thinking about it, Wang Chengen said with a smile: "General Li is involved in everything, it is impossible to cover everything, and sometimes omissions are inevitable."

Li Jing shook his head and said: "These are not excuses, but their own reasons. The Metropolitan Supervision only cares about whether the officials are corrupt and lawless, but not whether the officials are really doing practical things for the people. If we want to solve this problem fundamentally , I think we need to set up a special department to reflect public opinion, I plan to set up a public sentiment bureau, with branches stationed in localities to collect public sentiment, so that we can grasp the local public opinion in a timely manner and solve the problems of ordinary people as soon as possible.”

Wang Chengen stretched out his thumb and said: "General Li's method is brilliant, but the officials selected by this department have to be careful."

Li Jingjing nodded: "Officials can't have anything to do with local officials, so they must be selected from different places, and they will be rotated every two years. In addition, I don't think there is any need to select grassroots officials. They choose old people with high morals from the local area, such as farmers and workers. Select some old people to be responsible for responding to public opinion, and local officials must not interfere, otherwise they will be punished."

Wang Chengen clapped his hands and said: "Yes, these people understand their own difficulties, and they are doing things for themselves. Naturally, they will not vent their anger with the officials. This way, they can reflect the real public opinion."

Li Jing shook his head and said: "If you want to say that there will still be some disadvantages. After all, local officials control them, and sometimes they may not dare to report the truth due to coercion. This requires the people of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to supervise vigorously, and more supervision is needed. All together."

Wang Chengen nodded, knowing what Li Jing said was true.

Sometimes, things are not as simple as imagined. It does not mean that the establishment of a department can solve the problem. The so-called policies above have countermeasures, and officials below can always find loopholes to exploit.

But Wang Chengen also knew that it was not easy for Li Jing to do this.What Li Jing considers is the interests of the common people, and there is a conflict with the ruling class, which means that what Li Jing is doing now is against the entire system.

Li Jing has soldiers in his hands now, no one dares to do anything to him, but who knows in the future, if there is any omission, Li Jing's end may be dire.

For some reason, Wang Chengen was very unwilling to see Li Jing in such a situation.

After pondering for a while, Wang Chengen said: "General Li, you have a lot to do with your body, so you must take care of yourself!"

Li Jingwen was startled, looked at Wang Chengen, and nodded lightly: "Thank you, Eunuch Wang, for your advice."

Wang Chengen sighed and said: "To be honest, if Wang was not a useless person, he would definitely do something great with General Li. Unfortunately, Wang has no will and has served the emperor since he was a child. Don't blame the general."

Li Jingjing nodded, knowing that Wang Chengen was telling himself that he was loyal to Zhu Youjian and would not do anything wrong to Zhu Youjian.

I still admire Wang Chengen and Li Jing. After thinking about it for a while, Li Jing stared at Wang Chengen and said, "My lord, you are loyal to the emperor. Li knows in his heart that he will never let his father do anything wrong to the emperor. However, Li is loyal to the emperor." It’s Daming, it’s this country, sometimes it’s unavoidable that there will be conflicts with the interests of the emperor. Therefore, for the sake of the people of the world, I ask the father-in-law to persuade the emperor more, not to always go his own way.”

Wang Chengen looked into Li Jing's eyes and nodded silently.

To be honest, he didn't understand why Li Jing wanted to separate the emperor from Daming.

Isn't Daming the emperor's?
Isn't being loyal to Daming the same as being loyal to the emperor?

But Wang Chengen knew that Li Jing definitely didn't mean that.

He doesn't believe that Li Jing is loyal to the emperor at all.

This can be seen from what Li Jing has done, and he is very clear about Li Jing's attitude towards the emperor.

In Wang Chengen's view, Li Jing didn't think highly of the emperor at all.

He doesn't even look down on the emperor, how can he talk about loyalty?
But Wang Chengen had no doubts about Li Jing's loyalty to Daming. Everything Li Jing did was for Daming's sake.

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