Chapter 1118 Secret

Cao Song was going to meet with Li Wei, so he stopped at the Governor's Office for half a day and set off on his return early the next morning.

Cao Yong prepared 10,000 taels of silver notes for him to avoid the expenses he had. Chu Yu's side had a set of pearl-shaped heads, a set of gems and jewelry, and four pieces of good materials. This was prepared for Zi Lan who followed Cao Song south, which was not only used as a New Year gift, but also provided a support for Zi Lan's storefront.

Jinghui was pregnant for only three months. When she was born, she was older and could withstand a long journey. It took one or two years to survive. Before that, Zilan, as a female member of the General's Office, had to socialize.

In addition to the things prepared for Cao Song and Zi Lan, Li Wei and his wife also prepared a copy, and Wu Mao took someone to go with Cao Song, which was considered Cheng Yi who sent Li Wei.

On the first day of the twelfth lunar month, when the Governor's Office was promoted to the yamen, Cao Yong met the officials of all sizes and big and small to take turns.

As early as the Kangxi Dynasty, only local ministers with the emperor's grace had the right to report secretly.

When it came to Yongzheng Dynasty, the power of this secret memorial was not that valuable.

Cao Yong had two locked sandalwood boxes given to him from the palace. However, there was no secret message before, so he followed the rules and asked for a note every three days.

In the memorial, in addition to the respectful invitation of the Holy One, he was the government affairs experience he handled in daily life.

To be honest, the achievements of this month are to count the land that can be reclaimed by various prefectures and counties, and the mountains are scattered, and the depressions are 2,563 hectares and 45 acres. According to common practice, these newly reclaimed land are mostly sold on site. 30% of the land is reclaimed and 70% are returned to the treasury and 70% are returned to the local area.

Cao Yong asked for an order to place these new fields into official fields, and cultivated by local poor farmers, and planted corn and sweet potatoes to be used as a social warehouse to prepare for famines.

This would damage the interests of the officials above and below Zhili. But Cao Yong was not worried because he was the governor of Zhili and the one who benefited the most in the chain of interests. In the eyes of outsiders, he gave up his interests to seek the emperor's favor.

In fact, he was thinking about the words "open source" and "reducing expenses".

Whether it is training troops or clearing the river, it is a chore that costs money. If he can't make up all the money, everything will be empty talk.

There are more than 2,000 hectares of new land, and only 20% of the fertile land is 30% of the remaining land. Most of the remaining land is mountain storms and depressions. In addition, there are many tricks when the official sells, so there are not many silver. It is kept as official land, but it can be provided with several social warehouses. When the famine is in the year of the wasteland, it will directly provide rice and grain instead of silver. The government spends less and the people will exploit 10% less.

As for the part of the loss of the officials, Cao Yong was not in a hurry. He wanted to increase the income of the vassal treasury, but he had to deal with the officials below in the future.

There is no need to be blinded. At this time, we will challenge the deterrent power of the governor.

This year, it was the first year of "spendence and return to the public" and the first year of distributing "superement of integrity". The "fire-consuming" silver in each prefecture and county were unified into the vassal treasury.

This year, the province's taxed silver in Zhili Province was more than 2.8 million taels, and the "fire consumption" was more than 160,000 taels. The silver had been entrusted to the capital, while the "fire consumption" was entered into the vassal treasury under the Governor's Office.

The amount of "supporting integrity silver" is related to local economy and to officials' annual political achievements. The difference between the magistrates is not large, and it ranges from hundreds to one thousand depending on the traditional and simple county towns under its jurisdiction. The magistrates, prefects or above, and the governor's office officials have different evaluations, and the difference between "supporting integrity silver" is from hundreds to thousands.

If Cao Yong is unscrupulous and controls the amount of "supporting integrity" and the "fire consumption" of the silver can be at least half of it.

But there is no need to offend all the officials in the province for 80,000 taels of silver.

After discussing with Jiang Jian, Song Hou and Feng Chuan, Cao Yong decided to implement the policy of "developing agriculture and stabilizing people's livelihood, promoting industry and commerce to enrich the vassal treasury" formulated in the early spring.

After several staff members drafted, the statement that Cao Yong copied about Zhili's development in the next two years was handed to the capital in the form of a secret copy.

Two days later, the secretly folded sandalwood box arrived at the East Warm Pavilion of Yangxin Palace.

When Chen Fu took the corresponding key and opened the sandalwood box containing the secret fold, Yongzheng was shocked.

The half-foot-deep box was filled with fullness, as if it was about to overflow.

Yongzheng's face darkened, and he felt a little worried. Could it be that something went wrong in Zhili? Or was Cao Yong's lack of experience and could not suppress the Zhili officialdom?

He paused, calmed his mind and took out the note inside.

It's not just a piece of note, but four pieces.

The first memorial said the development plan of Zhili, and the remaining three memorials are all attached.

The more Yongzheng looked, his face became more excited and he couldn't sit still. He stood up and sang: "Go and look for the map of Zhili, and pass on Prince Yi, Prince Guo... and also pass on Prince Zhuang..."

Chen Fu responded and went in a hurry.

Since he has been working in the Yangxin Hall after ascending the throne, the map of the Thirteen Provinces is in the Yangxin Hall and it will be delivered to the imperial palace in a moment.

Yongzheng stood in front of the imperial case and spread out the map of Zhili Province. While looking at the secret letter, he looked at the prefectures and counties on the map, and said with a rumor: "Beyond the mouth, Chengde, the middle and upper reaches of the Daling River...Baoding Prefecture, Zhengding Prefecture..."

In such a huge Zhili, the number of Dingkou accounts for half of the world's Dingkou, but the tax is only one-thirteenth. The silver the imperial court distributes to Zhili every year far exceeds the tax of Zhili. Zhili is like a greedy beast with a big mouth, which makes the imperial court disobey.

However, Cao Yong's plan not only solved the cost of unblocking the North River and training troops, but also increased income for the court and local governments.

Yongzheng only felt his heart surging and felt a little proud.

In the hands of the emperor's father, Cao Yong was just a deputy hall to organize the account books; when he ascended the throne, he had the courage to be in the same province as Cao Yong and let him perform.

The offices of the three princes are different from the Yangxin Hall.

But there was not much difference between the front and back, so they all arrived in front of the emperor.

Among the sons of the previous emperor, the three masters are now the most decent masters in front of the imperial court, so the eunuchs who sent the orders were all cursing each other. Therefore, although these three people were not the emperor's reason for sending the orders, they knew that the emperor summoned three people at the same time.

When all three of them arrived, Yongzheng passed on Cao Yong's secret copy to them.

Like Yongzheng, the three princes were all surprised when they read Cao Yong's memorial.

From the comments, Cao Yong mainly mentioned five items: First, set up prefectures and counties with Rehe outside the mouth to develop agriculture and animal husbandry; Second, increase the mining of several open-pit coal mines on Zhili North Road, in addition to supplying capital, coal transporting southward and increasing mining development; Third, promote cold-resistant crops in central and southern Zhili, so that crops can be harvested twice a year, increase grain production, and increase cotton and hemp planting in hills and other places to enrich farmers; Fourth, set up processing plants in several large counties of dried and fresh fruits in central Zhili to digest the idle population and increase taxes; Fifth, develop seafood breeding in coastal prefectures and counties, and also mainly enrich the people; Fifth, set up markets in the above areas to promote trade exchanges.
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