Xu Mingwei's question seemed meaningless to Chen Luo.
"That is the biggest project since he came to power. Once successful, his reputation will be as high as that of an emperor throughout the ages. He will be praised by all people and future generations will admire him endlessly. How can he not pay attention to it?"
Chen Luo shook his head and said: "The emperor is certainly concerned, but he may not be able to find out anything. Have the account books been cleaned up?"
"It's clean. The real accounts are kept at my house. Those placed with the government have been accounted for. They are absolutely clean and there are no problems."
Xu Mingwei nodded and said: "There are very few people from top to bottom who have not received a share of the profits. Just like in the past, some people get more and some get less. After all, they all get it. Even if they know that they are unclean, they will find ways to protect them. The emperor will never find anything wrong."
"There shouldn't be any problems with the emperor's private land, right?"
"Don't worry, everyone knows it. If we don't have anything to do with them, we can do our own thing behind closed doors. It's the emperor's private land. No one dares to touch it."
When Xu Mingwei said this, Chen Luo became even more relieved.
After the fall of the Jin Kingdom, there have been two forces in Shandong for a long time. One is the local force in Shandong, a force that continues from the Jin Kingdom to this day, and the other is naturally the [private land] of Emperor Su Yonglin.
Locals habitually call the sphere of influence that Emperor Su Yonglin gained through military exploits and force during the war his "private land".
These private lands were originally owned by the locals in Shandong. After the Jin army went south, they deprived a lot of land wealth from the locals and belonged to the Jurchens who lived in the south. During the war, this part of the land was seized by the Liberation Army led by Su Yonglin.
In addition, there were the powerful landlords who died tragically due to military disasters during the war. After their deaths, their land and property became owned by Su Yonglin. This part of the land was called Su Yonglin's private land by the locals who were unable to intervene. .
Because Su Yonglin's main focus in attacking the Jin Kingdom was Shandong soldiers, so many families on this private land are inextricably related to the current Ming army, and are also involved in a group called [Military Family].
Therefore, although the powerful landlords wanted to seize this part of the land and property, they did not dare to take action. For fear of provoking the Ming army and attracting revenge from the Ming army, they endured and did not dare to take action, which was very difficult.
In particular, the Shandong ministers provided Su Yonglin with astronomical amounts of money and food in order to become an official, and helped Su Yonglin develop Liaodong. Their contribution was also included in this.
Therefore, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, many local officials and staff positions in Shandong were held by them.
Although Su Yonglin allocated a lot of power to the locals in exchange for their obedience and effectiveness, they who thought they had followed Su Yonglin in rebellion but did not get much benefit were not satisfied with the status quo. They felt that they had paid too much and received too little. .
Su Yonglin's private land in Shandong is very large, with a large amount of land and a large population. One after another so-called village farmers' associations and township farmers' associations have been built on these lands. They are self-managed layer by layer and cannot allow them to put their hands in at all. .
Moreover, Su Yonglin sent his own officials as officials in some states and counties, such as Tai'an Prefecture. The entire state was Su Yonglin's private land. The many mineral deposits in the state made the surrounding landowners and gentry drool, but there was nothing they could do.
They didn't dare to go against the Ming army when it was so powerful. Who knows which general they would have offended, and the general would bring people to smash their village, and they would have no place to cry.
The dissatisfied group of people waited and waited, and finally waited until Su Yonglin started repairing the Yellow River, broke ground in Shandong, and allocated a large amount of money and construction materials.
So much has been taken from us, but so little has been given to us before. This time, it’s time to compensate us, right?
So after a brief hesitation, this group of people reached out without any hesitation and began to "get what they needed" from the project funds and building materials, and each started their own business.
People often do not work together to do things, but do things tacitly.
As far as Xu Mingwei and Chen Luo know, there are people in Jinan Prefecture, Zizhou, Binzhou, Dizhou, Yidu Prefecture and many other places who have taken advantage of this money and construction materials, and used their power to obtain huge benefits to make up for the previous What they consider [family loss].
After they get it, they often mobilize their own family and the families of their relatives and friends to take action together to clean the dirty property in every possible way. After it becomes clean, they can fish it out and use it again.
Then everything will be fine.
Everyone is no stranger to this kind of thing, and they are all experts. They also played this way when the Jin Kingdom was still there. Some of the spenders would cooperate with the local Jurchens to make money, and they were very happy. .
Naturally it is the same now.
At this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a large amount of money flowed into Shandong. The emperor also cared about the people very much and paid them for work. If they did not pay and only took care of food, it would be difficult for them to operate and the operation would be very risky.
But now that the emperor is giving out a lot of money, prices have already risen. Now that this money flows into the market, it will only slightly increase the degree of price increase, and maybe it will not attract the emperor's attention at all.
This is how they considered it.
In order to make money smoothly for themselves, they even took the initiative to contact the people in charge of the logistics department on the construction site.
Because many matters related to the Yellow River Project also require the cooperation of local governments. The Yellow River Project Headquarters called the Fuxinghui alone cannot handle so many matters, so local governments can easily intervene.
Even the storage of logistical supplies relies on local officials to provide ready-made warehouses. Building temporary warehouses is a waste of time and money.
Under such circumstances, the Fuxing Association is responsible for supervision and execution, and the local government is responsible for storage and logistics transportation. In this link, the maneuverability is very large.
Either hide it from the people in the revival meeting, or drag the people in the revival meeting into the water, so that everyone can operate together and make a fortune together.
However, it was not easy to get people from the revival meetings to work in the beginning. They were often unwilling to have too much contact with local officials and acted in accordance with the rules, strictly and meticulously.
So it's not an easy task to do something under their noses.
However, as time passed, they discovered that some people in the revival meetings were not so strict and meticulous.
You can refuse a gift once or twice, and you can refuse an invitation once or twice. As long as you persist and persevere, it will be difficult for them to continue to refuse. As the saying goes, don’t hit the smiling person.
They are also human beings, and they also have human emotions and desires, and they cannot be completely exempt from vulgarity.
So it was soon discovered that some people like good food, some like fine wine, some like beautiful women, and some people are simply useless if they have too little money, and it will only be useful if they have enough money to kill him.
As long as there is a beginning, it will be easy to follow. This group of people is very familiar with this kind of thing.
You need to know that some things do not happen once, twice or three times, but only zero times and ten thousand times.
Xu Mingwei and Chen Luo both know this very well.
