Zhou Yuan seemed to have some friendship with Wang Hongrui, so he interjected: "Master Wang, this Uncle Wu Ning is a person that Lord Long Live can trust! As long as you are serious about your errands, there is no doubt that your name will be in Lord Long Live's eyes! "
Seeing Liu Haojia nodding slightly, Wang Hongrui cupped his hands and said, "Thank you very much, father-in-law for the suggestion!"
Turning back, he said to Liu Haojia: "Qianhu, sir, please rest assured. My subordinates will definitely handle their errands seriously, serve Long Live Lord, and serve you!"
Although Liu Haojia knew that what he said was polite, it still made him happy that he removed the subtitle! So he softened his tone and said, "Yes, we all work for Lord Long Live! As long as we do things sincerely, Lord Long Live will always know!"
At this time, Zhou Yuan said: "Uncle, we have reserved a table for you to welcome you. Please move over!"
Liu Haojia cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Then thank you father-in-law for spending the money!"
Zhou Yuan's face smiled like a flower, and he said earnestly: "We are all our own people, why are you so polite! It's not too late to go settle down with your family first, and the location is the most famous Hongbin Building in the area!"
After entering the city, Liu Haojia first went to settle down in his own house. Liu Haojia sent someone to buy this house in advance. It was a large courtyard with four entrances, enough for everyone to settle down.
After everything was settled, he took his people and set off to meet Zhou Yuan and Wang Hongrui. At the banquet, Liu Haojia discovered that the relationship between the two was quite good! And the two of them didn't hide this either. And with Zhou Yuanyuan's prompting, Wang Hongrui and Liu Haojia apologized and told the truth! It turns out that he ate up 80% of the empty wages of hundreds of households in Tianjin!
Liu Haojia naturally knew that this kind of thing was normal, but it was the first time he had seen him eat so hard! But Liu Haojia didn't mean to reprimand him. After scolding him a few words, he asked him to make up for 70% of the full staff, which was considered to have exposed the matter!
Wang Hongrui was naturally overjoyed after receiving this order and immediately gave Liu Haojia a generous gift. Liu Haojia naturally accepted it calmly. At the same time, he also got a lot of other news during the exchange.
First of all, Yang Jinhua, the magistrate of Tianjin City, is a person with no sense of existence. The main reason is that it is too close to the capital! But his civil affairs management is pretty good.
Another more important person is Tang Dezhi of Bingbei Dao. This man is in charge of all the armies in Tianjin. Including garrisons, civilian troops, garrison and canal and coastal dock guard troops. However, part of the coastal defense work has been separated and placed under the management of the Navy. This was probably one of the reasons why he didn't come to greet Liu Haojia!
The other person is Cui Junyong, the general of the local garrison. The second person's family was quite wealthy, raising more than a dozen servants, and their food and wages were not much, just normal. The record said that this person was good at martial arts and had a very powerful spear!
Liu Haojia immediately took notice of Cui Junyong's name when he heard it, and when he thought of the dozen bandits on horseback, he began to guess. So I started to inquire about some information. But Zhou Yuan and Wang Hongrui didn't have much contact with Cui Junyong, and they didn't say much.
But Liu Haojia has already set his sights on him! Liu Haojia felt that Cui Junyong was the one who killed him in all likelihood. But I am not in a hurry to settle accounts with him at this time, after all, he will stay in Tianjin for a long time!
After hearing the news, Liu Haojia also settled down and started socializing with the two of them. Usually after drinking heavily, the relationship between the three people becomes much closer.
In the following days, Liu Haojia did nothing but walked all over Tianjin! He found that although Tianjin was so close to the capital, the prosperity of the capital was so different! However, there are coastal wharves and canal wharves here that absorb a lot of young and strong labor, giving Tianjin a kind of abnormal prosperity!
However, this prosperity is based on the transshipment of large amounts of materials, and local production is very poor. Because this place is so close to the capital, a large amount of land is occupied by dignitaries and gentry, leaving almost no room for farmers to survive!
The young people here are either tenants or working on the docks, so their lives are extremely poor! But the officials and wealthy businessmen traveling along the canal brought special vitality to the city, but none of it belonged to these ordinary people. So Liu Haojia turned around briefly and lost interest completely.
As a rule, when a new official takes office, he must visit various places. But Liu Haojia already knew that others would not stand on his side, and as a Jin Yiwei, it was inconvenient for him to have too close contact with the place, so he simply omitted this item.
So he began to directly help Ms. Zhang start preparing for Jingshi Bank. When the bank was ready to be established, he came to Jinyiwei Baihu Office and officially started working.
When Liu Haojia arrived at Baihusuo, Wang Hongrui was already waiting in front of the door. But what really caught Liu Haojia's attention was not Wang Hongrui, but the dilapidated front door of the government office.
The cornices on the gatehouse of Baihusuo have been broken off, and the tiles are not complete. The few copper nails that should have been on the door below also disappeared! The wooden boards with peeling paint were scattered around, and it looked like the door could fall down with just a kick!
Liu Haojia pointed at the door and said, "Why is it like this? You don't even have the money to repair the door in your pocket, do you?"
Wang Hongrui's face changed greatly when he heard this, and he hurriedly said: "My man, then you have wronged this subordinate! Ever since I took over as the official of this hundred households, there has never been any money for repairs! Last time I told you that my subordinates have eaten I eat a lot of free money, but I didn’t tell you at the time that the salary I receive every year is only half of the normal amount! Otherwise, I wouldn’t eat so much free money!”
Liu Haojia did not doubt his statement because it was easy to check. So he said strangely: "How could it be so outrageous?"
Wang Hongrui said with a sad face: "Sir, this place in Tianjin is not like the capital. All the officials can be directly managed by the Zhenfu Division, so there is no shortage of silver. And remote places also need brothers to run errands, and the higher-ups are more diligent in allocating funds! But it just happened Tianjin is close to the capital, and there is nothing going on, so naturally it’s a huge deduction!”
Hearing this, Liu Haojia shook his head helplessly and stepped into the Hundred Household Office. Sure enough, Wenqian was in such a dilapidated state, and it was even worse inside! But it seems that Wang Hongrui has had someone clean it, and it is still relatively clean. Looking at the twenty or so people standing sparsely in the courtyard, their armor and robes are also incomplete! Seeing this, he could only sigh and stepped directly into the main hall.
