In the following time, Zhang Yuanfeng repeatedly asked Qiu He how to deal with Zhang Juzheng? But Qiu He still didn't say a word! In the end, he had no choice but to leave in a low-key manner.
And just as Zhang Yuanfeng guessed, as soon as he left, Qiu He and the middle-aged man simply packed up and left. Soon after, another person lived in the courtyard.
After returning home, Zhang Yuanfeng went through a fierce ideological struggle for two days and one night, and finally made up his mind to use Qiu He to attack Zhang Juzheng! Anyway, it is impossible to trace him in the end. As long as he takes good protection, even if Qiu He succeeds, he will not be traced!
At the same time, he secretly arranged for a few confidants to start a reverse investigation of where Qiu He was standing? Anyway, there will be a lot of correspondence between them in the future, and there will always be some news if you follow this line.
Time passed slowly like this, and more than half a year passed in the blink of an eye. The projects in various places were finally completed one after another!
With nearly ten million taels of silver thrown in, the entire Ming Dynasty has indeed taken on a completely new look! The river banks have become higher and thicker, the roads have become smoother, and clear water is flowing in the canals! Sporadic banditry has also disappeared! Especially since God has given him face, two consecutive years of bumper harvests have stabilized food prices, people live and work in peace and contentment, commerce is prosperous, all industries are revitalized, and the entire Ming Dynasty is prosperous!
For ordinary farmers, they are the group with the widest benefits! Because rivers and embankments in various places have been repaired and floods have been avoided for decades! No matter how corrupt local officials are, there won't be any big problems in the next twenty years! This allowed them to save their lives and the output of their fields! .z.
At the same time, after the main canals of water conservancy projects in various places have been repaired, the land that can be irrigated has significantly increased! Of course, the main beneficiaries are the gentry everywhere. Because they control most of the land! However, with the deployment of sufficient resources, many homesteaders have benefited from the water conservancy project!
Even those tenant farmers have gained a certain amount of income for their families due to the increase in food production and being hired to participate in the project. At the same time, taking this opportunity, the gentry opened up a large amount of wasteland, allowing their family's land area to increase significantly! And these newly developed lands can accommodate more tenants, giving more bankrupt farmers a chance to survive!
Next are ordinary citizens and craftsmen! The large-scale construction projects across the country require a lot of materials! And the types of these supplies are all-encompassing! This allows various industries to receive sufficient orders, which can be described as extraordinary profits! The more work you do, the more processing money you will get!
Increased income further stimulates everyone’s consumption! At the very least, even poor families should buy more food and cloth when they have some spare money! And wealthy families are naturally more willing to spend money! On the contrary, this further promoted the development of industry and commerce!
Moreover, this nationwide campaign also gave scholars from all over the country the opportunity to show off their talents! Those who were good at calculation were hired to participate in the project, those who were good at deployment participated in the command, and those who were good at flattering wrote countless poems to praise the local chief official and this grand event! In short, all strata of the Ming Dynasty have benefited from this event!
Of course, the ones who benefit the most from this are the officials! While the imperial court poured out nearly ten million taels of silver across the country, a gluttonous feast also began!
Officials, big and small, from various places either acted alone or colluded together, and began to make clever excuses to embezzle the funds allocated by the imperial court! If you are timid and work alone, take less; if you are brave, if there are more people, take more! Even the officials and servants below also intervened! They definitely can't eat meat, but they can always take a sip of the soup!
Fortunately, Zhang Juzheng had already anticipated this kind of thing, and once again used the examination method as a weapon! At the same time, a large number of censors were sent to various places for supervision. It did have some effects, but it has to be said that even some censors were dazzled by the huge amount of money and fell into the trap!
But even so, most of the money was still used in various places. Most officials don't dare to go too far, after all, they can still tell the difference between a full meal and a full meal! So except for a few places, at least more than half of the silver is used for real purposes!
Of course, there are also some conscientious officials who have their own intentions
When doing things, I just took some money according to the rules and routines, but I got the things done in a down-to-earth manner! But no matter what, this money has played a huge role in promoting all walks of life in the Ming Dynasty!
So when the projects in various places were completed, memorials from various places began to be continuously delivered to the capital! Emperor Wanli was beaming when he saw it, and he had already sketched out a scene of a prosperous age in his mind! And Zhang Jia and others around him even sent countless flatterers, making him so dizzy that he couldn't tell north from south!
Not only that, even after Empress Dowager Li read these memorials, she specially summoned Emperor Wanli to go to her and praised her fiercely! At dinner, I made an exception and drank a lot of wine with Emperor Wanli! So during this period of time, I walked thousands of miles without stepping on the ground!
As for today, it was her second time to meet Emperor Wanli, and she specially dragged Emperor Wanli to the ancestral tablets to show off her son to the ancestors!
Just as Emperor Wanli was walking back after paying homage to his ancestors and receiving praise from Empress Dowager Li, he frowned and rubbed his knees and legs while sitting on the chariot. Although it was a pleasure to show off his achievements to his ancestors, it was also very painful for his chubby body to kneel for so long!
Emperor Wanli rubbed his knees and twisted his body into a comfortable position before letting out a long sigh of satisfaction! But after sighing, I suddenly felt that my whole body became even more weak, and there was even a trace of emptiness in my heart!
Emperor Wanli couldn't help but ask himself, feeling that there seemed to be some need that was not being met! So he closed his eyes and thought carefully about this sudden feeling of dissatisfaction!
Zhang Jia has always been sensitive to Emperor Wanli's mood. He suddenly felt that there seemed to be something wrong with Emperor Wanli, but when he turned around and looked, he found that he was in a state of sleep with his eyes closed, so he shook his head gently, thinking that he felt wrong!
After returning to the palace, Emperor Wanli still looked depressed, which made Zhang Jia dare not say anything more. Just thinking that he was a little tired after kneeling in front of the ancestral tablet for a long time, he persuaded Emperor Wanli to go to bed and take a nap.
