Daming talker

Chapter 228 The location of the opening of the mansion
There is a disadvantage of dividing a city into two counties, that is, people like Lin Daguan whose business involves the whole city always have to go back and forth between two county offices.

In the county government office of Changzhou County in the east city, after Mr. Lin and Yuan Xianzun had finished discussing the matter, they had to go to the county government office in Wu County in the west city.

But in Wu County, the process is much simpler.Lin Daguan didn't go to see Deng Zhixian, who was not dealing with him, but went to Zuotang Guo Xiancheng.

He also threw the account book and seal of the county's Jinong warehouse to Guo Xiancheng, and directly ordered: "Start the project to build a new city gate, and at the same time levy corvee."

Guo Xiancheng tried a sentence: "Have you reported it to Deng Xianzun?"

Official Lin said arrogantly, "It's none of his business?"

As a person in the officialdom, Guo Xiancheng still has to pay attention to his status, "He is the official magistrate of Wu County at any rate."

Lin Tailai said disdainfully: "Bah! He's just a Zhang Siwei poisonous, and he still wants to take care of Wu County's affairs?"

Guo Xiancheng asked again: "Then the Wang family is willing to demolish the old garden of Yi?"

From a technical point of view, there is actually no difficulty in building a new city gate. The real difficulties are problems other than technology.

Official Lin replied casually: "I didn't ask about it later, I guess I don't want to."

Guo Xiancheng was speechless, it was an urban garden of [-] mu, the Wang family would definitely not want to demolish it!
In this optimal location, if the matter of the royal garden is not settled first, how can the city gate be built?

Daguan Lin patted his chest and said with a guarantee: "The mountain people have their own tricks, Mr. Guo, but please rest assured!
The city gate project will be started when it should be started, and it will be built as it should be built. Don't worry about the future!

When did I, Lin Tailai, fail in the big thing I wanted to do? "

Guo Xiancheng confirmed: "In any case, the Wang family will be handled by you, and I will not be responsible for the Wang family!"

It's not that Guo Xiancheng is timid, if he was really timid, he wouldn't take the risk of following Lin Tailai back then.

But Guo Xiancheng has self-knowledge. He knows that he can't deal with the Wang family, one of the four major families in Wu County, as a second official.

Lin Tailai nodded and agreed, "Okay! The Wang family just leave it to me!"

Although Mr. Lin has many shortcomings, he will still shoulder the responsibilities that should be shouldered.

He also heard Lin Tai say: "The Wang family colluded with Zhang Siwei's minions Zhu Zhifu before, and now they are also Zhang Siwei's poison."

Guo Xiancheng: "."

This is also residual poison and that is also residual poison. Guo Xiancheng really wants to ask, is there a lot of residual poison in Zhang Siwei in this city of Suzhou?

In Shen Shixing's hometown, the people you identified as Zhang Siwei's minions and lingering poisons seem to have more followers than Shen Shixing's party members, doesn't it seem too weird?

In the end, Lin Tai said: "Anyway, I only have one request, the new city gate must be completed before New Year's Day! If there is not enough manpower, add more manpower!"

It was already getting late after leaving the Wuxian county government office, so I went back to Sun Lianlian's house to rest.

On the next day, Mr. Lin was going to the Governor's Office in the south of the city to see Governor Zhao.

Now that Zhang Siwei is dead and the situation has become clear, it is time to guide the governor's work.

From Sun Lian's house in the north of the city, walk along Wolong Street to the south of the city, passing near the Shen Mansion.

Originally, Mr. Lin didn't intend to visit Shen's mansion today, but he heard the continuous sound of firecrackers.

So he turned a corner and walked outside the gate of the Shen Mansion, only to see a carload of firecrackers pulled by the Shen Mansion's slaves, as well as people beating gongs and drums.

Lin Tailai was speechless, what kind of character is Second Lord Shen?
Even if Zhang Siwei's death is indeed good news, it shouldn't be so blatantly setting off firecrackers to celebrate, right?

This kind of political morality is indeed a bit corrupted, and it seriously affects the reputation of the update agency!

After randomly arresting a servant of the Shen family, the senior official Lin asked: "Is your second master crazy? Don't you want to lose your face?"

The servant almost lost his temper, but after seeing clearly that it was Mr. Lin, he quickly explained:

"Don't get me wrong! Our second master set off firecrackers not for Zhang Siwei!"

Lin Tailai said in dissatisfaction: "What other happy event can you have in Shen's mansion, which deserves to be announced like this? Could it be that Second Lord Shen gave birth to several sons at the same time last night?"

The servant then explained: "The news came from Beijing that my master was summoned by the emperor for half an hour alone recently!
This is a grand event that has never happened in recent years, how can it not be worth celebrating? "

Lin Tailai: "."

In other dynasties, it is very common for ministers, especially prime ministers, to be summoned by the emperor in person.

But in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, being able to be summoned by the emperor in private and have a few words with the emperor turned out to be a grand event worthy of crazy celebration.

If nothing else, this may be the last time that Emperor Wanli summoned his ministers to speak in private.

In the past few years after Zhang Juzheng was liquidated, Emperor Wanli still wanted to pretend to be diligent, but he was urged to do nothing, and occasionally went to court in a formal manner, and the ministers could still look at the emperor from a distance.

But in a few years, Emperor Wanli will stop going to court at all, and will be closed in the deep palace by himself, and will have no contact with ministers at all, just like his grandfather's grandfather Chenghua Emperor.

Anyway, with such a legitimate excuse, Mr. Lin has no reason to stop Shen Er from celebrating.

On the way to the Governor's Office, the Zhang family brothers sighed together: "Second Master Shen was so upright at the beginning, but now he has learned to be eccentric."

Even the brothers of the Zhang family could tell that the Shen residence beat gongs, drums and set off firecrackers, expressly saying that it was to celebrate Shen Shoufu being summoned by the emperor, but they had other intentions.

When they arrived at the Governor's Procuratorate located in the southwest of the city, Mr. Lin was naturally treated as a guest of honor.

Lin Tailai drank a few sips of tea, and then said: "Now that the backbone of the enemy camp has been broken, Futai can go to Shushu to impeach Zhu Zhifu!
Suzhou Mansion is the core of Jiangnan, so if the magistrate of Suzhou Mansion pays homage to the flag, who would dare to refuse to accept it from other Jiangnan prefectures? "

Zhao Zhigao was not ashamed to ask, "What is the reason for impeachment?"

In terms of weaving charges, Mr. Lin is too professional, so he opened his mouth without thinking:
"Prefect Zhu has three major crimes! The first one is dereliction of duty, which caused a storm of tax resistance in the whole government, and it has not been completely subsided until now.

The second is to corrupt the ancestral system at will and forcibly take over the Jinong warehouses in various counties, but the management is not good, resulting in a huge deficit of the Jinong warehouses in the two counties of Fucheng. "

Hearing this, Zhao Zhigao temporarily interrupted Lin Tailai, and said suspiciously: "It has been found out that there is a deficit in Jinong warehouse? Didn't you just get the seal of this year's account book yesterday?"

Lin Tailai said disapprovingly: "It's not easy to create a deficit? Even if there is no deficit, you can definitely find management problems!

The third crime is that the Minister of Communications flattered Zhang Siwei, and took advantage of Siwei's power to disobey violence. The whole city knows it!

That’s about it, you can make up the details yourself. "

Zhao Zhigao thought for a while, and found that he didn't need to add anything at all, just write the bullets according to Lin Tailai's intention.

This is called, professional things should be listened to by professionals?
Then Zhao Zhigao talked about other matters, and said with a little worry: "I have been checking the situation in various places these days, and the progress of the autumn grain collection in Suzhou Prefecture is quite slow."

In this season, the most important job of the governor of Jiangnan is to collect taxes, and nothing is more important than this.

Lin Tailaikuan explained: "Suzhou and even the entire Jiangnan region, the most important grain will be shipped after the spring of next year.

So as long as it is not too late to collect all before the spring of next year, there is no need to be too anxious now. "

Zhao Zhigao said with great pressure: "But the current progress of Suzhou Mansion is really too slow, and we can't really delay until next year."

Lin Tailai persuaded again: "While on the way, I have already reported to the court that the Suzhou government has exempted the past ten years of arrears.

When the imperial edict is issued to Suzhou, the grievances of the people can be alleviated, and this year's taxation will naturally be easy to handle! "

What Lin Tai said was too empty, Zhao Zhigao was confused, and asked the bottom line: "How to deal with it specifically?"

It's not that Governor Zhao has never been a local official. He knows that even if there are good policies, they may not necessarily play a good role at the grassroots level.

How to turn the good policies issued by the top into positive driving force at the grassroots level is the place to test the local governance skills.

Official Lin said without hesitation: "Isn't this simple?
Even if the imperial court exempts the Suzhou government from arrears for ten years, it is only a principled opinion. How to implement it depends on how you manipulate it?
For example, if the tax payment performance is good this year, it will be exempted, and if the tax payment performance is not good this year, it will not be exempted! "

Governor Zhao suddenly seemed to see the sun through the clouds, and he felt a sense of enlightenment!

His psychological pressure has also been reduced a lot. As long as there is a solution, he will not be afraid of problems.

After instructing the governor's work, Mr. Lin stood up and left.

Walking outside the procuratorate again, Mr. Lin thought about the experience of traveling to four government offices in two days, and sighed:

"Going back and forth between various yamen is really tedious and tiring, and the work efficiency is also very low!
It would be great if we could gather together and provide one-stop guidance. "

The Zhang family brothers roughly understood the meaning of sitting in the hall, and they couldn't help but secretly sighed in their hearts. People's desires are indeed endless, and it is difficult to have a time of contentment.

Being able to come in and out of the government at will and take care of affairs is already a high profile for local bullies, but this still can't satisfy the desire to sit in the office.

Listening to the meaning of sitting in the hall, I actually started to dislike running around and making troubles, thinking about opening a government office and building a mansion.

In this way, when something happens, officials from other yamen can be summoned together to realize the so-called "one-stop guidance".

Thinking of this, Zuo Hufa Zhang Wen suggested: "Today, there should be one or several formal residences in the hall.

At the very least, there should be one in the city, so as to be worthy of the status of sitting in the restaurant. "

Lin Tailai nodded and said, "That makes sense!"

The place where he often lives is Sun Lian's house in the city, which is not his residence; or Xinxin College on Nanhao Street outside the city, which is the stronghold of the club.

As for Hengtang Town, he still lives in the old man's courtyard, while in Mudu Town, he lives in the tax office.

After counting and counting, there is no real "Lin Mansion" in Suzhou City.

The main reason is that Mr. Lin has not considered the issue of marriage at present, so he has always dealt with the residence indiscriminately, and has not paid much attention to it.

But now that the status has reached this point, if you don't own a formal house, it will be a bit depreciated.

All in all, the opening of the government must be put on the agenda.

But Lin Tailai thought of something, and said again: "Actually, there are properties in the city, Mr. Zhang Youyu sold the Peach Blossom Temple in the north of the city to me.

That's Tang Bohu's former residence, and its character is worthy of me, but it's too small, only two acres in size, and it doesn't match my status at all.

The key is that the surrounding houses are densely populated, and it is difficult to further expand the house to a level worthy of my status. "

Zhang Wu, the protector on the right, said: "I heard that the Zhang family in Fengqiao Town in the west once set fire to the temple on that land in order to seize a piece of land."

Although Zhang Wu did not continue, his meaning was self-evident.

Lin Tailai frowned, "Being like this will hurt the harmony of nature, no!"

Then he said: "The size of Taohua Temple is too limited after all, so it can be used as an alternative place first.

In fact, I have another favorite place, but the difficulty is also not small. "

The Zhang family brothers had been with him for so long, and they knew a lot about Lin Tailai's thoughts, so they tentatively asked, "Canglang Pavilion in the south of the city?"

Official Lin replied: "Yes, this place is worthy of me, Lin Tailai!"

This is one of the four famous gardens in Suzhou City in later generations, and it is also the oldest existing garden in Suzhou City.

The most important thing is that Canglang Pavilion is now a place without a "owner" and does not belong to any private person. It has always been managed by the government or the nearby temple.

From this point of view, it is actually better to seize and embezzle, no wonder Mr. Lin is still obsessed with it.

Zuo protector Zhang Wen thought about it and said: "Nowadays the city is densely populated with dwellings, I'm afraid there are not many suitable places for sitting in the pavilion.

The surrounding area of ​​Canglang Pavilion is okay, either temples or ancestral temples, and there are many relatively open places, so it is very suitable as a residential area. "

Official Lin decided to say: "When I have free time in a few days, I will go to the Canglang Pavilion to see it first. If it is really suitable, I will find a way to start."

The temptation of owning one of the four famous gardens does not allow Mr. Lin to be tempted.

First set up this goal formally, and wait until the situation in all aspects is stable, and then draw energy and work slowly.

Then Mr. Lin and his followers walked out of the city.

During the time since I came back, I have been living in the city.Now that things are over in stages, it's time to go out of the city to have a look.

When passing through the Xu Gate, the Zhang family brothers reminded again: "The high officials are going out of the city now? Why don't you go to solve Wang Jiayi's old garden first?"

Lin Tailai replied casually: "What are you doing to solve Yilaoyuan?"

Zhang Wen is very inconceivable: "If you don't solve the old Yiyuan Garden, how can you build a new city gate?"

Daguan Lin waved his hand, "Don't worry, just do what you want. The people will help us solve it in the future! We must believe in the power of the people!"

After leaving the city, Mr. Lin did not go to the old stronghold to renovate the Academy or the Wulong Teahouse.

Nor did they go to Mudu Town, the de facto core area of ​​the current society, to mediate the relationship between the two women.

Instead, they boarded a boat and went straight to Hengtang Town, and then turned to their hometown Linsong Village without staying in the town.

As a majestic Xie Yuan, Lin Daguan, although he belongs to Wu, is also the first fame of the Lin family.

According to the rules, you have to go back to the ancestral hall in the village, then pay homage to your ancestors, and then boast to the surrounding villages. This is called Guangzong Yaozu.

Mr. Lin couldn't refuse these traditional habits, otherwise he would really be an outlier.

(End of this chapter)