The Red Mansions Across the Four Seas

Chapter 509 This court is getting more and more finished
Seven days later, the new Bu Kui will take office.

The new general is an old acquaintance of many Bukui people, and he is also a person that Zhao Dahai and others can't even dream of.

It turned out to be the nephew of General Ning Guta Han Tiankui, the bell tripod that Jia Min took down.

When Zhao Dahai, Feng Kui, and Xu Mingtao learned that Zhong Ding took over Bu Kui, they couldn't help being dumbfounded, feeling absurd.

Of course they knew who Zhong Ding was.However, such a person turned out to be a general, and even their boss.

Ten days later, three thousand soldiers from Ningguta took over Bu Kui's defense.He Jialin's Beijing camp left Bu Kui and returned to the imperial capital.

The former Bukui garrison under Zhao Dahai's command was brought under Zhong Ding's command.

After returning to the imperial capital, He Jialin will hand over his military post and await appointment.

Zhong Ding not only brought his own soldiers and horses from Ninggu Pagoda, but also brought many officials from the imperial capital. These officials are basically donated officials who have been backlogged in the Ministry of Officials for a long time.

Of course, some officials were also brought from Ningguta.

After Zhong Ding took office, he immediately took a lot of measures to prove his courage as a new official.

The first is to replace a large number of original officials.Or be transferred, or idle, or simply dismissed.

Among them, more than half of the officials in the Bukui Yamen were replaced.

After the establishment of the prefecture and county in South Wendura, the personnel were drawn from the prefectural corps, and after training, they were sent there to serve as officials.

This time, these people were all replaced.Excuses, of course, are readily available.

These people were not born in imperial examinations, were not hereditary official positions, and were not donated officials, so they were not suitable to be officials again, and they were all demoted to the people and dismissed.

The officials who were dismissed from the yamen and prefectures and counties basically all took office during the Jia Min era.After being removed, most of the people from the Fubingtuan had left Bu Kui and went to Beihai to join Jia Min.

Zhong Ding's second measure is to set up checkpoints on the road from Bukui to Beihai, and strictly check the businessmen and people going to Beihai.

In the first few days, almost no one was released.

However, people found out after three days that although a checkpoint was set up, as long as they paid a tael of silver, no matter who they were, they could come and go freely.

This time people understood that the barriers were set up just to collect money.

In front of the checkpoint at the North City Gate, Zhao Dahai, Feng Kui, Xu Mingtao and several other officials were surrounding Zhong Ding.

Now, they followed the new general to inspect.

"Look, as soon as this checkpoint is established, someone will pay the money obediently. You always said that there is no money in the yamen, so this is the money? Old Zhao, what do you think of my trick?"

Watching several merchants pay the checkpoint, Zhong Ding said triumphantly to Zhao Dahai.

In the past, he was Zhao Dahai's subordinate, but after a few years, he suddenly became Zhao Dahai's boss, and he felt complacent.

"Sir General, although this trick can collect some money, the wool comes from the sheep, and those merchants who paid the money here will also earn it back here. At that time, it may be more profitable to raise prices. How many."

"We don't need to worry about this. Whoever buys the goods will pay for it. Just take our money."

"In this way, there will be fewer merchants going to the north in the future, which is not a good thing for Bu Kui. There will be less goods coming and going, and Bu Kui's goods will not be shipped out, and outsiders will not be able to come in. If things go on like this, Bu Kui will be depressed. gone."

"Old Zhao, you have been with Jia Min for a long time, and you have been poisoned by him. His set of things are all unconventional things. Now the rules need to be changed."

"Yes, it's all up to the general to make the decision."

After staying at the North City Gate for a while, everyone followed Zhong Ding back to the city.

Zhong Ding went to the Red House Nightclub for a drink, and Zhao Dahai and the three went to Qingshan Restaurant.

Qingshan Restaurant was opened by Du Qingshan, the former director of Bukui Experimental Farm.

As a member of the Fubingtuan, after the disbandment of the Fubingtuan, Du Qingshan opened this restaurant in Bukui, and the business has been good until now.

Entering the room, I saw Du Qingshan listlessly sitting in front of a table.

"Du Qingshan, it's still the old rule to serve some of us."

"Okay, wait a minute."

Du Qingshan agreed and went to the back kitchen.

"Du Qingshan, come over for tea."

"Several officers, you can drink, I have to cook for you."

"How did you serve it? Where's the cook?"

"Business is not good, I resigned, and Xiaoer also resigned, and now I am alone."

After a while, Du Qingshan brought out the food and wine and sat down on the table.

"Even if I invite a few old officers today, my restaurant will be closed in a few days."

"Why don't you do it?"

"I really want to do it, but I can't do it anymore. Today, there is an order from the yamen that in the future, I will have to pay a tax of three taels of silver every month, plus a head tax of five or two heads a year for cooks, and one or two head taxes for young girls a year. I figured it out." For a moment, if you continue to pay like this, you will not only not make money, but you will have to pay for it all year round, so what are you doing?"

"Well, it's not just your family, it's the same with other families."

"Zhong Ding, this bastard, he has only been here for a few days, and he is just plundering people's wealth like this. Not only here, but also the merchants, craftsmen, and farmers who come and go, all have to pay taxes. Now the people down here are full of resentment. The great situation that we have had is now ruined.”

"It's called making a family difficult, but losing a family is easy. At the beginning, Chief Min worked hard and worked hard to create a good situation for Bu Kui. He Shen and Xiao Gui Cao followed suit, and although there was no pioneering move, Bu Kui maintained prosperity. A scene of prosperity. Now that Zhong Ding has the power in his hands, he will carry out the orders, and in less than a month, Bu Kui has changed the world."

As Feng Kui said, he took a drink by himself.

"Captain Zhao, have you noticed that more and more people are leaving Bu Kui these days? In the past, people came almost every day, but now Bu Kui only sees people going out and rarely going in. .Even if people come from outside, they will just stop here and go to Beihai. Now Bukui can't keep people anymore. After a few days, I will close the shop and leave. "

"Where to go?"

"Where else can I go, of course I want to go to Beihai. Chief Min is there, so I naturally want to go to him."

"It's good to go, maybe some of us will go in the future."

"Head Zhao, I heard that the exile affairs will be changed back to the way it was before?"

When Du Qingshan said this, Zhao Dahai and the others immediately fell silent.

According to Zhong Ding's plan, Jia Min's exile affairs reform measures in Bu Kuipei will be abolished, and everything will return to Jia Min's previous state.

"In the past few years, the escape rate and casualty rate of exiles in Bukui Distribution Center have been the lowest, and the exile economy has also made a lot of money. If it goes back to the old way, the exiles will not be able to eat enough. If you don’t dress warmly, live in the cold, and can’t survive, then there will be chaos again.”

"Forget it, we can't control this matter, let him go. Tell me when you leave, and then bring your sister-in-law with you and go to Beihai together. I have to find a way out. You guys What about the two?"

Zhao Dahai said, looking at Feng Kui and Xu Mingtao.

"You're all like this, so what else do we have to say? We both had this intention a long time ago. It's just that our homeland is difficult to leave, so we hesitated. Now it seems that we can't do without making up our minds. It's over for Bu Kui."

"Commander Zhao, I also heard that Zhong Ding wants to ask for 70 years of tribute from the North Vendura Tatars, otherwise he will use troops against them. I don't know if it is true or not?"

Zhong Ding brought up this matter when he first arrived in Bu Kui.

At that time, Zhao Dahai had told him that when Wang Ziteng was an imperial envoy here, the court had promised not to pay tribute.

Asking for it now may arouse the resistance of the Tatars.

Although the Sidwa people in South Vendura withdrew back at the beginning, the other two tribes of the Tatars basically did not suffer any major losses in strength.

Now if we use troops against the Tatars, not to mention the 3000 men of Zhong Ding, even if there are another 3 people, they may not be the opponents of the Tatars.

"This matter has not been settled yet. If Zhong Ding is not stupid, he should not do such a stupid thing."

"Hmph, just because his people still want to fight the Tatars? Do you think he is our army regiment? They can only bully the common people."

Several people complained and drank for more than two hours before leaving.

Zhao Dahai was so depressed that he didn't even go to the barracks, so he went straight home.

Yizhihua was teasing the children, when she saw Zhao Dahai came back, she complained.

"Why are you eating out again, eating so much?"

"It's not someone else. I ate wine with Feng Kui and Xu Mingtao at Du Qingshan's. In the past two days, you pack up your things. Du Qingshan is going to Beihai to join Chief Min. You take your children and go with him. Feng Kui and Xu Mingtao At home, let’s go together.”

"I figured it out this time? As soon as the bell came, I saw something was wrong, but you still didn't believe it. Miss Ping'er and Miss Shen have left. If it's easy to stay here, can they still leave?"

"After all, we are different from them. They are not from Pukui. We were born and raised here, so we are willing to leave."

"You are born and bred, but what about Zhong Ding? Besides, Yang Lin is such a shrewd person, he has gone to Chief Min, but you still can't think about it."

"Where is it that we can't think about it? Isn't this an official position?"

"Don't tell me that official positions are not official positions. Did you know that the four tribes in South Wendura are about to turn against each other again?"

"Where is it so easy to reverse?"

"Now Zhong Ding collects taxes there, do you know?"

"Isn't there also taxation?"

"That's not the same. Now the taxation has quadrupled. These donating officials have gone, just like those donating officials back then. As soon as they got there, they began to repair the yamen, recruit people's husbands, send out corvees, and search for people's wealth. "

"Where is it like the officials of our military regiment over there, who bring their own yurts, horses, cook by themselves, don't compete with the people for profit, and do good deeds. A good man like Chief Min has no ambitions, like Zhong Ding The bad guys are getting more and more prosperous. Now this court, I think it is getting more and more finished."

"Okay, it's useless to say these things. I have stayed here enough. This house will stay. The new house built last year will be sold."

"Who will sell it to? Now that the people in Bukui are leaving, and the outsiders don't come anymore, who will buy it? They can't sell it. Didn't you see that many shops in Xincheng are closed? This Bukui Kui is also going to be finished."

(End of this chapter)