Chapter 242: Yongping Hou returns to Yingtian to inquire about the Yixing case. King Jin designs his father-in-law to absorb deposits for Daming Bank.
With less than two and a half months left before the wedding, Xie Cheng, Marquis of Yongping, rushed back from Taiyuan, which was more than 2000 miles away from Yingtian Prefecture.

"As early as the beginning of the fourth year of Hongwu, I received an imperial decree to come to Taiyuan.

Looking at the Taiyuan city, which is only ten miles around, it is filled with government offices, temples, commercial markets, and neighborhoods.

The city walls are dilapidated, the streets are narrow and the roads are narrow, making it a difficult place to build a government office.

Now, less than six years have passed, and the newly expanded Taiyuan City has reached a radius of twenty li.

If the rebuilt Taiyuan Jinwangfu City is also included in the city, when it is actually completed four years later, it is estimated that Taiyuan City will reach more than 24 li. "

Looking at the jubilant Xie Cheng, Zhu Gang frowned and said, "The layout of Taiyuan City has a very strict plan, and it can be said that one move affects the entire body.

If we just want to include the rebuilt Taiyuan Jinwangfu City into the city, we have to expand the already planned Taiyuan City again, which is really a waste of money and manpower. "

In order to demonstrate the central position of power, Zhu Gang built all administrative agencies and royal palaces in the center of Taiyuan city or in key locations near main roads.

Now that Xie Cheng has expanded the Taiyuan Palace into the Jin Palace City, it will definitely cause damage to the original layout of Taiyuan City.

Ever since Zhu Yuanzhang designated the entire Shanxi Province as the fiefdom of the King of Jin, Zhu Gang planned to carry out a large-scale overall transformation of Datong Prefecture, Pingyang Prefecture, Luzhou Prefecture and Fenzhou Prefecture in addition to Taiyuan.

The first city to be included in the urban renewal plan is Datong Prefecture, located in the northern part of Shanxi Province.

After all, it is located at the junction of Shanxi, Hebei and Inner Mongolia. It is an important city in North China and is known as the "Key to the North".

It borders Hebei in the east and Taiyuan Prefecture in the south.

It borders the Yellow River to the west and controls the desert to the north.

Datong Prefecture was not only a battleground for ancient military strategists, but also a focal area for contention between the Northern Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty.

Most importantly, once the Ming Dynasty officially moves its capital to Beiping Prefecture, Datong Prefecture will become the closest city to Kyoto in Shanxi.

Historically, ever since the Ming Dynasty moved its capital to Beiping Prefecture, Datong Prefecture has been known as the "back garden of the capital".

As an important part of the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, Datong Prefecture and Beiping Prefecture have carried out in-depth cooperation in the fields of science and technology, agriculture, cultural tourism and consumption.

Eventually, it gradually became an important partner in Beijing's R&D and manufacturing related fields.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gang was about to speak out a reminder, but Yongping Hou Xie Cheng spoke first and asked: "On the way to Yingtian Prefecture, I saw the Jinyiwei of Changzhou Prefecture arresting people everywhere. Did something happen in the court recently?"

Zhu Gang nodded and said, "There is a jailer named Pan Fu in Liyang County. As a grassroots official, he repeatedly instigated his immediate superior to commit corruption and abuse of power.

In addition, because Pan Fu was a "veteran" in the county government and had a strong personality, all the successive magistrates of Liyang were forced to go along with him.

Last year, Li Gao from Shanxi was appointed as the magistrate of Liyang. As soon as he took office, he conspired with clerks such as Pan Fu to harm the people.

He made up various excuses to make huge money.

Pan Fu, a subordinate, bought a beautiful woman from Suzhou and settled her in his home.

Then he invited his boss Li Gao to his home to have a tryst with the beautiful woman. As a result, Pan Fu actually took the Suzhou beauty as his concubine.

Later, Pan Fu often extorted money and property from the common people in the name of County Magistrate Li Gao, but the latter never asked any questions.

However, because Pan Fu was so arrogant, many of his actions became increasingly insane.

The people of Liyang were forced to live in despair. Some time ago, someone reported the crimes of Pan Fu and the magistrate Li Gao to me.

After learning about this, I sent people to capture Pan Fu.

Pan Fu, who had received the news in advance, immediately began to flee thousands of miles away, evading capture everywhere. Wherever he went, a large group of clerks helped him escape.

First, thirteen local families including Jiang Shilu from Liyang secretly sent Pan Fu to Huizhou Prefecture in Southern Zhili.

Not long after, Pan Fu fled to Jianping County, Huizhou Prefecture, where the local clerk Wang Haisan secretly sent him back to Liyang.

Zhu Zirong, a clerk in Liyang, secretly sent Pan Fu to Yixing County.

Yixing County Magistrate Hang Siding took advantage of the cover of escorting his sister-in-law's body back to his hometown to deliver Pan Fu to Anji County.

Although I have now arrested all the relevant persons, the main culprit Pan Fu is still at large because no one has provided any clues.

This matter has already received the attention of the emperor. In order to avoid implicating too many people, I can only let the Shenjiying assist the Jinyiwei in searching for Pan Fu."

Xie Cheng said in disbelief: "When I was in Taiyuan, I saw that the clerks were all kind and kind, and they were very serious and responsible in their work.

Countless heroes and heroes throughout history have lost themselves in the vortex of power.

Officials who can truly stick to their original aspirations are as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.

I never thought that county officials in other parts of the Ming Dynasty would bully the people for their own selfish interests and have no sense of justice at all!"

Zhu Gang said solemnly: "I have discussed this issue with my father today.

But my father thought that if the salaries of the clerks were greatly increased, it would increase the burden on the national treasury, so he did not adopt my suggestion. "

Xie Cheng seemed to have thought of something, "I remember hearing the prince say before that Your Highness has established Ming Dynasty money houses and silver vaults in Yingtian Prefecture and various prefectures in Shanxi.

If we can encourage those local officials to deposit their taxes into the Ming Dynasty Bank, the interest from the deposits will probably be enough to pay the salaries of the clerks.”

Zhu Gang pretended to be surprised and said, "My father-in-law really woke me up with a word. As the founder of the 'Da Ming Bank', I didn't expect this.

But my father has always been a practical person. If there is no reference data to support it, I am afraid that it will still fail in the end. "

If you told others that there was a weapon with a sound as loud as thunder in an era when gunpowder had not yet been invented.

It was so powerful that it could split mountains and rocks, and turn people and horses into a pile of minced meat.

Other people’s first reaction is that you are bragging!
Even if they really see it, they will associate it with ghosts and gods.

This is the situation Zhu Gang is facing now. Even though there are many benefits to depositing money in the Ming Dynasty Money House, it will be in vain if no one practices it.

So far, the depositors of Daming Money House are basically those who want to keep small amounts of money for a short term.

On the one hand, officials are afraid that if they save too much money, Zhu may misunderstand them as corrupt officials, thus bringing disaster upon themselves.

On the other hand, wealthy businessmen and gentry were worried that the Ming Dynasty's treasure notes would depreciate sharply in the future like the Yuan Dynasty, so many people were on the sidelines.

Under such circumstances, it would be difficult for Zhu Gang to use his eloquence to persuade Zhuge Liang to put taxes into Ming treasure notes.

Who knows that there is always a way out? As the father-in-law, Xie Cheng returned to Yingtian Prefecture and took the initiative to put forward an idea that coincided with Zhu Gang's.

In addition, the other party also has the funds to expand the Jinwangfu City in Taiyuan.

Zhu Gang had to admit that Old Zhu was very generous to his sons.

As long as he deposited the money in the Ming Dynasty Money House, he believed that Zhu Yuanzhang would change his mind.

(End of this chapter)