When Zhu Hongsan saw his son get up, he said, "Prepare it the morning after tomorrow and go to the private camp with me to have a look!"

When Zhu Hai heard Zhu Hongsan say this, he quickly asked, "Father, aren't Yingtian Mansion doing these?"

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "Yes, I am afraid that these killings will fool me, so I have to go and check the work myself!"

The prince Zhu Hai didn't know anything. The emperor went to inspect the work with such a big fanfare, and he must have done the surface project in advance, and he would not see anything after going there.

"Father, if you want to see your son, you can accompany you to visit me in a private visit. I'm afraid you'll go with such a big fanfare..."

Zhu Hongsan smiled and shook his head, saying, "You will know when you go. Fakes are always fake. No matter how good they are, they can't become real!"

When Zhu Hai saw that his father had made up his mind, he had no choice but to retreat and prepare. However, Zhu Hai still passed the news to Shangyuan County Magistrate Qian Yiai. After all, Qian Yiai is his own person, so it would be bad if something happened to his place.

In fact, there is no need to inform Zhu Hai. As soon as Zhu Hai left Shangyuan County, the yamen runners from Jiangsu Provincial Administration Office came to Shangyuan County and informed Qian Yiai to go to the Provincial Administration Office. The governor Zhu invited him.

Qian Yiai dared not delay when he heard the news. Although his backstage was very tough, the county magistrate was not as good as the current management. As his immediate boss, it would be better not to pretend to be big.

Qian Yiai put on his official uniform and quickly got into the official sedan chair and rushed to the governor's office in the East City.

The territory of Nanzhili in the Ming Dynasty was too large, and it was a little better in the early Ming Dynasty. After more than two hundred years of peace, the population of Nanzhili had grown to 20 million, and its economy accounted for one-third of the national economy. Only one regional leader could be established in such a place. The emperor of the Ming Dynasty was not a fool. Since the Jiajing Dynasty, Nanzhili had always had several governors, but the place was different, sometimes two and sometimes three. However, the governor system of the Ming Dynasty was different from that of the Qing Dynasty. The governor of the Qing Dynasty had become a complete local official, and the governor of the Ming Dynasty was still a bit of an imperial envoy. It was only for specific matters, and the post was removed after the matter was completed. Therefore, the actual local officials in Nanzhili were still the governors.

However, because the Southern Zhili was too important, the governors of the Southern Zhili were divided into two left and right governors. The left governors were stationed in Nanjing, in charge of the government affairs of the government affairs of the prefectures south of the Yangtze River, and the right governors were stationed in Xuzhou, in charge of the government affairs of the prefectures north of the Yangtze River. However, with Zhu Hongsan's advance, he fixed the governor system as the local chief system, and the governors became the second-in-command of the local government. At the same time, Zhu Hongsan was afraid that the economic dominance of Nan Zhili did not establish a province according to the mountain and river situation. Instead, he distributed northern Jiangsu to Jiangsu according to later generations, and several prefectures south of the Yangtze River, such as Ningguo Prefecture and Huizhou Prefecture, to Anhui. In this way, Nan Zhili was not a whole, divided into four parts by the administration, and there was no capital to oppose the central government.

But that's it. Because Jiangsu Province is in charge of the prosperous Taihu River Basin, its economic output is still at the forefront of all provinces in the country. Perhaps it is Jiangsu's turn besides Zhejiang Province. Therefore, Jiangsu's governor is still very important.

The current governor of Jiangsu is Zhu Guoshou, a Jinshi in the fourth year of Chongzhen. Lao Zhu was from Huguang and was considered the emperor's direct descendant. However, when Lao Zhu passed the Jinshi, he went to the unlucky place in Henan to be a local official. After Chongzhen hanged him, he followed the officials who went south to Nanjing. However, when he arrived in Nanjing, he met Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng's "Shun case", so Lao Zhu lost his official position. However, at that time, he happened to meet Feng Ruoshu who was fooled by Zhu Hongsan. Lao Feng served as a governor of Henan. Zhu Guoshou was considered old official of Lao Feng. Nanjing could not make it, and followed Feng Ruoshu to Guangzhou.

Zhu Guoshou was born in Huguang and still has actual administrative capabilities. He was naturally trusted when he arrived in Guangzhou. He started working as the prefect of Chaozhou. This time, he took advantage of Zhu Hongsan's east wind to occupy Nanjing and became the governor of Jiangsu, the newly established province. At the same time, because Jiangsu Governor Zhang Guowei was following Ma Jiyuan and was far away in Yangzhou, now the whole of Jiangsu has the final say.

Zhu Guoshou received an imperial edict from the Tongzheng Department in the afternoon, and he wanted to go outside Nanjing to inspect the resettlement of refugees on the sixth day of the March 1st two days later. This made it difficult for Zhu Guoshou to die. It was not that Zhu Guoshou had any evidence of the case and was afraid that the emperor would come to inspect it, but that Zhu Guoshou knew what the officials were like. Now, in order to resettle 500,000 refugees outside the city, the emperor transferred a large amount of food from Guangdong. The officials under his command did not do anything about this kind of fat. Zhu Guoshou estimated that half of the food could fall into the mouths of the people and burned incense.

Zhu Guoshou had just taken over as the governor for less than half a year. It was logical that what happened had nothing to do with him, but Zhu Guoshou wanted to go further and it would be better to be a minister of the central government. If something happened now, the widow's son would die - no hope. So Zhu Guoshou's first step to receive the imperial edict was to find the magistrates of Yingtian Prefecture Ma Jingyuan, Shangyuan, and Jiangning counties, so that they would not make any mistakes.

Qian Yiai came to the front of the yamen in the official sedan chair and saw that the magistrate of Jiangning County had arrived. The yamen was parked outside the yamen. Qian Yiai quickly took out the letter of worship and went forward to hand it over to the yamen runners at the entrance of the yamen runners, asking for the yamen runners to meet the yamen runners. However, the yamen runners at the door invited Qian Yiai to the dental room beside them to wait.

As the capital, the local officials were treated with some of the bad luck. The prefect of Yingtian Prefecture was a third-rank governor, only half a level lower than the third-rank governor. The two prefects under Yingtian Prefecture, the Shangyuan and Jiangning of Guo County under Yingtian Prefecture were all treated with the sixth-rank, which was considered to give the local officials who were affiliated to Guo.

After Qian Yiai entered the house, he saw a middle-aged literati sitting there in the dental room, wearing a sixth-grade genus belt to replenish the clothes, sitting there drinking tea. Qian Yiai knew that this was Zhang Yuanlin, the magistrate of Jiangning County. Zhang Yuanlin was a magistrate of Guiwei in the 16th year of Chongzhen. This identity was much higher than Qian Yiai. However, Zhang Yuanlin had enough fame, but he had no good father. Zhang Yuanlin was from Jinjiang, Fujian, and was not the old subordinate of Huguang. After Li Chengdong, Zhang Yuanlin finally got along with Fujian Governor Yuan Pengnian, and took advantage of this line to get along with Tong Tuchang, and became a magistrate of Guo.

Zhang Yuanlin was born into a Shujishi, so she naturally looked down on Qian Yiai, who was born into a juren. She thought that he was just on an equal footing with him because of nepotism. So Zhang Yuanlin saw Qian Yiai entering the house and closed her eyes, pretending not to see it.

Qian Yiai smiled bitterly, but there was no way for others to ignore him. He couldn't lick his face and put it close. He had no choice but to sit aside and wait for the prefect Ma.

After waiting for less than ten minutes, Jiangning Prefect Ma Jingyuan also came. After entering the house, Zhang Yuanlin stopped pretending and quickly stood up and bowed and said, "Xiaoguan Jiangning County welcomes the prefect Ma!"

Qian Yiai was about to stand up and salute, but Ma Jingyuan said, "You two are here first, let's get up and see Lord Zhu!" After that, he took the two out of the dental room and entered the second hall to pay homage to the governor Zhu.

On the way, Zhang Yuanlin asked in a low voice: "Master Ma, I wonder if Mr. Zhu is so anxious to find us?"

Ma Jingyuan had already learned the news on the way and sighed and said, "There is news from the palace that the emperor will inspect the private camp outside the city in two days. It is estimated that Lord Zhu said that this is the case!"

When Zhang Yuanlin heard this, his face looked a little bad. His Jiangning County also received 50,000 refugees. The court sent 8,000 stones of grain, but Zhang Yuanlin took one third of the grain. Now the price of grain in Nanjing is high, and a stone of white rice costs five silver dollars, which is more than seven taels of silver. This temptation is too great.

Ma Jingyuan ignored Xiaojiu, and he was very anxious. This time he got the help of the prince and finally entered the ranks of senior officials. He must not make any mistakes in this matter.

The three of them came to the second hall study. The governor Zhu was waiting for them. When they saw them coming, Zhu Guoshou did not politely and asked directly: "Three sirs, can the food allocated to you by the imperial court be used on refugees?"

Ma Jingyuan is not the young man who was young. After more than ten years of encounters, coupled with his experience in Dongguan County, he knew the virtues of his officials. He stood up and said, "Mr. Zhu, the yamen runners under Yingtian Prefecture are all clerks left by the former Ming Dynasty. Master Zhu also knows the virtues of these clerks. It is probably good if half of the officials can be used on refugees!"

Zhu Guoshou nodded. What Ma Jingyuan said was similar to what he estimated, but as Shangguan, Zhu Guoshou could say that he could let his subordinates use illegal means to get away with it.

Zhu Guoshou said with a cold face: "I don't care about this, if something happens, you can take care of it yourself!" This is not because Zhu Guoshou is not human relations, but he has to say this as a senior official. On the surface, he is righteous and talks about some great principles for serving the country and the people. If something happens, you can give it to you. If everything happens, you can give it to you. It's all done by the people below, and I don't know.

Qian Yiai and Zhang Yuanlin have just entered the officialdom and don’t know such unspoken rules, but Ma Jingyuan is an old man and knows that what Zhu Guoshou said is fartful.

Ma Jingyuan said: "Mr. Zhu, we are all new officials, and we are inevitably blinded by these clerks. I believe that there are also big bosses in the court who have committed a crime. But as local officials, how can we watch the people not have enough food? So the officials suggest that you borrow some of the grain from the city's food merchants and make up for the quantity, and deal with this inspection first?"

Ma Jingyuan said this very well. He first picked out himself and others, which showed that he and others were just a newcomer. Even if there was anything, he could push him to the clerks under his command. At the same time, he called himself a big power of the Ma family as his backer, and there was no big deal. Finally, he also gave a solution, first borrow some food to respond to the emergency and fool the emperor.

Zhu Guoshou was very happy to hear Ma Jingyuan say this, but he didn't say anything, just served tea and saw the guests off.
Chapter completed!