Chapter 96                                                             �

Zhou Mengchen thought he was very familiar with the Ministry of Works, but when he came to the Ministry of Works, he saw his old boss Li Shihan, but found that the situation was different.

Li Shihan was still very happy about Zhou Mengchen's arrival and said, "It's hard for you. At this time, you are the only one to come to see me."

The relationship between Li Shihan and Zhou Mengchen is not close. But no matter what, Zhou Mengchen has served as a post under Li Shiru. It can be considered as a bit of incense.

Zhou Mengchen asked, "Sir, are you----?"

Li Shihan looked at his duty room and said, "It's nothing. It's just that this broken house with air leakage is not mine in the future."

Zhou Mengchen was shocked and said, "Sir, are you going to be promoted?"

Li Shihan laughed and said, "If I were promoted, I would not be like this now. I am going to retire."

Zhou Mengchen knew at a glance that Li Shihan’s retirement was not voluntary. Otherwise, he would not be in his current state. Zhou Mengchen said, “Can’t Master Xu?”

Li Shihan said with a little distant tone: "He has his difficulties. I don't expect him anymore."

After Zhou Mengchen asked, Li Shihan did not explain in detail, but said that Yan Song had already decided to take over as the Minister of Works, and was named Hu Song. As for what he said, Zhou Mengchen didn't know. But Zhou Mengchen heard from Li Shihan that Hu Song came up after he followed Zhao Wenhua's path.

I know it must be a good thing.

Zhou Mengchen was a little alert.

He was no longer in the capital. He actually had some deviations in his control over the court. At least Zhou Mengchen would not have known about the change of the Minister of Works when Zhou Mengchen had not heard Li Shihan talked about it.

However, even though I didn’t know it before, I have heard a few words and felt some understanding in my heart.

Li Shihan has resentment towards Xu Jie, which is very likely. This time, Li Shihan was forced to retire, because Xu Jie did not withstand the pressure of Yan Song, or Xu Jie gave up Li Shihan.

Xu Jie seems soft, but he has backbone and will never surrender to Yan Song easily. It is conceivable that either Yan Song caught Xu Jie off guard, so that Xu Jie was powerless. Or it was Yan Song who reached an agreement between Xu Jie.

In short, when Zhou Mengchen was fighting on the frontier, the battle between dragons and tigers in the battlefield in the capital has never subsided. However, the victory or defeat here is not like fighting with the Tartars, whether it is a victory or defeat, and it is known to everyone in the world in a few days. Many times, after some things are settled, outsiders will not know what happened.

Zhou Mengchen felt powerless. But he knew very well that this battlefield was not something he could get involved in. He would do what he saw first.

Li Shihan said, "Tell me, you are not going to the Three Treasures Palace for nothing. What are you going to ask for me?"

Zhou Mengchen smiled slightly and said, "Sir, wise. I just got an errand from Your Majesty. So I came to ask for help."

Zhou Mengchen immediately told the Sanggan River project in detail.

Li Shihan's eyes turned and said, "You said you got a job from Your Majesty. Come with the imperial edict."

Zhou Mengchen said, "I am an oral order here. If you don't believe me, you can go to see Your Majesty with me."

"Okay." Li Shihan said: "I happened to see Your Majesty by borrowing the light of you, a great celebrity."

This made Zhou Mengchen blind.

He wanted to pull Jiajing's tiger skin and was exposed. He didn't know how to end it for a while.

Li Shihan smiled slightly and said, "I have seen such things a lot, but many times I am just worried about it. Today, the official position is not guaranteed, and tomorrow it will be a dispersed person in Jiangnan. Naturally, I don't care about these things."

Zhou Mengchen smiled embarrassedly, thinking about how to save the situation.

Li Shihan said: "I won't look at your plan. There are 170,000 taels of silver in the small treasury of the Ministry of Revenue, allocated to you. If you do this yourself, or if you find someone to do something, I can arrange an official position in the Ministry of Works to take charge of the official position. But it must be fast. Everything must be completed within three days. If it is too late, I can't control it."

Zhou Mengchen said, "Sir, what do you mean?"

Li Shihan sneered and said, "I don't know much about Hu Song, but Zhao Wenhua is famous. Hu Song's way back will definitely be a heavy bleeding. How can I not make a profit? And this amount of money was saved little by little. There is a small account in the yamen, and the Ministry of Accounts doesn't know. I don't believe that he can use this money for the main business. If you don't come today, I will send this amount to Nanhe Doctor and Beihe Doctor. It can be considered as the use of the money."

"However, in the canal transportation, it is not an exaggeration to say that there is a mountain of gold and silver. I don't like this little money. I also know the importance of the Sanggan River project. How can the Sanggan River be boated? The loss of Datong can be reduced by a large amount, which is a great thing. Since that's the case, I'll give it to you. But hurry up."

Zhou Mengchen knew as soon as he heard this. Even if there were still some in later generations, the management of this small treasury in the Ming Dynasty was even more relaxed than that of later generations. Even when Li Shihan took this money away, no one said anything. But Li Shihan could never do such a thing.

I can only spend money in anger.

Zhou Mengchen was also a little lucky. If he hadn't encountered this situation today, this matter would probably not be easy to make sense. After all, if Li Shihan was still in charge of the Ministry of Works, the tens of thousands of taels of silver would be Li Shihan's confidence and his bargaining chip to deal with the worst situation in the future. It would never be possible to allocate it so easily.

Zhou Mengchen said, "Thank you, sir. I will definitely finalize all the procedures within three days."

Li Shihan nodded and said, "Go."

Zhou Mengchen left immediately.

Li Shihan sneered in his heart and said to himself: "Yan Song, do you think this Ministry of Works is a useless person? And Hu Song. If you really want to be the Minister of Works, just look at what kind of powder barrel is the Ministry of Works."

What Hu Song faced was indeed a powder barrel.

Half of this is due to the current situation, the court has no money. The court still has to build a large-scale construction. In the palace, Jiajing wants to build a palace. Outside, the Great Wall needs to be renovated. After all, on the one hand, the cement of the nobles has to be sold. On the other hand, the 29th year of Jiajing has indeed made many dignitaries in Beijing feel that it is necessary to repair some of Beijing's defense systems.

But how much money is to live. With all kinds of problems, Li Shihan is capable and has become overwhelmed. If the regular path works, Li Shihan is full and has to be overwhelmed, what small treasury should he build?

The other half is that Li Shihan buried a pit for Hu Song.

It may not be said that Li Shihan is greedy for power. But the problem is that anyone who is swept out like this is full of resentment. Li Shihan doesn't stumbling on him, and he feels that his thoughts are not clear.

In this way, the chair under the buttocks of Hu Song's seat was not a powder barrel, but also turned into a powder barrel.

Of course, Li Shihan still has a proper approach. First of all, he didn't want this powder keg to blow himself up. In addition, Li Shihan did not harm state affairs due to personal affairs. The various traps he designed had a way to end, it was nothing more than being harder, more tiring, more money, and better quality.

Not to mention, how Yan Song and Xu Jie were intrigue for the throne of the Minister of Works. They all took strange moves. Some Zhao Wenhua, Hu Song and Li Shihan were willing to be chess pieces, while others were unwilling to be chess pieces, and each had their own hands and feet.

Just talking, Zhou Mengchen was stunned after he left the Ministry of Works happily. He suddenly remembered something.

That is who will do it for the Governor Sanggan River Project?

Zhou Mengchen himself was confident. But Zhou Mengchen could not let go of Datong and do the work of building a river. Xu Gao and Zhou Mengchen were a little skeptical. Because Xu Gao's specialty was construction, not water conservancy. Of course, there was some intersection between the two, but it was not the same thing after all.

In addition, Xu Gao had never done such a thing before.

Zhou Mengchen was also a little worried. He pondered for a moment and said to himself: "No matter what, if you really can't find someone, it's Xu Gao. After all, anyone will have a first time." Just when Zhou Mengchen decided to support his disciples, Xu Gao didn't want to do this.
Chapter completed!