It should be a water conservancy project that is valued and given full attention, requiring the joint efforts of multiple departments.
Having personally visited the disaster area, she read through the shocking disaster statistics written in the county magistrate's report and felt a profound sense of heaviness in her heart.
She even felt some regret for having previously taken the project lightly.
Therefore, after returning to Shengjing, Zheng Quchi's mind was full of things about Cangling County. She took the initiative to coordinate with the relevant water conservancy departments to turn the project that Nanlin Garden had independently acquired into a project that was completed by merging the two gardens. For this purpose, she even listed the relevant advantages and disadvantages.
However, it did not receive support or approval. But this was not because the Minister of Works and the Ministry of Water Resources disagreed, nor was it even because of the opposition and obstruction from Nanlin Garden. All the objections came from the Ministry of Revenue, which Zheng Quchi never dreamed of.
Zheng Quchi put everything else aside and immediately went to ask the Minister of Revenue for a reason.
After relentless questioning and coercion, until he knelt on the ground in tears, claiming that he really couldn't afford to increase the budget for water conservancy construction in Cangling County, her passionate heart finally cooled completely.
He knew what it meant to "possess lofty talents," yet he was defeated by "a single penny that brought down even a hero."
That's it.
She can convince everyone with the best solutions, but once she runs out of money, everything is meaningless.
Ye Kingdom is really poor, especially in the past few years when it has been half abandoned. There is hardly any silver entering the national treasury. She said that the King of Ye was so stingy that he wanted to cut off the military rations from Changxunpo. It turns out that it was not only because he wanted to make things difficult for Yuwen Sheng, but also because the national treasury was so tight that it had to tighten its belt to operate.
What if you don't have money?
Even if you force the Minister of Revenue to his death, he still won't be able to come up with the money for the project.
If this were modern times, she could probably find a way to get a loan to tide her over, but in this era... wait, isn't there another way to raise money in this era?
After much deliberation, Zheng Quchi realized that the only wealthy person she knew was Zhang Qinan, the richest businessman in the south. So she immediately went to find Zhang Qinan.
As the saying goes, even a skilled cook can't cook without rice, so the only option was to borrow money from wealthy people to fill the gap in the project funds.
Zhang Qinan had been maintaining some private contact with Zheng Quchi. Upon hearing that she had come to see him, he rushed from the south to the Shengjing Chamber of Commerce overnight: "General's wife, why did you suddenly think of looking for me?"
Zhang Qinan diligently managed Zheng Quchi's car dealership business, sending people to report the monthly accounts to Zheng Quchi regularly. Although Zheng Quchi was sometimes busy or inconvenient to communicate, he would still keep accounts under Zhang's name for her to review at any time.
Unfortunately, the people in the various shops said that the general's wife had never come even once.
Previously, Zhang Qinan didn't know whether she trusted her too much or was really too busy to be in two places at once.
But recently he heard a lot of rumors, and combined with the relevant intelligence he had collected, he finally understood what the general's wife had been busy with in Shengjing these days.
She was busy saving the Kingdom of Ye, participating in the Six Kingdoms Military Trials to resist foreign enemies, rescuing people, and doing all sorts of things that were far more valuable and meaningful than making money or being busy with profit and gain every day like them, the merchants.
Zhang Qinan rarely admired anyone so much, but for this general's wife, he not only felt an unattainable height, but also admired her character and thoughts.
When he was young, his father sent him to school to learn to read and write. His teacher praised him for being intelligent and eager to learn, saying that he learned faster than most people and that if he continued to study hard, he would surely be able to serve the country in the future.
At that time, which student in the school was not attracted by the future described by the teacher, and secretly longed for their own glorious and splendid future?
He was very happy to receive the recognition and secretly made a grand vow to serve as an official in the court in the future, to become a useful person, to eliminate Chen Huanxin, and to contribute his own strength to the growth of the Ye Kingdom.
But to his surprise, when he returned home, his father told him that his life could not be lived according to his wishes.
Because he was born into the Zhang family, he was naturally destined to become the future heir of the Zhang family, and he had the responsibility to take on everything for his father's generation in the future.
Her father's words shattered Zhang Qinan's naive fantasies and aspirations.
He couldn't be an official; he could only be a businessman.
The status of a merchant and an official is worlds apart, and his fate was sealed from the moment he was born, but he... lacked the courage to break free from the shackles of fate.
Although he has grown up and followed in the footsteps of his ancestors to become a businessman, he still retains his childhood ideal deep in his heart: to become a useful person and do something for the country.
However, over the years, he has only been able to do so much, mainly donating money and supplies when disasters strike various places. This has not changed as much as what the General's wife has done in a fundamental way.
Can women hold official positions?
He would have definitely said no before.
But now he sees that nothing is impossible.
What about the merchants?
What about the descendants of the merchants?
Seeing him lost in thought and not knowing what he was thinking, Zheng Quchi called him twice and said, "Boss Zhang, Young Master Zhang, given our relationship, I won't beat around the bush. Do you have money?"
Zhang Qinan was taken aback: "Money? How much money does Madam want? You may not know, but your assets are quite substantial now."
She waved her hand: "No, no, no, my little money is really not enough. To put it this way, in order to prevent floods and control water disasters, I need to build water conservancy hubs. You may not understand, but simply put, it is different types of hydraulic structures to be built in suitable locations on rivers or canals. So even if I take out all my money, it will be just a drop in the bucket."
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