Lu Tingyan and more than a hundred people left the Pangmeng Town Inspection Department in embarrassment. Everyone was bruised and swollen. Lu Tingyan's originally gorgeous cloak also became tattered, and the ends were torn into strips, as if Like a beggar.
"Bastard Liu Yan!"
Lu Tingyan was angry in his heart. He never expected that Liu Yan would send someone to beat him up. He was so arrogant. Could it be that he, a dignified general, had nowhere to reason?
"Complain!"
Lu Tingyan suddenly shouted: "I'm going to go to Governor Lu to file a complaint against Liu Yan. I'm not done with him!"
In the blink of an eye, it was the first month of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen.
In the past few days, Lu Xiangsheng successively received official documents from Wendeng Camp, Dengzhou Camp and Jimo Camp, as well as from various health offices and prefectures and counties, all of which were against Liu Yan.
"Jimo camp guerrilla general Liu Yan openly robbed the people to enrich his rule, causing the fields under the officials to be barren and the villages to be deserted..."
"Liu Yan was arrogant and arrogant. He used the land allocation as bait to lure the military households under the general's rule to flee, and killed them to expand the population of Lingshan Guard and Aoshan Guard. His heart is to be punished!"
"People everywhere resisted the tax and fled. Instead of assisting in apprehending the fugitive military households, Liu Yan concealed them and secretly accumulated strength. This shows that he has a disobedient heart and even more disobedient behavior!"
Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but sigh as he looked at one official document after another.
At this moment, Governor Yan Jizu hurried over, holding some official documents in his hand. He entered the room and said loudly: "Commander, take a look, these are all complaints!"
Lu Xiangsheng was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "Are you suing Liu Yan?"
"Exactly!"
Then Lu Xiangsheng pointed to a pile of official documents on the table and said, "Look at these, they are all suing Liu Yan."
Yan Jizu smiled bitterly and said: "This Liu Yan, who gets itchy all over without causing trouble for a day, has just poked a hornet's nest. He has almost offended all the officials and generals in Laizhou Prefecture, Dengzhou Prefecture and other places."
Lu Xiangsheng pondered for a while and said: "Now the civil unrest in various places has been basically suppressed, but the disadvantages of collecting training wages are still continuing. People everywhere are more miserable, escapees abound, and the number of refugees everywhere has increased sharply. These are the only It’s a top priority.”
"What do you mean, Governor, to ignore these official documents of complaint for the time being?"
Lu Xiangsheng said, "It's not enough to ignore them completely. I think this way, the governor should send a letter to reprimand the soldiers at the guard station, and the officials of the prefectures and counties should send a letter to reprimand them from Futai. How about that?"
Yan Jizu said in surprise: "Did the Governor give it a second thought? There are already widespread rumors outside that Liu Yan is deeply trusted by the Governor and is his number one confidant. If the Governor continues to defend Liu Yan in this way, those civil servants will The military commander might say something."
Lu Xiangsheng said with a hint of anger: "Yan Futai, this is not the governor's intention to defend Liu Yan. Let me ask: Did Liu Yan really do something wrong?"
"Which of the civilian and military generals in those places is not extremely rich? When I inspected various places, I didn't see a single civilian and military general providing money to fill the gap in training salary, but they tried every means to impose apportionment on the military households and civilians, so that they were already The poor people cannot live. They are the ones who caused the current chaos. Is it wrong for Liu Yan to spend money and food to shelter the refugees?"
Yan Jizu was speechless, just shook his head and sighed, saying: "Just doing this will hardly make the civil servants and military generals everywhere die down."
"I don't expect them to die down!"
Lu Xiangsheng said: "This governor will order all localities to immediately stop the assessment of training pay. The more than 400,000 taels of training pay allocated by the imperial court will all be offset by the salaries of civil servants and generals in various places. Civilian and military generals in various places will immediately protect the country and the people. Whose governance If another refugee flees, I will definitely punish him severely!"
Yan Jizu was horrified: "You can't supervise your ministers, otherwise they will become the target of public criticism!"
Lu Xiangsheng said: "Even if I do nothing, it will still be the same. Instead, it is better to do more things for the Ming Dynasty. Even if I am shattered to pieces, I can still feel at ease!"
Yan Jizu sighed when he saw this.
Soon, Lu Xiangsheng's official document reprimanding civil servants and military generals from various places was sent out. Lu Tingyan was sitting in Zhang Youxun's study, and Han Xu, the military commander of the Dengzhou camp, was beside him. The three of them were very depressed.
Zhang Youxun looked at Lu Tingyan, who still had bruises on his face, and said, "I have said before that complaining is useless. No, instead of blaming Liu Yan, Governor Lu scolded us. "
Han Xu said: "In Lu Duchen's view, we should all destroy our families to relieve the difficulties, and we should all sell off our family properties to offset the training salary assessment, instead of urging the people to pay."
"shit!"
Lu Tingyan shouted at the top of his lungs: "We are officials and they are the people. It is only natural that the people support the officials!"
Zhang Youxun waved his hand and said: "Don't say these useless things. Governor Lu reprimanded us for levying excessive taxes on the people and using our salary to offset the training salary. What do you think we should do?"
Han Xu seemed to have accepted his fate and said dejectedly: "What can we do? Lu Duchen is a superior officer. What can he say? What can you and I do?"
Zhang Youxun had no idea when he saw this, leaving Lu Tingyan still chattering and complaining without saying a single useful word. m.
In February, Lu Xiangsheng went to Lingshan Guard and Aoshan Guard to inspect, and Liu Yan hurriedly summoned a group of subordinates to accompany them.
This time, Lu Xiangsheng sent people to notify the generals of Jimo Camp, Wendeng Camp, and Dengzhou Camp, as well as a group of civil servants from Laizhou Prefecture, Dengzhou Prefecture, and Qingzhou Prefecture, and asked everyone to accompany them to Lingshan Guard and Aoshan Guard.
Lu Xiangsheng's honor guard went from north to south all the way to Lingshan Acropolis, and saw several resettlement sites along the way.
Now these resettlement sites have been gradually expanded, and small villages have been built on the spot. The refugees resettled in these places all have the most basic protection, and are preparing for this year's spring plowing under the arrangements of the station official Zhang Lei.
Lu Xiangsheng stopped in a village north of Lingshan Acropolis and led a large group of civilian and military generals to the fields. Then he said to Liu Yan: "The cultivated land here is all newly cultivated, right?"
Liu Yan clasped his fists and said, "Supervisor Mingjian, the cultivated land here was reclaimed by Zhang Lei, a subordinate under his command, at the end of last year. There are still some ditches that have not been dug in place, but manpower has been arranged. Before spring plowing, It will definitely be completed.”
"How much wasteland have Lingshan Guard and Aoshan Guard reclaimed in total to resettle the refugees?"
"Reporting to the Governor, a total of 220,000 acres of arable land have been added to our subordinates' area, which basically includes all the land that can be used for farming in Lingshanwei, Aoshanwei and the surrounding areas. However, most of this land is only slightly It has been leveled, without deep plowing and regularization, and no water conservancy facilities have been built.”
Lu Xiangsheng asked: "Why?"
Liu Yan said: "My subordinates don't have time and manpower, and at the same time they don't have enough money and food."
Lu Xiangsheng did not ask Liu Yan any more questions, but turned to look at the civil servants and generals behind him. At this time, everyone was still marveling at Liu Yan's generosity in reclaiming more than 200,000 acres of wasteland in one fell swoop, and did not notice Lu Xiangsheng's livid face at all.
"I don't know what you think when you hear Liu Youyi's words. Anyway, I only feel guilty!"
"There was trouble under your rule, and the people couldn't survive and came to Liu Youbi. It was he who resettled the refugees and stabilized the situation, even if he spent all the money and food of Lingshan Guard and Aoshan Guard!"
"But what have you done? You all came to this governor to complain. How can you have the face to send these official documents of complaint to me!"
Facing Lu Xiangsheng's rebuke, everyone bowed their heads and remained silent. Zhang Youxun, Lu Tingyan and Han Xu were even more angry: The co-author was called here just to be scolded?
Lu Xiangsheng looked at the crowd and knew that these civil servants and generals were dissatisfied. He had no intention of convincing them with just a few words, and from then on he devoted himself to serving the people and the country.
"I called you here today just to let you take a look at what Liu Youyi has done. After returning, Liu Youyi will compile a document. The origins of the refugees accepted by Lingshan Guard and Aoshan Guard these days are Wherever you are, report it to the governor within ten days."
Liu Yan cupped his fists and accepted the order.
Then Lu Xiangsheng said to everyone: "The governor will collect money and food from you according to this document, calculated at ten taels of silver per person. If you don't have enough money, you can use the food and house to deduct it, and pay it in full within one month." "
"After one month, anyone who has not paid all the money and food should resign on his own initiative!"
Everyone was immediately dumbfounded.
That night, in the Lingshan Acropolis and in the Chengshou Mansion, Lu Xiangsheng and Liu Yan were sitting and chatting.
"The governor is going to collect money and food from those civil servants and military generals today, but they have caused harm to their subordinates, so they still hate their subordinates to death!"
Listening to Liu Yan's complaint, Lu Xiangsheng said with a smile: "Haha, are you still afraid of these? You, like me, are lonely ministers who are dedicated to doing things but no one understands them."
"Although I am from Donglin, the people in the court who want to kill me are precisely the Donglin Party. Liu Yan, do you think this is called destiny?"
Liu Yan said: "I don't know anything about fate, I only know a little bit of truth."
"What's the point?"
"I control my own life!"
Liu Yan said: "My subordinates do things regardless of the consequences. As long as it is something that I think is right, it must be done and will not be bound by rules. No matter what origin, what career in civil and military life, what disciples and old officials, it can not affect The judgment of subordinates. In today's world, this is the only way to avoid being affected by the so-called general trend."
Lu Xiangsheng looked at Liu Yan in a daze, and his emotions actually led to some of Liu Yan's truths, and he was also a well-educated man. Although Liu Yan's arguments were very counterintuitive, he felt that they were very reasonable, at least from the beginning. You can't refute it if you start from your own heart!
Lu Xiangsheng thought for a while and said: "There must be my teacher among the three of us. Let's have a chat today, and you have taught me a lot!"
Liu Yan clasped his fists and said: "This subordinate is just a warrior. I will listen to you for the time being and do countless things."
At the same time, Liu Yan secretly thought: "Today is a way to say hello to Lu Xiangsheng. There will be a day when we will have differences in the future, so it is also a way to show this anti-Qing hero some kindness."
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore."
Lu Xiangsheng waved his hand, as if he wanted to drive away the negative emotions in his heart, and said: "After collecting the money paid by the civil servants and military generals, the governor will distribute 30% of it and let Lu Huaiying escort it to you as a supplement to your shelter of the refugees. Bar."
"Thank you, Governor."
"It's just that those people will rarely cause trouble for you in the future, and you should be careful when dealing with them."
Liu Yan promised, but he was not worried in his heart: "Next, they won't bother to trouble me anymore!"
Liu Yan clearly remembers that in the spring of this year, an unprecedented drought will break out in Shandong, Henan and other places, followed by an overwhelming locust plague.
The coming of these two disasters will turn all parts of Shandong into hell on earth.
Thinking of this, Liu Yan secretly thought: "I hope my deployment can be effective!"
Some people died, but not completely...
