Faced with Zhan Yang's accusations and attacks, Zheng Zhong looked embarrassed.
"Shilang Zhan, don't be angry. My king was frightened by His Majesty's appearance. He was a little nervous and said some things that he shouldn't have said. I hope that Shilang Zhan can say a few more good words in front of His Majesty the Emperor. We will arrange an audience on another day. .”
After listening to Zheng Zhong's words, Zhan Yang sneered: "I don't have that much ability. Follow me back to the inn first, and wait until I see His Majesty before making any subsequent decisions." After that, Zhan Yang Then he turned around and left.
When Zheng Zhong saw Li Zhang, he was a little nervous, blamed himself, and even a little scared. Although Zheng Zhong was one of the actual people in power in Pyongyang, he had to save face for the nominal king.
"Your Majesty, let's go. Let's go back to the inn first. I'll fight for it again..."
Li Zhang nodded and followed Zhan Yang in despair.
And Zhu Jianshen here also returned to Qianqing Palace.
He doesn't care what Li Zhang thinks now. In his opinion, if you say the wrong thing, you have to pay the price. Anyway, the money has been obtained, and there is no need to consider the follow-up services.
As for the ten-year installment payment, it will be up to the officials of the Ministry of Rites to urge it when it is due, and there is no fear that Pyongyang will dare not to pay it.
Zhu Jianshen returned to the Qianqing Palace to read the memorial. Not even half an hour later, a young eunuch walked in.
"Your Majesty, Minister Zhan would like to see you."
"Let him in."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
After a while, Zhan Yang walked in quickly.
Zhu Jianshen also put down the memorial in his hand, looked at Zhan Yang and said, "What did Zheng Zhong say?"
"Your Majesty, Zheng Zhong also wants your Majesty to summon Li Zhang again, but he has already sternly refused."
Zhu Jianshen nodded, and then handed the secret note written by Zhao Fu to Zhang Bao: "Let Mr. Zhan have a look."
Zhang Bao nodded, and then handed the secret note to Zhan Yang.
When Zhan Yang was reading the memorial, Zhu Jianshen sneered and said: "This is the secret memorial given to me by Zhao Fu. It talks about some things in Seoul. Now Li Yu is not honest anymore. He has studied me and the Marquis of Wuyang." , Huh, you still want to bribe Zhao Fu, you are so smart..."
After Zhan Yang read it, his expression changed. Zhan Yang didn't think too much about Wuyang Hou Shi Heng being scolded, but now looking at Li Yu's guess and seeing His Majesty's reaction, he should be Li Yu guessed the idea and felt a little angry...
"Your Majesty, Li Yu's temperament has changed drastically. I noticed something was wrong when he was in the capital. Now he dares to speculate on the holy will and bribe the generals of the imperial court. He is really a clown. But Your Majesty, shouldn't it be time for General Zhao to leave? He is here Seoul for several years.”
"No, now is when you need him, let him stay there..." Zhu Jianshen said slowly.
"Your Majesty, can I arrange for them to leave the capital?"
"It's okay to stay for a few more days. If they go back one day later, Mr. Jincheng will think about it for one more day. Since he has become smarter, he should make good use of his intelligence." Zhu Jianshen smiled softly as he spoke. ŴŴŴ.BiQuGe.Biz
"Yes, Your Majesty, there is one more thing. Zheng Zhong would like to meet the Taibao."
"You go tell Yu Taibao about this. If he is willing, he can see Zheng Zhong. If he is not willing, that's it."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
The young eunuch came in and announced: "Your Majesty, Commander Zhu wishes to see your Majesty."
Zhu Jianshen glanced at Zhan Yang, and Zhan Yang also bowed and left. After Zhu Jianshen nodded, Zhan Yang walked out of the hall.
I saw Zhu Ji at the entrance of the palace.
There were still some small beads of sweat on his forehead, which made Zhan Yang's heart move. Commander Zhu was not very young yet. Why was he so weak? He started to sweat even before the weather was hot.
But the relationship between the two people, of course, it was not Zhan Yang's turn to say this to Zhu Ji. He just nodded and walked away.
Zhu Ji entered the Qianqing Palace and directly handed Zhang Bao the brocade document sent from Luoyang.
Zhu Jianshen looked at Die Wen, his expression getting more and more wrong.
After reading it, he put down the text and gritted his teeth and said: "Bold, how brave you are..."
"Check, don't let the local officials check, you check, check secretly..."
"I'll give you two months. If you can't find out, don't take the position of the Jin Yiwei commander, and don't let Liu Hong return to Beijing..."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Zhang Bao on the side was startled. After Zhu Ji went down to make arrangements, Zhang Bao asked: "Your Majesty, what's wrong?"
"Someone wants to overturn the Ming Dynasty..."
After Zhang Bao heard this, he was shocked. He quickly picked up the CD on the table and read it. After reading it, Zhang Bao said slowly: "Your Majesty, do you want Dongchang to send someone to this matter?"
Zhu Jianshen shook his head: "Don't make such a big fuss, just let Jin Yiwei investigate. They are relatively more professional..."
After reading the intelligence report, Zhu Jianshen was completely uninterested, and he also had anger in his heart that needed to be vented. Zhu Jianshen, who couldn't find a way to relieve his emotions, once again went to where the show girls were to look at the beauties...
This operation shocked Zhang Bao, and he compared His Majesty to a heavenly being in his heart. When something like this happened, he still had the leisure and elegance to go see the girl...
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Several well-dressed men rode fast horses and ran through the countryside. The surrounding wheat fields were growing gratifyingly, but after running for a while, they came to an abandoned fertile field.
Everyone jumped off their horses.
He looked at Arata who could see the edge in front of him.
"Sir, it's such a pity that not a single grain of food has been grown in such good fertile land, hey." A man said.
The leading man said: "Check the yellow book and see who owns these lands."
"Yes, sir." The man said, and took out a booklet from the pocket on the back of the horse. He checked it one by one, and finally found the owner of thousands of acres of fertile land. He sighed and said: "Sir, just like the people in Qinyang Mansion, they belong to ordinary people. They should have been paid to let them waste a year."
"Damn it, inform Mr. Qianhu of the situation here as soon as possible. I'll go back to the government office later."
"yes."
Many men slowly mounted their horses again and galloped towards the way they came.
These well-dressed men are all royal guards, and this is Xi'an Mansion.
A pilot site for the new tax system.
During the famine, some people abandoned their children and sold their daughters for a morsel of food. However, some people with ulterior motives began to take advantage of these fields in order to fulfill their selfish desires and use them to intimidate the court.
The officials and merchants in the hinterland of the Central Plains are not as powerful as Yingtian Mansion and Shuntian Mansion, and the people are also the most docile under the central government's rule for thousands of years. Their obedience to the central court is also higher than in other places.
The new tax system started in the 10th year of Chenghua, and the land was measured. However, the officials and gentry dared to be angry but dared not speak out, and the businessmen were also angry but dared not speak out. However, some ambitious people began to secretly resist.
When the wheat grew, the Qinyang Prefecture first discovered that the whole government, four prefectures and counties, a total of 12,000 acres of land were not growing grain, and the Qinyang Prefecture officials hurriedly reported the situation.
After Li Bing learned about it, he immediately began to investigate in Luoyang and found that there was no food planted in 28,000 acres of fields.
Xi'an Prefecture is not optimistic either. Almost every county government reports the number of acres of land every day...
This was a premeditated and highly targeted act of resistance.
All land belongs to ordinary people.
And these ordinary people have received silver coins, one tael of silver per acre of land, and it only takes one year. The food grown by these people cannot be sold at this price, and most importantly, these ordinary people have no idea at all. Who gave them the money?
The people behind the scenes did not show up from beginning to end. They were looking for people in various villages to talk about these things.
Of course, the villagers who went to discuss these matters were arrested by the government officials.
Food is the foundation for national tranquility and for people to live and work in peace and contentment. But now someone understands the foundation. This has never happened since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. Such a bad thing has never happened.
This made Li Bing, as well as the two provinces, three divisions, and prefects everywhere, extremely frightened.
If the Jin Yiwei were not in the two provinces, even the loyal ministers in the capital would choose to conceal the report at this time, and then investigate secretly to prevent this kind of thing from happening again.
But the current situation is that there are more than 500 Jinyi guards in two provinces, two from each thousand households, and Liu Hong, the commander of the third rank, has also arrived in person.
There is no way this matter can be hidden.
Luoyang Mansion, governor's office.
Liu Hong, the commanding officer of Jinyiwei who was wearing Feiyu uniform, was sitting on a chair with a cold expression on his face. He was playing with an exquisite teacup in his hand.
Because His Majesty likes porcelain, the position of porcelain is even higher.
For the Jinyiwei system, the impact is even greater.
Zhu Jichun drifted to the north and was too poor to afford it. However, almost all the other thousands of households, including governors, governors, ministers, and comrades, acquired a piece of exquisite porcelain, and from time to time they would take it out to show off in front of others...
Although Liu Hong was very calm, Li Bing, Henan's chief envoy Si Shenshi, commander-in-chief Guangningbo Liu An, and inspector-general Qiu Hong had sad faces.
The Luoyang magistrate, Tongpan and other officials were also blaming each other, and there was a lot of noise in the lobby.
Liu Hong had already informed the capital about the emergencies in the two places yesterday. In fact, he was also worried. He came to help Li Bing. If Li Bing was investigated and fell because of this matter, would he also be the same? They will have the same fate, but Jin Yiwei is His Majesty's servant, and in front of the officials outside, he must have the necessary composure...
"Shut up, shut up. None of you are aware of this matter at all. You are all derelict in your duties, and so is this officer. Everyone in this lobby is involved. What is happening now is the first year of the new tax system. , we have encountered such a big scandal, we cannot panic or be chaotic, I will write a memorial to His Majesty to apologize, you only need to supervise today's affairs, I will not need you for the investigation."
When Liu Hong listened to Li Bing's words, the tea cup in his hand suddenly stopped. He raised his head and glanced at Li Bing, only to see that Li Bing was also looking at him.
"Governor Li, aren't your governor's yamen and the third division's yamen willing to intervene in the investigation?"
"The most important thing for the two provinces and three governments now is to collect taxes during the autumn harvest in the eleventh year of Chenghua."
"This is the most important thing. If the land purchased and abandoned reaches more than 50,000 acres, this matter is not important and will not be investigated."
"We must investigate, but we are not investigating. Mr. Liu, if you think about it carefully, those who are doing this are asking us to put the cart before the horse and investigate this matter, and then make the whole world know about the new tax system. There is no benefit at all from the unfolding in various places. It is time for your memorial to arrive in the capital. Even if His Majesty knows about this matter, he will not let us investigate. But Mr. Liu, you can rest assured that the local government officials also obey the orders of Jin Yiwei, but the investigation We still need to do it quietly, the more they want to make this matter bigger, the more we will suppress it."
What Li Bing said was reasonable, and Liu Hong could certainly hear it.
At this time, other officials turned their attention to Liu Hong. They had been watching the show quietly, but now it was time to act on their own. This change was a bit fast...
Li Bing is right.
The moment Zhu Jianshen saw Die Wen, what he thought of was not to mess up the overall situation.
The matter is very serious, just because it is very serious, and saying it at the court meeting will give those officials who still do not support the new tax system a reason.
Rekindling the courage to criticize the new tax system will have a very bad impact on the implementation of the new tax system across the country in the future.
For Li Bing, if this matter gets too big, the autumn harvest will definitely be affected.
Yingtian Mansion and Shuntian Mansion have almost finalized the new tax system within a year, and they are now in follow-up operation, allowing the Ming Dynasty to see real money.
However, there has been no movement in the three palaces that he presides over.
He volunteered for Yu Qian's initiative. If he couldn't get things done, his career would not matter. But if it affected the implementation of the new tax system across the country, it would mean that Yu Taibao's hard work would be in vain. This is what Li Bing is afraid of and cannot accept. matter…………
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