Fang Congzhe was busy and said: "The minister recommended Feng Quan, the imperial history of Zuo Yidu, to serve in this position, this person is shrewd and capable, in the last large number of Beijing officials resignation incident, Feng Quan found out that the resigned officials had the most lawlessness, and the huge greed Zhou Jiamo and others were all excavated by him, which is enough to show that this person is very capable, so the minister believes that if Feng Quan goes to Jiangnan, he will be able to successfully clear the acres of land and clarify the tax burden in the southeast." ”"Accurate!"
Zhu Youxiao immediately replied.Both of them knew that Feng Quan was the sworn enemy of the Donglin Party, and Jiangnan was the nest of the Donglin Party.Therefore, Feng Quan must have worked very hard to clear the acres of land in the southeast and clarify the tax burden.The last case of the lawlessness of the Donglin officials who resigned is proof of this.Although Feng Quan loves to drill camps in the officialdom and also loves to form a party, he was reprimanded as a villain by the scholars.But many times the reform has to use the villains among these civil officials, after all, there are few so-called decent civil officials who are willing to brutalize the gentry of the same class as themselves.At this time, Zhu Youxiao asked Wei Zhongxian, who was on duty in the political affairs hall of the Qianqing Palace: "What is the price of grain in the capital now?"
”Wei Zhongxian replied: "Back to the emperor, it is still rising sharply, many officials have run out of food, and have to send slaves back to their hometowns to transport grain, in addition, there are already officers and soldiers in Liaodong who have begun to complain that the food is not enough to eat, and now it is all up to Xiong Jingluo to suppress it, if the grain is not available again, I am afraid that Liaodong will be in chaos." ”"Wang Yingjiao, the secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs, asked him how the grain transfer was going in various places?
If the problem of grain shortage is still not solved, then simply send the edict directly to the nine sides, this northern half of the country is not needed first, and all the military and civilians in the north, civil and military officials, and even nobles will all go south with me to get food!
”After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao directly said an angry word.Fang Congzhe was so frightened that he lost color on the spot, he was a northern scholar, he didn't want to really move south with His Majesty.Wei Zhongxian was also stunned in place, and only then did he reply: "Yes!"
”Not long after, Wang Yingjiao rushed to the political hall at the urging of Wei Zhongxian."
Da Si Nong, hurry up, the emperor is waiting for your report now."
Wei Zhongxian also felt scared and nervous when he thought of his emperor's serious face, so he kept urging Wang Yingjiao.Wang Yingjiao panted with the notebook: "Grandpa Wei, I know, don't read it, I've tried my best to do it." ”When Wang Yingjiao rushed to the Qianqing Palace, he couldn't speak, and he was about to salute Zhu Youxiao with a sweat."
Excuse me, what is the situation of grain transportation in various places?"
Zhu Youxiao asked directly."
Xie, Your Majesty, there is no hindrance, Henan, Shanxi, Huguang and other places have all transferred a total of 1.5 million stone of grain into Beijing, and Shandong has transferred 3.05 million stone of grain into Beijing, and all of them have been concentrated in the official warehouse of Dezhou, it will not take much time to enter Beijing, and the matter of running out of grain has no worries."
Zhu Youxiao breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this.Fang Congzhe also breathed a sigh of relief, and said in his heart: "It's a good thing, Your Majesty finally doesn't have to abandon the nine sides and go south, I'll just say, my doctor won't really be disloyal and unjust, and he doesn't even care about the peace of Sheji, wait, how can Shandong transport so much grain in so much time?"
Where did the governor of Shandong get so much grain?
It has all been concentrated in the Texas official warehouse!
”Wei Zhongxian saw his emperor's eyebrows stretched, and he also laughed."
Who is the governor of Shandong?"
Zhu Youxiao's mouth was tightly pursed, and he asked."
Wang Zaijin, this person is a Jinshi in Wanli for 20 years, this person is a good worker, and he is a cadre."
Fang Congzhe rushed in front of Wang Yingjiao and replied.Zhu Youxiao glanced at Fang Congzhe and asked in his heart: "You know again!"
Since you know that he is talented and long, why is he still a governor in the twenty years of Wanli?
”"More than three million stone of grain, how did he do it in such a short period of time?"
Zhu Youxiao asked after slandering.Wang Yingjiao hurriedly replied: "That's the case, Your Majesty, Wang Zaijin has begun to raise grain and grass more than a month ago, and even used the Shandong Domain's inventory of silver to buy grain, and has reported to the household department, and also wrote a recital to the imperial court, in addition, can be concentrated in Dezhou so quickly, because he prepared river workers in various river sections in advance, when the imperial court issued an order to transfer grain, the grain ships in Shandong did not need to dock along the way and directly arrived in Dezhou, and also concentrated a group of river workers while dredging the river in front of the boat to pull the boat forward, therefore, the water transport is very fast, and this can be done." ”"Now the key is not to let the nine sides run out of food, the military spirit can not be chaotic, especially Jizhou and Liaodong, I remember that after the Jiliao Governor Wenqiu was arrested, a new Jiliao Governor has not been appointed, and the decree is ordered, ordering the king to be promoted to the Governor of Jiliao and the Governor of Shuntian, and he will transport the three million stone grain collected in Shandong and the grain from Shanxi to Jiliao to stabilize the army's heart!
Grain from Henan and Huguang was first transported to Beijing to stabilize grain prices. ”Zhu Youxiao directly promoted Wang Zaijin.Fang Congzhe didn't expect the emperor to be so resolute and resolute, and he was about to promote Wang Zaijin so soon, so he hurriedly replied: "Yes" and then drew up the decree.Then, Zhu Youxiao looked at Wang Yingjiao and said: "Although the problem of grain outage has been solved temporarily, the local tax cannot but be recovered, I know that you love the people, so I let you be the governor of Xichang, specializing in the recovery of taxes and grain, I hope you will enforce the law impartially, do not let the recovered taxes and grains be recovered to the common people who do not owe taxes and grain, if the local governor is not effective in clearing the acres of land or Yang Fengyin is violated, and does not calculate the accumulated tax and silver to the big households who really owe taxes, you can immediately report to me in Jinyiwei, and I will allow you to play the right to perform secretly!"
”Wang Yingjiao didn't expect that he would one day concurrently serve as the position of the West Factory, but he understood that this West Factory was not the West Factory of the Chenghua Dynasty, and His Majesty set up the West Factory and let himself manage the West Factory in order to avoid the wealthy families colluding with officials and officials to transfer the tax arrears to the common people because of the pursuit of tax arrears, so he did not refuse, but immediately replied: "The minister obeys the order!"
”…… Therefore.Wang Yingjiao only went home to prepare for one day after getting Zhu Youxiao's secret box, and the next day he went south directly with Li Yongzhen, the chief manager of the West Factory and the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor, Qi Jin, the governor of the West Factory, Zhao Shujiao, Qin Minping, Man Gui, and Sun Yunhe, Wu Mengming, and other people from the West Factory.He was accompanied by Feng Quan, the governor of the southeast, and Ruan Dacheng, a newly appointed Cheng Ruan Dacheng of the Chongwen Temple in Nanjing by Zhu Youxiao on the recommendation of Fang Congzhe, as well as the supervisor of the Chongwen Temple, which consisted of 50 literati and 200 Jinyi guards.The reason why Zhu Youxiao sent the people of Chongwen Temple to the south was naturally to control public opinion when clearing the acres of land and recovering taxes.In a word.Xichang went to collect taxes, and directly took the elite soldiers of the Ming Empire during this period, and was ready to forcibly break down the door to collect taxes if they disagreed.Among them, Wang Yingjiao was responsible for checking the taxes and grains of the state treasury, Li Yongzhen was responsible for checking the taxes such as gold and silver of the internal treasury, and Qi Jin was responsible for the implementation.Feng Quan was responsible for supervising the Nanzhili magistrate to clear the acres of land.Ruan Dacheng is responsible for controlling public opinion.These people and horses add up to a total of about 10,000 people, which is about the same number as the number of soldiers and horses led by Duoduo and some of the Eight Banner soldiers led by Duoduo and the hungry soldiers from the north of the Ming Dynasty who descended to the Qing Dynasty to the south of the Yangtze River.