"Daming Zhongxing is hopeful, and the Liao salary will be suspended!
This is something that Zhu really couldn't imagine. ”Zhu Xieyuan, the political envoy of Sichuan Zuobu, couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh after receiving the edict of the imperial court to suspend the levy of Liao.Xu Ruke, the deputy envoy of the inspection, also echoed: "What the feudal platform said is very true, this is really unexpected, through the ancient history, once the tax is levied, it will be difficult to exempt it, and it is difficult for the people who are in charge of the dynasty to give up their benefits!"
And now, His Majesty's edict to stop levying Liao salaries not only shows His Majesty's love for the people, but also shows that the government's money and grain policy has improved, and the trend of the Ming Dynasty's growing deficit has been reversed, and it is indeed a sign of prosperity!
”"In this way, our local officials are also easy to do, these years, because of the levy of Liao, the Han people in Sichuan have increased a lot of complaints about the government and the imperial court, coupled with the tyranny of many unjudicial officials, at present, the Tusi in various places, especially the Yongning Tusi, began to gradually disobey the control of the imperial court.Zhu Xieyuan continued.Xu Ruke nodded: "However, Shilin Zhong has a lot of complaints about His Majesty today, saying that he is mean and unkind, brutal and ruthless, but I didn't expect His Majesty to issue such an edict to benefit the people!"
”Zhu Xieyuan smiled and said: "The people in Shilin have always emphasized Qing discussion and ignore practice, and Shilin public opinion has always been controlled by Jiangnan scholars, these Jiangnan scholars grew up in the gentle township of fat powder pile, where do they understand the suffering of the people, and only you and I, who have served in places outside Jiangnan for a long time, know why Mr.
Yangming was able to make meritorious contributions after enlightenment in Longchang, there is no other reason, only know all things about firewood, rice, oil and salt." ”Xu Ruke laughed: "This is correct. ”"Zhongcheng wants to see the second duke!"
At this time, Xu Keqiu, the governor of Sichuan, came to Zhu Xieyuan and Xu Ruke and gave up his hands.The two of them hurriedly came to Xu Keqiu's place.As soon as Xu Keqiu saw the two of them coming, he said: "The two of them came just in time, the official has something to discuss with the two, and now Yongning Tusi Hao Chongming has written again and said that he wants the official to recommend to the court for him, and let him lead the Tusi soldiers to Liaodong to fight for the court like Qin Liangyu's white pole soldiers, I don't know what the two of them think, should we recommend luxury Chongming to the court, so that he can also lead troops to Liaodong to participate in the war?"
”"The lower officials think it can't be!
This luxury Chongming is different from Qin Liangyu, luxury Chongming has been expanding his army, and everywhere recruiting our Han people to enter his territory as his new household, obviously has the ambition of expansion, and although Qin Liangyu is also a Tusi, he has not expanded his army, and only expanded his army after the imperial court issued an edict to expand the white pole soldiers, and there is no sign of recruiting displaced people!
Even extravagant Chongming withheld tax grain and demanded 30,000 hectares of newly reclaimed land!
This person is quite ambitious, so the lower officials think that they should clearly inform the court and let the court not believe his words!
”Zhu Xieyuan said.Xu Ruke therefore echoed and said: "The lower officials also think that it is impossible, this extravagant Chongming also opened mines privately and smelted, in the opinion of the lower officials, not only can not believe his words, but also let the imperial court transfer the white pole soldiers and some Sichuan soldiers back, in case something happens!"
”Xu Keqiu nodded accordingly: "What the two of you said is reasonable, then the official will inform the court of our opinion and ask the court to cut it." ”......
"This extravagant Chongming, and Shangshu asked to send troops to Liaodong, it is really very positive, last month he sent troops to Liaodong, I have already rejected him once, this time Shangshu asked to lead troops to Liaodong, what did the local officials in Sichuan say?"
”After Zhu Youxiao received Lu Chongming's recital, he asked Fang Congzhelai.Fang Congzhe said: "Sichuan Governor Xu Keqiu and others have been secretly expanding troops and horses, forming alliances with the surrounding Tusi, and even mining and smelting iron, quite restless, and took the initiative to ask for aid to Liao, I am afraid that there are other intentions, so I do not approve of the imperial court to allow him to lead troops to Liao, and ask the imperial court to send more troops and horses to Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places in case he changes, such as transferring back the white pole soldiers and some Sichuan soldiers. ”After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao nodded and instructed Liu Ruoyu: "Summons Wang Xiangqian, Xu Guangqi, Guo Hu, Chen Ce, Niu Bingzhong, You Shigong, and Qin Liangyu to the political hall to discuss the military aircraft. ”"Yes!"
Liu Ruoyu retreated because of this.After a while, Wang Xiangqian, a university scholar, Xu Guangqi, a scholar of the military department, and Qin Liangyu, a veteran, all came to the political affairs hall."
Look at this note, this is the second letter of luxury Chongming, and he is still asking me to allow him to lead troops to Liao."
As soon as these people arrived, Zhu Youxiao handed over the extravagant Chongming's recital to Liu Ruoyu, and asked Liu Ruoyu to hand it to Wang Xiangqian and others.Wang Xiangqian first looked at the song, and after a moment of silence, he said: "Your Majesty, this extravagant Chongming is obviously not well-intentioned, how can there be Tusi who took the initiative to ask for troops, to the minister's view, he is in the Ming plank road secretly Chen Cang, clearly want to serve the court, but in fact, he secretly has a bad intention, and takes the initiative to ask for troops to paralyze the court, so that the court can relax its vigilance, the Ming Dynasty has three uneasy places since ancient times, one is the nine sides, the second is the southwest, and the third is the southeast coast, so we can't relax our vigilance against the southwest, When the local officials in Sichuan were ordered to be on strict alert, luxury Chongming and other toasts. ”Once the imperial court agrees, he will inevitably use this as an excuse to incite the people in his jurisdiction, and provoke the contradictions between the imperial court and the local people on the grounds that the imperial court wants to send them to Liaodong to die, and then raise an army to cause rebellion, this possibility cannot be ruled out."
Xu Guangqi also spoke at this time.Zhu Youxiao nodded, then looked at Qin Liangyu and asked, "What does Qin Aiqing think about this?"
”In Zhu Youxiao's view, Qin Liangyu is also from the southwest toast, although the degree of sinicization is higher than that of other toasts, and even the sense of belonging to the imperial court is stronger than that of other toasts, but as a general from the toast, he should know more about the southwest toast than himself.Qin Liangyu immediately replied at this time: "Returning to Your Majesty, the Tusi in the southwest have always been a place of restraint, and each Tusi has its own territory and subjects, and it can also appoint local officials by itself, so its loyalty or not depends on the personal ethics of the Tusi, and it is very different from the place governed by the Central Plains officials. ”After hearing this, Colonel Zhu You couldn't help but admit that the few high-ranking officials involved in military affairs that he is now reusing are still very knowledgeable in military affairs.In Zhu Youxiao's memory, Luxury Chongming did take the initiative to ask the Ming court to lead troops to Liao after the sudden rebellion, and finally even with Guizhou Shuixi Tusi An Bangyan also rebelled, successively captured Chongqing, Neijiang, Guangzhou and other places, the war spread to Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Huguang, lasted for nearly ten years, and caused great turmoil within the Ming Empire, wasting countless money and grain.This made it impossible for the Ming Empire to concentrate all its efforts on dealing with Liaodong and Dongyu.This was the same as in the Chongzhen period, because a large number of rogues rebelled, so that the imperial court could not concentrate all its efforts to deal with the Eastern Prisoners.And because of this, Zhu Youxiao was annoyed by the restless Tusi of Yu Chongming who was about to start a war."
I believe that there will inevitably be a war in this southwest, and this extravagant Chongming will be opposed, not only extravagant Chongming, but also other toasts."
Zhu Youxiao said with a solemn expression at this time, and then looked at the ministers present.