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The meeting of the elders that is usually held every day is now held normally, but unlike the beginning, everyone's faces are a little dignified at the moment, and they are not very good-looking.

"Let's talk about what you think of the current situation." Xu Guangqi looked tired and sat on the chair a little weakly. His recent work has really made him feel very angry. The hard action of the knife and the gun is gone, and all the soft knives are in their place.

The soft knife kills without seeing blood, and it also makes you undetectable, unable to attack, sometimes think about it, he really hopes that these guys will have some kinds, all of them will rebel, and come to a huge resistance, which is also stronger than the current tepid.

Since he and Sun Chengzong joined forces to strengthen the construction of urban defense forces in Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, and Anhui provinces, there have been many fewer undercurrents and tides in various places, but without waiting for Xu Guangqi to be happy, all kinds of hidden resistance have increased in vain.

The most obvious is the nearby province of Hebei, which is close to Gyeonggi, but a little farther away, local officials have all kinds of reasons that they can't do their work.

There are too many bandits, and the elected village chief was killed before he could do it for a few days, and then no one in the local village took over as the village chief, and the local people were excited, saying that a certain gentry was virtuous and virtuous, and the common people did not let the tenant farmers give him his land, and what else was too populous, and the land was not enough, and the people were noisy, and the work could not be carried forward.

For all kinds of reasons, Xu Guangqi is angry, he is an old fritter in the officialdom, and he has rich experience, and when he looks at these twists and turns, he understands that this is a collusion between the local government and the local gentry to resist the policy of the central government.

Obviously, the gentry were unwilling to lose their land, and many officials were also unwilling to lose the land in their hometowns.

Now, this situation in Hebei has lasted for more than half a month, and it is now the end of July, even Shen Yourong has gone to Annan and transported back a large amount of grain.

Hearing Xu Guangqi ask this question, the other seven pavilion elders were silent together, and they all felt the trickiness inside. After all, they are flesh and blood, at most, they will formulate a policy, and the real implementation is still up to the people below, and now the local governments below ignore the orders of the cabinet, and delay them for various reasons, how can they do it.

"This is a matter of governance, and we have to refresh the governance of officials." In the end, Bi Ziyan opened his mouth, and he got to the point as soon as he came up.

"The officials below are not very obedient, they have to be replaced, and those who do not do well will all be sent to the grassland." Zhu Xieyuan echoed, after all, he had experienced the Southwest Tusi Rebellion, seen the battlefield, and between the words, he was murderous.

"But they did it after all, but they couldn't do it because of local resistance." Huang Kezhang pointed to a stack of folds next to him and said.

"This is yang and yin!" Zhu Xieyuan said disdainfully, but he seemed to remember something, and frowned, "What about the Metropolitan Procuratorate, weren't they all very active some time ago, how many people who exceeded their authority, and now there is no movement." ”

"The Metropolitan Procuratorate also has to be famous, and you can't arrest the magistrate just because of obstacles to your work." It was still Huang Kezhang, who once again refuted Zhu Xieyuan's words.

Hearing this, Xu Guangqi also frowned, glanced at Huang Kezhang deeply, and then said to Zhu Xieyuan, "The Metropolitan Procuratorate only cares about officials violating the emperor's will and cabinet policies, and now in this situation, they can't count on it." ”

Immediately afterwards, Xu Guangqi sighed, "The imperial historians are also human beings, and they also have families, so I'm afraid that they will also be asked to turn a blind eye." ”

"I really hope they have the courage to rebel directly."

The leisurely words made several cabinet scholars almost cry, they were in charge of different things, but how much would involve the land, and now the cabinet was helpless, they all felt it deeply.

"Your Majesty's prestige is too great, but these times are frightened and dare not move." Cui Jingrong smiled bitterly.

The Emperor of the Apocalypse is indeed gifted in military affairs, and it can be seen from his various achievements since he ascended the throne, initially defeating the strong with the weak, and the 30,000 Yulin army surrounded and annihilated the Eight Banners Jurchen, followed by 10,000 people entering Sichuan to quell the rebellion, which was like a bamboo, and the other 10,000 people entered the South Zhili, which was also a great achievement.

And the latest witness is the speed of the Ming Dynasty, the Mongolian Great Khan Lin Dan Khan, who is definitely the most qualified person to evaluate the military talent of the Weather Emperor. Now, he has attacked his country, destroyed the Korean Jongmyo Temple, collected his land, and set up a government to rule.

This kind of merit, placed in the Ariake generation, is really only comparable to the two ancestors of Tai and Cheng. In particular, the recent land equalization campaign has made rapid progress throughout North Korea, and compared to Hebei Province, North Korea's speed can be described as rapid, and it is estimated that in three months, all land will be evenly divided.

It is this sense of urgency that makes Xu Guangqi very powerless, the emperor is attacking cities and conquering cities abroad, and his achievements are extraordinary, while the eight people in their cabinet are helpless in the face of the local officials of Hebei Province, which is really too far behind.

Of course, Xu Guangqi still has some methods to deal with this kind of yang and yin violation, but it takes a long time and the results are very slow. At this time, the whole world has paid attention to the land reform in Hebei Province, and if we do not make some achievements quickly to create pressure, I am afraid that no one will take the risk to come out and rebel.

This kind of delay seriously exceeded the expectations of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and it was also a dereliction of duty on the part of the cabinet. If this continues, the cabinet is afraid that it will lose face in this land reform incident.

Moreover, the emperor can't stay outside all the time and won't come, and when the time comes, in the face of the emperor who has high hopes for him, how should he deal with it.

"Your Majesty is still in a hurry." Even in his heart, Xu Guangqi still complained a little, you said that if you cancel the agricultural tax, you will cancel the agricultural tax, anyway, the Ming government only collects four or five million taels a year, and the rest are greedy.

As long as your inner government can afford the military spending, the remaining holes just force the officials to open up their own commercial taxes and make this policy work. However, what kind of land do you divide equally, this kind of thing that everyone in the world opposes, oh no, the common people are not opposed, but the gentry and landlords are against it.

The former Song Wen Yuanbo is right, Your Majesty does not rule the world with the people, but with the scholars, and now you want to cut off the roots of the scholars, it is strange that they can cooperate.

"In my opinion, this key point is still in the word "people." Suddenly, the entire cabinet was silent, and Li Changgeng, who had been very mediocre for a long time, spoke, listening to the meaning of his words, and seemed to have some opinions about the current situation, which couldn't help but make Xu Guangqi's eyes light up, and he stared at him with burning eyes.

Li Changgeng didn't have anything to be embarrassed about, he just smiled at the fourteen eyes that looked over, and said confidently, "Today, under the majesty of His Majesty, no one dares to oppose it, and no one dares to face it openly. ”

"Although this method is damaged, it is also effective, making it difficult for us to do our work, but in fact, it is still very easy to break." Li Changgeng paused, looked around, and said loudly, "The first thing in the decree is to win people, and now that the people are not attached, how can the cabinet decree be upheld." ”

"Oh, what do you think?" Xu Guangqi has a great talent for praise, and he spoke at the right time, making Li Changgeng speak very comfortably.

He laughed cooperatively and continued, "It is more difficult to have people in the world attached to them, but it is not difficult in Hebei. The key is to use the right person, Li Banghua is recommended by the governor of Sun Dadu, and he is naturally of the same mind as the cabinet, but the officials below are not necessarily. Ladies and gentlemen, we can learn from the Governor of Sun and replace him with someone who is suitable and close to him, so that the decree will naturally be unimpeded. ”

Li Changgeng's words made Xu Guangqi's eyes light up, the other party said so many things, in fact, they were all more euphemistic words, if you say it directly, it will be very simple.

With their own cronies.

And what are the closest trusts of Ming officials? Fellow townspeople, classmates, and fellow subjects. This is also the source of official connections in the past, Li Changgeng's meaning is to let Xu Guangqi get all these people who have a good relationship with him and depend on him to come to Hebei to serve as local officials.

This method is good, but it can only be applied to a small scale, even in Hebei Province, it is estimated that it can use up the connections of several scholars close to Xu Guangqi in the cabinet.

As for the other scholars, Xu Guangqi was cold when he thought about it, there were people who secretly colluded with the local government, and their mutual exchanges were extremely serious. If it weren't for their leaks, where would the cabinet be so passive, almost dragged down by the localities.

"But what about the other provinces, how to govern them?" Xu Guangqi continued to ask.

"It's still in people, but it's not in people's hearts, but in people." Li Changgeng immediately replied, obviously, he already had all kinds of abdominal drafts in his chest, otherwise it would be impossible to answer so quickly and so clearly.

"Personnel?" Xu Guangqi chewed on this sentence slowly, and several other scholars also thought thoughtfully.

"That's right, it's personnel, although the power and responsibility of the Metropolitan Procuratorate are great, but there are many constraints, and those who do not explicitly violate the cabinet decree and the laws of the Ming Dynasty cannot be arrested. However, there is a different department, and if it is used well, it can also have great binding force on officials. Saying this, Li Changgeng stopped and looked at it with a smile.

"Officials!"

Several voices replied in unison.

After Xu Guangqi finished speaking, his eyes swept over with a smile, wanting to see who was so smart. Turning his head, he unexpectedly found that the few people who blurted out were all new bachelors this year.

Zhu Xieyuan, Bi Ziyan, and Cai Fuyi all looked at each other in surprise, and the answer was the three of them, while the other scholars were still at a loss.

"It seems that Your Majesty's choice of the bachelor this time is really attentive!" Xu Guangqi sighed in his heart, and at the same time glanced at Cui Jingrong and Huang Kezhang with an inexplicable meaning.