Chapter 90: A slap and a sweet date

Liu Dingzhi is actually reluctant to come forward.

But people can't help themselves in the rivers and lakes.

In the cabinet, Liu Dingzhi, Liu Qiu, and Luo Tong are all from Jiangxi.

But Liu Dingzhi and Liu Qiu are different. Liu Qiu is an old minister, and he has always been known for being upright and honest, and he will not have any personal feelings.

Liu Dingzhi is different.

Liu Dingzhi has been parting ways with Li Xian in the position of cabinet chief assistant.

He needs the support of the people of Jiangxi.

The Manchu Dynasty is half of Jiangxi, and the plan is not a lie, among the seven people in the cabinet, there are two Hebei people and three Jiangxi people. There is a Yang Hong among the people of Hebei.

However, Yang Hong should actually be counted separately, after all, the nobles are generally in Beijing, even if their original home is not in Beijing, after being knighted, the emperor will also give him a homestead in Beijing.

Therefore, in terms of regional disputes, Jiangxi has an overwhelming advantage.

Luo Tong is actually not easy to talk about this matter.

Luo Tong division of labor is more in the military aspect.

Liu Dingzhi is in charge of finance, and his words are appropriate. And what Liu Dingzhi said can also stand scrutiny. There is not a single lie.

Jiangnan is the largest part of the Ming economy. It can't be overestimated.

The imperial court cannot be said to be financially sufficient now, but it is still relatively tight in general. Especially in the Battle of Annam, after the Battle of Champa and the Battle of Quang Ninh, there was no battle of more than 100,000 people on both sides.

But the small wars are constant.

The Ming army counterattacked from the direction of Zhancheng to the north, that is, the division of Zhancheng into the north and south of Zhancheng, one side took refuge in the Ming Emperor, and the other side took refuge in the Dayue Emperor.

The two sides fought fiercely.

The people of Annam did not dare to easily move south, because in order to contain the main force of Annam, from Yunnan to Guangxi, there were Ming troops everywhere on the border.

Most of them were thousands of people, detouring the trail or simply going over the mountains and mountains to harass Annam.

Annan used his own way to govern others. Because of the terrain restrictions, the war could not be fought, and the Ming army was unwilling to attack the fortified city of Annan, and Annam was unwilling to attack the checkpoints of the Ming army.

At this moment, it was as if two beasts of prey were scratching each other across the iron railing.

The direction of the city is also because it is not convenient for the Ming Dynasty to send troops to support, on the one hand, it is a problem of shipping, because the Ming army has the support of the Old Port Xuanwei Division and Nanyangwei. Although the number of ships increased greatly, the Annam naval division also began to haunt the seas.

That's right, Annan Water Division is not as good as Daming Water Division.

But Wang Ying has been pressed by Guo Deng in Guangdong at the moment. Train the non-commissioned officers to replenish the ship's artillery and wait for orders.

The real battle with the Annam Naval Division was the Guangdong Naval Division and the Nanyang Old Port Naval Division, and the gap between the two sides was not big and incompatible.

Not to mention, it is true that at sea, a cannon beats a small cannon, and a big ship beats a small ship, provided that you can catch your opponent.

The Annam Navy was infested in the South China Sea, and the route from Guangdong to Champa was no longer safe.

On the other hand, Guo Deng can't distinguish between soldiers and horses.

The hundreds of thousands of troops in Guangxi and Yunnan confronted each other in Annan. The two sides crossed their bows and lay on their horses, although there was no big fight, but the soldiers and horses could not be easily withdrawn.

And Guo Deng has also been training. Train your troops in battle.

It seems that after the catastrophe last year, God gave a face this year, and it was generally a good year. But even so, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Huguang, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Fujian, and most of South China's taxes were transferred to the front line under the orders of Zhu Qizhen.

The three provinces of Yunnan, Sichuan, and Guizhou paid taxes to supply the Yunnan front.

Jiangxi, Huguang, Guangdong, and Fujian provinces supply the Guangxi front.

It seems that there is no big war between the two sides, but in fact a war of attrition has begun.

For such a war of attrition, many people in the DPRK and China have quite a lot of complaints. But Zhu Qizhen strongly supported it, without him, where would the real battle of destroying the country be so easy.

It was the battle of Qin and Zhao Changping, which was also fought for two or three years.

No matter how you look at Annan Junchen now, it is not too easy to deal with, but Zhu Qizhen is not afraid of the money and grain before it.

Annan fought on both sides, mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops, and the two sides confronted each other, and it was certainly Annan who could not support it first, and in terms of strategic initiative, it was always in the Ming Dynasty.

It's nothing more than spending a little more.

It's just that on such a financial basis, it is indeed not good news that something happened in Jiangnan.

Zhu Qizhen took a deep look at Liu Dingzhi.

There was no panic in my heart.

The relationship between the monarch and the minister is like this, although Liu Dingzhi was single-handedly promoted by Zhu Qizhen. But when he really reached the point of being a supreme minister, he slowly became an enemy with the emperor.

It's a matter of time.

Zhu Qizhen said: "The matter of Jiangnan re-endowment is the ancestral system, and I dare not violate the ancestral system. The matter of clearing the acres of land is also a move to clean up the source, Lu Yongvain is an official of the imperial court, he does not know the righteousness, so he ordered Yousi to regain his fame, and let Kou Shen do the rest. ”

Li Xian said: "Your Majesty, you must remember the hearts of the people in Jiangnan. Lu Yong's actions have already won the popularity of the people in Jiangnan, and His Majesty is so thunderous, I am afraid that it will hurt His Majesty's virtue. ”

In this matter, Li Xian has an obvious sense of self-preservation.

Geographically, although Li Xian is close to Xiangyang, he is still from Henan. But the people of Henan are northerners.

This time, it was Li Xian who nodded and approved, Cao Nai sat in Nanjing, and Kou Shen implemented it on the front line.

In other words, it is impossible for Li Xian to slap himself in the face.

But Li Xian clearly found that Lu Yong's actions were not his own actions, but the collective will of many gentry in Jiangnan, and Lu Yong was just a bird.

Li Xian also has sympathy for him.

Because there is actually no difference between the so-called scholar doctor and Lu Yong. When he was in Qingzhang, Henan, Li Xian wrote a handwritten letter to his family, asking the family not to hide the fields.

But in fact, the officials of Qingzhang at that time also gave face to the first assistant family of the cabinet, but it was calculated according to the number reported by the Li family.

Whether the Li family still has a hidden field or not, this matter is really hard to say.

Therefore, he didn't want to give Lu Yong a stone.

He remained silent on this matter.

But as the first assistant of the cabinet, he had to balance the court situation, and Zhu Qizhen's decision almost killed Lu Yong.

It doesn't matter if you kill one Lu Yong.

The important thing is to make the imperial court lose the hearts of the people in Jiangnan. That's what matters, and Li Xian can't help but speak.

Zhu Qizhen asked: "In the opinion of Mr., how to deal with it?" ”

Li Xian pondered for a while and said, "Even according to Lu Yong's crime, it is just to regain his fame and make a redemption." ”

As mentioned above, Zhu Qizhen does not allow officials to redeem their sentences, but this redemption is more of a duty crime and corruption when he was in office, while Lu Yong's crime is more in the township, not even in the fish and meat township.

"Too light." Zhu Qizhen said: "If everything is accurate, I am afraid that the people of the world will despise the court." ”

Zhu Qizhen remembered some of the actions of Jiangnan in later generations, and now the gentry in Jiangnan are still passive confrontation, but in the late Ming Dynasty, they were a little too arrogant.

Zhu Qizhen was reluctant to start this.

He pondered for a while and said, "Then let's be exiled, exile Lu Yong to the Old Port Propaganda Division, and if he is pardoned, he will not be pardoned." ”

Lu Yong is already very old, and this time he is exiled, it is estimated that he will die in Nanyang.

Why did Zhu Qizhen let Lu Yong be exiled in the old port, firstly, to deter the gentry in Jiangnan and let them see what would happen, and on the other hand, he felt that Nanyang needed scholars.

Zhu Qizhen had a headache with Lu Yong's actions, but he also knew that this old man was not without talent.

However, in many places in Nanyang, there is a serious reversion, especially among the Chinese. When Shi Chang'an reported from the old port, Zhu Qizhen still didn't believe it.

In the end, he had to believe it, so he had tried his best to exile some scholars to Nanyang, perhaps unfortunate for themselves, but fortunate for Chinese civilization itself.

Li Xian said, "Your Majesty. ”

Zhu Qizhen waved his hand and said: "Let's discuss the matter of Jiangnan re-endowment, the four prefectures in Jiangnan pay more than 10 million stones in taxes every year, which is indeed a bit excessive, but this is the ancestral system, and I am not good at changing it, so let's do it, this time after Qingzhang has passed the land in Jiangnan." It's better to collect it according to this amount, and spread the tax amount evenly. ”

A slap, a sweet date.

Zhu Qizhen has been slapped, Lu Yong's disposal is just a benchmark, and Lu Yong is not the only one who wants to be disposed of. The sweet dates behind this slap are a tax cut.

Perhaps it has not decreased much, the total amount of land has increased, the total amount of taxes has remained the same, and the share of taxes on every acre of land has decreased.

It is nothing to the dignitaries, because they are all in the hidden field, but it is good for the ordinary people.