Good mountain garden.

Zhu Houzhao has not been ill for half a year, eats and sleeps well, is refreshed, and seems to be able to live for another 500 years.

"Why is it another catastrophe?" Zhu Houzhao was very unhappy, "10,000 rifled firearms have been built, the new army of the leopard house will be drilled every three days, and I am still preparing to fight Mongolia in the autumn." ”

Wang Yuan shook his head: "There must be no way to fight, in order to save food, all kinds of celebrations and banquets this year can't be held." In a little while, it will be the Emperor's birthday, and His Majesty is asked to cancel the celebration and feast. ”

Zhu Houzhao didn't bother to go back to the city, and said impatiently: "If you don't do it, you won't do it." ”

Wang Yuan also said: "In order to save expenses, the cabinet ministers discussed that a new temple will be built in Beijing within 20 years, regardless of Buddhism and green religion, all will be banned, and all temple properties will be confiscated. Monks who are willing to leave Beijing are free to do their own thing, and if they don't leave the capital, they will all be ordered to return to the laity and be distributed. Either exile the confiscated army, or throw it to Jizhou to build a railway. ”

"It's so serious, it's all the idea of a monk?" Zhu Houzhao was surprised.

Wang Yuan said: "The drought in eight provinces also includes major grain-producing provinces, and two of them even have locust plagues. Your Majesty, once it is not handled properly, the fear of rebellion will arise everywhere. When the time comes, let alone attacking Mongolia, we will have to be busy quelling the chaos for the next few years. ”

Zhu Houzhao hurriedly said: "There can't be civil unrest, I still have to fight with Mongolia." ”

Wang Yuan said: "Then the summer grain of the eight provinces will be exempted this year, and the imperial court will have to live frugally." The cabinet not only wanted to confiscate the temple property, but also planned to confiscate the private land that the magnates had seized in the suburbs of Beijing. The Leopard House monks, Guanglu Temple will no longer provide rations, they will leave when they are hungry. This matter is borne by the ministers alone, and it will not lose His Majesty's face. ”

Zhu Houzhao's interest was bursting for a while, and he was now obsessed with weapon research, so he didn't care about the life or death of those monks. He immediately smiled and said, "As long as you can ensure that there is no civil unrest, don't hinder me from fighting with Mongolia, you can do whatever you want." As for the monks in the leopard room, let's get rid of them all, I need your help to save face?" There's a fart in the face! When I recruit the monks into the leopard room, I am lifting them up and blasting them away together, who dares to complain? ”

Wang Yuan hit the snake with a stick, and said with a shy smile: "In this case, it is better to drive away the people in the Leopard House Commercial Street." Your Majesty doesn't live in the leopard room, who will those tricks show you? Do you want to show it to the prince? ”

"Yes, you can't show it to the prince, Yan'er will be a Ming monarch in the future, and all the idle people in the leopard room will be driven away by me!" Zhu Houzhao is as good as a stream.

This is to drive away tens of thousands of people at a time, and the main emperor promised to come down, and it is up to Wang Yuan to decide what to do.

Some of them were assigned to the frontier to fill the army, and the newly established Daning Capital Division has been short of population; Some of them were sent to Jizhou to build railways, or thrown to Zunhua for mining; A small part was transported to Yinzhou for colonization, so that they could be cultivated by men and weavers.

Wang Yuan left Haoshanyuan and told the cabinet the news, and Yang Tinghe issued an order in the name of the cabinet.

Cleaning up the Leopard House and the temples in Beijing is something that civil officials have long wanted to do. The cabinet ordered one place, and the civil officials of the Manchu Dynasty applauded, and the Yang Party also boasted about Yang Tinghe's political achievements.

Yang Tingping, who had gained great fame, of course had to repay the favor by urging officials to strictly implement Wang Yuan's tax reforms.

Tax reform is a major event, and the details must be perfected as much as possible, and Wang Yuan can't pat his head alone. The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty could make suggestions and suggestions, and more than 10 court meetings should be held to try to come up with a plan before the winter comes, and it will be officially promulgated and implemented on New Year's Day next year.

Next, Zhang Yong's younger brother and nephew were all arrested and taken to prison.

There is no need to investigate and interrogate them at all, their crimes are innumerable, and they have been impeached countless times.

Wang Yuan didn't think about investigating to the end, but the civil officials couldn't hold back and traced all the way to Zhang Yong's hometown. Even Zhang Yong's dead brother, as well as his brother's son-in-law's family, were exiled by the Ju clan to serve as soldiers. A total of four clans of the army were raided, and they did not sit together, but they all had things that hurt nature and reason. The four clans confiscated a total of millions of taels of silver, and also confiscated real estate, land, shops, grain, and treasures.

When Gu Dayong learned of this in his hometown, he immediately donated another 5,000 silver dollars to the School of Physics, wanting Wang Yuan to help him go, for fear that the Gu family would follow in Zhang Yong's footsteps.

Wang Yuan asked the School of Physics to accept the donation, and wrote a letter to Gu Dayong, saying that there was a great drought in the south and he urgently needed money and grain for disaster relief.

Although Gu Dayong had blood dripping in his heart, he also had to spend money. He sent his henchmen to transport 10,000 silver dollars to Beijing, all of which were donated to Taicang for disaster relief.

Yang Tinghe was very satisfied with this and personally wrote an article to praise it. This article is the life-saving talisman of the Gu family, and whoever tracks down the Gu family in the future will be in the face of Yang Tinghe.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Yuan organized a charity ball game, and all the tickets for the game were used for disaster relief, calling on players and fans to donate money together. All organizations and individuals who donate money will set up a monument at the entrance of the stadium to record their names, and they have received more than 8,000 taels of donations one after another.

In the blink of an eye, in October, the famine broke out in various parts of the south, and the victims left their homes in droves to beg, forming countless waves of large and small displaced people.

Physics and Mind disciples, but all those who are local officials, all received private messages from Wang Yuan.

As a result, the smuggling of salt cases continued to break out in the south, and the officials and governors of the three local divisions, who were eager to solve the problem of the victims, had the courage to attack the local tyrants. To put it bluntly, robbing the rich and helping the poor kills three birds with one stone. First, they can crack the case of illegal salt and gain political achievements, second, they can steal money and grain to help the people, and third, they can scare the rich families to donate money and grain.

After having money and food, they vigorously engaged in work-for-relief, organizing displaced people to build water conservancy, repair official roads, and build bridges.

Whoever does a good job will be promoted quickly, Wang Yuan's small book remembers it all.

In order to stimulate the enthusiasm of local officials, Wang Yuan even sent a group letter to local officials at and above the prefectural level in the name of the Ministry of Rites. Want to get promoted? Do it well, I'm staring at it, there are many people who patrol the imperial history.

A major drought that spread across eight southern provinces became a favorable weapon for Wang Yuan to implement the new salt law and crack down on illegal salt. It can also promote the construction of local infrastructure, take the opportunity to select pragmatic officials, and promote tax reform by the way, it seems that bad things have become good things.

However, there will definitely be deaths, and many people will starve to death.

In the three provinces of Nanzhili, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang, the price of rice has risen to three taels and one stone, and countless businessmen are still hoarding.

This phenomenon cannot be forced, and forcibly setting official grain prices will only force businessmen to stop shipping, resulting in more people not being able to buy grain. Can you raid one or two of them, and still put all the merchants in jail? That would only disrupt the market completely.

Moreover, all localities have been hit by disasters, and it is very difficult to transport grain from other provinces, so it is necessary to use the grain in the regular closing warehouse to stabilize the price of rice.

So, the fire dragon began to get busy, burning warehouses all over the south.

Wang Yuan sent documents to the provinces in advance, once the Chang Ping position was burned, the ambassador and deputy envoy of the warehouse did not need to be interrogated, the ambassador was decided, and the deputy envoy was exiled to the extreme east. If there is a person who commits suicide in a hurry, the family will be exiled, and the place will be designated as a key target! The burned Chang Liquidation Position, the superior competent officials, all remain in their posts and use it, and wait for the disaster to pass and slowly judge the guilt, and those who are able to help can atone for their crimes.

Wang Yuan's actions were purely overstepping his authority, but the Manchu Dynasty did not dare to say much. The first is that Wang Yuan's power has been revealed, and the second is that Wang Yuan is dedicated to the public and jumps out to impeach Wang Yuan, not only will he not get fame, but he will be hated by Wang Yuan.

In the southern provinces, as many as 43 officials were beheaded and 105 were exiled, and hundreds were demoted or dismissed from office.

The local officials were suppressed, and Wang Yuan finally confirmed the name of "official slaughter".

Weng Wanda, who was secretly descended to Huizhou by Mingsheng, also carried an iron sword to kill madness. The eight major clans in Huizhou, who were exiled to two clans before, Weng Wanda, a small general sentence, only three months after taking office, wiped out another clan.

He summoned the displaced people and specially organized a "seizure team" of 500 people, eating and sleeping with the arrest team members every day. constantly searched for evidence of the crimes of the Huizhou clan, arrested hundreds of corrupt and perverted the law, and finally forced one of them to violently resist the law.

Weng Wanda took the opportunity to take people to raid his house beyond his authority, and threw all the stolen silver and grain to the prefect for disaster relief.

The prefect of Huizhou was frightened, and he didn't dare to offend the local nobles, nor did he dare to offend Weng Wanda, so he could only bite the bullet for disaster relief, and he was so honest that he didn't even want to embezzle half of the disaster relief silver.

In early winter, Weng Wanda was inexplicably attacked by bandits. He raised his sword and shouted, and personally rushed forward, suffering multiple injuries all over his body, and the five hundred arresting team members fought desperately.

Throughout the winter, Weng Wanda was busy cleaning up bandits.

As a result of nearly half a year of selfless disaster relief, Weng Wanda's reputation as a clean official has spread all over Huizhou. In the process of clearing out the bandits, there were actually two groups of bandits who respected their morality and took the initiative to lead the crowd to surrender and help Weng Wanda to exterminate the other bandits together.

The impeachment of Weng Wanda floated to the capital like snowflakes, and he could be dismissed from office to the end on the charge of overstepping his authority and stealing his family.

However, the imperial court turned a blind eye and allowed Weng Wanda to mess around in Huizhou.

Huizhou's gentry Haoyou was completely subdued, and after the beginning of spring, Weng Wanda did whatever he wanted, and the local nobles tried their best to cooperate. While cooperating, they sent people to the ministry to deliver silver, just begging to quickly transfer this killing god to be promoted.