Recovering the tax rights that Fang Guoan and Wang Zhiren had originally stolen has become the top priority of the new imperial court.

If you have money, you have a hard waist, which is the same regardless of the dynasty and generation.

"Don't worry, the Duke of Xingguo agreed, as long as the imperial court provides 100,000 stone grain and 100,000 taels of military salaries for the navy every year, in addition to Dinghai, the taxes of the other four counties will be returned to the imperial court."

Everyone breathed a long sigh of relief when they heard this, Wang Zhiren's compromise gave the small feudal lords of Shaoxing Mansion a good start, and it was much easier to go further.

Zhang Guowei nodded with satisfaction: "Wu Zheng, you have contributed a lot to this matter, according to the etiquette, you should be promoted to a knight, but ...... Do you know His Highness...... Well, but don't worry, we will remember it for you in the court. ”

Wu Zheng shook his head with a smile and said: "Let's stop this matter, in fact, even if the Duke of Jin is crowned king, he is just a subject in Shaoxing Mansion, a large area of land in the Central Plains, who knows about me Wu Zheng?" But there is one point, the army of Fang Guo's security department was taken away by you, and now Xingguo Gong has taken away half of it, and now there are only six or seven thousand people in my hands, plus the armies of Hangzhou and Jiaxing, I have nearly 70,000 people under my command. ”

Zhang Guowei and the others immediately drooped down, "Wu Zheng, you know how many families the imperial court has, and the salary of 70,000 people is really unaffordable." ”

Qian Sule said coldly: "Lin Anbo, don't think that we are all deaf, I'm afraid it's not a secret how much money you have looted in Hangzhou Mansion." Besides, in this Fang Guoan rebellion, you were the first to surrender to the army under his command, and Fang Guoan's surplus money this year must be at least more than 100,000 taels, right? And when Fang Guoan withdrew from Hangzhou Mansion, twenty boatloads of money fell into your pocket, right? To sum up, what you get from Fang Guoan is probably in the millions. Besides, you are still holding the finances and taxes of Hangzhou and Jiaxing, are you embarrassed to ask the court for money? ”

Wu Zheng's face fell, "Lord Qian, you have to say it separately, the money obtained by Fang Guo'an is called enemy funds and seizure, what does it have to do with the imperial court?" Speaking of Hangzhou Mansion, does Wu Zheng have an article about ordinary people? Both the silver obtained was the income of the unjust rich merchant who had taken refuge in the Tartars before and took money to atone for his sins, so what did it have to do with the imperial court? ”

Speaking of this, Wu Zheng said to Zhang Guowei: "Lord Zhang comes to evaluate the reasoning, Wu Zheng can have one of the two silver taels into his own pocket, since I was in charge of the thousands of households in Lianghu, the imperial court has allocated silver and military rations, and the defense of Hangzhou City, the imperial court can allocate one or two?" Not to mention anything else, during the war alone, the heavy reward for those who dared to die cost a huge amount of 100,000 taels, and the post-war pension and reward were as high as 700,000 or 800,000 taels. As long as the imperial court bears the cost of 70,000 troops, Wu Zheng can return the tax rights of Hangzhou and Jiaxing to the imperial court. ”

Zhang Guowei nodded, he understood that what Wu Zheng said was true, Wu Zheng did get a lot of silver from "looting", but if it really came to the bereavement and reward of the 70,000 army, it would not be much less.

It is not possible to rely on righteousness to absorb and surrender the army, it will have to be smashed with real money.

Otherwise, who will do your life for you?

Don't say anything about loyalty and righteousness, there are such people, but the most in the world are ordinary people, seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, and seeing the wind and steering the rudder.

Whoever is strong will vote for whomever he is, and whoever is weak will abandon him, whoever is good to them will be loyal to whomever he is, and whoever withholds their salary will regard him as an enemy.

Being a soldier eats food and takes a salary to sell his life, which is a natural thing since ancient times.

And to incorporate and surrender the army, it is even more necessary to spend money.

But when it comes to the taxation of Hangzhou and Jiaxing, it has to be said that these two governments are newly attached, and most of the county officials and below in each county at this time are still officials appointed by the Qing court, and some of them are even officials who were demoted to the Qing Dynasty and then returned to the Qing Dynasty.

In less than a month, can you get it?

If there is no time to rectify and replace, can the government decree be issued?

Can it be executed after going down?

How do taxes come up?

Why, since ancient times, tax exemption has been taken for one to three years for the newly annexed land, because you just can't avoid it, and you can't get it.

It's better to be generous, don't forget!

Therefore, Qian Sule's accusation sounds like this, but in fact, it is unreasonable.

"Wu Zheng, Lord Qian also said casually, don't take it to heart." I have to say that Zhang Guowei's temperament is really good, he has gone through three dynasties, the edges and corners have been polished, and he is a good man.

Sure enough, Zhang Guowei's words caused Qian Sule to be dissatisfied, "Zhang Yudi, do you mean that Qian is talking nonsense?" ”

Zhang Guowei was stunned and couldn't get off the stage.

Wu Zheng was a little annoyed, turned around and said to Qian Sule: "Otherwise, Lord Qian will come to lead the two governments, Wu Zheng will only manage the army, and the taxes of the two governments will be handed over to Lord Qian, Wu Zheng will only ask Lord Qian for silver, how about it?" ”

Qian Sule was suddenly dumbfounded.

Zhang Huangyan hurriedly got up and said, "Can you two stop bickering?" Her Royal Highness the princess has just been in charge of the country, and everything is waiting to be done, so why quarrel about these things when we are working together? ”

Sun Jiaji, the left attendant who had already led Shaoxing Mansion with Xiong Rulin, got up with a smile and said: "The two of you are already the righteousness of Weng's son-in-law, so you can't sit down and discuss it." Speaking of which, Sun is still a well-deserved old man, the two, give Sun a thin face, and sit down to talk. ”

Qian Sule snorted coldly at Wu Zheng, and sat down in a negative mood.

Wu Zheng felt awkward in his heart, but this was not the time to deny it, so he also sat down according to his words.

Zhang Guowei said: "Wu Zheng, otherwise, how much you can collect in the two mansions, it's the best, not enough, the imperial court will also subsidize you with the number of Xingguo Gong, and when the taxes of the two governments are stable in the future, you will make a calculation, what do you think?" ”

Wu Zheng thought for a while and said, "Okay, just according to what Master Zhang said." ”

As a result, the atmosphere slowly became harmonious, and everyone discussed the personnel arrangements and trivial affairs of the new imperial court.

When leaving Zhang Guowei's mansion, Zhang Huangyan chased after him.

"Wu Zheng, I'm afraid I won't be able to go to Hangzhou Mansion, I hope you don't blame Huangyan." Zhang Huangyan said bluntly with some embarrassment.

Wu Zheng has some regrets, but he can understand it.

Zhang Huangyan's ideal is to resist the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, and govern the country and level the world.

No matter how big the army is in his hands, he is only a courtier after all, and at most he is a small prince.

For a person like Zhang Huangyan who aspires to the world, the temple is small!

Wu Zheng squeezed out a smile and said: "Brother Xuan, where is this, in this life, you and I can be ministers in the same hall and like-minded, we are lucky." Moreover, between the two mansions, it is only a day's journey, and you can see it at any time. ”

After Zhu Yujiao took charge of the country, he had promoted Zhang Huangyan to the imperial history of Zuo Yudu and concurrently served as the commander of Shaoxing Mansion.

From the seven-grade compilation and imperial history to the four-grade official, this speed may not be found in peacetime, that is, in troubled times.