All the way from the front yard of the Governor's Mansion of the Fifth Army, the soldiers of the Guards Brigade who were guarding and patrolling along the way kept raising their swords and guns in their hands to salute him. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoAccording to the regulations and system of the Nanyue Army, Li Huabao also returned the salute to these brothers with solemn etiquette.

"Brothers hard work!"

"Great work, sir!"

No one called Li Huabao the second young marshal, this is also an unwritten rule in the Nanyue Army, the children of the Li family, who come out to do things, have a mission and a position, will be called a position. This is also a recognition to a certain extent that you are already a self-reliant figure, rather than a second ancestor who relies on the blessings of your father. Li Huabao, as Li Shouhan's son-in-law and a figure who opened up territory in Guangxi, was naturally accepted by the Nanyue Army early. Many middle- and lower-level officers and officials privately affectionately called him "second brother" instead of being called the second young marshal.

After passing through the guarded courtyard, Li Huabao walked into Li Shouhan's signing room with two clerks holding a thick stack of documents, but was blocked by four Miao and Sauron guards.

"Master Li, I'm sorry, rules." The four of them greeted the second son in a somewhat stiff tone. Li Huabao also cooperated very well and opened his arms and let the four of them check their bodies. The two clerks were no exception, and even the papers were checked one by one.

"Offended. Sir, please! ”

Li Huabao nodded with satisfaction, "You guys are very good, this is how the errand should be done." "As long as you enter Li Shouhan's perimeter, no matter what your identity is, you must be checked, this is Li Shouhan's security system. It was also exchanged for a tragic lesson, when Zheng Jia's envoy Zheng Zhu took the risk of assassinating Li Shouhan, and as a result, Li Xiuxiu died of incense.

The family is the father and son, and the subject is the monarch and the minister. Li Huabao has been working outside for the past few years, and he also knows the importance of his father to the entire Nanyue Army. It can be said that without the father, there would be no Nanyue Army. Therefore, no matter how strict the guards of the father are, that is also the common interest of the Nanyue Army!

"General, Master Li Huabao Li has arrived."

"Come in."

Hearing Li Shouhan's call, Li Huabao walked into Li Shouhan's signing room in full clothes.

Our Liang Guogong and General Li Shouhan raised their heads from a pile of official documents and glanced at their second son, "Sit." There are your favorite fruit snacks on the coffee table, all of which were sent by your mother just now. ”

Li Huabao ate two pieces of salt and plum and ordered the snack sent by the fast boat, but his heart remembered the days when he was in Hue. At that time, the father would fight that if he wanted to, and kill the lord of the country if he wanted to, he would kill the lord of the country, what a joyful reprimand for Fang Xuan? But now, if you want to do something, you have to fight with countless poor people for a long time.

"Huabao, miss your mother?" Li Shouhan put down the cinnabar pen in his hand, took the hot towel sent by the guard, wiped his face, and massaged his temples with two thumbs.

"Father, in fact, my brothers are homesick too. This Jiangnan is not Lingnan, let alone Nanzhong. Li Huabao very tactfully revealed the complaints of his subordinates to Li Shouhan.

"But this is where our ancestors are in the bloodline. Without this, we would be wandering duckweeds, lonely ghosts. Li Shouhan resolutely denied the complaints of his subordinates.

In order to make his son understand that his idea was wrong, Li Shouhan found a document on the table, flipped through a few pages of paper, and handed it to Li Huabao. "See for yourself, if it weren't for the Central Plains, would we have today?"

The sheets of paper were full of items and numbers. Just before entering the city of Nanjing, Li Shouhan ordered another survey and statistics to be carried out in the jurisdiction of the Nanyue Army.

In the three provinces of Nanzhong, Shizhou, Fusang's hometown of Yin Shang, Fujian, Guangdong, and Guizhou in the interior, Gannan, Biyuan, Shandong, Denglai and other places were carried out at the same time, and even the distant Heilongjiang also made the Sauron troops count how many war horses, how many armor, knives and guns, and how many hunter soldiers who could go into battle to kill the enemy.

In a hurry, Li Huabao only saw these numbers.

"Every month, about 300,000 people enter the southern and central parts of the country by sea and land."

"The sea ships going north transport millions of stone grains and rice, tens of thousands of oil and salt, and hundreds of thousands of cotton cloths to various ports in the south and north of the Yangtze River every month, and carry raw silk, cotton, and people when they go south."

"Every month, there are sixty or seventy ships carrying special certificates to transport armor, knives, guns, gunpowder, firearms, and other goods, and most of the precious materials brought back are almost equal in weight to those exported, and tung oil, cotton, and other goods are not counted."

"As of April this year, the rice planting area in Nanzhong is 15,000 mu, with 77 iron-making blast furnaces and 31 steel-making furnaces. Monthly iron production is 。。。。。。 ”

Li Huabao saw a golden star swaying in front of him, and as he was in charge of the administrative affairs of the world, he deeply understood the meaning behind these seemingly boring figures.

This is the confidence and capital of Nanyuejun's words! Moreover, these are only the base of industrial and agricultural production and the basic trade situation with the hinterland, and the figures of trade with Europa, Ottoman, Tianzhu, and other places, and the fiscal and tax revenues of Lingjiawei Island, Manraka, Punggara, Burma, and other places have not been taken into account.

"Father, if we have such a capital, why should we bother talking to those bastards over there?" Li Huabao pointed in the direction of the Yamen of the Six Ministries, which meant that the gentlemen and civil officials of Donglin who were in Nanjing City at this time. "As long as you have a little interest, my son will go immediately!" Li Huabao is also a ruthless person in Guangxi who doesn't know how many Tusi Zhai he has leveled, and killing people couldn't be simpler in his opinion.

"Confused!" Li Shouhan glanced at his second son very fondly, but then made such a comment. "Do you remember the story of the Mongol Temujin that I asked the gentlemen to tell you when you were a child?"

"Remember! Therefore, my eldest brother, third brother, and fourth brother are also like this, we want to lay down a large territory and plant this land under the sun under the banner of our Li family! It's far more than this! ”

"However, those Mongols rushed out of the Gen River and the Trouble River all the way, and swept all over the world with only swords, guns, bows and horses, but for decades, not to mention the Mongolian tribes, even the people of the Son Jin family were also falling apart. Those who believe in Allah are cut to death and worship the Bodhisattva, and those who read Confucian scriptures burn to death those who believe in the cross. Now you see, who else is in the family back then? The Mughals across the sea from us are distant relatives of their family, as well as the Mongols who confronted your third brother in Uszang. This is the end of losing your roots! ”

Li Shouhan didn't want to tell his son that Chinese people all over the world could maintain their cultural traditions everywhere they went, and only in Siam were assimilated by the locals. He didn't want his decades of hard work to become a battlefield for crescent moons, stars, crosses, and Buddhas after more than a hundred years. There can be all the gods here, however, it must be under the rule of a secular regime!

The father and son talked for a while in the signing room, and before they knew it, Li Huabao had quietly changed his opinion, and the Central Plains and Jiangnan were ten times more difficult, and they had to take it down!

However, before taking the Central Plains and Jiangnan, it is necessary to clean up the group of flies that are in the way one by one.

"Father, these are official documents forwarded from Lord Ma, the first assistant of the cabinet, please give me an idea." Li Huabao moved the official documents signed by Ma Shiying from the table outside the signing room and reported them to Li Shouhan one by one.

Most of these official documents came from the yamen of the right deputy Du Yu Shi Ruan Dacheng, who was in charge of Shun Case, and Yu Shi Cha Jizuo, who was responsible for collecting and cleaning up the arrears of money and grain in various parts of Jiangnan.

In Li Shouhan's view, it is almost a copy of the Hu Weiyong case at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and compared with several major cases in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, it is about the same scale as the Shun case plus the "Tonghai case".

The so-called opening of the sea refers to the connection and collusion between the government of the early Qing Dynasty and Zheng Zhilong and other ministries who persisted in the struggle against the Qing Dynasty at sea.

In the sixteenth year of Shunzhi (1659), Zheng Chenggong entered the Yangtze River from Chongming, and met with Zhang Huangyan, the squire of the Southern Ming Army, from June 8 to Dantu, and 13 to Jiaoshan, and went straight to Guazhou, which shook the southeast for a time.

The remnants of the Ming Room secretly responded and prepared to restore the Ming Room. Jintan County ordered Ren Tikun to lie that the people of Jintan rebelled and surrendered, and Liyang Fuchen believed it. On 24 July, Zheng Chenggong defeated Zhenjiang and Guazhou and sailed to Taiwan.

Later, the Qing court dealt with it as "through the sea" and ordered an investigation, which was very widespread. Ren Tikun, Wang Chong, and Yuan Dashou took advantage of this opportunity to frame Cai Mo, Yu Hou, Zhou Sheng, and other ten Confucian scholars and other enemies, and a total of 38 people were blacklisted, and Jintan falsely accused the rich gentry Yu Yuankai. Ji Liuqi's "Ming Ji Nanluo" contains: "Jintan was slaughtered and destroyed because of the Haikou case, and more than 1,000 people were exiled. ”

Now that Li Shouhan and Ma Shiying vigorously support Ruan Dacheng, who has a bitter hatred with Donglin, to handle this case, how can Ruan Dacheng let go of those traitors and thieves who surrender to obedience and rebellion, and those who are related to these traitors and thieves?

The first to operate was Zhou Zhong. Articles such as "Persuasion Table" and "Jiangnan Policy" are ironclad evidence, which caused a great uproar in the government and the opposition, and all of them denounced Zhou Zhongzhi's great rebellion. No one is willing to intercede for Zhou Zhong, and no one dares to intercede for Zhou Zhong.

"The one who is Ji Ji Zhou Zhong has not been persuaded to advance, and he has persuaded the thief to settle Jiangnan early; Hearing that he tasted the horse in front of the first emperor's palace, the ministers were outrageous. His uncle Ying Qiu and Wei Zhongxian Eagle Dog, now Zhong Fu is a thief and loyal minister; The owl is extracted in one door, and the anti-party bell is in two generations: Yijia Chi clan punishment. His brother Quan, who is still in the toilet class; From the brother, it is like the office of Yin Qing: it is appropriate to sit and use the party to rebel. ”

Zhou Bi, Lei Yanzuo and others who were related to Zhou Zhong were also arrested and imprisoned. "This is against the party and must not be tolerated."

According to Zhou Zhong's case, he can naturally enjoy the treatment of being tied up, escorted to the cross street, and being stabbed if he is better, and being executed by Ling Chi if he is unlucky. However, it is not easy for Zhou Bi and those related to the Zhou family to deal with it like this.

In the government and the opposition, the gentlemen and ministers of Donglin, who have some incense feelings with Zhou Bi, have been working openly and secretly, trying to save Zhou Bi's life.

"When Zhou Zhong was escorted to the execution ground to be beheaded, he kept shouting, saying, 'Kill me, the world will be peaceful!?' is still stubborn and refuses to admit his sins. There are also many people in Jiangnan who intercede for Zhou Bi. Ma Shiying wrote dense letters on the submission slip of the official document, and said the annoyance in his heart one by one.

"Humph! The Ming court has today, that is, the people who should be killed are not killed, but the court is listed, and the people who should not die die all over the mountains. That's why we have today's difficulties! Li Shouhan threw aside the petition to kill Zhou Zhong, Lei Yanzuo and others.

Based on Zhou Zhong's crimes and Zhou Bi's performance, according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, their Zhou family and the nine clans all meet the standards. However, the characteristic of Donglin is that it is only divided into political parties, regardless of whether it is right or wrong. Whatever is in my Donglin lineage, what is right is right, and what is wrong is also right. If you say it's wrong, it must be a matter of the system and the law!

In history, Zhou Bi was given to commit suicide. Before he died, he and Lei Yanzuo wrote books to each other, wrote "the relics of the first emperor" on their stomachs, and then hanged themselves and died. In the will, he still had a shy face and ordered not to be buried, "If Wu Yuxu decides things, put the coffin on the side of the Yuhua platform." "Compare yourself to Wu Zixu, and watch the soldiers and horses of Jiangbei enter Nanjing City. Isn't this a blatant curse?

Moreover, the famous thinker Huang Zongxi, while shaving his head and pretending to be a remnant of the Ming Dynasty, asked his disciples to organize the compilation of official cultivation of the Ming Dynasty, and then put cold arrows there, crying out for the death of Zhou Biao and others. In his poem "Feeling the Old", he said: "The southern capital is in a hurry to prevent chaos, and Yu also invites himself to chapter trouble. It's no wonder that Jiangnan Yingdi Ye killed Zhou Biao only for the Ruan family!" blatantly linked the killing of Zhou Biao with the demise of this half of the Ming Dynasty.

The reason why Ma Shiying sent this submission to Li Shouhan to kill Zhou Bi and Lei Yanzuo was to ask him to support himself.

"If you want to fight the tiger, you must beat the tiger to death, so that you don't get hurt by the tiger." Li Shouhan sneered, took a piece of letterhead, and wrote a few lines of cinnabar on it.

"Send someone to the Ma Shou Auxiliary Office immediately!"

Li Huabao took the letterhead and glanced at it, and there was a sentence on it: "If you don't kill him today, why don't you wait until the next day for him to draft an edict for the regent of the Qing Kingdom, Dorgon?" Now that you have torn your face, you have to follow the example of Chengzu, ********! ”

There is no one involved in it, but in the eyes of Jiangnan Shizi, it is not very qualified to write letters in front of the land temple, and the pen is thundery, and I don't know how many people's lives are in it.

"By the way, you can say hello to Lord Ruan Dacheng Ruan, if you don't have enough manpower, you can allocate a few more battalions of soldiers and horses to him. In the name of the Nanjing garrison yamen, you requisitioned suitable temples and Taoist temples in the city to imprison these rebels. ”

Between the words, Li Huabao seemed to see the father who made a decision to kill and decide life and death with one word.

"Okay, when my son goes back, I'll order someone to go to the house!"

The other few official letters were written by the inspector of the imperial history and the magistrate of Wu County. Inside poured bitter water on Li Shouhan. "Only the four prefectures of Suzhou, Songjiang, Changzhou, and Zhenjiang are in arrears of paying taxes, and there are 13,517 Jinshi, Juren, and Gongjian students, and the officials who have returned to their hometowns are not among them."

In the short time that he went down to serve as the inspector of the imperial history, he figured out from the hands of the household clerks in various places who were in arrears of money and food, and how many people were in arrears. This work attitude, means, and achievements made Li Shouhan very satisfied.

Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, all gentry and officials with meritorious achievements and above can enjoy different degrees of preferential tax exemption. Of course, whether it is an official or a gentry, their preferential exemption is limited, "Da Ming Law Compilation Note" cloud: "The endowment produces taxes and grain, and the servant is on errands." There is a service to say that there is a field of grain as an errand, and no service is to say that there is no field of grain to stop when it is a miscellaneous service". Therefore, in addition to the preferential and exempt share, other income and everything must be the same as the common people, and those who should pay taxes should pay taxes, and those who should be errands should be errands.

However, as time went on and the central government's control over the local areas weakened, the gentry ignored state decrees and mostly crossed the boundaries of legal rights in favor of customary rights. Therefore, in fact, the implementation is full preferential exemption, "Tian Lianqian Mo does not take the slightest servitude." This was not only the case for the gentry's own families, but also for their "tenants and servants, alienated from distant relatives, and their spreading seeds", and "none of them should serve the public service with one hand or one foot, and not a single penny or grain should be used for the labor of the service". In this way, the official household has become a source of evasion from state taxes and servitude, you must know that the wisdom of the people is always endless, since the gentry have the right of preferential exemption and I do not, then I will hang my land and property in the name of the official gentry, so that I am not the family of the official gentry, can I also enjoy the right of preferential exemption? As a result, there is a new term - dedication.

In the Hongzhi period of the Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty, the laws of the Ming Empire completely collapsed, and many kinds of tax evasion methods such as dedication, trickery, flowers, and sending villages came into being. It is important to know that it is very difficult to reduce the taxes of a country, and since the gentry and those who contribute to them do not have to pay taxes and errands, then these differences will naturally be shared among other common people who do not pay tributes and have the right of preferential exemption.

Jiangnan is a very strange existence, this is the richest place in the world, but since the first year of Chongzhen, there has hardly been a copper plate tax paid to the imperial court. Even before the Chongzhen period, Jiangnan often resisted taxes and delayed taxes. The famous "Tombstone of Five" in the textbook is a text that advocates praise for violent tax resistance. In the Chongzhen period, it became even more intensified, on the one hand, he asked for exemption from Jiangnan's money and grain, and on the other hand, he transferred the money and grain taxes payable by Jiangnan to Shaanxi and other places where there were already disasters and famines, which led to Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong.

"Hmph, I thought there were too many people to dare to wait?" Li Shouhan kept smiling on his face.

"Huabao, pass the order, all units of my Nanyue Army and all towns and battalions in Jiangnan are on alert! Always ready to send troops to quell the chaos! ”

"Give the following message to Mr. Zha Jiza, and tell him that if these people will pay off all the arrears of grain before the autumn grain collection is completed, the matter will be settled. If the seal is not paid off before the seal, then the merit will be removed. ”

"The people are not bitter and miscellaneous, and if the law is not established, the officials are not afraid, and the officials are not afraid of **** uneasiness. Lu Yan Shu's loss, the court knows about it, and it can be difficult to become thrifty. The matter of royalty taxation, the small people know about it, and they can stop the invasion of fishing. Adjudicator, a quasi-Wanli law, the late end of the strict and ingenious, as far as possible to eliminate it, for a generation of programs. This means that everything is according to the standards of the Wanli period. In the "Cases" promulgated in the first year of Wanli, it is clearly stipulated: "Each patrol according to the Tuntian Yu Shi Fan patrol to the place, that is, to check the local princes of the palace Qin gave the grain land to the original acres, and the gold book is transferred to grind the right, and the fruit is different, that is, it is an encroachment and dedication, and the land is quickly changed to naturalization, and the grain is paid as an errand." ”

This is where Li Shouhan's suggestion to Emperor Hongguang lies. Everything is according to the rules of the Wanli years!

"Write down the documents for the removal of meritorious names and seal them, and the date of payment is the day when the collection of autumn grain stops. Then set up a brazier at the gate of the county government, and after paying off the money and grain owed, throw the document of removing the meritorious name into the brazier and burn it, and if it is not paid by the time of the seal, send out the paperwork! I think they dare to do without fame! ”

"You mobilized a good man to prepare to quell the chaos, and then wrote to Zha Jizuo, there is a person who dares to make trouble, doesn't he have the nickname of the mad dog Yushi Cha Baidi? He knows what to do! ”

A thick murderous intent appeared on Li Shouhan's face. (To be continued.) )