"Li Qiyuan!"

This name Zhu Youxiao is naturally not unfamiliar, in fact, Zhu Youxiao has always thought that Li Qiyuan, as the predecessor of the household department, is unqualified.

No...... Zhu Youxiao thinks that he can be described as a corpse, vegetarian meal, or even dereliction of duty, and Li Qiyuan has to bear at least half of the responsibility for the reason why the situation in the household department is so bad now.

The year before last, when Yang Feng thoroughly investigated the eight major salt merchants in Yangzhou, he got 20 million taels of silver, and Li Qiyuan and Gao Panlong scolded the most, but when Yang Feng got these silver to the capital, he jumped out and advocated that the silver should be assigned to the household department, and finally Zhu Youxiao was forced to balance the five million taels of silver to the household department.

It's just that Li Qiyuan spent the five million taels of silver in just half a year after getting the five hundred taels of silver, and there were only more than 200,000 taels of silver left in the treasury, but the other party still said that the money spent was necessary, so angry that Zhu Youxiao found a reason to dismiss him.

It stands to reason that Beijing officials generally choose to return to their hometowns after the dismissal, after all, the capital is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, and the cost of living is not low, and the officialdom is known as a tea and cool saying, Beijing officials have also lost their income after the dismissal, and it is more difficult to live in the capital.

What people didn't expect was that Li Qiyuan did not leave the capital after the dismissal, but stayed in the capital to drill camps around trying to recover, these Zhu Youxiao knew, but what he didn't expect was that Li Qiyuan used such disgusting means in order to regain his position.

The disgusting part of this method is that although the Ming Dynasty did not explicitly stipulate that officials were not allowed to marry women of different races, generally speaking, officials would abide by this tacit agreement. This is not surprising, even in the modern society, which claims to be democratic a few hundred years later, no Chinese government official dares to marry a foreign woman as a wife, and those who dare to do so are joking with their own political lives.

As Zhu Youxiao's staunchest supporter, Yang Feng's every move is watched by countless people. The reason why no one broke this matter out before was because everyone knew that if anyone dared to do this, they would have a mortal enmity with Yang Feng, and it would not be too lethal to Yang Feng to break out this kind of thing, so everyone pretended not to know, but now Li Qiyuan suddenly broke this matter out without warning, what is this for?

"That's not right...... Although Li Qiyuan is incompetent, he is by no means a fool, and he will not do it for no reason. Zhu Youxiao muttered in a low voice, and then asked Wei Zhongxian: "Is the impeachment of Jiang Ninghou all because of his forcible robbery of the Emperor Taiji Great Fortune Jin?" Is there any impeachment of anything else? ”

Wei Zhongxian thought for a while and then shook his head, and then nodded: "Back to Your Majesty, you didn't ask the slave maid to really forget, there is such an excerpt, it impeached the Marquis of Jiang Ning in Fujian to support the army and self-respect, plotting against him." ”

"Anything else?"

Zhu Youxiao waved his hand impatiently, there have been many excerpts of impeachment of Yang Feng in recent years, and Zhu Youxiao is tired of seeing it.

To be honest, Zhu Youxiao was also worried about this aspect, after all, as an emperor, his sensitivity to military power was innate, but Yang Feng also took this into account, and he rebuilt the Beijing camp for Zhu Youxiao very intimately and handed it over to Zhu Youxiao, and now this Beijing battalion, which is completely under Zhu Youxiao's orders, has become the biggest force in his hands.

That's not all, Zhu Youxiao also plans to expand the 30,000 Beijing camp to 100,000, and this plan is currently in progress. When the time comes, with 100,000 elite Beijing camps in hand, Zhu Youxiao will ask himself that no one will be able to threaten him. Moreover, Zhu Youxiao is the emperor, and the righteousness is in hand, and anyone who wants to rebel must weigh it.

Then there is Zhu Youxiao's trust in Yang Feng, in Zhu Youxiao's opinion, since he got acquainted with Yang Feng, Yang Feng has helped him too much, and this person is both capable and unambitious, and he is definitely the monarch's favorite courtier, so he doesn't believe these rumors at all.

Wei Zhongxian secretly glanced at Zhu Youxiao, and found that there were no emotional fluctuations on his face, and he knew that his boss didn't take these things to heart, and he continued: "There is also an excerpt that is quite interesting. In the excerpt, he impeached Yang Feng for taking advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune and cause trouble for the place under the pretext of opening the customs, and asked the court to send officials to re-manage the customs. ”

Speaking of this, Wei Zhongxian's heart couldn't help but froze, and a sentence immediately blurted out: "I see, the slave understands!" ”

"Xiang Zhuang's sword dance is intended for Pei Gong!" Zhu Youxiao also sneered: "It turns out that their real purpose is here." ”

When the matter came to this, they all understood that these rumors against Yang Feng that suddenly appeared in the capital, their purpose was to disrupt Zhu Youxiao and Yang Feng's position, make them busy with this matter, and finally take advantage of Yang Feng's time to take advantage of Yang Feng's own time to seize the customs in his hands.

"It seems that these people are not stupid, and they also know that this customs is a money-making thing." Zhu Youxiao muttered.

Wei Zhongxian asked Wen who was a little puzzled on the side: "The slave maid saw the excerpt sent by the Marquis of Jiang Ning last time, and he estimated that Fujian Customs would have millions of taels of tax silver in the first year, and in addition to the local interception of thirty percent, the remaining seventy percent would be escorted into Beijing. What the slave and maid don't understand is that they are only planning for the silver? 700,000 taels of silver seems like a lot, but it doesn't seem worth the risk of offending His Majesty and the Marquis of Jiang Ning? ”

"What do you know?"

Zhu Youxiao also figured it out at this time, he gritted his teeth and said: "Yang Aiqing once told me before going to Fujian that the customs is not an inconspicuous thing, but in fact it is an important weapon of the country. If it is done well, the future income will definitely be no less than that of Tianfu. Don't look at the customs, it seems that at the beginning it doesn't seem to be able to get too much silver, but with the lifting of the sea ban, the customs will become a place that makes more and more money, and the customs tax will reach at least five million taels of silver in five years! ”

"What...... How many of them? Wei Zhongxian didn't be shocked when he heard it, five million taels of silver, this is equivalent to all the annual income of Daming today, and this is just the customs of Fujian Province, if the more prosperous Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangdong and other places also run the customs, how much silver will Daming have at that time? Thinking of this, Wei Zhongxian felt that his heartbeat began to speed up.

It turns out that going to sea to do business is really making money, and it seems that I have to buy more sea ships to recruit people, with the care of Fujian sailors, the business at sea is promising!