Yang Feng, who walked out of the gate, his originally calm face twitched twice, and he lowered his voice and said to Song Ye behind him: "You personally bring someone to follow you, and personally interrogate with Wu Bantou, I want to see how such a scum got into the Daming Royal Commercial House, who is the person behind him, and how many things these moths have stolen from our commercial house over the years, and report it to Madame as soon as possible after figuring it out, she will deal with it." ”

"The villain understands!"

Of course, Song Ye, who had followed Yang Feng for many years, knew that Yang Feng at this time was like a powder keg that would explode at any time, and he was so frightened that he didn't dare to delay, so he hurriedly got on his horse and followed.

Su Tong took the remaining three family members to Wei Zhongxian's mansion outside the palace, and Wei Zhongxian, who had already received the news, had already brought Cui Chengxiu and other people to greet him at the door.

"Hahaha...... Grandpa Guo is late today, so let's wait for our family. ”

Wei Zhongxian greeted him with a big smile, and Yang Feng also walked over and arched his hand: "I'm really sorry, something happened just now, and I delayed a little thing, and Yang will punish himself with three cups later." ”

"Okay, our family has let people prepare fine wine, just waiting for Grandpa Guo to come and enjoy it."

"Of course it's no problem, but didn't Grandpa Wei introduce these colleagues next to him first?"

"Oh, that's a faux pas. Come on, come on...... Let's introduce to the grandfather of the country, this Cui Chengxiu is known to the grandfather, this is Wu Chunfu, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, this is Li Kuilong, the left deputy capital of the imperial history, this Taichang Temple Shaoqing Tian Ji, this is Li Fan of the imperial history platform, and Li Lu in the matter"......

Yang Feng gave Wei Zhongxian a lot of face, every time he introduced someone, he would nod to the other party, and even bowed his hand when he met the familiar, and after an introduction, although Yang Feng's memory could not remember it all, he also remembered seven, seven, eight, eight.

Due to the large number of people, the venue of this banquet was placed in the hall of the back hall, and the three tables were filled with a group of people.

Yang Feng glanced at it and found that almost all the cadres under Wei Zhongxian's command had come, which showed that Wei Zhongxian's treat this time was definitely more than just chatting.

After the group sat down one after another, after three rounds of wine and five flavors, Wei Zhongxian looked at Yang Feng and said with a smile: "Grandpa Guo, this time our family invited you over, in addition to introducing these colleagues to you, there are also some things I want to discuss with you, I don't know if Grandpa Guo will give our family this face." ”

Yang Feng smiled: "Father-in-law Wei said that he was joking, my father-in-law followed you as the prince of the country, but he asked himself that in addition to fighting, he was not very good at other things, could it be that the things that Father-in-law Wei wanted to discuss with Yang were also related to war?" ”

Wei Zhongxian's expression changed, his fair face became a little pale, and he said with a wry smile: "Grandpa Guo said that he was joking, our family is just a slave and maid by His Majesty's side, how dare we meddle in military affairs." ”

"Hahaha......"

Yang Feng laughed, "Okay, no kidding, Father-in-law Wei, let's get down to business, you know me as a person." I don't like to go around in circles, so it's good to have something to say. ”

"Okay."

Wei Zhongxian also nodded: "Grandpa Guo, a few days ago, His Majesty ordered Lu Xiangsheng to lead the new army back to Beijing, except for leaving 20,000 new troops to be incorporated into the Beijing camp, and let him lead the remaining 10,000 soldiers and horses to Jiangnan to take up his post. I don't know what Grandpa Guo thinks about this, can Lu Xiangsheng open up the situation in Jiangnan? ”

"I don't know about this father." Yang Feng shook his head: "You are all my masters of the Ming Dynasty, and you know that the situation in Jiangnan is very complicated. Since the founding of Taizu, the role of Jiangnan in this dynasty has risen again and again, and now the annual flow of silver in Jiangnan in commerce and trade has exceeded 300 million taels, but these silver have no relationship with the imperial court, which is extremely abnormal. ”

When Yang Feng and Wei Zhongxian spoke, all the officials present stopped their chopsticks and looked at them.

Speaking of this, Yang Feng's face became grim, "Today, in front of you, I want to say something from my heart, the low level of our Ming officials is simply unparalleled, which also makes almost everyone can say that I want to be greedy for ink."

Because if he is not greedy for ink, I am afraid that he will not even be able to afford to eat meat, isn't this a big joke in the world? ”

After Yang Feng's words were finished, all the officials present were silent, and many people looked at Yang Feng with much more cordial eyes, and these words simply spoke to their hearts. If you say that you have studied hard for ten years, and you become a high-ranking official after the title of the gold list, but in the end you can't even afford to eat meat, I am afraid that not many people are willing to be such an official.

"But then again, it is understandable that you are greedy as an official, but you can't reverse black and white, put the interests of your personal family above the court, and even ignore the comfort of the country."

Yang Feng raised his voice, "Taizu originally exempted scholars from paying taxes because at the beginning of the founding of the country, due to the turbulence of the times, there were too few scholars, and Emperor Taizu set this rule in order to encourage the people to study.

But today, this rule is outdated, and now eight out of ten of my Ming lands have fallen into the hands of the gentry, and these people do not have to pay taxes, and the consequence is that the taxes collected by the Ming Dynasty are getting smaller and smaller year by year.

Everyone is an official, tell me, what will happen if the court has no money? ”

Everyone was silent, everyone was smart, so there were some things that didn't need to be said too bluntly, a family would starve and freeze if they didn't have money, they would starve to death and freeze to death, and if a country didn't have money, it would go bankrupt and even die.

"So this situation can not continue, originally the father was going to recommend himself to go down to the south of the Yangtze River to be the governor of Zhejiang, but was stopped by His Majesty, and later the father recommended Lu Xiangsheng to His Majesty, although this guy is more upright, but there are some things for him to do may be more suitable than this father.

My father knows that many of you who are doing it are Jiangnan people, and the reason why I invited my father to the banquet today is nothing more than to ask my father to ask for a favor or let you go, but my father can only tell you that this is impossible.

There are thousands of ways to make money in the world, so why do you only stare at the little thing that is dug out of the ground? The Duke is not afraid to say the ugliness in front, the new law of one errand and one grain is beneficial to the court and the Ming Dynasty, whoever dares to stop is the Ming Dynasty, His Majesty is also the enemy of the Duke, for this goal, both His Majesty and the Duke will fight to the end.

Didn't Gonggong Wei just ask his father-in-law Lu Xiangsheng if he could open up the situation in Jiangnan? To tell you the truth, if Lu Xiangsheng can't open up the situation in Jiangnan this time, next time my father will personally take 100,000 Jiangning soldiers to Jiangnan, even if he kills a river of blood, he must implement the new law! ”

Yang Feng's words carried a strong murderous aura, and even Wei Zhongxian was shocked when he heard it, so he didn't mention the officials around him.