"Hey, Madam Fengsheng, why are you talking for Wei Bao today? What does Guotai Min'an have to do with us? As long as we ensure that there is no big mess in the world and that no one dares to go against us, that's fine! If all localities were to act like Wei Bao and beat up the officials and landlords everywhere, would they not be able to get money? And he made so much silver, he didn't even know the specific amount, and Wei Bao didn't pay the silver to our family, in the end, his good reputation was earned by him Wei Bao, what did our family get? And what do you get? Why don't you want to think about this? Our family really regrets getting a coastal defense governor yamen for Wei Bao now! Wei Zhongxian crackled and complained.

"There's nothing to regret, it's not that I want to speak for Wei Bao, think about it, if Wei Bao hadn't defended you in front of His Majesty that day, then Yang Lian's twenty-four sins book would be enough for you to drink a pot, even if Your Majesty doesn't kill you, he will definitely not trust you as before, Wei Bao has this great achievement, how many small mistakes are enough?" Kebaba Road.

Wei Zhongxian couldn't help but nodded, "Madam is right, this is indeed a great contribution to Wei Bao, if it weren't for this, our family would not have been hot-headed for a while, and agreed to set up the Governor of Haiphong Yamen, and assign Caoyun and Haihai as well as Hejian Mansion, Cangzhou Mansion, Shandong and Denglai to the jurisdiction of the Governor of Haiphong!" How much power does this have to be? Much more powerful than the average governor governor! Originally, our family's original intention was just to let Wei Bao take care of some soldiers and horses to reward him for interceding for our family in front of His Majesty. It's good that this kid has not yet let people know the scope of the Yamen, the governor of coastal defense, and he went up to kill special kills, killing officials and bandits, killing everyone in fear, and grasping local power and military power in his hands. ”

"Okay, okay, don't think about these things anymore, you yourself admit that Wei Bao's merits are greater than his faults, I think he is really difficult now, and he really can't squeeze out the money to honor you nine thousand years old, don't be angry." Ke Baba's flattery was smooth for Wei Zhongxian's chest.

"Our family is not really angry with him, but after Wei Bao goes to Liaodong, our family has to immediately let someone take over the Yamen of the Governor of Haiphong! Even if you don't send a governor, you have to send another left to participate in politics! Wei Zhongxian said: "Hejian Mansion, Cangzhou Mansion, Shandong and Denglai are still good places in the north of the Ming Dynasty, and they can send at least two or three hundred thousand taels of silver every year, and they can't be left without a child." ”

"Nine thousand years old, if you really do this, will there be chaos in the quasi-insurance, do you believe it or not? When Wei Bao was in Beijing before, he sent you a million taels, why didn't you remember it so quickly? Light remembers the cashier. Kebaba said: "Didn't Wei Bao say it in the letter? As long as you give the Governor of Haiphong Yamen two years, and in the eighth year of the Apocalypse, will I send you five million taels of silver at one time? Now I owe you a lot, and I don't have to pay for it. If you send another person to the Governor of Haiphong Yamen to participate in politics, not only will you offend Wei Bao, but if the people sent there do not have Wei Bao's ability, the Yamen of the Governor of Haiphong will definitely be in chaos, and the tax system will also be changed, and I don't know how big a mess will be when the time comes, if you can't get the money, it will be suppressed, and it will be a dead man, and the court will send a large army, and it will cost millions of taels, will you be happy at that time? ”

Hearing what the guest Baba said, Wei Zhongxian said with relief: "This is also true, then I don't want to send people to the Yamen of the Governor of Haiphong for the first time, let's talk about it next year, our family will let Wei Bao go to Liaodong as a prison army quickly, I can't let him stay in Shandong all the time, I will be angry when I think of the ballad." ”

"The sky is not afraid, the earth is not afraid, I am afraid that Master Wei will be transferred. Hehe, these ordinary people can really make it up, but it's nothing, ordinary people, can they not be starved to death, what good words can't be said? When you write to Wei Bao, tap him a little and he will understand. Wouldn't it be okay to sing the praises of your 9,000-year-old next time? Kebaba laughed.

"You say this, I still want to have one more thing!" Wei Zhongxian suddenly became a little angry again, "Other places are overhauling and worshipping my ancestral shrine!" But under the rule of the Governor of Haiphong, Yamen, there was none! He Wei Bao pretended to be respectful in front of our family, who knows what he thinks behind his back? ”

Wei Zhongxian didn't pay much attention to the construction of Wei Zhongxian's ancestral hall everywhere, but now as Wei Zhongxian has been in power for a long time, he has begun to pay attention to it, and regards whether the officials have built an ancestral hall for him as a very important indicator to measure whether the officials are loyal to him.

Zhu Youxiao trusted Wei Zhongxian very much, and Yang Lian presented an excerpt to list Wei Zhongxian's 24 major crimes.

The Emperor of the Apocalypse stood on Wei Zhongxian's side without hesitation.

Although there is a role of Wei Bao's bold protection, it is impossible for Zhu Youxiao to have only one Wei Bao, and it is impossible for Zhu Youxiao to be unclear about what Wei Zhongxian usually does.

Usually the Emperor of the Human Spirits will use the power of both sides to check and balance each other. Let them bite and gnaw at each other.

Expose the unsightly things of each other to the emperor by exposing each other.

Then the pigtails on both sides were grasped in the hands of the emperor.

Use party strife to govern the various factions well.

This is the art of kingship.

But the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao, was one-sidedly on Wei Zhongxian's side, and Zhu Youxiao did not directly convict the Donglin Party himself, but directly handed over the matter to Wei Zhongxian to take care of.

On the one hand, it is based on his incomparable trust in Wei Zhongxian, and on the other hand, he is afraid that these mundane affairs will affect his carpenter work.

It makes sense for Zhu Youxiao to believe in Wei Zhongxian so much, first of all, under the premise that Zhu Youxiao's identity as the heir of the empire has not yet been established, Wei Zhongxian once sacrificed his life to save him.

After Wei Zhongxian's power became bigger, there were many dogs and legs who instigated Wei Zhongxian, in order to ensure that his glory and wealth could be sustained, and in order to prevent the impermanence of the world, he strongly persuaded Wei Zhongxian to abolish the emperor and stand on his own.

Wei Zhongxian immediately warned all the persuaders that if they spoke about this matter again, they would not be spared, and declared his firm position, saying that everything he had was given by the emperor. And as a grassroots, without the support of the emperor, where would he be today?

Later, it turned out that Wei Zhongxian did the same, which showed that Wei Zhongxian was at least a person who had always been sober-minded, not a eunuch like Zhao Gao.

When the Emperor of the Apocalypse was about to die, Wei Zhongxian, with a nine-thousand-year-old noble body, bent his knees in front of the emperor's bed to taste the decoction, and poured urine with feces and urine, showing the true character of an old slave.

After the death of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian cried uncontrollably, like a mourner.

Wei Zhongxian showed not only loyalty to the Emperor of the Apocalypse, but even loyalty to the entire Ming Dynasty Zhu family. Until the last moment, when Emperor Chongzhen took him, he had almost no resistance.

Because from beginning to end, Wei Zhongxian believed that he was loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and heaven and earth could learn from it.

Since he didn't do anything wrong, His Majesty the Emperor would definitely be able to give him a place to live. At least you can be a wealthy man in Jiangnan.

Although Wei Zhongxian killed the Donglin Party and cut the grass and roots, he was very loyal politically, and he was still loyally guarding the Daming Society until he died.

In addition to Wei Zhongxian's background as an emperor, the most important thing is that he is on the side of the emperor's interests.

When it comes to the issue of interests. The interests of the royal family did not coincide entirely with the interests of the bureaucracy.

The Donglin Party represents the official landlords and heroes.

Wei Zhongxian, on the other hand, represents the interests of the royal family.

The Liaodong issue can be said to be the most important state expenditure of the Ming Dynasty.

On the issue of this expenditure, the members of the Donglin Party agreed that the expenses should be paid by the royal family, as the previous Wanli Emperor. The famous money-grabbing scheme was introduced, the mining tax.

This kind of money-grabbing plan is harmful to the private economy, so it is time for the royal family to pay for it.

The royal family paid four or five million taels of silver, and the royal money was almost spent, and it was time for the Donglin Party to pay, but the Donglin Party refused to pay for all kinds of reasons.

Therefore, as soon as Wei Zhongxian came to power, his most important job was to solicit bribes, and it was impossible for him to live in peace with the Donglin Party.

In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the commercial tax soared from 3.22 million taels in the previous year to 5.48 million taels, and 5.48 million taels in the following year, and at the same time, the "miscellaneous silver" mainly for industry and commerce also increased from 600,000 taels in the third year of the Apocalypse to 2.2 million taels and 2.2 million taels in the following year, and the field tax for small farmers basically did not increase in two years.

Nearly 3 million taels of silver were all from industry and commerce, and since the royal family opened a lot of "imperial shops" in order to grab money during the Wanli period, the bureaucracy also opened a lot of "official shops", so it is not an exaggeration to call them official businessmen.

Such a tax is better than the "mining tax" of the Wanli Emperor back then.

The Donglin Party, which represents the official and business economy, of course, has to fight to the death with Wei Zhongxian.

So later, the main gunner Yang Lian counted Wei Zhongxian's 24 major crimes.

On the premise that the bombardment was ineffective, Wei Zhongxian became even more courageous.

Wei Zhongxian wanted to kill the Donglin Party to rob the wealth of the official and business class, but Wei Zhongxian did not rob the common people.

From this point of view, Wei Zhongxian is much stronger than Emperor Chongzhen.

Wei Zhongxian also has the biggest common denominator with Wei Bao!

Wei Bao also never steals money from ordinary people.

At least Wei Bao doesn't directly steal money from ordinary people.

Everywhere Wei Bao went, he desperately suppressed the landlord class, he took half of his wealth and resources, and left half of the resources for the local people. Of course, Wei Bao sometimes leaves a little for the imperial power, to Wei Zhongxian and Zhu Youxiao.

In order to deal with the problem of Liaodong and the problem of changing the people in the northwest, Emperor Chongzhen raised heavy taxes four times.

These heavy taxes were levied from the private sector through the bureaucracy.

Emperor Chongzhen completely looted the common people.

The emperor who plundered the common people became the object of sympathy for many people in later generations, and the eunuchs who looted the official and merchant classes became the object of scorn of the people.

No way, who let history be made up by intellectuals like the Donglin Party?

The result of Emperor Chongzhen's final taxation was the death of Chongzhen.

After the civilians of the north were looted, they joined the rebel army.

These "Ancestral Hall" disciples are just selling fame and fame to invite rewards and merits.

They are a way of echoing each other from afar, snooping on the attitude of the above, a kind of political gamble, with a bad intention.

It's not that Wei Bao ignored the matter of building a shrine for Wei Zhongxian, it is being built everywhere, Wei Bao has the Heaven and Earth Society Statistics Office in his hands, and he is clear about the big and small things in the world, how can he not know.

Wei Bao didn't want to leave the Donglin Party in control, and he didn't want outsiders to think that he and Wei Zhongxian were in a group, so he deliberately avoided suspicion.

But it was this that angered Wei Zhongxian the most.

Hearing Wei Zhongxian say this, Kebaba didn't know how to help Wei Baoyuan pass.

The matter of silver, it can also be said that Wei Bao is only temporarily owed, and Wei Bao is indeed not engaged in the matter of the Seminary.

This incident has become a huge gap between Wei Zhongxian and Wei Bao.

Fortunately, Wei Bao didn't wait for Wei Zhongxian to urge him to go to Liaodong, so he took the initiative to come to the capital.

Wei Baolai is to solve Wei Zhongxian's heart disease.

Wei Zhongxian heard that his cronies and eunuchs said that Wei Bao asked to see him, and smiled at Kebaba: "Say that Cao Cao Cao has arrived, this little monkey cub is here." ”

"It's best to come, just say something, I think Wei Bao either forgets, or he has his own ideas. The Cultivator Temple has only spent a few dollars, and everyone is cultivating, so why doesn't he cultivate? There must be a reason for him. Kebaba said.

"It's just right, and it saves our family from sending someone to deliver the letter, so let him go directly to Liaodong this time." Wei Zhongxian nodded.

Wei Bao came to Beijing in a very hurry, and after a meal of wine with Li Jingbai, Wang Congyi and Liu Yangyao, he left, and threw a big mess of the Yamen, the governor of Haiphong, to Wu Sanfu.

Wu Sanfu is still a novice, although he has some social talents, but he has not really been a political official, let alone take over the affairs of the governor of Haiphong's yamen, which is much larger than the governor and the general army combined.

After entering the president's mansion in Jingshi, after Wei Bao met Zhang Meiyuan, Wu Xuexia was still asking, "You believe my brother so much?" Can he take care of the affairs of the Governor of Haiphong's Yamen?"

"Isn't there still someone from the Heaven and Earth Society to help him? Don't forget that the greatest power is always the organization, not the individual. Wei Bao laughed.

"But when I finally make an idea, I have to listen to the biggest one, I'm really worried that my brother will make a mistake, with such a big power, it's not a trivial matter to cause trouble." Wu Xuexia said worriedly.

"Don't think about it, I just want Brother Sanfu to experience it!" Wei Bao smiled slightly: "If your father knew that your brother was in charge of the Yamen of the Governor of Haiphong, he would definitely be happy." ”

In fact, Wei Bao was very worried about Shandong's balance of payments.

Wei Bao's explanation to his subordinates before leaving was that when the money was collected, it was necessary to achieve a balance between the payments and the balance, and it was impossible for the Heaven and Earth Society to post money to the Yamen, the governor of Haiphong, but it would not take the money from the locality, at least in the past two years, Wei Bao had no such plans.

Even so, it is still very difficult to ensure that a large number of victims in Shandong do not starve to death without subsidizing money, and tens of thousands of people will starve to death.

Wei Bao couldn't do anything, so he simply walked away.

As for whether the officials and landlords can be honest and obedient after he leaves, Wei Bao is still confident.

On the surface, it seems that Wu Sanfu is presiding over the overall situation, but in fact, Shandong Weibao's army has 50,000 troops and more than 10,000 sailors, and Wei Bao doesn't believe that there can be any chaos.

"Shouldn't the president just make my father happy and let my brother take charge of the Yamen, the governor of coastal defense?" Wu Xuexia listened to Wei Bao's words, her heart was sweet, but also a little panicked, which seemed a bit too childish.

And Zhang Meiyuan listened to Wei Bao say this next to her, but she was jealous in her heart, and she was a little jealous that Wei Bao was too good to Wu Xuexia's family.

Zhang Meiyuan knew that Zhao Jinfeng and Wu Xuexia had a very important position in Wei Bao's heart, and Wei Bao proposed to marry Zhao Jinfeng and Wu Xuexia at the same time as marrying her.

Afterwards, the British government and Zhang Meiyuan naturally inquired about Zhao Jinfeng and Wu Xuexia clearly.

Zhao Jinfeng's ostensible identity is just a daughter of Li Zheng, but Zhang Meiyuan feels that Wei Bao is not for profit, but a manifestation of love and righteousness, but admires Wei Bao very much.

But Wu Xuexia's family is a big family in Liaoxi, Zhang Meiyuan feels that Wei Bao has a little bit of an ingredient to please the Wu family, and he is not particularly understandable, in the eyes of a family like Zhang Meiyuan, no matter how good the Wu family is in Liaoxi, it is not in the eyes of Beijing officials.

However, Zhang Meiyuan also recognizes Wu Xuexia's appearance of captivating the country and the city, and thinks that maybe most of Wei Bao still likes Zhang Meiyuan.

Now Zhang Meiyuan is Wei Bao's wife, which is the only and irreplaceable, so she suppressed these jealousies and tried her best to look generous and worthy of Wei Bao's wife.

Wei Bao chatted with Wu Xuexia for a while, and smiled at Zhang Meiyuan, wanting to talk to Zhang Meiyuan in private, for fear of snubbing his newlywed wife.

Wu Xuexia was also a little jealous of Wei Bao's attitude, but she still got up generously, "Don't delay the president and his wife to talk." Wu Xuexia said, motioning for Wang Qiuya, Princess Zhenming, Yang Xue, Xiong Xin'er and others to go down.

As soon as everyone retreated, Wei Bao held Zhang Meiyuan's hand and said with a smile: "We just got married, I left you and went to the field, you won't blame me, right?" ”

"My husband is a person who does great things, how can I think so? No matter what the husband does, the concubine will support it. Zhang Meiyuan said gently.

Wei Bao nodded, secretly thinking that the daughter of the Duke of the Kingdom was different, quite virtuous.

Although she and Zhang Meiyuan got married after a day or two of meeting, it really belonged to a flash marriage.

But after this became a reality, Wei Bao slowly accepted it in his heart.

Looking at his wife's beautiful face, Wei Bao suddenly became interested and wanted to make love.

This is just about to start.

The person from the president's secretariat whispered outside the door: "President, Wei Zhongxian's people invite the president to meet." ”

Zhang Meiyuan said shyly: "It's important that the husband has to go and get down to business in advance. ”

"Hehe, when I come back, make the lady comfortable at night!" Wei Baokou said with a smile.

Zhang Meiyuan is the daughter of the princess, although she is as noble as a princess, Zhang Weixian has always regarded her as a pearl in her palm, like a treasure, but in the end, everyone is beautiful, the rules are still quite big, I am embarrassed to laugh with Wei Bao like this, and I am shy and speechless.

Wei Bao gently pinched Zhang Meiyuan's pink face, and strode out.

Wei Bao secretly wondered, what is so good about being his wife?

He settled in the capital, and he may not be able to take Zhang Meiyuan with him on this trip to Liaodong.

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