"How can you not help it?" Zhu Cihong smiled, "I am the emperor, and I will give a few holy decrees to the Guangxi Governor, the Xichuan Jiedu Envoy, the Yunnan-Guichuan Governor, and the Hubei Governor...... And the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, isn't it? ”

That's it?

The two brothers, Wu Sangui and Wu Sanfu, were a little disbelieving......

The trade route with the Liukou has been running for 20 years, and in Guangxi, Xichuan, and Guizhou, I don't know how many powerful and officials have made a fortune by trading with the Liukou. Even Huguang, where the western capital of the Ming Dynasty is located, has many profiteers and corrupt officials and rogues doing business.

One of the biggest profiteers is the Ming Royal Chamber of Commerce!

How can this be banned?

Zhu Cihong smiled: "You don't have to worry...... The little business with the rogues can be forbidden with a few wills. Because I have a clean official and a good official now! ”

Of course, there are Qing officials in the Ming Dynasty, and there have always been! When Emperor Chongzhen was in power, after Zhu Cihong came to power, he rectified the rule of officials, and there were more clean and honest officials.

However, one thing is for sure, there were still many corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty.

How can a semi-feudal and semi-capitalist society be without corrupt officials? Zhu Cihong has been a human being for two lifetimes, and his mental age has long passed 60, so of course he will not be naïve enough to think that his country is really clear and bright.

Therefore, he never pursued the absolute incorruptibility of the Ming officialdom...... It can't be done, and there's no need to do so, because in a wealth-scarce society, the pursuit of absolute incorruptibility comes at a considerable price.

First, the law is severe!

The second is to suppress private industry and commerce!

And Zhu Cihong's method seems to be very "ineffective", that is, to use corrupt officials while arresting corrupt officials. Officials are cautious to get greedy, while the Metropolitan Procuratorate is trying to catch them.

So now there are no corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty who dare to blatantly make money, but officials who are really honest as water are also very rare......

Under this situation of cat-and-mouse coexistence, it is very difficult to block the smuggling channel in the west that has existed for 20 years (which is allowed by the Ming court).

In addition, the current two provinces of Guangxi and Guizhou are not "all directly under the province" - all the prefectures (Zhili Prefecture), prefectures, divisions, and guards are all under the jurisdiction of the governor's yamen and the imperial court, which are "all directly under the province", and only some prefectures (Zhili Prefecture), prefectures, divisions, and guards are under the control of the governor's yamen and the imperial court, which are called semi-directly provinces.

Guangxi and Guizhou are semi-direct provinces. Among them, Guangxi Province is bounded by Liuzhou Mansion and Nanning Prefecture, and the east (including Liuzhou and Nanning) is under the jurisdiction of the Guangxi Governor Yamen and the imperial court. To the west, it is under the jurisdiction of the Guangxi Governor's Division, which is actually a festival town controlled by Jin Shenghuan, the governor of Guangxi, but there is no name of the Jie Du Envoy.

Of course, Jin Shenghuan is not a figure who speaks his word on the ground in half of Guangxi. Because there have always been a large number of Tusi regimes in Guangxi, it is impossible for Jin Shenghuan to destroy them all, and he can only get along with them.

And the smuggling trade with Dashun has always been the financial route of Jin Shenghuan and Guangxi Tusi.

As for the Shizhouwei, Yongshunsi, and Baojing Divisions in Guizhou, Xichuan (Jiezhen) and Huguang (Hubei, Hunan), the situation was similar, and the local semi-independent Tusi all had business dealings with the Dashun Dynasty.

It is almost impossible to use a few holy decrees to make these comfortable earth emperors obedient...... It's not that these earth emperors dare to openly confront the Great Tomorrow, but they will play with the methods of yang and yin.

However, the two brothers of the Wu family did not dare to tell Emperor Zhu that there were still many corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty - because the two of them were actually not very clean, and if they really wanted to let the imperial history check it carefully, they would have to fold it in.

......

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the only way to cut off the trade route is to set up cards at all levels, supplemented by strict punishment and strict laws......"

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that it is necessary to let the inspector of the imperial history go out in a big way to strictly investigate the provinces of Guangxi, Hubei, and Guizhou, so that all the officials and everyone will be vigilant!"

"The problem now is that those autonomous festival towns, capital divisions, and health divisions are not very easy to manage...... Yushitai can only check the direct ministers of the Son of Heaven, and one party can't check the feudal monarch, so he has to let Jinyiwei get people. ”

"Jinyiwei is not easy to take people, those people are all soldiers and generals, and they have to let the new army of Kenan drive in!"

"That's a war...... It's not appropriate to start a war for this matter, right? ”

"Yes, the territory of those Tusi is a land with high mountains and dangerous waters, if it is directly governed by the imperial court, I am afraid that I will lose a lot of money to enter it, right? And it's hard to manage. ”

Donghu Palace, Chongzheng Hall, Zhu Cihong is holding a routine meeting of the two governments here.

Unlike the battle when he returned to Wuhan Mansion last time, this time Emperor Zhu made a big calculation to stay in Wuhan Mansion for a long time and moved the entire imperial court to Wuhan Mansion. Moreover, people built a combination of Chinese and Western office buildings in the East Lake Palace, which is far away from the waterfront, called Chongzheng Hall, as a place for their office and court meetings in the East Lake Palace.

At today's court meeting, a group of important ministers of the two provinces argued over how to ban the trade routes of the Liukou.

In the end, the argument actually came to the question of changing the land and returning to the stream.

Zhu Cihong's court was not very interested in the matter of changing the land and returning it to the river - Emperor Zhu liked to settle economic accounts, and the courtiers he used were also able to settle accounts, of course, he knew that large-scale land reform and return to the river was a loss-making transaction for the court.

Moreover, after the land was changed and returned, the control of those places by the loss-making government sent by the imperial court was far less than that of the original Tusi, and if you were not careful, it would cause a civil uprising, which was really a bit more than worth the loss.

So as soon as someone mentioned this, there was gradually no sound in the court, and the big guys all turned their eyes to Zhu Cihong.

"Just change the land and return to the stream," Zhu Cihong said with a smile, "I just don't want them to do a good job, but I don't have much interest in controlling the place for those toasts." ”

He paused, swept his eyes around, took in the faces of the important ministers, and then said with a smile: "Jinyiwei and the new army of the Conqueror must be sent, there is no sword handle, and those people don't know to be afraid." However, I have always done things with grace, and the handle of the knife has to be put on the neck of others, and the fruit has to be sent to people's mouths. Those who don't know each other cut off their heads, and those who know each other still have to give some benefits. ”

"Your Majesty," Zheng Zhilong, the head of the household department, hurriedly asked, "where do the benefits you want to give come from?" The household department doesn't have much money to spare! ”

Of course Tobe has money! But Zheng Zhilong still has to cry poor as usual...... You can't let people know how thick the foundation of the household is, otherwise there will be more people who reach out and ask for money.

Zhu Cihong nodded again and again: "Of course you can't pay from the household department!" The money of the household department has long been budgeted, and one radish is a pit, and it cannot be spent indiscriminately.

And the Sichuan we want to recover this time can be called Tianfu...... How much fertile soil is there in the Land of Abundance? ”

I'm playing the idea of Sichuan land coupons again!

The ministers present immediately understood. It has been 20 years since the fall of Sichuan, and the local forces have long been submissive to the rogues, and those who have run away in time and have not been rectified have also been poor for 20 years, and they have long been no longer as strong as they used to be.

"At least 50 million mu, of which about 15 million mu are paddy fields!" Shoufu Wei Zaode immediately said, "During the years that Liukou has been in Sichuan, I have inspected at least eight times, and every penny has been clear. Moreover, these lands are not from Sichuan, but the so-called government soldiers who were granted to the Liukou, these government soldiers are all thieves, and after the imperial court recovers Sichuan, of course, their land will be confiscated. Part of the land was owned by the original owner, so it should naturally be returned. However, the land in Sichuan is only more than 10 million mu, and many of them are official fields and uniform fields. So in the end, the land that can be allocated is at least 40 million mu. ”

Zhu Cihong smiled and nodded: "With these 40 million mu, are you still afraid that you can't command the people of each town?" Now it's time to block trade routes and traffic! The War Department and the Generalissimo's Office drew up a plan, how many land vouchers were needed to pacify the towns on the front? There must be a plan for how many cavalry and new troops need to be sent to deter the unsubordinate. By the way, the land coupons given to the frontier towns are all promissory notes, and they are not allowed to be listed and traded, and they must wait for Sichuan to recover before they can give them real coupons! ”