"Abba, there is a new tax in the imperial court. The tax was just collected in advance two months ago, so why should it be levied again? Yang Chaodong asked Yang Yinglong indignantly. Yang Yinglong looked out of the window for a long time and didn't speak, just shook his head gently. In the name of the earthquake, it is so apportioned in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, it seems that the Ming Dynasty is rotten to the roots! Two months ago, Tan Xisi, the governor of Sichuan, sent people to Banzhou, and forcibly levied and extorted money everywhere, arousing great public anger. You, Yang Yinglong, should cooperate with us to do these jobs well!

Yang Yinglong's heart was extremely sour. Banzhou is located between Sichuan, Guizhou and Hubei, with dangerous terrain and vast thousands of miles, and most of the areas are mountainous. The land that could have been planted was extremely scarce, and every year the Banzhou Propaganda Division had to buy large quantities of grain from neighboring Sichuan, Guizhou, and even Hubei to distribute it to the people who had no land to grow. There is no way, so many mouths to eat, so many people to feed, poor Banzhou, where is the food to feed so many people? Most of the taxes are used on this side, so how can Banshu not be poor? The people are fierce, and they are all forced out by poverty!

The envoy still ignored it: Yang Xuanwei envoy, we also know the difficulties of Banzhou, and we also understand your suffering. But now that I'm suffering from frequent disasters tomorrow, the local government must always understand the difficulties of the imperial court! Besides, this year's earthquake caused a lot of damage to the Gyeonggi region, and this tax collection in advance was also a last resort, not every year! Your place gritted its teeth, overcame difficulties, and helped the imperial court make up for the shortfall, which is a great achievement!

Yang Yinglong opened his mouth and said with difficulty: "Mobile phone to visit Lord Xom, it's not that we don't cooperate with the imperial court, but this Banzhou has also been hit by heavy rain this year, and the only bit of land has not been harvested, and Banzhou is also extremely difficult!" The grain borrowed from the governor of Hubei has not been repaid yet, and I pity the hundreds of thousands of people in Banzhou, all counting on the hundreds of thousands of stone grain I got from him to live! After August, I'm afraid I will have to borrow again, otherwise I won't be able to survive this winter! ”

As a result, the envoy was furious: it is a national policy to collect taxes in advance, and mistakes must not be allowed! If you die a thousand people, ten thousand people, you will be the entire Banshu people, and you will have to collect it! I don't understand, this is a great thing for you Yang Yinglong, you are so willing to nest in this small Banzhou forever? If you do a good job this time, Lord Tan will be satisfied, and he will naturally find a way to transfer you to a prefecture and county with better conditions! If you don't do it well, Lord Yang, you know the consequences better than me!

Listening to this kind of indifferent words, Yang Yinglong's chest also burned with anger, the people of your Gyeonggi region are people, and the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians under my Bozhou are not people? My Yang family has been favored by the emperor, and the reason why the emperor has always let my Yang family guard Banzhou is that of course I am responsible for hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians! Responsible for the emperor!

He said coldly: "My lord, the whole world is not the king's land. Banzhou is the emperor's Banzhou, not the Banzhou of my Yang family; These people are also the subjects of the emperor, not my Yang Yinglong's subjects! Since you want to collect taxes, you can ask the emperor's people if they are willing! I, Yang, am just a servant of the emperor, and I can't be the master of these long-lived people! ”

The messenger brushed his sleeves away. He knew in his heart that he had completely offended Tan Xisi, the governor of Sichuan, and not only could he not borrow food from him in August, but he was afraid that he would have to wear small shoes. I don't care, but what should I do with so many mouths to eat in Banzhou?

The Yang family has guarded Banzhou for the emperors for generations, since Yang Duan of the Tang Dynasty, they have been ruling Banzhou, so many years have passed, the stability of Banzhou, and the safety of Sichuan, Guizhou and Hubei provinces, all the credit of their Yang family. In the early years of Hongwu, Yang Keng decided to surrender to Taizu, the reason is actually very simple, it is very stupid to want to fight against the imperial court in Banzhou, and if there is no material from the imperial court, it is not easy for Banzhou to survive. Zhu Yuanzhang appointed him as the envoy of Banzhou Xuanwei, and the hereditary inheritance was also to let his Yang family give him a good view of the west gate. It's just that the peace has been going on for too long, the emperor of the court has been changing, and the local government has become more and more harsh on Banzhou.

A few years ago, when Zheng Niangniang was appointed as a concubine, Wanli asked all places to pay tribute to the imperial court, and the governor of Guizhou pulled countless good timber from him, just to make a sandalwood for the future Zheng Guifei. As a result, the sergeant in charge of the guard did all kinds of evil in Banzhou Castle, and did misdeeds, which made the heavens angry and resentful; Just after the earthquake, in order to rebuild the destroyed Wumen Gate and other city gates, and to reinforce some other buildings, the cabinet sent a paper in a hurry, and asked Banzhou to pay tribute to 10,000 tons of wood, and requisitioned local carpenters to rush to Beijing, but in the end there was not a penny of silver! When Yang Yinglong sent someone to inquire, the reply was that the treasury was empty now, and there was no silver to give, so he would wait until this year's tax collection came!

There is no shortage of timber in Banzhou, but how many children have died in Banshu on the way to cutting down wood and escorting wood into Beijing?! How much silver taels did it cost?! The simple people began to be extremely dissatisfied with the Yang family, and even openly questioned whether they were their parents' officials! Yang Yinglong's hair turned gray in this short period of time, but there was no way to think about it, how could the orders of the imperial court not be respected? There was no harvest in Banshu this year, and the tax of the Seonsu Division was also greatly reduced, and the silver suddenly became stretched. The originally abundant treasury is also extremely empty after so many things, and it has to borrow grain like neighboring provinces! How can this be?

Yang Chaodong knew his father's difficulties, but he couldn't help him, and he was also worried. It is said that the people's hearts are like water, and the people's movements are like smoke, and three of the seven toasts have publicly expressed their dissatisfaction, if they continue to do this, I am afraid that the glory of the Yang family will end in their hands.

The most important thing is that the Yang family itself has gradually become a problem in the life of Chengping. Yang Yinglong's main room, Yang Chaodong's aunt, Yang Zhang's. Not only that, but she also sowed discord in Yang Yinglong's ears from time to time, saying that the Tian family didn't take the Yang family in their eyes at all outside, and even the poor land had to be taken away, saying that it was her Tian family's land.

At first, Yang Yinglong was still a little puzzled and angry with the Tian family, but later he found that the Tian family was not only not as domineering as Yang Zhang said, but constantly maintained the majesty of the Yang family. So he became more and more dissatisfied with Yang Zhang's family, but Yang Zhang's family still went his own way, and gradually suppressed Tian's son, Yang Chaodong's second brother Yang Tiansheng, in the family. This is something that Yang Yinglong absolutely cannot tolerate, what does my Yang family rely on to rule Banzhou for hundreds of years? It depends on the concerted efforts of the family! Your Zhang family, as the housewife of the Yang family, does not have the courage that a housewife should have, and can show your ability by wantonly suppressing a junior?

One of Zhang's actions finally made Yang Yinglong completely explode. On the way to Jingshi to transport wood, she instructed the guards because of a little thing, and beat Yang Tiansheng's personal guard Yang Xi half to death, but when she came back, she reported that he was trying to assassinate herself! This is definitely a big deal in the tiny city of Banshu! The angry Yang Yinglong asked for a thorough investigation of this matter, and Yang Zhang began to panic, where can the reason she made up at random stand up to scrutiny? In a panic, he actually planned to poison Yang Xi to death! After this incident, Yang Zhang's simply didn't do anything, spreading rumors outside, saying that Yang Xi and Yang Tiansheng's wife had an improper relationship.

Yang Yinglong couldn't tolerate it anymore, so he simply gave her a break, and then drove her out of the gate of the Yang family, with the Tian family as the main room. But the Yang Zhang family is also the daughter of a famous local family, how can the Zhang family endure such a shame? How else does this allow them to gain a foothold in Banju? However, they didn't dare to do anything to the Yang family, but they immediately attacked the Tian family. How could the Tian family be willing to give in, and the contradiction between the two sides was suddenly on the verge of breaking out. Banshu has ushered in its most dangerous moment after hundreds of years of calm.

The Yang family's rule in Banzhou relied entirely on the seven Tusi, that is, the seven great families, of which the Tian family and the Zhang family were only two. But the second of them turned the entire Banshu upside down! Several other families were reluctant to get involved in this kind of thing, and they either avoided it or curry favor with both sides, and the prestige of the Yang family fell to the bottom for a while. At this time when the life and death of the Yang family was at stake, Yang Yinglong suddenly made a move and put the leaders of the two families under house arrest, asking them to restrain their clansmen and not try to make trouble! He Yang will give an explanation to the Zhang family about this matter, and the condition is that he must not make waves in Banzhou again!

In the painful compromise, the two sides finally calmed down, but the devastating consequence of this incident was that the prestige and prestige of the Yang family had decreased a lot in Banzhou, and each family showed some signs of being ready to move. In this context, the imperial court asked Banzhou to collect taxes in advance, which undoubtedly made the Yang family worse! How can Yang Yinglong not worry? He worked hard to cultivate his third son Yang Chaodong, just so that when he went west in the future, the Yang family could have a pillar to support the sky of Banzhou. But Yang Chaodong was not interested in government affairs, only interested in leading troops to fight. Yang Yinglong is worried, who can Banzhou fight with? Except for rebellion!

Now that Tan Xisi's envoy is gone, I am afraid that there will soon be containment measures against Banzhou. He prayed in his heart, God, just give me Yang a little more time! When the internal stability is stabilized, even if I, Yang, go to Beijing to apologize to the emperor!