On the night when the governor of the Yamen sold salt to the people of Guangzhou, Lin Tingxuan, the procurator of Guangdong, personally came to the door and questioned why Shen Xi wanted to ignore the court and disrupt the salt administration. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The political envoys and the inspectors kept staring at the governor's yamen, originally wanting to see which blind gentry and salt merchants dared to go to the governor's yamen to buy salt, but the gentry and salt merchants did not come, but the common people flocked to it.

Under the principle that the law does not hold the public accountable, there is nothing to be done about the political envoys and the prosecutors. If you want to detain these "Diao people", you must also ask the Governor Yamen if it is allowed, because the storm itself is caused by the Governor Yamen.

“…… Shen Zhongcheng sold salt privately and handed it over to the common people to go to the salt field to extract salt, the impact of this move was too bad, and the old man must sue the court and hand it over to the Yamen for disposal. ”

Lin Tingxuan always put on a posture of relying on the old and selling the old in front of Shen Xi, which made Shen Xi feel that this famous minister of Hongzhi and Zhengde Dynasty was seriously unworthy of his name.

Shen Xi said: "Lin Zhentai said, how does my Ming Salt Law stipulate the sale of salt, and how to define the sin of 'private sale of salt'?" Which one should have the division and yamen to condemn the official guilty? ”

Lin Tingxuan is very familiar with the content of the "Da Ming Law", and he can refer to all the contents of the "Da Ming Law, Hulu and Salt Law", and there is no article that says that salt cannot be sold to the common people.

In the "Da Ming Law", the definition of businessmen is extremely vague, the people can do business, and the businessmen are also the people, and there is no business status.

Lin Tingxuan's charge against Shen Xi was not established.

Shen Xi saw that Lin Tingxuan couldn't speak, and added: "Lin Zhentai, this afternoon this afternoon the official just sold a little salt, and you rushed over in the evening, it seems that you know the situation in the Governor's Yamen well. I don't know what is the connection between the Yamen and the sale of salt, which has attracted Lin Zhentai's concern? ”

Lin Tingxuan's face was full of black anger: "The priest is just supervising the salt class. ”

Shen Xi said: "Supervising the salt department has always been the responsibility of the salt road yamen, since the orthodox year, the deputy capital of the household department and the deputy capital of the imperial history of the inspection department has been patrolling and supervising the salt affairs. Now the imperial history of the salt patrol is still nowhere to be seen, but Lin Zhentai is always seen, which really makes the official suspect that in fact, Lin Zhentai wants to hinder the official errand, so that the official salt in Guangdong this summer cannot be shipped out. ”

Shen Xi's words can be said to be a direct attack on Lin Tingxuan's true thoughts. After Shen Xi arrived in Guangzhou, he had been an enemy of the political envoy and the yamen of the envoy department, and Lin Tingxuan had long wanted to eradicate this milky and undried posterior governor.

Shen Xi said: "This official is just coming to Fujian and Guangdong to suppress bandits on the order of the emperor, Lin Zhentai must feel that this official has a branch, but Lin Zhentai must understand that supervising the salt textbook is within the scope of the official's responsibility, if the official interferes with the supervision of the Yamen to supervise the salt class, then the official must have a good discussion with the priest, who is in charge of this salt class!" ”

Lin Tingxuan sneered and asked: "Ordinary people buy salt, if they besiege the salt field when the salt is being raised, and the people are in turmoil, I wonder if Shen Zhongcheng can afford it?" ”

Shen Xi asked curiously: "The people have salt to extract salt, and they are in good order, so why do they want to besiege the salt farm?" ”

Lin Tingxuan was speechless when asked.

The salt works don't deliberately make things difficult for the people, so the people are full of food and want to attack the salt works?

Shen Xi said again: "However, Lin Zhentai reminded that when the people go to the Panyu Xingshengchang Salt Farm to pick up salt in the next few days, the official will definitely send his own soldiers to go with him, so as not to prevent the people from being unorderly and being accused of disorder." At that time, a few officials patrolling the salt road should also be invited to watch from the sidelines to set the record straight! ”

Shen Xi knew that the officials patrolling the salt road had an affair with the political envoy and the envoy of the procuratorate, and invited them to go with him, just to see if these people dared to distort the facts.

Lin Tingxuan's face first showed anger, and then a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and said: "Many things are not as easy as you think, let's see!" ”

"Let's see, we'll see, someone, send off!" Shen Xi had no respect for Lin Tingxuan, even though he was well-known in Suzhou, Pingle, Guangxi, Zhejiang, and Guangdong.

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Early the next morning, after the post house opened, there were not a large number of people who came to buy salt as expected, only a few people came, and most of them asked the price.

Tang Yin was a little anxious, and when he saw Shen Xi coming out to check, he hurriedly explained the situation he encountered.

Shen Xi waved his hand: "Don't panic, I think it's the clan and the priest, and cooperate with the local government to make some moves." ”

Sure enough, not long after, a personal guard came to report that the government had been ordered by the political envoy to close the gate of Guangzhou in order to prevent the robbers from entering the city under the pretext of robbers plundering merchant ships along the coast.

As soon as the city gate was closed, the people outside couldn't get in, and the people inside couldn't get out, and the people felt that the salt that they bought might be bad in their hands, so naturally no one would come to buy it, and some people even wanted to return it.

Tang Yin clenched his fists: "The political envoy and the inspection envoy are really too deceitful!" ”

Shen Xi sneered: "I have a good plan, he has a wall ladder, it was originally a fighting method between the yamen, why do you deceive people too much?" Come on, prepare horses for the official, and the official will personally inspect the city defense of Guangzhou and the garrison of each city gate! ”

Aren't you going to use the power at your disposal to close the gates of the city and stop me from selling salt?

Then I will use my power to inspect the gates, and when I find that the robbers are in vain, I will have the power to order the gates to be opened.

Who told me that the authority of the governor is already greater than that of your political envoy and the yamen? It is I, the governor, have the final say in the extermination of the robbers, and the political envoys are just cooperating to help me collect money and food.

Shen Xi took the officers and soldiers to inspect the city defense on horseback, and there were countless people along the way.

These days, Shen Xi's prestige in the city of Guangzhou is high, and at this time he has a wound on his body, and he rides a horse with one hand, which is simply a model of not forgetting the safety of the people in the midst of injury.

The people of Guangzhou hurriedly knelt down to praise the "Lord Qingtian" to show their respect for the Governor.

Every time he arrived at a city gate, Shen Xi would go to the top of the city to check the city defense, and after making sure that there were no robbers, he ordered the city gate to be opened.

The people of the inspection department were very embarrassed, and the Guangzhou government and the Nanhai and Panyu county governments said that they had received orders from the political envoy to close the city gates, but now the governors of the three provinces ordered the city gates to be opened after visiting in person.

Which side should I listen to?

"My lord, don't embarrass these small errands, please give an order to the county yamen, and the small ones just obey the orders."

An inspection officer looked at Shen Xi with an embarrassed face from the Jiupin Inspection.

Shen Xi squinted his eyes and said, "That's what the official said is not good, right?" ”

The inspector said: "It's not that it's bad, it's you...... The official is too big, you should not directly instruct the small to do things, you are a big official, you should give orders to the officials of the prefecture and county......"

In Guangzhou Mansion, most of the guards at the city gate are old oilers, and they don't know how much they deduct from the gate tax on weekdays, and there are several levels of yamen behind them to support them, and they are all very rich, and now the governor gives orders in front of them, all of them are perfunctory, and the courage can be seen.

Shen Xi thought to himself, are you really eating idle meals when I, the governor?

"Come on, take down the city defense people. Send people to the capital to command the envoys, transfer troops and horses, and take over the city defense! Shen Xi shouted.

In a word, the people of the inspection department were scared.

The Inspection Department said that it was officers and soldiers, but its essence was a group of people, even if they had weapons, they would only use them as auxiliary soldiers and horses in the event of war.

The guards are different, they are the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, and the equipment of both sides is not at the same level at all.

Strictly speaking, the garrison could not easily enter the city, this was to prevent the army from mutiny, so the errands such as security and defending the city in the city were usually entrusted to the county government, the government office, and the inspection department.

"Adult ......"

The inspector was about to say something, but he was already pressed to the ground.

Even if the people of the Inspection Department are arrogant and domineering on weekdays, they don't dare to directly confront Shen Xi, if they hurt Lord Dufu, they will be beaten at best, and if they are a little heavier, they will be exiled for 2,000 miles, and even more likely to kill their heads and rob their homes.

Li Che is counting on following Shen Xi to make meritorious contributions to suppressing bandits, and he also expects Shen Xi to support him after returning to the court, and now he has everything he wants from Shen Xi. In Li Che's opinion, the stronger Shen Xi is, the more capable this young governor is, Li Che has long coveted the tax at the city gate, and Shen Xi gave him the opportunity to occupy the magpie's nest in disguise.

There was an order from the governor Yamen, all of whom commanded the envoys to send troops, and in less than half an hour, all the gates of Guangzhou City were replaced. At this time, Shen Xi let the city gate open and close, and no one dared to have the slightest opinion.

Shen Xi had not yet left from the last gate in the south of the city to change guards, and the official sedan chair of Meng Chengyuan, the prefect of Guangzhou, had already stopped under the city tower.

The closing of the city gate was an order issued by the political envoy, but the specific implementation was the Guangzhou prefect's yamen, who commanded the envoy to take over the city defense, and the political envoy was inconvenient to come forward as a yamen at the same level, so he asked Meng Chengyuan, the prefect of Guangzhou, to put pressure on Shen Xi. But Shen Xi didn't even give face to Zhang Yuanying, the political envoy of the right, let alone the prefect of Guangzhou?

Meng Chengyuan's brain was full of fat, and before he could get off the sedan chair and salute Shen Xi, Shen Xi directly took the reins in one hand, straddled the horse, and said sideways: "Meng Zhifu go back earlier, so as not to scold this official!" ”

Meng Chengyuan was stunned for a moment, and thought: "I've seen Shangguan arrogant and domineering, but I've never seen such a nobody." How can you be so arrogant and rude without greeting anyone? You're just a grade higher than me! ”

Meng Chengyuan saw that Shen Xi was leaving, so he hurriedly reminded: "Lord Shen, the matter of city defense is not under the command of the envoy, you are in chaos, please correct it in time!" ”

Shen Xi asked puzzledly: "It is clear that the feudal division said that there are bandits coming to the city, and this official, as the governor of the three provinces, ordered to take over the city defense, what's wrong?" Isn't it that Governor Meng wants to personally lead the troops to fight against the pirates and pirates like this official? ”

Shen Xi did have the authority to take over the city defense, and Meng Chengyuan, as the local prefect, had no right to intervene, and even if he wanted to lodge a protest, he could only do so through his immediate superior, the Yamen, that is, the political envoy. Now that the purpose of opening the city gate has been achieved, Shen Xi no longer pays attention to Meng Chengyuan, and waves his hand: "Go back!" ”

Isn't the political envoy capable?

If there are no pirates outside the city, you can say that there are them, so you can secretly contact these bandits, let them really attack the city, and the city gates will be closed as you wish.

But at that time, all the affairs of the city will be taken over by the governor's yamen.

The basic strategy of the Daming, in the event of a war, the city Chinese official is the chief, the military attache is Zuozhi, and the superintendent is already regarded as the largest civilian official in the local area, and the status is far above the clan and the platform, not to mention the prefect, Zhizhou, and Zhixian, in a word, really facing a war, the superintendent is the largest!

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