Returning to the prefect's yamen, looking at the high-spirited Yang Lin, Qian Bangqi said: "My lord, today's whole ceremony is so good, in the past, everyone held good men and not soldiers, but now I see that the soldiers have received such honors, the soldiers are quite energetic, and everyone's senses of the soldiers have changed slightly." ”

Yang Lin laughed, looking quite proud.

Qian Bangqi thought for a while, and reminded in a reminding voice: "Ruzhen, today's oath is very good, and everyone is very excited to hear it."

But on the way back, some people picked on the eggs and said that although the oath was good, they did not say that they were loyal to the emperor and the Ming Dynasty. ”

Yang Lin's face changed suddenly, he looked at Qian Bangqi, shook his head for a long time and said: "Qian Yushi, others slander my volunteers, others pick bones with eggs, you are the supervisor of the volunteers, why don't you refute it?"

To serve the country with loyalty is to be loyal to the country, to the Ming Dynasty, and to the emperor. ”

Qian Bangqi shook his head again and again and said: "My lord, although this is so, this is different, the country is not the same as the Ming Dynasty, just like the Barbarian Qing They are also a country, Zhang Xianzhong They also claim that this is a country." ”

Yang Lin laughed, almost laughed out of tears, and then smiled: "Brother Qian, why are you so sour?"

We've been together for half a year, I think you're still a pretty knowledgeable person, why are you so sour now?

I am the guest of honor of the Shu Wangfu, the prefect of the Ming Dynasty, the general, why did you get Zhang Xianzhong, and you got the Manqing, do you say it is reliable?

Do you want me to be loyal to Zhang Xianzhong, to the murderous demon Dorgon?

Also, didn't Yue Wumu also say that he was loyal to the country? Could it be that the people of the time accused Yue Wumu that this country was not necessarily the Great Song Dynasty, but could also be Dajin?

Brother, this is the abbreviation, this is for the convenience of speaking, just like poetry, it is concise, and it gives people a catchy feeling. ”

Qian Bangxin shook his head again and again, but he didn't seem to find any way to refute it.

Fan Wenguang, a fellow acquaintance next to him, admonished: "My lord, in the past two days, Ma Gan, the governor of Sichuan, and Zeng Ying, the deputy general, have sent envoys one after another, asking them to allocate 50,000 loads of grain according to the agreement. ”

Yang Lin was shocked, glared at Qian Bangxin next to him, looked like he was going to eat people, and shouted: "This, this, I initially promised to receive five thousand quintals."

On the same day, Zhang Dingguo came to attack, and Qian Yushi sent an envoy to Chongqing, promising that if the other party attacked Hezhou, we could pay 10,000 loads.

But Qian Yushi returned, Ma Gan and Zeng Ying disagreed, and Qian Yushi was so angry that he was ready to impeach them above.

On the occasion of the bloody battle in the city, Ma Gan and Zeng Ying sat on the mountain to watch the tiger fight, and there was no appearance of sending troops to rescue at all, after Zhang Xianzhong withdrew from the army, his troops only attacked Hezhou now, how could he have come to 50,000 loads of grain? ”

Qian Bangqi smiled awkwardly, shook his head and said, "My lord, having said that. But Ma Gan is the governor of Sichuan, and I heard that now Ma Gan is now working with Liu Liangchang, the chief of the eastern Sichuan government, and Zeng Ying, the deputy general, to impeach the adults, saying that the adults are openly making peace with Zhang Dingguo, what kind of verbal agreement, and advocating what kind of alliance to destroy the captives.

It is said that adults are leviing taxes on the local government, collecting salt taxes, collecting income taxes, and collecting mineral taxes without permission, and that the taxes collected by adults in a year are two or three times more than in normal years.

My lord, Ma Gan is a Shangguan, we can't do it anyway. ”

Yang Lin was furious, took off his helmet and threw it on the ground, and said in a hoarse voice: "Shangguan, don't want this kind of Shangguan, just like Shi Jinchen is honest on the surface, but in fact he is a big corrupt official, who has embezzled 100,000 taels of silver for more than ten years.

Under his rule, Wang Chaoyang's troops could not pay military salaries for several months, and there was a mutiny.

If this kind of corrupt officials and corrupt officials are not eradicated, there is no hope for the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty.

Impeaching me, you have all seen it, everyone has seen it. I recruited Zhang Dingguo, hoping that the two families would unite to fight against the Manchu Tartars, and when the barbarian Qing retreated, I declared to the Great Western Army that if I continued to do evil and did not go north to fight against the Tartars, I must lead my troops to expel them at that time.

Extort excessive taxes and levies? I am an upright tax, and I have not collected any more than what should not have been levied. You have also seen that the Tian Fu, Ding Fu, Shang Fu, and Guan Fu in the jurisdiction were all set by Gaozu, and I didn't levy any more points.

It's just that in the past, local bullies took advantage of the tricks, and the officials were corrupt, and I collected back the past corruption of the bullies and corrupt officials, of course, these offended those bullies and corrupt officials, and of course these small corrupt officials wanted to find big corrupt officials to denounce me.

Reason goes all over the world, and it is difficult to move an inch without reason, what is there to worry about. Since Ma Gan and Zeng Ying impeached me, I will also impeach them. ”

immediately wrote the impeachment recital, and couldn't help but say that people took it to Qian Bangqi, Fan Wenguang, and Zhao Sixuan to sign it.

Although Qian Bangji, Fan Wenguang, Zhao Sixuan and others felt inappropriate, they had to sign on it.

Qian Bangqi and Fan Wenguang were important members of the shogunate of the governor's mansion of the four provinces in the past, and Zhao Sixuan was the same person of the Shunqing Mansion of the Ming Dynasty in the past, and pulled these three people into the water, which is equivalent to pulling Wang Yingxiong, the governor of the four provinces.

Before the impeachment chapter was issued, the military attache defending the city came to report, Wang Yangxi, the son of Wang Yingxiong, the governor of the four provinces, Fan Yixuan, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and Liu Chaozong, the general of the Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces, and Liu Liangchang, the political officer of eastern Sichuan, came to Shunqing to mediate the dispute with Ma Gan.

After welcoming everyone into the lobby and sitting down, Liu Liangchang arched his hand and said: "General Yang is a young talent, and the local governance is well-organized, and now he has defeated Zhang Dingguo's 30,000 soldiers and horses, which is really gratifying." ”

Yang Lin stood up and saluted back: "Liu is really cute to participate in politics, but the wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it."

Xuan wholeheartedly does something for the common people, but he is jealous of his colleagues, resented by his enemies, and not tolerated by his superiors.

No, some petty rumors spread rumors, saying that our volunteers are colluding with the rogues.

There are also some people who even spread rumors and make trouble, saying that I have expropriated and extorted money in the local area, making the people's livelihood miserable.

Yes, some profiteers have ruined their families and are in constant fear.

is like that Gou Weiyi, the government and businessmen colluded to sell illicit salt, and was finally speculated, so of course I can't live in fear. ”

Wang Yangxi smiled and said: "I haven't seen whether the prefect colluded with the rogues or whether they were rampant.

But along the way, the people along the way are still living and working in peace and contentment, there is very little abandonment in the fields, the place is in order, and the people are still living and working in peace and contentment. ”

Yang Lin arched his hand and said with a smile: "Prince Wang, my lords, Qian Yushi and Fan Tongzhi were both governors of the four provinces and supervisors of the Shogunate in the past.

As for the collection of taxes, the collection of those taxes, and how to collect them, although I discussed with you, I made a final decision, and how to implement them is still the responsibility of Fan Tongzhi. ”

Wang Yangxi's face changed greatly, Qian Bangqian and Fan Wenguang were both high-ranking officials of the Governor's Office of the Four Provinces in the past, and in just two sentences, they had a relationship with the Governor's Office of the Four Provinces, and all this made people refute it.

Qian Bangqi and Fan Wenguang are both upright gentlemen, and of course they testified for Yang Lin, which corroborates this.

When the Great Western Army came to attack and could not get the support of friendly and neighboring troops, it was first agreed to use the rhetoric of the alliance to destroy the prisoners as a delaying tactic, and when both sides were exhausted, they hoped that the other side would go north to fight the Tartars.

These are all facts, Qian Bangxin answered truthfully, although he often disputed with Yang Lin in the past, but that was mainly in terms of specific implementation.

Most of what Yang Lin did was still beneficial to the country and the people, and now he is above the lobby, of course, he defends it.

Arbitrarily expropriated, Fan Wenguang seemed more reasonable, although the amount of levy was much more, but the level of levy was much lower.

In the past, the field tax was levied to two or three yuan, but now there are two kinds of field tax, and after the re-clearance, it is levied according to the normal annual tax, and the three salaries are not charged at all.

1 bucket of rice per mu of fertile land and 6 liters per mu of dryland field.

In the past, Ding Fu was levied to 5 yuan, but now it is at most one yuan and two cents

These are all according to the rules, without the slightest chaos.

The slight problem is the taxation of commerce, customs, salt, and income, and everyone is justifiable.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, China has entered the embryonic state of capitalist economy, the local economy is quite developed, there are more than 10 bazaars in large counties (even more than 20 in Wu County in Suzhou at the end of the Ming Dynasty), and there are five or six small ones.

…….

Qian Bangxin and Fan Wenguang used to be high-ranking officials under the governor's mansion of the four provinces, and Wang Yangxi was dumbfounded, but he had to believe it.

Yu Chaozong himself is a soy sauce player, and this time he came just hoping to knock on the bamboo pole, and just hoped that when the Ming army in southern Sichuan counterattacked, Yang Lin would be able to cooperate strongly.

The Ming army in southern Sichuan was originally based on Yunnan and Guizhou to conquer the Great Western Army, but now there is turmoil in Yunnan, the Duke of Qianguo Mu Tianbo has no way to provoke a mutiny, in September of this year, Wuding Tusi Tusi Wu Bikui played: "There is no Emperor Zhu, then there is the Duke of Qianguo" slogan to launch a rebellion, the rebels once captured Da Yao, Dingyuan, Yao'an and other places, now although it has calmed down, but Yunnan is still unstable.

The most bitter ones were Liu Liangchang, the governor of eastern Sichuan, Ma Gan, the governor, and Zeng Ying, the deputy general, who repeatedly told them to knock out tens of thousands of loads of grain no matter what.

Due to the large-scale recruitment of troops, Zeng Ying had 50,000 or 60,000 people under his account, and he consumed a lot of food every day.

After all, after being in the officialdom for several years, Liu Liangchang thought about it and said: "Lord Yang, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, Shi Jinchen is corrupt, and Gou Weiyi sells illicit salt for profit, these are all people's fat and people's ointment.

The amount is so huge, it should be solved to the Sichuan governor's yamen and put at the disposal of the governor. ”

Fan Wenguang shook his head again and again, now the turnover is normal, the main thing is these stolen money, if all of them are released to the governor's yamen, then there will be no money, and in the end it is himself who suffers.

However, Liu Liangchang insisted on handling it in accordance with the rules of officialdom in the past, and repeatedly insisted that the stolen money be handed over to the governor's yamen.

Yang Lin smiled dumbly, shook his head and said: "Liu Shenzheng's words are absurd, Gou Weiyi took it by skill, it was in Shunqing Mansion, it was squeezed from the people of Shunqing, and it should be returned to the people of Shunqing."

There is also the corrupt official Shi Jinchen, who is mainly corrupt in his tenure as the prefect of Shunqing, these are the people's fat and ointment of the people of Shunqing Mansion, and of course they will be dealt with by Shunqing Mansion.

Liu participates in politics, if you like money so much, I think there are more corrupt officials and corrupt officials in Chongqing Prefecture, but do you dare to arrest them?

Or, some people themselves are big corrupt officials, they are so rich that they are very rich, they are not behaving properly, and they are not doing things right, how can they arrest corrupt officials? ”

This sentence offended both of them, Wang Yingxiong is a native of Fuba County, Chongqing (Chongqing Yiguo), and his relatives and friends are very influential in Chongqing.

However, due to the large number of people in each unit, the troops lacked money and food, and the military discipline was extremely bad, and the people rumored that the two were very corrupt.

Now hearing Yang Lin say this, Wang Yangxi's face is dark, and Liu Liangchang insists on following the rules of the past.

There was really no way, so Yang Lin asked Wang Yangxi for military salaries, and the 6,000 volunteers needed 120,000 military salaries every year, and now they were preparing to expand the army to 12,000 people, and 240,000 military salaries were needed every year.

The volunteers are self-contained, and the grain and grass are completely self-sufficient, and now Yang Lin is playing tricks to ask for military salaries, and the other party has no choice.

Yang Lin also occupies morality, he initially promised 5,000 quintals of grain, and later promised 10,000 quintals of grain, but the other party scrapped the contract first, and Liukou came to attack Ma Gan, the governor of Sichuan, and the deputy general Zeng Ying saw death and did not save him.

If they are unkind, don't blame yourself for being unjust, don't say 10,000 quintals of grain, even 5,000 quintals will not be given.

After an afternoon of arguing like this, to no avail.

In the evening, Wang Yangxi found Yang Lin through Qian Bangqi and claimed that he would allocate 10,000 loads of grain no matter what, otherwise he would not be able to make a difference.

And Yang Lin didn't do it, now that the army is in chaos, food is life, how can he easily give it away?

In desperation, Wang Yangxi made a killer move, claiming that if he agreed, he would immediately make Yang Lin a deputy general in northern Sichuan as the special envoy of the governors of the four provinces.

And Yang Lin didn't do it at first, this time he fought against the rogues for meritorious service, and the imperial court should have rewarded him, how could he spend money to buy officials?

Other than that, it's a bit of a bright rise and dark fall.

Although participating in politics supervises one side, it does not have real power like the prefect, isn't that a seizure of power?

Besides, the Volunteer Army had just defeated the Great Western Army, killing more than 2,000 enemies and capturing more than 3,000 people, and its record was far higher than that of the generals in Sichuan.

Zeng Ying's sneak attack was actually named a deputy general, and he defeated the Great Western Army with a clear sword and gun, of course, he should be rewarded by the imperial court.

However, Wang Yangxi was quite insistent, saying that if he did not allocate this 10,000 loads of grain, he would not only not ask the court for a seal, but also impeached him according to the table.

Qian Bangxin and Fan Wenguang continued to mediate, and in the end, everyone took a step back and allocated 8,000 quintals of grain.