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There is one more lady in the house!

It's news to the outside world, but it's not a big deal for Fuchu. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Even many people breathed a sigh of relief, in their opinion, this seems to be a "normal" manifestation of the backhouse.

Men, three wives and four concubines are common!

If you don't have three wives and four concubines, it's not normal. At least in the past, it was a little abnormal to have only one lady in the house, and as for the concubine who died of illness, it was just a concubine who was not worth mentioning.

However, this kind of matter is ultimately a matter of the inner government, and for the outside world, it is at most just a curiosity. Curious about the origin of the second lady, curious about other things.

But when the news reached Guangzhou, it was a happy event for the Cantonese people - the second lady was a Cantonese!

The second lady is from Guangdong!

The current lady may be a mother in the future! For Cantonese people, there is a sense of honor, after all, this Guangdong has not been stained with imperial spirit for hundreds of years.

What, Han Du is not yet an emperor?

It doesn't matter, Zhu Hongwu was also the first Duke of Wu, and then ascended the throne as Emperor Hongwu.

When ordinary people were talking about this "tainted with imperial spirit", Li Ziyuan couldn't be happy at all about the people closest to "imperial spirit" in Guangzhou, for no other reason, and a difficult problem was placed in front of him.

"What kind of thoughts does this Bobai County have?"

Looking at Yu Nianpeng, Li Ziyuan's brows were tightly locked. The Bobai County in his mouth refers to the county governor Ding Shaoli inexplicably handed over a letter of surrender, requesting to return to the Han governor.

In the past two years, he has seen a lot of surrenders, some forced to surrender on the battlefield, some captured, and some sacrificed the city, but there is a premise, that is, the soldiers are in the city, so they have to surrender. But Ding Shaoli is like this, he is a magistrate who took the initiative to "raise the banner of righteousness" without sending troops at all, and he Ding Shaoli is the first!

"Lord Hui, Ding Shaoli of Bobai County is a native of Xiangyang, Hubei, a jinshi in the first year of Xianfeng, because he is not with Shangguan, and has been repeatedly transferred to the state and county, in my opinion, Ding Shaoli must want to seek a career with this!"

Yu Nianpeng said this, smiling bitterly in his heart, this person is really good at "looking for trouble".

"Of course this officer knows why he is! Didn't he come down with the city for the sake of his origin? Isn't it for the sake of Handu? But that's what I'm afraid of! I'm afraid that this will be the end, and it won't end well when I turn back! ”

Why are you afraid?

The reason for being afraid couldn't be simpler, now for the Governor's Office, the most important thing is to thoroughly digest the three provinces, not to take another province, if you take another province, maybe the Governor's Mansion will have to be held to death. Now what Fuzhong wants is to move steadily, not to expand at will as if shaking its foundation.

"But there is no way, didn't this newspaper write that the lord is expanding overseas for thousands of miles, this overseas can be expanded, can't it be exhibited locally? Even there are local voices saying that Fuzhong should level the southwest, set Sichuan, enter the Central Plains, Kejing, and chase the Manchu Qing Dynasty to the ......"

"They know a!"

Before Yu Nianpeng finished speaking, Li Ziyuan scolded.

"We only sent a battalion and a military officer in Ezo, only two companies in Kamchatka, and only one battalion in Borneo, a total of five officers and less than 2,000 troops, that is, there are no ordinary people there who need us to take care of it, just some natives, just take the barrel of a gun, not our own people, what if we kill it? Now, if Guangxi is swallowed, not to mention 13 prefectures, 4 prefectures, 44 counties, 34 Tuzhou, 6 Tuxian, 10 Tusi and 3 chief officials, the gendarmerie alone will have to send no less than 5,000. Where do the officials come from? Now that Fuzhong is not the same as it was at the beginning, how many old officials and officials have been retained in Hunan and Hubei in the past two years? ”

At the beginning, because of the lack of manpower, the government welcomed the old officials with both hands and should be retained, but they didn't trust those people very much, and they didn't trust them very much. After all, many of those officials still had families under the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and not many were willing to keep them.

In the past two years, the government has finally cultivated some usable people, and they have basically been stuffed into the localities, and even the government seems to have some understaff, even so, they still lack experience in governance, so that they have to rely on the old officials, and even the master. Now the local demands of the government are very simple - to use the gendarmes to maintain order and prevent them from surrendering to the enemy. The main job of the county magistrate is to supervise the grain tax, as long as the grain tax can be collected according to the old practice.

However, Han Tu himself has always been dissatisfied with this, even the military government is unwilling to accept the current "nominal rule", although the grain tax tax is important, but the payment of the grain tax tax does not mean that the local government recognizes the rule of the governor's office. The reason why Fuchu can't afford to lose the battle is because of local instability.

"Li Zicheng came out of Xiangyang in just a few months, and he conquered the capital, but what was the result? Shanhaiguan was defeated, if the prefect and county he sent to Shanxi, Shandong, Henan and Shaanxi were killed by the local gentry, or expelled, almost overnight, a few months ago, Dashun Guo, who was still in half of the country, disappeared without a trace, he Li Zicheng was fleeing and fighting, while fighting with the Qing army, and on the other hand, he had to attack the city that had been surrendered before, if not, after Shanhaiguan, how could he Li Zicheng be defeated so quickly? ”

This will Li Ziyuan hate those people for not studying, and he doesn't know what is most important to Fuzhong at all.

"If he Li Zicheng was back then, and he turned Shaanxi and Xiangyang into iron buckets, how could the Manchus seize the Central Plains?"

"But the outside doesn't think so......"

As an adult's staff, Yu Nianpeng said helplessly.

"Not to mention those young and vigorous people in the local area, even people like Ding Shaoli, the magistrate of Bobai County, also feel that it is the time to devote himself, and his letter of surrender is handed over, we can't take it, and we won't accept it!"

Isn't that the truth, nodding, Li Ziyuan said.

"How do you pick it up? After receiving his Ding Shaoli's surrender letter, maybe the Yulin Mansion will hand over the surrender book in a few days, maybe even he Lao Chongguang will also surrender the book, after all, the left and right in the mansion joined the army, and they were all from the governor's background! You say, if Lao Chongguang handed over the surrender letter, would the lord really laugh? ”

That's really not laughing!

Not to mention others, even he Li Ziyuan can't laugh -- because Guangxi is a poor province and its military spending cannot make ends meet, it needs 200,000 yuan from Sichuan, 500,000 yuan from Guangdong, 200,000 yuan from Hunan, and 100,000 yuan from Hubei every year. Guangxi is a burden for Fuzhong at the moment. If it is included in the prefecture, it will need to pay at least 2 million yuan a year -- the government system in the prefecture now spends more money than in the past, and now the counties still have to run schools, and it is estimated that it will not be able to sustain it without 2.5 million yuan a year.

"Whether the lord laughs or not, it really doesn't matter now, but if you don't accept this book, it will really chill the hearts of the world......"

Chill the hearts of the world.

How could Li Ziyuan not know this truth?

It is precisely because of this that he finds it difficult. For others, this is a credit, but Li Ziyuan understands that where is the credit, it is clearly a hot potato!

If it is really what you think, maybe in the end all the blame will fall on you. At that time, everything that I worked hard to manage will be wasted.

"So we can't afford not to take it!"

Li Ziyuan shook his head with a headache, at this time he was envious of the governors in the past, at least those governors had more than a dozen staff members around them, and there were only a few staff members around him, and they all had affairs involved.

However, he did not dare to hire any more staff, after all, the government now has a system of employing people, even as the governor of the honor, he can only hire no more than five staff members on his own, and the cost is still paid from the governor's affairs expenses.

Now this book can't be accepted, and it can't be answered if it is not accepted!

Li Ziyuan, who was in a dilemma, felt even more pain in his head at the thought of being embarrassed by whether to take it or not.

"Pick it up!"

Speaking hard, Yu Nianpeng said in a deep voice.

"Why don't you pick it up?"

"Take it, but there will be trouble!"

After reminding him, Li Ziyuan stared at Yu Nianpeng and said.

"Trouble!"

With his eyes narrowing slightly, Yu Nianpeng explained to the eyes of adults.

"If you don't pick it up, it's more troublesome, the key is to see how to pick it up!"

How to pick up?

Looking at Yu Nianpeng in surprise, Li Ziyuan motioned for him to continue.

"My lord, there are smart people in this officialdom, as long as they understand what we mean!"

"What do you mean?"

"That's right, we must take this book, if the house blames it, when the time comes, you can't afford to take it, but you can take it rashly, it's also troublesome, so we must take it, the key is to receive it quietly!"

"Silently?"

"Yes, my lord, I took his letter of surrender quietly, and publicized it without much fanfare, so that those wise people don't know the meaning of the house?"

If he didn't understand it before, then now Li Ziyuan has understood what Yu Nianpeng meant, his meaning is very simple, that is, to quietly take over Bobai County, and use such a move to tell others that the government has no intention of using troops in Guangxi for the time being, to be precise, Guangxi.

"But you have to know that if this is the case, then Lao Chongguang will touch our hole cards!"

Now whether it is Guizhou, Guangxi, or even Sichuan, the thing they have been most worried about is that the righteous army will use troops against them at any time, and the governors and governors of the three provinces can be said to have already reached the point of "restless food and sleepless nights".

"My lord, this card is going to be revealed sooner or later anyway! Have you counted how long the government has not used troops abroad? If they are as shrewd as they are, how can they not guess the meaning of the house? I heard that Lao Chongguang has now laid off 5,000 brave exercises! ”

"This ......"

Li Ziyuan, who knew that he had a reason for what he said, thought for a moment, then looked at Yu Nianpeng and said.

"Okay, you can do it yourself......" (To be continued.) )