Since he came to Guilin City, Li Yuntian has been staying in the government office, handling the official affairs of Jiaozhi and Guangxi in an orderly manner, and he did this firstly to reassure Li Li, and secondly, to rectify the rule of officials in Guangxi.

As the land of Baiyue, Guangxi has high mountains and dense forests, many ethnic groups, and a large number of local people live, and the Ming court collectively called them "Fanren", so it is difficult to manage since the Tang and Song dynasties, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty do not want to go to this barren place to be officials.

Since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the boundaries of Guangxi are not very peaceful, and there are often riots of Fanren, which makes the Ming Dynasty tired of clearing and suppressing.

In Li Yuntian's view, although the reasons for the riots of those people were varied, there was one thing that could not be ignored, that is, the Ming Dynasty did not pay enough attention to Liangguang and Yungui, which had always been regarded as uncivilized barbarians, which led to the scattering of officials.

Since Li Yuntian was fortunate enough to become the chief soldier and governor of Guangxi, he naturally would not turn a blind eye to the complicated affairs of Guangxi, so he first took the rule of officials in Guangxi as a starting point, and only when the rule of officials clarified the local situation could the situation be stabilized and agriculture and economy developed.

However, Li Yuntian did not rectify the rule of officials in Guangxi with great fanfare, but adopted the method of simmering slowly, first taking Wuzhou Mansion to deter officials in other state capitals.

Obviously, freezing three feet is not a day's cold, if Li Yuntian wants to turn over the old accounts of those local officials, I am afraid that the yamen of all prefectures and counties in Guangxi will stop operating, and how many people can keep their innocence alone in this place far away from the emperor?

Li Yuntian's visit to Guangxi this time was not to settle accounts for those local officials, but to develop Guangxi's agriculture and economy and ease the hostility of the Fan people towards the government.

Therefore, punishing those local officials is not his goal, but only a means to deter those officials, if he can thoroughly investigate the affairs of the various yamen in Wuzhou Prefecture, then naturally he can also find out the dirty affairs in other state capitals, which will be a huge deterrent to local officials.

At the beginning of July of the third year of Xuande, the officials of the Wuzhou Lecture Hall sent by Li Yuntian to Wuzhou Mansion spent more than two months to finally find out the fact that many officials below the prefect of Wuzhou Mansion were secretly corrupt.

What particularly shocked Li Yuntian was that some officials were bold enough to turn their minds into the money and food they had raised for the Xiaowu Army.

According to the field investigation in various prefectures and counties of Wuzhou Prefecture, in order to raise the military funds needed by the Xiaowu Army to quell the rebellion in Jiaozhi, the Wuzhou Prefecture received a total of nearly 100,000 taels of silver and grain from the people.

However, when these money and grain were handed over, they were deducted layer by layer, and in the end, when they arrived in Li Yuntian's hands, they only had more than 5,000 taels of silver and grain.

In other words, the amount of money and grain raised reported by the prefect of Wuzhou to the Guangxi political envoy was only one-twentieth of the total, and the rest of the money and grain went into the pockets of officials of all sizes.

After learning of this, Li Yuntian was furious in front of the chief officials of the three divisions in Guangxi, and immediately ordered the execution of more than 10 people who were greedy and strict, and dozens of officials were sentenced to be transferred to the northwest to fill the army, and hundreds of officials and related personnel were implicated.

No one thought that Li Yuntian would be able to find out the affairs of Wuzhou Mansion so clearly, and they were even more afraid that his resolute and resolute methods would uproot the officialdom of Wuzhou Mansion.

However, to the surprise of those officials, Li Yuntian did not take the next step after cleaning up the officials in Wuzhou Prefecture, but issued an official document to the prefecture capitals, citing that Guangxi was disturbed by bandits, that only half of the summer and autumn grain should be levied, that no new land taxes should be increased, and that Guangxi would be exempted from the Ding tax for one year

In the official document, Li Yuntian emphatically pointed out that the peasant households that had failed to pay in the past should be allowed to make up the arrears of land within five years.

Moreover, Li Yuntian's official document on reducing and reducing the tax on land is not only applicable to the government, but also to the local landlords, so that they are not allowed to collect this year's land rent from the tenants, and the tenants can repay this year's land rent within five years.

As a result, not only can they only collect half of this year's land tax, but they will also lose the Ding tax, and the income of the local yamen will only be one-third of that of previous years.

Although the officials of the prefecture governments in various localities were privately dissatisfied with Li Yuntian's official document, no one dared to raise it, so they could only consider themselves unlucky and honestly find ways to make up for the losses caused by it, so as to maintain the normal operation of the yamen in various localities.

Li Yuntian had long expected that those officials would only complain secretly, firstly, his official document was a move to rest with the people, which was in line with the national policy of the Ming Dynasty, and it was also his duty as the governor of Guangxi, and secondly, the fate of those officials in Wuzhou Mansion was vivid, who could afford to provoke Li Yuntian when they were full, in case Li Yuntian ordered a strict investigation, I am afraid that they would not be able to eat and leave.

In addition, there are small coffers in various prefectures and counties, and officials in various places want to settle things and make things bigger, so they secretly take out a sum of money to subsidize the yamen, so that even if they do not collect taxes for a year, the yamen in various places can continue to operate, and those officials, large and small, have the right to spend money to eliminate disasters.

Moreover, the prefects of the various prefectures in Guangxi would not allow their subordinates to make a fuss about this matter, because they had already received hints from the two political envoys in Guangxi that after this incident, Li Yuntian would not be responsible for what happened before, otherwise, he would ......

Li Yuntian didn't say what would happen to those officials who opposed this official document, but when he heard that Li Yuntian snorted coldly and smashed the teacup on the ground, this immediately made everyone silent, and no one would forget that Li Yuntian had the power to cut first and then play.

Therefore, the prefects of each prefecture had already put down their words early, and if anyone made any unwise moves, then they would have to face their anger first without Li Yuntian taking action.

The people of Guangxi were naturally overjoyed when they learned of Li Yuntian's official document on reducing and reducing taxes on Tian Fuding, and it seemed that they would be able to have a good life this year, and their good feelings for the new governor were doubled.

Among them, the most depressed are the landlords in Guangxi, because of Li Yuntian's official document, they will have no rent to collect this year, but they have no choice, after all, Li Yuntian only asked them to delay the collection of land rent, and they are involved in the bandits in Guangxi.

What is particularly important is that Li Yuntian, the governor, is different from the previous imperial court, although he was born as a civilian official, he was able to enter the earl with his military exploits, and repelled the Jiaozhi rebels in three battles on the battlefield of Jiaozhi, and he has a murderous aura that ordinary civilian officials do not have, which is enough to make people palpitate.

Not to mention, the dozen or so officials in Wuzhou Mansion who were beheaded are the best examples, indicating that this young Dingnan general is decisive in killing, and it is not a wise move to provoke him.

A year's land rent is not a big deal for those landlords, and Li Yuntian will not stay in Guangxi for long anyway, and after he leaves, he will find a way to increase the amount of land rent from those tenants.

However, there were also those landlords who were accustomed to being high-flying and domineering on weekdays who still went their own way, and the result was naturally extremely urged, and they were quickly sent to the northwest by Li Yuntian on the charge of "gangsters" and their property was confiscated.

Under Li Yuntian's combination of soft and hard measures, the people of Guangxi were able to recuperate, and the rule of officials in the officialdom also improved rapidly, and officials of all sizes hoped that Li Yuntian, the evil god, would leave as much as possible, and no one wanted to live this kind of fearful and trembling days.

After entering July, Li Yuntian received two good news one after another, one of which was that the summer grain in the prefecture controlled by the Ming army in Jiaozhi had obtained a bumper harvest, and with the grain transferred by Li Yuntian from other places, the rations of the people were solved in one fell swoop.

Another piece of good news is that the harvest of summer grain in the territory of the Jiaozhi rebels is not satisfactory, which makes the grain shortage in the rebel area begin to intensify, after all, Li Li cannot provide local farmers with grain seeds, farm tools and other help like Li Yuntian, and the grain harvest is naturally inferior to that of the farmers in the area under the jurisdiction of the Ming army.

What is particularly important is that because the Ming army and the rebel army were actually still at war, Li Li did not dare to slack off, maintaining a strength of nearly 300,000 troops, coupled with the rebel army's officials at all levels in the region, which made the shortage of young and middle-aged labor in the rebel territory, which in turn affected the summer grain harvest.

Unlike the people in the Ming army's territory, who were exempted from the field tax, the rebels relied on the land taxes of the farmers in the area under their jurisdiction to feed, so a large part of the harvest of those farmers had to be handed over to the rebels, which made the people still unable to eat.

Due to the bumper harvest of grain in the Ming army's territory, many people in the rebel area were forced to flee the Ming army with their children and daughters.

At the same time, after the rebels took power in the local area, most of the officials had no experience in government affairs, which made all kinds of contradictions in the rebel areas more and more acute, and the local situation became more and more tense, and some large households even broke out conflicts with the rebels.

Faced with this predicament in front of him, Li Li had no good way but to find a way to hold on, because he had to maintain an army of 300,000 before he was named the Tusi of Jiaozhi by Emperor Xuande, one was to protect himself and the other was to put pressure on the imperial court.

I have to say that Li Yuntian's practice of exempting the land tax in the jurisdiction of the Ming Army in Jiaozhi has a very great lethal effect on the rebels, making the hearts of the people in the territory of the rebels fluctuate, who doesn't want to live a good life of food and clothing?

In order to completely defeat Li Li, Li Yuntian is secretly destroying Li Li's foundation in Jiaozhi, as long as he can capture the hearts of the people in Jiaozhi, then Li Li will not be afraid.

Although there was no clear sword and gun, Li Yuntian launched an economic war against Li Li that was enough to kill him, skillfully using the economic advantages of the Ming Dynasty to destroy Li Li's image and status in the eyes of the people, and forcing him into a dead end step by step.