The conspiracy of Shandong businessmen naturally cannot be done seamlessly, Yue Yang came to Shandong not only to bring 10,000 elite soldiers, but also to bring a group of secret agents from the mountain division, these days they have been sending a steady stream of information to Yueyang's desk.

Looking at the information in front of him, a sense of déjà vu surged into Yue Yang's heart.

"Huh...... This old guy surnamed Mo is not a little bold, and he actually contacted the businessmen of Jinan Mansion to prepare for a boycott? ”

Yue Yang shook his head a little ridiculously, it was not the first time he had encountered this kind of thing. A few years ago, when Yue Yang first arrived in Hunyuan Prefecture, Fang Jiuming and Fang Yingdi of Hunyuan Prefecture led the local businessmen to make trouble with him once, at that time Yueyang did not hesitate to use the army to suppress it, but at that time hundreds of people were killed and injured, and it became a sensational case, but it is precisely because of this that the businessmen on the North Road of Shanxi have developed the habit of paying taxes under the threat of firecrackers and bayonets. In the future, I will have to open the killing ring every time I pass before I can implement the new policy?

Looking at Yue Yang, who was deep in thought, Jiang He, who was standing in front of him, still said with a gloomy face: "Master Hou, judging from the news obtained so far, everything is done by the old man named Mo Ren, if you don't want to make such a big fuss, it is better to let your subordinates arrest Mo Ren first, as long as there is no other person who is not in the lead, there must be no tricks." ”

Yue Yang shook his head and sighed: "It's useless, it's about interests, and even if we dispose of this old man Mo, those businessmen will continue to fight against us for their own interests." And if we want to push the officials and gentry to pay grain in Shandong, there is a family that can't get around, and they are the largest landlords in Shandong. ”

Looking at Yue Yang's somewhat embarrassed face, Jiang He asked tentatively, "Master Hou...... You said it was the one in Qufu? ”

Yue Yang nodded solemnly: "Yes, it's the Kong family in Qufu!" ”

Hearing this, Jiang He's face also sank. Although Jiang He was not a pure scholar, he also knew that the Qufu Kong family that Yue Yang said was not an ordinary family, and this family was terrible. This is the hometown of Confucius, the sage in the hearts of all Ming scholars, if it is moved here, I am afraid that Yueyang will become the public enemy of all Ming scholars.

After being silent for a while, Yue Yang asked, "Director Jiang, as the deputy director of the Youshan Division, you should also know something about the situation in Qufu, now you tell me about the situation on their side." ”

Jiang He nodded and said, "This is natural, even if you don't say that you are humble, you have to repay you." ”

Then, Jiang He made a detailed report to Yueyang about the situation of the Confucian family in Qufu.

If you want to talk about Qufu, you have to say that the Confucian Mansion here, because the descendant of Confucius, "Yan Shenggong", lives in Qufu County. Nearly eighty percent of the land in Qufu County belongs to the Kong family, and although Qufu County is nominally the territory of the Ming Dynasty, it has actually become the private territory of the Kong family, after all, the vast majority of people in Qufu County have become tenants of the Kong family, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the Kong family is a man of his word in Qufu County. And if Yue Yang wants to carry out a new deal in Shandong, if he can get the support of the Kong family, things will be much easier.

Thinking of this, Yue Yang felt a little nerve-wracking, as the largest landlord in Qufu County, the Kong family owned millions of acres of land. If you really want to implement the integration of officials and gentry, the Kong family will not be able to get around it.

"Alas...... It's nerve-wracking. ”

After Jiang He left, Yue Yang thought for a long time and still couldn't think of anything, but made himself a little dizzy, and finally he decided to go to Qufu in person to talk to the current Confucian family "Yan Shenggong" in person. Strive to get his support.

There are more than 200 miles from Jinan to Qufu, and Yue Yang ran slowly for a day with a thousand personal soldiers, and then came to Qufu County when it was almost dark, but when Yue Yang just saw the city wall of Qufu County, he found that the city gate had been closed. Yue Yang sent Chen Dazhi to call the door, but the answer he got was to let them enter the city again tomorrow morning. This made Chen Dazhi angry enough.

However, Yue Yang didn't care about this, because ordinary cities are like this, and they won't open the city gates at night unless there are special circumstances. The fear is that there will be bandits infiltrating the city and causing chaos.

Looking at the closed city gate, Yue Yang ordered everyone to rest in the forest outside the city for a night, and did not enter the city with Chen Dazhi and dozens of personal soldiers until after dawn the next day, but when Yue Yang came to the Confucian Mansion, he had a closed door.

Confucius Mansion is located in the center of Qufu City, sits in the north and faces south, faces a large pink and white wall, on the left and right sides in front of the door, there is a pair of round carved male and female stone lions more than two meters high. The red-edged and black-lacquered gate is inlaid with a sinister shop, and the "Holy House" plaque with gold characters on a blue background hangs high above the middle of the gate, which is said to be the handwriting of Yan Song, the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty. Just looking at this gate, I felt a solemn aura rushing towards my face.

It's just that Yue Yang didn't come to visit the Confucian Mansion today, when he came to the door of the Confucian Mansion to identify himself to the gatekeeper guarding the door and handed over the name thorn, he waited for half an hour before seeing the gatekeeper come back, and told him in a lazy tone that Yan Shenggong was not available today and asked him to come back another day.

Yue Yang patiently said to the porter: "This old brother, please go and talk to Yan Shenggong again, just say that Zhongyong Marquis Yue Yang has something important to ask to see him, please be accommodating again." ”

It stands to reason that although the status of Confucius Mansion is respected, but Yue Yang, as a prince and governor of Shandong, handed over a famous assassin to see him in accordance with the rules, Yan Shenggong will give him some face no matter what, and this middle-aged man who is the porter of Confucius Mansion will not know this, but today this porter doesn't know whether he took the wrong medicine or menopause is early, so he was stunned not to give Yue Yang a good face, but quickly sank his face and shouted impatiently: "If you don't see it, you don't see it, is Yan Shenggong anyone who can see it?" ”

"Bastard...... You ......"

Chen Dazhi, who has been with Yue Yang for four or five years, has always been a diehard loyalist of Yueyang, and he can't allow others to say that Yue Yang is not, and today when he saw that a mere porter dared to speak to Yue Yang like this, he almost exploded his heart and lungs, and immediately took two steps forward and tightened the handle of the knife to cut this guy. Unexpectedly, Yue Yang stopped him, Yue Yang waved his hand lightly to signal Chen Dazhi to retreat, and then he took a deep look at the porter and asked indifferently: "Let me ask you again, is Yan Shenggong not free today or doesn't want to see Ben Hou now?" ”

Being forced by Yue Yang's blazing eyes, the momentum of the porter, who was still menacing, couldn't help but wither, after all, he was not facing a cat or a dog but a marquis and a provincial governor, and he didn't dare to offend people to death, so he hesitated for a moment before saying: "Yan Shenggong is not available today." You'd better hurry up. ”

Hearing this, Yue Yang's face slowly sank, for several years, no one dared to speak to him like this, and today he tasted the taste of being closed again.

Slowly, he nodded slowly, "Okay, in that case, let's leave, but please also tell Yan Shenggong that it doesn't matter if he doesn't see me today." But I believe it won't be long before Ben Hou and him will meet. ”

After speaking, Yue Yang greeted Chen Dazhi, and the two got on their horses and galloped towards the road with dozens of cavalry.

On horseback, Chen Dazhiwu was indignant, "Master Hou, we only arrived in Qufu after a day's journey, but now people let them go without even giving us saliva to drink, this breath is really unbearable!" ”

"It's nothing, it's just a Yan Shenggong." Yue Yang's eyes narrowed. "Don't worry, soon that Yan Shenggong will see us, drive ......" After speaking, Yue Yang pinched the horse's belly. He rushed out towards the gates......

When Yue Yang returned to Jinan, in a living room in the richly decorated front yard of the Confucian Mansion, the old man Mo Renmo, dressed in a dark green robe, was talking to a fat man of medium stature and about forty years old, this fat man was Kong Yanzhi, the sixty-fourth generation of Yan Shenggong.

There was a modest smile on Old Man Mo's face. Said cautiously: "The fact that the Holy Father of Yan was able to meet the old man when he was busy really made the old man grateful. Originally, the old man didn't dare to disturb you, but this matter is really important. If we don't take precautions, I am afraid that the inheritance left by our ancestors will be destroyed. ”

Yan Shenggong nodded lightly, with a contemptuous smile in his eyes, "Master Mo should not be too anxious, what kind of official gentry is one errand and one food, this is the only absurd move in the ancient times, all dynasties and dynasties have to descend on our scholars, but this loyal and brave marquis has to do this, this is against the scholars of the whole world." You see, as long as we insist on resisting, soon this loyal and brave marquis will run back to his Shanxi in disgrace. ”

"Yan Shenggong, it's not that the old man is talkative, but the old man has heard that this Yueyang has already made this one errand one food in Shanxi, and the emperor is also impressed by the success of Shanxi so he sent him to Shandong, and he didn't come alone, he brought 10,000 troops to Shandong this time. If he comes, we really can't compete with it! ”

Speaking of this, Old Man Mo's old face was full of worry. Speaking of which Master Mo is also a thoughtful person, although he has connected most of the businessmen in Jinan City to prepare for a strike, but he is not blindly going to make trouble, he first opened the door of Ke Zhennan, Ma Ke and Lu Zhili and other bigwigs, and won their acquiescence, and then he came to Qufu to find Yan Shenggong to win the support of Yan Shenggong, as long as these two places support him, then in his opinion, this matter will become more than half. And the development of things did not surprise him, after Yan Shenggong heard that Yueyang was going to implement a new policy in Shandong, Yan Shenggong jumped up as soon as possible, their Confucian family now owns millions of acres of land, if Yueyang really implemented the new policy, then their family will not have to pay a huge amount of taxes every year? For them, who have become accustomed to not paying taxes for generations, this is simply their life.

And what makes Yan Shenggong even more unbearable is that in Yueyang's new policy, the gentry and scholars have to serve the same as ordinary people, which is simply a matter of Sven sweeping the floor for them, although the new policy also stipulates that if you don't want to serve the levy, you can use money and food to offset it, but this is still a very humiliating thing, and Yan Shenggong will not agree to this kind of thing no matter what. Thinking of this, his hatred for Yue Yang immediately began to explode, otherwise he would not have thrown the famous thorn sent by the gatekeeper to the ground and let the porter drive Yue Yang and his party away.

In the end, Yan Shenggong gave Master Mo a loud promise: "You can rest assured, this prince will give the emperor a fold in two days, and denounce the Zhongyong Marquis for not abiding by the ancestral system and disrupting the dynasty......

Half an hour later, Master Mo walked out of the Confucian Mansion with a satisfied smile, until now his heart finally relaxed, he firmly believed that with the support of the Confucian Mansion and the opposition of his own gentry. Yueyang will not be able to move an inch in Shandong, and it may not be long before the imperial court's order arrives, and Yueyang's final fate can only be to roll back to Shanxi.

Master Mo returned to Jinan satisfied, and the strike was also quietly intensified, and the date had been set, just half a month later, and the scale of the strike would also be carried out in the entire Shandong, they wanted Yueyang to know how to fight back if they violated the interests of these gentry and merchants.

"Xianggong, the news has been almost checked. According to the information collected so far, the strike will be held in half a month, and the scale of the strike will be unprecedentedly huge, it is estimated that the whole of Shandong will be affected, these gentry are menacing, you have to be careful! ”

In the study of the governor's yamen, Yue Yang sat on the table and quietly watched the information sent from below, while Li Xiangjun, who served as his temporary secretary, sat aside and reported the latest movements to him in his usual calm tone, but Yue Yang could hear it. Her calm tone was full of worry and unease.

In Li Xiangjun's view, his father-in-law was not good in Shanxi, but he came to Shandong to engage in a new policy, which is simply asking for hardship, after all, Shandong is not as good as Shanxi. Although Shanxi is an important military town, Yueyang itself is a native of Shanxi. Moreover, he has been operating in Shanxi for many years, and he has a foundation in himself, so that he can slowly get one errand and one grain in Shanxi, and now he is not familiar with the place in Shandong. And the local forces here are particularly hostile to him, so it is not easy to do a good job in the new policy.

Looking at Li Xiangjun with a worried look on his face, Yue Yang smiled slightly. Stretched out his hand and gently pinched a small path on her tender face: "What, don't you believe in your father-in-law's ability?" ”

"How so?" Li Xiangjun was startled, and then quickly shook his head: "Xianggong is naturally very capable, and the concubine is convinced of this, but what the concubine doesn't understand is that it's not good for us to stay comfortably in Shanxi, why do you want to come to Shandong so desperately?" ”

Li Xiangjun's words stopped Yue Yang for a while, yes...... Since coming to this time and space, he has been busy, either busy with construction and internal affairs or busy training troops to fight, fighting rogues and fighting Tartars, and then making trouble with the imperial court, originally he was ready to rebel, but in the end he withdrew at the last moment, and then Chongzhen actually bowed his head to himself, and did not hesitate to marry his baby daughter Zhu Yujiao to himself, and then he came to Shandong in a hurry, what is this qiē for? Thinking of this, Yue Yang couldn't help but be a little stupid for a while.

Seeing that Yue Yang fell into a sluggish state, Li Xiangjun couldn't help but panic a little, wanting to wake up Yue Yang, but he was afraid that his father-in-law would blame himself when he came back to his senses, so he could only accompany Yue Yang for a while and didn't dare to say anything. It took a while for Yue Yang to come to his senses. Li Xiangjun saw that Yue Yang finally came back to her senses, and she was so frightened that she said with tears: "Xianggong, I'm sorry, this time the concubine will never ask you such a thing again." ”

Yue Yang looked at Li Xiangjun, who was almost scared to cry, with a warm smile on his face, reached out to take her into his arms, smiled and kissed her on the forehead, and comforted her softly: "You are my daughter-in-law, do you need to be so careful when talking to Xianggong?" Don't worry, Xiang Gong is not angry, Xiang Gong is just thinking about something. The things you asked just now almost knocked Xianggong down, but Xianggong can tell you now, Xianggong still makes sense to do these things. Xianggong asked you, how is Shanxi governed by Xianggong today? ”

"Needless to say." Li Xiangjun, who was leaning on Yue Yang's arms, said without hesitation: "Although it cannot be said that the land of Sanjin today is not the road and the night is not closed, but under the governance of Xianggong, the bandits have subsided, the people live and work in peace and contentment, everyone has food and clothing, compared to other places in the Ming Dynasty, it is already one in the sky and one in the ground." ”

"Hmm!" Although there is no shortage of sycophants around Yue Yang, the fact that this horse was photographed by his daughter-in-law still made him feel a great sense of accomplishment, he nodded with satisfaction and asked: "Now that the emperor has sent Xianggong to Shandong to implement the new policy, this is a job that offends people, and it can also be said to be a thankless job, but Xianggong is still here, do you know why?" ”

"The concubine knows!" Li Xiangjun nodded his head vigorously, with a look of worship in his eyes, "Xianggong is for the people of Shandong, I hope they can also live a good life like the people of Shanxi, it must be like this." ”

"Hehe......" Yue Yang smiled, "Perhaps, Xianggong just doesn't want to see the tragedy of the nomadic invasion of the Central Plains in the land of China again, and the suffering of the farming people is too much." ”

Li Xiangjun frowned and asked puzzledly: "Xianggong, what did you say?" What kind of nomads, what kind of farming people? ”

Yue Yang stroked Li Xiangjun's hair and smiled dumbly: "You don't need to know, you just need to know that Xianggong is doing a good deed!" ”

"Hmm!" Li Xiangjun obediently leaned on his man's arms, only feeling extremely relieved and true, and Yue Yang was also secretly thinking in his heart, since you must stop me from implementing the new policy, then don't blame me for being ruthless! (To be continued......)