Chapter 236: Stabbing the Knife
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Wu Zhiwang, the governor of the three sides, had been ill for almost half a month, and from the end of July to the beginning of August, he finally felt better for a while, so he convened his officials to discuss the matter.
After saying a few things one after another, Wu Zhiwang looked at Xu Liang, who was wiping his nose, and glanced at Zhang Fengqi, the governor of Guyuan, who was sitting on the side, coughed lightly, and said: "Lord Xu, about the wartime tax in Guyuan, Zhang Fengqi of Guyuan Zhizhou has some ideas, and the governor also agrees. ”
Xu Liangden stopped his hand, was stunned, and looked at Zhang Fengqi of Guyuan Zhizhou suspiciously.
Zhang Fengqi, the governor of Guyuan, smiled and made a gesture to all the officials in the hall, patted the set of official robes from the fifth grade on his body, and said solemnly: "Your Excellency, Your Excellency, Your Excellency, and a few more people who participate in politics, senators, good adults." Regarding the fact that Pingliang Tongzhi Xu Liang Xu intended to collect war taxes in Pingliang Mansion, although Xia Guan had some opinions at first, but after thinking about it, Xia Guan understood that Lord Xu's approach was still correct. Not only can it quickly restore the shortage of money and food in Pingliang, but also speed up the progress of recovering Pingliang City, which is a great good thing for the country and the people, and the lower officials are very much in favor of it. However......"
Speaking of which, however, Xu Liang knew that the point of his words was coming, so he couldn't help but glance at him, snorted secretly, and listened quietly.
"However," Zhang Fengqi continued, "for the collection and distribution of the Guyuan wartime tax. The lower officials thought that there was still something inappropriate. ”
"Oh?" Xu Liang snorted disdainfully, raised his eyebrows and asked, "What does the inappropriateness in Zhang's mouth mean?" ”
Guyuan Zhizhou Zhang Fengqi ignored the disdain in Xu Liang's tone, and arched his hand towards Wu Zhiwang, the governor of the three sides at the top: "Right now." The wartime tax of Guyuan was collected by a yamen called the Pingliang Prefecture Taxation Bureau, and the silver accounts collected did not go through the Guyuan Prefecture Ya. The parents of Guyuan Prefecture are not clear about collecting more and collecting less officials, which is a big inappropriateness. ”
Xu Liang snorted coldly again, and was extremely disdainful of Zhang Fengqi, the two-sided and three-knife Guyuan Zhizhou, when the wartime tax was arranged, the few three prefectures and counties under the Pingliang Prefecture, Jingzhou and Zhenyuan County, were actively collecting, but the Guyuan Prefecture Yayang was in violation.
Now that he saw that there was unplanned income, Zhang Fengqi sharpened his head. Want to drink with a cup of leftover soup?
How can you be so shameless as a human being?
"Second," Zhang Fengqi's eyes glanced at Xu Liang, a hint of pride flashed in his eyes, and he said: "Wartime tax, wartime tax, as the name suggests, is a temporary tax that will only be levied in a state of war readiness, and the main purpose of collecting silver is to enrich the garrisons in various places, so as to recover Pingliang as soon as possible." However, as far as the lower officials know. The wartime taxes collected in the three counties of Jingzhou, Zhenyuan and Guyuan had all been used on an army of the Liang army. The lower officials thought that this was extremely inappropriate. The Pingliang garrison is not only the Liang army, but also the Anton Zhongwei in Pingliang Mansion. Of course, Commander Ye of Anton Zhongwei had already led his troops to Xi'an Mansion, so I won't mention it. However, as the seat of the governor of the three sides, Guyuan still has an army, needless to say the governor's personal barracks, and the guerrilla general Li Yingbu stationed in Guyuan is also a long-term defense force in Guyuan Prefecture, and the wartime taxes collected by Guyuan Prefecture are not spent on these two armies. Isn't it too much to favor one over the other? Could it be that in the eyes of Lord Xu, there is only Liang Jun and no court? ”
This is quite strict. The Shaanxi ministers sitting in the hall suddenly changed their faces, and the Shaanxi political envoy asked Xu Liang in a deep voice: "Lord Xu." What Mr. Zhang said is the truth? ”
Xu Liang's lungs were about to explode. This Zhang Fengqi, as Xu Liang's nominal subordinate, did not directly raise his opinions to himself, but suddenly made a difficult attack at this kind of meeting where the governor, political envoys, political participants, and senators were all present, accusing Shangguan, such a way of doing is really hateful!
Xu Liang took a deep breath, glared at the smug Zhang Fengqi with cannibalistic eyes, and arched his hand to the political envoy: "My lord, regarding the first article that Lord Zhang said, at that time, because of the first wartime tax collection in Guyuan Prefecture, the officials of Guyuan Prefecture did not collect it evenly, and there was a lot of resistance. ”
"Well, it is not impossible for the wartime tax to be directly collected by the Pingliang Mansion." The political envoy is an old bureaucrat in the end, he knows the doorway inside, nods slowly, and says: "Then why is it that all the wartime taxes and silver collected are allocated to the Liang army, but the other garrisons have one or two grievances?" What is the explanation of this Lord? When the political envoy asked this, his eyes were a little aggressive, with a bit of interrogation.
When Xu Liang heard this, his hatred for Zhang Fengqi increased a little. He pondered for a while, sighed heavily, and said bitterly to the high-ranking officials in the court: "Your Excellency doesn't know, if it wasn't for the Liang army of the lower officials, it was because the two places of Jingzhou and Zhenyuan of the lower officials were the closest to the Pingliang City occupied by the thieves, and they were harassed and threatened by the thieves from time to time, and more than 4,000 soldiers were killed and wounded in battle. Alas, you also know that there has been a great drought in the northwest for many years, and the crops in the fields have not been harvested, and the people's taxes have been reduced again and again, but they still can't collect them, and the treasury of Pingliang Mansion is already clean, and even rats are not willing to patronize it! The salaries of those Liang soldiers can still be in arrears, but the pensions of those soldiers who died in battle, and the medical expenses of the war-wounded soldiers, must not be in arrears! ”
When the adults in the hall heard this, they thought about it and nodded slowly.
Seeing this, Xu Liang's expression became a little more sad and indignant, stretched out a slap, counted the five slender fingers on it, and sighed: "But do you adults know? The first wartime tax silver collected in July was less than 5,000 taels in total, of which Guyuan Prefecture collected less than 500 taels! With such a small amount of silver, it is not enough to deal with the wounded, dead, sick and disabled of the Liang army, where can it take care of other armies? ”
Xu Liang said that when Guyuan Prefecture received less than five hundred taels, Zhang Fengqi, the governor of Guyuan, twitched ugly.
Xu Liang finally said aggrievedly: "Ladies and gentlemen, if it is not for the lower officials to favor the Liang army, it is really not possible to take care of other armies for the time being." He clenched his fists and arched his hand towards Wu Zhiwang, the governor of the three sides, "Master Wu, you know the situation in Pingliang Mansion best, you can make decisions for your subordinates." ”
Wu Zhiwang, the governor of the three sides, listened to Xu Liang's words, and felt a little ashamed in his heart, secretly annoying that he should not believe the nonsense of Zhang Fengqi, the governor of Guyuan, and actually suspected that Xu Liang took the opportunity of collecting wartime taxes to enrich his own pockets. He couldn't help waving his hand and said, "Ahem, what Master Xu just said is also true." Now it seems that what Lord Xu did was also a last resort. ”
"Xiaguan Xie, Lord Mingcha." Xu Liang hurriedly patted his ass.
Governor Wu's face turned a little red, and he said to Xu Liang embarrassedly: "It's just that Lord Xu should also pay attention to proportions in the future, whether it is the Liang army or the Guyuan soldiers, they will all contribute to the recovery of Pingliang in the future, and Lord Xu should treat everyone equally!" ”
"Yes, Xia Guan understands." Xu Liang responded.
"Well, that's it." Governor Wu said.
"My lord," Zhang Fengqi jumped out in a hurry again, and he said anxiously: "The right to collect this wartime tax should still belong to the Guyuan Prefecture Ya, right?" The three classes of officials in that state government are all natives of Guyuan, and they are familiar with the situation, and it is convenient to collect them......"
"Master Zhang doesn't need to say more!" Wu Zhiwang, the governor of the three sides, interrupted him, frowned and said: "The tax and silver collection of Guyuan is still collected by the people of the Pingliang Mansion Taxation Bureau, hmph, the dignified Guyuan Prefecture, less than five hundred taels of tax and silver were collected in July, and Lord Zhang also dares to say that the third-class officials are familiar with the situation?" ”
Zhang Fengqi choked on the spot, the corners of his mouth twitched a few times, he wanted to say something, but finally gave up in despair. Xu Liang sneered, and the anxious Zhang Fengqi scolded: Xiaomi, you still want to fight with me, you can't hurt you!
After the meeting ended, Xu Liang secretly made up his mind to try his best to get rid of the thorn of Zhang Fengqi, the two-faced and three-knifed Guyuan Zhizhou, who likes to stab the knife in the back, no matter how bad it is! Seeing that Hong Chengchou, who was participating in the politics of Shaanxi, accompanied by the hope of the Governor's Mansion on the three sides, turned to the inner courtyard of the Governor's Palace, he hurriedly chased after him and shouted: "Lord Governor, stay here, and the lower officials have something to report." (The novel will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued)