As mentioned earlier, Cao Huachun is a relatively gentle person, but today, even a person of his personality can't help but want to scold his mother and beat people. "Open the house and build teeth!" These four words are easy to say, but the meaning contained in them can definitely scare people. Because as long as you are in the officialdom, you know what these four words mean.

Kaifu Jianya, that is, Jianya Kaifu, also mistakenly known as Kaiya Jianfu or Jianfu Kaiya, refers to the ancient high-ranking officials who accepted the emperor's orders to open the government office (establish the yamen) and set up the banner (signboard) to handle the military and political affairs they managed.

The power of the official who opened the government is very great, he can freely appoint and dismiss subordinate officials, and even has the right to formulate and implement some laws and policies, which is the special treatment and prominent honor of the princes and magnates and meritorious ministers.

Because the power of the officials of the Kaifu Jianya was so great that some unpredictable things often happened, since the rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, it has been rare for the imperial courts to grant such great power to any official.

As soon as Cao Huachun heard Yue Yang put forward this mention, he immediately remembered the word "feudal town separation" that appeared in the Tang Dynasty.

Cao Huachun gritted his teeth and asked, "Lord Yue, do you know what your last condition smells like?" ”

"Of course I do." Yue Yang said lightly: "That's why I said it now." ”

"It can't be!" Cao Huachun categorically refused: "This dynasty has never given any official the right to open a government and build a tooth since the defeat of Taizu, what is the majesty of my Ming Dynasty in this case?" ”

"The majesty of the Ming Dynasty?" Yue Yang smiled and said, "Gonggong Cao, don't be joking, is the Ming Dynasty still majestic now?"

Jiannu is just a barbarian state, with only hundreds of thousands of people and no more than 100,000 soldiers. But several times in the Ming Dynasty into the land of no man's land, ridiculous I Ming self-proclaimed Heavenly Dynasty, the people are tens of thousands, but there is no way to take this little fanbang. Hundreds of thousands of troops only dared to follow the butts of less than 10,000 Jiannu from afar, and did not dare to fight. What's even funnier is that the number of people in my Yongle period in the Ming Dynasty was only 50 million, but the annual income was 30 million taels of silver, but what about now? The number of people has reached 10,000,000, but the annual income is only 4 million, which is less than 20% of the Yongle years, isn't this too ridiculous? In this regard, how can Gonggong Cao teach me? ”

"This ......"

Cao Huachun couldn't help but be dumbfounded, although he was a eunuch, as the chief of the celebrant eunuch, he was also a person who read poetry and books. Naturally, I am familiar with history, and although I really want to refute it, the facts are the facts, and it is not a few rhetoric that can be confused.

Seeing that Cao Huachun was silent, Yue Yang said with a smile: "There has never been anything in this world for nothing, since the imperial court wants the official to pay taxes, then he must take out the corresponding things in exchange, one million quintals of grain and 500,000 taels of silver every year." It's not too much to change a marquis and open a house, right? ”

Cao Huachun couldn't help but be angry, "But there has never been a precedent for this matter!" ”

"Isn't there a precedent for giving it to this official?" Yue Yang said lightly: "This time, the group of guys in Liaodong Town who can only eat and can't do things are just following the official to pick up cheap, and one by one they can be added to the official and become a knight, but they only gave the official a Fengguo general and two thousand taels of silver. Isn't it chilling that the emperor has such an unknown reward and punishment? ”

Seeing that Cao Huachun opened his mouth and wanted to speak, Yue Yang stopped him and said: "Don't tell this official that thunder, rain and dew are all the nonsense of heaven's grace, if a monarch and a court can't even distinguish rewards and punishments, who else will work for the court?" The official didn't want to talk nonsense. If the emperor agrees to the above three conditions, then what the official said will definitely be fulfilled, and one million loads of grain and 500,000 taels of silver will be delivered on time every year, and if he does not agree, the official can only say sorry. ”

Yue Yang's words were very straightforward. It's so straightforward that Cao Huachun has nothing to say. He thought for a long time before sighing: "Lord Yue, our family really has no way to agree to your requests, so we can only wait for His Majesty to judge." ”

"It doesn't matter, the official can wait, when the emperor agrees, when will the official order someone to escort the autumn grain and tax silver into Beijing." Yue Yang waved his hand and said with a nonchalant face.

After the two ended the conversation, Yue Yang ordered someone to arrange for Cao Huachun and his party to go down to rest, Cao Huachun lost sleep that night, he lay on the table and wrote an urgent secret report to Chongzhen overnight, writing down Yueyang's requirements, and then ordered someone to send them to the capital overnight.

More than ten days later, that is, on November 23, someone finally came to the capital, this time the person who came was still a eunuch, and this eunuch was even more amazing, his name was Wang Chengen.

As Chongzhen's most trusted eunuch, Wang Chengen's status in the palace is higher than that of Cao Huachun, the chief celebrant of ceremonies, because when Cao Huachun learned of Wang Chengen's arrival, he personally went out to welcome him outside the palace.

Wang Chengen directly found Yueyang after entering the city, and soon Yueyang called the whole government and the generals under his command and the prefect of Hunyuan Prefecture and others to listen to the order, Wang Chengen did not have any nonsense and read out Chongzhen's will directly in front of everyone, Chongzhen appointed Yueyang as the general of the dragon and tiger in the holy decree, the general army of the North Road of Shanxi, the loyal and brave marquis and can be hereditary, in the end, Wang Chengen also announced that Yueyang will have the right to open the government and build teeth.

As soon as the decree was read, the people in the entire mansion began to cheer, especially the generals and officials under Yue Yang's command. The imperial court canonized the Marquis of Yueyang, which means that there is one more nobleman in the Ming Dynasty for more than a hundred years, and more importantly, Yueyang also has the right to open the mansion and build teeth, which also means that from now on Yueyang will have the right to form his own team and appoint officials under his command, and this is not what these officials and generals dream of?

The news in this world always spreads very quickly, and the news that Yue Yang was appointed as the Marquis of Zhongyong soon spread throughout the Ming Dynasty, especially the appointment of this Kaifu Jianya shocked countless glasses, and the entire Ming court began to boil again.

When the news reached the capital, countless officials and imperial historians suddenly came to Zhengyang Gate and knelt down, crying and wailing. At the same time, a letter of honor also flew to Chongzhen's case like snowflakes, and they demanded that Chongzhen take back his life, and arrest Yueyang, a traitor who brought disaster to the country and the people, and escorted him into Beijing.

"How can the thief of Yueyang, how can he be crowned a marquis, and he is even given the right to open a mansion and build teeth?"

"It must be this person who bewitched the emperor, otherwise our dynasty has been unsealed for more than a hundred years, this person just won one or two battles, killed a few Tartars, and was able to be crowned a marquis, we are not convinced!"

Both the people and the government and the opposition have discussed this, and for a time the entire court was talking about it. But Yue Yang, who was in the spiral nest, did not move, and it was very much what you said about you, and I did what I me.

As for the criticism between the government and the opposition, Chongzhen and several ministers of the cabinet did not come out to refute the rumors, until Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun, who came back from the decree, entered Beijing with a convoy of one million loads of grain and 500,000 taels of silver, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty suddenly realized that the root of their feelings came from here.

Unlike the capital that was full of discussions, the people of Shanxi North Road had a welcoming attitude after learning that Yueyang had been appointed by the imperial court. After all, the benefits that Yueyang has brought to the people of the North Road are real, since Yueyang ruled the North Road, vigorously develop the people's livelihood, crack down on banditry, encourage farming, and with the gradual release of high-yield seeds, the people's lives have gradually become richer.

The thoughts of the common people are the purest and simplest, whoever can give me a good life I will support him, since Yueyang has brought everyone a good life, everyone will naturally support him.

Today, the front gate of Yue's Mansion was bustling, and a large group of civil and military officials gathered at the gate of Yueyang's mansion.

Cao Youqian, the housekeeper of Yue's Mansion, commanded two subordinates to take off the plaque of the Fengguo General's Mansion, which had just been hung up a few days ago, and hung a large plaque with gold dust writing "Zhongyong Marquis Mansion", and then a loud firecracker sound sounded in front of the mansion.

All the subordinates are smiling, because from today on, they are the descendants of the Hou Mansion, with this identity, no matter where they go in the future, as long as they report the name of the Hou Mansion, they will look up to him, with this identity, how can everyone not be ecstatic.

Yue Laifu, Shunbao, Hu Laosan, Wu Chengfeng, Hailou, Wuqing, Chen Zhi, Chu Di and other generals came from all over the country to congratulate Yueyang. And Jiang Xin, the prefect of Hunyuan Prefecture, Zheng Fakui, the prefect of Yingzhou Prefecture, and other officials also rushed to the Hou Mansion without pulling one.

In the morning, Yue Yang, who was wearing a vermilion python robe, a jade belt around his waist, and a black gauze hat on his head, walked to the door with the support of more than a dozen personal soldiers and personally welcomed everyone into the mansion.

Looking at Yue Yang with a smile in front of them, everyone was surprised to find that Yue Yang now had reached the point where they needed to look up to him, both in terms of identity and power.

Looking at Yueyang, who was full of majesty not far away, Zheng Fakui, who had specially come from Yingzhou Mansion to congratulate him, couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion.

More than four years ago, Yue Yang was just a small sour talent, and the Yue family was just a landlord who was forced by the Wang family, the Lin family and the Li family to be ruined, but who would have thought that in just four years, this young man who was almost beaten to death would grow up step by step, and now he has become a Hou Ye.

This is the hereditary Hou Ye, according to the stingy nature of the old Zhu family, this is not much easier than the flowering of the iron tree, it can be said that today's Yueyang has become a potential.

While pondering, Zheng Fakui saw that Yue Yang was walking towards his people, Zheng Fakui quickly straightened up with the people around him and bowed to Yue Yang, "Xia Guan and others have seen Master Hou!" (To be continued......)