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Liu Suifeng threw down the paperwork, leaned back on the chair, looked helpless, and said, "Your Majesty doesn't want to take care of things."

Dong Zhining, the servant of the ministry, walked over, and the cover of the official document was facing up, which was an urgent report sent by Jiangnan. [mobile station m.biquwo]

Liu Suifeng pointed to the official document: "Send this official letter to the prime minister, and everything will be disposed of by the prime minister."

Dong Zhining clasped his hands together, he hesitated, he wanted to see what was written in this official letter. During the Spring Festival, the news from Jiangnan became more and more exaggerated, and it sounded like a powder jar there.

None of the people who were dissatisfied with the regent's ascension to the throne went north, and they all gathered in Jiangnan, on the former site of Donglin Academy. Many people are walking around in Fujian, Guangdong, and Sichuan, and Xia Yunyi is still locked up in prison, so he doesn't understand why so many people don't look at him.

Liu Suifeng said lazily: "The people of Taiping Mansion protect the mountain, and Jin Xiaoding, the governor of Nanjing, ordered the soldiers of the Mansion to suppress it, killing 22 people and arresting 230 people. ”

"What?" Dong Zhining was shocked, "Stirred up a civil change? ”

Liu Suifeng sat up and stretched out his hand: "Forget it, I'll go by myself, lest the sect minister send someone to pass me on later." He took the official document from Dong Zhining's hand and hid it in his sleeve, walked to the door and shouted: "Prepare a sedan chair"

The big sedan chair was bumpy, and no wind could penetrate at all, so it was very comfortable to sit in. After walking for about two quarters of an hour, the sedan chair fell to the ground.

The six departments of Shangshu Province are in one council, although it is one, but the area of the yamen of each ministry is very large, and most of the ministers come to meet the prime minister to make a sedan chair. I don't dare to go below the waiter, especially if this prime minister is not so similar to the person, it is better to be honest.

Liu Suifeng stepped down from the sedan chair, and the guard in front of the Shangshutai Yamen greeted him, because he saw Liu Suifeng's purple official robe. If the principal comes here, the treatment is completely different.

"Please tell the prime minister, Liu asks to see him with the wind."

"Lord Liu, and later."

The guard returned after entering the door and saluted, "Lord Liu, please." ”

Shangshu Taizhong solemnly looks like a mourning hall, and occasionally you can hear the sound of turning the pages of a scroll. The floor was carpeted, and everyone walked quietly.

Liu Suifeng didn't like it, he felt that it was even more depressing than the Taihe Palace.

"My lord, Liu Shangshu has arrived."

Zong Mao's voice came out, "Please." ”

There were people waiting in the room, and Zong Mao sat behind a desk, holding a document in his hand and handing it out: "Send this to the household department immediately." ”

The squire took the paperwork and retreated.

Zong Mao got up and smiled at Liu Suifeng, waved his hand and said, "Liu Shangshu, please take a seat." ”

Liu Suifeng is the only person in the six Shangshu who can make him stand up to greet him, they are not only superiors and subordinates, but also old acquaintances.

Zong Mao sat down, his expression a little proud: "The coal mine in Xishan has also been auctioned off for two pieces, 200,000 taels of silver, tax exemption for ten years, and the money for the expansion of the Privy Council this year has been raised." ”

These places used to be the source of property of the clan, and the population of the Great Zhou clan was not large, and the emperor did not open his mouth to reward them, but now they have all been sold.

"Guess who bought it?" Zong Mao's face was mysterious.

However, Liu Suifeng was not in the mood to guess riddles with him today.

"General Xiao of the Duke of Qin, hahaha" Zong Mao laughed presumptuously, "I guess it must be his wife Gu Mei's idea, General Xiao will think of doing business." ”

Liu Suifeng was surprised: "Can he take out so much silver at once?" ”

"He married a good wife, and they sold all the land in Jiangnan." Zong Mao said casually, as if nothing in the world could hide from him.

Liu Suifeng's heart shrank, presented the official document with both hands, and said, "This is an urgent report sent by the Governor's Mansion of Nanzhili. ”

Zong Mao took it and unfolded the page.

After reading it, he threw his face aside as usual, and continued the topic just now: "Daming is not short of silver, and the silver is buried in the ground. ”

"Zongxiang," Liu Suifeng pointed to the official document lying on the table like waste paper, and said, "I'm worried about not making a big mess in Jiangnan." ”

"What's going to be a mess?" Zong Mao came back to his senses, "It's not like you haven't stayed in Jiangnan, the weapon workshop is heavily guarded, and it will be fine." ”

"The armory workshop is heavily guarded...... Liu Suifeng's brain was like a thunderbolt, and Zong Mao had already prepared.

When he came, his heart was like a punctured ball, and it deflated.

"Zongxiang, at the beginning of the Great Zhou, internal and external troubles, Jiangnan is a heavy place for taxation, and the whole body will be affected by Ge Yuan."

Zong Mao looked at Liu Suifeng, who was looking anxious, and said with a smile: "Liu Shangshu is too worried, let me ask you, who do you think is the biggest enemy of my Great Zhou now?" ”

"Manchu Tartars? Chahar Mongolia? Wu Sangui, the king of Zhenxi, or Zheng Zhilong, the king of Zhenhai? He pointed his fingers in the air, shook his head and said to himself: "No, it's those squires who are still hiding their land and refuse to pay their land taxes." ”

"I've been in Jiangnan for ten years, don't you know the virtues of those people. If they want to rebel, let them rebel, and flatten the people who have two ambitions and keep croaking, so why be afraid of those corners? ”

"If they don't fight back, that's the problem."

Zong Mao's last sentence made Liu shudder with the wind. He looked at Zong Mao's appearance, and laughed in his heart: "You are just a prime minister, how can you treat yourself as Your Majesty?"

Throughout the history books, such a domineering prime minister never ended well, and Liu Suifeng almost foresaw Zong Mao's future.

Zong Mao has only ascended to the stage, and many people are expecting or predicting that he will have an accident sooner or later, and Liu Suifeng is not exempt from vulgarity. In fact, they are envious of Zong Mao's position, Zong Mao is gone, and it is possible for others to sit on it.

Zong Mao didn't notice that Liu Suifeng unnaturally showed a compassionate appearance, and continued: "With money and food, the Great Zhou can maintain a strong army, Your Majesty is the hero, the layout is far-reaching, three years later, the north will recuperate and restore the fields, are you still afraid that the world will be uneven?" ”

Liu Suifeng would never do this like Zong Mao, when he was young, the lesson left by his grandfather was that the rafters rotted first, and he must not make too many enemies in the court. Zong Mao's way of doing things is completely opposite to his, after so many years, his temperament has not changed at all.

"If the prime minister has an idea, the next official will retire." He didn't want to stay here any longer.

Zong Mao instructed: "The Taiping prefect colluded with the squires and did not respect the decrees of the imperial court, so please go back and deal with it." ”

"Yes."

Liu withdrew from Shangshutai with the wind. Walking out of the room, he felt his breathing become easier. Such a prime minister is by no means the blessing of the Great Zhou, he must persevere, but he must be careful not to be burned by the heavenly fire brought out by Zong Mao.

"Now it seems that except for the military power, which is not allowed to be touched, His Majesty has put almost everything in Shangshu Province to deal with, is Your Majesty really so lazy?" Liu Suifeng sat in the sedan chair and pondered, in his memory, His Majesty was by no means this kind of person.

After Zhai Zhe ascended the throne, the image in his heart gradually became blurred, and many things gradually became clueless.

"Sure enough, the power of the Son of Heaven is unfathomable"

In the second year of Zhaowu, in March, Suzhou weavers refused to pay taxes for chaos.

Jin Xiaoding, the governor of Nanjing, asked Li Laiheng to lead the army to bloody suppression, killing 230 people, implicating 42 squires in Nanzhili, all of whom were deprived of their fame, and the whole family was assigned to the Hetao to raise horses, which shook the government and the opposition.

In April, Zuo Ruo, the governor of Shaanxi Province, led his army to the outside of Hanzhong City, and Wu Sangui, the king of Zhenxi, personally handed over the city defense.

In April, the court ordered the descendants of the Zhu royal family to enter the city of Beijing, gave them a grange to raise, and were not allowed to leave without permission.

Yushi chased Prime Minister Zongmao like a hornet in the court, and the emperor avoided the key points and talked about him left and right.

Ma Shiying pulled a group of scholars from the Fushe and eastern Zhejiang to find Yao Qisheng, who was also from eastern Zhejiang, to help. However, the Privy Council was busy recruiting troops and arranging the food and grass for the army to fight in the fortress, and did not give the slightest opinion to Shangshu Province.

Zong Mao returned to the mansion triumphantly, and once this incident passed, no one in the world was not afraid of the prestige of his Zongxiang country.

After the beginning of spring, there are too many things, and today the monks of the Metropolitan Procuratorate are arguing, and they don't even eat lunch, and even the emperor is hungry.

As soon as he entered the door, he shouted to the butler: "Prepare the meal quickly" and added at the end, "Another pot of wine"

He was hungry and in a good mood, so he asked for food and wine.

When he returned to the house and sat down, he took off his official robe, and there was a sound of footsteps outside the door.

There was only one person in the mansion who dared to walk like this in front of him, and Lu Ying pushed the door in, stared at him and said, "Master, there are guests in the mansion today." ”

"Got guests?" Zong Mao stood up, there was never a shortage of guests in Xiangguo's mansion, but who was the person who could make Lu Ying treat each other like this?

Lu Ying's brows smiled into a crescent moon: "Brother-in-law is here"

"Ji Hong?" I don't know when it began, maybe there were too many things, and Zong Mao rarely thought of this person who was closer than a brother. After the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Jinyiwei and Dongchang disappeared, and the names of Ji Hong and Zhao Yucheng were not included in the court's rewards, and these two institutions were far from being as arrogant as the previous dynasty.

Zong Mao was overjoyed and beckoned; "Please come here, just let him have a few drinks with me."

Today, Ji Hong and his wife Yongying came to Xiangguo Mansion together. The two sisters have endless things to say together. Green pearlescent and magnificent, graceful and luxurious; Yongying was dressed plainly, looking much older than her twin sisters, and it was heartbreaking to see Lu Ying.

Seeing Zong Mao's casualness, Lu Ying said angrily: "You are Xiangguo, just scorning your brother-in-law like this." ”

Zong Mao waved his hand again and again: "You don't understand, I just want to have a few drinks with him, if I prepare a banquet for him, it will be contemptuous." ”

Midori giggled and went out like a hen that had just laid its eggs.

In less than half an hour, Ji Hong's figure appeared at the door, not smiling, his face as stiff as a bluestone slab.

The housekeeper personally led the servant to serve the food, he was very discerning, and when he saw that the master was going to entertain the guests, he added four dishes and a pot of wine.

"I haven't seen you for a long time," Zong Mao beckoned Ji Hong to sit opposite him: "I have endless things to do every day, and I don't know where you are all day." ”

Ji Hong sat down, easily slapped the mud seal on the wine jug with one left hand, and filled the wine glass in front of him.

"I'm only in charge of the outside affairs now, and the affairs in the court are in charge of the East Factory." His voice was low, "But I know that the civil uprising in Jiangnan was deliberately induced by you. ”

Zong Mao picked up the wine glass and said, "You and my brother haven't seen each other for a long time, what are you doing in the court, come and have a drink." "Take a bite down your neck. The emperor loved to drink Shanxi's bamboo leaf green, and the ministers in the court also loved to drink bamboo leaf green.

Ji Hong didn't move his wine glass, and said: "I know, Zhao Yucheng will definitely know, Zhao Yucheng knows, Your Majesty will know." ”