Wang Chengen was quite surprised, he didn't expect that Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen would agree to the recommendation of Fan Jingwen, the first assistant of the cabinet, when he had already informed Li Tianjing of his special status.

Waiting for the end of the court meeting, Zhu Youzhen directly asked Wang Chengen: "Are you surprised, surprised why I so readily agreed to let Li Tianjing serve as the prefect of Songjiang?" ”

"Back to the emperor, the slave and maid are indeed puzzled", Wang Chengen is a minister, and he is regarded as Zhu Youzhen's domestic slave, so he naturally calls himself a slave and a maid.

Zhu Youzhen smiled faintly: "This Li Tianjing thought that he had reached an agreement with the wealthy families of Songjiang Mansion, and then by following the path of Fan Gelao, he would be able to become the prefect of Songjiang Mansion smoothly, but he didn't know that the praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches were behind, and the people of your Dongchang would follow this Li Tianjing at that time, and let Ma Jixiang be in charge of this matter, remember who Li Tianjing had been in contact with in Songjiang Mansion, and when the time comes, the people from Dongchang will directly pretend to be pirates and get rid of all these big households who have contact with Li Tianjing!" There was not enough manpower, so I took my hand to transfer the Yan Yingyuan Department of the Guards stationed in Shanghai County! ”

Wang Chengen couldn't help but ask: "Your Majesty, don't you investigate?" ”

"The snakes are out of the hole, why investigate again, since they dare to use assassination to deter me, I can also carry out assassination to deter them, if they don't follow the rules, then everyone should not follow the rules! However, Li Tianjing doesn't have to get rid of this person, let him continue to be in charge! ”

……

And at this time, Shi Kefa came over: "Your Majesty, Zhang Zhengchen impeached Fan Jingwen, the first assistant of the cabinet, in the matter of the matter, Fan Jingwen is old and faint, and he is negligent in the case, thinking that Your Majesty, you should not cover up Fan Ge too much because he is an old minister!" ”

After Shi Kefa finished speaking, he looked at Zhu Youzhen, since the introduction of the commercial tax in the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, almost every month there have been officials impeaching Fan Jingwen, the first assistant of the cabinet, because Fan Jingwen is the proposer and leader of the commercial tax levy and criticizes Fan Jingwen, and Zhu Youzhen, as the emperor, will support Fan Jingwen and denounce the impeachment of Fan Jingwen to a remote area as a magistrate.

But now that Zhang Zhengchen is doing this again, Zhu Youzhen did not get angry, but said to Shi Kefa: "Stay in the middle and don't send it first, and then show it to me in a month, I will give instructions in person!" ”

Shi Kefa nodded, he seemed to realize that Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen's attitude towards Fan Jingwen had changed.

Zhu Youzhen was indeed a little disappointed in Fan Jingwen, from the previous tax incident to the current recommendation of Li Tianjing, Zhu Youzhen had to admit that although Fan Jingwen was his entourage official and did not have much difference with his own political views, Fan Jingwen was obviously intellectually deficient and lacked the acumen of a politician.

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Li Tianjing took the boat to Songjiang Mansion, he is proficient in Western studies, and he also knows the abundance of profits that overseas trade can bring, and he also knows that going to Songjiang Mansion today to serve as the prefect is like managing the salt administration, it is all fat, the key is that His Majesty has made a clear decree, and the officials of the household department will be selected from the prefects of Songjiang Mansion.

Soon after he was appointed as the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture, Li Tianjing came to the North Wharf of Muddy Ferry and met with the eunuchs on both sides of Huangpu, such as Xu Erlu, Lu Renchang, Pan Yunlong, and Jiang Hai.

"Congratulations to Li Tongzheng for his ascension to the throne!"

Lu Renchang first bowed his hand to Li Tianjing, and the rest of the eunuchs also congratulated him.

"Where, where, if it weren't for your help, this official would not have this opportunity, here it should be the official thank you, please rest assured, since Li is the governor of this office, he should give you a justice, but please also contact the official in the capital and the official to quote the text and the aid is, after all, many of them are Huangzhuang's shops."

Li Tianjing said with a smile.

At this time, Pan Yunlong slapped the table angrily: "Now Your Majesty is as wanton and extortive as Emperor Shenzong back then, not to mention the collection of commercial taxes, and now even the fields of our official gentry will be taken away!" Do we want to live, I owe it to my grandfather to sacrifice his liver and courage for his Ming Dynasty! ”

Brother Pan said cautiously, and now the people everywhere in Dongchang are carefully heard;

Whether it is the resumption of shops and land this time, or the policy of banning commercial taxes in the future, it needs to be considered in the long run;

Your Majesty's prestige is now in full swing, and there are hundreds of thousands of elite divisions under his command, how dare we have the slightest objection, and now this recovery of shops and land can only make a fuss from Wu Jiayin, from Li Futai's negligence and Wu Jiayin's excessive law enforcement during his tenure as prefect, encroaching on a lot of civilian land, and then by the Yanguan as Olympic aid, His Majesty can't help but not agree to Li Futai's suggestion;

After all, Your Majesty also wants to ease the relationship with our officials and gentry, otherwise, why would Ruan Dayue's sparse officials and gentry be reprimanded by Your Majesty, which shows that Your Majesty is actually afraid of us. ”

As soon as Xu Erlu said this, Jiang Hai took over: "It's good to be jealous, our gentry are so easy to provoke, last time he Zhu Youzhen occupied the position of righteousness, no one dared to say anything, but he can only collect taxes in the area of Yingtianfu, who in our Songjiang Mansion and even other places in the world is not easy to evade taxes, what can he do to us." ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, and listen to Li's words, Chongzhen seventeen years, the Ming Dynasty was almost wiped out by Li Zicheng and even Jiannu, if it weren't for His Majesty's southward movement to raise the training and keep the half of the rivers and mountains in the south of the Yangtze River, you and I will not be here unharmed to criticize the current affairs, although Your Majesty is not in every way, but in the end it is you and me who are the kings, and the collection of commercial taxes is also a helpless move, otherwise how to raise troops, it is difficult to continue to increase agricultural taxes, so that the world is still broken, and the officials of the Jiangxi Party and the Zhejiang Party in the DPRK support Your Majesty to increase the commercial taxAt present, even if we want to make a fuss about Wu Jiayin and recover the land shop, we can only take back the non-Huangzhuang shop, and we can't anger Your Majesty, and the commercial tax must continue to be paid, and the policy of banning the commercial tax is not impossible, we can wait until the crown prince ascends the throne. ”

Li Tianjing said a few words with a smile.

"What Li Futai said is very true, everything should be done slowly, and now His Majesty relies on the Zhejiang Party and the Jiangxi Party and officials from the north to preside over the new policy, but this world is still the most officials in our southern Zhili, and when the prince ascends the throne, there is no worry that the power of the dynasty can return to the hands of our Nanzhili officials, but now that the prince ascends the throne, will he really abandon the new policy?"

Xu Erlu asked Li Tianjing as he spoke.

"Xia Guan once served as a lecturer in the East Palace of His Royal Highness the Prince, specializing in arithmetic, the prince has a gentle personality, obedient and obedient, respects the teacher and is benevolent and filial, Mr. Pan's brother Pan Hanlin is also the prince's master, the prince is quite obedient to Brother Ling's words, and he is also deeply worried about His Majesty's mercantile policy today."

As soon as Li Tianjing said this, Pan Yunlong also came out with a smile to corroborate.

At this time, Lu Renchang came out and proposed in a low voice: "Why don't we follow the example of Wuzong and Xizong and let the prince ascend the throne as soon as possible?" ”

"Although this move is dangerous, there are many gentry who hate Your Majesty for collecting business taxes, and there are no dead soldiers, but this matter must also be considered in the long run, and the most important thing at the moment is the fields and shops in Songjiang Mansion."

Xu Erlu said and made a gesture to Li Tianjing.

(End of chapter)