Chapter 173: Reprimand

But those businessmen did not dare to do this, the vast majority of businessmen are very shrewd in this regard, although they are only businessmen, but the sense of smell is still quite keen, and they know very well that Yu Xiaotian and the government will be in a very tense relationship next.

But they have a strong sense of profit-seeking, and at the same time, it can be seen that in fact, Zou Weilian and the imperial court have not much way to take Yu Xiaotian now, Yu Xiaotian has a heavy army, and controls a large number of naval divisions, there is no opponent on this sea, as long as they still want to eat the bowl of rice of the sea merchants, then they can't offend Yu Xiaotian, so these businessmen are very knowledgeable, and at this time they stood on Yu Xiaotian's side and took the initiative to show favor to Yu Xiaotian.

Moreover, this matter was very troublesome, and some officials even directly wrote to the imperial court, impeaching Yu Xiaotian for committing crimes, disrespecting the officials, and demanding that the imperial court remove Yu Xiaotian from his post as the chief soldier and take away Yu Xiaotian's military power.

These people can be said to be standing on dry land and watching the excitement, and they don't care whether the court dares to do this or not, whether Zou Weilian dares to do it or not.

They just followed the coaxing, feeling that a martial artist like Yu Xiaotian actually dared to challenge the majesty of the governor head-on, which was simply intolerable, the governors were all civilian officials and represented the interests of the scribe group, and Yu Xiaotian was a military general, representing the interests of the warrior group.

For more than 200 years in the Ming Dynasty, it has always been the civilian officials who rode the military attaches and suppressed the military generals, when did the military generals dare to be so arrogant, kick their noses in the face, and directly embarrass the governor?

So this is absolutely intolerable to those literati, not only many scholars and officials in Fujian have written and impeached Yu Xiaotian, but even many civil officials in other places, after learning about this, are also very sympathetic to Zou Weilian, and they also follow the trend and impeach Yu Xiaotian, demanding that the emperor severely punish Xiaotian.

At the end of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Yu Xiaotian once again became the focus of discussion in the court, and almost the vast majority of court officials pointed the finger at Yu Xiaotian, eager to spray Yu Xiaotian to death on the spot.

A few months ago, he personally praised Yu Xiaotian as the pillar of the country, but within a few days, Yu Xiaotian poked such a big basket and made himself a scholar in the world.

In fact, after he carefully sorted out this matter, he had already sorted out the context, and the new governor of Fujian, Zou Weilian, was obviously not as good as Xiong Wencan.

When Xiong Wencan was in Fujian, although there were often Fujian officials who wrote to impeach Yu Xiaotian, but on the whole, many things were just empty words, saying that Yu Xiaotian was flying and domineering, but Xiong Wencan said that there was no such thing, and he also defended Yu Xiaotian everywhere, and in the end, those impeachments of Xiaotian were also under Xiong Wencan's maintenance, and they were all gone.

But when Zou Weilian went to Fujian, Yu Xiaotian immediately turned his face ruthlessly, and stripped Zou Weilian's face on the spot in the lobby of the governor's yamen, and roared in the public hall to make trouble in the governor's yamen.

The reason for the matter seems to be attributed to the arrival of Zou Weilian, due to special reasons, the normal military salary that should be allocated by the Fujian Domain Treasury for the soldiers under Yu Xiaotian's command was cut off, and there was no money to allocate the pension for the fallen soldiers who went north to quell the rebellion this time.

This is why such a big drama happened, and the scholars and officials between the entire government and the opposition pointed the finger at Yu Xiaotian, and there was a great posture of not pulling Yu Xiaotian off the horse and vowing not to give up.

But after all, there are still people in the DPRK and China who speak for Yu Xiaotian, because this time Yu Xiaotian was in the chaos of Denglai, and he worked beautifully, showing his strong military talent and ability to govern the army.

Now the Ming Dynasty is smoking everywhere, it can be said that it is the time to employ people, a military general like Yu Xiaotian is now quite rare, if it is because of this matter, it will be strictly dealt with by Yu Xiaotian, it is difficult to guarantee that Yu Xiaotian will not be separated from the imperial court, and if he wants to use it again in the future, who knows if he will work as hard as this Denglai counterinsurgency.

Therefore, in the court, there are still some people who understand at this time, and they did not take the opportunity to fall into the well and join forces to attack Yu Xiaotian, but stood on a more objective point of view and spoke for Yu Xiaotian.

And this time Zou Weilian is indeed at fault first, although the shortage of salary is very common in various places now, but this shortage of salary, but also to see whose salary is missing, thinking that people like Yu Xiaotian are going to other places for the court to quell the turmoil, but there is a lack of salary for the soldiers and horses under his command, which is indeed a bit chilling.

So this matter can't all be blamed on Yu Xiaotian, from this incident, it can be seen that Yu Xiaotian cherishes his generals very much, and does not hesitate to turn against Shangguan, but also strives for the interests of his subordinates.

Today's Ming generals, like Yu Xiaotian, cherish the soldiers under his command so much, there are not many people, in fact, Chongzhen also understands very well, these guys who are military generals, all love money as life, and there are many people who drink the blood of soldiers, which leads to the lack of combat power of the Ming army, many times the soldiers are unwilling to work for the imperial court, and even many border troops, because of the long-term lack of salary, many people simply surrendered to the exile army, and even took refuge in Jiannu, and sang a duet with the court.

So for this matter, Chongzhen is quite embarrassed, if he doesn't punish Yu Xiaotian, these trolls will never give up, but to deal with Yu Xiaotian, he throws a mouse bogey, and another point is that now Xiong Wencan's side is in a hurry to let Yu Xiaotian quickly lead his troops south, go to the Liangguang Sea, and clear the Haikou.

If you deal with Yu Xiaotian now, I am afraid that it will hit Yu Xiaotian's enthusiasm next, so Chongzhen is quite embarrassed for this matter, and asked the cabinet ministers several times, but these people also have their own opinions on how to deal with Yu Xiaotian's troubles with the governor's yamen, some people ask for severe punishment, and some people think that it is not easy to punish with the big plan.

In the end, Chongzhen had to take a compromise approach, made a decree, and verbally reprimanded Xiaotian, so that Yu Xiaotian closed his door to introspect during the Spring Festival, but on the other hand, he also told Zou Weilian that at this time, it was necessary to focus on the big plan, and the military salary of the soldiers and horses under Yu Xiaotian's command should be guaranteed by the Fujian Domain, so as not to chill the hearts of the soldiers.

Before the Chinese New Year, the holy decree arrived in Fujian, Yu Xiaotian pretended to receive the decree to thank him, closed the door to thank the guests, and asked him to think about it behind closed doors on the grounds that the holy decree did not receive guests, and accompanied his family at home.

Yu Xiaotian is by no means a stupid person, although this time the court issued an order to reprimand him, but this slap looks very high, but it only falls gently, the whole thunder is heavy and rainy, and the punishment of him is not painful at all, which fully shows that the current court is quite jealous of him, and also wants to rely on him and want him to continue to work hard for the court.

For this reason, Yu Xiaotian asked Lin Yiyang to write a recital for him during the closed-door thinking, pretending to play the imperial court, and doing a self-examination, which can be regarded as admitting his mistake in this matter, but in fact, there is nothing substantial.

Let's not talk about how busy Yu Xiaotian is, and say that Xiong Wencan has been very tormented during this time, after Liangguang took office.

During his time as an official in Fujian, his life was still quite leisurely, although there would be some thieves from time to time, but he had Yu Xiaotian at hand, as long as he said hello, Yu Xiaotian would soon be able to help him settle things, but after arriving in Liangguang, he found that it was really not fun here.

Although there are also a lot of garrisons in Liangguang, but this side has been peaceful for a long time, and the soldiers and generals stationed in Liangguang have rarely experienced battles, and the sailors do not cultivate, and the strength and strength of the sailors in the Liangguang area are very weak, and if you want to improve the strength of the sailors in a short period of time, you have to spend a lot of silver.

However, it is precisely in the area of Guangdong, which is now quite rich, that because of the lack of food and salary in the imperial court, the provinces of the Central Plains are now in chaos, and many places have become a red land at all, and the government cannot collect much tax, let alone raise any salary.

Therefore, the imperial court now mainly focuses on the provinces south of the Yangtze River to obtain fiscal revenues, including Nanzhili, Huguang, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong, and 70% of the current fiscal revenue of the imperial court can be said to come from these provinces.

As a result, the burdens of these provinces are quite heavy, the common people are miserable, and the officials are not comfortable, and every summer and autumn are busy with them in order to collect taxes and raise salaries.

A lot of the money and grain collected had to be immediately transferred to Nanjing, and then transported to the direction of Beijing, although the merchants and officials here were so rich that many officials took the opportunity to make a windfall, but the local finances were not very rich, and it was a task that Xiong Wencan could not complete in a short period of time to create a warlike sailor.

Therefore, he could only pin his hopes on Yu Xiaotian, and in August, he had already sent someone to send a letter to Yu Xiaotian in advance, informing Yu Xiaotian of his thoughts, and asking Yu Xiaotian to help him.

In addition, in order to let Yu Xiaotian lead the troops south to help him, he personally went to the imperial court and asked the imperial court to allow Yu Xiaotian to lead the army back to Fujian after quelling the Denglai Rebellion.

finally brought Yu Xiaotian's troops back to Fujian, and then it was made that Yu Xiaotian made a big fuss about the governor's yamen, Xiong Wencan learned the news, and angrily slapped the table in the study and scolded Zou Weilian for being confused, delaying his big event.

When he left Fujian to take up his post in Guangdong, he specifically told Zou Weilian, who replaced him, how to treat Yu Xiaotian, but this Zou Weilian obviously didn't take his words to heart, he actually walked on the front foot, and stopped the military salary of Yu Xiaotian's soldiers and horses on the back foot.

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