As a result, Zhu Youzhen could only wait, waiting for the Tianhu Army to carry out a large-scale sweep and purge in the local area, the purpose was to be the officials elected and appointed by the Ming Dynasty, although most of the places that could be taken over had become a scorched earth.

But at least in terms of security, it needs to be adequately guaranteed.

Otherwise, how to talk about the development of Liaodong, not to mention that Zhu Youzhen knows that Liaodong can be described as a treasure-like place, and there are not only a large number of high-quality iron ore and coal mines buried underground, but also an excellent hotbed for the future industrial development of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, it is especially important to have complete control over the local area now.

...

"Abolish Caoyun? Converting to sea freight? "The officials of the Bo Division of a city in the Fujian Provincial Government of Daming have written a letter exposing the dark fortune of Daming, and passed it up layer by layer through the clean government supervision network set up by Daming throughout the country.

It went all the way to Zhu Youzhen's hands.

Looking at the fold in his hand, Zhu Youzhen's eyes flickered, and Wang Chengen, who sent the fold on the side, also showed a bitter face.

This errand, why is it him every time.

If something good happens somewhere in the imperial court, it would be a good thing for you to hand over the excerpt to me.

But now, under Zhu Youzhen's powerful and drastic reforms, there are already countless excerpts of all kinds reported in various places every day, and many eunuchs need to carry them on their shoulders, and even use baskets to send them to the palace.

However, most of these folds will not be read by Zhu Youzhen.

On the contrary, like now, Zhu Youzhen will be particularly attentive to the Daming problem.

Carefully read the folds in your hand. Zhu Youzhen is more and more frightened!

Every year, all parts of the Ming Dynasty need to supply about 20 million or 30 million stone of grain to the Jingshi to supply the population consumption of the Jingshi and the border soldiers.

It's just that now, thanks to the continuous transportation of overseas grain to Beijing through the port of Tianjin Port, there has been no shortage of grain in Daming Jingshi for a long time, and even Zhu Youzhen asked Xu Guangqi of the Ministry of Agriculture.

In the area of Jingshi Zhili, a large number of grain depots directly under the Ministry of Agriculture are set up.

It is used to reserve the surplus grain after the consumption of the Beijing division and the military rations, as the food reserve of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youzhen did not pay much attention to the grain collected by the household department every year in accordance with the agricultural tax.

But now it seems.

Zhu Youzhen's inattention allowed a large number of moths to smell the opportunity to make profits.

Caoyun up and down for two and a half years.. In total, about 12 million stone of grain needs to be transferred. Of these, about 5.5 million stone grains ..

Yes..

Deplete?

Zhu Youzhen's expression instantly froze, nearly half of the grain will be lost in the transportation?

Is this still shipping?

This whole one is paid for by the imperial court, and it is a timed gift package for all places along the way!

Such a large consumption is obviously not in line with the logic of transporting grain, and more importantly, the proportion!

Half of the grain will disappear for no reason in this process, even a fool can see that there must be something strange in this, not to mention Zhu Youzhen, who is familiar with the current official style of the Ming Dynasty?

You must know that although the transportation of the Ming Dynasty contains a large number of shipping boatmen and laborers.

But even then, there is definitely not so much attrition.

It can be said that there is no doubt that Zhu Youzhen doesn't even need to ask someone to verify this.

You just need to sit down.

In the household department, the number of origins and the final amount of grain depots is checked.

You can clearly examine all of this.

"Call Guo Yunhou for me!" When he said this, Zhu Youzhen almost clenched his back molars.

In the midst of the twists and turns, Zhu Youzhen was already able to see that this official of a certain city in Fujian Province.

It's tried his best not to say it too directly, but Zhu Youzhen still understands.

Cao Yun, sea freight.

It is no longer a simple question of which mode of transportation is more beneficial to the imperial court.

Rather, there is a huge corrupt group behind it.

Waiting for Zhu Youzhen to open all this!

But before that.

Zhu Youzhen needs to find Guo Yunhou first. His predecessor was the treasurer of the imperial court.

..

When the eunuchs in the palace arrived at Guo Yunhou's house, Guo Yunhou was eating at home.

It's not a feast.

Because today, several old friends from his hometown came to the capital to visit him, a senior official from his hometown.

Having a simple meal at home as a treat is really nothing to Guo Yunhou.

"Lord Guo is now the pride of our ten miles and eight towns, and the state and county lords often miss Lord Guo!" A middle-aged man, fiddling with the dishes and chopsticks in his hand slightly, raised his head and said flattering to Guo Yunhou.

As soon as these words came out, another person on the side also hurriedly picked up.

"Not to mention the lords of the state and county, they are the adults of the provincial capital! Who can't come to our township, first visit the former residence of Lord Guo! ”

Guo Yunhou smiled while pinching the chopsticks with his hand.

pressed down and said: "The words are serious, the words are serious, I am also on an errand for the imperial court.."

Due to the regulations of the imperial court.

Officials in Beijing are not allowed to drink heavily on weekdays, so today is a light dinner table.

There was no alcohol involved.

Rao is like this, the master in charge of the spoon in Guo's mansion has first-class craftsmanship, and it also makes everyone eat with a fragrant taste.

"Lord Guo.. Alas! Don't you know, now our family is poor! ”

Although there is no wine to go through three rounds, there are also dishes that have five flavors.

Seeing that the time was almost up, one of the escorts spoke at the right time.

Guo Yunhou turned his head to look at the man, and said with some puzzlement: "How can this be? How can there be no money in my hometown? When I went back a few years ago, many officials there told me that many relief houses funded by the yamen have now been set up in all the prefectures and counties."

"Alas! What can be counted as a few reliefs, and now the imperial court. Alas! ”

Seeing that the man stopped abruptly when he talked about the imperial court, Guo Yunhou didn't want to ask more, but after thinking about it.

Now it's a family feast, and there are no outsiders.

"It doesn't hurt to talk about it. I also hear about the changes in my hometown.."

Seeing that there was room in Guo Yunhou's words, the man followed Guo Yunhou's words and said: "Now the yamen of the prefectures and counties are not having a good time, and the imperial court said that the local prefectures and counties are allowed to meddle in business for some matters related to the well-being of the people."

"The yamen in our county took the opportunity to organize a lot of grain stores, after all, this is about the people, and the most important thing is food."

Guo Yunhou nodded in agreement and gestured to continue.

"But who knows, now that the spring breeze of reform in the imperial court has also blown to our small place, as soon as the affordable grain of the imperial court comes, no one will be willing to buy the grain of the yamen, but the grain in the grain store opened by the yamen is also purchased with real money.."

"This move has caused a lot of losses to our little place..."

As he spoke, the man sighed fakely, and then observed Guo Yunhou...