"Bang!" A gunshot rang out, and the bullet accurately hit Master Qiu's supporting leg.

Master Qiu, who had lost his center of gravity, fell to the ground all of a sudden, and let out a heart-rending scream from his mouth.

The revolver in Lu Zhu's hand was smoking, and he glanced at Master Qiu with disdain: "If you want to die, you have to say everything you need to say before you die, Governor Yang is offended." Take! ”

As soon as her words fell, two black-clothed men from the Supervision Institute came over, dragged Master Qiu like a dead dog, and left.

"Bold! Licentious! Yang Sichang was so angry that he jumped to his feet, but no one listened to him.

The servants of the Yang family and the guards of the Governor's Mansion seemed to be dead, and no one appeared.

"Farewell!" Lu Zhu put away his gun, turned around and walked out of Yang Sichang's yard.

Yang Sichang watched everyone leave in a daze, as if nothing had happened except for a pool of blood on the ground.

It wasn't until the last man in black left the courtyard for a long time that the servants of the Yang family came to the door of the study tremblingly.

"Get out! All out! Yang Sichang roared angrily, and the servants and family members retreated like a tide.

The words on the wall that Lao Ji Fu Fu is determined to be thousands of miles are still there, but the more Yang Sichang looks at it now, the more he feels blocked. Reached out and tore the words off, tearing them to pieces.

The chessboard was also overturned with his hand, and the best clouds fell to the ground and "crackled" and kept jumping.

Finished!

A quarter of an hour ago, he was still dreaming of entering Beijing, and a quarter of an hour later, Yang Sichang clearly knew that his political career was over.

Arrest your staff today, tomorrow I am afraid it will be you.

Master Qiu guessed everything wrong, Li Xiao didn't want to be the emperor yet. He disarmed, he abolished agricultural taxes, in fact, all in order to kill himself.

As the governor of the five provinces south of the Yangtze River, Yang Sichang has great authority. It can be said that he is the soil emperor of Jiangnan for ten years. Having sat in this position for ten years, he is almost certain that he will be able to enter the cabinet.

Even after Sun Chengzong and Zhang Huangyan, you can touch the position of the first assistant.

He cherished the Zhu Ming Dynasty and believed that the Zhu family was the cornerstone of the Ming Dynasty's orthodox state. When he was in Jiangnan, he always intentionally or unintentionally protected the princes of the Zhu family, and he always protected the officials who read the sage books and tested their fame.

After all, the country has not had Enke for many years, and these people who have been studying Baguwen for ten years are the only remaining descendants of Donglin.

Under his rule, Yuelu Academy and Jinling Academy became the largest colleges in Jiangnan. The schools that Li Xiao vigorously promoted to study modern science basically could not cross the Yangtze River. Even because of Yang Sichang's influence, those schools in Yangzhou, Jiangbei and other places are not having a good time.

People are reluctant to send their children to school, believing that it is a place for the poor and the underprivileged. The students who come out of school are often looked down upon, and even bullied by rich children in gangs.

Ten years have passed, and Yang Sichang once felt that Li Xiao would always acquiesce to the existence of these, after all, these are the orthodoxy of Chinese culture. Sooner or later, all the stuff in the north will be swept into the garbage heap.

Even the land change promoted by Li Xiao has changed its taste in Jiangnan. The so-called land change is just a joint venture between the landlord and the government. After the tax was paid on the output of the land, the government would return a portion to the landlords.

This is more convenient and convenient than the previous landlord directly collecting rent, and there is also a guarantee, do not have to worry about those mud legs and bitter haha to come to their own pleading, and for a while the heart is soft-hearted to give a year of tenant rent to waiver.

But he was wrong, Li Xiao was not acquiescing, but tolerating.

Li Xiao must unite all the forces that can be united in the country and make every effort to ensure that there will be no accidents in the country.

Now that the expansion is over, the Ming Dynasty has no strength to control more land. If you continue to fight, there is a high probability that you will have indigestion.

When his eyes fell on the country, the first person to deal with was Sun Chengzong, who was covering himself. The second is to control Jiangnan to adopt non-violent non-cooperation.

Lu Zhu's shot made him figure it out, and before he knew it, his ideas had a fierce conflict with Li Xiao.

The history of the past 20 years has proved that most of the people who clashed with Li Xiao did not end well, without exception!

"Hehehehehe!" Yang Sichang laughed miserably, it was too late to figure it out.

Li Xiao had no idea of cooperating with him at all, he just wanted to stabilize him, so that he could have a stable rear.

"Get those brutes in, I've got something to say." Yang Sichang commanded, and the eldest son, who was waiting at the door, immediately rushed out like an arrow in his buttocks.

Li Xiao lay leisurely on the recliner and watched the telegram sent back by Luzhu.

"Yang Sichang will come to Beijing in a few days, since you are in charge of the judicial prison, it is up to you to talk to him." Li Xiao handed the telegram of the green bead to Li Hao, who was sitting beside him.

The young Li Hao is already an auxiliary minister of the Ming Dynasty, so young and a hundred years into the cabinet, the Ming Dynasty has been such a person for more than 200 years. Even his elder brother Li Xiao did not receive such an honor.

"I know the eldest brother, but Yang Sichangming knows that entering Beijing this time is a death, will he still enter Beijing? This old guy has been in charge of Jiangnan for ten years and has been the leader of the Donglin Party.

If he ascends to the top of the Yangtze River and shouts, it is inevitable that there will be people who are bewitched by him. If......! ”

"What if? You mean to say he's going to rebel? All right! Let him be made, it is the boil that will come out of the pus sooner or later, and it is better to squeeze out the pus now than to stay in the body.

The sooner his henchmen were exposed, the sooner they cleaned up. It's better than hiding and jumping out to get us in the future.

Besides, what kind of capital does he have to rebel? Just those talents? Hehe, I'm afraid that the first thing they did after the rebellion was to quarrel because of political differences. ”

Li Xiao despised these scholars very much, and Xiucai rebelled for three years. Besides, the guns of the Ming Dynasty are in their own hands, except for all the overseas arsenals in Hebei, Shandong, and Liaodong, where heavy industry is concentrated.

That is to say, if Yang Sichang rebelled with man. They don't even have a bullet!

The security forces, which only have guns and no heavy weapons, are simply sent to death in the face of a division armed to the teeth. In front of the artillery of the first division, the security army is a pile of meat.

"There was a lecture at Yenching University in a few days, and Zhang Huangyan had to let me go. Go for me! ”

"Big brother, this is a little inappropriate. Besides, there are too many things to do in the past two days, and I can't be busy. Not only did Yang Sichang's affairs have to be dealt with, but also the problems found out by the Liaodong Circuit Group had to be dealt with.

You don't know, Liaodong is not calm today. Something ......! ”

"Oh! What happened to Liaodong? Li Xiao opened his eyes and looked at Li Hao very attentively.

Liaodong is the foundation of the Li family and the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. Some of the heavy industries that Daming now has are completely in Liaodong. Among them, half of the output of Daming steel is produced in Anshanyi.

If something goes wrong in Liaodong, the consequences will be unimaginable.

"Hey......! Today's Liaodong can be said to be rampant with corruption. Although the local officials did not have the kind of friends in Jiangnan, because most of them came out of the Liao army, their comrades-in-arms helped each other.

In terms of employing people, nepotism and entrustment of things have emerged one after another. The yamen, large and small, are full of people who come in by all kinds of connections.

Because they have connections, all kinds of promotion opportunities are occupied by them. And those who are really talented can only squat at the grassroots level, and they will not be promoted when they reach retirement age.

Wealthy families often do not hesitate to spend a lot of money in order to let their children enter the yamen and various units.

Corruption in employing people is still one thing, but the waste of all kinds of money and food is gone. Colleagues should be entertained when they come, their superiors will be entertained when they come, and their subordinates will be entertained when they come.

Especially during the Chinese New Year every year, all kinds of group meetings and dinners inside the unit are extremely extravagant. If your unit does a good job, our unit must do a better job. Otherwise, the chief officer will be said to be stingy and faceless.

Not only do you have to eat, drink, and entertain, but you also have to give out some souvenirs before leaving. At the beginning, it was to send out a box of fruits, a few pounds of eggs or something.

Later it was prawns! Pheasant! Big Flying Crab! A unit of a few catties of river crabs will be looked down upon.

But now, the silk in the south of the Yangtze River, the porcelain in Jingdezhen, the Chinese tobacco, and the Wuliangye. It has to be the highest!

Take the people from our hometown Gaiping Electric Power Bureau, Wuliangye is no longer drinking, and we have to drink a kind of wine called Moutai in Guizhou.

The mountains are high and the rivers are far away, and they are specially entrusted with the airship of the mail. Regardless of how much the wine is, the shipping cost is a silver coin per bottle. The price on the market, don't even think about it without ten silver coins.

These officials in Liaodong bought boxes and boxes when they feasted their colleagues. Just for the sake of their face, Daming has to consume at least tens of thousands of silver coins every year.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg, more ......! ”

"Tens of thousands of silver coins or the tip of the iceberg?" Li Xiao's heart sank.

Liaodong is the palm of his hand, and it is rotten like this. Wang Tong, Wang Tong, you did a really good job with this errand.

"Have you ever heard of surprise spending?"

Li Xiao shook his head blankly.

"Every year, the budget allocated to the yamen is a certain amount, and if it cannot be spent this year, it must be handed over to the treasury. And after it is handed over to the treasury, next year's budget will be reduced.

Guess what these yamen do! ”

"Spending all this money at the end of the year?" Li Xiao had heard of this, and many departments in later generations did this.

"Spend it out? It's okay to spend it, it's all divided!

They turned the budget that they couldn't spend into a bonus and divided it directly. The money that these yamen should spend is gone, and the things that should be done are not done. Just wait for the big guy to share the money at the end of the year!

Tell me, what's going on like this? The more Li Hao spoke, the more angry he became, and he picked up the tea cup on the coffee table and drank it dry.

"Corruption!" Li Xiao nodded: "Mr. Sun said before that the rule of officials is the real article. Now it seems that he was still prescient. ”

"Humph! These problems are all used to when he was in power. Li Hao was a little hateful.

"I can't say that, Mr. Sun has been with our family for this time. There has always been a war, and Liaodong is our rear base. If the Liaodong officials had been purged at that time, it would have been difficult not to produce some chaos.

At that time, stability prevailed. Only when there is stability can there be sufficient supplies at the front, and the soldiers will have food, drink, bullets and shells. ”

"But things can't go on like this, even if our family has mountains of gold and silver, even if we snatch back countless money from overseas, it won't be enough for so many moth-eaters."

"Yes! It can't go on like this. Li Xiao nodded.

"You should check these things carefully. Don't do it first, conduct a thorough investigation first. You can ask the people of the green beads to help, and you can also ask Xiao Zhan's people to help.

In short, check these shortcomings one by one. After Yang Sichang is killed, the purge will be carried out.

Cleaning up Yang Sichang, Jiangnan will definitely be unstable. Fourth, Jiangnan and the north cannot be chaotic at the same time. The paralysis needs to be removed one by one, but it's okay.

Our brothers' days are long, and there is enough time to clean up the paralysis. ”

"Got it, big brother!" Li Hao nodded, he also knew that the country needed stability, and it was impossible to let the north and south be chaotic at the same time.

Whether Yang Sichang was willing or not, the imperial court still transferred him back to the capital with an edict, although the excuse of going to Beijing to report on his work was perfect. But Yang Sichang knew that going to the capital this time might be more auspicious.

The only thing that can be counted on is whether Sun Chengzong can help say something.

Yang Sichang knew that although Sun Chengzong withdrew from the political stage of the Ming Dynasty. can say that there is still weight, especially Li Xiao is a nostalgic person, and he should not save Sun Chengzong's face.

Therefore, the first thing Yang Sichang did after arriving in the capital was to come to Yuquan Mountain to visit Sun Chengzong in Xiaye.

Unexpectedly, what I waited for for a long time was the news that Sun Chengzong was sick.

"Lord Yang, my lord has been sick for some days. Not only are you gone, but you can't even see your own children and nephews. A few days ago, the big marshal came to visit, but he only sat for less than half an hour and left.

So! You'll come back another day. The old steward said politely, but Yang Sichangsai's red envelope was resolutely not accepted.

Yang Sichang's face was lost, and the only way to retreat had been blocked.

In the officialdom struggle of the Ming Dynasty, most of them have the idea of wanting to see everything after leaving a line. If you are in power today, it is inevitable that you will fall into the pit one day, and everyone will have a time to ask for someone. Could it be that Li Xiao really doesn't even leave a way for himself to live?

He didn't know that Li Xiao would not talk about these boring officialdom rules.

Jiangnan has not developed much for many years, except that the Yangtze River blocks the north-south road. Yang Sichang's yin and yang violations are also important reasons, and Yang Sichang was not removed.

Jiangnan, which used to pay taxes for half the world, will not prosper again.

Jiangnan is too important to sink like this.

Three days after Yang Sichang arrived in the capital, a notice suddenly appeared on the campus of Yenching University, the highest university in the capital.

"Shelling the Donglin Party Headquarters, a big notice of mine"

The people of the Ming Dynasty are getting richer and richer, but in these prosperous days, there is such a person. Sided with the pedantic Donglin Party and wantonly slandered the imperial court in Jiangnan.

They reversed right and wrong, confused black and white, surrounded and suppressed people with lofty ideals who were devoted to the imperial court, suppressed dissenting opinions, practiced white terror, and thought they were complacent.

The prestige of the Donglin Party is long ignorant and corrupt, and the ambition of the imperial court is so poisonous!

Thinking of the apocalypse and the bloody rain of the Chongzhen Dynasty. Their intentions are even more vicious, they want to push the Ming Dynasty back into war and hunger.

The students of the Ming Dynasty, my loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty, do you agree?