Above the sea.

A large fish jumped up, threw sparkling droplets of water in mid-air, and then fell smoothly into the water.

Flocks of seabirds hover in the sky, looking for the right prey, and once locked on, they swoop down to fill their stomachs.

The fleet of sailors directly under the Governor's Mansion gathered nearly fifty warships this time.

Summoned all the foreign maritime merchants located in Naoli Province.

In order to show the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, even the most conservative courtiers had glory on their faces.

And the officials who originally had a neutral attitude towards the outside world, looking at the huge fleet of the Ming Dynasty and the latest steam warship, the original reservations in their hearts began to loosen.

There is no one who does not like Vega at home and abroad.

In particular, when the prestige of the country spreads, it will bring countless benefits to the empire.

Enthusiasm will naturally arise.

……

The royal family is leading the court officials into a frenzy.

In Yingtian City, Zou Xueyu took the initiative to maintain restraint and calmness.

The imperial court has recently done several important things.

Changsheng, the king of Kaiping County, had already returned to the south with a round of soldiers and horses on a troop transport ship, and continued to preside over the great cause of the southern expedition that the Manchu Dynasty was urging from top to bottom, so that the imperial court could have more land for rewards.

Li Jinglong temporarily entered the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion and entered the cabinet, under Xu Yungong.

Even if he is already the prince of the county, in the end, he still has to pay attention to the first come, first come.

Xu Yungong was the first person in the military and presided over all military affairs in the cabinet, and there was nothing wrong with it, and Li Jinglong was happy not to rush ahead.

The reward for the Northern Expedition has also been completed.

The bones of the soldiers were buried in the mausoleum.

The imperial court sent a cabinet of scholars, and the Ministry of Rites and the Inner Court Yousi held a grand ceremony in the Meritorious Mausoleum and the Meritorious Mausoleum respectively, to comfort the meritorious soldiers in the heavens and enjoy peace, and at the same time to show the world that the imperial court will not forget anyone who has contributed to the empire.

In addition to this, there is also good news from the Inner Palace.

The heir of the country has been added again.

The princess and the concubine are both pregnant again.

This made the officials who were secretly planning to add a few more concubines to the Taisun Mansion immediately shut up, and the original little bit of caution was also hurriedly pressed.

Inside and outside the court, now it looks like a harmonious atmosphere and everything is going well.

But Zou Xueyu, who had just assumed the post of Minister of the Governor of Zhili, had a headache.

The new deal wants to transform, to achieve obvious results, and to uphold the principles of the beginning of the new deal to make the people of Daming rich, and this matter finally fell on his shoulders.

The establishment of Zhili Province and the establishment of the Yamen of the Governor of Zhili were originally for this purpose, as a pilot in the whole country.

How to make the people truly rich.

All of a sudden, it became a big and difficult problem, and it was placed in front of Zou Xueyu.

The Yamen of the Governor of Zhili is like the Yamen of other official offices in the Ming Dynasty.

There are two deputy envoys, as the deputy of Zou Xueyu, the governor of Zhili. In addition, the official positions of the governor of the Zhili Governor's Yamen, such as affairs, experience, zhaomo, school inspection, proposal, prison, and treasury envoy, were established in accordance with the local government yamen.

It's just that the only difference between the Zhili Dao is that it is not like other Dao under the imperial court, there are three divisions.

The Governor of Zhili, the Yamen, is the leader of the Zhili Dao Yiying Affairs, and all the political, military, criminal, civil, and commercial affairs of the Zhili Governor are managed by the Zhili Governor's Yamen.

The power of Zou Xueyu, the minister of the governor of Zhili, is now in his hands, which can be seen from here.

It's just that under the power is the burden, and Zou Xueyu just calmed himself down with just a cup of tea.

This room belongs to the side room next to the main hall of the Yamen of the Governor of Zhili, and it is used by Zou Xueyu on weekdays when he takes a break or wants to meet people alone.

power.

Zou Xueyu was sitting on a chair by the window, with a tea table in front of him.

In addition to Zou Xueyu, there was only one other person in the room.

However, he was not an official of the governor's yamen, but the new Ying Tianfu Yu Dalian, who was originally promoted by the same governor of Tianfu.

"Is the Governor a little too worried?"

Yu Dalian pinched the white porcelain cup in his hand, looked at Zou Xueyu, who had already drunk several cups of tea, and asked with a smile.

Zou Xueyu immediately took office as the governor of Zhili, the first local authority in the Ming Dynasty, and released a message in advance to prohibit him from coming to the door to congratulate.

A few days ago, the new officials of the Governor's Yamen have been arriving in a row, and today is the first day to open for business.

Early in the morning, Zou Xueyu ordered a few things, and let himself stay indoors.

Yu Dalian is the first, and probably the last person to come to the governor's yamen.

His status and official position are suitable.

was originally under the command of Zou Xueyu, and now it is still the official yamen under the governor's yamen.

Zou Xueyu naturally won't hide anything in front of Yu Dalian.

The newly appointed minister of the governor of Zhili said in a deep voice: "The emperor's grace is vast, entrusted with great trust, and given authority, and we are ministers, and An Neng's corpse is on it?" Zhili Road is newly established, although there is mercy at the beginning, but there is no sincerity of the lower officials. ”

Yu Dalian's mind moved slightly: "Do you want to move the yamen of the various official offices of Zhili Dao?" ”

Zou Xueyu raised his head and looked at the new Ying Tian Prefect in front of him, who was brought out by himself, and nodded: "This official is waiting, waiting for this person from the Seventeenth Mansion to jump out." ”

Zhili is a total of 18 prefectures, and Yu Dalian is the prefect of Tianfu, so he will naturally follow in the footsteps of Zou Xueyu.

But in addition, the remaining seventeen prefectures of Zhili Dao, which one is not a high-ranking official. Although they are all the prefect yamen and county yamen of the Ming Dynasty, the official yamen of Zhili Road is higher than that of other places.

It's just because Zhili Dao is the center of gravity of the world's taxes, and there are many powerful and powerful gentry, and the children of the family are related to each other, and they are small groups as far as the eye can see.

Zou Xueyu said in a low voice: "The yamen of the governor of Zhili, the yamen of all prefectures and counties, have not yet invited the governor's yamen." They were waiting to see what they would do when they took office as the governor of Zhili. ”

"If you go against them, I'm afraid you won't do anything next, but you will have to mediate with these people first."

Zou Xueyu nodded and agreed with Yu Dalian's statement: "Therefore, this official has to draft and issue the first official document of the Governor Yamen of Zhili Road." ”

Yu Dalian straightened his chest slightly.

He knew that Zou Xueyu, who had come back from Jiaozhi Dao and other killing places, was not such a simple official.

How is the High Cabinet?

That's also a decisive person.

What about Zou Xueyu, who came back with him?

Don't look at Zou Xueyu, who has only worked in Yingtianfu's position for more than a year, and has only done so many things.

But Yu Dalian knew that those gentlemen and heroes in Yingtianfu had been pressed by Zou Xueyu a lot in the past year.

"This official wants to change to the subordinate governor of the province, and the subordinate of the yamen should have a division of the official government, and the original officials and officials will all be examined, but those who will be kicked out of the official office!"

Yu Dalian blinked, a hint of surprise on his face.

He thought that Zou Xueyu would take action against the people below after he became the governor of Zhili, but he didn't expect that Zou Xueyu would be the first to take the lead in attacking those officials and officials.

This hand surprised Yu Dalian.

Zou Xueyu explained: "Many of the soldiers who returned from the Northern Expedition were disabled. As the minister of the governor of Zhili, this official guards the 18 prefectures of Zhili Road, and should take care of these disabled soldiers for the imperial court, so that these meritorious people will not be exiled in the countryside. There are hundreds of official offices in the 18 prefectures of Zhili, and they can always accommodate these meritorious people. ”

Yu Dalian didn't know what to say.

But I felt that the governor's hand was indeed unexpected, and it would definitely have an extraordinary effect.

I'm afraid that the people below can't imagine that Zou Xueyu will not attack them as soon as he takes office, but will choose to attack those officials who can be appointed and dismissed by the governor of Zhili without going through the imperial court.

Zou Xueyu sat still, and he was also inspired by the imperial grandson's reform of the post station and the replacement of officials in other prefectures and counties under the implementation of the new policy.

cut off the ears, eyes, hands and feet of the Zhengyin Hall officials in the 18 mansions of Zhili Dao, and see how they can deal with it next.

As for the examination school?

That's not a matter of the governor's yamen's words, who can stay and who can't, everything is up to the governor's yamen.

Yu Dalian felt that as the number one horse boy of the governor, he should stand in line with a clear banner at this time.

He stood up and clasped his hands into fists: "The lower official should be the Yamen of the Heavenly Governor's Mansion, and he will meticulously carry out the orders of the Governor's Yamen." The lower officials are willing to ask the governor's yamen to first check the officials of the yamen of the heavenly government and the county government. ”

Zou Xueyu nodded.

This is also the reason why he wanted to ventilate on the cabinet side and raise Yu Dalian to the position of the prefect of Yingtian.

The prefects of Gyeonggi have all followed the orders of the governor's yamen, so how should the officials of the 17 prefectures of Zhili Province choose?

Zou Xueyu then said: "This official has another plan, and wants to re-clean up the commercial tax of each government except for the two Huai Salt Transportation Envoys, and re-rate the number of taxes for merchants and industrialists in various places. The official roads, small roads, and waterways of Zhili Province and other places shall be handed over to the tax office as an agent for commercial tax customs, and the 18 prefectures of Zhili will be cancelled to set up their own tax gates. Since then, the taxes and taxes of the Zhili Road should be collected by the governor's yamen. ”

The 18 prefectures of Zhili Province set up their own tax gates to collect the tax of past merchants, and transferred it to the unified and direct management of the governor's yamen.

The taxes of domestic merchants (with shops) and industrialists (handicraft workshops in the early Ming Dynasty) were reorganized, sorted out into a book, and the tax amount was reformulated.

Just these two means are to scrape off a large piece of meat from the 18th mansion of Zhili Dao.

The government yamen, the merchant tax.

Yu Dalian, who was sitting in the side room of the main hall of the Yamen of the Governor of Zhili, couldn't help but clench his hands.

He felt a hint of nervousness.

Once these two official documents are distributed to the provinces, it is bound to cause an uproar.

Zou Xueyu didn't make a move, and as soon as he made a move, he wanted to press down the 18th Mansion of Zhili Dao.

Just when Yu Dalian thought that the familiar governor of Zhili in front of him had no other plan.

Zou Xueyu sneered and continued to speak: "This official wants to clear the fields of Zhili again!" Check the detailed number of landlords and tenants! ”

……

"Zou Xueyu, is he crazy!"

In Suzhou Mansion, in a courtyard on the Lion Rock on the shore of Taihu Lake, an official in a red robe had just received the news from the yamen in the city, and he immediately took the case and shouted angrily.

In front of him, there are people in official uniforms, as well as people in Confucian clothes, old and young, gathered here.

"Zou Xueyu, this is a bulge! Do you really think that Your Majesty trusts him and promotes him to the governor of Zhili, so that he can be lawless and shake the country's society? ”

The Suzhou Mansion was the same as the prefect, and the prefect echoed on the side, and his eyes swept to everyone present.

These people are all well-known figures in the territory of Suzhou Prefecture.

"Governor Zou is not arrogant, he is trying to seize power and seize the power in your hands. You have no power, and I and others will probably be ready to be stabbed in the neck. ”

An old man, Xu is the oldest and most vocal here, only to see him speak softly, looking like an old dragon clock, as if he would not be stabbed, gossiping about others.

The prefect of Suzhou frowned and glanced at the old man.

Pondering one or two.

The prefect continued: "The territory of Suzhou has always been loyal to the imperial court, up and down the countryside, and even more diligent in doing business. When Zou Xueyu first became the governor, he had such perverse behavior, which was really a disaster to my Suzhou territory. This official is appointed to Suzhou, and there have been no disasters and disasters for many years, but there is the way of Huang Lao. It's just that at the moment, the official can't sit idly by, and the official wants to perform the imperial court, but he fell under Zou Xueyu's dominance, which can be regarded as contributing some strength to the boundary of Suzhou Prefecture. ”

This is a desperate preparation.

Everyone present was silent, silent.

The old man smiled: "The mansion is respected in Suzhou, which is the spring breeze and rain." Suzhou has no mansion, and the people of Suzhou cannot do without mansion. The government can not act rashly, and the officials and officials can not speak out easily. ”

Suzhou prefect Fang Xuezhong's face did not change, but he had a little more expectations in his heart.

His previous words about fighting to the death with Zou Xueyu were actually just to make the old man in front of him speak.

On the territory of Suzhou, among the squires, not all of them are headed by his Lu family.

As the prefect of Suzhou, the first thing he did after taking office was to land at the gate of the mansion.

Lu Lao's hands were reunited on his laps, his head was full of crane hair, but his face was still green and pine.

"This matter has nothing to do with the imperial court, and it has nothing to do with Governor Zou."

A grunk in the Fangxue Center.

Could it be that Lu Lao didn't plan to make a move, but asked Suzhou Mansion to respond to the request of the Governor Yamen of Zhili?

Cao Lichang, a fellow acquaintance beside him, asked, "Could it be that Lu Lao means that we want to sit and wait for death?" ”

Lu Lao shook his head: "The old man has never said this. ”

Let's say, the helmsman of the Lu family in Suzhou Mansion looked around at the people around him.

"Since our minister of the Governor of Zhili has already made a move, Suzhou Mansion naturally wants to respond."

"You can't move the government, and neither can the officials and officials."

"But the merchants and merchants on the land boundary of Suzhou Prefecture, and even the people who farm, can move."

Fang Xuezhong's eyes shone brightly.

The reason why he invited everyone to gather at the Lion Rock on the shore of Taihu Lake today was to discuss how to deal with the newly established Governor Yamen of Zhili.

But I didn't want to receive an official order from the governor's yamen today.

And he, naturally, hopes that the Lu family, a famous family on the boundary of Suzhou, will take the lead in making a move, so as to test the news of the Yamen, the governor of Zhili.

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