Chapter 334: Surprise attack on Hangzhou banknotes

After confirming the purpose of suppressing and appeasing the people, Emperor Hongzhi appointed Liu Daxia as the governor of the three provinces, and the prime minister of the military affairs of Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Nanzhili.

This is a last resort, because if you want to mobilize the army in the middle and pay for money, food, and salaries, you must set up a powerful official to fill it up.

Otherwise, the provinces will be scattered, and they will not be able to coordinate at all, and they will inevitably shirk each other in military affairs and money and food.

In history, during the fight against the Japanese rebellion, several provinces in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces set up governors. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, all kinds of governors appeared in groups, in order to exterminate the rogues.

And Liu Daxia's trip is to have the exclusive right to deal with the affairs of the Emperor, and the suppression is all in his thoughts, and the negotiation of Shuangyu Island is also presided over by him.

This is also due to the inconvenience of transportation, so Liu Daxia, who is familiar with the affairs of the family, can only have the right to make decisions on the front line.

In addition, he also had the right to open his teeth and build a government, so that he could suppress the local government offices of the three provincial government departments.

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In the middle of April of the third year of Huaxia, Liu Daxia arrived in Zhejiang with the holy decree.

At this time, the spring is full of colors, the warm breeze is smoky, warm and pleasant.

But Liu Daxia didn't have the slightest appreciation, and only deep sorrow in his heart!

The situation was even more erosive than he imagined, and from the Grand Canal all the way south, he saw the soldiers greedy for food and food, and also saw the displaced people with his own eyes.

Although it is only a quick glance, you can see hungry people swimming along the Grand Canal in several provinces along the river, except for a few extremely rich places.

This made him extremely disappointed in his heart, and he deeply felt that half of the south of the Yangtze River must not be exposed to the soldiers of the black people.

When he came to the outside of Hangzhou, he looked at the dense merchant ships on the Hangzhou River, and had a first-hand understanding of the word Chengping Rijiu in his heart.

At this time, at the canal wharf in Hangzhou, the peddlers and pawns came and went. Although it was night, there was no curfew, and the lights along the shore were bright, reflecting on the surface of the river like a galaxy.

The sound of silk and bamboo is also endless, and there will be applause from time to time in the restaurant, presumably some talented people are selling some poetry and songs.

Liu Daxia looked at it coldly, and after a while, his official ship was stopped.

Ma Wensheng, who accompanied him, immediately said: "Your Excellency Governor, this is Hangzhou Banknote Pass!"

Liu Daxia raised his eyes, and with a calm face, he let Li Ying, the accompanying Qianhu official, get off the boat.

Hangzhou Banknote, that is, "Zhejiang Beiguan Household Division", is one of the five household divisions of the Ming Dynasty, and the remaining four have two in Jiangxi at this time!

Due to the abundant oil and water, the household department has set up a special branch, and the head of the household can only be in office for one year.

When a small official saw the lantern hanging from the government, he hurriedly ran forward and said, "Dare to ask if it's the adult?"

Li Ying threw a document in his face: "Lord Liu Daxia, the secretary of the military department and the governor of Zhejiang, don't let you Hu Cao get out and meet him!"

"Yes! Be! Be! The little official was taken aback, and rushed to report it.

Soon, the big and small officials in the banknote customs ran out in panic, when will there be a governor in Zhejiang? Although their hearts are in turmoil, they know that something is wrong!

Liu Daxia slowly got off the boat, looked at Hu Cao and said, "All the officials are there, right?"

"Back to ...... Back to my lord, all ...... It's all here! ”

Liu Daxia nodded, and suddenly shouted: "Take it all for me!"

Boom - a group of sergeants jumped out of the boat!

The banknote customs officials were dumbfounded, and before they could react, they were all detained!

This is the governor with pacesetters! Only then did they find out in horror that Liu Daxia was on this trip with a pacesetter!

Seeing this, Ma Wensheng had already led people in, seized the account books one after another, and began to calculate with people.

The river immediately became clogged, and the merchants were all strange, but looking at these sergeants, they knew that something big was happening.

Liu Daxia sat and waited for the account book to be checked.

Until the third watch, two sedan chairs came in a hurry.

Lin Fuhe, the political envoy of Zhejiang's right cloth, and Li Zan, the judge, were busy coming forward to meet after getting off the sedan chair.

"Lord Liu, the lower officials are derelict in their duties and fail to meet them from afar!"

Liu Daxia waved his hand and said, "It's just in time, let's wait with the old man!"

The two looked at each other awkwardly, and had to stand aside obediently, the imperial court sent the governor to be a full-time minister, and they already knew about it.

But he didn't think that the imperial court would attach so much importance to this matter and sent Liu Dongshan.

When the sky was bright, Ma Wensheng came to report that the accounting had been completed, and the total amount of tax silver for a day was fifty-six taels and three dollars, and the goods in the past were also clearly recorded, and the tax in kind was equivalent to two taels of silver, which was about thirty taels. In other words, less than a hundred taels of taxes a day!

Such a busy banknote, less than a hundred taels of silver a day? Fools can see how greasy it is here.

Liu Daxia nodded with satisfaction: "Switch, you come to collect it, see how much tax money you can collect?"

Ma Wensheng gave up his hand and retreated, because he had been an official in Ningbo and was a person who knew about the "bad things" in the Ming Dynasty, he was specially ordered by Liu Daxia.

He is naturally willing, this trip has little responsibility and great credit, and it is also his Liu Daxia's if something happens, but he can make meritorious contributions, and he will be able to share a bite.

Therefore, when he was in Beijing, he said the pickled money in Hangzhou, saying that as long as the money customs were controlled, then the food and salary would be greatly alleviated.

With the re-release, batches of ships passed, and about two quarters of an hour later, Marven sang loudly: "The tax silver has reached 100 taels!"

"Humph!" Liu Daxia stood up reluctantly, looked at the officials of the banknote gate and said, "The country's great rat, what else do you have to say?"

"Big ...... My lord, I am wronged! Hu Cao hurriedly kowtowed: "The villain really doesn't know!" It's all the book clerks...... It's all the ...... of the booksellers."

Liu Daxia glanced at Lin Fu and Li Zan, waved his hand, and said, "Detain all these rats!" The governor took over first! ”

This is not compliant, and it is even more illegal, but in the name of the governor, he really has the power to do so!

Lin Fu and Li Zan both looked ugly, but they didn't dare to say more, Liu Daxia did not continue to investigate, indicating that all he wanted was money.

Some things are not on the scale, and you can't beat a thousand pounds on the scale. If you really have to judge it carefully, they can't eat and walk around.

After the sergeant took the officials down, Liu Daxia suddenly took out the holy decree: "Two adults, there is a will!"

Lin Fu and Li Zan hurriedly tidied up their clothes and knelt down, and said in unison: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

Liu Daxia spread out the holy decree and read it slowly, the meaning is very straightforward, that is, the people of the Yellow Dynasty occupy Shuangyu, the southeast is shaking, and the governor of Liu Daxia is specially ordered to deal with the three provinces to deal with the affairs, and officials at all levels must cooperate, and finally added a sentence, that is, they have the power of life and death!

After Lin Fu listened to the will, he also swallowed his saliva, why did the matter come to this?

"Lord Lin, Lord Li, please immediately convene the three divisions of Zhejiang, as well as the deputy generals and staff generals stationed there, and this official will hold a meeting!"

"The subordinate obeys!" Lin Fu and Li Zan retreated in unison.

After they left, Liu Daxia let out a long sigh, this sudden attack seemed to be done.

Ma Wensheng approached and said: "My lord, there are more than 1,000 taels of silver on the banknote account, and if you are in kind, it is just some worthless things, or you can sell it on the spot, if you want silver...... It's a ...... to go to the official treasury."

"Let's call it after going to the official treasury! Direct misappropriation will only end up in the hands of others, you remember to do a good job of accounting, the old man will give a copy to Your Majesty, Your Majesty He will understand! ”

Ma Wensheng asked again: "Then how should we collect this banknote and collect taxes?"

"One out of ten! The silver is transferred every three days, let Wu Mingde stare here, leaving two hundred pacesetters, who dares to make trouble, don't care if they are killed! ”

"Then the tax in kind, or it will be converted into silver, except for grain and grass!" Ma Wensheng asked.

Liu Daxia nodded: "And pig iron!" and withhold them all, and they shall be bought from them by their own officials." ”

After saying this, Liu Daxia got into the sedan chair, and with the banknotes in his hand, the silver money was finally looser.

It's just that he has to gather troops to fight, and this money and food must not be enough, which makes him quite sad.

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