After reading the express delivery, Wang Xigon and Yang Weizhi both looked as usual.

Wang Xigon was already the left waiter of the Ministry of Officials before Ding Muwei, equivalent to the executive deputy minister of the Organization Department of the Ming Dynasty, and he was originally the official of the three products, and it was more than enough to serve as the governor of the four sides.

Yang Weizhi is the deputy envoy of Jincang Bingbeidao, a civil official from the fourth grade.

Now he has been promoted to the fourth rank of the right to the imperial history and the commander of Yunnan military affairs, but he has only been promoted by one level.

Although the military affairs of Yunnan is the military attache of the first grade, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty have never taken the military position in their eyes, and a patrol of the seventh grade dares to serve as the commander or the chief soldier with peace of mind.

Wang Xigon even excused himself: "The saint, the matriarchy has not yet expired......"

"And today, when the court is employing people, what system do you still keep?" Chongzhen opened his mouth to win affection, "The so-called country, first have a country and then a family, if the Ming Dynasty is dead, what is the use of your mother's filial piety?" ”

"What the Holy Lord said is extremely true, and the ministers are ashamed." Chongzhen opened Chrysostom to win love, and Wang Xigon was no longer hypocritical.

But if you change to a minister who sells his reputation and reputation, I am afraid that he will have to ask Chongzhen three times, four invitations, or even ten invitations and eight invitations.

But then again, if it weren't for Wang Xigon, Chongzhen wouldn't even be too lazy to win affection, if you want Ding's mother to worry, then Ding's mother is worried, and anyone in the Ming Dynasty can run as usual.

The last thing that the Ming Dynasty lacks now is scholars who want to be officials.

Chongzhen then told Wang Xigon: "Wang Qing, the intention of the cabinet's new governor of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Guizhou is to coordinate and solve the problem of changing the land and returning to the four provinces, but for now, you only need to do a good job of changing the land and returning to the river in Guangxi and Yunnan first, and the Tusi of Guizhou and Sichuan don't have to worry about him first. ”

"Commandment." Wang Xigon said solemnly.

Meals should be eaten one bite at a time, and things should be done one by one.

It is also necessary to change the land and return to the stream step by step, and it is easy to pull the egg when the step is big.

Chongzhen said: "The policy of changing the land and returning to the stream has long been determined, I hope that when I come to Kunming again in ten years, there is no distinction between Tuhan and Han in Yunnan, everyone is the Ming Dynasty's household Qi people or town soldiers, everyone can speak official language, write Chinese characters, and everyone identifies as a Chinese ethnicity!" ”

"Commandment." Wang Xigon solemnly agreed again.

Chongzhen asked Yang Weizhi again: "Yang Qing, can the 200,000 town soldiers make trouble?" ”

Yang Wei knew: "Back to the Shengshang, before the division of the land, the Yunnan native soldiers and the Guangxi wolf soldiers had made trouble, fortunately, there were new troops and Hunan and Hubei native soldiers sitting on the bomb suppression, but after dividing the fields and killing more than a dozen Tumu who took the lead in making trouble, the 120,000 native soldiers in Yunnan never made trouble again, and began to change their peace and guard themselves. ”

"But the Guangxi wolf soldiers still mutinied from time to time."

"So far, more than a hundred earth meshes have been killed, but they are of little use."

After saying this, he asked again: "Holy Lord, I don't know when the family scroll of the Guangxi wolf soldiers will arrive in Yunnan?" ”

"It's almost there." Chongzhen said, "When the new army suppresses the rebellion of An Long Division and Shanglin Division, they will migrate the families of 80,000 wolf soldiers to Yunnan, and they will definitely be able to arrive before the Chinese New Year." ”

Chongzhen then told Tang Zhaoyuan, Wu Wenying and others respectively.

The main thing is to tell the Yunnan officials to be sincere and united, and to work as one.

sent away Wang Xigon and other Yunnan officials, and Chongzhen asked Wang Chengen to call Lin Zhiyuan and Zhang Huangyan to Xingyuan.

Wang Xigon was the governor of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Guizhou, and was in charge of changing the land and returning to the stream, while Yang Weizhi was the governor of Yunnan, and was fully responsible for the training of 200,000 soldiers in Zhentai, Yunnan, and commanding operations.

In other words, Yang Weizhi was not subject to Wang Xigon's control.

Yang Weizhi's ability is no problem, but his loyalty still needs to wait for the test of time.

A border general with 200,000 heavy troops in his hands, if he does not exercise any moderation, Yang Weizhi will not have any ideas in a year or two, and he may still be able to remain loyal in ten or eight years, but what about twenty or even thirty years? As Yang Weizhi has been holding heavy troops for a long time, who dares to guarantee that he will not have a different heart?

Therefore, Yang Weizhi had to be restrained through the prince of Qin.

Because Yunnan Zhentai will also be equipped with 750 Qinwang scholars.

These 750 Qinwang soldiers will become the backbone officers of Zhentai in Yunnan.

As long as these 750 Qinwang scholars are still loyal to Chongzhen and the Ming Dynasty,

Even if Yang Wei really had two hearts, Qin Wang Shizi could put him in the air in minutes.

And Zhang Huangyan and Lin Zhiyuan, who is from Yunnan, are the chief of these 750 Qinwang scholars.

"Lin Zhiyuan, Zhang Huangyan." Chongzhen Yin Yin admonished, "I will hand over Yunnan Zhentai to you, you must firmly control the 200,000 town soldiers, and ensure that no careerist can take this army away." ”

"Holy Lord, rest assured." Lin Zhiyuan and Zhang Huangyan said solemnly, "The ministers will watch Yunnan Zhentai for the saint." ”

"You two have the abilities of other scholars, so I'm not worried at all." Chongzhen bowed his head slightly, and then changed his words and continued, "I'm worried about it, you will be proud of your identity, and you are unwilling to eat and live with the town soldiers and go out for training together, and the Qinwang Shizi assigned to the Tusi of western Hunan and Hubei already has bad signs. ”

This is also what Chongzhen is most worried about, because with the improvement of the status of scholars, especially the improvement of treatment, many scholars have signs of self-confidence, and their personal lives have begun to become exquisite.

If this trend cannot be stopped, it will not take a few years for more than 6,000 Qinwang scholars to be abolished.

Lin Zhiyuan and Zhang Huangyan were also shocked into a cold sweat when they heard this, and the two of them asked themselves, since the period after the pacification of the Shadingzhou Rebellion, they have also begun to become arrogant, and they go in and out of the restaurant at every turn.

And he also has a lot of contempt for the Yunnan native soldiers and the Guangxi wolf soldiers.

I always feel that these wolf soldiers are a bunch of uneducated barbarians.

But Chongzhen's words woke up the two like a slap in the face.

Chongzhen said: "Therefore, during the period of garrison in Yunnan, I suggest that you still insist on living in a collective, and at the same time insist on eating, living and training with the town soldiers, and strive to win the recognition of the town soldiers as soon as possible." ”

"In this regard, the scholars of Xuzhou Zhentai and Guide Zhentai have done a good job."

"The town soldiers of Xuzhou and Guide also identify with the scholars of these two towns the most."

"Holy Lord, rest assured." Lin Zhiyuan and Zhang Huangyan said solemnly, "The ministers will continue to maintain a hard and simple style, and will never be out of touch with the town soldiers, let alone let the town soldiers have antagonistic feelings." ”

……

In late October of the 19th year of Chongzhen, Chongzhen led his army to leave Yunnan.

Yan Yingyuan and Xu Yingwei did not leave with Chongzhen because they still led the army to quell the rebellion outside, and the two will continue to stay in Yunnan for a period of time with the army.

When I came, I carried a baggage, so I walked slowly.

But when he returned, he was lightly armed, and even 20 Hongyi cannons were left in Kunming, so he walked quickly.

In mid-November, the army went to Changde Mansion, and Li Jiaozheng, the right imperial history and water control imperial history, was in Changde, and after hearing the news, he hurriedly greeted him with the prefect of Changde.

"Minister Li Jiaozheng, please ask the Holy Jin'an." Li Jiaozheng is the head.

The prefect of Changde and the subordinate officials of the government also knelt down to ask for peace.

"Get up." Chongzhen shook his hand and said, "Li Jiaozheng, how is the lake embankment repaired?" ”

"The lake embankment has already been completed." Li Jiaozheng replied, "The total consumption of silver is 11 million taels, and the processing of rice is 1 million stones, which is quite a lot more than the overrun that Chen expected before." ”

"As long as the embankment is strong enough, it's worth the extra money." Chongzhen Road.

"Rest assured, the lake embankment is strong enough." Li Jiaozheng said with a straight face, "This year, the Dongting Lake area suffered a flood that occurs once in 50 years, but the lake embankment is not moving. ”

"Oh, really?" Chongzhen was interested, "Then I want to see it with my own eyes." ”

At that moment, Chongzhen ordered the army to be temporarily stationed outside Changde City, and then under the leadership of Li Jiaozheng and the prefect of Changde, they rode fast horses to the Dongting Lake.

There are still more than ten miles from the lake, and you can see patches of rice fields.

It's just that the rice has been harvested, and only rows of rice stubble are left in the field, and green wheat seedlings have grown between the rice stubble.

Li Jiaozheng said proudly: "Your honor, since the Dongting Lake area has not suffered from floods this year, the people in the lake area have harvested two crops of grain, one in Mecca and one in rice. ”

The prefect of Changde then said: "Therefore, it is strange that four stones of grain can be harvested per mu!" ”

"Oh, really?" Chongzhen said happily, "So the people of the Lake District can have a fat year this year." ”

While he was talking, he happened to see an old farmer walking over with a load of straw, and when he saw so many officials, the old farmer was so frightened that he hurriedly threw away the straw and knelt on the side of the road.

Chongzhen turned over and dismounted directly and walked towards the old farmer.

Hu Guozhu and Wu Jiaotan subconsciously wanted to keep up, but were stopped by Chongzhen.

"Old man." Chongzhen personally helped the old farmer up and asked, "I heard that this year's harvest is quite good?" ”

"This official is polite." The old farmer bowed to Chongzhen with some restraint, and then said with a smile, "This year's harvest is very good, and our family has harvested more than 200 stones of wheat and rice. ”

The old farmer was obviously really happy, and he smiled so much that his gums were exposed.

I saw that the old farmer had less than six teeth left on his yellowed gums.

"More than 200 stone of grain was harvested." Chongzhen said, "How many acres of land do you have?" ”

"More than seventy acres." The old farmer said happily, "The little old family originally divided more than 50 acres of paddy fields, and later tenanted more than 20 acres of lake fields to the government, and planted a total of more than 70 acres of fields. ”

"More than seventy acres, can you be busy with the old man?"

"It's busy, Xiao Lao plus two sons, no problem."

"There are three strong laborers in the family, you are blessed with the old man, maybe you can hold a big grandson this year."

"I have inherited the good words of the great officials." The old farmer probably chatted with Chongzhen, and gradually lost the restraint just now, and said, "This year is a rare good year, but there are also bad things, that is, the price of grain is too cheap." ”

"The price of food is cheap?" Chongzhen frowned and asked again, "A lot of money?" ”

The old farmer sighed: "In previous years, when the price of grain was the richest, each stone could be worth three yuan, but this year it is only one and a half cents, which is half the price, fortunately, the grain tax can be paid with grain, otherwise it will suffer a big loss, but the little old man wants to sell the excess grain and buy a cow back, but now it looks like it is in vain." ”

Chongzhen frowned and said, "Didn't the imperial court send someone to buy it?" ”

"The imperial court also sent people to buy it, and the price was higher." The old farmer hurriedly said, "But the imperial court refuses to give cash to buy grain, so it can only be white, who dares to sell it?" ”

"White stripes?" Chongzhen's brows furrowed more and more.

The old farmer walked away with the straw, and was generally very happy.

Chongzhen is mixed with joy, happy is that Huguang has a bumper grain harvest, even if it is calculated according to 40 million mu, it can harvest 160 million stones of grain, of which at least half is 80 million stones can be trafficked to Jiangnan, so there is no need to worry about the grain problem in Jiangnan at all.

Angry that someone picked peaches.

I actually wanted to take advantage of the big harvest year to collect grain from Huguang at a low price.

When you first paid for the water conservancy, you didn't pay for it, but now that the water conservancy has been repaired, and the grain in Huguang has also been harvested, you jumped out and wanted to pick peaches, how can there be such a good thing in the world?

If nothing else, most of these individual grain merchants have backgrounds.

Sure enough, when Li Jiaozheng was called to ask, he asked clearly.

However, things are a little tricky, because one of the grain merchants turned out to be a Rugao impostor.

Mao Xiang died heroically under the city of Shanyang, is the martyr of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen also personally wrote the plaque of "Loyalty and Martyrdom" and sent Qin to send it to Rugao Mao's house, Mao Xiang's old father Mao Qizong came to Nanjing to thank him, Chongzhen also once summoned him, but now it has become a hot potato.

Li Jiaozheng said again: "Several other grain merchants also have their own backgrounds, such as Hengyang Wang, who is the eldest brother of Wang Fu, and those grain merchants from Nanjing, who are either relatives of the Ge family or the Gonghou family. ”

"Don't talk about these troubles." Chongzhen pressed this matter for the time being, and asked Li Jiaozheng again, "Li Jiaozheng, you said that after the lake embankment is repaired, you can get at least 4 million mu of lake fields, where are these 4 million mu of lake fields?" ”

"Haven't you already seen it, Holy One?" Li Jiaozheng pointed to the paddy field in front of him and said, "This is." ”

"You took the lake field out?" Chongzhen asked, "How much stone grain per mu is the fixed tenant rent?" ”

Li Jiaozheng said: "Because these lakes and fields are extremely fertile, and the income per mu can reach at least three stones, the tenant rent set by the minister is sixty percent, and four million mu of land is reserved, and the tenant rent is 7.2 million stones!" ”

"Originally, the minister thought that he would sell it to the grain merchant at the price of five cents per stone,"

"It can also get at least 3.6 million taels, if it can also make up for the use of repairing the embankment a little."

"But I never thought that these black-hearted grain merchants only gave one dollar and five cents, but the ministers did not sell it, and the ministers had to persuade their colleagues in the government to stop the people from selling grain, and this time I came to Changde Mansion for this matter."

The prefect of Changde said: "The minister has asked the officials to inform the township that it is not allowed to sell grain cheaply. ”

Chongzhen couldn't help it anymore when he heard this, and asked Li Jiaozheng and said, "What's going on with the Water Conservancy Grain Silver Number?" Didn't I let them buy the surplus grain of the people of Huguang? Why do they buy grain with white strips? ”

Li Jiaozheng smiled bitterly: "Holy Lord, this minister doesn't know either. ”

The affairs of the Internal Affairs Office are not something that he Li Jiaozheng can ask about.

【Kneel and beg for a commuter pass】