"The wind and snow are a little bigger......"

On the East Palace Square, Zhu Youzhen wore regular clothes and a big fur, walked in the snow, looked at the red walls and white snow of the Forbidden City, and sighed that the wind and snow were a little bigger.

"Did Yang Lian receive the letter?"

He turned his head to look at Lu Wenzhao who was following behind him, and Lu Wenzhao nodded:

"After sending five hundred miles to the Yanshan camp last night, Yang received the news in the middle of the matter."

"After learning that Xiong Tingbi was slandered, Yang gave the matter to the immediate dismissal, and asked to expedite Zuo Guangdou, the second assistant Liu Yixie, Guanglu Shaoqing Zheng Sanjun and others to go to the evacuation together."

"Presumably, at the moment, several officials in the court have already come out together for Xiong Tingbi, but Xiong Tingbi is the Chu Party, so sparse, I am afraid that the Chu Party has regarded Xiong Tingbi as a traitor......"

Lu Wenzhao said that he looked a little worried, but Zhu Youzhen was unmoved.

In his opinion, it would be better for Xiong Tingbi to belong to the Donglin Party now.

In history, when Xiong Tingbi was killed, the Chu Party among the eunuchs was silent, the Zhejiang Party was the most vocal, and most of the Donglin Party also said that they wanted to kill Xiong Tingbi because of Wang Huazhen.

At this time, it was actually Yang Lian of the Donglin Party who led a small number of Donglin Party to stand up for Xiong Tingbi.

From this point, it can be seen that Yang Lian is not right about things.

Although Xiong Tingbi belonged to the Eunuch Party at that time, and Wang Huazhen belonged to the Donglin Party, he still turned to Xiong Tingbi for the sake of the war in Liaodong.

However, when Wang Huazhen was fighting among themselves in Donglin in order to "protect the bear and rebuke the bear", Wang Huazhen had realized that the Donglin Party building was about to collapse, and decisively abandoned the Donglin Party, which was still running to defend his "re-ranking of the dynasty", and turned to Wei Zhongxian.

Wei Zhongxian took advantage of him to frame Yang Lian and others in the Donglin Party for "embezzling Liaodong military salaries", and defeated the remnants of the Donglin Party in one fell swoop.

In this wave, Wei Zhongxian directly killed most of the capable people in the Donglin Party, and the remaining more than ninety percent were people like Qian Qianyi and Fang Kezhuang.

At that time, only Sun Chengzong, Xu Guangqi, Sun Yuanhua, Yuan Keli, Fan Jingwen, Ni Yuanlu, Li Banghua and other few cadres survived.

Therefore, it is precisely because he knows Yang Lian's personality that Zhu Youzhen dared to pat his chest and say that Yang Lian would be negligent when he knew that someone had impeached Xiong Tingbi.

It's just that I don't know what the current Huadian is arguing about......

"The Chenhu Branch gave Yao Zongwen in the matter, impeached Liaodong Jingluo Xiong Tingbi!"

Just when Zhu Youzhen was still thinking about what kind of quarrel the Wenhua Hall would be, he didn't think that the Wenhua Hall had just started fighting.

Zhu Youxiao, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately frowned as soon as he saw Yao Zongwen stand up.

"What do you want to impeach Xiong Tingbi in the Yao Matter?"

According to the process, Zhu Youxiao took the trouble to ask Yao Zongwen, and when Yao Zongwen saw this, he intensified his words:

"The minister impeached Xiong Tingbi for more than a year in Liaodong, and there was no plan for everything, which made Puhe lost."

"Secondly, concealing the news and not reporting it, Shang Fang's sword in his hand does not seek to make up for state affairs, but only for his own prestige."

"Ridiculous!" Suddenly, someone stood up and said sharply with a wat board:

"Long live, the ministers and ministers are all Yushi Zuo Guangdou, and they think that what Yao said in the matter is pure absurd!"

"Hooray! Before the minister finished speaking, he was interrupted by the imperial history of the left capital, and the minister thought that he should treat the crime of disturbing the Chang dynasty in the imperial history of the left capital! Hearing that the Donglin Party was going to stand up for Xiong Tingbi, Yao Zongwen hurriedly shouted.

However, his words were ignored by Zhu Youxiao's eccentricity, Zhu Youxiao looked at Zuo Guangdou and said:

"Zuodu Yushi, is there any evidence for what you say?"

"Hooray! The minister heard that the merchants of Liaodong had said that since Xiong Tingbi passed through Liaodong, although there were small defeats, it was not a war. ”

"Xiong Tingbi drilled the soldiers and horses properly, when the old slave was trapped in Kaiyuan and Tieling, the entire Liaodong was in danger."

"However, in June of this year, the old slave attacked Shenyang with an army of tens of thousands, but was repelled by the general soldiers He Shixian and You Shigong, isn't this enough to describe the feats?"

"Joke! When is it still considered merit to be beaten under the city walls? Yushi Feng Sanyuan sneered, but was angrily scolded by Zuo Guangdou:

"What? In Feng Yushi's view, can't protecting the city be regarded as a credit? ”

"The old man didn't say that, please don't frame him." Feng Sanyuan was uncomfortable by Zuo Guangdou, but the most powerful thing in the Donglin Party in the court was the argument of the tongue.

"Zhao Nanxing, the minister of Taichang Temple, thinks Xiong Tingbi is innocent!"

"Chen Guanglu Shaoqing Zheng Sanjun, thinking that Xiong Tingbi is not guilty, is really wronged!"

"Liu Guojin and Xiong Tingbi, the directors of the Ministry of Ministers, are indeed useless to Liao affairs, please long live them to remove them."

"Yao Zongwen seconded the matter in the matter of the minister's household!"

"The Imperial Shi Feng Sanyuan seconded the proposal!"

"Minister......

"It's started again......" Looking at the chaos in front of him who began to stand in line again because of political affairs, Zhu Youxiao only felt tired.

He had been watching a farce like this for a whole month.

Gradually, he understood why his imperial grandfather and father did not go to court often, but only dealt with the music in the Heart Cultivation Palace.

Because such a regular dynasty is useless for the operation of the imperial court, it will only exacerbate the degree of party strife.

But......

The corners of Zhu Youxiao's mouth suddenly hooked up a smile, he didn't expect that his good brother could really invite Yang Lian and other Donglin to help Xiong Tingbi.

It's just that Yao Zongwen and the others are just small shrimps, real big fish......

Zhu Youxiao looked at Sun Ruyou and Fang Congzhe, who were standing in the queue of cabinet ministers.

It's just that to Zhu Youxiao's disappointment, these two people were unmoved at all, and it seemed that they didn't need to do anything about this kind of trivial matter.

However, if they don't make a move, Zhu Youxiao will have no opponents and good shows to watch.

Therefore, he picked up Yang Lian's recital and said:

"Okay......"

As soon as he opened his mouth, Honglu Temple Qing struck the bell, the bell rang, and the hundred officials stopped.

Zhu Youxiao took Yang Lian's recital, looked at the ministers and said:

"Yang Lian gave me a soothing thing in the military department, saying, if you want to investigate whether Xiong Tingbi is corrupt military salaries and malpractice, it is better to send someone to Liaodong to investigate."

"Zhu Tongmeng, a member of the Chinese Scholars......"

"The minister is here!" Hearing the emperor call himself, a forty-year-old civil official who was not good-looking walked out, and this person was Zhu Tongmeng of the Qi Party.

"Liaodong, it's up to you to investigate." Zhu You opened his mouth to Zhu Tongmeng, which made the officials of the Donglin Party, the Chu Party, and the Zhejiang Party look at the Qi Party leader's Metropolitan Inspectorate's Right Governor Yu Shi Qi (Qi) Poetry Teaching.

It's just that Qi Shijiao doesn't squint, and it seems that in this matter, he can't impeach Xiong Tingbi because of his identity as a disciple of Fang Congzhe.

The reason is also understood by everyone, just because of one person...... Qi Party Zhou Yongchun.

When Zhou Yongchun of the Qi Party was governor of Liaodong and Salhu was defeated, the parties impeached him, but fortunately, Xiong Tingbi was relieved of Zhou Yongchun, and praised Zhou Yongchun's merits, saying:

"If the Kansai horse is not fed by Zhou Dutang, the dead horse bones will be as high as the Yiwu Lu Mountain."

Zhou Dutang is the honorific title of Zhou Yongchun, Yiwu Lu Mountain is a famous mountain in the northeast, and the close cooperation of Zhou Yongchun and Xiong Tingbi repelled Nurhachi's attack, and the situation in Liaodong initially stabilized, so the Qi Party's sense of Xiong Tingbi was not bad, and he did not fall into the ground.

However, it can also be seen that Xiong Tingbi is obviously the Chu Party, but he wants to help the Qi Party speak, no wonder the Chu Party is silent at the moment.

"Okay......" Seeing Qi Shijiao acquiesce, Zhu Youxiao also nodded and said:

"So Zhu Tongmeng, a member of the Zhongshu House, went to Liaodong to inspect Liaodong and see if the impeachment was true in everyone's mouths......

When Zhu Youxiao said this, a little eunuch at the door turned around and rushed towards the Qingong Palace, and told Zhu Youzhen about the matter.

"Still arguing? Quarreling for so long? Isn't this group of people doing it? ”

Hearing the words of the little eunuch, Zhu Youzhen was also very speechless.

He originally wanted to ask the little eunuch to go to the Wenhua Palace to see if the good imperial brother was in the next court, and then go to the Qianqing Palace to have a meal.

I never thought that Wenhua Hall was still arguing.

"His Royal Highness and the ministers are arguing about the two deputy candidates to go to Liaodong, among which Zuo Guangdou of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Court has the most quarrel with Yao Zongwen in the Huke Affair."

"Zuodu Yushi fought against Yao Zongwen, Feng Sanyuan, and Liu Guojin alone, and the slave was still arguing when he came back."

"That's right......" Hearing the words of the eunuch, Zhu Youzhen's face was full of smiles.

In his opinion, if the Donglin Party's lips are put on the right thing, it will definitely be a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people.

What's the point of always being the same party and fighting against differences? It's better for Yang Lian's small group of more than a dozen people, and the chain will not fall at a critical moment.

Thinking about it like this, Zhu Youzhen wanted to kill the other groups of people who ate white rice in the Donglin Party.

Although Yang Lian often impeached him, at least this little old man considered things from the perspective of the imperial court.

There is a certain cognitive premise for him to talk about empty talk, and he will not be like the Donglin Party in the early stage of the Chongzhen Dynasty, he can only talk about cannons, and he will not know anything else.

"Anyway, Zhu Tongmeng is settled, right?" After thinking about the Donglin Party for a while, Zhu Youzhen asked about the eunuch.

The eunuch nodded and said, "Zhu Tongmeng, a member of the Zhongshu House, has already decided to inspect Liaodong. ”

"Then it's not a big problem." Zhu Youzhen was relieved.

Although Zhu Tongmeng is a member of the Qi Party, he is the kind of person who can do things in the Qi Party.

In history, after Zhu Tongmeng returned to Beijing after entering Liao, he did not slander Xiong Tingbi, probably in order to repay Xiong Tingbi for not slandering Zhou Yongchun.

But......

"This Fang Congzhe is actually a ...... of the Zhejiang Party," Zhu Youzhen only felt a headache.

At first, he thought that Fang Congzhe had no party or faction, but he didn't want this guy to be just non-party on the surface, but actually belonged to the Zhejiang Party.

Fortunately, Gong Jie was not robbed by this guy, otherwise it is estimated that Zhu Youzhen would want to die now.

"We have to kill the Zhejiang Party first...... he thought to himself.

The scope of the Zhejiang Party in the Wanli, Taichang, and Tianqi years was extremely wide, and in the context of uniting the Suzhou Kun Party and the Fengyang Xuan Party, Suzhou, Yang, Nanjing, Zhejiang, and northern Fujian all belonged to their scope.

This place gathered a quarter of the population of the Ming Dynasty, one-third of the land endowment, one-third of the miscellaneous and commercial taxes.

killed the Zhejiang Party, even if someone in the Donglin Party wants to expand to southern Jiangsu, as long as Zhu Youzhen is fast enough, he will definitely be able to tear off a piece of meat from this.

This piece of meat is enough for the Ming Dynasty to last for thirty years......

Thinking so, Zhu Youzhen kept thinking about how to bring down the Zhejiang Party.

After thinking about it, he still put the problem on Jingcha three years later.

"If Jingcha is in charge of Gao Panlong, who has a strong sense of revenge, I am afraid that the Zhejiang Party will either die or be injured."

He analyzed the personalities of the various leaders of the Donglin Party, and according to Yang Lian's character, he must not be suitable to be the chief official of Jingcha.

Yang Lian will definitely protect the capable officials in the Zhejiang Party, which is not in line with Zhu Youzhen's thoughts.

On the contrary, Gao Panlong, a highly vindictive cannon, made the Zhejiang Party dead and alive in several Beijing inspections during the Wanli period, which is the person Zhu Youzhen needs.

However, Jingcha still has three years, and in these three years, maybe he can think about what he can start with.

In the land south of the Yangtze River, Zhu Youzhen could not eat all kinds of things such as land endowments, miscellaneous, commercial taxes, textiles, salt taxes, mining taxes, tea taxes, wine taxes, deed taxes, customs duties, etc.

If you want to eat, you have to pick the biggest and most reasonable, and you won't let the Zhejiang Party hate his things to eat.

Tian Fu is not good, most of the official supporters behind the Donglin Party are squires, even if they get Tian Fu, then the Donglin Party will inevitably demand a reduction of Tian Fu.

Jiangnan Tianfu is mainly in Nanzhili, which occupies one-fifth of Daming Tianfu and one-tenth of Zhejiang.

The money and grain squeezed by Tian Fang is already very small, and it is valued by hundreds of officials.

Even if the field is reduced by one centimeter, the overall amount will be about one million stones, and it will only be 500,000 taels of silver.

Miscellaneous items must not be available, and if you want to collect them often, you must send troops south.

The textile and commercial taxes were very profitable, but they did not have the experience to operate, and the salt tax and mining tax were mostly controlled by the nobles and gentry.

If the tariffs are to be moved, there is no need to be in Jiangnan, it is completely possible to control Xiaoliuqiu and do business while the water division is armed.

The maritime trade between the East and the West in this era was not so exaggerated, and the annual goods were only two or three million taels of silver.

Even if it is ten taxes and one, it will receive two or three hundred thousand taels of silver at most.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen's goal is only tea tax, deed tax, and wine tax!

Thinking of the tea tax, Zhu Youzhen had the painful tea tax income in Jiangnan's mind in his mind.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, private tea was strictly prohibited in Nanzhili, so the tea tax income of Nanzhili was more than 600,000 taels.

However, after that, with the demographic statistics of grassroots officials, and the collection of tea quotations and tea classes was not effective, the tea tax in Nanzhili and Zhejiang was outrageously low.

According to the population, the current tax on tea in Nanzhili and Zhejiang is only a few thousand taels of silver, which is not even comparable to the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, but the population has increased more than three times.

If the tax is strictly levied in accordance with the taxation in the early Ming Dynasty, even if you go to Gongcha, as long as the tea farms in Nanzhili and Zhejiang are state-owned, it is enough to triple it.

That is, the basic income of at least two million taels of silver, and to facilitate this, it is completely possible to use the imperial shop of the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

This is only the tea tax, if the wine in Nanzhili and Zhejiang is also state-owned, then at least four or five million taels of income.

This is already considered to be a small calculation, all dynasties have monopolized salt wine and tea taxes, among which wine tax and tea tax are the most profitable.

For example, during the reign of Song Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, the annual income of the Northern Song Dynasty alone was 14 million guan, which was equivalent to about 14 million taels of silver.

Of course, the liquor tax in the Northern Song Dynasty was high, but even if it was discounted, there would be seven million taels of income.

As for the deed tax, it is the deed tax that the people have a contract for buying and selling fields, houses, etc., as long as the deed tax in the Ming Dynasty is strictly collected, it is not difficult to collect a million taels of silver a year.

The Jiangnan region, where commerce is booming, is the top priority for tax evasion.

In other words, as long as Zhu Youzhen can eat one of the three taxes of tea, wine, and deed, he can have millions or even millions of taels of silver.

As soon as he thought of this, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but scold his mother.

If the Ming Dynasty had used the same tax method as the Qing Dynasty, or the same tax method as the Song Dynasty, it would have more than doubled its annual income.

At that time, those civil officials said that there were many miscellaneous items, and Zhu Youzhen directly called on the imperial brother to abolish the miscellaneous taxes with an income of three or four million taels, and to run all the "Salt, Iron, Tea and Wine Deed Customs" by the government.

At that time, it will really be a dream to earn 20 million in cash.

As long as the silver is enough, the Ming army can beat you to the other side of the ocean.

"It's really gluttonous...... Thinking about the hidden tax potential in Jiangnan, Zhu You couldn't check it.

He can't wait to do it now, so he led his troops south, cut down those who owed taxes directly, and then returned to the capital with tens of millions of taels of silver.

But this thing is just thinking about it, what he should do more than these is how to think about it, to deal with the opportunity to make a move after three years of Jingcha.

Whether it is Jingcha or whatever, he must first have his own people, especially those who are literate and know how to do arithmetic.

There are many such people, but there are not many who belong to Zhu Youzhen.

"Cheng'en, find someone to calculate, in the nursing homes in the Beizhili area, how many children are in kindergarten and know how to read, it is best to find ten to sixteen years old."

"The slave and maid receive the order...... Wang Chengen hurriedly returned the salute when he heard this, but after returning the salute, he said:

"Your Highness, do you need to say a word to Banzai?"

"Naturally!" Zhu Youzhen has no reason to hide from the good royal brother, hiding from the other party will only estranged the two.

Therefore, it is not only about finding young children, but also about various other things, except for things that did not happen, other things need to be told to Zhu Youxiao.

When Wang Chengen heard this, he called someone to go to the Qianqing Palace to inform Zhu Youxiao of the matter, and then arranged for someone to investigate the nursing home kindergarten in the area of Beizhili.

After these things were done, he returned his attention to Zhu Youzhen, and Zhu Youzhen saw that Feng Xue listened, so he asked someone to lead the horse to the back left door and continued to prepare to play riding and shooting.

And not only riding and shooting, he also has to learn swords and guns, after all, this era has not yet reached the level where he is invincible in the world with firearms.

Firearms are too weather-hungry, and the quality of flint in the territory of the Ming Dynasty is not good.

As far as the flintlock pistol is concerned, even if you ask your subordinates to make it, judging from the craftsmanship of the group of people in the Ordnance Bureau, it is estimated that they will not even dare to use it themselves.

He has done enough things at the moment, and if he still wants to meddle in the affairs of the Arms Bureau, then one day he will have an estrangement with the good imperial brother.

The current situation is quite good, the armor factory manufactures armor and ships it to Changping to equip the army, and he doesn't have to bother.

Thinking about it, Zhu Youzhen said to Wang Chengen:

"Tell Sun Liang of the armor factory that in the future, the armor factory will mainly manufacture cloth face armor, piercing armor, chain mail and arm armor, hat-shaped hats, phoenix wing helmets, and other armor stomachs will not need to be manufactured."

"In addition, firearms are cast with 300 catties of Buddha franc cannons, 50 guns, 10,000 stone bullets, and 30,000 catties of scattered bullets."

"Tell him to make armor and cannons every day, and cloth armor still needs 20,000, the same chain mail, the same arm armor, and the same hat."

"This ......" Hearing this, Wang Chengen could only salute and say:

"Your Highness, although the armor factory has a fixed amount of iron, it still needs some silver to reward the craftsmen for making armor and casting artillery day and night."

"Transfer nine thousand taels of silver from Changping, and you will personally check it after it arrives in the capital." Zhu Youjian said:

"The craftsmen each have five taels of silver, and the extra 1,000 taels will be sent to Sun Liang and all the eunuchs, telling them not to stretch out their hands to the craftsmen, whoever dares to stretch out their hands, I will chop off their heads!"

"Slave maid takes orders......" Hearing Zhu Youzhen's violent words, Wang Chengen knew that the other party was not joking, so he hurriedly sent the little eunuch to inform Sun Liang.

In addition to the notice, he asked someone to tell Zhu Youxiao about this matter, and then followed Zhu Youzhen to the back left door to practice riding and shooting.

At the same time, Zhu Youxiao also got the news from the eunuch of the Qingong Palace, but he didn't have a big reaction.

Perhaps because he was troubled by what the civil official had just done, he nodded and agreed, and then asked Wang An to allocate 308,000 taels of silver from Neinu to transport it to the Qinqin Palace.

His move was to tell Zhu Youzhen that he had come out with the silver of those armors, and he didn't have to go all the way from Changping to transfer them.

As for the 300,000 taels, it was the plan that he had promised him to go south to sell grain.

After Zhu Youzhen came back on horseback, it was already dusk.

Knowing that the silver had arrived, he asked Lu Wenzhao to take Lu Jianxing to get the silver.

300,000 taels of silver, escorted in 38 carriages, nearly 100 brocade guards with 300,000 taels of silver went to Nanzhen Fusi, along the way the people avoided one after another, for fear of being infected with this group of guys.

It wasn't until the silver two were escorted to the Fusi Yamen in Nanzhen that Lu Wenzhao called Lu Jianxing and the two chief flag officers under him into the inner hall.

"Hoo ......"

After exhaling a breath of tea, Lu Wenzhao looked at Lu Jianxing who was sitting in the chair, and said with an unchanged face:

"Out of the capital, I can't help you, if you want to ask for anything, mention it earlier."

"Back to my lord, I don't want anything from my humble position, please wait for the good news of my humble position!" Lu Jianxing's face was as calm as water, which made Lu Wenzhao very satisfied.

He nodded, and then said:

"In that case, even if you retreat, the silver will come tomorrow morning to get it, and when you succeed, I will personally tell Your Highness to promote a thousand households for you."

"Yes!" When Lu Jianxing heard the word Qianhu, he couldn't help but be excited, but he still suppressed his emotions and retreated with the two chief flag officers.

After they had withdrawn, a figure walked in from outside the hall, with a face like jade, dark red lips, no more than five feet tall, a little thin, and a long knife at his waist, one foot longer than the Yanling knife.

"Take your people, follow them, and if you have any other thoughts, bring them back."

"Good ......" did not respond with an honorific title, but Lu Wenzhao did not dislike it, and this person also withdrew.

When he withdrew, a young man wearing the ordinary clothes of Jinyi Wei and carrying a long knife walked out of the Nanzhen Fusi Yamen together.

After they walked out, a few more people walked out of the dark alley one after another, and followed Lu Jianxing and them all the way away.

It's just that Lu Jianxing didn't know that a general flag officer standing next to Lu Jianxing looked thin, with mantis legs, a horse peak, and an ordinary goose feather knife at his waist.

Waiting for the other chief flag officer to leave, the chief flag spoke:

"Big brother, you're too reckless this time......"

"In such a world, if you can't seize the opportunity, you will only fail, but it will only affect you, the second brother." Lu Jianxing looked guilty.

For the sake of his ambition, it is indeed a bit selfish to let his righteous brother take his life, but he has no choice.

"Big brother, you know I didn't mean that......" Qing Thin Zongqi didn't know what to say comfortingly, and Lu Jianxing also raised his hand and said:

"This time I went south, as long as I did a good job of the things sent by His Royal Highness, you and my brother Feihuang Tengda would be just around the corner."

"You can restore the glory of your ancestors, and use the gift knife collected at home openly."

"Having said that, I still think it's impossible to earn back hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a year." Qing Thin General Banner was very sensible, but Lu Jianxing reassured him and said:

"The Great Age of Genes"

"Don't worry, over there in Jiangnan, I already have a clue."

"As long as you grab the handle of a few people and send some silver, I don't believe that I can't pry their mouths open."

"As long as you can pry your mouth open, everything will be solved."

During the conversation, the heavy snow stopped, and the two brothers walked in the snow, one high and one low, a little lonely......