"When you sing about wine, your life is ......"

"For example, the morning dew is bitter and ...... the past day"

"Shhh......h

Putting down the wine glass, Xu Qian, the county magistrate of Danyang County, Zhenjiang Prefecture, picked up a piece of braised pig ear on the table with a fast son, put it in his mouth and chewed it carefully.

In front of him, there were the officials in the official warehouse who were constantly counting, and the officials and masters who were carrying grain.

As for himself, he was sitting at a four-person table with the county magistrate, the lord Bo, and the warden of Danyang County, and there were two pots of wine, three plates of cold dishes, and three plates of hot dishes on the table.

The three dishes are fried peanuts with salt, marinated pork ears, and marinated pork head.

The three hot dishes are also a plate of Nanjing roast duck, a plate of braised donkey meat and homemade tofu.

Four people, six dishes and two pots of wine, still in this year of famine, it is enough to see how the officials of a county are treated.

The four supervisors ate meat and drank alcohol, while the officials took out a piece of fried pork jerky and chewed it in their mouths, and the officials below were nibbling on raw and cold rice cakes.

Just eating after work, you can use their food to see the difference and class.

In the Ming Dynasty, the internal personnel of the county government were mainly divided into three categories: officials, officials, and servants, and the division of labor was mainly the decision-making of officials, the management of documents, and the servants.

In the Ming Dynasty, the county government is often divided into the county, the county, the main book, the history, these four people are the official officials, and the left two, the leader is the imperial palace, the number is very small.

The county officials are in charge of the government affairs of a county, and the leaders are respectively responsible for persuading agriculture, water conservancy, cleaning the army, patrolling and other things.

Officials are public officials registered in the Ministry of Officials, mainly in the Sixth Room, Grain Section, Horse Department and other housing sections, and handle official documents and account books.

The officials are responsible for standing in the court, guarding, guarding, urging the department, arresting and other matters at the disposal of the officials.

It's just that with the restructuring of the order of King Qi, the work of the yamen was reduced, and the county officials no longer had to do it, and the eucalyptus documents were handed over to the yamen, and the trials were handed over to Dali Temple, and the arrests were handed over to the Soldiers and Horses.

The Terracotta Division was responsible for guarding the city, and the chief officer was awarded from the seven-rank soldiers, while the chief officer of Dali Temple was awarded the judge of the seventh grade, and the chief officer of the government was from the eight-rank priest.

The power of a county was divided from four to seven, and no one would be happy.

For example, the four of Xu Qian at the moment are already in a group, and now they are going to play with the three Yanshan chief officials who were parachuted down, and it is natural to feel a little sad in their hearts.

However, this sorrow is naturally good to stop at the point, so Xu Qian sandwiched a piece of braised donkey meat, and said to the master who was keeping accounts:

"Zhang Shiyan, you have to be better, if you don't have a good point, the majority or the minority, we will have to be sentenced to a crime of insufficient governance."

"Xu Zhixian rest assured, he has not missed this post for thirty years, this ear, this eye, you can know what is in the bag at a glance." Master Zhang said, and made two gestures with a pen.

The county government does not have the official position of the master, most of these people join the county government as staff, and as for the salary, it all depends on how much the chief official himself uses the salary.

However, this does not mean that the county order is very hard, after all, there are too many means and places to be corrupt in charge of a county.

Not to mention anything else, such as Danyang County, there are more than 300,000 people, more than 100,000 acres of land, and the annual income is about 50,000 taels of silver after folding.

In the Ming Dynasty, the tax system was that local officials left the money that needed to operate in the county, and then handed it over layer by layer.

This led to the fact that in the self-sufficient silver left, Xu Qian and the others could completely do it themselves.

Although the officials do not need to be paid, the yamen needs to run, and the officials need to be paid.

Xu Qian and the others don't need to talk about other project kickbacks, just the service silver of the government servants, they have to eat 4,000 taels of silver every year.

They reported to them that there were 800 officials in the county, but in fact there were only more than 130 officials in the county.

After the payment of the money, each of the four of them was able to share hundreds of taels of silver with only one piece of silver.

This is only the service silver, in addition to the official grain of the official warehouse, casually looking for a reason to sell it at a low price at the end of the year, and lying to the top that the granary is not moisture-proof.

Not only was he greedy for grain, but he could also repair the granary by repairing it, and then he could get a lot of money from the books.

It is precisely because of this variety of means that Xu Qian and others can support themselves with a meager income, and they can still live a nourished life in this rich land south of the Yangtze River.

However, the appearance of the Soldiers and Horses Division and the Servants limited the amount of ink they could embrace.

It's just that it doesn't matter, in their opinion, don't look at the officials and petty officials who come from Yanshan right now, but as long as it takes a long time, they will slowly reach out.

Thinking of this, Xu Qian picked up the wine glass and took a sip, and did not forget to sigh after drinking:

"Suzhou, Changzhou, Huzhou, Songjiang and Jiading and other places, in previous years, were fat, but now they have all become hanged ghosts, which is really embarrassing."

It is now July 27, and as early as the 10th, Lu Wenzhao ordered Cui Yingyuan to take Jinyiwei south and began to track down the officials of Yamen County who suffered from the flood.

For a while, as soon as the flood had passed, the officials and officials in these places were condemned for their crimes, and their homes were raided, which made people sigh.

Xu Qian was sighing, but he looked a little gloating.

People, I can't see that others are better than him, and the rabbit and fox are sad that means that when he gets the people around him, the Suzhou government officials who are hundreds of miles away have nothing to do with him Xu Qian.

Thinking of this, Xu Qian picked up the wine glass and took another sip, and at this time, Master Zhang, who was in charge of bookkeeping, also turned around and said:

"Xu Zhixian, it's clear, it's a total of 12,462 stones, and the shortfall is 518 stones."

"It's not much...... Xu Qian glanced at the lord Bo, the county and the others, and then said, "I'll make up two hundred stones." ”

"I'll make up one hundred and fifty stones...... the county immediately took it, and the lord Bo also said, "I'll make up one hundred stones." ”

"I'll make up for the rest......," the warden took the opportunity to speak, and when he opened his mouth, everyone bowed their heads.

The food is replenished, and Xu Qian can also order:

"Tomorrow notify Zhang Langzhong of the Terracotta Division to come to ......"

"No need!"

Suddenly, the person holding the torch broke into the official warehouse, and Xu Qian immediately stood up as soon as he saw what this group of people were wearing.

"This ...... I don't know that the Shangguan of Jinyiwei is here, and he is far away to welcome ......"

The person who came was a hundred households of the Jinyi Health Supervision Department, and the official position of the hundred households was the sixth grade, which was two orders greater than Xu Qian's seventh grade.

In the Wanli period, Xu Qian talked to the other party at most, but unfortunately it was the year of the Apocalypse, and the status of the Supervision Department of Jinyiwei was half a level higher than that of the Nanzhen Fu Division.

When Cui Yingyuan was arresting officials in Suzhou and other places, Xu Qian didn't dare to do anything disrespectful to the Jinyiwei of the Supervision Department.

He thought about replying to the other party's words and sending the other party away when the other party finished doing things, but he didn't want the other party to come for him.

"Arrest Xu Qian, the magistrate of Danyang County, Cheng Zhangliao of Danyang County, the lord Bo Li Fu, and the warden He Chao!"

"Yes!"

When Baihu gave an order, Xu Qian was arrested before he could say the words of "misunderstanding".

"According to the "Da Ming Law", Xu Qian and the four embezzled countless Danyang County Treasury, arrested and raided their homes, and the sentence was pronounced by Dali Temple in Zhenjiang Mansion on a certain day!"

"Slander! What qualifications do you have to arrest me! I want to see Lord Futai! Xu Qian couldn't believe it, but he still insisted that he was not corrupt.

"Liu Futai has been sent to Nanjing, I'm afraid you won't be able to see it...... Take! ”

Under the order of the hundred households, Xu Qian and others, who were still eating and chatting a second ago, were taken away by the shackles of Jinyi Wei, and such a scene was not only staged in Zhenjiang Mansion, but also in Nanzhili and all parts of Zhejiang.

When the news reached the capital, hundreds of officials in one capital and one province were arrested, and more than 3,000 officials were involved.

Yao Zongwen and others didn't expect a flood in the land of Sifu to be made such a big deal by Zhu Youzhen.

It's not just them, but even Han Yi and others of the Donglin Party don't know how to get rid of them.

Zhu Youzhen didn't even give them time to discuss, and the Beizhen Fusi Jinyiwei, led by Li Ruolian, began to arrest hundreds of officials in Shaanxi, Beizhili, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan and other places.

It's just that compared to the southeast, the eruption of eucalyptus in the north makes people's scalp tingle.

Li Ruolian characterized the eucalyptus case as the "Three Ladies and Gentlemen", and the eucalyptus case mainly involved officials who smuggled with the Tumut, Hetao and other ministries.

Sanniangzi has been dead for more than ten years, and no one could have imagined that she would leave such a thing before she died, and some officials who had been recuperating at home were arrested and imprisoned in local prisons.

For a while, the world was shaken, and some people hurriedly dodged and avoided after seeing the brocade guards of the brigade on the street, for fear of being implicated.

Not only the hundred officials, but even some of the old generals in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies were invited to the local hundred households to drink tea.

In Zhangye City, Hexi, the entire Wang family with a hereditary thousand households was arrested, and this was clearly seen by a small servant in the mansion next door.

Seeing that Wang Shen in the army was arrested, the little guy hurriedly ran to the study, and a quarter of an hour later saw two veterans drinking tea in the study.

"It's not good, the family of Wang Shen next door has been arrested by the Fusi of Beizhen."

"What are you afraid of......

A familiar voice sounded, and the seventy-three-year-old Li Rubai, who had a white beard, glanced at the little servant, and then at Li Ruzhen who was sitting next to him, and then said:

"His Royal Highness can move, and my Li family has not participated in the Three Niangzi, why be afraid?"

Li Rubai was not afraid, to put it bluntly, the one who was most implicated in their Li family was Jianyu, and if Zhu Youzhen wanted to settle accounts, he would have already begun to liquidate them.

Since they have survived until now, as long as they are obedient, they will naturally not suffer liquidation.

It was not Li Rubai's expectation, as soon as he finished speaking, the head of the front yard walked all the way into the study and said:

"Master, just now Zhang Baihu, the brocade guard in the city, came to pass the word, saying that in the next few days, please rest well, and don't go out for the time being."

"Got it......" Li Rubai heard this, and Li Ruzhen breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

After Li Ruzhen breathed a sigh of relief, he also turned his head to Li Rubai and said:

"Having said that, Your Highness is traveling north and south, I'm afraid it ......"

"We don't have to worry about this, we just take care of Hexi." Li Rubai raised his hand and motioned to Li Ruzhen to stop talking.

He saw very clearly that what Zhu Youzhen needed was an obedient person.

As long as he becomes his person, he can not be blamed for the previous corruption, as long as he does not commit it again in the future.

This can be seen from the super high salary he gave to the generals, such as Li Rubai, a general soldier, a year's salary is 3,000 taels of silver.

If there is a war, after the battle, you can also get a reward ranging from one to three thousand taels, which can be called rich.

Under such a rich fortune and reward, if anyone dares to commit a crime, it is a little ignorant of it.

As for Zhu Youzhen's political behavior, as long as they can't see it, they can still continue to live a good life.

Thinking of this, Li Rubai took a sip of tea......

"Smack-"

"Do you say it or not!"

"Say! I say! ”

In the edict prison of the Fusi Qianhu Institute in Beizhen, Taiyuan Prefecture, Shanxi, the sound of whipping and questioning sounded endlessly.

This edict, which has been prepared for several years, still failed to contain the corrupt officials and corrupt officials in the whole of Shanxi in the face of the outbreak of the "Three Ladies and Eucalyptus".

As the commander of the Beizhen Fusi, Li Ruolian sat in the hall at the entrance of the Imperial Prison, with wine and food on the table, eating and drinking alone unhurriedly, listening to the wailing in the Imperial Prison and drinking.

In the evening, a stack of family property documents and confessions written on them appeared in front of him.

Li Ruolian picked up a book and looked at it hastily, then put it on the table and said:

"These people have a lot of money, and it seems that Shanxi's disaster relief funds have been raised."

"Send the document to Yanshan to His Royal Highness......

After that, Li Ruolian continued to bow his head and drink, and along with the officials who were whipped and bruised all over the body in the edict prison were sent out, the new officials were also escorted into the edict prison with sticks.

Jin Yiwei's methods are not something that this group of civil officials can bear, although there are some people who gritted their teeth and refused to confess, but when the evidence of their involvement in the three women's eucalyptus was put on the head, they began to cry and confess.

This kind of arrest is very slow, Li Ruolian followed Zhu Youzhen's instructions, starting with the first product, followed by the second product, the third product, and the fourth product......

He was not in a hurry, but chose to interrogate slowly and detain him slowly.

Zhu Youzhen deliberately asked Beizhen Fusi to do things very slowly, and some officials and businessmen who participated in the case saw this and began to sell their properties one after another, and at the same time, Wang Chengen, under Zhu Youzhen's instructions, began to buy these properties at a low price.

As long as someone wants to run, the brocade guards will appear and capture them with silver.

This makes it much easier to investigate family properties such as fields and houses, which are difficult to investigate.

[By the seventh day of the ninth month, the three ladies involved tens of thousands of officials, causing panic in the people of the world, and all officials were panicked......]

When the pen fell, the living note official who was in the Yangxin Hall to record the emperor's living notes blew dry the ink, and then continued to eavesdrop on the records.

In the Heart Cultivation Palace, Zhu Youxiao listened to Lu Wenzhao's reply, clenched the document book in his hand tightly, and his eyes were a little red.

In less than a month since the outbreak of the eucalyptus, the three ladies have already involved more than 500 high-ranking officials and more than 30,000 officials.

Behind them are hundreds of thousands of family scrolls and clansmen, and at the moment it is only the first step formulated by Zhu Youzhen.

Later, there were officials below the fifth grade, as well as salt merchants and smugglers......

"Long live, the Jiangnan flood has ended, involving 271 officials, more than 2,400 officials, and more than 64,000 family files."

"More than 1,214,000 taels of silver, more than 320,000 stones of rice and wheat, more than 2,310,000 acres of land deeds, and more than 900 mansions and villas......"

"If it is all folded, I am afraid that there will be more than 30 million taels of silver......"

When Lu Wenzhao was angry with Zhu Youxiao holding the paperwork, he told the results of the Jiangnan flood that had ended and the income from the seizure.

Although Jiangnan officials do not have much money and food, they have purchased a lot of family property, which is so much that it is eye-catching.

"What did my brother say?" Zhu Youxiao closed the paperwork and looked at Lu Wenzhao with a frown, but Lu Wenzhao said:

"Your Highness said, These officials can be exiled to the old port......"

"Just exile?" Zhu Youxiao wanted to kill some people to vent his anger, but Lu Wenzhao said:

"Your Highness said, 'Sometimes, it is more uncomfortable to live than to die.'"

"......" Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao calmed down a little, but continued:

"Sanniangzi, how much do you get from raiding your house now?"

"After all the folding, it's probably ......" Lu Wenzhao hesitated for a moment before he slowly spoke:

"About 26 million taels ......"

In a word, the difference and strength between the north and the south are expressed.

The officials in Jiangnan only involved the officials of the two provinces, so they confiscated nearly 30 million taels of silver, while the officials of the entire north who were above the fifth rank and the officials who tried to escape in vain, together with the officials and merchants, only had more than 26 million taels of silver.

"In your opinion, if the third lady finishes it, how much can be copied?"

Zhu Youxiao asked Lu Wenzhao with calm eyes, and Lu Wenzhao hesitated and said:

"If it's a folded color, it's roughly ...... It should be around 10,000 taels of silver. ”

10,000,000 taels of silver, this is the total amount of taxes paid in the Ming Dynasty for more than two years, and it still has to be good weather to receive so much.

Although Zhu Youxiao knew that most of them were fields, mansions, villas, and doors, the amount of silver was enough to arouse his extinguished anger again.

"At present, the cash copied by the north and south is less than 6 million taels, and the grain is less than 7 million stones, which can be used for disaster relief."

"As for the acres of land, His Highness is going to distribute them to the people, and then encourage the people to report corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and at the same time hide the wealth from the people."

"The mansion and the courtyard can be included in the imperial village, and it may be needed when you reward hundreds of officials in the future."

Lu Wenzhao told the income from the seizure, and a large amount of real estate made the results of the seizure of the house plummet.

Although the value of tens of millions of taels reached after the north and south raided the house, Zhu Youzhen would rather send things like fields than sell them.

Selling land will only intensify land annexation, and land development will not only consolidate the policy that land cannot be bought and sold, but also enrich the people.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen also left a lot of good things for his good royal brother, such as those villas and villa shops.

However, in this regard, Zhu Youxiao was very willing to say:

"Give these things to the Imperial Store and sell them......

"This ...... The minister ordered ...... "Hearing Zhu Youxiao's words, Lu Wenzhao responded, and Zhu Youxiao also asked Lu Wenzhao:

"What is the attitude of the hundred officials in Beijing?"

"The hundred officials were very dissatisfied in private, but because of the majesty of Long Live and His Royal Highness, they did not make a big move to relieve ......"

Although Lu Wenzhao said this, Zhu Youxiao understood that it was not his majesty as an emperor that was hindered by the hundred officials, but by his younger brother.

Zhu Youxiao was not dissatisfied with this, he knew that if he hadn't tried his best to dissuade him, the attitude of the generals of the Qi Wangfu and the Five Armies Governor's Mansion would be difficult to guess, and I was afraid that his younger brother would take the initiative to go overseas to take the initiative to take up the vassal after sweeping the captives.

At present, in addition to his own dissuasion and reluctance, what makes him stay is more important is that he needs to stabilize the military generals and civil officials of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and the Prince's Mansion of Qi.

"The officials who cleaned up this time are mainly officials from the Zhejiang Party, the Xuan Party, and the Kunming Party, didn't my brother say anything about this?"

Zhu Youxiao walked back to his position and sat down, while Lu Wenzhao stepped forward and said:

"His Royal Highness said that the flood disaster dealt a blow to the three parties of Zhejiang, Xuankun and Kunkun only to the extent of flesh and skin, far from the extent of hurting the muscles and bones."

"It is important to take advantage of this time and take the opportunity of Enke to install Yanshan officials in the four prefectures and other prefectures and counties in Jiangnan that have been thoroughly investigated."

"As long as you control Nanzhili, Jiangxi and Zhejiang, you can check the national yellow book, and then reduce the field endowment, and the gentry will be divided into acres, and the grain will be paid in one piece."

Zhu Youzhen's plan is very well-adjusted, which Zhu Youxiao is very satisfied with, the only thing he cares about is that Zhu Youzhen said that he would reduce the land endowment of the people in Tuntian.

Judging from the current financial situation of Daming, if the land tax is really reduced, I am afraid it will ......

"......" Zhu Youxiao didn't say anything, but asked: "Didn't my brother mention the matter of Juntun Tianfu matter?" ”

"His Royal Highness means that the land endowment of the general's grain will be reduced to 20% in the Ming year, because the land of the old port, Liaodong, and Ryukyu can already feed back to the imperial court." Lu Wenzhao explained:

"In the land of Liaodong and Ryukyu, at present, nearly 10 million mu of newly cultivated land has passed the three-year contract, and now they can be levied from the field, and the income of the household department is estimated to increase by about 2 million stones."

"The land of the old port, now that gold, silver and copper mines have been opened, and nearly two million people have moved to settle in the area, according to the recital of the political envoy of Shen Bu, the land of the old port can not only be self-sufficient at present, but also have more than 10,000,000 stones of surplus grain every year."

"Putting these grains in the local area will cause the local grain price to be as low as 100 cents a stone, and the grain will hurt the farmers."

"In recent years, the people of Guangdong and Fujian have fled and migrated south, all because of the high price of grain, and now the grain in the old port can go north to help the people in Guangdong, Fujian and other places."

"The fields to be reclaimed in the future will be mainly based on beans and peanuts......"

After Lu Wenzhao's words were finished, Zhu Youxiao raised a question:

"From the old port to Guangdong and Fujian, this journey is by sea, can the grain be kept for so long?"

"With our anti-moisture technology, rice can be protected from moisture at sea for about two months at most...... Lu Wenzhao explained.

"His Royal Highness and the envoy of Shen Bu are transporting grain from Nanhai Province and Palembang Province to Jiugang Province and Zhongshan Province."

"This time is about half a month, so the grain will be stored in the warehouse after it arrives in Zhongshan Mansion."

"Then the grain of Zhongshan Province and Sulu and Bo Ni will be transported north to Luzon, and Luzon will have more than 800,000 immigrants, which can solve the grain of other provinces, and at the same time can transport the grain of Luzon from the north to Ryukyu and reach Fujian."

"During this period, each batch of grain will not be at sea for more than a month, and the grain will naturally be edible."

"Moreover, the transportation of grain from the south to the north is only the first point to solve the problem, and the second point is to build wineries in places such as the South China Sea, and then increase the income of the imperial court with official wine."

"Finally, there is the matter of the vassal king's overseas vassal, according to the time, they should have completed the entire Tianzhu coastal patrol, and the feudal chiefs should have selected the feudal land."

"Since it has been elected, then the matter of the vassal king's overseas vassal will probably be able to start next year, and the old Hong Kong government, Palembang province, and Nanhai province will become a big granary for the feudal king......"

Lu Wenzhao talked eloquently, but Zhu Youxiao frowned when he heard about the vassal king's decision.

Obviously, he still resists the vassal king's overseas vassalage, but this matter is on the right track, and even if he doesn't like it personally, there is no way to do it.

It's just that he is also curious whether Tianzhu is really as good as his brother said.

With such a question, Zhu Youxiao's thoughts gradually drifted towards Tianzhu......