"Dismissed and dismissed! We have retreated again and again, and there is no way to retreat. ”

"Your Highness is also our teacher, doesn't he know that Banzai and the crown prince will do something to us? For now, we just want to protect ourselves! ”

In the official workshop of the capital, when Wang Kejian learned that Chengde's recital had been returned again, the two of them couldn't sit still.

Zhu Youzhen's appearance of sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai made them feel a little flustered in their hearts.

Now they are retreating again and again, but the other party does not seem to intend to leave them alive.

"Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou have already investigated in Jiangnan, and the people below have stolen a lot from us, and if they are found out, they may implicate us."

Zhang Xiaocun couldn't help but speak, and Cheng De, who heard the words, paused, and the teacup in his hand seemed to become hot in an instant.

He frowned visibly in front of everyone, and then forced his temper and asked:

"Just stealing, do you think it can implicate us?"

"Send someone to find out if they stole it or did something else."

"Back then, the poor couldn't eat, and they said that it was enough to eat a full mouthful, but now that they are officials, it's not enough to eat, and they have to encroach on acres of land and impose miscellaneous taxes, right?"

Chengde doesn't know what the people below have done, but in the officialdom of Daming, that's all the officials can do.

Not to mention anything else, as long as the officials have the heart to leave behind the fields left by the people after they relocate, they can completely make a bunch of seven aunts and eight aunts, and then rely on false names to divide hundreds of acres of land.

Saying which of the following officials are honest and honest, and the land is fair, Chengde doesn't believe it at all, it's just a matter of greed for more and greed for less.

Corruption at this juncture is really impatient.

"Sun Chuanting's guy first inspected the south of the Yangtze River and then the southwest, and each direction is the place where we arrange the most officials, I think he wants to fight with us endlessly!"

Wang Kejian clenched the letter in his hand, and his dissatisfaction with Sun Chuanting had reached the limit.

Not only him, it can be said that there is no one in Yanshan who does not hate Sun Chuanting.

When the people in northern Shaanxi were in turmoil, Sun Chuanting cut down tens of thousands of Yanshan officials in one go, this is a blood feud, who can forget it?

Those who can forget have already turned their heads to Kim Hyun's eagle dog door.

Thinking of Jin Xuan, Wang Kejian was also dissatisfied with Chengde and said: "Jin Xuan has gathered so much filth, we have people in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple, and Criminal Department, why don't you do it yet?" ”

"Hands-on? How to move? Chengde frowned and asked Wang Kejian, making Wang Kejian speechless for a while.

"Except for some people with handles who have been punished, the other people who gathered over there are either honest officials or clean officials, what do you do?"

"I can't believe their butts are so clean!" Wang Kejian opened his mouth unconvinced, in his opinion, there is no official who is not greedy.

"Hmph......" Seeing Wang Kejian's incompetent and filial piety, Cheng De snorted coldly: "If you don't believe it, you can go and check it!" ”

"I ......" Seeing Chengde say this, Wang Kejian also knew that he was a little excessive, so he hurriedly endured his temper and apologized:

"It's me who was reckless, please forgive me, senior......"

"Okay, okay......" Seeing that Wang Kejian offended Chengde, Zhang Xiaocun also stood up and said:

"The key at the moment is whether Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting's actions were instructed by the King of Qi, or whether the King of Qi is still long live."

"Also, I don't believe they can change so many officials in one go."

"There are no more than 200,000 graduates per year in the world, and no more than 70,000 or 80,000 people in the world, unless you want to use government students as officials, you can't replace so many officials in one go."

"What's more, the current bubonic plague in Shanxi, the great drought in the world, and the recent floods in the south of the Yangtze River are just the right time to use people."

"If you change officials rashly, the efficiency of the imperial court will decline, and it will not only be us who will die, but the local people."

At the critical moment, when there was value in use, Zhang Xiaocun and the others looked at the people as people, which made Chengde can't help but sneer.

"What about taxes? Do you want to continue dragging it out? ”

Wang Kejian asked Chengde, and Chengde said calmly when he heard this:

"The delay in the payment of taxes in various places is not a big threat to the imperial court, and you must have seen it."

"Since it's not a big threat, we don't have a lot of cards to play."

"You two ask the others, see if there are still people who are stubborn in this matter, if not, pay the taxes as soon as possible."

Chengde does not support the postponement of tax payment, which was proposed by Zhang Maocai and Li Demao.

So what he said to Wang Kejian and the others, that is, to let the two tell Zhang Maocai and Li Demao, don't do those things, honestly take a step back is more effective than anything, and it is impossible for His Highness to be threatened by them.

"This ......"

Wang Kejian and the others hesitated, but when Chengde saw this, he immediately served tea to send off the guests.

Seeing this, the two did not want to stay for long, so they turned around and left without even making a fuss.

With the departure of the two, the carrier pigeons were also released, and after several days of trekking, they finally arrived at Anxi City in the Western Regions.

When the carrier pigeon arrived, Li Demao and Zhang Maocai, who were here, also got the news as soon as possible, but in the face of Chengde's suggestion, Zhang Maocai slapped the table irritably:

"I said earlier, Chengde's heart is always on His Highness's side."

"Now that the matter in Jiangnan has been exposed, if there is an accident in the southwest, then if you investigate it upwards, he will definitely not be involved in too many things, but these officials are appointed by you and me, you and I will inevitably be implicated, and there will be a group of people who will be uprooted."

"If the local officials in the second and third phases are uprooted, then you and I don't want to live."

"Sun Chuanting......" Li Demao also gritted his teeth, for Sun Chuanting, his hatred is not a day or two.

"Now we need to guard against someone betraying you and me." Zhang Maocai approached to talk to him in detail, but Li Demao, who heard the words, sneered:

"You and my family's property can basically match that of Yu Lu over the years, even if Lu Wenzhao personally leads the team, what can I find?"

"Having said that, I have to guard against it, so I still write a letter home and let my family make plans in advance."

Zhang Maocai was bitter, and Li Demao had no choice but to write two letters to his family with him, which were copied three times and sent home with six carrier pigeons.

Their actions have been under the surveillance of Jinyiwei.

Therefore, after the carrier pigeon was released, Jin Yiwei shot down two carrier pigeons and intercepted this information respectively.

"I don't believe it, every amount of home production capacity of the two of them is used at home!"

In the Yamen of Fusi in Beizhen, Lu Wenzhao looked at the two letters in his hand and sneered on his face.

"Dad, even if it's right, since you know who they are, it's better to ...... directly"

Lu Yuangao said three points, which made Lu Wenzhao, who was sitting in the first place, slightly chin his head:

"You can do this matter, and as soon as His Highness's order arrives, you will do it immediately."

"Yes!" Lu Yuan bowed highly, but after he got up, he said:

"Right now, Sun Chuanting has offended Yanshan too deeply, and I am not worried about the Beijing officials in the DPRK, but if the border officials want to murder him, I am afraid they will not be able to prevent it."

"In this situation, should we send some more men to protect him?"

"Naturally, I have already sent Shen Lian, he and Sun Chuanting are old acquaintances and know how to cooperate." Lu Wenzhao had already arranged everything, after all, he would not be stumbled by Yanshan again.

Lu Wenzhao has been tracking down the stumbling blocks of the civil uprising in northern Shaanxi for many years, and gradually has a clue.

There are not a few people in Jinyiwei who have been bought by officials of the Yanshan faction, and there are not a few people who were born in Yanshan.

Lu Wenzhao has been back for the past few years, but he has spent a lot of effort to snatch people from the school.

Today's Jinyiwei is not one in ten with Yanshan and people with backgrounds.

Without this group of people in the way, Lu Wenzhao dared to be bolder in his actions.

"Pengju ......" Lu Wenzhao suddenly opened his mouth and called out to himself, which made Lu Yuangao look at him suspiciously.

"Are you going to go to Qi with your father, or do you want to stay in Daming ......?"

As soon as Lu Wenzhao spoke, Lu Yuangao was stunned.

Although he was taken by Zhu Youzhen to see the lives of the people, and his style of acting has changed a lot, he has never made up his mind to leave Daming.

The country of Qi is already very prosperous, even comparable to one of the three provinces of Huguang, Sichuan, and Jiangnan.

However, it is only a vassal country after all, and now the position of the prince of Qi has not yet been decided, and Zhu Cihong, the king of Changjun, has not yet emerged.

If there is only King Qi Xianming, the Qi State will be prosperous for a maximum of thirty years, and it will also be suppressed by the Ming Dynasty in the future.

Even Zhu Cihong is also capable, but Zhu Ciran on the side of Daming is not a mediocre master, and from the current momentum of Qi Guo, once the immigrant is stuck, it is difficult to surpass Daming in this life.

Lu Yuan Gaoning is a phoenix tail, not a chicken head, so in the face of Lu Wenzhao's inquiry, he responded cautiously:

"Dad, the child still wants to stay in Daming, so it will help Dad and the three younger brothers."

"Okay, since you've made up your mind, then I won't persuade you."

Lu Wenzhao seemed to have been mentally prepared for a long time, so he didn't feel strange at all about Lu Yuangao's words, but just waved his hand to signal that Lu Yuangao could retreat.

Seeing this, Lu Yuangao respectfully retreated, but after he stepped back, he simply explained to the people below how to prepare to deal with Zhang Maocai and Li Demao's families.

After doing all this, he still went to the Spring Peace Palace in the Forbidden City, and told Zhu Ciran about Zhang Maocai and Li Demao.

"Good!"

Hearing that Li Demao and Zhang Maocai couldn't sit still, Zhu Ciran immediately shouted hello, then walked back and forth, stopped happily, and asked Lu Yuangao carefully:

"In your opinion, when is it most likely that Uncle will do it."

"Next October 20, after the end of Enko!" Lu Yuangao didn't think about it, and his answer was exactly the same as that of Plug Yinxi.

"Your Highness." Hearing Lu Yuangao's words, Du Yinxi stepped forward and said:

"The people who will study in the government next year will definitely be promoted after graduation, and we will not be able to ask for any benefits, so what we need to do is to select a group of officials and officials from among the older students in the official school."

"Yes!" Sun Kewang also bowed his head and said:

"Next year is the twenty-second year of the Apocalypse, which coincides with the entry of official schools into Zhejiang."

"Xiaguan checked the number of students enrolled in the official schools in the world that year, and nearly five million people in Zhejiang Province joined the official schools, of which nearly two million were over the age of 12."

"If tens of thousands of officials can be selected from this group of people, then Donggong will have a certain right to speak in Jiangnan in the future."

"But ......" Sun Kewang looked at Lu Yuangao and saluted him:

"This still needs the help of Commander Lu......"

"This matter is not a difficult matter, but ......" After listening to the words of everyone in the East Palace, Lu Yuangao first gave an attitude, and then explained:

"The reason why His Royal Highness King Qi is not ready to use official students is mainly because the official students are too old and the official education they have received is too shallow, and it is easy to repeat the mistakes of Yanshan in the future."

"Therefore, Your Highness, if you want to use this group of official students, it is best to think about it carefully."

Lu Wenzhao gave an answer from the Qi Palace, but in the face of this answer, Zhu Ciran frowned.

Everyone has their own dilemma, and every period has its own dilemma.

At that time, Zhu Youzhen didn't want the Yanshan students to study for a few more years, but his environment did not allow it.

If Zhu Youzhen let the Yanshan students study for ten more years, then their thinking would naturally be much firmer than now, but Zhu Youzhen would have five years less time to prepare.

From the fifth year of the Apocalypse to the tenth year of the Apocalypse, this was an important period for Zhu Youzhen to carry out reforms, and it was also the most difficult period.

The role played by Yanshan students in this period is undeniable, even if they are now contrary to the concept they had when they walked out of Yanshan.

This kind of experience still works in front of Zhu Ciran.

Zhu Ciran doesn't want to wait for the students of Fuxue? But the problem is that there are too many officials needed by Daming at the moment, and only enough new officials can fill the vacancy left by Yanshan.

Therefore, he also does not have many options......

"In fact, you don't need to choose students who have graduated from government school to be officials!" Du Yinxi suddenly spoke, making everyone in the hall look at him involuntarily.

In this regard, Du Yinxi also said to Zhu Ciran and others:

"In the land south of the Yangtze River, there are often some students who end their studies halfway because of their poor family backgrounds and participate in the imperial examination in advance."

"There is no restriction on academic qualifications for Enke's registration, so why don't we pick some people and let them graduate early to enter the officialdom?"

"There are 180,000 fourth-grade students in the school this year, and if half of them are willing to leave the school gate early, then this problem will be solved."

Gu Yinxi put forward a new view, which made Zhu Ciran, Sun Kewang and others shine.

Indeed, if you really want to choose, then the students who have studied the new education for nine years will definitely be more determined than those who have only studied for five years.

Anyway, you have to choose, it's better to choose them.

"You have to ask Uncle Qi about this matter."

Zhu Ciran realized the key point of the problem, if he could think of it, then his uncle must have thought of it early.

He didn't say it, maybe this was the killer weapon he kept to deal with the Yanshan faction.

"I'll ask!" Faced with the method proposed by Du Yinxi, Lu Yuangao volunteered and immediately withdrew from the Chunhe Palace.

Before Zhu Ciran and the others could react, Lu Yuangao had already walked away.

Two quarters of an hour later, Lu Yuangao had already appeared in the carrying hall of the Qi Palace.

He put all of Yinxi's thoughts out, in this regard, Zhu Youjian was stunned for a moment, and a smile appeared on his face, putting the pen on the pen holder and laughing:

"There are a lot of people in your East Palace team who can give advice, and you guessed things quite right."

"So, is this Your Highness's last resort against Yanshan?"

Lu Yuangao boldly asked Zhu Youzhen, and Zhu Youzhen asked him rhetorically: "What do you think?" ”

"Kid doesn't think it'......" Lu Yuangao shook his head, he knew King Qi better than Du Yinxi and the others, and knew that if it was just like this, it would not be enough to make the Yanshan faction defenseless.

"What I'm going to do, you'll know then, all you have to do now is to be your microphone."

Zhu Youzhen smiled and picked up a cup of tea and took a sip, which made Lu Yuangao a little confused.

Although he knew that this was only one of Zhu Youzhen's methods, he still didn't know Zhu Youzhen's other methods.

He wanted to ask clearly, but he knew that unless this matter was almost closed, His Highness would not be able to say it.

"The kid quits ......"

Seeing that Zhu Youzhen had nothing else to explain, Lu Yuangao could only withdraw from the carrier hall.

He walked outside, but just as he was about to leave the palace, a carriage stopped in front of him, and the person who stepped down from it was Kim Hyun, who had recently become hot.

After Kim Hyun got out of the car, an unfamiliar face also caught Lu Yuangao's attention.

This man is tall, although he is wearing the official uniform of a civil official, but he is more like a military general, and he seems to be over forty years old.

Lu Yuangao didn't go up to say hello, because he knew that the person who could be led by Kim Hyun should not be a simple person.

After looking at the two of them for a while, Lu Yuangao turned around and took the carriage and returned to the Zhenfu Division.

However, a few minutes after he left, Kim Hyun and the others also climbed the high platform of the Carrier Hall and walked into the Carrier Hall.

"Xiaguan Zuodu Imperial Shi Jin Hyun ......"

"Lu Xiangsheng, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, ......"

"See Your Highness, Your Highness Chitose!"

When the voice of self-introduction sounded, Lu Xiangsheng also looked up and saw Zhu Youzhen sitting in the carrier hall.

Compared with when he went to India, Zhu Youzhen has matured too much.

Tianjiao, an eighteen-year-old boy, has now entered the age of establishment, and he ......

Lu Xiangsheng remembered that he was over forty years old, and he had mixed feelings in his heart.

"It's hard for you to go for thirteen years."

Zhu Youzhen opened his mouth to Lu Xiangsheng, but Lu Xiangsheng only made a salute in return to show that he was not bitter.

The two sat down under Wang Chengen's arrangement, and after they took their seats, Zhu Youzhen asked Lu Xiangsheng:

"I called you here this time to ask you about the situation in the small Western Ocean and the situation of the feudal domains."

Regarding Zhu Youzhen's words, Lu Xiangsheng already had a draft, so he replied without thinking:

"Back to Your Highness, the current situation in the Little Western Ocean is very stable, the pirates at sea have been completely wiped out in the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, and there are no pirates with a tonnage of more than 100 tons floating in the Little Western Ocean."

"As for the southern captives in the north, after so many years of tug-of-war, they have long had internal and external troubles, and since the fourteenth year of the Apocalypse, famine and civil strife have broken out in the local area."

"Over the years, tens of millions of people have died of hunger, plague and famine."

"Not to mention the Nanyu, even in the vassal kingdoms of the feudal domains, no less than three million people died of hunger and disease."

"At present, on the continent of India, there are twenty-four princes of all sizes and one hundred and eighty-four county kings."

"Before the handover of the local Han family, the number of local Han immigrants had exceeded 3 million, the number of native people had dropped to more than 33 million, and the total amount of cultivated land had reached more than 240 million mu."

"Among the feudal domains, the Zhou State is the richest, with 240,000 people, more than 6 million native people, 60,000 soldiers, more than 15 million acres of cultivated land, and an annual income of more than 1.8 million taels."

"In addition, it is successively Shu State, Chu State, Jin State, Fu State, Qin State, Zhao State ......"

"The combined income of the feudal clans has reached 20 million taels, and the main income is the sale of spices and mines, as well as the sale of grain to the national dynasty."

"The total strength of the vassals is one hundred and twenty battalions, and the total number of men is thirty-sixty-three thousand, seven hundred and twenty."

"At the moment, they are quite obedient, but if they destroy the southern captives in the north in the future, their power will further expand, and the power of the national dynasty will weaken, it will most likely threaten the national dynasty."

"Therefore, when Xia Guan came back this time, he also hoped that His Highness could strengthen the immigration to Ceylon Province, and at the same time increase the strength of the Little Western Supervision Department to thirty battalions."

Lu Xiangsheng said everything he wanted to say, and he had to say that no matter what era the South Asian Continent was placed in, it could be regarded as a potential opponent of the Central Plains Dynasty.

If it weren't for the primeval jungle in the southwest and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the two sides would have been fighting for thousands of years.

If a unified country emerges in India in the future, then its national strength on paper may reach about seventy or eighty percent of that of the Ming Dynasty.

"The Little Western Supervision Envoy is currently dominated by the Southern Army, right? In the future, ten more battalions of soldiers from the Eastern Army were added. ”

Zhu Youzhen first gave the Xiaoxiyang Supervision Department more troops, and then continued:

"Is the local famine still going on? Is it man-made or man-made? ”

"This ......" His inquiry brought a trace of hesitation to Lu Xiangsheng, obviously if the truth was told, it would offend people.

However, in this regard, Zhu Youzhen smiled and comforted: "It's okay, even if it's artificial, I won't say anything." ”

"Yes......" After receiving Zhu Youzhen's assurance, Lu Xiangsheng breathed a sigh of relief, after all, King Qi would naturally not destroy his reputation if he made a promise, so he also replied:

"The famine continued, mainly because the feudal lords sold most of the grain in the market to the imperial shop."

"India's grain production is actually enough to eat, and by the way, it can be sold."

"However, the feudal lords need to move the population to move silver, so they can only keep earning silver to move the population."

"This year, Huangdian bought 70 million stone of grain from India as feed, and after this grain was bought, civil strife broke out in various countries."

"It is really ...... that the feudal states also took measures to suppress civil strife."

Lu Xiangsheng stopped what he wanted to say, obviously he didn't think it was good to say it, but Zhu Youzhen knew it very well.

"These relatives of mine went to work in India, and it didn't change their brutal nature......

"There is also a ...... of a virtuous king"

Seeing Zhu Youzhen say this, Lu Xiangsheng had to explain to the feudal clans, but in this regard, Zhu Youzhen raised his hand to stop and said that he didn't want to listen, but said to Lu Xiangsheng:

"You should know about me and Yanshan."

"When the lower officials came, I heard some things from the imperial history of Jin Zuodu." Lu Xiangsheng responded respectfully.

"I need officials to replace Yanshan, and there are not enough students in the country's government, so I want to ask you......"

Before Zhu Youzhen's words came out, Lu Xiangsheng and Kim Hyun already understood.

In front of them, Zhu Youzhen squinted his eyes:

"What about overseas......