After the elite of Suzhou Wei arrived, they then found out the county government book and checked the ownership and area of the grain field.

Within a few days, Hu Weiwen and the others found out that Shi Tengyun had excluded many historians, Kunshan County officials, and some scholars' fields from the tax area, no wonder it was only counted to more than 40,000 stones.

Then he went to the street to check the shops of the Shi family, and found that many of the shops of the Shi family were selling expensive silk, big cashmere, and even the most popular white sugar.

These are all high-tax shops, but Shi Tengyun previously cooperated with the local Jinyiwei in Suzhou to make a fake, and dozens of shops added up to report taxes for five taels a month.

On the day of the auction, Lin Ming decided that the merchants who hurried to the scene were all historians and several local gentry families, and finally auctioned off the management rights of the Red Mansion at a very small price.

Twenty acres of land and hundreds of girls were prepared, but they reported 100 girls on 10 acres of land to reduce taxes and fees.

All kinds of concealments were found out by Hu Weiwen and them.

But this is not over, a few days later, another wave of Jinyiwei and Yushi came from Jingshi, and they also didn't know Hu Weiwen.

They then come back and do spot checks on each shop along the street.

At the end of May, a decree came from the Kyoshi.

The local Shi family, the Li family and several other wealthy gentry and officials who jointly engaged in counterfeiting were all confiscated, the men were beheaded, the women were distributed overseas, and all the family property and land were confiscated.

Among them, the shops and real estate were auctioned directly in Kunshan County and sold out within a day.

This case of counterfeiting was the first batch of major cases in Jiangnan that appeared in the Hong Xi Dynasty, and it attracted many people, including Suzhou Jinyiwei, who also cooperated with Kunshan County to make a fake in the early stage, and all of them were beheaded.

Since Zhu Gaoxu entered Beijing, he has always shown the world a gentle way of handling, which also emboldens the people below and dares to collude to commit fraud.

So Zhu Gaoxu immediately warned them with blood and a butcher's knife.

I kill people, no worse than the king of Ming.

Of course, there is more than one such fraud case, but Zhu Gaoxu sent someone to review and solve this problem very well.

The person who reviews can receive a gift, and after receiving it, the court will take half of it, and you yourself will take half of it.

This is called taking bribes, and everyone is quite happy.

But if you take the benefits, you have to do things well, if you don't do it well, it's full of houses, and if you do it well, you can get promoted and make a fortune, what do you say they will do?

The key is that the people who go down here are all temporarily recruited from all over the world, and they don't know each other, and no one is worried about anyone.

If you dare to help collude, you are not afraid of others reporting it?

Who knows if there is an emperor's eyeliner in it.

Zhu Gaoxu's practice will also become the standard review method of the Ming Empire in the future.

This is similar to the exam in later generations, where the interview teachers are drawn from various places and do not know each other.

But usually it's the same province or the same prefecture-level city.

Zhu Gaoxu is more ruthless, and he transfers people from different provinces, relatively speaking, he is more assured.

Moreover, in later generations, transportation and communication were developed, and sometimes people in the same province could get to know each other.

There aren't many people who can get acquainted from one county to another, let alone from all provinces.

Throughout the second year of Hongxi, Zhu Gaoxu's main energy was actually on the two things of nuclear taxation and taxation.

The renovation of the water conservancy in Suzhou was handed over to local businessmen, and the river is planned to begin next year.

In addition to this major event, another thing that is still being done is to continue disarmament and reduce fiscal expenditures.

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The sea breeze in May was still a little cool, and Xu Shi stood by the sea, looking into the distance, but his eyes were looking forward and excited.

He'll be back home soon.

This side is subordinate to the Ming Saigon Cheng Xuan Political Envoy Division, the old Hong Kong Capital Division.

When Xu Shi was in Yongle, he belonged to Suzhou Zhenhaiwei, a military household in the local guard.

In the third year of Yongle, Zhenhaiwei went to the West with Zheng He under the leadership of Tao Degui, the commander of Wei.

On the way back, Tao Degui surrendered to the Han King with his group, and then Xu Shishi was left in the old port, and joined forces with the original local pirates and Chinese to become the old port avant-garde of the old port of the three guards.

Xu Shishi was promoted from the general banner to one hundred households.

Zhu Gaoxu set up three guards in the old port, about 15,000 people, the commander of the old port and the commander of the old port avant-garde was Fang Yanping, the commander of the old port guard was Zhang Quan, and the commander of the old port guard was Shi Jinqing (the former king of the three wiwis).

Among them, there are more than 5,000 of the original Jiaozhi Ming army, more than 5,000 of the former Zheng He's subordinate sailors, and more than 5,000 local pirates and Srivijaya Chinese, scattered and combined.

Qu Neng was the chief military officer of Zhennan, and he was the commander of Jiaozhi, Saigon, and Jiugang, and Zhang Fu was the right deputy general and the commander of Jiugang.

The prefect of the old port is Zhong Zhi, who was born in the Han Dynasty, and is now promoted to the political envoy of Saigon Youbu and the prefect of the old port.

There are more than 15,000 soldiers and horses in the old port, including family members, only the original local pirates and Chinese, and the rest of the original Jiaozhi Ming army and Xu Shishi, the family members of Zheng He's sailors, are in the original place.

In addition, the original New Srivijaya Kingdom had more than 100,000 Chinese, plus the people left by Chen Zuyi, there were about 150,000 local Chinese.

After Zhu Gaoxu occupied Cochin, Saigon, and Angkor, he successively immigrated to this area, and the total population of the Vietnamese and Angkor people, plus the local natives, has now exceeded 300,000.

The task of the three guards of the old port was to occupy the entire Sumatra archipelago.

The location of the old port is in South Sumatra, after the establishment of the three guards, it has fought in the north, and the progress is average, and when Zhang Fu arrives to preside over the overall situation, it is already November of the first year of Hongxi.

At that time, the Ming army had already reached the middle of Sumatra, West Sumatra.

The local people here are very poorly equipped, and they don't have any armor, but many people from the old Srivijaya Kingdom are still there, and the resistance is more intense, plus the Malacca Dynasty also feels the pressure of the Ming army, so they secretly support, when Zhang Fu didn't come, Fang Yanping commanded, and the fight was not too good, but it was not bad.

Fang Yanping advanced gradually under the condition of giving priority to ensuring the minimum casualties of the Ming army.

After Zhang Fu came, this guy was a ruthless man, and he was the most ruthless in beating Annan in history.

Not only did he come, but when the war was over, he brought with him a large number of artillery and firearms from the sea.

Previously, most of the artillery was supporting Zhu Gaoxu's counterattack, but now it has begun to tilt sideways towards the sea.

As soon as the artillery of the Ming army came, the local natives could not withstand it, and Zhang Fu was also a ruthless man, either surrendering or killing, and when he entered March of the second year of Hongxi, he had already finished fighting the entire island of Sumatra.

The original natives were either killed or fled to the opposite Malacca dynasty.

Then, according to the emperor's request when he left Beijing, Zhang Fu found the opposite side of the Malacca Dynasty (opposite Kuala Lumpur) and began to build a port, and moved the old port and three guards to North Sumatra, West Sutra, and South Sumatra, completing the control of Sumatra.

At this time, there were 150,000 Chinese, 70,000 Vietnamese and Angkorian people, and 180,000 local natives, with a total population of about 400,000.

In May of the second year of Hongxi, Zhang Fu drew more than 5,000 people from the Yue, Angkor, and local natives, and established the Old Port Left Guard, which was stationed in Aceh Province, so that the control of the Ming army was more comprehensive.

But these Yiding were not alone into a guard, but also scattered and disrupted to the Ming army.

In this way, Xu Shi's team of 100 households had a total of 120 people, of which about a quarter, and about 22 people were composed of Yue people, Angkor people, and Tu people.

After the first year of Hongxi, the emperor began to disarm, and over forty years old, under the small banner will take the field to retire.

In the case of overseas, there are other regulations because the family members are not available.

Officers who want to return home, over the age of thirty-five, can apply, but they can only retire, not transfer to other places.

Xu Shi is also forty years old this year, and it was not easy to rise to 100 households, according to the latest military system of the imperial court, local military households cannot be stationed in the local area, so it is impossible for Xu Shi to be transferred back to Suzhou.

And he followed Zheng He to the sea, and his family was still in Suzhou, where he was originally stationed.

Xu Shishi thought about it, only if he was promoted to the command level could he be transferred out of the station, the command level was too far away from him, if he was thirty years old, he could still fight, and now that he was old, it was better to go home.

Eventually, he decided to apply for retirement and return home.

According to the Ming law, the military family was hereditary in the past, and he had two sons in Suzhou.

The imperial court replied a few months later, agreeing to his application and allowing him to retire and return to his hometown.

Xu Shishi also asked in his application that he could let his eldest son Xu Daying inherit his military position?

The imperial court replied, according to the latest Ming law, you are not the earliest rebel army, you surrendered overseas, and you cannot be hereditary, but the imperial court is recruiting new soldiers, and your eldest son Xu Daying can be specially recruited, as long as you pass the assessment, you can attack the general banner.

This is obviously also a care, just go through the scene assessment.

Xu Shishi is still very satisfied, he fought for the King of Han overseas, and his son is also settled.

To tell the truth, the hereditary military household has become an end in the army at present, and it is better for a person like him to have an official and a half-position, and many sergeants do not want their sons to be sergeants in the future, so the new emperor does not let the hereditary family, and the effect is surprisingly good, and he is supported by almost all the low-level sergeants in the army.

Because Xu Shishi has an official position, he wants his son to be hereditary, but the other son, he is not like becoming a military household.

After Jianwen, the imperial court fought two battles successively, with many casualties, and he almost died in Sumatra, so if he could choose, he definitely didn't want his two sons to be all military households.

Now that the eldest son inherits and the second son can do something else, Xu Shishi is very satisfied.

According to the avant-garde commander Fang Yanping, when he retires collectively in the first half of the year, he can go home with the ship, and retire with the field, which is also what Xu Shi is most satisfied with.

Xu Shishi's current location is the Strait of Malacca, opposite the Malacca Dynasty.

The king of Malacca, Baili Milan Sula, once went to Yingtianfu to visit Zhu Di during the Yongle period, and Zhu Di was quite good to him, so this guy is now ignoring the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the key is that Zhu Gaochu used troops everywhere in the South Seas, and Baili Milan Sula also felt Zhu Gaoxu's ambitions, so he was very hostile, for this reason, Baili Milan Sula secretly connected the countries of the South Seas, and went to encourage the Timurid Empire to conquer the Ming Dynasty, which the Ming Dynasty did not know until now.

In the course of Zhang Fu's early expeditions, many locals received the covert support of the Malacca dynasty.

Now that the Ming army has completely controlled Sumatra, Zhang Fu is building a port and fort nearby, and the opposite side of Baili Milan Sula is even more trembling.

Xu Shi was near the fort at this time, watching the work of the people.

(End of chapter)