The Shangshu of the Criminal Department is in charge of the world's criminal names, and this position naturally cannot be held by someone with no experience at all.

And this position is a positive second grade, and only those who have reached this level or a little inferior can have hope.

The people who secretly worked hard in the capital were then distracted by a strange promotion: Xia Yan was promoted to the imperial history of the right hand of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate with the military department.

The Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate does not have a left position, according to the rule, only the right capital imperial history, the right deputy capital imperial envoy, the right deputy imperial envoy of the four products is the third person of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate.

But there is another special person in the current Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate: Hu Zhan.

Because he himself is the imperial history of the Zuo Du of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he is still in this position when he is the governor of Nanjing.

And last year, Zhang Zilin went south, and Hu Zan has been suppressing bandits in the Yangtze River with Li Quanli, the uncle of Xiangcheng, and he has made a lot of contributions.

Xia Yan also participated in the abolition of the officers and troops in Beijing and the re-establishment of the three major battalions.

This narrative of Xia Yan suddenly disrupted the rhythm of many Beijing officials: Hu Zan may be promoted.

He is also a positive fourth product, and it is impossible for him to come to be the secretary of this criminal department. He may go up another product in Nanjing, then there will be a positive third product in Nanjing.

Where are the three products gone?

Sun Jiao's head is big, and Yang Tinghe couldn't help but look at Zhang Zilin: What is the secret arrangement in the southeast that I don't know?

In the preliminary stage of Tingtui, in the process of nominating candidates, Zhang Zilin finally spoke: "Ying Tian Governor, Li Chonghe, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Industry, has successively served as the director of the Criminal Department, the general judge of Yuezhou, the governor of Suizhou, the secretary of the Shaanxi Inspectorate, and the Yunnan Inspector. When he was governor of the Nanjing Prefectures, Li Chongsi also contributed to the Chenhao Rebellion, but he had not yet been rewarded. Li Chongsi served as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry in Nanjing, and concurrently consuled in water conservancy, dredged the Su, Songhe canals, Wusong River, and opened Baimao Port. The three-year national policy has water conservancy and flood troubles, and Li Chongsi also has a lot of experience. ”

Okay.

When he went to Beijing to work as the secretary of the Criminal Department, two positions were vacant: the governor of Yingtian and the secretary of the Ministry of Industry in Nanjing.

Previously, it was Li Chongsi who was also in charge.

Wang Qiong and Sun Jiao both looked at Zhang Zilin, then at Li Qi, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, then at Wang Shouren, and finally at Yang Tinghe.

The Nanjing Ministry of Industry and the Beijing Ministry of Industry have close business relations, and Li Chongsi and Li Li can naturally take the lead in the matter of water conservancy and flooding in the next three years.

The Chenhao Rebellion quelled the rebellion, and this Li Chongsi and Wang Shouren can reminisce about the past.

Other than that...... He is a native of Chengdu Prefecture and a fellow villager of Yang Tinghe.

As for qualifications, before Li Chongsi was governor of Nanjing, he had always done criminal work, and he had extremely rich experience at the grassroots level......

Wang Qiong and Sun Jiao looked at each other: this candidate is really amazing.

Sun Jiao, the host of Tingtui, coughed: "You can choose one, do you have other candidates?" ”

He looked at Jiang Mian, Shi Xuan, and Fei Hong: You guys don't have any enterprising spirit?

But now everyone is thinking about something else.

Is Hu Zan going to be promoted to the right deputy capital envoy to Governor Yingtian? Who will be the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Industry?

Xia Yan, the first person to be promoted by the emperor, went to Nanjing to do something?

……

Xia Yan's rise this time is not unpleasant.

The military department is a positive seventh grade, although his actual influence is easily covered up by the rank of the official.

Nanjing is not considered a hub, so Nanjing's Zhengsi Pinzhong is not necessarily more prominent than the Zhengwupinlangzhong of a certain department in Beijing, and what is the Metropolitan Procuratorate in Nanjing?

Among the yamen in Nanjing, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has nothing to do. The so-called: "The courtyard is outside the Taiping Gate, but the Cao Jiang and the whole courtyard come to the same hall." Four or five imperial history, graceful and polite, strict physique, nothing happened. ”

The actual status of the imperial history of Caojiang is the highest.

But the grade has gone up, and the significance is not small.

After Xia Yan accepted the congratulations of his colleagues, he was thinking about His Majesty's encouragement to him.

This Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate may not have any other powers, but it can be played.

He is the one who was personally promoted by the Son of Heaven, and that is enough.

And when he went to Nanjing, His Majesty didn't say anything, but only asked him to continue to observe things carefully, make more suggestions, and not forget to say his own duties.

Or is it the most important sentence reminded by Huang Jin, "Your Majesty is lenient and loves the people"?

What is most directly related to the common people? Xia Yan thought about it, and only thought about taxes, forced labor, banditry, natural disasters, and disasters.

There are more things, Xia Yan naturally wants to get them, Xinfa, Fuguo, Jingying......

He was a little melancholy: This trip to Nanjing is to go to Longtan Tiger's Den!

In the early spring of Guangdong, Yang Shen looked at Gui Cao and looked at him with a sneer, but he was stunned and said, "Guifu Taiyan is serious, right?" ”

Gui Cao shook his head again and again, and his words were full of provocative tones: "I asked Yang Futai, do you know the ins and outs of Panyu, Nanhai, Shunde, Xiangshan, Xinhui, Yangshan, Lianshan, Dongguan, Xin'an, Sanshui, Zengcheng, Longmen, Qingyuan, Xinning, Conghua, these fourteen counties plus Lianzhou, and the counties and prefectures?" In the fifth year of Zhengde, the imperial court allowed the military and civilian households along the coast of Guangdong to fry sea salt privately to make up for the levy, can you know it? ”

Yang Shen was stunned.

"The original amount of the Haibei Salt Class raised the division year office of 27,440 200 catties, and it was reduced to 19,483 and 490 catties during the Hongzhi period, of which there are more than 7,000 quotes that can be folded, do you know why?"

“……”

"In the eighteenth year of Hongzhi, the quasi-stove can be calculated according to the acres of land, and those who are exempted from one to three acres of land are exempted from 70 acres of land each. For those who are four to six ding, each ding is free of 60 acres of land. For those who are 7 to 10 dings, 50 acres of land are exempt for each ding. For those who are 11 to 15 ding, 40 acres of land are exempt from each ding. For those from 16 to 19 ding, 30 acres of land are exempt from each ding. Thirty or twenty people, the whole household is exempted. How many stoves do you have in Guangzhou Mansion, how many are exempted, do you know Yang Futai? ”

“……”

Gui Cao's small eyes were full of contempt: "In the whole of Guangdong, commercial taxes are collected by your Guangzhou Prefecture Tax Division, Yang Futai didn't think about how much this has to do with it?" ”

Yang Shen was already numb.

"During the Hongwu period, Guangdong had 237,340 acres of land and 56 acres. In the fifteenth year of Hongzhi, this figure was only 73,224 acres and 46 acres and 1 minute and 6 centimeters. Xie has been busy with politics since you started in Guangzhou Mansion for several months, what is the number of acres of land in Guangzhou Mansion now, does Yang Futai have this account in his heart? ”

No matter how stupid a person is, he knows that the problem is very big when he hears this, not to mention that Yang Shen is actually not stupid.

“…… For this reason, Zhang Futai has been played to the imperial court, and he asked for approval of the new law and regulations in the future. There are a lot of mergers, and I know ......"

Gui Cao sighed: "How good is the Hanlin Academy, even if Yang Ge Lao wants you to go to the place to experience a thing or two, why do you want to let you go to Guangzhou Mansion?" Yang Futai, in my opinion, you are almost finished. ”

Yang Shen couldn't help but tremble, and saluted him with a tangled face: "Guifutai came to Guangdong after Bucai, but Yu Guangdong is more familiar with the situation than Bucai, and I am ashamed, and I hope that Brother Gui will teach me." ”

When the talented man heard the sentence "You're almost finished", he was confused by Gui Cao's data, and he couldn't be proud.

Gui Cao looked at the expression of his pig teammates, and said after a while: "Guangdong's summer tax is 5,978 stones, and the nongsang silk and zero silk are 135 horses, 6 feet, 2 inches and 5 points; The amount of autumn grain is 1,070,786 stones, one bucket, seven liters, six and six spoons, and Cosy folds rice, twelve stones, five buckets, four liters, five and five spoons. In previous years, Guangdong only needed to ship 400,000 stone of rice to the Beijing treasury, which was converted into 100,000 taels of silver. In the Battle of Tuen Mun last year, Zhang Futai was grateful. The food and salary requested by Guangdong can be deducted from taxes, does Brother Yang know what the situation is now? ”

Yang Shen continued to be confused by the data, and could only listen nervously.

Gui Cao sneered: "The whole of Guangdong is staring at the 100,000 taels and other taxes that you don't have to pay in the past few years, and the counties and states under your rule don't know how to increase the distribution in the name of payment at the moment!" Those county lords and county lords, as well as those officials and gentry who have just cleared their fields, I am afraid that they don't know what they are plotting! Lord Futai asked me to work with you to clean up the rules of Guangzhou and Huizhou as examples, and talk about the harm, but I am afraid that I will stab the hornet's nest immediately! Besides, what are those people in the center doing? ”

“…… Central? What does Brother Gui mean by this? ”

Gui Cao glanced at him: "Someone wants to kill your father!" ”

Yang Shen suddenly felt terrified: "Brother Gui, please speak up." ”

Gui Cao blew his beard and stared at him very irritably: "Guangdong has been paying taxes for the past few days, and the top is also staring at Guangdong!" This year, His Majesty's wedding, Guangdong has a pearl pond, there are sacrificial vessels, there are big trees, many rare treasures, the palace, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Industry to Guangdong to send materials that are also common. However, knowing that Guangdong is clearing the land, people are panicking, and this office will be added to Guangdong and then sent to all counties, but I am afraid that it will be more than doubled! Coupled with other additional factions, how could the gentry and wealthy families of Guangzhou Mansion not take the opportunity to incite the people to make trouble? If there is a civil uprising under your rule, will your father be implicated? If your father dissuades Your Majesty from the new law in Guangdong, will he resign after annoying Your Majesty? ”

“…… Zhang Futai is here, they dare to make trouble? ”

Gui Cao shook his head tiredly: "I have a bad temper, and it's not good to say it's ugly." It's just that if you look at what kind of people are there in Guangdong now? The governor of the new branch jinshi, the prefect of the Hanlin Qinggui, the seclusion and the patrol, the idle ministers of the palace participate in politics, and the new branch jinshi participates in the council. I'm soft-spoken, you are all from the court, hurry up and clarify the situation, don't make trouble with my Huizhou Mansion! ”

He came to Yang Shen and complained a lot, and then resigned and went to Huizhou Mansion to take up his post, leaving only Yang Shen who was like falling into an ice cave.

“…… Quick, go and ask where Senator Huang and Zhang Futai went? Please see you at this house! ”

The jurisdiction of Guangzhou Prefecture is really not small.

To the northwest, Lianshan County, Yangshan County, and Lianzhou County are already half mountainous. The core of Qingyuan, Conghua, Zengcheng, Panyu, Nanhai and other places are also anointed, and the coastal Dongguan, Xin'an, Shunde, Xinhui, Xinning, Xiangshan and so on also have their own output, trade prosperity.

When Gui Cao first arrived, he revealed some cruel situations in Guangdong to Yang Shen, which was a detail that Yang Shen had not seriously thought about before.

It is not surprising that the number of taxable acres is only 30% of that at the beginning of the country, but the amount of tax is still a little more.

There are more and more hidden households fleeing from the household, and the stove is exempted, and so many undiminished fields are produced on the fields of the early three percent of the country.

And the Haibei Salt Class is equivalent to halving, for so many years, what role do officials at all levels and local gentry and wealthy businessmen play in it?

Yang Shen, who was just cooperating with Xie Changjie to clear the land in Guangzhou Mansion first, was used by Gui Cao to solve the bloody reality that may exist at the bottom of Guangzhou.

Last year's war, this year's additional dispatch, Yang Tan of the household department, Li Qi of the Ministry of Industry, and Yuan Zonggao of the Ministry of Rites, what are they thinking?

Yang Shen had not yet learned the news of Yuan Zonggao's death, and the more he thought about it, the more scared he became.

Could this be His Majesty's instructions?

Your Majesty knows the situation in Guangdong, and deliberately wants to provoke a popular uprising, and then the army plows the territory and solves the problem of the wealthy clan in one fell swoop?

Yang Shen was guessing wildly that in a restaurant called "Yuanying Building" in Guangzhou City, he could indeed see the vista of the Pearl River Estuary from sitting in the private room on the highest floor.

At this moment, there were five people in loose robes sitting in this private room.

Naturally, they are not Taoist priests, and it is very common to wear Taoist robes.

Although it was only the first month of the year, some of them held ivory folding fans, and some wore bright and restrained gemstone rings on their hands.

They had morning tea.

Around the private room, four young girls stood on the left and right, ready to help them make tea, or bring in freshly steamed refreshments from outside.

The people at the table spoke Cantonese, and they didn't shy away from the four girls.

"Zhang Killtou is still there, but the tea of Liangguang, Hunan, and Fujian cannot be mistaken this year. Last year, Lao Tzu stayed in Shaanxi for a year, and nearly 10,000 taels of silver were scattered in white flowers, which is why he got so much tea! The person who opened his mouth was obviously just a wealthy businessman, "If they all go to the service of this year's party, will the salt still be fried, and the tea will not be picked?" ”

"Brother Lei is not in a hurry." The person shaking the folding fan is much more elegant, "Although Zhang Futai's sword is sharp, he is not good at practice after all." Felling big trees, taking pearls from the bead pond, and casting ritual vessels in Foshan, this is nothing. It's just that when the farm is busy, these need to be transported to Beijing. At that time, the spring rain is rapid, the roads are rough, how many porters, horses, boats, etc. are needed? If you miss the agricultural time, the summer grain and autumn grain are all problems, and the people will not agree. ”

He said the last words with a smile.

“…… His grandmother's, that Xie Changjie, my family's fertile land has been cleared out of fifty hectares! Fifty acres! Another person was indignant, "Brother Luo, your cousin is in the capital, join him!" ”

"What are you talking about? Last year, His Majesty dismissed so many officials in one breath, how can he participate in impeachment now? The other person shook his head while eating the steamed phoenix feet, "If you want to participate, it is also the imperial history of the Guangdong patrol." ”

"What did the Huo family say?"

"The Huo family?" He sneered, "The Huo family's business in Nanhai County, which one of us has no dealings?" This Huo Weixian used to hide from him in fear, but now he is also with the mud, and he can't be counted on! The Huo family would rather not make money now, but also to ensure that he sits on this wind! ”

"Is there any response to the matter of asking for Guangdong fragrant tea?"

"Don't worry." A smile appeared on the corner of one person's mouth, "Your Majesty is majestic, there are too many things that want to change the old system." Your Majesty is getting married this year, and you'll all be surprised. I'm afraid this tea will be paid everywhere. Our Zhang Futai may keep a strict eye on other offices, but he will supervise this Guangdong fragrant tea no matter what. This one, but last year, he helped His Majesty pre-select the lord of the lady! ”

(End of chapter)