The provinces of the world are only surging because of the upheaval in the center caused by the rectification of water conservancy and the impeachment of Li Xiang's corpse, but Guangdong has become the cusp of the storm again.

Li Xiang is a Cantonese after all.

In the sixteenth year of Zhengde, Zhang Fujing went south, and the corruption case in Liangguang broke out due to the first Tuen Mun Battle, and the high-ranking officials were almost wiped out, and Guangdong began to clear the land.

In the first year of Jiajing, because of the hurricane disaster and the pressure of the new law, there were great rebellious gentry in Guangdong, and Zhang Fujing raided his home again.

In the second year of Jiajing, the Guangdong government office overhauled, tried to implement the procurement law, commercial law, and tax law, and edited and examined the rules.

Now at the beginning of the third year of Jiajing, Guangdong Xinke Jinshi was first impeached by His Majesty as loyal and commendable, and then found out that he was "first close to the New Party, and then impeached the leader of the New Party, a villain with ulterior motives." ”

Li Xiang's parents died young. After being a junior high school last year, he had already taken his wife and children to Beijing.

But in Xinhui County, Li Xiang's relatives, teachers and friends are still there.

Zhang Fujing did not draw a knife this time, but said to Ma Yong: "General Secretary Ma, the three levels of the provincial capital and county need you to carefully deploy people to assist in the collection of local taxes." ”

This is the new name set after the unification of the local section. The tribute demanded by the imperial court to Guangdong, this part of the annual office and the sitting office were all purchased by the household department.

This part of the pressure of forced labor that the local authorities had to bear in the past has been transferred to the commercial banks that undertake the procurement, and the tax department can instead extract part of the commercial tax from it.

The local government's own miscellaneous offices and other levies have been unified into local taxes, apportioned to the mu, and the right to calculate the bottom of the field. After it was collected, the government still came to buy it.

The first priority in Guangdong this year is the collection of local taxes.

At the provincial meeting, Sun Jiao was no longer present - news from Beijing came, and he left for Beijing ahead of schedule. One is for the emperor's "safety", and the other is for Empress Sun, who will probably give birth around March.

However, there are still many relatives of the new dynasty in Guangdong, such as Ma Yong, the father of An Concubine, the former chief military officer of Jizhou, and the current general director of the Guangdong Public Security Department.

After listening to Zhang Fujing's words, he looked at Jiang Xiuyi, the chief military officer of Guangdong: "Under the Department of Public Security, except for the Haiphong Road and the Inspection Department, the main ones are the original fast classes in various prefectures and counties. If there is a situation, General Jiang needs to take care of it more. ”

Jiang Xiuyi just nodded silently.

Zhang Fujing looked at Zhai Luan, who was reappointed as the head of the tax department: "If Zhai is in charge of the tax, you can send someone to report it in time." ”

Zhai Luan went south as an official to promote education, but now he has been transferred to the tax department. There is no other reason - this is the first time to tax like this, the first time to strictly tax the gentry, Zhai Luan has the experience of being the head of the criminal department.

"If the hundred officials in Guangdong are not effective, Huo Xun will not be appeased according to the three-level capital of Guangdong."

Huo Tao had a lesson, and now he was lucky to stay and be promoted, and he agreed repeatedly.

"Cao Ti's sentence is also hard, and this year he still has to calm the people's hearts and deter the small in the name of punishment."

Cao Cha, the father of Duan Concubine, was already the prefect of Zhengsipin, and this time he was directly promoted to the head of the Criminal Department in charge of the criminal name of a province in Guangdong.

Cao Cha also asked after he came down: "Futai, now the DPRK and China ......."

He wanted to speak, but he stopped.

Although they are both relatives of the country, the nine concubines have not been set up since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. The father of the queen was made a marquis and a hereditary earl; The father of the concubine was crowned an uncle, hereditary for three generations; The fathers of the nine concubines have only been appointed and promoted, and they are not qualified to know the truth.

The current situation is that the Marquis of Jing'an and Sun Jiao, a scholar of the Cabinet University, hurriedly returned to Beijing after learning the news.

If the emperor was forced by Yang Ting and Ling, and they, the relatives of the new dynasty, were still cooperating with the new law in Guangdong?

Cao Cha faced the fierce and powerful Zhang Fujing, and failed to ask such a thing clearly.

Zhang Fujing looked over one by one.

Zhang En, Jiang Xiuyi, Cao Cha, Ma Yong, Zhai Luan, Huo Tao, these are the six giants at the Guangdong Provincial Council.

He simply spoke: "Your Majesty's personal decree! ”

With that, he took out a scroll of holy decrees from his sleeve.

Hearing the word pro-decree, all six of them moved in their hearts, and knelt down from their seats: "Long live Your Majesty!" Banzai! Hooray! Ministers ask St. Ann? ”

"Fengtian carries the emperor, the edict says." After they finished greeting the emperor, Zhang Fujing directly began to recite the holy decree, "Practical learning, dialectics, and new laws are all from me, and I will help you with your advice." Guangdong does not need to pay attention to the case of Li Xiang, and the new law is implemented with peace of mind. Guangdong has practical learning and dialectics to recruit students, which is very suitable and accurate! The minister of the old humerus of Yang Pavilion bears the heavy responsibility of changing the law, and I really pity his loyalty and bravery, and Guangdong does not need to be suspicious. Chin this. ”

“…… Your Majesty! ”

After everyone saluted and stood up, they saw Zhang Fujing smiling and passing the holy decree to them.

To be honest, it feels a little weird, especially the word "pity its loyalty" and the word brave.

After the holy decree was passed on, Zhang Fujing put away his smile and said solemnly: "Guangdong has been chaotic twice, and there will definitely be another chaos this year, you must not slack off." Guangdong is like this, what about the world? Now that the center is united, Guangdong is going to work together. The whole world is staring at Guangdong, and General Secretary Ma and Cao Ti are also working together to help the new law, and the situation is gradually becoming clearer. If the new law in Guangdong is successful, it will show the power of His Majesty's practice, dialectics and new law, and the world will no longer ignore His Majesty's youth! ”

In the small circle of seven people, the words were preliminarily clarified.

To put it bluntly, people with the identities of Ma Yong and Cao Cha are also pushing for the new law in Guangdong, so the rumors that the emperor was suppressed by Yang Tinghe will slowly dissipate.

But in this one, there will be a subtle time difference.

Because...... The separation of servitude and the sharing of wealth and poverty, at least after the summer grain and autumn grain.

But in the face of the situation that Sun Jiao hurried back to the capital, could some well-intentioned people in the rest of the provinces be able to endure it?

……

The clipper that Sun Jiao was riding had already entered the Huguang boundary.

It's almost late February. It was already the end of the month when the news of the New Year's Wang-Japan Dynasty meeting reached Guangdong, and even if Sun Jiao set off immediately, it would not be until March when he arrived in the capital.

The express delivery can change people and horses all the way around the clock, and there is a baby on the Sun Jiao boat.

Now, Sun Jiao doesn't care about accompanying the youngest daughter of the "old girl" more, but keeps looking at the news that has been coming from Beijing these days.

On his ship, there was a special person.

Sun Jiao called him over and asked solemnly, "Is this really the secret order that Commander Luo gave you?" ”

In front of Sun Jiao was the former Jinyi Guard's commander Si Cong, who came out that day. Because of helping Zhang Yanling to lend usury, he has now been demoted to a hundred households in Jinyiwei, and the messenger at this moment is very special.

Si Cong replied respectfully: "Word for word." Xia Guan was secretly trained by Wang Zhenfu for more than half a year, and he should have led the special service team to report to General Secretary Ma. However, the hidden danger in Guangdong is not big, but Huguang is even more troublesome. ”

Sun Jiao is originally from Huguang, so he naturally knows that Huguang is more troublesome.

In the case of Li Xiang, the center created this kind of situation, and immediately began to clear the water conservancy all day long, and the hidden dangers of Huguang, a province full of vassal kings, can be imagined.

What is not known to outsiders in the restructuring of the Guangdong Government Office is the Public Security Department, which is mainly responsible for internal security and anti-theft of the people, and will set up a special service team in the Public Security Department, which will be organized into 100 households. In the entire Ming Dynasty, Jinyiwei has set up another special service station under the Beizhen Fusi, with a total of 5,000 people. This secret force, at present, I am afraid that only Cui Yuan and Sun Jiao know about it.

Now, Si Cong does not go to Guangdong to perform his duties for the time being, but follows Sun Jiao.

"What about the people under you?"

Si Cong said succinctly: "At the town far away." Xia Guan came to meet Hou Ye first. ”

"The old man stays in Hengzhou Mansion, Changsha Mansion, and Wuchang Mansion, how will he stay?"

Si Cong didn't need to answer, and said in a low-key manner: "Lord Hou must have received His Majesty's secret decree, and the officials only listen to Lord Hou's orders." ”

Sun Jiao looked at him deeply and nodded slightly.

At present, Huguang has the King of Chu in Wuchang Prefecture, the King of Liao in Jingzhou Prefecture, the King of Min in Wugang Prefecture, the King of Ji in Changsha Prefecture, the King of Xiang in Xiangyang Prefecture, the King of Jing in Qizhou, the King of Shou in De'an Mansion, the King of Rong in Changde Prefecture, the King of Huayang County in Lizhou, and the King Rui of Hengzhou Mansion in the newly built domain.

Among them, King Shou and King Rong are both after Xianmiao, and King Rui is the stepson of Emperor Zhengde, with a special identity.

There are nine princes in one province, and the number of vassal kings ranks first in the entire Ming Dynasty.

If you add the vassal kings who have been eliminated for various reasons, the total number of feudal lords in Huguang has been sixteen. Of the feudal kings who were dismissed, some of the original fields were given to the feudal kings who later established feudal domains or moved to Koguang, and the rest were collected as official fields.

Huguang probably has the closest interest relationship with the royal family.

The boat sailed to Hengzhou Mansion at the confluence of Leishui and Xiangjiang River, which was the fief of Zhu Zaiyan, the king of Rui.

Sun Jiao stayed here for a day, just went to the Rui Wangfu in Jinao Lane.

It seems that it is just a ceremonial necessity, and in the palace of King Rui, Queen Xia did not come forward, and King Rui, who was only four years old, wore mourning clothes and met Sun Jiao accompanied by Changshi.

After the adoption, he re-mourned his "father" Zhu Houzhao.

On the cusp of the storm, this little Rui Wang doesn't understand. But his mother probably understands what the situation is now, if it weren't for Sun Jiao's identity, Rui Wangfu would be closed doors.

The Xia family even quickly sent someone to send a congratulatory gift to Empress Sun who was about to give birth to a prince.

It is not yet known whether she will give birth to a prince or a princess, Xia is very scared, she doesn't understand why Sun Jiao has to visit in person - send someone to greet her.

Let's go!

When Sun Jiao's move in Hengzhou Mansion came, he accepted a banquet from the local officials of Hengzhou Mansion.

In the face of various temptations during the banquet, he only said that he believed that the counselors were single-minded and loyal to the country.

The next day he set off and continued to Changsha.

Here, there is also a vassal king, and the king of Huguang patrolling the water, Bangrui, is also in Changsha Mansion. What the purpose is, it goes without saying.

The auspicious king of Changsha Mansion, Sun Jiao did not visit in person.

On the contrary, Shi Lai, the governor of King Ji's mansion, came to the banquet.

During the banquet, Sun Jiao asked Wang Bangrui: "Weixian and Yu Maogong are both Zhengde Ding Chou Kejinshi?" ”

Wang Bangrui was silent for a moment, and then said: "Bangrui and Xia Gongjin are also in the same family. ”

Sun Jiao asked him about his relationship with Yu Chengxun, and he said that his relationship with Xia Yan seemed to want to prove that he was not reappointed from Shu Jishi to supervise the imperial history and inspect Huguang and water conservancy because he was close to Yu Chengxun.

But Huguang Water Conservancy involves so many royal clansmen, how heavy is the burden on Wang Bangrui? If Yang Tinghe didn't appreciate him and believe in him, how could he send him.

Sun Jiao nodded: "I heard that when Weixian was still studying hard in the mansion, he once asked the prefect to suppress the fourteen strategies?" ”

Wang Bangrui was silent for a moment before replying: "I am worried about the people, and I am indignant. At the time, it was superficial and not worth mentioning. ”

Sun Jiao smiled: "Weixian is not yet thirty this year, right?" ”

“…… Xiaguan was born in May of the eighth year of Hongzhi, and he is thirty years old. ”

"Standing at thirty, the future is immeasurable, and the future is terrifying." Sun Jiao nodded again, "There are many things in Huguangdi, and Weixian still needs to be thoughtful and cautious. ”

“…… The lower officials remembered the teachings of the elders. ”

The brief conversation revealed a very special message, and Sun Jiao seemed to admonish him.

The long history of Changsha Jiwangfu has a different expression.

He was re-elected by the Ministry of Rites in the first two years, and now looking at Sun Jiao's performance, why is it not right?

Empress Sun's birth is imminent, and he is still so unhurried in Huguang.

The situation is sensitive, and King Ji of Changsha Mansion did not arrange any more people who really trusted him to contact Sun Jiao after all.

The next day, Sun Jiao set off from Changsha Mansion and entered the Yangtze River through the Xiangjiang River and Dongting Lake.

The water was wide, and he also changed to a big boat.

In Wuchang Mansion, the Governor of Huguang, the Political Envoy Division, the Capital Division, and the Prosecution Envoy Department were all making preparations.

Then, it was the chief military officer of the Huguang Command Department who left Wuchang Mansion first and went to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

In Baling County, the capital of Yuezhou at the mouth of Dongting Lake, the Marquis of Jing'an, the Guozhang, and the Cabinet scholars converged with the Yuanhou of Huguang's first Wuchen Town.

Gu Shilong had just turned forty this year, but when Sun Jiao saw him, he only felt that his body was worse than when he passed through Huguang and went south the year before.

"Zhongxun, why are you so thin?" Sun Jiao was worried.

Huguang is so important now, Gu Shilong, the chief military officer of Huguang, can't go wrong.

Gu Shilong's father was a concubine, and he was honest and law-abiding for 30 years. Gu Shilong inherited his father's style and acted meticulously.

He shook his head: "It's okay. Pavilion Elder, my son Gu Huan is now the Red Helmet General guarding the Forbidden Palace, and after the Pavilion Elder returns to Beijing, he hopes to take more care of it. ”

It's okay to say, but there is a sense of trust in the words.

Sun Jiaoda was shocked: "What happened to Huguang?" ”

Gu Shilong said solemnly: "The king of Chu has been quite bold recently, and he has many secret contacts with my unfilial second son, Gu Yu, a side branch and a concubine, and a merchant from Huguang. I want to plead guilty and impeach the king of Chu for secretly befriending the lords, with bad intentions! ”

Sun Jiao looked at him in a daze: "Ling Lang and the Chu Wangfu, have been deeply implicated?" ”

Gu Shilong nodded heavily: "In the thoroughfare of the nine provinces of Wuchang Mansion, I brought my second son by my side to neglect discipline. In the land of Nanxianning and Jiayu counties in Wuchang Prefecture, dogs have encroached on a lot. Huguang cleaned up the water conservancy, and when I arrived in Wuchang Mansion, I couldn't prove my innocence. The family is unfortunate, and the only way to help His Majesty is to set an example. ”

Sun Jiao's heart also became heavy, and he asked again: "What about the generals under your command?" ”

"Naturally, there are also a lot of good farms." Gu Shilong said categorically, "After I plead guilty, there is still a list to be submitted, please ask the elder and Cui Zuojun to be the ministers on my behalf, to ensure that I still guard Huguang, and the generals in the list will be appointed everywhere, so that Huguang will not be in chaos." ”

Sun Jiao asked solemnly: "Has the guard colluded with the vassal king?" ”

"Naturally." Gu Shilong said, "Huguang has 15 prefectures and 2 prefectures, a total of 108 counties and 14 scattered prefectures, which is larger than Nanzhili and Zhejiang combined. Although it is necessary to support the nine princes and the king of one county, the land endowment accounts for less than one of the twentieth of the country. Ge Lao naturally knows what the reason is. ”

Sun Jiao nodded solemnly.

The lake is wide and the water network is dense, and the number of fertile fields is not comparable to that of Guangdong and Zhejiang. Nowadays, although there are many clan relatives in Huguang, there are so few Tian Fu, and most of the reason is that the harvest is frequently reported due to floods and other reasons. In addition, the military attachés of the clan, the military attaché of the guard, and the gentry of civil servants invaded the people's land in Huguang, and the problem of hidden fields and hidden households was much more serious than in Guangdong.

To solve the problem of Huguang, the first thing that cannot be avoided is the clan.

Now, Gu Shilong is ready to take the King of Chu under the knife.

And there is no doubt that he will also let Yang Tinghe take him as the leader of the noble clan to open the knife together, but he wants Sun Jiao and Cui Yuan to protect him.

Sun Jiao thought about his daughter to be born, and judging from the family letter, His Majesty took good care of her.

So he said categorically: "I'll stay in Huguang!" This matter, you can't live alone in Huguang Town! ”

(End of chapter)