Yang Ming promised to reward Du Ruhui with a concubine, but he didn't talk about it.

And he can be sure that this kid has long been out of place, sixteen years old, born in such a family, it is impossible not to taste the taste of a woman.

The maids in the inner garden are all managed by Yang Yinjiang, so Yang Ming asked her to select a maid with a more outstanding appearance named Ruhua from among them and rewarded it to Du Ruhui.

The maid can only provide the services she can provide, and mentally there is no way to communicate with Du Ruhui, who has read the books of the sages.

And Yang Ming's reward is not to spy on the other party, Du Ruhui is already under his nose, there is nothing to monitor.

In Yang Yinjiang's view, subordinates can't read, even if you let them read, they don't have that interest in their bones.

Just like the rulers of feudal dynasties, they don't want to see the common people read, if they know too much, it's hard to manage.

Next, Yang Ming is going to prepare a congratulatory gift for his sister Yang Chan.

Now it is less than a month before October, and it will be too late if he doesn't prepare, and he can't be called back to Beijing because Yang Chan got married.

However, Yang Ming believes that the marriage between the two should not be in October, after all, he has not received the notice from his father and mother.

What can I send? Yang Ming actually wanted to prepare some more unusual gifts, but after thinking about it, he really couldn't find such a thing.

And the congratulatory gifts he gave can't be too many, because he is a younger brother, not an older brother.

The ones who really want to be generous are the eldest Yang Zhao and the second Yang Yong.

He's not an adult yet, so the meaning is fine.

Yang Ming took Yang Yinjiang to the warehouse and asked her to help choose, women, who know women best.

Gold, silver and jade are naturally not a problem, which one Yang Yinjiang points to, there will be someone who will carefully wrap it, and it didn't take long to empty a corner of the warehouse.

Then, Yang Yinjiang selected 6,000 fine brocades, 4,000 silk, 200 horses, and 5,000 stones of rice.

Da Sui gifts are like this, basically in the "clothing, food, housing and transportation" selection, other than that, there is really nothing to give.

Half a month later, Yang Ming received a letter from his mother Concubine Xiao, and his sister Yang Chan married Hedong Pei Xuanji, and the date was set for November 26.

Yang Ming hurriedly ordered the congratulatory convoy to go north, and be sure to deliver the things before the wedding.

Yang Chan got married, and Yang Ming was also a matter of concern, but there was another thing in the letter from the eldest brother Yang Zhao, which made Yang Ming very unhappy.

Yuwen Ergou, who was originally assigned to the frontier as a pawn, came back and became Daddy's Qianniu Reserve.

This is also something that can't be helped, Yuwenshu is Daddy's henchman, and Daddy is now the prince, and Sangou has a promising future.

What is surprising is that this kid also wrote a letter to Yang Ming, and he also showed off quite a lot in the letter, saying that Shimin was disobedient and was beaten by him, although he was beaten by Li Yuanfat after that, but Shimin is now quite afraid of him, and has been currying favor with him.

Children are like this, the more scared people are, the more they will find ways to please them.

Yang Ming replied to Jiancheng with three words, "do well", to encourage him.

On this day, Du Ruhui came to Yang Ming, holding a pile of files in his hand.

"There's something wrong with the acres of land in Baling County."

After Yang Ming asked him to sit down, he smiled and said, "Speak slowly."

Du Ruhui is now the head of the Fu Cao, in charge of agriculture and mulberry affairs in Jingzhou, so the acres of land are within the scope of his functions.

I saw him nod and said, "There are a total of 1,300 hectares of open fields in Baling County, of which 300 hectares are for the Gongqi fields, and the acres of fields that need to be taxed every year are 1,000 hectares, and the taxes are paid in full."

Yang Ming was stunned and said, "Then what's the problem?"

Du Ruhui said: "I checked, and the actual tax paid in Baling County is only 300 taels, that is to say, these 300 tains of people have paid 1,000 tains of tax, so where are the other 700 tains of tax?"

Yang Ming's face instantly became gloomy, and he understood what Du Ruhui meant.

All over Jingzhou

As for the issue of acres of land, he is not unaware that the common people have almost no sufficient land in their hands, and some of them are because of regional problems.

For example, counties located in the northern mountains have a large population but few acres of land, so they are not enough to distribute.

However, Baling County is a large grain-producing county, with Honghu Lake in it, which can be described as the land of fish and rice, and the acres of land are definitely enough, and the government must have taken more land, and the family has also divided a lot, but you let these 300 farmers pay their own taxes, not to mention, but also to make up taxes for you, and it is also to make up for seven with three, which is also too much.

Why do you impose taxes so much, once the people's anger is aroused, how can Lao Tzu explain to him?

"Check! You personally take someone to investigate, first to check the total amount of land in Baling County, and then to find out where these fields are, no matter who is involved, you must find out for me."

Du Ruyan was stunned on the spot.

Originally, he thought that Yang Ming's first step should be to call Baling Taishou Gao Xuan to inquire before making a decision, but he didn't expect Yang Ming to directly let himself check, obviously not giving Gao Xuan face.

Although Yang Ming's instructions said that no matter who was involved, it must be investigated, but Du Ruhui still didn't understand how big this scale should be.

Is the government's public office field checked? What should the family do?

So Du Ruhui asked carefully, "Do you have to check from top to bottom?"

Yang Ming suddenly frowned: "Can't you understand what I said?"

"The subordinate understands," Du Ruhui nodded hurriedly, and he was reassured in his heart.

That is, the clan has such great courage, and if they were other people, they would save some face for the Taishou of a county, after all, if they can achieve this position, how can there be no one behind.

If you don't give face to the county guard, you still have to give some face to the people behind you.

Check it, anyway, if you cause trouble, you will bear it for me.

The next day, Du Ruhui took the approval from Yuanwendu and went to Baling County with two hundred guards from the governor's office.

He didn't know now that when he left, he would poke out a big basket for Yang Ming.

......

Time flies, and it's almost the end of the year.

The prefectures and county yamen are about to start settling the general ledger, and the total amount of taxes collected this year will be sealed and stored in the treasury at the end of the year.

Then these local officials will gather in Gangneung to discuss next year's expenses with Yang Ming.

Spending is to discuss how to spend money.

The money of the treasury is there, who is not red-eyed, who does not want to find a few more projects, so that they can approve a little more.

These are all reported by Yang Ming, and then the household department will review and submit them to the imperial review, and the funds that pass will be red, and those who do not pass will be honestly sealed into the treasury and affixed with seals.

There are two treasury in Jingzhou, one in Jiangling County and one in Jiangxia County, and the person in charge of guarding the treasury is the commissioner sent to the local area by Taifu Temple, and Yang Ming can't manage people.

On December 10, all 22 chief officials in Jingzhou arrived in Jiangling County, just waiting for Yang Ming to summon them.

The servants of the governor's office were busy all day, preparing wine, food, meat, and inkstones, and placing pen, ink, paper, and inkstones at the tables of each chief officer.

Early the next morning, twenty-two people entered the back hall of the governor's mansion and began to deliberate.

First of all, Yang Xuangan, after listening to him state the tax accounts of Jiangxia (Ezhou) one by one, he said:

"Next year, in Ezhou, in addition to daily expenses, there are only two big expenses, one is that Jiangxia Wharf needs to be repaired, and ten official ships need to be added, the expenditure of this item is about 230,000 yuan, and the other is that another Buddhist temple needs to be built in the city, which is explained by Taichang Temple, with 280,000 yuan, and there are no other expenses."

Peace of mind, if you are as worry-free as you, it would be fine.

Yang Ming nodded and looked at Yuan Wendu on the side:

"Recorded in eucalyptus."

Yang Ming deliberately chose Yang Xuangan to be the first to report expenses, just to let the other party start, because he knew that Yang Xuangan was not interested in money, so the compiled expenses would not be much.

The people who spoke later, as much as they wanted

There will be a little fear of erasing the places that have been prepared for a long time and that sound like they shouldn't be spent on.

At this time, Yang Ming looked at Murong Sanzang again and asked, "How is the situation in Jiangling County?"

Murong Sanzang was doing things under Yang Ming's nose, so naturally he didn't dare to report indiscriminately, and after first clarifying this year's tax situation, he said:

"Jingzhou Wharf also needs to be repaired and maintained, which costs about 230,000 yuan."

Originally, among the documents he prepared, this item was 250,000 yuan, but when he heard that Yang Xuangan would only need 230,000 yuan to increase the official ship, he quickly revised it and reduced 20,000 yuan.

Yang Ming nodded and motioned for the other party to continue.

Murong Sanzang said: "This year, the treasury is abundant, and the Jiasheng warehouse in the north of the city is almost full, so it is necessary to add a warehouse, about 90,000 yuan, Changlin County has a flood, and it is necessary to allocate 300,000 yuan for disaster relief, and the river embankment in the three counties needs to be reinforced, which requires 280,000 yuan.......

Yang Ming's head was loud when he heard it.

Who said that governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh? It obviously makes people raise blood pressure.

In addition to offsetting all the taxes paid by Jiangling County this year, the money listed by Murong Sanzang also left a deficit of 480,000 guan.

But there is no way, these problems that the other party said are real, and they do need to spend money.

After all, Jiangling County is the capital of Jingzhou, and there are too many places to spend money, and these deficits can only be made up from other counties.

Next, Yang Ming asked Du Zha of Xiangyang County to speak,

Yang Ming tugged at his heart, and after listening to the other party's narration, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Yes, Xiangyang relies on the benefits of the Han River, and this year, a lot of taxes have been collected in terms of transportation, and in addition to repairing river embankments and irrigation canals, there are not a few major expenditures, and a total of 680,000 yuan is spent, and there will be a surplus of about 1.7 million yuan in addition to the annual expenses.

It's good to be able to make up for the deficit in Gangneung-gun.

However, Yang Ming knew that he should not be happy too early, the twenty-two chief officers had only passed three now.

Next, Yang Ming called them one by one and asked them to report their expenses.

The discussion lasted until late at night.

"Okay, okay, you guys go back to the official post to rest first, and then discuss it tomorrow,"

Yang Ming dragged his tired body, returned to the inner garden, and directly asked people to call Yang Yinjiang.

Inside the house, Yang Ming changed his clothes and went to bed under the service of warm winter and cool summer, and let the two of them go one after the other, massaging their tired bodies for themselves.

Yang Yinjiang sat aside and said with a smile, "How is it? Isn't it overwhelming?"

"The head is as big as an ox," Yang Ming lay on the bed and said with a wry smile: "These bastards, one will spend more money than the other, repair the city gate, and dare to ask for 40,000 yuan, why don't they rob it?"

Yang Yinjiang waved her hand, signaling Nuan Dong and Liang Xia to retreat, and then she took off her boots and knelt aside, gently beating Yang Ming's back:

"Take your time, it's a bargaining process, how much do they want, do they really give them how much? They're testing you right now to see if you're okay."

Yang Ming said, "Then according to your words, what should I do?"

Yang Yinjiang thought for a while: "Whether it is reasonable or not, halve it all, let them figure out their own way, a piece of bread can be used as a meal, and it can also be used as a day's rations."

Yang Ming smiled and shook his neck: "Let's do it."

Yang Yinjiang smiled sweetly, changed her sitting position, and knocked on Yang Ming's waist.