Pei Ju took the opportunity to turn around and hurriedly gave Yang Hao a look, meaning that you don't want to make trouble.

Yang Hao also received it, but he didn't understand the flavor all of a sudden, Pei Gong, your eyes are too complicated.

Ning Changzhen was still holding a wine glass in his hand, and when he heard this, he got up and said, "Dare to ask who the noble person is?" ”

Pei Ju smiled and introduced: "This is His Royal Highness King Liang, His Majesty's nephew, and the prince's cousin. ”

Oh. This identity is awesome, Ning Changzhen also saw that the other party was not good, and took the initiative to curry favor:

"Lingnan Ning Changzhen, I have seen His Royal Highness King Liang, His Royal Highness has an extraordinary demeanor, which is rare in his life."

Yang Hao was unhappy with the other party, and originally wanted to be sarcastic, but he found that other people were also giving him a look, and the other party's little mouth was quite sweet, so he could only say decently:

"Well, sit down."

After saying this, Yang Hao ran to Yang Ming and whispered, and the others saw this and continued to chat.

"You're too polite to him, aren't you? Right now, Jingshi is scolding this bastard," Yang Hao grumbled.

Yang Ming frowned and said: "You know a fart, let you follow Yang Xiong to learn, you haven't learned anything, use your brain in advance in the future, don't open your mouth to come." ”

"I know, you want me to be more steady," Yang Hao smiled: "I'm really angry, after all, this old thing is not doing personnel." ”

Yang Ming knew that it was unrealistic to want to change Yang Hao, people's temperament had long been stereotyped, he had suffered so much loss in the past, but he didn't let him change, how could he change people?

"Talk less, do more," Yang Ming said in a deep voice.

Yang Hao hurriedly nodded: "Understood, understood." ”

That night, Feng Ang and Ning Changzhen were settled in Jinyang Tower, which sounded inappropriate, and it seemed inappropriate for such a high-level feudal official to live in that place.

In fact, it doesn't matter, Jinyang Lou is already the highest grade restaurant in the whole Jingshi, you can think that it is a five-star of the Great Sui, and it is the most suitable for reception.

Wait until the next day, Xuan Gan will take them into the palace, slap people in the face, just hit them once, don't have a second time, unless you want to kill him.

Even if Yang Guang really had the intention to kill Ning Changzhen, he would definitely not want to kill Feng An, at least not at the moment.

Yang Ming sent someone to Prince Yuande's mansion that night to make an appointment with Wei Ying for the next meeting, he was more interested in knowing what secrets Wei Ying was hiding.

At the court meeting the next day, Yang Guang did not summon Feng Ang and them in the Daxing Palace, but after the court meeting ended, he held a banquet in the palace and entertained the two alone.

The participants are still the dozen or twenty bigwigs.

Ning Changzhen met Yang Guang for the first time, although when the other party was in Jiangdu, he had heard a lot about Yang Guang, but this meeting broke the image of the emperor in his heart.

The tiger father has no dogs, the prince is already enough to have a city government, and the current emperor is even more unusual.

"When I was in Jiangdu, I heard of you, and Mrs. Great Wall often mentioned you to me, and I heard that you have a good relationship?" Yang Guang said with a smile.

Ning Changzhen nodded: "The minister and Mrs. Changcheng are childhood friends, and they are brother and sister. ”

Yang Guang said again: "During the opening of the emperor's reign, you and the imperial court were going to have a good time, I'm afraid it was not just a simple brother-sister relationship, right?" ”

Feng An's body moved, and he wanted to interject, but Yang Guang's arm was raised: "I didn't ask you." ”

Ning Changzhen smiled: "Don't dare to deceive Your Majesty, when the minister was young, he admired his righteous sister and intended to marry him, but the world is unpredictable and wrong." ”

"That's right, I'm here, just listen to the truth," Yang Guang laughed.

Ning Changzhen took the opportunity to say: "The minister entered Beijing this time, I wonder if I will have the opportunity to see Mrs. Changcheng again?" ”

He said this on purpose, so that the emperor would think that he was more affectionate.

"Chen Shubao's widow, it's better if you don't see it, my Da Sui pays attention to etiquette, and the atmosphere of Lingnan will have to be changed in the future," it was Su Wei who spoke, he was sarcastic that Ning Chang really didn't understand etiquette, what did you do when you saw a widow?

As everyone knows, Yang Guang often plays chess with this widow.

There is a reason why Yang Guang did not summon Feng and Ning in Daxing Hall today.

Because the imperial court wants to have a showdown with Lingnan, and Feng and Ning actually came to negotiate terms with the imperial court.

Negotiate, don't be in a place like the court.

Su Wei's sentence is actually the beginning, you Lingnan has been attached to the Great Sui for more than 30 years, but the policies of the imperial court and the etiquette of the Central Plains still can't be promoted on your side, which is not good.

Of course, Feng Ang also heard it, and said: "In the land of Lingnan, the people are complicated, the aborigines are still mainly mixed tribes, respecting the Tusi of various ethnic groups as the leader, each tribe has its own inherent beliefs and customs, not based on etiquette, although there are displaced people to improve the local water conservancy tuntian, spread the Central Plains etiquette, but with little effect, Lingnan wants to integrate into the Central Plains, it is not a day's work. ”

His words are actually pertinent, during this period of Lingnan, with each tribe as the basic administrative unit, the leader is called Tusi, and it is the same in the clan.

Countless tribes and various ethnic groups gather together, and there must be many contradictions, and the three major tribes play a role in balancing Lingnan.

The imperial court has always adopted a restrained policy towards Lingnan, that is, to control the raze with raze and govern its customs with its customs, and Feng Ang and their treatment of other tribes is actually the same, I respect your culture, and I will help you, and do not interfere in your internal affairs, but you have to stand with me.

Cui Zhongfang said: "Lingnan is the southern part of my Great Sui, some cannot be changed, we will not change, but some can be changed, and they still have to be changed at the moment, such as tribute." ”

From the founding of the People's Republic of China to the present, the taxes handed over by Lingnan to the imperial court are not actually called taxes, but are called tribute, in fact, what do you have and what you pay tribute.

There are mainly three kinds, slaves and maids (including eunuchs), gold and silver, and medicinal herbs.

There is no food.

First of all, Lingnan grain production is limited, and there will not be much grain to be handed in, and the distance is long, and the transportation loss is too large, so the compromise is gold and silver.

Lingnan is the place where the Great Sui is rich in gold and silver, historically, half of the total gold and silver in the Tang Dynasty was tributed from Lingnan, and the gold and silver production areas are mostly concentrated in eastern Guizhou and western Guangdong.

Slaves and maids, for a semi-civilized area, the status of the poor is very low, and it is normal to be used as slaves.

Feng Ang knew that today's level was the saddest level in his life, and replied cautiously:

"The three major tribes of Lingnan are willing to do so with their hearts to the imperial court, but other tribes, I'm afraid there will be resistance, and we can't control it."

Cui Zhongfang smiled: "I haven't said how to change it, so you just deny it?" ”

Feng Ang said with a bitter face: "I would like to hear about it." ”

Cui Zhongfang said: "In the past, the taxes in Lingnan were all paid by you, although the imperial court clearly stipulated the amount of tribute, but after so many years, the decentralized magistrates still know a lot about the situation in Lingnan, and the imperial court is also very clear, and then in terms of tribute, the country is too much at a loss." ”

Ning Changzhen frowned and said: "The amount of tribute is increasing year after year, and it is more and more paid year by year, Lingnan has done its best, I don't know how Cui Gong wants to change it?" ”

Cui Zhongfang said with a smile: "Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, and I have a great industry law and a uniform field system, Lingnan is always outside the law, it is really inappropriate, but the court is still lenient with you, the people of the Central Plains pay taxes, in Ding, Lingnan in the future, can be counted by households, I Da Sui Tian system, Ding Nan pays rent 3 stones every year, and then converts it into "tune" cloth, plus two stones, that is, five stones, Lingnan, to be tolerant, one stone and two buckets in the upper household, eight buckets in the second household, six buckets in the lower household, if the household of the fang, all from half lost, do not accept silk silk, Converted into gold and silver and handed over to the imperial court. ”

Feng Ang and Ning Changzhen's faces suddenly turned pale.

It sounds like Cui Zhongfang's proposal is indeed very lenient, the people of the Central Plains pay taxes according to capitation, and your side is complicated, so pay taxes by household, and the tax paid by one household is not as much as the tax paid by a Ding man in the Central Plains.

But the actual situation is that the annual tribute in Lingnan is made up by the three major tribes to the imperial court, and the rest of the tribes do not recognize the tax at all.

Why shall I give you the bread that grows from the land I planted?

This is the contradiction between the imperial court and Lingnan, the state will definitely not let Lingnan continue like this for a long time, but Lingnan people, people don't want to pay taxes.

This is not something that Feng and Ning can say, because it is not easy for the two of them to pick food from other people's mouths.

The people regard food as their heaven, and if they want food, they will die.

"If you want to implement this policy in Lingnan, it is almost impossible," Feng Ang said: "If you force it, I am afraid that there will be chaos, and I hope that Your Majesty will learn from it." ”

Yang Guang did not speak, but Pei Ju said:

"Lingnan Twenty Counties, will it go on like this forever? Your Majesty trusts you and hands over Lingnan to you to manage, the policies of the imperial court depend on you to implement, and it is better to have a temporary difficulty than an eternal difficulty, Mingda should be considerate of the imperial court, and it is lenient enough for you. ”

Ning Changzhen's face was ugly, he bowed his head and said nothing, he had already guessed that if he didn't agree, Lingnan wouldn't want to go back.

Dog's day, you are really bold, you have been in Yangzhou for more than ten years, don't you know what the situation is in Lingnan, let the two of us go down and implement it? Didn't the Lingnan people want to pick the skin of the two of us?

Ning Changzhen is no longer thinking about policy issues, but about his small life, people, always regard their lives more than everything.

"As long as the imperial court is properly deployed and the policies are perfect, it can take care of the local situation in Lingnan, in fact, it can be implemented in an orderly manner," Ning Changzhen said.

In a word, it has already made everyone here think that this person can't let him go back.

Why don't you even bargain? Hard-hearted, huh? Verbally promise now, and then deny it when you go back?

Yang Guang sneered and looked at Feng An: "What do you think of Mingda?" ”

Feng Ang had a bitter gourd face and said: "The stakes are too big, the minister doesn't have this ability, if the Holy Mother is here, he can't do it, Your Majesty should think about it again?" ”

What people say is more honest and easy to trust.

Yang Guang smiled: "Of course, you can consider it, the method of the Ministry of Civil Affairs is just a plan, the details of which are negotiable, I won't embarrass you, but you can't embarrass the court, understand?" ”

Feng An's face was like ashes, and he nodded stubbornly.

Yang Guang said lightly: "Okay, Shangshu Province, together with Menxia Province, Inner History Province and Eleven Temples, in cooperation with Feng Ang and Ning Changzhen, will draw up a detailed plan for the future policy of Lingnan, and present it to me for preview, without a time limit, but it must be taken care of and everyone is happy, which is the result I want." ”

"Obey the order," more than a dozen central bosses stood up one after another.

There is no time limit, Ning Changzhen wants to go back in the short term, it is already impossible, these four words are aimed at him.