Chapter 14 Lower Jiangnan

In the face of Queen Zhou's pretense of generosity, Zhang Yan's promotion and the girls' ardent expectations.

Li Yunze took a sip of the wine glass, then got up and bowed to Zhang Yan, and turned to leave without saying a word.

The girls were surprised and didn't understand what it meant.

In the end, Queen Zhou said with some uncertainty: "Hurray, aren't you angry?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the girls suddenly panicked, and all kinds of cranky thoughts.

In fact, Li Yunze is just sticking to his three noes.

He only accepts this kind of thing, but he will never take the initiative.

For Li Yunze, he is more enthusiastic about his work than in the pile of mixed tracks and fat powder.

What men love most is to wake up and take charge of the world, and Li Yunze is no exception.

When he came to the imperial study, Wang Chengen sent a bunch of concerts here.

"It's about to be closed for a holiday, and there are so many things to do." Li Yunze picked up the tea bowl, "What's the matter?" ”

"The emperor, the official department played to Chen Liangxun and others in the matter, saying that the people in Jiangnan were troubled by business, and the people were not able to make a living. Please stop weaving in Suzhou and Hangzhou. ”

The valuable tea bowl was still on the table, and Li Yunze spat fragrantly.

"Beep beep!"

"Suzhou and Hangzhou weaving is a royal business, where can it affect the lives of the people, and the people are not happy?"

As soon as he slapped the table and stood up, Li Yunze spit fire with his hands behind his back, "When I don't know anything, I'm a fool?" Don't you want to drive the eunuchs away, so that you can master the silk market in the south of the Yangtze River and sell the silk goods to those foreign devils to make money. ”

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, overseas trade was very developed.

Daming's silk fabrics, tea, ceramics and so on are all sought-after goods.

When European ships sail over, no matter how much cargo they buy, as long as they can be shipped back, they will at least double the profit.

This has led to the frenzied rush of European countries to grab business, and the price is negotiable. Even in order to obtain the supply of goods, he did not hesitate to go to war directly.

"Is Chen Liangxun a member of the Donglin Party?"

"Yes."

"Hey." Li Yunze smiled, "The spokesperson of the silk fabric business in Jiangnan is really hard enough." ”

"Spread the decree and order Chen Liangxun to be the order of Mizhi County, and he will take office immediately without delay."

A few months later, the big thief Zhang Xianzhong attacked Mizhi County.

Since Chen Liangxun is so keen to be a spokesperson for the big businessmen in Jiangnan, let him try whether Zhang Xianzhong's butcher's knife is sharp to see if he will end up being executed.

Zhang Xianzhong is different from Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng was forced by the local gentry to ruin his family and lost his job as a post officer, but he did not immediately become a thief, but chose to go to the border army.

When he was a border soldier, he couldn't get his salary because he was hungry and cold, and he was chased to the barracks by the gentry in his hometown, and he became a thief when he had no way out.

And Zhang Xianzhong was born in the border army, and was dismissed for violating military law, and then immediately fell into the grass and became the king of the mountain.

When the anti-thieves in Shaanxi swarmed, he naturally turned from the king of the mountain to the anti-thief.

Before Sun Chuanting left Beijing, Li Yunze had instructed him to clear the thieves in all parts of Yan'an Prefecture.

It's just that there are copycats everywhere over there now, and I don't know if Sun Chuanting can do it.

Returning to the chair and sitting down, Li Yunze instructed Wang Chengen to "let Cao Huachun send someone to Suzhou and Hangzhou to strictly investigate the local silk weaving affairs." ”

"Yes."

"What else?"

Wang Chengen stepped forward, took away the thick stack of concertos that were waving flags and shouting for the merchants in the south of the Yangtze River, picked up the lower ones and handed them over, "Emperor, the lords of the Imperial Historical Observatory, please order the destruction of the ancestral halls of Wei and Wei. ”

Li Yunze nodded, "Yes." What else? ”

"Zhou Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites has a performance, please set the name of the emperor."

Previously, the Ministry of Rites recommended that the year name be changed to Chongzhen next year, and Li Yunze was a little entangled until now.

The New Year is coming soon, and I really can't drag it on.

"Reply to the Ministry of Rites, just use the era name Chongzhen!"

Li Yunze also thought about it, and he would do what Zhu Youzhen didn't do well.

He did a good job, then Chongzhen's era name is glory, not Shenzhou Lu Shen!

"Anything else?"

"Wenyuan Pavilion University Scholar, the Ministry of Leadership, Xu Ge is an old scholar. The mausoleum of the first emperor has been completed, please send the first emperor to the mausoleum. ”

"Brother Huang." Li Yunze sighed with emotion, "Okay, let's do it for two days, and send the imperial brother to the burial before the New Year's Festival." ”

On the last day before the New Year's Festival, the civil and military nobles of the capital cried and wept to send the corpse of the Emperor of the Apocalypse to the mausoleum.

However, after coming back, the yamen immediately sealed the yamen, and the big guys went home for the New Year with a smile.

The era of the Emperor of the Apocalypse came to an end.

Turning over the New Year, it is a new Chongzhen year.

On March 17 of the first year of Chongzhen, Shaanxi giant Zhang Xianzhong attacked rice fat.

The thieves disguised themselves into the city, and the civil and military officials in the city were defenseless. That night, the gates of the city were opened, and the city of Mizhi was broken.

The new county magistrate Chen Liangxun tried to make up and escape, but was captured at the city gate, and was later executed by Zhang Xianzhong with a tiger squat.

On April 11 of the first year of Chongzhen, after the New Year's Festival, he personally led two battalions of the new army of Longxiang to rush southward Cao Bianjiao, and defeated the thieves who attacked the county seat outside Anyuan County in southern Gan, and beheaded the thieves to capture the king. Became famous for a while.

At the same time, Li Yunze's travel team had already left the capital.

With the previous trip to Tianjin, the resistance to going out of Beijing again this time was much smaller.

In fact, Li Yunze was able to easily break the rules of the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, and he left Beijing without any resistance, mainly because no one stopped him.

The elders in the Forbidden City have only one sister-in-law who is a good old man.

She adheres to the principle of not interfering in politics, and will never say a word more about this kind of thing.

In the court, the former bigwigs were basically bitten to death by nine thousand years old.

For example, Yang Lian, who is known for his fierceness, Zuo Guangdou and others would definitely stop at the gate of the city and would rather die than give way.

After that, the bigwigs were cleaned up again by Li Yunze taking the opportunity of the fall of 9,000 years old.

Sun Chengzong and others were sent to other places, and the pieces they sent to persuade Li Yunze were all directly 'left behind', and they didn't see them at all.

The rest of Wen Tiren and the others are either wise and self-protective or flattering, who dares to take the lead in stopping the emperor?

Without the big boss organization taking the lead, the actions of the small fish and shrimp can be ignored.

Xu Guangqi and Li Guopu stayed in the cabinet to deal with state affairs.

Cao Huachun and Luo Sigong stayed in the capital to inspect the law.

Zhao led the teaching, and Lu Xiangsheng led the five battalions of the tiger to garrison the capital.

Unless Huang Taiji calls immediately, it will be safe inside and outside.

Cao Wenzhao, the commander of the Longxiang army, led the remaining three battalions to escort the south.

This time, Li Yunze's destination was Jiangnan.

Unlike a certain pigtailed emperor who only went to Jiangnan for pomp and circumstance, Li Yunze went to Jiangnan for the people of Jiangnan.

Historically, in July, Jiangnan was hit by a typhoon. Countless buildings were damaged, tens of thousands of people were killed and injured, and the aftermath of the disaster led to large-scale plague and chaos.

Li Yunze came to relieve the disaster, and he also had to take advantage of the situation to rectify Jiangnan.

Because he didn't bring the princess and the palace eunuch or anything, the speed of the march was very fast.

Departing from Chaoyangmen in the morning, we arrived in Tongzhou before dinner.

In the afternoon of the next day, I came to Wuqing.

Wuqing, also known as Hexiwu, is one of the seven banknote customs on the Grand Canal.

The Grand Canal is the most important commodity artery in the Ming Dynasty, and all kinds of ships coming and going from the south to the north every day are like carp crossing the river.

There is no doubt that this is a great river flowing with silver taels.

There are a total of eight banknote customs in the country in the Ming Dynasty, except for Jiujiang Pass, the other seven are all on the Grand Canal.

When he came to Wuqing, Li Yunze immediately rode a horse and led people to the banknote pass.

He didn't wear a dragon robe, and he didn't play a big game. When he came to the banknote pass, the eunuch guarding the pass thought that it was a general who had entered Beijing to report on his work.

"One tael per person above the general, two taels per person below the general, regardless of the money."

raised the horsewhip to stop Wang Chengen, who wanted to scold, and then asked, "How is the clearance price of this Wuqing banknote customs calculated?" ”

The eunuch who guarded the official sat on a chair, holding a tea bowl in his hand, and looked at Li Yunze lazily, "What kind of military attache are you?" ”

"In the third battalion of the Xialongxiang Army." Li Yunze casually made up an identity: "Listen to what you said, military attaches have to pay money, but civilian officials don't have to pay?" ”

"If you are the commander of the Longxiang Army, then you don't have to pay money, you can pass as many goods as you want, as long as you give our family meaning."

The eunuch chewed the tea leaves in his mouth, and then spit on the ground, "But you are a small Dusi, then two taels of silver per person cannot be less." As for civil officials, the old men are all tax-exempt. Ma Yu hurriedly paid the money, and the master had to go back to the house to enjoy. ”

Du Si is a battalion officer, and he is already a middle-level military general of the fourth grade.

But in the mouth of the eunuchs, it is not much better than those generals.

"I see."

Li Yunze, who was smiling, motioned to Wang Chengen, who was already trembling with anger, "Let him eat that tea bowl." ”

Wang Chengen was the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch at this time, and this is the ancestor of the eunuchs all over the world.

Losing such a big face in front of the emperor, Wang Chengen immediately dismounted and ran over, raising his hand to fan over with a big bibi, "Little beast, I'm tired of you!" ”

The eunuch was beaten and looked at Wang Chengen with his face covered in a daze.

He spent money to find a way to put it in this Wuqing banknote during the Wei Zhongxian period, and he didn't know Wang Chengen, who had been working in the Xinwang Mansion.

The eunuchs and tax collectors guarding the banknote pass hurriedly gathered around, and Cao Wenzhao and others, who accompanied the escort, immediately drew their swords and rushed forward.

More than 100 cavalrymen drew their swords and surrounded the might, and the frightened people were at a loss.

This is not all, with Cao Wenzhao's order, hundreds of cavalry immediately rushed out of the grove not far away, hulala to block the water here.

Everyone was terrified, they knew that this was a big event today!

Wang Chengen, who smoked more than a dozen big bidous in one go, roared hatefully, "Blind dog's eyes!" The emperor is here! ”

Li Yunze, who had a calm face, rode directly into the banknote customs and said, "Take all the account books." ”

After the team entered the customs, Wang Chengen grabbed the tea bowl on the table, "Little beast, count you unlucky, don't say that the ancestors don't take care of you, gnaw the tea bowl yourself, don't implicate the family." ”

"Ancestor, you, you are..."

"Wang Chengen!"