Chapter 35: Protecting the Territory and the People

"The emperor is crazy!"

When Liu Guangsheng returned to Xi'an and told him about his entry into Beijing, Hu Ting jumped more than three feet high as if he had a spring under his buttocks.

screamed strangely: "He just watched the situation in Shaanxi erosive, watched Shaanxi rebel everywhere, and watched the white bones exposed in the wild?" How can there be such an unkind tyrant in the world! ”

Liu Guangsheng didn't say a word, just held the tea in a daze.

Now he is full of Zhu Youzhen's words.

"You will die before me!"

Yes, when Shaanxi is full of thieves, their officials up and down Shaanxi will inevitably be the first to die.

Unless you flee early now.

But escape?

He has been the governor of Shaanxi for six years, his home is here, his business is here, and to escape is to give up everything, so what is the point of his decades of hard work in officialdom.

Liu Guangsheng didn't want to escape, so he looked at Hong Chengchou.

"Yan Yan."

"Ah, the lower official is here." Hong Chengchou had been in a daze, and hurriedly got up when he heard Liu Guangsheng's roll call.

Liu Guangsheng squeezed out a smile: "During this time, you are acting for the suppression of bandits, how is the progress?" ”

"There are already eyebrows." When it comes to military affairs, Hong Chengchou immediately talked eloquently: "Gao Cheng is just a Qianshou background, even if he has a martial arts but does not know the art of war, there are more than 100,000 thieves under his command, such a number of non-famous generals cannot be unified, where does Gao Yingxiang understand the way of generals, so the rebels are like a plate of scattered sand, vulnerable."

The subordinate planned to concentrate superior forces to annihilate his two divisions first, declare his authority to the thieves, and at the same time spread the plan to recruit peace, and then the thieves would be in chaos, and our army could divide and attack them. ”

"How many soldiers do you need?"

"Twenty thousand!"

"Twenty thousand." Liu Guangsheng muttered about this number, and then nodded as if he had made up his mind: "Okay, 20,000 is 20,000, and I can still make up the number of 20,000 military households in Shaanxi, but the matter of training and becoming an army still needs to be done by Yan Yan." ”

Hong Chengchou hesitated for a moment, got up and said: "Futai, it is not difficult to train troops to become an army, and it is not difficult to suppress bandits.

The Rogues are nothing more than a group of hungry refugees, unarmed and defenseless.

Even if our Shaanxi soldiers are not elite, it is not difficult to suppress the Liukou, but the difficult thing is that I have no money and no food in Shaanxi, and the amount of money and food needed for 20,000 soldiers is ......"

"I know, I know."

Liu Guangsheng raised his hand to stop Hong Chengchou's words: "This matter, the official will find a way for you, you go first, the official will raise the money and food for you." ”

"Yes, the next official will retire." Hong Chengchou bowed to several officials in the hall and turned to leave.

As soon as Hong Chengchou, an outsider, left, the rest of the people couldn't sit still, and they all chattered to Liu Guangsheng is grievance, and at the same time did not forget to attack the court and criticize Zhu Youzhen.

According to the inspector Qin Yingkui, he even said: "Futai, 20,000 troops, the money and grain needed to raise such an army are at least 500,000 or more, and our Shaanxi is now so poor that people eat people, where can we squeeze out these 500,000."

He Zhu Youzhen is light as the emperor, and his upper lip touches his lower lip, let us Shaanxi find a way to think of a fart by ourselves!

If the central government does not allocate funds, and let the local governments solve everything by themselves, then what should the central government respect, we might as well divide it. ”

Liu Guang slapped the table angrily: "Put your mother's fart, what nonsense are you talking about." ”

Qin Yingkui muttered twice, and then sat back in his position with a disgruntled face.

"The old man encountered something when he entered Beijing this time." Liu Guangsheng recalled: "The price of grain in the capital has now dropped to two dollars a bucket of silver. ”

Everyone was stunned: "How much? Didn't you pay back six dollars last year? ”

"This grain is not the self-selling grain of those grain merchants, but the ration grain made by the imperial court, I heard that the price of grain will continue to fall, and many big businessmen who hoarded grain at the beginning have lost all their money."

Liu Guangsheng said: "You are both officials and businessmen, and you know better than the old man what it means for the imperial court to do this."

It means that the emperor on our head has a lot of grain in his hands, and it has been difficult for Beizhili in recent years, and he can't produce much grain, where did it come from, I don't think it's just by copying his family, and the price of grain in Beijing can be lowered, explaining. ”

"It means that Nanzhili was taken over by the emperor." At this time, Hu Ting finally showed the IQ that a third-grade master should have: "It is very likely that after the Nanjing hundred officials collectively went north, a group of people took over Nanzhili, who will this group of people be?" ”

"The remnants of the two factories."

"After the two factories in the east and west were abolished, what about the remnants of these two factories? disappeared, no one knows where they went, everyone thought that they had fallen and scattered, but now it seems that they were secretly co-opted by the emperor, and after the hundred officials of the Nanjing court let down their vigilance, they went north to Beijing with their front feet, and the remnants of the back feet came out and quickly controlled the entire Nanzhili. ”

Liu Guangsheng unbuttoned his official robe with some heat: "The remnants of the two factories are not all murderous fans, the Weaving Bureau, the Salt Class, Caoyun, and the City Shipping Division used to be from the two factories, they will do business, understand business, understand maritime trade, and most importantly, they are obedient!"

This group of people control Nanzhili, that Nanzhili is the emperor's, the drought year can not be in the south of the Yangtze River, the Jiangnan water system is vigorous, and the water conservancy project is solid, from the fifth year of the Apocalypse to this year, all provinces in the country are drought, only Nanzhili, Fujian and Zhejiang can also make floods.

As long as Nanzhili does not have a drought for a day, the imperial court will not be short of food for a day, and if the group of wealthy merchants and gentry at the foot of Nanzhili are killed by the emperor, then the emperor will not be short of food. ”

Several of them shuddered.

Kill the rich businessmen and gentry of Nanzhili?

"Emperor, can you have the determination to do this?"

Liu Guangsheng frowned when he heard this.

When has it been since someone would ask such a stupid question?

Zhu Youzhen did those things, and he was a fool if he couldn't see it anymore.

When he closed his eyes, Liu Guangsheng would recall Zhu Youzhen's words and deeds during his entry into Beijing.

The emperor has stopped pretending and showdown, and has clearly told him Liu Guangsheng that everything is done by Zhu Youzhen, and Zhu Youzhen is now in power!

"I now have soldiers, food, and direct subordinates from the north and south in my hands, and I can return to Nanjing at any time, go back to the place where Taizu started, and fight the world again!"

Zhu Youzhen said this to Liu Guangsheng, and through Liu Guangsheng's mouth, he said it to officials from all over Shaanxi.

Of course, there is no need to tell the common people.

There's nothing wrong with that.

The world is the emperor's, is there a problem?

Only Liu Guangsheng, a group of officials, understood the meaning behind this sentence.

Gengshen is in trouble, it is the emperor's job.

"Now is not the time to deal with the central government." Liu Guangsheng looked around at everyone and said: "The tragedy of the Lu family at the beginning of the year, I think everyone has not forgotten it. ”

A sentence about the tragedy of the Lu family made several people look a little uncomfortable.

"The Lu family's family of 117 people was thrown into the pot by the rogues to cook and cook, and they didn't even let go of the children.

Gao Yingxiang's 100,000 rogues are 100,000 hungry tigers, which are more terrible than the locust plague.

What's even more terrifying is that natural disasters continue, and the trend of the rogue will become bigger and bigger, and when the rogue hits Xi'an, everyone, we will end up like the Lu family, and be cooked and eaten alive by this group of hungry and crazy rogues.

Take out the furniture and give it to Hong Chengchou for military training, the emperor has promised that as long as we find out the 'lost' money and grain, he will allocate funds for disaster relief in Shaanxi.

When the money and food of the imperial court come down, we can still make up for the amount we have now. ”

If Hong Chengchou heard these words here, he would definitely drop his jaw in shock.

All the money and food for disaster relief have long been divided up by this group of officials.

Only he, Hong Chengchou, is an outsider, and people just keep acting in front of him.

"That's not just us." Hu Tingmo held the jade wrench in his right hand, and his eyes were fierce: "The gentry in Xi'an City, including the one of King Qin, have all come out, otherwise, Hu will not come out, and everyone will finish playing together." ”

"So let's put it that way."

Liu Guangsheng got up and waved his hand: "This matter should be decided as soon as possible, and the epidemic should be extinguished as soon as possible, the situation still has a chance to turn around, so let's disperse." ”

A group of officials with different intentions left one after another, leaving only a polished plaque in the empty hall.

Protect the territory and the people!