Although Shaanxi's new tax policy was implemented, the contradictions between the emperor and the cabinet began to emerge.

Originally, Xie Minhong didn't want to care, but Gao Moling persuaded him not to look at Han Wei's jokes:

"A few people from Shaanxi: Jiang Cunli is from Shandong, Wei Lu is from Henan, Wu Xianxian is from Liaodong, and although Shen Yu is from Yancheng, he is Li Weisan's old subordinate.

If they know the Shaanxi cuisine clearly, the northerners will be arrogant, do you think this is a good thing?"

In this way, Xie Minhong and Han Wei rarely stood together and questioned the two documents. Xie Minhong's reason is to increase spending in vain, and Han Wei said more simply that there is no precedent and the risk is unpredictable.

Gu Lin didn't think so, and he didn't have much to do with his military department anyway. Yi Zhongsheng is quite worried about the unpaid tax payment to be bound by the prison rooms in various places, and in case of a sharp increase in tax arrears in a disaster year, his criminal department will not be able to cope with it.

When the emperor heard this, he threw out the countermeasures at the imperial council:

First of all, he took out Li Dan's secret fold, on the number of additional official posts that need to be added in Shaanxi to implement these two documents, the increase in the expenditure budget, and the methods for absorbing the above expenses, especially how much Shaanxi will increase in retention and handover after the increase in taxes, and how to ensure that the increased expenditure is within the scope of retention, and so on. Let Xie Minhong be speechless first.

Then Zhao Tuo criticized Han for not daring to innovate first, where the ancients launched any new policy, there is a precedent to follow, Emperor Wen of Sui created the imperial examination, did the Han Dynasty have a imperial examination?

A burst of fire made Han Wei sweat and didn't dare to express his opposition clearly. In the end, the Cabinet agreed to take it back for deliberation and communication.

Who knew that Zhao Tuo waited for a few days, and the cabinet turned out to be a drag.

He sent people to ask him about the situation of his deliberations in the cabinet as an opportunity for Gu Lin's mother to celebrate her birthday, and learned that Han and Xie were finding various reasons to find fault and prevaricate, and the emperor couldn't help it. The topic was asked again at the new Imperial Council and severely criticized.

This time, he had an idea about the worries of the criminal department (taught by Li Dan in the secret fold), aren't you worried that you can't deal with it?

It doesn't matter, let's set up a labor service center, divide the tax arrears into three grades, and hand over the serious ones to the labor service centers under the provincial prosecutors, and the second-class ones to the government, and then stay in the county. The county labor service center is managed by the prison room and the regimental training is responsible for its maintenance.

The government and the judges' shall be maintained by the guard. In this way, the people are scattered, and they are managed according to the severity of the situation, and there are serious things to do in regimental training and health centers in various places.

The labor service center is actually a prison, and this concept has been very satisfactory to both the criminal department and the military department. Not only did the problem be solved, but the functions and powers of the two ministries were amplified to a certain extent, and the use of redundant officials and idle personnel in the guard was also solved by the way.

Seeing this, Han Wei raised a new question, believing that this is undoubtedly the same as forcing taxes, and it is not known whether it is easy to cause rebellion among tax debtors in various places or cause new turmoil.

Xie Minhong pointed out that only Shaanxi has been in arrears for a long time, and many families with arrears have been forced to transfer their land to the gentry, or become tenants, or become hidden households.

Zhao Tuo was impatient with new questions thrown at them, and said that he would let the cabinet negotiate and communicate, but after so many days, he still brought the question to ask me if I hadn't done anything?

When Li Dan left, you all promised to do well, why is it another attitude now, what is the use of a cabinet like this?

After that, he left his ministers and got up and returned to Ouchi, and after that, he refused to attend the Imperial Council for three or four consecutive days.

Han Wei was scared when he watched more and more twists and turns, he went to Zheng Shou's mansion to discuss, and then entered the palace alone to hand over the sign and ask the queen mother to say goodbye.

The Empress Dowager listened to what he said and asked him, "Shouldn't there be five people when Qing Shi mentioned the ministers of the cabinet?" Why are there only four?"

"Zhu Youtao has retired to be investigated, so His Majesty has not yet appointed a new candidate." Han replied.

"Then who does Lord Han recommend to join the cabinet?"

Hearing the Queen Mother's question, Han Wei was stunned. He didn't expect the Queen Mother to care about the number of cabinet members, and he wasn't prepared to talk about the selection of people here. Suddenly asked, he hesitated and said:

"Zheng Tonglan is currently a direct bachelor of Tongshan Pavilion, a scholar of the Ministry of Officials, and the minister thinks he is a candidate."

"Hmm

。 Since someone has been chosen, you should have let Your Majesty know earlier, and the four-member cabinet has not been filled for so long, and you can't complain that the emperor is angry with you." After the queen mother finished speaking in disgust, she asked Han Wei to go back first:

"You came to me because Your Majesty was annoyed and cold, but you don't have any resentment, the situation in Shaanxi is getting worse day by day, how can the cabinet not have a unified opinion on the song?

After all, it is the most important province in the western part of the empire, and it is better to put state affairs first and reach a conclusion with his colleagues earlier."

Han Wei came out and thought about it carefully and understood the intention of the Queen Mother. Sure enough, Zhao Tuo appeared at the next imperial meeting. "Regarding the lack of members in the cabinet, the first assistant recommended Zheng Shou to join the cabinet, do the princes have different opinions?"

Seeing that the three of them didn't speak, Zhao Tuo asked, "Let's talk about the two documents in Shaanxi first, do you have any objections?"

"There is no objection to the minister." Han replied immediately.

Zheng Shou's entry into the cabinet caught Xie Minhong off guard, he was not prepared to deal with this topic, and before he could fight back, Han Wei agreed to Shaanxi's transcript, and immediately Gu Lin and Yi Zhongsheng also said that they had no objections.

Xie Minhong felt that everyone's eyes were focused on him, and after some struggle, he had to bow down: "Minister, there is no objection." But he immediately countered with a knife:

"Lord Zheng entered the cabinet, and the minister suggested that the Nanjing Ministry of Officials Shangshu be transferred to Beijing to take over, and then the Nanjing Ministry of Officials could be replaced by Lang Yangzhong, the left servant of the Ministry of Works."

The secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Shangshu is a native of Fujian, and Xie Minhong wants to take the opportunity to take down the Ministry of Officials, and at the same time use a bright rise and a secret descendation to drive Yangzhong, which is forming a third force in the DPRK, to Nanjing to sit on the cold bench.

Zhao Tuo was already aware of the small clique phenomenon of the courtiers from the exchange with Li Dan. In Li Dan's words, this kind of small group cannot be without, but it cannot be allowed to grow.

The formation of a strong party with its own interests and ideologies is not conducive to the stability of the imperial court; But without a small clique monolithic, the imperial power is threatened by the ruling power.

Zhao Tuo saw Xie Minhong's statement at this time, and said:

"Nanjing's official department is still Jin Guowei? That's a square person, I know that he is very good at replacing Zheng Qing! However, Yang Qing is young, and it is still a little insufficient to be a secretary of the ministry, and the cabinet will draw up another vote." Rejected the proposal to let Yangzhong go to Jinling.

Soon, a new bank came to Shaanxi and several documents related to the new banknotes. Zheng Shou understood now that this was the double reed played by the emperor and Li Dan.

Since it was definitely going to be passed, he hoped to complete it while the household department was still in his own hands, and he didn't want to leave the performance to the people who came after, so these documents passed almost without any suspense.

What the emperor got was a tacit agreement with the cabinet, and Zhu Zhandong's case was only fined 3,000 taels of silver for his careless negligence in making friends, and then the emperor asked him to go to the Tongwen Museum to preside over the translation and publication of foreign language books.

Li Dan didn't know these details, but he probably knew about the disputes in the court and the disputes between the Jinghu and Jiangnan factions from the secret letter sent to him by the Pedestrian Division.

At the same time, he also learned from Shen Jie's letter that Yangzhong, Sun Liao and other young Zhuang factions were angered by Xie Minhong, and soon submitted an impeachment of Gao Moling in the court, saying that he had brought the Chinese book scrolls home without authorization.

The emperor handed him over to Dali Temple, and as a result of the trial, Gao Moling was convicted of leaking secrets and beheaded the marquis. Zhao Tuo gave Xie Minhong a face at this time, saying that this person is still capable, so he should be demoted to Yazhou as a county magistrate. In a word, he was sent to Qiongya (Hainan Island).

The standard camp finally arrived, and the citizens, officials and businessmen of Xi'an were shocked and poured into the streets to watch. But seeing the long convoy and horse team, when the forward went out of the east gate (Yongning Gate), the tail of the team was still at the north gate (Anyuan Gate) into the city.

"Good boy, there are so many cars and horses!" Someone shouted.

The infantrymen on the carriage were all covered with leather half-body armor and chain soft armor, and they were armed with the fire of snow-bright bayonets, and sat opposite each other in two rows. The cavalry was a barbarian with a swordsman's sword, a long spear, and a blue cloak.

"Look, look, what's that? The Great General?"

"No, it's thinner than the general's gun, and the gun body is longer."

The artillery team rumbled past, with the guns facing backwards, dragging the ammunition wagon, and the artillerymen sitting in the front compartments triumphantly with their nostrils turned to the sky. Then there is the medical team, the weight team, the guards, the pacification .......

"It's spectacular! I know today why it is said that Master Li is the best soldier in the world!" Shen Yu was invited to come to the Ganqing Xingdu Mansion on the south side of Dongmen Street, and watched the standard camp enter the city with a group of officials on the upper floor of the Linyuan Building, and excitedly patted the railing and said:

"Lord Li wants to equip the Western Army with two regiments according to this standard, and this is what he personally promised me!"

Wei Lu whispered to Jiang Cunli: "The whole army has no golden drums, only flutes and whistles, but it has stepped out of the momentum of 10,000 people, it seems that the effect of Lord Li's deterrence is obvious and undoubted.

I'm afraid that this army alone is enough to suppress the Zodiac Sect. But Master Li told Shen Du that he still had to reorganize a number of new armies in Shaanxi, but I am afraid that it is not as simple as fighting a few Zodiac Sects, right?"

"What does Yigong want to say?"

Opening the bowl in his hand, Wei Lu dipped his fingers in some tea and wrote the words "fan" and "leaf" on the railing. Jiang Cunli raised his eyebrows in surprise and said nothing.

The standard camp is stationed in the vast camp area on the west side of the Wuji Temple in Dongkuo City. Li Dan's governor's office and Xingyuan were located outside the east wall of Yuantong Temple, and the two lived next to each other.

These two places were originally two temples, the west was once the Huangjiao temple, the temple monks organized monks and soldiers when the previous dynasty overturned, and the temple was abandoned by this dynasty. After Gao Cang's arrival, he hired craftsmen to renovate the mansion, including offices and residences for officials.

Next door was originally a Taoist temple, which was abandoned after the martyrdom. It happened that there was a forest behind it, and the circle was changed into a garden to be used as a cha cha line. Between the two is a fireproof passage large enough to walk two carriages side by side, and the wall opens to pass through.

Li Dan's large-scale entry into the city was indeed a deterrent, and on the same day, several people quietly left the city and went north to find the Young Heavenly Master to report the news. But at this time, the Young Heavenly Master himself was at a loss, and the wind direction changed before they approached Puzhou City.

The instructions issued by the capital division to the military rooms and guard stations in various places have arrived in various places one after another, and the newly established regimental training has assisted the guard posts and station forts in setting up checkpoints and inspecting road guides. The port ferry and the Guancheng pass are closed, and only the entry and exit are not out;

Pedestrians who do not have a road guide are all registered, and after paying two money, they can only reluctantly get to the adjacent township, and then pay the money again to apply for a valid road guide in the township;

The group exercises everywhere to inspect the pedestrian guide at any time, and those who do not have the guide can be retained and handed over to the inspection department for interrogation.

A series of measures quickly weaved a large net around Gyeonggi, and the salary of two meals a day and five yuan allowed many idle personnel to join the group training, although it caused inconvenience to the travelers, but it was extremely effective in mobilizing the masses.

The flow of people was greatly reduced almost for a day or two or two nights, and the migrants who had no way to guide and could not come up with money were kept in the local area, either dredging the city for the government, or participating in the construction of labor stations, or repairing the facilities of guards and passes, and so on.

Li Dan's first payment of 200,000 taels to Shen Yu made most of Shaanxi move.

At the same time, the counties brought up the prisoners who had been imprisoned for rent arrears and tax arrears, and handed them over to the officials stationed according to the judicial department, and then they were told the number of days they needed to be deducted from hard labor, and after agreeing, they put their fingerprints on their own closing papers, and gathered them on the official road construction line from outside the north Guomen of the city outside Xi'an Mansion to Baqiao, Lintong, Gaoling, Fuping, and Tongchuan.

Here, they work hard and can get the road guide and the money to go home after working for a full number of days.

"What's wrong with the monk, should the monk break the law and do whatever he wants?" One of the guard posts waved his hand: "Go, go, stop grinding." How much work should you do, and after you finish it, you will naturally go home, where do you want to go, and you will get the road guide and the road fee, won't it be easy to leave?

Now you can't, you have to continue to carry stones to mend the wall, and you don't have to be embarrassed, but it's only twenty-seven dollars for twelve and a half days' work.

We are acting in accordance with the law, and we have not crossed the rules at all. Whatever it says, let's do!" After he finished speaking, he pressed the hilt of his knife and turned to go about something else.

"Young Master, it seems that we won't be able to get out for a while? Why don't you *** drop a few and let's escape?" The archmage whispered

。 He and Shaotian Shi Baorui fell into the hands of a group of group training, because there was no guide to be told to go to the township office for questioning, who knew that soon the guard station was notified that more than a dozen soldiers came, and brought them and seven or eight other people who were detained for the same reason back to the guard house.

At this point, they realized that it was not as simple as coming to open a road guide, but that they had to pay two yuan according to the new law, and then pay a fine of 25 yuan before they could receive the new road guide, and those who paid the money and accepted the penalty all left.

They are dressed as monks, how can the monks have money on them? There were some tickets sewn into the clothes, but if the monk was found wandering out with thousands of bills, he would still be in trouble, so neither of them dared to take them out and pay the fine.

As a result, they had to admit punishment and work for them in this guard house to repair the walls and carry stones, and they had to work for twelve and a half days before they could leave.

These two are suffering! It was easy to see the sentry commander of this guard station, and I wanted to ask his subordinates to show mercy and release people, but who knew that they would not agree.

But no, this wall hasn't been repaired for many years, and now that he has some money and manpower, how can the sentry commander let it go easily?

It's only bitter that these two sweat like rain, and they have cursed this whistle chief many times in their hearts. "When Lao Tzu goes out and gathers people, he must come back and level this guard!" The Young Heavenly Master muttered viciously.

The archmage "shh

"Young Master, I heard from the two guards who were chatting that Li Dan brought out a standard battalion of thousands of people out of nowhere, all of them with bright armor and extremely powerful. I guess he transferred the Liao Army to Shaanxi, and he must have come for us!"

"That's bad!" Young Heavenly Master Bao Rui was surprised and said, "If that's the case, let's run!" Third Brother Hei, if they don't get the news, they may suffer, so they have to hurry up and deliver the letter!"

The next day, the sentry noticed that the two monks were missing, and hurried to report to the sentry. "The thieves of the straight mother, Lao Tzu has never treated them badly, why did they run away after eating and drinking?" The sentry commander scolded angrily, and finally waved his hand:

"Whatever they want, if they are caught again, they will know that Lao Tzu is still merciful. Don't worry, they won't be able to escape far without a way!"

He didn't want others to suffer a loss and grow wise, so he didn't dare to staggering from the main road anymore, and instead took the small road to cross the mountains and mountains.