Lu Tingyan left from the Inspection Department of Xiaomeng Town with more than 100 people in embarrassment, everyone was blue and swollen, and Lu Tingyan's originally gorgeous big hat also became tattered, and the ends were torn into one by one, like beggars.

"Bastard Liu Yan!"

Lu Tingyan was indignant in his heart, he never imagined that Liu Yan would send someone to beat him, so rampant, could it be that he had nowhere to reason with his dignified generals?

"Sue!"

Lu Tingyan suddenly shouted: "Lao Tzu wants to go to Lu Duchen to sue Liu Yan, Lao Tzu is not finished with him!" ”

In a blink of an eye, it was the first month of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen.

In the past few days, Lu Xiangsheng has successively received official documents from Wendeng Camp, Dengzhou Camp and Jimo Camp, as well as various health offices, prefectures and counties, all of which are accusing Liu Yan.

"Liu Yan, the guerrilla general of the Jimo battalion, openly robbed the people in order to enrich his rule, resulting in barren fields and no ...... villages under the rule of the lower officials."

"Liu Yan was arrogant, using the division of land as bait to lure the military households under the rule of the last general to flee, and killed and expanded the population of Lingshanwei and Aoshanwei, his heart can be punished!"

"The people everywhere resisted taxes and fled, Liu Yan not only did not assist in the arrest of the fugitive military households, but hid them and secretly accumulated strength, which shows that he has the heart of disobedience, and even more disobedience!"

Lu Xiangsheng looked at one official document after another and couldn't help sighing.

At this moment, Governor Yan Jizu hurriedly came, also holding some official documents in his hand, entered the house, and said loudly: "Governor, take a look, these are all complaints!" ”

Lu Xiangsheng was slightly stunned, and then asked, "But you sued Liu Yan?" ”

"Exactly!"

Then Lu Xiangsheng pointed to a stack of official documents on the table and said, "Look at these, they are all accusing Liu Yan." ”

Yan Jizu said with a wry smile: "This Liu Yan, if you don't get into trouble for a day, you will be itching all over your body, and this time it can be regarded as a hornet's nest, and almost offended the officials and generals in Laizhou Mansion, Dengzhou Mansion and other places. ”

Lu Xiangsheng pondered for a while and said: "Now the popular uprisings in various places have been basically suppressed, but the disadvantages of levying salaries are still continuing, the people everywhere are more miserable, fugitives abound, and the number of displaced people everywhere has surged, these are the top priorities." ”

"Does the governor mean that these official documents of the complaint are ignored for the time being?"

Lu Xiangsheng said; "It's not okay to ignore it completely. I think so, the guards will be reprimanded by the governor in a letter, and those state and county civil officials will be reprimanded by Futai, how about it? ”

Yan Jizu said in surprise: "Do you want to think about it again?" Now it is already rumored that Liu Yan is deeply trusted by the governors and is the number one henchman under the governors. If the governors defend Liu Yan like this again, those civil and military generals may say something. ”

Lu Xiangsheng said with a little anger: "Yan Futai, isn't this matter that the governor wants to defend Liu Yan, let me ask: Did Liu Yan really do something wrong?" ”

"Which of those local civil officials and military generals is not rich? When the governor inspected various places, he did not see a single civilian and military general who gave money to fill the gap in training salaries, but tried every means to impose the apportionment on the military households, so that the already poor people could not live. Today's chaos is caused by them, Liu Yan spent money and food to contain the homeless, is it still wrong! ”

Yan Jizu was speechless, just shook his head and sighed, and said: "Just doing this, it is difficult to make the civil officials and military generals everywhere die down." ”

"The Governor didn't expect them to die down!"

Lu Xiangsheng said: "This governor will order all localities to immediately stop the apportionment of training salaries, and the amount of more than 400,000 taels of training salaries sent by the imperial court will all be offset by the salaries of civil officials and military generals in various places. The civil and military generals in various places immediately protect the territory and the people, and if there are any displaced people fleeing under anyone's rule, the official will be severely punished! ”

Yan Jizu was shocked: "Don't be a governor, so the governor will become the target of everyone!" ”

Lu Xiangsheng said: "Even if the governor doesn't do anything, it's still the same, but it's better to do more things for Daming, even if you are broken, you can feel at ease!" ”

Yan Jizu sighed when he saw this.

Soon, Lu Xiangsheng's official document reprimanding the civil and military generals from all over the country was sent, Lu Tingyan was sitting in Zhang Youxun's study, and Han Xu, the general of the Dengzhou battalion, was on the side, and the three of them were very depressed.

Zhang Youxun looked at Lu Tingyan, who was still bruised on his face, and said: "I said a long time ago, it's useless to complain, no, Lu Duchen not only didn't blame Liu Yan, but reprimanded us." ”

Han Xu said: "In Lu Duchen's view, we should all destroy our families and relieve our difficulties, and we should all sell our family property to offset the apportionment of the salary, instead of demanding it from the people. ”

"!"

Lu Tingyan shouted at the top of his voice: "We are officials, they are the people, and the people support officials, and it is justified!" ”

Zhang Youxun waved his hand and said: "Don't say that these are useless, Lu Duchen reprimanded us for leviing and extorting from the people, and we also want to use our money to offset the apportionment of the salary, what do you say?" ”

Han Xu seemed to have accepted his fate, and said dejectedly: "What can I do?" Lu Duchen is Shangguan, what does he say, what can you and I do! ”

Seeing this, Zhang Youxun had no idea, leaving Lu Tingyan still chattering and complaining, but there was no useful word. m.

In February, Lu Xiangsheng went to Lingshanwei and Aoshanwei to inspect, and Liu Yan hurriedly gathered a group of subordinates to accompany him.

This time, Lu Xiangsheng sent people to notify the Jimo Battalion, Wendeng Battalion, Dengzhou Battalion Counselor General and others, as well as a number of civil officials from Laizhou Mansion, Dengzhou Mansion, and Qingzhou Mansion, and asked everyone to accompany them to Lingshanwei and Aoshanwei.

Lu Xiangsheng's guard of honor went from north to south, all the way to the Lingshan Acropolis, and saw several resettlement sites along the way.

These settlements have now been expanded and small villages have been built on the spot. The displaced people who have been resettled in these places have all received the most basic guarantees, and are preparing for this year's spring ploughing under the arrangement of Zhang Lei, the official in charge of the tun.

Lu Xiangsheng stopped at a village north of the Lingshan Acropolis, came to the field with a brigade of civil officials and military generals, and then said to Liu Yan: "The cultivated land here is all newly cultivated, right?"

Liu Yan hugged his fists and said: "Governor Mingjian, the cultivated land here was reclaimed by his subordinates at the end of last year, and his subordinates ordered Zhang Lei, the official in charge of the tun, to lead the crowd to reclaim it, and now there are still some ditches that have not been dug in place, but manpower has been arranged, and it will definitely be completed before spring ploughing."

"How much wasteland have Lingshanwei and Aoshanwei reclaimed in order to resettle the displaced people?"

"Governor Qiyu, a total of 220,000 mu of cultivated land has been added to his subordinates, basically counting all the land that can be used for cultivation in Lingshanwei and Aoshanwei and the surrounding areas. However, most of this land has only been slightly leveled, and has not been cultivated and regulated, and no water conservancy facilities have been built. ”

Lu Xiangsheng asked, "Why?"

Liu Yan said: "My subordinates don't have time and manpower, and at the same time, they don't have enough money and food."

Lu Xiangsheng didn't ask Liu Yan anything more, but turned to look at the group of civil and military generals behind him. At this time, everyone was still amazed at Liu Yan's generous efforts to reclaim more than 200,000 acres of wasteland at once, and they didn't notice Lu Xiangsheng's iron-blue face at all.

"I don't know how you feel when you hear Liu Guerrilla's words, anyway, this governor only has guilt in his heart!"

"There is chaos under your rule, the people can't survive and run to Liu Guerrilla, it is he who resettles the displaced people, it is he who stabilizes the situation, even if he spends all the money and food of Lingshanwei and Aoshanwei!"

"But what have you done? You have all come to the Governor to complain, and what shame do you have to send these official documents to the Governor! ”

In the face of Lu Xiangsheng's reprimand, everyone bowed their heads and remained silent, and Zhang Youxun, Lu Tingyan and Han Xu were even more annoyed in their hearts: The co-author was called here just to be reprimanded?

Lu Xiangsheng looked at everyone and knew that these civil officials and military generals were not convinced, and he didn't plan to convince them in a few words, and from then on he would be dedicated to serving the people and the country.

"I called you here today to let you see what Liu Guerrilla has done. After returning home, Liu Guerrilla had to sort out a document book, where the displaced people accepted by Lingshanwei and Aoshanwei in these days were from their hometowns, and report it to the governor within ten days. ”

Liu Yan hugged his fists and took his life.

Then Lu Xiangsheng said to the people: "This governor will collect money and grain from you according to this booklet, and calculate it according to ten taels of silver per person. If you don't have enough money in your hands, you can use grain and houses to deduct it, and pay it all within a month. ”

"After a month, whoever hasn't paid all the money and food will take the initiative to resign!"

Everyone was dumbfounded.

That night, in the Lingshan Acropolis, in the Integrity Mansion, Lu Xiangsheng and Liu Yan sat opposite each other and chatted.

"The governor is going to collect money and food from those civil and military generals today, but they have made their subordinates miserable, and they must not hate their subordinates to death!"

Listening to Liu Yan's complaints, Lu Xiangsheng said with a smile: "Hehe, are you still afraid of these? You, like me, are all lonely ministers who are dedicated to doing things, but no one understands them. ”

"Although the governor is from Donglin, the one who wants to put me to death in the DPRK is precisely the Donglin Party, Liu Yan, do you say that this is called fate?"

Liu Yan said: "My subordinates don't know what fate is, they only know a little truth."

"What's the truth?"

"My life is up to me!"

Liu Yan said: "Subordinates act and do things recklessly, as long as they think it is right, they must do it, and they will not be bound by the rules." What background, what civil and military career, what protégé and former official, can not affect the judgment of subordinates. In today's world, only in this way can we not be affected by the so-called general trend. ”

Lu Xiangsheng looked at Liu Yan a little distracted, his own emotion actually led to Liu Yan's reasoning, and he is also a well-educated person, although listening to Liu Yan's arguments is very contradictory, but he feels very reasonable, at least from his own heart, it can't be refuted!

Lu Xiangsheng thought for a while and said: "There must be my teacher in the threesome, let's talk about it today, you have taught Bendu a lot of things!"

Liu Yan clenched his fists and said: "The subordinate is just a martial artist, and the governor will listen to it for the time being, and he can't do a lot."

At the same time, Liu Yan secretly said in his heart: "Today can be regarded as a greeting to Lu Xiangsheng, and one day when I will have differences with him in the future, it can also be regarded as giving this anti-Qing hero a few thin faces."

"Alright, let's not talk about that."

Lu Xiangsheng waved his hand, as if he wanted to drive away all the negative emotions in his heart, and said: "After those civil and military officials collect the money and food paid, the governor will divide thirty percent and let Lu Huaiying escort it to you, which can be regarded as a supplement for you to shelter the displaced people."

"Governor Xie."

"It's just that those people won't have to trouble you in the future, and you have to be careful to deal with it."

Liu Yan agreed, but he was not worried in his heart: "Next, they won't bother to trouble me!"

Liu Yan clearly remembers that in the spring of this year, an unprecedented drought will break out in Shandong, Henan and other places, followed by an overwhelming locust plague.

The advent of these two disasters will turn all parts of Shandong into purgatory on earth.

Thinking of this, Liu Yan secretly said in his heart: "I hope my deployment can have an effect!"

Some people died, but not completely......