"Your Majesty Chen Shiji pays homage to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness the Grand Sun."

"Slave Liang Yong, please pay your respects to Mr. Qiansui, Mr. Xiao."

In May of this year, Chen Shiji, the magistrate of Xianyang County under the Chief Secretary of Shaanxi Province, and Liang Yong, the tax supervisor of Shaanxi Province, were recruited into the capital. After Zhu Youdong received the news, he quickly pulled Zhu Changluo out for an interview.

"Everyone, get up." After saying a word lazily, Zhu Changluo, with swollen eyelids, leaned his back heavily on the seat, and then nodded towards Zhu Youdong.

"Ahem." After saluting Zhu Changluo helplessly, Zhu Youdong turned around: "I urgently recalled you two from Shaanxi today just to hear about Liang Yong's impeachment of County Magistrate Chen a few days ago. Well.

, The prince is here today, so you can speak freely if you have anything to say. Liang Yong, you go ahead and say it. How can this Chen Shiji resist the decree and rob the tax law? "

"Reporting to the thousand-year-old master, young master, I was sent by the emperor to collect mining taxes in Shaanxi. I can't collect the mining taxes by myself. There must be a team of people down here. This team of people must have people to chew on.

Right? You have to pay some money, right? Last winter, there was a severe cold in Shaanxi. The cotton-padded clothes of my servants were all stiff and they couldn't go out to do errands. However, the emperor couldn't afford to delay his errands. So I had no choice but to send a message to Chen Ming Mansion, please.

Xianyang County provided cotton-padded clothes and other warm-weather supplies... However, Chen Ming's Mansion could only spare a cent. The servants allocated the supplies through the Xianyang County Yamen House, but Chen Ming's Mansion actually led the government servants to detain them... Qiansui Master, Xiao Ye, and the slaves all worked hard.

I’m running an errand for the Long Live Lord, but it’s winter and I don’t have anything to keep out the cold. How can I do this?”

Haha, with a sneer in his heart, Zhu Youdong turned around and said to Chen Shiji: "What does County Chen have to say?"

"Yes, Your Highnesses, Prince and Grandson, please report. What Liang Zhongshi said just now is mostly untrue."

"What our family said! Every sentence..."

"Hey, Liang Yong, have you spoken? Sit down!"

"Master, slave..."

"You bastard! How dare you talk back when I ask you to sit down?!" It seems that this guy has been away on errands for a long time and doesn't know my reputation in the capital these years.

After scolding Liang Yong again with a straight face, Zhu Youdong raised his hand towards Chen Shiji.

"Thank you, Your Highness Taisun. Your two highnesses, Ambassador Liang just said that he sent a letter to ask Xianyang County to provide warm clothes for the envoy's troops. This, Ambassador Liang, is very clear in the letter you sent to my subordinates.

It was clearly stated that fifty fur coats and one thousand five hundred pieces of felt were needed. The official replied that there were cotton-padded clothes to keep out the cold, but Xianyang County was poor, so he wanted fifty fur coats and one thousand and five hundred pieces at once.

Hundreds of pieces of tapestries are not available. And you sent a message to Xiaguan again, saying that furs and tapestries are not acceptable, so Xiaguan did... As for Xiaguan's housekeeper, because he is a local, you sent someone to tell him

, if he doesn’t hand over these fur clothes, you will designate the mineral vein under his ancestral home..."

What happened is actually very simple. When Liang Yong went to the local area, he wanted to make money for the emperor as well as for himself, so he blackmailed the local officials. The county magistrates in the Ming Dynasty were all officials in other places, so their ancestral home was not in Xianyang.

Chen Shiji ignored Liang Yong. When Liang Yong threatened the local housekeeper, the housekeeper quickly gave in.

This is where Chen Shiji's strength lies: his subordinates raised funds and prepared clothes themselves, but he actually dared to lead his men to stop him. This made Liang Yong angry, so he was charged with a black case.

After hearing what happened, Zhu Youdong frowned slightly.

Everyone knew that the lieutenants sent out by the palace were extorting places, so Zhu Youdong didn't find it surprising that Liang Yong was exposed like this today.

What he was more concerned about was, on the one hand, Liang Yong's stupidity: he dared to leave a note when asking for bribes. How stupid does this have to be? How rampant must he be to do such a mentally retarded thing? And the eunuchs who can be selected by Wanli to collect mining taxes,

At least they are considered to be the middlemen in this great palace, right? A glimpse of the leopard shows how far these eunuchs sent all over the country will ruin the reputation of the royal family?

Secondly, he was horrified by Liang Yong's small appetite: to blackmail a county magistrate, he only asked for fifty leather coats and fifteen hundred pieces of felt? How poor must Xianyang be to make Liang Yong feel that he is not as big as a lion?

Open your mouth?

"Hmph!" After figuring out the whole story, Zhu Changluo, who was sitting at the top, snorted: "Liang Yong, you did a good job!"

"Forgive me, Lord Qiantose, but I have to suffer outside too..."

"I don't want to say anything more to you. I will tell my father the truth about what I said today. Then you can go and tell your father yourself."

"Ah? Lord Qiansui, please be merciful..."

No longer paying attention to Liang Yong, who was kowtowing, Zhu Changluo stood up, nodded slightly towards Chen Shiji, and left Xinghua Palace.

"Master, Master! Please save this slave!"

Seeing Zhu Changluo walking away, Liang Yong was really anxious. He was not afraid that the emperor would kill him - if he really wanted to kill someone for asking for a bribe, who of the eunuchs in the palace would be willing to go out to collect money from the emperor in the future?

What he was afraid of was that after this matter got serious, the emperor would excuse him from his errand and ask him to return to the palace from outside.

Please, in order to get this job, our family sent money everywhere in the palace, not to mention all the savings from the first half of our lives, and also incurred a lot of external debts. If we are called back now, how can we do this?

!

"You go down first and wait outside. I will call you later. Well, Wang Chengen, please take Liang Yong down."

After sending Liang Yong away, Zhu Youdong turned around and said, "Chen Mingfu, please sit down. I have something to ask you."

"I am so frightened that I don't dare to be called Grand Sun Mingfu."

"Well, what is the nickname of County Magistrate Chen?"

"My courtesy name is Kuanren."

"Oh, please sit down, Kuanren. Someone, please bring Magistrate Chen a cup of hot tea."

"Your Highness treats me so kindly, I really make you burst into tears of gratitude!"

Chinese society has always been a hierarchical society. The difference is that in ancient times, this hierarchy was on the surface, with strict and specific etiquette requirements. Mingfu is the honorific title of the county magistrate. And Biaozi is also a kind of

Honorific title (a term used by ancient people. It is okay for elders to directly call juniors by their first names, but peers must address each other by name, otherwise it will be impolite).

In short, Zhu Youdong paid enough respect to Chen Shiji in his title. Under the premise that he was a grandson and a king, such a title was enough to give Chen Shiji great satisfaction.

"How old is Kuanren this year? In which year did you become an official?"

"I am ashamed. I am thirty-five years old this year. I was born in the third grade of Jiachen Branch in the 32nd year of Wanli and was a Jinshi."

"Oh, speaking of which, you and Gu's Mr. Sun are still the same age."

"Yes, Brother Kaiyang is the second best in our class, and he is truly a role model for our generation."

"Hahaha, Kuanren, although you speak Mandarin very well, but judging from your accent, why are you from Cantonese?"

"Your Highness is extremely intelligent. I am from Shunde, Guangdong."

"Hahaha, don't be nervous, Kuanren. We have just made it clear about Liang Yong's impeachment of you. Now, it's just Gu and you having fun. You also know that Gu is only six years old this year, and he still needs to continue to learn.

.Understanding the local situation is also a kind of learning. Therefore, today, I will just ask you for advice and understand the local situation."

It has been six years since he traveled to this era, and his starting point was extremely high: he was the theoretical third person of the Ming Dynasty at birth. Therefore, Zhu Youdong always thinks about problems from an overall perspective.

Specific to the matter of Liang Yong, Zhu Youdong didn't care whether a county magistrate was framed or not. What he cared about was that he wanted to take this opportunity to find out about the specific local situation from the local magistrate in Shaanxi.

According to the records of this plane of history, if he did nothing and waited quietly for promotion, he would have to wait for twenty years. This situation was unacceptable to him. So in these years, he has developed his own

From the beginning of the team, we worked hard to accumulate strength.

After two years, the results were pretty good. The emperor liked and trusted him, and he himself also put his hands into the northeast and southwest.

However, for the Ming Dynasty, although the later Nanming Dynasty was defeated by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, from the perspective of hindsight, the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty may explain the war between the Qing Dynasty. As long as the Ming Dynasty did not commit suicide, it would be considered a defeat in the Battle of Sarhu.

, the Ming Dynasty could also overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

What is really fatal is the large-scale peasant uprising that started in Shaanxi...
Chapter completed!