Wang Yuan led his troops into the city, and Ling Xiang led his troops to meet him. When they met, they looked at each other and smiled.
Prime Minister Ling bowed and said: "President Wang uses his troops like a god, I admire him."
Wang Yuan cupped his hands and said, "It is admirable for Ling Jianqing to remain calm in the face of danger."
"I don't dare to be called a minister. I am just a minister of the palace." Ling Xiang said modestly.
"冏" has the same pronunciation as "囧". King Zhou Mu once appointed Bo Jiu as Taipu Zheng, so later generations of Taipu Temple Ministers were called "Jiu Qing".
The two have similar official qualities, and they have a tacit understanding of each other across the distance. Naturally, they had a great time talking when they met.
Talking all the way to Yuan Masi's official residence, Wang Yuan was surprised to learn that Ling Xiang made his fortune by suppressing bandits. Those rebels didn't take Ling Xiang seriously. He deserved to die for being plotted by this guy.
When Wang Yangming was suppressing bandits in Jiangxi, Prime Minister Ling happened to be in charge of Guangdong's military preparations. He sent troops to southern Jiangxi to cooperate with the suppression of bandits. They fought in southern Jiangxi for several years. Those bandits were much more difficult to deal with than the Liaodong rebels. This man
He is not yet fifty years old this year, but he looks older and has some gray hair on his temples. He is not an "old man" as Gao Hang calls him.
After talking about this experience, the relationship suddenly became more harmonious. Wang Yuan said with a smile: "It turns out that Ling Jiongqing is an old friend of Yangming Gong, and we can be considered family members."
Ling Xiang laughed: "Not only did I follow Yang Minggong to suppress bandits, but I also worked with Gu Yushi. He is very knowledgeable in arithmetic. I heard that it was passed down from Wang Zongzhi, and I also studied Wang Zongzhi's new arithmetic."
Gu Yushi was Gu Yingxiang, a disciple of Wang Yangming. When he was an official in Beijing, he had a close relationship with Wang Yuan and assisted Wang Yuan in setting up a physics laboratory at home.
At that time, Gu Yingxiang had experience as a Jinyiwei, and it was Gu Yingxiang who personally handled the entry procedures for Song Ling'er's Jinyiwei. Later, Gu Yingxiang was transferred to serve as the Guangdong Police Inspector and Lingdong Road, and went with Ling Xiang, the Guangdong Military Preparation Officer, to suppress bandits in southern Jiangxi.
Now, Gu Yingxiang is the deputy envoy of Guangxi and a fourth-grade civil servant.
Since Prime Minister Ling had followed Wang Yangming to suppress bandits for several years and had a close relationship with Gu Yingxiang, he and Wang Yuan were really considered family members.
After reminiscing for a long time and chatting for a while, Wang Yuan asked about business: "How many pastures are there in Yuanma Temple, Liaodong?"
Ling Xiang sighed and said: "Alas, in the entire Liaodong, there are only more than 2,000 acres of pasture left in the Six Prisons and Twenty-Four Gardens. I, the Minister of Yuanmasi, only dare to measure the pasture quietly and dare not take any other action. I am still the king.
The president is courageous and will take back the pasture as soon as he comes, without worrying about any reaction."
"Liaodong Military Attaché, you are so brave." Wang Yuan laughed angrily.
Not to mention the whole of Liaodong, only Yongningjian Siyuan has thousands of hectares of pasture on paper. One hectare equals one hundred acres, and thousands of hectares equals hundreds of thousands of acres. However, it was actually occupied and only two thousand acres were left.
The ranch in Fuzhou is the largest among the four gardens in southern Liaoning. No wonder Cai Yu secretly instigated the mutiny.
Moreover, Cai Yu alone would definitely not be able to eat so much. It is estimated that all the high-ranking military attachés in Fuzhou had a share.
Ling Xiang asked: "How does Mr. Wang plan to deal with it?"
Wang Yuan asked back: "Does Ling Jiongqing want to restore the pasture?"
"Of course I want to," Ling Xiang stood up abruptly, "I am the minister of Yuanmasi in Liaodong, and I can only be in charge of a mere two thousand acres of pasture. I am so useless that I can't even sleep well."
"That's enough, let's operate on Cai Yu!" Wang Yuan said with a smile.
Ling Xiang reminded: "This time it is just a small fight, and the perpetrators are mostly tenant farmers and military households. If we deal with Cai Yu, I am afraid it will lead to a real mutiny. By then, with the power of the king, there will be no more
With thousands of soldiers and horses, it is estimated that it will be difficult to pacify."
"Then let's outsmart him." Wang Yuan didn't insist on being forceful.
Ling Xiang asked: "How to outsmart him?"
Wang Yuan whispered: "...such and such."
After hearing this, Ling Xiang resisted the urge to roll his eyes: "Are you trying to outwit me?"
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "You don't have to fight, you just have to outwit us."
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Wang Yuan released all the military households who participated in the mutiny and asked them to go back to work on spring plowing.
However, there were 30,000 acres of pasture, and Wang Yuan did not allow them to cultivate it. Most of the military households who happened to be tenants of the 30,000 acres of land were thrown to Gaizhou (Gaizhou happened to be short of people), and each of them could still afford it.
They are allocated corresponding land and it belongs to them after three years of farming.
Wang Yuan plans to restore these 30,000 acres of land into pasture and have people bring grass seeds and spread them there.
It was impossible to restore them all at once. Firstly, it was difficult to accommodate the tenant farmers, and secondly, there were not so many horses to raise. Even the army horses on the 30,000 acres of land had to be transferred by the court and then spent money to buy them from North Korea.
Some.
Seeing his fertile land being planted with pasture by Wang Yuan, the senior military attache in Fuzhou felt hatred in his heart.
As a result, the impeachment memorial was issued again, accusing Wang Yuan of forcibly escorting Fuzhou military households to Gaizhou to farm without authorization. This kind of transgression violated the regulations of the imperial court.
How could Wang Yuan give them any clue?
While relocating the military households in Fuzhou, Wang Yuan had already gone to the imperial court. He said that these were rebels who participated in the mutiny. They could not kill the rebels directly, nor could they stay in their original guard posts, lest they join forces to mutiny again, so he decided to escort them
Part of them went to Gaizhou.
When these memorials were sent to the capital, the guards from various places sent troops one after another - they were finally ready and brought troops to help Governor Wang suppress the mutiny.
As for the mutiny having been resolved by Wang Yuan, they "didn't know".
Oh, I'm late, I'm late, I'm so sorry.
The commander of Fuzhou, Cai Yu, was also late. Moreover, this guy sent the most troops, bringing three thousand regular soldiers and five thousand auxiliary soldiers. From Fuzhou City to Yongning Supervisory City, it only took a few dozen miles to cover the entire area. Cai Yu had enough
After walking for half a month, we stationed troops at a pasture that had been turned into cultivated land and urged the tenant farmers to plant food in the pasture.
That piece of land happened to belong to the 30,000 acres of pasture that Wang Yuan planned to restore. It was on the bank of Bayi Reservoir in Yongning Town, Wafangdian City. Although there was no reservoir at this time, there was a small natural lake. As long as the pasture was restored, it was adjacent to
Lakes are the best places to raise horses.
Cai Yu stationed troops there for several days, but he couldn't sit still anymore. He called his confidants and asked, "Wang Er didn't respond?"
"There is no action, all the horse breeders here have withdrawn." The confidant replied.
Cai Yu said with a smile: "He knows what he is doing. If he wants to restore the pasture, let him restore 10,000 acres, which will give him some face. If he really wants to take it all back, he will offend the entire Fuzhou generals, and it will really cause trouble."
He will definitely be forced to walk around without food!"
The previous emperors almost all ordered the recovery of pastures in Fuzhou.
But no matter how awesome the minister is, restoring tens of thousands of acres is already the limit. The local pressure is too great, so we can only compromise with each other. At most, we can go to Gaizhou and Jinzhou to restore a few thousand acres.
Historically, there were frequent wars during the Jiajing period, and the court was extremely short of war horses. The emperor issued a death order to restore the pasture. So what should we do?
At that time, Zhang Hao, the minister of the Yuanmasi Temple in Liaodong, did not dare to fall out with the commander of Fuzhou Guards, nor did he dare to disobey Jiajing's orders, so he could only send people everywhere to investigate the situation. Finally, Xuancheng Guards (Donggang City), which was sparsely populated, was located in a vast area.
, found several mountains suitable for grazing, and directly built a new pasture covering an area of 150,000 acres.
It was too difficult during the Jiajing period, and war horses were already related to the national security, so the central court became completely ruthless.
When the new pasture was built and the supply of military horses was not enough, Yuanmasi Qing and Xingtaipu Temple were separated again. Yuanmasi Qing was also in charge of the military and civilians of the three guards in Gaizhou, Fuzhou and Jinzhou, and took away the administrative power of the commanders of the three guards.
. He also asked the minister of Xingtaipu Temple to move to Xuancheng Guards and take away the administrative power of the Xuancheng commander.
Jiajing had reached this point, but the commanders of the Four Guards still refused to stop. So, Jiajing set up troops in southern Liaoning to prepare for military affairs, and took away part of the military power of the commanders of the Four Guards!
After Jiajing's death, Liaodong's horse administration was once again corrupted... and has been completely corrupted ever since. Not only was Liaodong unable to supply military horses to the imperial court, it instead reached out to the imperial court for money to purchase war horses. This increased the income items for Liaodong's military attachés, who often spent tens of thousands of taels to buy horses.
, from which you can embezzle most of it.
In front of Cai Yu, Wang Yuan relented and was about to withdraw his troops, when he suddenly received an invitation.
Governor Wang's twenty-eighth birthday banquet, he asked the officers of the various guards who came late not to rush to withdraw their troops and go home, but to go to Yongning Prison City to attend the birthday banquet.
"Brother Cai, you can't go, this guy must have bad intentions!" Sun Heqian, the commanding officer, advised.
Cai Yu sneered: "I'm not stupid. How can I come back? Just go to the banquet on my behalf. Just say that my stubborn illness has relapsed and I'm lying in the military camp unable to move."
As long as he does not leave his army, Wang Yuan will worry about another mutiny in Fuzhou!