Fang Congzhe hurriedly said: "I recommend Feng Quan, the left censor, to take this position. This person is smart and capable. In the last large number of resignations of Beijing officials, Feng Quan found that the resignation officials were the most illegal. The corrupt Zhou Jiamo and others were all excavated by him, which shows that this person is very capable. Therefore, I believe that if Feng Quan goes to the south of the Yangtze River, he will be able to successfully clear the land in the southeast and clarify the tax burden."

"allow!"

Zhu Youxiao immediately replied.

Both of them knew that Feng Quan was the mortal enemy of the Donglin Party, and Jiangnan was the old nest of the Donglin Party.

Therefore, Feng Quan went to the southeast to clear the land and acres of land in Zhangzhang and to clarify the tax burden must be very hard.

The last time an investigation into resigning from an official Donglin was proof of the illegal act.

Although Feng Quan likes to foster camp and form cliques in the officialdom, he is denounced as a villain by the scholars and officials.

But in many cases, the reforms have to use these villains among civil servants. After all, few so-called decent civil servants are willing to abuse the gentry of the same class as them.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao asked Wei Zhongxian, who was on duty at the Political Affairs Hall of the Qing Palace under the orders: "What is the price of grain in the capital now?"

Wei Zhongxian replied: "There is still a big increase in the return of the emperor. Many officials' families have no food, and they have to send slaves back to their hometown to transport grain. In addition, some officers and soldiers in Liaodong have already begun to complain that there is not enough food. Now it depends on Xiong Jingluo to suppress it. If the grain is not available again, there will be chaos in Liaodong."

"The minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Wang Yingjiao, asked him how the grain transfer is going on in various places? If the problem of the outage of grain transportation still has not been solved, then I might as well just pass the imperial edict directly on the nine sides. The northern half of the country will be neglected. All the military, civil and military officials and even nobles in the north will follow me to go south to get food!"

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao said something angry.

Fang Congzhe was so scared that he was disgraced on the spot. He was a northern aristocratic, and he didn't want to really move south with His Majesty.

Wei Zhongxian was stunned, and came back to his senses before replying: "Yes!"

Not long after, Wang Yingjiao rushed to the Political Affairs Hall under the urging of Wei Zhongxian.

"Grandmaster, hurry up, the emperor is waiting for your report now."

Wei Zhongxian felt scared and nervous when he thought of his prince's serious face, so he kept urging Wang Yingjiao.

Wang Yingjiao panted with the memoir and said breathlessly: "Eunuch Wei, I understand. Stop thinking, I have tried my best to get it."

When Wang Yingjiao came to Ganqing Palace, he could no longer speak, and he was about to salute Zhu Youxiao with sweat on his head.

"I'm exempted, how is the situation of grain transportation in various places?"

Zhu Youxiao asked directly.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, it's okay. Henan, Shanxi, Huguang and other places have all transferred a total of 1.5 million stones of grain to Beijing, and Shandong has transferred 3.05 million stones of grain to Beijing, and it has been all concentrated in the Dezhou Guancang. It will take less than a long time to enter Beijing, and there is no worry about the outage of grain transportation."

Zhu Youxiao breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this.

Fang Congzhe breathed a sigh of relief and said to himself: "Good thing, Your Majesty finally doesn't have to abandon the Jiubian and go south. I just said, our scholars and officials will not be really unfaithful and unrighteous, and they don't even care about the peace of the country. Wait, how did Shandong transport so much food after so much time? Where did the Shandong Governor get so much food? It has all been concentrated in the Dezhou official warehouse!"

Wei Zhongxian laughed when he saw his prince's eyebrows and eyes stretched out.

"Who is the governor of Shandong?"

Zhu Youxiao's lips were indeed grinning and asked.

"Wang Zai Jin, this person was a Jinshi in the 20th year of Wanli. He has excellent talents and is a cadre official."

Fang Congzhe replied in front of Wang Yingjiao.

Zhu Youxiao glanced at Fang Congzhe and asked in his heart: "You know again! Since you know that he has talent and strengths, why is he still a governor in the 20th year of Wanli?

"How did he do more than three million stones of grain in such a short period of time?"

Zhu Youxiao asked after he complained about it.

Wang Yingjiao hurriedly replied: "That's right, Your Majesty, Wang Zaijin had started raising grain and grass more than a month ago, and even used the Shandong vassal treasury to buy grain. He had reported to the Ministry of Revenue and wrote a memorial to the court. In addition, he was able to concentrate so quickly to Dezhou because he prepared river work in various river sections in advance. When the court issued an order to transfer grain, the grain ships in Shandong would arrive directly in Dezhou without stopping along the way. A group of river workers were also gathered to dredge the river channel in front while pulling the boat forward. Therefore, the water transportation was extremely fast, so this could be done."

"The key now is to not let the nine sides lose their food, and the morale of the army cannot be chaotic, especially Jizhou and Liaodong. I remember that after the arrest of Ji Liao Governor Wenqiu, the new governor of Ji Liao, had not appointed the new governor of Ji Liao. He issued an order to be promoted to the title of Left Minister of War and to be promoted to the Governor of Ji Liao and the Governor of Shuntian. He would transport the three million stones of grain mobilized in Shandong and the grain from Shanxi to Ji Liao to stabilize the morale of the army! Henan and Huguang were transported to the capital to stabilize the price of grain."

Zhu Youxiao directly promoted Wang Zaijin.

Fang Congzhe did not expect that the emperor would be so decisive and would be promoted to Jin so quickly, so he hurriedly replied: "Yes" and then drafted the order.

Then, Zhu Youxiao looked at Wang Yingjiao and said, "Although the problem of the outage of grain transportation has been temporarily solved, local taxes must be recovered. I know that you love the people, so I have asked you to serve as the governor of the Xichang factory to specialize in tax grain recovery. I hope you will enforce the law impartially and not let the recovered taxes be recovered to the common people who do not owe tax grains. If the local governor fails to clear the land of the gang or is lip service, and the accumulated taxes are not calculated to the big households who are truly owed taxes, you can report them to me immediately with the Jinyiwei, and I allow you to report them to the special report!"

Wang Yingjiao did not expect that he would serve as the West Factory one day, but he understood that this West Factory was not the West Factory of the Chenghua Dynasty. His Majesty set up the West Factory and asked him to manage the West Factory in order to avoid colluding with officials and clerks to transfer the tax arrears to the common people because of the recovery of tax arrears. Therefore, he did not refuse, but immediately replied: "I obey the order!"

...

therefore.

After getting Zhu Youxiao's secret box, Wang Yingjiao only went home for one day to prepare. The next day, he went south with the eunuch Li Yongzhen, the eunuch of the West Factory General Manager and the Sili Supervisor Qi Jin, the governor of the West Factory, Zhao Shujiao, Qin Minping, Man Gui, and Qianhu Sun Yunhe, Wu Mengming, and other Western Factory members.

Accompanied by the Southeast Governor Feng Quan and Zhu Youxiao, the newly appointed Nanjing Chongwen Temple Chief Ruan Dacheng, based on the recommendation of Fang Congzhe, and the Chongwen Temple Supervisor composed of 50 scholars and 200 Jinyiwei.

The reason why Zhu Youxiao sent people from Chongwen Temple to the south was naturally to control public opinion when clearing the land and chasing taxes.

Anyway.

The Western Factory went to collect taxes, and directly brought elite soldiers and generals from the Ming Empire during this period. They were preparing to forcefully break into the door to collect taxes if there was a disagreement.

Among them, Wang Yingjiao was responsible for checking the taxes and grains of the treasury, Li Yongzhen was responsible for checking the taxes of gold, flowers, silver and other taxes in the treasury, and Qi Jin was responsible for implementing them.

Feng Quan was responsible for urging the local officials in Nanzhili to clear the land of Zhangzhang.

Ruan Dacheng is responsible for the control of public opinion.
Chapter completed!