Daming heir

In the Dayong County Yamen, faced with the sudden arrival of Jin Yiwei, the county magistrate Li Yulong was panicked and at a loss.

And such scenes are also being staged in various yamen throughout the county.

The officer thought of what he had said at the city gate before, and hurriedly said: "Master, it's better to prepare quickly. The Jin Yiwei over there previously told the commander to send them all to the county government office."

"Come to our county office?"

Li Yulong was stunned again and his shoulders were shaken.

Under the blank gaze of the officer.

Li Yulong suddenly bent down and clapped his thighs with both hands: "Quick! Let me serve you tea. Hurry, hurry! Call the county magistrate, the chief registrar, the Dian Shi and the people from the sixth house. Let's go to the yamen gate and wait. The mission is coming!”

After saying that, Li Yulong was already carrying his official robe and ran outside the county government office.

Seeing the magistrate in such a hurry, the officer hurriedly took action.

Not long after, in front of the Dayong County government office, the entire county government came out, waiting at the gate of the government office with uneasy expressions, looking in the direction of the city gate.

Zhang Hui, who led people into the city, walked very leisurely.

When he and his people slowly arrived in front of the Dayong County Yamen, they saw a large group of people already waiting at the door of the Yamen.

Seeing Zhang Hui and his group of Jin Yiwei in Feiyu uniforms finally arrived, Li Yulong was nervous but with a smile on his face, he hurried forward with his hands clasped together.

"Shangguan is here, but I'm sorry for not being able to welcome you from afar. Please forgive me for Shangguan Haihan. I've already prepared a small amount of wine at the county government office to wash away Shangguan's dust."

As he spoke, Li Yulong pinched his sleeves and carefully wiped the sweat from his forehead due to nervousness.

Behind him, the county government officials also bent their waists and lowered their heads. For fear of upsetting the usually murderous Jin Yiwei in front of them, they sent them all to see the princes of various families. .

Zhang Hui's face was calm, but he felt a little strange in his heart.

The Dayong County Magistrate was too nervous.

But he didn't want to think that his identity might only make the courtiers nervous in Yingtian City, but if he left the capital, he would be the living king of hell.

"Thank you, Lord County. I wonder if General Dayongwei has arrived?"

Zhang Hui got off his horse, looked at Dayong County Magistrate Li Yulong, who was actually holding the horse for him, and asked calmly.

But when the words fell into Li Yulong's ears, they had a different meaning.

Could it be that Jinyiwei wants to make a big move in Dayong County and needs Dayongwei's troops to contribute?

Li Yulong was at a loss, lowered his head and said: "The commander took people out of the city yesterday and went to Dayongsuo in the southwest. According to the usual practice, he should be back soon."

As he spoke, the flustered Dayong County Magistrate quietly took a look at the many imperial cavalry in royal robes behind Zhang Hui.

Zhang Hui smiled slightly: "In that case, let's go to the Yamen and talk. When Dayongwei's people come back, they will naturally come over knowing the news."

Following Zhang Hui's order, the accompanying imperial cavalry rode their horses to the courtyard wall next to the Yamen.

The officers and soldiers dismounted, tied their horses to the hitching posts in front of the Yamen, and sent people to guard them.The other part of the people went directly to the county government and guarded various places.

Li Yulong led a large group of officials and enthusiastically surrounded Zhang Hui into the county government office.

"Sir, please take a seat."

Li Yulong led the county's magistrate, chief registrar, and magistrates to stand under the main hall and looked at the chief's seat under the high-hanging plaque on the mirror.

Zhang Hui smiled and shook his head: "Your Majesty Li is the chief officer of this department. I just came out of Beijing to do things here according to the order. The rules cannot be broken. I don't dare to overwhelm the guest. I'll let the County Lord take the seat."

Li Yulong looked at Zhang Hui's look and tone and knew that what he said was not polite. Seeing that Zhang Hui and the Jin Yiwei leaders who came in did not sit down, so he had to bend down and return to Dayong County, which belonged to him. on the seat.

After sitting down, Li Yulong still only dropped half of his butt on the chair.

Seeing that the other party was already sitting down, Zhang Hui nodded and led his subordinates to sit down.

The county government officer has already brought tea.

Zhang Hui took a sip of tea, and while putting down the cup, he looked sideways at Li Yulong: "Is Mr. Li a native of Raozhou Prefecture, Jiangxi?"

Li Yulong immediately sat upright, nodded with a smile on his face and said: "Back to Shangguan, Xiaguan is from Leping County, Raozhou Prefecture."

"Leping County, by the Le'an River, is a good place." Zhang Hui praised it without saltiness.

He knew this place but had never been there, but that didn't stop him from saying some polite words.

Li Yulong breathed a sigh of relief.

The Shangguan of Fusi in Jinyiwei North Town came over and did not say anything else. Instead, he started chatting about these gossips, which at least meant that it was not directed at him, or that he was not the main one.

Li Yulong immediately smiled and said: "It's not that big of a deal. Just walk a little way downstream and you'll reach Panyang City. You can overlook Panyang Lake from Lincheng. It's a rare beauty in the world."

Just when Li Yulong was about to explain what the beauty of Panyang Lake was like, Zhang Hui suddenly changed the subject.

"What is Mr. Li's opinion of the imperial court's new policies?"

After finishing speaking, Zhang Hui's eyes swept across the faces of everyone in the county government in front of him.

Li Yulong, who was about to recite a few lines of ancient poems describing Panyang Lake, was almost choked, and his face suddenly became panicked.

Hongwu's New Deal has been in effect for several years. Even the Emperor Tiangao in Dayong County has known about these things for a long time, and some of the New Deal's methods have already been spread out in Dayong County.

At least now, all land in Dayong County needs to pay taxes.

At that time, His Highness the King of Qin, it took several days for the blood-red water of the Lishui River outside the city to dissipate and return to normal.

Li Yulong's eyes quickly glanced at the county magistrate and chief registrar, and then immediately said: "Of course it is a good thing. Shangguan may not know that since the New Deal, the villagers of Dayong County have always said good things to the court. Your Majesty is kind, and the people’s lives are now much better than before.”

Zhang Hui smiled: "In this case, Mr. Li County is also aware of the people's sentiments and often interacts with the people outside the city."

Li Yulong smiled blankly: "Although I am just a county magistrate, I am deeply favored by the emperor. Naturally, I dare not forget my duties. Relying on the good governance of the court, the villagers of this county are farming and doing things as they should."

Zhang Hui nodded: "Before I left the capital, I went to the Literary Selection and Cleaning Department of the Ministry of Rites. The chief officials of the counties in Yuezhou Prefecture were evaluated. County Master Li's evaluation was not low. It can be seen that the County Master is a person who does things, and the people can have It is also a blessing for the people of this county that Li County respects his parents."

These words were already praising Li Yulong in public.

He sat on a chair, bent over, with a smile on his face, nodding his head but unable to speak.

At this time, Zhang Hui changed the topic again: "It's just that there are still a few parent officials like Li County Zun. Otherwise, I would not have left the capital according to the order."

Someone is going to be unlucky.

Li Yulong thought in his heart, pondered for a moment and then replied: "They are all a bunch of ungrateful people. They waste the emperor's kindness and prey on the common people. Such people should be cut into pieces by a thousand cuts!"

Zhang Hui smiled and said, "Your Majesty, Mr. Li, is loyal to the country. I have indeed learned about it in person today. I just don't know what Mr. Li has heard about the recent rebellion among the chieftains in the southwest."

Finally, Zhang Hui turned the topic to the business of leaving Beijing.Li Yulong raised his eyebrows.

Sure enough, I came here for that matter.

Li Yulong took a deep breath, but felt that if he really told the truth, the court would not believe it, let alone the Qianhu official of the Jin Yiwei who seemed to be kind, but secretly killed many people. .

"Because the natives on the other side of the chieftains felt that the chieftains were biased and inactive, the natives demanded that they be able to share the grain from one mu to the other like the people in Liufu and Liuxian counties."

After making a concluding sentence, Li Yulong told the ins and outs of the chaos among the chieftains in the southwest that had been going on for more than half a year.

After finishing speaking, Li Yulong stared at Zhang Hui quietly.

This is actually what happened, but anyone who hears it for the first time will find it a bit unbelievable.

After listening, Zhang Hui looked surprised.

Who would have known that the chaos that had occurred in the southwest for more than half a year was actually caused by the natives asking the chieftain to change the chieftain's territory in accordance with the court's new policies.

At the beginning of the matter, it was because when the imperial court implemented various policies of the Hongwu New Deal, its original intention was to stabilize the chieftains, and it did not implement the New Deal to the chieftains for the time being.

This resulted in two counties that may be adjacent to each other on the southwest border. One county is undergoing New Deal reforms, while the other chieftain county is completely unchanged, and everything is as before.

Originally, when the imperial court implemented the New Deal, there was great resistance from the local level.

The people in Tusifu County originally thought that the imperial court was going to increase taxes and so on, so they felt that they were lucky that the imperial court did not implement it in their Tusifu County.

But slowly as time passed, the natives of the Tusi Prefecture discovered it.

How come the life of the neighbor next door is getting better and better, but the life of my own family is still so miserable, hungry and full every meal, and not taking one meal after another.

Then the natives discovered the reason.

It turned out to be because they did not carry out the New Deal.

Later, I don’t know how the matter spread, but it turned out that the gentlemen in Tusi Prefecture were unwilling to reform in accordance with the new policies of the imperial court. Naturally, the natives were unwilling this time.

Under the new and old grudges, this chaos completely broke out.

In fact, no one can blame this.

The imperial court originally had good intentions and took a steady approach to the Tusi Prefecture and allowed it to remain as it was.

The officials in Tusi Prefecture had nothing to do, they just exploited the natives according to the old rules as in the past.

But once there is a comparison.

The natives, who had been oppressed by the chieftain officials, were unhappy.

In the past, your chieftain officials exploited us, and we natives had no way to change it, nor could we say anything, because this was the case in all chieftain prefectures and counties.In addition, within Tusi Prefecture and County, blood ties are all based on surnames, and more primitive survival rules are always applicable.

But now His Majesty the Emperor, who lives far away, has begun to implement the New Deal. He wants everyone to live a good life, but you chieftain officials are not doing anything. This is not going to work.

Then the contradictions intensified layer by layer and completely turned into chaos.

"The natives felt that the inaction of the chieftain officials deceived them about the new policy that the imperial court was going to implement in the chieftain's county, so that they could continue to prey on them. Coupled with the past... so this chaos started all of a sudden."

"The native people also said that they no longer wanted to be native people, but wanted to be Ming people. Although everyone was from the Ming Dynasty in the past, they were divided into native people, Miao people and Ming people. Now both native people and Miao people are Go ahead and be a wise man, and don’t want to let the chieftain officials continue to exploit them.”

Li Yulong explained carefully in a low voice, his eyes observing Zhang Hui's face from time to time.

After hearing all the explanations, Zhang Hui let out a faint breath.

He knew that if he brought such truth to Tiantian, I am afraid that all the officials in the court would be as unbelievable as him.

Li Yulong said again at this time: "Zhang Zhenfu... the natives still have... one more thing..."

No one dared to tell the court about that matter.

But now, Li Yulong felt that he should still say it.

After all, the imperial court had sent down the royal guards. It was obvious that they had heard about the chaos and were ready to resolve the matter.

Zhang Hui raised his eyebrows: "Oh? Is there anything else that the court doesn't know about?"

In the hall, Dayong County's magistrate, chief registrar, dianshi and others all silently turned to look at the county magistrate Li Yulong.

In front of everyone, Li Yulong said helplessly in a low voice: "Please let me know, Shangguan, that the natives are now connected in all directions. They said to the outside world... to the outside world, the chieftain officials are now deceiving the superiors and the subordinates, and they want to I will purge the traitors for Your Majesty and be a wise man under His Majesty's rule..."

After finishing speaking, Li Yulong bent over.

What are these things called.

Li Yulong didn't even dare to say that these words of the natives were not spread casually, but that they had already produced a very formal suppression message.

The natives now believe that the chieftain officials are bad, but their beloved emperor does not know this.Therefore, they want to launch a struggle and kill all the chieftain officials. Then they can become His Majesty's subjects and become true Mingren.

"Are these... absolutely true?"

Zhang Hui finally chose to believe in his heart, even though he felt that such a thing was unheard of before and was unacceptable.

Li Yulong nodded firmly: "What the official said is absolutely true! If not, those natives would have reached Dayong County by now. There have been several battles between the natives and the native soldiers of the chieftain officials.

The chieftain felt that this matter might displease His Majesty, so he never spoke out.They felt that as long as they suppressed the chaos caused by the natives, things would be the same afterwards. "

Zhang Hui frowned slightly, but found a loophole in it: "Then Li County respects you, the officials of the surrounding chieftains and counties, why didn't you report the truth to the court early?"

"This……"

Li Yulong suddenly began to ponder.

He couldn't say that he and others were happy to see chaos in Tusi Prefecture.

If the natives win, then the Ming Dynasty will really implement the New Deal reforms together.The natives lost, but no one's interests were harmed, and they continued to live in peace.

And if the imperial court knew about it, it would send an army over.

Every prefecture and county in the southwest has to add an additional amount of military food supply expenditure to the original expenditure.

They are both burdens and benefits.

This was the reason why the Xinnan Chieftains were in chaos for more than half a year, and the court only found out the reason.

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