Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 348

Just like the emperor, Li Jingchuan usually sees that the officials of various ministries have personnel who are responsible for sending messages. How could it be possible to use personal guards to send messages?

Of course, Li Jing's soldiers will send a letter occasionally, but it depends on who sends the letter. Those who can work for Li Jing's soldiers are Li Jing's most trusted ministers, such as Shen Zheng, Ma Wu, and Yang Liufeng. , They all know Li Jing's personal soldiers.

In particular, Shen Zhengma and the others grew up watching Li Jing's personal soldiers. After seeing these personal soldiers, they didn't need to look at the warrants to know that Li Jing must be looking for them, and sent a letter to these people to a relative. Soldiers will do.

But now Li Jing's personal soldiers actually came to the house of Zhang Weiying and others, more than a dozen of them came, what does this mean?
Even if Zhang Weiying is a pig, he knows that it must not be Li Jing who thinks they have a big face, so big that they need to work a lot of soldiers to invite them.

This can only mean that Li Jing is angry. Li Jing is telling them in this way that the people below are not good at speaking, and I have come to find you in person.

Among the three, Zhang Weiying had the quickest reaction. Zhang Weiying immediately understood what Li Jing meant.

After understanding Li Jing's meaning, Zhang Weiying asked his soldiers to wait for a while, then walked quickly to the inner room, counted a stack of Jingji bank notes from the money box, put them into his bosom, thought for a while, and took out a few Zhang came out of the land deed, and finally took out a dozen large ingots.

In the outer room, Zhang Weiying took the ingot and said to the soldiers: "You brothers have worked hard, these few small coins are Zhang's errand expenses for the brothers, let's pretend that Zhang invited the brothers to drink."

The captain of the personal army looked coldly at the ingot in Zhang Weiying's hand, then looked at Zhang Weiying and suddenly said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang, do you know who we belong to the commander in chief?"

Zhang Weiying hurriedly clasped his fists and said, "I really don't know about this, so I ask a few brothers for advice."

The captain of the personal army turned his head and looked into the distance, and said leisurely: "We are all orphans, and we have lived until today after being adopted by the Marshal. For us, the Marshal is our parents, and the Marshal has always been Treat us like sons, and you said that if our brothers took your money today, what would the commander-in-chief think of us in the future if he knew about it? Or would he be ungrateful? "

Upon hearing this, Zhang Weiying hurriedly took the silver back into his arms, then cupped his hands and said, "I'm sorry, Zhang doesn't know, so don't blame me for being rude."

The captain of the personal army looked at Zhang Weiying and shook his head and said: "Mr. Zhang, you are a smart man. You should know why the commander sent some of our brothers here. You said you have so much money to bribe us, why don't you give it to us?" The tax has been paid? In this way, the commander is happy, and we are all happy too. But if you don’t know how to play, once the commander is angry, our brothers will be rude to you."

Hearing this, Zhang Weiying couldn't help but glanced at the captain of the personal army, and said in his heart: "This man is only in his early twenties, but he can speak so well. Even someone who has been on business for many years may not be as good as him. I don't know how Li Jing trained him. of."

After thinking about it, Zhang Weiying smiled and said: "This little brother is right. Zhang is really confused about this matter. Fortunately, a little brother woke up, and Zhang also figured it out. Now Zhang, the tax bank, is ready. , In addition, in order to respond to the Governor's move, Zhang is willing to give another [-] mu of land to the Governor, I wonder if the brothers are satisfied with this?"

The captain of the personal army smiled slightly when he heard the words: "Mr. Zhang Guo is indeed a smart man. Since you are on the road like this, the brothers will show you the way. You should immediately send someone to the magistrate's yamen to report what you just said." Now that the matter is done, it will be easier for you to talk when you see the handsome man."

Zhang Weiying hurriedly said: "Thank you for your advice, I will arrange someone to do it right away."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Weiying called the housekeeper, took out the bank note and the land deed and handed it over to him, gave him some instructions in a low voice, and then said to the captain of the bodyguard: "Okay, go see the governor, don't make the governor wait in a hurry .”

The captain of the personal army nodded, waved to the brothers behind him, and everyone left the Zhang residence immediately.

When Zhang Weiying came to the cabinet signing room, Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu were pacing back and forth in the room, and there was not even a cup of tea on the coffee table in the room.

Seeing how the two treated them, Zhang Weiying knew that Li Jing was giving them winks, and at the same time couldn't help but secretly rejoiced that he saw the opportunity quickly.

And the captain of the guard gave Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu a cold look, then nodded his head to them as a greeting, and then ordered Zhang Weiying to wait for a while, while he returned to the inner room.

After a while, the captain of the guards came out of the house and sent a message: Li Jing asked the three of them to go inside to answer.

Zhang Weiying cupped his hands at the captain of the personal army, and then pushed open the door first, Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu had no choice but to follow behind into the room.

After entering the room, he saw a man in his thirties looking at the memorial in front of the case, and beside him stood a young man in his twenties with a heroic face, Zhang Weiying hurried forward and said with a deep bow: "Zhang Weiying sees the governor. "

Li Jing raised his head, looked at Zhang Weiying and suddenly smiled and said, "The British prince is here, Xiao Wu, show the British prince a seat."

Zhang Weiying said hastily: "Thank you, Commander-in-Chief."

Li Jing put the memorial on the case and said with a smile: "The British public has made great contributions to the country and understands the truth. Li likes people like you. Sit down and don't be restrained."

Zhang Weiying hurriedly waved his hands and said, "I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, if it wasn't for the commander's personal guards, Zhang might have missed the major affairs of the governor and would not know it."

Li Jing smiled, turned to look at Xiao Wu and said, "These children are really good, and they have learned to share my worries."

Hearing Li Jing praise himself in front of an outsider, Xiao Wu was excited and moved a chair for Zhang Weiying.

Taking Zhang Weiying to sit down, Li Jing turned his head to look at Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu and said, "What about you two? I heard that the tax official came to the door many times to urge the tax, but the two of you always refused to pay the tax. Who dares to disregard the law of the country.”

"This...to tell the truth from the governor, the family has no money. The past two years have not been good, the grain has not been harvested, and several shops are not doing well. They are about to close down, so there is no money left to pay taxes." Zhou Kui said hurriedly.

"That's right! That's right! Business has been bleak these past few years, and my shops are almost out of business. I really can't afford the money to pay taxes." Tian Hongyu continued.

Li Jing shook his head: "I don't listen to these, I just ask if you pay taxes!"

"I will pay for it for sure, but I really don't have any money right now, why don't the governor hold off for a few days? Allow us to take it easy?" Zhou Kui said hastily.

"Yes! We must pay taxes, but we don't have any money now. How about this, I will go back and sell the shop, and then make up for the owed taxes." Tian Hongyu also said.

Zhou Kui then said: "I will sell the store when I go back. If the money for selling the store is not enough, I will sell the land. If not, I will sell the house. Is that okay?"

"Hahaha!" Li Jing suddenly laughed.

After laughing for a while, Li Jing suddenly stopped laughing, looked at Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu and said coldly: "It seems that you don't understand what I mean by looking for you, do you think I'm asking you for a small amount of money?"

After flipping through the account book, Li Jing said to Xiao Wu: "Someone will inform you, Grandpa Shen, that their house and shop will be ransacked, and all their land will be confiscated."

Hearing this, Xiao Wu cast a cold glance at Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu and said, "Shame on you!"

After all, go out and let someone pass the order.

"Governor, please be merciful. For the sake of the empress (the imperial concubine), please forgive us this time!" Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu saw that Li Jing was coming for real, and hurriedly knelt on the ground begging .

Hearing this, Li Jing suddenly chuckled: "You know the empress and the imperial concubine now? As relatives of the emperor, you should have thought more about the country and society, but I didn't expect you two to be so disregarding the interests of the court and the court. It seems that the two of you are really unworthy to be relatives of the emperor. Xiaowu, please notify the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials to depose Zhou Kuijia Dingbo from the title of Duke Ding, remove Tian Hongyu from the position of right governor, and the other two His relatives and children were all dismissed from their titles and duties, and the officials sent them both back to their hometowns, and each family was given two hundred acres of land, so go home and farm."

"Ah!" Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu were finally dumbfounded, this was the real fight to the end.

Only then did the two of them know how tough Li Jing's words really were. In Li Jing's eyes, the royal relatives were no bullshit. If they said they would take it down, they would take it down. Playing tricks on Li Jing and playing Tai Chi were pure courting for death.

At this time, Zhang Weiying couldn't help but secretly rejoiced that he saw the opportunity quickly, and at the same time understood why Li Jing's soldiers said those things to him.

The soldiers knew Li Jing's thoughts best. They knew that although Li Jing was angry, they didn't want to do anything too extreme, because the situation in the country was such that they should try their best to stabilize people's hearts at this time. It is best for these princes and nobles to take the initiative to pay taxes, so that they will try their best to avoid going to war.

What the soldiers said was actually to wake them up, don't provoke Li Jing, as long as they take the lead in paying taxes, Li Jing will not go into it.

But Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu didn't understand what the soldiers said, and they still found many reasons to prevaricate Li Jing.Li Jing lost patience with these people, so he started to be cruel.

If these two people could understand what the soldiers said and take the initiative to pay taxes like he did just now, Li Jing would definitely not embarrass them, and they would definitely not be in such a situation.

Zhang Weiying was thinking wildly, several soldiers entered the room, regardless of Zhou Kui and Tian Hongyu pleading on their knees, stepped forward to grab them and dragged them out.

Seeing that the two were dragged out like dead dogs, Zhang Weiying broke out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly kowtowed to Li Jing, "The guilty minister, Zhang Weiying, is guilty of deceiving the governor. Doom."

Seeing this, Li Jing leaned over and pulled Zhang Weiying up, and then said with a smile, "Why is Zhang Guogong doing this? Zhang Guogong should be able to set an example today. It should be meritorious. Why is he guilty?"

Zhang Weiying smiled wryly and said, "Governor, to tell the truth, the tax paid by Mr. Zhang is actually a lot underpaid according to the standard set by the Governor, and the guilty minister will make up for the underpaid part as soon as he returns home."

Li Jing waved his hands and said with a smile: "It's good that you can realize this yourself, much better than those stubborn people. Come, sit down. I have something to explain to you."

Seeing Li Jing's peaceful attitude, Zhang Weiying finally put his heart in his stomach.

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