Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 391
Seeing that Li Jing had nothing to say, Shen Zheng and the others were about to leave. At this moment, a guard hurried in and said, "Commander, General Liu Erleng sent someone to deliver a letter."

Li Jingwen was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly greeted Shen Zheng and the others: "Let's not rush away, I just got a letter. This kid has been away for so long and finally sent someone to deliver the letter to me. I think it's a good thing. Let's take a look."

After all, Li Jing asked someone to summon the messenger.

The messenger entered the room, greeted Li Jing and Zhu Youjian, and then took out the letter from his arms. Xiao Wu stepped forward to take it, looked at it carefully, and handed it to Li Jing.

Li Jing took the letter, smiled and said, "Your general is pretty good, isn't he?"

"Marshal Meng is very concerned, the general is well." The messenger hurriedly said: "In addition, the general asked the younger one to take care of the marshal."

Li Jingjing nodded and opened the envelope. After reading a few lines, a smile appeared on Li Jing's face.

After a while, Li Jing read the letter, passed it to Zhu Youjian and said, "Your Majesty, take a look too."

Zhu Youjian was taken aback for a moment, and took the letter in doubt. He just glanced at it, and his brows frowned. After looking at it for a while, Zhu Youjian finally couldn't help laughing out loud.After laughing for a long time, Zhu Youjian finally stopped laughing, and handed the letter back to Li Jingdao: "I'm really laughing to death, this General Liu wrote this letter so well, I won't say it if the sentence doesn't make sense. Yes, Brother Li, does General Liu know how to write?"

Li Jing took the letter and said with a smile: "Er Leng is really not very literate. He didn't learn how to read and write. This kid never thought that one day he would be the official of Fengjiang. I guess he wrote When I wrote it, I might have regretted not listening to me back then.”

After finishing speaking, Li Jing handed the letter to Shen Zhengdao: "Father-in-law, please read it too."

Shen Zheng took it, looked at it for a while, and smiled on his face.

After Zhou Hengchen and Zhang Ao had also read the letter, Li Jing took the letter and read it again, sighed and said, "Er, it's not easy. In less than three months, Jiangxi's officialdom has been straightened out, and They also confiscated more than 130 million taels of silver and more than 100 million shi of grain. What is even more rare is that Er Leng clearly has a book office, but he still wrote to me in person, Er Leng, I really did not misunderstand him.”

Speaking of which, Li Jing walked to the desk, picked up his pen, pondered for a while, and then wrote back a letter to Liu Erleng.

After sealing the envelope, Li Jing got up and said to the messenger: "Go back and tell your general that I am very pleased that the brothers are all well, and I will also send him my regards for the brothers and let him take care of his health."

With that said, Li Jing handed the letter to the messenger.

The messenger took the letter and carefully put it in his arms, then cupped his fists and said, "Thank you, Commander. When I go back, I will definitely bring the words of the Commander to the General."

Li Jingjing nodded, thought for a while, then turned to Zhu Youjian and said, "Your Majesty, can you lend me a jar of imperial wine? Er Leng likes to drink the most, but he has never drunk the imperial wine in the palace. I plan to let the messenger Bring him an altar back, and it will be New Years as I invite him to drink."

"A jug of wine, do you still need to be so polite? Cheng En, let someone bring four jars of wine, and your father-in-law only rewards one jar. It's too stingy. We can't be so petty like him." Zhu Youjian heard Listen to laugh.

Li Jing smiled and said to the messenger: "I still don't want to thank the emperor for your general's reward."

The messenger clasped his fists at Zhu Youjian when he heard the words: "The last general will thank the emperor for the reward on behalf of General Liu."

Zhu Youjian frowned, and thought to himself: Why is this kid so ignorant of etiquette? You call yourself a junior in front of Li Jing, but you call yourself a junior general in front of me. You are just a messenger, what qualifications do you have to be a junior general?

Thinking in his heart, Zhu Youjian looked at the messenger coldly, and then he was taken aback. He saw a scar on the lower side of the messenger's cheek, which was extremely eye-catching. It seemed that if it wasn't covered by clothes, it should have extended to the lower chest.

If this person suffered such a serious injury during the battle, he must be rewarded, and he would not be just a messenger who ran away to deliver a message.

Thinking of this person claiming to be young in front of Li Jing, Zhu Youjian suddenly realized that this person should have followed Li Jing or Liu Erlang for a long time, and this person should not be low in rank, at least he is also a mid-level officer.

Wanting to understand this point, Zhu Youjian smiled and waved his hands and said: "General Liu has worked hard for the country, so it's nothing for me to reward him with a few jars of wine."

Seeing a trace of hesitation on Zhu Youjian's face, which disappeared in a flash, Li Jing smiled and said to the messenger: "It happens that Master Shen is here, Ding Yishan, you can put the silver taels into the warehouse with Master Shen. "

The messenger scratched his head when he heard the words, and said with a wry smile: "Commander, don't be angry. I miss you in my heart. I will come to the capital to see you first. The tax bank will take many days to arrive in Beijing."

Li Jing was startled, pointed at Ding Yishan and said, "I'm still wondering, the day before yesterday when Luo Yangxing escorted Song Yingxing and others to Beijing, why didn't he escort Yinliang by the way, and you came here first."

Ding Yishan chuckled: "After Mr. Luo left for seven or eight days, General Liu ordered the younger one to escort the tax banker to Beijing. The younger one was impatient and didn't want to dawdle with the escort, so he ran here first."

"You can rest assured that you are not afraid of being robbed of your money?" Li Jing shook his head and smiled.

"Who dares to rob our money? Do you want to die? When I passed through Nanjing, I greeted General Chen. In Nanzhili, Master Hu would send troops to escort the border. I also greeted General Sun in Shandong. , Master Meng will also send troops to protect him, so there is no need to worry about safety along the way." Ding Yishan laughed.

"You have made a good arrangement. Come on, get out of here with the wine. I guess you are not thinking about me. Are you looking for Er Hu and Da Zhuang to drink with them? Go, go back and pick up the car after drinking, Something happened, be careful with your head." Li Jing scolded with a smile.

Ding Yishan was overjoyed when he heard the words, he clasped his fists at Li Jing, turned around and left the house, and then pulled a guard and asked him to take him to the barracks.

When Ding Yishan went out, Li Jing smiled, turned to Shen Zheng and the others and said, "Er Leng did a good job this time, and employed people well. This Ding Yishan actually knows how to cover up for Er Leng, not bad."

"Cover? Cover what?" Zhu Youjian wondered.

Li Jing smiled lightly and said, "Escorting tax bank is such an important matter. If Ding Yishan didn't have Liu Erlen's order, how dare he leave the army and enter Beijing alone. Presumably the arrangement along the way was also instructed by Liu Erlen, otherwise, with Ding Yishan How can Chen Dahu and Sun Meng's troops be mobilized? But leaving the convoy without authorization is no small matter, and Ding Yishan was afraid that I would blame Liu Er for being stunned, so he took the responsibility on himself."

Zhu Youjian wondered: "Then why did Liu Erleng let him go to Beijing alone, wouldn't it be over with the escorting troops?"

Li Jing smiled: "Because the Chinese New Year is coming soon, the silver couple will definitely not be able to come to Beijing before the year before, and Ding Yishan came to Beijing to tell us in advance, this is to make us have a good New Year's Eve."

"Oh." Zhu Youjian was stunned upon hearing this.

Li Jing continued with a smile: "Er Leng's work is more than that, he said in the letter that the grain transportation is difficult, and when the river is smooth in the next year, it will be transported to the capital by boat by water, which will save a lot of money.

In addition, he wants to leave a sum of money to reward the people below who work hard. This is a good idea. It seems that he used the method of motivating soldiers to train here.

In this way, those officials who don't pay attention to collecting taxes must be jealous that others have received the reward, and then they will focus on their errands. "

Shen Zheng and the others nodded after hearing this.

"However, it is too much to go too far. There must be a limit to the amount of rewards for officials, and it must be stipulated that the officials below must collect taxes according to regulations. Otherwise, those officials are greedy for rewards and can do anything. In that way, this reward system Instead, it became an accomplice to push officials to become cruel officials." Li Jing continued.

"Since this is the case, we must quickly order someone to notify Liu Erleng, but don't let him go too far." Shen Zheng hurriedly said.

Li Jing smiled and said: "I have already explained to Liu Erleng in my reply letter. I think Erleng should be able to understand my intentions. Even if he can't understand, his secretary of staff can understand."

Shen Zheng laughed and said, "I reckon that those ideas just now were probably given to Liu Erlian by his staff. How could Erlian think so thoughtfully?"

Li Jing shook his head: "I know it must be the advice given to him by the staff, but Er Leng has always been straightforward. How could he listen to these roundabout ideas before? Being able to listen to these suggestions this time shows that he has grown up."

Shen Zheng said with a smile: "That's true. Er Leng doesn't listen to anyone except you. There are some trivial matters that even you can't control. Being able to listen to the words of the staff has indeed improved a lot."

Zhou Hengchen and the others all laughed when they heard the words, but Zhu Youjian wondered: "Does this General Liu sometimes even refuse to listen to brother Li's words? This is indeed a bit of a personality."

Shen Zheng smiled and said: "Er Leng likes to drink, especially when he is with Chen Dahu. If you don't let them drink, it's as if you are sick. Back then, because they were drinking, the commander opened up both of their buttocks." .It’s useless, it’s okay to drink it when you turn back, but it’s just a sneaky drink, hiding it from the commander-in-chief.”

Li Jing said with a smile: "They thought I didn't know, I just pretended not to know, after all, although these two people drink fiercely, they are still quite measured, and the business has never been delayed, so I just turned a blind eye gone."

After a pause, Li Jing continued: "The last time Luo Yangxing came back from Jiangxi and told me that since he arrived in Jiangxi in a daze, he seldom drank alcohol, for fear of delaying his business. He can control his drinking. It's not easy anymore.

This time Liu Erleng sent 100 million taels of tax silver to Beijing, and his political performance is the best among the chief envoys of the provinces. For a person like Erleng, it is useless for me to reward him with other things, only to reward him with wine. I'm the happiest. "

Zhu Youjian nodded silently when he heard the words, and now Zhu Youjian finally knew where the gap between himself and Li Jing was.In terms of employing people alone, he is far inferior to Li Jing.If it were him, firstly, it would be impossible for him to trust his subordinates so much. Second, he would never appoint someone like Liu Erleng as the chief envoy.

　Two days at the end of the month for support and rewards.monthly pass

　　
　
(End of this chapter)