Chongzhen and I became partners

Chapter 525
After the video communication with Liu Weichao ended, Emperor Chongzhen thought for a while, then wrote a letter with his own hand, and then wrote a decree, which was sent to Jiangnan immediately.

After Wang Dehua received the decree, he immediately visited Li Ruolian, the commander of Jinyiwei, and then Li Ruolian rushed from Nanjing to Haimen of Yangzhou Prefecture, which is where Jiangnan purchased the yamen.

Zheng Sen, the commander of Jin Yiwei, heard that his immediate boss had arrived, so he rushed out to greet him.

For Zheng Sen, who was the second in command at a young age, Li Ruolian was amiable and amiable. After some nonsense, he got to the point and said to Zheng Sen: "The most important thing for the imperial court today is to rectify the place. Do you know this?"

"Of course I know!" Zheng Sen replied without thinking.

In Yingtian Mansion and Zhenjiang Mansion, those generations of dignitaries who held the iron certificates of Danshu were all confiscated by the court because they did not pay taxes. The story has long been spread throughout the world.

For those nobles who have suffered such a big dumb loss, most of the people who eat melons are happy to hear it.Especially young people, feel that those nobles who don't want to serve the country deserve it even more!

Zheng Sen was just [-] years old at this time, and when he was in high spirits, he was very grateful to Emperor Chongzhen for promoting him and reused him, and he was very disgusted with those nobles who did not want to serve the country, but became the moths of the country.

After hearing Zheng Sen's answer and seeing his expression, Li Ruolian knew what he was thinking.

So he said to Zheng Sen again: "Now that Yingtian Mansion and Zhenjiang Mansion have been rectified, Governor Ma is now starting to rectify other state capitals in Nanzhili. It has been delayed until the year of the monkey! Therefore, he has already reported to the court, ready to change the rectification method!"

Zheng Sen listened with great interest and watched Li Ruolian talking.Vaguely, he guessed that the method of this change should have something to do with him.

Li Ruolian continued to say to him: "For other state capitals, Governor Ma will no longer do it himself, but the imperial court issued a decree to the whole country, requiring the governors of all provinces to jointly rectify the localities together with Cheng Xuan and the Procurator. Guards sent personnel to supervise, and divided into light and dark. In the bright, Jinyiwei and Dongchang sent personnel, and in the dark, the West Factory sent personnel. Only in this way can we speed up and complete the rectification as soon as possible!"

If the Fengyang and Nanjing models are followed, Ma Shiying does not have that energy first, and secondly, he does not have so many troops to send.

Fortunately, the hardest bone, that is, the Nanjing side, has been gnawed down.For other places, it has a deterrent effect.

Therefore, a method of rectification was changed to speed up the progress of rectification.

At this time, when Zheng Sen heard this, he nodded immediately and said: "This method is good, then the whole country can be rectified this year!"

Li Ruolian smiled and said to him, "On the Jiangnan side, our Jinyiwei yamen, besides this official, is you the biggest. Therefore, you should also be responsible for Jinyiwei's errands. As for the procurement of the yamen in Jiangnan, you You have to be responsible too. Look, can you arrange it?"

His tone was as if he was discussing with Zheng Sen, and he didn't mean to force it, at least Zheng Sen couldn't feel it.

After hearing Li Ruolian's words, Zheng Sen didn't say a word, and immediately answered him: "Of course I can. Everything has been straightened out in the past two years, and basically I have very little to worry about. , that is, to put a stamp on it, check it out or something, and just have time to walk around!"

Young people can't sit still, this is a common characteristic.

Hearing this, Li Ruolian smiled slightly and said: "Since that's the case, then I will send you some more manpower. How about you take charge of Zhejiang and Fujian? I believe you are more familiar with this place and can supervise it better!"

"No problem!" Zheng Sen heard it, and immediately said with a smile, "I'm from Fujian, don't get too familiar with it!"

Li Ruolian saw him and stared at him for a while, which made Zheng Sen feel a little baffled, and then he reminded: "It's okay to go to other places, the side of Fujian, especially the coast, is said to have the most grain fields in your family. !"

Zheng Sen was taken aback for a moment when he heard this. He was a little surprised that his family had the most grain fields. Yes, what's wrong?
However, although he is not in charge of the family and does not know the price of firewood, rice, oil and salt, he is still twenty years old after all. He has experienced in the yamen for several years, and he is not as muddleheaded as he was before. He immediately recovered and replied: "Don't worry, my lord. Even if it is my family's grain field, it must be done according to the law, and there will be no favoritism!"

Li Ruolian stared at him and realized that what he said was true, so he reminded again: "According to my understanding, your family's grain fields have not paid taxes before!"

In fact, at this time in the late Ming Dynasty, paying taxes was abnormal.For the vast majority of people, only those who have power, or who have a relationship, are trying to find ways not to pay taxes.

What Li Ruolian means is that most of your Zheng family's grain fields will be confiscated!

Hearing this, Zheng Sen finally understood why the Commander-in-Chief came to him in person and said such a word to him.

He didn't hesitate, and immediately assured Li Ruolian, "don't worry, my lord, what should be is what it should be? The subordinates are definitely not those corrupt officials!"

Young people, without being polluted by officialdom, are easy to have this kind of cognition and motivation!
Li Ruolian looked at Zheng Sen, very satisfied in his heart, nodded immediately and said: "It seems that His Majesty really saw you right! Very good, very good!"

After finishing speaking, he took out a letter from his arms, presented it to Zheng Sen with both hands, and said respectfully at the same time: "This is a letter written by His Majesty, for you!"

Hearing this, Zheng Sen's expression immediately became solemn, he straightened his clothes, and then solemnly accepted the letter.

Seeing that he had received the letter, Li Ruolian said to him: "If you have the right to keep a secret report, you can contact His Majesty at any time. At Ying Tianfu, the welfare lottery will be on sale soon, so I have to go back and watch. "

As soon as Zheng Sen heard this, he sent Li Ruolian first, but Li Ruolian left in a hurry without asking him to.

Therefore, Zheng Sen himself looked at this autographed letter from Emperor Chongzhen.

In the letter, Emperor Chongzhen first mentioned Zheng Sen's contributions in the past two years, and then mentioned the contributions of Zheng Zhilong's brothers, saying that the Zheng family had made great contributions to the court.However, no matter how great the credit is, the "Law of the Ming Dynasty" must be obeyed.

He encouraged Zheng Sen to be a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, a model for all officials, and be famous forever, instead of Yan Song and Wei Zhongxian, who failed to live up to the grace of the saints, and eventually brought disaster to the country and the people and left a stigma forever.

At the end of the letter, Emperor Chongzhen also made a promise to let Zheng Sen and the Zheng family brothers do a good job, and the titles are waiting for them.

At least one point, if Zheng Sen's fifth uncle returns safely from South America and brings back the things the court needs, Emperor Chongzhen intends to reward him with a knighthood.

In fact, this letter was borrowed from Zheng Sen's hand to give the Zheng family a guarantee: let them work hard and not disappoint the grace, and the Emperor Chongzhen will never treat them badly to the Zheng family.

If this letter was received by Zheng Zhilong, he might weigh the pros and cons.As for what Emperor Chongzhen said about loyal ministers and immortality, it can probably be ignored directly.

However, Zheng Sen is different!
This letter from Emperor Chongzhen made his blood boil!

He was named a marquis and worshiped a general, a generation of pillars of the Ming Dynasty, who will live forever, just thinking about it makes him very excited.

Today's emperor attaches so much importance to him and the Zheng family, what kind of virtue and ability is this?
Tightly holding the autographed letter from Emperor Chongzhen, Zheng Sen secretly made up his mind that no matter what, he must not disappoint Shengen, and he must handle this matter beautifully!

At this time, his father was not there, and his uncles were not there, so he made up his own mind and wanted to do this as soon as possible.He even decided to do things beautifully first in Fujian and then in Zhejiang!

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Don't talk about how Zheng Sen will supervise the rectification of Fujian and Zhejiang, just talk about Ma Shiying's side.

In the decree passed down by Emperor Chongzhen, just as Li Ruolian said, there is also one thing to explain, which is to let Ma Shiying open a welfare lottery in Nanjing.

This is the second place besides the capital to sell welfare lottery tickets. This matter must not be missed, because it is related to the opening of a new school in Nanjing.

It has been half a year since the sale of the welfare lottery and the opening of the new school in the capital. It can be regarded as a set of experience that can be used as a reference for Nanjing.

However, the style of writing in Nanjing is at its peak, and whether this matter goes well depends on whether this measure can be implemented in the whole of Jiangnan.

Therefore, what Emperor Chongzhen meant was to let Ma Shiying host it, and the eunuch guarding Nanjing co-organize it; after everything was arranged properly, the eunuch guarding Nanjing would be in charge.

With such an arrangement, in the final analysis, Emperor Chongzhen did not trust civil officials in Nanjing, and only dared to use people he trusted.

If you think about it, in the original history, just this year, before he hanged himself, he wrote that all his ministers misunderstood me. It would be strange if he believed his ministers so quickly!

On the Nanjing side, Emperor Chongzhen was a little worried. The previous rectification of the place caused Nanjing nobles and squires to suffer a very big dumb loss.They obviously did not dare to confront, maybe they would play tricks on this kind of thing.

The same is true, the first batch of lottery sales in Jiangnan, and the matter of running a school, he invested a lot of energy, and he took the same posture as rectifying the local area, except that the army did not participate.

As a result, the matter on the Jiangnan side, or Nanjing side, turned out to be both expected and unexpected by Emperor Chongzhen.

He was right in thinking that the sales of Nanjing lottery tickets were not supported by Nanjing nobles and squires, including businessmen related to them, etc. In short, even the rich did not participate.

However, what was unexpected was that the people in Nanjing, to be precise, were the hermits who had been investigated before, and they participated very enthusiastically.

(End of this chapter)