My life skills in Daming Liver

For Tan Lun, who was released to Nanjing, he was excited all the way, but before arriving in Nanjing, he became depressed instead.

He thought that being imprisoned by Su Ze would definitely force him to become an official and rebel. Tan Lun had already thought about how to commit suicide and die for the country.

But things turned around unexpectedly. Su Ze suddenly announced that the officials of Fujian, Zhejiang, Su and Songfu were free to go back to Nanjing.

Tan Lun immediately picked up his family from Hangzhou, and then took a boat from Hangzhou to Nanjing immediately.

Tan Lun is now forty-two years old, which is when an official is in the prime of his life. He is not idle on the ship, writing countermeasures to the Ming court day and night.

"Seven Strategies for Fighting Thieves", Tan Lun looked at the title and the densely packed memorials, but suddenly sighed and put down his pen.

This time the Zhejiang and Fujian officials returned to the north, they and their family members were free to choose whether to stay or not, and their servants and servants were also free to choose whether to stay or not.

In Fujian and Zhejiang, the Metropolitan Governor's Office resolutely does not recognize the sending of nationality or long-term tenancy contracts of more than ten years.

Su Ze took the lead and burned the contract with Yao Chun and other family servants, and the Fujian and Zhejiang regions prohibited the existence of such domestic slaves.

Tan Lun was actually kind to the servants in the family, but after this order was promulgated, the housekeeper and book boy in the family chose to stay in Fujian and Zhejiang, and were unwilling to continue to be Tan Lun's slaves.

The same is basically true of other officials' homes.

Tan Lun's son, Tan Sidao, could only act as Tan Lun's book boy, grinding ink for him.

Tan Sidao suddenly said: "Father, you will arrive in Nanjing in a day, why are you not happy?"

Tan Lun sighed and said, "I've been thinking about how the imperial court will deal with the Su thieves as a father, but the more I think about it, the more I feel that Su Ze is different from other rebels. It's difficult for the imperial court!"

"Take the abolished slaves as an example. If they were on Daming's side, even if they were asked to leave for their father, they would not leave."

"Leaving aside those children in the family, why do those tenants who serve our Tan family become slaves? It's not that they despise themselves, but that the imperial court's taxes are too high and the corvee is too heavy."

"As a self-cultivator, you have to be exploited by the servants of the clerks to pay taxes, and you often have to serve long-term hard labor. When you encounter a war, you will be arrested as a strong man, so they would rather serve our Tan family as slaves."

"However, Su Ze promulgated the "Three Admonitions to the People", which is where Gao Ming is. He just emphasized Hongwu Lord's decree, and what was abolished is the miscellaneous donations that have been added all the time. It is forbidden to use civil service without compensation. Because of this, The common people feel that he is a great benefactor, and they are unwilling to follow us back to Nanjing."

The more he thought about it, the more Tan Lun felt that Su Ze was not an ordinary "rebel".

He has been fighting in the southeast for many years, and he has fought Japanese pirates. Of course, there is no need to mention them. Japanese pirates are basically pirates and bandits.

Tan Lun also fought the Feilong army. To be honest, he still didn't pay attention to the peasant army. The uprising in the Ming Dynasty was not once or twice. , Even before laying down much territory, internal strife began, and they would all be wiped out by the court in the end.

But Su Ze is completely different.

Making three agreements with the people, appointing local officials, and training military officers, this is not the forced rebellion that Su Ze preached. His rebellion has been planned for a long time!

Training soldiers, giving lectures, writing books, raising hopes, Su Ze has accumulated great fame in Fujian, Zhejiang and South Zhili in the past few years. He runs newspapers, opens academies, conducts regiment training, and accumulates strength in the southeast, so that he can win Fujian and Zhejiang together And Su Song Erfu.

The more he thought about it, the more Tan Lun felt that Su Ze was terrifying.

From Daming's point of view, Tan Lun also felt a little hopeless.

Do you want the imperial court to follow Su Ze's example in abolishing exorbitant taxes and forbidding the local government to call for corvee at will?

Impossible, Tan Lun has been a local official, and he knows that the local government is deeply rooted. Even if a local official wants to do this, who will allow you to do this to the subordinate servants below and the superiors and colleagues above?

Tan Lun knew that this was impossible, so he wrote it down in his "Seven Strategies for Fighting Thieves". Anyway, his life was saved, and these seven strategies were all his heartfelt words after observing in Zhejiang.

Tan Lun tried his best to write the last strategy, handed it to his son and said:

"Look carefully to see if there is anything that is not smooth."

Tan Sidao took the memorial and began to read:

"The guilty minister Fu Wei used his Majesty's performance, and the minister Tan Jin, the governor of Zhejiang Province, used seven strategies to pacify the Soviet Union:"

"One strategy is to lightly pay taxes and abolish harsh donations."

"The second strategy is to train the new army and clear the salary."

"The three strategies are to promote industry and commerce, and to connect the sea and trade."

"The four policies are to clean up officials and fight corruption."

"The five strategies are to brighten the judiciary and clean up the accumulated prisons."

"Six strategies are called Ping Zhaoxue, worshiping loyal ministers."

"Seven policies, father?"

"Read it."

"The seven strategies are to consolidate the foundation of the country and establish the crown prince."

Because Tan Sidao is the only son of Tan Lun, he has not been an official yet, but he is already twenty years old, and he is outstanding in Chinese among the children of officials. More importantly, he is very talented in politics.

Tan Sidao said: "Father, the first six are nothing more than that. If you present this seventh strategy, you will definitely be suspected by the court."

Tan Lun smiled wryly and said, "Do you know where the first six strategies came from? Being a father is just repeating what Su Rulin did in Zhejiang and Fujian."

Tan Sidao was silent.

Tan Lun said: "Only the seventh strategy is what I sincerely want to say to the court. If the foundation of the country is not fixed, there will be constant factionalism in the court. The things in Zhejiang are worse than factionalism!"

Tan Sidao became even more silent. He knew that his father was Qingliu's knife inserted into Zhejiang. Hu Zongxian's imprisonment could also be the fuse of Zhejiang's rebellion, and its root cause was also party struggle.

When he was about to reach the water station near Nanjing, Tan Lun suddenly said to his son:

"Take your mother and go back to Hangzhou."

"What?"

Tan Lun said: "Your mother and son settled down in Hangzhou first. The imperial court is neither fighting nor peaceful because it is not ready for the nine-sided army to go south. After spring and summer next year, there will be a battle between the imperial court and Su Ze."

"If the imperial court is defeated, if my son wants to serve as Su Ze, then go."

In fact, when Tan Sidao was in Hangzhou, he also admired Su Ze a lot, and he also highly respected Su Ze's "New Deal".

"Father!"

"Protect your mother."

After two sighs, both father and son were speechless.

Tan Lun went ashore with the memorial in his arms, said goodbye to his wife and son on board, and then headed for Nanjing City together with other officials.

Nanjing has long known about the news of the repatriation of officials from Zhejiang.

When the ships of these officials docked at the water station, the station staff had already notified the city.

However, the response from Nanjing up and down was very flat, and there were not even any officials standing outside the city to greet them.

The reason is naturally very simple. Among the officials Su Ze released this time, there are many officials with profound qualifications and backgrounds.

Among them, Zhao Zhenji was the most tangled.

He and Tan Lun are both disciples of Xinxue. Tan Lun is from Youjiang, Jiangxi Province, and is a disciple of Xu Jie. It stands to reason that Zhao Zhenji and Tan Lun have a good personal relationship, so they should go out of the city to meet him.

But the current situation in Nanjing is that Zhang Ju is coordinating the military affairs of Nanzhili, but the imperial court did not grant him the post of governor of Nanzhili.

Therefore, Zhang Juzheng did not manage the civil affairs of Nanzhili.

It stands to reason that Nanzhili does not set up three divisions, namely, the Chief Commissioner, the Capital Division, and the Inspection Commissioner, but there will also be a governor of Nanzhili to take charge of the civil affairs of Nanzhili.

However, the previous Nanzhili civil affairs were in the hands of Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang Nanzhili, and there was no governor in Nanzhili.

Therefore, the civil affairs of Nanzhili now fall on the head of Zhao Zhenji, the servant of Nanjing household department.

And Tan Lun was the governor of Zhejiang before, and he was a disciple of Xu Jie. If he returned to Nanzhili and was reused by the court, he was likely to be the governor of Nanzhili.

Then the authority of Zhao Zhenji, the servant of the Nanjing household department, will be greatly reduced. This is undoubtedly a huge obstacle for Zhao Zhenji who has always wanted to join the cabinet.

Zhang Juzheng went to inspect Yangzhou's defense, Zhao Zhenji didn't go to greet him, and other officials naturally didn't want to go, so Tan Lun saw the empty city gate.

Tan Lun's heart skipped a beat. He made the right move in letting his wife and son return to Zhejiang. Sure enough, many officials who came back from Zhejiang panicked when they saw such a scene.

In Zhejiang, he would rather die than surrender for the imperial court, give up the official position promised by Su Ze, and rush back to Nanjing city.

But now there is not even a welcome scene, and the behavior of the Nanjing Sixth Division is chilling.

Gao Hanwen, the former prefect of Hangzhou, found Tan Lun and asked quickly, "Master Futai, what should we do?"

Tan Lun was also anxious, but he was the highest rank among the officials present, so his every move was naturally watched.

"It's okay, let's talk about it when we go to the city."

After Tan Lun took the lead and walked towards the gate of Nanjing, Gao Hanwen also sighed heavily, and then ordered his family members to follow.

Some astute officials let their wives and children leave quietly.

There were also a few people who simply turned around and left without entering Nanjing City.

Everyone in Tan Lun even wore official robes, but there was no clichéd plot of being humiliated by petty officials when entering the city.

Tan Lun immediately took his memorial to the Nanjing household department.

The gatekeeper was an old slave in Zhao Zhenji's family, and he also knew Tan Lun, but he said with a smile:

"Master Tan, the master has gone out of the city to watch matters, and he is not at home today."

Tan Lun was not angry either, he took out the memorial from his sleeve and said:

"Please pass this memorial to Mr. Zhao, and ask Mr. Zhao to help me send this memorial to the capital."

"The guilty minister will not continue to disturb Mr. Zhao, I will stay in Nanjing and take my guilt behind closed doors."

After Tan Lun finished speaking, he left Zhao Zhenji's mansion without looking back. Looking at the tall lintel in front of Zhao Zhenji's mansion, Tan Lun suddenly had a thought:

The Ming Dynasty is probably about to die, right?

Knowing that neither Zhao Zhenji nor the Nanjing officials wanted to see him, Tan Lun was open-minded. He took out his money and rented a house in Nanjing, and lived like this.

Although Su Ze was tolerant of these resigned officials, it was only limited to those who had a good reputation and did not exploit or oppress the people.

Before leaving office, Su Ze sent officials to "audit" all these officials, and checked all the books of leaving office.

The filial money that does not comply with the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and the "dividends" of the government's various unspoken rules, all have to be spit out before they can leave.

However, Zheng Michang, the former chief minister of Zhejiang Province, wantonly invaded and occupied the people's fields in the process of converting rice into mulberry because of his subordinates' reports.

When nine counties in Zhejiang were hit by floods, an order was issued not to allow disaster relief in the prefectures and counties.

The Metropolitan Governor's Office immediately arrested Zheng Michang and put him in prison, awaiting trial and conviction.

Tan Lun has a rich family, and he doesn't like money himself, so he has a good reputation in Zhejiang.

Tan Lun took his family property and left Zhejiang after clearing away some of the Bingjingtanjing and Huoxingyin that were available at all levels of government.

In contrast, Gao Hanwen, who was originally a poor imperial official, was not so lucky.

Hanlin was poor, so he finally came down to serve as the magistrate, Gao Hanwen was still corrupted.

He accepted the brocade clothes from the weaving businessman in Hangzhou, and also accepted the exchange money from his subordinates, but he was timid and did not do anything harmful to the people with Zheng Bichang.

So in the end Gao Hanwen returned the dirty money and left Hangzhou penniless.

Knowing Gao Hanwen's situation, Tan Lun directly invited him to live with him.

Housing prices in Nanjing are also very high. Although Gao Hanwen still has a bit of arrogance, he can't help that he has no money in his pocket, so he finally moved there to share with Tan Lun.

Fujian.

Su Ze was taking Lin Qishu to inspect the sweet potatoes in the mountain field.

After several years of promotion, sweet potatoes have been widely planted by the government in Fujian, but before that, gentry and landlords secretly planted them in the mountains.

Su Ze reiterated the three-year tax exemption for reclaiming land, and demanded that the land be cleared. Local big families reported these sweet potato fields to the government for registration.

However, Su Ze's other decree made these big households happy again.

Sweet potatoes can also be turned over to the government as grain, but the standards for turning over sweet potatoes are different from those of wheat and rice, and the weight that needs to be paid is more, and the dried sweet potatoes also need to be turned over.

But it's already very good. Sweet potatoes don't have too high requirements on the soil fertility. They can be grown in the mountains, and the yield is high. Even according to the government's algorithm, it can save a lot of food.

Not only big households, but also some ordinary people who have enough energy, have also begun to try to grow sweet potatoes in the mountains.

After walking for a while, Su Ze saw a cornfield. He asked Uncle Lin beside him, "Uncle Qi, is this a cornfield?"

Uncle Lin Qi nodded and said, "This is the corn seed that Lin Baihu got from a Macau businessman last time. I planted a few acres."

Su Ze walked over, and the corn was different from the corn he saw before crossing.

The corn seedlings were very short, and the corn cobs they had formed were also very small. There were still hollow corn kernels on the corn cobs, which looked stunted.

Su Ze was a little disappointed, but Lin Qishu was optimistic: "This corn is good. It has no pests and is easy to take care of. Although the yield is not high now, after a few rounds of breeding, it will definitely become the same staple food as sweet potatoes."

That's right, when a new species is first introduced, there will often be several years or more than ten years of pest protection. The local pests have not yet started to eat this crop, and the original natural enemies are still in South America.

As long as the breeding is done well, the quality of corn will definitely improve.

Uncle Lin Qi broke open the corn and said: "Although corn is not tasty, it is good for feeding pigs, chickens and ducks. Now in Yanping Prefecture and surrounding counties, there are many people who specialize in growing poultry and livestock."

Su Ze soon saw another strange field, which was a tall plant with big leaves, and now the leaves had turned yellow, which gave Su Ze an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

"Seventh Uncle, this is?"

"I'm not sure what kind of crop it is. Last time, this kind of thing was planted in the seeds given by Baihu. Later, I saw that it was similar to the tobacco that the governor said, so I kept it and planted some."

"Now it should be the tobacco that the governor said, and it looks like it will be harvested soon."

It hurts, it hurts too much to pull out wisdom teeth, I wrote it while taking painkillers.

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