Chapter 61 You Forgot I Am a Strict Party Member

By the Taiye Lake.

Xu Jie was deeply immersed in the feeling of punching cotton.

There is nowhere to exert force.

He looked deeply at Yan Shaoting, smiled and shook his head, saying: "How could Yan Shidu be a dull person?"

Yan Shaoting shut his mouth.

Old Xu has been pretending to be a good guy all his life. Does he really think he is a good guy?

Seeing Yan Shaoting kept silent.

Xu Jie could only sigh deeply in the end, and then said: "This time, the cotton farmers in Songjiang Prefecture and Suzhou Prefecture violated the season and planted cotton seedlings at the beginning of the year when the court finalized the national policy. This is because these fields are the fields that the two prefectures wanted to investigate this time."

He felt that after he said this, Yan Shaoting should understand what he meant.

Yan Shaoting snorted in his heart.

Without Old Xu telling him, everyone knew that the land cultivated by the cotton farmers who went against the national policy this time was not on the imperial tax list.

Although cotton cloth is not as valuable as silk, it is also a high-value cash crop that is worse than growing grain.

In and out.

The Xu family and the two so-called scholarly families in the two prefectures earned a lot of money.

Yan Shaoting looked around and said, "This matter has already been investigated by Zhang Gelao and Hai Rui locally. Now that your majesty has ordered me to take charge of this matter, it is actually just a matter of finishing it off."

Xu Jie couldn't help but gasp: "So what does Yan Shidu mean by strict investigation and strict punishment? Or does he put national policy first?"

Yan Shaoting asked: "What does Lord Xu mean by strict investigation and strict punishment, and what does national policy come first?"

Xu Jie looked at Yan Shaoting again.

"If Yan Shidu wants to investigate and punish the case strictly, he must find out the total amount of land that the two governments have concealed, and then punish them according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty. According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, Yan Shidu will probably cause a huge uproar in the court for such a mistake, and countless families in the two governments will be implicated and punished.

But if this is the case, then the families in the two prefectures will certainly not accept it, and will then seek help from the court, which will then cause unrest in our Ming Dynasty, and even spread from the two prefectures to all parts of the country."

Now that things have come to this, and he can't get Yan Shaoting to speak on his own initiative, Xu Jie can only make things clear and put the pressure on Yan Shaoting.

Xu Jie continued, "If we put national policy first, we can temporarily slow down the concealment of the two prefectures' land. I think that now that such a thing has happened in the two prefectures, those cotton farmers should also cooperate with national policy and switch from cotton to mulberry."

This is the price he offered.

As long as Yan Shaoting does not investigate the concealment of the land areas in the two prefectures, the cotton farmers in the two prefectures will cooperate and switch from cotton to mulberry.

Yan Shaoting laughed.

Under Xu Jie's puzzled gaze, Yan Shaoting asked, "Lord Xu, do you know what book I am reading recently?"

Xu Jie subconsciously asked: "What book?"

"I have been reading the laws of the Ming Dynasty recently."

Yan Shaoting replied, and he continued to affirm: "And I also plan that as long as I can't recite the Great Ming Code by heart, I will keep reading it, over and over again, until the day I can recite it by heart."

Done.

Yan Shaoting looked at Old Xu sharply.

Xu Jie was full of doubts, but he quickly reacted and asked in disbelief, "Master Yan... is he determined to investigate and handle the cases of the two governments strictly?"

Yan Shaoting clasped his hands and bowed in the direction of Yuxi Palace not far away.

Then he said with a righteous look on his face: "When our dynasty was first established, Emperor Taizu recruited capable officials and formulated laws.

The Great Ming Code is the foundation of our dynasty's laws. Now, Suzhou Prefecture and Songjiang Prefecture are concealing the ownership of farmland and embezzling taxes.

As a subject, how dare I disregard the laws of the Ming Dynasty? How can I be ashamed of the Emperor Taizu? How can I be ashamed of the trust of the current emperor? "

now.

Among the tens of thousands of officials in the Ming Dynasty, there was no one more loyal than Yan Shaoting.

Xu Jie remained silent, looking at Yan Shaoting with a serious gaze.

After a long time, he sighed and shook his head, saying, "But Yan Shidu is in a high position, at the heart of the government. Could he bear to make the world unstable because of the two governments?"

After threats and inducements were all useless, Xu Jie finally stepped up his strength.

Use the power of the world to suppress Yan Shaoting.

Yan Shaoting withdrew his gaze from the two mandarin ducks playing in the water on the Taiye Lake in the distance and turned to look directly at Xu Jie.

There was a smile on his face that puzzled Xu Jie.

Xu Jie was confused.

Yan Shaoting said softly: "Lord Xu, have you forgotten that I come from the Yan Party, a group of people who are known for their upright conduct and who are eager to be beaten and killed?"

Hey!
Xu Jie was stunned for a moment.

If Yan Shaoting didn't say this himself at this moment, he really had forgotten Yan Shaoting's background because of the various things that happened before and after the year.

This guy is the core of the Yan Party!

Yan Shaoting stared at Xu Jie and said, "Lord Xu, do you think that I am a member of the Yan Party who deserves death in the eyes of the Qingliu?

Do I care more about the chaos in the local area, or do I care more about Your Majesty's orders?
Oh! By the way, you seem to be regarded as the leader of the clean stream by those people."

Xu Jie's face turned red instantly.

He never thought that after waiting here today, he would finally hear such an answer.

Xu Jie, who had pretended to be a good guy all his life, finally had a cold light flashing in his eyes, revealing some murderous intent.

Just quickly.

All of this was deeply suppressed by Xu Jie.

He sighed and stood up.

He actually clasped his hands and bowed to Yan Shaoting.

Yan Shaoting slightly sidestepped.

Xu Jie was already completely at a disadvantage. He whispered, "What does Yan Shidu want?"

At this moment, Xu Jie completely lost all initiative and became passive.

Yan Shaoting withdrew his gaze and his expression became gentle.

He took two steps back, smiling.

"In fact, Lord Xu heard it in Yuxi Palace earlier. His Majesty only asked me to be in charge of implementing national policies in the two southeastern regions and investigate the disasters and farmland in the two regions."

Yan Shaoting spoke in a gentle tone, word by word.

He knew very well that, as Xu Jie had said, it was impossible for him to go against the scholars of the entire Ming Dynasty at this time.

Everything will be confined to Suzhou Prefecture and Songjiang Prefecture.

Yan Shaoting continued: "The two prefectures have concealed the land, and they must be investigated. The court is now in huge deficit, and the two prefectures have always been important sources of tax revenue for the court. Once these lands are investigated, the court will always have more money and grain to do things.

As for the two governments' change from cotton to mulberry, in fact, all the officials in the court and Your Majesty know that even if you plant mulberry trees this year, you will have to wait until next year to grow enough mulberry leaves.

Although this matter may not be effective immediately, the sooner it is done, the better. The cotton fields will be converted into mulberry fields. According to your majesty's intention at the beginning of the year, the 150,000 mu of land in the two prefectures will be exempted from taxes for the first three years, and then taxes will be collected according to established practices. "

This is my bottom line, and it is also the Taoist's bottom line.

Now that he has been responsible for the affairs of the southeast, the fact that the two governments concealed their land has also been exposed. Is it possible for him to suppress this matter?

But apart from the need to clear out the land hidden by the two governments, whether there are such cases in other places and how much is hidden is not something he can interfere with now.

After hearing Yan Shaoting's bottom line, Xu Jie frowned and thought.

After a while, he tentatively said, "However, Mr. Yan is also here to investigate the destruction of the Xin'an River dike in Zhejiang Province. I know that many of Mr. Yan's students have served as officials in Zhejiang Province in recent years."

Xu Jie still wanted to try again.

After all, those were hundreds of thousands of acres of land that had previously been exempt from taxes.

Yan Shaoting smiled faintly: "Lord Xu has forgotten that His Majesty once said that I am loyal to the country."

(End of this chapter)