Chapter 442 You Have to Take the Blame

No one thought of it.

Yan Shaoting could be so shameless.

From the very beginning, Yan Shaoting was ordered to go south. When passing through Matou Town, Huai'an Prefecture, he was assassinated by the White Lotus rebels. He spread the news and ordered the Nanjing garrison to fill the vacancies in the various guard camps. The various departments in Nanjing used this as an excuse to check the household registration of people in various places in order to facilitate the conscription of able-bodied men, and then to check the tax accounts.

It was precisely because of this that the people in Nanjing became panic-stricken and uneasy, so Yang Zongqi of the Nanjing Governor's Grain Storage Office colluded with others in the hope that Nanjing would be able to respond wholeheartedly after Yan Shaoting's arrival.

then.

What happened after Yan Shaoting came?
He suddenly rushed over 300 miles in one day and one night when no one was prepared or ready, and suddenly appeared in front of everyone when they gathered together to discuss countermeasures.

What does it mean to march over 300 miles in one day and night?
Only when the army is in an emergency during wartime can they run at such a speed for a mission that involves their life or death.

But was Yan Shaoting ordered to go south to take up his post to fight?

He has always been a civil servant!

But the fact that he chose to deal with Nanjing at this military speed already showed his attitude.

Especially the series of actions taken by Yan Shaoting that night.

Arrived late at night.

Enter the room.

Suffering all night.

At the end, it seemed as if he had clearly chopped off a knife, but it stopped just before it could cut the two men into pieces.

But before the officials of various departments and offices in Nanjing City could breathe a sigh of relief.

Yan Shaoting suddenly attacked again.

He wanted to check the past accounts of various departments and offices in Nanjing. Although this was something he had already written about from the beginning, this time his words were even sharper.

Yang Zongqi still remembers the anger he felt when he heard the latest news, especially when he learned that the clerks in the various ministries and offices were colluding with Xihuayuan, he was even more furious.

then.

This led to Yang Zongqi, in order to take revenge and vent his anger, contacting various ministries and government offices to dig out all the old accounts and send them to the West Garden where Yan Shaoting lived.

purpose.

In addition to venting his anger as a matter of course, it was also to prevent Yan Shaoting from having time to take care of other things.

After all, it was impossible to do such a lowly method as setting fire to the accounts. As long as it was done, anyone with a discerning eye would know what was going on, and the court would chop off their heads without any solid evidence.

As for killing Yan Shaoting directly, we can just wait for the nine clans to reunite.

but.

In fact, there is another option.

He tried to win over Yan Shaoting and dragged him into the water, bribing him with gold, silver, jewelry, beautiful women and houses.

Actually.

Originally, including Yang Zongqi, people from various departments and offices in Nanjing had basically made such preparations.

After all, for them, fighting and killing is not decent? Why not drink wine, listen to music and touch girls calmly to get things done?
But who could have thought that Yan Shaoting would be assassinated in Huai'an Prefecture before he even arrived in Nanjing? Who could have thought that he would make the first move in Huai'an?
Even at this time, there is still room for maneuver on the Nanjing side.

But in the end, Yan Shaoting's sudden attack of more than 300 miles into Nanjing City made what should have been the wisest choice impossible.

Then came everything Yan Shaoting had in Nanjing City.

Everyone believed that Yan Shaoting wanted to use the name of auditing the accounts to gradually suppress the various departments and offices in Nanjing.

As long as he can find problems in those accounts, he can use them as blackmail.

to this end.

Who hasn’t seen that the clerks in their respective government offices run to the West Garden after leaving office every day?

This action further strengthened everyone's thoughts.

That is, Yan Shaoting had to start with the accounts and go back and forth with this group of Nanjing officials.

But ah.

Today, there was this sudden letter, and there were truckloads of accounts suddenly sent back from West Garden.

Everyone was completely dumbfounded.

Finally, I reacted.

All of them!

Everyone!

They were all fooled by Yan Shaoting!

What are the requirements for the various guard camps in Nanjing to make up for the vacancies, what are the requirements for checking the accounts of various departments, and what are the requirements for population and household registration.

It's all fucking fake!
"Shameless!"

"I have never seen such a despicable, shameless and dirty person in my life!"

"He, Yan Shaoting, is the worst villain in the world!"

Jinling Tower.

In the waterside courtyard, Yang Zongqi looked at the several city officials who were invited to come and angrily vented his dissatisfaction.

Xu Yangzheng, the right assistant minister of the Nanjing Ministry of Revenue, was among them, his face looking tense and ugly.

"Please calm down, Yang Bu Tang. Now that things have already happened, how can we reverse the situation? Or can we make that young Lord Yan change his mind?"

If it wasn't for expediency, Xu Yangzheng was actually not willing to get involved with Yang Zongqi.

Yang Zongqi looked over and snorted coldly, then asked, "Ji Fu, you are a famous and virtuous man in Liuzhou. Now Yan Shaoting is so shameless that he dares to disregard the rules and play tricks on us. He doesn't care about us at all. Are we going to do nothing now and just let him play tricks on us?"

Several people present also looked at Xu Yangzheng, a virtuous and talented man from Liuzhou, Guangxi.

however.

As everyone watched, Xu Yangzheng shook his head in disappointment.

"This time, this young Lord Yan is fully prepared, and his reasons are legitimate. It can be said that his words are impeccable. How can you and I have any reason to refute them?"

Yang Zongqi frowned, but still said unwillingly: "Is there really no other way?"

Xu Yangzheng shook his head, but nodded abnormally: "There is no way out of this matter now, but it does not mean that there is no way out at all..."

……

"Yang Zongqi has already invited a group of people to discuss at Jinling Tower, but I'm afraid they won't be able to come up with anything for a while."

Nanjing Ministry of Revenue Yamen.

I'm afraid Yang Zongqi would never have thought of this when he asked everyone to gather at Jinling Tower to discuss.

Wang Yongbao, the Nanjing Minister of Personnel, entered the Ministry of Revenue and went into the official residence of Zhang Shunchen, the Nanjing Minister of Revenue.

Seeing what Wang Yongbao said, Zhang Shunchen just smiled slightly. Although Zhang Xun, the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, was right next to him, he still personally poured a cup of tea for the other party.

Holding the teacup in his hand, Wang Yongbao squinted his eyes and waited for Zhang Shunchen's reply.

Zhang Shunchen glanced at the other party and said, "Now that it has come to this, there is no need to talk about the right and wrongs. But the fact that it has come to this is probably due to Yang Zongqi and the others' own fault. If they hadn't been running around to contact everyone and send all those old accounts over, how could Lord Yan have used this as a reason and excuse so openly?" The Minister of Revenue looked a little sad, and his expression was intriguing.

Wang Yongbao glanced at Zhang Xun, the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, who seemed to be hesitant to speak.

Although he smiled and shook his head and sighed.

"You're right. Now that it has come to this, it's their own fault. If they hadn't done that, how could Young Lord Yan say that the accounts in Jiangnan were so terrible that they should be rebuilt? Without this excuse, how could he write to the Yingtian Governor's Office and ask Hai Rui, who entered Nanjing for the first time a few days ago, to personally supervise the matter? Now it seems that there is a cause and effect behind this sip and drink..."

Zhang Shunchen glanced at Wang Yongbao, who had explained the whole thing clearly, and said after taking a sip of tea, "But now I understand the real purpose of our young Lord Yan, but there is no need to worry anymore."

Wang Yongbao nodded, but did not speak himself. Instead, he looked at Zhang Yan beside him.

Facing the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.

Wang Yongbao asked with a smile: "Xi Yu, what do you think is the purpose of that young Lord Yan's actions?"

Zhang Xun, who was called, stood up immediately.

Zhang Shunchen raised his hand and said, "There are only three of us here, so there is no need to be so formal."

Wang Yongbao also smiled and said vaguely: "In the Ministry of Revenue, only Xi Yu is here, which shows that Zhang Butang also has an idea in his mind."

Finished.

Zhang Shunchen glanced sideways at Wang Yongbao, his eyes flashing slightly.

Zhang Xun didn't stand up after all, but he still clasped his fists and bowed, nodding his head and explaining: "In my humble opinion, the various actions of that young Lord Yan since he came to the south to take office until now are probably all aimed at clearing out the large households that have encroached on the land."

Zhang Shunchen narrowed his eyes.

Wang Yongbao asked with a smile: "Why do you think so?"

Zhang Xun said, "If Lord Yan only wanted to check the financial and tax accounts of Jiangnan, then he could have just sent a letter to the Yingtian Governor's Office to check the land in the twelve prefectures under its jurisdiction. But why did he have to check the population and household registration? This does not seem to be within the scope of Lord Yan's authority when he went south this time. But he sent a letter to the Yingtian Governor's Office, and Hai Rui, the Yingtian Governor, accepted the order without any hesitation and began to supervise the matter with his men."

Wang Yongbao glanced at Zhang Shunchen with a bit of admiration in his eyes, and then continued to ask: "Why do you say that? Couldn't he just want to find out the financial and tax accounts of Jiangnan?"

Zhang Yan shook his head decisively.

"Absolutely impossible!"

Answered a question.

Zhang Yan said with a firm face, "I am sure that this time, Lord Yan is here to clear out the large households that have encroached on the land. Otherwise, because he was assassinated in Huai'an last time, he could have used the excuse of Nanjing's various guard camps to check the local population and household registration. This time, he has no excuse, but he is still emphasizing this matter. Then he must be here to find out the number of local fields and the number of people in various places, so that he can know how much land the local large households have encroached on. Since he wants to do these things, it can only be for the purpose of clearing out the land!"

After saying this, Zhang Xun silently closed his mouth and added tea to Zhang Shunchen and Wang Yongbao.

Wang Yongbao laughed out loud, looking at Zhang Shunchen with a smile on his face: "No wonder you said nothing about Xu Yangzheng's collusion with Yang Zongqi behind your back, and never disciplined him. It turns out that there is a real talent among you!"

Zhang Shunchen smiled but said nothing.

Zhang Xun, who was praised by the Nanjing Minister of Personnel, quickly nodded, bent over, and bowed with his hands clasped.

Zhang Shunchen smiled and shook his head: "But now, because of this incident, we are afraid that we will have to bear a big blame because of the cause and effect planted by Yang Zongqi..."

The Minister of Revenue looked helpless.

Wang Yongbao looked at Zhang Xun with admiration: "What you just speculated is actually the same as what I and your Ministry of Revenue have guessed. Since Young Lord Yan wants to clear out the land occupied by the big households, it is bound to attract criticism and even cause unrest. But he just said that the projects given by our officials in Nanjing are not worth looking at, so he had no choice but to do this. People outside may point their spearheads at us at that time."

The Minister of Personnel, who was in charge of the evaluation of officials in the provinces south of the Yangtze River, also had a look of helplessness on his face.

Since they had already guessed what Yan Shaoting was going to do, they could naturally imagine what would happen next.

Zhang Yan frowned and looked at his own official from the Ministry of Revenue.

"Minister, if this is the case, what should we do?"

After these words were spoken, the room finally quieted down.

The two ministers remained silent.

Zhang Yan also said nothing after asking.

After a while.

Zhang Shunchen then slowly spoke: "As for what to do, it depends on who wants to do this. Is it Young Lord Yan, or Lord Yan, or even maybe..."

Wang Yongbao's face darkened instantly: "If it is the emperor's wish that he asked Young Lord Yan to go south to personally supervise the matter, then this matter between you and me..."

"You and I must go all out. We must not disregard the emperor's orders, stand in places where we shouldn't be, or do things that we shouldn't do!"

Zhang Shunchen spoke in a deep voice with a sharp look.

Zhang Xun, who had not spoken for a long time, suddenly whispered, "But if it was done by Lord Yan, the emperor can see that this matter will bring rich benefits to the court. I'm afraid this is not what the emperor wants. We have to stand on the side of Lord Yan."

After speaking in a low voice, Zhang Yan lowered his head.

Zhang Shunchen and Wang Yongbao looked at each other quickly.

They both guessed almost everything, except the last connection of the matter.

The two couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"It seems like we are bound to bear the blame for this."

"We are really going to be the ones taking the blame..."

They both spoke at the same time, and laughed helplessly at the same time.

……

West Garden.

Our Ming Dynasty's number one idiot Duke Xu Pengju, upon receiving the news, climbed out of the lake with his butt pissing, and then ran all the way into the west garden of his own home.

Xu Pengju gasped for breath and wolfed down half a pot of tea. Then he stared with wide eyes at Yan Shaoting who was sitting in front of him as steady as a rock.

"Master Xiao Yan, are you really going to do this?"

"I rushed back from outside the city as soon as I heard the news. We have a general idea of ​​what you meant by doing this, but do you really want to kill us all without mercy?"

Yan Shaoting looked calmly at Zhang Juzheng who was accompanying him, and sidelong glanced at Xu Pengju: "Oh? What does the Duke mean by this? This time the Duke gave up the West Garden of his home for us to live in. I originally wanted to thank him in person, but I didn't expect that we would never meet. When we met today, the Duke questioned Shaoting directly. Did Shaoting do something wrong?"

After ending his words with the last famous tea saying, Yan Shaoting looked at the angry Xu Pengju in front of him with a puzzled but innocent look on his face.

Xu Pengju snorted coldly and sat down heavily.

He complained: "You were so angry that we sent you those almost rotten accounts, so you returned them and made trouble for the people below. By doing this, aren't we going to be scolded to death by those people outside?"

Yan Shaoting, who was originally on high alert and wondering how to respond, instantly breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.

A smile immediately appeared on his face.

I smiled secretly in my heart.

A idiot is just a idiot after all.

He suddenly stopped smiling and said, "Duke, I respect your ancestors and I am also very respectful to you. I have nothing to say about your treatment of me."

"But since I arrived in Nanjing, I have been facing difficulties in every way. Now I am just retaliating slightly. What is my fault?"

"You guys will have to bear the blame for this!"

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(My hand was injured today. I had four or five stitches and a tetanus shot. I can't type on the computer keyboard. I can only update once tonight. Please understand.)
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