The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

"Hai Rui? Who is he? I haven't heard of it!"

"Old Yan Ge! You are finally here!"

"We waited for Mr. Yan Ge, all the flowers we waited for are gone!"

"Old Yan Ge, we look forward to you like nectar after a long drought."

"Master Ge, Mr. Wang Yongji is a good official! When he was alive, he often told us that Mr. Yan Ge is a first-class official in the world."

Hai Rui's face was livid, his head was about to smoke in embarrassment, he opened his arms and didn't know what to say?

Yan Song smiled lightly.

Behind them, Lu Quan and Gai Nie burst out laughing.

Unexpectedly, Yan Ge's reputation in Guizhou is better than that of Hai Rui?

Hai Rui was so angry that he doubted his life, what the hell is this Guizhou?Why is Yan Song's reputation as a treacherous minister better than mine?

Yan Song chuckled, took the hands of those Guizhou elders and fellow villagers, and said lovingly: "The old man in this pavilion also remembers the Guizhou elders. If he didn't receive the holy order, he rushed over without stopping..."

Hai Rui vomited immediately, and everyone behind him vomited together.

Mr. Yan Ge, won't your conscience hurt when you tell a lie?

nonstop?

Who was it on the banks of the Qinhuai River to hook up with Gu Hengbo, the oiran, and leave behind such a peerless masterpiece of flirting with girls like "Sapphire Case. Yuan Xi"?

Do you know that in the eyes of scholars in the south of the Yangtze River, you have been upgraded from the traitor Yan Song who "monopolized the four chieftains" to Yan Song, the big pervert who "followed the five chieftains"?

But helpless, Guizhou is closed, these folks are too simple, they have never heard of Yan Song's affair, and they were moved to tears: "Old Yan Ge, you sent General Qi Jiguang to surprise you before the Lantern Festival. , Conquering the city of Guizhou is simply a mountain of kindness to us. Ever since An Bangyan occupied Guizhou, we have suffered a lot from it, and we can't live any longer."

Yan Song ordered Hai Rui to bring chairs to the folks and pull them to sit down.

Poor Hai Rui, who traveled thousands of miles to Guizhou, thought it would be the same as other places. Everywhere on 5.1, people lined the road to welcome people and give them umbrellas. Hai Qingtian in China is not hanging on at all!

Hai Rui had no choice but to painstakingly move chairs and stools around, serve tea and water to the folks, and heard some people talking about it.

"Huh? Just now, this black-faced and skinny guy said he was Hai Qingtian. What does Qingtian mean?"

"Shameless! Someone dares to be named Qingtian? Aren't you afraid that the wind will flash your tongue?"

"Hey, I didn't expect Mr. Yan Ge to be so nice and kind. An errand runner under his command calls himself Qingtian. How can there be such a big difference in life?"

10000 critical hits!

Hai Rui almost spat out a mouthful of old blood, feeling so sad and angry that he wanted to die~~

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Chapter 889 The cause of the rebellion [7]

ps: Today is the 1st, the 7th update, I hope for a new January and a new weather.

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Yan Song had a discussion with the elders in Guizhou and asked them one by one about the causes and consequences of An Bangyan's rebellion.

An octogenarian from Guizhou, trembling, explained what happened clearly.

It turned out that since Wang Yongji came to Guizhou, he not only diligently cared for the people, but also took care of everything personally. He asked the court many times to reduce and exempt Guizhou's money, food and taxes, and raised funds from various sources to lead the people of Guizhou to build roads and bridges and improve the living and transportation environment. The poverty situation of "people without three cents of silver" in the past has been greatly improved.People's lives are getting better day by day.

Moreover, Wang Yongji attached great importance to the relationship with the Miao and Yi ethnic minorities. He went to the Miao and Yi villages many times, talked with the leaders of various ethnic groups, and solved their practical difficulties of lack of clothing and food, especially lack of medicine, and was generally loved by all ethnic groups.

According to the old man, although An Bangyan, the chieftain, was always rebellious and disobedient to the Ming court, he did not dare to act rashly. Instead, he sent people to Guizhou City many times to purchase various materials, and his relationship with the Chief Secretary of Guizhou Fairly stable.

However, since the second half of last year, the imperial court and the prince have ordered many times to strictly require Guizhou to go deep into the mountains and dig more gold and silver for the imperial court.

This is hard for Wang Yongji.

According to the unwritten rules of the imperial court and chieftains, Guizhou City and other important cities, as well as important roads, are under the jurisdiction of the Chief Secretary of the imperial court, and the people of Miao and Yi in the [-] mountains are all ruled by chieftains.

The gold and silver mines are all in the mountains.

In the past, the imperial court and the chieftain reached an agreement, and the two sides designated some gold and silver mining areas for joint mining.The imperial court took away the big head, and the chieftain also shared some profits.It's a tacit agreement.

Now, if the imperial court wants to change this fact, go deep into the mountains and mine gold and silver mines on a large scale, it will inevitably enter the territory of the Miao and Yi, directly conflict with the people of the Miao and Yi, and even lead to a rebellion.

Therefore, on the one hand, Wang Yongji adopted a gentle strategy to discuss with the Miao Yi chieftains about expanding production capacity. On the other hand, he wrote to the court several times, asking the court to consider the actual situation and move forward slowly so as not to cause chaos.

But at that time, it happened that Yan Song was serving as the Minister of Kaihai in Tianjin, and Wang Yongji's letter fell into the hands of the prince.The crown prince strictly ordered the cabinet to issue an order to reprimand Wang Yongji, and strictly ordered him to do whatever it takes to increase mining efforts. Within a time limit, he must mine twice as much gold and silver as last year, which is 800 million taels.At the same time, the prince also ordered Wang Bo, the commander of the capital of Guizhou, to dispatch troops to forcibly mine gold and silver.

What Wang Yongji was worried about finally happened.

After Wang Bo received the prince's order, he was overjoyed and did not discuss with Wang Yongji. He immediately left Guiyang City with 2 troops and went straight to the silver-producing land of the Miao people in Shuixi. Go dig gold and silver for the imperial court!

This move, of course, greatly stimulated the Miao and Yi ethnic groups.

But under Wang Yongji's mediation, the Miao and Yi tribes endured this and sent many young and middle-aged men to follow Wang Bo down the well.

However, Wang Bo was very cruel. Regardless of the safety of the miners in the mine, he blindly ordered them to stop working day and night and increase the intensity of work.He only has gold and silver in his eyes, no human life.

The old man said that besides Wang Bo, there seemed to be many dignitaries from the Ming Dynasty who brought businessmen to Guizhou.

They are a consortium of merchants who are closely related to the prince, and they also came to Guizhou to mine gold and silver indiscriminately. It is said that they are all related to the prince, and the prince has a commission.

In addition to Wang Bo dispatching an army to force the Miao and Yi tribes to send people to work as miners, these Ming dignitaries also relied on their power, relying on the guns of the Ming army to force the Miao and Yi people to mine gold and silver for them.

Wang Bo worked hand in hand with the dignitaries, and together they oppressed the Miao and Yi tribes.