My life skills in Daming Liver.

Chapter 90
Instead of relying on Yanpingwei, where did Xu Shisheng smuggle those weapons and bows and arrows come from?
Su Ze had doubts about Yanpingwei for a long time, Lin Qingjian's words only confirmed his suspicion.

But after visiting Yanpingwei's gunpowder bureau today, Su Ze has a new speculation.

Yanpingwei's gunpowder bureau produces day and night, and there is no way to use so much gunpowder.

As for where the gunpowder was transported, the result is about to come out.

So it seems that this Xu Shisheng is really a scum like a jackal, who was still smuggling gunpowder to the Japanese pirates when the Japanese invasion in the southeast was so serious?

Su Ze was only hostile to Xu Shisheng at first, but now he has murderous intent.

Yan Maoqing came to the Qing army in Fujian only for money, which was originally a matter of spending money to buy peace.

Changningwei is just a hereditary one hundred households, that is, 200 taels of silver can avoid disaster.

But Xu Shisheng got in the way, and it turned into 500 taels of silver. I am afraid that in the world before the crossing, Chang Ningwei was in debt and never recovered.

For the current Changningwei, 200 taels of silver is not impossible, and the most important thing is to eliminate Xu Shisheng, the enemy of the county government.

After clarifying who is the main enemy and who is the secondary enemy, Su Ze decided to kill Xu Shisheng, the fox of the county government, to get rid of this serious worry!
However, Changning Guard is not a den of bandits. Xu Shisheng is a clerk of the county government, so it is definitely not acceptable to kill people directly in the county.

Su Ze asked Lin Qingjian: "Is this taxation matter in the hands of Xu Shisheng alone?"

Lin Qingjian nodded and said: "Which one in the county has oil and water to squeeze, which one eats soft but not hard, and which one eats hard but not soft, these Xu Shisheng knows in his heart, and he is the only one with the servants when collecting taxes every year. Go on, and absolutely won’t let other scribes intervene.”

Su Ze now understood why several magistrates didn't like this Xu Shisheng, but still let him continue to be the clerk of the house.

Guys like Xu Shisheng are familiar with all kinds of situations in the county. Whenever the court needs to collect taxes, the county magistrate cannot do without him.

This tax collection is naturally a technical job.

Don't waste your energy on who can blackmail money from and who is a hard idea.

Poor and impulsive people definitely don't want to fight this kind of people desperately. If there is a civil uprising, the county magistrate will not be able to step down.

Those who are powerful can't blackmail at will. In case they are pushed into a hurry and greeted at the top, it will appear that the county magistrate has lost the importance of doing things and left a bad impression on the Shangguan.

Therefore, Xu Shisheng, who is familiar with the situation in the county, should be used by the magistrate no matter what.

However, Xu Shisheng was never allowed to do the history of the classics, which was also the art of controlling people by the two magistrates. If Xu Shisheng had his name in the official department, the county government could not deal with him casually.

This is why Xu Shisheng worked so hard, and the former magistrate didn't let him do classic history.

Now this guy just wants to make money, but Baizhi County still wants to use him.

Su Ze said to Lin Qingjian again: "Brother Lin, I was born in Changning Guard, and you know the enmity between the guard and Changning Guard."

Lin Qingjian nodded quickly.

"Recently the censor came to the Qing army in Fujian, and I have to ask Brother Lin to help keep an eye on Xu Shisheng's movements, so don't let him assassinate Changning Wei."

Seeing Su Ze's generous spending, Lin Qingjian already wanted to make friends with him.

Su Ze used Changningwei's specialty rock candy to solve his food problem, and now he will be tied to Changningwei.

Lin Qingjian understood that his relationship with Sun Dianshi had already caused him and Xu Shisheng to have an endless hatred.

Now that Xu Shisheng has been offended, it is better to be an ally of Changningwei and bring down Xu Shisheng together.

Lin Qingjian immediately said: "Brother Su, don't worry, if there is any change in Xu Shisheng, I will go to Changningwei to inform you immediately!"

After the banquet, Su Ze dragged the three drunk students back to the school building.

What happened to Lin Qingjian seems to have awakened Chen Chaoyuan, who wanted to be a subaltern at first, and he also understood that with his personality, he would definitely not be able to survive this group of wolves-like subalterns. Like Hai Rui, it is enough to send out an academic and political official like a teaching order to support the family.

During the banquet, Xiong Yue also deliberately made friends with Lin Qingjian.

It was also one of Lin Qingjian's responsibilities to escort the tribute tea to the northern and southern capitals.

This section of the road has to climb over the mountains first, and then go through the mountainous Jiangxi and northern Zhejiang regions. It can be said that it is very difficult, but the time limit required for tribute tea is very tight. Many people fell off the cliff or died of exhaustion. It is not bad if six or seven of ten people start to reach the destination in the end.

Even if they arrive safely, they will have a serious illness and even be disabled when they go back.

Xiong Yue's family is considered a rich farmer with their own tea garden. Naturally, their family will not let their children carry tea to the two capitals, so they will hire people to serve on their behalf.

As the name suggests, substitute service means serving on behalf of others. This was firmly forbidden in the early Ming Dynasty. Once it is found that it is a substitute service person or someone who spends money to hire someone to serve as a substitute service, they will be severely punished.

But at this time, proxy service is quite common.

However, the Xiong family hires someone to serve as a substitute. Whether the substitute comes back alive or dies on the way, the capital of the Xiong family is completely different.

As long as the person can come back, it is easy to say, even if he is disabled, the Xiong family will pay some soup and medicine expenses at worst.

But if a person dies on the road, the Xiong family will suffer a great loss.

The family members will come to the door to make trouble, and then demand a large sum of money from the Xiong family.

Although it is very common for the Xiong family to hire someone to serve as a servant, this is illegal. If the Xiong family goes to court, the Xiong family will suffer even more blood.

Xiong Yue's family has declined day by day in the past two years, because the civilian husband who served on behalf of him died on the road twice in a row, and he paid a large sum of compensation!

Xiong Yue asked Lin Qingjian to intercede with the servants who delivered the tribute tea, and to take care of the servants who helped Xiong's family when they delivered tribute tea next time.

Lin Qingjian naturally agreed to this matter.

After a night of silence, Su Ze was woken up by Hai Rui early the next morning, and was called to the stable behind the county school.

In the county school system designed by Lao Zhu, the students of the original county school not only had to learn the Four Books and Five Classics, but also the six arts of a gentleman such as riding and archery.

Therefore, every county school has stables and shooting gardens, but following the Ming Dynasty's civil and military divergence, and after the Tumubao, the civil and military were expensive, and these facilities were also abandoned.

[Discovered in the stables, you can learn the skill "Riding", do you want to learn it? 】

Su Ze was overjoyed and quickly chose to study.

Although he had ridden a donkey, riding a horse was completely different from riding a donkey. Some simple points entered Su Ze's mind and became his memory.

Sure enough, as Hai Rui said, the horse he rode to Nanping when he took office was a rough horse, a Dian horse with a short stature and not young age.

Just such a horse was purchased by Hai Rui's mother and daughter-in-law with the savings they had accumulated over the years of spinning and weaving.

Although the horse's tongue was a little loose, Hai Rui still kept it well, and the shiny hair showed that Hai Rui washed it frequently.

Su Ze rode back to Changning Guard with a grateful heart. At the same time, in Fuzhou City, Yan Maoqing, the censor sent by the imperial court to the Fujian Qing Army, finally got busy with business after several rounds of banquets.

When the censor came out of Beijing, he represented the emperor, and he was the imperial envoy of the imperial court. Officials of all sizes in the Fuzhou government dared not neglect, and these days there were many big and small banquets.

Yan Maoqing also never refuses any invitation, no matter what kind of invitation he is willing to attend, if anyone offers a bribe, he will accept it as it is.

After Yan Maoqing set the price for peace for senior military households at all levels, motorcades full of gold and silver jewelry have entered Fuzhou City in an endless stream these days, and the storeroom of the yamen where Yan Maoqing temporarily stayed was full of gold and silver jewelry.

There are those who take the initiative to pay, and naturally there are those who pretend to be dead and do not pay.

There are so many military positions in Fujian, naturally not all ancestors have been convicted of crimes, and there are always guards who think that their family background is innocent and they don't need to confess to Yan Maoqing.

Yan Maoqing didn't do anything about these people, and everyone in Fujian breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that this was the end of Yan Yushi, and Yan Maoqing came to the governor's office of Fujian.

Today's Fujian chief envoy can also be regarded as Yan Song's henchman and Yan Maoqing's accomplice.

And Yan Maoqing came to the Qing army this time, and had little to do with civil affairs, so the chief envoy still supported Yan Maoqing very much.

Welcoming Yan Maoqing into the main hall, after a short exchange of pleasantries, Yan Maoqing explained his purpose of coming.

Putting down the white porcelain tea bowl in his hand, the chief envoy said, "Yan Yushi wants to borrow someone?"

Yan Maoqing cupped his hands and said, "I would also like to ask the chief political envoy for your convenience."

"It's okay to have the manpower, but why does Yan Yushi want the scribes from the Hufang instead of the scribes from the military room? Isn't the military room more familiar with the local military situation than the Hufang?"

Yan Maoqing chuckled and said, "That's not necessarily the case."

"In this case, I will send an official document to all the prefectures and counties."

Soon, the chief envoy's yamen issued a decree, requiring the clerks in charge of taxation of households in all prefectures and counties to go to the provincial capital Fujian to report.

The distance from Fuzhou City varies from place to place, and the counties in Fuzhou Prefecture received the news the fastest, arriving in Fuzhou City one after another on May [-].

Yan Maoqing decided to start with the military generals in Fuzhou Prefecture first, and immediately met with the household tax collectors in Fuzhou Prefecture and County, and began to ask them about the situation of the military households in the county.

It has to be said that the clerks of the households that Yan Maoqing convened really knew the local situation best.

They all know exactly which hereditary military families there are in the local area, and which hereditary military family is the richest.

Yan Maoqing took out another account book and asked the clerks in Fuzhou to check which military households did not send money.

The abacus of the scribes kept going day and night, and they quickly calculated the list of serving military households in Fuzhou Mansion who had not yet made a confession to Yan Maoqing.

Immediately afterwards, Yan Maoqing took this list to the Dusi Yamen in Fujian, took out his imperial edict and seal of the imperial censor of the Qing army, and directly set up a court in the Dusi Yamen.

Yan Maoqing was the censor of the Qing army, and the capital of Fujian did not dare to be negligent, so he could only let his subordinates cooperate with Yan Maoqing to pass on the list of world-class military generals to the yamen of the capital.

In the entire Fuzhou Prefecture, as long as there are no offerings, or world-ranking military generals who have made offerings but have not paid enough tribute, they have all received summons from the censor, even the most remote guards are not missed.

However, the subpoenas received by several wealthy guards in Fuzhou Mansion were even more violent, and even those guards that had provided sufficient confessions received summonses to conduct a new investigation.

Yan Maoqing's meaning is very clear, you rich guys can't pass the test so easily, you have to pay more!

All of a sudden, the entire Fuzhou government was in a state of panic, and even the hundreds of households in the guard station who were supposed to guard against the king of deer and repair fortifications put down their work and rushed to Fuzhou city with gold, silver and jewelry.

This time, everyone gave the full amount of money except for the poor guards who couldn't get rid of the pot.

Those few wealthy military generals wrapped up a thick gift envelope and sent it to the yamen where Yan Maoqing stayed.

Yan Maoqing's actions were quick. On May [-]th, in the guards of Fuzhou Prefecture, the list of world-ranking military generals whose ancestors were criminal officials and inherited the world's position has been pulled out. Those who did not make confessions to Yan Maoqing, or made fewer confessions right on the list.

Yan Maoqing issued a military order in the name of the imperial censor of the Qing army, temporarily dismissing these "criminal generals" from their positions and handing them over to their deputy futures to take over the duties.

And these "criminal generals" must go to Fuzhou City within three days to submit their defense to Yan Maoqing, the imperial censor of the Qing army. If they cannot prove their ancestors' innocence, they will be dismissed immediately and their salaries received by their ancestors will be recovered.

Yan Maoqing's set of combined punches not only completely stupefied all the generals in Fuzhou, but also spread the panic to the whole of Fujian.

This series of operations is worthy of being a cool official who has left his name in history books.

It was at Yanping Mansion that he received an official document from the chief envoy's Yamen, planning to mobilize the scribes from the household houses in each county of Yanping Mansion to go to Fuzhou City.

The well-informed military households in Yanping Mansion already knew what happened in Fuzhou Mansion.

Including Yu's family, the commander of the Yanping Guard, all the guards in the entire Yanping Mansion are in panic.

Yu Zongyuan received the news and immediately sent someone to notify Su Ze who had returned to Changningwei.

And Lin Qingjian from the county yamen's office also passed the news to Su Ze that Xu Shisheng had received the order from the chief envoy's yamen and was going to Fuzhou Fucheng.

Seeing these two pieces of news, Su Ze finally knew how Xu Shisheng, a small scribe, was related to such a noble censor as Yan Maoqing.

It turned out that it was Yan Maoqing who wanted to blackmail the place and recruited scribes from households in various places.

Su Ze also had to sigh with emotion that Yan Maoqing deserved to be a figure in the Ming Dynasty's separate biography, and he was indeed much more powerful than ordinary corrupt officials and cruel officials.

The trick of recruiting household scribes is really clever. You must know that the people who know the local conditions best are not the county magistrates above, but the scribes who are responsible for collecting taxes.

Household clerks know who is rich and who is poor in Nanping County best, and they can settle the accounts themselves, so Yan Maoqing doesn't need to worry about the accounts.

And Xu Shisheng, a scribe in Nanping County, had an enmity with Changning Wei.

That's why there is a record in the family tree that Xu Shisheng falsely accused Changning Wei to Yan Maoqing.

With Xu Shisheng by Yan Maoqing's side, the Changning Guard had to spend money to eliminate the disaster, and it couldn't be done with just one or two hundred taels.

No, Xu Shisheng must not be allowed to come to Fuzhou City!
(End of this chapter)