Another day, Zhu Ma asked Li Dingguo to attend the Military Council meeting.

Because Li Yan had already arrived in Nanjing from Chengdu, the Military Council meeting finally did not require video.

This makes the Minister of the Military Affairs Council, who is a little regretful every time he sees a video, and he vaguely feels that there will be few opportunities for video conferences in the future.

This meeting was mainly for discussing military issues in Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan.

In Guangdong, there were occasional uprisings in the people before. In fact, the imperial court increased three taxes during the Chongzhen period, and the local governments did not act and even colluded with landlords and evil gentry to oppress the poor people, which naturally inspired the people to rise up.

However, the first thing Zhu Ma did after ascending the throne was to cancel the three pays (suppression pay, training pay, Liao pay). In addition, the power of the central army of the imperial court greatly boosted the local officials and gentry, which caused those habitual

The people who oppress the people have become much more restrained.

Therefore, there is basically no war in Guangdong now, which means that occasionally pirates appear on the coast and harass a certain village.

As for Guangxi, even the originally sporadic bandits and peasant army have now joined the bandit army led by Sun Kewang.

This military meeting was about discussing how to specifically eliminate Sun Kewang's bandit army...

After the military meeting, Zhu Mai asked Li Dingguo to stay.

Soon, three more people came to Wuying Hall.

Li Dingguo only knew the oldest, Li Yutian, the former head of the Civil Affairs Department of the State Administration of the State Administration. This person is said to have been appointed as the political party in northern Sichuan after His Majesty ascended the throne. Now that he appears in Nanjing, he must have a new official position.

After several people saluted Zhu Mai, Zhu Mai said: "Before I ascended the throne, I heard that Ding Kuichu, who took over Chen Youlong as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi during the pseudo-emperor of Hongguang, became corrupt and good at engaging in power.

Therefore, after ascending the throne, he was demoted to the governor of Guangdong and scolded him, hoping that he could reform himself during his tenure.

But a few days ago, according to the report of the Guangdong Qianhu Office of the Jinyiwei Department, Ding Kuichu not only did not change, but instead colluded with local evil gentry landlords and large clans, which harmed the people and harmed the public and private, causing the prevalence of corruption in Guangdong!"

Speaking of this, Zhu Mai Yu's eyebrows were filled with evil spirits, and a cold light flashed in her phoenix eyes.

"These people are stubborn and have become the worm of the country. I will never pay dividends, so I want to get rid of them soon!

However, the power of the Guangdong clan landlords is strong, and Ding Kuichu has a deep collusion with him. I am worried that sending ordinary officials will not only fail to arrest Ding Kuichu, but will instead arouse civil rebellion.

Therefore, I hope that Ning Yu (Li Ding Guo) you will lead the fourth town of the border defense army to escort Li Yutian to take over as the governor of Guangdong, and cooperate with him and the Jinyiwei Nanfu Fushi Department to arrest Ding Kuichu and uproot his power in Guangdong.

Reorganize the Guangdong official army into a garrison army."

Li Dingguo and Zhang Xianzhong had been a peasant army for many years, and they also hated corrupt officials and evil gentry and landlords.

Hearing this, he immediately clasped his fists and said, "I will accept the order! I will never let down the entrustedness of Your Majesty!"

Zhu Meiyu smiled and nodded, then pointed at the young official in his early thirties next to him, saying, "This is Zhang Jiayu, the former attendant of the Hanlin Academy. He has now been appointed as the inspector of Guangxi. He will take office with you.

As for the person next to him, Wei Long, a thousand households of the Fushishi in the Jinyiwei South Town, will also go to Guangdong with you."

After hearing Zhu Ma's words, Li Dingguo, Li Yutian, Zhang Jiayu and Wei Long bowed to each other, and they met each other.

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After Li Dingguo and others left Wuying Hall, Zhu Mai sat on the dragon throne, thinking that in the history of later generations, Ding Kuichu once fled with hundreds of ships of property when the Qing soldiers headed south.

It is said that there are 200,000 taels of gold and more than 2,400,000 taels of silver.

In this time and space, although Ding Kuichu served as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, the governor of Guangdong would be shorter. However, this time, Zhu Ma was trying to uproot his power, which was destined to involve many local clans and landlords in Guangdong.

So, at this time, she couldn't help but wonder how much money the Jinyiwei could have been able to search from Guangdong.

It should be noted that in the past few decades of the Ming Dynasty, the Guangzhou Maritime Warehouse Service has been basically controlled by local authorities.

Local officials and gentry and landlords embezzled, harming the public and benefiting private. The Ming Dynasty could only collect 200,000 to 300,000 taels of tariffs from Guangzhou Maritime Bureau every year, and when it was small, it was even only 100,000.

Guangzhou Maritime Bureau is now one of the important Maritime Bureaus in the Ming Dynasty. Foreign merchant ships gather, and it is funny that only charges such a small tariff every year.

Needless to think, the big head must have been embezzled.

Therefore, Zhu Ma was quite looking forward to the results of the Guangdong case investigation initiated by Ding Kuichu.

"Your Majesty," Liu Shuying walked over from the back hall, handed over a message, and said with a smile: "The Shaanxi Jinyiwei called and said that the search for the property of the group of smuggled and sold the Shanxi merchants, mainly the eight majors, has ended.

The total number obtained was checked, and your Majesty also asked to take a look."

Zhu Moyu's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he hurriedly took the message and read it.

On the other hand, Hao Guangming also saw the content of the telegram through the mobile phone camera on Zhu Ni's chest.

"A total of 2.36 million taels of gold were searched for more than 2.36 million taels of silver were more than 93.56 million taels of silver!

There are also 1.29 million mu of land, several real estate, and other wealth is uncountable!"

hiss!

Seeing this, Hao Guangming couldn't help but take a breath.

Although he guessed that the wealth accumulated by the entire Shanxi merchant smuggling group for seven or eight generations must be extremely huge, and it is very likely to exceed 100 million, but when the search results really exceeded 100 million, he was still surprised.

It should be noted that although there was a lot of silver in the late Ming Dynasty, it was still less than that in the Qing Dynasty, and even less of the phenomenon of breaking 100 million.

But now the wealth accumulated by these Shanxi merchants' smuggling groups has exceeded 100 million, which shows how rich Shanxi merchants are!

Of course, this is definitely not all wealth obtained through smuggling, and it is also obtained by doing business normally. However, compared with the huge profits obtained by smuggling obstructed goods, the money obtained from normal import and export trade is definitely a small amount.

Seeing the result, Zhu Mai was also happy to hold her breath, and then vomited it out.

She smiled and said, "With the money obtained from this search, the Ministry of Finance should not worry about the fiscal expenditures this year and next two years."

Hao Guangming also smiled and said, "Next, you will also check the salt merchants. Even if there are no salt merchants who sell their country, there will definitely be many who commit crimes.

If you search a batch of them, you can increase the income of the Ming Dynasty treasury. It is estimated that with these money, under normal circumstances, there will be no fiscal deficit within three years."

Zhu Mai Shin sighed: "When my father was alive, he often worried about the military pay of hundreds of thousands of taels, so much so that his hair turned white, and he even borrowed it from his ministers with shame.

But I don’t know that it is impossible to borrow from empty words and white teeth. Only by mastering the army and holding sharp weapons can they take out the silver.”
Chapter completed!