Judging from the results, it is obvious that Wanli is more advanced.

Just ask the name of the store, you can ensure that Liaodong will continue to send finance and taxes to the inner country, and you can also ensure that everyone in the world will do their best to serve the king, where can I find such a good thing.

Five hundred taels sounds ridiculous, everyone thinks that the emperor is a greedy person who doesn't even let go of five hundred taels of money.

From another point of view, it shows that the current emperor is an unruly son of heaven.

Liangchen thought of himself, no matter from which point of view, it was impossible for Wanli to let him go to Shanhaiguan instead of him.

First, he has no official body, and secondly, he is not a member of the inner court, and speaking of which, he is not a person with any identity. Why should such a person visit on behalf of the Son of Heaven?

But on the contrary, Wanli is accurate, if he is not the person concerned, it is difficult for Liangchen to imagine that this kind of thing will happen.

Liangchen believes that Wanli's move must have its intentions, perhaps, this is the wisdom of foolishness.

A small person who does not have any conflict of interest with the parties concerned, who does not have a holy body or an official position, may not be conspicuous. Speculating from the darkest side, even if things go wrong, it has nothing to do with the emperor.

Gao Huai is also a typical example of making the best use of things. His tax envoy yamen was the original Shanhaiguan town guard, but as early as the Jiajing period, the Shanhaiguan town guard was removed, so the yamen has been vacant, and weeds have grown inside.

After Gao Huai arrived, he made use of waste, hung up his tax envoy yamen sign outside the town guard mansion, and then relied on the name of the store given by the emperor to make the Fuyang store the largest store in Liaodong.

Listening to Li Yongzhen's description, this Fuyang store has the concept of a free trade zone in the future.

Where the merchants hand over the goods to the Fuyang store for sale, or shop in the Fuyang store, Gao Huai collected only seventy percent of the original tax.

If you are not in the Fuyang store, you will pay the normal tariff. In this way, the merchant transactions are concentrated in the Fuyang store.

But the most direct consequence of this is that most of the taxes that should have been collected by Liaodong flowed into the inner court.

After all, in addition to relying on empty salaries and driving soldiers to farm for them to obtain income, the military leaders also relied on the large and small checkpoints set up in the territory to make profits.

The merchants have all gone to the Fuyang store to do business, what do the big and small military leaders eat and drink?

Gao Huai only cared about eating meat for himself and did not give soup to others, of course, Liaodong was restless, and the army and civilians were full of complaints.

There is no conflict of interest without a reason, and there can be no military rebellion in a good manner.

Liangchen didn't believe that the soldiers and civilians in Shanhaiguan would go to any Jurchen with their families, they would do this when they were full of food. He didn't believe that the Ming army in Shansongshan and Jinzhou was also hot-headed and responded to the Ming army in Shanhaiguan.

He only believes that Gao Huai has offended people and offended too many people, so he must be driven away.

A small thing is not enough to shake this Liaodong mine supervisor who has been in office since the twenty-seventh year of Wanli and has won the emperor's heart, if he wants to drive him away, it must be a big thing, a big thing enough to shock the government and the opposition, so that the emperor can no longer protect him.

Mutiny, apparently, is the most appropriate.

Now, Liangchen wants to know who Gao Huai has offended, and whether there is Li Chengliang behind this matter.

Knowing this, if he goes to Shanhaiguan again, he can at least know in his heart, so that he will not be blind in both ears and be led by others.

In that case, the opportunity he got by volunteering himself would become a joke.

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Yongping Mansion was called Yongping Road when it was pseudo-Yuan, and it was directly affiliated with Zhongshu Province.

Taizu expelled the Mongol Tartars, and after restoring China, he changed Yongping Road to Yongping Mansion, which was subordinate to the north and Zhili.

Yongping Mansion has jurisdiction over three counties and two guards, one of which is Shanhaiwei. The garrison of this mutiny came from Shanhaiwei.

The city of Yongping Mansion is located in Lu Long, and Gao Huai and his escaped entourage are hiding in Yongping City.

Because of the Shanhaiguan military mutiny, when the good ministers arrived at the city, the city gates were already closed. Judging from the dense soldiers on the city walls, it is clear that Yongping City has entered a state of first-level alert.

It is not difficult to understand that Yongping is the only place to pass through from Shanhaiguan to the capital, and if the mutinous Ming army takes the risk to attack the Beijing division, then Yongping will bear the brunt.

If Yongping is lost, of course, it is impossible for the rebels to really hit the capital, but the area around Gyeonggi may be eroded.

"Brother Tian, ask the people in the city to open the door." Liangchen beat the horse and stopped him, and told Tian Gang to call the door.

Tian Gang dismounted in response and walked to the city to call the door.

The defenders of the city had already seen the four of them.

In addition to the location of the capital city, Yongping is also the location of the command of Yongpingwei. A hundred households in the city were looking at Tian Gang who had walked to the bottom of the city, and found that it was a person from the Jinyi Guard, so he hurriedly asked the sergeant to open the city gate and let people in.

After Liangchen and his entourage entered the city, the hundred households brought people to greet them. Tian Gang and Li Wei showed their respective waist cards to Baihu, and Baihu walked in front of Liangchen and Li Yongzhen after verifying that it was correct.

Liangchen had already turned over from his horse and asked the hundred households: "Where is the high father-in-law of Liaodong Mine Supervisor?" We came from Beijing to see Gonggong Gao. ”

Because the beard of the good minister has not yet grown, and Li Yongzhen on the side is white and beardless, or the brocade guard escorted him, the hundred households are good ministers and people in the inner court, and they are busy saying: "Gao Gonggong and his party are now at the post station, and the envoy please come with me." ”

was regarded as a "middle envoy", and the good ministers did not explain, as long as the hundred households led the way.

Tian Gang and Li Wei didn't feel that there was anything wrong with the title of "middle envoy", because the head of this small case was indeed sent to Shanhaiguan by edict. Although the "middle envoy" mostly refers to the people in the palace, sometimes, it is not necessarily the father-in-law.

Li Yongzhen was only instructed to accompany Wei Liangchen to Shanhaiguan, and he didn't know anything else, so he wouldn't come forward to question anything at this time.

Because of the military mutiny, the whole city of Yongping was on alert, and there were no pedestrians and ordinary people on the streets, only teams of soldiers came and went, and strong men who were transporting all kinds of defensive ordnance to the city.

It didn't take long for Liangchen and his entourage to come to Yongpingyi under the guidance of the hundred households.

There are dozens of war horses eating forage in front of the post, and these horses are high-quality Mongolian elite horses at a glance, no worse than those imperial horses that Liangchen saw in Jishuitan Horse Farm.

I thought that Gao Huai had fled from Shanhaiguan, and there must not be much with him, but I didn't want to, there were dozens of men in strong suits outside the post station to protect him.

These men in strong suits are not wearing military uniforms, but all wearing red and black clothes, looking like both errand soldiers and soldiers, a little nondescript.

"Who are these people?" Liangchen asked Li Yongzhen in a low voice with a side face, but Li Yongzhen shook his head and didn't know.

Li Wei took a step forward and said in a low voice: "These are the strong men of Gonggong Gao's private placement in Liaodong. ”

"Private placement?" Liangchen was stunned.

Li Wei told Liangchen that in order to ensure the income of minerals and customs in various places, Gao Huai privately recruited nearly 1,000 strong men and selected hundreds of strong horses, forming an army of his own, which outsiders called "tax soldiers".

Although the number of tax soldiers is not large, the horses are good soldiers, and the pomp and circumstance of each dispatch are not small, with flags covering the field and cymbals and drums.

"Private soldiers, the court doesn't care?"

Liangchen was a little incomprehensible, saying that Gao Huai recruited a group of thugs to help him collect taxes and open mines, he could understand, but such a blatant private formation of a private army, it was too bold, right?

You know, this is not as simple as a bunch of thugs, but a full army. How much does it cost to raise an elite army of thousands of people?

If everyone could raise soldiers privately, the Ming Dynasty wouldn't fart sooner.

Li Weidao: "The head of the small case can know that Ma Lin, the former chief soldier of Jinzhou, once wrote a letter to impeach Gao Huai for privately recruiting horses, but Li Shuai falsely accused him of not being able to cooperate with his colleagues and playing with contempt, and as a result, he was dismissed by the imperial court and lived idle, and will never be used." ”

Ma Lin, the name Liangchen is familiar, this person is one of the four generals of the Ming army in the Battle of Salhu, and the Eight Banners of Nurhachi fought at Shangjian Cliff, both sons were killed, and finally Ma Lin fled back to Kaiyuan with only a few horses.

In this battle, Marin did his best.

Liaodong can be called handsome, except for Li Chengliang, Liangchen can't think of a second person.

Li Wei's information made Liangchen a little stunned, because according to his statement, it was obvious that Li Chengliang and Gao Huai were related, otherwise he would not have helped Gao Huai get rid of Marin. But in this case, how to explain the Shanhaiguan and Songjin military mutinies?

With Li Chengliang's influence in Liaodong, how could the rebellious armies of Shanhaiguan and Songjin bypass him and attack directly?

Liangchen couldn't figure it out.

Li Yongzhen said suddenly: "The imperial court doesn't care about private soldiers, but it can't control the mine supervisors and tax envoys." ”

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