After Yang Feng left the study, he did not go back to the inner courtyard to accompany several daughters-in-law, but went directly to the governor's yamen.

After hearing the news, Xia Dayan personally came to the door and welcomed Yang Feng in.

It stands to reason that Xia Dayan, as the governor of a province, can be regarded as a serious feudal official, so there is no need to put on such a low posture, but Xia Dayan also has his own considerations.

Not to mention that last year, due to Zheng Zhilong's large-scale invasion of Haikou, his position as governor has been crumbling, but fortunately, Yang Feng's arrival helped him stabilize his position, and due to the opening of the customs, both the silver in his hand and the taxes paid began to surge.

For this reason, Zhu Youxiao has publicly praised him in the court, and he owes Yang Feng a great favor for this.

That's it, the most important thing is that now Yang Feng, who has money in his hands and military power, has become a general trend, and he is the Marquis of Jiangning, it can be said that Yang Feng has become a decisive force in the southeast coastal area, how can Xia Dayan not lower his profile.

Yang Feng was welcomed into the signing room, and the servants hurriedly served two cups of tea.

Yang Feng took a sip and praised: "Yes, it is the taste of Longjing before the rain, Lord Xia will really enjoy it." ”

Xia Dayan smiled dumbly: "At this time, Longjing before the rain is indeed a rare commodity, and there are less than two catties left here in Xiaguan, but if Hou Ye likes to wait for Xiaguan to let someone wrap you a catty." ”

"Then there's Lord Rausha."

Yang Feng is also not polite, for people of their level, this is just a greeting before talking about business, and the reason why he said this is just to find an excuse.

After the greetings, Yang Feng put down the teacup, stared at Xia Dayan, and said, "Lord Xia, this Benhou came to you today because I want to discuss something with you." ”

Xia said with a straight face: "Master Hou, please speak!" ”

"That's right, when Benhou went out of the city to welcome the first batch of people who migrated from Shanxi......"

Yang Feng told Xia Dayan about what happened today, and finally said: "The land in the northwest has always been barren, and it can't support many people, so a few days ago, Ben Hou asked His Majesty to migrate 200,000 to 300,000 people from Shaanxi and Shanxi to Taiwan.

His Majesty not only agreed to this excerpt, but also ordered the household department to allocate one million taels of silver as the cost of this migration, but now it seems that the government of Shaanxi and Shanxi not only did not seriously carry out His Majesty's will, but took the opportunity to make a windfall.

If it is allowed to develop like this, the plan to migrate the people this time is afraid that it will be in danger of dying halfway. ”

Xia Dayan also sighed and shook his head helplessly.

Although he can be regarded as an old fritter who has been polishing in officialdom for half his life, even he feels that this matter is a bit too much today.

It's nothing to be greedy as an official these days, after all, everyone is greedy, if you are not greedy, it will look different.

But everything must have a scale, it's nothing if you are greedy for some silver, but it is too much to stuff all the silver into your own pocket, and this is not counted, these officials not only greed the silver allocated by the court, but even the life-saving silver of the people who sell their fields and houses must be robbed, this is no longer a matter of greedy for some silver, but it is a matter of knocking on the bones and sucking the marrow, and it is not good to provoke the people to revolt.

How majestic the Great Qin was defeated by Qin Shi Huang back then, but since the death of Qin Shi Huang, in just over ten years, it was overthrown by a group of mud legs who shouted "The prince will have a kind of Ningning".

It is necessary to take precautions against the lessons of the past, so since then, the popular rebellion has become the most taboo and the most worrying thing for those in power.

Not to mention anything else, in another time and space, wasn't the Ming Dynasty overthrown by Li Zicheng, a mud-legged man from a post boy?

After a long groan, Xia Dayan brushed his beard and asked, "Master Hou, what can the lower officials do?" ”

Yang Feng knew what Xia Dayan meant, I was only the governor of Fujian, but I couldn't manage places like Shanxi and Shaanxi, so I really couldn't help it.

He shook his head, "Lord Xia, Ben Hou had already written an excerpt before he came, asking His Majesty to send an inspector to the Imperial History to conduct a thorough investigation into the incident of embezzling ink and migrating silver.

One counts as one, and all of them are strictly dealt with from top to bottom, and they kill a hundred of them to establish authority, and at the same time tell those people that some money cannot be taken, and if they are taken, they will be paid. ”

Xia Dayan couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this, this is so murderous. also killed him a hundred people, since the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, there has never been a case of killing so many people in one breath for the case of greedy ink, this person will kill hundreds of people as soon as he opens his mouth, so it doesn't make the people in the court panic.

"Master Hou, that's what I said, but we have rules. According to the usual practice, when these silver came out of the household, they were not given enough, and one million taels of silver were sent to the following to have 900,000 taels, which was usually only given eighty percent.

After arriving at the governor's level of yamen, one layer should be intercepted, and the government office, county government, and those officials should be intercepted again. In this way, it is intercepted layer by layer, and finally reaches the hands of the people, which can generally be about forty percent.

If you encounter a black-hearted person, it is not impossible to leave two percent. But it's rare to see someone like this one who is greedy for ink! ”

Speaking of this, even Xia Dayan, who was accustomed to seeing the darkness of officialdom, shook his head again and again.

As the old saying goes, leave a line for doing things and see each other in the future, and you can't do anything too much, otherwise it will lead to unpredictable consequences, and the appearance of local officials in Shanxi and Shaanxi is really too ugly.

Seeing that Xia Dayan still didn't forget to speak for those people at this time, Yang Feng couldn't help but feel a little unhappy in his heart.

"Speaking of which, Lord Xia has also withheld the money allocated by the imperial court before?"

"This ......" Xia Dayan blushed, this kind of thing has been done by anyone who is an official, and he is naturally no exception, but compared with the officials in those places in Shanxi, his appearance is not so ugly.

Seeing Xia Dayan talking about him left and right, Yang Feng didn't think much of it, this kind of thing can't be solved even in the twenty-first century, let alone this era.

He thought for a while, "That's it, Lord Xia, this official and you will hand over the fold to Your Majesty, report this matter to Your Majesty, and ask Your Majesty to investigate this matter strictly, what do you think?" ”

"As it should be!"

Xia Dayan hurriedly agreed, anyway, this kind of thing is effortless, it's just an excerpt, it's not much more difficult for him than eating a meal, so why not do it.

Seeing Xia Dayan agree, Yang Feng's face finally showed a smile.

At this time, he asked on a whim: "Lord Xia, do you think it would be more effective to let the political envoys, the envoys, the inspectors, the inspectors, the governor of Fujian and other local officials jointly write on this matter?" ”

"This ......"

Xia Dayan couldn't help but be startled when he heard this, if it was just him and Yang Feng who were on the fold or just an isolated phenomenon, if it included the political envoys, the envoys, the inspectors, the inspectors and the governors were all impeached, this matter would be a big trouble.