"Please give an order to Your Majesty, and the ministers will be responsible for disaster relief and suppression of bandits. Then he issued an order to Hu Zongxian, ordering him to strictly guard against it, as long as the Japanese did not go ashore. Give Ma Fang an order to go to the north to hold on, no need to attack, consume food and grass, just hold on and block Goryeo.

Half!

As long as it persists for half a year, the Ming Dynasty will recover, and as long as there is no war between the north and the south for half a year, the minister will be sure to solve the problem. ”

"I'm ready!"

The decree went down one by one.

Xu Jie's power to provide disaster relief and suppression of bandits was deprived, and all disaster relief and suppression of bandits were handed over to Luo Xin. At the same time, Emperor Jiajing took out 700,000 taels of silver from the inner treasury and handed it to Luo Xin.

The order was given to Hu Zongxian, and the order was given to Ma Fang. Secretly issued an order to Luo Xin, with the power to cut first and then play, no matter who it is, as long as there is evidence, you can kill.

Luo Xin's first move in office was to transfer back all the officials sent by Xu Jie to supervise disaster relief. At this point, no one doubts. Everyone knows the relationship between Luo Xin and Xu Jie, now that Luo Xin is in power, how can he use Xu Jie's people?

Then, Luo Xin spent all 700,000 taels of silver on disaster relief, leaving not a single tael of silver for the army. Of course, the army is gone. Luo Xin met with the military representatives in a resolute manner, and when he came up, he asked a question.

"Can the grain and grass Xu Jie gave before support half a month?"

"Yes, but ......"

"No but!" Luo Xin interrupted them with a wave of his hand, "Your current task is not to suppress bandits, but to help evacuate the displaced people and supervise them, and you can't make them homeless. Then wait for my orders, and when the time comes, I will let you go to suppress the bandits, and you will go to the bandits. When the order is given, the grain and grass will naturally arrive, otherwise, you can refuse to send troops. I don't know if I have this credit in the military? ”

"Yes!" The military immediately nodded, Luo Xin's reputation and credibility in the military are really not covered, Luo Xin's words are even more credible than the emperor's words.

"But...... Even if they don't send troops, they can hold out for half a month, evacuate and supervise the displaced people, and the army will have to eat. ”

"There won't be half a month!"

This was only the morning of Luo Xin's first day in power, and he sent the military away, while 700,000 taels of disaster relief funds were being shipped. In Luo Xin's duty room, there were only two people at this time, one was Liu Shouyou and the other was Huang Jin. Luo Xin looked at Liu Shouyou and said:

"Lord Liu, you immediately secretly sent Jinyi Wei to supervise the officials of the seven provinces in the north and south, and all the corrupt ones have been given me a solid evidence. And arrange the manpower, wait for my order, immediately arrest people, and raid the house. ”

"Don't worry!" Liu Shouyou said confidently: "Our Jinyi guards are everywhere, and there are spies around those officials and in the mansion. And we already have information about their corruption. Your Majesty didn't look at it before, but if you want to see it, I'll give it to you right away. ”

"We have that here too!" Huang Jindao.

"Okay, send the information to me immediately. In addition, Gonggong Huang, you immediately send people from Dongchang to spread the news to the seven provinces that have been harassed by the rogues. Just tell those giant businessmen that there is a war between the north and the south in the Ming Dynasty, and there are not so many troops, so they can only slowly suppress the bandits. The real price is clear, and if that province pays one million taels of silver, he will go to that province to suppress the bandits first. ”

"Huh?" Huang Jin looked at Luo Xin in surprise.

"When the money arrives, send troops, or let them wait. When the rogues conquered the city, their lives were gone, and their wealth was gone. They will agree, a million taels of silver looks like a lot. But there are really not many in one province. There are too many merchants, families, and wealthy families in one province. How much money does each family have? ”

"Good!" Huang Jin became excited.

"It's the ugly thing to say!" Luo Xin said solemnly: "Don't let me find out that both of you are corrupt, whether it is Jinyiwei or Dongchang, if I find out about corruption, I will not report it to Your Majesty, kill it first." ”

The two of them couldn't help but feel a pang in their hearts, the two of them also realized the current situation of Daming at this time, and they could hear Luo Xin's seriousness. If they really dare to stretch out their hands, it is impossible to say that Luo Xin really beheaded them. They are now in the same camp as Luo Xin, so after Luo Xin saw them nodding, his expression eased and said:

"However, I will not treat you badly. There are some rules that I will follow. The merchants in charge of the East Factory, the family and the wealthy handed over a part of the silver, I will naturally keep a part of it and leave a share for Huang Gonggong. And the money that was arrested and stolen from the house, I will naturally leave a copy for Lord Liu. ”

The two of them immediately laughed, and Luo Xin said in a condensed voice: "What I leave you is to abide by the rules, and I hope you will also abide by the rules." In the future, the three of us will be rich and prosperous, and I don't want anything to happen before that that that I don't want to see. ”

"No, don't worry, we understand."

"Let's get started! I won't leave you to eat. Pressed for time. ”

Speaking of this, Luo Xin took out a letter and handed it to Liu Shouyoudao: "This is my letter to Hu Zongxian, send it as quickly as possible." ”

"No problem!" Liu Shouyou took the letter and said: "Don't worry about this time, it's noon, let's eat some together." ”

"I made an appointment with Ma Fang at noon. On the southeast side, Hu Zongxian's pressure was not great, after all, there was no sign of the Japanese invaders coming ashore. But the north is different. So, I'm going to talk to Ma Fang. Tomorrow Ma Fang will go to the north, and it will be too late if he doesn't talk about it. ”

"Okay, then you're busy, let's take our leave."

After Huang Jin and Liu Shouyou left, Luo Xin also simply cleaned up, came to the restaurant that he had made an appointment with Ma Fang, entered the box, and saw that Ma Fang had arrived, Luo Xin apologized and said:

"Brother Ma, I should have come early......"

Ma Fang laughed and got up and said, "No, don't be polite between us." Although we don't usually have much contact, we are comrades-in-arms who fight side by side. ”

"That's what Brother Ma said!"

Luo Xin and Ma Fang sat down, and the two of them did not talk about business immediately, but first drank three rounds and cooked five flavors, and then Luo Xin put down his chopsticks and said:

"Brother Ma, I went to the north this time to wronged you. With Brother Ma's ability, if you have enough supplies, you will not only be able to drive Goryeo away, but even lead an army into Goryeo. But now Daming has no money, so you can only hold on. ”

"I understand!" Ma Fang said solemnly: "However, if there is no food and grass all the time, I am afraid that I will not be able to hold on, and I will have to shrink the defense line." In this way, the territory will be lost. Step by step, Da Ming ......"

"Half a year! Just stick to it for half a year. Seeing Ma Fang's embarrassment, Luo Xin said again: "It's not that you can't retreat, but within half a year, you can only give up one military town, otherwise you will let Goryeo occupy too much territory, and it will be too big." ”

"No problem!" Ma Fang breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Isn't it half a year?" I can hold on. ”

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