In the seventh year of orthodoxy, on Chinese New Year's Eve, Hangzhou City was filled with fireworks, reflecting the sky red.

This is the first time Li Yuntian has celebrated the New Year in Hangzhou, and although officials of all sizes in Hangzhou's officialdom are trembling and trembling because of this, the people have not been affected, and they are still happily celebrating the New Year, and there are laughter and laughter everywhere.

In the backyard of the Hangzhou Division of the Wutang, Li Yuntian led the excited Li Shan to set off fireworks in the yard, Li Shan was so big or the first time he saw such a splendid fireworks scene, and he was very happy jumping and jumping there.

"Sister, when will you tell the truth to the prince?" Under the eaves on the side, Keiko Yamaguchi looked at the scene in front of her with a smile, Lin Xin walked over, glanced at Li Yuntian and Li Shanhou and asked quietly.

"What's the truth?" Keiko Yamaguchi was slightly stunned when she heard this, and looked at Lin Xin in some surprise, not knowing what she meant by this.

"Sister, don't you plan to let the little prince recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors? The little prince should know his life experience, and the prince should also know his life experience. Lin Xinwan smiled, her eyes fell on the happy Li Shan, if she didn't guess wrong, Li Shan should be Li Yuntian's son.

At first, Lin Xin also thought that Li Shan was the son of Keiko Yamaguchi and other men, but later, with the contact with Keiko Yamaguchi, she couldn't help but suspect that Li Shan had something to do with Li Yuntian.

Lin Xin once asked about Li Shan's birthday in private, and Li Shan's real birthday was not a year after Li Yuntian left the Wa Kingdom, but nine months after Li Yuntian left the Wa Kingdom.

Obviously, if Li Shan is the son of Keiko Yamaguchi and someone else, then there is no need for Keiko Yamaguchi to hide Li Shan's true birthday, and the reason she did this is nothing more than wanting to hide Li Shan's true identity: he is the son of Li Yuntian.

Lin Xin remembered one thing after carefully recalling, when Li Yuntian left the Wa Kingdom, Keiko Yamaguchi had a banquet to see him off, and Li Yuntian spent the night at Keiko Yamaguchi because he was not strong enough to drink, and it was probably Li Shan who was pregnant on that night when it was inferred from the time.

Moreover, with Lin Xin's understanding of Keiko Yamaguchi, Keiko Yamaguchi is arrogant and noble-born, how could she find a man to have children when her foothold in the country is not stable?

Coupled with the fact that Keiko Yamaguchi deliberately left Li Shan by Li Yuntian's side, Lin Xin can conclude that Li Shan is Li Yuntian's son, no wonder Li Shan and Li Yuntian are somewhat similar, if Li Yuntian's mother is there, she will find that Li Shan and Li Yuntian are almost carved out of the same mold when they were young.

"Let it be, it's fine now." Seeing that Lin Xin had pointed out Li Shan's identity, Keiko Yamaguchi was slightly stunned at first, and then replied with a gloomy expression, she really didn't want to tell Li Yuntian about it, and Li Yuntian was very good to Li Shan, and she was already very satisfied.

Lin Xin can understand Keiko Yamaguchi's loss and helplessness, judging from Li Yuntian's reaction, she doesn't know Li Shan's life experience at all, maybe there are some unknown secrets in this, which makes it difficult for Keiko Yamaguchi to speak.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the civil and military officials of Hangzhou City above the fifth grade came to pay New Year's greetings to Li Yuntian, and Hangzhou City was the provincial capital of Zhejiang, and the Zhejiang Political Envoy Division, the Zhejiang Inspectorate Division, the Zhejiang Metropolitan Division, the Zhejiang Governor and the Zhejiang Governor Imperial History and others arrived one after another.

If it was left in normal times, the officials of Hangzhou City would definitely welcome Li Yuntian as a guest, but now it is different, although these officials did not say it, Li Yuntian knew that they must wish that he would leave as soon as possible.

In fact, some of these officials in Hangzhou City are all soldiers, and the reason why Li Yuntian came to Hangzhou was purely for vacation, the so-called heaven and Suzhou and Hangzhou, he wanted to come to Hangzhou to enjoy the beauty of the winter snow scene, and take a good rest before the reply from the imperial court arrived.

Because the matters mentioned in the recital are of great importance and involve the interests of various factions in the capital, Li Yuntian does not know when the capital will be able to reply to him, and there will definitely be arguments about this matter in the court.

Therefore, Li Yuntian is not in a hurry now, patiently waiting for the results of the imperial court's feedback, and by the way, he will give himself a big vacation and wander around the Jiangnan area.

Once those civil and military magnates in the court vetoed Li Yuntian's superiority, then he would have to attack those corrupt officials in Jiangnan and turn the officialdom in Jiangnan upside down.

At that time, Li Yuntian will promote the reform of the imperial examination, make the imperial examination an entrance examination for entering professional schools, and cultivate professionals from all walks of life for the Ming Dynasty.

Judging from the current governance situation in Jiaozhi, Guangxi, and even Liaodong and Guanxi, the military attachés of the Wutang are more capable of governing than those civil officials who were born in the imperial examination, and they are energetic, diligent and pragmatic, and often go deep into the common people to solve practical problems.

Therefore, if Li Yuntian proposed to the imperial court that a military attache from the Jiangnantang family should take over the Jiangnan officialdom, or take over a part of the Jiangnan officialdom, on the grounds that the Jiangnan officialdom was seriously corrupt, the civilian-bureaucratic clique would encounter a very big problem.

"Lord Wang, there is good news from Songjiang Mansion that one of the traitor Gu Chen's comrades surrendered to Songjiangwei, and Songjiangwei found a batch of hidden explosives according to his confession."

Just when Li Yuntian was chatting and laughing with the high-ranking civil and military officials of Hangzhou City who had come to the hundred-year-old in the living room in the backyard of the Hangzhou Division's Office of the Lecture Hall, Lin Xin walked in quickly, bowed down and said in a coquettish voice, "According to what the defector said, after this batch of explosives was seized, Gu Chen only had the last batch left in his hand. ”

"Good!" Li Yuntian couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this, what made him feel jealous was the explosives in Gu Chen's hands, these explosives were extremely powerful, and once they were used by Gu Chen to sabotage, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"Congratulations to the prince, congratulations to the prince, the traitor Gu Chen is now exhausted, and the rebels have left, and he is powerless to stir up any more storms, and he will definitely fall into the legal net in time." When the civil and military officials present heard that Gu Chen's men had taken the initiative to surrender, they all opened their mouths to congratulate Li Yuntian, believing that this was a great joy and indicating that Gu Chen was not far from extinction.

In order to catch Gu Chen, Li Yuntian had people post notices in the yamen in the Jiangnan area, saying that all Gu Chen's comrades who took the initiative to surrender to the government would be exempted from death, and those who had made great contributions would be commuted.

In fact, since the fall of the Northern Yuan, Gu Chen's subordinates have been fluctuating in people's hearts and have lost confidence in the future, and in their opinion, they have become ownerless duckweed, drifting with the tide.

Gu Chen naturally knew that the thoughts of his subordinates were fluctuating, so he cooperated with Chen Guangzong, wanting to take down Li Yuntian in one fell swoop before the people's hearts were scattered.

However, with the failure of the sneak attack on the county seat of Linyun County, Gu Chen's subordinates have realized that there is no chance to assassinate Li Yuntian in the future, coupled with the encirclement and suppression of the Jiangwutang Supervision Department, some people's psychological defense line collapsed, and finally chose to be sentenced Gu Chen to surrender to Daming.

Li Yuntian was very pleased with this, according to the information he had, Gu Chen still had the last batch of explosives left in his hand, as long as the whereabouts of the last batch of explosives were traced, then Gu Chen's threat would be greatly reduced.

Lin Xin had already ordered the Wutang Supervision Department to arrest Gu Chen's subordinates in the entire Jiangnan, because the level of the mutineer was very high and he knew a lot of top-secret information, so it was foreseeable that Gu Chen's intelligence network in Jiangnan would be dealt a heavy blow, which would make Gu Chen's strength even weaker.

In addition to Gu Chen's weakened strength, Li Yuntian also encountered something to be happy about, that is, people from the business community in Jiangnan donated two million taels of silver to Linyun County, which was destroyed in the war, for the post-disaster reconstruction of Linyun County, which greatly reduced the burden on the imperial court.

Although people in the officialdom were resistant to Li Yuntian's tax reform, people in the business community strongly supported his tax reform, and it was of great benefit to the business circles whether it was to regain the right to levy taxes or to apportion the land into the acreage.

In this way, the merchants will no longer have to be levied by the yamen with a variety of taxes, and with the abolition of the poll tax, the landless people in Jiangnan will be liberated, and then the development of commerce will be promoted.

In fact, the reason why Li Yuntian only presumed the tax reform in the Jiangnan area was closely related to the prosperous economy and developed commerce in Jiangnan, so that the market could absorb the surplus labor force liberated from the land, otherwise the surplus labor force would have no place to replace, which would cause many social problems.

What is particularly important is that the attitude of the Jiangnan business community will have an important impact on the official group of the imperial court, because the various factions of the imperial court have more or less ties with the Jiangnan business community, and as the Jiangnan business becomes more and more prosperous, the various forces of the imperial court will obtain more and more benefits and account for more and more of their income.

For this reason, Li Yuntian actually gave a choice question to the various forces in the imperial court, depending on whether they chose to profit from Jiangnan's taxes or Jiangnan's commerce.

If we look at the overall situation, we will find that Li Yuntian did not rashly promote the tax reform in Jiangnan this time, he deprived the civil official clique of the benefits obtained in taxation, and at the same time compensated them commercially, and the interests of the civil and official clique did not suffer much damage during the long term.

Moreover, the profits from business not only grew rapidly, but also very safely, and as long as the merchants paid their business taxes on time and in full, few people bothered them.

In the final analysis, in Li Yuntian's view, the current tax reform in Jiangnan is actually a conflict of interests, and Li Yuntian has given those civil official groups enough benefits, and if they are still insatiable, don't blame him for being polite.

This time, the Jiangnan business community took the opportunity of the post-disaster reconstruction of Linyun County to express their support for the reform of the Jiangnan tax system, which is bound to have a significant impact on the officialdom of the capital.

"Lord Wang, the new Governor Zhao of Songjiang Mansion came with a family to pay New Year's greetings to the prince." On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, when Li Yuntian was teaching Li Shan to practice swords in the courtyard, Lin Xin came to tell him.

Zhao Dezhang naturally refers to Zhao Dezhang, the official document of the Ministry of Officials and the Criminal Department to Zhao Dezhang has been issued years ago, Zhao Dezhang not only recovered his official status, but also because of the lack of officials in Songjiang Mansion, he was seriously lucky to be promoted to the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture, jumping four levels in a row.

In Li Yuntian's view, the officialdom of Songjiang Mansion has been greatly damaged after this catastrophe, and it needs an official who is familiar with the local situation to govern, and no five-grade official wants to come to Songjiang Mansion to be an official, so it is better to promote Zhao Dezhang, who has a very high prestige in the local area, to clean up this mess.

"Let them in." Li Yuntian couldn't help but smile when he heard this, Zhao Dezhang came just in time this time, and he was about to instruct Zhao Dezhang about some matters related to the reconstruction of Linyun County.