In the evening, Li Yuntian stayed with Zhao Dezhang's family for dinner, which was regarded as an encouragement to Zhao Dezhang, hoping that he could handle the things he had explained well and properly handle the affairs of the officials and servants of Songjiang Mansion.

Zhao Dezhang was flattered by this, and never imagined that Li Yuntian would hold a banquet to invite him, you must know that Li Yuntian is now prominent, and no one can have this honor.

During the banquet, Li Yuntian and Zhao Dezhang's family talked and laughed happily, and treated people very affectionately, and there was no prince at all, which made the people of the Zhao family feel a little relaxed.

"Lord Wang, the lower officials can settle their grievances this time and rely on the prince, and the lower officials have nothing to reciprocate, they are willing to let the little girl serve the prince, and I hope that the prince can fulfill the lower officials." After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Zhao Dezhang, who was already a little drunk, turned around and said to Li Yuntian with an expectant face.

The "little girl" in Zhao Dezhang's mouth naturally refers to Butterfly Dance, Butterfly Dance was originally whispering something to Lin Xin, and when she heard this, her cheeks flushed with shame, and she lowered her head and didn't dare to look at Li Yuntian.

Li Yuntian not only has both ability and political integrity but also looks dignified, he is a hero and idol in the minds of countless girls in the Ming Dynasty, and Diewu is naturally willing to stay by Li Yuntian's side.

"It's just a gesture, why bother?" Li Yuntian was slightly stunned when he heard this, he didn't expect Zhao Dezhang to say this, and then waved his hand to Zhao Dezhang with a smile and said, "Miss Zhao has suffered a lot in the past few years after being an official eunuch, and she should live her own life." ”

Hearing this, a look of loss suddenly flashed on Diewu's face, and she secretly felt sad, it seemed that she and Li Yuntian were fated to have nothing to do.

"The prince is humble and full of admiration." Zhao Dezhang couldn't help but sigh in his heart, it seemed that Butterfly Dance did not follow Li Yuntian's blessings, and then bowed to Li Yuntian and said.

In fact, Zhao Dezhang has long been ready to be rejected by Li Yuntian, and Li Yuntian should not leave Butterfly Dance in public or private, otherwise he will give people a handle, making the outside world think that Li Yuntian overturned the case for Zhao Dezhang in order to covet Butterfly Dance's beauty.

Lin Xin noticed the loss of Butterfly Dance, and couldn't help but shake her head secretly in her heart, and glanced at Li Yuntian faintly, with mixed feelings in her heart, and an indescribable gloom lingering in her heart.

After the Lantern Festival, Li Yuntian left Hangzhou City and began to inspect the state capitals in the south of the Yangtze River, which made the officials of Hangzhou City large and small couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and finally sent away Li Yuntian, the evil god.

Since Li Yuntian overturned the case for Zhao Dezhang, the officials of Jiangnan officialdom have been staring at his every move, and when the corrupt officials and corrupt officials in Songjiang Mansion were wiped out by Wang Lu, those officials knew that Li Yuntian had moved his true character this time, so the rumors were loud and trembling, and for a time the atmosphere of Jiangnan officialdom was clear, and countless unjust cases were rehabilitated.

Of course, it is not those officials who have a conscience to find that they have redressed unjust cases, but they are wary of those unjust people in their territory who have suffered unjustly injustices to file a complaint with Li Yuntian, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

As for those local heroes who bully others, they have also tried to solve the incidents left in the past and wipe their buttocks well, Li Yuntian will not even let go of those local officials, let alone them, no one wants to bump into Li Yuntian's hands.

Li Yuntian couldn't be clear about the thoughts of those magistrates, but he didn't have the heart to trouble those guys now, as long as they could do a good job in their respective hands, he would turn a blind eye and let those officials go for the time being, and at the same time, he was also putting pressure on the civilian clique in the capital.

In mid-February, Li Yuntian unexpectedly received an urgent report from the imperial court, which had nothing to do with his Jiangnan tax reform and involved diplomatic matters.

It turned out that a few years ago, Li Jue, the prince of Joseon, and Li Yao, the prince of Shouyang, sent envoys almost at the same time, asking the orthodox emperor to canonize him as the new king of Joseon, and calling each other a usurper and a thief, begging the orthodox emperor to send troops to exterminate the other party.

Since the rebellion broke out in Korea and the death of the Joseon king Yi Ji in the rebellion, Li Jue and Yi Ji accused each other of being the mastermind behind the rebellion, and issued notices throughout the country to arrest each other.

As a result, the civil and military officials of the Joseon State had to fight in this contest for the supreme power of the Joseon Kingdom, and Li Jue and Yi Jue each received the support of many courtiers and families, and their armies fought fiercely throughout the Joseon Kingdom.

Since Li Jue and Li Jue did not have the strength to destroy each other, they asked for help from the Ming Dynasty, wanting to gain recognition from the orthodox emperor and use the power of the Ming Dynasty to destroy the other party.

Although there is no explicit rule in the court, in view of the fact that Li Yuntian has dominated the foreign wars of the Ming Dynasty in the past ten years, the Empress Dowager Zhang naturally wants to ask Li Yuntian's opinion for Li Yuntian's request for help, and none of the civil and military officials in the capital are as good at diplomatic matters as Li Yuntian.

Li Yuntian had long expected that Li Yao and Li Jue would ask Daming for help, but he felt that the strength of the two was still there, so Daming had not yet reached the time to intervene in this matter, and it was most appropriate to wait for both sides to lose, and at that time Daming would completely control the situation in the Korean Kingdom.

Along with this urgent report, there was also an official document, which was related to the Wa State, because Chen Guangzong led the Japanese soldiers to invade the Ming Dynasty, and wanted to murder the loyal king of the Ming Dynasty, so the officials in the capital wrote to the orthodox emperor, hoping that the orthodox emperor would send troops to the Wa State and give the Wa State a lesson.

Even those civil officials of the Ming Dynasty are generous, and they hate Chen Guangzong's behavior of bullying the door of the Ming Dynasty this time, not to mention that the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty have no good impression of the Japanese State, so they naturally have to use force to solve this matter.

Speaking of which, the most urgent solution to this matter was the noble group of the imperial court, in other words, the governors of the major prefectures wanted to wash away the shame of the defeat of the Western Regions through the war of the Japanese state.

Of course, if these governors wanted to lead troops to the Wa Kingdom, they would not be able to do without the support of the Shobudo, and without the military ports established by the Shobudo on Ryukyu Island and the Wa Kingdom, as well as the powerful fleet of the Naval Division, it would be very difficult to cross the sea and expedition against the Wa Kingdom.

Li Yuntian knew that those nobles wanted to prove their strength in a hurry, but in his opinion, now was not the best time to attack the Wa Kingdom.

According to Li Yuntian's plan, if you want to take the Wa Kingdom, you should first solve the Korean Kingdom, and use the Korean Kingdom as a springboard to launch an attack on the Wa Kingdom, which will be the most powerful for the Ming Dynasty.

Since there was a sea between the Wa Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty, Li Yuntian believed that if he attacked the Wa State, he could not rush to achieve success, but should advance step by step and step by step.

Most importantly, the two warlord factions led by Hosokawa Katsumoto and Yamana Toyoshi were in a fierce confrontation for control of the future shogunate, and the intervention of the Ming army at this time would make the two sides abandon hostility and unite with the outside world, which was definitely not what he wanted to see.

Therefore, Li Yuntian presented his views on the Korean kingdom and the Wa kingdom to the orthodox emperor, explaining the advantages and disadvantages of them, and in his opinion, it was not the time to deal with the Wa kingdom.

Li Yuntian couldn't help but feel a little fortunate at this time, now the Weisho army in the northern region is in full swing of reorganization, and it will not be able to form combat effectiveness in two or three years, which makes those governors who are eager to try it have to press down on the idea of sending troops, otherwise Li Yuntian estimates that it will be difficult to stop those governors who are bent on saving face.

In fact, after all these years of conquest, it is an indisputable fact that the Weisuo army is defeated by the Xiaowu army, but people want to face trees and bark, and the governors of the five armies can never admit that their soldiers are worse than the Xiaowu army, and the difference is just the training method.

In order to appease those governors, Li Yuntian made a euphemistic promise in the above letter that if he wanted to attack the Wa State in the future, then the main force attacking the Wa State would be the Weisuo Army, and the Ming Army's naval division would be responsible for assisting.

From Li Yuntian's point of view, although he is the founder of the Xiaowu Army, as the loyal king of the Ming Dynasty, he must consider the problem from the overall situation, and cannot favor one over the other, only in this way can the Xiaowu Army and the Weisuo Army coexist, and at the same time give those governors a face.

It was precisely because of Li Yuntian's promise that the Weisuo army would attack the Wa State in the future that the governors of the five armies finally settled down, they had not won a battle for all these years, and they always had to save face through a war.

At the same time, those governors were also full of admiration for Li Yuntian, and it could be seen that Li Yuntian was not biased towards Xiaowujun, which also made them relieved.

In late March, Li Yuntian finally waited for what he wanted, and the orthodox emperor officially issued an order to carry out tax reform in the Jiangnan area, return the power of tax collection in the Jiangnan area to the imperial court, and abolish the poll tax, and implement the policy of apportioning the land into the mu.

Because this holy decree is too important, the people who came to deliver the decree are not small, it is Yang Pu, the auxiliary minister of the cabinet, Yang Pu came to Jiangnan this time not only to deliver the decree, but also to sit in Jiangnan, appease the officials of Jiangnan officialdom, and solve a series of problems brought about by tax reform.

One of the most important is that once the yamen in those places in the south of the Yangtze River lose the power to collect taxes, how to deal with the officials and servants in the yamen in various places, and where the money to feed these people comes from.

Li Yuntian and Yang Pu are naturally old acquaintances, Li Yuntian had a good friendship with Yang Pu when he was not yet ambitious, and later after Yang Pu entered the cabinet, the friendship between the two went further.

When Yang Pu arrived in Yangzhou, Li Yuntian, who had already received the news, personally went to the wharf to greet him and held a grand reception banquet for Yang Pu, which was attended by officials from various ministries and courts in Nanjing.

This time, the orthodox emperor ordered the tax reform, which had the greatest impact on the major ministries and courtyards in Nanjing, which meant that they would lose the greatest power in their hands - taxation, so Yang Pu had to come to suppress the field.

Although the officials of the major ministries in Nanjing were unwilling, they were helpless, after all, the orthodox emperor would give an order, which meant that the major forces in the capital had reached an agreement on the issue of tax innovation in Jiangnan, even if they objected, it was useless, in the final analysis, the major ministries and institutes in the capital were the central yamen of the Ming Dynasty, and they were just foils.

Even so, the complaints of the yamen officials of the major ministries and courts in Nanjing must be indispensable, Li Yuntian smiled indifferently at this, and he couldn't help but let those people give their anger.