Chapter 283 The wind is rising (Part 1)

Taking advantage of Zhou Yongcheng's attempt to summon Li Weilie, Yinzuo carefully passed Li Weilie's resume, roughly learned about this person's experience as an official, and thought in his heart how to deal with this person. To be honest, Yinzuo has been in this dynasty for many years and has met many officials of all sizes, but as the minister of Shangshang, he always felt uncomfortable when he met officials. It was nothing else. When he met officials in other places, he was the imperial envoy, and he was extremely noble. He could not tolerate any refutation. But now Yinzuo is a minister of Shangshang, which is different. The main thing is not to say but to listen and ask. Both listening and asking must be skilled, ask ideas, and hear the authenticity of the officials' words. This task is actually not simple.

Li Weilie, whose courtesy name was Zuoheng, was from Jinan, Shandong. He was a Jinshi in the 24th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi. He served as the magistrate of Wanxian County, Henan, the prefect of Taiyuan, Shanxi, Niutai, and Fantai. He was still an honest official and had excellent performance every year. However, this person was upright by nature, not good at socializing, and had no support in the court. He had been in Yunnan for nearly ten years and was already a governor, but he had never been transferred from Yunnan. This time he went to the capital to report his duties, and he was still his governor when he returned. In fact, he had no hope for transfer or promotion.

This is the time when the emperor resigned. Li Weilie had arrived outside the palace room early in the morning waiting for the summons. However, he did not expect that the person who summoned him this time was Prince Yi Yinzuo. Regarding this famous prince, Li Weilie had heard Shi Shilun talk about it a lot, and he also knew that Yinzuo had always been cruel and was ruthless in dealing with the officials who made mistakes. There were at least two or three hundred local officials who fell to Yinzuo's hands, although Li Weilie still had his own achievements.

He was very proud, but he couldn't help but feel a little beaten. After hearing the summons, he didn't dare to neglect. He ran into the court room all the way. However, he was not careful and let the threshold mix and almost fell down. Fortunately, Zhou Yongcheng, who was following behind, was quick and pulled him, but he didn't make a fool of himself. However, his dark old face had turned red and stood there stupidly, and forgot to come forward to greet Yinzuo for a while.

Hey, this old Comrade Li is really a honest person. He actually blushed and it’s a bit interesting. Yinzuo looked at Li Weilie’s helpless look and felt a little funny. He smiled and said, “Mr. Li, this is the palace, but the gold bricks on the ground are not made of gold. Don’t try it, it’s just a blue brick. Haha… Come on, sit down and talk.”

Seeing that Yinzuo did not mean to blame him for being rude, Li Weilie immediately relaxed and smiled mockly, saying, "Xiaguan lost his case and called the prince laughing. Xiaguan didn't have the courage to pry the bricks from the palace and go to his own house."

"Haha, Lord Li has been in Yunnan for many years, and it can be considered to be connected to Yunnan. I don't know much about Yunnan, so I ask Lord Li to tell me about the customs of Yunnan?" Seeing that although Li Weilie had already left his seat, Yinzuo still looked a little embarrassed, he casually asked about the customs of Yunnan. Yinzuo's words were true, although Yinzuo had visited Yunnan a lot in his previous life, Dianchi Lake, Lijiang and other scenic spots, but have they been to Yunnan for a long time in his previous life.

I am not unfamiliar with Yunnan, but that was a matter of my previous life after all. Yinzuo was really not sure what Yunnan is going on now. The purpose of asking this is not to really want to understand the customs and culture of Yunnan. It just wanted Li Weilie to relax his nerves while speaking. But unexpectedly, when Li Weilie talked about Yunnan, he kept talking endlessly, and Yinzuo was stunned.

Yunnan is a very beautiful place, but at this time, Yunnan is a poor and bad place with poor waters. The seedlings and Han live in mixed places, and the situation is complicated. The Miao people also have a different division of mature seedlings and raw seedlings. The mature seedlings are good, and they occasionally pay personal taxes. But once they are forced to force them, it is light to gather people to resist taxes. Even if they raise troops to attack the county government, they have done a lot of work. As for the seedlings, they don’t even take the government seriously. They always kill officials who dare to enter the mountains to collect taxes. At this moment, many counties in Yunnan said that there are government officials, but in fact there are no officials at all. The county magistrate sent was either killed or fled. The entire Yunnan, that is, the surrounding area of ​​Kunming, is considered a place of royal transformation, and other places are in a mess without a rule of law.

The past governors of Yunnan have focused on suppression. Once Miao people are in trouble, they will launch large troops to fight against the enemy without asking the reason. However, the mountains are high and dense forests are very impressive. Since Shi Shilun took office, he has adopted a policy of focusing on comfort, running schools and educating the people, encouraging the reclaiming of wasteland, sending officials to teach the people to use various agricultural tools, abolishing various tyrants and miscellaneous taxes, and trying to reduce the burden on the people. He has made certain achievements, at least expanding the land of the kingdom a lot, and the local economy has improved a little. But the problem is that Shi Shilun's method has not been recognized by the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou Cai Ting. Cai Ting has always advocated tough policies to shock the local Miao people with killing.

Cai and Shi had different political views, so the problem would be troublesome. Shi Shilun finally comforted the place, but Cai Ting sent troops to attack the Miao villages from time to time. This fight defeated Shi Shilun's achievements that had been busy for a long time. It would be strange if the relationship between the two was good. If Shilun was not recommended by Yinzuo, Cai Ting would not dare to move lightly. Otherwise, I was afraid that Cai Ting would have impeached Shi Shilun long ago. In Yunnan, eight governors were replaced in seven years. Except for one person who was worried, the rest of the others were defeated by Cai Ting. Cai Ting was not in harmony with each other. However, this time, the matter of spreading the diary and diary in Yunnan was completely broken out. The cause was that Shi Shilun toughly promoted the diary and diary in Yunnan and paid food together with officials and gentry.

In Li Weilie's words, ordinary people and even mature seedlings in Yunnan agreed with this move, and these two laws did reduce the burden on the local people, but the rich local households stopped doing it and joined forces to disagree. They did not agree to this matter. Not only did they explicitly obstruct the work of measuring land, but they also injured many officials and yamen runners who dared to carry out the matter. Cai Ting, who held heavy troops, not only did not come forward to control the situation, but instead called Shi Shilun and scolded him. The relationship between the two sides was extremely bad. I heard that Cai Ting had secretly impeached Shi Shilun, but Li Weilie was not very clear about the specific situation.

Yinzuo, a man from Cai Ting, had seen him, and knew something about him. Comrade Cai was a good man in war. After pacifying the Three Feudals, he was in charge of Yunnan. He has been in charge of Yunnan and has been highly appreciated by Mr. Kangxi. However, this man is stubborn and has never tolerated others. In addition, he is a military general and has always despised civil servants. Not to mention officials from Yunnan and Guizhou, even the minister of the study room did not take it seriously, and he only obeyed Mr. Kangxi. Shi Shilun was admitted for two years before he was in office. This is a big miracle. It is probably because of the face of Prince Yinzuo. He participated. But the problem is that he has never heard of Mr. Kangxi mention this matter, and Yinzuo didn't know what Mr. Kangxi was thinking in his heart. However, no matter what, Mr. Shi is afraid that he will not be able to stay in Yunnan unless Yinzuo can match Cai Ting.

"In Lord Li's opinion, should the money that can be deposited into a mu of people be implemented in Yunnan?" Yinzuo asked suddenly after hearing Li Weilie's introduction.

"This..." Li Weilie was embarrassed and dared not continue to say it. This was normal. If it involves such national policies, one had to be cautious in speaking, and no one could understand what the holy intention was. Besides, Li Weilie was just a governor, so it was not his turn to consider such a major event.

Hey, damn, this question is embarrassing. When Yinzuo saw Li Weilie's hesitation look, he realized that Meng Lang was asking this question. No one dared to answer Faren. He immediately laughed and said in a different way: "Oh, Lord Li has been in Yunnan for a long time. In Lord Li's opinion, how can Yunnan be self-sufficient?"

The court allocated nearly one million taels of silver for Yunnan every year. Li Weilie, who was in charge of Yunnan's finances, knew it. At this time, when Yinzuo asked about this topic, he felt a little embarrassed. He thought for a while and said, "The officials thought that if they could implement the distribution of vacancies and the officials and gentry could achieve success. In addition, they educated the people to change their old customs of slash-and-burn farming, encouraged the opening of land, teach the skills of farming, focus on tuition and suppression as the auxiliary, and gradually transformed the seedlings into mature seedlings, and finally implemented the land to return to the flow. Yunnan Province should be able to be self-sufficient." After a pause, he said, "The people in Yunnan are tough, and rely on tuition or suppression alone cannot be achieved. This is just a foolish opinion of the officials."

Well, Comrade Li seems to understand Yunnan politics very well, and his dark face proves that this person is not a pampered person. He is afraid that he will walk down there a lot on his daily life. Lao Shi also praised this person's talent when he wrote to him. It seems that he should be a capable official. Lao Shi and Cai Ting have had such a stalemate. It is probably not easy for Yunnan to stay there. It is better to move a seat for Lao Shi. Yinzuo thought for a while and said, "Well, if Lord Li is the governor of Yunnan, he can be self-sufficient within a few years. Oh, I just ask casually, not the sage of the emperor. Lord Li just needs to be a little casual."

After careful calculation, Li Weilie said: "In three years, there are so many officials who dare not say that, but this will definitely be done within three years. But there is one thing that Lord Cai is not allowed to send troops to suppress Miao villages at will, otherwise even if the officials have been in ten years, they will be powerless."

"Oh." Yinzuo nodded without commenting, "So, Lord Li will go back to the post station first. After I ask the emperor for instructions, let me see what the emperor has to decide?"
Chapter completed!