After the New Year, the most beloved imperial concubine gave birth to her youngest son. Wanli, who could still have a child in her old age, was naturally very happy. She felt that she was extremely young and could live for decades.

But everything in the world is very happy. Just as the ninth prince was about to finish his month old, several major events happened one after another, which made Wanli very annoyed.

One thing is that the former chief assistant Ye Xiangqiu said hello to Gao Yi and cleaned up the bedding and left;

One is that Wu Daonan, who was originally scheduled to join the cabinet to manage politics with Fang Congzhe, resigned because of the fraud case in the imperial examination two years ago;

One is that the general of Jianzhou Longhu, the Dragon and Tiger of Liaodong, established himself in the Jin Kingdom, and wrote a letter to ask to share the old vassal laws with North Korea;

One is that severe droughts occurred in Liaodong, Shandong, Hebei and other places, and Guangdong also reported a major earthquake in Qiongzhou.

In addition, Yang Lian and others, who had a case of knocking on the palace last year, were still catching the so-called murderer behind the scenes, and asked the emperor to issue an order to investigate Li Jinzhong and his instructors.

These are annoying, but they did not make Wanli angry.

But there was a stolen incident that made Wanli very angry. This was the tax supervision case that occurred in Shaanxi a few days ago.

Liang Xiao, the Shaanxi Tax Supervisor, was the Imperial Horse Supervisor in the Palace. He took office six years ago to serve as a tax supervisor in Shaanxi. In order to complete the tax collection mission, Liang Xiao learned from other provinces to recruit a group of people, and privately stored 300 horses to form a soldier for tax collection, called the "Tax Army".

Although this move is not legal, it is also a helpless move.

If there is no tax army, there is no one available in the area; if there is no one available, there is no tax to collect. If there is no tax to collect, the national treasury will remain as empty as before.

There are three more large-scale tax troops, one is the "Flying Tiger Army" in Gaohuai, Dali, Liaodong; the second is the "Flying Eagle Army" of Chen Feng, the tax envoy of Huguang; the third is the Maritime Army recently established in Jiangnan, and also called the "Imperial Army".

The three troops, the Flying Tiger Army, have been destroyed, and most of them have been merged into the Imperial Army. The Flying Eagle Army was sacked due to the Huguang civil war, and the tax envoy Chen Feng was even thrown into the Yangtze River to feed fish.

The only one who maintains a complete military system and has a lot of troops is the Imperial Army. However, although the Imperial Army was used for maritime affairs, although there were conflicts with local areas in Jiangnan, it had little interest. In addition, Wei Liangchen, the inner minister of the Imperial Army, had a good relationship with the Zhejiang Party, so except for the Donglin Party still referring to it as a hawk, the other parties did not criticize it.

The Shaanxi taxation commander Liang Xiao's tax army was a self-contained system and did not have any relationship with any party in the court. Therefore, he was resisted by Shaanxi Governor Yu Maoheng, instructed the prefectures and counties not to assist him, which made Liang Xiao collect more than 40,000 taels of taxes in Shaanxi for three years.

With such efficiency, the emperor was naturally unhappy and the emperors in the inner court were unhappy.

Liang Xiao was so angry that he had no choice but to withdraw, so he instructed the tax soldiers to excavate the tombs of all dynasties and handed over 70% of the treasures contained in the tombs in the inner trough, and the remaining 30% were retained.

If you say that you don’t let us collect taxes for living people, then what does it have to do with your place if we take the money from dead people?

Not to mention, there are quite a lot of treasures of tombs of all dynasties. In just two years, Liang Xiao's tax army has excavated seven large tombs and several small tombs, and has donated more than 10,000 gold and more than 300,000 taels of silver. The remaining jewelry is uncountable.

As a result, Liang Xiao also became another "donation" celebrity in the palace from Gao Huai, Ma Tang, Chen Feng, Chen Zeng and Wei Liangchen.

But tomb robbing is illegal after all, and the tax army has also dug up tombs with descendants, which naturally caused complaints in the Shaanxi officialdom.

Liang Xiao had an officer named Zhang Quanfang, and his ancestors were good tomb robbers and learned good skills. Seven out of ten tomb robbers in the tax army were the cracked holes. Therefore, Yu Maoheng, Shaanxi, was deeply disgusted with this person and secretly ordered him to arrest him to break Liang Fei's arm.

After Liang Xiaozhi learned, he naturally refused to allow Zhang Quanfang to be taken away, so he took the tax soldiers to save people, but asked the Shaanxi soldiers who had prepared a lot to block it.

Before Liang Xiao submitted a memorial to the emperor to report the matter, Yu Maoheng sent someone to execute Zhang Quanfang. Liang Xiao was furious and even sent someone to bribe the servants of the governor's yamen, poisoned Yu Maoheng's food, and wanted to kill the governor.

Yu Maoheng was almost poisoned and immediately reached the sky, which was furious.

Tens of thousands of people in Shaanxi shouted and broke into the Liangxiao Taxation Bureau. They opened the military warehouse, took out their weapons, rushed to the streets, causing the city of Xi'an to be smashed and smashed.

If Shaanxi Governor Yu Maoheng had not personally come forward to appease the people, it might have caused even greater trouble.

Wanli was very angry after receiving the report. This time he did not protect his shortcomings, nor did he consider that most of the treasures obtained from Liang Xiao digging tombs were entered into his inner treasury. Instead, he ordered the Jinyiwei to send someone to Shaanxi to capture Liang Xiao immediately.

"Liao Xiao, the slave, is so brave!"

Wanli was really angry. Liang Xiao poisoned and assassinated Shaanxi Governor Yu Maoheng had already touched his bottom line. No matter how favored his subordinates and dissatisfied with the outside court, he could not tolerate Liang Xiao's actions.

"Your Majesty's words are not what Liang Xiao did for His Majesty. Now that something happens, Your Majesty blames him. I don't think it's reasonable." The concubine said casually while coaxing her son in her arms.

"What's the reason? What is my beloved concubine saying? Even the governor dares to poison him. Does Liang Xiao have any laws and regulations in his eyes? Today, he can poison the governor and important ministers. Will he poison me in the future?"

Wanli was unhappy. He could bear the lawsuit, and he could help solve the problem. However, Liang Xiao, who was the emperor behind his back, poisoned the governor and important ministers. How could this matter be tolerated!

"Just say it, why are you staring at me? Why do you have such a loud voice?" The imperial concubine turned her back with anger.

"Woman's opinion!"

Wanli snorted.

The Imperial Concubine didn't want to say anything more, but she was unhappy with her husband's words, so she turned her head and sniffed: "I don't dare to interfere in politics."

"If it weren't for you, I could have let that kid go!"

Thinking of the loss of his daughter, Wanli was so angry that he was itchy.

The Imperial Concubine stopped for a moment and muttered: "It's obviously because His Majesty was thinking about other people's money, why did he rely on me again?"

"Nonsense, am I a greedy person?" Wanli gasped fatly.

"What's going on with the bond?" The concubine glared at her husband.

"I...I won't tell you anymore,"

Wanli's face turned red for no reason, but he was angry, "One day, your good daughter and son-in-law will throw my face away!"

"You, the emperor, didn't cleanse his body that day, why did you rely on me?" The imperial concubine was unhappy to push everything on her. Although, she must protect that kid.

"I didn't know that that kid would ruin Xuan's body. If I had known, I would have cleaned him up." Wanli said angrily.

"The tree has been completed and the rice has become cooked. What else do you want?"

The Imperial Concubine sighed lightly, silently untied her clothes and fed her son to feed her. Perhaps because of her personal nurturing, the Imperial Concubine's figure was fuller than ever before.

"I didn't blame anyone."

Looking at the youngest son in his beloved concubine's arms being sucked with concentration, Wanli's eyes suddenly became very loving.

"Then why are you angry at me?"

The concubine pouted, took out the strip of cloth on her chest and placed it on the table.
Chapter completed!