Judging from the results, it is obvious that Wanli is getting better at the first move.

Just writing a store name can ensure that Liaodong will continuously transmit financial and taxation to the Da Nei, and it can also ensure that the world's mining supervision tax allows everyone to work hard for the emperor. Where can I find such a good thing?

Five hundred taels sound ridiculous. Everyone thinks that the emperor is a greedy person who doesn’t even let go of five hundred taels of money.

But from another perspective, it shows that the emperor is an emperor who is not particular about the details.

Liangchen thought of himself. No matter from any angle, Wanli could not let him go to Shanhaiguan instead.

First, he has no official position, and secondly, he is not a person in the inner court. Speaking of which, he has no identity. Why should such a person be inspected on behalf of the emperor?

But just as Wanli was sure. If it weren't for him, it would be hard for the good minister to imagine that such a thing would happen.

The good minister believed that Wanli's move must have its intention. Perhaps, this is a great wise man.

No one party takes it seriously, and a little person who has no conflict of interest with the parties involved, has no imperial decree or official position, may not be noticeable. From the darkest side, even if the matter is done, it has nothing to do with the emperor.

Gao Huai is also a typical example of how to make the best use of it. His tax yamen was the original Shanhaiguan garrison. However, as early as the Jiajing period, Shanhaiguan garrison was removed, so the yamen was always vacant and weeds grew inside.

After Gao Huai took office, he used the waste and banned his tax envoy's yamen outside the garrison's office. Then, relying on the store name given by the emperor, he turned the Fuyang store into the largest store in Liaodong.

According to Li Yongzhen's description, this Fuyang store has a concept of a free trade zone in later generations.

Anyone who passes the goods to Fuyang store for sale or shops in Fuyang store, Gao Huai collects only 70% of the original tax.

If you are not in the Fuyang store, you will pay according to the normal tariffs. In this way, all the merchants' transactions will be concentrated in the Fuyang store.

But the most direct consequence of doing this is that most of the taxes that were supposed to be collected by Liaodong flowed into the inner court.

This naturally caused dissatisfaction among the Liaodong Army. After all, in addition to relying on empty wages and driving soldiers to farm for them to earn income, the military leaders also rely on the large and small checkpoints set up in the territory to make profits.

The merchants all went to Fuyang store to do business. What do the military leaders eat and drink?

Gao Huai only cares about eating meat by himself and not giving soup to others. Of course, Liaodong is uneasy, and the military and civilians are full of complaints.

There is no unfounded conflict of interests in the world, and it is impossible for the military to turmoil to occur at all times.

Liangchen did not believe that the military and civilians in Shanhaiguan would take their families to join the Jurchens. They would do this only when they were full. He did not believe that the Ming army in Shansong and Jinzhou in Shanhaiguan also became hot-headed and responded to the Ming army in Shanhaiguan.

He only believed that Gao Huai had offended people and offended too many people, so he had to be driven away.

Small things are not enough to shake this Liaodong Mining Supervisor, who has been in office since the 27th year of Wanli and has won the emperor's hearts, must be a big deal to drive him away, and a big deal that shocked the court and the public and made the emperor unable to protect him anymore.

Mutiny is obviously the most suitable.

Now, Liangchen wants to know who Gao Huai has offended and whether there is Li Chengliang behind this incident.

After knowing this, he would at least have a clear idea when he went to Shanhaiguan, so that he would not be blinded by others and would be led by others in everything.

In that case, the opportunity he gets for self-recommendation will become a joke.

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During the pseudo-Yongping Prefecture, it was called Yongping Road and Zhili Central Secretariat.

Taizu expelled the Mongolian Tatars and restored China, he changed Yongping Road to Yongping Prefecture, which was under the jurisdiction of Zhili in the north.

Yongping Prefecture has three counties and two guards under its jurisdiction, one of which is Shanhaigu. The garrison that caused this mutiny came from Shanhaigu.

The location of Yongping Prefecture City is Lu Long, and Gao Huai and his escaped followers hid in Yongping City.

Because of the change of Shanhaiguan Army, Liangchen and his team arrived at the city gates were closed. Judging from the soldiers covered with the city walls, Yongping City had obviously entered a first-level alert state.

It is not difficult to understand that Yongping is a must-pass place from Shanhaiguan to the capital. If the mutiny Ming army takes the risk to attack the capital, Yongping will be the first to be affected.

If Yongping is lost, although the rebels will not really attack the capital, the area of ​​the capital may become corrupt.

"Brother Tian, ​​please ask the people in the city to open the door." Liangchen stopped and told Tian Gang to call the door.

Tian Gang dismounted and walked to the city to call the door.

The defenders on the city had seen the four of them.

In addition to being the capital city, Yongping is also the commander of Yongping Guard. A hundred households in the city were looking at Tian Gang who was walking under the city. They found that they were from the Jinyiwei, so they hurriedly asked the soldiers to open the city gate and let people in.

After Liangchen and his party entered the city, the hundred households brought people to welcome him. Tian Gang and Li Wei showed their respective waist signs to the hundred households. After the hundred households were found to be correct, they walked to Liangchen and Li Yongzhen.

The good minister had already turned over from his horse and asked the hundreds of households: "Where is the Grandpa Gao of Liaodong Mining Supervisor? We came from the capital and received the imperial edict to meet Grandpa Gao."

Because the beard of the Liangchen had not yet grown, Li Yongzhen was white and ungrateful, and the Jinyiwei was still escorted by the Jinyiwei. The hundred households were naturally good ministers and were the middle-aged people in the inner court, and hurriedly said, "Eunuch Gao and his party are now at the post station. Please follow me."

He was regarded as a "center" and the good ministers did not explain, as long as the hundred households lead the way.

Tian Gang and Li Wei did not think that there was anything wrong with the term "Zhong Envoy", because the head of the case did go to Shanhaiguan by orders. Although "Zhong Envoy" mostly refers to the people in the palace, sometimes it is not necessarily a father-in-law.

Li Yongzhen received the instructions only to ask him to accompany Wei Liangchen to Shanhaiguan. He didn't know anything else, and he would not come forward to question anything at this time.

Because of the military change, Yongping was alert to the whole city, and there were no pedestrians on the streets. Only teams of soldiers came and went, as well as the heroes who were transporting various guardians to the city.

Not long after, Liangchen and his party arrived at Yongping Post under the guidance of the hundred households.

There were dozens of war horses eating grass in front of the post. These horses were obviously the best Mongolian horses, no worse than the imperial horses Liangchen saw at Jishuitan Horse Farm.

I thought Gao Huai had escaped from Shanhaiguan and there were not many accompanying him, but I didn't expect that there were dozens of men who were strongly dressed outside the post station to protect him.

These men in strong suits were not wearing military uniforms, but were all wearing red and black clothes. Looking at them, they looked like servants and soldiers, which was a bit inappropriate.

"What are these people?" Liangchen asked Li Yongzhen in a low voice, but Li Yongzhen shook his head and didn't know.

Li Wei took a step forward and whispered: "These are the strong men of Eunuch Gao's private placement in Liaodong."

"Private equity firm?" Liangchen was stunned.

Li Wei told Liangchen that in order to ensure the mineral and tax revenue in various places, Gao Huai privately recruited nearly a thousand strong men and selected hundreds of strong horses, forming a single army, and outsiders called them "tax soldiers".

Although there are not many tax soldiers, the horses are elite and the show is quite large every time they go out, with flags covering the wilderness and drums clamoring.

"Private enlistment soldiers, the imperial court doesn't care?"

Liangchen was a little difficult to understand, saying that Gao Huai recruited a group of thugs to help him collect taxes and mines. He could understand, but he was too brave to form a private army so blatantly?

You know, this is not as simple as a group of thugs, but a full army. How much does it cost to raise an elite soldier of thousands of people?

If everyone could support their troops privately, it would be no longer possible for the Ming Dynasty to be the first time.

Li Wei said: "You can know that the former Jinzhou general Ma Lin once wrote a letter to impeach Gao Huai for recruiting horses without permission, but was falsely accused by Li Shuai of being unable to cooperate with his colleagues and contemptuous of the gameplay. As a result, he was dismissed from his post and lived in vain and would never be used."

Marin, the name Liangchen is familiar. This person is one of the four generals of the Ming army in the Battle of Sarhu. He fought with Nurhaci's Eight Banners soldiers in Shangjianya. Both sons died in battle. In the end, Marin fled back to Kaiyuan with only a few cavalry.

In this battle, Marin tried his best.

In addition to Li Chengliang, Liangchen could not have imagined the second person in Liaodong.

Li Wei's information surprised Liangchen a little because according to his statement, it was obvious that Li Chengliang and Gao Huai had something to do, otherwise he would not have helped Gao Huai get rid of Malin. But in this way, how can we explain the changes between Shanhaiguan and Song Jinjun?

With Li Chengliang's influence in Liaodong, how could the riots of Shanhaiguan and Songjin bypass him and attack him directly?

Liangchen couldn't figure it out.

Li Yongzhen suddenly said: "The court did not care about private entrusted soldiers, but did not control the mining supervision and tax entrusted."

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Chapter completed!