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The merchants only maintained the praise of Kuixu, the new governor of Shanxi, for only half a day. The next morning, all the yamen and bustling streets in Taiyuan City posted notices. The court vigorously cleared the deficits of various prefectures, prefectures and counties in Shanxi. Anyone who had money and grain exchanges with local officials or stored them in local official warehouses will be cleared within half a month. Once the time limit is passed, all the money and grain will be confiscated. All officials of each prefectures, prefectures, and county will be dismissed on the spot and transferred to Australia.

As soon as the notice was released, the entire Taiyuan City was immediately in an uproar. The common people applauded and waited to watch the fun. After all, they had never seen such a severe way to clear up the deficit. Everyone talked about how many officials would be dismissed and investigated this time. Even if they were not investigated and transferred to Australian officials, it would be extremely miserable.

A group of wealthy businessmen and gentry were anxious and uneasy. They had always had close relationships with local officials. Most of them had money exchanges with local officials. Officials had many ways of deficits and various ways. Many of them were closely related to local gentry and merchants. For example, they were borrowed from borrowing and releasing, gained profits from private treasury items, paid for interest, misappropriation of warehouses, bought and supplemented silver, escaping the people's debts, turning the deficit into incompetence, and infiltrating the losses of officials into people's debts, etc., they all had to borrow from merchants and gentry.

Merchants and gentry can naturally benefit from it. With such collusion between officials and businessmen, silver and money exchanges are naturally close. It is also common for borrowing money and grain to help officials cover up the deficit. Now the court has suddenly launched a large-scale investigation into the deficit, and has dismissed all officials on the spot and transferred to Australia. How could they not be anxious?

God knows whether it will involve them on such a large scale and decisive manner. The gentry and merchants were both nervous, worried that the money would not be collected, and the officials were also worried that the court would bite them, so that the court would investigate their crimes. These officials were not as loyal and credit as their Shanxi merchants.

The most panicked thing was that Baba dared to come to meet Zhenwu's officials. Since the news that the court wanted to thoroughly investigate the deficit, they were all under house arrest in Taiyuan City. Naturally, they were complaining. Who has not had a deficit in their hands? They are just unlucky people who beat the drums and pass the flowers. What made them a little relieved was that Zhenwu had already spoken, and as long as he could fill the deficit, he could not be investigated.

However, the officials of the prefectures and counties were still indignant. As the grassroots officials, the officials of the prefectures and provincial officials all had to manage their duties. Their filial piety was only a few thousand taels per year. The wealthy counties even cost tens of thousands taels. Could it be that the money was wasted?

Ma Qi, Wang Yu, and Kuixu, who were in charge of the investigation of the deficits, had no intention or time to listen to the complaints of prefectures and counties. Instead, they were busy drawing soldiers without any feet, seconding accounting rooms, arranging students, and dividing prefectures and counties, preparing to go to various places as soon as possible.

The whole city of Taiyuan was busy, but Zhenwu quietly left the city early in the morning and set off for Xi'an.

Xi'an is the first of the four ancient capitals, the ancient capitals of the thirteen dynasties, the former capital of the Qin, Han, Sui and Tang dynasties. It once flourished for thousands of years, but although it is not prosperous now, it is still a major military center that maintains safety in the northwest. Only Shengjing, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Jiangning, Jingkou, Hangzhou, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Jingzhou, and Xi'an have ten places. This shows Xi'an's military status in the northwest region.

In Xi'an, heavy troops and food storage can be stationed in heavy troops. You can attack Huguang when you go south, enter Sichuan when you advance west, and also shock Shanxi and Shaanxi. Therefore, the imperial court's troops stationed in Xi'an have been increasing and unabated. The troops have gradually increased to 8,000. Among them, the eight banners of Manchu and Mongolian and the eight banners of Han army have been 3,000.

Zhenwu also planned to focus on managing Xi'an. He used Xi'an as the largest military base and firearm production base in the northwest. It not only aims to deter both lakes, Sichuan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, but also mainly considers the need to stabilize and consolidate the northwest. Junggar is not worthy of being so cautious, but the most important thing is Russia. If he wants to seize the territory of Central Asia from the mouth of a polar bear, there will inevitably be a protracted small-scale war, and it is impossible to prepare for it.

Taiyuan is more than 1,400 miles away from Xi'an. Zhenwu was still whipping all the way, and he did not notify the local officials along the way. However, the officials along the way had already learned about the arrival of Zhenwu's imperial chariot in Taiyuan. When they saw the cavalry of the brigade blocking the road, they naturally guessed that Zhenwu's imperial chariot had arrived and rushed to welcome the chariot.

Although Zhenwu was anxious and rushed to the road, he had to meet these local officials who were rarely seen in Tianyan at noon or at the guard. Even so, he still did not delay his trip and arrived in Xi'an ten days later.

The Minister of Justice Lai Du, the Governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, E Hai, Xi Zhu, General of Xi of Shaanxi, Chuoqi, Vice President of Xi'an, and other Shaanxi officials led officials of all sizes and gentry all over the city to welcome the emperor for ten miles.

Zhenwu has never liked these occasions of welcoming and seeing off, but he considered that it was his first visit to Xi'an since he ascended the throne. The news of Shanxi's investigation of deficits had probably reached Xi'an. If they were given a look, officials of Xi'an would immediately be panicked and had to patiently enter the city. It would be a waste of half a day if they entered the city just by entering the city.

After entering the city, Zhenwu moved directly into the city of Xi'an. The Xi'an General's Mansion, which had been vacated, took a break. He ordered: "The four people who were sent to the Minister of Justice Lai Du, the Governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi E Hai, the General Xi Zhu of Xi, and the Governor of Shaanxi Chuo Qi."

Zhenwu's style in Shanxi and the way of cleaning up Shanxi's deficits had long been spread to Xi'an. All the officials of all sizes were uneasy. Lai Du, the Minister of Justice, was in a mess. He was picked up by Zhenwu, but in order to support Kuishu's river management, he privately allowed Kuishu to intercept more than one million disaster relief money and food. He originally thought that the mountain was high and the emperor was far away, but he did not expect that Zhenwu would actually come to Xi'an in person. Although Kuishu had transferred the money through the "Four Great Evergreens", he was still very nervous.

The governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi E Hai was promoted by Kangxi, and he was quite uneasy. The governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi was not famous among the governors of the Qing Dynasty. He could even be said to be the poorest, but he was the governor with the most military power. He was responsible for the barriers to the northwest of the capital and had a very important position. He has always been the most trusted minister of the emperor as the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi. Youdao was the emperor and the minister of the emperor, so he was naturally a little worried.

Xi Zhu, the general of Xi'an, was calm. He was a veteran, and the Eight Banners soldiers in Xi'an were very strict in training, so he could say that there was no burden at all. He was quite dissatisfied with Zhenwu's intrigue with the New Army of the Imperial Guards and raising the Green Camp military salary to Pingding with the Eight Banners soldiers.

The guards came out to pass the order. Lai Du, E Hai and other four dared not be negligent. They hurriedly followed the guards into the hall, knelt down respectfully and said, "Slave Lai Du, E Hai, Xi Zhu, Chuoqi respectfully invites the Holy An."

Zhenwu glanced at the four of them and said with a smile: "Don't give me a gift, give me a seat."

After the four of them sat down, he asked slowly: "The disaster relief in Shanxi is quite leaking. How about Shaanxi?"

Seeing Zhenwu asking about disaster relief, Lai Du, the Minister of Justice who was in charge of disaster relief in Shaanxi, hurriedly got up and knelt down, consciously took off his hair, and kowtowed, "When I go back to the emperor, I am a servant who has been ungrateful and has been neglected in his duties. A small part of the disaster relief money and food were intercepted by Shanxi. It was transferred a few days ago. Although I have already transferred it to various prefectures and counties in a lot, I am not ineffective in supervision, which means I am neglecting my duties and I am not guilty of my duty."

Seeing that Lai Du told the matter truthfully, E Hai and Chuoqi dared not sit there, so he hurriedly got up and knelt down and said, "Slaves and others are also guilty of being in absent-minded. I beg the emperor to punish them together."

Xi Zhu, the general of Xi Zhu, has been in the officialdom for a long time. When he saw this, he knew that sitting alone was too eye-catching. Although this matter had nothing to do with him, he still knelt down silently.

Seeing that Xi Zhu also knelt down, Zhenwu couldn't help but glance at him and said, "Xi Zhu, what does this matter have to do with you?"

"Uh." Xi Zhu was stunned. Why did he ask him first about the arrival of this person who was fine? He hurriedly replied truthfully: "When you go back to the emperor, everyone else has kneeled, and it is quite disrespectful to me to sit still."

Slick, Zhenwu cursed inwardly before saying, "This matter has nothing to do with you, get up and sit down."

"I thank the emperor for his kindness." Xi Zhu glanced at the three of them and then stood up, but he felt a little worried for the three of them. The governor and governor of Shanxi were all declining, and Kuixu was also dismissed from the left censor of the Censorate.

Sure enough, as soon as he sat down, Zhenwu heard a deep voice: "I have repeatedly issued orders to not embezzle disaster relief money and food. Could it be that my decree cannot reach Shaanxi?"

Lai Du was slightly stunned. This was Chuoqi going to Ehai, Shaanxi. He couldn't help but complain. If he didn't do it well, he might be in trouble. Ehai, Chuoqi and others were even more whispering, and they thought that even if they wanted to take advantage of the problem, they wouldn't have to be so obvious. This question completely changed, and they suddenly changed from being inattentive to being disrespectful.

E Hai didn't care about Lai Du at this time, so he picked himself up first. He hurriedly kowtowed and said, "Slaves and others are diligent in serving their missions, and dare not neglect them. The disaster relief matters are arranged in an orderly and comprehensive manner. In this disaster relief, the sufficient money and food exceeds the expectations of slaves and others. The allocated money and food have been received one after another. There are more than one million silver in Shaanxi, and there are still interest-free loans from the "Four Great Evergreens". The slaves and others did not expect that there will be more than one million yuan in the subsequent retention, pension and harm prevention silver. Therefore, they have a little missed, and I beg the emperor to observe clearly."

Chuoqi also kowtowed and said, "I am really a mistake for the slaves. I beg the emperor to take a clear look." On the contrary, Lai didn't know how to reply, so he kowtowed without saying a word.

This is really a matter of ease. Not only is it reasonable, but it also flatters Zhenwu. Zhenwu nodded slightly and said, "Since it is an unintentional mistake, I am not very good at it. E Hai, Chuoqiu, was fined three months, and Lai Du was demoted to the third level to remain in his post." (To be continued)

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