Chapter 1411: Make up your mind
"Bastard, trash!" Min Ruoying's face turned red, her veins were exposed, and her blood-red eyes were like blood-devouring beasts. She clenched her fists and roared at the ministers in the room.
Ma Xiangnan hunched his back, and his muscles twitched from time to time. When he was scolded and returned home to recuperate, the government was in chaos for a while. After Min Ruoying calmed down a little, he once again called him back to the court to preside over the national affairs.
But the news coming today made Min Ruoying, who had been a little excited, fall into a state of madness again.
After several months of disappearance, Ning Zhiwen appeared in Quanzhou openly, holding the imperial edict of the Great Chu court, and went there to serve as the county magistrate.
He actually dares to take office!
And he actually took office under the escort of a whole fleet of Ming Kingdom!
How can this not make Min Ruoying riot? Her whole face was swollen by Mingren. Is it not a slap in the face? This is completely like stepping on Min Ruoying's head and stooling!
Min Ruoying, who was walking around the room like a trapped beast, looked at the two deputy commanders of the inner guards kneeling in the middle, and was even more angry. She kicked the two and flipped into several circles on the ground like a rolling gourd.
"You useless thing, Yang Yi also knows to share your worries and go to Quanzhou to kill that bastard. You know that you are arguing in front of me, pushing Wei, and you can't do serious things. Everyone is fighting for power and profit. Yang Qing is blind. How can you two trash promote you?"
Lei Wei and Tong Qiang got up from the ground and knelt down again. He didn't even dare to wipe the blood from the corners of his mouth. Min Ruoying was a master's cultivation. Even though they didn't use their strength, they didn't dare to fight each other. The two legs were hard, but they were still injured.
Yang Yi is missing again.
This news was sent to Shangjing City at the same time as Ning Zhiwen's arrival in Quanzhou. This made them happy and worried. What was happy was that one less person was fighting for the commander of the Inner Guard, but what was worried was that although this position was high and powerful, it seemed to be very dangerous now! In just half a year, the commander of the Inner Guard and a deputy commander were all gone.
The commander disappeared without a trace while planning to assassinate Ning Zhiwen, and he could not see anyone in his life or die. The most surprising thing was that Ning Zhiwen finally fell into the hands of the people of Qi, and asked the people of Qi to take Ning Zhiwen and the people of Ming to do a big article.
Now it seems that the commander must have fallen into the hands of the Qi people. However, judging from the safety of all the spies in Qi in the Great Chu State, Commander Yang must have died. If he fell into the hands of the other party alive, he would have been eliminated.
Yang Yi was even more miserable. He took his confidant subordinates to openly assassinate Ning Zhiwen in Quanzhou, but was captured in one net, with his subordinates killed and injured, and he disappeared without a trace. But what is certain is that this person was probably already in Ning Zhiwen's hands.
"Your Majesty, please calm down." Seeing Min Ruoying kicking over the two deputy commanders, roaring for a while, then sitting back to her seat seemed to finally calm down. Ma Xiangnan stood up and whispered. "It's not the time to hold the inner guards accountable, but to think about how to calm the consequences of this matter first."
"What are the consequences?" Min Ruoying asked in anger.
"Your Majesty, Ning Zhiwen has the edict of appointing him as the county magistrate of Quanzhou by Your Majesty. This is something that everyone in the court and the country knows. No matter what happened to this person before, he now takes this edict to take office. From the perspective of legal principles, he cannot find any fault. Yang Yi is incompetent and failed assassination. If that is all, it would be fine. What is most afraid of is that he will talk nonsense after falling into Ning Zhiwen's hands. If Ning Zhiwen asks the court for this, how should we deal with it?"
“So what?”
"Your Majesty, if this matter is made public, the court's face will be unfavorable." Ma Xiangnan said weakly. His meaning was clear in his words. What is the difference between the inner guards killing Ning Zhiwen and the emperor himself? The emperor of a country actually assassinated his ministers. If this is spread, how can Min Ruoying deal with it?
The court officials naturally knew the relationship between Ning Zhiwen and the Ming people, but ordinary people were not clear about it, especially the people in Jinghu, and soldiers. Ning Zhiwen fought in Jinghu for two years and made great contributions to the Chu people defending the Jinghu front. Of course, Ning Zhiwen did not fight for Chu, but for the locals, Ning Zhiwen did have kindness to them, and those soldiers reduced countless casualties because of the existence of Ning Zhiwen's naval army. Not to mention the senior officials, the low-level officers and ordinary soldiers were afraid that they would have a lot of gratitude to him. If this was spread, the hearts of the army and the people would be shaken. Now the Great Chu is shaky. Wouldn't it be worse for this? Everyone should say that the emperor is mean and ruthless and unbearable to serve?
With Ma Xiangnan's reminder, Min Ruoying finally figured out the key points here, and the blue veins on her forehead jumped up again.
"What should I do, as you said?"
"Your Majesty, the current plan is that the court can only admit that Ning Zhiwen officially took office in Quanzhou. Your Majesty should issue an edict to express condolences to his safe return, and at the same time expressing considerable anger at the open assassination of the Qi people's open assassination." Ma Xiangnandao.
Min Ruoying's head was leaping, which was like someone stuffing a pile of shit into his mouth. He even wanted to smash it and said it tasted so good!
Seeing Min Ruoying showing signs of another outbreak, Ma Xiangnan quickly continued, "Your Majesty, the future is long, Ning Zhiwen can only slowly plan now. As long as he is still in Quanzhou, there are opportunities, and now he must have been more vigilant. More importantly, he has a grand escort around him now. When it is impossible to send a large army, assassination can only be given a handle. Your Majesty let him sit in this position temporarily. After a while, he will find him a mistake, whether he dismisses his post or ask him to report his job in Beijing, not only will he be open and straightforward, but also easy to deal with him. If he doesn't want to die, he can only get out."
Ma Xiangnan's suggestion finally calmed down Min Ruoying: "The chief assistant is mature and persistent in this plan. Well, let him be proud for a while."
"Your Majesty is wise." Ma Xiangnan bowed and said.
Min Ruoying looked around the people in the room slowly and said coldly: "You are all important officials of the country and share the same kindness with the country. I don't say much. Everyone can understand the current situation. Although the people of Qi are not concerned about themselves, the Ming people are already impatient for our great Chu. Now, it is time for us to start rectifying the country."
The room suddenly became silent. Everyone looked at me, looked at you, and then lowered their heads. The Ming people's infiltration into Chu State over the years involved all aspects, but the Chu people were forced to passively accept it due to the situation. It would be so easy to clear it out now.
Min Ruoying ignored the expressions of the crowd and said to herself: "The Chu-Qi border can finally be peaceful, and the Qi people will also clear the opposition forces in China. Within a few years, there will be no power to deal with us. On the contrary, they will also win us over to deal with the threat from Ming. At this point, we have a common goal."
"In China, Bian Wenzhong's bandit suppression in recent years has been very effective. He has compressed the bandits to a certain range. The country is still clear and calm. If he does not take action to rectify the country and eliminate the power of the Ming people, I will be destroyed by the Great Chu."
"Your Majesty." Lian Bo, the Minister of Revenue, stood up, his voice trembling: "My Great Chu Treasury is almost empty now, and it all depends on obtaining loans from the Ming people. The old accounts have not been cleared and he borrowed new accounts. Once he rebelled against the Ming people at this time, the national finances may be at risk of collapse immediately."
Min Ruoying sneered, "This is what they want. If I am threatened by this, how can I still have a day to turn around? I don't have money, right? Then I will copy their Changlong Bank for me!"
"Never!" At this moment, almost all the ministers, including Ma Xiangnan, opposed in unison.
"Your Majesty, Changlong Bank will never move." Ma Xiangnan did not care about Min Ruoying's murderous vision, but looked at Min Ruoying firmly and said, "Your Majesty, Changlong Bank is now blooming everywhere in our Great Chu territory. Whether officials, soldiers, or people, if they have any extra money, they will deposit money into Changlong Bank to earn interest. If the court copyes Changlong Bank, they will inevitably have to bear these deposits, and the court cannot afford it at all. Once Changlong's semicolon in Chu goes bankrupt due to the court's search, it will not be them who suffer the first, but my Great Chu. At that time, there will inevitably be major problems in the country. Your Majesty, it will not be the problem of public resentment, but the problem of resentment from the court."
"Your Majesty, and the Ming Dynasty banknotes have now become the common currency of our Great Chu. Gold, silver and copper coins are in our Great Chu. Now they are only used in remote areas. Even if we checked the Changlong Bank and received a large sum of money, the Ming people only need to use financial means to make all our gains disappear!" Lian Bo was so anxious that his forehead was sweating.
Min Ruoying was furious, "As you say that, can we just watch?"
Chapter completed!