In the Manlu Palace, Zhao Changping looked up at the emperor. It happened that the young emperor was also looking at Zhao Shangshu. Their eyes met. Zhao Changping quickly lowered his head and avoided the emperor's gaze.
Then, the atmosphere fell into a kind of weird embarrassment.
I don't know how long it took before the emperor waved his hand and said: "Okay, I understand what Zhao Qing means. I will consider this matter as appropriate. Shen Yi is doing something for me. Even if there are shortcomings, There is no need for Zhao Qing to write a letter to blame him."
Zhao Changping lowered his head and said, "Yes, I obey your order."
He said with a respectful expression: "Your Majesty, does the Ministry of Accounts have to record the stolen money and properties confiscated when Prince Jin went south to patrol the sea?"
"Account..."
The emperor frowned slightly, then shook his head and said: "There is no need to enter the accounts. Didn't I transfer a few accountants from the Ministry of Accounts a few days ago? They have been sent to the south. When they come back, they will show the accounts to the Ministry of Accounts, but The Ministry of Revenue can just take a look, it’s not easy for them to do things in the south, so there is no need to restrict them too much in terms of money.”
Zhao Changping bowed his head respectfully and said, "I understand."
He stood up and held his hands.
"Your Majesty has nothing else to do, so I will leave."
"Um."
The emperor waved his hand and said calmly: "Qing Zhao, please go back now. I want to think about it myself."
After hearing the emperor's words, Zhao Changping hesitated for a moment and then said: "Your Majesty, I still feel that the affairs of the capital's yamen cannot be left to the local government, otherwise the local power will grow and one day it will affect the imperial court."
This is the contradiction between the central and local governments.
This problem has existed since ancient times and has troubled feudal dynasties throughout the ages.
Take Shen Yi's original world as an example. During the Han and Tang dynasties, local governments had certain military command powers, such as the state pastors of the Han Dynasty, which integrated military and political affairs.
When this model evolved into the late dynasties, problems would arise. The more obvious problem was the separatist rule by the princes in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the separatist rule by Jiedushi in the late Tang Dynasty.
These are essentially the loss of authority and strength of the central dynasty, resulting in a situation where the branches are strong and the trunk is weak.
Later dynasties absorbed the experience and lessons of this kind of segregation of vassal towns. The more classic way of dealing with it was that of the Song Dynasty, which mobilized local elites to enrich the imperial army, resulting in the local army's combat power being weak and almost non-existent.
At the same time, in terms of culture, culture was emphasized over martial arts, and even culture was emphasized over martial arts. The saying that only those who roll call in Donghuamen are heroes, which completely nailed the martial arts into the dust.
Since then, he has never been able to turn around.
In the current world of Chen State, because hundreds of years ago there was a situation of separatist vassals and towns, the current social atmosphere is also to emphasize culture and suppress military force. After Chen unified the world, he emphasized culture and suppressed military force for more than a hundred years, and finally made the army Without fighting power, he was driven to the south of the Yangtze River by the barbarians sixty years ago and settled in a corner.
Until now, the local guards of Chen State have very limited combat effectiveness due to the hereditary military households. Linhai Guard is the most typical example.
Moreover, many health centers have been running on empty wages all year round, and the actual number of people there is far less than the number of people on the books.
However, the practice of emphasizing civility and suppressing military power for hundreds of years has been reflected in everyone's minds. Even the military attaché himself felt that he was inferior to a civilian official, let alone a civilian official like Zhao Changping who was a vested interest himself.
The little emperor frowned slightly. He took a deep look at his minister of household affairs, and then said slowly: "Okay, I understand."
"No need to say more, just step back."
Zhao Shangshu sighed, bowed to the emperor, and then exited the Manna Palace.
After leaving the Ganlu Hall, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue slowly relaxed his frown. He faced south with a somewhat complicated look in his eyes.
He wanted to help Shen Yi.
There's only so much he can do now.
After Zhao Changping left, His Majesty the Emperor sat alone on the soft couch in the Manlu Hall and sulked.
He felt that the power of the civil servants was a bit too great.
But he has no way to change this situation, because the power of the civil servants is huge, and it was not formed in a day or two, nor in ten or twenty years. Nowadays, all aspects of the court are in the hands of the civil servants, and he, the emperor, cannot Against the entire civil service clique.
If he accidentally gets into trouble with the Queen Mother, he might even suffer some losses.
However, the emperor still felt a little reluctant.
The civil servants were powerful, but in fact there was no threat to his throne. Since ancient times, only warriors have rebelled. I have never heard of anyone who can rebel with a pen, but his life is at risk here.
Although these pen holders will not rebel and can be handled with confidence and are very safe to use, they cannot do many things while being safe.
For example, it would bring powerful combat power to the imperial court.
Among a hundred pen holders, it is already a great achievement to have one who is a master of military affairs.
The little emperor was depressed for a long time. He no longer had any thoughts about reviewing the memorial. He turned to look at Eunuch Gao on the side and said in a low voice: "Gao Ming, tell me, should I agree to Shen Qi's request?"
Eunuch Gao hesitated for a moment, then lowered his head slightly and said: "Your Majesty, originally I should not interfere with these matters of the outer court, but since Your Majesty has asked, I will be bolder and take it as sharing your worries for Your Majesty. …”
He looked at the emperor and lowered his eyebrows and said: "I feel that if Shen Yi really had any selfish motives, he would not make this request to the court. He is a concubine of the Hanlin Academy, and he is only accompanying the Crown Prince of Jin when he goes south to patrol the sea. Moreover, they have almost completed this errand. The anti-Japanese army is gradually taking shape, and they have plenty of time to slowly clean up the Japanese pirates..."
"Shen Yi can definitely return to the imperial court and be a comfortable official of the Imperial Palace, and wait for his release from the Hanlin Academy to become a sixth-rank official..."
The emperor was silent.
Everything Gao Ming said could not be more correct.
After Eunuch Gao was silent for a while, he whispered: "Moreover, I also read the memorial sent back by Du Huai. In Du Huai's memorial, he wrote about his conversation with Shen Yi. Shen Yi said that if His Majesty does not allow it, he will I will never mention this matter again, finish my errands honestly and return to Beijing to resume my duties."
"The vast majority of civil servants will do this."
The eunuch in purple said slowly: "Moreover, the vast majority of civil servants, for the sake of their own future, will not make such a request to His Majesty, not even once."
"If Shen Yi can mention this once, I think he is already loyal to the country."
"alright…"
The emperor waved his hand a little irritably: "Stop talking, I have to think about it myself."
Eunuch Gao bowed his head respectfully: "Yes, I will make tea for Your Majesty..."
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In Taiping County, Shen Yi, under the guidance of Magistrate Chang, destroyed several Japanese pirate strongholds on several coastal islands.
However, these Japanese pirates are all small groups. Together, there are less than fifty people in several strongholds. Among these fifty people, there are only a dozen Japanese Japanese pirates. The others are some bandits along the coast. In order to steal things, Just being called a Japanese pirate is scary.
Although Magistrate Chang knew about these places, he had been unable to do anything about these Japanese pirates. Moreover, these Japanese pirates were also connected with several rural gentry in Taiping County. His whole family was in Taiping County, and he was afraid that one day the Japanese pirates would break into the county. , harmed his whole family, so he pretended not to know.
Even when Shen Yi arrived here, he was ready to pretend not to know.
After all, it is better to do less than to do more.
If Shen Yi hadn't been drinking with him for several days, he would definitely not have said anything.
These Japanese pirates, at this time, were greatly inferior to the combat effectiveness of Wang Xian's group of Japanese pirates. Most of them were captured alive by the anti-Japanese troops and brought directly back to Taiping County.
For Japanese pirates, there is no need to interrogate them and they can be killed directly.
Shen Yi didn't talk nonsense to these Japanese pirates. After interrogating them for a whole night, he had them killed at the market entrance the next day to serve as a warning to others.
After killing these Japanese pirates, Shen Yi asked people to distribute the "reward of silver" for killing the Japanese pirates. The price was fair, and one Japanese pirate had ten taels of silver in cash.
For a time, the morale of this anti-Japanese army of more than 300 people was high.
Soon, they followed Shen Yi and gathered at the gate of Taiping County, preparing to continue south.
Before leaving, Magistrate Chang begged hard, and finally Shen Yi left fifty anti-Japanese troops in Taiping County to prevent Japanese pirates from retaliating.
With the gratitude of Magistrate Chang, Shen Yi left Taiping County.
Sitting in the carriage going south, Mr. Shen looked at Jiankang and sighed slightly in his heart.
In the blink of an eye, it had been two or three months since he left Jiankang.
Before he left home, Junior Sister Lu was already two months pregnant.
Calculating the days, the delivery date should be around the end of the year.
Shen Sizheng sighed slightly in his heart.
"I hope that by the end of the new year, I will have time to return to Jiankang..."