Chapter 281 The Concerns of Emperor Returned to Japan
Zhu Yijun, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who had come full circle when he regained Mongolia on the left, was now sitting in the warm West Nuan Pavilion of Qianqing Palace in the Great Open Land, listening expressionlessly to the report of the three Dongchang officials. .
"That is to say, the people thought that the war was over and were celebrating that the Ming Dynasty had once again continued to survive and perish, shocking all the barbarians. However, some people in the outer dynasty impatiently jumped out and hoped that Rixin would return to the dynasty in triumph immediately. Cancel the additional commercial taxes levied on the five Jiangnan provinces?”
"Yes, Your Majesty." The three great men responded at the same time.
"Is there still a quarrel in the cabinet?" The emperor flipped through a few memorials and seemed not to be interested. He turned to Chen Ju and said: "If these are all here to congratulate you, there is no need to show them to me. I really have something to ask for." Cut it and bring it again."
Chen Ju said "yes" and stepped forward to put the memorial aside without saying a word. A eunuch on the other side who was also wearing a python robe replied: "Go back to your lord, the cabinet has finished its quarrel. It seems that the scholars are dissatisfied with Yuan Fu’s last words.”
This sentence aroused some interest in the emperor, and he was even a little surprised. He asked: "Dissatisfied with Mr. Wang? Why?" Zhu Yijun wondered: What happened to Wang Jiaping?
The python-robed eunuch replied: "Roughly, there was no result in the quarrel in the end, so the ministers asked how the cabinet would respond. Yuan Fu said, 'How does the cabinet draw up votes, and when does it need to be discussed with all officials?' So the ministers He left in anger, and both parties broke up unhappy."
"There are no tigers in the mountains, and monkeys are kings." Zhu Yijun snorted and said with a hint of ridicule: "If Rixin really comes back, how can these people dare to be so noisy."
After a pause, he couldn't help but sigh: "I'm afraid Mr. Wang's performance as a minister is just the same. Since there are 70 or 80 people in this group interview, and most of them are science and technology officials, I guess Wang I'm afraid the gentleman will be impeached soon.
However, now is not the time for him to thank guests behind closed doors...Wang An, please make arrangements to let Mr. Liang Ge and Mr. Zhou Ge know my intentions. At least make sure that Mr. Wang can't change his mind before Rixin returns to the court. .
Chen Ju, please find an opportunity to pay a personal visit to Mr. Wang, and say that the great victory was achieved when he was in power. I am very satisfied with this, and I am waiting for a favor... How should you say this specifically? It's up to you."
The two eunuchs in python robes immediately responded respectfully. Chen Ju here is an old acquaintance and does not need to be introduced again, but "Wang An" does.
After Zhang Jing was overthrown that year, Zhang Cheng succeeded him as the chief eunuch of the Bureau of Ceremonies and concurrently served as the admiral of the East Factory as usual. This Zhang Cheng actually came from the same family as Zhang Jing. They were both the godsons of the eunuch Zhang Hong, but Zhang Cheng The relationship between Cheng and Zhang Jing is not that good - after all, they are actually very involved.
Although the relationship was not so good, Zhang Cheng gradually became antagonistic to Gao Pragmatic after he came to power. He secretly joined forces with Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue to encourage the Xin School to confront Gao Pragmatic. Unfortunately, the Xin School did not dare to be too blatant and could only do it secretly. The stumbling blocks and pragmatic achievements accumulated more and more, but in the end these methods had no effect.
If you walk too much at night, you will always encounter ghosts. Although Shen Shixing has always wanted to control the intensity of the party struggle, unexpectedly, the riots in the Jiangnan Cao Army eventually became a big issue. As a result, Shen and Wang, the two cabinet ministers, were lax because of their lax control.
It is inevitable that you have to pay for the nonsense of the people below, so both of you become officials.
At this point, Zhang Cheng was not completely exposed. Gao Pangshi only knew through the Ministry of Internal Affairs that he secretly visited Shen Shixing several times. Zhang Cheng was actually exposed because he was frightened and fell ill because of the resignation of Shen and Wang.
After seeking medical treatment, he actually went to establish relations with the Marquis of Wuqing, and they formed a marriage.
Although Zhang Cheng himself was an eunuch, he was not the only one in his family. He had brothers. In desperation, he hooked up with Li Chengming, the son of Li Wenquan, the second generation Marquis of Wuqing, for his niece. Li Chengming was Li Wenquan's son.
In theory, as long as the eldest son outlives his father, he will be the next generation of Wu Qinghou.
Li Wei, the first generation Marquis of Wu Qing Dynasty, was the father of Zhu Yijun's biological mother, Empress Dowager Li, so Li Wenquan was the uncle of the country, and Li Chengming was correspondingly Zhu Yijun's cousin.
Now, Zhang Cheng's niece is married to the emperor's cousin, doesn't this mean that he is also a relative of the emperor? Besides, the Wuqing Houfu is not an ordinary Houfu, and its status is very unique, so Zhang Cheng thinks that he should be
It's safe.
The Marquis of Wuqing was indeed extraordinary. After Li Wei's death, his grandson even insisted on giving posthumously the posthumous title of Grand Tutor, Duke An Guo, and posthumous title Zhuang Jian. Of course, this was an honor after his death, and his son Li Wenquan inherited the Marquis of Wuqing.
However, the succession to Wu Qinghou itself is an exception, because the title of a relative is different from the title of a hero. It is not a Spyge. Such inheritance is unreasonable. But Zhu Yijun didn't care, he wanted to show his filial piety, so when he approved the objection, he was all
I dismissed it with "I remember the kindness of the Queen Mother".
This gives people the illusion that "Wu Qinghou has obtained the Holy Scroll", and is also the reason why Zhang Cheng urgently sought medical treatment due to his illness.
It's a pity that Zhang Cheng didn't understand one thing. Zhu Yijun was not so good to Wu Qing Houfu because of the "Holy Scroll". He was just that his martial arts was at its peak now, so he needed something to show filial piety as his Holy Son.
Just embellishment.
So something happened: the state officials swarmed to impeach Zhang Cheng for violating the rules and colluding with others. Some even said that Zhang Cheng was the admiral of the East Factory, and he actually befriended and became an in-law with a noble man. This was because the noble nobleman of the Wu Qing Dynasty was interfering in politics, and he was suspected of having evil intentions!
To be honest, Li Wenquan, Marquis of Wuqing, was indeed the nominal Left Governor of the Fifth Army Governor's Office, but now the Fifth Army Governor's Office has become an empty yamen due to the restructuring of the Beijing Camp. He, the Left Governor, has not served in the Production and Construction Corps, which is equivalent to
If you can't move anyone, why should you be "intentionally evil"?
However, the truth is not important, what is important is that the rules must not be broken, so the incident became so big that the emperor had to severely punish Zhang Cheng to protect Li Wenquan. As a result, Li Wenquan was only fined three months' salary, but Zhang Cheng was "derogated"
In order to serve the emperor, he went to burn incense for Zhu Yuanzhang together with his godbrother Zhang Jing.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After Zhang Cheng left, the chief eunuch Bingbi, the chief eunuch of the ceremonial department, was vacant. As the chief eunuch of the eunuch, Chen Ju had the right to recommend, so he recommended Wang An.
Wang An was a native of the present-day Xiong'an New District of Xiong County, Baoding. He was considered a heavyweight in the late Ming Dynasty in original history. He was probably recommended by Chen Ju in the 22nd year of Wanli and was ordered to be the accompaniment of the crown prince and rose to prominence.
When Concubine Zheng planned to make her son the crown prince, and when the crown prince was in crisis, she was mostly protected by Wang An. So when Guangzong came to the throne, he was promoted to the eunuch of Si Li Bingbi, and she persuaded Guangzong to reuse Yang Lian and Liu Yishui. and others. But soon after Guangzong died and Xizong came to the throne, Wang An assisted Tianqi in moving Li Xuanshi out of Qianqing Palace and moved to Erluan Palace.
However, Wang An's end was not good. After Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka family gained power, he was killed. Generally speaking, his position in the original history was to be close to civil officials and consciously opposed eunuchs' excessive interference in politics - even if he was an eunuch himself.
Although the civil servants he was close to were from the Donglin Party, Gao Pragmatic didn't mind this. After all, the original history was very different from the present, and the early Donglin Party and the late Donglin Party were not at all the same situation and ideas. Therefore, Gao Pragmatic supported Chen Ju's recommendation, and Wang An was successfully appointed as the admiral of Dongchang.
That is to say, the current Chief Ceremony Supervisor, from the palm seal to the chief pen, can be regarded as a highly pragmatic person.
Zhu Yijun explained these two things to Chen Ju and Wang An. Of course, they could understand the implication: the emperor wanted to retain Wang Jiaping, and the time limit for retaining him was at least before Gao pragmatically returned to the court.
The emperor obviously had a purpose in wanting to be stuck at such a time. What could be his purpose? It was not difficult to guess. The two of them thought at the same time: fill the gap.
The current cabinet rankings are as follows: Wang Jiaping, a bachelor of Zhongji Palace, Liang Menglong, a bachelor of Jianji Palace, Gao Pragmatic, a bachelor of Wenhua Palace, Zhao Zhigao, a bachelor of Wuying Palace, Shen Yiguan, a bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion, and Zhou Yong, a bachelor of Dongge Palace.
Here, Liang Menglong had already made up his mind to resign as soon as possible because of his age. If he resigned, Gao Jingshi would have to take his place as the second assistant Jianjidian Grand Bachelor.
However, what if Wang Jiaping, the first assistant, also leaves his position at the same time? Then Gao Pragmatic will definitely directly take over as the first assistant!
In the case of a great victory in the Korean War, it happened that both the first assistant and the second assistant were removed from their positions. Why shouldn't Gao Xiang, who had made great achievements again, take over as the first assistant? What a coincidence, a perfect reward!
To be honest, Chen Ju and Wang An breathed a sigh of relief when they thought of this. Why? Because when the Korean War reached the point where the Japanese army only had Busan and two or three surrounding cities left, everyone in the imperial court was struggling, both internally and externally. The first thing to do is how to reward Gao Pragmatic after his triumph.
Why do you say that? I have actually mentioned it many times before. According to Zhu Yuanzhang's regulations, military merit is the most important merit. Basically, no one can be knighted except for military merit.
Although Gao Jingshi is a civil servant, he was also awarded the title of Marquis of Nanning because of his military merits. This is very reasonable. However, since he is already the Marquis of Nanning, what if he has another huge military merit? Ah, of course, we can only continue. The title is added, but if you continue to add the title, you can only be granted the title of Duke! It’s reached the top!
Gao Jingshi is only in his thirties, and this is the end of the letter. In the future, if the Chahar tribe who fled to the Western Regions does something else, Gao Jingshi, as the world's best military commander, will go on another Western expedition... Once he triumphs again, Doesn’t that mean that there is no seal and no reward? What should we do?
It is precisely because of such "hidden worries" that the imperial court - no matter whether it is internal or external, everyone feels that one is the leader and the other is the leader. Now it is better, if it "happens" that the high pragmatic person returns to the court, the first assistant and the second assistant
If both of them are removed from the throne, then the emperor only needs to reward him by appointing him as the chief minister, and he does not have to worry about naming a young and promising prince soon. Everyone is happy.
After Chen Ju, Wang An and the three big men left, Zhu Yijun clapped his hands again.
Liu Ping hunched out from the inner room of Xinuang Pavilion, knelt down and said, "What are your orders, Your Majesty?"
Zhu Yijun did not answer immediately. Instead, he walked slowly around twice before asking, "Is the report from Nanyang reliable?"
Liu Ping did not raise his head, but his tone was firm: "Go back to your Majesty, I can trust you."
"Is there really so much fertile land?" Zhu Yijun asked.
"Your Majesty, to be precise, it is fertile land that can be cultivated...after all, most of it is still deserted." Liu Ping said cautiously.
"Well... that's about the same." Zhu Yijun replied casually, then frowned and said: "Rixin has never been stingy, I naturally know this, but a number as big as 80,000 hectares is really astonishing
.Do you think Rixin has other motives for doing this?"
"Your Majesty, with Gao Ge Lao's wisdom, even if he really has any intentions, I'm afraid I can't see it. However, with my humble opinion, Gao Ge Lao has nothing to worry about whether he has deep meaning or not.
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"Really?" Zhu Yijun frowned, thought about it seriously, and said, "But even if I want to cultivate 80,000 hectares of land, the manpower required is not easy to raise. After all, these lands are used to build the Imperial Manor.
, once some people know about it, they will definitely be caught talking nonsense. Although I can ignore them, but there are too many people like this, it is always a bit annoying."
Liu Ping didn't quite understand the emperor's intention in saying these words, so he didn't dare to answer casually to avoid making more mistakes, so he could only say: "Your Majesty is wise."
"Don't be careless, can't you hear what I mean? What I mean is that although my reclamation of 80,000 hectares of imperial land will be a cornucopia in the long run, it will still require the mobilization of a large amount of manpower, material resources, and financial resources at the beginning, and these lands are all in Nanyang
That island...that place should be said to be completely in the hands of Nisshin now, huh?"
Liu Ping was now a little more certain. It seemed that His Majesty the Emperor was worried that since the place was completely in Gao Pangshi's hands, what if he invested a huge amount of money to complete the reclamation, but then something unexpected happened...
Liu Ping hurriedly said: "Is it the king's land in the whole world, and the king's ministers are on the shore of the land. Even if the place was taken by Gao Ge's old subordinates, it still needs the emperor's will to legally occupy it. Besides, Xinzheng Gao
My family is a famous Confucian sect and a family of high-ranking officials. How could Mr. Gaoge joke about such a thing?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Then have you ever calculated how many people are needed to cultivate these 80,000 hectares of land?
How much money is needed? Where do the people come from, and is the money enough?"
Liu Ping replied: "Back to your lord, human affairs are said to be difficult, but they are actually easy to handle."
"Really? What to do?" Zhu Yijun was a little curious.
"Just follow what Gao Ge did." Liu Ping explained: "Mr. Gao Ge has moved many people to southern Xinjiang in recent years, but the officials in the court did not attack such a big event in groups.
Does your Majesty know why?"
"Tell me about it," Zhu Yijun said.
"That's because these people are... how should I put it? If Mr. Gao Ge doesn't send them to southern Xinjiang, then they may have only two options, one is to starve to death, and the other is to... bring disaster to the local area."
Zhu Yijun understood immediately: "Oh, the people he relocated are all disaster victims, refugees, right? Well, this is a good idea."
Zhu Yijun has been the emperor for so many years, and of course he also knows that what Liu Ping just said is actually in a good way, especially "bringing disaster to the local area" - a joke. If he is really going to starve to death, as long as someone in the local area raises his arms, what will happen?
It's just as simple as "bringing trouble to the local area", and it might just lead to rebellion.
Liu Ping said: "Yes, I don't know what has happened in recent years. Various disasters have become more frequent. Especially in the north, it is getting colder year by year. Many people in the Central Plains and northwest are not living well. Once a disaster strikes, counties and counties are linked to each other.
There are refugees everywhere in Lianyuan Mansion. Mr. Gao Ge sent them to reclaim the wasteland in southern Xinjiang, and no matter what he said, he could ensure that they had a mouth to eat. It is precisely for this reason that even those officials have nothing to say."
Zhu Yijun's eyes lit up and he immediately said: "In this case, my Imperial Palace can naturally follow suit, right?"
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