Wang Yusen got up before dawn, and to be more precise, he didn't sleep at all on the first night.

When the news of the emperor's imminent arrival in Suzhou was conveyed to the Suzhou Mansion by the General Administration Department a few days earlier, the whole city was busy.

As the prefect of Suzhou, Wang Yusen also received a notice from the cabinet at the same time.

The emperor's southern tour this time focused on the economy, Suzhou engaged in male and female workers, and engaged in industrial spinning mills, and the results were very gratifying.

If the emperor doesn't temporarily change the hexagram to come up with any moths, then the Su embroidery workshop and the big workshop will definitely go to the place.

Thirty miles outside the city, Wang Yusen and the officials from top to bottom of the Suzhou Prefecture, the local grain chief, and the main personnel of the Suzhou branch of the Imperial Merchants and the Suzhou Local Chamber of Commerce are waiting here.

The sky is not beautiful, and it is still drizzling in the sky, and this group of people has been drenched in the rain for an hour.

No one dares to wait for the emperor with an umbrella.

Although the whole body is already soaked, and the chance of suffering from the wind and cold will greatly increase when guarding the early spring season, no one dares to say that they will not wait.

Slow to say that it rains, even if it rains, you have to be next to the knife.

Who made Zhu Yunwen the emperor?

It's just that Wang Yusen didn't put his mood on this at all at this time, there were fast horses galloping back and forth around him all the time, of course, this was not to explore the emperor's royal driving movements, he didn't have the courage.

He was remotely directing the city's security.

"Have you caught all the ruffians and hooligans and the little green skins who have committed previous fights and brawls?"

"Have those Diao people who are in a lawsuit with the local county government and shouting injustice every day have been arrested?"

This is Wang Yusen, to be precise, the top task of the entire Suzhou Prefecture at the moment.

Regardless of whether those who sue the official are really wronged, whether they have really been treated unfairly, or whether they are just holding their minds and messing around, they must not have a bloody drama of colliding with the royal driver and blocking the road and shouting grievances at this time.

Whoever the knife is slashed on the head knows that it hurts.

Obviously, no one in Suzhou is willing to experience this kind of pain.

"Da-da-da-da."

The sound of horses' hooves sounded, and with the splashing rain, a fast horse galloped to the front of the welcoming lineup.

This is a brocade guard.

"There is a decree in the saint, Wang Yusen, the prefect of Suzhou, faces the saint, and the rest of the people go back to the office."

The emperor can be so capricious, this hour's rain, the big guy is in vain.

No one dared to say anything, and even felt a little relieved, and after thanking him, they watched Wang Yusen go with this brocade guard.

It's just that before leaving, Wang Yusen also found Suzhou Tongzhi and asked him.

"When you go back to the city, seize the time to check the hidden dangers again, prevent the slightest problem, and don't make any troubles."

The latter nodded solemnly, and then organized a team to return to Suzhou City.

By the time Wang Yusen arrived at the Imperial Courtyard of the Chinese Army, the young Suzhou prefect Zhou was already completely drenched.

"Minister, Wang Yusen, the prefect of Suzhou, knocked on my emperor's holy bow to Jin'an."

There were concubines and concubines in the imperial chariot, and Wang Yusen couldn't get in, so he had to kneel outside the imperial chariot to salute.

"No need to be polite, go to the deputy car to change clothes and wait for me, and I will wait for me."

There are auxiliary cars behind the imperial chariot, and they are all extremely wide carriages, which is convenient for Wang Yusen, and can be led by the little eunuch to change into a clean plain robe.

Wang Yusen didn't wait too long, and saw Zhu Yunwen, who was also dressed in simple clothes, come in with the curtain, and knelt down respectfully on the ground.

"Get up."

Walking past Wang Yusen's head, Zhu Yunwen sat down, took the hot tea handed by Shuangxi and took a sip.

"I came to Suzhou this time, mainly to see how Suzhou has done in the past two years, and to see how your Suzhou government has done."

"Suzhou relies on the blessing of His Majesty's heavenly virtue, and does not dare to talk about achievements."

The wheels were rolling forward, Zhu Yunwen turned his head to look sideways, and he could already see the shadowy appearance of the Suzhou city wall in the distance through the gap in the car curtain.

"There is heaven above, and there is Suzhou and Hangzhou below.

On my southern tour, Suzhou and Hangzhou were named, which are not only the land of fish and rice, but also the place of outstanding people.

I heard that there is also a proverb called 'Su Lake is ripe, the world is full', is that what it says? ”

Wang Yusen hurriedly responded: "These are all proverbs that circulated in the Northern Song Dynasty, and now I am a great Ming Wu Fu people, especially since His Majesty ascended the throne, the people's livelihood in all provinces has been at its peak, and Suhu is ripe three times, where can it be compared to the world." ”

responded in one sentence, which can be said to have slapped the sycophants to the place.

"You can't do anything to elevate the present and degrade the past."

Zhu Yunwen laughed, although he waved his hand to reprimand, but his face was still extremely complacent.

Who doesn't like to hear good words.

I can't always listen to this thing, I listen to it too much.

After chatting for an hour, the convoy entered the city of Suzhou, and Zhu Yunwen looked sideways again, and his face darkened slightly.

"I've heard it all in Nanjing, saying that Suzhou is full of people, and the streets are full of pedestrians and merchants, do you tell me that now this outside the city is like a ghost, is it me in the wrong place?"

Wang Yusen suddenly sweated like rain, and he was so frightened that he prostrated on the ground and paused: "The minister is guilty of capital crimes." ”

The emperor is coming and not sealing the city, so the next work is not easy to carry out.

Zhu Yunwen also knew that in this era, there was no way to do it, so he sighed for a long time and urged Shuangxi to say: "Speed up the march, go straight to the place where the government is located, and order the Beijing camp to be stationed outside the city, there are no thieves in the Suzhou Mansion, and three thousand brocade guards are enough." ”

"No."

Shuangxi went out of the car to give the order, and Zhu Yunwen waved his sleeves: "That's it, your local area is also a sincere heart, and you will be exempted from it this time." ”

Wang Yusen only thanked him for his orders, and as soon as the Son of Heaven stopped, he couldn't wait to lift the curtain and wait for Zhu Yunwen to come out first.

Outside the drive, officials and businessmen at all levels in Suzhou, who had picked up the driver outside the city earlier, were waiting early, and when they saw Zhu Yunwen appearing, they all knelt on the ground together.

"I told you to do whatever you should be busy with, and take my words as a deaf ear?"

Looking at the hundreds of people in front of him, Zhu Yunwen became angry again: "I don't have anything to do, come and see me, this monkey?" Get lost! ”

Who is responsible for taking over the driver, the General Administration Department has already told the locality, the chief official can take the driver, and the public in charge of specific affairs still has to be busy.

It's good now, even the county officials from all over the county have come to Suzhou to face the saint, can the local work be done?

Hundreds of people were so frightened that their faces were like white paper, and Zhu Yunwen didn't bother to care about them, so he got out of the car and walked to the mansion, and the crowd knelt down to move a way, and the sweat left by them almost gathered into puddles on the ground.

"Is that the Great Emperor of the Ming Dynasty?"

There is a pavilion in the distance of the government office, which is the stronghold of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce.

At this time, on the pavilion, several foreign businessmen from Fanbang who were not native to the Ming Dynasty were looking at the huge battle in the distance.

One of the merchants first sighed at the scale of Zhu Yunwen's holy drive, and then wondered: "Why is that emperor not polite at all, it is still raining outside, he let his subjects kneel there, and he himself entered the official office, is he angry?" ”

"Probably."

"Then he is too domineering, all walks of life in Suzhou greet him so respectfully, and the welcome ceremony is so grand, why is he still angry."

The people of Suzhou welcomed the arrival of the Ming Emperor with their greatest respect and grand scene, but the scene they saw in front of them was treated by the Ming Emperor without any courtesy.

Is Zhu Yunwen rude?

He really didn't want to be polite to this group of Suzhou bureaucrats now.

Before leaving Beijing, he asked the cabinet to give repeated orders to the local government, and he, the emperor, was here to observe, not to be observed.

What the local government should do should not affect people's livelihood.

But now it's good, the place is completely taking his words as a fart.

"I originally planned to meet with your Suzhou officials, but now I can do so."

With a cold face, Zhu Yunwen said: "Go directly to the Su embroidery workshop and the cloth market." ”

"No."

Wang Yusen was ordered to retreat, and he was going to 'arrange' again.

After he left, Zhu Wenqi, who was driving, asked Zhu Yunwen puzzled: "Father, the son read the book before, and the book said that the king regards the minister as a sibling, and the minister regards the king as a heart."

If the king regards the minister as a mustard, then the minister regards the king as an enemy.

Suzhou is respectful to his father, why should his father be like this? ”

Zhu Yunwen suddenly laughed: "Because I have never been to Suzhou." ”

Seeing that Zhu Wenqi was puzzled, Zhu Yunwen explained: "Child, you remember, for the king's grace and power, it is the king's way.

The officials of Suzhou had never seen me, and if I had been kind and lenient to them as soon as I came up, they would have felt that the monarchy was weak.

Therefore, I must first give them a dismount, so that they can put away their contempt, thinking that if something goes wrong, they will be killed.

Then, when it was time to leave, I would only need to give a small favor to them, and they would rejoice and be grateful to Dade. ”

Zhu Wenqi listened incomprehensibly, but still nodded his little head: "Thank you for my father's teachings, my son has written it down." ”

"In addition to knowing how to use grace, you must also understand why this method can suppress this group of bureaucrats."

Zhu Yunwen said earnestly: "Don't underestimate every bureaucrat, from the big officials of the feudal province to the government of a province, to the clerks, they all have their own circles and bonds, so blindly combining grace and power can't convince them."

Only if you interrupt the political ecosystem on which they live and protect themselves, will they grovel to you, otherwise, even if you have great means, when they grow stronger, they will not be buying your account. ”

The strength of the civil and official group in the middle and late Ming Dynasty can be compared to the scholar group of the two Song Dynasty.

Emperor Jiajing is also quite political, and he is also forced to breathe.

Zhu Wenqi still doesn't understand these things, and Zhu Yunwen is not in a hurry, there is always time to teach them slowly.