Chapter 53: I'm not afraid

Yu Qian did not back down, and said: "Your Majesty's temperament, there must be a big move, and using the money to repair the river today can be regarded as a deep-rooted and fundamental policy." It's better than your majesty's foreign war. ”

Yu Qian said: "The students estimate that it will take at least a few years to repair the river on a large scale before all the places can be rectified, that is, within these few years, it is impossible for His Majesty to make any big moves to the outside world." ”

"When Your Majesty is older, he will be much more stable."

Yang Shiqi said: "When I talk about Your Majesty, I am talking about you." ”

"How many days can I stay in the Cabinet? I can't stay for a few days. When the time comes, I will transfer you in from outside, and you will be able to enter the cabinet directly, and with the knowledge of Your Majesty and the monarchs and ministers, you may not be able to sit on my top of the throne in the future. ”

"But this river repair, you are presiding over it outside, and Cao Nai echoes it inside, even if you have the merit of governing the river in the future, after entering the cabinet, you will also be under Cao Nai."

"Don't you know that Cao Nai is two years younger than you."

"Do you want to learn from Yang Rong, who has been pressed under Cao Nai all your life."

Yu Qian said: "Students don't care about this. ”

Yang Shiqi said: "I know you don't care? But you think that repairing the river is so simple, I can tell you that when His Majesty decided to control the water, I also studied it carefully. I talked to Wu Zhong, no matter how you repair it, this river in Hebei will still break. ”

"This is nature, the difference between Taihang Mountain and Hebei flat land is too big, water vapor is depressed, there are many heavy rains, and the rainy season in Hebei, just one or two months, it is difficult not to flood at this time, the sediment is under the ground, and there are soil reasons, the dam foundation is not stable, often the dam is not a problem, but the following is hollowed out."

"Do you think that the books of the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty are all fools and can't see it?"

"This thing, how easy to do, someone has already done it, where to wait until today."

Yu Qian said: "It is precisely because others are unwilling to do this thing, but students must do it, and someone must do something for the court." ”

"You can't do it." Yang Shiqi said: "If the dam is repaired normally, there is basically a problem, and nothing will happen. But now, Your Majesty trusts you so much that at least 10 million taels of river repair funds every year have almost wiped out the balance of the imperial court and given it to you. If you have cultivated it, you can be knighted. ”

"But what happens when you have a problem? Have you thought about it. Even if Your Majesty protects you, what will the world's corporal forest and the hundreds of officials in the court think of you? ”

"What a thousand people refer to, if you don't get sick, you will die."

"Even if you repair the river well, you are the first water control minister of the Ming Dynasty on someone's head, and now in the world, there is no flood that year. I'm afraid that for the rest of your life, you will have to run around to govern the river. The location of the center, you can't even think about it. Even if His Majesty wants you back. You think you're you

Will you be able to come back? ”

Yu Qian's face suddenly became extremely ugly.

Although Yu Qian is also an important minister, after all, he has not stayed in the center for long, even when he is the prefect of Shuntian, he is more of a magistrate.

I don't know much about the deceit of the center.

He never imagined that there was such a danger hidden under this great work of river control.

It can be said that as long as he takes over this matter, the success or failure of this river control will be linked to his political life. Even his political life is stereotyped.

Many people are not incapable, but they just can't get into the central positions. Sometimes it's just the label on your body.

Once everyone thinks that Yu Qian is a capable minister of water control, then there are many positions in the world, and they must be said to be Yu Qian, not to mention the governor of Caoyun.

To tell the truth, although the flooding in Hebei is very serious, the flooding of the Huai River is not much worse than that of the Haihe River, not to mention the flooding of the Huai River and the flooding of the Yellow River, and the canal is entangled.

It is even more a thorny problem, which is much more difficult and harmful than the North Zhili flood.

If Yang Shiqi is Yu Qian's political opponent, there are 10,000 ways to let Yu Qian sit in the position of governor of Caoyun until death.

For others, presiding over water control may be a glorious resume, but for Qian, it is not.

The special relationship between Yu Qian and the emperor is seen by many people.

And the number of Yu Qian's resumes, the local resume is too heavy, and the central resume is lacking, although Zhu Qizhen intends to increase the experience of the central staff on the ground.

But in general, most of the central personnel still like to have a central resume.

Yu Qian was already lacking in this, even if he returned to the sixth ministry as a scholar, and then entered the cabinet, it was much better than him as the governor of Zhili.

After a while, Yu Qian's face calmed down. Yu Qian bowed to Yang Shiqi and said, "Thank you for the teacher's suggestion." ”

Yang Shiqi's tone softened a little, and said: "You have figured it out, and now there is a way to redeem it, once it is settled, there is no way to redeem it." ”

Yu Qian said: "The students figured it out. Since the students have promised His Majesty, they will do it to the end. ”

Yang Shiqi said angrily: "You, you, why are you so stubborn." ”

Yu Qian said: "Teacher, Yu Qian has been studying since he was a child, and naturally knows the truth that the people are noble and the king is light. ”

"There are too many people in Daming who can be the head of the cabinet, but there are people who can be trusted by His Majesty and entrusted with the power of water control. But Yu Qian was the only one. ”

Yang Shiqi listened to it, and sighed lightly in his heart.

knows that what Yu Qian said is not bad.

The first thing you do is to win souls.

If it weren't for Zhu Qizhen, he would have come from the afterlife

Solving Taiqian's reputation, he has been in close contact with Yu Qian in the past few years, understanding Yu Qian's personality, how willing and daring Zhu Qizhen handed over an almost astronomical amount of money to Yu Qian.

Even said that without Yu Qian, Zhu Qizhen might still be able to govern the river, but he would never be so drastic. Zhu Qizhen dared to do this because he knew that Yu Qian was the one who could control this game of chess.

Among the officials of the Ming Dynasty, there may not be one who can resist this mess like Yu Qian, but there is only one who can resist this mess and win the trust of His Majesty, and it is not Yu Qian.

Yu Qian bowed to Yang Shiqi again, bowed almost ninety degrees, and said: "Yu Qian's honor and disgrace alone is nothing more than the matter of the family, and the matter of people controlling the water is related to the overall situation of the world. The life and death of hundreds of people, Yu Qian asked the teacher to fulfill it. ”

Yang Shiqi looked at Yu Qian, and suddenly thought that he had sacrificed his life to protect the crown prince before Emperor Taizong, that is, the later Emperor Renzong, had no dissent.

At that time, it was said that Yang Shiqi had no idea of political speculation, but it was not absolute.

But his first thought at that time was the words of the Ming royal father and son. It is very disadvantageous to the people of the world. So when he was desperately admonishing, he didn't actually want to get out of the edict alive.

Are there still fewer people who die in prison? Among them, there may not be no talent above Yang Shiqi.

At this moment, he saw his own shadow on Yu Qian's body, and he couldn't help but scold: "Idiot, even if you say it today, I won't nod." ”

Yang Shiqi said: "Since you are exploring for Your Majesty today, tell Your Majesty immediately, and Yang Shiqi asks to see you." ”

Yu Qian was taken aback and said, "Teacher, it's getting late. ”

The first assistant of the cabinet entered the palace at night, but this was not good news.

Yang Shiqi sneered and said, "I can't tell you clearly." Just do it. ”

Yu Qian had no choice but to leave the Yang Mansion immediately and report to Zhu Qizhen, almost the front and back feet, Yang Shiqi had arrived, and Wang Zhen sent someone to report.

Countless thoughts flew in Zhu Qizhen's heart for a while. made all kinds of speculations about the purpose of Yang Shiqi's visit, but he couldn't figure it out for a while.

But there is a sentence that came out in Zhu Qizhen's heart, that is, the person who came was not good.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Please." ”

Yang Shiqi arrived after a while, and when he saw Yu Qian on his side, he didn't say much, but after saluting Zhu Qizhen, Zhu Qizhen asked, "Mr. came here at this time today, but I don't know what to teach." ”

Yang Shiqi said: "The minister came here for no other purpose, that is, to talk about the ancient times for His Majesty, and to talk about the North and South List cases for His Majesty." ”

Zhu Qizhen definitely didn't believe this, but Yang Shiqi also said it. I only heard the sound of knocking on the stick outside, and the palace door was locked.

This night seems to be as calm as ever, but in fact, in the Qianqing Palace, there may not be no waves.