Chapter 25 Mao Wenlong's Five Injustices
In November, when Zhu Youzhen dealt with the 'Five Tigers and Five Biao', he made another windfall.
The East Factory copied more than 700,000 taels of silver from the homes of the 'Five Tigers and Five Biao'.
Zhu Youzhen estimated that the people in charge of this matter in the East Factory had made a lot of money this time, but Zhu Youzhen did not want to investigate deeply.
When the water is clear, there are no fish, and when people are observed, there are no fugitives.
At present, it is the time to employ people, and Zhu Youzhen can't do it because he doesn't want to be alone.
Zhu Youzhen received all the more than 700,000 taels and the previous 1.8 million taels of silver.
In three months, Zhu Youzhen harvested 2.5 million taels of snowflake silver, which was faster than that of previous emperors.
The concealment of wealth and the cleverness of the methods are unparalleled among the emperors of the past dynasties.
But Rao is like this, and he is still being targeted.
As soon as Zhu Youzhen moved the money from the house to the palace, Li Guopu, an assistant minister of the cabinet, began to go up:
"The minister heard that the virtuous kings of the past dynasties all attached importance to the court and society, and there were few kings who competed with the people for profit, and the wealth of the Son of Heaven lies in the wealth of the four seas and the peaceful residence of the people, is it not comparable to gold and silver?"
After Zhu You finished reading, a mouthful of old blood almost spurted out.
Grandma's, this Li Guopu is too perverted, what is called 'the wealth of the Son of Heaven, lies in the wealth of the four seas', I am blind with the map of the Ming Dynasty all day long, and I can't exchange it for silver to have a fart.
What else is called 'competing with the people', I think it is competing with you and the households.
Only when this silver is in my hands can it benefit the people of Li and give full play to its greatest value.
If it is all given to the household, sooner or later the silver will be divided by your gang of moths, and three out of ten will finally fall into the hands of the people, and I will recite Amitabha.
If I return the money to you, then my brain will be in water.
A husband cannot be without power for a day, let alone without money for a day.
Truly I believe in your wickedness.
Zhu Youzhen secretly slandered himself, and casually threw Li Guopu's recital aside.
With the silver, Zhu Youzhen's road to the emperor was officially opened.
So in the next few days, Zhu Youzhen began to write business plans in the Qianqing Palace, as well as restore various inventions and creations in memory.
Forbidden City, Wenyuan Pavilion.
In the duty room of Huang Liji, the first assistant of the cabinet, several cabinet chiefs and assistants gathered together with gloomy expressions.
"Yuanfu, Your Majesty has dropped out of the dynasty again, and he has dropped out of the dynasty many times this month, this is not a sign of a virtuous monarch."
Li Guopu was straight-hearted, and when he came up, he began to attack him.
"What Brother Yuanzhi said is very true, recently I heard that His Majesty often tinkers with those eunuchs in the palace to make some inventions, every day is happy, Your Majesty is young, I am afraid of following in the footsteps of the emperor, we should do our duty as an auxiliary minister to persuade him as much as possible."
Zhang Ruitu twisted his beard and expressed his approval, and raised Zhu Youzhen to the same level as Zhu Youxiao.
"Hey, thinking about the beginning of His Majesty's accession to the throne, out of auspiciousness, cutting off misfortunes, it is really the appearance of the Holy King, but today he is like the first emperor, good that Lao Shizi's strange skills are obscene, and dropping out of the dynasty is more commonplace, hey----"
Shi Fenglai sighed, with a sad face.
Huang Liji sat on the top, looking at the three colleagues who kept shaking their heads, feeling a little irritable.
"Forget it, let me take the lead in admonishing, hey, last time His Majesty reprimanded me, saying that if the cabinet chief assistant can't control his subordinates, then what do you want the first assistant to do." ’
Looking at the three old people looking eager to try and prepare for Shangshu, Huang Liji was really embarrassed.
The first assistant is not the prime minister, he can be under one person and above 10,000 people, and control the appointment and dismissal of the ministers below, since he can't control the appointment and dismissal of the ministers, why should people listen to me.
But if I can really control my subordinates and turn the emperor into a deaf and blind man, then it will be the same as Gonggong Wei, sooner or later I will have to find a rope and hang myself.
Hey, the baby is bitter, but the baby can't say it to people.
"Colleagues, Your Majesty is young and playful, and he is indeed young, and it is good to be old and mature, if the persecution is too much, I am afraid that His Majesty's heart will change greatly, and it will be too late, although Your Majesty does not go to the court, but the major affairs of the court are still asked from time to time, and we can also see Your Majesty from time to time."
Huang Liji persuaded him, but saw that the three of them still didn't think so.
"Yuanfu's words are wrong, and he should be persuaded even more when he is young, if he waits until his heart is settled, it will be too late to persuade him."
Shi Fenglai wanted to see Huang Liji's jokes.
"What the second assistant said is very true, my generation is all from Hanlin, who didn't come out of the cold window for ten years, don't you know the hardships of studying hard when you are young, but looking back today, you should be grateful for the cold window of your youth, and live others with yourself, if you neglect to persuade today, it will hurt Your Majesty."
Zhang Ruitu and Shi Fenglai have been friends in the same department for many years, and they have always advanced and retreated together.
"Yuanfu, if you don't go, I'll do my best to advise Your Majesty."
Li Guopu was short-tempered, and when he saw that Huang Liji was always with the mud, he didn't want to take him to play anymore.
When Huang Liji heard this, he silently cursed Li Guopu in his heart, and then he was ruthless, and said:
"There happens to be an excerpt from Dongjiang Town, I will wait for this to present it to Your Majesty, and all the justices will find opportunities to advise one or two, but we must take it step by step, and we must not be in a hurry."
Seeing that Huang Li responded, the other three stopped talking, but paid attention to the excerpts from Dongjiang Town.
"Mao Wenlong is asking for a salary again?"
Shi Fenglai asked.
"Well, it's not just about salary, but also about five grievances this time, hey, there is a quarrel in the court."
Huang Liji casually passed Mao Wenlong's recital to Shi Fenglai and others, and the three of them all shook their heads after reading it.
The new emperor succeeded to the throne, and everyone else wrote to congratulate him, and asked for amnesty to the world, this Mao Wenlong is really a wonderful, not to mention the congratulatory table, sprinkled with a thousand words, full of grievances.
Hey, Rao is Mao Wenlong knows something, and he will pay more filial piety to the civil officials in the court, so he will not be so wronged.
After everyone read it, they stopped talking, and got up and followed Huang Liji to the Qianqing Palace.
After a while, Zhu Youzhen saw the five injustices mentioned by Mao Wenlong in the Qianqing Palace.
Since the first year of the Apocalypse, the ministers appeased the Liao people, selected the strong and strong to enlist in the army, the old and weak were reclaimed, and they became a division to resist the strong enemy, but the Dongjiang soldiers and civilians were willing to risk the enemy's arrows, but they were not clothed and hungry, and this was uneven.
Ning Yuan's monthly salary is one or two or five dollars, and the family is two or four dollars, and five buckets of rice and noodles, the emperor's grace is vast, and the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Liaodong live on a barren island, and the salary for a year is only 200,000 silver and 200,000 rice.
Lushun and Shicheng are the gateways of Tianjin and Denglai, and they should be strictly guarded, but Lushun will Li Kuang and Shicheng guerrilla Gao Wan to attack from the east, and they will burn the camp and flee without a fight.
The minister is lonely and loyal, and he has already sworn to the sky to repay the monarch's father, but there are still officials and ministers who compare the minister to An Lushan, the minister was born and wronged, and he did not dare to look at it when he died.
The minister led the Dongjiang army to attack Tieshan this spring, and retreated to Yuncong after the battle, but the official Wenchen and the minister retreated to Yuncong without sending a single arrow.
Zhu Youzhen read Mao Wenlong's recital word by word, and was silent for a long time, and his expression became extremely solemn.
And the elders standing in the hall saw that Zhu Youzhen's face was full of anger, and he had long forgotten his previous oath, and they were all dumbfounded, without saying a word, and stood with their hands down.
The needles in the Qianqing Palace can be heard, and the atmosphere is depressing and dignified.