Chapter 45: Is Lao Tzu Easy?
Shocking.
This is the conclusion that Zhu Zhanji came to after following Yang Shaofeng around Shuntian Mansion for a few days.
Guo Shidao is worthy of Zhu Laosi and Zhu Zhanji's trust in him, and he is extremely attentive to the matter of redefining the land, and he does not make a penny in his pocket in the middle.
However, the performance of the other gentry broke through Zhu Zhanji's lower limit.
There are rumors that the Son of Heaven wants to redefine the land in order to increase taxes so that he can send troops to attack Mahamu or Arutai.
There are also people who say that the so-and-so relatives of their own family are on an errand in such and such a department, and then there is reliable gossip that the emperor is short of money because of the affairs of the imperial city of Shuntianfu, and he wants to increase taxes.
If these rumors are given to future generations of primary school students to do reading comprehension, it is estimated that many people will be able to get full marks - anyway, the emperor is short of money, as for whether he wants to send troops to smash the field or want to build a palace, what does it have to do with our people?
Faced with this situation, Guo Shidao was also a little helpless.
There are so many people in the entire Shuntian Mansion, all of whom are sent out to explain the situation to the people? Let's not talk about whether the common people will believe the words of the government, just running around Shuntianfu is enough to tire people!
Zhu Zhanji also knew this, and even thought of posting a notice.
As long as the truth of the matter is clearly explained in the notice, and the word of mouth is passed on, won't the people be able to understand it? Isn't it the people who can make it; Shall the people not know it?
Regarding Zhu Zhanji's thoughts, he naturally attracted Yang Shaofeng's merciless ridicule: "Where did you post this notice?" Who are the literate people? Compared with the government and the local gentry, who would the people prefer to believe? ”
Three questions in a row directly made Zhu Zhanji speechless.
Those who are literate are scholars, and those who read are the gentry class.
Based on this premise, does it matter where the notice is posted? Does it matter who the people want to believe?
If the common people were willing to believe in the government, there would still be so many people in history who would have rebelled?
Even with it, Zhu Zhanji was not happy to see Yang Shaofeng and his two students - the three masters and apprentices are also scholars!
What's even more hateful is that Yang Shaofeng will always be half-dead, he will never stand if he can sit, and he will never sit if he can lie down, the reason is that he has been walking with him for several days and is tired.
Is this what people say? Is this a human thing?
It is said that he shares his worries for the monarch's father, just such a thing, and it is good if he doesn't anger His Majesty to death!
……
Zhu Laosi was indeed about to be angry.
I want to move the commercial tax, and a group of stinky fish and rotten shrimp below began to jump out and say what the ancestral law is, and they want to determine the acres of land in the world, but it turned out that this group of bastards jumped out again, saying that the people's livelihood is turbulent, and it is not the blessing of the society.
The co-authors are all according to your ideas, and the world will be too peaceful? Will the Ming Dynasty be able to live forever?
When Zhu Yunwen was about to cut the domain, why didn't you jump out and say that the ancestral law was the law? Lao Tzu can't be a good Yan King, and he can only run to be this emperor when he is forced to be helpless, is it easy for Lao Tzu!
After finally killing a few early birds, Zhu Laosi originally thought that he should stop, and there should be nothing to stop him in the future.
But no one expected that the rain in Liaozhou, Shanxi Province would not stop, and the river overflowed and flooded more than 30 hectares of people's fields.
Thirty hectares does not sound like a big number, but after being converted into acres, it is a full 3,000 acres, which is more than three times that of the entire Yang family Zhuangzi.
Now those stinky fish and rotten shrimp are energetic, combined with the previous night moon and the pre-Antares star and the beginning of the month of the big star out of the Taiwei West Wall to the southwest, many people began to secretly accuse themselves of the emperor's immorality, so that the heavens were angry.
What the hell is this, do I have to make a guilty edict or something?
Fooling a fool, isn't it? Is this thing easy for an emperor to take down? What about when an emperor makes an edict that hens lay eggs!?
Every time he thinks of this, Zhu Laosi is in a bad mood, and when Zhu Laosi is in a bad mood, he will think of the Four Heavenly Kings, and then Hu Guang, Yang Rong, Jin Youzi, Yang Shiqi, and Li Hezhong are passed into the palace.
The establishment is not in the cabinet, and Li Hezhong, who belongs to Hanlin from the five grades of the bachelor, is the same as the other four heavenly kings, and he can be regarded as a relict of Jianwen, but this guy is older than everyone else, strictly speaking, it should be a relict of Hongwu, an old fox who shouts that he is too old to drive, but he does not show a drop of water.
Zhu Laosi looked at the four heavenly kings in front of him, and spoke first according to the previous routine: "Arutai's request to open the border city to each other has just happened, but the river in Liaozhou has overflowed, so that 3,000 acres of people's land have been flooded, and I am very worried. ”
Hu Guang saw that the other bigwigs were all looking at their hearts, and no one came out to answer at all, so he had no choice but to bow down and say: "Your Majesty, you can order the preparation warehouse and the Jimin warehouse to release grain, and at the same time, you can also let the porridge factory in Liaozhou start to give up porridge, so as not to make the people hungry." ”
Seeing that Hu Guang had already spoken, Yang Shirong also spoke: "In addition, the local government in Liaozhou can contribute to help the people rebuild their houses." ”
Zhu Laosi snorted: "What the two Aiqing said is very true, but I still can't rest assured that the people of Liaozhou." ”
After finishing speaking, Zhu Laosi simply looked at Li Hezhong: "Li Aiqing? ”
As if he had just come back to his senses, Li Hezhong sighed twice, bowed down and said, "Since ancient times, after every catastrophe, there will be a great plague. The matter in Liaozhou is obviously not about flooding people's fields, but whether there will be an outbreak of epidemic after the water passes.
The minister thought that when he sent Qin to Liaozhou, he had full authority to deal with the aftermath and epidemic prevention, so as not to ask the court for instructions from the local government and delay the people's livelihood. ”
Zhu Laosi nodded: "According to Aiqing's opinion, who can take on this responsibility?" ”
As soon as he saw Lieutenant Li He's eyes on him, the other four heavenly kings all lowered their heads tightly - the big guy had no grudges in the past and no hatred in the near future, don't pit your own people with the surname Li!
Li Hezhong was also stunned.
Counting the emperor and the great eunuch Wuxin in front of him, there are seven people in total, the emperor and Wuxin will definitely not go to Liaozhou, and the remaining four heavenly kings will bow their heads and not pick up, do you want my old man to go by himself?
In the spirit of the dead Taoist friends who do not die in the poor way, Li Hezhong bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, the ministers are too old and unbearable, and it is difficult for Your Majesty to drive, and the affairs of Liaozhou are really powerless." ”
Seeing that Zhu Laosi's face was about to turn from sunny to cloudy, Li Hezhong hurriedly said: "But Yang Shaofeng, the champion of today's department, is a talented person, and he is even more clever in the negotiation with the Tatars to open border markets with each other, and the minister thinks that he can take on this great task!" ”
Without waiting for Zhu Laosi to speak, the other four heavenly kings saw that Li Tianwang had already found the man who carried the blame, so they bowed down and said, "The ministers seconded the proposal!" ”
Why did the emperor mention the opening of border markets with the Tatars in the first place? Naturally, it is for Yang Shaofeng and Yang Zhuangyuan, and now Li Hezhong, the official of the Hanlin Academy, has sold Yang Shaofeng, so it is the right thing to let him go to Liaozhou for disaster relief, right?
Zhu Laosi nodded with a smile: "Li Aiqing really knows my heart very well." ”
Before the Four Heavenly Kings could breathe a sigh of relief, Zhu Laosi's face turned gloomy again: "I know that some people are making trouble with the wind and rain now, and they just feel that I am going to smash their jobs." ”
The Four Heavenly Kings stopped laughing, especially Li Hezhong, as if he didn't exist.
What can be said at this time? Say you want to say goodbye to your hometown? The biggest thing that can be said is to go directly to Wangxiangtai!
"Ji Gang!"
Zhu Laosi's voice fell, and Ji Gang, the commander of Jinyiwei, appeared in front of the Four Heavenly Kings - no one knew where Ji Gang appeared and when he entered the palace, it seemed that he could always appear when the emperor needed it.
First saluted to the Four Heavenly Kings, and then Ji Gang directly took out a stack of documents from his sleeve: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the information of the Jingshi and the Jiangnan area, please take a look." ”
Hu Guang's heart trembled, and after taking the document from Ji Gang's hand and distributing it to the other Four Heavenly Kings, he slowly looked at the copy left in his hand.
Then a cold sweat ran down his forehead.
These Jinyi Weijin intelligence systems, which can know which concubine's room a certain minister slept on which night, and the ministers can play mahjong in private, can get a card to come out as evidence, are obviously not joking.
Compared with Yang Shaofeng and Zhu Zhanji who only went around Shuntian Mansion for a few days, the information that Jin Yiwei got was obviously more detailed.
Because the fields had already been determined, the time to reformulate the fish scale yellow book was much earlier than that of Shuntianfu, and the situation in and around the capital was more worrying and shocking than those that Yang Shaofeng and Zhu Zhanji knew.
After reading it, Hu Guang and the other Four Heavenly Kings all bowed their heads deeply, and they didn't dare to speak at all.
Zhu Laosi snorted coldly: "Have you seen it all?" ”
Without waiting for the Four Heavenly Kings to answer, Zhu Laosi directly slammed the table, got up and paced: "I killed three thousand palace maids? 10,000 palace maids and 100,000 eunuchs waiting for me? I still want to give to the people? I'm going to send troops to fight Warat and Tatar? I'm going to go to the West again? ”
Zhu Laosi, who was furious, simply scolded: "His mother!
Chop 3,000 palace maids alive? The total number of palace maids in this palace is less than three thousand! Who else is there with this? Is their brain for the dog to eat!
And the fucking 10,000 palace maids plus 100,000 eunuchs? You can't live in this palace!
And send troops to ambush? I want to send troops to fight Warat and Tatar, but you go and ask Xia Laolu, does he give me money! Nothing!
I also went to the West, Zheng He didn't know where he was, who did I let go to the West? Let you cabinet ministers go? Or do you want me to go myself? Well!? ”
Like an angry lion, Zhu Laosi simply ignored the four heavenly kings who knelt down: "Look at what you have in your hands!"
Damn, from the six departments to the lifting division below, from the left-behind division to the guard station, piece by piece rotten! They're rotten, and this Daming is all fucking rotten!
His mother! ”