Shandong Jinan has been a place of scenic spots since ancient times, especially in the Ming Dynasty, because of its proximity to the Grand Canal, the degree of prosperity is not inferior to that of Suzhou and Hangzhou. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

On this day, Zhu Youxiao's imperial guard of honor also marched to the boundary of Ji 0 Nanfu, although it has not yet arrived in Ji 0 South City, but from the past more and more dense merchant ships also feel the approach of the metropolis of the Ming Dynasty.

Like Zhu Youxiao, there are three other local officials who stay on this sparkling canal.

One is Sun Chengzong, the trilateral general who came from the northwest, and he has also become frugal after many years of ruling in the bitter cold land of the northwest.

Dressed in cloth and in a small boat, on the mighty Grand Canal, where thousands of sails crossed, no one could recognize this thin old man as Sun Chengzong, a second-class member with the title of official and secretary of the military department.

Sun Chengzong looked at the 10,000 acres of crops and merchant ships coming and going in Jinanfu in front of him, and then thought of the people in the northwest who relied on the imperial court to make a living, and he couldn't help but feel worried.

After only a few months in the northwest, Sun Chengzong completely became a reformist and became a member of the royalist party.

And now that he has come to Zhu Youxiao to meet His Majesty, he is also full of confidence, and he is even mentally prepared to become the second Wang Jiefu and Zhang Jiangling, including their ending.

Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, came from the south, and he was very proud to hold on to the railing and look at the round of ripples cut by the wood pulp in front of him.

This is the first time he has faced the saint, as a member of the old eunuch party, he is very excited, he has never set himself up as a moral benchmark like the Donglin Party, of course, he has never thought of really solving the people's difficulties, he is a realist, his most basic principle is to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and then other rules, he does not obey.

Just like him in later history, although he was treacherous and intended to be a powerful minister, he was still able to be martyred for the Ming Dynasty.

This time, His Majesty wants him to be the first to recollect commercial taxes in Fengyang, he is full of confidence, from a personal point of view, this will be the same as the management of salt farms, copper mines, etc.

What's more, he himself is a noble man, a traditional gentry, and has always discriminated against business, and now increasing taxes on these profit-seeking merchants is his ideal when he was young, and it is also an incentive for him to become a eunuch.

Therefore, Ma Shiying decided to carry out His Majesty's policy without hesitation after this encounter.

At this time, Yuan Keli had been promoted from the governor of Denglai to the governor of Shandong and the right deputy capital of the imperial history and the title of prince and young prince, and he was able to be invited by His Majesty Zhu Youxiao to go out again, the reason is naturally not that he wants to go further in his career, but to complete the unfinished things of his life.

Especially now that the Ming Dynasty is difficult to return to, and the stubborn disease is difficult to treat, even if his temples are white, but he has served in the local area all the year round and witnessed the tragic situation of hundreds of people, he still resolutely chose to follow His Majesty today to give this Ming a dose of fierce medicine.

When today's son is young but has the ambition to rule the world, how can he, an elder of the court, stand by and watch, not share the worries of the monarch's father, and not do things for the people of the world.

Even if the new deal fails at that time, His Majesty will throw him out to be a cunning rabbit and a dead lackey in order to block the mouth of the world, and he will not regret it.

However, at this time, the closest thing to Zhu Youxiao's imperial boat was Yuan Chonghuan's boat.

He was still wearing shackles and shackles at this time, and after a few days of wind and rain, he was obviously haggard and aged a lot, and the supplementary clothes that had not been changed were also covered with mud.

At this time, Yuan Chonghuan was like a log, looking at everything around him with empty eyes, and the scene when he entered Beijing to take the exam and passed through the land of Qilu unconsciously appeared in his mind.

At that time, he was so high-spirited, with the spirit of giving up who else in the world, but now he has ended up with a fate that is not as good as a martial artist.

Yuzhou put down the board and lay between the two boats, and Yuan Chonghuan got on the Yuzhou under the escort of the two Dongchang fans.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao was already sitting in the main hall, with his back against a picture of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, a Persian carpet on the ground, and enamel and a glass and silver mirror of the newly made exquisite royal monopoly on both sides.

At the same time, waiting on the side were Wang Chengen, the master of ceremonies, and Li Mingrui, a scholar of Dongge University and the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites.

Wang Chengen and Li Mingrui were both ministers who rose up later, and they had nothing to do with Yuan Chonghuan, and they didn't care much about how His Majesty would deal with this disobedient feudal official.

But there is still curiosity, because the two of them, as close ministers of the Son of Heaven, can be regarded as the best understanding of His Majesty's temperament today, and the two never expected that His Majesty would be so angry because this big man named Yuan Chonghuan wanted to kill a military attaché.

Both Li Mingrui and Wang Chengen could feel that His Majesty may never have thought of respecting civil officials alone or only pampering eunuchs.

Although this son of heaven is young now, he is becoming more and more unpredictable.

This is not only the feeling of Li Mingrui and Wang Chengen, but also Yuan Chonghuan, who is now waiting outside, looking at the handsome young man who is sitting on the dragon chair in the main hall without expression but is unpredictable, Yuan Chonghuan felt fear for the first time.

"Your Majesty, Yuan Chonghuan has arrived", Wu Jin, the head of the big stall, walked in first.

Zhu Youxiao raised his hand at this time: "Let him come in, I have something to ask him." ”

Frankly speaking, Zhu Youxiao didn't understand why these people were so afraid of him, even Wu Jin, the big devil of Dongchang who could kill people in a moment, looked cautious in front of him.

However, Zhu Youxiao was also accustomed to this kind of behavior of others in front of him, and he didn't bother to ask, but looked directly at Yuan Chonghuan.

"Say, I will give you a chance to justify, why did you murder Mao Wenlong, and knowing that hundreds of people in Gyeonggi had been devastated, the Guanning Army and Wu Xiangbu rebelled, and the big traitor who instigated the Tartars to plot to seize my Ming Dynasty is Fan Wencheng, why do you still call him a brother?"

Zhu Youxiao didn't say anything after asking.

Yuan Chonghuan himself knelt down: "The minister is guilty, please punish Your Majesty!" ”

"Don't worry, I will cure you! But now you have to answer my question," Zhu Youxiao roared angrily.

Yuan Chonghuan smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, why do you ask more, how did Confucianism ever choose whether the king is Hua or Yi, although Fan Wencheng is guilty of the Ming Dynasty, but he has the credit of the Qing Dynasty, the criminal minister is the minister of the Ming Dynasty, so he should naturally be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and each is his master, and." ”

"And what?" Zhu Youxiao could see from Yuan Chonghuan's expression that this person seemed to have entered a state of madness from fear, and the eyes that looked at him were not only not fearful, but full of hatred.

Yuan Chonghuan stood up by himself, pointed at Zhu Youxiao, and pulled the shackles on the shackles and made a sonorous sound: "And this world is not the world of your Zhu family, but the world of Confucianism, whoever is the king is not the same, why only bet on you, the faint king." ”

"Pull it down, cut it!"

Zhu Youxiao was not angry, but said this coldly.

But Li Mingrui couldn't help but tremble, seeing that Wu Jin was indifferent, he hurriedly came over and hit him with his arm a few times, Wu Jin hurriedly came back to his senses, and immediately pulled Yuan Chonghuan up and walked out.

"Zhu Youxiao! You", before Yuan Chonghuan could scold, Wu Jin's knife fell, and the blood splashed on the deck was rushed by the sudden torrential rain, and it turned into nothingness in an instant.

(To be continued.) )