Chapter 70: Ways to Make Up for the Shortfall
"Be reasonable, I'll have the heart to strangle you now, Master Fan. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info At present, the Mughal matter, the Soviet invasion of the Western Regions, has made me anxious, and you have made such a bad thing for me, but it also involves my teacher, I can't ignore it! I sighed heavily. What else can be done at the moment? Secretly kill Anastasia, and then secretly give the gold to Jinyiwei for personal use? But even so, it may arouse the emperor's suspicion, in case the emperor orders a strict investigation, everyone will still have no good fruit to eat.
"There is a wrong, there is a debtor, Lord Zhen, you should go to Chang Kaishen for trouble." Fan Tong's voice was already a little hoarse, and he took a sip of tea, "I heard that the Donglin Party Gong Gong Zhugong has already thrown an olive branch to you, and they are quite happy for you to become a member of the Donglin Qingliu." If you join Donglin ......"
"I'll talk about this in two years. According to my Ming system, you don't have to join a party to have a chance to join the cabinet. For example, in the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, several departments personally controlled by His Majesty, aren't Shangshu all candidates for His Majesty's favor? I waved my hand, interrupting Fan Tong's words. For me, it is much more cost-effective to go to the upper line, win the favor of the emperor, and befriend all the nobles than to engage in party politics. Maybe one day I'll need to find a party to be the first assistant to be the first assistant, but it's too early to talk about such things.
At present, the members of the Ming Dynasty are mainly composed of three parts: elected members, honorable hereditary members and King James members. Although the majority of the elected parliamentarians finally gave the Ming a stage to carry out party politics, in fact, because of the evenly matched strength of the various parties, the emperor was able to use the nobles and the king-appointed parliamentarians to easily grasp the political trend -- no matter which election, the conservatives led by the Donglin Party and the radicals led by the League would not hold half of the seats, and it would always be the honorable or the king-appointed parliamentarians who could decide who would form a government. Therefore, every cabinet has to reserve seats for the nobles and the emperor's cronies, and once the cabinet has any opposition to the policies of the nobles or the emperor, it is common for the cabinet to be impeached and overthrown in minutes - over the years, the Ming royal family has long been perfected in this game, and the emperor does not have to use the privileges granted by the constitution to dissolve the parliament and re-elect.
This is the truth of the so-called "monarchy and co-mastery" politics of the Ming Dynasty -- well, I don't want to criticize this model, I'm just spitting and complaining.
Only the current Chang Kaishen cabinet is an exception. Several parties formed a ruling coalition that made up half of the parliament, and was finally able to form a cabinet in defiance of the emperor's opinions, but according to tradition, Chang Kaishen's cabinet still reserved seats for the emperor's cronies - which may be why the emperor was able to endure him for eight years. Occupying half of the seats in the parliament, the emperor did not want to overthrow the cabinet through re-election, which would cause a political earthquake in the Ming Dynasty.
"So, can we cover up this deficit in other ways?" I already have a little idea, "The key to this matter is not really Anastasia, but money." ”
"What you said is not wrong, Lord Zhen, but have you thought about where we got a thousand catties of gold from now?" Fan Tong shook his head, "There is no way at all. The amount of money is enough to make anyone desperate. ”
"Salvaging a shipwreck?"
"Whimsical. Not to mention whether there is enough time, even if there is enough time, there are no wrecks carrying so much gold in the waters around China -- only in the Caribbean Sea are the wreckage of the Spanish treasure fleet. Even if there is such a wreck, it is estimated that it will be salvaged. Fan Tong sighed, as if he was extremely disappointed with the method proposed by me, a famous sage.
I didn't want to use this almost fantasy method.
"Then, bribing and threatening Chang Kaishen's audit personnel, or secretly getting a batch of metal plating to disguise gold?"
"Hmm...... The risk is still too great, and several of our intelligence station commanders and commanders have already discussed this plan, and the conclusion is that it can only be used as a backup move that there is really no way. Lord Zhen, if you have any ideas, please speak up quickly, we are almost desperate at the moment. Fan Tongyi's face was indignant, "If only a few of us parties suffered this time, I wouldn't care too much, and it's nothing to help Lord Qian take a little responsibility, after all, after doing this business for so many years, we have already looked down on life and death, and it is also the responsibility of our juniors to let the old boss enjoy his old age in peace." But...... Chang Kaishen wants to die this time, it seems that our entire Jinyi Guard. Recently, he has been persuading that the Jinyiwei system is backward, extremely decadent, chaotic in internal management, and rigid in thinking, and I am afraid that it is no longer competent for the work of military intelligence gathering, management, and analysis under the conditions of modern technology, so it is better to set up a separate military command to perform these functions in place of Jinyiwei.' 'This guy has been engaged in the 'Blue Coat Society' in the early stage recently, and the prodigal son's enthusiasm is obvious! ”
"Military commander......" I touched my chin and thought again. What Fan Tong said is really very credible.
"I still have another idea, but I don't know if the commander has the guts." I really don't want to come up with this idea, I always feel that once I give them this idea, I will be completely tied to their ship, but unfortunately for the safety of my old man, I can only make this decision, it is better than killing Anastasia for some reason-although I really can't do it, but the most important problem is that it is not wise to do so.
"What? Master Zhen, hurry up! Fan Tong asked eagerly.
"Create a disaster in the vault of Jinyiwei, and then blame the Soviets." I sighed.
"That's ...... It will cause the reputation of the Jinyiwei to suffer, it will reveal to His Majesty the illusion that the Jinyiwei is incompetent and no longer trustworthy', and it will also attract the suspicion of the Confederacy. Fan Tong said worriedly.
"If you want to survive this crisis, a small sacrifice is acceptable." I spread my hands, "As for the suspicions of Chang Kaishen and others, you can push two five or six and kill them and not admit it, after all, this is an era that pays attention to evidence." If you don't mind, I can perfect this plan for you, please come with me......"
I lay on Fan Tong's fat ears and said my idea.
"Create the illusion of an earthquake?" Fan Tong frowned, "Create a natural disaster? That's a good idea, it's a good way to avoid responsibility, but gold can't just disappear into thin air......"
"It's an earthquake and a man-made disaster. Don't you know how the Fifth Army, which is the division of a hundred battles, knelt in the Western Regions......"