78. Enlightenment (I)
"Flat! Flat! You don't want to die?! Fan Qing almost went crazy and roared to startle Zheng Guang, and then Zheng Guang saw Fan Qing put his hard work for several days on the candle flame and lit it, the paper quickly burned, Zheng Guang was greatly surprised, slapped Fan Qing's hand, slapped the burning paper to the ground, stepped on it vigorously, and extinguished it, but when it was extinguished, there were only a few pieces of paper left. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"What are you doing here?!" Zheng Guang questioned Fan Qing angrily and puzzled, Fan Qing stood up and said with a frightened face: "My little ancestor, if you tell Your Majesty these things now, the southeast land is a sea of blood!" And you, yourself, will definitely die before them! ”
Zheng Guang suddenly felt betrayed, and asked Fan Qing in disbelief: "You already know these things?" I thought you never knew! ”
Fan Qing shook his head vigorously and said, "It's not what you think!" ”
Zheng Guang roared angrily: "What's that?!" ”
Fan Qing stood up and said quickly: "I am the prefect of Suzhou, before I come to Suzhou to take office, I will definitely know some things that I didn't know, Suzhou is an important place in the southeast, and the wealth is important, not only the imperial court attaches great importance to it, but also those large households and people in the southeast who rely on the life and operation of Suzhou City, and they attach more importance to Suzhou, they will not allow a person who has no ability to make money to be the prefect of Suzhou, this point, the court and the people of the southeast are completely consistent!"
Before I came to be the prefect of Suzhou, I had been trained in other places for eight years, and my political achievements were acceptable, and I was recognized by the imperial court, so I was transferred to the prefect of Suzhou, but where is it so easy? As the saying goes, a strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, no matter how strong I am as a foreign prefect, I can't really subdue these local wealthy families, but I have to be restricted by them, and many things can't get around them.
At first, I didn't care, many local officials are like this, moreover, for the livelihood of the local people, the newcomers who are not familiar with the local area do need to be familiar with the familiarity to know what to do, not to mention that there are still local robbers, without the assistance of the locals, I can't do a good job of the Suzhou prefect, so I have a lot of contact with them, and most of them are normal, are good people who want to live in peace and stability!
But after a while, I gradually found that when some people met with me to discuss problems, they always said some problems related to the Japanese invaders, intentionally or unintentionally, and also provided me with several important pieces of information, and I sent troops to see them, and sure enough, as they said, in this way, I won several small battles, and made some contributions, and after that, one of them came and had a showdown with me, and then I knew all this, you know. ”
Zheng Guang frowned tightly and said angrily: "Then why don't you report this matter to Your Majesty and the imperial court?!" ”
Fan Qing closed his eyes, sat back in his chair, put his hands on his forehead and said, "Do you think I don't want to?" It's just that at first I thought that they were just a minority, just a few and very few people with a desire for profit, so I planned to go further and mobilize a large army to wipe them out after getting more information, so as to make meritorious contributions, but I didn't think that my greedy act saved my own life.
The deeper I got, the more surprised I became, and even panicked, I never thought that the truth of the southeast rebellion was actually like this, I once wrote a memo like you, wanting to risk death to send it to Your Majesty, send it to the emperor's imperial review, and let the emperor make a decision, but at that time, my master stopped me, just like today I stopped you, he said to me, Dong Weng, think about it carefully, the prefect of Suzhou is not only you, but also several predecessors, and the southeast officials are not only you, but also thousands.
If they can have a showdown with you like this, and they can also have a showdown with other officials, and they actually dare to have a showdown with officials at the prefect level and tell you part of the truth, then they must have no fear, at least, there are officials higher than you to be their backers, take their money, and do things for them, and your performance will definitely not reach the emperor's hands! You're just going to lose your life!
At that time, I didn't understand, I was very indignant, so I said, even if the corrupt officials in the southeast protect each other, as an official of the imperial court, I am deeply favored by the country, how can I sit idly by and ignore this matter! Let the villain spoil my Ming tax administration and fill my pockets! Even if I fight for this life, I will send this performance to His Majesty! Even if it's to let Jinyiwei send it! Yes, you are not wrong, what I wanted to do most at that time was to go to Jinyi Weinan Town Fusi, tell Jinyiwei about this matter, and tell Lu Bing, I think that even if everyone in the world betrays the emperor, only Lu Bing, the emperor's milk brother, will not betray! ”
Saying this, Fan Qing showed an extremely painful expression, and Zheng Guang couldn't help asking: "Then what?" ”
Fan Qing hesitated for a moment, and then said with determination: "Lu Bing will not betray the emperor, but Lu Bing will hide it, he will also hide it, the master said to me, a few years before I came, after Lu Bing took up the post of Jinyi Guard, he sent a lot of good hands to Nanzhen Fusi, and made a secret visit to the affairs of the Japanese Emperor. What's more, the Pinghu Lu family itself is also a big family, so they don't know anything about the Japanese invaders?
He said that he dared to guarantee that Lu Bing was the person who knew the most thorough understanding of the southeast Japanese rebellion in the Ming Dynasty except for those culprits, even more thoroughly than those Japanese invaders themselves, what I guessed was that Lu Bing knew everything, Jinyiwei was pervasive, and even the ministers knew what they said and what they ate, is this kind of thing so easy to hide? Since so many officials have chosen to go along with it, it can only be said that this is an open secret, and everyone knows it!
After so many years, everyone has never thought to puncture this matter, what does it mean? It means that a considerable number of people have already benefited greatly because of the Japanese Rebellion, and there are people who have benefited from it from the top to the bottom of the Southeast officialdom, from the inside to the outside of the Beijing Imperial Court, and even from the inside of the Jinyi Guard, what will they do? Will it help me inform the emperor of this and thus set off a sea of blood, or will I be left alone and continue to live?
Pingzhi, you must believe me, such a fold, even if you hand it over to Ma Tao, Lu Bing will not hand it over, Lu Bing knows, knows everything, everything knows, even those eunuchs have people who know, Huang Jin doesn't know, because he is an old man next to the emperor, only loyal to the emperor, no one will tell him, but Lu Bing is different, he has a family, hundreds of people, he wants them to live!
Do you think Lu Bing is really a big hero or a hero, or a powerful minister, the power is monstrous, this is all true, really, very true, but you must also know that if you are a person, you will have selfishness, and if you have selfishness, you will do private things, if you hand this excerpt over, Lu Bing will not hand it over, maybe he will find someone to write an ordinary excerpt and hand it over, lie that it was written by you, and then try to obstruct you, design you, and easily cure you to death!
Take 10,000 steps back, even if you hand over the fold, do you know the result? So many people's lives and money have been ruined by you alone, what kind of hatred is it to take away people's wealth? They are deaf and clear-sighted in the capital, the emperor has not yet decided, you are dead, and no one knows, of course the emperor will be furious, but the emperor is the emperor after all, and the stability of the Ming Dynasty is the first step, he will carefully consider whether this matter is true or not, whether it is your own false words.
Check it, check it, the secret cooperation of Jinyiwei, the protection of the officials of the southeast officialdom, the secret assistance of the southeast bureaucrats in the capital, the ancients and the three of them became tigers, who do you think the emperor will believe? What will be done? Why did the previous Jinyiwei lose to Dongchang? Because of the difference between the eunuch and the foreign minister, the eunuch is close to the emperor, and the Jinyi guard is far away from the emperor, and the emperor is more willing to believe that he can see the eunuch who can live in his control, rather than others! This is still the case in Beijing, not to mention that they are in Beijing, and you are far away in Suzhou!
Pingzhi, you must know that once this twist and turn falls into the hands of Jinyiwei, you will die as soon as tomorrow! will also bring your family and many, many people, our monarch's memory is not very good, whether he can remember you is not necessarily, you must know, you are not a big official, you are not an important person, you have no power, no one will help you, I have been in Beijing, I know how the emperor is changeable, you must not think that the emperor asked you to write a fold is to attach importance to you! Unless you are the first assistant, don't think that the emperor will value you!
Pingzhi, I am looking at the friendship between life and death between me and you, and persuade you, the last thing people want is to take themselves too seriously, you think you are very important, in fact, you are just an insignificant little person, you think that you can fight to the death with those big families, but in their eyes, you are just a mosquito, buzzing and shouting, and want to suck blood, they clean you up, but you are just putting your hands together! ”
If Zheng Guang is alone, maybe his brain is hot, with the will to fight with the Mongols and those bastards to be tough, it's a big deal that his head has a big scar, and he has to eradicate these moths, but when it comes to his family, his grandmother, Zhao Dieer, Zheng Jiang and Zheng Yong, and the rest of his aunts and sisters, Zheng Guang was shaken.
There is no way not to waver, there is really no way not to waver, if it is just yourself, it doesn't matter, it is a big deal, but the Zheng family, the old and weak women and children, without themselves, will be implicated, what kind of pain will it be?
But...... But what I did was the right thing, but why couldn't I even take the first step? Am I wrong? What did I go wrong?