In mid-August, before the scorching heat of midsummer had dissipated, there was bad news. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The Yellow River burst its banks.

Emperor Hongzhi was furious, and ordered to send Zhang Qian, the deputy envoy of the Imperial Inspectorate, to Shaanxi to inspect, and let him decide on matters large and small, and the officials below the fourth grade could have the right to cut first and then play.

This incident also caused an uproar in the government and the opposition, and it was not uncommon for the Yellow River to burst its banks. Since the diversion of the Yellow River during the Chenghua period, it has ravaged the people along the coast like a fierce beast.

The effect of building dikes is sometimes good and sometimes bad, and God is not happy that the Yellow River will burst.

For this matter, the Son of Heaven summoned hundreds of officials to inquire about the solution, but did not come to a unanimous opinion.

The 10th year of Hongji was a year of many disasters.

Earthquakes, locust plagues, droughts, wars, levee breaks......

In addition, the little princess died early, and there was a fire in Qingning Palace, which is really a big omen, and there is really a blunt person who is not afraid of death, and the book thinks that it is caused by a traitor who deceived the king. Ask the Son of Heaven to punish the traitor Li Guang and others to thank the world.

The representative of this is Ye Shen in the matter, and Zhang Jin, the imperial history.

Although Emperor Hongzhi was good-tempered, this time he directly rejected the request.

In his opinion, there are two people who can't move, one is Zhang Heling, the Marquis of Shouning, and the other is Li Guang.

The former is the empress's younger brother, and the latter is Emperor Hongzhi's confidant.

But the more powerful the bullets were, the more people admonished, and in the end it turned into a massive joint action.

Nearly 100 officials jointly played a joint game, and the spearhead was directly aimed at Li Guang.

At this time, Emperor Hongzhi was frightened.

He didn't have the courage to pull a hundred ministers down to the court staff, so he had to call someone for divination first, and learned that the divination result was that Li Guang had committed a taboo in the Yuxiu Pavilion built on Wansui Mountain, so he breathed a sigh of relief and gave in to the hundred officials, and ordered a search of Li Guang's mansion.

When Li Guang heard the news, he committed suicide directly.

This investigation didn't matter, but a mountain of gold and silver was found in Li Guang's mansion.

Someone else found a thick ledger in the box of Li Guang's study. The ledger contains detailed names of the officials who gave the gifts. However, the amount of gold and silver was replaced by yellow and white rice.

Emperor Hongzhi asked Li Guang why he received so much rice and grain, and he replied that this was just an obscure statement of gold and silver.

The Son of Heaven was furious and ordered the raid of Li Guang's mansion and confiscated it into the treasury.

In addition to gold and silver, it was also found that Li Guangfu had nearly 10,000 acres of land in Shuntian Mansion, most of which he forcibly bought at a very low price, or simply forcibly occupied.

Emperor Hongzhi ordered the return of these lands occupied by Li Guangqiang to the people, which won the praise of the people of Jingshi.

Li Guang's suicide triggered a lot of chain reactions.

Because Emperor Hongzhi held the name of bribing officials, those civil officials who bribed Li Guang were panicked, and some simply wrote to resign.

Because there are too many officials involved in bribery, Emperor Hongzhi is not easy to attack, otherwise he is the emperor who has no shame on his face.

Therefore, he simply granted the resignation of these officials.

In August of the tenth year of Hongzhi, a wave of resignation fever broke out.

A group of officials left all of a sudden, and naturally new officials had to fill in.

Emperor Hongzhi transferred many local officials to Beijing to fill the vacancies, which can be regarded as quelling the resignation turmoil.

Li Guang fell, and Hongji was full.

This is a folk ballad made up by children, although it is vulgar, it is not unreasonable.

The gold and silver found in the raid of Li Guang's mansion alone were enough for a year's income from the Ming treasury.

It is not an exaggeration to describe Eunuch Li as a rich country.

On this day, Xie Shen, Wang Shouwen and Xie Pi ate wine together in the mansion to celebrate the fall of the traitor.

"You can rest assured that you can cultivate now, right? Eunuch Li's downfall, no one can trouble you anymore. ”

Wang Shouwen said with a smile as he threw the grapes into his mouth.

Xie Shen glanced at him and said, "Brother Ziwen's words are biased. Without Eunuch Li, there will be Eunuch Zhang and Eunuch Wang. One eunuch fell, and tens of thousands of eunuchs stood up. ”

Poof.

Wang Shouwen laughed.

"One eunuch fell, and thousands of eunuchs stood up. Jinxiu, that's really interesting. ”

Xie Shen stretched his waist and said lightly: "What, isn't this in line with the mainstream Wenchen values." ”

Xie Shen could always pop out of his mouth one or two words that Wang Shouwen didn't understand, and he was used to it.

However, he still subconsciously asked: "What are values?" ”

Xie Shen smiled helplessly: "Values are people's opinions, their views on the world, and their views on the people of the world......"

Li Guang's downfall was indeed somewhat unexpected by Xie Shen. The main thing is that it is a full year ahead of schedule.

According to the established development of history, Li Guang would not fall until the eleventh year of Hongzhi.

Unexpectedly, the butterfly effect of Xie Shen's crossing was so obvious, and it actually caused Li Guang's downfall to happen in advance.

Of course, this does not mean that everything will change with it, history has a strong ability to repair itself, and it will always deviate from the right trajectory.

However, the resignation boom attracted Xie Shen's attention. These officials bribed and embezzled, but in the end they all retreated, and they were really cheap.

"Eunuchs are not all traitors, and civil servants are not all loyal."

Xie Pi on the side took a sip of his daughter's red and said leisurely.

"It is said that Li Guang raided his house this time, and found the names of officials who bribed him in his mansion, most of whom were civil servants."

Xie Shen nodded and said, "What Yizhong said is right, you can't look at your face if you are a traitor or not." ”

Wang Shouwen felt a little bored, and muttered, "Don't talk about this." I heard that Brother Jinxiu has entered the shares of a money bank in Shanxi, it should be a daily income, right? ”

Xie Shen shook his head and said, "Qianzhuang doesn't make as much money as you think......"

Wang Shouwen sneered and said, "I will believe it?" ”

"I really don't lie to you, although there are many wealthy businessmen in Beijing, most of them have their own stable channels, and it is not difficult to turn over money. Comparatively, it is a small businessman who deposits more silver for silver. ”

That's the problem.

The biggest problem facing the development of the money bank is how to absorb the money.

The Jin merchants needed a large amount of silver to circulate, so they might have deposited silver for silver.

But these businessmen in Jingshi are different. They all have more or less official backgrounds, and they don't really need money to circulate.

In this case, if you want Ji Shengchang's brand to play in Beijing, you need to find another way.

"Then let's take the silver from the small merchant Jia."

Wang Shouwen was puzzled.

"The amount of silver deposited by small businessmen is small, and the time of redemption is uncertain. If you can't get the money in the run, isn't it smashing your own signboard? ”

If the money bank or ticket number wants to make money, it is not possible to let the deposit bank lie in the treasury, but to let the money flow.

The easiest way to do this is to lend.

The cashing time of the money of the big businessmen is relatively fixed, and it is easy to arrange loans.

But it is not easy for small businessmen to control this. In case of leakage, if you encounter a run, you will really smash the signboard and lose money.

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