Chapter 793 The Only Big Guy (I)

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Entering the warm quiet room, the two sat in a row as the guest of honor. A waiter made a pot of hairy tips and brought a few delicate refreshments. This is the rule of the Beijing swallow drinker, before the official opening of the banquet, put on the tea for the guests to chew and appetize, and when you eat hot dishes later, the stomach will be much more comfortable.

The two of them drank tea and ate refreshments, while talking not too light gossip, until the banquet was set up, looking at the table full of delicacies, and then at the empty elegant room, and smiled silently: "Didn't invite others?" ”

"Who else can I invite?" Zhang Juzheng raised his eyebrows and said proudly: "Today, how many people are qualified for this?" ”

"Hehe......" Shen Mo laughed, "There are still a few." The two of them looked at each other and smiled, both smiling a little badly.

Zhang Juzheng teased: "Why don't you find two Northland Rouge and sing music and wine for us?" ”

"Forget it," Shen Mo thanked Bumin and said, "If you want to invite me to eat flower wine, you won't come here." ”

"That's right." Zhang Juzheng nodded and smiled: "Fan Hutong is not much stronger than here." As he spoke, he touched a glass with Shen Mo as the host. I had a lot of thoughts in my heart, but I found it difficult to speak, so I had to drink the stuffy wine one after another.

Shen Mo didn't urge him, picked up a few light side dishes, and tasted them carefully, but it was a little strange, how did this Yuebin Lou in the capital taste the same as chewing wax...... In fact, it's just that the problem is the dish, it's just that he can't eat it.

In the eyes of outsiders, the two young people who were really the most proud of the Ming Dynasty fell into deep distress at the moment.

After a long time, silence broke the silence and said softly: "Between us, it is no different if we don't say a lot of things, but saying them can always make my heart happy......"

Zhang Juzheng glanced at him silently when he heard this: "Sure enough, it's 'the father and mother who gave birth to me, and the one who knows me is Jiangnan'." After a pause, he picked up his glass and said, "There are some things that I can't control......

He smiled silently and said nothing, gently pinching the wine cup, but he was not in a hurry to clink glasses with him.

Seeing that he couldn't get a response, Zhang Juzheng had to smile bitterly: "Okay, who doesn't want to sit in that seat." ”

Shen Mo smiled, clinked glasses with him, drank all the wine in the cup, poured another glass with his backhand, raised it and saluted Zhang Juzheng and said, "Me too." ”

Zhang Juzheng's expression froze when he heard this, and after a while, he began to laugh, first laughing, and then laughing louder and louder, until tears came out of laughter. He looked at him with a silent smile, his arm hanging all the time, and when he finished laughing, he touched him and drank a drink.

"I'm convinced." Zhang Juzheng happily drank the wine in the cup and said, "Your realm seems to have improved again." In a word, this is not only the art of speaking, but also the strength of the heart.

"I just don't want to tell lies." Silent and said lightly: "Be kind and benevolent, good words and letters, how good it is." ”

"Well, don't lie in front of Mingren." Zhang Juzheng said: "Let's open the skylight and say something." ”

"Say it...... Shen Mo nodded and said, "I'll listen." ”

"......" Zhang Juzheng stroked his beard and said helplessly: "Okay, how is the errand of your military department?" ”

"To tell you the truth......" Shen Mo seemed to ask him, and as if he started to say to himself: "It's like a dog biting a hedgehog, and there is nowhere to put it, so you can only use it as a microphone for the time being." ”

"Well......" Zhang Juzheng nodded and said: "If you don't move in personnel, it's really not good to interfere." ”

"Yes...... "What about you?" ”

"Hehe......" Zhang Juzheng subconsciously wanted to prevaricate a few words, but thinking of the premise of Shen Mo's 'good words and letters', he had to smile bitterly and said: "I also have a good comparison, 'Wang Xiaoer's New Year, a year is not as good as a year'." ”

"How?" Shen Mo asked softly, "What problems have you encountered in your reform?" ”

"Well......" Zhang Juzheng nodded, poured himself wine, and sighed: "I, the head of the household, have completely become an empty title......" He was too depressed during this time, and finally found a chance to vomit it out......

Since last year, the former head of the household department, Gao Yao, was overthrown because of the military quartermaster case, and Zhang Juzheng, who was the second official at the time, temporarily took charge of the seal. Coupled with the full support of Xu Yangzheng, another squire, his reform measures to rectify the ministry and take inventory and clear accounts were vigorously implemented. After a few months, the ministry has been in order, with a new look, and it has the intention of creating a new situation.

Just when he had sorted out the ministry affairs and was about to do a big job, and moved the knife against Daming's financial shackles, something unexpected happened...... Xu Jie once promised him that after he entered the cabinet, Wang Guoguang would take over the household department to ensure that his measures could continue. But when the matter came, Xu Jie actually asked Ge Shouli to serve as the household department. Who is Lao Ge? It was an old-timer from the same era as Xu Jie, and he had been idle at home for a few years, as long as he came out of the mountain, he Zhang Juzheng could only be willing to accompany the last seat.

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"I'm not the kind of person who is unwilling to be subordinate, I just hope to do something in earnest" Zhang Juzheng's face was slightly red, and he didn't know if it was because of drinking or because of excitement: "If I am like-minded, what if I give him a pawn?" As he spoke, he put the wine cup on the table and said, "But this old Ge, I don't like it horizontally and vertically, and I can be polite and laugh with others, but as soon as I show up, he is silent." No matter what I say, he just says 'um', and when I ask him for his opinion, he says 'ha', and if he is in a hurry, he will at most 'hum' and refuse to talk to me altogether. ”

Shen Mo sighed with Zhang Juzheng, but he knew in his heart that in fact, Zhang Juzheng had a deep and majestic temperament, and he was even more decent after entering the cabinet, which would inevitably give people the impression of 'arrogance'. However, Ge Shouli is as his name suggests, and he attaches great importance to etiquette and rules, and is naturally very dissatisfied with Zhang Juzheng's performance of 'no one in his eyes'. He didn't think that this was due to Zhang Juzheng's temperament, but he felt that after this person entered the cabinet, he boasted that he was a prime minister and had nothing to look at, of course he wouldn't give Zhang Juzheng a look.

But this is still secondary, because if it is only for the sake of humility, for the sake of Xu Ge Lao's face, Ge Shouli will not worry about Zhang Juzheng. The point is that they disagree – Ge Shouli is a staunch conservative when it comes to dealing with finances, and he believes that the need to deal with the imperial court's financial crisis is to reduce revenue. His reasons are also very tough, in the early years of Jiajing, the taxes of the imperial court were these, and they could be perfunctory at that time, but now there is no reason to do it. The reason why it can't be done is because there are too many places that have been corrupted and wasted, and the problem lies with the officials, not the people. Therefore, he opposes any government-led reforms, believing that they will eventually turn into bad governments that bring disaster to the country and the people because they are out of touch with reality and undermined by corrupt officials. Therefore, he advocated that the government should be lenient and simple, the officials should be restrained, and the people should not be disturbed...... This is obviously incompatible with Zhang Juzheng's drastic reforms. And the focus of the conflict between the two is focused on the 'one whip method'.

For Zhang Juzheng's vigorous admiration and vigorous promotion of the country's 'one whip law', Ge Shouli regarded it as a beast of the flood, and soon after he took office, he went on the first "Wide Farmers to Emphasize the Fundamentals":

In the recital, he spoke very earnestly about his views on the new law. He said: 'At the beginning of the country, money and grain were levied, and the household department set the name of the warehouse and the value of the number of stones, and the small people paid according to the warehouse, and the amount owed was clear, and the law was very convenient. In recent years, a whip law has been implemented, regardless of the warehouse, not the number of stones, only a certain amount of silver per mu, because of the success in the southeast, it has been regarded by many people as a good medicine for saving time, as if it can cure all diseases. In fact, this thing is not new at all, I have seen it decades ago, but at that time it had another name, it was called 'a string of bells'.

Then he recalled the lessons of the past and said: "When the minister first went down to the place and served as the governor of Zhangde Mansion, he was still serving as before. Later, there was the governor of Henan, Zhang, who was unconventional, and practiced Henan with the law of the southeast, and incorporated all the land rents and taxes of the imperial court into the land, regardless of the rules of households, only on the number of fields, according to the land, but the craftsmen were exempted because they had no land, and the rich merchants were exempted from labor because they had no land, and as a result, the more fields they had, the more they suffered, the more they did not cover their bodies, and the peasants who worked hard all the year round suffered from their difficulties and followed suit, giving up their own fields, in order to avoid the taxes of the imperial court, and finally the peasants lost their hearts, the rich were poor, and the poor fled, resulting in the land being abandoned. Turned into a wasteland, many counties are extremely blind...... This is a scholar who misled the country and made the people of Li even worse

When he was appointed governor, the entire barren land of Henan was full of hope, and the people of Li were haggard. Hundreds of thousands of hectares of barren land have been left unpopulated, and the government has recruited people to cultivate crops for hundreds of miles around the week, but there is no one to respond, and this is the result of the implementation of the new law. Of course, the minister also admitted that the implementation of the new law in the southeast has been quite effective, but just like the principle of 'orange in the south and orange in the north', people in the southeast have a lot of income, and it only takes ten years to deal with it, so it is convenient to talk about the land. And the north and south of the river, the east and west of the mountain, the land is barren and thin and alkaline, there is often no rain and drought for a long time, the income per mu is not more than a few buckets, and there is no grass growing, and every year the difference is no longer able to pay, how can it be re-served? Now instead of thinking about lightly repaying the people and reassuring the people, there are divisions that change the law and are too heavy, the levy is uneven, and there are officials who are traitorous due to fate, increase or decrease the sprinkling faction, and there are many drawbacks, so how can the people not be harmed? ’

There was a ridiculous phenomenon...... The landlord who had bought the land, in order to avoid paying more taxes, would rather not have the capital, but also want the land to be returned to the original owner, and the original owner naturally did not want it, so it was convenient for both sides to file a lawsuit, and in one county of Weihui Mansion alone, there were 200 people who had filed a complaint for this in one day. When the trial began, the minister also observed, and listened to the original owner's defense: 'At that time, the land was sold for poverty, and now the land belongs to me, what will I do?' As a result, one person will want to return, and one person will suffer, and the county order will be helpless...... Since ancient times, 'the country is based on agriculture, and agriculture is rooted in the field', and the creatures of the land are used to support people, and the use of wealth is all derived from this, but today it makes people evil like this, and it is the evil of the law, and there is nothing more than this.

Later, the ministers called for a halt to the new law, and ordered the old rules to be reviewed, and to pay the same taxes and grains according to households, and to pay taxes according to their mouths, so that the people were happy to rehabilitate and farm, and the fugitives gradually resumed their work...... A few ministers moved officials, and the successors did not notice, and then reverted to the local department, and now its troubles are not over, I don't know what the cheating is like, this can also be a precaution'

However, the imperial court now wants to implement the 'one whip law' in Beizhili - calculating the land and levying silver, the peasants are frustrated, helpless, and have to get rid of the land, and in the future, the country will be barren, and it will be seen and heard that this law will also be soaked in Shandong, and the minister thinks that it is even more outrageous to know that most of the coastal land in Shandong, the salt and alkali are less and thin, and even not barren, and the people have been burdened by taxes, and the hardship is extreme. Therefore, please correct the rules of the field endowment, and abolish a whip law, so that the small people will no longer flee from the land, so as to prosper the world's farming'

As soon as Ge Shouli's recital was announced, it immediately aroused a fierce reaction from the government and the opposition, and many ministers who had opposed the new law in the past, but could not figure out the truth and did not dare to oppose Zhang Juzheng. Now I can also understand Xu Gelao's attitude...... If he supported a whip law, he would not let Ge Shouli be the head of the household, so everyone showed no mercy and attacked the new law one after another, and pushed Zhang Juzheng, who had already implemented a whip law in Beizhili and was ready to make Shandong do the same, to the forefront. Although Zhang Juzheng tried his best to defend himself, he had no choice but to make too little noise, and he was completely drowned in the wave of crusade.

As a result, even the household that was easy to control gradually drifted away from him...... The officials were originally very dissatisfied with his strict examination method, but they were forced to do it out of desperation, but now with Uncle Ge's support, they are naturally passive and slacking off. Even Xu Yangzheng and Liu Tiqian, two old things, saw the wind and steered, and no longer followed him to do stupid things to offend people, but persuaded him to recognize the situation and stop getting into trouble with Uncle Ge.

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"From 'the tide is wide on both sides, and the wind is hanging', to 'guarding or bandits, turning into wolves and jackals', the transformation is so fast......" Zhang Juzheng's drunken eyes were hazy, and he exclaimed: "Humble words, humble words, the teacher once said to me that what others give doesn't count, only what you master counts." Today I finally know that this is the truth."

Silently listened to him pour bitter water, and sighed for a long time before he sighed: "Sure enough, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and I should be a difficult one." ”

"You're not happy, I'm not happy, and Gao Ge Lao is not happy." Zhang Juzheng said with a smile: "It seems that if you want to have a good time, you have to learn from Li Zishi" 'Zishi' is Li Chunfang's cousin, in Zhang Juzheng's impression, although this person is the champion of the same subject, but it only represents his reading and knowledge. When it comes to doing things, it is more than stable but not courageous, and more than enough rope and ink but not enough flexibility. On weekdays, in addition to honestly doing his own thing, he will never get involved in a little right and wrong. Therefore, everyone thought that he would not pose a threat to anyone, and that he was a well-known good gentleman in the same year.

Seeing that Zhang Juzheng disdained Li Chunfang, he shook his head silently and said: "Brother Taiyue, you don't underestimate Li Shilu, he doesn't hum or haw on the surface, he is tepid, and he gets along with everyone, as if he is a good gentleman." In fact, he knows officialdom samadhi best. Sandpiper and clam compete for the benefit of the fisherman, this is a simple eight words, everyone understands, but who can press the heart of the competition and get the benefit of the fisherman? But he understands ...... "Since Wang Yin proposed 'goodness is like water', Shen Mo found that Li Chunfang's way of being an official is closest to this recently accepted 'water virtue'."

"Yes...... Zhang Ju drank a full cup with a 'swoop', poured a glass of wine for Shen Mo and said: "But we know, we can't do it" said with raised eyebrows: "How can you not offend people if you want to do something?" If you do too much and make a lot of mistakes, if you don't do it well, you will have a vegetarian meal for a lifetime, although no one can be offended, but what is the benefit of the imperial court asking such an official? Could it be that he was given a high-ranking official just to make him a good gentleman? ”

"Forget it, don't talk about it......" Shen Mo shook his head, drank the wine in the glass, and slammed the wine cup on the table with his backhand...... This means that in the capital, you will no longer drink alcohol, but you can't use it indiscriminately when you leave the capital, because in other places, it means provocation. Then Zhengse said: "I have drunk this wine, and I have said it, what are you looking for me for?" You don't just want to complain, do you? ”

"Okay, let's get down to business." Zhang Juzheng nodded, rubbed the corners of his eyes, and returned to Qingming and said, "It's for Gao Suqing's business." ”

"Oh......" Shen Mo looked at him, and said in his heart, what is your position?

"Don't worry, I'm not a lobbyist for the teacher, and the teacher doesn't know that we are drinking here." Zhang Juzheng said with a wry smile and shook his head: "I guess you don't believe it either, now everyone treats me as a lackey of the teacher." ”

"How could it be......" Shen Mo shook his head, but he knew that this was indeed the case, Xu Jie's repeated promotion of Zhang Juzheng, and made him enter the cabinet as a squire, surpassing many high-ranking officials, which showed Xu Jie's power Ruosi, which was shocking. On the other hand, it also marked Zhang Juzheng with a deep Xu brand, and since then, when others mention Zhang Juzheng, he is 'Xu Jie's proud protégé', thus confusing the words and deeds of the two.

"Since the main body tonight is to open the skylight and say bright words, then I will tell the truth," Zhang Juzheng said in a low voice: "This Hu Yingjia incident is not accidental. ”

"Oh?" Shen Mo's face showed a look of incomprehension, in fact, he was wondering why Zhang Juzheng would say such a thing. However, in Zhang Juzheng's opinion, he thought he didn't understand what he meant, so he explained: "The emotions of the officials were instigated, because someone wanted them to open fire, and Gao Suqing was their bull's-eye, so even if he didn't say a word from beginning to end, he became the target of public criticism." ”

"You guess?" Shen Mo asked softly.

"No, it's my order." Zhang Juzheng said calmly: "After the first cannon, there will be a second cannon and a third cannon until they knock him down." ”——

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Take a closer look.,Actually, I wrote a lot of things that the protagonist didn't participate in.,All written in the form of a narrative.,Don't worry.,There must be one more chapter.,Xiao Mo is going to replace Xiao Gonggong.。