Chapter 14: The Imp Benefits
"Oh? He's one of your men? Yes, yes, does Dongchang have his directory? When Emperor Hongzhi heard Wang Yue's report, the fingers that had been tapping on the table hesitated slightly, and then continued to tap again, and then coughed lightly a few times.
Liu Jian and Mu Bin were overjoyed when they saw His Majesty's movements and expressions, although His Majesty said it was good, but it seemed that His Majesty did not fully believe Wang Yue's words, because such a thing was too coincidental.
"Your Majesty, this Ye Guan is indeed a person from my East Factory, and he is a capable person assigned by Jinyi Wei. Commander Mu also knew about the matter, and his booklet was still in Jinyiwei and had not been transferred. Wang Yue saw that the emperor didn't believe it, and he had to look at the roster, the day before yesterday he was thinking about how to distribute the military merits reported by the military supervisor in the northwest border army with the military attache group, so he neglected the affairs of Huating County, and there was really no way to come up with Ye Guan's roster. There was no way, and he could only lament and give Jinyiwei a share of the credit for preparing to monopolize with the civil officials.
Mu Bin is not a stupid person, although Dongchang and Jinyiwei are opposites, they are both the emperor's eagle dogs, and when needed, they still have to be consistent with the outside world. And that "outside" is naturally the civilian-bureaucratic group. Since Wang Yue robbed him of the first place, just by virtue of the trivial matter of fighting for credit, he can't move him in front of the emperor, so he can just follow his words and share the credit. When Emperor Chengzu opened the East Factory, he was selected from the Jinyi Guard, and this practice was continued. It is quite like the communication monopoly giants such as X Movement, X Tong, and X Letter in later generations, with priority for internal personnel and mutual transfer of official positions. It's just that the left hand is changed to the right hand, and the three parties all look like they are going to die, but if someone wants to come out and destroy their cake, they will join hands to unite with the outside world.
"Mu Bin, come and talk about it." When Emperor Hongzhi heard Wang Yue say this, he asked Mu Bin who was kneeling under the jade steps.
"Your Majesty, this Ye Guan is indeed my Jinyiwei's person, and he is a hundred Jinyiwei households filled with innocent children selected from the people, and later transferred to Dongchang, but he fell back to Jinyiwei after more than a month, so the prince does not have Ye Guan's roster, this is Ye Guan Jinyiwei's roster." Mu Bin handed the hundred tooth plates and rosters that had been prepared long ago to Emperor Hongzhi. They had no way to compete with the generals, the court nobles who led the troops and the eunuchs who accompanied the army on the battlefield in the northwest. But he can take a lot of credit in this matter, so the day before yesterday, when he saw the fold handed over by Jinyiwei in Songjiang Mansion, he had already prepared it.
"Well, it seems that Mu Qing's family is a discerning person and a loyal person selected by the country. My Ming Dynasty not only has court officials who sacrifice their lives for righteousness like in the text, but also folk righteous people like Ye Guan, it seems that the three Qing families worked hard for the country. In this way, Yu Zhongzhong was loyal to the country, a model for court officials, and was promoted to the Tongzhi of Songjiang Mansion. Ye Guan is smart and pure, brave and strategic, transferred to the Jinyi Guard pro-army to serve as the general of the Han Dynasty, on duty guards, giving flying fish clothes, embroidered spring knives, and can wear unicorn clothes on duty. "For the sake of the balance between the internal and external dynasties, Emperor Hongzhi decided to promote Yu Wenzhong and Ye Guan to official positions.
"Minister, obey the order."
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"It's not good to eat too much. There is really no free lunch in the world, and food stagnation is really terrible, I knew that I wouldn't eat so much, and I would have changed to vegetarian dishes and packed them home, and I could deal with them for a few days. "Far away in Huating County, Nanzhili, Ye Guan, who had just finished going to the toilet, was muttering, not knowing that thousands of miles away, when the big people in the temple were intriguing, they decided his fate.
"This master is not a good way to make money, can you engage in a variety of operations? When the time comes, I made money to buy a big house, and then buy two young and beautiful slaves, and play with the beautiful girl development plan I heard that although the Ming Dynasty was harsh, it was quite open to the atmosphere of boudoir fun, and the ancient book "Golden Vase Plum" was written in the Ming Dynasty, Tang Bohu also became famous by painting spring gong pictures, two or three things between slaves and maids and masters, Zizi ...... "Sitting in the signing room, Ye Guan sorted out the money and grain accounts at will, and at the same time traveled outside the world and drooled, yy himself in the beautiful era in the future.
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"Ma Lu Yelang, Chen Sang, it was you who made your own initiative to trick my subordinates into ransacking what county town, so that my loyal subordinates all went to see Amaterasu, you are not worthy of using a samurai sword to disembowel. Come on, drag him down and hack him to death, throw him into the sea to feed the fish, and let the fishermen of the Ming Kingdom eat the fish fed with your meat. Far away in the ruins of the abandoned Ming military guard on Chongming Island, a Japanese samurai in his thirties, dressed as a samurai, wearing ornate armor made of bamboo, leather, and hemp rope, with a moon head and a sword and a small sword at his waist, was shouting insults at a Ming man dressed as a Ming Dynasty civilian who was kneeling on the ground.
This Japanese samurai was Takatsu Shimazu, the adopted son of Shimazu Tadamasa, a daimyo of Satsuma Province. At this time, the Japanese mainland was in the midst of wars during the Warring States period, and the daimyo of various countries no longer regarded the generals of the Muromachi shogunate in their eyes and attacked each other. Satsuma Province originally relied on trade with the Ming Kingdom to obtain funds, but after the Onin War, the right to explore trade was monopolized by the daimyo near Osaka. The Satsuma caravans, which had lost their trade vouchers with the Ming Kingdom, could no longer enter the Ming Kingdom to trade, so the power of the Satsuma Kingdom began to decline. Although Japan is full of wars except for Kyushu, and Satsuma is located in Kyushu, it has not participated in a major war for the time being. However, the daimyo of Satsuma Province had greater ambitions, and he was not willing to give up the huge benefits of trade to other daimyo far away in Osaka, so he decided to send some of his own samurai to gather other wandering samurai to attack the coast of Ming Province, first, to get more funds, and secondly, to attack the trade rights of other daimyos, it is better to let Ming Kingdom cut off Japan-China trade in anger, so that everyone will not be pleased. Therefore, Shimazu Tadamasa sent his adopted son to the islands near the Ming Kingdom to pretend to be pirates and pirates, plunder merchant ships, and raid the coasts of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
And the Japanese who were ready to capture the county seat of Huating last time were the samurai sent out by Shimazu Takayoshi. Originally, they were only raiding some small villages near Nanzhili or smuggling merchant ships, but when they came ashore, they found that there were hungry people everywhere, the people were displaced, and there was nothing to rob.
Just when they were about to continue to go deep into the interior to find the villages that had not been affected by the disaster, some of the homeless people who knew Japanese volunteered to join their team, with the efforts of this fake widow, the team of Japanese robbers with only dozens of people quickly expanded to more than 300 people, plus they were natives of the Ming Kingdom, and the old horse knew the way, and took them to grab a lot of gold and silver property and women, and constantly attacked all parts of Nanzhili, making the officers and soldiers of the guard post who had been peaceful for a long time miserable, and saw that the Ming army was inefficient and weak. Originally, the true and false would-be pirates who were still a little worried became more and more worried, and later, they were even more prepared to capture the county seat and rob large households. Originally, if it weren't for Ye Guan's actions on the city tower, their goal would have been very successful, but they fell short at the last moment.
Huating County, which held on to the end, became their coffin, except for a few subordinates who were originally Ming Guoren and those who were lucky, and the rest were hacked to death on the spot. And the Ming people who Shimazu Takayo Hengzeng was scolding were the traitors who came up with an idea to let the Japanese cut the baby into two pieces under Huating Castle and made clever words.
"My lord, my lord, it's not my fault, it's the person who originally agreed to delay the Ming army to send troops didn't act as agreed, so that your heroic subordinates fell short in the end! If you kill me, who will contact those Ming people in the future to delay the progress of the Ming army. Although the Ming army is weak, but with the harassment of the army, how can your subordinates go to loot the property as quickly as possible, I am willing to atone for the merits, contact those people more, and after getting the news, I will loot more villages and rich households to complete the task of the adults! The traitor named Chen Zhao hurriedly pleaded, and at the same time knew it with affection and moved it with profit, hoping that Shimazu Heng would let him go.
When Shimazu Hengtaka heard Chen Zhao say this, his attitude towards killing him softened, the lives of his subordinates were nothing, and the money he got was the most important thing. Since this Chen Zhao is still useful, then let him atone for his sins, and after knowing the dynamics of the Ming army through him, he will go to loot the villages of the Ming Kingdom.
"Well, since you say so, it seems that you still have something to use, so you should pay for it. In half a month, I will get 50,000 taels of silver, and if you can't get it, you can wait to feed the fish. Shimazu Takayoshi estimated it and felt that it was more important than the lives of his subordinates or money. If my father's goal is achieved, he may be able to become the next Ashikaga Takashi clan, establish a new shogunate, and reunite war-torn Japan, and he Shimazu Takasho may become the next shogun because of the credit of raising money and food.
"Hey! γγγγΎγγγ Chen Zhaoyi bent down and replied solemnly to Shimazu Takayoshi in Japanese, as if he was really a Japanese.