Chapter 53: Infamy

"The emperor has a decree to summon Lord Yue to see the palace of the heart!"

Yue Su is now in the cabinet to review the recital, for the arrival of the eunuch and the emperor's summons, Lord Yue was not surprised, stood up, let the eunuch lead the way, and rushed to the Palace of Nourishing Hearts.

In the main entrance hall of the Yangxin Palace, there are still the relics of the carpenter Zhu, and the eunuch said that the emperor and the queen mother are waiting in the side room. Yue Su first saluted Zhu Youxiao's relics before walking to the side room.

As soon as he entered the room, he saw Zhang Yan and Zhu Ciyan sitting on the chairs in front of him, Yue Su hurriedly lifted his clothes and knelt on the ground to salute, but without waiting to kneel, Zhu Ciyan hurriedly asked him to sit down. Yue Su agreed, sat down on the chair where he started, and arched his hand and said, "I don't know if Your Majesty summoned Weichen to come, what do you have to order." ”

"Lord Yue, the emperor summoned you to ask about something." Zhang Yan took over the conversation and said: "Today, the emperor read the excerpt sent by the cabinet, which said that Li Wenzhang, a wealthy merchant from Huguang, would be crowned as an earl, because their Li family donated 800,000 stones of grain to the imperial court to solve the urgent needs of the imperial court and the people. ”

"It is true, when the minister was in the governor of Sichuan, he defeated the Liukou and killed Wang Jiayin, the head of the Liukou. After defeating the enemy, the rogues surrendered one after another. These rogues are all ordinary people, and some of them have no choice but to follow the Kou because they can't eat in Shaanxi; Some of them are the people of Sichuan, who were coerced because of the rogue's call. They are homeless, they have no food, it is winter, as the court officials, the parents of the people, they must not sit back and watch them starve to death. And, if they don't have anything to eat, they will inevitably take risks again. But at that time, the grain in central Sichuan was limited, and there was not much grain in Beijing, and the Tartars entered the customs at this time, and the ministers were in a dilemma, and the people would starve to death, or regenerate, so they asked the Li family, a wealthy merchant in Huguang, to donate grain and rice. The Li family generously donated 800,000 stone of grain and rice, and was willing to sell another 1.2 million stone of grain at a flat price. Yue Su said truthfully.

"The Li family's good deeds, Huiguo and Huimin, should indeed be commended. But the knighthood of merchants, is it a bit too much, you know, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there is no precedent for knighting merchants. Even if you praise it, you can also award something else? Zhang Yan said softly.

"The minister also thought about awarding some others, but the Li family is rich, and the minister thinks about it, and he really doesn't know what to award." Yue Su said with embarrassment.

"This ......" Hearing this, Zhang Yan also fell into thinking, but she thought about it for a long time, but she didn't come up with anything to award the Li family. Reward gold and silver, the Li family is not lacking, if there is no money, it is impossible to donate 800,000 stone of grain. Now 800,000 stone grain is not the price it used to be, there is a big drought in Shaanxi, and the north is not very good, so much grain, how much is it worth. In addition to gold and silver, it is honorable, and it is impossible to give an official position, and what is given is a fictitious title, a title in name only, which may be the best choice. "The Qing family is right, if you want to reward the Li family, you may only be able to reward a nominal title. But have you ever thought that my Ming Dynasty has never given a knighthood to a businessman, and as soon as this example is opened, there will definitely be a large number of officials and Qingliu who will seriously injure adults, and I am afraid that this saliva will drown adults. Also, if the Lord confers knighthood on the Li family this time, once other businessmen rush to follow suit, what should I do then? Do you want to reward them with titles? ”

"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, and the ministers are doing this, in fact, they also hope that some businessmen will follow suit." Yue Su sighed and said: "The current Da Ming, internal and external troubles, rogue rampant, Tartar raging, my Da Ming is really in turmoil now, but many people don't want to admit it." During the catastrophe in Shaanxi, the imperial court did not have so much silver to relieve the disaster, so the people had no food to eat, causing great changes. If the court gives Li Wenzhang a knighthood, so that other rich families can donate enthusiastically, the danger of the rogue can be solved quickly, because if the people have to eat, they will not get up to make trouble. What the imperial court can't do now, if it can do it with the strength of the world's wealthy businessmen, it can also be said to be a great good. As for the scolding of the official and Qingliu, it is also a scolding of the minister, His Majesty is young, and everything is borne by the minister, the minister who entrusts the orphan, and this infamy is also borne by the minister. What kind of powerful ministers, courtiers, don't learn and don't know, and deceive Shengcong, these infamous ministers have already memorized a lot, and they are not bad at memorizing one or two. A lifetime of honor and disgrace is nothing, and the minister only asks the emperor to be in front of him when he is in power, and what is in front of him is not a stall, but a peaceful and prosperous world. Speaking of this, Yue Su stood up, walked to the middle, lifted his clothes and knelt on the ground, "Your Majesty, Queen Mother, ......"

Zhu Ciyan may not be able to understand all of what Yue Su said, but seeing Yue Su suddenly kneeling, he quickly stood up and said, "Yue Taibao, you, you...... Hurry up ......"

Compared with Zhu Ciyan, Zhang Yan still understood Yue Su's good intentions. Lord Yue is anxious for quick success, and he wants to pacify the rogue in the shortest possible time, even if he is infamous on his back, he will not hesitate to do so. With such courage, looking at the world, how many people can do it. Qingliu and Yanguan only seek fame, at this time, they will definitely stand up and scold Yue Su, and they will also quote scriptures to criticize Yue Su's body, and then win their own reputation, because if they scold the second assistant of the dynasty and the minister of Tuogu, they will also get the capital to show off in the future. Besides, in this year, the speaker is not guilty, and the speaker scolds people, and if he scolds, he will scold, and you can't cut them down, at most they will be a court rod, or exile, which will only arouse their arrogance even more.

But the official system, there are pros and cons, on the whole, the advantages still outweigh the disadvantages, after all, a dynasty that dares to speak is more dynamic than a court that does not let speak. This is called freedom of speech.

"Aiqing, hurry up." Zhang Yan said earnestly: "Aiqing's good intentions, the mourning family understands it, and Your Majesty also understands it, but this infamy, let you bear it with all your might, it really makes the mourning family and Your Majesty feel ashamed." ”

"The queen mother said seriously, the ministers eat the king's lu, and they should be loyal to the king's worries, and the first emperor recreated the minister's kindness, and it is difficult to repay the minister's death. The first emperor regarded the ministers as siblings, and the ministers entrusted the lonely, at this time, if the ministers were single-minded, they would not be able to see the first emperor again under the nine springs. Please also ask the Empress Dowager's ministers, all the infamy, the ministers will bear it, and the ministers will inevitably return Your Majesty to a peaceful and prosperous era when His Majesty is in power. Yue Su said sincerely.

"The Qing family is flat...... Quickly flatten down...... The matter ...... Mourning ...... Your Majesty has approved ......" Zhang Yan was moved by Yue Su and eagerly agreed.

Yes, a mere empty earl is nothing to the imperial court. In which year, the emperor married a concubine or a princess, and he was not allowed to seal out a few empty titles, which were all insignificant. That is, to knight a businessman, it violates the ancestral system, and he will be scolded by Qingliu and Yanguan, but in this matter, Lord Yue has already said that all the infamy will be borne by himself, and there is no need for the queen mother and the emperor to bother, so what else is the queen mother unwilling to do.

800,000 stone of grain! With the current price of grain, if the imperial court wants to take it out, it has to grit its teeth. And it's not like you can take it out. In comparison, a title is not the kind of hereditary recklessness, and it is not worth a fortune at all.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, thank you Queen Mother......" Yue Su finished speaking, and slowly stood up.

As Yue Su and the Queen Mother expected, the Li family was given the title, and Lord Yue was going to be scolded. After the edict of appointing Li Wenzhang as the earl was issued, as expected, those officials and Qingliu wrote one after another, denouncing Yue Su. Among them, the most scolding is the Donglin Party officials, after Han Yi re-entered the cabinet and became the first assistant, all the Donglin Party officials who used to be people with their tails between their legs came out, and now they just caught an opportunity, how can they not vent fiercely.

scolded Yue Su's twists and turns, which can be described as a hundred flowers blooming, either scolding him for deceiving the world and stealing his name, or scolding him for fake public and private interests, and even turning Yue Su's old bottom out and scolding. What kind of cheating in the field and blinding Shengcong should be severely punished.

For these words of scolding himself, Yue Su didn't even pay attention to them, but these people actually had to inch in, and the more they scolded, the more fierce they became, and in the end, Lord Yue didn't have a seizure, but Zhang Yan couldn't help it.

"It's too unusual, just scold, it's not endless. Zou Yi, now you go to draft a decree and exile all the leaders to Yunnan. ”

It's no wonder that Zhang Yan is angry, in the past few days, the excerpts of scolding Yue Su have drowned the entire celebrant supervisor. The country is worried about internal and external troubles, and if you don't go to the hour to build, you will think about scolding people and inviting pets for a day, whether you are full of food and support.

Zou Yi received the order to exile the two leading officials to Yunnan, so that the people below saw the meaning of the queen mother, and they no longer continued to write. However, when the two brothers who were assigned left Beijing, there were hundreds of officials who saw them off, and the two were complacent, and said unashamedly that it would not be long before our brothers could come back.

Because Zhang Yan expressed her position, supported Yue Su, and set up a speech official, the other speech officials, seeing the signs, did not continue to impeach Yue Su. The matter was suppressed and gradually subsided, but everyone could see that the Queen Mother was helping Yue Su on the face of this matter, but it was more or less a little bit of a taste for Yue Su's eyes.

When the speech official just started scolding, if Zhang Yan stood up immediately and immediately dealt with the leading speech official, the scolding behind would definitely not be so loud. After all, the official also has to eat with this job, and in the face of the joint efforts of the Queen Mother and the Minister of Tuogu, no matter how much they scold, it is useless, how can they continue to humiliate themselves.

The key is that Zhang Yan didn't stand up at the beginning, and there was a taste of excitement. She didn't speak, of course, the more the officials scolded, the more fierce they became, and some even thought that they could scold Yue Su from power. It wasn't until Zhang Yan took a stand that they were honest. Because they understood that the Queen Mother didn't plan to move Yue Su now, and it was useless to scold herself.

But now, Lord Yue's reputation is really not very good. For a while, it has been compared to Cao and Wang Mang.

On this day, Han Yi entered Beijing, and as soon as Lord Shoufu arrived, the officials of the Donglin Party poured out of the nest and went to Shili Pavilion to greet him. Not only the officials of the Donglin Party, but also many officials who were unwilling to do so in Beijing also rushed over as if they were seeing their relatives. After all, the imperial court is not talking about the Yue Party or the Qi, Chu and Zhejiang parties, and the other officials are really difficult to mix. Now that I have an extra thigh, can I not hurry up and hug it?

As a result, the situation in the capital has become more and more delicate, and it will not be long before an uproar is coming. It's just that the fuse of the uproar is a person, and this person's name is Yuan Chonghuan.

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