The queen's edict to punish the two princesses has just spread throughout the harem, and the princesses, concubines, eunuchs, and palace maids looked at the dim lights in the palace of Yongfu and Yongchun princesses from afar, and some shook their heads and sighed, and some gloated, the emperor's will arrived.

No one could think of what Yang Ling had done to fight back so quickly. But even the whole harem knows that the two princesses have a close relationship with the mighty marquis of the outer court, and the mighty marquis is the first celebrity to follow the emperor. In this battle, the queen lost.

After Zhengde immediately went to the palace to deliver the decree, he was still furious, and said angrily: "Bastard things, my royal sister has to count with her fingers if she wants to use a few candles, and he is greedy for tens of thousands of taels of silver, and I have always regarded him as a good person."

Yang Ling comforted: "Your Majesty, you don't have to be too angry. The two princesses have been trapped in the palace all the year round, and the emperor knows the bitterness best, the emperor sympathizes with the princess and brought them out to relax, which was originally a good intention, but the minister did not pay attention to those red tape, so that he violated the rules of the palace."

Zhengde Yu was furious, waved his hand and said: "It's none of your business, this is the queen's face for me, it's okay!" Otherwise, I can't see Luo Xiang's wolf ambition! ”

Yang Ling took the opportunity to say: "Your Majesty, the queen mother has just made a decree, and she has been refuted like this, and her face must not look good." Niangniang's mother is the lord of the six palaces, and she can't embarrass the queen. When the minister invited the two princesses, he was worried that the emperor would wait for a long time, and there were many women in front of the palace gate.

Moreover, there are a lot of twists and turns in the impeachment of ministers in these days, Liu Daxia and Ma Wensheng are two adults, and there must be many dissatisfied people among the ministers.

Zhengde's arrogance rose suddenly, and he raised his eyebrows and said: "How can this be reasonable, I want my royal sister to travel, she embarrass me, I have to be careful?" What to do? I just don't do it, I want to see who dares to touch you! ”

Yang Ling hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, you forgot, when the general army of the four towns led the army into Beijing, the minister still had to accompany the emperor to stage martial arts training, the emperor trusted the ministers and handed over a lot of envoys to the ministers, but this time he was busy, it was inevitable that he would make mistakes in his busyness, wouldn't that live up to the emperor's trust and let others see the joke?" The minister's intention is to hand over the tax supervisor to the household department and the ceremonial supervisor to be in charge, so that the third minister can accompany the emperor to train the army and assist the emperor to achieve hegemony."

When he said this, Zhengde turned his anger into joy and said: "What I said is that I forgot, Yang Qing is worried about everything, but he has no time to accompany me to train the army, but the tax supervisor was originally under the supervision of the priest, and Wang Yue's old puppet deceived the upper and lower levels, and I was relieved to hand it over to you, why do you need to intervene now, can Liu Jin not believe it?" Aiqing didn't know that as soon as I and Han Wen asked for silver, he cried with me for poverty, and I really didn't want to deal with him."

At this time, it is not the time to bring down Liu Jin, it can be seen from his treatment of Gu Dayong that the disaster caused by Gu Dayong is ten times greater than that of Luo Xiang, and the little emperor still wants to protect him? This emperor is more affectionate than reasonable, unless he hurts his dearest and trusted people and betrays his trust, he will also bear the great sin for you with his surname.

Yang Ling knew this very well, so Zhengse said: "The minister doesn't dare to guarantee the future, but now Gonggong Liu must be loyal to the emperor on an errand, what can the minister trust?" This is a mutual check and balance, and prevention is not burned.

The foundation of governing the country lies in the use of the law, the strictness of the system, the wisdom of the policy, and the prudence of checks and balances, and the minister hopes that the emperor will do this, not because Liu Gonggong can not believe it, but to form a system for long-term planning, so that in the future, it will not be abolished because of people, and there is no fear that someone will deceive the emperor and there will be people like Luo Xiang again."

Yang Ling said with a smile: "Take the minister as an example, the emperor eats meat, and the minister also wants to get some soup to drink, and so the minister assists the emperor, until he is full of white hair and can't walk, he has a son and a grandson, maybe he will also have greed, maybe he will also knock on the emperor's bamboo pole and rub oil from the emperor, but if there is another group of people staring at the minister with a tiger's eye and a tiger, ready to report to the emperor at any time, how dare the minister?" ”

Zhengde was amused by him and said, "Don't pretend to be pitiful with me, your son is my godson, will you wronged him?" Well, but it makes sense for you to say so, the Outer Court Household Department and the Inner Court Celebrant Supervisor supervise each other, and the world's taxes will not be put into the personal bag, so that when it is handed over to others in the future, and when this country is handed over to my descendants, I will not be afraid that someone will profit from it. Let's do it, and I'll submit it to the cabinet to see how this authority is divided, it's just"

Zhengde glanced at Yang Ling apologetically, patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's just that Aiqing has suffered for me, alas! I've really wronged you."

Yang Ling and Jiao Fang drove to the noon gate in the same car.

The sky is not clear, and the spring is cold and cold. The car is very well maintained, the axle only squeaks slightly, and the car does not have any bumps when driving on the wide and flat Jingshi Avenue.

Jiao Fang was dressed in a vermilion official robe, sat on the cushion and slightly twisted his beard and said: "My lord, the door did not sleep well all night yesterday, although many things are still only in the preparation stage, but there are too many things to do, and Duoyan Sanwei exchange market trade, horse breeding, reception of the national envoys, negotiation envoys, sailors, city shipping divisions, customs preparation candidates, regulations, yamen settings, shipyard settings, adults entrusted down, the door is afraid of where there is a mistake, is not a little sloppy."

Yang Ling had already seen that he was tired, his eyes were still bloodshot, and he persuaded him when he heard the words: "The elder of the pavilion must know how to grasp the big and let go of the small, take the important and abandon the light, and he must bow to himself to be a virtuous minister, but he is by no means a capable minister, we must implement this policy, don't be sung as a crooked scripture by local officials, we must rely on a group of credible officials."

Yang Ling glanced at Jiao Fang slightly, and said with a chuckle: "Yan Song's political achievements are outstanding, he should have been promoted a long time ago, and he has made great contributions to his words and deeds this time, but the elder of the pavilion still does not reuse, hehe is because he is from Jiangxi, right?" ”

Jiao Fang's hand froze, his old face turned red, and he squeaked: "My lord, under the door."

Yang Ling patted his hand with relief, and said softly: "The old man has a ups and downs in his career, and he has been depressed for many years, and the official has also heard that there are many talented people in the south, and there are many people who are officials, and I happened to meet a few jealous and jealous ministers who like to use their fellow villagers, no wonder the old man is angry, but the old man is deeply affected by it, why is he in a high position now like a person he hated and disdained in the past?" ”

Yang Ling said with a smile: "Ge Lao is the prime minister of the dynasty, he should have the mind of the prime minister, now is the time to employ people, don't say that Yan Song is our person, even if he is not, as long as he is loyal to national affairs and dedicated to the people, our plan can be implemented conscientiously, and Ge Lao should also reuse him." ”

He pondered for a while and said: "What I mean, the construction of the shipyard and the naval division can be boldly handed over to the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War and the Nanzhen Fu Division, as long as a trustworthy person is used to be the secretary of the Ministry of War, as for the specific site selection, employment, the establishment of the division yamen, and the formulation of the regulations of the regulations, all these things can be put down, and the overall situation can be grasped, otherwise they will vomit blood from their own exhaustion, even if they really formulate a careful plan, without capable officials to implement it, it will be difficult to carry out their will." ”

Yang Ling said confidently: "Songhuajiang Shipyard is adjacent to the primeval forest, Jinling Shipyard has thousands of acres of trees that have been planted for more than 100 years, all of which can be made of local materials, and the large keel and other things of Quanzhou Shipyard may need to be transported from the north, these things are handed over to the Ministry of Industry to do, and the elder Ge should not worry." ”

Yang Ling was so confident because he had already seen the Zheng He chart that Liu Dabang had searched from the Arsenal Division of the Ministry of War.

In his original impression, he thought that Zheng He's charts were just a few pieces of paper, recording the sea routes that traveled through the Western Ocean, but he didn't expect that the chart materials retrieved by Liu Dabang from the military department actually contained nine large boxes. After reading the information in these boxes, Yang Ling realized that Liu Dabang had dug a gold mountain for him and came back.

If he hadn't seen these materials, hadn't seen the introduction to the composition of the ships with various functions, and the cooperation of the combat team, he could have foreseen how many times the blood price and even the danger of annihilation of his so-called naval division would be paid once it was formed.

In addition to the route map of the sea trip, the people's and land customs, politics, and regions of the countries along the way, there are also treasure ships, flagships, horse ships, grain ships, warships, warning ships, and herald ships, detailed drawings of the warship manufacturing and water warfare and land warfare weapons in all aspects of the command, combat, supply, and transportation of the entire huge fleet, as well as the composition of various combat units and seven communication and liaison methods for water operations during the day and night.

Not only does the Ming Dynasty not have the all-round talent to manufacture all kinds of functional ships for the entire fleet, but also there is no qualified sailor general who thinks of the types of ships that the whole fleet needs to go to sea to fight. However, through these drawings of the organization and equipment of the entire fleet, an experienced commander can easily guess their role and quickly grasp the rich experience of ocean-going operations. If all this is learned from scratch and from scratch, how much blood will it cost to accumulate this experience and knowledge?

Yang Ling was overjoyed, there are too many technologies that can be used with a slight change in these materials, he originally underestimated the complex surname of the construction of the sailor, and after reading these detailed materials, he knew that if there were no these charts, he would have to explore for at least ten years to build a new sailor division that could go to sea to fight, train the corresponding personnel, and achieve scientific equipment in navigation technology, communication command and tactical formation of the fleet.

What he didn't know was that these technologies were ahead of the world for seventy or eighty years a hundred years ago, and they are now used as they are, not daring to say that they are more advanced, but they are by no means lagging behind. Yang Ling is now concentrating on the Ministry of Industry and the Ordnance Bureau, and asking some personnel from the inner factory to participate in sorting out, making a register by category, and re-copying.

Because of this detailed information, Yang Ling spoke to Jiao Fang so confidently.

He thought for a while, and then said: "Elder Ge must remember that you only need to grasp three things, and you must not let go: first, the personnel of the sailor, the city shipping department, the tax supervisor, the customs, and the mutual market yamen, there must be people who we can trust, use, and stand firm!"

Second, it is the tax superintendent, the responsibility for formulating tax laws, tax laws, tax types, and supervising taxes must be handed over to the household department, tax collection and payment to the ceremonial supervisor, and mutual market litigation, maritime litigation, and tax litigation to the criminal department, and the three check and balance each other; Third, the transaction tax can be divided into a part of the transaction value, transaction volume, unique products of each locality, and products related to the national economy and people's livelihood, which can be directly collected by the local government, and does not need to be handed over to the imperial court and then returned by the imperial court. Third, through the collection and sharing of taxes on different commodities, the local government will be guided to develop the corresponding products and goods, and then it will have an impact on the local governance, which is called a point to lead the area.

If these three points are achieved, we will grasp the overall situation, grasp the rudder, and control the rudder, and no matter how strong the wind and waves are, this direction will not deviate."

Jiao Fang was very energetic when he heard this, and he was surprised in his heart, this Lord Yang is sometimes very naïve in the officialdom, as long as he has been in the sea for a few years, he can see the pros and cons, and even obvious traps, but this adult is very naïve, if it were not for the emperor's favor, he would have been tripped up by someone and would never recover. But sometimes he casually said his political opinions and plans, but he was forward-looking, to the point, taking into account many aspects, and the thoughtful needle could not be inserted, and the water could not be splashed, even an old minister like him had to sigh to himself, Jiao Fang nodded again and again, and then the car arrived at the royal road, Yang Ling got off the sedan chair, changed his own horse, and arrived in front of the noon gate together. At noon, many officials waiting for the court had gathered, and they gathered in twos and threes to talk about the world.

Bo Xi Chuming, I don't know who is well-informed, I have heard that yesterday the queen mother in the palace knocked on the mountain and shook the tiger, and instructed Luo Xiang, one of the eight tigers, to sanction the two princesses, Yang Ling counterattacked and stripped Luo Xiang of his position, but he couldn't resist the same accusations of the inner and outer courts, and had to hand over the control of the world's taxes.

The news quickly spread among many officials, and Yang Ling and the Eight Tigers were in turmoil, causing both sides to lose and be forced to hand over their financial powers, which lifted the spirits of those listless officials who were beaten because the two Shangshu were dismissed from their posts and the national policy of opening up the sea and commerce was also implemented, and their hearts were very happy.

But even the veterans of the Four Dynasties like Liu Daxia and Ma Wensheng were dismissed from office, and they were somewhat jealous, seeing Yang Ling's horse, Jiao Ge Lao also walked out of the sedan chair, and he didn't feel that his smile was a little reduced, and the voice of the conversation was also lightened.

Yang Ling said that he came to accompany Wang Hua, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, out of the city to greet the envoys of the king, so he came very early. Yang Ling found that the scholars and officials of the Ming Dynasty had a very strange mentality, on the one hand, they regarded themselves as the superior kingdom of the Celestial Empire, and the four barbarians were all people in the border wilderness, and they were small and humble in front of the Celestial Empire, and they seemed to be worthy of attention at all. However, for the envoys, they did their utmost etiquette, no matter where they lived, what they ate, and the gifts they gave were dozens of times that of the envoys, so as to show the wealth, grace and righteousness of the state of etiquette in the Celestial Empire.

They are willing to fight for whether the envoys of Fanbang should kneel on both legs or on one leg, and will never give in, but they are ashamed to deal with them about the return gifts that come to make repeated bargaining multiply.

When Yang Ling looked at the precedent of exchanges between the Ministry of Rites and Annam, Ryukyu, Goryeo and other countries, he really couldn't think of how they thought about such a "pragmatic" diplomatic attitude of the Ming Dynasty, so he used the reason that the people were allowed to trade freely between the countries in the future, and affirmed that the missions visiting in the future must be mostly for commercial purposes, and if it was not for the period of tribute stipulated by the Ming Dynasty and the number of envoys stipulated in the tribute, they would no longer be allowed to be received as state guests.

Wang Hua is not stupid, he also knows that Yang Ling's suggestion will be accepted by the emperor, so he readily agreed, but in order to be well-documented, he still made a concession to the emperor in the name of the Ministry of Rites.

Yang Ling walked to the front of the palace gate, and saw Wang Hua standing in a corner chatting with several ministers, and just wanted to walk over, when he suddenly noticed that the situation was different, and the officials scattered everywhere all sensed the atmosphere that suddenly calmed down, and looked in the same direction.

Yang Ling looked intently and saw an old man with white hair and a stiff body, walking proudly towards the noon gate.

One of the officials who whispered next to him whispered: "It's Lord Liu, the secretary of the Ministry of War."

"He hasn't left Beijing yet? Didn't I hear that the emperor's edict was very fast, and the Ministry of Rites drafted a gift, and yesterday it was sent back to his hometown by the post office? ”

"Whoa! I know that you didn't go to send each other, that's Master Ma, Master Ma is eighty years old, his body bones are not good, these few days of depression and illness, I heard that I didn't get off the car when I arrived at Changting, I only chatted with a few friends across the curtain, and then I went away, alas, the first book of the first book of the six departments, tsk tsk.

"It's still true, just my rank, and I'm not an official of Master Ma's Jane, what am I going to do, people won't answer me when I go, hey! So you went? ”

"I, shhh, Lord Liu is here, don't make noise, there's a good show, maybe the boss will have to hum with Lord Yang."

The ministers talked a lot, Yang Ling looked at Liu Daxia, this old man was dressed in cloth, with a pair of round-toed cloth shoes with a thousand layers of soles under his feet, and his hair was like silver, although there were many colleagues and friends who nodded and greeted him warmly, he did not squint or say a word.

He strode to the front of the palace gate, squinted his eyes slightly and looked up, the palace was majestic, the palace wall and the palace were lined up one after another, a wisp of morning Xi had broken through the clouds, shot on the red palace wall in front of him and the top of the eaves of the palace gate, the yellow glazed tiles, the squirrel, the bronze horse and the beast head were all reflected in the rising sun, the golden and bright were brilliant and dazzling.

Liu Daxia turned over and knelt down, looked at the que, and slowly knocked his head to the dust

After kneeling three times and bowing nine times, Liu Daxia suddenly burst into tears, crying and said: "The first emperor."

After sobbing on the ground for a long time, Liu Daxia said loudly: "The first emperor is gracious, and he has the extreme." It is difficult for the old minister to repay his life if he does his best, but the sky does not obey people's wishes, the first emperor."

He wiped away his tears and stood up, clasped his fists and said: "Colleagues, the old man is lonely and loyal, and heaven and man learn from each other, but now there is no way to serve the country." The old man is now a cloth cloth, but a cloth cloth can also be a word and a thing, a good deed, poor and unswerving, honor and disgrace. Colleagues, do your own thing, the old man is gone! ”

Liu Daxia shook his head, his eyes flashed to Yang Ling, his eyebrows twisted, and he suddenly said sharply: "Disaster to the country and the people, heaven and earth are not tolerated, good and evil are rewarded, and cause and effect circulate, the old man will widen his eyes and see how the sky accepts you!" ”

Yang Ling heard a wry smile, what the old man in front of him did, what he thought, was really ridiculous, but his personality and surname were very respectful, and he could understand his good intentions?

In his eyes, his political strategy of rebellion and disaster to the country and the people may take many years before it can be unanimously recognized by the people of the Ming Dynasty. Perhaps, in the end of Liu Daxia's life, in the eyes of this old man whose morality deserves his sincere respect, but he had to reluctantly expel him from the court to stop his stupid behavior, he is a powerful man.

The sun shone on Yang Ling, his face was tranquil, but his heart was a little lonely, his eyes drooped slightly, and he didn't look directly at the old man, but replied softly: "All living beings are exhausted, and the proof of Bodhi is proven." Hell is not empty, and you will not become a Buddha. Heaven, don't go. Lord Liu, the good intentions of this official are really difficult to dissect in front of adults. Take care all the way."

Yang Ling slowly bowed, bowed deeply, straightened his waist after a while, and saw that the front of him was empty, and hundreds of officials were lonely.

The breeze was sent, and the Jingyang bell came slowly

Yang Ling and Wang Hua sat in the long pavilion and waited for the arrival of the special envoy, although the standard of reception was higher, but in view of the fact that the envoy represented the king of the other country, and the tribute was of great significance, and it was since Zhengde succeeded to the throne, A country that had been absent for a long time regained its tribute and recognized the suzerainty of the Celestial Empire, which was a major achievement of Emperor Zhengde, and it is no wonder that he was extremely happy and attached great importance to it.

Exploring the horse and reporting that the mission had arrived twenty miles away, Yang Ling waved his hand and retreated, and said with a smile to Wang Hua: "Lord Shangshu, the envoy of my country is about to arrive, this time I said that the sea was lifted, and Lord Shangshu supported it, so I have today's results, Yang is really grateful."

Wang Hua said with a smile: "Lord Yang doesn't have to be polite, the old man's family is in the south of the Yangtze River, and he knows that although the imperial court has banned the sea for a hundred years, the wealthy families of Zhejiang and Fujian have long-term business dealings with Yueben, since the official survey trade was interrupted, the private smuggling trade has become more rampant, and the forbidden sea has long become a dead letter, but a large number of imperial court taxes have been left in the hands of the scholars."

Wang Hua sighed and said: "It's just that Wang knows that he is lonely and powerless to return to the sky, and he only hopes that one day the general trend will come, and the court can respond to the will of the people and lift the sea ban.

Yang Ling knew that although this bachelor Wang was erudite and talented, his surname was indifferent, and he was a little at ease with what he saw, but what he said was also the truth, if it wasn't for his own use of many means, let such a humble gentleman advocate the opening of the sea to lift the ban, nineteen will not be fruitful, and if it is not good, he will have to be like Huang Qiyin back then, abandoned by the current ruling class.

Wang Hua smiled and said: "Most of the items needed by the country are produced in our dynasty, such as the magnets of Raozhou, the silk cotton of Huzhou, the yarn hats of Zhangzhou, the cotton cloth of Songjiang, as well as books, copper coins, calligraphy and paintings, etc., and the trafficking of the country is very profitable, which is several times higher than the trade with Luzon, and it is a great thing to trade with the country and the people."

In order to plan to open the sea, Yang Ling did not know how much investigation and preparation he had made, and he knew a lot about these things, and said with a smile: "Exactly, there are only a few kinds of goods such as knives, swords, sulfur, and fans in the country that can be sold in the Ming Dynasty, and the rest can only be paid with silver.

The two chatted very speculatively, and after two pillars of incense, they saw a team of people coming from afar, Yang Ling couldn't help frowning and said, "Didn't my messenger tell them that the Ministry of Rites and the official are here to greet them?" Why are you so sluggish? ”

Wang Hua glanced at the horse team of more than 60 people, and said with a smile: "The Japanese people have always been arrogant and self-esteem, and they have always been like this in ancient times. At the same time, they are extremely greedy and cunning, don't look at them to ask for our court, come from afar to pay tribute, and still have to pretend to be reserved at the feet of the Son of Heaven. ”

Yang Ling and Wang Hua did not get up to arrange the guard of honor, ready to greet each other, and still sat and talked and laughed. Wang Hua glanced at the horse team contemptuously and said, "I think it is because of the lack of sailors in our dynasty and the helplessness of our dynasty that the Japanese are rampant on the sea, which makes such a Japanese people despise me."

In the past, when the Japanese sent Sui envoys to submit their credentials, they called themselves "the Son of Heaven" and called the Sui Emperor "the Son of Heaven". But the next time I come back, I will call myself the 'Eastern Emperor' and call the Sui Emperor the 'Western Emperor', hehe, an emperor, an emperor, only changed one word, and pressed himself on the head of the Sui Emperor.

Later, the Tang Dynasty supported Silla, and the Japanese supported Baekje, and fought a big battle with each other, and the Japanese warships were thousands of large and small, but they were killed by 170 warships of the Tang Dynasty. ”

Yang Ling laughed when he heard it, it turned out that each other's temper had been around for a long time, but it was not in modern times.

By this time the caravan had approached, and there were several wagons carrying gifts. Yang Ling knew that Cheng Qiyun was in the team, and when he looked around, he saw that there were two officials sent by the Ministry of Rites on the first few horses, and the figure of a person wearing a plain white scholar's robe next to him was very familiar, and he couldn't help but feel a burst of joy in his heart.

The members of the mission dismounted and walked accompanied by two officials of the Ministry of Rites, and they were still more than ten zhang away, and Yang Ling and Wang Hua also got up and walked out of the long pavilion and greeted them with a smile.

Yang Ling didn't look at the oncoming envoy, his gaze involuntarily flashed to the white-robed scholar who was following behind, although he was dressed in men's clothes, but the pair of eyes and veins were so familiar.

Yang Ling suddenly noticed that there were two bright lights in her eyes, was the sun shining in her eyes?

Yang Ling was about to take a closer look, Cheng Qiyun suddenly lowered her head, and her slender and smooth jade fingers brushed over her cheeks with her white sleeves, and naturally stopped at her lips. Yang Ling couldn't see her lips, but he could clearly feel her delicate lips pursed from the tugging of the curve of her face, and she was smiling at him, a kind of amazement that touched her heart was like a stone thrown into the lake, rippling layer upon layer.

(To be continued)