86_86695 The upper echelons of the Ming Dynasty in 1620 can be described as a change. The death of the Son of Heaven is not a big deal. In the eyes of most of the upper bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty, the death of the Wanli Emperor was inevitable. They have been waiting for a long time.

From the perspective of the Ming Dynasty as a whole, the Wanli Emperor, an emperor who has not been in court for 28 years, can rank among the top four emperors in the Ming Dynasty in terms of control over the government. It doesn't sound like this ranking is high, but everyone must know that in front of the Son of Wanli is Emperor Hongwu, Emperor Yongle, and Emperor Jiajing, three characters who can be called demonic.

Although the Wanli Emperor did not go to court for many years, during his forty-eight years of reign, he controlled the politics, economy, and military affairs of the Ming Dynasty through the internal supervisors. Although he has always been hostile to the literati bureaucracy, he still left a good name in the history books as "Wanli Zhongxing", and led the Ming Dynasty to win three large-scale wars against foreign races.

Wang Shuhui's view of the Ming emperors is more general. He believes that in terms of grasping the government of the Qing Dynasty, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is obviously not as good as the emperor of the Qing Dynasty. In terms of the average political value of the emperors, the average of the Qing Dynasty emperors seems to be higher than that of the Ming Dynasty emperors.

Although he despised the prosperous Kangqian era forged by the Manchu traitor literati, but, from the perspective of the political and political skills of the supreme ruler of the country, although the Manchu Qing Dynasty had some things that lost power and humiliated the country, such as Xianfeng, Daoguang, Tongzhi, and Guangxu, on the whole, the political order of the Qing Dynasty was relatively stable.

Of course, in the barbaric feudal system will certainly present a stagnant calm. Although the combination of the barbarism of the Manchu rulers and the backwardness of the feudal system basically destroyed the foundation of the progress of Chinese civilization. However, reality is reality, and the Manchu feudal bureaucracy, which was completely castrated, was at least much more honest than the bureaucracy of the Ming Dynasty.

At least, in Wang Shuhui's impression, Zhu Changluo, the Taichang Emperor who had just followed his father who disliked him so much and died almost together, was tossed to death by the bureaucracy of the Ming Dynasty.

As one of the important members of the bureaucracy of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Wenda, the head of the household department, naturally devoted himself to the great toss in Beijing. This is the reason why he did not react for two whole months in September and October, knowing that his nephew had always had a strict conflict with the king of Zhijiang County.

At present, Zhang Wenda is at a critical moment where he may go further in his career. or the elder of the cabinet or the heavenly official of the ministry, these two positions are very promising for Zhang Wenda. Although Zhang Wenda has no son, he only has a nephew as his successor. However, not to mention the nephew, it is the matter of the son, how can it be important to add an official to the knighthood. What's more, in Zhang Wenda's mind, the county king of a remote and small county doesn't need him to deal with it himself, and his nephew should be able to deal with it completely.

Although the natural sciences of later generations have clearly proved that at least in terms of political and economic ability, genetics do not play a decisive role. However, whether in the feudal society of the Ming Dynasty or in the industrial society of later generations, many people still feel that the theory of descent can be applied within the scope of one qiē.

Naturally, as a senior official, the second generation of senior officials. Zhang Tianlu also believes that he is the pride of the sky, and he should naturally enjoy all kinds of privileges and preferential treatment. Although Zhang Tianlu is facing the reality of a large-scale contraction of the private salt business and a sharp decline in the income of the salt industry. However, because of Zhang Wenda's career, it is still on the rise in the changes of Yan zhòng Zhengzhì in which two generations of emperors died one after another. Therefore, the bureaucracy in the entire Huguang area has made corresponding, large-scale, rectification investments in the Zhang family. Therefore, on the whole, Zhang Tianlu did not feel the impact on economic income caused by the shrinking of the private salt business.

As a senior Yanei, business matters are only a small part of Zhang Tianlu's life. Because his uncle's market has been bullish recently, Zhang Tianlu has devoted more time to the ushering of Huguang officialdom. And ushering in this kind of officialdom is the same in ancient and modern times. Cash transactions such as gold and silver treasures are one part, and indulgence is another, more important part.

Xiao Wenlong has been in the Zhang family in Jingzhou Mansion for a long time. In the past half a year, in addition to constantly performing his duties as a doctor, and allocating a lot of drugs to strengthen the waist and kidneys for Zhang Tianlu and Young Master Zhang, he has always paid attention to the affairs of Zhijiang County. Not long ago, Zhang Tianlu sent Jinyi Wei to investigate the affairs of the Zhijiang Palace, but Zhang Tianlu did it under Xiao Wenlong's strong recommendation. It's just that I didn't expect Jinyiwei to be as bright as Xiao Wenlong imagined. Half a month has passed, and there hasn't even been a big fart movement.

On the one hand, he was anxiously waiting for the news of Jinyiwei, and on the other hand, he was disappointed that Zhang Tianlu was obsessed with lust every day. It can be imagined what kind of torment Xiao Wenlong is in. Just when Xiao Wenlong was about to fall into despair, Zhang Tianlu suddenly summoned him.

When he saw Zhang Tianlu in the lobby, Xiao Wenlong was quite disdainful in his heart. With a pale face and blue eyes, Xiao Wenlong saw Zhang Tianlu and knew that the indulgence during this period of time had caused some damage to Zhang Tianlu's body. However, he still didn't say those meaningless nonsense, just honestly stood below and waited for Zhang Tianlu to speak.

Zhang Tianlu recently received a letter from his uncle Zhang Wenda. In the letter, Zhang Wenda told Zhang Tianlu that his position as the secretary of the ministry was basically determined. He told Zhang Tianlu that he would immediately end the affairs in Jingzhou and prepare to move to Beijing.

As far as Zhang Tianlu himself is concerned, moving to Beijing is not a happy thing. In Jingzhou Prefecture, and even in the entire Huguang region, even if the vassal king is included, the person who can make Zhang Tianlu, a member of the Central Committee and the son of the Minister of Finance, feel jealous, basically does not exist.

In the entire Huguang area, Zhang Tianlu can do it, he can do whatever he wants, not only no one will stop him, but there will be a large number of people who take the initiative to help.

However, Zhang Tianlu just kicked the widow's door, dug up the grave of the desperate household, ate, drank, prostituted, gambled, smoked, cheated, cheated and stole all kinds of evil. He also knew that when he arrived in Beijing, he was just one of the second generations of many officials, and one of the many officials. Zhang Tianlu is fully aware of the fact that he has to pretend to be the third grandson and pretend to be a good son when he arrives in Beijing.

After receiving his uncle's letter, Zhang Tianlu first indulged in fun for a while. Seeing that the day of departure was getting closer and closer, he remembered to put together the business in his hand. After seeing the account books of the last half a year, Zhang Tianlu found that his entire private salt business had basically closed down. In the past six months, the sale of illegal salt has basically been in a flat state, neither making nor losing money.

Zhang Tianlu is the kind of family member who has completely decayed as Rainbow Cat said, "the top and bottom will think that the truth that is beneficial to them is the truth of the world". In his eyes, the private salt business is his biggest achievement in the Zhang family. Although whether it is specific procurement, transportation, trafficking, etc., it is all completed by the domestic slaves of the Zhang family in cooperation with officials from all over Huguang. However, Zhang Tianlu still felt that since this work was his nominal leader, all the achievements were his.

After Zhang Wenda was transferred from the position of governor of Huguang to become the head of the household department. The private salt business that Zhang Tianlu nominally led brought huge income to the entire Zhang family. Originally, those members of the Zhang clan who had a lot of doubts about Zhang Tianlu as Zhang Wenda's heir also agreed with Zhang Tianlu's ability because of this huge income. This is the first time Zhang Tianlu feels the realization of his life value.

Zhang Tianlu must not allow his career to fail. He ordered his subordinates to investigate the current situation of the salt industry in Huguang. Soon he discovered that there were all kinds of signs that it was the Zhijiang Mansion that squeezed Zhang Tianlu's private salt trade.

Zhang Tianlu was surprised to hear the news. He didn't expect that it was not the magnates of Nanjing who challenged his private salt profits, but a little-known county king who had just been restored. Zhu Youzi, the king of Zhijiang, he had naturally heard of it. The two generations of emperors who died one after another are said to have a good impression of this new feudal king. But so what?

Zhang Tianlu thought about it, not to mention that the two emperors were dead. Even if they didn't die, how could a vassal king who didn't have any political rights dare to challenge the hot new officials of the Ministry of Heaven.

However, the name of King Zhijiang made Zhang Tianlu feel very familiar. After turning the head that was a little rusty due to the erosion of the wine for a long time, Zhang Tianlu remembered that he was not very familiar with King Zhijiang, and he was familiar with King Zhijiang's son-in-law, a guest of honor surnamed Wang.

It is said that this is Yibin, who killed an extremely peripheral dog leg that he didn't pay much attention to. I think I've been struggling with this for a while.

Zhang Tianlu, who recalled it comprehensively, remembered that because the death of the Son of Wanli at that time led to the instability of the government, his uncle specifically warned him not to make trouble. It was for this reason that Zhang Tianlu completely forgot about this matter.

It was precisely because of this that Zhang Tianlu immediately summoned Xiao Wenlong.

After seeing Xiao Wenlong, Zhang Tianlu was in a serious trance. He didn't remember Xiao Wenlong's identity very well. Fortunately, the housekeeper standing next to him reminded him in a whisper, and he remembered Xiao Wenlong's matter.

"Mr. Xiao, my son has been busy with affairs recently, and he has been a little neglectful." After all, Zhang Tianlu is a child of a family, and he still has basic politeness.

Without waiting for Xiao Wenlong to answer, Zhang Tianlu continued, "I remember that Mr. Xiao is a good friend of Ma Xiancheng in Zhijiang County. ”

Xiao Wenlong nodded when he heard this.

After Zhang Tianlu saw this, he continued, "In this case, Mr. Xiao must know everything about Zhijiang. I have sent men to the guard post and transferred troops. Please go to Zhijiang with my family and invite that Wang Shuhui to Jingzhou Mansion for a talk. ”。