Chapter 60: The Fundamental Problem
Hearing that the prince was going to report the matter to the emperor, Zhu Bi's first reaction was to hurry up. The emperor's temper is over for him, he may not believe the truth if you tell the truth, if you say that this is God's instructions, he will listen to it in the blink of an eye. This is a lesson from the past, not to mention far away, his benefactor Cai Chengxiang was sent back to his hometown for retirement because the headlights flashed in the sky because the white stars flashed in the sky.
Now he kindly dug a big tree to pay tribute, but the prince said that he broke the spiritual root and let go of the demon, and if he really caught up with the drought and flood in the northwest, the account would have to be counted on his head, and he was more worried that once it was played, someone would take advantage of this to make a fuss, "framed himself, after all, China is big, there is no disaster in the northwest, and there is something "celestial" in other places, and it is difficult to guarantee that no one will buckle the basin to his head.
"Lord Wang, is this matter going to be played again in a while, if that doesn't make the Holy Master more troubled!" Zhu Bi is worthy of being through the wind and waves for a long time, and quickly figured out what is the most important thing at the moment, and hurriedly spoke.
"Well, it's good to look at it, I hope I'm wrong!" Zhao Ta sighed, as if he had lost interest in repairing the garden, and left first with a calm face and a look of worrying about the country and the people.
The next day, Huang Jingchen received an invitation from Zhang, and he opened it to see that it was Zhu Bi who invited him to the mansion for a banquet. Huang Jingchen understood what Zhu Bi meant after a little pondering, he couldn't sit still after listening to the words of the prince, this is to talk to himself, there must be a good thing to go. The old man said hello to the prince and went to the banquet happily.
Huang Jingchen entered Zhu's mansion for the first time, and Zhu Bi accompanied him for half a day to swim less than half of the garden, which made the old man embarrassed. The luncheon was placed in a pavilion, there were not many dishes, but they were all exquisite, and they were mainly Soviet-style dishes, and only Zhu Rudan was the only one to accompany them. Zhu Bi had something in his heart, and Huang Jingchen was also mentally prepared, and the topic naturally turned to yesterday's events after two glasses of wine.
"Huang Daguan, will what the prince said yesterday happen?" Zhu Bi saluted Huang Jingchen with a glass of wine and said.
"I don't know what we're talking about about those things that are boring, drinking, drinking!" Huang Jingchen raised his glass in return.
"Come on,!" Zhu Bi drank the wine, but scolded secretly in his heart, he soaked with the prince every day, how could he not know that the old fox was eating smoothly in the palace, this is to ask me for a consultation fee!
"The big official is repairing the garden now, I'm afraid he will have to buy some things, but I don't know what the big official likes to do!" Zhu Bi waved his hand, and the maid picked up a delicate box, he took it and pushed it to Huang Jingchen and said.
"How embarrassing is this, the prince has already purchased everything for the old man, and he doesn't need anything!" Huang Jingchen said in his mouth, but took the box and started with a heavy one, it turned out that this box was made of gold, and the things inside must be worth a lot.
"The official is polite to us, everyone is a family!" Zhu Rudan saw that Huang Jingchen had received something, and immediately got up and poured wine for him and his uncle and said.
"Yes, the big official is the most righteous, he has raised the young master for many years, and no one in the court will praise him!" Zhu Bi gave Huang Jingchen a side cloth and said.
"Now it has been spread all over the city of Suzhou, saying that the prince has double eyes and can see through everything, and we are also curious, and the official will talk about it, and let us open our eyes!" Zhu Ruzhou said with a smile on his face.
"Hehe, you have said so much, in fact, you still have doubts about the words of the prince that day, but I advise you to believe it and make preparations!" Huang Jingchen said with a smile.
"Then the prince really has the ability to communicate with the gods and predict the future!" Zhu Bi said in surprise, he was originally skeptical of the prince's words, but now when he heard Huang Jingchen, he believed it a little more.
"Today, the old man is happy to have a fate with the two adults, so I will talk to you, but the words come out of my mouth and into your ears, and I won't recognize it when I go out of this door!" Huang Jingchen whispered that Zhu Bi was not an ignorant person, and immediately retreated left and right, leaving the three of them in the pavilion.
"Have you heard of Wang Laozhi and Wang Zixi?" Huang Jingchen drank another glass of wine and asked.
"Of course, I know that these two are famous living immortals who can know the past and the future, and they have heaven and earth, but they just heard that Wang Zaixi is dead, and Wang Laozhi is nowhere to be found!" Of course, Zhu Bi knew these two well, and he didn't give them much money for incense back then. …,
"Well, my lord is right!" Huang Jingchen nodded, "Let's talk about Wang Laozhi first, when he entered Beijing, he lived in Xiangyi Chongwangfu for a few days and discussed with the prince, after entering Beijing, because of his profound Taoism, he was jealous, and you know what he wanted to leave the capital!" ”
"Knowing something, after Wang Zai was taken out of prison, he also came back to preside over the Baoqi Palace for a period of time!" What is the relationship between Zhu Bi and Cai Jing, how can I not know how to do this, it is because he was afraid of Wang Laozhi that Wang Zaixi was introduced.
"Well, at that time, Wang Laozhi was seriously ill, so the prince took him to the mansion to recuperate, and now he is also living in the palace for a long time, but he is not known to outsiders!" Huang Jingchen said.
"Oh, the prince has been guided by Wang Laozhi, and he has also learned the Tao, no wonder!" Zhu Bi said Youran, but Huang Jingchen's words made him not close his mouth for a long time.
"No, they are not masters and apprentices, Wang Laozhi is called Senior Brother Wangye!"
"Huh?!" This news is so shocking, Zhu Bi's uncle and nephew exclaimed in unison.
"This is still the humility of the prince, respect for his elders, according to the teacher Wang Laozhi should be called the prince uncle!" Huang Jingchen, the old man, is very good at whetting people's appetites, so he gasped and said the second half of the sentence, but it was also the end of it, no matter how Zhu Bi's uncle and nephew knocked on the side, he never said anything about the prince anymore, which made the two of them itch and couldn't make up their minds.
More than ten days later, the news came back one after another, as Zhao Ta said, the giant Dan transporting the bolted trees encountered a strong wind in the sea, and the tree skills and sail ropes were entangled together, resulting in the ship's capsizing and death, and hundreds of shipwrights and gangyun caused Zhu Rugong's life to die in the sea, and the wreckage and corpse on the ship were washed up on the beach many days later. At this time, the imperial court's official report was also sent to Xihe, Huanqing, and Jingyuan Prefectures, where earthquakes occurred, and the ground moved and the mountains moved, causing heavy losses.
At this time, Zhu Bi's family was busy with funerals, and it was not quiet in the Canglang Pavilion. In the hall, the prince sat in the first seat, with a stack of papers on the book table in front of him, on both sides were his cronies in the palace team, and there were two dusty scribes kneeling on the ground.
"Lord Wang, not killing Zhu is not enough for civilians to get used to ........." A person kowtowed to Zhao Ta and said, Zhao Ta looked at the two people in front of him, one is Liu Zi'an, in his thirties, he has been a Jinshi and an official, he has been a county minister, he is still upright, and he is not allowed by the ministers, so he abandoned the official and lived in seclusion in Xiangyi to teach for a living, and was favored by Zhao Ta, and received the palace as the lord of the palace: another Shen Songyue is not old, he has been in martial arts, he has been a student of He Qufei, he has served as a marching Sima in Hebei Jinglue Mansion, and he has been a marquis of Yu, and he is quite talented. But he didn't want to, I heard that the teacher became the master of King Yan, and came to defect, and temporarily hung up a position in the house, and Zhao Ta has always used him as a staff officer.
The other subordinate officials and staff members sitting on the side have similar experiences to them, including scholars who have tried and failed, unambitious officials, officers who have not been reused, Confucian scholars who have escaped from the world, and "Qing officials" who have been laid off and demoted.
"Zi'an, Songyue has something to say, stand up and say!" Zhao Ta coughed lightly and said, and Zhao Yong on the side hurriedly picked him up and served them a cup of tea.
"Lord, we went to Xidong, where flowers and trees are abundant, whether they grow at home, or grow in the mountains, the people who should be in charge of the bureau instructed the local government, and even personally took the forcible seizure, forcing the mountain people to dig in the mountains, countless people were forced to die in the mountains and old forests, making the people miserable, the lower officials are recorded, and the prince is asked to ask for the people's life, and severely punish Zhu Bi and others!" Liu Zi'an stood up and said.
"Lord Wang, the lower officials went to the counties around Taihu Lake to investigate, and they should be sent to the bureau to extort the people and expropriate them on a large scale. Whether it is high mountains and deep valleys or rapids and rapids, as long as someone's stone and tree are still interesting, whoever will suffer. These officials came in, and the yellow seal was pasted on it, and this thing became a royal thing, and the master had to take care of it carefully, if it was damaged at all, it was a great crime of disrespect. Shen Songyue choked up and said, his words full of anger, "So if the master doesn't give a bribe, the servants will deliberately damage it when carrying it, and then frame the master for the crime of great disrespect out of nothing." In addition, these officials who transported stones would force the people to tear down the walls and rebuild the houses on the grounds that the walls of the houses were obstructing transportation, without any regard for the lives of the people........."
Zhao Ta listened to their report, knowing that the Dao Huashi Gang was not only for the southeast, but for the people of the entire south China, it was a kind of naked plunder, but also a real disaster, in the past 20 years, the stones that were transported to Tokyo, a total of more than 100,000 pieces, the freight and freight of the stones were often tens of thousands, and the cost was almost equivalent to the total tax of the southeast roads. In the process of transporting these stones, it is impossible to count how many people died, how many ships sank, how many bridges were dismantled, and how many city gates were opened. And this year, Genyue, the most disturbing project in history, is about to finish, but how should this matter end?
"Killing Zhu Bi is the easiest and most direct way at present, not to mention whether you can kill him, even if you can kill him, it is only a palliative way to cure the root cause, just an expedient measure, to ease the current tense situation, Hua Shigang has to continue to send, because his father is "a real, artist, complete his masterpiece of the world." This question has been hovering in Zhao Ta's mind for a long time, but he can't make up his mind for a long time, he is afraid of chaos in the southeast.
Because Zhao Ta saw through the capital of the Song Dynasty, this exquisite empire asked for money everywhere, and it was inseparable from money every moment, and it had to give nearly one million yuan to Liao and Western Xia every year, and it also had to have tens of millions of funds to operate, and almost all of this money was provided by the people in the southeast. It can be said that the southeast is turbulent, the Song Dynasty is turbulent, and if the Song Dynasty wants to survive, it will inevitably turn to squeeze the Central Plains, and the people of the Central Plains will be oppressed and will become chaotic. The Central Plains became chaotic, and the Liao State and Western Xia would also enter by tongue dagger, at that time, there would be thousands of holes and leaks everywhere, and their own world would collapse immediately, so what else to talk about saving the Great Song Dynasty! (To be continued.)