Bi Ziyan, the word Jingzeng, is a native of Zichuan, Shandong. Even according to the most traditional and strict standards, he belonged to one of the top bureaucratic talents of the Ming Dynasty, the authentic scholar class - he was promoted at the age of nineteen, and he was promoted to the rank of scholar at the age of twenty-two! After that, the journey of the eunuch was even more colorful: starting from the official of Songjiang Prefecture, he successively served as the director of the Criminal Department, the member of the Ministry of Works, the deputy envoy of Hedong, the military preparation of Taomin to participate in politics, the envoy of Yulin West Road and the political envoy of the right cloth, the Taifu Siqing, the imperial history of the right capital and the governor of Tianjin...... The central, local, clear, turbid officials, civil resources, and military equipment -- all of them have been done! It can be called an extremely rare generalist in the Ming Dynasty.

If later generations made these officials of the Ming Dynasty into game data cards, the value of Bi Ziyan's "politics" column was definitely above ninety, and if the information was more detailed, including the value of "financial planning", it would be impossible for the entire Ming court to have a higher person than him. Bi Ziyan served as the head of the household department from the Apocalypse period, and worked until Chongzhen for five years, during which he moved left and right, parryed up and down, and finally made the Chongzhen Dynasty not expose too much financial hole in the early stage. With this hand alone, he can definitely be called the official who is the best at financial planning in the Ming Dynasty today, and at the same time has the deepest understanding of the financial dilemma of the Ming Dynasty - there is no one.

However, in the hands of Chongzhen, the last emperor, no great talent can last - Zhu Youzhen is a person who naturally does not trust ministers. Even if he is loyal like Sun Chengzong, flattering like Wen Tiren, sleek like Xiong Wencan, and shrewd like Hong Chengchou...... The Chongzhen Dynasty is not without talents, but it is difficult for these people to give full play to their talents under Emperor Chongzhen, and often due to some inexplicable reasons like this, they are either removed by himself or forced to make a big move, and the result is a complete defeat.

Bi Ziyan's experience can also be regarded as a typical case: he originally did a good job in the household department, and nothing went wrong, but because he helped Zheng Youyuan, the old Jiaohuating County, to make a fraud in the amount of salt tax and silver to be paid, the salt tax silver itself was an inexplicable extra "old debt", and there were many people around him who were casually fooling the past. But he didn't agree with the eunuch Zhang Yixian. was denounced by the latter, Bi Ziyan hit the emperor's anger headlong, and as a result, for the sake of a thousand taels of silver - it was not corruption and bribery, but the best Hubu Shangshu of the Ming Dynasty was imprisoned for the crime of bullying the king.

In history, this Bi Shangshu was imprisoned for more than a year, and after all, no problems were found, and in the end, in order to protect the emperor's face, he was just dismissed and returned to his hometown. But not long after driving Bi Ziyan back to his hometown, Chongzhen regretted it - Daming's finances were deteriorating, and he knew the importance of talents. So Zhu Youzhen, who has always been rigid and self-serving, and never willing to admit his mistakes, rarely spit on himself, and reinstated Bi Ziyan in the eighth year of Chongzhen, and let him reinstate his official and still serve as the head of the household.

However, at that time, Bi Ziyan was already sixty-seven or eighteen. The body can't bear it anyway, and after all, the scholar has a sense of arrogance, and he can be regarded as seeing through the emperor's character in prison, knowing that this is not a good master. Although he took the holy decree of revenge to save face, he immediately asked Zhishi to go to the Beijing division at all, and Chongzhen couldn't do anything about him. He died three years later at the age of 70.

As an orthodox Chinese literati doctor, Bi Ziyan has experienced officialdom in addition to it. He also left behind many writings, as well as a large collection of books, which his own children and grandchildren did not use much. However, the Bi family, as a local nobleman, has a lot of support for the scholars in the same township. A few decades later, a young literati who was also born in Zichuan failed to succeed. However, he had the leisure time to read all the books in the Bi family's collection, and a few years later he created a masterpiece - the literati's name was Pu Songling, and the book he wrote was "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai".

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Of course, these are all later words, and Bi Ziyan at this time has no plans to be disheartened and say goodbye to officialdom completely. The emperor arrested him mainly because of a wave of anger. I feel that I have been deceived, and now that more than half a year has passed, no matter how big the fire is, it has disappeared. Although Lao Bi is still a guilty body. But instead of being locked up in prison, he found a temple for him to "explain the problem" - a bit like the treatment of the "two rules" in later generations.

has been up and down in Huan Hai for more than 40 years, and has served as an examiner, Bi Ziyan has a deep network in the officialdom. Since he was imprisoned, there have been people who have interceded for him, and now the successor Yang Yihe directly proposed to pick a son, Zhou Yanru really has no one to use, so he has to go to report to the emperor, saying that we should let someone Bi make meritorious contributions.

Zhu Youzhen also attaches great importance to this negotiation with Shorthair - his eyes are green now that he lacks money. When Qian Qianyi reported to him about Shorthair's entry into Beijing before, he vaguely said that this time it was possible to take back part of the financial power of the Southeast Salt Administration from Shorthair's hands - God is pitiful, in just a few years, the official salt channels of the Ming Dynasty in the southeast have been completely crushed by the private salt trade of the Qiong Navy and the Zheng family, and the dignified court now has to negotiate to get back the salt tax silver from the hands of Shorthair, which is really a shame.

However, Zhu Youzhen doesn't know what to think of the Qiong Haijun gang now-the head of the post-Jin Beledeg class was sent to Beijing a few days ago. Although the entire lower half of the face was bombarded, in fact, there was only a half-pulled skull, but the information obtained from Mongolia or Houjin proved that this was a genuine product, and the short hair really helped the Ming Dynasty kill a blood relative of the sworn enemy Nurhachi, which was a great achievement that hundreds of thousands of Ming troops had not been able to do for many years!

However, Shorthair didn't ask the court for a reward, so it passed plainly. It is said that even this half of the skull was easily turned out of the mass grave, and if it were not for the fact that someone saw the general Xiao put the barrel of his gun into the mouth of the Derge and shatter his head, it would not have been possible to determine the identity of this head - in the eyes of the shorthairs, the Tartars were all the same, just dead.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen can't judge whether those short-haired people are loyal or traitorous at all -- he only looks at people by these two criteria. However, that group of people was extreme in two aspects: Qiong's navy had only accepted Zhao'an for a year and a half, but it really helped the Ming Dynasty more than all the other military towns, but the destructive power to the imperial court system was just as huge. Now he can only listen to some reports about the movements of the short hair from Qian Qianyi in a daze, and try to find out the parts that are beneficial to Daming from these reports to achieve them.

Qian Qianyi said very vaguely, he is not stupid, he definitely can't promise anything with the emperor - the last person to pat his chest in front of the emperor was Yuan Chonghuan, and everyone knows his fate. So in Zhu Youzhen's concept, whether Shorthair is willing to come up with money this time is still between the two. He is an impatient and eager character, and he has something pressing on his heart, and he hasn't even had a good year.

Although Empress Zhou tried her best to arrange and asked Wang Chengen to get a lot of fresh southern goods from Qionghai Market, the inner court was decorated beautifully, and the variety of dishes at several palace banquets was far better than in previous years, and even Concubine Tian, who always liked to make a little trouble with her, couldn't find out. But His Majesty the Emperor, who is the master of the palace, has always had a gloomy face, so that others have to be cautious and dare not act arbitrarily. This year, there is no shortage of wealth and magnificence in the court, but there is not much festive atmosphere.

The emperor is so anxious, and the ministers below are naturally having a harder time. If it weren't for being urged by Emperor Chongzhen, Zhou Yanru would not have been cheeky enough to join the blind date meeting organized by the Xungui Group - Qian Qianyi didn't go that time, and then found an opportunity to sneer at Zhou Shoufu during the chat, saying that he was too careful, and even mixed in the affairs of this kind of woman's family, I am afraid that he will be looked down upon by the other party.

Zhou Shoufu is only eight years old, and he usually always has the upper hand in the battle of words with Qian someone, but this time he can only blink and listen, and his heart says If you sit at home and receive three small notes from the inner palace in a day, you will definitely be more anxious than me. But this cannot be said openly, but can only be buried in the stomach.

The only advantage of being urged by the emperor to do something is that it is easier to make conditions. Zhou Yanru proposed to pardon Bi Ziyan at this moment and let him have a good fight with Shorthair at the negotiation table, Chongzhen thought that only this person was the most suitable. So he issued an edict and asked Lao Bi to participate in this negotiation.

For this former Ming Dynasty Shangshu to join the negotiations, the people who can directly feel the pressure of others are Lin Hanlong and Guo Yi and others. The day before, they were still smiling and chatting with Zhou Yanru, Yang Yihe and other high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty, slapping each other's sycophants, but secretly thinking in their hearts:

"Talk to us about the economy? Not for you alone, I'm saying that all of you here - all of you are scumbags! ”

Unexpectedly, when they came the next day, they found that the other party had changed players, and Yang Yihe and Zhou Yanru both smiled and ran to the side to have tea with Qian Qianyi. There was a bad old man with a big beard sitting opposite, with a serious and serious look, and the atmosphere of "hello, hello, everyone" that Lin Hanlong had spent several days creating instantly shattered.

Then Zhou Da Shoufu introduced it again...... Damn, I will eventually meet a tiger in the mountains, this time I have encountered a boss level, I can't imagine that these old bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty also have a time to wake up - Bi Ziyan's name, the people in charge of the economic mouth on the side of the Qiong Navy know it. Earlier, some people said that Zhu Youzhen had already gotten him down, and this time he didn't have to face this old guy, who knew that he would still let him play.

Okay, okay...... When Lin Hanlong stood up and shook hands with this sixty-year-old man with messy hair and beard, a very complicated sense of mission also rose in his heart. turned his head to look at Guo Chen and the others, but saw that they also unconsciously tidied up their suits, and their faces became solemn.

Although as a negotiation opponent, the more stupid the other party is, the better, but after all, it is the Ming Dynasty, the country of their ancestors! After all, this group of people is still passed down from the other party's bloodline. Now that the other party has finally woken up and sent such a knowledgeable person over, the chess opponent will meet the talent, then let us have a good talk - for our common future. (To be continued.) )