Chapter 248: Eating and Waiting for Death
Jiajing never lived in the Forbidden City again because he didn't want to go back to that sad place. As His Majesty gets older, taking Jindan has led to the weakening of his body, although he is still an invincible appearance to his subordinates, in fact, he has begun to think about it when there is no one, what will he say after his death?
Speaking from his heart, Emperor Jiajing considered himself a king, and although he did a lot of wrong things, he did not do less good governance. But from today's point of view, these literati will only focus on people's mistakes, but will not remember people's merits, and will not even care about their suffering. Yan Hong has already explained the great significance of recruiting Xu Hai, but what about these civil officials? They are still constantly emphasizing Xu Hai's heinous crimes.
Then after his death, what these clear streams remember will only be his own mistakes. If according to the logic of these bastard literati, if they make mistakes, they can't make up for them, and whether they can make up for their mistakes depends on the provisions of the so-called etiquette laws, then wouldn't these things they did be left in the history books for thousands of years?
As for the interests, Jiajing didn't know that the Ming Dynasty was insufficient, the treasury was empty, and he couldn't make ends meet for many years, and his desire to build a Taoist temple was obstructed by the ministers in every way, and the food and salary of the border workers and soldiers were also repeatedly poor, and there was even a Datong mutiny.
But the only way for these civil officials to think of is to throttle money, and the means of throttling are also aimed at the emperor. Limit the expenses of the imperial family, try to ask for money from the emperor's inner treasury, and some damn guys have their eyes on the vassal king, proposing to reduce the vassal king's expenses and give it to the treasure money instead. Treasure money is now waste paper, who doesn't know this?
Although Emperor Jiajing also used means such as the Beijing official hair and half a salary, and tossed with the civil officials several times, but the effect was not great, and the proposal to reduce the degree of the vassal king was still sent to his eyes. Don't these people know what kind of life the vassal king is living now? The local prefect has dared to meet the vassal king without avoiding the way, and he is an official but not a vassal worshipper, and there are already people who are not hungry when they reach the level of auxiliary generals.
These are the same as myself, the blood of the heavenly family. Emperor Jiajing even wondered if these civil officials deliberately wanted to force some vassal kings to death in order to weaken the power of the royal family? It's like they are desperately fighting against the nobles, so that no one in the court can match them. Of course, the so-called ass decides the head. As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, as the leader and core of all the emperor's relatives, Emperor Jiajing naturally does not care about how many vassal kings have fine clothes and food, and he also wants to collect money crazily, occupy people's land and property, and bankrupt the common people; How many vassal kings are rampant, robbing men and women, and even disregarding people's lives. In short, the attitude of these civil officials made him unhappy, and it was enough to have this.
Yan Hong said that the common people in Jiangnan had no plan to live and were forced to go to the sea to become bandits, which was indeed not so popular, which made Emperor Jiajing angry for a while. But Emperor Jiajing also subconsciously knew that this was true. Yan Hong's recital implies that if the sea ban can be lifted, wealth can be obtained from overseas feudal states. Although it is unknown whether this statement is true or false, it is somewhat hopeful.
Subsequently, the frenzied attacks of the Wenchen who seized on this point made Jiajing emotionally lean more towards Yan Hong's side. You trolls, you won't let go of anything! Although Yan Hong is vulgar, he is trying to find a way to make money for the imperial court, what are you doing? What else is the old Taizu system, if you really want to follow the old Taizu system, how many of you people in the gang shouldn't be skinned?
Taken together, Emperor Jiajing now completely regarded these impeached Wenchen as imaginary enemies. If he follows his temper, he will immediately pull them down and beat them to the court staff, and it doesn't matter if a few are killed! However, looking at the appearance of this Huang companion, who followed him from Xingxian Palace, to Beijing, kowtowing in tears on the ground, Jiajing still couldn't bear it after all. He still misses the old days, and he also knows that Huang Jin is loyal, for his country and society, and for his history.
So Jiajing sighed softly: "Huang Companion, get up, for the sake of these brainless bastards, but you should be guilty, you shouldn't be." For your sake, I will spare them today. Another will is to pardon Xu Hai's past sins, and he will be released immediately, and if he can make meritorious contributions to the court in the future, he will be rewarded. Send someone to Shaoxing to preach the message. Tell Yan Weizhong again, this matter cannot be delayed. Don't cause chaos in the southeast because of a Xu Hai. If the money and grain tax in the southeast cannot be collected this year, the reward of the border army will not be easy to handle, and Liu Yingshi, the governor of Shandong, will be on the fold again, making a fuss about asking for money and grain. Speaking of the back, Jiajing touched the scene, and couldn't help complaining.
At the time of the changes in the imperial court in Beijing, the situation in Shaoxing Mansion, thousands of miles away, had become quite tense, not that the Japanese had really landed and burned, but that the struggle between local officials and central officials was gradually sharpening.
Li Wenzao's original intention was to besiege the inn and wait for the imperial court to come down and dispose of Xu Hai. I believe that with a wonderful pen of his own, he should be able to move the emperor, not to mention Zhou Yan, Xu Jie and others in the court. But after a long time, he felt that something was wrong. He made countless silver coins in the Nanjing General Administration Department, and finally bought a piece of news, Hu Zongxian seems to have arranged for the Nanjing General Administration Department to press the music fold for a certain period of time, and Nie Laoyintai made an obstacle from it, and did not let the music fold go to Beijing.
Although money can be channeled, but the chapter has been suppressed, no matter how much money Li Wenzao has, he can't get it back in this matter. He knows that a difference of one day can often determine the outcome of the victory, let alone ten days?
This is to squeeze Li Wenzao and take risks, but if he wants to directly mobilize officers and soldiers to attack the inn, he still doesn't dare. After all, he is now an official, not a bandit leader. Not to mention that even if he wanted to do this, someone had to listen to him. The soldiers and servants in the palace all want to live and support their families, who dares to attack the five products and thousands of households of Jinyiwei and be the residence of the eldest grandson of the court?
Of course, Li Wenzao himself also has some dead soldiers, and as long as these outlaws have money, they are not afraid to do things that violate the law and discipline. Li Wenzao also had a plan to arrange for them to sneak into the inn and murder Yan Hong or Xu Jie. However, the day after Yan Hongsheng attacked the West Plum Blossom and sent it away, a large amount of grain, meat and vegetables had been hoarded in the inn, and the officers and soldiers of the Governor Standard Battalion of Jinyi Wei and plainclothes were well defended, and Li Wenzao's dead soldiers tried to sneak in several times but were discovered, and several people were injured.
After two incidents in the night, Yu Deshui, a hundred households in the local brocade guard, also arranged a group of people near the inn. Li Wenzao was afraid of sending assassins again, and if someone fell into the hands of Jinyiwei alive, it would be a big trouble, so he had to dispel this idea again.
As for the Japanese Kou, although Pingtai's people are fierce, this is the same as Li Wenzao's own dead soldiers. As long as the Yunlai Inn fights, the Jinyi guards of the Shaoxing Baihu Office will arrive soon, and when the time comes, I am afraid that stealing chickens will not lead to a handful of rice.
Therefore, after Li Wenzao calculated, he found that his struggle in the court had fallen behind, and it was a dilemma to solve it simply by force under his command. In this way, Li Wenzao had no choice but to use his own means of pressing the bottom of the box. It's just that when I think of this road, I probably won't be able to sit in this office for long. Li Dafutai, who has long been colluded with officials and businessmen, a family of officials and bandits, and a black and white eater, is also a little embarrassed.
At the same time that Li Wenzao was worried, Yan Hong was in the inn, but he was having a good time. Anyway, Xu Wenchang was in charge of the defense of the inn, and he either consulted Xu Wenchang about the coastal situation every day, or talked to Xu Hai about the situation of the Japanese at sea, which was quite chic and comfortable. That Xu Hai waited for the holy judgment wholeheartedly, thinking that if he could be pardoned this time, he would be able to make great achievements and atone his sins under Yan Hong, thinking of this was not only full of blood. And even if he dies, his beloved wife recognizes Yan Hong as his younger brother, and Xu Wenchang takes care of him, he can also end up with a good fate. Therefore, this Xu Da Kou is also carefree, and he is very free and easy.
Relatively speaking, He and Zhang Ersha, the two muddy goods, are still worried all day long. In their opinion, the life of the eldest brother is the most important, and they don't even think about what they are going to die calmly. Especially, if you fight desperately with people on the battlefield and die, if you are caught and killed like pigs and sheep, how wronged! These two bastards still don't believe Yan Hong's thoughts, and they have said many times behind their backs that they will let Xu Hai escape at night, and as for the sister-in-law, they can't take care of it. They were loyal, but they were reprimanded by Xu Hai a few times, so they didn't dare to say anything more.
Xu Wenchang is relatively the most worried in this inn. Just inspecting the materials and inspecting the defense made him think hard, and he felt that Zhuge Liang would bow to the Northern Expedition. In the past, under Hu Zongxian's curtain, as a close aide, he only needed to take ideas and draft the charter, and the following chores were completed by other staff. But here, except for Yan Hong, the rest are all a bunch of old people, although there are many people who are as shrewd as the four general banners, but on the whole, they can only rely on his old man. The so-called capable people work harder, and this is also a helpless thing.
He also has the heart to visit some old friends and find out the news. However, now that the wind outside is getting tighter, Yan Hong and Wang Cuiqiao both advised him not to go out at will, so as not to be plotted by Li Wenzao. Xu Wenchang thought that Li Wenzao would not care about the rules of officialdom at this time, and it was really good to be cautious, so he no longer went out. It's just that the local brocade guards are in the water and invite a few old friends to meet at the inn. However, when several old people saw him, they advised him not to associate with the Japanese people, so as not to damage the prestige of the famous man. Although Xu Wenchang knew that such a friend was inevitably pedantic back then, he could only sigh.
As for Hu Baiqi and Third Young Master Hu, he is very happy. Now the inn is isolated inside and outside, and all the outsiders have blasted away, leaving only Yu Linglong and Bai Ruyi, two lovely people, who have now been wrapped up by Hu Sanshao. Anyway, along the way, there was money extorted by the locality, and it was not robbed by Hai Rui according to the historical plane, so it was enough to take some casually to the Qinglou. The two beauties also knew that if they could climb up to the third young master of Governor Hu, even if they got out of the sea of suffering, even if they were an outer room, it would be better than being in the Qinglou, so they did their best to wait.
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