However, when Zhang Gui returned to Beijing, there were also unhappy people.

Bang!

A cup of tea was slammed to the ground by Fan Wencheng.

"What are you angry about?!"

Liu Shiyuan, the son of Liu Tingyuan, asked Fan Wencheng, and said, "Didn't you always hope that his Uncle Zhang Guo could return to the court, accept the flattery of hundreds of officials, and then be taboo by the world?"

"I want him to return to the court, but I don't want him to return the court in this way!"

"The Son of Heaven personally crossed the sea to invite, and officially issued an edict to assist the government until the day of the prince's wedding! What is this? Does it mean that he, Uncle Zhang Guo, can change his name in the future and withdraw justifiably?"

"In addition, now that the Son of Heaven has specially issued an edict to let him assist the government, does it mean that he is not stealing power when he comes back to control the power of the government, but acting on the edict of the Son of Heaven? In this way, if the monarch wants to cure Uncle Zhang Guo for the crime of usurping power in the future, will he have to consider the face of the current son and the entire imperial authority, and then it is not good to be too ruthless to Uncle Zhang Guo?"

When Fan Wencheng asked this, he gritted his teeth and said, "This Uncle Zhang Guo, what a good one is to retreat and advance! I thought that Ling Zun would really make him more arrogant, and then he would be dizzy, and then he really thought that the world would give me who else he wanted, and he was proud of his merits and manipulated his authority, until he was jealous of the world! As a result, he first took retreat as a closer, and gave the bureaucrats of the world a slap in the face, so that the officials in the world had to admit that they could not do without this Uncle Zhang Guo, and begged him to return to Beijing to manage the government, and even brought the Son of Heaven to come in person."

"You're right! It can be seen from the fact that the Son of Heaven was able to successfully tour the east this time and go to sea to Jianghua Island without being hindered by the hundred officials, and it can be seen that the hundred officials in the DPRK really hope that his Uncle Zhang Guo can return to the court. At this moment, the hundred officials took the initiative to put themselves in the position of begging the uncle of the country, not the position of the uncle of the country begging them to flatter him."

Liu Shiyuan said: "I knew that this was the case, I shouldn't have listened to you, and asked my father to build a shrine, Uncle Zhang Guo didn't eat this at all!"

"It's Fan's fault! Fan was not thoughtful, and still underestimated the means of this uncle of the country."

As he spoke, Fan Wencheng himself became emotional first, slapped his hand on the coffee table, got up and said, "But who would have thought that he would do this? First go to Lushun, then to Ganghwa Island, and threaten that if the imperial court persuades him to go back, he will go to Kagoshima, then Ryukyu and chicken coops! Who would have thought? Throughout the ages, which powerful minister can think of spreading the bureau outside the four seas?! With his own Uncle Zhang Guo, the world's scheming methods have really changed greatly!"

Seeing this, Liu Shiyuan had to take the initiative to comfort him: "Don't be so excited! We really didn't expect that even my father thought your suggestion was very good and decided to do it, but who knows, his Uncle Zhang Guo has his own success."

"Ling Zun is more than auspicious now."

"After all, the gun shot the first bird. The uncle of other countries is now recalling the Son of Heaven to govern the capital, just like the ancient Xuanma worship, and the name is justified! Naturally, there is no need to rely on anyone to build a shrine to support him. He can still act as the Son of Heaven and convince all officials. However, people are often insatiable, and his Uncle Zhang Guo doesn't want to be a slave in the world, so sooner or later he will be abandoned by the people of the world!"

Fan Wencheng said.

Liu Shiyuan nodded: "Yes, what should I do now?"

"Let's go to Beijing too! One is to run for Lingzun; Second, find an opportunity to drill into the camp and find a way to increase the resentment of the people of the world against his Uncle Zhang Guo!"

Fan Wencheng said again: "He, Uncle Zhang Guo, is very calculating, so that the officials of the world will follow him because he took the initiative to ask for the title of king, and the officials in the world will definitely not say anything about it, and even say that Uncle Zhang Guo has a good name, but behind his back, he will definitely be happy, and there will be no complaints." And when he solves the Hanhai Coal Mine and really makes the people of the world rich, then naturally there will be no complaints. But, is that the end of it? I don't believe that he, Uncle Zhang Guo, can always satisfy the officials of the world! The people don't give more money and the officials get richer, and it seems impossible to think about it!"

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Indeed, the first thing Zhang Gui did after returning to Beijing was to show the public the head of Liu Tingyuan, who built his ancestral hall.

It's not that Zhang Gui doesn't know that there are many mercenary villains in this world and deliberately wants to use this way to please the gentlemen of the world, but that he has a more self-interested, national and people-benefiting way to use the mercenary heart of the villains in the world to do something.

And the villain is not afraid of offending, as long as it can be profitable in the future, he can leave behind any act you insult him.

Therefore, Zhang Gui simply killed Liu Tingyuan first, and didn't let the villains curry favor with him in this way.

However, Zhang Gui's disposal did cut off the way for many officials in the world to get lucky and make money by building an ancestral hall for Zhang Gui.

After knowing that Liu Tingyuan had been killed because of Zhang Guijian's ancestral hall, Li Jingbai, the governor of Shandong, hurriedly instructed his family: "Immediately send a message back to Jinan and smash the ancestral hall built for Uncle Zhang Guo!" The money donated to build the shrine was also returned to the people."

"It's okay if the ancestral hall is smashed, but do you really want to return all the money? What is that silver for nothing, what do you give to the poor that they may have the opportunity to eat and be lazy?"

The family asked.

Li Jingbai said angrily: "If you want to go, you will go!" Lest he be found out when he arrives, Ben Fu has built a shrine for his Uncle Zhang Guo, and he has also levied the people's silver for this."

"Yes!"

The family didn't dare to say anything more, so they hurriedly agreed.

And Zhang Gui killed Liu Tingyuan and prevented the bureaucrats from building a shrine for him, which naturally won the praise of the righteous men and gentlemen inside and outside the government and the opposition.

But the verbal praise of the righteous men and gentlemen is naturally of little significance except for the benefit of Zhang Gui's reputation in the future.

After all, people in any era pay more attention to economic interests, and they care about whether their wallets are bulging.

Therefore, after Zhang Gui killed Liu Tingyuan, he was more concerned about this problem, that is, how to make the Ming Dynasty as large as the treasury income and as small as the income of ordinary people be improved.

Zhang Gui believes that the biggest difference between the reform and reform he presided over in the Tianqi Dynasty and Wang Anshi is that he wants to increase both the country's income and the people's income.

And this is destined for Zhang Gui not only to cut the cake, but also to make the cake bigger.

Of course, Wang Anshi did not expect to benefit the people because of his limited educational cognition.

After all, in the eyes of traditional scholars, the people are already prosperous if they are not hungry or cold, and there is no need to want them to be rich and noble, let alone let them pursue better happiness.

What's more, in the view of traditional scholars, the people will be rich if they don't add endowment, and they won't know that if they don't make a big cake, even if the people don't add endowment, the people may not be able to enrich themselves.

Turning back to this, in order to solve this problem, Zhang Gui has been paying attention to the problem of steam locomotives these days.

"Sun Gong, can you start?"

At this time, Zhang Gui was asking Sun Yuanhua, the right attendant of the Ministry of Works, who carried out the last inspection procedure for the first steam locomotive of the Ming Dynasty in front of him.

Sun Yuanhua took the wrench in his hand, looked at a part in front of him, and said, "Go back to Your Highness, you can start it!"

After hearing this, Zhang Gui ordered, "Start!"

Bang!

With a gunshot rang out.

Suddenly, there was a loud sound, and a large amount of white water vapor sprayed out from the roof of the locomotive.

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