If there is any weakness in Hai Rui, it is that he has no heirs.

This era is not the same as that of later generations.

In this era, what is important is that there are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is great.

If Hai Rui, who has no heirs, wants to continue the incense, he has to rely on the clan to give him an inheritance.

And this means that he needs to compromise something with the clan.

Hai Jui himself may be willing to betray the entire landlord class and side with the common people because of the sages and sages that he has already believed.

But the entire Hai clan will not.

After all, the clan is a derivative of the landlord class, and the meaning of the existence of the clan is to maintain the interests of the landlord class.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun is curious about whether Hai Rui has improved his relationship with his clan after returning to his hometown and getting a stepson.

In any case, even if the public opinion criticizing Zhang Juzheng in the world is very loud, it still fails to prevent the implementation of the policy of the official gentry paying grain and working on errands.

When the time came to May of the ninth year of Wanli.

All the officers and soldiers of the pro-army Six Guards were officially ordered to be temporarily assigned to the National Taxation Department to be responsible for tax collection, and they have officially started to go south.

Because the first place to supervise taxes after the implementation of the integrated payment of grain by the gentry was still selected in Nanzhili, which had the most gentry.

After all, as long as Nanzhili successfully implements the integration of officials and gentry to pay grain and errands, there will be no problem in other places.

And Hai Rui had already been mentioned by Zhu Yijun to be reinstated, so Zhang Juzheng had already written to him to come to Beijing to wait for the news of resumption.

Now, he was already in the capital, and soon received the will of the Son of Heaven to make him governor of the world's taxes.

"Please tell Your Majesty that the minister has no stepchildren!"

However, after Hai Rui received the will, Zhang Juzheng also specially asked him about his stepchildren for the emperor, and Hai Jui answered truthfully after his expression was dark for a moment.

"Is it that Gong's clan won't think for Gong, or does Gong refuse?"

Zhang Juzheng asked because of this.

The subordinate refused.

"The subordinates only took out all the 1,000 taels of silver left in the reward received by the former governor in the southeast, and bought public land as the property of the clan, so as to support those of the clan who could not support themselves and who had no land to cultivate because of the increasing fertility of the clan."

Hai Rui replied.

Zhang Juzheng bowed his head after hearing this, and said: "The servant and the public are both infatuated in one heart, and the person who is sorry for his parents is really a mountain and a river, and I am not alone!" ”

As he spoke, Zhang Juzheng got up and bowed to Hai Rui.

Hai Rui hurriedly replied: "The subordinates have learned about Yuanfu's matter, and please don't be too sad, and the subordinates are also very admirable for Yuanfu's choice!" The subordinates never flatter anyone, including the Son of Heaven, but the sage of Yuansuke, the subordinates are also very admired, and no matter how misunderstood Yuanfu is in the future, the subordinates will never be silent and dare not speak for Yuanfu! ”

Zhang Juzheng smiled: "There is a public statement, and the servant is very relieved!" There is only the public, and there will be no complaints about the servant because the servant does not really intend to use the public, and the public is really the style of an ancient minister! ”

"Yuanfu praise! The world knows the Yuan and the auxiliary, not only Hai Rui alone, His Majesty knows, the world knows the reason, and the people who understand the Spring and Autumn Period also know! ”

Hai Rui said with a smile.

……

"It's a good Haigang Peak, but he hasn't chosen a stepson, this is because I know that I want to use him!"

After Zhu Yijun received Zhang Juzheng's secret revelation and knew that Hai Rui had no stepson, he spoke and sighed.

"Give Mr. a reply on the secret disclosure, and say that since Hai Rui is not the heir of the stepfamily, if he dies in the future and still has no heirs, I will choose an orphan in the world as his heir, and pass on the incense for him Hai Rui, and even get his grace, so that the stepson can feel his kindness, and dare not disown him as an ancestor."

"Therefore, Mr. Jean proposed to set up the Martyrs' Ancestral Hall and the Royal Nursing Home, and set up a eunuch who was in charge of the Martyrs' Ancestral Hall and the Royal Nursing Home."

"Every year, the inner and outer treasury allocate silver to sacrifice the loyal martyrs who have died for the country and have made significant contributions to the survival of our Han family in the past dynasties, and adopt orphans all over the world, how long will the Ming Dynasty's national glory be, and how long will these loyal martyrs be sacrificed!"

"In the future, if there are loyal martyrs who have no children because of the death of the country, or who are old and have no children, and want to pass on the incense but do not want to rely on the clan, they can ask the Son of Heaven to choose an orphan from the royal almshouse as their son, and receive his favor."

Zhu Yijun had already thought of a way to motivate Hai Rui if he didn't have a stepchild from the clan, so he took the opportunity to issue such an order at this time.

For Zhu Yijun, he wants to increase the scale of adopting orphans anyway to increase the scale of his own private group as the emperor.

After all, when Zhang Juzheng is no longer there in the future, he will have to face the majority of the reactionaries in the entire bureaucracy alone, and if he wants to carry out deeper reforms, it will not be possible to rely only on this part of the civil officials who reformed with Zhang Juzheng, the so-called Zhang Party.

What's more, these reformers in Zhang's party will grow old sooner or later due to the extension of the years, so he has to take advantage of the fact that there are still many reformist civil officials in advance to accumulate his imperial party team in advance.

Then, Zhu Yijun instructed again: "Remember to give Hai Rui some of my instructions on tax collection and let him refer to it." ”

Zhang Whale on duty said yes.

After Zhu Yijun issued such an order, he asked Zhang Jing again: "How is the investigation of the matter over there in Jiangling, and what reports do the local officials of Huguang and Jinyiwei have?" ”

"The local officials in Huguang have just sent the first copy, and the report said that on the first night of the accident, the slaves of the Zhang family who were on duty guarding the mausoleum in Taihui Mountain were tied up because they encountered hundreds of fierce people who had sneaked into the mountains, and those fierce people were covered and could not recognize their faces; Later, according to the footprints, there were people who fled from the east, west, north and south. It was difficult to find out the real culprit for a while, so he could only send a public servant to secretly investigate. ”

"The Jinyi guard in Jiangling reported that after this incident, the Jingzhou government quickly publicized that Zhang Taigong's tomb was excavated and dissected by Tianlei, all because Mr. Yuanfu Zhang arbitrarily disrupted the government and provoked the wrath of the heavens."

After hearing this, Zhu Yijun laughed: "The local officials in Huguang understand people and know that the imperial court will not believe it, and they dare not play any anger that caused the excavation of Mr.'s ancestral grave." If it weren't for the fact that Jin Yiwei knew the truth, I didn't know that someone had already spread such rumors in Jingzhou Mansion. ”

Zhu Yijun said and asked Zhang Whale in a deep voice: "Apart from these, Jinyiwei didn't find anything?" ”

"Back to the emperor, it is reported that the Jinyi Wei who is placed in the Zhang family's mausoleum guards revealed that not all of those fierce people are untraceable, and the Zhang family has actually been prepared for someone to rob the tomb, and specially said that the road into the mountain is extremely hidden, so unless there are internal thieves, they will not easily enter the mountain to find the ancestral tomb of the Zhang family, even if the woodcutter who enters by mistake, it will also lead to the mechanism that hurts his feet;"

"But so many fierce people poured in, and there were no traces of blood injured, it can be seen that there are internal thieves, and Jin Yiwei has begun to secretly touch the Zhang family's family or domestic slaves who are suddenly big-handed, and they have focused on staring at a few gambling or visiting Qinglou, but it still takes time to find out who this internal thief is. As long as the thieves are tried, they will know the whereabouts of these fierce people, and then know the mastermind behind the scenes. ”

Zhang Whale replied.

"Continue to investigate, let the Beizhen Fusi select and transfer the backbone from the whole country, form a special eucalyptus Qincha, and go to Jiangling to investigate this eucalyptus! Once the real culprit behind the scenes is found, they will be rewarded according to the great eucalyptus reward I said before. And to avenge Mr. and save face for the royal family! ”

Zhu Yijun commanded at this time.

Zhang Whale said yes.

"If you can't find out, don't be the commander of the East Factory, change to a powerful person."

Zhu Yijun suddenly said again.

Zhang Whale couldn't help but tremble, and hurriedly knelt down and said: "If the old slave doesn't find out, he will punish the emperor by himself!" ”

Zhu Yijun waved his hand.

Zhang Whale retreated.

Hai Rui, who was ready to leave Beijing on an official ship, read the contents of the edict on the Martyrs' Shrine and the plan to raise orphans for the martyrs to continue the incense with tears in his eyes, he glanced at the scenery on both sides of the strait and said to himself: "The grace of the monarch is so heavy, how dare the courtiers not be unsatisfied!" ”

As he spoke, Hai Rui picked up Zhu Yijun's edict and prepared to read it carefully, but because he caught a glimpse of the hard-working slender man on the shore, he thought of the words expressed by the Son of Heaven in the holy decree about how much tax he would increase when he collected taxes, and how much money the court would add to help the poor, and couldn't help but hurriedly instructed the officials accompanying him:

"Let Hu Tishuai go directly to Yangzhou and wait for the main hall! We start the tax directly from Yangzhou, so we don't have to stop along the way! ”