"If you read a book, you may be more loyal."

"But after reading the book, you may not take it even more seriously, and always feel that you are a literary and opera star, and you are the master of this world."

Chen Jiuzhu, as the senator of the Fengyang Political Division, knew more about the bureaucrats and doctors than Ye Agui, and answered Ye Agui's questions at this time.

Ye Agui didn't say anything more after hearing this.

Relying on Chen Jiuzhu's connections, he has become a big paper dealer in Huai'an City, so he also raised a group of water-based water transportation caravans under his name, led by his cousin Wang Cheng.

At this time, Ye Agui called his cousin who followed him and muttered a few words.

Seeing this, Chen Jiuzhu asked Ye Agui: "What are you going to do?!" ”

Ye Agui smiled faintly and said, "I plan to teach these people a lesson, lest they be too proud!" ”

"Don't mess around, it's not fun to die a person."

Chen Jiuzhu said.

Ye Agui said: "No, I have already made arrangements, and when the time comes, I just let them take a few sips of water, so that they only know how to laugh at the emperor for being afraid of water!" One by one, in front of us, we told us to be loyal to the monarch and patriotism, but I tried my best to ridicule the emperor behind my back, and did not let them suffer some hardships, and I felt uncomfortable. ”

Chen Jiuzhu shook his head and said with a wry smile: "If everything is comfortable in this world, it is more difficult than ascending to the sky. ”

"No matter how difficult it is, you have to be comfortable, people live, and they work so hard to earn money, in order to feel comfortable, now such a good emperor, they don't have a good word in their mouths, they are simply white-eyed wolves, which makes people very uncomfortable."

As soon as Ye Agui finished speaking, he heard Ren Jiadeng on the opposite boat shouting loudly: "Brother Yu, our ship, our ship seems to be sinking!" ”

"It's sinking, what the hell is going on?!"

Yu Liangting shouted loudly.

At this time, a small guy next to Ren Jiadeng ran over: "Second master, it's not good, there is a big hole in our boat, and it is leaking!" ”

No sooner had the little man finished his sentence than the water had already spread onto the deck, and the whole ship was beginning to tilt.

"Brother Ren, we're going to fall into the water, we're going to fall into the water!"

Yu Liangting also shouted anxiously at this time.

Thump!

Thump!

Soon, Ren Jiadeng, Yu Liangting and others fell into the bean-green river, and then they also drank the water frantically.

Seeing this, Ye Agui smiled at Chen Jiuzhu, and immediately shouted: "Hurry up and save people, who knows the nature of water, why don't you hurry down to save people, and save these old men and princesses, are you still afraid that the princesses will not be rewarded?" ”

Ye Agui said and said: "This day, if it falls into the water, don't freeze these old men and ministers!" ”

At this time, Ye Agui's cousin Wang Cheng and others had already jumped into the water, and the people who fell into the water such as Ren Jiadeng and Yu Liangting were quickly rescued, one step faster than the official government and navy who rushed over.

Despite this, because it was a cold day in October at the time, and the water was as cold as ice, Ren Jiadeng and Yu Liangting were still trembling when they were rescued, and their faces were blue from the cold.

"It turns out that the old men are also afraid of falling into the water, and they are also landlubbers! I thought Wenqu Xing wasn't afraid of this. ”

For a while, Ye Agui arrived on the shore, and after coming to the place where Ren Jiadeng and others were rescued, he deliberately talked to Chen Jiuzhu and others.

Many of the businessmen who came with Ye Agui had a good relationship with Ye Agui, and they were all dissatisfied with these old men and their yin and yang all day long, so they all followed the court.

"I said what do you save, the old man is the reincarnation of Wenquxing, so he is not afraid of falling into the water!"

"What about Wenqu Xing, look at this embarrassment, it turns out that after drinking a belly of ink, you will still be afraid of water."

"Don't say it, don't say it, be careful that people go back and take a pen to scold you for being a foolish people, and disrespecting scholars, but ask the emperor to restore your servitude, saying that it is not appropriate to make you too comfortable, once you are too comfortable, it is easy to be stubborn and disobedient."

……

These words bombarded the ears of Ren Jiadeng and Yu Liangting, and some of the scholars who came here from other ships as their friends were very angry when they heard this, and for a while they only wanted to order the domestic slaves to beat these people, but because they saw that the other party was numerous, they had to endure it.

Only a scholar named Zhao Wanchun secretly complained:

"It is really the world that is declining, people's hearts are not ancient, and there is chaos in etiquette and music! During the period of the first emperor, how could there have been a situation where my Sven people were ridiculed by the people and could not be beaten! ”

Zhao Wanchun and the others really want to fight but don't dare to fight now.

After all, the middle class among the ordinary people is growing, and they no longer dare to rely on their official connections.

Because middle-class people like Ye Agui have the financial resources and energy to mess with you, even in terms of government relations, people have some relationships.

Therefore, Zhao Wanchun and other traditional scholars and doctors also had to really tolerate the common people and pay attention to the demeanor of a gentleman who is lenient and benevolent.

Zhu Yijun soon learned about this in Huai'an City, and couldn't help but smile and said: "I still win the hearts of the people, and I will pass on the decree and award a silver reward to those who are righteous and brave enough to save people." ”

"Your Majesty naturally wins the hearts of the people, but there are people who don't want Your Majesty to win the hearts of the people, but those who don't want Your Majesty to win the hearts of the people can only be helpless now, after all, no matter how clever they are, they can't say that the white is black."

Li Chengliang replied at this time.

Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this, and then he looked at the smoke and rain outside Huai'an City, and couldn't help but take a deep breath for a while, and said to Li Chengliang: "Qing is also the first time to come to the south, right?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, yes."

"Thanks to Your Majesty's blessing, the ministers can also come to see the rivers and mountains of my southern Ming Dynasty."

Li Chengliang replied.

Zhu Yijun said: "Although the southern country is beautiful, it is easy to make people cartilage!" ”

Li Chengliang bowed his head: "That's why the temple requires the Son of Heaven to guard the country, but Your Majesty can't come to this gentle and rich township, otherwise I'm afraid that the people here really only know the lord and the princess, and don't know the emperor and the minister." ”

"That's what Qing said."

After Zhu Yijun finished speaking, he pointed to the endless pavilions and pavilions outside, and said: "Look at these beautiful gardens, there are really as many as stars, Huai'an is still like this, I really don't know if the southern capital of Suzhou and Hangzhou is more than that, and I really don't know that there are so many rich and noble families in this dynasty." ”

"This is also the work of Your Majesty's hard work, otherwise how could the world have reached such a rich state?"

Wang Xijue replied with a smile at this time.

Zhu Yijun suddenly asked Li Chengliang at this time: "I heard that many wealthy families in Jiangnan have begun to actively marry the children of military families?" Half of the military households who are married are actually marrying wealthy businessmen in Nanzhi? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, yes, there are many cases of wealthy families in Jiangnan marrying military families."

"The Privy Council is deliberating on whether to prohibit military households from intermarrying with outsiders, but when I think that even the royal family has always married civilian women as concubines, why can't military households."

Li Chengliang replied at this time.

"It's negotiable."

Zhu Yijun didn't say anything more after saying this.

As the Ming Dynasty improved the political status of military households, more and more wealthy businessmen liked to marry military households, after all, it was much easier to obtain greater political rights and interests than relying on meritorious service.

And this kind of is actually unavoidable, wealth and power always attract each other.

However, as a ruler, we also need to consider that the country cannot be completely controlled by the consortium because of this.

Because this will lead to the abnormal development of the national economy, that is, although the country is becoming more and more prosperous, that is, the cake has been getting bigger, but due to the increasing imbalance in distribution, the increased cake and the original cake are occupied more by the powerful and bureaucrats, while the people occupy less, and even are still only allowed to maintain a basic line of survival, and the road to wealth accumulation and class leapfrogging is blocked, so that the people begin to lie flat because of the loss of hope, and then cause the entire social structure to be unbalanced because the bottom loses the motivation to forge ahead.

To know.

If the foundation of a building is broken, it is easy to collapse, and it is difficult to repair, no worse than the top floor, it is just a replacement, it is really not good, and it can be rebuilt on the original foundation.

But if the foundation is broken and cannot be rebuilt, then civilization will be completely extinct.

As the supreme ruler, Zhu Yijun naturally has the responsibility to ensure that the foundation of Chinese civilization is not completely damaged by the corrosion of moths.

Now, the wealthy and giant businessmen take the initiative to marry the military nobles recognized by the imperial court, even if they are gradually becoming the new moths of the Ming Dynasty.

Perhaps, these wealthy businessmen themselves do not have this consciousness, but only based on the instinct of human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, they only feel that they are married to people who are worthy of their marriage, and for them, if they do not marry people of the same wealth level as themselves, they can only marry people who are politically higher than themselves, and in any case, they must pay attention to the right people.

It is precisely because it is the nature of people to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, so moths will be produced all the time, even if a batch is removed, there will be new ones, and they can only be wiped diligently.

But.

For today's Wanli Dynasty, this phenomenon is not obvious, and the phenomenon of discrimination against military households for more than 200 years cannot be eradicated overnight, and the rich businessmen and giants who marry military households will not appear in large numbers at once.

It's just that Zhu Yijun and other rulers have begun to be vigilant against this phenomenon.

Vigilance is vigilance, and Zhu Yijun doesn't want to deal with it drastically now, which will seem too impatient, and it is easy to be not understood, or even misunderstood.

In many cases, the emperor also has to take advantage of the trend, and he also has to wait for the wind and rain to be really strong, so that most people are uneasy before exercising power, otherwise, no matter how correct his starting point is, no matter how supreme the emperor is, he will be regarded as an outlier.

This is just like Lao Tzu said, governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh, that is, when you are in power, you can't turn it at will, and it is really appropriate to turn it when the time comes.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun is only vigilant now but has not taken immediate measures, and now that he has arrived in Huai'an, he is more concerned about the problems of the Yellow River flooding and salt administration.

Don't look at the prosperity of Huaiyang, the problem of flooding has always been very serious, and the problem of salt loss has also been very serious.

(End of chapter)