Chapter 242: Always a Good Man

Xu Hongji was silent for a long time before he spoke in Chen Cao's harmless smile: "Yaozhong, do you want to split the soil in Songjiang Mansion and establish your own imperial court?" ”

Chen Cao smiled: "Before I answer my grandfather's words, why don't I ask my grandfather first, whether my grandfather is here on behalf of the imperial court or on behalf of himself." ”

"Myself..."

After receiving Xu Hongji's affirmative reply, Chen Cao nodded thoughtfully, and then replied: "Songjiang Mansion is too small to split the soil and seal the king...

Besides, I don't plan to split the earth and become the king in Songjiang Mansion..."

Xu Hongji felt that Chen Cao had said two things: "You implemented the exemption of Juntian in Songjiang, and then helped them pay taxes in the name of the Songjiang Governor Yamen, Yaozhong, this is a rebellion..."

"Grandpa's words are wrong..."

Chen Cao shook his head casually: "If Grandpa goes down to the countryside under the rule of Songjiang Mansion now, you will find that the people now really feel that there is hope for life, and the taxes that should have been paid to the dynasty can be kept for their own use now, and they no longer have to worry about how to live in the months after paying taxes." ”

"The tax system of the national dynasty was formulated from the founding of the country, and since you now admit that you are the governor of Songjiang, you should accept the control of the imperial court, and this kind of decree exempting from taxation should be forgotten, the chaos in Nanzhili will not do you any good at YCIS."

Chen Cao took a sip of tea, he didn't mean to serve tea to the guests: "Grandpa is still resting on his laurels until now, and has always stayed in the Ming Dynasty during the Hongwu and Yongle years?"

At that time, the imperial court was strong, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, but now the grandfather can take a look with all his heart, the civil unrest in Shaanxi has spread to the three sides, Shanxi, Henan and other places have rebelled one after another, can the grandfather say a reason?

If it were placed at the time of the founding of the country, it is estimated that such people would be punished by the ten tribes..."

"That's why you're rebelling against YCIS?"

"Who said I was going to rebel?"

"You're not a rebel?"

Chen Cao coughed: "The Ming Dynasty is the Ming Dynasty after all, I, Chen Cao, am loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but I Chen Cao has never said that I am loyal to the Emperor of the Zhu family..."

Xu Hongji finally heard Chen Cao say this sentence with his own ears, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "The Ming Dynasty was founded by the Emperor of the Zhu family..."

"I'm Han..."

Chen Cao answered: "Zhu Yuanzhang is also Han..."

Dare to call Emperor Taizu so bluntly, if it was heard by the government in the past, it would be a great crime of disrespect and would be killed...

"The Emperor of the Zhu family has gone downhill since the Wanli period, you look at the present, the great drought in Shandong, the great drought in Hebei, the great flood in Nanzhili, disasters in various places, and the imperial court has not been able to take out a penny of disaster relief money until now, all of them want me to Chen Cao to...

Hahaha, I asked your grandfather back then, if you can't eat this 11 million taels of imperial court, if you take my money, you have to bear the corresponding consequences..."

Xu Hongji's face was bitter, and he didn't drop a penny from it: "Yaozhong, the king wants the minister to die, and the minister has to die..."

"No, no, no..."

Chen Cao waved his hand again and again: "It's the king who wants the minister to die, and the minister really doesn't want to die..."

Xu Hongji didn't know where Chen Cao's nonsense came from, so he said: "Is it really as Song Ninghou said?" ”

Chen Cao stood up and bowed respectfully to Xu Hongji: "Chen Cao started in the Wei Mansion, no matter what his day is, he will definitely give the Wei Mansion a chance..."

After worshipping, Chen Cao sat back in his seat: "Thank you for blocking Song Ninghou back then, otherwise Chen Cao would not have had the opportunity to sit on an equal footing with his grandfather now." ”

Xu Hongji didn't know how many times he regretted it, otherwise where would there be such a troublesome thing as Chen Cao now...

"I, Chen Cao, have been a good person from beginning to end, and I will never do anything bad, of course, when I am an emperor, I must have the consciousness of being an emperor, and the people are the foundation.

The treasury has no money and still has no money, those self-proclaimed honest Donglin Party are so rich that they are as rich as oil, but they are as clear as a mirror and as clear as water in front of the emperor, Guogong, we are all all people all the way, and how much money we have in our hands is clear in the eyes of people all the way. ”

Xu Hongji can't deny Chen Cao's words, since Chen Cao withdrew from the Daming Foreign Trade Group and the bank, the nobles they participated in back then have lost their largest income, and they have returned to their old business.

"Grandpa, I have told you so much today, I have already done my best, say Grandpa, I am not here today just to inquire about the truth, right?"

Xu Hongji raised his eyebrows and said: "Your Majesty has learned of your behavior in Songjiang Mansion, and has ordered you to remove your title as Duke of Liangguo, remove your authority, and order Nanzhili to garrison the yamen, so that I can requisition the troops of the Southern Guard Station with the Nanjing Military Department and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and make every effort to clear the Songjiang rebels..."

"Grandpa, I'll show you someone..."

Xu Hongji has been in Nanjing for a long time, where has he seen Wei Zhongxian, but he just felt that the thin old man in front of him had some royal momentum, and then he was surprised: "This person is an eunuch?" ”

"Slave Wei Zhongxian, I have seen Wei Guogong..."

"Wei..."

Xu Hongji's voice trembled, and then he looked at Chen Cao in a panic: "Chen Cao, did you really rob Wei Zhongxian?"

So Zhao Wenhui, the governor of Yingzhou, who was assigned? ”

"Zhao Dudu is in our army right now..."

"Hey..."

Xu Hongji sighed, and shook his head again and again...

"Besides..."

Chen Cao saw Xu Hongji sighing, so he decided to be stingy with him again: "Now that the official road and the two passes to enter Songjiang have been closed by me, it is a big question mark whether the imperial edict can enter Songjiang Mansion..."

Xu Hongji was really a little angry when he heard this, but it was not the time to fight with Chen Cao in front of him: "Yaozhong, the Ming Dynasty is already suffering from internal and external troubles, do you really want to risk the disapproval of the world to ascend the throne and become the emperor?" ”

"That's right..."

Chen Cao answered Xu Hongji's words directly, and then said coldly: "In the future, I will become the new Emperor of the Ming Dynasty..."

Xu Hongji was stunned at the moment, the new emperor did not change the country name when he ascended the throne, what does this mean?

"Father-in-law Wei, tell me what you heard and heard in the capital..."

Wei Zhongxian bowed lightly towards Xu Hongji, and then said: "Wei Guogong, Emperor Daxing said before his funeral that Wei Guogong is the first pillar of the national dynasty..."

A few meanings...

In order to prevent Xu Hongji from guessing wrongly, Chen Cao simply asked and answered one by one: "Gonggong Wei, before Your Majesty fell into the water, what was the situation, after going through so many things, you have to tell all the things you know to Wei Guogong." ”

If there is no leak of the secret of the inner palace in the deep palace, even the top noble Xu Hongji has no way to know the secret, hearing this, Xu Hongji beat the drum in his heart, the emperor is in his youth, how can he suddenly die.

Wei Zhongxian bowed down and said: "That day, the slave maid and the Hakka accompanied the emperor to drink in the West Garden, and the emperor was very interested and wanted to go to the lake to play..."

In fact, everyone didn't know that the reason why the emperor wanted to swim in the lake was also because he wanted to have a rainy day in the boat with the Hakka family, but he drank too much wine at that time, and he was vain after finishing his work.

"I don't know why that day, the originally sunny weather suddenly blew a gust of wind on the lake, the emperor originally drank some wine and fell unsteadily under the water, the two grandfathers, the slave didn't dare to lie, the emperor was rescued in time after falling into the water, just choked some water into the lungs, and the Tai Hospital's doctor got better after treatment..."

Chen Cao said and looked at Xu Hongji: "Guogong, this is Nanzhili, not Beizhili, and this is Songjiang Mansion, I have to speak freely, please think about it, the emperor is only twenty-one years old, and he is in the prime of youth, even if he chokes on water and enters his lungs, it can't cause fatal injury, I don't think Guogong can't even think about this." ”

Xu Hongji and other nobles and officials of Nanzhili were already skeptical about the death of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, but they didn't dare to talk nonsense about this kind of thing, even if they were the top nobles of the dynasty, they were secretive about the emperor's funeral.

And now that Wei Zhongxian explained this, he suddenly felt a sense of enlightenment in his heart.

Seeing this, Chen Cao said coldly: "What Grandpa Guo thinks in his heart is just that he doesn't dare to say it, but I think there are some things I want to remind Grandpa Guo, the Red Pill case back then and Long Qingye were a little similar..."

Although Xu Hongji is a nobleman, he belongs to the first of the dynasty, and he is naturally not a gentleman, and he has been instilled in his mind since he was a child for the history of the dynasty.

The case of the red pill has been determined as a reverse case, Li Kezhuo and his party are suspected of killing or arresting, and Emperor Muzong has only been in power for six years, in addition to liking women, the most important thing is to take pills, and finally died on the belly of a woman.

But this kind of thing is a taboo in the deep palace, although Xu Hongji knows some of the secret parts, he has never mentioned it in front of outsiders, and where did Chen Cao know about it?

However, as he looked at the old guy Wei Zhongxian, it suddenly became clear that Wei Zhongxian was the confidant of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, who had been in charge of the Ming Dynasty for several years, and naturally knew a lot about these things that were sealed in the Internal Affairs Mansion, and it was also a small matter to tell Chen Cao.

"This is a matter of heaven, how can our courtiers put their beaks at will?"

Chen Cao felt that Xu Hongji was too conservative, so he glanced at Wei Zhongxian...

Wei Zhongxian comprehended, and said: "The slave maid has been the head of the deep palace for a long time, but this time the funeral of the former emperor is really strange, the slave and maid are wearing a big hat of rebellion, even if they die, they have no face to see the first emperor, so no matter what, they must clear their suspicions." ”

Xu Hongji raised his eyes to look at Wei Zhongxian, and then listened to him: "Although Huo Weihua's house was brought up by a slave maid, in order to protect himself, this guy privately took root in the Donglin Party, and the spiritual dew drink he offered flowed out of the hands of Chen Zhengzhong, the deputy envoy of the Tai Hospital. ”

Xu Hongji was shocked, if it was according to Wei Zhongxian's words, then the death of the Emperor of the Apocalypse was really deliberate.

Chen Cao opened his mouth and said: "Guogong try to imagine, Wei Zhongxian is just a slave of the heavenly family, his life and death are in the hands of the Son of Heaven, Emperor Daxing is in the prime of life, and he trusts him, as long as Emperor Daxing lives for one more year, he can control the court situation for one more year, in this case, Guogong thinks he will kill his master..."

Xu Hongji gasped, their nobles in Nanjing had already had this idea, but they had never put it forward...