Wang Chonggu supervised the official factory, which is related to the vitality of tens of thousands of people, Wang Chonggu repeatedly told Wang Qian not to make enemies outside, not to make enemies, to the point where they can only be destroyed by disobeying the holy will, and only by destroying their family is themselves.

Wang Chonggu took Zhang Siwei as an example, the Ming Emperor was deliberately looking for trouble with Zhang Siwei, Zhang Siwei hid far away and hid back to his hometown, can the emperor still chase and kill Shanxi? Your Majesty is so busy every day, national affairs, family affairs, world affairs, and everything has to be cared about, how can you take care of Zhang Siwei?

But Zhang Siwei had to jump out.

Wang Chonggu didn't want his son to make enemies everywhere, so he kept a low profile and was cautious outside, not to cause trouble at home, and not to anger His Majesty.

"Wang Cifu, I think that Wang Qian did a good job, neither spent money, nor let the rich families who migrated to Beijing succeed, and stepped on them fiercely, doing a very good job, Wang Cifu, how can people in officialdom, vanity fair, have so many things to do by themselves?" Zhu Yijun said two good words for Wang Qian.

People are in the rivers and lakes, and they can't help themselves.

Daming officialdom is the largest zero-sum game vanity fair in the world, rolling in it, and trying to get out of the mud without being stained, and clear the ripples without demons, is extremely difficult, even difficult to do.

To this day, Zhu Yijun has only seen Hai Rui as an example, and a large part of Hai Rui's ability to do it is because he is used to being poor, and material desires have long since become worried about the country and the people in long-term practice.

Hai Rui is a divine sword of the Ming Dynasty, but this divine sword is too sharp, too strong, Zhang Juzheng's attitude towards Hai Rui's return to the dynasty is only six words: the song is complete, and the vain is straight.

Wang Qian's identity is destined for these things, he has to be contaminated, he will participate in them, this is his fate, he can't avoid it.

"It's still too arrogant, isn't it nonsense?" Wang Chonggu still disagrees with Wang Qian's excessive involvement in this kind of thing.

"Young people, aren't you still young people?"

"Wang Cifu thinks this Yao Guangqi did it?" Zhu Yijun asked with some curiosity.

He wanted to hear Wang Chonggu's inference, and this Yao Guangqi was the most suspicious.

"I don't think it's the majority." Wang Chonggu said with a strange face: "The minister feels no, Your Majesty, the minister doesn't dare to say that this official factory is solid and water can't be splashed, but our official factory has placed so many retired soldiers, and the minister doesn't believe that Yao Guangqi can have this ability." ”

The Daming official factory has its own laws, which have many strange rules, and these strange rules have been generally observed, and the people who implement these laws are old and retired soldiers, saying that they are old, but in fact, they are more than ten years older than Your Majesty, twenty-six or seventeen years old, and they are definitely not old janitors.

These sharp soldiers know that the official factory is a big matter, and they take strict care of the official factory, especially the warehouse, Yao Guangqi has the ability of Sun Monkey, can he fly in with a somersault?

"What does Wang Cifu mean?" Zhu Yijun pondered for a moment and asked, "There are internal ghosts?" ”

Wang Chonggu said quite accurately: "There are definitely internal ghosts!" Your Majesty, a few years ago, Liu Qiniang faced the saint and told His Majesty about the encroachment, His Majesty ordered the ministers to check themselves, and the ministers had just released some wind here, and the official factory over there was on fire, and the ministers thought that Yao Guangqi couldn't do it, only the inner ghost could do it. ”

"Okay, just check it all." Zhu Yijun pondered for a moment and asked, "Wang Cifu, is there any difficulty in this internal invasion and investigation?" If there is any difficulty, I can transfer two 1,000 households and 100 horsemen to help Wang Cifu handle the case. ”

"There's nothing wrong with that." Wang Chonggu shook his head after thinking about it seriously and said: "Your Majesty, in fact, people are much more fragile than they imagined, and they don't even need any means, sit on that stool, and three or five sentences will not match the preface and afterword, and more than a dozen sentences, and then start to match the donkey's lips to the horse's mouth. ”

Wang Chonggu, as the secretary of the criminal department, really has the right to speak on this matter, people are more fragile than they imagined, when they commit crimes, how bold and reckless they are, when they sit on the confession bench, how timid as a mouse, they don't even need to ask more, they are pressed on the stool of the law department, and they explain the problem clearly.

"Ah, is that really the case?" Zhu Yijun looked around, the correction officer in the hall, the red-helmet general outside the hall, the Han general at the noon gate, the cavalry of the Fusi in Beizhen outside the noon gate, and the three thousand dun platform distant marquis scattered on the grassland, which one is not as strong as iron? Zhu Yijun has never seen the words timid as a mouse in them.

Zhu Yijun is very sure that even if they die, they will all die standing up.

Wang Chonggu obviously noticed His Majesty's gaze, and he thought seriously and said, "High morality is not entirely a disadvantage. ”

"The high moral disadvantage of the Tessie envoy Li Yashi is the disadvantage in the colonial war, and the Ming cannot completely enslave the natives, or even completely wipe out the other party and obtain everything."

"But morality is in the four directions of the Ming Dynasty, and it is the foundation of the peace of the world."

Virtue is the most advocated thing in traditional Confucianism, it seems that as long as everyone cultivates their own morality, you can make the world the same, this logic, in theory is no problem, everyone has a high morality, that everyone respects each other as a guest, naturally it is the prosperous age of the road and the night is not closed.

However, in practice, because of the material foundation, nature, education, etc., the morality of all people is uneven, and this moral gap has formed all kinds of contradictions, and in the end it is necessary to resort to the constraints of the law.

This is what has been done in the past dynasties since Qin unified the world, the Confucian skin and bones, covered with a layer of Confucian skin, but the bones of the Legalists are supported inside.

And the law is only the lower limit, responsible for the bottom line, while morality is the upper limit, which determines the upper limit of a civilization.

The Han dynasty has loyal and good generations.

In the white-haired wind that is not clear from top to bottom, left and right, east and west, north and south, the dun platform is still floating on the grassland, these endless loyalists are not refreshed for no reason, they are all people with fathers, mothers, wives and children.

Wang Chonggu slightly dislikes the word high moral inferiority, he thinks that this word is a special word in a special context, a specific word established in the opening of the sea in the Ming Dynasty, in the competitive environment overseas, and has no reference significance for the rule of the Ming Quartet.

"Your Majesty, most ordinary people, when they do something wrong, especially when they know that they have done something wrong, they don't have much will to resist, and when there is no East Window incident, they can still be stubborn, and when the East Window Incident happens, they will say everything after closing it for a day or two." Wang Chonggu once again answered His Majesty's question affirmatively.

"What is the ambition of the bird? The flies camp dog steals from the public for the private thing, and An Neng and God want to compare themselves with the distant marquis of the pier? Wang Chonggu reminded His Majesty that the gap between people and people is sometimes bigger than that between people and dogs.

Then this matter will be left to Wang Cifu to do. Feel free to mention any difficulties. Zhu Yijun understood and said with a smile.

"Obey." Wang Chonggu bowed his head and reported the fire in the Yongding woolen factory, Wang Chonggu didn't plan to rest for the New Year, and he would do it first.

In fact, Wang Chonggu still has a big killing weapon that he didn't explain to the emperor, Wang Chonggu's biggest killing weapon is the emperor himself.

Originally, I took dozens of catties of wool, a few woollen horses, and a foot of worsted rags, which was at most a penalty, and a large number of them were expelled from the official factory, out of the official factory, and those derivative private squares around the official factory can also go.

But if these things are really brought to the emperor to weigh them, I'm afraid it's not so simple.

Your Majesty is good at killing people, from Hokkaido, to Ireland, everyone knows about it, and no one knows about it.

As long as Wang Chonggu moved out of the emperor's big Buddha and said that he would not tell him honestly, he would send the Fusi Yamen of Beizhen to let Tiqi ask, Wang Chonggu would not believe it, one of these people was counted as one, and he dared not to confess! said that he was not afraid, Wang Chonggu praised him!

Don't talk about them, even Wang Chonggu, a member of the court, respects Beizhen Fusi, he doesn't want to go in and be asked in his life, how many people who have entered the Beizhen Fusi prison can come out alive?

Wang Chonggu's judgment was extremely accurate, especially as soon as the emperor heard the word "ask about everything", a few people began to cry and howl on the spot, but His Majesty killed seven hundred and twenty people in prison the day before the wedding!

This kind of embezzlement, especially in a relatively closed environment, as long as a hole is torn open, the case will soon be investigated, and the case of the warehouse fire will also be investigated.

It's a typical fire dragon burning warehouse.

Whenever the imperial court went to inspect the grain stored in the government treasury, the local treasury began to burn constantly, and the fire could burn all the traces completely, which was the fire dragon burning warehouse.

Wang Chonggu moved out of the emperor's banner, which is really easy to use, and it probably conveys a meaning, if you give you decency, you will speak well, don't be embarrassed, and you have to be slapped twice before you are willing to speak.

This time it was really Zhu Yijun, the emperor, who misunderstood Yao Guangqi, Yao Guangqi was indeed bold, but it was still not so big as to find death in the emperor's minefield, who didn't know that Yongding and Yongsheng Maochang were the emperor's small treasury? Yao Guangqi was pushed out to compete for the right to speak, not to be sent to death, but the local luxury households were not polite, and they played tricks to fight for wealth, so that Yao Guangqi was planted.

On the fifth day of the first month of the seventh year of Wanli, most of the people's squares in the capital have not yet started, and the Beijing division is still immersed in the joy of the New Year, after all, the lights of Ao Mountain on the seventh day of the first month have just begun, and the New Year will not end until the sixteenth day of the first month.

But the rest of the Ming Dynasty has ended, and the various official offices have begun to be busy after the year, and Zhu Yijun also appeared in the Wenhua Hall with Zhu Yiyi yawning.

Zhang Juzheng led the courtiers to salute respectfully, he stood up straight, glanced at Zhu Yiyi, and could only sigh secretly, Zhu Yiyi's appearance and His Majesty before the assassination of the king were almost carved out of a mold, this is the appearance of a natural nobleman, who is not very attentive to anything, and is greedy for comfort and pleasure.

Zhang Juzheng seriously thought about the problem that His Majesty said, and completely distinguished the monarch's father, the monarchy, and the monarch's teacher, because the king's personal level has too much influence on the fate of the empire, and what kind of dynasty, the two Ming Yingzong will be finished.

He has been a noble man since birth, can he really become a qualified king, a cold political machine, and a lord of the world who leads the Ming Dynasty to prosper again?

From the point of view of His Majesty, it can, but throughout the dynasties, it seems that there has never been.

"This treasury ambassador, if there is nothing else to do, he will be sent to Yingchang to fill the army." Zhu Yijun picked up the red pen on the table, looked at Wang Chonggu and said, "The Great Sikou thinks that it is appropriate to deal with it like this. ”

"Your Majesty Shengming, this sincerity Your Majesty is benevolent and virtuous, and benevolence is for the people." Wang Chonggu did not have any intention of vetoing, the ambassador who burned the treasury, Wang Chonggu's sentence was to be decided, and Lu Guangzu of Dali Temple was also sure that he should be killed, but from beginning to end, Wang Chonggu had never respected the law of Daming, Daming was an imperial dynasty, where did the legal system come from, only the human system, His Majesty was willing to forgive one or two in the name of the Son of Heaven, Wang Chonggu did not need to block it too much.

"Your Majesty..."Zhang Juzheng said with a slight hesitation: "Your Majesty's benevolence and virtue are in the world, this is a celebration in the world, but the rewards and punishments are unknown, and the country is in great harm, please think twice." ”

Zhang Juzheng can understand why the emperor wants to be lenient, just because this treasury ambassador has a bad background, is a poor coolie, and is one of the top 100 craftsmen in the Yongding woolen factory in the Ming Dynasty.

At the beginning, there were only more than 100 people in the workshop, and now it has expanded to more than 30,000 people, and this warehouse ambassador is indeed a veteran of the official factory.

"He has merit for the official factory." Zhu Yijun put down the pen and explained the reason for his decision.

"Merit and demerit do not offset each other since ancient times, merit is merit, and merit is fault." Zhang Juzheng said very accurately: "Your Majesty, Yi said: The house of goodness must have afterglow, and the house of unkindness must have aftermath, people's words and deeds will have corresponding consequences, and there is a cause before there is an effect." ”

"People's past merits and current faults cannot be offset by each other, because each cause has its own effect, so Kanglong has regrets."

Kang Long has regret is an idiom from the Book of Changes, which means that those who are in a high position must think twice, guard against arrogance and rashness, and be thoughtful, otherwise, if they are a little careless, they will definitely regret their failures.

The merits and demerits do not offset each other, and the moral obstacles are not connected.

Zhang Juzheng saw that His Majesty was still a little hesitant, and bowed his head again and said: "Your Majesty, the last thing he should have done is to set fire, instead of taking away the goods from the treasury, and the wealth and goods are not worth a person's life, but if he sets the fire, he can't be forgiven." ”

"Mr. Yuanfu, Your Majesty just thinks that this Treasury Ambassador is not the kind of stubborn and unknown person, and he can be saved, and he is willing to give him a chance, why is Mr. Yuanfu so aggressive? There is a suspicion that the main power of the earthquake is Weifu. Thunder, rain and dew are all Jun's grace. Wang Jiaping, who was promoted to the head of the Hanlin Academy and the leader of the Shao Zhan affairs of the James Mansion, fired directly at Zhang Juzheng, and the point of attack still fell on the power of Weifu on the Megatron.

Wang Chonggu was shocked, whose general was this, he was so brave, he actually fired directly at Zhang Juzheng, and when he looked at it, it turned out to be his own general, and the Jin Party descendant was Wang Jiaping.

Wang Chonggu wiped his face, he could only admire Wang Jiaping's courage, Zhang Juzheng's temperament that must be repaid, dare to provoke?

Zhang Juzheng immediately smelled a familiar smell, which was too familiar.

Ge Shouli has passed away, but Ge Shouli's two descendants, Wang Jiaping and Fan Yingqi, are still active in the court, and Wang Jiaping has taken over the banner of the power of the lord in Ge Shouli's hands.

"Bachelor Wang's words are wrong, this is the court discussion, that is, the place to speak, how can it be the power of the mighty lord to be blessed?" Li Youzi, the right general constitution of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, immediately opposed Wang Jiaping's attack, this is the Wenhua Palace, which is the place where politics is discussed, if people are not allowed to speak, what else is this Wenhua Palace discussing? !

Wang Jiaping frowned and said: "Mr. Li, this is indeed a court discussion, but does this criminal matter also have to be handled by Yuan Fu?" Isn't it a bit out of bounds! ”

The war of words began, and Zhu Yijun was on the platform, watching with relish!

Wang Jiaping and Li Youzi were still arguing, while Zhang Juzheng, Wang Chonggu and Wan Shihe were looking at His Majesty's expression.

Your Majesty has found a reason for being so diligent, either Your Majesty is in love with the court, Your Majesty just loves to watch the excitement and watch people fight! Looking at the bright little eyes, it seems to say, fight, hurry up.

Wang Chonggu looked at Wang Jiaping, Wang Jiaping is the Jin Party, and Zhang Juzheng looked at Li Youzi, Li Youzi is Zhang Dang.

Wang Jiaping and Li Youzi finally stopped arguing, and the party leader had already told them with his eyes that the quarrel should be noisy, and don't make a party dispute, otherwise no one will be able to hold back.

Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Juzheng, and then looked at the song in his hand, he didn't plan to change the sentence, according to the criminal department and Dali Temple to judge the case, he picked up the Wanli treasure, printed it on Wang Chonggu's note, and said: "Kill it." ”

"What the gentleman said is very true, I don't think much."

"If I open this opening, our officials in the Ming Dynasty will dare to replace all the warehouse ambassadors who are often closed in the Ming Dynasty with those who are born in poor coolies, if nothing else, just to let them carry such a black pot, then our Ming Dynasty's regular closing will no longer be able to check the inventory, because once the fire is checked, when the time comes, will I be lenient or not?"

"The courtiers are limited to their own status as courtiers, and they can't say what I'm wrong about, and I know that I'm not doing it right, but I'm a dignified tomorrow, how can I be wrong? can only be so confused, Daming has many things bad on the word confused. ”

"What Mr. said is reasonable, and those who are kings only have the word reward and punishment."

"Small good and big evil, kill one less, and harm tens of millions more."

Some benevolence is hypocritical kindness, Zhu Yijun's forgiveness of this treasury ambassador, the world's treasury and Chang Ping will inevitably be corrupted, once there are natural and man-made disasters, it will be overturned.

Small good and big evil.

Zhang Juzheng's words are always very precise to the core of the problem, if this poor treasury ambassador did not put this fire, the emperor was private, Zhang Juzheng would not obstruct it, but the treasury ambassador involved in the case was at fault for setting this fire, and the nature of the matter would have changed completely.

"Your Majesty." Zhang Juzheng breathed a sigh of relief and said solemnly.

"Mr. reprimanded Chen Shan, do his duty as an assistant, Master Wang, there is no need to be so nervous at all." Zhu Yijun looked at Wang Jiaping, did not criticize, but when he determined the court discussion, he could say anything, but once a decision was made, he must implement it firmly, which was also the consistent style of Wenhua Hall when Ge Shouli was in the court.

"Let's continue the deliberations." Zhu Yijun waved his hand and signaled that Zhang Juzheng could start the court discussion.

"In the past year, the Jiubian military town and the Beijing camp have accumulated grain, salt, beans, grass, oil and other physical goods, which have been converted into 9.28 million silver, and the old treasury has deposited 5.42 million silver in silver, and Taicang has been available for more than eight years, which is the result of enriching the country and strengthening the army." Zhang Juzheng briefly reported on military support.

These conversions are unusually cumbersome, the prices of grain, beans, etc. are different in various places, and the conversion is extremely troublesome, but Wang Guoguang and Zhang Xueyan led the household yamen, and they have completed the combing of these accounts very well.

The country loses great trust, and people are suspicious.

The dynasty has lost its credibility, that is, the people's hearts have dispersed, and they have begun to be suspicious of each other, can the decrees of the imperial court really be honored? Do the soldiers on the border really have the strength to defend the battle? This kind of mutual suspicion will further separate people's hearts.

From the establishment of the dynasty to its demise, it is actually a process of concentration and dispersion of people's hearts, and this process is unquantifiable.

The Ming Dynasty paid silver in kind, in fact, it was the law of opening the law implemented during the Hongwu and Yongle years, and it was not a new decree, but at that time there was only salt in the hands of the soldiers, and now there are grain, oil, beans and grass and other physical objects.

There must be some corruption problems in the middle, but after all, it is stronger than the previous few years of arrears and non-payment I don't know how many times, the border army has gradually shown their strength, and the outside of the Saiwai really can't beat this group of northern captives, in the pass, how can these captives commit murder?

"Sir should be the first to take credit." Zhu Yijun was very satisfied with the achievements of the national service and strengthened the army, and affirmed Zhang Juzheng's contribution.

Zhang Juzheng did not hide it and said: "The five million and 420,000 silver in the old treasury, most of which are Your Majesty's money, or the money that Your Majesty brought back when he opened the sea. ”

"Among them, there are 3.2 million silver, which is the accumulation of points for the Taixi galleon in recent years, and 1.2 million silver is presented by the Bosi Capital Pavilion in Mizhou, Songjiang, Ningbo, Fujian, and Guangzhou City, that is to say, if it is not for His Majesty's insistence on opening the sea and the dictatorship of the dynasty, I am afraid that the old treasury can only save more than 1 million silver, and it will still be a loss of wealth."

The silver stored in the old treasury was all brought by His Majesty the Emperor, and His Majesty saved some silver by deducting the rope and throwing it all into the bottomless pit of the Nanya Open Sea.

"Oh? Is it? I did just a small job. Zhu Yijun waved his hand again and again and said: "The world is the world of my old Zhu family, everything we should do, continue to discuss in the court, continue to discuss in the court." ”

Confucians have always been against the degree bypass, against data, this is the reason, once the specific quantification, come up with specific data, you can see who is working, who is barking and not working, data is the best practical feedback.

His Majesty began to listen to the government at the age of ten, and in seven years, he secretly saved more than 5 million silver for the national treasury.

It's all a squander.

Zhang Juzheng looked at His Majesty, who was already in the prime of life, and smiled, he actually had reservations about opening the sea, not that he had overseas interests, there were countless boats floating on the sea, and the imperial court set up cards to collect taxes, which would damage Zhang Juzheng's private interests, and his reservations about opening the sea were because of the difficulty.

Zhang Juzheng read the history books, and the most prosperous sea power of the Ming Dynasty was in the Yongle period, even at that time, the Ming Dynasty could not even solve the problem of shipping grain.

In the sixth year of Yongle, Emperor Chengzu ordered to build 2,000 seagoing ships to cover the ocean, and planned to transport 800,000 stones of grain, to the north for the Northern Expedition.

The seaborne grain was gradually reduced from the original 10,000 flag army and the command of thousands of households under the command of each committee to 3,000 flag troops, and the frequency was also reduced from twice a year to once a year, and then to Yongle for ten years, twice every three years, and in the thirteenth year of Yongle, the seaborne grain was completely stopped.

There is only one reason, the grain by sea is really easy to sink, from the sixth year of Yongle to the thirteenth year of Yongle, in the past seven years, the original plan to transport grain was 5.6 million stones, but it was only 1.5 million stones to Beijing, and other ocean-covering ships were sunk.

In the ninth year of Xuande, the last official ship of the Ming Dynasty went south to the Western Ocean, and there was also a fleet that could not make ends meet, and the income was far less than expected.

Zhang Juzheng didn't think about opening the sea, during the Longqing period, Liang Menglong, who operated the shipping of grain, was Zhang Juzheng's protégé, but the practice of the Longqing period also proved that it was really not feasible to ship grain.

A grain shipping, offshore transportation can not be solved, is it really the right choice to open the sea?

Fortunately, Yin Zhengmao, Zhang Yuanxun, and Deng Zilong took Lin Afeng's group of Zhao'an Haikou who could not be placed, and rushed into Manila, the unstable territory of Hongmaofan.

"At this age, it is still a rich country and a strong army." Zhang Juzheng is about to set the tone for the new policy in the seventh year of Wanli, and continue to deepen the reform of the law, but the content and theme have not changed, enriching the country and strengthening the army.

"The Ming Dynasty is still not rich enough, and the Ming army still needs to revitalize the army, which I also deeply believe." Zhu Yijun supported Zhang Juzheng's proposal to enrich the country and strengthen the army.

When will the Ming Dynasty be so generous that Zhu Yijun waved his hand, and the border army of the Ming Dynasty can be treated with the Ming Jingying, then it is really rich, and now where is it, continue to gather and prosper, continue to revitalize the army, and continue to expand the territory, which is the main theme and main tone of the new law.

Recently, there are many maritime merchants who evade sea taxes, the imperial court ban does not work, the smugglers are fearless, and the private market in the southeast often sells pepper, spices, oil and other things, and often violates the law to death and is unwilling to stop, and the prohibition is endless." Zhang Juzheng talked about the first thing in Fuguo, collecting taxes and collecting sea taxes.

"I remember that our Daming sea tax is six for 100 values, so it can be described as a harsh tax?" Zhu Yijun frowned, Zhu Yijun had seen the tax rate of the Ming Dynasty, which was the tax rate of the Taixi bandits!

There is only a 6% tariff, and in this day and age, it is like a clear stream in a mudslide.

"Naturally, it's not a harsh tax." Wang Guoguang said with great conviction.

"Taking Yuegang as an example, the great eunuchs in the palace, the local patrols, the imperial historians who inspected the imperial history, and the metropolitan and coastal defense doctors of the metropolitan salary hall can be said to be the three parties of the civil and military eunuchs who clamp and supervise each other, and there is no excessive additional tax increase." Zhang Xueyan added a detail, that is, the Ming Dynasty's management of the city division is very strict, and it is only used by the marching army.

Therefore, there is no excessive harshness on the part of the officials of the Municipal Division, at least in the early years of Wanli, there was no explicit 6% tax, and the actual 60% tax occurred.

"Them! Why! No Taxes!! Zhu Yijun slapped the table when he heard this.

The body temperature has returned to normal. Asking for a monthly pass, woo!!!!!!!!!

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