Chapter 260: The Emperor Doesn't Do It
Although Sun Zheng has withdrawn from management, it does not affect the South China Sea model, which has already formed a scale.
With a good organizational structure, the development of the South China Sea system is like a snowball, getting bigger and faster.
Under the influence of the South China Sea system, the situation of the entire Ming Dynasty is also changing.
Smooth business channels have bred batches of new generations of billionaires.
But the Ming Dynasty was an official-based feudal society, and contradictions inevitably appeared.
In the first few years, it was only an occasional incident of official seizure of private property. Gradually, as more and more people across the country got rich with the South China Sea system, there were more similar vicious incidents.
Although it is rumored that Jin Yiwei is in charge of the world, it is generally not their turn to make a move in a property lawsuit like this. Besides, there are many routines of those civil officials, since they want to start, they will naturally do things without leakage, how can they let the bitter master turn over.
As the situation expanded, more and more people lost confidence in the Ming bureaucracy and continued to use the Jinyi system to survive in the south.
And this time going south, it's not just those displaced people who are suffering, there are a large number of wealthy families who are also quietly transferring their property and moving their families south. Even if you lose your money and abandon your family and business, you have to leave this cannibalistic circle.
The impact of this massive capital flight has been enormous. In just a few years, the market in Daming has been much depressed. The direct consequence is that the total annual tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty has been directly reduced by half.
The fierceness of this trend made those officials and masters a little unable to sit still.
And these high-ranking literati and officials, when such a big thing happens, the first thing they think about is not to review the gains and losses of government affairs, but to be busy throwing the pot.
The imperial histories of various departments have been written one after another, impeaching the princess of the South China Sea and the national teacher for demagoguery, luring the people to flee, harboring evil intentions, violating the righteousness of the vassal state, and no one has the courtesy of the ministers. ลดลดลด.BiQuGe.Biz
He demanded that the emperor issue a reprimand and order him to repatriate the fleeing people. There are even more powerful ones, shouting the slogan of arresting the national teacher and returning to Beijing.
These false slogans are ignored, but some people put forward extremely vicious specific measures in the middle of the recital, asking the emperor to issue an order to confiscate all over the world, dismiss the brocade guards, and so on.
The reason is that Qian Zhuang embezzled the national bank, and Jinyiwei brutalized the officials and the people, which led to complaints, and the people fled one after another.
Emperor Zhengde is not stupid, how can he be happy when he sees that this good situation is being tossed by these uneducated and unskilled guys and is on the verge of bankruptcy?
But the evil consequences of his almost conniving attitude in the past few years have finally appeared. Hundreds of civil and military officials united to force him into the palace, and even the Empress Dowager Zhang summoned him to reprimand him repeatedly, saying that Sun Zheng was so indulgent, it was inevitable that he would be a big harm to the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Houzhao's classmate was depressed, and repeated explanations were to no avail. He was more puzzled, Brother Zheng used the convoy to send silver to the palace every year, and the gold and silver seas were sent for so many years, but not only did they not fall into the good, but they became the culprit of the scourge of the Ming Dynasty, what is the reason?
Then Zhu Houzhao thought a little carefully, and quietly inquired about the queen mother's movements. found out that in the eyes of the Queen Mother, the overseas gold and silver mines should have been her family!
This is her family, not the Ming Dynasty, but her maiden family!
In terms of the assurances she made to her two uncles, the overseas silver mountain originally belonged to the Zhang family, and she wanted to get it back and let her two younger brothers take care of it. Isn't it better than eating a little leftover soup every year?
Hearing the news, Zhu Houzhao couldn't hold down the evil fire, he didn't dare to argue with the Queen Mother, so he found an excuse and cleaned up the two uncles.
Naturally, the Queen Mother learned that her two precious brothers had been punished, and hurriedly ran to her son to question. The words were full of favoritism, which made Zhu Houzhao's nameless fire burn until his eyes were red.
The mother and son had a big quarrel and broke up.
The Queen Mother not only didn't realize her mistake, but felt that her son dared to speak up to herself, and she was obviously taught bad by those attendants.
So, relying on her identity, the Queen Mother united several cabinet ministers, in the name of the emperor's disobedience to the Queen Mother, and insisted on sending all the favored ministers around Zhu Houzhao.
Zhu Hou gritted his teeth angrily, but he was helpless. Daming claims to rule the world with benevolence and filial piety, and he has already been charged with disobedience, and if he continues to make trouble, the royal face will be gone. He was not afraid of anything else, and he was most afraid of losing face, so he had to endure it.
But the impact of this incident is extremely bad. not only tore through the appearance of royal harmony, but also sat firmly on the news of the discord between mother and son in the palace.
The emperor's reputation among the people is already average, and if he is so publicized by these civil officials who control public opinion, it will be even more stinky.
In desperation, Zhu Houzhao could only ask for help from the National Teacher's Mansion.
Sun Zheng was not surprised at all when he got the news. Zhu Houzhao has fallen to today's field, in fact, his credit is indispensable.
From sweeping away border troubles, to purging domestic bandits, removing people in the rivers and lakes, to opening canals, maintaining trade routes, etc., all of this seems to be contributing to the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, but under the Ming Dynasty's bureaucratic system, which is almost rotten from top to bottom, the more lucrative the profits, the more it will accelerate its decay.
Except for the idealists who really have the world in mind, none of the other vampires who are lying on the giant body of Da Ming are willing to reverse this trend. This is determined by the vision and pattern, everyone is dazzled by this rolling wealth, and no one thinks about the root cause behind it.
Maybe some people can see all this, but in a good situation where there are no external enemies and no internal troubles, when there are only a bunch of interests in front of them, a few maverick sober people are the most painful.
In June of the fifteenth year of Zhengde, it is the summer harvest season, and the entire northern part of Daming is filled with the atmosphere of harvest.
Sun Zheng quietly flew to the capital and secretly met with his little friend Emperor Zhengde, who had been "seen for a long time", in the National Teacher's Mansion in the capital.
Zhu Houzhao's first words when he saw Sun Zheng were: "Brother Zheng, I don't want to be this broken emperor anymore!" It's not interesting, it's not interesting at all...... You don't have to convince me, this time I'm telling the truth! โ
Sun Zheng smiled and handed him a grilled fish: "I didn't say that I wanted to persuade you, I said a long time ago, you and my brother, no matter what decision you make, I will help you." โ
Zhu Houzhao took the barbecue, took a few bites, and threw it away very lonely: "Maybe I'm really not an emperor, you have helped me so much, all the internal and external troubles have been swept away, but I can't even sort out this bit of in the court." Now it's even more exaggerated, not to mention the chicken feathers in the court, even the backyard of his house is on fire...... Alas! โ
Sun Zheng handed him a calming drink: "I'm not in the mood to eat grilled fish?" It seems that this time the matter is really serious. โ
"Brother Zheng, I'm serious, don't you joke, okay?"
"I didn't mean it. But let me tell you the truth, this emperor, in fact, it doesn't matter whether he does it or not. If you get really tired of doing it, then don't do it. So what do you want to do? โ
Zhu Houzhao took a sip of the drink, felt good, and said fiercely: "No matter what you do, go to the north to herd horses and sheep, or go to the South China Sea to be a fisherman, even if you go to the wild land overseas to open up wasteland and farm." That's better than being in prison in the Forbidden City! โ
"Okay, if you want to herd sheep, let's fence a place to herd sheep. If you want to be a fisherman, you can occupy an island and get a few boats to fish. It's even easier to open up wasteland, this world is big, there are ownerless wastelands everywhere, and you can occupy as much as you want. Again, whatever you want to do, I support you. As long as you can think of it, we can give it a try. โ
Zhu Houzhao drank the calming drink, his emotions gradually calmed down, and his reason also prevailed, and he was a little suspicious: "Brother Zheng, do you really support me?" Even if I don't be this emperor? โ
"Is there any doubt about that? You are my brother, I support you as the emperor, and I also support you when you herd sheep and fish. It has nothing to do with whether you are an emperor or not! โ
"You don't blame me for abandoning the throne?"
"If I blame you, will you stop thinking about it?"
Zhu Houzhao thought about it very seriously and sighed: "This time, I am really discouraged!" The new armies on all three sides are paid locally and do not ask for a penny from the state treasury. The largest part of military spending has been saved for them. The South China Sea sends so much money every year, it is simply for nothing, but in this way, the national treasury is still unable to make ends meet. You were right when you said back then, this Ming Dynasty has long been rotten from the roots!
I know that with Brother Zheng's ability, you can actually kick this country with one foot and grab the dragon chair to sit on yourself. With your ability, I'm afraid the world will not be what it is today. It's because I think so, I always think that I am no worse than you, and I always think that I can rely on this ancestral position to surpass you. I didn't expect it, but in the end, not only did it not make the people's lives better, but they couldn't even sort out the stall in their own yard! โ
Sun Zheng didn't explain, let him babble and vent, and said for a while that a few old-fashioned members of the cabinet were simply opponents sent by God to torture him. After a while, he said that he gave birth to a bunch of children, none of them became successful, and the eldest son was seven or eight years old, and he couldn't even figure out the addition and subtraction of two digits......
Of course, in the complaints, the most important thing is his unclear old lady. I really don't know what sins I suffered in my previous life, and I want to be born in such an imperial family. Dad suffered all his life, and he died early without a day of happiness. The old lady's heart is all tied to her mother's side, but the more she lives, the more energetic she becomes......
Sun Zheng listened to it straightly, the Queen Mother really hurt the little emperor too deeply this time. In the past, even if he was dissatisfied with his mother, Zhu Houzhao would not talk nonsense, even if that person was Sun Zheng.
But this time, listening to the meaning of his words, it is clear that he hates his wife for not dying early.
This is really a feud!
From this point of view, he said that he didn't want to be the emperor, but he really made up his mind.
Not to mention that he just wanted to get off that broken chair, even if he was a white body and wanted to sit on that chair, it wouldn't be a problem for Sun Zheng now.
It's just an emperor's throne, drizzle.
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