Inside the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Hai Rui was holding stacks of ledgers and reading them in front of Ning Jue.

“……”

"You Xian should know that there are a total of 267 villages in Xishan, and now 45 villages are vacating fields, and these are all villages that want to change to kapok."

"The lower officials think they are stupid, they don't know the meaning of the new law, and they can only work hard."

"If they continue to make trouble like this, maybe in a year or two, there will still be old grain from previous years in the market to support, and as time goes by, these tenant farmers who enter the city will have to starve to death."

"This time I came to Ning, and the lower officials had no other way but to ask for a joint letter to the court by Bai Xian and Hai to save the people in the southeast."

With that, Hai Rui took out the notebook that he had prepared.

Ning Jue pushed away the notebook handed over by Hai Rui.

"Hai Xianzun, I can co-sign this with you, but I want to hear an answer from Hai Xianzun."

Hai Rui was visibly stunned.

"Please also make it clear."

"Give up one person and save the world and give up the world and save one person."

"How to choose Haixian Zun?"

Hai Rui barely hesitated to speak: "If there is a person in the Dead Sea, he can save the lives of the world, and the sea will die ......nine times."

"It's not you who is going to die."

Hai Jui was speechless for a moment.

"Then what is the official position of this person, and all kinds of ...... in the past?"

Before Hai Rui finished speaking, Ning Jue interrupted: "Hai Xianzun, do you think it doesn't matter who he is when he is facing the world?" ”

"There must be people in the world who do more evil than him, and there must be people who are kinder than him."

"It's one person and the world, how does Haixian Zun choose?"

Hai Rui pondered for a moment and then spoke, "The world." ”

Just as Hai Jui said these two words.

Ning Jue had already pushed Hai Rui's recital back.

Hai Rui looked at Ning Jue in astonishment.

"What do you mean by this?"

"Haixian Zun, you have chosen the world."

"But aren't the people of Xishan the people of the world?"

"But compared with the thousands of generations, the people of the two capitals and thirteen provinces who are alive here are all the same person!"

"Compared with you and me, the people of Xishan are the people of the world."

"Compared with Nangi, the people of Nangi are the people of the world."

"Compared with the two capitals and thirteen provinces, the two capitals and thirteen provinces are the people of the world."

"Compared with the eternal years, you and I, Da Ming, are all the same person."

Regard the ancients and future generations as the present.

For Hai Rui, it is not something difficult to understand.

The history books of 5,000 years have enabled the people of this land to transcend the shackles of time.

There was silence in the courtyard for a long time, and I don't know how long it took for Hai Rui to speak.

"If the imperial court does not change this law, will future generations hate us?"

"No, because this thunder is not destined to explode in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, everything will be experienced by the princes of the next dynasty, maybe it is the Northern Emperor, or it may be another Emperor Taizu Gao."

Hai Rui bowed his head and said, "Is that all?" ”

"Of course not."

"If you owe money, you have to pay it back, and if the Ming Dynasty falls and the descendants fall, all of them will be repaid by the descendants of the descendants!"

Hai Rui gritted his teeth and continued to whisper: "How can you see it? ”

"Isn't that enough?" Ning Jue took out a small shuttle with a copper wire spring from his sleeve.

"This is the shuttle of Xishan, Haixian Zun should have seen it."

"Yes."

Ning Jue smashed the shuttle on the bookcase, and the shuttle bounced up on its own, and then fell to the ground.

"But this is less than half a penny of copper, embedded in a piece of wood!"

"As long as you have a head, you can think of it!"

"The water-to-spinning wheel that existed in the Southern Song Dynasty, something that people didn't expect for three hundred years or more than ten generations, was forced out by a few businessmen!"

"There are not only businessmen in the world, but businessmen can force out only one or two shuttles and spinning wheels."

"What are they going to do when they have so much stuff?"

Hai Rui subconsciously muttered: "The child hugged the gold into the downtown area." ”

Then Hai Rui raised his head.

"But the people are already suffering enough, how to change the law and change it to the end to suffer the people."

Ning Jue sat in the hall and said perfunctorily: "Some of the suffering is for one's own selfish desires, which is not beneficial to future generations, and it is useless to benefit one's own selfish surname." ”

"But do the people deserve to starve? It's hard for them to make ends meet! ”

Hearing this, Ning Jue looked at Hai Rui.

"That's why I asked Haixian Zun just now, whether to save one person or save the world."

"So this is just a choice, there is no right or wrong, no matter how Haixian Zun chooses Haixian Zun, it is the blue sky in the eyes of the people."

"How to choose Haixian Zun, how to do Ning."

After that, Ning Jue reopened Hai Rui's recital and signed his name at the back of the recital.

"It's still early, Haixian Zun can think slowly."

The sweat in his hands was the notebook that Hai Rui asked for at the risk of losing his official position and resigning.

Outside the Heavenly Street, there are crowds of people and bustling people, but in Hai Rui's eyes, the people on the street have changed.

In addition to the people dressed in the Ming Dynasty, there are also people dressed in Han and Tang Dynasty clothes, and there are also people who straddle horses and hold whips, just like the previous Yuan, and some are dressed in unknown clothes.

Hai Jui was watching them, and they were looking at Hai Jui.

They are the ones who make the decisions, but it is the people who have to pay the price.

Only then did Hai Rui understand why Ning Jue didn't want to see him.

——

West Garden, Wuyi Palace.

Xu Jie, who was originally on leave, suddenly appeared.

Yan Song, who was sitting in the duty room, saw Xu Jie's expression, but seemed to have guessed something.

"Zisheng, go and return, I'm afraid there is something big to discuss."

Xu Jie bowed slightly.

"Elder Yan Ge, the younger generation has worked with you for many years, and you have offended a lot before, and Xu has made amends for you here."

Hearing Xu Jie's words, Yan Song's heart couldn't help but sink, and he blurted out: "I'll go with you." ”

Xu Jie was stunned for a moment, and then calmed down again.

"After so many years, it's time for us monarchs and ministers to put their hearts in their hearts." Yan Song continued.

The two of them each explained the affairs of the cabinet.

Then he walked towards Jiajing's palace one after the other.

In the palace, cigarettes curled up, and the copper coins that were originally placed in the hall have long been gone.

Jiajing seems to have returned to the appearance of cultivating the mystery in the past.

"Minister Yan Song/Xu Jie, meet Your Majesty."

Huang Jinjing stepped forward and said, "Two elders, Your Majesty is in retreat......

Don't wait for Huang Jin to finish speaking.

Jiajing's voice had already sounded in the palace.

"Everyone else retreated, and Elder Yan Ge and Elder Xu Ge entered the hall and gave them seats."

Huang Jin stopped making a sound, sang to himself, and led Xu Jie and Yan Song towards the house.

It's just that when Yan Song and Xu Jie saw Jiajing.

Only then did I find that Jiajing was obviously much older.

As soon as Fang saw Jiajing, Xu Jie and Yan Song did not sit down, but simply knelt down in front of Jiajing.

"The ministers are guilty."

In the face of the general trend, the power trick can only be delayed for a while, and it can't be covered up much.

This is destined to be the most heart-to-heart meeting of the three monarchs and ministers in their lives.

"How much silver did Yan Shifan and Xu Fan borrow?"

"A few days ago, the rebel son went to Zhejiang, loaned 1 million taels of silver, and more than 400,000 copper coins, and the old minister had no way to teach his son." Yan Songjing knocked down and said: "Don't ask for a living, I only hope that the monarch can leave a wisp of incense in the Yan family." ”

Xu Jie also bowed his head and knocked down.

"The rebel son Xu Fan, in the name of the criminal minister, will collect a million taels of silver, and the criminal minister will not be able to repay the king's kindness if he dies, and he knows that he is guilty of death."

The two old foxes didn't even bend around, and they came to Jiajing for a showdown today.

Obviously, the situation is much more serious than Jiajing thought.

"Two elders, do you have any advice?"

Xu Jie, Yan Song was silent.

"Say!" Jiajing forcibly squeezed the word out between his teeth.

Yan Song and Xu Jie knocked to the ground and said in unison: "Abolish the new law!" ”

Hearing the words of these two people, Jiajing's face sank.

Xu Jie even kowtowed and said: "The criminal minister is willing to serve His Majesty and work hard, and the criminal minister is willing to lead the nine-sided elite soldiers south to cleanse the south of the Yangtze River with Zhen Yubo!" ”

Jiajing's heart was very clear.

The root of all this is the whiplash.

The whip law held the money and silver in the hands of the Son of Heaven, and no matter how much he looked like a god, he was still a human after all.

Only at the moment when the eight dances in the court, Jiajing is as true as the sun in the sky, and after the sun is in the sky, it is destined to fall in the middle of the day, and the extremes of things will be reversed.

At that time, Jiajing was blindfolded by money, and even forgot the Tao Te Ching on his body.

It wasn't until Jinyi Wei was well-gived that Xu Fan risked killing his head and replanted the Xu family's field with kapok, that Jiajing reacted in hindsight that as long as the new law was still being implemented, it was inevitable that such an incident would happen in Jiangnan.

There is no Xu Jie, Yan Song, and Yan Jie, Xu Song.

The only way to break this situation at the moment is to abolish the new law, or to permanently anchor the whip method to the copper coins or silver, and turn the silver into a whip for the remnants.

If only that were it.

The money and the silver were borrowed and spent.

If you change it back rashly, Jiangnan must use swords and soldiers to give up.

After a long time, Jiajing said in despair: "All parties are guilty, and the sin lies in one person." ”

"Death to the guilty."

"I, Yongjun also."

"Your Majesty is brave and decisive, wise and insightful, and is by no means a mediocre master, but a minister's fault." Yan Song and Xu Jie couldn't afford to bow down.

Jiajing knows far more things than Xu Jie and Yan Song.

It's not just the Xu family and the Yan family who do this.

In a certain sense, Jiangnan is getting out of control, and there is no other way than to transfer troops.

In Jiajing's vision, Jiajing used the whip method to manipulate the power of wealth and nobility, and held the authority of the Son of Heaven to rule the world.

Jiajing thought that he could hold on to money and authority firmly.

It's just that history happily gave Jiajing a big ear scraper.

History has come to this stage.

In the face of new things, the organizational structure of the feudal dynasty, which was originally loose and full of holes, was destined to be eroded and infiltrated.

The so-called edict of the Son of Heaven is just a piece of paper, the cabinet approved the blue, and the celebrant approved the red, after all, it will be handed over to the six ministries, even if it is to the county, it still needs people to execute.

In the original history.

The perfect old man who succeeded to the throne with a golden key became the emperor who was the most emperor in the two thousand years of the imperial system, he was keenly aware that money and power could only choose one or the other, and he did not hesitate to choose right, because he had never been poor, and since he was born, he was cultivated as a prince.

Jiajing, on the other hand, was born in a small city in Huguang, and in that city, several vassal kings had been eliminated before Xingfu.

As soon as Fang succeeded to the throne, what he saw was the deficit of three million taels of silver left to him by the aggressive Yang Tinghe and his cousin Zhu Houzhao.

As a smart man, Jiajing is definitely the smartest emperor in thousands of years, not even one of them.

But as the emperor, the lord of Sinoma, he also lives up to his name.

Because in the first fifteen years of his life, the officials of the royal palace only taught him how to be a vassal king with all his heart, and even the most caring companion Huang Jin was originally sent by his cousin to spy on him in the East Factory.

In the end, Jiajing's eyes were already bloodshot, and he gritted his teeth and stared at Xu Jie, Yan Song and said in a low voice:

"I can be a gentleman, but the prince must be that Yao Shun, the two elders, can you understand?"

"Your Ministers understand."

After Xu Jie and Yan Song left, Jiajing leaned on the futon in the Jingshe physically and mentally exhausted.

"Huang Jin, tell Uncle Zhen to fight first."

"Whoa."

When you're not sure if you're going to carry out your orders, the first thing to do is to shut up.

Hold on to the cards you can control.

It's better to have a layer of window paper than nothing.

Even at this time, Jiajing, as the son of the Great Tomorrow, still has a chance to go back, and the Haoqiang of Jiangnan has no room to fight back in front of millions of elite soldiers, but the money eye that is like a deep well is still affecting his judgment.

Because Da Ming is indeed rich and powerful, if he personally overthrows the new law he has promoted, Jiajing will be the biggest laughing stock in 3,000 years.

——

Hai Rui, who was in Nanjing, also made his own choice.

He didn't believe that Daming only had these two paths to choose from.

In between these two roads, there must be a smooth road.

(End of chapter)