I am the king of the dead

Was Shang Ren talking about Wang Zhen?

Of course not, in fact he is still King Ji Lie.

Shang Ren was silent for a moment, and talked about a case in the ninth year of Zhengtong. In the ninth year of Zhengtong, Yang Shiqi passed away at the age of eighty. The dark clouds hovering over the Ming Dynasty Hall seemed to have dissipated. Bringing new dark clouds.

There is a case that was sentenced in September of the ninth year of Zhengtong, and King Jili's orthodox treasure was printed.

It is about Liu Yu from Dantu, Jiangsu. This person is a well-known luxury household in Dantu. When Liu Yu was young, because of his wealth, he didn’t care about imperial examinations. , rhythm are involved.

Liu Yu dabbled in so much, absolutely, never should have touched the word disaster relief.

In the ninth year of Zhengtong, Liu Yu traveled to Datong Mansion. Oirats harassed Datong Mansion and besieged the city for three months. The catastrophe suddenly arose. People left without money and stayed without food.In Datong Mansion, the men fled, the women committed suicide, and the corpses were scattered all over the place. Some of them closed the gates and their families starved to death.

Liu Yu's family is rich, of course he will not go hungry, but the people of Datong Mansion were hungry, Liu Dashan moved his heart to help the victims, his money was used up soon, Liu Dashan used his own The title deed was exchanged for 5000 taels of silver and continued to give relief.

After there was no food in the city, Liu Yu borrowed 5 taels of silver from the bank with all the land deeds in his hand, and left the city.

What are you doing out of town?
Ask the Wala people to buy food.

At that time, the Oirats broke through several granaries and had a lot of surplus grain in their hands, but the Oirats could not take away too much grain. Liu Yu bought nearly 5 shi of white grain from the Oirats with [-] taels of silver. Shipped back to Datong Mansion.

In Datong Mansion, there are no fewer than tens of thousands of civilian men and women who live in their homes to receive food every day, which is quite crowded.

A person from Suzhou, who was doing relief work in the Xingdu Division of Shanxi Province, still spent all his family's wealth on relief, seeking skins from tigers to go to the Wala people to buy food. This is indeed a great kind person who can't see the suffering of the people.

The Oirats are like the wind on the prairie, they come and go, and eventually leave.

Once the Oirats left and no longer fortified the walls and cleared the wilderness, the Datong people finally had a life, and most of them survived.

The local people are very grateful to Liu Yu, and want to establish a ancestral hall for Liu Yu. Although Liu Yu did not take the imperial examination, he has a lot of friends, and he knows the taboos of the imperial court. Let the people live a good life, so they are ready to go home and inherit the family business .

Tossing this time in Datong Mansion, not only spent all the travel budget, but also owed a buttock of debts, and if he didn't go home to inherit the family business, Liu Yu couldn't afford to pay back the shortfall of 5 taels.

Liu Yu wanted to leave, but couldn't.

Hu Wan, the magistrate of Datong Prefecture, arrested Liu Yu on the grounds that he was in collusion with thieves and colluded with Wala.

This matter was quickly spread to everyone in the Datong Mansion, and then the common people spontaneously organized themselves, instead of sending salaries, water, food, and vegetables to the government office, they just wanted to know why Liu Yu was arrested.

Later, the common people came back to it!
When Wala besieged Datong Mansion, the local gentry in Datong drove up the price of grain, which rose three times a day. Not only did Liu Yu not raise the price, but he also gave relief to the people for free!

This way of cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents. When Wala left, the local gentry would naturally not let Liu Yu go. It was really a crime to give the poor money for nothing like this!
Liu Yu, as a wealthy family of Dantuzhe in Suzhou, is naturally not an unknown person, and he can't be said to be directly heard, but he is also a person with all-hands and eyes.

Not to mention the relationship with Chaoli, it was in Datong Mansion. The first person he visited in Datong Mansion was Shi Heng, the commander-in-chief of Datong Mansion. As soon as he met, he gave Shi Heng a pair of emerald jade and phoenix beakers.

As the commander-in-chief of the Datong Mansion, Shi Heng naturally has his own face. When he heard that Liu Yu was arrested, he talked to Hu Wan, and finally agreed that Liu Yu would compensate the local gentry for the loss, a total of 3 taels of silver. Liu Yu did not Baiyin, but he had salt, and he immediately took out [-] salt to settle the matter.

Datong Mansion was besieged, and Yanyin was worthless, but the value of Yanyin was restored when the Wala people left. Liu Yu settled the compensation with Yanyin, and the local gentry were satisfied.

At this point, the matter was supposed to be over.

But the incident happened just the day before Liu Yu came out. The people were so excited that they besieged the government office. Soothed down.

There was no civil uprising in the first place, and Liu Yu was released after everyone negotiated the conditions under the table, but there was a civil uprising, so he had to report it and send it to the court.

Soon, the imperial decree to criticize the red came to Datong Mansion, and Liu Yuli colluded with the bandits, colluded with Oala, and killed him.

Liu Yu was completely panicked. This time, he didn't have much time to ask for help. He hurriedly wrote a letter to ask for help. Finally, through his father's relationship, he went through the door of the second-rank official of Chaozhongzheng and sent 5 yuan to Wang Zhen. Only two silver dollars saved his life, and he returned to Suzhou in a state of embarrassment.

But here comes the problem. Xing'an found a book of the old eunuch Guo Jing from the palace, found the 5 taels of silver, and finally gave 4 taels to King Jili.

"Hu Shangshu, how should I write this case?" Shang Ren bowed his head and asked after explaining the whole story of the case in detail.

Write it down?
The Ming royal family, the face of the old Zhu family, do you want it!

Putting everything on Wang Zhen is in line with the usual practice of being a taboo for the venerable. As for the account book that Xing'an dug out, everyone should pretend that they don't know.

However, the question arises again, is King Jili a venerable?

According to the Taimiao trial of King Jili by the current emperor of Ming Dynasty, it obviously does not meet the definition of a venerable, so it must be recorded according to the facts.

Shang Ren feels that compiling this history book is really something that is difficult to write without scratching your bald head.

Shang Ren didn't care about the dog fighting in court, he only cared about whether he could finish writing the history alive.

After listening to Shang Ren's story, Hu Wei clearly remembered the case, and his scalp was numb. He thought for a while and said: "There are no itches if there are too many lice, and no worries about debts. Seek truth from facts, and just do whatever you want. , His Majesty should not make things difficult for you."

should?

Shang Ren and Hu Wei looked at each other, and there was helplessness in each other's eyes, which is really hard to write.

Hu Wei thought for a while and said, "For this case, you can add a detail. Sending money is my way. Liu Yu's father asked someone to find me."

"Ah? This..." Shang Ren finally understood who the ambiguous person was in the whole case.

This is what Hu Yan did so covertly that almost no one knew that he saved Liu Yu's life. The evergreen tree in the court is not old, and he does things extremely carefully. How can he easily reveal his secrets?
Hu Wei didn't say anything, this matter is a case without a head, after all, Wang Zhen is also dead.

When Hu Wei settled the old accounts in the first year of Jingtai, he once handed over a sum of money to his nephew, which was the money Hu Wei collected for helping others in those years. Part of this money was given by Liu Yu to thank Hu Wei for his life-saving grace. reward.

Hu Yan smiled and said, "There's nothing to be surprised about, just write it down as it is, wait for me, and I'll find you the letter from Liu Yu's father back then."

Hu Wei sent someone back to the mansion to take a box from the attic in the backyard. There were many letters in it. Hu Wei found the letters and handed them to Shang Ren.

Shang Ren finished reading the letter in surprise, and salivated at Hu Wei's box. There was a thick stack of such letters inside.

For those who study history, what this box means is self-evident.

Hu Wei put the box away, and said with a smile: "Writing history, posterity will look at it with [-] pairs of eyes. If you are nine true and one false, or hide the spring and autumn brushwork for the venerable, later generations can also find other historical books for you to confirm it." , it’s better to just write it clearly, and the descendants of the province will take the exam.”

For example, nine truths and one falsehood cannot deceive people. How many literati and inkmen will flip through history books?For example, the historian has tried his best to cover it up, but Emperor Wenwen of the Han Dynasty concealed his younger brother Liu Chang, Li Wang of Huainan, so he was passed the examination?
Hu Wei concluded in conclusion: "Your Majesty killed King Jili. He was upright, frank, and just. There is no need to write a song. When the time comes, I will present it to Your Majesty."

"Thank you, Hu Shangshu!" The stone in Shang Ren's heart fell to the ground at once, and Hu Wei presented it for him, which means that after he finished writing, he was corrected by Hu Shangshu, so after the accident, it was Hu Wei who was responsible up.

Hu Wei shook his head and said, "A handful of old bones, if you can do anything else, do it."

Shang Ren left, and Hu Wei told him to seek truth from facts, and even topped the pot, then this history book would not be so difficult to write.

As for what Hu Wei explained, it is the business's job to be optimistic about the students and prevent them from being put on fire.

Can Merchant do well?
He is a scholar, and he is the top three-yuan scholar. Shang Ren is very good at things like scholars fighting among themselves.

In this way, the imperial decree of the Ming Dynasty that the breeding population will never be added, at the end of July, along with the horseshoes of the riders, was sent to the prefectures and counties.

It was also delivered to the commanding officers rooted in the farm. The commanding officers took the imperial decree and explained His Majesty's decree to the fathers and villagers word by word.

His Majesty's government orders are all in plain language, there is nothing to interpret, the words are very clear and there is no ambiguity.

The commanding officers also received His Majesty's imperial edict, requesting the commanding officer to engrave the content of the imperial decree on a stone and stand it in front of the Earth Temple.

This is the promise made by the Ming emperor to the people. If someone breaks it, they can point to the imperial decree on the earth temple and resist the exorbitant taxes according to law.

At this time, Zhu Qiyu in Guangzhou Mansion was having morning tea. The weather in Lingnan was still very hot and humid, but the Nantang mansion was extremely cool and dry.

In front of Zhu Qiyu was a wide vermilion table about three feet long. On both sides of the table were civil and military officials from Annan, the prefecture. The table was filled with the resolutions of the pre-war meeting. After the memorial was approved, he said solemnly: "I am here, waiting for the triumphant return of the kings, and I will drink with the kings!"

Zhu Qiyu stood up, took the treasure of Jingtai, stamped it on the call to arms, put it on the table and said: "The Ming army is mighty!"

Many generals stood up and shouted in unison: "Your Majesty is mighty!"

Annan in Daming County officially started with the official announcement, and Yu Qian will also go to Annan as the governor of military affairs. This trip will take nearly six months.

Yu Qian stayed at the long table in the imperial study room, and waited until the ministers had retreated before discussing the matter of breeding people and never adding gifts.

Yu Qian was not surprised that this decree of the court was unanimously approved by many Minggongs in the Wenhua Palace. Even if someone wanted to object, Hu Wei, a man with no morals, would teach him how to behave.

The difficulty lies in the execution, and the difficulty lies in how to implement it to the end. Fortunately, His Majesty has also made sufficient preparations.

"I seem to have heard of this Liu Yuzhen, the Dantu Liu family..." Zhu Qiyu said with a frown.

Yu Qian pondered for a moment and said, "It's the business manager of Jiangsu."

Zhu Qiyu looked at Hu Min's memorandum, and it was also a big lawsuit. King Jili has been dead for ten years, and he still has to deal with these bad debts. He said to Xing'an: "Well, now that you are the head of the business, don't you?" Do you know if you hate the imperial court because of what happened back then, Xing'an, you should settle the accounts later and give the money to Liu Yu."

Counting such old bad debts is the worst.

Yu Qian leaned forward and said: "Your Majesty, you can't give it. Since the past is not to be blamed, then the past will not be made up for. If the past is made up for, then the past will be blamed, Your Majesty."

"Besides, His Majesty's return of money to Liu Yu is not the same as killing him? Liu Yu, as the head of the business, is not short of this little money. Don't toss Liu Yu, it's just unlucky."

Letting go of the past is a political compromise, and the equivalent is not to make up for the past, which is also a compromise.

"That's right." Zhu Qiyu said kindly.

Under the general framework of monarchs and ministers for thousands of years, Zhu Qiyu, as the emperor, really made up the money, and Liu Yu could only repay the grace of heaven with his death.

Doesn't this mean that Liu Yu is settling old scores with His Majesty?

This is disrespectful.

Zhu Qiyu thought for a while and said, "Let Li Binyan, governor of Songjiang, give Liu Yu ten boat certificates, so he won't capsize and make money."

For the imperial court, they can print as many ship certificates as they want, but for private merchants, they are a waste of money.

Seeing that His Majesty must make up for it, Yu Qian made a detour and said with a smile: "In the spring of the seventh year of Jingtai, there was a major epidemic in Songjiang Mansion and other places. Liu Yu donated 30 taels of silver."

Zhu Qiyu was stunned and said: "So many? I thought he would have a long memory of what happened to him in Datong Mansion."

Zhu Qiyu didn't shout about the 500 million taels of assets per household in Daming, but did he know that the purchasing power of these 30 taels was equal to 90 shibailiang, which could be raised in Qianjiuchongtang for three years.

Yu Qian said with some emotion: "The next year, in the eighth year of Jingtai, Liu Yu was the leader in the distribution of ship certificates in Songjiang Prefecture. He got 74 ship certificates for three-masted ships. Liu Yu earned it back. Compared with Datong Prefecture, Liu Yu is more calculating now, and maintaining a good relationship with the imperial court can obviously make a lot of money."

Zhu Qiyu waved his hand, and said in disapproval: "You don't care about your deeds, and you are never perfect. He didn't drive up the price of grain, so I thank him on behalf of the people of Ming Dynasty. He is still willing to donate money. It's really not easy."

The emperor of Ming Dynasty had relatively low moral requirements for the extravagant households. Zhu Qiyu could tolerate them if they didn't take advantage of the national crisis to make a fortune. If they were willing to do something good, it would be worthy of praise.

Yu Qian pondered for a while and asked: "Your Majesty, I will go to Zhennan Pass immediately. Now the Annan Taiwei and the former Anyuan Marquis Liu Pu, what should your Majesty do?"