I am the king of the dead

Songjiang Prefecture, Xingang, under the blue sky and white clouds, seabirds soar in the sky, occasionally singing a song, and then spread their wings and fly high into the distance. Under the seabirds, there are endless sails covering the sky and sun , when Liu Yongcheng, in his capacity as an eunuch and minister, announced that he was setting sail, the whole Xingang started to move. The boatmen boarded the ship in an orderly manner and took care of the ship's affairs. The carts were sent under the giant machinery, while steam engines one after another were roaring, hoisting the goods, then traveling on the dragon bridge, and hoisting them to ships one after another.

Inside and outside Xingang, a piece of thriving.

Liu Yongcheng's mood can be described as extremely complicated. On the one hand, he still insists that the current emperor has done something wrong. The current emperor should sit on the throne and support the good life of King Jili. After a hundred years, the throne will be returned to Zheng The same line, that is, the line of the eldest son, even if King Ji Li was killed for the sake of justice, the throne should be left to the lineage.

On the other hand, Liu Yongcheng also had to admit that today, the sails that cover the sky and the sun soar into the sky, and go south to the west again, indeed only His Majesty can do it today.

Just like Zhu Qiyu couldn't figure out what Liu Yongcheng was insisting on no matter what, Liu Yongcheng also couldn't figure out why Zhu Qiyu, who could openly kill his elder brother for the sake of the throne, didn't kill him yet.

What is Liu Yongcheng insisting on?
What is Xun Yu insisting on?The Great Han Dynasty is like that, and its vitality is exhausted. Why don't good birds choose trees to live in?
As Cao Cao's most important adviser, Xun Yu was named Longevity Pavilion Marquis by Cao Cao. He handled military and state affairs and held the position in the center for more than ten years. Cao Cao respected Xun Yu's advice and said to others, Xun Yu is my son-in-law. .However, when Cao Cao called Wei Gong, Xun Yu blatantly opposed it. In a rage, Cao Cao transferred Xun Yu from the center, and then gave him an empty food box, and Xun Yu committed suicide by taking poison. (Taizu gave food to Yu, but the hair was empty, so he drank medicine and died. - "Wei Shi Chunqiu".)
What is Tie Hyun insisting on?The whereabouts of Mr. Jianwen are already unknown, why don't you be a hero if you don't want to know the current affairs?
Tie Xuan designed Zhu Di like that in Jinan Mansion, and was caught by Zhu Di. At this time, Zhu Di offered to solicit him by kneeling facing north.

There is another reason for Liu Yongcheng's insistence. He led the army to quell the rebellion of the Han Palace, and the biological mother of His Majesty Zhu Qiyu is an old family member of the Han Palace. How can Liu Yongcheng support it?

Under the moral concepts of monarchs and ministers for thousands of years, it is not surprising that Liu Yongcheng is obsessed with orthodoxy.

The strange thing is His Majesty.

From Liu Yongcheng's point of view, after the concubine Emperor Taimiao murdered, the first thing he should do was to clean up the orthodox remnants of the old party, and he still had the righteous name of righteousness. , Hitting Wang Zhenyu's side, isn't it something that can be done easily?
But Liu Yongcheng waited for death for more than ten years, but he waited for the emperor's inquiry, asking Liu Yongcheng if he would lead the Daming Navy to repeat the Yongle feat and go south to the West.

Liu Yongcheng couldn't figure it out.

Distinguishing rewards and punishments is an important means of maintaining organization. Why did Tang Taizong keep Wei Zheng and let himself suffer so much?
Liu Yongcheng made great contributions to Daming and Yan Mansion's rule of the world. If it wasn't for the eunuch, he would have already been crowned duke with his contributions. When Liu Yongcheng didn't do anything, Zhu Qiyu would have to pay the price for killing him.

Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen killed Yu Qian, it seems that he did not pay any price, he killed it easily, Song Gaozong Zhao Gou killed Yue Fei, he did not seem to pay any price, he killed him easily.

Did Zhu Qizhen and Zhao Gou really easily kill Yu Qian and Yue Fei without paying any price?Daming and Song paid a price for this, and the word expensive seemed cheap.

Liu Yongcheng didn't intend to eat the salary of Emperor Jingtai. Since the two hate each other, if you don't want to kill him, then everyone will never interact with each other. Still chose to be an official.

When an era is romanticized, it means that this era is gone.

As a person who came from the Yongle period, and as Liu Yongcheng who personally participated in the creation of the prosperous age of Yongle, to repeat the feat of Yongle, for Liu Yongcheng, it is much, much more important than the word orthodox.

"Hundreds of boats compete for the flow and thousands of sails compete, and those who use the sea to sail will be the first. Hundreds of boats compete for the flow, and the one who strives to sail first, should be the same." Tang Xing stood beside Liu Yongcheng, looked at Liu Yongcheng's gray temples, and said in a low voice: "Liu Dadang, how does this situation compare to Liujiagang back then?"

Liu Yongcheng looked around the Xingang again, shook his head and said: "If you go back to the country, compared with Liujiagang back then, each has its own age. There were many ships back then, but today's ships are strong and powerful."

Haining and Lujiang can be said to be strong ships and sharp guns. Adhering to the guiding ideology of Your Majesty, big is good, more is beautiful, caliber is justice, and turret is truth. Haining and Lujiang can be called invincible in the world.In the shipyard of Daming Songjiang Prefecture, there are still newly designed sea-going ships under overtime construction. The warships that are more slender and easier to ride the wind and waves are more and more different from merchant ships.

When the world is invincible, you are your own enemy.

Tang Xing was still not satisfied, and continued to ask: "Liu Dadang, since you and I are going south to the West as a partner, it's better to say some ugly things in advance, you can look at the scene where there are sails under the sky, and still say that your majesty is virtuous." Unfit?"

Liu Yongcheng is fighting with His Majesty, His Majesty can accept the result of Liu Yongcheng's service for Daming, His Majesty can accept this grievance, His Majesty can accept this anger, Tang Xing, as a relative of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, the third prince and his grandfather, can't accept it no matter what!

Tang Xing sometimes felt that His Majesty's temper was too good, anyone could bully his son-in-law, civil servants and civil servants wronged His Majesty, generals and generals wronged His Majesty, now even eunuchs and other domestic slaves dare to wrong His Majesty!
Liu Yongcheng refused to lower his head, Tang Xing dared not let Liu Yongcheng go to sea today!

Standing aside, Li Binyan originally planned to persuade Tang Xing not to argue with this stubborn donkey at this juncture. As a traditional scholar, Li Binyan is very good at compromise, but after thinking about it for a while, he decided not to persuade him.

Tang Xing is a fan of His Majesty, isn't Li Binyan a die-hard fan of His Majesty?

Relying on his own merits, Liu Yongcheng said again and again that His Majesty is not worthy of the throne, His Majesty is not worthy of the throne, and King Jili, who is so stupid that he forced the incorruptible Beijing officials to borrow the New Year, is worthy. ?So stupid that the elite civil engineers of the Ming Dynasty were wiped out in the First World War, and even the British Duke Zhang Fu had no bones left, so King Jili deserved it?

The corner of Liu Yongcheng's mouth twitched, looked around Xingang again, closed his eyes for a long time before shaking his head and said: "Your Majesty is wise."

After all, Liu Yongcheng gave up. Since he dared to openly oppose the abolition of Zhu Jianshen's crown prince in front of the emperor, he was naturally not afraid of Tang Xing, the father-in-law of the country, or Li Binyan, the governor of Songjiang.

When Liu Yongcheng came out to fight for Emperor Taizong Wen, these two didn't know where to stay.

Liu Yongcheng's softness is to be soft to His Majesty, but also to himself. He has eyes and ears. He can see and listen. There are many important matters that courtiers care about. During the orthodox years, it was too common. Everyone I am used to it, and it is impossible to get it to the court for a court meeting, and it will not even cause any waves.

"That's right." Tang Xing was happy, patted Liu Yongcheng and said: "My old Tang speaks straight. Wherever I go, I serve His Majesty. I eat the king's salary and do my best."

"The father-in-law is the master, and our family is the servant. This admonition is as it should be. The father-in-law is talking to the governor. Our family boards the ship first." Liu Yongcheng said with a smile.

Liu Yongcheng said this humbly, but there is only one master of the eunuch, and that is His Majesty.

After Liu Yongcheng said this, he lifted his hem, looked down at the trestle bridge, raised his leg and took a solemn step, just like this, lifted his hem, step by step, solemnly boarded the Haining, which is the flagship of the Daming Navy , is also the flagship of this voyage south.

Standing on the boat, Liu Yongcheng glanced back at Xingang, and then smiled all over his face. He, a remnant of the old era, finally boarded the huge ship of the new era.

"Treasure." Li Binyan had thousands of words to say, but in the end only one thing remained.

"I, Tang Xing, will come back again!" Tang Xing said with a smile: "At that time, let's have a good time."

"A gentleman's word!"

"It's hard to chase a horse!"

After Tang Xing finished speaking, he turned around and walked along the trestle bridge towards the sea boat.

"set sail!"

The sailors chanted and pulled the sails. The hooks and locks of the towing ships were hung on the huge ship, and they began to tow the ships out of the port. Afterwards, Da Ming's ships came out in a file, startling countless birds.

Li Binyan has been watching Daming's ship disappear into the sky, still standing on the sea view tower, without saying a word, as if there are still Daming's ships there.

"Governor Li, it's time to do something." Chen Zongqing reminded Li Binyan that he had important things to do today.

Last year, the Songjiang Baoyuan Bureau cleared the accounts and found more than 30 bad debts. Of these 30 bad debts, Baoyuan Bureau disposed of more than 20 of them. The remaining ten or so were really impossible to clear, so they directly sued the officials. .

There are about 130 million silver coins in these more than ten accounts, which is not a small amount. Take the Jingying during the Zhengtong period as an example. At that time, the Beijing camp used only 14 taels of silver a year. For more than ten years of orthodox Beijing camp needs.

What Li Binyan had to do was ransack the house.

How about saying that all the powerful and powerful people on the ground in the south of the Yangtze River miss His Majesty the Emperor?Even when His Majesty the Emperor made his southern tour, there were so many powerful families in the Southern Yamen, what they did most was to ask if they could send their daughters to the Emperor's bedside instead of fighting against the Emperor.

Because His Majesty the Emperor will give earnest advice, issue edicts over and over again, and tirelessly warn those who are powerful and powerful, that this wealth cannot be made, this money cannot be earned, and he will explain why this national calamity cannot be distributed, which will make it difficult for the court. Do it, embarrassing the emperor, when the time comes, the court will have to kill for the sake of Daming's face.

But Li Binyan and Li Xian, the Songjiang governors and Yingtian governors, only ransacked their homes, and they rushed to copy the means of production, directly uprooting them.

"Last year last year, because of the Cochin War, the Songjiang Mansion responded with high food prices. At that time, the Songjiang Mansion kept issuing notices. Once the big ships arrived at the port, the food prices would definitely drop. Rich people should not be greedy, but we, people are soft-spoken, No one listened to what he said, and no one believed it. As a result, neither Li Yimin nor Li Sicheng stopped selling grain during the war with Daming. How can the price continue to be maintained?" Li Binyan said helplessly.

Most of these more than ten bad debts were fried food from the year before last or last year. As a result, the food still arrived in Hong Kong as scheduled. Even if the Annan Li Dynasty was about to perish, the contract must be fulfilled. It was beyond everyone's expectations. There is a deficit of more than 130 million silver coins.

"It's just blindfolded by greed. If you don't listen, don't read, don't smell, you will lose your fortune." Chen Zongqing doesn't think these people are pitiful at all. If they really let them raise the price of food, the people of Daming will pay the bill in the end. Well, there are many cotton fields in Songjiang Prefecture, and there is no grain production at all. If the price of grain rises, in the end, the savings that the common people have accumulated in the past few years will all fall into the pockets of these powerful people.

It's what he deserved to end up like this now.

Li Binyan said fiercely: "What is the most hateful thing? He obviously has money, but he just doesn't pay it back, and wants to transfer the loss to the court. Then the court asked the Baoyuan Bureau for the shortfall, and the Baoyuan Bureau asked for it. Sun Bingfu, will you give your majesty his head?"

"Take the Wuta Song family as an example. Originally they borrowed money from the Baoyuan Bureau to build a factory, but the factory was not built. Just after leveling the ground, the Song family embezzled the money for other purposes and threw it on the grain. In the end, he lost the bottom line. His family still has a thousand hectares of fertile land, three gardens, and several workshops. They can always be repaid if they are sold. trick, then you can only copy the house."

The Wuta Song family that Li Binyan was talking about was not in Songjiang, but in Suzhou. Li Binyan, a governor of Songjiang, naturally couldn’t run wild in the boundaries of Suzhou, but the governor of Jiangsu and the prefect of Suzhou had already passed the gas. Li Binyan wanted to do it. They can help out.

This Wuta Song family resold their ancestral property to distant relatives at an extremely low price, and then said that they were destitute and unable to pay back the money.

Li Binyan had no choice but to ransack the house. He was a scholar, and he wanted everyone to be decent, but he was a little poor, so he had to do it.

Chen Zongqing sneered and said: "At the end of the day, it's the Song family who can't turn his head around. He thinks that he needs wind and rain on the ground of Wu Tower. You can fool things, this is no longer an orthodox era, and this method is useless."

"Not everyone is like Liu Yongcheng, who is willing to turn around."

During His Majesty's southern tour, Renhe Xia's head was taken away by His Majesty. This set of calamities played by Ren and Xia was a very common phenomenon in the Ming Dynasty. Poaching the corners of Daming is not the only disaster. To avoid this set, this is where the vassal kings, nobles, eunuchs, civil officials, generals, gentry, subordinates, and merchants all waved their hoes together to participate in the grand event.

But this is the Jingtai year, which is no longer the orthodox year.

This Wuta Song family thought that they could continue to distribute the losses to the court as they did during the Zhengtong years, that was a dream.

"Then let's go, ransack the house." Li Binyan stomped his feet, and took a solemn look at the line between the sea and the sky. He couldn't go to the sky, so he should do the things in front of him.