Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 2277 Economy and Party Struggle () Journey to the West Case ()

The night before Gao Pragmatic was scheduled to return to take charge of matters, the four bosses of "Jinghua Weekly", "Half Moon Shi Lun", "Yanjing Weekly", and "Economic Ten Years" met together again based on the notice they had received previously. owner.

This time, Gao Pragmatic summoned them not to simply listen to the report on the effectiveness of the propaganda war in the previous stage, but to ask several shopkeepers who are good at public opinion warfare to make some suggestions for the "Journey to the West Case" - of course, the premise is that these suggestions must first meet the requirements. The basic requirement of high pragmatism is to not only attack the two royal palaces, but also ensure that the book "Journey to the West" and its author will not be implicated.

Originally, Gao pragmatic thought that this matter would not be easy to handle and did not have much hope that a satisfactory result could be negotiated. However, he really made a mistake this time because he underestimated the power of professionals.

The four major shopkeepers offered their suggestions and suggestions, and they quickly reached a consensus: accusing the two princes of using the topic to hide evil intentions, deliberately compiling people or things that were not metaphorical in the original "Journey to the West", and deliberately compiling them into words. Make it ambiguous and cause readers to unconsciously make wrong associations.

The four shopkeepers not only reached a consensus on the strategy, but also brought the recently obtained rubbings of the original manuscript of "Journey to the West" and the rubbings of the revised draft proposed by Zhou Di and Jing Di to give Gao pragmatic analysis on the spot.

According to their comparison, both Zhou Di and Jing Di did make suggestions for revisions to the manuscript, and each made additions, deletions, and modifications to some details. Not only that, they also brought some new news. For example, in addition to Zhou Di and Jing Di, Lu Di was also involved.

But this matter is complicated because there are too many forces involved, so that there are multiple versions of "Journey to the West", of which the "Shi De Tang Ben" mentioned by Han Xu is just one of them.

For example, as for Zhou Di, it has two separate versions, which are divided into "Zhou Di Manuscript" and "Zhou Di Publication"; and Wu Chengen was an official in the Prince Jing's Palace, so he also has "Wu Chengen Manuscript" and "Jing Di Publication". There are two copies of "this book"; Lu Di also has two copies, which are divided into "Lufu version" and "Dengzhoufu version"... and so on.

In the end, even Gao Pragmatic himself felt that his head was overwhelmed, so he simply decided that "professional people do professional things" and directly assigned tasks to the four shopkeepers, asking them to go back and summon their subordinates to organize the whole business according to the principles he had stated before. Summarize the matter, and finally write a complete statement according to the consensus just reached and hand it to yourself.

The four shopkeepers immediately returned to the city after receiving the order - although the capital still had a curfew system, just like Gao Pragmatic when he was a boy, curfews could only be banned for ordinary people. The four major shopkeepers returned to the city with high-pragmatic tokens, and no one who was short-sighted would stop them.

Early the next morning, Gao Pingshi entered the city calmly. When the morning was almost over, he leisurely arrived at Wenyuan Pavilion, where the cabinet office is located.

At the same time, Zhu Yijun was very proactive. When he heard that Gao Pragmatic's driver had arrived at Donghua Gate, the emperor drove to the cabinet to wait for him. So when Gao pragmatic arrived, the emperor had already sent Chen Ju to greet him at the gate of Wenyuan Pavilion, and told Lord Yuanfu by the way, "Your Majesty has been waiting in your room for a while."

As soon as Gao Pangshi entered the courtyard, the two cabinet elders led a group of Guanzheng Jinshi and accompanying officials who were on duty in the cabinet and hurriedly came forward to greet him. They praised Gao Yuanfu in front of Chen Ju. Naturally, it was all about "world affairs." Gathered together in the pavilion, the foolish and talented people are incompetent, fearing that the administration will be wrong, and have been trembling with fear recently, waiting for Yuan Fu to come back to take care of things. They are like dry rivers looking forward to sweet rain." Such scenes are said.

Gao pragmatically gave warm words of comfort to the two pavilion elders, and encouraged the subordinates in the pavilion respectively, and finally went to his own room to meet the saint. Zhu Yijun witnessed this scene with his own eyes from the window of the high-pragmatic room, his face calm but thoughtful.

When Gao pragmatic arrived at the door and heard Chen Jutong's report, Zhu Yijun sighed first, then immediately cheered up and walked to the door in person. He smiled and waved to Gao pragmatically and said, "Rixin, you are so polite. This is what you deserve." Room, I am an uninvited guest... Come on, come in."

As soon as Gao Qingshi entered the door, Zhu Yijun continued to smile, pretending to pour tea, and said: "It's not easy to invite you back to the pavilion! I serve tea in person today as a welcome, is that okay?"

Gao Pingshi quickly stopped him and said: "Your Majesty has become a minister, how can you have the courtesy of a king serving tea to his ministers? Your Majesty, please sit down while I serve tea to the emperor."

Zhu Yijun refused, and in turn grabbed Gao Pragmatic and said: "The Prime Minister is sitting here discussing Taoism, so you don't need to serve me tea...Chen Ju, it's up to you to make the tea."

Gao Pinggong said sincerely: He is indeed a domestic slave in front of you, the emperor, but according to the official customs of the Ming Dynasty, he is a dignified "internal minister" even in front of me, the chief minister. You do this... It seems that you really think that I am very concerned about this impeachment case, thinking that my delay in returning to the cabinet for so long is just for the sake of face, so I want to use Chen Ju's face to give me a favor? Fortunately, Chen Ju and I have known each other for many years and have a close friendship. Otherwise, if you messed with me like this, you might have ruined this "internal and external relationship".

He guessed right. One of Chen Ju's greatest strengths is that he is very self-aware and does not think that he has any shame in making tea for Gao Pragmatic - not to mention making tea for the emperor. It is his duty - So I went to carefully make a pot of tea with a smile.

At this time, Zhu Yijun and Gao pragmatic monarchs and ministers had already taken their seats. Zhu Yijun pointed to the hill-like pile of memorials on Gao Pingshi's desk, pursed his lips and said, "Look, is it the same as what I said? You have been away from the cabinet for more than ten days, and the backlog of affairs has already reached countless levels. If you don't come for a few more days, I'm afraid the court will simply close down." This is definitely an exaggeration. Gao Pingshi didn't take it seriously. He just smiled and shook his head and said, "This is just because the emperor has decided to protect his vassal. Therefore, it is inconvenient for the emperor to go beyond the rules. If the emperor decides to let me go back to my hometown to retire, how can I really not make up my mind on these matters? "

Zhu Yijun waved his hand, pretending to be too lazy to argue with you, and said: "I won't mention the things I discussed with you last time. I came to the cabinet to wait for you today because of another sudden incident. You must have heard the news... Han Xu impeached Zhou Di and Jing Di to use "Journey to the West" to satirize the court, which also involved Gao Wenzhenggong, your uncle and nephew, and even the emperor's grandfather and me. "

He stared into Gao Pragmatic's eyes and asked slowly: "In your opinion, what's the mystery of this matter?"

Gao Pragmatic was silent for a moment, shook his head and said: "Anything like satirizing the imperial court, I think it is just to make excuses. Besides, this kind of incident has always been justified by the public and the mother-in-law. If the court uses this to pursue the so-called guilt, the world is afraid If no one dares to write any more, wouldn’t it mean that the people’s words are better than those of Sichuan? I think the imperial court should be magnanimous.”

Zhu Yijun raised his eyebrows slightly and continued to ask: "That's all?"

Gao pragmatic smiled and said: "The key to this matter, how can the emperor not see it with his wisdom? It's just that some people in the court thought that the previous measures to open the vassal ban were not complete, and they hoped to use this matter to take advantage of Zhou Di ”

Zhu Yijun could obviously see this, and was not surprised to hear Gao Pangshi say this. He just asked: "Rixin, you are the chief assistant and also a local official. This so-called 'create a new source of wealth' is your job... What do you mean? How about next?”

"The emperor also said that I am a local official." Gao Pingshi sighed softly and said: "As a local official, it is natural to be able to make a lot of money. However, the affairs of the vassal king are not only state affairs, but also family affairs of the heavenly family. . I can advise on state affairs, but I have no right to interfere in the affairs of the Heavenly Family..."

"Come on, come on, it's not like you haven't intervened in the royal family affairs before." Zhu Yijun curled his lips and said, "Last time the ban on the vassal state was lifted, it involved millions of relatives, and you intervened as you said, but now you tell me that you have no right to interfere... I think that apart from the harem, there is nothing in this world that you don't interfere with."

Gao Pragmatic's face turned solemn, and he was about to defend himself, but Zhu Yijun stopped him with his hand: "No need to explain, I don't intend to blame you. I know that you have to take care of the things you have to take care of, and you don't take care of those things just for yourself. ...Anyway, I hope you know that you and I are not just monarchs and ministers."

After a pause, and not waiting for a pragmatic reply, Zhu Yijun said again: "So at this moment, I just want to ask you, is it Han Xu's own initiative, or is it because the court has to spend too much money recently, so you Let him come forward to attack some feudal kings? "

The emperor actually asked this? Gao Pragmatic was startled for a moment and suddenly realized: Yes, yes, many places across the country have been hit by disasters this year. The imperial court has spent a large amount of extra disaster relief money. However, the Western Expedition and the preparation for the Zen Ceremony also require a huge amount of money, so the emperor also began to doubt Whether the finances can support it.

Under this kind of suspicion, Han Xu's incident made it difficult for him not to suspect that in order to continue "open source", I had murderous intentions towards the vassal kings everywhere, and wanted to use their royal property to make up for the financial hole... …Well, it does make sense.

Gao pragmatic thought again: Hey, since the emperor thinks so, it seems that he can take advantage of it?

Now the imperial court has three major additional expenses: disaster relief is related to the emperor's reputation among the people. As long as he still wants to be a wise king, this money must not be saved; needless to say, the Western Expedition, recovering the Western Regions is something that even Emperor Taizu did not do. As long as there is hope for great achievements, the emperor will definitely not save money here; the same is true for the Zen Ceremony, which is a concrete manifestation of the "Wanli Zhongxing", and it will definitely not save money... and the money to be spent here is not only in Mount Tai. One place also includes a trip to Nanjing to visit and pay homage to Xiaoling Mausoleum, so it is even more impossible to save.

Gao pragmatically said: In this way, the court really needs money, a large sum of money. Although I had predicted these expenditures and found a source for the money, since the emperor didn't know about it and had wrong associations at the same time... it would be better to just make the mistake.

It makes sense for Gao Pragmatic to think this way. Although Zhu Yijun was extremely generous to his younger brother King Lu and his beloved son King Fu in the original history, his attitude towards the other kings could only be described as "following the old system". It can't be said that he didn't care, but he also It's not like I particularly care.

Judging from his performance in this life, his attitude towards other vassal kings seems to have been affected by his high pragmatism, and has become a little worse than in the original history - you all robbed me of my money!

Therefore, Gao Jingshi immediately changed his mind, nodded slightly, but then shook his head and said: "I have not given such instructions to Han Xu or anyone else, but I believe that if someone wants to do this, he will do so." It makes sense.”

Zhu Yijun got Gao Pragmatic's confidence and pondered. After a moment, he asked, "What step do you want to take?" Then, before Gao Pragmatic could answer, he got ahead of him and said, "I've said it first, except for the country." It’s impossible, I can’t be so heartless.”
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