Daming: Lend the system to Emperor Hongwu at the beginning

Chapter 158 The day of Ming Dynasty is about to change

"I called you here today to see Hai Rui's memorabilia!"

Zhu Yuanzhang pointed to the table next to him and said: "I read this memorial back and forth in the middle of the night. To be honest, I have been in the Ming Dynasty for more than 100 years. I counted the Tang, Song and even Yuan dynasties. Over such a mad bureaucrat!"

"We heard that the Xin'an River embankment was built just last year, and it cost the court 180 million taels of silver."

"Hehe... This year, in order to change rice into mulberry, we directly destroyed dikes and flooded fields, and bought ordinary people's fields cheaply to grow mulberry and silkworms, and earn the money for 50 bolts of silk. Then I have to ask you, what are you doing with the money? ?”

"Do you want to repair the embankment of the Xin'an River?"

"Plop!" Yan Song and Xu Jie who had just sat down heard this and knelt down again with a plop.

Something is wrong, today's emperor is very wrong.

They have served Emperor Jiajing for more than 20 years, and they know the emperor very well. They don't like to explain everything directly, but give you lantern riddles, poems and so on for you to guess by yourself.

You guessed it right, if it is done well, it will win my heart, and I will be promoted to a noble.

If you can’t do it well, then there’s nothing you can do. Whether you’re dismissed from office or lost your position or beheaded and ransacked your home has nothing to do with me. I’m just giving you a lantern riddle, and you’re thinking too much.

In a word, you don't want me to take the blame for this.

The final interpretation of these lantern riddles, calligraphy and paintings handed down belongs to me.

But today's Emperor Jiajing no longer talked about Daoism, Qingci, poetry and painting, but went straight to the topic, and directly spread all the interests behind the Xin'an River embankment breach in Zhejiang on the table. .

They had never seen Emperor Jiajing like this before, and they were even caught off guard for a while.

I had already made a draft in my heart, and the various dialogue routines I had prepared were all stuck in my throat for a while, and I couldn't say a word.

"Don't be dazed, get up and read Hai Rui's memorabilia carefully!" Zhu Yuanzhang reminded.

Only then did the two cabinet ministers come to their senses, and hurriedly got up to read the memorial.

Especially Yan Song, the bad premonition in his heart is getting stronger and stronger. It is Yan Shifan who destroyed the embankment and flooded the fields. How could he, a father, not know.

Originally, he had already made clear the stakes to Emperor Jiajing through political games.

Tell Jiajing that Yan Shifan did this to raise money for Hu Zongxian who fought against the Japanese in the southeast. If this case is exposed, not only Yan Shifan but also himself will fall, and even Hu Zongxian, who suppressed this matter at the beginning, will follow suit bad luck.

At that time, do you still want to do Southeast Anti-Japanese War?
Your Majesty, do you still need someone to govern your world?
Originally thought that the emperor would bear the burden of humiliation and suppress this case for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, but he didn't expect that today's memorial was placed in front of himself and Xu Jie in such a grand manner.

"Could it be that the emperor is really willing to die, and even if the Ming Dynasty is full of wars, he will take his old life?"

"Is this still the Emperor Jiajing who is well versed in the way of political balance?" Yan Song felt for the first time that things were beyond his control.

On the opposite side, Xu Jie's psychological changes were just the opposite.

He understood that since Hai Rui's memorabilia had been laid out on the table, it meant that the emperor was going to be strict. This was great news for him.

Then many things can start to be deployed.

There were huge waves in their hearts, but their faces were calm. Even though Yan Song knew that after reading the memorial, Yan Shifan and himself would probably die, but he still looked calm at the moment.

Zhu Yuanzhang just looked at the faces of the two great scholars with such interest, and was very impressed by the city of the two.

These two people were able to stand out in the fierce political struggle during the Jiajing period, and they did not fall down for two to thirty years, and they did have some skills.

Only this skill of nourishing qi is not weaker than that of Li Shanchang in the early Ming Dynasty.

Thanks to the emergence of Confucian and Taoist talents, although Yan Song, who is 81 years old this year, still looks old and dying, he is neither deaf nor blind.

So he quickly saw the key.

Sure enough, as he expected, Yan Shifan's name appeared in it, and there were even letters as evidence.

In an instant, Yan Song's eyes widened, his face was shocked, and he knelt down in front of Zhu Yuanzhang with a plop.

"Your Majesty, this subject is guilty." He burst into tears for a moment, and burst into tears.

"This old bastard is pretending again!"

"It's a pity that it's useless for you to pretend again this time!" Xu Jie beside him had a flash of joy in his heart, but he also had a heartbroken look on his face, sighed heavily, and knelt down beside Yan Song.

At the same time, he had already begun to plan in his mind how to use this matter to make a big fuss, and completely wiped out the strict party.

"What are you guilty of?"

However, Zhu Yuanzhang's next sentence suddenly made Xu Jie feel suspicious again.

"Yan Shifan is guilty, not you Yan Song!"

Zhu Yuanzhang narrowed his eyes slightly, glanced at Xu Jie and said in a deep voice, "Bring Yan Shifan here!"

Soon a group of Jin Yiwei walked in with a middle-aged man with disheveled hair.

The person who came was Yan Shifan, who looked as if he had been dragged out of the bed.

Moreover, there were bloodstains all over his body, obviously he had been interrogated by surprise.

Seeing this scene, Yan Song's heart suddenly twitched.

"Yan Shifan, come and tell me, did Yan Song instruct you to destroy the embankment and flood the fields?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"I did it alone. I don't do my father's business. If you want to kill or cut it, you will do it!"

"However, Your Majesty, you have to think about it. I did this for the national policy of changing rice to mulberry, for this country, and for Your Majesty."

"Can't you see how many people in the entire Ming Dynasty are sincerely working for you?"

"You can kill my head and the nine clans of my Yan family. I want to see who can get you so much money for you to build a palace and practice Taoism." Yan Shifan squinted his eyes and his face was full. grimly said.

"Yan Shifan, shut up!" Yan Song next to him shouted sharply.

Yan Shifan, who was talking for a moment, really shut his mouth, unable to speak a word.

This is a kind of Confucianism called Shenyan. After you master it, you can speak amazingly, and the sound can be heard thousands of miles away. .

"Hehe!" Zhu Yuanzhang chuckled, did not stop Yan Song, but turned his head and glanced at the real Emperor Jiajing who was as quiet as a chicken next to him. The gaze made Emperor Jiajing feel a chill down his back, and he felt a little guilty.

He waved his hand, and Yan Shifan was immediately taken down by Jin Yiwei.

"Yan Shifan has already confessed to what he has committed, and according to our thinking, Ling Chi will naturally come."

"But because Mr. Yan Ge has worked hard for Daming for 20 years, let's not kill him. Lock him in Zhao Prison and sentence him to life imprisonment!"

Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head to look at Yan Song and Xu Jie: "What do you two elders think of this solution?"

"Your Majesty is wise!" Both of them were a little confused at the moment, not knowing what kind of medicine Zhu Yuanzhang was selling in the gourd, so they could only wait and see what happened.

"This case involves a lot!"

"There is also a relationship with the Manufacturing Bureau!"

"Now that the culprit, Yan Shifan, has been arrested and brought to justice, the little devils below will naturally be caught!"

"Yan Song, we will leave this job to you to handle with full authority. You should go to Zhejiang in person, where all your people belong. You should know better than us who should be killed and who should not be killed!"

Zhu Yuanzhang continued: "Let's talk about it with you!"

"What we want are people who can do things. We can tolerate such people being greedy for a little money. After all, the current environment is like this, but the bottom line of being an official is still to be guarded. If it's the kind of idiot who doesn't do anything but only corrupts, give it to me." We killed them all."

"In a word, you must sort out the officialdom in Zhejiang. We will promote Hai Rui to be the inspector of Zhejiang and let him assist you with full authority."

"Don't be afraid of problems, we will solve them for you."

"Your task is to sort out Zhejiang. As long as you come back, you will be the chief assistant, understand?"

"It's different!"

"The style of doing things is completely different!"

"This kind of ruthless, iron-blooded, unscrupulous style of dealing with things, as well as the resolute, almost breathless sense of oppression, can never be the current Holy One!"

"The current Holy Majesty has always focused on balance and stability. To put it bluntly, he just muddled through. How could he have made the decision just now that is likely to cause civil unrest in Zhejiang!"

Yan Song knelt on the ground, narrowed his eyes slightly, and moved quietly to see Emperor Jiajing.

A golden real dragon coiled around the opponent.

This is the emperor's body protection dragon aura. With this dragon aura, the identity of the Emperor Jiajing in front of him is unquestionable.

But why after only one night, His Majesty seems to be a different person?

Yan Song's mind was full of thoughts for a moment.

He naturally understood what Zhu Yuanzhang meant.

Go to Zhejiang to take advantage of this major case to rectify the officialdom, then Yan Shifan in Zhao Prison will be able to live, and he can even continue to be the chief assistant of the cabinet, and there is even a possibility of rescuing Yan Shifan in the future.

If he didn't go, or didn't do a good job, then Yan Shifan would probably die a miserable death, and even he, the entire Yan family behind him would have to be buried with him.

"Can he resist?"

This idea did not appear in Yan Song's mind at all. The appearance of Confucianism and Taoism talent for self-cultivation, family harmony, country governance, and world peace gave them the power to surpass ordinary people, but it was also a shackle at the same time.

Especially for great Confucians like them who entered the court as officials, if they had the idea of ​​betraying Daming in their hearts, their realm would immediately fall. At that time, there would be no other evidence of crime, only this one. Emperor Jiajing would kill him.

"Then dare to ask the emperor, the national policy of changing rice to mulberry?" Yan Song asked cautiously.

"pause!"

"Didn't the military supplies needed by Hu Zongxian to fight against the Japanese in front be handed over to Zhejiang Governor Zhao Zhenji?"

"Just let him do it with all his strength!" Zhu Yuanzhang said in a deep voice.

"But we have one thing, no one can hinder him!"

"If you let us find out, and you Yan Song dare to make a fuss about it, we will punish your nine clans, understand?" Zhu Yuanzhang narrowed his eyes slightly.

"And Xu Jie, we can tell you clearly now that from now on, there will be no strict party or clean party. We only need officials who can do things, not just talkative."

"As long as you can do something and compare Yan Song, we will let you be the chief assistant?"

"If you only want to fight for power and profit, and drag your opponent's legs behind, then you'd better pray that you won't be discovered by us, or if we find one, we will kill one...!"

Xu Jie and Yan Song left Xiyuan with solemn faces.

When they walked out of Xiyuan, the two looked at each other, and they both had a premonition that Daming's sky might really be changing.

No matter what happened to the Emperor Jiajing sitting inside, the other party's behavior style has really changed drastically.

The entire Ming court situation will soon be affected by the personality change of the supreme ruler, and this impact is likely to be earth-shattering.

"Mr. Yan Ge, walk slowly..." Xu Jie and Yan Song didn't have any conversation about this matter. After they left Xiyuan, they nodded politely and parted ways.

The sky is about to change, and everyone is so preoccupied at the moment, how can they be tempted to chat and try!

(End of this chapter)