marquis of jingan

Chapter 431
In the Palace of Ganlu, Zhao Changping looked up at the emperor, and it happened that the little emperor was also looking at this Zhao Shangshu. The eyes of the two met. Zhao Changping quickly lowered his head, avoiding the emperor's gaze.

Then, the atmosphere fell into a kind of weird embarrassment.

I don't know how long it took before the emperor waved his hand and said, "Okay, I understand Zhao Qing's meaning. I will consider this matter as appropriate. Shen Yi is doing things for me. Zhao Qing doesn't have to write a letter to blame him."

Zhao Changping bowed his head and said, "Yes, I obey."

He looked respectful: "Your Majesty, will the Ministry of Households have to enter the account of the stolen money and property confiscated by the son of Jin when he went south to patrol the sea?"

"Account..."

The emperor frowned slightly, then shook his head and said: "There is no need to enter the accounts. Didn't I transfer a few accountants from the Ministry of Accounts a few days ago? They have already been sent to the south. When they come back, they will show the accounts to the Ministry of Accounts. But Just take a look at it from the Ministry of Household Affairs, it is not easy for them to do things in the south, so there is no need to restrict them too much in terms of money."

Zhao Changping bowed his head respectfully and said, "I understand."

He stood up and cupped his hands.

"Your Majesty has nothing else to do, so I will leave."

"Ah."

The emperor waved his hand and said flatly: "Go back, Zhao Qing, I have to think about it myself."

Hearing the emperor's words, Zhao Changping hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Your Majesty, I still feel that the affairs of the capital's yamen should not be left to the local governments, otherwise the power of the local governments will grow and affect the court one day."

This is the central contradiction.

This problem has existed since ancient times and has plagued the feudal dynasties of all dynasties.

Take Shen Yi's original world as an example. During the Han and Tang Dynasties, all localities had a certain degree of military command power.

When this model evolves into the late dynasty, problems will arise. The more obvious problems are the separatist regimes of the princes in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the separatist regimes of the Jiedushi in the late Tang Dynasty.

These are essentially the loss of power and strength of the central dynasty, resulting in a situation where the branches are strong and the stems are weak.

Later dynasties absorbed the experience and lessons of this separatist regime, and the more classic way of handling it was that of the Song Dynasty, which mobilized local elites to enrich the forbidden army, resulting in the weak combat power of the local army.

At the same time, in terms of culture, culture is more important than martial arts, and even culture is more important than martial arts. The saying that only the one who calls the name of Donghuamen is a hero, completely nails the martial artist in the dust.

Has not been able to stand up since then.

But now in the world of Chen State, because of the separatism of feudal lords and towns hundreds of years ago, the current social atmosphere is also emphasizing literature and suppressing military affairs. Without combat power, he was driven to the south of the Yangtze River by barbarians 60 years ago, where he lived in peace.

Up to now, the local guards of the Chen State have very limited combat power due to hereditary military households, and Linhai Guard is the most typical example.

Moreover, many guards are empty all year round, and the actual number of people is far less than the number of people on the books.

However, emphasizing culture and suppressing martial arts has been practiced for hundreds of years, and it has been reflected in everyone's minds. Even military officers themselves feel that they are inferior to civil officials, let alone civil officials like Zhao Changping who have vested interests.

The little emperor frowned slightly. He took a deep look at his household secretary, and then said slowly, "Okay, I got it."

"Needless to say, you step back."

Zhao Shangshu sighed, bowed to the emperor, and then exited the Ganlu Hall.

After the Minister of the Household Department left the Ganlu Hall, his frowning brows slowly relaxed. He was facing south with complicated eyes.

He wanted to help Shen Yi.

There's only so much he can do now.

After Zhao Changping left, His Majesty sat alone on the soft couch in the Ganlu Hall and sulked.

He felt that the power of civil servants was a bit too great.

But he has no way to change this situation, because the power of civil servants is huge, it was not formed in a day or two, nor was it formed in 20 or [-] years. Now all aspects of the imperial court are controlled by civil servants, and it is impossible for him, the emperor, to resist The entire civil servant group.

If he was not careful, he might suffer a bit if he made trouble with the Empress Dowager.

However, the emperor still felt a little unreconciled.

The civil servants are very powerful, but in fact, there is no threat to his throne. Since ancient times, only warriors have rebelled. I have never heard that picking up a pen can cause rebellion, but the death is here.

Although these pens are not rebellious, they can be used with confidence and are very safe to use, but while they are safe, they cannot do many things.

For example, bringing powerful combat power to the court.

Out of a hundred pens, one military officer is already quite remarkable.

The little emperor was depressed for a long time by himself, and he didn't have any thoughts of reviewing the memorial. He turned his head to look at the high eunuch beside him, and said in a muffled voice: "Gao Ming, tell me, should I agree to Shen Qi's request?"

Eunuch Gao hesitated for a moment, then lowered his head slightly and said: "Your Majesty, the slaves should not interfere in matters concerning the outer court anyway, but since your majesty asked, the slaves should be bolder and take it as a way to share the worries of your majesty." ..."

He looked at the emperor, lowered his eyebrows and said: "My servant feels that if Shen Yi really has some selfish intentions, he will not make this request to the court. He is a noble scholar of the Imperial Academy, and this trip to the south to patrol the sea is just accompanying the son of the Jin Dynasty. Besides, they have almost finished this mission, the anti-Japanese army is gradually taking shape, and they have plenty of time to slowly clean up the Japanese pirates..."

"Shen Yi can come back to the imperial court and be a comfortable mansion to report to Sizheng, waiting to come out of the Imperial Academy, and be a sixth-rank official in peace..."

The emperor was silent.

Every word Gao Ming said was correct and couldn't be more correct.

After being silent for a while, Eunuch Gao said in a low voice: "Besides, the servants also read the memorabilia sent back by Du Huai. In Du Huai's memorandum, there was a conversation between him and Shen Yi. Shen Yi said that if His Majesty does not allow it, he will I will never bring up this matter again, and return to Beijing after completing my errands honestly."

"The vast majority of civil servants do that."

The eunuch in purple said slowly: "Besides, the vast majority of civil servants, for the sake of their own future, would never make such a request to His Majesty, not even once."

"Shen Yi can mention this once, the slave thinks, he is already loyal to the country."

"All right…"

The emperor waved his hand a little irritably: "Stop talking, I have to think about it myself."

Eunuch Gao bowed his head respectfully: "Yes, this servant is going to make tea for His Majesty..."

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In Taiping County, under the guidance of Chang County Magistrate, Shen Yi destroyed several Japanese pirate strongholds on several coastal islands.

However, these Japanese pirates are small groups of Japanese pirates. Adding up several strongholds together, there are less than fifty people. Among the fifty people, there are only a dozen Japanese Japanese pirates. The rest are some robbers along the coast. It's just scary to have the name of a Japanese pirate.

Although Chang County Magistrate knew about these places, he had nothing to do with these Japanese pirates. Moreover, these Japanese pirates also had connections with several local gentry in Taiping County. His family was all in Taiping County, and he was afraid that Japanese pirates would break into the county one day. , harmed his family, so he pretended not to know.

Even if Shen Yi got here, he was going to pretend not to know.

After all, more is worse than less.

If Shen Yi hadn't drank with him for a few days, he definitely wouldn't have said it.

These Japanese pirates, at this time, the combat effectiveness of Wang Xian's Japanese pirates was inferior, and most of them were captured alive by the anti-Japanese army, and they were directly brought back to Taiping County.

For Japanese pirates, there is no need to interrogate them, they can be killed directly.

Shen Yi didn't talk nonsense with these Japanese pirates either. After interrogating for one night, he was directly killed at the entrance of the market the next day, as a warning to others.

After killing these Japanese pirates, Shen Yi asked people to distribute the "reward silver" for killing the Japanese pirates. The price was fair, and a Japanese pirate was ten taels of silver in cash.

For a time, the morale of the anti-Japanese army of more than 300 people was high.

Soon, they followed Shen Yi and gathered at the gate of Taiping County, ready to continue southward.

Before parting, Chang county magistrate begged bitterly, and finally Shen Yi left fifty anti-Japanese troops in Taiping County to prevent Japanese pirates from retaliating.

Shen Yi left Taiping County with thousands of thanks from Chang County Magistrate.

Sitting in the carriage heading south, Master Shen looked at Jiankang and sighed slightly in his heart.

In a blink of an eye, it had been two or three months since he left Jiankang.

Before he left home, Junior Sister Lu was already two months pregnant.

Counting the days, the due date should be at the end of the year.

Shen Sizheng sighed slightly in his heart.

"I hope that by the end of the year, I will be able to go back to Jiankang..."

(End of this chapter)