Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 129 My Majesty's Great Means
Ma Mingpao arrested people all night.

The city of Nanjing was also disturbed and stayed up all night.

When Gao Hongtu came to the cabinet office to take up duty, he happened to meet Jiang Yueguang.

I saw Jiang Riguang yawned a few times with two panda eyes in his eyes. He was old, after all, he was an old man in his sixties, and his energy was not as good as before.

"Old Jiang Ge, you didn't sleep well last night?"

"Don't mention it, the old man didn't close his eyes for a night of noise outside last night."

"You guys have been making noise all night? I thought it was only my side that was making noise."

As soon as Gao Hongtu finished speaking, Shi Kefa and Xie Xuelong walked in together.

Shi Kefa was younger after all, so it was fine, but Xie Xuelong was also yawning profusely.

Gao Hongtu and Jiang Yueguang asked Xie Xuelong at the same time: "Mr. Xiege, are you making a fuss?"

"Don't mention it." Xie Xuelong said with a dark face, "My useless Ji Zi took a few classmates and made a fuss all night in Baishu Lane, just to grab some dirt sticks."

"The co-author was the students from the Imperial College arresting people last night?"

Gao Hongtu and Jiang Riguang couldn't help being a little dumbfounded.

What does this say?Shouldn't grabbing the soil stick be the job of the yamen servant?Why did the students from Guozijian go to the neighborhood to arrest people?Ever since the Holy Majesty returned to Nanjing, everything has been in chaos.

Not long after the four elders came to sit down in the lobby of the court room, Lu Daqi, Minister of the Ministry of War, hurried over.

The Ming Dynasty has been a civilian government since the Tumu Fortress, and the military power in Nanjing has always been in the hands of the Minister of the Nanjing Ministry of War. The Minister of the Nanjing Ministry of War is also a rare official in Liudu who holds real power.

"Your Majesty, see the four elders." Lu Daqi paid respects to the four of them.

"No." Shi Kefa waved his hand and said, "Dongchuan, have you checked it out?"

"Looking back, I have already found out what I said." Lu Daqi said, "The new deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ma Mingpao, led more than [-] students from the Imperial College and more than [-] scholars who were summoned to Nanjing, and arrested them all night last night. The criminals arrested the hundreds of attendants and more than a thousand minions of Han Zanzhou, the former Nanjing garrison eunuch."

"So that's what happened." Shi Kefa nodded happily.

"It's a good thing, someone should come out and deal with these sticks."

Gao Hongtu asked, "What did Dong Chuan just say, the deputy head of the House of Internal Affairs? Ma Mingyu? He is not the magistrate of Yangzhou, but went to be the deputy head of the House of Internal Affairs?"

"Who says it's not?" Lu Daqi said angrily, "Ma Mingpao is just messing around."

Of course Lu Daqi should be angry, because Ma Mingpao's actions have infringed his authority as Minister of the Ministry of War.

Shi Kefa and Gao Hongtu looked at each other, and they all saw a smile in each other's eyes. It seems that the Holy Majesty still understands the rules, and he really acquiesced that the Ministry of Internal Affairs is equal to the departments.

At that moment Shi Kefa said: "Dongchuan, let him do this matter."

"Ah?" Shi Kefa's reaction surprised Lu Daqi.

But Shi Kefa said, "Dongchuan, you are the Minister of War of the Ming Dynasty."

Lu Daqi was awakened immediately, yes, he is now the Minister of the Ministry of War of Ming Dynasty, not the Minister of the Ministry of War of Liudu, so he really shouldn't just stare at the one-third of an acre of land in Nanjing.

Ma Mingpao wants to make a fuss, but let him do it.

"I would like to be taught by you." Lu Daqi bowed again and left.

As a result, as soon as Lu Daqi left, Zhang Youyu came in again.

"Four elders, have you heard about it?" Zhang Youyu asked.

"What did you hear?" Gao Hongtu said unhappily as he picked up the ginseng tea.

"Meishan Enlightenment!" Zhang Youyu couldn't tell whether to laugh or cry, "It's spread all over Nanjing."

"Meishan enlightened?" Shi Kefa frowned and said, "What Meishan enlightened? I don't know why."

Xie Xuelong asked with great interest: "But a certain eminent monk from Meishan has attained enlightenment? Where is Meishan?"

None of the four elders connected the Meishan in Zhang Youyu's mouth with the Meishan in their memory. After all, there are so many repeated place names in the world, I don't know how many Meishan there are.

"Where else can there be a coal mountain?" Zhang Youyu smiled wryly.

"Of course it's the coal mountain in the Forbidden City in the capital."

"The coal mountain in the Forbidden City of the capital?" Xie Xuelong was stunned for a moment, and then realized, "Ah!"

Jiang Yueguang also came to his senses at the same time, and said in a low voice, "You mean the sage went to Meishan to realize Taoism?"

"Puff!" The ginseng tea that Gao Hongtu had just drank into his mouth suddenly spurted out, spraying Zhang Youyu's face.

Zhang Youyu wiped off the tea soup on his face with his sleeve, glared at Gao Hongtu angrily, and said to Gao Ge that you have gone too far, you did it on purpose, right?

"Jinghan, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry."

Gao Hongtu quickly handed the towel to Zhang Youyu.

"It's okay." Zhang Youyu could only hold back his anger.

"Who is talking nonsense?" Gao Hongtu's face darkened, "Meishan enlightened? Can they really get such flattery? Don't feel ashamed and panic, huh!"

Jiang Yueguang suddenly said: "However, the Holy Majesty's temperament has changed a lot since Meishan, and he suddenly became a soldier. I have never heard that the Holy Majesty knows soldiers before."

"Huh?" Shi Kefa and Xie Xuelong fell into deep thought one after another.

This change of the Holy Majesty is somewhat similar to Duke Yangming's Longchang Enlightenment.

"What do you know about soldiers? Didn't we discuss this matter before?" Gao Hongtu was in a hurry, "It must be Hu Xinshui who led a thousand barbarians into the capital to rescue the Holy One and then unexpectedly transferred to Yanshan. This escaped the bandits. Chasing and killing them, and then taking advantage of the war between the rogues and Jianu to protect the Holy One and return to the south, this is not the work of the Holy One."

"What about the great victory in Xuzhou?" Jiang Riguang said, "There must be no fake news, right?"

"Who knows if it's true or not?" Gao Hongtu said, "In short, beheading more than nine thousand levels, I absolutely don't believe it."

"Why don't you believe in this matter?" Jiang Riguang insisted on his own opinion this time, "Du Yinxi witnessed it with his own eyes, can it be false?"

Gao Hongtu was speechless. After all, he recognized Du Yinxi's character. He was really a gentleman. He said that the beheading of more than [-] slaves in the Battle of Xuzhou must be more than [-].

Xie Xuelong said quietly: "So the Holy One has really enlightened?"

Jiang Yueguang and Zhang Youyu almost blurted out: "Very likely."

Only Shi Kefa and Gao Hongtu looked at each other silently without making a sound.

……

"What, Meishan enlightened?"

Chongzhen almost spit out the porridge he just drank.

"Well, Meishan enlightened." Zhu Cijiong nodded vigorously, "It's spread all over the outside world."

"Which boring person is making this silly nonsense?" Chongzhen shook his head and laughed, "It's simply ridiculous."

However, Zhu Cihong said to Chongzhen very seriously: "Father, in fact, my son also feels the same, and feels that after the accident at Meishan, you seem to have become a different person, Father."

"En." Zhu Cijiong also nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.

The two of them get along with Chongzhen day and night, and they undoubtedly have the most say.

"Uh, is that so? Maybe so." Chongzhen couldn't help being a little embarrassed.

That's because I'm not your real father, I just borrowed his body.

Speaking of this meal, Chongzhen said again: "Lang'er, Jiong'er, eat quickly. After eating, go back to Nangong with your father. Ma Mingpa caught a very interesting guy last night."

After finishing speaking, I thought to myself, who made it up?

Meishan enlightenment?Just embarrassing.

……

"Ha chirp! Ha chirp! Ha chirp!"

Kang Wanwan who passed downstairs sneezed loudly three times.

"Father, why did you come back?" The window on the second floor opened, and a dark cloud poked out.

With the rising sun, one can see the delicate dimple of a bullying Saixue, and a pair of big watery eyes.

"Girl, you got up so early?" Kang Wanwan rubbed his nose with a slightly unnatural expression on his face. He was caught by his daughter when he went shopping in a brothel.

The girl said: "Go back and tell Aniang."

"Don't, don't." Kang Wanwan shook his hands anxiously, "Don't tell your mother."

"You don't go to the brothel to fool around with those vicious girls, I won't sue my mother." The girl came down from the embroidery building as she said.

"Girl, you really wronged daddy this time." Kang Wanwan smiled wryly, "Daddy is here to visit the brothel by order, so I can't do it if I don't go. If daddy doesn't go, I will defy the order and have to be beheaded."

"Going to brothels by order? Only ghosts believe it." The girl snorted.

"Really, Dad really didn't lie to you." Kang Wanwan said anxiously, "If you don't believe it, you can ask your Uncle Fang and Uncle Zhang. They can prove it for Dad."

The girl said in amazement: "The Holy One really ordered you to go to the brothel?"

"This time I really ordered to visit brothels." Kang Wanwan said, "It's Meixianglou, but the Holy Majesty invited not only Dad, but also your Uncle Fang, Uncle Zhang and hundreds of merchants."

The girl asked: "Your Majesty invited you to Meixiang Tower, why?"

"Pay raising." Kang Wanwan talked about what happened in Meixiang Tower last night, and said, "Girl, the Holy Majesty's debt issuance is a bit unclear to me, you can analyze it."

The girl said: "What is Father worried about?"

"Of course I'm worried about losing all my money." Kang Wanwan said, "If this matter is unreliable, then just put in the more than [-] taels of silver that Ma Mingpao returned to our Kang family, and we will add more money when it is up to the sky." One point makes up half a million yuan, but if it is profitable, then spend all your money to make a big one, and invest him two million taels!"

The girl frowned her pretty willow-leaf eyebrows and fell into deep thought.

After a while, the girl Liu Mei raised her eyebrows and said, "Father, the Holy Majesty's move is really a good idea. On the surface, it seems that the Holy Majesty is using Xuzhou's four million mu of official land as collateral to issue [-] million bonds."

"The price per mu of official land is only five taels, not expensive, right?"

"But in fact, the Holy One only sold one million acres of official land."

"That is to say, the Holy Admiral sold one million acres of official land for [-] million yuan! Twenty taels per mu is a sky-high price!"

"How could it be?" Kang Wanwan obviously couldn't understand, "The Holy One obviously mortgaged the four million acres of official land, and if the bond fails to pay the principal and interest when the bond expires, it will have to be paid off with the four million acres of official land. Can it be said that the Holy Admiral sold one million acres of official land for a sky-high price of [-] million taels? Girl, you have a problem with this statement."

"Father, things are not that simple, there is a trap here." The girl sighed softly.

"Listen to your daughter to tell you in detail, and then you will understand."

(End of this chapter)