Jingming

Chapter 235 Can water carry a boat?Stir up the water!

Being targeted by Princess Liao, Zhang Zhen could only cry out in pain.

Fortunately, although Mrs. Mao was very dissatisfied, he would not take his anger out on this obedient guard.

Zhu Zhige is already a prince, no one in the palace can stop him from doing what he wants to do, and it is impossible for the Mao family to arrange directly with the officials of the palace.

It turns out that the palace has already handed over a lot of performances, begging for kindness.

Now she could only glance at Zhang Zhen, and said, "Escort the prince back to the mansion!"

After finishing speaking, he turned his head and stared at the two trembling girls kneeling on the ground in the courtyard, and left with a flick of his sleeves.

Zhu Zhige was half-hearted but was "caught" on the spot, and felt a little uneasy at this moment.

Mao was furious, so he obediently left here and returned to the palace.

In the dormitory, Mrs. Mao had adjusted her mood and was ready to have a good talk with her husband.

Zhu Zhige was okay at the beginning, listening to her talk about the current situation and the stakes of many things.

He was relieved, after all, he didn't talk about what he did in the side courtyard.

This made Zhu Zhige even more aware of the difference after he formally proclaimed the prince. After thinking more and more, his face sank instead: "How can this king not understand these things? I was there just now, in front of my servants." , how can you reprimand this king like that? Where is the majesty of this king?"

He had the courage to say these words, but he was still quite uneasy in his heart, wondering if this temptation was considered death.

However, Mrs. Mao really saluted, and said seriously: "I was impatient, my lord, please forgive me."

Zhu Zhige was stunned: She actually admitted her mistake!
Is this the status of the real prince?
So he puffed up his chest, and was about to say something, when Mao said solemnly: "The prince cherishes his majesty, let alone let his servants look down on him, and he should behave properly! Now the grace of the Liao Fan is tied to the prince, and the prince Your Majesty will pay attention to how you act! It is often heard that His Majesty is diligent, studious, and unpredictable. Just look at how the important officials in the court are dedicated to helping His Majesty implement the new law, and you will know that Your Majesty is really majestic! The prince should take His Majesty as an example! "

Zhu Zhige felt a little pain in his head.

For so many years, this princess has always been so serious, always preaching to him.

Now he takes Zhu Houcong as his example, but Zhu Zhige only thought of one thing: "If this king takes His Majesty as an example, then he will also have two concubines and nine concubines?"

Mao was furious: Could there be something else in your mind?

However, Mao could not refute: His Majesty the Emperor had indeed set a precedent for the Ming Dynasty, choosing one empress, two concubines and nine concubines at once.

Even though the facts were so, Mao's face just changed suddenly: "The Son of Heaven has only twelve daughters, if the prince says this outside, then catastrophe will be imminent!"

"...The princes and nine daughters!" Although Zhu Zhige didn't learn well at all, he understood these things.

Faced with her husband, who is such a powerful prince, Mao only felt tired.

Don’t you know your own body?

She burst into tears: "I am not a jealous woman! I have many relatives in the Liao clan, and they are all in the forefront among the clans. Jingzhou Mansion has repeatedly stated that the burden of the Liao clan is heavy. Before that, I advised the prince not to come closer. Female sex, one is for the sake of the prince's health, and the other is worried that the court feels that the clan of the Liao clan is overburdened, so they found a reason to remove the Liao clan. Does the prince not know all my painstaking efforts?"

"This king has already been crowned a prince, but he is over [-] years old but has no heirs. Isn't this king anxious?" Seeing her crying, Zhu Zhige felt flustered and happy at the same time.

"First of all, there are many etiquette and government affairs. The prince took some time to deal with it, and then asked the court to ask the court to appoint a second concubine to continue the heirs. This is in line with the etiquette system! Name, even if someone can conceive a child for the prince, he will not be able to ask for a name in the future, doesn't the prince know about these things?"

Of course Zhu Zhige knew about it, but now he wants to fight for "power" for himself!
"If we want to talk about the fundamentals of the Liao clan, it is the most important thing for this king to have an heir as soon as possible. Ben... this king has already inquired about the secret method, so I need to practice it more!"

Mao Shi pursed her lips and gritted her teeth and looked at him: Why don't you come to me to practice?
Also, I didn't want to bring up this disturbing matter now, so why did I start arguing about it?
She took a few deep breaths to calm herself down, and said back to the topic: "Now that those performances have been handed over to the capital, the prince needs to give another performance. This time, we should not beg for favor, but find someone who will not obey the prince's discipline as soon as possible." Clan, please ask your majesty to issue an order to punish you. If you give your majesty some small mistakes, the imperial court can go along with the flow, refute the previous request, and understand the complexity and difficulty of the prince's handling of the affairs of the Liao Dynasty. God's grace!"

Zhu Zhige shook his head, and said stubbornly: "Since I am the lord of the Liao clan, how can I disregard the kindness of my clan? Those people's life is really not good."

Mao's head was dizzy, and his footsteps swayed: "The life is not good, can you still find a pair of beauties to give to the prince?"

"...The dignified general of Fuguo, with everything he has, he can only offer two slaves who have learned the secret method to this king!"

Mao was exhausted physically and mentally, but he could only hold back his temper and explain the pros and cons to him again.

Unaware of Mao's hope that he could stand up to deal with His Majesty and the court's painstaking efforts, Zhu Zhige just felt that Mao's attitude towards him was a little different now.

He didn't realize how he should handle the affairs of the palace, but he realized his supremacy within the Liao Fan.

"This king has his own calculations, the princess doesn't have to teach him how to do things from time to time!"

After Zhu Zhige swelled up, he put down these words, then shook his hands and went to the front hall.

But what Mao said still made sense.If you want to report some mistakes made by your clan relatives, those people should give themselves more things or beauties, right?
Zhu Zhige excitedly prepared to ask Zhang Zhen and the others to go and find out, to see what mistakes his relatives have made recently so that they can figure out a thing or two.

Zhu Zhige, whose limited IQ was mostly in the lower body, started to mess around, and the real burden of the Liao Fan was on Mao's shoulders.

But she is a woman, if Zhu Zhige is strong and insists, can she handle the affairs of the palace instead of Zhu Zhige?

The people sent by Chu Palace to congratulate did not expect that they didn’t need to do anything by themselves. King Liao was already begging for favors for the clansmen who gave him big gifts, and pulling the pigtails of those clansmen who didn’t give him gifts.

That being the case, it is natural to add another fire.

Whatever the king of Liao likes, he will naturally choose what he likes.

And some other people sent by the Huguang vassal were equally unambiguous.

If the emperor really intends to cut some vassals, then those vassals with the most clans are probably the main targets.Naturally, it is impossible to eradicate all feudal vassals. As long as there are "ignorant" ones who stand out, the remaining vassal kings should be appeased—just like after the death of King Chu, the court so quickly appointed Zhu Xianrong as the quasi-heir Same.

They didn't do it too obviously, but "helped" many clan members of the Liao clan other than King Liao to show their clan's righteousness.

Next, at the request of the King of Liao, many clansmen of the Liao clan, some in order to avoid misfortune, and some in order to get the annual salary or even more in the future, visited the beauties in the Jingzhou mansion for a while.After that, they forced or bought it, all for the purpose of giving it to Zhu Zhige.

In a blink of an eye, it was the day when the New Liao King's succession ceremony came. When Zhu Zhige appeared in front of everyone, his expression was haggard and his mind was in a trance, with four words written all over his face: Excessive indulgence.

Zhu Zhichen at the sealing ceremony was conflicted: this brother Wang is a bit too brainy.

It is good to spoil the body with indulgence.

But it is not good to cause many clansmen to complain and let many clansmen harm the village like this.

If the censor reported to the court, the emperor not only punished the Liao king, but used public grievances to get rid of the Liao clan, what should we do?
He felt that when the grand ceremony was over, he had to persuade Brother Wang: he had already received quite a few beauties.

In addition, should you come forward to talk to some clan members and let them restrain themselves a bit.Then send someone to the Jingzhou government office to pay some money on behalf of the king's mansion, so that the Jingzhou prefect can appease some villagers and make himself more famous?
Zhu Zhizhen thinks so, and also does so.

After the prefect of Jingzhou received the 200 taels of silver, he asked his master with a sneer: "Today, how many cases have the counties sued the clan of the Liao Dynasty for harming the people?"

"Fu Zun, there are fourteen pieces."

"Okay!" said the prefect of Jingzhou, "help me send this letter to Wang Xun's office."

As he spoke, he put down his pen and checked the memorabilia he had just written again.

How much of the Jingzhou government's annual grain reserves needs to be paid to the Liao Fan?
Now that the new Liao king is so lewd and immoral, Jingzhou Mansion is here to relieve his father's worries!As for what problems will arise if His Majesty wants to use the sword against the Liao Fan, it cannot be said that the Jingzhou government is ignorant of the general situation.

After checking the memorandum, he asked again: "Has the document from the Nanjing Household Department been issued?"

"Clarified the fallacies of the taxation department, arranged for the county officials to make preparations for clearing the land and rebuilding the yellow book, and issued it."

The prefect of Jingzhou nodded: "Then urge one or two more!"

The Jingzhou government is only following orders.Since Huguang Chief Envoy has no objection, who can say that Jingzhou government is not doing well?
In Yangzhou Mansion, a few days after Liu Zhenyuan brought down Meng Chun and Nanjing Hubu Shangshu, and several days after Jiang Mian preliminarily summoned a group of Nanzhili officials related to water transportation, salt law, water conservancy, etc., He only learned of the official document sent to the southern Zhili prefectures and the three provinces of Huguang, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang from Hu Zan, the former imperial censor of Caojiang who had just taken over as Minister of the Ministry of Households in Nanjing.

He was furious, and immediately wrote to Yan Song, governor of Zhejiang, and Sun Jiao, governor of Huguang, and Wang Shouren, who had received the order and was about to go to Jiangxi to take office after the end of Ding You.

Afterwards, Hu Zan also hastily issued another official document in the name of the Nanjing Household Department to stop the matter.

But the exchange of official documents takes time, and officials and gentry in many places are keenly aware that the previous official document may be the last chance.

In the tacit understanding of many places in the four provinces, the officials worked harder than ever, and all of them looked like pioneers of the new law. They mobilized first with the attitude of supporting the imminent implementation of the new law in advance.

Many prefectures and counties also put up notices: If there are any escaped households, they should report to the county government as soon as possible, otherwise catastrophe will be imminent.

Huizhou Prefecture, which Meng Chun has been thinking about, is located at the junction of the three provinces of Nanzhili, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang.

Huizhou Prefecture originally belonged to the Zhongshu Province established by Zhu Yuanzhang, and later it was under the jurisdiction of Zhejiang. During the Yongle period, it was changed to Nanzhili.

In addition to Shexian County attached to Huizhou Prefecture, there are also Xiuning County, Wuyuan County, Qimen County, Yi County, and Jixi County.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, Huizhou Prefecture had a great reputation.

First of all, this is where the "authentic" of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism is located. Both Zhu Xi and Cheng Yi and Cheng Hao were originally from Huizhou.

After that, Huizhou's literary style flourished, and after years of accumulation, there were many famous families.Except for the eight surnames of Cheng, Wang, Wu, Huang, Hu, Wang, Li, and Fang, all other big families have a strong sense of clan.

Thirdly, Huizhou is not ashamed of doing business, and the name of "Confucian merchants" in Huizhou is also widely spread throughout the world.Salt industry, Keemun tea, Jixi ham... Apart from doing business, Huizhou merchants also attached great importance to culture and education, and had close contacts with literati.It is also a trend in Huizhou to set up sociology and academies when you have money.In Huizhou, there is a pragmatic saying that "study is good, business is good, and efficiency is good".Huizhou merchants have never been stingy in subsidizing their students' imperial examinations.

Therefore, in the end, Huizhou has a large number of Juren and Jinshi who passed the imperial examination, ranking among the top three for a long time among the southern Zhili prefectures, with an average of more than ten candidates for each subject.Now in Huizhou Prefecture, there are not only the surviving number one scholar Tang Gao, but also Wang Biao who has retired and served as the deputy envoy of Yunnan.And Wang Biao's son, Wang Qin, was also a Jinshi in Zhengde for 12 years, and is currently serving as the head of the Ministry of War.

These are part of the strength of the government and the opposition in Huizhou Prefecture.

But now, in Huizhou Mansion, a storm is already brewing.

This storm was not a big one. After all, it was just an old problem left over from the beginning of the founding of the country, a tax of more than three thousand taels a year.With the wealth of Shexian County, which bears the human silk and silk tax, this money accounts for less than 5.00% of all taxes in Shexian County for one year.

If it is to be shared equally by the other five counties, each county will have as much as four or 500 taels, and as little as two or 300 taels.

The six counties in Huizhou are actually rich.As far as the amount of silver is concerned, it is very light for any county.

But now the new law has not been implemented to the whole of Daming after all, and many of these local disciplines are only borne by ordinary people.

Now, in the work of the Huizhou government government "according to the order" to investigate the fallacies of the taxation department, the fallacy of this human silk tax has been exposed.

"Since it is the human silk and silk tax of the entire Huizhou Prefecture, why should it only be borne by our county of She County?"

"Fu Zun has done a great deed! Have people from the other five counties arrived? This time, we must make this matter clear!"

In Shexian County, where the Huizhou government is located, there are both Shexian people and people from other counties.

The magistrate wrote that the counties came to discuss this matter, and the gentry and common people in each county were also discussing this matter.

But at this moment in Wang Biao's mansion, after returning home, Wang Biao, who was only enthusiastic about his hometown's cultural and educational affairs, was receiving other fellow countrymen.

"According to the wishes of the prefect, it is natural that the six counties share the burden." A native of Huizhou who is a master in the Huizhou magistrate's yamen said this sentence.

Wang Biao nodded: "Since this person's Dingsijuan tax is allocated to the Huizhou government, it should be so. Although the people in other counties are unwilling, the general outline of the new court law is to unify the disciplines and share the burden between the rich and the poor."

"Mr. Baishi, there is an inside story about this man's Dingsijuan tax!"

"Oh? If there is an inside story, it is natural to distinguish clearly." Wang Biao smiled slightly and looked at them.

Wang Biao already knew about the arrest of Meng Chun, Fang Dingchang and others.

But this time, it's all about doing things seriously.

Hundred years of evils, right and wrong, there are many in the world.

The content of the imperial decree from Yangzhou Mansion said that water can carry a boat and also capsize it.The deep water of ordinary people is actually easier to stir up.

Now, Jiang Mian's secret concert is heading north at a very fast speed.

After Zhu Houcong sent seven counselors and ordered the Beijing camp to select [-] forwards, Nanzhili, Huguang, and Jiangxi provinces, which accounted for nearly half of Ming's taxes, began to tacitly stir up the common people's pool of water, borrowing some of the original Insignificant things, say something superficially sensible, but actually inspiring.

Yan Song is the governor of Zhejiang, he can clearly see the intention of this official document, and Sun Xiu dare not act rashly.

But he knew that was not the case elsewhere.

So he rushed to Wang Shouren's house: "Bo'an, you need to prepare early!"

"...There are still seventeen days left."

"Then I have to go to Jiangxi to send some letters!"

Wang Shouren smiled: "It's not urgent, it's not a big deal."

Then he put away his smiling face: "If someone really stirs up a civil uprising and harms the people, this time it will have the power of thunder!"

After 26 months of Ding You, Wang Shouren finally came out again.

Go here and take up the post of Governor of Jiangxi!

(End of this chapter)