The First Corrupt Official of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 151 Master Ye said that the emperor raced pigs, and discussed the relationship between the emperor's ancestral training and Zhu Yuanzhang's life and death!

Right after Zhu Yuanzhang asked this question, Ye Qing saw a fairly obvious look of expectation in his eyes.

He knew the thoughts of Master Guo in front of him. Although he was not in the officialdom, he was also deeply favored by Zhu Yuanzhang. As Zhu Yuanzhang's fan, he naturally wanted to repay him.

Of course, he also wanted to use Ye Qing's knowledge to ask Zhu Yuanzhang for credit in order to gain more favor.

Thinking of this, Ye Qing also nodded lightly, thinking that this is not bad, as long as he is not sold to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Ye Qing has no doubts at all that Master Guo has told Zhu Yuanzhang about the fact that the emperor is not doing well enough because he has too many sons.

Because in this world, except for him, Ye Qing, no one dares to make trouble for the emperor with things that he knows but doesn't know why, after all, only he, Ye Qing, can start his life again!
In the eyes of Zhu Yuanzhang and the others, after Ye Qing gently put down the teacup, he looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and asked, "Master Guo, you are really persistent!"

"It's been half a year, do you still remember what I said?"

Zhu Yuanzhang continued to insist: "Master Ye, within this hour, we can talk about whatever we want, but you said it."

Ye Qing nodded and said: "Okay, since you want to know so much, I'll just say it, anyway, it's your time that was wasted."

After speaking, Ye Qing looked at Master Guo and said seriously and responsibly: "I know what you want to do, as long as you promise me, don't let His Majesty know that I said it."

"But I'm good at speaking up front. You'd better satisfy your curiosity and finish the job. Don't try to use this to claim credit. It may backfire."

When the three of Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, they became even more curious.

Curious about why Ye Qing didn't want the emperor to know that he said this, but even more curious about his 'good words'!
As long as it is reasonable, well-founded and reasonable, how can it be counterproductive?
In particular, Zhu Yuanzhang was still unconvinced despite being curious, saying that Zhu Yuanzhang was that arrogant and unreasonable person.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Ye Qing, and really wanted to say, 'Your emperor Lao Tzu is the most reasonable person in the world, as long as there is reason, whatever you say, you will only be rewarded and not punished'.

Of course, I have to add another sentence, 'If you, Ye Qing, don't change your eloquence, you might be justified and get stabbed'!
Zhu Yuanzhang didn't listen to Ye Qing's good words at all, he just said firmly and persistently: "Lord Ye, just teach me!"

Ye Qing saw that Master Guo was so persistent, so he didn't say anything more.

Anyway, he said all his good words first, if he, Mr. Guo, was killed by Zhu Yuanzhang because he didn't listen to persuasion, then it's none of his business.

Thinking of this, Ye Qing walked to the door, looked in the direction of Ying Tianfu again, and there was obvious admiration in his eyes: "Our Emperor, His Majesty is as powerful as a tiger, and the technique of giving birth is truly amazing. Boars are even inferior to themselves!"

Immediately after Ye Qing finished speaking, the three of Zhu Yuanzhang had different reactions.

While Mao Xiang bowed his head in silence for Ye Qing, he tried his best not to laugh.

Empress Ma, who is already 41 years old, has a girlish blush on her face again, but she also wants to say one more thing, just using this analogy, she wants to punish the examiner who made Ye Qing pass the Juren exam, a "blind" Dog eyes' sin.

Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that he lost his sense of control. He slapped the armrest of the chair fiercely and said, "Master Ye, please pay attention to your words. Your book has been read into the stomach of a dog?"

"Can you say such a rebellious metaphor?"

Ye Qing was not angry at Master Guo, who was so angry that he was so angry, he just said calmly: "Master Guo, this is just a metaphor, why do you take it seriously?"

"Furthermore, that's the way it is!"

"Your Majesty has given birth to twelve sons and eleven daughters!"

"Tang Taizong only had 24 sons in his life, and His Majesty only had [-] sons after he became emperor for six years. Even if he had [-] sons in his life, that's not too many!"

"Absolutely not much, absolutely not much more!"

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, although he blushed and his neck was thick with anger, he also felt that it seemed to be so reasonable.

His ability in this area is really powerful, and he is indeed very comparable, but he can't use a boar as a metaphor!
Zhu Yuanzhang just gritted his back molars and said, "Lord Ye, Your Majesty is in good health, and it is a great thing to be able to bloom and spread leaves."

"Let's get to the point and say that he didn't do well enough, so what does it have to do with having too many sons?"

For Master Guo's anger, Ye Qing just laughed it off, he couldn't let go of his anger, so he could only talk about the topic.

Ye Qing turned serious and said: "If you can talk to His Majesty, you should know that His Majesty wants to re-implement the enfeoffment system!"

As soon as Ye Qing's words fell, the three of them immediately became serious, and even looked at Ye Qing with a faint trace of suspicion.

He wondered if Ye Qing had placed an agent beside Zhu Yuanzhang!

The reason why they have this suspicion is that although Zhu Yuanzhang had this idea, he did not promulgate it.

For things that have not been promulgated, naturally only a few people know about them.

It is impossible for Ye Qing to know from Li Shanchang and the others, naturally there is only one way.

But then they dispelled this suspicion. If all the agents had been placed by his side, would they be able to yell at Mr. Guo one by one here?

Ye Qing didn't look at them, still stood with his hands behind his back, just looked outside the door, at the sky in the direction of Ying Tianfu:

"You should be thinking now, how can the magistrate of such a small border county know about things that His Majesty has not promulgated!"

"It's so easy!"

"Judging from the current situation, it is inevitable that His Majesty has such thoughts."

"All the kings are entrusted, one person has a good place, one person and three guards directly under the army, and can directly take away most of the territory and military power from the hands of Huaixi Xungui."

"Using my son to take back the actual control of the territory and military power is the most legitimate and effective way for His Majesty to centralize power at this stage!"

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Ye Qing's back with more appreciation again.

You can think of him in his heart at a young age. He is really a genius who can do practical things for the people when he is a local official, and can seek for him when he is a Beijing official.

It would be great if he, Ye Qing, surrendered to him like Mao Xiang.

It's a pity that this person's eloquence is so good that he can't promise not to kill him when he actually goes to the capital!
Zhu Yuanzhang temporarily put these afterthoughts behind him, and just asked seriously: "Since you also think that it is an effective means of centralizing power for His Majesty at this stage, why can't you say it is not good?"

Ye Qing just smiled lightly and said: "If His Majesty really has more than 20 sons in the future, all of them will be enshrined as kings and have their own three guards, so what?"

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't even think about it, so he said directly: "Of course it is necessary to seal it down from generation to generation. The emperor of the Zhu family will sit in the world, and the descendants of the Zhu family will dismount the horse to calm the people, mount the horse and kill the enemy, and the world will be in peace for a long time!"

"Use your own people, don't worry!"

Ye Qing turned to look at Master Guo in front of him, and emphasized again: "Naive, stupid, you are as stupid as His Majesty!"

Zhu Yuanzhang really clenched his toes when he heard this, but he continued to hold back for the final answer.

Anyway, it's just such a sentence, scolding him so much that he thinks he's stupid, it's okay, if he can't do this, then he has to bring soldiers to see him!
Ye Qing continued to teach: "As the saying goes, the first generation is relatives, the second generation is cousin, the third generation and fourth generation can't be found, and cousins ​​can't come if uncle dies!"

"In less than 100 years, your Majesty's descendants of the Zhu family will only remember an old ancestor named Zhu Yuanzhang."

"Why do you remember him?"

"Because he let them live comfortably, he let them not be killed as long as they don't rebel, he let them enclose land and no one cares about them, and they don't have to go to jail for robbing two civilian girls."

"As for the current emperor at that time, they will only remember that it is time to pay the annual salary at the end of the year."

"Also, if His Majesty is so good at making babies, his descendants will certainly be able to make them too. Not to mention that they will make twenty babies in their lifetime, and counting five babies per person, that's not a lot."

"Your Majesty's twenty sons make five, that's one hundred!"

"If one hundred descendants of the Zhu family make five each, that's five hundred; if five hundred descendants make five each, that's twenty-five hundred."

"Five times in 20 years, after 300 years, how many Zhu family princes do you think you have?"

"Can the court afford their salaries?"

"Also, even if they don't rebel, if they only enclose the land and occupy the women of the people, that's enough to force the people to rebel!"

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Ye Qing used this way of talking about the normalcy of the people, and told the part-time imperial envoy Master Guo all the things that happened in the Chongzhen era.

As for whether he can listen to it, or if he listens to it and then tells Zhu Yuanzhang, whether Zhu Yuanzhang will kill him with the crime of "slandering Lao Tzu's future generations" is none of his business.

After Ye Qing finished speaking, he also returned to his main position.

After he just sat down casually, he began to drink his mint herbal tea. After talking for a long time, he was really thirsty.

But at this moment, the three of Zhu Yuanzhang were lost in thought.

Especially Zhu Yuanzhang, he really didn't want to admit it, but he also had to admit that family affection would really get farther and farther away, so that in the end they became strangers.

He really did the calculation according to Ye Qing's calculation method, and counted with his fingers.

Two or three hundred years later, Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants will start with at least one million. If the imperial court is to support them at that time, the treasury will have to be empty!
Thinking of this, he immediately frowned.

He must find a way to prevent such a thing from happening, and he must not leave such a burden to the king of future generations.

But he couldn't think of a good way for a while. Judging from the current situation, he can only quickly centralize power by dividing up the entrustment.

Because he couldn't think of a way, he looked at Ye Qing again.

But this time, his tone and attitude are more like a student humbly asking for advice.

Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile: "Master Ye, what you said is indeed reasonable. If it continues like this, the court really cannot afford it."

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Empress Ma again and said, "After you go back, find an opportunity to talk to your empress about this issue, but it must be insincere."

Empress Ma just smiled and nodded, "Yes, sir."

At the same time, Empress Ma looked at Ye Qing with hope again.

There is no other reason,

Just because her family Zhongba said this to him, it meant that he listened to it.

At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang continued to ask: "But they are all descendants of His Majesty, and they are also suppressed by their ancestors. Will they do such things as enclosing land and robbing women?"

In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang also thought about the issue of future generations being disobedient, so he had been drafting the "Emperor Ming Zu Xun" a long time ago.

In his opinion, they should not do bad things under the pressure of their ancestors.

Just when Zhu Yuanzhang remembered the "Emperor Ming Ancestral Precepts" that he hadn't promulgated yet, Ye Qing taught again: "When Your Majesty is alive, the ancestral precepts are the ancestral precepts."

"If Your Majesty is dead, the ancestral precepts are just a notebook with words written!"

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned immediately when he heard this.

He doesn't agree with this sentence!
Because Ye Qing's words are tantamount to saying that Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants are all unfilial descendants!
(End of this chapter)