The First Corrupt Official of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 354 Lord Ye’s plan was in vain, the tacit understanding between the civil and military prime ministers, His Highness the Crown Prince is really ruthless!

"What kind of local specialty is it, packed in a bag and still angular?"

Zhongshu Province, next door to the office and study of Xu Da, Zhongshu’s right minister,

Hu Weiyong, the right minister of Zhongshu, thought so with a smile when he entered his office and study room.

In fact, this can also be said to be a tacit understanding between the civil prime minister Hu Weiyong and the military prime minister Xu Da.

Xu Da knew that Hu Weiyong was a smart man and that lying was of no use at all. Making up any seemingly seamless lies was in vain.

Therefore, he just casually told such a lie that a fool could expose, not to successfully deceive Hu Weiyong, but just to give him a step down.

Hu Weiyong knew as soon as he heard that this was not a so-called local product. This must be a memorial written by Ye Qing to the emperor, but it pointed out that to avoid him, Hu Weiyong could only go through Xu Da's hands.

He also knew that Xu Da said this casually to make Hu Weiyong look good on his face.

Since Xu Shuai gives face like this, why should he not give face?

He just needs to understand in his heart, be confused on the surface, and just regard the package of memorials as a souvenir.

This is the tacit understanding between smart people!

This is also a tacit understanding between opponents who are in the same palace and who cannot kill each other without telling the other, and must not betray each other!

As for the contents of the package of memorials, Hu Weiyong knew without thinking that they must be related to disaster relief.

He was very familiar with disaster relief. It was nothing more than providing relief to the victims and investigating corruption to bring peace to the people.

In Hu Weiyong's view, Ye Qing would not write a memorial to help the victims because he believed that Ye Qing had the ability and financial resources.

If he didn't even have this ability, would Zhu Yuanzhang be reluctant to kill Ye Qing until now?

In Hu Weiyong's eyes, Zhu Yuanzhang is not only not a fool, but also a smart and profiteer. He will never support freeloaders, let alone people who have been angry with him for a long time and cannot bring him greater benefits!

Ye Qing's ability to survive to this day must be due to his ability!

And solving difficult problems for the emperor is one of his abilities!

Obviously, the contents of these memorials are all written around "investigating and Anmin"!

Since it is related to the four words "checking corruption and pacifying the people", we must avoid Hu Weiyong.

For a long time, the Hu Weiyong Group headed by Prime Minister Quan, in order to consolidate its own strength, can be said to have recruited various disciples behind the scenes.

And those with unclean buttocks and those who need care from their superiors are also happy to become members of his Hu Weiyong Group.

Thinking of this, Hu Weiyong looked in the direction of Zhengzhou with a look of disappointment in his eyes.

"Ye Qing, Lord Ye!"

"You underestimate me, Hu Weiyong, too much. Even if you follow the procedures and get to the truth, the truth will be dealt with impartially."

"I still understand the truth behind abandoning soldiers to protect chariots."

"In your opinion, he is the kind of person who would go against you, the popular imperial envoy, for the sake of a few local officials?"

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Thinking of this, Hu Weiyong felt that he looked down on Ye Qing.

Immediately afterwards, he stopped thinking about it and continued to do his work conscientiously.

In fact, he was completely wrong.

Of course, he was not completely wrong, but except for his analysis of the tacit understanding between him and Xu Da, which was correct, everything else was completely wrong.

The many "local specialties" in Xu Da's hands, that is, the memorial written by Wu Yong to the emperor without Ye Qing's knowledge, indicated that the only way to avoid him, Hu Weiyong, was through Xu Da's hands.

As for the pile of memorials in the baggage, they were not written by Ye Qing at all, and they had nothing to do with the words "investigate corruption and pacify the people".

Not only that, Ye Qing also pointed out this pile of memorials and wanted to hand them over to him, Hu Weiyong.

The reason why it appeared in Xu Da's hands was purely by chance that he bumped into it and then was deceived by him without moral ethics.

The word "liar" is not enough to express it. It is simply relying on one's own generalissimo to cheat and rob someone without moral ethics!

And at this moment,

Next door to Hu Weiyong's office and study, Xu Da had already read the memorial written by Wu Yong on behalf of Ye Qing, as well as the four copies of the Ningbo government order regarding the resettlement of the 8,000 young men and women who had been snapped up.

The main content of the memorial: "In order to prevent these poor people who sold their bodies to bury their relatives from becoming the playthings of domestic prostitutes and slave-like private labor of high officials and dignitaries, Mr. Ye snapped them up and bought them back to Ningbo Mansion from the people they entrusted."

"I present herewith the memorial, four warrants concerning the proper placement of them, and I would like to ask Your Majesty to read them!"

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Seeing this, Xu Da also smiled happily.

Because his vision was correct, he, Ye Qing, really worked for the people, far beyond those sanctimonious Confucian hypocrites.

He looked in the direction of Zhengzhou and could already imagine the scene where Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma, who had transformed into Master Guo and Mrs. Guo, personally helped Ye Qing buy the Huanghua eldest daughter and the young man.

It was obvious that the two of them must have agreed with Ye Qing's idea.

The reason why this memorial appears here is just to prove that the emperor and empress are still sitting in the palace.

Thinking of this, he packed up this memorial and four copies of the warrant.

He will personally hand it over to Zhu Biao and express his own opinions and analysis.

Immediately afterwards, he opened the bag again. He originally intended to give it to Hu Weiyong by name, but was deceived by him.

"Um?"

"Zhengzhou knows the state, and the sound of the car is played?"

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Xu Da looked at the covers of so many memorials, but there was no memorial written by him, Ye Qing. They were all written by officials at all levels in Zhengzhou.

It was written by officials at all levels, and then he, Ye Qing, packaged it up and asked his people to deliver it in person, and also gave it to Hu Weiyong by name?

Xu Da just thought about it and came up with a sentence in his mind: "You will never be able to do such a thing unless your brain is kicked by a horse." '

But because of this, he was even more curious about the content inside.

Thinking of this, Xu Da quickly checked it out.

Under the candlelight, after Xu Da read the first memorial, there was already a look of horror in his eyes.

Immediately afterwards, he quickly opened the package and read the following memorials. It could be said that the speed was getting faster and faster, and the horror in his eyes became more and more obvious.

"How dare he, Ye Qing, handle the case like this?"

"Did he eat this sentence that a scholar cannot be killed without humiliation?"

Immediately afterwards, Xu Da felt less surprised, because he, Ye Qing, was such a person. It didn't matter whether the cat was black or white, as long as it could catch mice, it was a good cat. This was Ye Qing's code of conduct.

After Xu Da figured this out, he was no longer surprised by Ye Qing's method of handling the case.

He was surprised that Ye Qing would actually let these people beat him hard on the grounds that his handling of the case was inappropriate.

Xu Da knew without even thinking that this must be Ye Qing's instruction!

Otherwise, with Ye Qing's methods, not even a single bit of these people's memorials or ashes could float to the capital.

Xu Da looked at this pile of memorials and immediately fell into deep thought.

He must understand why Ye Qing would do something like this that was like seeking death!

From the surface, it seems that he, Ye Qing, instructed these people to join him for this reason, and also sent his own people to escort the memorial to Beijing, and named him to Hu Weiyong, who wanted to kill him. This is looking for death!

But he also knew that Ye Qing was definitely not someone who would seek death.

A man who has done his job is already a hundred times more handsome than an emperor. Is it necessary to seek death?

Obviously, Ye Qing must have other purposes for doing this!

Thinking of this, Xu Da also looked towards Zhengzhou, where Ye Qing was currently, and his eyes gradually became deeper.

"Brother Ye!"

"What do you want to do? Why don't you say hello to Brother Xu beforehand?"

"What on earth do you want to sing?"

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Finally, he figured out Ye Qing's true purpose.

"Want to use this matter to test His Majesty and see if he is willing to single-handedly protect you from death when hundreds of officials are forcing him to go to the palace?"

"This guy is still too young and hasn't figured out his own weight."

"No matter how powerful you are, you are just a person and a minister!"

"The emperor will not go against the entire government just because of you!"

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Thinking of this, Xu Da packed up all the memorials again and carried them to the imperial study.

He must stop Ye Qing's immature behavior!

In his opinion, the best solution is to avoid the court and let him and Prince Zhu Biao digest the matter.

Soon, Xu Da came to the imperial study room.

Under the golden roof of the imperial study room, Zhu Biao, wearing a small four-clawed dragon robe, was sitting on the dragon chair and working hard.

Seeing that Zhu Biao consciously did not sit in the middle of the dragon chair, but consciously leaned to the right, Xu Da smiled happily and nodded.

Without waiting for Xu Da to salute, Zhu Biao immediately said: "Uncle Xu, please sit down and wait for me for a while."

"I'll just finish approving this memorial."

Xu Da still bowed, then sat on the chair silently and waited.

After a while, Zhu Biao came to sit next to Xu Da and asked someone to make tea.

"Uncle Xu, what's the matter?"

Zhu Biao asked Xu Da politely.

Xu Da just said seriously: "Your Highness, this is not a walk in the garden. You shouldn't treat me like this, and you should call yourself 'lone'!"

After Zhu Biao heard this, he still politely replied: "Master, you are my uncle and my teacher. How can I be a loner in front of you?"

"This is not a court, there is no need."

At this point, Zhu Biao smiled lightly and said: "Uncle Xu, you came here with such a big bag, are you trying to teach your nephew a lesson?"

Seeing that Zhu Biao had said this, Xu Da naturally stopped reminding Zhu Biao of this matter.

While taking out so many memorials from his baggage, he told Zhu Biao the ins and outs of these two incidents and his analysis of them.

Zhu Biao also listened and read so many memorials.

Finally, when Xu Da finished speaking, he quickly browsed through so many memorials.

During this period, he also said that Ye Qing's method of handling cases was really degrading, but he also praised Ye Qing's speed in handling cases.

In short, he was not satisfied with Ye Qing's process, but he was very satisfied with Ye Qing's results.

But he also knows that you can't have your cake and eat it too, and he also knows that an official who only knows how to follow the rules and doesn't know how to be flexible will not be able to accomplish great things.

Seeing that Zhu Biao had fully understood the ins and outs of the matter, Xu Da said, "Your Highness, you need to make two decisions on His Majesty's behalf."

Having said this, Xu Da stopped talking and just looked at Zhu Biao in front of him.

With Zhu Biao's intelligence, if he still wants to express his first and second decisions, he would be looking down upon His Highness the Crown Prince.

In Xu Da's eyes, Zhu Biao immediately became serious.

Zhu Biao decisively made a decision: "Uncle Xu, at the appropriate time, I will send an edict in the name of my father to praise Ye Qing for his disaster relief efforts and at the same time commend him for his feat of saving 8,000 young people."

"Logically speaking, Wu Yong, the general judge of Ningbo Prefecture, should also be praised, but I don't want to overstep his rank to do this."

"I praise Ye Qing, and Ye Qing will naturally praise his subordinates."

With that said, Zhu Biao looked at Xu Da and asked for his opinion: "Uncle Xu, do you think my treatment is reasonable?"

Xu Da nodded with satisfaction and said: "His Royal Highness's way of controlling his subordinates is already quite outstanding."

Xu Da can't say yes, nor can he say no.

Because he knows a truth, that is, Zhu Biao can treat him as his uncle and teacher, but he must treat Zhu Biao as his king.

When Zhu Biao saw Xu Da commenting on his first decision, he respected this uncle even more.

Immediately afterwards, he made his second decision.

In Xu Da's eyes, Zhu Biao suddenly asked: "Uncle Xu, are you cold?"

"Do you need a brazier for the fire?"

Xu Da was immediately stunned when he was asked. He only thought that it was such a hot day that he would ask such a question to such a strong general.

But after he saw Zhu Biao's suggestive eyes, he suddenly understood the true meaning of these words.

Yes,

This was Zhu Biao's second decision in place of his father, Zhu Yuanzhang!

Xu Da immediately frowned and said, "I feel a little cold!"

"Your Highness, how about we get a brazier and warm up together?"

After Zhu Biao nodded, he ordered someone to get a brazier.

Immediately afterwards, the two stopped talking about these things, and while chatting about home affairs, they threw so many memorials written by Zhengzhou officials into the brazier one after another.

This was Zhu Biao's decision on this matter. He would not criticize Ye Qing's handling of the case, would not praise Ye Qing's results in handling the case, and would not let this matter appear in the court.

Just burn it to the ground and pretend it never happened!

The next afternoon,

Hu Weiyong turned out to be just like Xu Da told the elite soldiers of the Northern Army. He took leave and went home directly because he was too hungry to work.

Xu Da, who originally served as a yamen director in the Governor's Mansion, was directly brought to take charge of Zhongshu Province.

At the same time, a memorial written by Ye Qing, clearly stating the four conditions, was also sent to the Zhongshu Province.

In this way, this memorial written by Ye Qing and given to Hu Weiyong by name directly fell into Xu Da's hands.

"And gave it to Hu Weiyong by specifying his surname?"

"What exactly is Ye Qing trying to do? Does he really want to die?"

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Xu Da felt a little angry when he saw the four words "Hu Xiangqin Qi" written on the cover.

But after he breathed a long sigh of relief, he tore off this special cover.

Just when Xu Da was reading this memorial, the messenger sent back by Zhu Yuanzhang directly crossed the Zhongshu Province and went straight to the imperial study.

Zhu Biao looked at Zhu Yuanzhang's autograph letter and felt baffled.

"agree?"

"What do you want me to agree to?".

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