The First Corrupt Official of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 431 Master Ye has lost his thousand-year skill, and Zhu Yuanzhang has been black and white for a long time. The boss should be grateful to his employees!
Ye Qing looked at General Guo in front of him and felt that the look in his eyes was not that of his General.

He was one of Zhu Yuanzhang's personal soldiers and was deeply favored by the emperor. He was the part-time imperial envoy Mr. Guo Ruiguo who was "Zhu Yuanzhang's eyeliner".

"haven't seen you for a long time."

Ye Qing looked at Mr. Guo's eyes with a very clear look of 'calling for justice', and the words 'Long time no see' popped up in his mind.

This guy just can't be too popular!
The consequence of being too popular is that he has not seen the 'Guo Qin Chao' he dreamed of for a long time!
But when everyone looked at Zhu Yuanzhang at this moment, they all felt secretly worried about Ye Qing, and even began to think about how to intercede for Ye Qing.

Yes,

Zhu Yuanzhang really did not dare to expose his identity now, and raised an army to investigate the crime as the emperor.

But as Mr. Guo, he took the initiative to investigate the case for the emperor, which proved that he, Zhu Yuanzhang, was very concerned about this matter.

However, the matter is not irreversible. As long as Ye Qing admits his mistake, there will still be room for maneuver.

After all, he, Ye Qing, was fighting for the Ming Dynasty. After all, these artifacts, which were like flying dragons in the sky, did not fly to Yingtian Mansion.

"If I hadn't ruthlessly killed the emperor's nephew Zhu Huan and his son, Emperor Zhu might have been scolded by the people here!"

"It's obvious that the imperial court is short of talents, so it's just starting to recruit scholars. If I can come and refer to it, he, Emperor Zhu, can just enjoy it secretly!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was subconsciously angry: "This"

"By the way, it was me who proposed the words 'a small business like an acre' and 'gentlemen work as servants and pay for food', but he shamelessly plagiarized them!"

"If I hadn't still wanted to do something for the Ming Dynasty, would I have responded to his call and participated in the first scientific examination of the Ming Dynasty?"

Ye Qing said calmly: "I, no, why should I give it to him?"

"You can say whatever you say at any time. It is the boss who gives employees a platform so that employees can grow. Therefore, all achievements made by employees must be unconditionally attributed to the boss!"

Thinking of this, Xu Da, Mao Xiang, and Zhu Di all looked at Ye Qing, expecting him to give them the attitude they wanted.

Ye Qing raised his head and said proudly: "His Majesty the Emperor must be grateful to me!"

"It's not that I should be grateful to His Majesty the Emperor, but that His Majesty the Emperor should be grateful to me!"

"You, be brave."

"You, what's your attitude?"

Only when he, the person involved, shows his attitude, can the people around him play a role in interceding!

"Hey, it's also my fault. I blame my lack of education!"

The more they thought about it in detail, the more they straightened their chests and raised their heads!

After Ye Qing said this in one breath, he walked up to Master Guo, patted him on the shoulder, and said in the tone of an old man educating a child: "You have been with me for so long, and you are still so deeply poisoned by the 'cinnabar poison', it's him who A crazy fan?"

"If I hadn't been labeled as a corrupt official and not taken the ordinary path, would Yanmen County be where it is today?"

"If I hadn't been the pilot imperial envoy, the idea of ​​'dividing a family's income' and 'the gentry all working as an envoy and receiving food from one body' would be nothing but empty talk now!"

Ye Qing not only refused to be taught, but in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, he impatiently picked out his ears, as if he wanted to take out the sounds that had entered his ears.

Not only was he calm and calm, but he also stood proudly, as he should.

After all, the person who is raising troops to investigate the crime now is Mr. Guo, not Zhu Yuanzhang!
As long as Ye Qing admits his mistake and they plead for mercy, even if this matter cannot be completely over, it can be temporarily put in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart and he will not care about it strongly for the time being.

They really couldn't believe it. The more they thought about it, the more they felt that according to Ye Qing's words, in these aspects, it was Ye Qing who made Zhu Yuanzhang, not Zhu Yuanzhang who made Ye Qing.

Thinking of this, they began to think about their own contributions to the emperor's career over the years.

But he had been doing this for a long time, but he couldn't figure out why.

At the same time, Xu Da and the others, who originally thought that Ye Qing was going further and further on the path of rebellion, also began to think thoughtfully.

"if not?"

In the eyes of the three of them, Ye Qing did not admit his mistake at all when facing the aggressive 'Imperial Envoy'.

"Remember, it is not the emperor who makes the official, but the official who makes the emperor, you know?"

"Have you read all your books into the dog's belly?"

"This is super shameless behavior!"

Ye Qing said calmly: "It's not obvious. Do you think your nonsense has polluted my ears?"

"Don't be like the unscrupulous bosses in my hometown, who think that giving employees a job and a little salary is like buying the employee's life."

Zhu Yuanzhang widened his eyes and said: "You are an official of the imperial court. If the imperial court had not given you the qualifications for the scientific examination, would you have been able to pass the imperial examination? Can you be the magistrate of Yanmen? Can you be the magistrate of Ningbo? Can you have these industries now? You Do you have the qualifications to let the Japanese envoy come to you?"

"If I hadn't written a disrespectful song for him during the Mid-Autumn Festival and sent it to Emperor Zhu, his good brothers would still be in Fengyang Fish and Meat Village. His fellow villagers of Emperor Zhu would not only not benefit from the glory, but also live a better life than they did in the Yuan Dynasty. It’s so miserable!”

"Eating the emperor's salary and being loyal to the emperor are the basic morals. How can you still raise people?"

"What do you mean, the imperial court gave me the qualification to take the scientific examination?"

But the premise of all this is that Ye Qing admits his mistake!

"Also, if I hadn't founded the [Donghai Mining Development Group], the revenge of Emperor Zhu's envoy being beheaded by the Japanese Emperor would still not be avenged!"

"What kind of behavior is this?"

Ye Qing did not give Zhu Yuanzhang a chance to speak, and continued to say to Mr. Guo in front of him: "Mr. Guo, don't you think it's shameful for you to say these things?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that the corner of his mouth trembled and said: "You, you mean, the emperor should still be grateful to you?"

At this moment, they only feel that they have discovered a new continent at the level of their thoughts!
Ye Qing saw that Mr. Guo in front of him was at a loss for words, so he continued to speak earnestly: "Actually, His Majesty the Emperor, whom you serve, is a very smart man. He has been doing things that are grateful to me!"

"So, you don't want the emperor to be impatient and the eunuch to be impatient!"

As soon as Ye Qing said these words, Zhu Yuanzhang, Xu Da and others were all stunned.

If Ye Qing's previous remarks were somewhat reasonable, his words were completely unreasonable.

Would Zhu Yuanzhang be grateful?

I'm afraid the sun hasn't come out from the west!

As far as they knew, Zhu Yuanzhang still had a certain sense of 'gratitude' towards Empress Ma.

Not to mention the three of them, Xu Da, even Zhu Yuanzhang himself found it funny.

"Have we been doing things to be grateful to you?"

"How come we don't know?"

When Zhu Yuanzhang thought of this, he sneered and said, "Master Ye, please enlighten me!"

Ye Qing also smiled calmly again and said: "Okay, I would like to teach you."

In everyone's eyes, Ye Qing was looking in the direction of Ying Tian Mansion with his hands behind his back, and his eyes could be said to be quite complicated.

Ye Qing smiled confidently and said, "If he wasn't grateful to me, would he have accepted my many and tricky conditions?"

"If he is not grateful to me, will he unconditionally accept my stringent requirements to establish the 'Ningbo Special Administrative Government'?" "If he is not grateful to me, and if I use the imperial edict to flatter him and other disrespectful behaviors towards the imperial edict, he will Do you think you don’t know?”

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Speaking of this, Ye Qing cursed in his heart: "I don't care how grateful you are."

But his words made Xu Da and others stunned.

He, Ye Qing, actually called this gratitude?

He was afraid that he didn't know how much credit they had for this so-called "gratitude" and how much brainpower Queen Ma spent on it?

But after thinking about it, I also felt that from Ye Qing's perspective, it really seemed like that!
He, Ye Qing, really didn't know how much effort they put in behind the scenes, let alone how much effort and lip service Queen Ma put into it.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the scholar in front of him, who was looking in the direction of Yingtian Mansion, with complicated eyes and a weak hand, and had only one idea in his mind.

That is to reach out and strangle this shameless bitch to death!
In the eyes of Xu Da and others, the corners of Zhu Yuanzhang's mouth were twitching from time to time, his hands were trembling from time to time, and the tiger's mouth on his hands was opening from time to time.

Just from these micro movements, it can be seen how much he wants to strangle the young scholar in front of him to death.

But they didn't know that the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang did not reach out was because the long-lost "Zhu Yuanzhang in White" and "Zhu Yuanzhang in Black" appeared in his mind world again.

In Zhu Yuanzhang's mind world,
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was dressed in black, was already jealous, as if he was preparing for a desperate bullfight, and he raised his hands sideways, like a powerful zombie.

"Go away,"

"Don't fucking hold me back, I'm going to strangle this shameless thing to death."

"If you hold me back again, I will strangle you to death too!"

Zhu Yuanzhang in white hugged Zhu Yuanzhang in black with all his strength and said: "Zhu Chongba, don't be impulsive. If you strangle us to death, you will die too, right?"

"He doesn't know that it was the girl who begged for mercy behind his back, that's why you tolerate him so much. As the saying goes, 'ignorance is not a crime'!"

Zhu Yuanzhang in black used his backhand to pinch Zhu Yuanzhang in white's neck: "If you don't know, it's not a crime. Your grandma helped an outsider. I can't swallow this breath."

Zhu Yuanzhang in white also frowned, and pinched Zhu Yuanzhang in black's neck with his backhand: "Our grandma is also your grandma, you are so crazy that you even beat yourself up!"

Zhu Yuanzhang, dressed in white, looked at Ye Qing standing on the deck with his head held high and proudly through their common 'window of the soul', with a somewhat fierce look in his eyes.

He gritted his teeth and endured it, and beat Zhu Yuanzhang in black with his fist as big as a casserole.

While he beat him hard, he educated him: "For the sake of his skills and to tame this wild horse, you have to hold back!"

"If you can't help it, now that you're happy, your sister will take care of you when you go back!"

"No, whether you can go back or not is another matter!"

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Finally, Zhu Yuanzhang in black was beaten to death by Zhu Yuanzhang in white.

And at this moment,
Ye Qing looked at Mr. Guo at this moment with his peripheral vision.

In fact, he could see all the subtle movements of Mr. Guo.

He hoped that Mr. Guo would take action. He was willing to take this severe beating!
He can guarantee that after receiving this severe beating, he will not only not kill Mr. Guo, but will also ensure that he returns to Beijing safely.

But before that, he would definitely use the crime of "beating the imperial official" to repair him severely, until he wanted to peel off his skin and cramps.

But while Ye Qing was thinking like this, Zhu Yuanzhang only moved his wrist symbolically, and then coughed lightly.

"Cough cough!"

"This is because we didn't think carefully."

"According to what you say, it's really possible that the emperor is grateful to you."

"As for the fact that you didn't report the good weapons you had, it's probably because you were eager to use them to fight the Japanese pirates, and you were eager to test the results in actual war."

"You want to wait until the test results come out before surprising His Majesty the Emperor, right?"

"We don't even need to ask, this must be the case!"

As he spoke, he nodded and praised: "Master Ye is thoughtful. His Majesty the Emperor is grateful to you. You are also considerate in your work. In your own words, what do you say?"

"Yes, running in both directions!"

"Yes, yes, this is typical, running in both directions!"

Before Ye Qing could speak, Xu Da and others immediately knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was deliberately trying to give Ye Qing a chance.

Xu Da quickly smiled and said: "You, Lao Guo, are indeed a big businessman. Master Ye must want to make sure that the matter is completed before reporting it to His Majesty the Emperor!"

"Weapons testing is not done at a test site. It has to be applied on the actual battlefield in the end."

"Just like our cannons back then, they were good for shooting at targets on the testing ground, but outside the fortress, they were of little use other than scaring war horses!"

Mao Xiang also nodded and said: "Xu Shuai is right, Master Ye is really thoughtful!"

Zhu Di also smiled and nodded: "Father is right, this is the two-way journey between my master and His Majesty the Emperor."

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Ye Qing looked at the four people in front of him. Although his expression was still calm, the white-clothed Ye Qing in his inner world wanted to turn black immediately.

If he hadn't accumulated hundreds of years of skill in ten lifetimes, he would have been so angry that he would have thrown all these 'little cuties' into the sea to feed the fish.

"Ok!"

"Well said, each person will be rewarded with a secret herring (Ming Dynasty version: canned herring)!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Qing decisively returned to the cabin.

When Zhu Yuanzhang and Mao Xiang heard this reward, they were subconsciously shocked.

Xu Da and Zhu Di said in unison curiously: "What's the secret herring? Is it delicious?"

Zhu Yuanzhang and Mao Xiang just looked at each other, nodded firmly, and said in unison: "It's delicious!"

After a while,

The blue fleet of the Ming Navy, which had already merged with the handsome ship, once again moved forward in battle formation.

While sailing at full speed fearlessly, they used the cannon on the bow to bombard the enemy ships' butts indiscriminately.

As for these imitation Tang warships that were desperately returning to Hong Kong, if they ran a little slower, they would either be blasted to pieces by cannons or directly smashed!

Finally, they successfully returned to port with 250 fighting ships!
After they returned to port, they began to quickly disassemble the weapons that could be dismantled, and then ran back to the dock to prepare for battle.

At the same time, the Ming Dynasty Blue Army fleet was also unable to enter the port due to its deep draft, and could only anchor in the waters as close to the port as possible.

On the shore of the wide Ojiro Pier,
The eight thousand Japanese and Southern Dynasty naval soldiers, who were like frightened birds, finally saw hope.

Yamamoto Kazuki said as calmly as possible: "It's okay."

"Fortunately, their ship is too big and the draft is too deep to enter our port!".
(End of this chapter)