Daming: My boss Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 128 How dare you lie to us
After leaving Mao Buquan's house, Li Wei led the Jiaofangsi people to the next house.

Because of his soul-enchanting voice, the onlookers also followed him one after another.

Among them were several servants of officials' families, who were originally watching the fun happily, but when they saw his attitude, their expressions changed immediately and they hurried home to report the news to their masters.

The family Li Wei chose was Li Mian, the minister of etiquette. When he arrived with everyone, the door of Li Mian's house was closed tightly. He didn't know whether it was intentional or closed in the first place.

Li Wei didn't waste any words. He raised his hands and shouted "Get up!", and then the magic concerto sounded again.

Li Wei knocked on the door and shouted: "Open the door, Li Mian, Li Mian, open the door!"

Musician: "Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-dang-dang..."

Female musician: "Hey, oh, oh, oh..."

After a while, the people of Li Mian's family couldn't stand it anymore. The door was opened, and a servant looked at this group of lunatics with an unkind expression, and shouted: "What are you doing? This is the residence of a high-ranking official of the imperial court. You are not allowed to enter the house." This noise!”

As the so-called seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister's door, this servant of the third-rank family is also very arrogant and does not take Li Wei and others seriously.

The third rank is a watershed for imperial officials. At this rank, all kinds of treatment and privileges are much higher than those below the third rank. In the court, you are either the leader of an important yamen, or you are the Li in the courtyard in front of you. The six ministers with the same crown are all powerful men.

Although the minister is only the second-in-command in the six departments, he is also an official sitting in the palace. The minister serves the emperor, not the minister, and his power is not much less than that of the minister.

Li Wei was insensitive to these grades. Seeing his bad attitude, he immediately said with a cold face: "I am the new ambassador of Jiaofangsi. Your master owes us money, please pay it back quickly!"

"What kind of money? That's nonsense! Get out of here right now, or I'll ask the Soldiers and Horses Division to arrest you!"

"Yo!"

Li Wei immediately put his hands on his hips. Apart from Lao Zhu, I have never been afraid of anyone in this Ming Dynasty. How dare you threaten me?

"Brothers and sisters, beat the gongs and drums!"

"Ding-ding-dang-dang..."

"Whoa, whoa..."

"You have the ability to listen to small songs, and you have the ability to give money..."

The servant saw that he ignored his warning and became very angry: "You, you, you..."

No one paid attention to him for a long time, and now everyone's ears and minds are filled with Li Wei's lyrics.

The people watching also began to point at Li Mansion.

"You are such a big official as the minister, why don't you pay me the money you owe me just for listening to a piece of music?"

"Yes, look at how pitiful these girls from the Jiaofang Department are!"

"Yeah yeah……"

Li Mian's servants became anxious after hearing these gossips, and quickly closed the door and went back to report.

Li Mian is not too young this year. He is almost a few years younger than the current minister, Ge Si, who is already in his 60s. He still hopes that he can make further progress after Ge Si retires. He doesn’t want to cause more trouble now. , especially this Li Wei, whoever gets involved will be unlucky.

So after hearing the servant's report, Li Mian asked the servant to get some money and send the person away quickly.

After Li Wei knocked outside for a long time, the servant opened the door again. This time without any nonsense, he handed over the money directly and shouted like a beggar: "Hurry up, hurry up!"

Li Wei took the money and said secretly that this is not enough!

After getting the money, he waved the Jiaofangsi people to stop, and then led them to the next house.

The people who were watching were reluctant to leave, firstly because it was really interesting for Li Wei to play like this, and secondly because the girls in Jiaofangsi were indeed beautiful, and ordinary people could not see these beauties.

"These Jiaofangsi girls are so beautiful, look at their faces and eyebrows..."

"Yes, yes, but it's a pity that only those powerful men have the opportunity to enjoy it..."

"Speaking of which, this Jiaofangsi is different. Even their chief officer walks in such a special way!"

A commoner noticed Li Wei's twitching buttocks and couldn't help but sigh.

Li Wei: "..."

Thanks to the lessons learned from the previous two families, after the servant reported the message in time, the officials behind him asked the servant to wait early to avoid embarrassment. When they saw him walking towards their home, they ran over to hand over the money and asked him to hurry up. Rao said.

He was even a little too lazy. When he saw him approaching, he threw the money out through the crack in the door.

Li Wei looked at the pile of treasure notes at his feet and felt particularly surprised.

"Hey, I'm so lucky today. I can still pick up money when I go out without poking it!"

He didn't care about the food that came to him, he just thought it was something he picked up himself.I took advantage of the fact that before dark, I visited a few more stores. Each store had as few as one or two guan and as many as seven or eight guan. I made forty or fifty guan in one day.

It was the first time that the musicians and girls of the Jiaofang Division saw these officials willing to give money. They didn’t expect that they would not receive a penny for the dance music that they had worked so hard to rehearse before, and they were following their new boss to make random moves + 嘤嘤嘤On the contrary, after making so much money, they all admired their new leader.

……

Since Li Wei was dismissed, the cabinet also went through a major change. Several academics, including Wu Bozong, were all thrown back to the Hanlin Academy. Then Zhu Yuanzhang found a few Confucian scholars from outside to fill their posts, and their functions were also reduced. They only compiled memorials and wrote summaries for the emperor. As for the power, they were directly reduced. The emperor could take the initiative to consult if he had questions, but if he did not consult these people, he would not have the right to make suggestions.

While Li Wei was taking people around the streets to pick up money, Zhu Yuanzhang was fighting hard in the Qianqing Palace. Without the small note of suggestions, he could only make his own decisions one by one, and the pressure on government affairs became greater again.

While he was cursing, the newly appointed bachelor Wang Ben hurriedly came to see him.

"See Your Majesty! Your Majesty, I have an urgent report here."

After Wang Ben hurriedly received the greeting, he bowed and spoke directly.

Seeing his appearance, Zhu Yuanzhang frowned slightly and said, "What's the matter?"

"Your Majesty, the Magistrate of Panyu County has submitted a petition to impeach Yongjia Marquis Zhu Liangzu for corruption, perverting the law, harboring powerful people, etc. Your Majesty, please read it!"

Wang Ben handed over the memorial he had prepared long ago.

The Dao Tong incident caused quite a stir. Li Wei, the minister of the Ministry of Industry and Earl with "outstanding merits", was not only demoted to the Jiaofang Division because of this incident, but also had his title taken away, and the people in the cabinet were also changed. After going through it again, Wang Ben had the opportunity to change from an ordinary Confucian scholar to a close minister of the emperor.

He also knew that this matter was of great importance, so he hurriedly sent it over as soon as he received the memorial.

Zhu Yuanzhang's face changed slightly when he heard this. He frowned and asked the little eunuch waiting next to him to present it to him. Then he opened the memorial and began to read it.

After seeing clearly what was said above, Zhu Yuanzhang's face immediately became ugly!
Dao Tong clearly listed Zhu Liangzu's corruption and bending the law one by one. He arrested local powerful people in accordance with the law, but Zhu Liangzu actually sent people to take the people away by force. In addition, Zhu Liangzu also found excuses to beat him many times. He couldn't bear it. Then he listed all these things and wrote a letter to impeach the Yongjia Marquis.

In fact, Daotong's memorial was issued before Zhu Liangzu, but the military information expedited channel Zhu Liangzu used was the last to arrive first, so it arrived several days earlier than him.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw clearly what it said and compared it with Zhu Liangzu's previous memorial, and immediately understood the whole story. It was clearly Zhu Liangzu who was afraid of punishment and deliberately framed this fellow Taoist!

"You bastard, you really dare to lie to us!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, threw the memorial to the ground, and roared loudly.

He knew Zhu Liangzu well, and he had committed many illegal acts in the past, but now the war in the Ming Dynasty has not ended, the Northern Yuan Dynasty has not been destroyed, the chieftains in the southwest have not surrendered, and the vassal states of Goryeo are also on both ends, so these illegal nobles , although he was displeased, he did not punish severely for the time being.

But this Zhu Liangzu actually deceived him about such a thing this time and put him in such an embarrassing situation. If he just killed his fellow Taoist unjustly, it would definitely be a big blow to his imperial prestige!
There are two different things between him taking the initiative to kill and being deceived into unjustly killing a loyal minister!

The killing was his decision after weighing the pros and cons, and being deceived by others would be stupid and incompetent!

After scolding several times, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately said to Wang Ben: "Go, go quickly, and let someone recover the order we sent to grant death to Dao Tong! Hurry up for eight hundred miles!"

"Yes Yes Yes!"

Seeing that Long Yan was furious, Wang Ben hurriedly bowed in agreement, turned around and was about to go do it.

"Wait a minute, bring us the will to pardon Dao Tong!"

Zhu Yuanzhang added that if he didn't catch up with him on the way, he would be able to rescue Dao Tong before execution if he got there.

"Yes, the minister obeys the order!"

Wang Ben hurriedly left to do it.

Zhu Yuanzhang pinched his waist and wandered back and forth angrily. This time he was careless. Originally, he only thought that civil servants were treacherous and untrustworthy. Although military generals often committed crimes, they were straightforward and easier to grasp than civil servants.

However, the facts were beyond his expectation. These dogs were becoming more and more courageous, and they dared to deceive him like this!

"Bastard thing! Bastard!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was scolding as he walked, with a cold light in his eyes. He really didn't want to attack these generals so early. After all, the Ming Dynasty still needs these people, and the back-ups he prepared, his sons, have not grown up yet. Killing military generals rashly is definitely a recipe for disaster.

Therefore, he has always been very forgiving of the illegal behavior of military generals.

As for the reason why civil servants frequently confiscated their homes and exterminated their clans, he had his own reasons. In addition to hating corrupt officials, it was also because most of these civil servants came from noble families and had superior family backgrounds. They were also involved with some wealthy gentry and controlled most of the wealth in the world.

Killing them has big benefits and low risks. Of course, it is the best choice to generate revenue for the national finance!

When he first gained power, he forced himself to be patient and showed a kind face to the officials and gentry whom he hated, and gained a lot of support. It was not until he gained power that he gradually showed his fangs and began to settle accounts.

As for the noble general, this is also the case now. It is not the time to touch them yet. He must be patient and wait for his sons to grow up.

　Will update another chapter later this afternoon

　　
　
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