My Ming Dynasty, I have the final say

"This is how the guillotine is used to behead people in Beijing now?"

Among the crowd, a scholar who went to Beijing to participate in this autumn's Enke reached out and wiped the blood spattered on his face. His arms trembled and he wanted to run, but he couldn't move.

It was the first time to kill someone with a guillotine. Shuntian Mansion was inexperienced, or it was simply intentional.

On the side of the ten-foot-high platform, the corpse fell on the side of the guillotine. Blood was gushing from the neck, covering the bodies of the people watching the execution below.

Disgraceful, so disgraceful.

"Brother, brother, according to the laws and regulations of the country, don't the executions of death row criminals have to wait until after autumn? Why are they executed at the beginning of June?"

The scholar's face was splashed with blood, and his arms trembled as he pulled the sleeve of the person beside him.

"Just arrived in Beijing?"

Lu Xiangsheng, who was taking a rest today, heard this and turned his head to look at the middle-aged man writing.

“Ready to attend Enco this fall?”

"My dear, Wang Qiaonian, is indeed a member of Enke."

"Oh."

Hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng bowed his hands.

"I'm Lu Xiangsheng, a military student from Wulue Academy."

After the ceremony, Lu Xiangsheng looked at the man waiting to be executed on the stage.

"You know about the rise in prices in Beijing a few days ago? It's all caused by these people."

Speaking, Lu Xiangsheng shook his head.

"Your Majesty used the internal funds to provide food and goods, and asked people to keep prices down. He also asked the Jin Yiwei to catch those who were driving up prices."

"Blessed brother, this is already the third batch of killings. If brother comes a few days later, he won't be able to see the good show of killing profiteers."

"Are you... blessed?"

After hearing Lu Xiangsheng's words, several question marks appeared on Wang Qiaonian's forehead.

Just when the murder occurred at Caishikou.

In the middle of a side hall in Xiyuan, there is an Eight Immortals table and four Taishi chairs, placed as if playing mahjong.

At this moment, the four princes in the palace were sitting at the table drinking tea.

Among the four people present, the oldest is Wei Zhongxian, who is fifty-two years old this year. Among the other three, Liu Shimin is thirty-six, Wang Mo is thirty-seven, and Yang Chengxiu is forty-five.

"Everything has stopped?"

Putting down the teacup in his hand, Liu Shimin turned to look at Wei Zhongxian on his right.

"It's stopped."

Hearing this, Wei Zhongxian replied without raising his head.

Picking out all the tea leaves in the cup one by one, Wei Zhongxian looked at Wang Mo, who was in charge of the material supply in the palace and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

"Wang Dajue, couldn't you choose better tea leaves? How did you get rid of these broken tea leaves?"

"Your Majesty leads by example, so that the palace can save money. If you don't want to complain, go to Your Majesty."

Upon hearing this, Wang Mo glanced sideways at the other party, picked up the tea cup and took a sip.

"That can't be so economical."

Hearing this, Wei Zhongxian frowned.

Before Wei Zhongxian could say anything, Yang Chengxiu asked.

"Where did you get the tea? Is this black tea?"

"It was dug out from the old treasury. It was the tribute tea from the temple in the 40th year of Wanli."

"Pfft~"

Hearing this, the other three big men on the table spurted out water at the same time.

"Ahem, can I still drink this?"

Putting down the tea cups in their hands, the three of them looked at Wang Mo with anger in their eyes.

No matter how good this imperial tea is, you won't be able to drink it after nine years of storage.

"I heard that Anhua's black tea is better as it ages."

Seeing the looks in the three people's eyes, Wang Mo couldn't help but said strangely.

"This time when I was using the contents of the inner treasury to calm down prices, I unintentionally uncovered this aged tea. Since the emperor couldn't let me drink it, I thought of bringing it to three people for tasting."

"What are you looking at?"

"Don't treat us to this old tea in the future. Just sell it on the market."

With a bitter look on his face, Liu Shimin looked at Wang Modao.

"Your Majesty, you can't drink too much tea, let alone this old tea. Now that your Majesty has added monthly money to us, if you want to drink it, just buy it yourself."

"The Za family doesn't understand tea, Liu Daxuan taught them a lesson."

Wang Mo put down the tea cup in his hand with an innocent look on his face.

"cough."

At this moment, Wei Zhongxian turned to Wang Mo and asked.

"Those profiteers have already been beheaded in the vegetable market. Wang Daxuan will have to be more careful with the emperor's plans next."

"This is for sure."

Hearing this, Wang Mo turned around and looked Wei Zhongxian up and down, and then said. "Is there anyone who wants to recommend Wei Dajue?"

"Cough cough."

After being seen through by others, Wei Zhongxian no longer hid it.

"I have a nephew named Wei Liangqing. He is an honest person, so I wanted to ask Wang Daxuan to find a job outside the palace."

As he said that, Wei Zhongxian glanced at the three people present.

"Last time, the emperor asked me to acquire the Shijingshan and Xishan mines, but he was beaten. After the mine protection team was formed there, I asked him to lead the people. It turned out that he didn't have the ability, and everyone below refused. he."

"I saw that the boy had learned some accounting techniques from this accountant, so I wanted to ask Wang Daxuan to take care of him."

"It's easy."

Hearing this, Wang Mo nodded.

"The properties of those profiteers have been confiscated this time. The Ministry of Internal Affairs has many more shops. Let your nephew go visit one of them."

"Thank you Wang Dajue for your kindness."

Hearing this, Wei Zhongxian immediately became happy.

"As long as you are loyal to the emperor and know what you should do and what you shouldn't do, it doesn't matter."

At this time, Liu Shimin also spoke up.

"Take care of your own people, as long as you don't be greedy or do any wrong, the emperor won't say anything."

"Yep."

As soon as Liu Shimin's words came out, the eunuchs present all echoed.

"Father, Feng Zhu is here."

Suddenly, a young eunuch came into the hall and whispered in Wang Mo's ear.

"Let him in."

"I've met all of you, the young ones."

As soon as he entered the hall, Feng Zhu saluted everyone.

"Get up, but what happened outside?"

The four people were looking at each other, but Wang Mo was the first to speak.

"Ugh."

After hearing this, Feng Zhu got up from the ground and said to Wang Mo.

"The news from Liu Zhengyang is that Yang Huaizhong has found him again."

"What does Yang want to do?"

Hearing this, Wei Zhongxian couldn't help turning his head and asked.

"He wants to know what to do with the property of those profiteers confiscated by the palace this time."

"Humph, of course the palace will take over the management."

As soon as Feng Zhu's words came out, Yang Chengxiu couldn't help but sneered.

"Why, he still wants to drag him to his house like those traitors deceived the late emperor in the past."

"That's not what I meant."

Hearing Yang Chengxiu's words about traitor, Feng Zhu couldn't help but trembled, and then said.

"He wants to take over some of it and run it for the palace."

"Then let's see what he's capable of."

Instructing the eunuch beside him to pour a cup of tea for Feng Zhu, Wang Mo said with a smile.

"There are many people who want to do things for the palace. We don't need waste."

"He said they could get war horses."

Hearing this, the four people present fell silent at the same time.

"How many can you get?"

After tapping his fingers on the table a few times, Wei Zhongxian was the first to ask.

Their east factory needs horses, good horses.

"That Yang Huaizhong said he could give us twenty stallions and two hundred mares."

Seeing Wei Zhongxian's interest, Feng Zhu said immediately.

"Moreover, he also said that if we can open up trade routes for them, we can get more."

"Promise him."

With a bang, Liu Shimin put down the tea cup in his hand.

"The Emperor has already made arrangements for Yang Huaizhong and the people behind him. Does Wei Daxuan know about it?"

"know."

Hearing this, Wei Zhongxian nodded.

If Jinyiwei wants to insert someone inside, of course Dongchang will follow him.

"Then, according to the emperor's plan, send someone to cooperate with them?"

"Yes." (End of chapter)