Ming Dynasty, starting from the empty seal case

Chapter 128: Open the Chinese Law (please vote for more updates)

"Hu Xiang, don't stop spouting nonsense. The last time I wrote to the Holy Father, there was a reason for it. How could he do these things for no reason? Xian'er is only seven years old this year, how come he is regarded as a serious problem by you!"

"Why do you always hold on to my son and won't let go?"

Su Guiyuan's eyes widened angrily. He first yelled those words at Hu Weiyong, and then looked at the Holy Master.

"Your Majesty, there are so many mistakes in this matter. If there is really one person to blame, it is my fault."

"I have been investigating these counterfeit banknotes since last year and have seized them several times, but the old banknotes have had loopholes since a long time ago. No matter what, it is impossible for the people to ban them all at once!"

"As for the resemblance this time, we can only say that old banknotes are too easy to imitate. But since I have taken over the Banknote Collection Department, especially after His Majesty changed the Banknote Printing Bureau into the Mint Department... all craftsmen who enter the Mint Department must You must go in naked, put on clothes and mint coins inside, and then come out naked.

"Each one is guarded by people from the Baochao Lisu Department, the Criminal Department, the Household Department, and even many people sent by the Holy One. If it can be leaked during this period, even if His Majesty chops off my head, I will have no complaints!"

Su Guiyuan's tone was decisive, but he saw that the atmosphere was starting to go in other directions.

"Okay!" Zhu Yuanzhang finally interrupted. "What has Su Xian been doing these days? We know better than you. Unless he is at home and has no sleep, he won't have time to do this."

Zhu Yuanzhang was suspicious of this paragraph and decided on it himself.

As soon as these words came out.

Done.

Liu Lian immediately knelt on the ground and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty, there are many rumors among the people. Recently, the two major rumors in the capital have been the most common!"

However, when counting these prime ministers, except for Li Shanchang and Xu Da, the two who made the greatest contributions to the founding of the country. The other people who were promoted were all promoted to the dynasty after taking part in politics in one place!
It can be said that the Holy Spirit's move was intended to cultivate him.

In fact, he was really unsure about Su Xian. After all, someone might do it just by giving an order. But as Su Guiyuan said, Su Xian had no motive for doing this.

But it’s precisely because you can’t see it that it’s tricky.

call!
After hearing this, several people in the queue let out a long sigh from their hearts.

When the Ming Dynasty was founded, although there was no previous dynasty, it was a rule that people who were not Jinshi were not allowed to enter the Zhongshu Province.

But unexpectedly, when Su Xian was mentioned, the Holy Emperor suddenly became wise and had no intention of being affected. In his opinion, this was not only not good news, but downright bad news.

Song Lian and Fang Xiaoru were first surprised and then happy, as if they had never expected this scene.

Besides, even though he is so bold, if he really wants to say these things to me, he probably won't do it in a way like borrowing fake treasures to cause trouble for his father.

As he spoke, he waved his sleeves and suddenly looked at Liu Lian.

But the real difficulty of Ming Dynasty has always been in the invisible place.

What a pity, the Holy One finally became wise for once.

But even though he was thinking about it, his voice rang out quickly.

While thinking...

……

"If we can't find out clearly, then you won't meet us at the Wenhua Hall next time."

Zhu Yuanzhang also said: "The suspicion among the ministers is over now!"

"First, thanks to Liu Lian's gift, he attacked and raped minor officials, so that the people were excited! There are many speculations, which will naturally lead to malicious people and intentional people doing it deliberately."

They were really afraid that the next "Blank Seal Case" would involve them. Of course, it would probably be called the "Liu Bowen Remaining Case" or even the "Counterfeit Banknote Case" at that time.

Immediately.

"We have prepared the errands for you, and you will prepare them in the next few days. If it can be calmed down, then everything will be fine. You can go to Jiangxi to participate in politics!"

"Two, calm down the turmoil in the capital immediately. After three days, we don't want to hear any more rumors about Liu Bowen!"

He frowned and said, "Let's just do it today. We don't know about this, so we won't make you suspicious here."

Hu Weiyong's eyes were dark and uncertain. He could see that unlike Su Guiyuan, he was also a serious ally!
As long as the other party comes back from participating in politics in Jiangxi, according to the current state of the country, he is afraid that he will have a fight with him.

Hu Weiyong sighed in his heart. In his eyes, the Holy Emperor should kill all those involved, and he could also take this opportunity to clear up all the recent restless people in the court who were involved in this case.

"Second, it's Su Xian's Gewuyuan..."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded slightly.

Liu Lian suddenly raised his head.

He just waved his hand and said, "Go down!"

It might be his subordinates, he might be landlords, gentry, or wealthy officials, but more likely, it would come from the common people!

"It seems that we have to work hard on these counterfeit banknotes? But why would they spread such rumors?"

I'm afraid I've already tricked our eldest grandson into getting something weird for us.

He himself also knew very well that there was not so much visible filth, corruption and perversion of the law in the court of the Ming Dynasty.

"But the top priorities are: 1. Immediately catch the real culprit behind this, and I will kill him with a thousand knives!"

At this time.

If you can see it, it only takes one murder to clean it up easily.

His eyes narrowed slightly, murderous intent looming!
"Don't get too happy yet, we didn't say for sure!"

After several people left, Zhu Biao looked at Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Father!"

"You also send someone to investigate!" Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes flickered, and it was clear that he was not as calm as he appeared on the surface, "If you pour Liu Bowen's dirty water on us, we want to see who wants to do this and what do they want to do?"

"We can personally kill all those who disobey with our big guns."

"But it's not yet to the point where I'm going to send someone to kill a minister with poison!"

Zhu Biao alerted, "Yes!"

"Mao Xiang, you also go and investigate. Even if the capital is turned upside down, we still want to see the real culprit behind this."

……

After walking out of the Wenhua Hall, Su Guiyuan looked at Hu Weiyong's back with a sinister look in his eyes.

Just now in the main hall, he really noticed the signs of impending disaster. The other party repeatedly pulled on Xian'er, which made him feel an unprecedented ferocity!
"Envoy of Su Yuan!"

At this moment, Hu Weiyong turned around and said, "Aren't you leaving?"

"Hu Xiang leaves first!"

Su Guiyuan lowered his head to hide all his emotions.

"It is said that the envoy of Su Yuan has not met the original minister since he came up from Tiju. Although the Baochao Tiju Department has been restructured, it is still under the Zhongshu Province."

"Envoy Su Yuan, from now on, you should report any major events in the courtyard to the Prime Minister."

After saying that, he smiled softly, turned and left. Walk out of the Meridian Gate.

The two of them walked to the left and right, and Su Guiyuan walked straight towards home.

……

"So, the Holy One called you right away after sending the two princes off, and only now are they being released? You almost can't come back?"

It was already dusk when Su Guiyuan came back.

We haven't moved to the new home yet, so we have to choose a good and auspicious day.

Still in Xinghua Lane.

The familiar family of three remained as usual. After dinner, Su Guiyuan talked about what had just happened.

When Su Xian heard that Hu Weiyong had repeatedly blamed himself in the Wenhua Hall, he couldn't help it.

"Don't be anxious yet." Su Guiyuan said: "The most important thing now... is to calm down this storm as soon as possible."

"As for the real culprit behind this, we can always find out."

But that's not what Su Xian was thinking about.

Daming was a little careless in this situation. Just like today, he almost took the blame even though he did nothing.

From the beginning to the end, Su Xian himself had always wanted to stay away from Zhongshu Province. He neither wanted to be involved in the Hu Weiyong case, nor did he want to step on him in the end.

Because he knew very well that the Hu Weiyong case was not a strong medicine, and it would be over immediately after killing him.

It spread for a long time, starting from the thirteenth year of Hongwu, and even continued to the Lan Yu case.

Whatever he does, as long as he can be involved in it, even if he can't pretend to be involved, someone will use Hu Weiyong's party members to blame you in the future!

Just like today!
"Who is so bold? Let's talk about it later."

"But things like today must be stopped."

Su Xian stood up, "I don't want to suddenly take the blame for someone else without doing anything."

He walked up and down as if making some decision in his mind.

He had thought several times about when Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to abolish the position of prime minister.

I also want to take this opportunity to grow up safely. Even if there is no prime minister in the future, I will still have a chief minister.

But now it seems...

There are some things that you can't just wait quietly for.

"Dad, how did Hu Weiyong get up?"

Su Xian suddenly looked at Su Guiyuan.

The latter was obviously taken aback and didn't understand why his son had this idea.

But he still thought for a moment and said:

"Although Hu Weiyong is a founding hero, his achievements can only be said to be marginal at best. He came from Huaixi, and he reached his current position because of the recommendation of former Prime Minister Li Shanchang. He is also related to Li Shanchang by marriage."

"But these relationships are not enough to transform him from a small official to the prime minister who is now full of power."

"The reason is that in the third year of Hongwu, the Shanxi Province gave advice to the imperial court, and then the country he was officially responsible for opened the border, and the method of farming and warfare to support the border - the method of opening the middle!"

Su Xian's expression changed.

He knew the method of opening the middle.

In fact, many merchants in Ming Dynasty have made their fortunes through this over the years.

Shanxi merchants are among them, the ones with the biggest profits!
The reason is the "official salt sale" that began during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

But although it was sold by the government, salt was an indispensable item for the daily needs of the people of the Ming Dynasty.

It is impossible for the government to sell salt to thousands of households. You must know that the imperial power at this time was at the county level.

And Yan Yin came out like this.

Merchants can obtain salt citations from the government, and then with the salt citations, they can sell salt.

Open the law!

This method originated from the former Song Dynasty, but Song Dynasty officials believed that this method had both advantages and disadvantages, so it was not implemented on a large scale.

But in the Ming Dynasty, it truly became the pillar of the Ming Dynasty’s national policy of opening up, expanding, and stabilizing the borders!

And this is one of the reasons why Hu Weiyong can sit firmly in the position of prime minister!

He ordered merchants to take on the responsibility of delivering food to the frontiers if they wanted to obtain salt.

They can hire civilian laborers or even transport the food themselves, in exchange for the amount of salt introduced based on the amount of grain transported.

However, under this plan, transporting grain and grass is a long way after all.

Therefore, many wealthy businessmen hired people from the border, even people within the Ming Dynasty, to reclaim land and grow food on the border. These grains are also counted as grains provided by merchants, and are later exchanged for salt and sold as official salt.

It can be said that it is precisely because of the opening of China that the pressure on grain and grass on the border of the Ming Dynasty was greatly relieved.

And as this national policy became more and more consolidated, Hu Weiyong was able to control the court step by step, so much so that he now has power in both the government and the opposition!
But it is precisely because of this that the prime minister's power is so great that it exceeds Zhu Yuanzhang's bottom line!
And again and again, he was looking for good candidates to check and balance Hu Weiyong.

Either he died for no reason, or like Wang Guangyang today, he was obsessed with sex.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang had the idea of ​​​​finally ending his life in person.

He even contacted all the "prime ministers" who have caused trouble to the imperial power from ancient times to the present!
If you just don't do one thing and two things don't stop, you'll be totally wasted!

"call!"

Su Xian thought about this, took a deep breath, and then slowly exhaled.

"Xiang Hu has taken action, how can I just accept it?"

Open the law?

This was good governance in the early Ming Dynasty, just like the guard military household system, it could only delay the problems in the early Ming Dynasty.

But later on, it also became a bad government!

Especially during the implementation process, there are many places where this can be done.

Hu Weiyong was able to dominate the government and the opposition very quickly, not only because of his great power, but most importantly, he could use this to cultivate a group of officials who quickly rose to prominence.

In this case, thoughts flickered in Su Xian's eyes.

Gewuyuan has just been built, so what’s the seasoning? Let’s give Prime Minister Hu a big gift first!
Su Xian was thinking, and suddenly looked at Su Guiyuan, and asked a question that no one dared to think of.

"Dad, do you want to be prime minister?"

(End of this chapter)