Ming Zhengzhi, I am Zheng Kezang

Zheng Kezang made a special trip this time to celebrate Hong Lei's 65th birthday. Generally speaking, the emperor can remember the birthday of his subjects, and it is a great favor to reward some small things at that time. It is unheard of to leave the palace to celebrate his birthday. Encounter, enough to write people's genealogy into the county annals, Guangzong Yaozu has been passed down for generations

But for Hong Lei, this is not the case at all. Hong Lei, a native of Tong'an, Fujian, although his father Hong Xu followed Zheng Chenggong to fight against the Qing Dynasty in the early years, he has been an official of Zheng Jing and Zheng Kezang for two generations since then, and has made a great contribution to the world. He made great contributions, and finally retired to the second line as the minister of Bute Yuan, the Yuanfu Wenyuange University scholar of the Ming Dynasty. After the establishment of the Huaxia Dynasty, he was accepted as the founding father of Chong'an County. It can be said that the world envies the world

However, the bad thing is that the Hong family has too much status on the political map of Jiangshan

Hong Lei's cousin, Hong Gongzhu, is the deputy envoy of the Privy Council of General Jinwu of the second rank, and was conferred the title of the founding marquis of Yueqing County; His nephew, Hong Wenping, was the Inspector of Yidong Criminal Department; his other nephew, Hong Wenxing, was the prefect of Guangzhou; his eldest son, Hong Yao, was Wai Lang, a member of the Ship Administration Department of Yantie Yamen; In addition, Hong Lei has been in the center for many years, and his disciples are all over the Chinese court; but this is nothing, the crux of the problem is that Hong Lei is still the mother-in-law of Queen Chen Xianqiao

It is precisely because the Hong clan and the Chen clan are the largest foreign relatives in the Huaxia Dynasty that Zheng Kezang was able to use Hong Lei and Hong Gongzhu to stabilize the court situation at the most critical moment in Dongning. After gaining a foothold, Hong Lei will naturally withdraw from the center of the political arena

Hong Lei is also a smart person, so when Zheng Kezang slowly revealed his indifference to himself, he had no choice but to retreat bravely and fade out of the power center. However, Hong Lei was only in his early sixties when he started retiring. It is the most golden moment, how can we not let him down, so he was angry and asked to go back to his hometown in Fujian to take care of him, but how could Zheng Kezang handle it so simply, even out of the need to appease other heroes, he couldn't Let Hong Lei go back to his hometown, so no matter how many times Hong Lei wrote to him, Zheng Kezang would not allow it. In the end, the empress Chen Xianqiao came forward to compromise and placed Hong Lei at the foot of Lushan Mountain. Discussion"

If that was the case, Hong Lei, who was a little unhappy at the beginning, would be able to appreciate the landscape after a long time, but at the end of the second year of Wucheng, Zheng Kezang approved the promulgation and implementation of "Wucheng Official Law", in this "Official Law" " clearly stipulates the official age of Chinese officials, first-rank officials are 68 years old, second-rank officials are 65 years old, third-rank officials are 62 years old, fourth-rank officials are 60 years old, fifth-rank officials are 58 years old, sixth-rank officials are 55 years old, and seventh-rank officials are 52 years old. The following officials are 50 years old, and foreign officials are [-] years old

The regulations in the "Official Law" are to ensure the smooth passage for officials to ascend, but it is obviously not good news for Hong Lei. The well-informed Zheng Kezang had to come forward to eliminate the influence, so there is a good story about congratulating the emperor and ministers in person today.

Hong Lei is old and weak, and the birthday banquet prepared by his family did not take too long. The remnant banquet was not withdrawn. Hong Lei waited for Zheng Kezang's summons, and was then embraced by several big inner guards Yu, carried to the palace where Zheng Kezang temporarily stayed

The palace is just another courtyard where Hong Lei occasionally lives, and the scenery is familiar in the past, but at the moment it is heavily guarded. Even if Zheng Kezang leaves, this courtyard will not be able to live in.

Hong Lei, who got off his shoulders outside the courtyard gate, looked at it with some regret, but the waiter who had been waiting for a long time did not give him time to look again, and hurriedly ushered him in: "The old minister kowtowed to my emperor, my emperor Long live Long live Long live"

"You don't need to be too polite, come here and find a comfortable chair for Hong Qing." Zheng Kezang ordered, and after Hong Lei Xie En was seated, Zheng Kezang smiled lightly and said, "Hong Qing, I am also borrowing flowers to offer Buddha." The quarrel in Lei's heart can't be easily solved by accepting a toast and giving some birthday gifts, not to mention that Zheng Kezang can't attend Hong Lei's birthday banquet, otherwise he will overwhelm the host, so when the banquet is over, Zheng Kezang puts Hong Lei When Lei invites you, you have to put on an attitude of humbly asking for advice to ask the old minister about politics, but you can't just go straight to the politics. Zheng Kezang can only say some unimportant things first, "I took a rough look on the road, and Hong Qing's Zhuangzi has been rectified well."

"The sage is absurd, this actually has nothing to do with the veterans." Zheng Kezang obviously wanted to extend from the Qi family to governing the country, but Hong Lei didn't accept this, and responded simply and neatly, "What is planted in this village, what is produced? How about this, the veteran doesn't know at all, all he knows is that Zhuangzi's business management was taught by someone sent by the inner court manager."

Zheng Kezang smiled awkwardly. In fact, he knew what Hong Lei said. Of course, he didn't need the lords of the Huaxia Dynasty to use the old-fashioned way to sell the land and be a farmer who only knew how to send food. According to his instructions, the manager of the Wangzhuang operation will provide special management training courses for each noble who accepts Yitian, and introduce them to manage their own land to grow cash crops with higher profits, and gradually realize agricultural capitalism and it. Correspondingly, although the Huaxia Dynasty did not suppress land mergers, it also cracked down on parasitic landowners and encouraged the emergence of large self-employed landowners. However, the government’s restraint on the villages was still very poor, so the implementation of the policy was not clear.

"Hong Qing is old and