Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 314
Gently patted Zhu Youjian's shoulder: "Your Majesty, you are tired. When it's time to take a rest, you can take a rest. Many things will be done by your subordinates. Wouldn't it be good for you to spend a few years at leisure?"

Hearing Li Jingwen's comforting words, Zhu Youjian couldn't help being in a daze for a while: "However, Daming is declining day by day, and the Eastern Captives have already reached Gyeonggi, so how can I rest?"

"Hehe, what is Donglu? It won't take a year, I'll let Huang Taiji kowtow to you here." Li Jing laughed.

After a pause, Li Jing continued: "As for you want to rejuvenate Daming, it's not difficult. Five years, at most ten years, I will create a brand new Daming for you!"

"You are so arrogant, the army of the Eastern Captives is now looting around the capital, and it is your ability to drive them away!" Wen Tiren sneered.

Hearing this, Li Jing turned around and looked at Wen Tiren with a smile: "Master Wen, don't worry, Donglu hasn't been jumping for a long time, but before I clean up Donglu, I still have to clean up some people."

After finishing speaking, Li Jing turned to Zhu Youjian and said, "Your Majesty, I have something here for you to take a look at, and see what the ministers you appointed are all about."

Li Jing's speech was too jumpy. Except for Wang Chengen who had taught Li Jing's talking skills, the rest of the people in the hall couldn't keep up with Li Jing's thoughts. When they were still thinking about the incident just now, Li Jing had already said On to another question, this is completely different from their usual talk about a trivial matter for a long time.

Therefore, after a few words, Li Jing led the topic elsewhere, from fighting with Zhu Youjian to fighting with the ministers, and the situation in the palace became more subtle.

From the bottom of his heart, Zhu Youjian really wanted to ask Li Jing why he dared to say such big things, but he was aroused by Li Jing's words just now, and wanted to know what Li Jing asked him to see.

But after the ministers heard Li Jing's insulting words, they completely forgot Li Jing's purpose of entering the palace, and they only wanted to argue with Li Jing.

Therefore, as soon as Li Jing finished speaking, some people came out, pointed at Li Jing and shouted: "You are just a vulgar person, and you dare to speak nonsense about rejuvenating the Ming Dynasty, insulting the gentlemen in the court, and uttering queer words! Why don't you hurry up and plead guilty to the emperor?"

Li Jing didn't know who this person was, and he wasn't interested in asking. He just glanced at the person coldly, and suddenly shouted to the outside of the hall: "Come here, bring the things up."

Immediately Ma Wu appeared at the gate of the hall, and behind Ma Wu were more than a dozen strong men carrying boxes.

When Ma Wu entered the temple, it would be a lie to say that he was not nervous. When he first entered the temple, his calves were trembling, but when he saw Li Jing standing proudly in front of the temple, his heart suddenly calmed down, and his expression immediately calmed down. Back to normal.

Unlike Li Jing who was in Pingyang Mansion, Ma Wu had been in Beijing for many years and knew many of these officials in the palace, and some of them had accepted bribes from him more times.

Seeing these acquaintances staring at Li Jing coldly in the hall, Ma Wugong cupped his hands and smiled and said, "My lords are polite, Ma Wu has met you lords."

"What are you talking about, you haven't seen the emperor yet." Seeing Ma Wuyi's tired and lazy appearance, Li Jing scolded with a smile.

Although Ma Wu has been in Beijing for many years, he doesn't know the etiquette in the palace, but he doesn't care about Li Jing's presence. Hearing this, he took a few steps forward, knelt down in front of the steps, and kowtowed three times to Li Jing: "Caomin Ma Wu, I have met the emperor."

Li Jing frowned and turned sideways, not accepting his courtesy.Turning around and bowing to Zhu Youjian, he said: "People in the mountains and fields don't know etiquette, don't blame the emperor!"

Zhu Youjian snorted, and said intentionally: "He is a man from the mountains and doesn't know etiquette, so it's hard for you to know etiquette? You haven't even kowtowed to me since you entered the palace."

But Zhu Youjian also knew that it was useless to tell Li Jing now, it was just adding humiliation.

So he just snorted, turned his head and looked at Ma Wudao: "You are Ma Wu? I have heard of your name a long time ago, and you manage many properties under Li Jing's name, right?"

Ma Wu smiled and said: "Yes! My commander-in-chief attaches great importance to the grassroots. The property in the capital is completely decided by the villain. A few years ago, the emperor had no money, and the money sent to the palace by the villain was only told to my commander later. .”

"You!" Zhu Youjian didn't expect Ma Wu to expose his old background directly, and his face flushed suddenly.

"Fifth brother, don't talk nonsense. How could the emperor be greedy for your money? These years, the treasury has been empty, and the emperor's internal funds have been used to supplement the military. The money is used for official business. Besides, we, as ministers of the Ming Dynasty, give the emperor Paying money and paying taxes is the right thing to do," Li Jing shouted.

Zhu Youjian didn't expect Li Jing to excuse him, turned his head and looked at Li Jing, his lips moved, but he didn't say anything.

After drinking Ma Wu, Li Jing turned his head to look at Zhu Youjian and said, "Your Majesty, Ma Wu can't speak, please don't blame me, Your Majesty."

Zhu Youjian waved his hand, Li Jing smiled, reached out to Ma Wu and said, "Bring the general book."

Ma Wu hurriedly took out a general book from his arms and handed it to Li Jing, who handed it to Zhu Youjian and said, "Your Majesty, please read this general book first."

Zhu Youjian took the general book and looked through it suspiciously, but saw that most of the names of the officials in the court were recorded on it, and their total family property was listed behind the names.

Seeing the above figures, Zhu Youjian was taken aback. The least family property of these people on the general book was tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Zhu Youjian hurriedly looked at it carefully from the beginning. What Zhu Youjian didn't expect was that the first name was not Wen Tiren's name, but the second assistant of the cabinet, followed by other members of the cabinet.

Zhu Youjian looked through it carefully, and found that Wen Tiren's name was not in it.

Thinking of Li Jing's attitude towards Wen Tiren just now, Zhu Youjian knew that Li Jing definitely didn't let Wen Tiren go on purpose, and Li Jing knew that although Wen Tiren's job was poor, he didn't try to make money.

Closing the general book, Zhu Youjian pondered for a while and said: "The record on it is just an imaginary number, what's the use of you showing me such a thing?"

Li Jing smiled and said to Ma Wu: "Open the box, please have a look at the emperor!"

At this time, without Ma Wu's instructions, the dozen or so strong men quickly opened the box, and then took out stacks of account books from the box.

Li Jing turned around and signaled to Wang Chengen, Wang Chengen hurriedly ordered several young eunuchs who were waiting for orders at the back of the palace to bring up the account book.

When the little eunuch brought up a stack of account books, Li Jing casually took out one and handed it to Zhu Youjian, "Please read it, Your Majesty."

Zhu Youjian hesitated for a moment, and finally took the account book and opened it slowly.After a few cursory glances, Zhu Youjian was startled suddenly, and then looked carefully.

After looking at it for a while, Zhu Youjian kept the account book aside, picked up another one and read it carefully.

When Zhu Youjian was about to read the third book, Li Jing stretched out his hand and pressed the account book and said, "Your Majesty, there are so many account books, you won't be able to read them all in a while. When you have time, you can read these things slowly. Right now Let's study how to deal with this matter!"

Zhu Youjian blushed, pointed to the account book and said, "Is everything in it true?"

Li Jing smiled and said, "I'm afraid there are some things that haven't been recorded yet."

Zhu Youjian sighed dejectedly when he heard the words, and after a while, he suddenly looked up at Li Jing and said, "What are you going to do with these people?"

Li Jing waved his hands and said with a smile: "Hehe, it's not how I want to deal with these people, but how the emperor plans to deal with them."

Seeing that Zhu Youjian looked a little depressed, Li Jing thought for a while and smiled and said: "Well, the emperor, I know you have been in the palace for a long time, and you haven't been outside for many years, why don't you take this opportunity to go out and have a look? What kind of life do your officials live."

"Li Jing, you dare to confuse the emperor to leave the palace, are you going to do something rebellious?" A minister stood up and said.

Li Jing looked at the man coldly, and said lightly, "What's your name?"

"My official, Huang Shijun, is the Minister of the Ministry of Rites." The man said proudly.

Li Jingjing nodded, looked at Huang Shijun and said with a smile: "Huang Shijun, if I remember correctly, you seem to be the number one scholar in Ding Weinian of Wanli. It seems that some people call you the number one scholar in duck eggs, right? Sorry, sorry.

However, you have been an official for more than [-] years. Although you are knowledgeable, you have made no achievements. You have the name of the champion, but you have no talent.In my opinion, you are more suitable for compiling books, teaching and educating people, and being an official, but you are far behind.

For a pedantic person like you who doesn't know how to adapt, if it's just talking, I'd like to talk to you for a while, but if it's about dealing with government affairs, I don't want to talk nonsense with you. "

Speaking of this, Li Jing pointed to the officials in the hall and nodded: "I know you all have something to say, but don't worry, after I copy your home, I see if you still say it like yourself As loyal and patriotic as you are, come here!"

"Here!" Dozens of soldiers suddenly flashed outside the hall and responded in unison.

"Take care of these people. If anyone acts recklessly, they will be shot to death!" Li Jing shouted.

"Yes!" All the soldiers responded loudly.

Immediately, all the soldiers swarmed into the hall, drove all the officials into a corner of the hall, and glared at them.

Glancing coldly at those officials, Li Jing shouted: "You stay here for me honestly, let's come one by one, I will never wrong any of you, but I will never let any corrupt officials go .”

With a sneer, Li Jing continued: "If you have any memory, you should remember what Li did when he was in Henan for disaster relief. Li will never be soft on killing people. Now you better think about what you have done before. What a good thing, then I can plead for myself."

Looking back, Li Jing said to Zhu Youjian: "Your Majesty, let's check from house to house according to this general booklet. If it doesn't match this general booklet, Li Jing will apologize. If it matches, don't blame Li Jing for treating these people. You're welcome."

Seeing that Li Jing was so strong, Zhu Youjian couldn't help but nodded slightly, but seeing the courtiers like sheep waiting to be slaughtered, Zhu Youjian finally couldn't bear it, so he hesitated and said: "If all of them are taken down, who can be responsible for those government affairs in the court?" deal with?"

"Without Butcher Zhang, can we still eat hairy pigs? We have nothing else in Ming Dynasty, but there are plenty of capable officials. If the emperor wins one, I will recommend one to you." Li Jing sneered.

Zhu Youjian smiled wryly, and said in his heart: "You haven't forgotten to save face for me in this situation, so you just say that it's over if you replace all of your people."

(End of this chapter)